Anagrams of Steinamanger
Word Steinamanger has
1714 anagrams
that can be made by using the letters of Steinamanger.
- man-eating
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adjective,
feeding on or having an appetite for human flesh:
- argentines
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noun,
a silvery substance, especially one obtained from fish scales, used in making imitation pearls.
- emarginate
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adjective,
notched at the margin.
- tangerines
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noun,
Also called mandarin, mandarin orange. any of several varieties of mandarin, cultivated widely, especially in the U.S.
- germinates
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verb (used with object),
to cause to develop; produce.
- reanimates
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verb (used with object),
to restore to life; resuscitate.
- manganite
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noun,
a gray to black mineral, hydrous manganese oxide, MnO(OH); gray manganese ore.
- regiments
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noun,
Military. a unit of ground forces, consisting of two or more battalions or battle groups, a headquarters unit, and certain supporting units.
- tanagrine
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adjective,
of or relating to the tanagers; belonging to the tanager family.
- armenians
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noun,
a native of Armenia.
- streaming
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noun,
an act or instance of flowing.
- tanneries
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noun,
a place where tanning is carried on.
- agentries
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noun,
the profession, business, or activities of an agent:
- grantsmen
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noun,
an expert in grantsmanship.
- antimeres
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noun,
a segment or division of the body having a corresponding segment or division that is opposite to it relative to the longitudinal axis of the body.
- grantsman
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noun,
an expert in grantsmanship.
- manganese
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noun,
a hard, brittle, grayish-white, metallic element, an oxide of which, MnO 2(manganese dioxide) is a valuable oxidizing agent: used chiefly as an alloying agent in steel to give it toughness. Symbol: Mn; atomic weight: 54.938; atomic number: 25; specific gravity: 7.2 at 20°C.
- magnesite
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noun,
a mineral, magnesium carbonate, MgCO 3 , having a characteristic conchoidal fracture and usually occurring in white masses.
- agrements
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noun,
Music. ornament (def 9).
- stingaree
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noun,
a stingray.
- Argentine
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noun,
a silvery substance, especially one obtained from fish scales, used in making imitation pearls.
- Argentina
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noun,
a republic in S South America. 1,084,120 sq. mi. (2,807,870 sq. km). Capital: Buenos Aires.
- marinates
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verb (used with object),
to steep (food) in a marinade.
- man-eater
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noun,
an animal, especially a tiger or lion, that eats or is said to eat human flesh.
- reanimate
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verb (used with object),
to restore to life; resuscitate.
- germinate
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verb (used with object),
to cause to develop; produce.
- emigrates
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verb (used without object),
to leave one country or region to settle in another; migrate:
- marginate
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adjective,
having a margin.
- germinant
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adjective,
beginning to grow or develop; germinating.
- Mertensia
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noun,
any of various plants belonging to the genus Mertensia, of the borage family, including the lungworts and the Virginia cowslip.
- geminates
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noun,
Phonetics. a doubled consonant sound.
- Tangerine
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noun,
Also called mandarin, mandarin orange. any of several varieties of mandarin, cultivated widely, especially in the U.S.
- Germanist
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noun,
a specialist in the study of German culture, literature, or linguistics.
- amentias
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noun,
lack of intellectual development; imbecility; severe mental retardation.
- entrains
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verb (used with object),
to put aboard a train.
- Erastian
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noun,
an advocate of Erastianism.
- magnates
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noun,
a person of great influence, importance, or standing in a particular enterprise, field of business, etc.:
- emigrant
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noun,
a person who emigrates, as from his or her native country or region:
Synonyms: émigré, expatriate.
- emigrate
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verb (used without object),
to leave one country or region to settle in another; migrate:
- emanates
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verb (used with object),
to send forth; emit.
- Magnesia
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noun,
a white, tasteless substance, magnesium oxide, MgO, used in medicine as an antacid and laxative.
- Erasmian
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noun,
a follower of Erasmus.
- Santarem
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noun,
a city in N Brazil, on the Amazon River.
- resinate
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noun,
Chemistry. any of the salts of the acids found in rosin.
- tamarins
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noun,
any South American marmoset of the genera Saguinus and Leontopithecus (Leontideus), having silky fur and a nonprehensile tail: several species are threatened or endangered.
- earnings
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noun,
money earned; wages; profits.
- ingrates
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noun,
an ungrateful person.
- animates
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adjective,
alive; possessing life:
- meninges
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plural noun,
the three membranes covering the brain and spinal cord.
Compare arachnoid (def 6), dura mater, pia mater.
- nametags
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noun,
an identification tag or label showing one's name and sometimes one's address or business affiliation, attached to an article of clothing or worn around the neck or wrist.
- Annamese
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noun,
a native of Annam.
- tannages
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noun,
the act or process of tanning leather.
- matinees
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noun,
an entertainment, especially a dramatic or musical performance, held in the daytime, usually in the afternoon.
- sea-gate
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noun,
a navigable channel giving access to the sea.
- manatees
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noun,
any of several plant-eating aquatic mammals of the genus Trichechus, of West Indian, Floridian, and Gulf Coast waters, having two flippers in front and a broad, spoon-shaped tail: all species are endangered.
- Siangtan
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noun,
Older Spelling. Xiangtan.
- arenites
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noun,
psammite.
- antimere
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noun,
a segment or division of the body having a corresponding segment or division that is opposite to it relative to the longitudinal axis of the body.
- sagenite
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noun,
a variety of rutile occurring as needlelike crystals embedded in quartz.
- ring-man
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noun,
Printing. an operator of a ring machine.
- anserine
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adjective,
of or relating to the subfamily Anserinae, of the family Anatidae, comprising the true geese.
- angaries
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noun,
the right of a belligerent state to seize and use the property of neutrals for purposes of warfare, subject to payment of full compensation.
- Sergeant
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noun,
a noncommissioned army officer of a rank above that of corporal.
- migrants
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noun,
a person or animal that migrates.
- anergies
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noun,
Pathology. deficiency of energy.
- migrates
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verb (used without object),
to go from one country, region, or place to another. Synonyms: move, resettle, relocate.
Antonyms: remain.
- emirates
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noun,
the office or rank of an emir.
- sangaree
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noun,
sangría.
- serenata
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noun,
a form of secular cantata, often of a dramatic or imaginative character.
- minarets
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noun,
a lofty, often slender, tower or turret attached to a mosque, surrounded by or furnished with one or more balconies, from which the muezzin calls the people to prayer.
- intrans.
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- tanagers
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noun,
any of numerous songbirds of the New World family Thraupidae, the males of which are usually brightly colored.
- enargite
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noun,
a mineral, copper arsenic and sulfide, Cu 3 AsS 4 , occurring in the form of black orthorhombic crystals having perfect cleavage: an important source of copper.
- Saarinen
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noun,
Eero [air-oh] /ˈɛər oʊ/ (Show IPA), 1910–61, U.S. architect, born in Finland.
- Ansermet
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noun,
Ernest [er-nest] /ɛrˈnɛst/ (Show IPA), 1883–1969, Swiss symphony orchestra conductor.
- Santeria
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noun,
(sometimes lowercase) a religion merging the worship of Yoruba deities with veneration of Roman Catholic saints: practiced in Cuba and spread to other parts of the Caribbean and to the U.S. by Cuban emigrés.
- mintages
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noun,
the act or process of minting.
- Teresina
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noun,
a port in NE Brazil, on the Parnahiba River.
- energism
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noun,
the theory that self-realization is the highest good.
- Teresian
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noun,
a member of the reformed order of barefooted Carmelites, founded in Spain in 1562.
- amirates
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noun,
emirate.
- segreant
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adjective,
(of a griffin) rampant.
- engrains
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verb (used with object), adjective,
ingrain (defs 1, 2).
- meetings
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noun,
the act of coming together:
- magentas
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noun,
fuchsin.
- Semarang
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noun,
a seaport on N Java, in S Indonesia.
- internes
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noun, verb (used without object),
intern2 .
- margents
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noun,
margin.
- seatrain
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noun,
a ship for the transportation of loaded railroad cars.
- mannites
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noun,
mannitol.
- reinsmen
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noun,
a person who rides or drives horses, especially a skillful one, as a jockey or harness driver.
- reinsman
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noun,
a person who rides or drives horses, especially a skillful one, as a jockey or harness driver.
- estrange
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verb (used with object),
to turn away in feeling or affection; make unfriendly or hostile; alienate the affections of:
- ganister
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noun,
a highly refractory, siliceous rock used to line furnaces.
- gantries
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noun,
a framework spanning a railroad track or tracks for displaying signals.
- agametes
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noun,
an asexual reproductive cell, as a spore, that forms a new organism without fusion with another cell.
- Armenian
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noun,
a native of Armenia.
- steering
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noun,
the discriminatory practice by a real estate agent of maneuvering a client from a minority group away from considering a home in a white neighborhood.
- ragtimes
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noun,
rhythm in which the accompaniment is strict two-four time and the melody, with improvised embellishments, is in steady syncopation.
- regiment
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noun,
Military. a unit of ground forces, consisting of two or more battalions or battle groups, a headquarters unit, and certain supporting units.
- raiments
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noun,
clothing; apparel; attire.
- regimens
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noun,
Medicine/Medical. a regulated course, as of diet, exercise, or manner of living, intended to preserve or restore health or to attain some result.
- marinate
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verb (used with object),
to steep (food) in a marinade.
- Armitage
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noun,
Kenneth, 1916–2002, English sculptor.
- astringe
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verb (used with object),
to compress; bind together; constrict.
- Mantegna
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noun,
Andrea [ahn-dre-ah] /ɑnˈdrɛ ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1431–1506, Italian painter and engraver.
- Marianne
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noun,
the French Republic, personified as a woman.
- Mantinea
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noun,
an ancient city in S Greece, in Arcadia: battles 362 b.c., 223 b.c.
- Ramsgate
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noun,
a seaport in NE Kent, in SE England: resort.
- gematria
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noun,
a cabbalistic system of interpretation of the Scriptures by substituting for a particular word another word whose letters give the same numerical sum.
- geminate
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noun,
Phonetics. a doubled consonant sound.
- arsenate
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noun,
a salt or ester of arsenic acid.
- arsenite
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noun,
a salt or ester of arsenous acid.
- Germania
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noun,
an ancient region in central Europe, N of the Danube River.
- gentians
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noun,
any of several plants of the genera Gentiana, Gentianella, and Gentianopsis, having usually blue, or sometimes yellow, white, or red, flowers, as the fringed gentian of North America, or Gentiana lutea, of Europe.
Compare gentian family.
- Germaine
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noun,
a female given name.
- reagents
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noun,
a substance that, because of the reactions it causes, is used in analysis and synthesis.
- Artesian
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adjective,
noting, pertaining to, or characteristic of an artesian well.
- gentries
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noun,
wellborn and well-bred people.
- granites
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noun,
a coarse-grained igneous rock composed chiefly of orthoclase and albite feldspars and of quartz, usually with lesser amounts of one or more other minerals, as mica, hornblende, or augite.
- Steinman
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noun,
David Barnard, 1886–1960, U.S. civil engineer: specialist in bridge design and construction.
- grannies
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noun,
Informal. a grandmother.
- remanent
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adjective,
remaining; left behind.
- sarmenta
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noun,
a slender running stem; runner.
- etamines
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noun,
a lightweight cotton or worsted fabric constructed in plain weave and loosely woven.
- greatens
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verb (used with object),
to make greater; enlarge; increase.
- agrement
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noun,
Music. ornament (def 9).
- arginase
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noun,
a liver enzyme that converts arginine to urea.
- trainmen
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noun,
a member of the crew that operates a railroad train, usually an assistant to the conductor, such as a brakeman or flagman.
- martians
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noun,
a supposed inhabitant of the planet Mars:
- tear-gas
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noun,
a gas that makes the eyes smart and water, thus producing a temporary blindness, used in modern warfare, to quell riots, etc.
- sterigma
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noun,
a small stalk that bears a sporangium, a conidium, or especially a basidiospore.
- agminate
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adjective,
aggregated together.
- gamester
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noun,
a gambler.
- trainman
-
noun,
a member of the crew that operates a railroad train, usually an assistant to the conductor, such as a brakeman or flagman.
- tangrams
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noun,
a Chinese puzzle consisting of a square cut into five triangles, a square, and a rhomboid, which can be combined so as to form a great variety of other figures.
- aginners
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noun,
a person who opposes a plan, proposed legislation, or any drastic change:
- grantees
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noun,
the receiver of a grant.
- trangams
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noun,
an odd gadget; gewgaw; trinket.
- atresia
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noun,
the congenital absence, or the pathological closure, of an opening, passage, or cavity.
- Magenta
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noun,
fuchsin.
- margent
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noun,
margin.
- Margate
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noun,
a red-mouthed grunt, Haemulon album, inhabiting Atlantic waters from Florida to Brazil, valued as a food fish.
- mantras
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noun,
Hinduism. a word or formula, as from the Veda, chanted or sung as an incantation or prayer.
- magnets
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noun,
a body, as a piece of iron or steel, that possesses the property of attracting certain substances, as iron.
- manatee
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noun,
any of several plant-eating aquatic mammals of the genus Trichechus, of West Indian, Floridian, and Gulf Coast waters, having two flippers in front and a broad, spoon-shaped tail: all species are endangered.
- eatings
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noun,
the act of a person or thing that eats.
- seminar
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noun,
a small group of students, as in a university, engaged in advanced study and original research under a member of the faculty and meeting regularly to exchange information and hold discussions.
- manages
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verb (used with object),
to bring about or succeed in accomplishing, sometimes despite difficulty or hardship:
- manager
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noun,
a person who has control or direction of an institution, business, etc., or of a part, division, or phase of it.
- seeming
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noun,
appearance, especially outward or deceptive appearance.
- maneges
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noun,
the art of training and riding horses.
- mannite
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noun,
mannitol.
- seating
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noun,
an act or instance of furnishing with, assigning, or escorting to a seat.
- Manners
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noun,
a way of doing, being done, or happening; mode of action, occurrence, etc.:
- mangan-
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- magnet-
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- Eastman
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noun,
George, 1854–1932, U.S. philanthropist and inventor in the field of photography.
- Mansart
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noun,
Jules Hardouin [zhyl ar-dwan] /ʒül arˈdwɛ̃/ (Show IPA), (Jules Hardouin) 1646–1708, French architect: chief architectural director for Louis XIV.
- Aterian
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adjective,
of or indicating a Middle Paleolithic industry of northwestern Africa and the Sahara, characterized by the production of tanged points and bifacially worked leaf-shaped points of varying sizes.
- segment
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noun,
one of the parts into which something naturally separates or is divided; a division, portion, or section:
- easting
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noun,
Navigation. the distance due east made good on any course tending eastward; easterly departure.
- earnest
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noun,
full seriousness, as of intention or purpose:
- Astaire
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noun,
Fred, 1899–1987, U.S. dancer and actor.
- Eastern
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adjective,
lying toward or situated in the east:
- teeming
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adjective,
abounding or swarming with something, as with people:
- magnate
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noun,
a person of great influence, importance, or standing in a particular enterprise, field of business, etc.:
- earings
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noun,
a rope attached to a cringle and used for bending a corner of a sail to a yard, boom, or gaff or for reefing a sail.
- tearing
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noun,
a drop of the saline, watery fluid continually secreted by the lacrimal glands between the surface of the eye and the eyelid, serving to moisten and lubricate these parts and keep them clear of foreign particles. Synonyms: teardrop.
- reagins
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noun,
Also called Wassermann antibody. an antibody formed in response to syphilis and reactive with cardiolipin in various blood tests for the disease.
- tannage
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noun,
the act or process of tanning leather.
- Gratiae
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plural noun,
grace (def 12).
- gannets
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noun,
any large, web-footed, seabird of the family Sulidae, having a sharply pointed bill, long wings, and a wedge-shaped tail, noted for its plunging dives for fish.
- granita
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noun,
frozen flavored ice.
- granite
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noun,
a coarse-grained igneous rock composed chiefly of orthoclase and albite feldspars and of quartz, usually with lesser amounts of one or more other minerals, as mica, hornblende, or augite.
- gamines
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noun,
a neglected girl who is left to run about the streets.
- gametes
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noun,
a mature sexual reproductive cell, as a sperm or egg, that unites with another cell to form a new organism.
- grantee
-
noun,
the receiver of a grant.
- gaiters
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noun,
a covering of cloth or leather for the ankle and instep and sometimes also the lower leg, worn over the shoe or boot.
Compare upper1 (def 7).
- Gratian
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noun,
(Flavius Gratianus) a.d. 359–383, Roman emperor 375–383.
- garment
-
noun,
any article of clothing:
- gratine
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verb (used with object),
to bake or broil (food) in au gratin style.
- gainers
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noun,
a person or thing that gains.
- gratins
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noun,
au gratin.
- greaten
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verb (used with object),
to make greater; enlarge; increase.
- stinger
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noun,
a person or thing that stings.
- greisen
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noun,
a hydrothermally altered rock of granitic texture composed chiefly of quartz and mica, common in the tin mines of Europe.
- etesian
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adjective,
(of certain Mediterranean winds) occurring annually.
- Steiner
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noun,
Jakob [yah-kawp] /ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1796–1863, Swiss mathematician.
- garnets
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noun,
any of a group of hard, vitreous minerals, silicates of calcium, magnesium, iron, or manganese with aluminum or iron, varying in color: a deep-red transparent variety is used as a gem and as an abrasive.
- strange
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adverb,
in a strange manner.
- germens
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noun,
a germ.
- Stagira
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noun,
an ancient town in NE Greece, in Macedonia on the E Chalcidice peninsula: birthplace of Aristotle.
- Geraint
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noun,
one of the knights of the Round Table, husband of Enid.
- Genista
-
noun,
any plant belonging to the genus Genista, of the legume family, having showy flowers and including many species of broom.
- gerents
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noun,
a ruler or manager.
- germane
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adjective,
closely or significantly related; relevant; pertinent:
- stamin-
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- stamina
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noun,
strength of physical constitution; power to endure disease, fatigue, privation, etc.
- gearset
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noun,
a combination of gears that mesh to provide a particular gear ratio.
- gastrin
-
noun,
a hormone that stimulates the secretion of gastric juice.
- Smetana
-
noun,
Bedřich [Czech be-drzhikh] /Czech ˈbɛ drʒɪx/ (Show IPA), 1824–84, Czech composer.
- smarten
-
Verb phrases,
smarten up,
to groom oneself:
to become aware of one's mistakes, shortcomings, etc., and make efforts to correct them:
- gisarme
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noun,
guisarme.
- gatemen
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noun,
a gatekeeper.
- gateman
-
noun,
a gatekeeper.
- steamer
-
noun,
something propelled or operated by steam, as a steamship.
- stearin
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noun,
Chemistry. any of the three glyceryl esters of stearic acid, especially C 3 H 5 (C 18 H 35 O 2) 3 , a soft, white, odorless solid found in many natural fats.
- etamine
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noun,
a lightweight cotton or worsted fabric constructed in plain weave and loosely woven.
- Sinatra
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noun,
Frank (Francis Albert) 1915–98, U.S. singer and actor.
- tangram
-
noun,
a Chinese puzzle consisting of a square cut into five triangles, a square, and a rhomboid, which can be combined so as to form a great variety of other figures.
- tanager
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noun,
any of numerous songbirds of the New World family Thraupidae, the males of which are usually brightly colored.
- seriema
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noun,
either of two birds of the family Cariamidae, Cariama cristata, of southern Brazil, or Chunga burmeisteri, of Argentina, having long legs, an erectile crest, a short, broad bill, and limited ability to fly.
- engrain
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verb (used with object), adjective,
ingrain (defs 1, 2).
- artisan
-
noun,
a person skilled in an applied art; a craftsperson.
- intens.
-
- intense
-
adjective,
existing or occurring in a high or extreme degree:
- interne
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noun, verb (used without object),
intern2 .
- interns
-
noun,
a person who is or has been interned; internee.
- seriate
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adjective,
arranged or occurring in one or more series.
- enigmas
-
noun,
a puzzling or inexplicable occurrence or situation:
- emirate
-
noun,
the office or rank of an emir.
- eminent
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adjective,
high in station, rank, or repute; prominent; distinguished:
- emigres
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noun,
an emigrant, especially a person who flees from his or her native land because of political conditions.
- Emerita
-
noun,
a woman with such status.
- Tangier
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noun,
a seaport in N Morocco, on the W Strait of Gibraltar: capital of the former Tangier Zone.
- emanate
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verb (used with object),
to send forth; emit.
- emanant
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adjective,
emanating or issuing from or as if from a source.
- engrams
-
noun,
a presumed encoding in neural tissue that provides a physical basis for the persistence of memory; a memory trace.
- insnare
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verb (used with object),
ensnare.
- estamin
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noun,
a worsted fabric constructed in twill weave with a rough surface.
- ingrate
-
noun,
an ungrateful person.
- sigmate
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adjective,
having the form of the Greek sigma or the letter S.
- siamang
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noun,
a large, black gibbon, Hylobates syndactylus, of Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula, having very long arms and the second and third digits partially united by a web of skin: an endangered species.
- imarets
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noun,
(in Turkey) a hospice for pilgrims, travelers, etc.
- Setaria
-
noun,
any grass of the genus Setaria, having a dense panicle, grown for forage.
- ingates
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noun,
gate1 (def 15).
- Ingemar
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noun,
a male given name.
- ingesta
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plural noun,
substances ingested.
- Erigena
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noun,
Johannes Scotus [joh-han-eez skoh-tuh s,, -han-is] /dʒoʊˈhæn iz ˈskoʊ təs,, -ˈhæn ɪs/ (Show IPA), a.d. c810–c877, Irish philosopher and theologian.
- enrages
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verb (used with object),
to make extremely angry; put into a rage; infuriate:
- tamarin
-
noun,
any South American marmoset of the genera Saguinus and Leontopithecus (Leontideus), having silky fur and a nonprehensile tail: several species are threatened or endangered.
- ergates
-
noun,
a worker ant.
- tamaris
-
noun,
a rich, naturally fermented soybean sauce containing little or no wheat and thicker than soy sauce.
- entries
-
noun,
an act of entering; entrance.
- entrain
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verb (used with object),
to put aboard a train.
- entires
-
noun,
Archaic. the whole; entirety.
- seringa
-
noun,
any of several Brazilian trees of the genus Hevea, yielding rubber.
- ensnare
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verb (used with object),
to capture in, or involve as in, a snare:
- integer
-
noun,
Mathematics. one of the positive or negative numbers 1, 2, 3, etc., or zero.
Compare whole number.
- gentian
-
noun,
any of several plants of the genera Gentiana, Gentianella, and Gentianopsis, having usually blue, or sometimes yellow, white, or red, flowers, as the fringed gentian of North America, or Gentiana lutea, of Europe.
Compare gentian family.
- Artigas
-
noun,
José Gervasio [haw-se her-vah-syaw] /hɔˈsɛ hɛrˈvɑ syɔ/ (Show IPA), 1764–1850, Uruguayan soldier and patriot.
- Minster
-
noun,
a church actually or originally connected with a monastic establishment.
- Amen-Ra
-
noun,
a god in whom Amen and Ra were combined: the god of the universe and the supreme Egyptian god during the period of Theban political supremacy.
- retains
-
verb (used with object),
to keep possession of.
- amentia
-
noun,
lack of intellectual development; imbecility; severe mental retardation.
- retsina
-
noun,
a strong, resinated white or red wine of Greece and Cyprus.
- Riesman
-
noun,
David, 1909–2002, U.S. sociologist.
- ringent
-
adjective,
gaping.
- aminase
-
noun,
any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of amino compounds, releasing the amino group and liberating nitrogen.
- aminate
-
verb (used with object),
to introduce an amino group into (a compound).
- amirate
-
noun,
emirate.
- mirages
-
noun,
an optical phenomenon, especially in the desert or at sea, by which the image of some object appears displaced above, below, or to one side of its true position as a result of spatial variations of the index of refraction of air.
- amnesia
-
noun,
loss of a large block of interrelated memories; complete or partial loss of memory caused by brain injury, shock, etc.
- amritas
-
noun,
the beverage of immortality.
- mintage
-
noun,
the act or process of minting.
- anatine
-
adjective,
of or relating to the family Anatidae, comprising the swans, geese, and ducks.
- namaste
-
noun,
a conventional Hindu expression on meeting or parting, used by the speaker usually while holding the palms together vertically in front of the bosom.
- minaret
-
noun,
a lofty, often slender, tower or turret attached to a mosque, surrounded by or furnished with one or more balconies, from which the muezzin calls the people to prayer.
- anemias
-
noun,
Pathology. a quantitative deficiency of the hemoglobin, often accompanied by a reduced number of red blood cells and causing pallor, weakness, and breathlessness.
- migrate
-
verb (used without object),
to go from one country, region, or place to another. Synonyms: move, resettle, relocate.
Antonyms: remain.
- migrant
-
noun,
a person or animal that migrates.
- sangria
-
noun,
an iced drink, typically made with red wine, sugar, fruit juice, soda water, and spices, and containing fruit slices.
- metiers
-
noun,
a field of work; occupation, trade, or profession.
- anginas
-
noun,
any attack of painful spasms characterized by sensations of choking or suffocating.
- sarangi
-
noun,
(in India) a violinlike instrument used to accompany classical dancing.
- metages
-
noun,
the official measurement of contents or weight.
- animate
-
adjective,
alive; possessing life:
- Sargent
-
noun,
Sir (Harold) Malcolm (Watts) 1895–1967, English conductor.
- menages
-
noun,
a domestic establishment; household.
- Meitner
-
noun,
Lise [lee-zuh] /ˈli zə/ (Show IPA), 1878–1968, Austrian nuclear physicist.
- resting
-
noun,
the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep:
- nametag
-
noun,
an identification tag or label showing one's name and sometimes one's address or business affiliation, attached to an article of clothing or worn around the neck or wrist.
- Megaera
-
noun,
one of the Furies.
- ragtime
-
noun,
rhythm in which the accompaniment is strict two-four time and the melody, with improvised embellishments, is in steady syncopation.
- tsarina
-
noun,
czarina.
- reagent
-
noun,
a substance that, because of the reactions it causes, is used in analysis and synthesis.
- ratings
-
noun,
classification according to grade or rank.
- ratines
-
noun,
a loosely woven fabric made with nubby or knotty yarns.
- trienes
-
noun,
any compound containing three double bonds.
- triages
-
noun,
the process of sorting victims, as of a battle or disaster, to determine medical priority in order to increase the number of survivors.
- Aegates
-
noun,
ancient name of Egadi.
- regains
-
noun,
(in a moisture-free fabric) the percentage of the weight that represents the amount of moisture the material is expected to absorb under normal conditions.
- ramenta
-
noun,
a scraping, shaving, or particle.
- aerates
-
verb (used with object),
to expose to the action or effect of air or to cause air to circulate through:
- regimen
-
noun,
Medicine/Medical. a regulated course, as of diet, exercise, or manner of living, intended to preserve or restore health or to attain some result.
- raiment
-
noun,
clothing; apparel; attire.
- against
-
Idioms,
over against, in contrast with:
- agamete
-
noun,
an asexual reproductive cell, as a spore, that forms a new organism without fusion with another cell.
- re-sign
-
verb (used with or without object),
to sign again.
- reginas
-
noun,
queen.
- regnant
-
adjective,
reigning; ruling (usually used following the noun it modifies):
- Reigate
-
noun,
a city in Surrey in SE England, a London suburb.
- Agenais
-
noun,
an ancient region of SW France.
- remains
-
noun,
Usually, remains. something that remains or is left.
- trangam
-
noun,
an odd gadget; gewgaw; trinket.
- aginner
-
noun,
a person who opposes a plan, proposed legislation, or any drastic change:
- remnant
-
noun,
a remaining, usually small part, quantity, number, or the like.
- agnates
-
noun,
a relative whose connection is traceable exclusively through males.
- trainee
-
noun,
a person being trained, especially in a vocation; apprentice.
- negates
-
verb (used with object),
to deny the existence, evidence, or truth of:
- tinners
-
noun,
a tinsmith.
- neatens
-
verb (used with object),
to make neat:
- rennets
-
noun,
the lining membrane of the fourth stomach of a calf or of the stomach of certain other young animals.
- Megaris
-
noun,
a district in ancient Greece, between the Gulf of Corinth and Saronic Gulf.
- Riemann
-
noun,
Georg Friedrich Bernhard [gey-awrk free-drikh bern-hahrt] /geɪˈɔrk ˈfri drɪx ˈbɛrn hɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1826–66, German mathematician.
- marinas
-
noun,
a boat basin offering dockage and other service for small craft.
- masting
-
noun,
the masts of a ship, taken as a whole.
- martins
-
noun,
Peter, born 1946, U.S. choreographer and ballet master, born in Denmark.
- antiars
-
noun,
the upas tree.
- antigen
-
noun,
Immunology. any substance that can stimulate the production of antibodies and combine specifically with them.
- matinee
-
noun,
an entertainment, especially a dramatic or musical performance, held in the daytime, usually in the afternoon.
- Teniers
-
noun,
David [dey-vid;; Flemish dah-vit;; French dah-veed] /ˈdeɪ vɪd;; Flemish ˈdɑ vɪt;; French dɑˈvid/ (Show IPA), ("the Elder") 1582–1649, Flemish painter and engraver.
- Seagirt
-
noun,
surrounded by the sea.
- Armenia
-
noun,
an ancient country in W Asia: now divided between Armenia, Turkey, and Iran.
- Martina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Martens
-
noun,
any of several slender, chiefly arboreal carnivores of the genus Martes, of northern forests, having a long, glossy coat and bushy tail.
- 2,4,5-t
-
noun,
a light-tan, water-insoluble solid, C 8 H 5 Cl 3 O 3 , used chiefly for killing weeds.
- Maritsa
-
noun,
a river in S Europe, flowing from S Bulgaria along the boundary between Greece and European Turkey and into the Aegean. 300 miles (485 km) long.
- antings
-
noun,
the placing of ants among the feathers, done by certain birds apparently to kill parasites.
- Martian
-
noun,
a supposed inhabitant of the planet Mars:
- tenners
-
noun,
a 10-dollar bill.
- marines
-
noun,
a member of the U.S. Marine Corps.
- argents
-
noun,
Heraldry. the tincture or metal silver.
- meeting
-
noun,
the act of coming together:
- ARTEMIS
-
noun,
Also called Cynthia. an ancient Greek goddess, the daughter of Leto and the sister of Apollo, characterized as a virgin huntress and associated with the moon.
Compare Diana.
- Artesia
-
noun,
a city in S California.
- Antares
-
noun,
a red supergiant star of the first magnitude in the constellation Scorpius.
- arenite
-
noun,
psammite.
- meaning
-
noun,
what is intended to be, or actually is, expressed or indicated; signification; import:
- seiner
-
noun,
a person who fishes with a seine.
- Singer
-
noun,
a person who sings, especially a trained or professional vocalist.
- manias
-
noun,
excessive excitement or enthusiasm; craze:
- remise
-
verb (used with object),
to give up a claim to; surrender by deed.
- Grants
-
noun,
a town in W New Mexico.
- remans
-
verb (used with object),
to man again; furnish with a fresh supply of personnel.
- niters
-
noun,
potassium nitrate.
- Manisa
-
noun,
a city in W Turkey, near the Aegean: Roman defeat of Antiochus the Great 190 b.c.
- Mannar
-
noun,
Gulf of, an inlet of the Indian Ocean, bounded by W Sri Lanka, the chain of shoals that comprise Adam's Bridge, and S India.
- Granta
-
noun,
Cam.
- nitres
-
noun,
niter.
- remits
-
noun,
Law. a transfer of the record of an action from one tribunal to another, particularly from an appellate court to the court of original jurisdiction.
- gratin
-
noun,
au gratin.
- grates
-
noun,
a frame of metal bars for holding fuel when burning, as in a fireplace, furnace, or stove.
- Nerine
-
noun,
any of several bulbous plants belonging to the genus Nerine, of the amaryllis family, native to southern Africa, having funnel-shaped red, pink, or white flowers.
- Rennes
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Ille-et-Vilaine, in NW France: former capital of Brittany; scene of trial of Alfred Dreyfus, 1899.
- Grimes
-
noun,
dirt, soot, or other filthy matter, especially adhering to or embedded in a surface.
- renins
-
noun,
a proteolytic enzyme secreted by the kidneys that is involved in the release of angiotensin.
- negate
-
verb (used with object),
to deny the existence, evidence, or truth of:
- Gretna
-
noun,
a city in SE Louisiana, near New Orleans.
- seamen
-
noun,
a person skilled in seamanship.
- nemat-
-
- greets
-
verb (used with object),
to address with some form of salutation; welcome.
- Nereis
-
noun,
clamworm.
- greens
-
noun,
a color intermediate in the spectrum between yellow and blue, an effect of light with a wavelength between 500 and 570 nm; found in nature as the color of most grasses and leaves while growing, of some fruits while ripening, and of the sea.
- Remsen
-
noun,
Ira, 1846–1927, U.S. chemist and educator.
- Singan
-
noun,
Older Spelling. Xian.
- Greats
-
- Nernst
-
noun,
Walther Herman [vahl-tuh r her-mahn] /ˈvɑl tər ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1864–1941, German physicist and chemist: Nobel Prize in chemistry 1920.
- manges
-
noun,
any of various skin diseases caused by parasitic mites, affecting animals and sometimes humans and characterized by loss of hair and scabby eruptions.
- grease
-
noun,
the melted or rendered fat of animals, especially when in a soft state.
- gratis
-
adverb,
without charge or payment; free:
- Renata
-
noun,
a female given name.
- netman
-
noun,
a tennis player.
- netmen
-
noun,
a tennis player.
- Niemen
-
noun,
a river in the W Soviet Union in Europe, flowing into the Baltic: called Memel in its lower course. 565 miles (910 km) long.
- mannas
-
noun,
the food miraculously supplied to the Israelites in the wilderness. Ex. 16:14–36.
- ragman
-
noun,
a person who gathers or deals in rag.
- remain
-
noun,
Usually, remains. something that remains or is left.
- reatas
-
noun,
riata.
- regent
-
noun,
a person who exercises the ruling power in a kingdom during the minority, absence, or disability of the sovereign.
- ranees
-
noun,
the wife of a rajah.
- Marian
-
noun,
a person who has a particular devotion to the Virgin Mary.
- margin
-
noun,
the space around the printed or written matter on a page.
- germen
-
noun,
a germ.
- mantra
-
noun,
Hinduism. a word or formula, as from the Veda, chanted or sung as an incantation or prayer.
- ranges
-
noun,
the extent to which or the limits between which variation is possible:
- Margie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Margaret.
- Regain
-
noun,
(in a moisture-free fabric) the percentage of the weight that represents the amount of moisture the material is expected to absorb under normal conditions.
- ratans
-
noun,
rattan.
- Gesner
-
noun,
Konrad von [kon-rad von;; German kawn-raht fuh n] /ˈkɒn ræd vɒn;; German ˈkɔn rɑt fən/ (Show IPA), 1516–65, Swiss naturalist.
- ratine
-
noun,
a loosely woven fabric made with nubby or knotty yarns.
- seater
-
noun,
a person or thing that seats.
- German
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Germany.
- rating
-
noun,
classification according to grade or rank.
- stager
-
noun,
a person of experience in some profession, way of life, etc.
- marais
-
noun,
a swamp or bayou.
- Reagan
-
noun,
Nancy Davis (Anne Francis Robbins Davis) born 1921, U.S. First Lady 1981–89 (wife of Ronald Reagan).
- gerent
-
noun,
a ruler or manager.
- reagin
-
noun,
Also called Wassermann antibody. an antibody formed in response to syphilis and reactive with cardiolipin in various blood tests for the disease.
- ramets
-
noun,
an individual of a clone.
- Marina
-
noun,
a boat basin offering dockage and other service for small craft.
- Marist
-
noun,
a member of a religious order founded in Lyons, France, in 1816 for missionary and educational work in the name of the Virgin Mary.
- gramas
-
noun,
any grass of the genus Bouteloua, of South America and western North America, as B. gracilis (blue grama)
- reigns
-
noun,
the period during which a sovereign occupies the throne.
- manner
-
noun,
a way of doing, being done, or happening; mode of action, occurrence, etc.:
- marine
-
noun,
a member of the U.S. Marine Corps.
- Regina
-
noun,
queen.
- rennet
-
noun,
the lining membrane of the fourth stomach of a calf or of the stomach of certain other young animals.
- ragmen
-
noun,
a person who gathers or deals in rag.
- grani-
-
- Mannes
-
noun,
Leopold Damrosch, 1899–1964, U.S. composer and chemist.
- sinner
-
noun,
a person who sins; transgressor.
- Mannie
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Emanuel.
- ramate
-
adjective,
having branches; branching out or off.
- grains
-
noun,
an iron instrument with barbed prongs, for spearing or harpooning fish.
- Graiae
-
plural noun,
Graeae.
- Graeae
-
plural noun,
three old sea goddesses who had but one eye and one tooth among them and were the protectors of their sisters the Gorgons.
- sinter
-
noun,
siliceous or calcareous matter deposited by springs, as that formed around the vent of a geyser.
- Sirena
-
noun,
a female given name.
- regime
-
noun,
a mode or system of rule or government:
- mantas
-
noun,
(in Spain and Spanish America) a cloak or wrap.
- Ramage
-
noun,
a descent group composed of individuals descended from one ancestor through any combination of male and female links.
- gisant
-
noun,
a sculptured representation of a dead person in a recumbent position, usually as part of a sepulchral monument.
- manger
-
noun,
a box or trough in a stable or barn from which horses or cattle eat.
- rentes
-
noun,
revenue or income, or the instrument evidencing a right to such periodic receipts.
- signet
-
noun,
a small seal, as on a finger ring.
- maigre
-
adjective,
containing neither flesh nor its juices, as food permissible on days of religious abstinence.
- meanie
-
noun,
Informal. meany.
- santir
-
noun,
a Persian musical instrument resembling a dulcimer.
- Santee
-
noun,
a city in SW California.
- meager
-
adjective,
deficient in quantity or quality; lacking fullness or richness; scanty; inadequate:
- Sanger
-
noun,
Frederick, 1918–2013, English biochemist: Nobel Prize in chemistry 1958.
- satire
-
noun,
the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.
- matri-
-
- matins
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) matins, Also, especially British, mattins. (usually used with a singular verb) Ecclesiastical.
the first of the seven canonical hours.
the service for it, properly beginning at midnight, but sometimes beginning at daybreak.
Also called Morning Prayer. the service of public prayer, said in the morning, in the Anglican Church.
- Mainer
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of the state of Maine.
- metier
-
noun,
a field of work; occupation, trade, or profession.
- samite
-
noun,
a heavy silk fabric, sometimes interwoven with gold, worn in the Middle Ages.
- miners
-
noun,
Also called mineworker. a person who works in a mine, especially a commercial mine producing coal or metallic ores.
- Samian
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Samos.
- intra-
-
- inters
-
verb (used with object),
to place (a dead body) in a grave or tomb; bury.
- seeing
-
noun,
the act of a person who sees.
- manage
-
verb (used with object),
to bring about or succeed in accomplishing, sometimes despite difficulty or hardship:
- mirage
-
noun,
an optical phenomenon, especially in the desert or at sea, by which the image of some object appears displaced above, below, or to one side of its true position as a result of spatial variations of the index of refraction of air.
- intern
-
noun,
a person who is or has been interned; internee.
- Serena
-
noun,
a female given name.
- meters
-
noun,
the fundamental unit of length in the metric system, equivalent to 39.37 U.S. inches, originally intended to be, and being very nearly, equal to one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole measured on a meridian: defined from 1889 to 1960 as the distance between two lines on a platinum-iridium bar (the “International Prototype Meter”) preserved at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures near Paris; from 1960 to 1983 defined as 1,650,763.73 wavelengths of the orange-red radiation of krypton 86 under specified conditions; and now defined as 1/299,792,458 of the distance light travels in a vacuum in one second. Abbreviation: m.
- inter.
-
- senega
-
noun,
the dried root of a milkwort, Polygala senega, of the eastern U.S., used as an expectorant and diuretic.
- Megara
-
noun,
a city in ancient Greece: the chief city of Megaris.
- satang
-
noun,
a monetary unit and former coin of Thailand, the 100th part of a baht.
- menage
-
noun,
a domestic establishment; household.
- Semite
-
noun,
a member of any of various ancient and modern peoples originating in southwestern Asia, including the Akkadians, Canaanites, Phoenicians, Hebrews, and Arabs.
- Sarnia
-
noun,
a port in SE Ontario, in S Canada, on the S shore of Lake Huron, on the St. Clair River, across from Port Huron, Michigan.
- Sarnen
-
noun,
a town in and the capital of Obwalden, in central Switzerland, E of Bern.
- Mentes
-
noun,
(in the Odyssey) a captain of the Taphians. Athena assumed his form when she urged Telemachus to search for Odysseus.
- Senate
-
noun,
an assembly or council of citizens having the highest deliberative functions in a government, especially a legislative assembly of a state or nation.
- Sennar
-
noun,
a region in the E Sudan between the White and Blue Nile rivers, S of Khartoum: a former kingdom.
- metage
-
noun,
the official measurement of contents or weight.
- sennet
-
noun,
any of several small barracudas, as Sphyraena borealis (northern sennet) ranging along the eastern coast of North and Central America.
- sennit
-
noun,
a flat, braided cordage, formed by plaiting strands of rope yarn or other fiber, used as small stuff aboard ships.
- Ismene
-
noun,
a daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta who did not join Antigone in her forbidden burial of their brother Polynices.
- Serang
-
noun,
Ceram.
- serein
-
noun,
fine rain falling after sunset from a sky in which no clouds are visible.
- merges
-
verb (used with object),
to cause to combine or coalesce; unite.
- merits
-
noun,
claim to respect and praise; excellence; worth.
- Mersin
-
noun,
a seaport in S Turkey, on the NW coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
- sateen
-
noun,
a strong cotton fabric constructed in satin weave and having a lustrous face.
- maters
-
noun,
British Informal. mother1 .
- Samain
-
noun,
Samhain.
- Seaman
-
noun,
a person skilled in seamanship.
- set-in
-
adjective,
made separately and placed within another unit.
- Ingmar
-
noun,
a male given name.
- resign
-
verb (used with object),
to give up (an office, position, etc.), often formally.
- ingest
-
verb (used with object),
to take, as food, into the body (opposed to egest).
- nanism
-
noun,
the condition of being unusually or abnormally small in size or stature; dwarfism.
- Nantes
-
noun,
a seaport in and the capital of Loire-Atlantique, in W France, at the mouth of the Loire River.
- ingate
-
noun,
gate1 (def 15).
- 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.
- inanes
-
noun,
something that is empty or void, especially the void of infinite space.
- reseat
-
verb (used with object),
to provide with a new seat or new seats.
- Namtar
-
noun,
the Sumerian and Akkadian demon personifying death.
- imaret
-
noun,
(in Turkey) a hospice for pilgrims, travelers, etc.
- images
-
noun,
a physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, sculptured, or otherwise made visible.
- Semang
-
noun,
a member of a Negrito people of the Malay Peninsula.
- Rennie
-
noun,
John, 1761–1821, Scottish engineer.
- sienna
-
noun,
a ferruginous earth used as a yellowish-brown pigment (raw sienna) or, after roasting in a furnace, as a reddish-brown pigment (burnt sienna)
- Marten
-
noun,
any of several slender, chiefly arboreal carnivores of the genus Martes, of northern forests, having a long, glossy coat and bushy tail.
- signee
-
noun,
a person who signs a document, register, etc.; signer; signatory:
- signer
-
noun,
a person who signs.
- neaten
-
verb (used with object),
to make neat:
- Ingram
-
noun,
a male given name.
- INGRES
-
noun,
Jean Auguste Dominique [zhahn oh-gyst daw-mee-neek] /ʒɑ̃ oʊˈgüst dɔ miˈnik/ (Show IPA), 1780–1867, French painter.
- Matane
-
noun,
a city in E Quebec, in SE Canada, on the St. Lawrence River.
- insane
-
adjective,
not sane; not of sound mind; mentally deranged.
- Mister
-
noun,
(initial capital letter) a conventional title of respect for a man, prefixed to the name and to certain official designations (usually written as the abbreviation Mr.).
- miters
-
noun,
the official headdress of a bishop in the Western Church, in its modern form a tall cap with a top deeply cleft crosswise, the outline of the front and back resembling that of a pointed arch.
- mitres
-
noun,
Bartolomé [bahr-taw-law-me] /ˌbɑr tɔ lɔˈmɛ/ (Show IPA), 1821–1906, Argentine soldier, statesman, and author: president of Argentina 1862–68.
- instr.
-
- instar
-
noun,
an insect in any one of its periods of postembryonic growth between molts.
- Manati
-
noun,
a city in N Puerto Rico.
- insert
-
noun,
something inserted or to be inserted.
- Master
-
noun,
a person with the ability or power to use, control, or dispose of something:
- inseam
-
noun,
an inside or inner seam of a garment, especially the seam of a trouser leg that runs from the crotch down to the bottom of the leg.
- marges
-
noun,
margin; edge.
- Nagari
-
noun,
a group of related scripts, including Devanagari, derived from Brahmi and used for the writing of many of the languages of India.
- serine
-
noun,
a crystalline amino acid, HOCH 2 CH(NH 2)COOH, found in many proteins and obtained by the hydrolysis of sericin, the protein constituting silk gum. Symbol: S. Abbreviation: Ser;
- innate
-
adjective,
existing in one from birth; inborn; native:
- innage
-
noun,
the quantity of goods remaining in a container when received after shipment.
Compare outage (def 4).
- riatas
-
noun,
a lariat.
- retina
-
noun,
the innermost coat of the posterior part of the eyeball that receives the image produced by the lens, is continuous with the optic nerve, and consists of several layers, one of which contains the rods and cones that are sensitive to light.
- manege
-
noun,
the art of training and riding horses.
- retems
-
noun,
a shrub, Retama raetam, of Syria and Arabia, having white flowers: said to be the juniper of the Old Testament.
- inmate
-
noun,
a person who is confined in a prison, hospital, etc.
- retain
-
verb (used with object),
to keep possession of.
- mantis
-
noun,
any of several predaceous insects of the order Mantidae, having a long prothorax and typically holding the forelegs in an upraised position as if in prayer.
- tarsia
-
noun,
intarsia.
- Argent
-
noun,
Heraldry. the tincture or metal silver.
- tinner
-
noun,
a tinsmith.
- tisane
-
noun,
(italics) French. aromatic or herb-flavored tea.
- string
-
noun,
a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- taenia
-
noun,
Classical Antiquity. a headband or fillet.
- taigas
-
noun,
the coniferous evergreen forests of subarctic lands, covering vast areas of northern North America and Eurasia.
- ternes
-
noun,
terne metal.
- tirage
-
noun,
the withdrawing of wine from a barrel, as for testing or tasting.
- tinmen
-
noun,
a tinsmith.
- Strine
-
noun,
Australian English.
- airman
-
noun,
an aviator.
- airmen
-
noun,
an aviator.
- Ernest
-
noun,
a male given name: from an Old English word meaning “vigor, intent.”.
- tinman
-
noun,
a tinsmith.
- teamer
-
noun,
a teamster.
- Tainan
-
noun,
a city in SW Taiwan.
- angina
-
noun,
any attack of painful spasms characterized by sensations of choking or suffocating.
- Animas
-
noun,
soul; life.
- teaser
-
noun,
a person or thing that teases.
- tinges
-
noun,
a slight degree of coloration.
- asemia
-
noun,
inability to comprehend or use communicative symbols, as words or gestures.
- gainst
-
preposition,
against.
- Gaines
-
noun,
Edmund Pendleton, 1777–1849, U.S. general.
- Gainer
-
noun,
a person or thing that gains.
- Sterne
-
noun,
Laurence, 1713–68, English clergyman and novelist.
- trans.
-
- stigma
-
noun,
a mark of disgrace or infamy; a stain or reproach, as on one's reputation.
- tegmen
-
noun,
a cover, covering, or integument.
- Esenin
-
noun,
Sergey Aleksandrovich [Russian syir-gyey uh-lyi-ksahn-druh-vyich] /Russian syɪrˈgyeɪ ʌ lyɪˈksɑn drə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), Yesenin, Sergey Aleksandrovich.
- Strain
-
noun,
any force or pressure tending to alter shape, cause a fracture, etc.
- agnate
-
noun,
a relative whose connection is traceable exclusively through males.
- animes
-
noun,
a Japanese style of motion-picture animation, characterized by highly stylized, colorful art, futuristic settings, violence, and sexuality.
- stream
-
noun,
a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook. Synonyms: rill, run, streamlet, runnel.
- Strega
-
- agrees
-
verb (used with object),
to concede; grant (usually followed by a noun clause):
- astern
-
adverb,
in a position behind a specified vessel or aircraft:
- Ermine
-
noun,
an Old World weasel, Mustela erminea, having in its winter color phase a white coat with black at the tip of the tail.
Compare stoat.
- tamari
-
noun,
a rich, naturally fermented soybean sauce containing little or no wheat and thicker than soy sauce.
- gaiter
-
noun,
a covering of cloth or leather for the ankle and instep and sometimes also the lower leg, worn over the shoe or boot.
Compare upper1 (def 7).
- earing
-
noun,
a rope attached to a cringle and used for bending a corner of a sail to a yard, boom, or gaff or for reefing a sail.
- tiaras
-
noun,
a jeweled, ornamental coronet worn by women.
- emigre
-
noun,
an emigrant, especially a person who flees from his or her native land because of political conditions.
- eagres
-
noun,
a tidal bore or flood.
- timers
-
noun,
a person or thing that times.
- targes
-
noun,
a small, round shield; a target or buckler.
- 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.
- Amiens
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Somme, in N France: cathedral; battles 1914, 1918, 1944.
- eagers
-
noun,
eagre.
- Egesta
-
noun,
matter egested from the body, as excrement or other waste.
- amigas
-
noun,
a female friend.
- Amrita
-
noun,
the beverage of immortality.
- eating
-
noun,
the act of a person or thing that eats.
- amines
-
noun,
any of a class of compounds derived from ammonia by replacement of one or more hydrogen atoms with organic groups.
- easier
-
noun,
a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter E.
- Tanner
-
noun,
a person whose occupation it is to tan hides.
- aments
-
noun,
catkin.
- ameers
-
noun,
emir.
- ergate
-
noun,
a worker ant.
- Ensign
-
noun,
a flag or banner, as a military or naval standard used to indicate nationality.
- Tasman
-
noun,
Abel Janszoon [ah-buh l yahn-sohn] /ˈɑ bəl ˈyɑn soʊn/ (Show IPA), 1602?–59, Dutch navigator and explorer.
- entire
-
noun,
Archaic. the whole; entirety.
- enters
-
Verb phrases,
enter into,
to participate in; engage in.
to investigate; consider:
to sympathize with; share in.
to form a constituent part or ingredient of:
to go into a particular state:
- Estrin
-
noun,
estrone.
- enter-
-
- Angers
-
noun,
a city in and capital of Maine-et-Loire, in W France.
- enrage
-
verb (used with object),
to make extremely angry; put into a rage; infuriate:
- Anemia
-
noun,
Pathology. a quantitative deficiency of the hemoglobin, often accompanied by a reduced number of red blood cells and causing pallor, weakness, and breathlessness.
- tineas
-
noun,
any of several skin diseases caused by fungi; ringworm.
- enigma
-
noun,
a puzzling or inexplicable occurrence or situation:
- engram
-
noun,
a presumed encoding in neural tissue that provides a physical basis for the persistence of memory; a memory trace.
- engine
-
noun,
a machine for converting thermal energy into mechanical energy or power to produce force and motion.
- engin.
-
- enates
-
noun,
a person related on one's mother's side.
Compare agnate, cognate.
- anenst
-
preposition,
anent (def 2).
- ageism
-
noun,
discrimination against persons of a certain age group.
- trains
-
noun,
Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
- 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.
- tenias
-
noun,
taenia.
- aretes
-
noun,
the aggregate of qualities, as valor and virtue, making up good character.
- antres
-
noun,
a cavern; cave.
- arsine
-
noun,
Also called arseniuretted hydrogen. a colorless, flammable, slightly water-soluble gas, AsH 3 , having a fetid, garliclike odor, used in chemical warfare.
- arsen-
-
- gasman
-
noun,
a person who works for a company that sells or distributes household gas, especially a person who goes from building to building reading gas meters to determine what charge is to be billed.
- tenaim
-
noun,
the terms of a Jewish marriage, as the wedding date, amount of the bride's dowry, etc., or an agreement containing such terms, made by the parents of an engaged couple at the engagement party.
- tennis
-
noun,
a game played on a rectangular court by two players or two pairs of players equipped with rackets, in which a ball is driven back and forth over a low net that divides the court in half.
- gasmen
-
noun,
a person who works for a company that sells or distributes household gas, especially a person who goes from building to building reading gas meters to determine what charge is to be billed.
- a-game
-
noun,
a person’s best effort, abilities, or achievement:
- gastr-
-
- treens
-
noun,
treenware.
- Teresa
-
noun,
Mother (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu) 1910–97, Albanian nun: Nobel Peace Prize 1979 for work in the slums of Calcutta, India.
- tremie
-
noun,
a funnellike device lowered into water to deposit concrete.
- Ariane
-
noun,
Rocketry. a French-built, three-stage, liquid-propellant rocket for launching satellites into orbit around the earth.
- Garnet
-
noun,
any of a group of hard, vitreous minerals, silicates of calcium, magnesium, iron, or manganese with aluminum or iron, varying in color: a deep-red transparent variety is used as a gem and as an abrasive.
- armies
-
noun,
the military forces of a nation, exclusive of the navy and in some countries the air force.
- armets
-
noun,
a completely enclosed helmet having a visor and hinged cheek pieces fastened under the chin.
- anting
-
noun,
the placing of ants among the feathers, done by certain birds apparently to kill parasites.
- antiar
-
noun,
the upas tree.
- aerate
-
verb (used with object),
to expose to the action or effect of air or to cause air to circulate through:
- triens
-
noun,
a copper coin of ancient Rome, issued during the Republic, a third part of an as.
- triage
-
noun,
the process of sorting victims, as of a battle or disaster, to determine medical priority in order to increase the number of survivors.
- triene
-
noun,
any compound containing three double bonds.
- Aeneas
-
noun,
a Trojan hero, the reputed ancestor of the Romans: protagonist of the Aeneid.
- Arista
-
noun,
Botany. a bristlelike appendage of the spikelets of grains or grasses; an awn.
- Ariege
-
noun,
a department in S France. 1893 sq. mi. (4905 sq. km). Capital: Foix.
- Tenner
-
noun,
a 10-dollar bill.
- Aegean
-
noun,
the. Aegean Sea.
- Aegina
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a daughter of Asopus and Metope who was abducted by Zeus and bore him a son, Aeacus.
- Gemara
-
noun,
the section of the Talmud consisting essentially of commentary on the Mishnah.
- ansate
-
adjective,
having a handle or handlelike part.
- gannet
-
noun,
any large, web-footed, seabird of the family Sulidae, having a sharply pointed bill, long wings, and a wedge-shaped tail, noted for its plunging dives for fish.
- gamins
-
noun,
a neglected boy left to run about the streets; street urchin.
- Asante
-
noun,
Ashanti.
- trines
-
noun,
a set or group of three; triad.
- genies
-
noun,
Islamic Mythology. jinn.
- terais
-
noun,
a marshy lowland area in N India and S Nepal, between the Ganges and the foothills of the Himalayas.
- genit.
-
- gamete
-
noun,
a mature sexual reproductive cell, as a sperm or egg, that unites with another cell to form a new organism.
- gamet-
-
- gamine
-
noun,
a neglected girl who is left to run about the streets.
- agates
-
noun,
a variegated chalcedony showing curved, colored bands or other markings.
- stamen
-
noun,
the pollen-bearing organ of a flower, consisting of the filament and the anther.
- transe
-
noun,
a passageway, as a hallway, alley, or the like.
- genera
-
noun,
a plural of genus.
- Antrim
-
noun,
a county in NE Northern Ireland. 1098 sq. mi. (2844 sq. km). County seat: Belfast.
- genets
-
noun,
any small, Old World carnivore of the genus Genetta, especially G. genetta, having spotted sides and a ringed tail.
- Tigre
-
noun,
a Semitic language spoken in northern Ethiopia.
- amirs
-
noun,
emir.
- terse
-
adjective,
neatly or effectively concise; brief and pithy, as language.
- 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.
- miens
-
noun,
air, bearing, or demeanor, as showing character, feeling, etc.:
- matin
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) matins, Also, especially British, mattins. (usually used with a singular verb) Ecclesiastical.
the first of the seven canonical hours.
the service for it, properly beginning at midnight, but sometimes beginning at daybreak.
Also called Morning Prayer. the service of public prayer, said in the morning, in the Anglican Church.
- Terni
-
noun,
a city in central Italy.
- angas
-
noun,
any of the eight practices of Yoga, including the abstentions, mandatory actions, posture, breath control, control of the senses, concentration, meditation, and contemplation.
- miser
-
noun,
a person who lives in wretched circumstances in order to save and hoard money.
- anent
-
preposition,
in regard to; about; concerning.
- mires
-
noun,
a tract or area of wet, swampy ground; bog; marsh.
- Terai
-
noun,
a marshy lowland area in N India and S Nepal, between the Ganges and the foothills of the Himalayas.
- anear
-
adverb, preposition,
near.
- Saman
-
noun,
a Persian noble who lived in the 8th century a.d., progenitor of the Samanid dynasty.
- Minna
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Mines
-
noun,
an excavation made in the earth for the purpose of extracting ores, coal, precious stones, etc.
- Minn.
-
- antre
-
noun,
a cavern; cave.
- Santa
-
noun,
Santa Claus.
- Miner
-
noun,
Also called mineworker. a person who works in a mine, especially a commercial mine producing coal or metallic ores.
- anat.
-
- minas
-
noun,
an ancient unit of weight and value equal to the sixtieth part of a talent.
- Samar
-
noun,
an island in the E central Philippines. 5309 sq. mi. (13,750 sq. km).
- tiara
-
noun,
a jeweled, ornamental coronet worn by women.
- tiers
-
noun,
one of a series of rows or ranks rising one behind or above another, as of seats in an amphitheater, boxes in a theater, guns in a man-of-war, or oars in an ancient galley.
- tiger
-
noun,
a large, carnivorous, tawny-colored and black-striped feline, Panthera tigris, of Asia, ranging in several subspecies from India and the Malay Peninsula to Siberia: the entire species is endangered, with some subspecies thought to be extinct.
- antis
-
noun,
a person who is opposed to a particular practice, party, policy, action, etc.
- satin
-
noun,
a fabric in a warp-effect or filling-effect satin weave, as acetate, rayon, nylon, or silk, often having a glossy face and a soft, slippery texture.
- matr-
-
- mints
-
noun,
any aromatic herb of the genus Mentha, having opposite leaves and small, whorled flowers, as the spearmint and peppermint.
Compare mint family.
- sanit
-
- Annie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Ann, Anna, or Anne.
- MEANS
-
noun,
Usually, means. (used with a singular or plural verb) an agency, instrument, or method used to attain an end:
- terne
-
noun,
terne metal.
- Sarge
-
noun,
sergeant.
- anime
-
noun,
a Japanese style of motion-picture animation, characterized by highly stylized, colorful art, futuristic settings, violence, and sexuality.
- Saite
-
noun,
a native or citizen of Saïs.
- Meier
-
noun,
Richard, born 1934, U.S. architect.
- anis-
-
- anise
-
noun,
a Mediterranean plant, Pimpinella anisum, of the parsley family, having loose umbrels of small yellowish-white flowers that yield aniseed.
- merit
-
noun,
claim to respect and praise; excellence; worth.
- Anita
-
noun,
a female given name: Spanish form of Anna.
- merge
-
verb (used with object),
to cause to combine or coalesce; unite.
- meres
-
noun,
Chiefly British Dialect. a lake or pond.
- terna
-
noun,
a list of three names submitted to the pope as recommended to fill a vacant bishopric or benefice.
- Meges
-
noun,
a nephew of Odysseus who commanded the Epeans in the Trojan War.
- menta
-
noun,
Entomology. the medial plate of the labium in insects.
- Annam
-
noun,
a former kingdom and French protectorate along the E coast of French Indochina: now part of Vietnam.
- mense
-
noun,
propriety; discretion.
- Meigs
-
noun,
Fort. Fort Meigs.
- Mensa
-
noun,
Also called altar slab, altar stone. the flat stone forming the top of the altar in a Roman Catholic church.
- annas
-
noun,
a former cupronickel coin of Pakistan, the 16th part of a rupee: last issued in 1960.
- Menes
-
noun,
flourished c3200 b.c, traditionally the unifier and 1st king of Egypt: founder of the 1st dynasty.
- Satan
-
noun,
the chief evil spirit; the great adversary of humanity; the devil.
- term.
-
- menat
-
noun,
an amulet worn by certain Egyptians in ancient times to secure divine protection and to ensure fertility.
- mesne
-
adjective,
intermediate or intervening.
- Ansar
-
noun,
the first inhabitants of Medina to accept Islam.
- anger
-
noun,
a strong feeling of displeasure and belligerence aroused by a wrong; wrath; ire.
- Metis
-
noun,
any person of mixed ancestry.
- meant
-
verb,
simple past tense and past participle of mean1 .
- Satie
-
noun,
Erik Alfred Leslie [e-reek al-fred les-lee] /ɛˈrik alˈfrɛd lɛsˈli/ (Show IPA), 1866–1925, French composer.
- Mears
-
noun,
mere3 .
- satem
-
adjective,
belonging to or consisting of those branches of the Indo-European family in which alveolar or palatal fricatives, as the sounds (s) or (sh), developed in ancient times from Proto-Indo-European palatal stops: the satem branches are Indo-Iranian, Armenian, Slavic, Baltic, and Albanian.
- angi-
-
- anti-
-
- Angie
-
noun,
a male or female given name, form of Angel.
- antes
-
noun,
Poker. a fixed but arbitrary stake put into the pot by each player before the deal.
- terms
-
noun,
a word or group of words designating something, especially in a particular field, as atom in physics, quietism in theology, adze in carpentry, or district leader in politics.
- metr-
-
- ante-
-
- Saree
-
noun,
sari.
- meets
-
noun,
an assembly, as of persons and hounds for a hunt or swimmers or runners for a race or series of races:
- angst
-
noun,
a feeling of dread, anxiety, or anguish.
- antas
-
noun,
a privately supported organization, chartered by Congress in 1935, for the encouragement and advancement of professional and nonprofessional theater.
- mega-
-
- metes
-
noun,
a limiting mark.
- meter
-
noun,
the fundamental unit of length in the metric system, equivalent to 39.37 U.S. inches, originally intended to be, and being very nearly, equal to one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole measured on a meridian: defined from 1889 to 1960 as the distance between two lines on a platinum-iridium bar (the “International Prototype Meter”) preserved at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures near Paris; from 1960 to 1983 defined as 1,650,763.73 wavelengths of the orange-red radiation of krypton 86 under specified conditions; and now defined as 1/299,792,458 of the distance light travels in a vacuum in one second. Abbreviation: m.
- anim.
-
- metas
-
noun,
(in ancient Rome) a column or post, or a group of columns or posts, placed at each end of a racetrack to mark the turning places.
- anima
-
noun,
soul; life.
- Megan
-
noun,
a female given name.
- meta-
-
- Saran
-
noun,
a thermoplastic copolymer of vinylidene chloride and usually small amounts of vinyl chloride or acrylonitrile: used as a fiber, for packaging, and for making acid-resistant pipe.
- resit
-
noun,
a test or examination that is retaken.
- timer
-
noun,
a person or thing that times.
- Reims
-
noun,
a city in NE France: cathedral; unconditional surrender of Germany May 7, 1945.
- treen
-
noun,
treenware.
- agars
-
noun,
Also, agar-agar. Also called Chinese gelatin, Chinese isinglass, Japanese gelatin, Japanese isinglass. a gelatinlike product of certain seaweeds, used for solidifying certain culture media, as a thickening agent for ice cream and other foods, as a substitute for gelatin, in adhesives, as an emulsifier, etc.
- ragis
-
noun,
a cereal grass, Eleusine coracana, cultivated in the Old World for its grain.
- Regin
-
noun,
a smith, the brother of Fafnir, who raises Sigurd and encourages him to kill Fafnir in the hope of gaining the gold he guards.
- rages
-
noun,
angry fury; violent anger (sometimes used in combination):
- ragas
-
noun,
one of the melodic formulas of Hindu music having the melodic shape, rhythm, and ornamentation prescribed by tradition.
- Agate
-
noun,
a variegated chalcedony showing curved, colored bands or other markings.
- REGIS
-
noun,
a male given name.
- regma
-
noun,
a dry fruit consisting of three or more carpels that separate from the axis at maturity.
- Regt.
-
- treas
-
- reign
-
noun,
the period during which a sovereign occupies the throne.
- reins
-
noun,
Often, reins. a leather strap, fastened to each end of the bit of a bridle, by which the rider or driver controls a horse or other animal by pulling so as to exert pressure on the bit.
- raias
-
noun,
rayah.
- Agena
-
noun,
a U.S. upper stage, with a restartable liquid-propellant engine, used with various booster stages to launch satellites into orbit around the earth and send probes to the moon and planets: also used as a docking target in the Gemini program.
- reist
-
verb (used without object),
reest2 .
- agent
-
noun,
a person or business authorized to act on another's behalf:
- reman
-
verb (used with object),
to man again; furnish with a fresh supply of personnel.
- agers
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) a person living in a certain historical age:
- nitre
-
noun,
niter.
- nitr-
-
- agist
-
verb (used with object),
to feed or pasture (livestock) for a fee.
- Niter
-
noun,
potassium nitrate.
- trams
-
noun,
British. a streetcar.
- Nisan
-
noun,
the seventh month of the Jewish calendar.
- trama
-
noun,
a specialized hyphal tissue constituting the internal structure of mushroom gills, pore tubes, or spines.
- nines
-
noun,
a cardinal number, eight plus one.
- Aetna
-
noun,
Mount. Etna, Mount.
- Aesir
-
noun,
the principal race of gods, led by Odin and living at Asgard.
- agmas
-
noun,
(in Latin and Greek) the velar nasal consonant sound, especially in those forms where it was represented by the letter g or by gamma.
- ranis
-
noun,
ranee.
- 30-30
-
- Tsana
-
noun,
Lake. Tana, Lake.
- trine
-
noun,
a set or group of three; triad.
- trims
-
noun,
the condition, order, or fitness of a person or thing for action, work, use, etc.
- trigs
-
noun,
trigonometry.
- rates
-
noun,
the amount of a charge or payment with reference to some basis of calculation:
- triga
-
noun,
a two-wheeled chariot drawn by a team of three horses.
- trig.
-
- ratan
-
noun,
rattan.
- reata
-
noun,
riata.
- tries
-
noun,
plural of try.
- reest
-
verb (used with object),
to cure, smoke, or dry (meat or fish).
- rants
-
noun,
ranting, extravagant, or violent declamation.
- Range
-
noun,
the extent to which or the limits between which variation is possible:
- aerie
-
noun,
the nest of a bird of prey, as an eagle or a hawk.
- Ranee
-
noun,
the wife of a rajah.
- Regan
-
noun,
(in Shakespeare's King Lear) the younger of Lear's two faithless daughters.
Compare Cordelia (def 1), Goneril.
- Aegir
-
noun,
a sea god, husband of Ran, and host at feast of the gods spoiled by Loki.
- ramie
-
noun,
an Asian shrub, Boehmeria nivea, of the nettle family, yielding a fiber used especially in making textiles.
- AEGIS
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. the shield or breastplate of Zeus or Athena, bearing at its center the head of the Gorgon.
- aemia
-
- ramet
-
noun,
an individual of a clone.
- Ramee
-
noun,
Louise de la ("Ouida") 1839–1908, English novelist.
- Raman
-
noun,
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata [chuhn-druh-shey-ker-uh veng-kuh-tuh] /ˈtʃʌn drəˈʃeɪ kər ə ˈvɛŋ kə tə/ (Show IPA), 1888–1970, Indian physicist: Nobel prize 1930.
- aeri-
-
- raise
-
noun,
an increase in amount, as of wages:
- Aeria
-
noun,
an area in the northern hemisphere of Mars.
- Rains
-
noun,
water that is condensed from the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere and falls to earth in drops more than 1/50 inch (0.5 mm) in diameter.
Compare drizzle (def 6).
- remit
-
noun,
Law. a transfer of the record of an action from one tribunal to another, particularly from an appellate court to the court of original jurisdiction.
- Nimes
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Gard, in S France: Roman ruins.
- Saint
-
noun,
any of certain persons of exceptional holiness of life, formally recognized as such by the Christian Church, especially by canonization.
- Rimas
-
noun,
a female given name.
- tinea
-
noun,
any of several skin diseases caused by fungi; ringworm.
- mater
-
noun,
British Informal. mother1 .
- Nairn
-
noun,
a historic county in N Scotland.
- naira
-
noun,
a paper money and monetary unit of Nigeria, equal to 100 kobo: replaced the pound in 1973.
- ameer
-
noun,
emir.
- Naima
-
noun,
a female given name: from an Arabic word meaning “benevolent.”.
- amens
-
noun,
an utterance of the interjection “amen.”.
- retem
-
noun,
a shrub, Retama raetam, of Syria and Arabia, having white flowers: said to be the juniper of the Old Testament.
- ament
-
noun,
catkin.
- Amer.
-
- riant
-
adjective,
laughing; smiling; cheerful.
- riata
-
noun,
a lariat.
- times
-
noun,
the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
- rimes
-
noun,
Also called rime ice. an opaque coating of tiny, white, granular ice particles, caused by the rapid freezing of supercooled water droplets on impact with an object.
Compare frost (def 3), glaze (def 17).
- Names
-
noun,
a word or a combination of words by which a person, place, or thing, a body or class, or any object of thought is designated, called, or known.
- Msgr.
-
- MSEnt
-
- amiga
-
noun,
a female friend.
- rings
-
noun,
a typically circular band of metal or other durable material, especially one of gold or other precious metal, often set with gems, for wearing on the finger as an ornament, a token of betrothal or marriage, etc.
- rinse
-
noun,
an act or instance of rinsing.
- sagan
-
noun,
Carl (Edward) 1934–96, U.S. astronomer and writer.
- amin-
-
- amine
-
noun,
any of a class of compounds derived from ammonia by replacement of one or more hydrogen atoms with organic groups.
- Mitre
-
noun,
Bartolomé [bahr-taw-law-me] /ˌbɑr tɔ lɔˈmɛ/ (Show IPA), 1821–1906, Argentine soldier, statesman, and author: president of Argentina 1862–68.
- Mitra
-
noun,
the mitriform pileus of certain fungi.
- mites
-
noun,
any of numerous small to microscopic arachnids of the subclass Acari, including species that are parasitic on animals and plants or that feed on decaying matter and stored foods.
- miter
-
noun,
the official headdress of a bishop in the Western Church, in its modern form a tall cap with a top deeply cleft crosswise, the outline of the front and back resembling that of a pointed arch.
- saiga
-
noun,
a goatlike antelope, Saiga tatarica, of western Asia and eastern Russia, having a greatly enlarged muzzle.
- Amati
-
noun,
Nicolò [nee-kaw-law] /ˌni kɔˈlɔ/ (Show IPA), 1596–1684, Italian violinmaker, one of a famous family of 16th- and 17th-century violinmakers: teacher of Antonio Stradivari.
- amate
-
verb (used with object),
to dismay; daunt.
- Niger
-
noun,
a republic in NW Africa: formerly part of French West Africa. 458,976 sq. mi. (1,188,748 sq. km). Capital: Niamey.
- Aimee
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Agnes
-
noun,
Saint, a.d. 292?–304? Roman Catholic child martyr.
- Agram
-
noun,
German name of Zagreb.
- agree
-
verb (used with object),
to concede; grant (usually followed by a noun clause):
- Renan
-
noun,
Ernest [ur-nist;; French er-nest] /ˈɜr nɪst;; French ɛrˈnɛst/ (Show IPA), 1823–92, French philologist, historian, and critic.
- renga
-
noun,
linked verse.
- nerts
-
interjection,
nuts (def 1).
- train
-
noun,
Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
- T-man
-
noun,
a special investigator of the Department of the Treasury.
- reni-
-
- renin
-
noun,
a proteolytic enzyme secreted by the kidneys that is involved in the release of angiotensin.
- Nemea
-
noun,
a valley in SE Greece, in ancient Argolis.
- tires
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- Neman
-
noun,
a river rising in central Byelorussia (Belarus), flowing W through Lithuania into the Baltic. 582 miles (937 km) long.
- Tiran
-
noun,
Strait of, a navigable waterway between the N Red Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba.
- tines
-
noun,
a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
- nears
-
- rente
-
noun,
revenue or income, or the instrument evidencing a right to such periodic receipts.
- nates
-
noun,
buttocks; rump.
- tings
-
noun,
a tinging sound.
- 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.
- airts
-
noun,
a direction.
- nares
-
plural noun,
the nostrils or the nasal passages.
- reset
-
noun,
an act or instance of setting again.
- Aisne
-
noun,
a river in N France, flowing NW and W to the Oise. 175 miles (280 km) long.
- tinge
-
noun,
a slight degree of coloration.
- nanas
-
noun,
Chiefly Northeastern U.S. grandmother; grandma.
- amain
-
adverb,
with full force.
- resin
-
noun,
any of a class of nonvolatile, solid or semisolid organic substances, as copal or mastic, that consist of amorphous mixtures of carboxylic acids and are obtained directly from certain plants as exudations or prepared by polymerization of simple molecules: used in medicine and in the making of varnishes and plastics.
- tera-
-
- stair
-
noun,
one of a flight or series of steps for going from one level to another, as in a building.
- tense
-
noun,
a category of verbal inflection that serves chiefly to specify the time of the action or state expressed by the verb.
- Imena
-
noun,
a female given name: from an Arabic word meaning “faith.”.
- erase
-
verb (used with object),
to rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, etc.; efface.
- Tamar
-
noun,
the daughter of David and half-sister of Absalom. II Sam. 13.
- Taira
-
noun,
a member of a powerful family in Japan that ruled the country 1160–85.
- ERISA
-
noun,
Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
- tains
-
noun,
a thin tin plate.
- Taine
-
noun,
Hippolyte Adolphe [ee-paw-leet a-dawlf] /i pɔˈlit aˈdɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1828–93, French literary critic and historian.
- ernes
-
noun,
sea eagle.
- inert
-
adjective,
having no inherent power of action, motion, or resistance (opposed to active):
- Ernie
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Ernest.
- inane
-
noun,
something that is empty or void, especially the void of infinite space.
- seti-
-
- 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.
- taiga
-
noun,
the coniferous evergreen forests of subarctic lands, covering vast areas of northern North America and Eurasia.
- Inner
-
adjective,
situated within or farther within; interior:
- image
-
noun,
a physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, sculptured, or otherwise made visible.
- siege
-
noun,
the act or process of surrounding and attacking a fortified place in such a way as to isolate it from help and supplies, for the purpose of lessening the resistance of the defenders and thereby making capture possible.
- IATSE
-
- Siena
-
noun,
a city in Tuscany, in central Italy, S of Florence: cathedral.
- Sigma
-
noun,
the 18th letter of the Greek alphabet: Σ, σ, ς.
- signa
-
verb,
(used imperatively, in prescriptions) mark; write; label.
- stria
-
noun,
a slight or narrow furrow, ridge, stripe, or streak, especially one of a number in parallel arrangement:
- simar
-
noun,
Also, cymar. a loose, lightweight jacket or robe for women, fashionable in the 17th and 18th centuries.
- grist
-
noun,
grain to be ground.
- Sinan
-
noun,
1489?–1587, Turkish architect, especially of mosques.
- grins
-
noun,
a broad smile.
- 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 .
- entia
-
noun,
plural of ens.
- serin
-
noun,
a small finch, Serinus serinus, of Europe and northern Africa, closely related to the canary.
- Greta
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Margaret.
- Tanga
-
noun,
either of two former coins of India, one gold and one silver, issued by various Muslim rulers.
- tanna
-
noun,
one of a group of Jewish scholars, active in Palestine during the 1st and 2nd centuries a.d., whose teachings are found chiefly in the Mishnah.
- egers
-
noun,
German name of Ohře.
- iters
-
noun,
a canal or passage.
- sengi
-
noun,
a monetary unit of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, equal to 1/10,000 (.0001) of a zaire.
- Senna
-
noun,
any plant, shrub, or tree belonging to the genus Cassia, of the legume family, having pinnate leaves and large clusters of flowers.
- egest
-
verb (used with object),
to discharge, as from the body; void (opposed to ingest).
- Tanis
-
noun,
an ancient city in Lower Egypt, in the Nile delta.
- senti
-
noun,
a monetary unit of Tanzania, the 100th part of a shilling; cent.
- 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.
- serai
-
noun,
(in Eastern countries) a caravansary.
- Isere
-
noun,
a river in SE France, flowing from the Alps to the Rhone River. 150 miles (240 km) long.
- tangs
-
- Serge
-
noun,
a twilled worsted or woolen fabric used especially for clothing.
- Tamas
-
noun,
See under guna.
- irate
-
adjective,
angry; enraged:
- Iran.
-
- emirs
-
noun,
a chieftain, prince, commander, or head of state in some Islamic countries.
- emits
-
verb (used with object),
to send forth (liquid, light, heat, sound, particles, etc.); discharge.
- intr.
-
- enate
-
noun,
a person related on one's mother's side.
Compare agnate, cognate.
- Tamis
-
noun,
a worsted cloth mesh constructed in open weave and having a corded face, used as a sieve or strainer.
- enema
-
noun,
the injection of a fluid into the rectum to cause a bowel movement.
- tames
-
adjective,
changed from the wild or savage state; domesticated:
- engr.
-
- inst.
-
- Ennis
-
noun,
a town in N Texas.
- inset
-
noun,
something inserted; insert.
- grime
-
noun,
dirt, soot, or other filthy matter, especially adhering to or embedded in a surface.
- sing.
-
- semi-
-
- sneer
-
noun,
a look or expression of derision, scorn, or contempt.
- G-man
-
noun,
an agent for the FBI.
- sitar
-
noun,
a lute of India with a small, pear-shaped body and a long, broad, fretted neck.
- Smart
-
noun,
a sharp local pain, usually superficial, as from a wound, blow, or sting.
- gater
-
noun,
gator.
- Gates
-
noun,
Horatio, 1728–1806, American Revolutionary general, born in England.
- steam
-
noun,
water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
- girts
-
noun,
Carpentry.
a timber or plate connecting the corner posts of an exterior wooden frame, as a braced frame, at a floor above the ground floor.
a heavy beam, as for supporting the ends of rafters.
- smear
-
noun,
an oily, greasy, viscous, or wet substance, especially a dab of such a substance.
- girns
-
noun, verb (used with object),
grin2 .
- smite
-
Idioms,
smite hip and thigh. hip1 (def 9).
- snare
-
noun,
a device, often consisting of a noose, for capturing small game.
- giant
-
noun,
(in folklore) a being with human form but superhuman size, strength, etc.
- 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.
- Steen
-
noun,
Jan [yahn] /yɑn/ (Show IPA), 1626–79, Dutch painter.
- geste
-
noun,
gest.
- stare
-
noun,
a staring gaze; a fixed look with the eyes wide open:
- Srta.
-
- STAGE
-
noun,
a single step or degree in a process; a particular phase, period, position, etc., in a process, development, or series.
- 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:
- stang
-
noun,
an act or an instance of stinging.
- stane
-
noun, adjective, adverb, verb (used with object),
stone.
- Genet
-
noun,
any small, Old World carnivore of the genus Genetta, especially G. genetta, having spotted sides and a ringed tail.
- Genie
-
noun,
Islamic Mythology. jinn.
- genin
-
noun,
aglycon.
- genre
-
noun,
a class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, technique, or the like:
- stain
-
noun,
a discoloration produced by foreign matter having penetrated into or chemically reacted with a material; a spot not easily removed.
- Siret
-
noun,
a river in SE Europe, flowing SE from the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine, through E Romania to the Danube. 270 miles (435 km) long.
- Siren
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. one of several sea nymphs, part woman and part bird, who lure mariners to destruction by their seductive singing.
- etnas
-
noun,
Mount, an active volcano in E Sicily. 10,758 feet (3280 meters).
- ster.
-
- greet
-
verb (used with object),
to address with some form of salutation; welcome.
- grees
-
noun,
superiority, mastery, or victory.
- sting
-
noun,
an act or an instance of stinging.
- Green
-
noun,
a color intermediate in the spectrum between yellow and blue, an effect of light with a wavelength between 500 and 570 nm; found in nature as the color of most grasses and leaves while growing, of some fruits while ripening, and of the sea.
- stime
-
noun,
the smallest bit; a drop, taste, or glimpse.
- stge.
-
- singe
-
noun,
a superficial burn.
- Gaeta
-
noun,
a seaport in W central Italy, on the Gulf of Gaeta off the Tyrrhenian Sea.
- gains
-
- Stern
-
noun,
the after part of a vessel (often opposed to stem).
- grate
-
noun,
a frame of metal bars for holding fuel when burning, as in a fireplace, furnace, or stove.
- gaits
-
noun,
a manner of walking, stepping, or running.
- gamer
-
noun,
a person who plays games, especially computer or video games.
- gnars
-
verb (used without object),
to snarl; growl.
- games
-
noun,
an amusement or pastime:
- Gamin
-
noun,
a neglected boy left to run about the streets; street urchin.
- Grant
-
noun,
something granted, as a privilege or right, a sum of money, or a tract of land:
- reams
-
noun,
a standard quantity of paper, consisting of 20 quires or 500 sheets (formerly 480 sheets), or 516 sheets (printer's ream or perfect ream)
- Grana
-
noun,
(in prescriptions) plural of granum.
- garni
-
adjective,
garnished.
- grams
-
noun,
a metric unit of mass or weight equal to 15.432 grains; one thousandth of a kilogram. Abbreviation: g.
- Stein
-
noun,
a mug, usually earthenware, especially for beer.
- grama
-
noun,
any grass of the genus Bouteloua, of South America and western North America, as B. gracilis (blue grama)
- gram.
-
- grain
-
noun,
a small, hard seed, especially the seed of a food plant such as wheat, corn, rye, oats, rice, or millet.
- steer
-
noun,
Informal. a suggestion about a course of action; tip:
- siree
-
noun,
sirree.
- eaten
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- Irene
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. one of the Horae, the personification of peace.
- semen
-
noun,
the viscid, whitish fluid produced in the male reproductive organs, containing spermatozoa.
- astir
-
adjective,
moving or stirring, especially with much activity or excitement:
- ASEAN
-
- asgmt
-
- Tegea
-
noun,
an ancient city in SE Arcadia, Greece.
- Manta
-
noun,
(in Spain and Spanish America) a cloak or wrap.
- manse
-
noun,
the house and land occupied by a minister or parson.
- Asian
-
noun,
a native or inhabitant of Asia, or a person of Asian descent.
- Asine
-
noun,
an ancient town in S Greece, on the Gulf of Argolis.
- teens
-
noun,
Archaic. suffering; grief.
- Teena
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Albertina, Bettina, or Christina.
- teems
-
verb (used with object),
Obsolete. to produce (offspring).
- aster
-
noun,
any composite plant of the genus Aster, having rays varying from white or pink to blue around a yellow disk.
- manna
-
noun,
the food miraculously supplied to the Israelites in the wilderness. Ex. 16:14–36.
- manit
-
noun,
man-minute.
- mania
-
noun,
excessive excitement or enthusiasm; craze:
- maras
-
noun,
a city in S Turkey, NE of Adana.
- tease
-
noun,
a person who teases or annoys.
- astr.
-
- mange
-
noun,
any of various skin diseases caused by parasitic mites, affecting animals and sometimes humans and characterized by loss of hair and scabby eruptions.
- tears
-
- teams
-
noun,
a number of persons forming one of the sides in a game or contest:
- manga
-
noun,
a Japanese graphic novel, typically intended for adults, characterized by highly stylized art.
- Manet
-
noun,
Édouard [ey-dwar] /eɪˈdwar/ (Show IPA), 1832–83, French painter.
- Atman
-
noun,
the principle of life.
- atria
-
noun,
Architecture.
Also called cavaedium. the main or central room of an ancient Roman house, open to the sky at the center and usually having a pool for the collection of rain water.
a courtyard, flanked or surrounded by porticoes, in front of an early or medieval Christian church.
a skylit central court in a contemporary building or house.
- tarns
-
noun,
a small mountain lake or pool, especially one in a cirque.
- Manat
-
noun,
a pre-Islamic Arabian goddess personifying fortune, sometimes considered a daughter of Allah.
- manas
-
noun,
the rational faculty of the mind.
- Tarne
-
noun,
(in the Iliad) Sardis.
- temin
-
noun,
Howard M(artin) 1934–94, U.S. virologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1975.
- Marat
-
noun,
Jean Paul [zhahn-pawl] /ʒɑ̃ pɔl/ (Show IPA), 1743–93, French politician and journalist: leader in the French Revolution; assassinated by Charlotte Corday d'Armont.
- Eagan
-
noun,
a town in SE Minnesota.
- marse
-
noun,
(used chiefly in representation of southern black speech) master.
- ARENA
-
noun,
the oval space in the center of a Roman amphitheater for gladiatorial combats or other performances.
- Arete
-
noun,
the aggregate of qualities, as valor and virtue, making up good character.
- mast-
-
- MASER
-
noun,
a device for amplifying electromagnetic waves by stimulated emission of radiation.
- Masan
-
noun,
a seaport in SE South Korea.
- Masai
-
noun,
a member of an African people inhabiting the highlands of Kenya and Tanzania and having a largely pastoral economy and a society based on the patrilineal clan.
- marts
-
noun,
market; trading center; trade center.
- gents
-
noun,
Informal. gentleman (defs 1, 2).
- arian
-
noun,
an adherent of Arianism.
- Marti
-
noun,
José [haw-se] /hɔˈsɛ/ (Show IPA), 1853–1895, Cuban patriot and writer.
- arias
-
noun,
an air or melody.
- Marta
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Aries
-
noun,
Astronomy. the Ram, a zodiacal constellation between Pisces and Taurus.
- Marne
-
noun,
a river in NE France, flowing W to the Seine near Paris: battles 1914, 1918, 1944. 325 miles (525 km) long.
- marg.
-
- arise
-
verb (used without object),
to get up from sitting, lying, or kneeling; rise:
- Maris
-
noun,
Roger (Eugene) 1934–85, U.S. baseball player.
- Tenn.
-
- Armen
-
- armet
-
noun,
a completely enclosed helmet having a visor and hinged cheek pieces fastened under the chin.
- Marin
-
noun,
John, 1870–1953, U.S. painter and etcher.
- Marie
-
noun,
(Marie Alexandra Victoria of Saxe-Coburg) 1875–1938, queen of Romania 1914–27.
- tenia
-
noun,
taenia.
- Maria
-
noun,
calaba.
- Artie
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Arthur.
- Marge
-
noun,
margin; edge.
- Temne
-
noun,
a member of a people living mainly in Sierra Leone.
- Marga
-
noun,
any of the three ways to salvation, which are those of devotion to certain gods (bhakti-marga) of study (jnana-marga) and of actions (karma-marga)
- Tarim
-
noun,
a river in NW China, in Xinjiang Uygur region. About 1300 miles (2090 km) long.
- grans
-
noun,
grandmother.
- maist
-
adjective, noun, adverb,
most.
- Seine
-
noun,
a fishing net that hangs vertically in the water, having floats at the upper edge and sinkers at the lower.
- tares
-
noun,
any of various vetches, especially Vicia sativa.
- Tarai
-
noun,
Terai.
- Magna
-
noun,
a town in N Utah.
- targe
-
noun,
a small, round shield; a target or buckler.
- segar
-
noun,
cigar.
- 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.
- eagre
-
noun,
a tidal bore or flood.
- Segni
-
noun,
Antonio [ahn-taw-nyaw] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1891–1972, Italian teacher, lawyer, and statesman: president 1962–64.
- earns
-
verb (used with object),
to gain or get in return for one's labor or service:
- Maera
-
noun,
Hecuba, after being changed into a dog for blinding Polymestor.
- Maine
-
noun,
a state in the NE United States, on the Atlantic coast. 33,215 sq. mi. (86,027 sq. km). Capital: Augusta.
Abbreviation: ME (for use with zip code), Me.
- Mages
-
noun,
a magician.
- mairs
-
adjective, noun, adverb,
more.
- eager
-
noun,
eagre.
- mains
-
noun,
the main or home farm of a manor, as where the ownerlives; manse.
- maars
-
noun,
a circular volcanic landform resulting from explosive ash eruptions.
- ten.
-
- 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.
- tans
-
noun,
the brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun or open air.
- Sera
-
noun,
a plural of serum.
- Ring
-
noun,
a typically circular band of metal or other durable material, especially one of gold or other precious metal, often set with gems, for wearing on the finger as an ornament, a token of betrothal or marriage, etc.
- site
-
noun,
the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment:
- 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.
- Time
-
noun,
the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
- Tara
-
noun,
a village in the NE Republic of Ireland, NW of Dublin: home of the ancient Irish kings (Hill of Tara)
- Rina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Sere
-
noun,
the series of stages in an ecological succession.
- SITA
-
noun,
(in the Ramayana) the wife of Ramachandra, abducted by Ravana and later rescued.
- Sat.
-
- tri-
-
- Riga
-
noun,
a seaport in and the capital of Latvia, on the Gulf of Riga.
- Rima
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Sean
-
noun,
a male given name, form of John.
- Tena
-
noun,
Koyukon.
- rime
-
noun,
Also called rime ice. an opaque coating of tiny, white, granular ice particles, caused by the rapid freezing of supercooled water droplets on impact with an object.
Compare frost (def 3), glaze (def 17).
- sire
-
noun,
the male parent of a quadruped.
- sent
-
noun,
a coin of Estonia until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a kroon.
- RITA
-
noun,
the Vedic concept of cosmic and social order.
- sati
-
noun,
a Hindu practice whereby a widow immolates herself on the funeral pyre of her husband: now abolished by law.
- Stag
-
noun,
an adult male deer.
- seme
-
adjective,
covered with many small, identical figures.
- tsar
-
noun,
czar.
- tens
-
noun,
a self-operated portable device used to treat chronic pain by sending electrical impulses through electrodes placed over the painful area.
- tRNA
-
- sene
-
noun,
a bronze coin and monetary unit of Western Samoa, the 100th part of a tala.
- Sem.
-
- trim
-
noun,
the condition, order, or fitness of a person or thing for action, work, use, etc.
- Stan
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Stanley.
- Sage
-
noun,
a profoundly wise person; a person famed for wisdom.
- Star
-
noun,
any of the heavenly bodies, except the moon, appearing as fixed luminous points in the sky at night.
- seam
-
noun,
the line formed by sewing together pieces of cloth, leather, or the like.
- Sam.
-
- Rees
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- Ste.
-
- SAGA
-
noun,
a medieval Icelandic or Norse prose narrative of achievements and events in the history of a personage, family, etc.
- SAMA
-
noun,
the Sufi practice of gathering to listen to religious poetry that is sung, often accompanied by ecstatic dance or other ritual.
- Reg.
-
- SRAM
-
- Saar
-
noun,
Also called Saar Basin. a coal-producing region in W Germany, in the Saar River valley: governed by the League of Nations 1919–35; returned to Germany 1935 as a result of a plebiscite; under French economic control following World War II until 1956.
- Sra.
-
- snit
-
noun,
an agitated or irritated state.
- RNAS
-
- rite
-
noun,
a formal or ceremonial act or procedure prescribed or customary in religious or other solemn use:
- rit.
-
- snag
-
noun,
a tree or part of a tree held fast in the bottom of a river, lake, etc., and forming an impediment or danger to navigation.
- Rise
-
noun,
an act or instance of rising.
- sear
-
noun,
a mark or scar made by searing.
- 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.
- stem
-
noun,
the ascending axis of a plant, whether above or below ground, which ordinarily grows in an opposite direction to the root or descending axis.
- SARA
-
noun,
a member of a people of the Central African Republic.
- tier
-
noun,
one of a series of rows or ranks rising one behind or above another, as of seats in an amphitheater, boxes in a theater, guns in a man-of-war, or oars in an ancient galley.
- sain
-
verb (used with object),
to make the sign of the cross on, as for protection against evil influences.
- Sina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- 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.
- Sima
-
noun,
an assemblage of rocks, rich in silica and magnesium, that constitutes the lower layer of the earth's crust and is found beneath the ocean floors and the sial of continents.
- sign
-
noun,
a token; indication.
- seer
-
noun,
a person who sees; observer.
- Sig.
-
- Tame
-
adjective,
changed from the wild or savage state; domesticated:
- Seen
-
verb,
past participle of see1 .
- Sian
-
noun,
Older Spelling. Xian.
- tire
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- rems
-
noun,
the quantity of ionizing radiation whose biological effect is equal to that produced by one roentgen of x-rays.
- tain
-
noun,
a thin tin plate.
- team
-
noun,
a number of persons forming one of the sides in a game or contest:
- SIAM
-
noun,
former name of Thailand (def 1).
- Tasm
-
- tars
-
noun,
any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
- sane
-
noun,
a private nationwide organization in the U.S., established in 1957, that opposes nuclear testing and advocates international peace.
- Ting
-
noun,
a tinging sound.
- Seta
-
noun,
a stiff hair; bristle or bristlelike part.
- 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.
- Sang
-
noun,
the act or performance of singing.
- Sert
-
noun,
José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1945, Spanish painter.
- Tarn
-
noun,
a small mountain lake or pool, especially one in a cirque.
- rest
-
noun,
the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep:
- Tams
-
noun,
tam-o'-shanter.
- TINA
-
noun,
a female given name.
- Seri
-
noun,
a member of an American Indian people of western Sonora state, Mexico, on the Gulf of California.
- 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.
- regs
-
noun,
Usually, regs. Informal. regulations.
- Seem
-
verb (used without object),
to appear to be, feel, do, etc.:
- tegs
-
noun,
Animal Husbandry.
a two-year-old sheep that has not been shorn.
the wool shorn from such a sheep.
- RIAS
-
noun,
a long, narrow inlet of a river that gradually decreases in depth from mouth to head.
- ter.
-
- Rein
-
noun,
Often, reins. a leather strap, fastened to each end of the bit of a bridle, by which the rider or driver controls a horse or other animal by pulling so as to exert pressure on the bit.
- Tane
-
noun,
a Polynesian god of fertility.
- 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.
- 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.
- Reis
-
plural noun,
a former money of account of Portugal and Brazil.
- reit
-
noun,
real-estate investment trust.
- stg.
-
- Tare
-
noun,
any of various vetches, especially Vicia sativa.
- same
-
Idioms,
all the same,
notwithstanding; nevertheless:
of no difference; immaterial:
- rete
-
noun,
a pierced plate on an astrolabe, having projections whose points correspond to the fixed stars.
- Sari
-
noun,
a garment worn by Hindu women, consisting of a long piece of cotton or silk wrapped around the body with one end draped over the head or over one shoulder.
- teen
-
noun,
Archaic. suffering; grief.
- Tine
-
noun,
a sharp, projecting point or prong, as of a fork.
- teem
-
verb (used with object),
Obsolete. to produce (offspring).
- Stir
-
noun,
the act of stirring or moving.
- Sami
-
noun,
Lapp.
- Tana
-
noun,
thana.
- tram
-
noun,
British. a streetcar.
- str.
-
- SINE
-
noun,
Trigonometry.
(in a right triangle) the ratio of the side opposite a given acute angle to the hypotenuse.
(of an angle) a trigonometric function equal to the ratio of the ordinate of the end point of the arc to the radius vector of this end point, the origin being at the center of the circle on which the arc lies and the initial point of the arc being on the x-axis. Abbreviation: sin.
- Rena
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Marina.
- MatE
-
noun,
a partner in marriage; spouse.
- ream
-
noun,
a standard quantity of paper, consisting of 20 quires or 500 sheets (formerly 480 sheets), or 516 sheets (printer's ream or perfect ream)
- Maas
-
noun,
Dutch name of the Meuse.
- ASME
-
- Asir
-
noun,
a district in SW Saudi Arabia.
- Asia
-
noun,
a continent bounded by Europe and the Arctic, Pacific, and Indian oceans. About 16,000,000 sq. mi. (41,440,000 sq. km).
- M-14
-
noun,
a fully automatic, gas-operated, .30 caliber rifle developed from the M-1: replaced the M-1 as the standard U.S. Army combat rifle.
- M-16
-
noun,
a lightweight, fully automatic rifle shooting a small-caliber bullet at an extremely high velocity: a U.S. Army combat weapon for mobile units and jungle fighting.
- maar
-
noun,
a circular volcanic landform resulting from explosive ash eruptions.
- Maat
-
noun,
the goddess personifying law and righteousness.
- item
-
noun,
a separate article or particular:
- Aser
-
noun,
Asher (def 1).
- maes
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Mary.
- mag.
-
- mage
-
noun,
a magician.
- Magi
-
noun,
(sometimes lowercase) one of the Magi.
- mags
-
noun,
magazine.
- Maia
-
noun,
the eldest of the Pleiades and the mother of Hermes by Zeus.
- iter
-
noun,
a canal or passage.
- Itea
-
noun,
any tree or shrub belonging to the genus Itea, of the saxifrage family, having simple, alternate leaves and clusters of small, greenish-white flowers, as the Virginia willow, I. virginica.
- Mair
-
adjective, noun, adverb,
more.
- IRAS
-
noun,
a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “watchful.”.
- EARN
-
verb (used with object),
to gain or get in return for one's labor or service:
- inae
-
- Inge
-
noun,
William (Motter) [mot-er] /ˈmɒt ər/ (Show IPA), 1913–73, U.S. playwright.
- inns
-
noun,
a commercial establishment that provides lodging, food, etc., for the public, especially travelers; small hotel.
- ins.
-
- int.
-
- Ire.
-
- Asti
-
noun,
a city in the Piedmont region of Italy, S of Turin: center of wine-producing region.
- Irma
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Erma.
- ates
-
- Isar
-
noun,
a river in central Europe, flowing NE from W Austria through S Germany to the Danube River. 215 miles (345 km) long.
- Aten
-
noun,
Aton.
- atar
-
noun,
attar (def 1).
- atm.
-
- ASTM
-
- Main
-
noun,
a principal pipe or duct in a system used to distribute water, gas, etc.
- Man.
-
- 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.
- mes-
-
- Meir
-
noun,
Golda [gohl-duh] /ˈgoʊl də/ (Show IPA), (Goldie Mabovitch; Goldie Myerson) 1898–1978, Israeli political leader, born in Russia: prime minister 1969–74.
- men-
-
- Meng
-
- ment
-
- mere
-
noun,
Chiefly British Dialect. a lake or pond.
- MERS
-
noun,
Middle East(ern) Respiratory Syndrome: an often fatal respiratory illness caused by a coronavirus similar to the SARS virus and characterized by fever, coughing, and shortness of breath.
- mesa
-
noun,
a land formation, less extensive than a plateau, having steep walls and a relatively flat top and common in arid and semiarid parts of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
- Meer
-
noun,
Jan van der [yahn vahn der] /yɑn vɑn dɛr/ (Show IPA), Vermeer, Jan.
- met.
-
- mete
-
noun,
a limiting mark.
- Arne
-
noun,
Thomas Augustine, 1710–78, English composer of operas and songs.
- arms
-
noun,
the upper limb of the human body, especially the part extending from the shoulder to the wrist.
- Arm.
-
- ARIS
-
- Aria
-
noun,
an air or melody.
- meet
-
noun,
an assembly, as of persons and hounds for a hunt or swimmers or runners for a race or series of races:
- meat
-
noun,
the flesh of animals as used for food.
- Mana
-
noun,
a generalized, supernatural force or power, which may be concentrated in objects or persons.
- Mari
-
noun,
a member of a Uralic people living in scattered communities north of Cheboksary and Kazan in European Russia, mainly in the Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
- asea
-
adjective, adverb,
to or toward the sea; seaward.
- mane
-
noun,
the long hair growing on the back of or around the neck and neighboring parts of some animals, as the horse or lion.
- Mani
-
noun,
Manes.
- Mar.
-
- Mara
-
noun,
Hindu Mythology. the god of death, sometimes seen as one aspect of a god whose other aspect is Kama, or erotic desire.
- Mare
-
noun,
a fully mature female horse or other equine animal.
- MARS
-
noun,
the ancient Roman god of war and agriculture, identified with the Greek god Ares.
- esne
-
noun,
(in Anglo-Saxon England) a member of the lowest class; laborer.
- Mart
-
noun,
market; trading center; trade center.
- masa
-
noun,
flour or dough made of dried, ground corn, used especially for tortillas.
- Asat
-
noun,
(in Vedic mythology) the realm of nonexistence, populated by demons.
Compare sat2 (def 1).
- art.
-
- arse
-
noun,
ass2 (defs 1, 2).
- mean
-
noun,
Usually, means. (used with a singular or plural verb) an agency, instrument, or method used to attain an end:
- mear
-
noun,
mere3 .
- ign.
-
- IATA
-
- Ares
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of war, a son of Zeus and Hera, identified by the Romans with Mars.
- gees
-
noun,
a sum of one thousand dollars:
- gata
-
noun,
the nurse shark, Ginglymostoma cirratum.
- gate
-
noun,
a movable barrier, usually on hinges, closing an opening in a fence, wall, or other enclosure.
- gats
-
noun,
a pistol or revolver.
- Gean
-
noun,
heart cherry.
- 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:
- Erin
-
noun,
Literary. Ireland.
- Erie
-
noun,
Lake, a lake between the NE central United States and SE central Canada: the southernmost lake of the Great Lakes; Commodore Perry's defeat of the British in 1813. 239 miles (385 km) long; 9940 sq. mi. (25,745 sq. km).
- Eris
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of discord and the sister of Ares: identified with the Roman goddess Discordia.
- Gen.
-
- Gena
-
noun,
the cheek or side region of the head.
- gene
-
noun,
the basic physical unit of heredity; a linear sequence of nucleotides along a segment of DNA that provides the coded instructions for synthesis of RNA, which, when translated into protein, leads to the expression of hereditary character.
- gens
-
noun,
a group of families in ancient Rome claiming descent from a common ancestor and united by a common name and common ancestral religious rites.
- Gent
-
noun,
Informal. gentleman (defs 1, 2).
- Ger.
-
- Gera
-
noun,
a city in E central Germany.
- 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.
- Gers
-
noun,
a department in SW France. 2429 sq. mi. (6290 sq. km). Capital: Auch.
- Erse
-
noun,
Gaelic, especially Scottish Gaelic.
- est.
-
- Este
-
noun,
a city in NE Italy: medieval fortress; ancient Roman ruins.
- 1080
-
- ETAS
-
noun,
the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet (H, η).
- Etna
-
noun,
Mount, an active volcano in E Sicily. 10,758 feet (3280 meters).
- erst
-
adverb,
before the present time; formerly.
- Erne
-
noun,
sea eagle.
- Gare
-
noun,
low-grade wool fibers from the legs of sheep.
- Erna
-
noun,
a female given name: from an Old English word meaning “eagle.”.
- gaea
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of the earth, mother of the Titans.
- gait
-
noun,
a manner of walking, stepping, or running.
- Gama
-
noun,
Vasco da [vas-koh duh;; Portuguese vahsh-koo duh] /ˈvæs koʊ də;; Portuguese ˈvɑʃ kʊ də/ (Show IPA), c1460–1524, Portuguese navigator: discovered the sea route from Portugal around the continent of Africa to India.
- game
-
noun,
an amusement or pastime:
- gams
-
noun,
a person's leg, especially an attractive female leg.
- Erma
-
noun,
a female given name.
- germ
-
noun,
a microorganism, especially when disease-producing; microbe.
- Gert
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Gertrude.
- ease
-
noun,
freedom from labor, pain, or physical annoyance; tranquil rest; comfort:
- Gris
-
noun,
Juan [hwahn] /ʰwɑn/ (Show IPA), (José Vittoriano Gonzáles) 1887–1927, Spanish painter in France.
- Gran
-
noun,
grandmother.
- gras
-
- gree
-
noun,
superiority, mastery, or victory.
- gres
-
- Grim
-
adjective,
stern and admitting of no appeasement or compromise:
- grin
-
noun,
a broad smile.
- Grit
-
noun,
abrasive particles or granules, as of sand or other small, coarse impurities found in the air, food, water, etc.
- EMet
-
- Eire
-
noun,
the Irish name of Ireland.
- egis
-
noun,
aegis.
- Eger
-
noun,
German name of Ohře.
- eats
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- IAEA
-
- East
-
noun,
a cardinal point of the compass, 90° to the right of north. Abbreviation: E.
- iana
-
- emes
-
noun,
friend.
- GNMA
-
- ergs
-
- girn
-
noun, verb (used with object),
grin2 .
- Ens.
-
- gest
-
noun,
a story or tale.
- engs
-
noun,
the symbol, ŋ, that, in the International Phonetic Alphabet and in the pronunciation alphabets of some dictionaries, represents the voiced velar nasal consonant indicated in English spelling by (ng), as in the pronunciations of cling [kling] /klɪŋ/ (Show IPA) and clink [klingk] /klɪŋk/ (Show IPA).
- Eng.
-
- 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.
- gets
-
noun,
an offspring or the total of the offspring, especially of a male animal:
- Gina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- girt
-
noun,
Carpentry.
a timber or plate connecting the corner posts of an exterior wooden frame, as a braced frame, at a floor above the ground floor.
a heavy beam, as for supporting the ends of rafters.
- gnat
-
noun,
any of certain small flies, especially the biting gnats or punkies of the family Ceratopogonidae, the midges of the family Chironomidae, and the black flies of the family Simuliidae.
- gist
-
noun,
the main or essential part of a matter:
- gite
-
noun,
a furnished vacation home in France that is available for rental, especially in a rural setting.
- Gmat
-
- emit
-
verb (used with object),
to send forth (liquid, light, heat, sound, particles, etc.); discharge.
- emir
-
noun,
a chieftain, prince, commander, or head of state in some Islamic countries.
- emia
-
- gnar
-
verb (used without object),
to snarl; growl.
- Arg.
-
- meas
-
- mias
-
plural,
missing in action.
- airs
-
noun,
a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- Agar
-
noun,
Also, agar-agar. Also called Chinese gelatin, Chinese isinglass, Japanese gelatin, Japanese isinglass. a gelatinlike product of certain seaweeds, used for solidifying certain culture media, as a thickening agent for ice cream and other foods, as a substitute for gelatin, in adhesives, as an emulsifier, etc.
- Naga
-
noun,
a member of any of the disparate tribal peoples of Nagaland and bordering areas of Burma.
- area
-
noun,
any particular extent of space or surface; part:
- Aiea
-
noun,
a town on S Oahu, in Hawaii.
- aet.
-
- AIME
-
- aer-
-
- NTIA
-
- AIMS
-
noun,
the act of aiming or directing anything at or toward a particular point or target.
- ains
-
noun,
a department in E France. 2249 sq. mi. (5825 sq. km). Capital: Bourg.
- Aire
-
- AAEE
-
- airt
-
noun,
a direction.
- agas
-
noun,
a title of honor, usually implying respect for age.
- mtge
-
- mtg.
-
- aits
-
noun,
a small island, especially in a river.
- Aman
-
noun,
Haman.
- raga
-
noun,
one of the melodic formulas of Hindu music having the melodic shape, rhythm, and ornamentation prescribed by tradition.
- amas
-
noun,
a Japanese diver, usually a woman, who tends underwater oyster beds used in the cultivation of pearls.
- 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:
- ragi
-
noun,
a cereal grass, Eleusine coracana, cultivated in the Old World for its grain.
- Amen
-
noun,
an utterance of the interjection “amen.”.
- MSIE
-
- Ames
-
noun,
a city in central Iowa.
- Raia
-
noun,
rayah.
- Nair
-
noun,
a group of Hindu castes in the Kerala region of India.
- Nama
-
noun,
a member of a Khoikhoi people of Namaqualand, in SW Africa.
- MSgt
-
- Agra
-
noun,
a city in SW Uttar Pradesh, in N India: site of the Taj Mahal.
- Nier
-
noun,
Alfred Otto Carl, 1911–1994, U.S. physicist.
- agit
-
- NIMS
-
noun,
a game in which two players alternate in drawing counters, pennies, or the like, from a set of 12 arranged in three rows of 3, 4, and 5 counters, respectively, the object being to draw the last counter, or, sometimes, to avoid drawing it.
- Nina
-
noun,
girl; child.
- 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.
- AGMA
-
noun,
(in Latin and Greek) the velar nasal consonant sound, especially in those forms where it was represented by the letter g or by gamma.
- Neri
-
noun,
Saint Philip (Filippo Neri) 1515–95, Italian priest: founder of Congregation of the Oratory.
- nene
-
noun,
a barred, gray-brown wild goose, Nesochen sandvicensis, native to Hawaii, where it is the state bird.
- Agni
-
noun,
Hindu Mythology. the god of fire, one of the three chief divinities of the Vedas.
- neem
-
- agr.
-
- neat
-
noun,
an animal of the genus Bos; a bovine, as a cow or ox.
- Nine
-
noun,
a cardinal number, eight plus one.
- name
-
noun,
a word or a combination of words by which a person, place, or thing, a body or class, or any object of thought is designated, called, or known.
- NATS
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Nathan or Nathaniel.
- NIRA
-
- agst
-
- Nast
-
noun,
Thomas, 1840–1902, U.S. illustrator and cartoonist.
- ager
-
noun,
(often initial capital letter) a person living in a certain historical age:
- Nasi
-
noun,
the head or president of the Sanhedrin.
- NASA
-
noun,
National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
- Nara
-
noun,
a city on S Honshu, in central Japan: chief Buddhist center of ancient Japan; first capital of Japan a.d. 710–84.
- nits
-
noun,
the egg of a parasitic insect, especially of a louse, often attached to a hair or a fiber of clothing.
- nane
-
pronoun, adverb, adjective,
none1 .
- Nana
-
noun,
Chiefly Northeastern U.S. grandmother; grandma.
- Agee
-
noun,
James, 1909–55, U.S. author, scenarist, and film critic.
- rain
-
noun,
water that is condensed from the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere and falls to earth in drops more than 1/50 inch (0.5 mm) in diameter.
Compare drizzle (def 6).
- rage
-
noun,
angry fury; violent anger (sometimes used in combination):
- Rais
-
noun,
Gilles de, Retz, Gilles de Laval, Baron de.
- mist
-
noun,
a cloudlike aggregation of minute globules of water suspended in the atmosphere at or near the earth's surface, reducing visibility to a lesser degree than fog.
- rasa
-
noun,
(in Hindu aesthetics) flavor, sentiment, or emotion: regarded as one of the fundamental qualities of classical music, dance, and poetry.
- Rama
-
noun,
(in the Ramayana) any of the three avatars of Vishnu: Balarama, Parashurama, or Ramachandra.
- ann.
-
- Anna
-
noun,
a former cupronickel coin of Pakistan, the 16th part of a rupee: last issued in 1960.
- Anne
-
noun,
1665–1714, queen of England 1702–14 (daughter of James II of England).
- Mngr
-
- ansa
-
noun,
Archaeology. a looped handle, especially of a vase.
- ANSI
-
- MNAS
-
- ant.
-
- ANTA
-
noun,
a privately supported organization, chartered by Congress in 1935, for the encouragement and advancement of professional and nonprofessional theater.
- mite
-
noun,
any of numerous small to microscopic arachnids of the subclass Acari, including species that are parasitic on animals and plants or that feed on decaying matter and stored foods.
- Mita
-
noun,
a colonial system in Peru by which the Spanish government required Indians to perform periodic forced labor, especially in the mines.
- rase
-
verb (used with object),
raze.
- mise
-
noun,
a settlement or agreement.
- anes
-
adverb,
once.
- mis-
-
- mire
-
noun,
a tract or area of wet, swampy ground; bog; marsh.
- Mira
-
noun,
Astronomy. the first long-period pulsating variable star to be discovered, with a period averaging 331 days. It is a red giant and a component of a binary star in the constellation Cetus.
- Aram
-
noun,
Biblical name of ancient Syria.
- mint
-
noun,
any aromatic herb of the genus Mentha, having opposite leaves and small, whorled flowers, as the spearmint and peppermint.
Compare mint family.
- mins
-
noun,
a group of Chinese languages spoken in southeastern China, including Foochow and Fukienese.
- Ming
-
noun,
a dynasty in China, 1368–1644, marked by the restoration of traditional institutions and the development of the arts, especially in porcelain, textiles, and painting.
- MiNE
-
noun,
an excavation made in the earth for the purpose of extracting ores, coal, precious stones, etc.
- Aras
-
noun,
Also, Araks. Ancient Araxes. a river in SW Asia, flowing from E Turkey along part of the boundary between NW Iran and Armenia and Azerbaijan into the Kura River. About 660 miles (1065 km) long.
- Mina
-
noun,
an ancient unit of weight and value equal to the sixtieth part of a talent.
- min.
-
- migs
-
noun,
a playing marble, especially one that is not used as a shooter.
- rate
-
noun,
the amount of a charge or payment with reference to some basis of calculation:
- mien
-
noun,
air, bearing, or demeanor, as showing character, feeling, etc.:
- anga
-
noun,
any of the eight practices of Yoga, including the abstentions, mandatory actions, posture, breath control, control of the senses, concentration, meditation, and contemplation.
- agin
-
preposition,
against; opposed to.
- Mrs.
-
plural,
a title of respect prefixed to the surname or full name of a married woman:
- Amis
-
noun,
Kingsley, 1922–95, English novelist.
- rami
-
noun,
plural of ramus.
- Amri
-
noun,
Omri.
- Rani
-
noun,
ranee.
- amt.
-
- MSEE
-
- Amie
-
noun,
a female friend.
- Anam
-
noun,
Annam.
- MSAE
-
- Amir
-
noun,
emir.
- Anas
-
- rant
-
noun,
ranting, extravagant, or violent declamation.
- rang
-
noun,
a boomerang.
- mRNA
-
- AES
-
noun,
any of various early forms of bronze or copper money used in ancient Rome.
Compare as2 (def 1).
- TAM
-
noun,
tam-o'-shanter.
- TSI
-
- ag-
-
- ene
-
- AIA
-
- en-
-
- AMA
-
noun,
a Japanese diver, usually a woman, who tends underwater oyster beds used in the cultivation of pearls.
- AAE
-
- an.
-
- TAE
-
preposition,
to.
- 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:
- Tai
-
noun,
any of several sparoid fishes of the Pacific Ocean, as Pagrus major (red tai) a food fish of Japan.
- Am.
-
- AEA
-
- ae.
-
- AAS
-
noun,
basaltic lava having a rough surface.
- Aar
-
- 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:
- Ar.
-
- TSE
-
- ERE
-
preposition, conjunction,
before.
- ESA
-
- ERA
-
noun,
a period of time marked by distinctive character, events, etc.:
- AAM
-
- ERS
-
noun,
ervil.
- ERT
-
- aga
-
noun,
a title of honor, usually implying respect for age.
- EAS
-
noun,
the Akkadian god of wisdom, the son of Apsu and father of Marduk: the counterpart of Enki.
- Tan
-
noun,
the brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun or open air.
- Tim
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Timothy.
- at.
-
- AME
-
- tee
-
noun,
the letter T or t.
- ast
-
- ASR
-
- ASN
-
- ASM
-
- tin
-
noun,
Chemistry. a low-melting, malleable, ductile metallic element nearly approaching silver in color and luster: used in plating and in making alloys, tinfoil, and soft solders. Symbol: Sn; atomic weight: 118.69; atomic number: 50; specific gravity: 7.31 at 20°C.
- AMI
-
noun,
a friend, especially a male friend.
- teg
-
noun,
Animal Husbandry.
a two-year-old sheep that has not been shorn.
the wool shorn from such a sheep.
- ASI
-
- AMS
-
- ait
-
noun,
a small island, especially in a river.
- ane
-
adjective, noun, pronoun,
one.
- TIA
-
- TGN
-
- TES
-
noun,
ti1 .
- ANG
-
- ANI
-
noun,
any of several black, tropical American cuckoos of the genus Crotophaga, having a compressed, bladelike bill.
- ase
-
- ans
-
noun,
the Sumerian god of heaven: the counterpart of the Akkadian Anu.
- ASA
-
noun,
a king of Judah, 913?–873? b.c. I Kings 15:8–24.
- ARA
-
noun,
the Altar, a southern constellation between Triangulum Australe and Scorpius.
- ARS
-
- 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.
- ATA
-
- ATS
-
noun,
a money of account of Laos, the 100th part of a kip.
- EMT
-
- Tng
-
- EMS
-
noun,
the letter M, m.
- EMR
-
- AGM
-
- AGS
-
adjective, noun,
agriculture:
- eme
-
noun,
friend.
- tra
-
- EIS
-
- eir
-
- tr.
-
- EEG
-
- eat
-
noun,
eats, Informal. food.
- Agt
-
- 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.
- TAR
-
noun,
any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
- AIM
-
noun,
the act of aiming or directing anything at or toward a particular point or target.
- 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.
- ean
-
- EAM
-
- EAA
-
- ea.
-
- Ain
-
noun,
a department in E France. 2249 sq. mi. (5825 sq. km). Capital: Bourg.
- ETA
-
noun,
the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet (H, η).
- AIR
-
noun,
a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- Eg.
-
- AIS
-
noun,
a three-toed sloth, Bradypus tridactylus, inhabiting forests of southern Venezuela, the Guianas, and northern Brazil, having a diet apparently restricted to the leaves of the trumpet-tree, and sounding a high-pitched cry when disturbed.
- ese
-
- gre
-
- ESR
-
- MRA
-
- rt.
-
- RSE
-
- RSA
-
- Rs.
-
- Mr.
-
plural,
mister: a title of respect prefixed to a man's name or position:
- RNA
-
- rm.
-
plural,
ream.
- MRE
-
- RTS
-
- MRI
-
- MSA
-
- MSE
-
- MSG
-
noun,
a white, crystalline, water-soluble powder, C 5 H 8 NNaO 4 ⋅H 2 O, used to intensify the flavor of foods.
- rin
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the thousandth part of a yen or the tenth part of a sen.
- MSI
-
- MSN
-
- RIM
-
noun,
the outer edge, border, margin, or brink of something, especially of a circular object.
- rte
-
- SAA
-
- rig
-
noun,
the arrangement of the masts, spars, sails, etc., on a boat or ship.
- MI6
-
noun,
the government's secret intelligence service.
- sea
-
noun,
the salt waters that cover the greater part of the earth's surface.
- se-
-
- MEA
-
noun,
an acknowledgment of one's responsibility for a fault or error.
- Meg
-
noun,
a megabyte.
- MGr
-
- SAR
-
- MGT
-
- mi.
-
- MIE
-
- MNS
-
- Mig
-
noun,
a playing marble, especially one that is not used as a shooter.
- San
-
noun,
a member of a nomadic aboriginal people of southern Africa.
- MIR
-
noun,
a village commune of peasant farmers in prerevolutionary Russia.
- MIT
-
- MNA
-
- MNE
-
- SAG
-
noun,
an act or instance of sagging.
- SAE
-
- MST
-
- Mt.
-
- mas
-
noun,
mother1 .
- Re.
-
- REM
-
noun,
the quantity of ionizing radiation whose biological effect is equal to that produced by one roentgen of x-rays.
- NMR
-
- NNE
-
- nr.
-
- NRA
-
- NSA
-
- RAM
-
noun,
a male sheep.
- RMA
-
- nit
-
noun,
the egg of a parasitic insect, especially of a louse, often attached to a hair or a fiber of clothing.
- RMS
-
plural,
ream.
- Rae
-
noun,
John, 1813–93, Scottish surgeon and Arctic explorer.
- rag
-
noun,
a worthless piece of cloth, especially one that is torn or worn.
- Rai
-
noun,
a style of Algerian popular music played on electric guitar, synthesizer, and percussion instruments.
- RAN
-
noun,
a sea goddess who drags down ships and drowns sailors: the wife of Aegir.
- RAS
-
noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- Ree
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- 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.
- NMI
-
- NIM
-
noun,
a game in which two players alternate in drawing counters, pennies, or the like, from a set of 12 arranged in three rows of 3, 4, and 5 counters, respectively, the object being to draw the last counter, or, sometimes, to avoid drawing it.
- MTI
-
- Nan
-
noun,
naan.
- mtn
-
- MTS
-
- Ria
-
noun,
a long, narrow inlet of a river that gradually decreases in depth from mouth to head.
- NAA
-
- nae
-
adverb,
no1 ; not.
- NAG
-
noun,
Also, nagger. a person who nags, especially habitually.
- 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.
- NAM
-
noun,
Vietnam.
- res
-
noun,
an object or thing; matter.
- NIG
-
verb (used with object),
nidge.
- Nat
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Nathan or Nathaniel.
- ne-
-
- NEA
-
- Nee
-
adjective,
born (placed after the name of a married woman to introduce her maiden name):
- NEG
-
noun,
a photographic negative.
- NES
-
- NET
-
noun,
a bag or other contrivance of strong thread or cord worked into an open, meshed fabric, for catching fish, birds, or other animals:
- NIA
-
- Mat
-
noun,
a piece of fabric made of plaited or woven rushes, straw, hemp, or similar fiber, or of some other pliant material, as rubber, used as a protective covering on a floor or other surface, to wipe the shoes on, etc.
- MI5
-
noun,
the government's security and counterespionage service that works in liaison with Scotland Yard's Special Branch.
- See
-
noun,
the seat, center of authority, office, or jurisdiction of a bishop.
- Sin
-
noun,
transgression of divine law:
- SMA
-
- git
-
noun,
British Slang. a foolish or contemptible person.
- SIT
-
verb,
(in prescriptions) may it be.
- GMT
-
- SIR
-
noun,
a respectful or formal term of address used to a man:
- Gr.
-
- REA
-
- SEI
-
noun,
sei whale.
- GIN
-
noun,
an alcoholic liquor obtained by distilling grain mash with juniper berries.
- GSR
-
- gt.
-
- GTS
-
- IRA
-
noun,
a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “watchful.”.
- Ia.
-
- ian
-
noun,
a male given name, Scottish form of John.
- IAS
-
- ier
-
- GIs
-
noun,
a lightweight, two-piece, usually white garment worn by barefooted martial-arts participants, consisting of loose-fitting pants and a wraparound jacket with cloth belt.
- gie
-
noun,
gi.
- in.
-
- GAN
-
noun,
cotton gin.
- STM
-
- ETR
-
- ETS
-
- Ga.
-
- 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.
- STI
-
- gi.
-
- GAS
-
noun,
Physics. a substance possessing perfect molecular mobility and the property of indefinite expansion, as opposed to a solid or liquid.
- Sr.
-
- Gat
-
noun,
a pistol or revolver.
- Gee
-
noun,
a sum of one thousand dollars:
- GEM
-
noun,
a cut and polished precious stone or pearl fine enough for use in jewelry.
- Sta
-
- St.
-
- Ges
-
- SRI
-
noun,
a Hindu title of address prefixed to the name of a deity, holy person, etc.
- get
-
noun,
an offspring or the total of the offspring, especially of a male animal:
- IGM
-
- GSA
-
- 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.
- ITA
-
- ISA
-
- ise
-
- ism
-
noun,
a distinctive doctrine, theory, system, or practice:
- Sgt
-
- 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).
- ist
-
- ite
-
- IRS
-
- Me.
-
- SEN
-
noun,
a money of account of Japan, the 100th part of a yen, now used only in certain quotations, as on foreign exchange.
- MIA
-
plural,
missing in action.
- MS.
-
plural,
manuscript.
- M-1
-
noun,
a semiautomatic, gas-operated, .30 caliber, clip-fed rifle, with a weight of 8.56 pounds (3.88 kg): the standard U.S. Army rifle in World War II and in the Korean War.
- MAA
-
- MAE
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Mary.
- Is.
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- ISR
-
- INN
-
noun,
a commercial establishment that provides lodging, food, etc., for the public, especially travelers; small hotel.
- Ir.
-
- ina
-
noun,
a female given name.
- ine
-
- ing
-
- TE
-
noun,
ti1 .
- G.
-
- er
-
interjection,
(used to express or represent a pause, hesitation, uncertainty, etc.).
- R.
-
- RA
-
noun,
the 10th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- MG
-
- RI
-
- RN
-
- AA
-
noun,
basaltic lava having a rough surface.
- i.
-
- IG
-
- AI
-
noun,
a three-toed sloth, Bradypus tridactylus, inhabiting forests of southern Venezuela, the Guianas, and northern Brazil, having a diet apparently restricted to the leaves of the trumpet-tree, and sounding a high-pitched cry when disturbed.
- TA
-
noun,
the 16th letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- T1
-
- 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.
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- t.
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- GM
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- et
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verb,
a simple past tense of eat.
- MA
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noun,
mother1 .
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- SA
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- TM
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- GN
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- TN
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- SG
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- SM
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- NI
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- NG
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- NA
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adverb,
no1 .
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- rg
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- E.
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noun,
Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.
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- ee
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- TI
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noun,
the syllable for the seventh tone of a diatonic scale.
- IT
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noun,
(in children's games) the player called upon to perform some task, as, in tag, the one who must catch the other players.
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- EI
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- M.
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- SI
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noun,
the syllable used for the seventh tone of a scale and sometimes for the tone B.