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Word upholsteries has
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- upholsters
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verb (used with object),
to provide (chairs, sofas, etc.) with coverings, cushions, stuffing, springs, etc.
- Russophile
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noun,
a person who is friendly to, admires, or prefers Russia or Russian customs, institutions, etc.
- hostelries
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noun,
an inn or hotel.
- eutrophies
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noun,
Medicine/Medical. healthy or adequate nutrition or development.
- pestholes
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noun,
a place infested with or especially liable to epidemic disease.
- helistops
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noun,
a heliport.
- heliports
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noun,
a landing place for helicopters, often on the roof of a building or in some other limited area.
- turophile
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noun,
a connoisseur or lover of cheese.
- heterosis
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noun,
the increase in growth, size, fecundity, function, yield, or other characters in hybrids over those of the parents.
- pesthouse
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noun,
a house or hospital for persons infected with pestilential disease.
- poultries
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noun,
domesticated fowl collectively, especially those valued for their meat and eggs, as chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, and guinea fowl.
- hoteliers
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noun,
a manager or owner of a hotel or inn.
- leprosies
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noun,
a chronic, mildly infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae, affecting the peripheral nervous system, skin, and nasal mucosa and variously characterized by ulcerations, tubercular nodules, and loss of sensation that sometimes leads to traumatic amputation of the anesthetized part.
- prothesis
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noun,
the addition of a sound or syllable at the beginning of a word, as in Spanish escala “ladder” from Latin scala.
- helotries
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noun,
serfdom; slavery.
- slipsheet
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verb (used with or without object),
to insert (blank sheets) between printed sheets as they come off the press to prevent offset.
- epistoler
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noun,
Also, epistolist. a writer of an epistle.
- troiluses
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noun,
a warrior son of Priam, mentioned by Homer and Vergil and later represented as the lover of Cressida.
- isopleths
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noun,
a line drawn on a map through all points having the same numerical value, as of a population figure or geographic measurement.
- hostelers
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noun,
a person who operates a hostel.
- isotheres
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noun,
a line on a weather map or chart connecting points that have the same mean summer temperature.
- hot-press
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noun,
a machine applying heat in conjunction with mechanical pressure, as for producing a smooth surface on paper or for expressing oil.
- politesse
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noun,
formal politeness; courtesy.
- pistoleer
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noun,
a person, especially a soldier, who uses or is armed with a pistol.
- lithosere
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noun,
a sere originating on rock.
- sophister
-
noun,
a specious, unsound, or fallacious reasoner.
- upholster
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verb (used with object),
to provide (chairs, sofas, etc.) with coverings, cushions, stuffing, springs, etc.
- heelposts
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noun,
a post made to withstand strain, forming or fitted to the end of something, as the post on which a gate or door is hinged.
- spherules
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noun,
a small sphere or spherical body.
- protheses
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noun,
the addition of a sound or syllable at the beginning of a word, as in Spanish escala “ladder” from Latin scala.
- peloruses
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noun,
a device for measuring in degrees the relative bearings of observed objects.
- peltries
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noun,
fur skins; pelts collectively.
- resolute
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adjective,
firmly resolved or determined; set in purpose or opinion:
- superhet
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adjective, noun,
superheterodyne.
- relishes
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noun,
liking or enjoyment of the taste of something.
- hostlers
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noun,
a person who takes care of horses, especially at an inn.
- respites
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noun,
a delay or cessation for a time, especially of anything distressing or trying; an interval of relief:
- isopleth
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noun,
a line drawn on a map through all points having the same numerical value, as of a population figure or geographic measurement.
- hostiles
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noun,
a person or thing that is antagonistic or unfriendly.
- heptoses
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noun,
any monosaccharide containing seven carbon atoms.
- stipules
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noun,
one of a pair of lateral appendages, often leaflike, at the base of a leaf petiole in many plants.
- polishes
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noun,
a substance used to give smoothness or gloss:
- Tirolese
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adjective, noun,
Tyrolese.
- isostere
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noun,
Chemistry. a compound isosteric with one or more other compounds.
- isothere
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noun,
a line on a weather map or chart connecting points that have the same mean summer temperature.
- housesit
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verb (used without object),
to take care of a house or residence while the owner or occupant is temporarily away, especially by living in it.
- perilous
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adjective,
involving or full of grave risk or peril; hazardous; dangerous:
- perlites
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noun,
a volcanic glass in which concentric fractures impart a distinctive structure resembling masses of small spheroids, used as a plant growth medium.
- strophes
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noun,
the part of an ancient Greek choral ode sung by the chorus when moving from right to left.
- shelties
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noun,
Shetland pony.
- hotspurs
-
noun,
an impetuous or reckless person; a hothead.
- repulses
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noun,
the act of repelling.
- hustlers
-
noun,
an enterprising person determined to succeed; go-getter.
- repousse
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noun,
the art or process of producing repoussé designs.
- heliport
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noun,
a landing place for helicopters, often on the roof of a building or in some other limited area.
- setulose
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adjective,
having or covered with setulae.
- pistoles
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noun,
a former gold coin of Spain, equal to two escudos.
- outsleep
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verb (used with object),
to sleep through or later than (a specified time).
- hurtless
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adjective,
unhurt; uninjured.
- streusel
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noun,
a topping for coffeecake, consisting of crumbs of blended sugar, cinnamon, flour, butter, and chopped nutmeats.
- shelters
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noun,
something beneath, behind, or within which a person, animal, or thing is protected from storms, missiles, adverse conditions, etc.; refuge.
- helistop
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noun,
a heliport.
- perishes
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verb (used without object),
to die or be destroyed through violence, privation, etc.:
- ruthless
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adjective,
without pity or compassion; cruel; merciless:
- outliers
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noun,
something that lies outside the main body or group that it is a part of, as a cow far from the rest of the herd, or a distant island belonging to a cluster of islands:
- estriols
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noun,
Biochemistry. an estrogenic hormone, C 18 H 21 (OH) 3 , occurring in urine during pregnancy.
- hotelier
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noun,
a manager or owner of a hotel or inn.
- poetries
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noun,
the art of rhythmical composition, written or spoken, for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative, or elevated thoughts.
- Topelius
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noun,
Zakarias [sah-kah-ree-ahs] /ˌsɑ kɑˈri ɑs/ (Show IPA), 1818–98, Finnish poet and novelist.
- reposits
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verb (used with object),
to put back; replace.
- tireless
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adjective,
untiring; indefatigable:
- rehouses
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verb (used with object),
to house again.
- philters
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noun,
a potion, charm, or drug supposed to cause the person taking it to fall in love, usually with some specific person.
- spirelet
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noun,
a small spire, as on a turret.
- spurtles
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noun,
a stick used to stir porridge.
- philtres
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noun, verb (used with object),
philter.
- hopeless
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adjective,
providing no hope; beyond optimism or hope; desperate:
- L-series
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noun,
See under L-line.
- Thespius
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noun,
the founder of the city of Thespiae and the father, by Megamede, of 50 daughters, all of whom bore sons to Hercules.
- soilures
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noun,
a stain.
- spielers
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noun,
a barker, as at a circus sideshow.
- spherule
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noun,
a small sphere or spherical body.
- hoplites
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noun,
a heavily armed foot soldier of ancient Greece.
- holsters
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noun,
a sheathlike carrying case for a firearm, attached to a belt, shoulder sling, or saddle.
- spelters
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noun,
zinc, especially in the form of ingots.
- hipsters
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noun,
a usually young person who is trendy, stylish, or progressive in an unconventional way; someone who is hip.
- uroliths
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noun,
a urinary calculus.
- eelpouts
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noun,
any fish of the family Zoarcidae, especially Zoarces viviparus, of Europe.
- telphers
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noun,
Also, teleferic. a traveling unit, car, or carrier suspended from cables in a telpherage, an aerial transportation system.
- petioles
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noun,
Botany. the slender stalk by which a leaf is attached to the stem; leafstalk.
- southers
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noun,
a wind or storm from the south.
- theories
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noun,
a coherent group of tested general propositions, commonly regarded as correct, that can be used as principles of explanation and prediction for a class of phenomena:
Synonyms: principle, law, doctrine.
- pesthole
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noun,
a place infested with or especially liable to epidemic disease.
- slithers
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noun,
a slithering movement; slide.
- luthiers
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noun,
a maker of stringed instruments, as violins.
- leisters
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noun,
a spearlike implement having three or more prongs, for use in spearing fish.
- sporules
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noun,
a spore, especially a small one.
- sureties
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noun,
security against loss or damage or for the fulfillment of an obligation, the payment of a debt, etc.; a pledge, guaranty, or bond.
- Opheltes
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noun,
the son of King Lycurgus of Nemea who was killed in infancy by a serpent and in whose memory the Nemean games were held.
- Hesperus
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noun,
an evening star, especially Venus.
- spoilers
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noun,
a person or thing that spoils.
- trophies
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noun,
anything taken in war, hunting, competition, etc., especially when preserved as a memento; spoil, prize, or award.
- ripostes
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noun,
a quick, sharp return in speech or action; counterstroke:
- leisures
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noun,
freedom from the demands of work or duty:
- heelpost
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noun,
a post made to withstand strain, forming or fitted to the end of something, as the post on which a gate or door is hinged.
- hosteler
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noun,
a person who operates a hostel.
- hosiers
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noun,
a person who makes or deals in hose or stockings or goods knitted or woven like hose.
- rustles
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noun,
the sound made by anything that rustles:
- Perseus
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noun,
Classical Mythology. a hero, the son of Zeus and Danaë, who slew the Gorgon Medusa, and afterward saved Andromeda from a sea monster.
- housels
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noun,
the Eucharist.
- hostels
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noun,
Also called youth hostel. an inexpensive, supervised lodging place for young people on bicycle trips, hikes, etc.
- petiole
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noun,
Botany. the slender stalk by which a leaf is attached to the stem; leafstalk.
- stupors
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noun,
suspension or great diminution of sensibility, as in disease or as caused by narcotics, intoxicants, etc.:
- telpher
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noun,
Also, teleferic. a traveling unit, car, or carrier suspended from cables in a telpherage, an aerial transportation system.
- petrels
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noun,
any of numerous tube-nosed seabirds of the families Procellariidae, Hydrobatidae, and Pelecanoididae.
- hostile
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noun,
a person or thing that is antagonistic or unfriendly.
- telesis
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noun,
deliberate, purposeful utilization of the processes of nature and society to obtain particular goals.
- persist
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verb (used without object),
to continue steadfastly or firmly in some state, purpose, course of action, or the like, especially in spite of opposition, remonstrance, etc.:
- holster
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noun,
a sheathlike carrying case for a firearm, attached to a belt, shoulder sling, or saddle.
- Persius
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noun,
(Aulus Persius Flaccus) a.d. 34–62, Roman satirist.
- sutlers
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noun,
(formerly) a person who followed an army or maintained a store on an army post to sell provisions to the soldiers.
- hostler
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noun,
a person who takes care of horses, especially at an inn.
- Hotspur
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noun,
an impetuous or reckless person; a hothead.
- perlite
-
noun,
a volcanic glass in which concentric fractures impart a distinctive structure resembling masses of small spheroids, used as a plant growth medium.
- rushees
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noun,
a college student who is rushed by a fraternity or sorority.
- pestles
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noun,
a tool for pounding or grinding substances in a mortar.
- suspire
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verb (used with object),
to sigh; utter with long, sighing breaths.
- pesters
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verb (used with object),
to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble:
- hoplite
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noun,
a heavily armed foot soldier of ancient Greece.
- hoptree
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noun,
any of several North American shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Ptelea, of the citrus family, especially P. trifoliata, having trifoliate leaves and roundish, waferlike fruit.
- superl.
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- stopers
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noun,
a machine for drilling rock from below.
- rutiles
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noun,
a common mineral, titanium dioxide, TiO 2 , usually reddish-brown in color with a brilliant metallic or adamantine luster, occurring in crystals: used to coat welding rods.
- spilths
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noun,
spillage (def 1).
- sporule
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noun,
a spore, especially a small one.
- sleuths
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noun,
a detective. Synonyms: investigator, private investigator; private eye, gumshoe, shamus.
- oestrus
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noun,
estrus.
- spoiler
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noun,
a person or thing that spoils.
- leister
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noun,
a spearlike implement having three or more prongs, for use in spearing fish.
- leisure
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noun,
freedom from the demands of work or duty:
- splores
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noun,
a frolic; revel; carousal.
- luthier
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noun,
a maker of stringed instruments, as violins.
- slither
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noun,
a slithering movement; slide.
- leprose
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adjective,
leprous.
- leprous
-
adjective,
Pathology. affected with leprosy.
- Lepsius
-
noun,
Karl Richard [kahrl rikh-ahrt] /kɑrl ˈrɪx ɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1810–84, German philologist and Egyptologist.
- lustres
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noun,
the state or quality of shining by reflecting light; glitter, sparkle, sheen, or gloss:
- lusters
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noun,
the state or quality of shining by reflecting light; glitter, sparkle, sheen, or gloss:
- slopers
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noun,
a person or thing that slopes.
- sprites
-
noun,
an elf, fairy, or goblin.
- soilure
-
noun,
a stain.
- loutish
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adjective,
like or characteristic of a lout; awkward; clumsy; boorish.
- soirees
-
noun,
an evening party or social gathering, especially one held for a particular purpose:
- Spieler
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noun,
a barker, as at a circus sideshow.
- Soleure
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noun,
French name of Solothurn.
- sphero-
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- listers
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noun,
Also called lister plow, middlebreaker, middlebuster. a plow with a double moldboard, used to prepare the ground for planting by producing furrows and ridges.
- Spelter
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noun,
zinc, especially in the form of ingots.
- solutes
-
noun,
the substance dissolved in a given solution.
- lotuses
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noun,
a plant believed to be a jujube or elm, referred to in Greek legend as yielding a fruit that induced a state of dreamy and contented forgetfulness in those who ate it.
- Sophist
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noun,
(often initial capital letter) Greek History.
any of a class of professional teachers in ancient Greece who gave instruction in various fields, as in general culture, rhetoric, politics, or disputation.
a person belonging to this class at a later period who, while professing to teach skill in reasoning, concerned himself with ingenuity and specious effectiveness rather than soundness of argument.
- sorites
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noun,
a form of argument having several premises and one conclusion, capable of being resolved into a chain of syllogisms, the conclusion of each of which is a premise of the next.
- souther
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noun,
a wind or storm from the south.
- souters
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noun,
a person who makes or repairs shoes; cobbler; shoemaker.
- spriest
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adjective,
a superlative of spry.
- sprouts
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noun,
a shoot of a plant.
- pelters
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noun,
a person or thing that pelts.
- ileuses
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noun,
intestinal obstruction characterized by lack of peristalsis and leading to severe colicky pain and vomiting.
- strophe
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noun,
the part of an ancient Greek choral ode sung by the chorus when moving from right to left.
- stripes
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noun,
a relatively long, narrow band of a different color, appearance, weave, material, or nature from the rest of a surface or thing:
- pelorus
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noun,
a device for measuring in degrees the relative bearings of observed objects.
- pelites
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noun,
any clayey rock, as mudstone or shale.
- hurtles
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noun,
Archaic. clash; collision; shock; clatter.
- pelisse
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noun,
an outer garment lined or trimmed with fur.
- Husserl
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noun,
Edmund (Gustav Albrecht) [et-moo nt goo s-tahf ahl-brekht] /ˈɛt mʊnt ˈgʊs tɑf ˈɑl brɛxt/ (Show IPA), 1859–1938, German philosopher born in Austria.
- Hussite
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noun,
a member of the religious reformist and nationalistic movement initiated by John Huss in Bohemia in the late 14th century.
- hustler
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noun,
an enterprising person determined to succeed; go-getter.
- hustles
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noun,
energetic activity, as in work.
- serious
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noun,
that which is of importance, grave, critical, or somber:
- stories
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noun,
a narrative, either true or fictitious, in prose or verse, designed to interest, amuse, or instruct the hearer or reader; tale.
- petrol.
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- sheitel
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noun,
a wig worn by certain Orthodox Jewish married women in keeping with an old rabbinical precept that forbids a woman to leave her hair uncovered in the sight of a man other than her husband.
- outlier
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noun,
something that lies outside the main body or group that it is a part of, as a cow far from the rest of the herd, or a distant island belonging to a cluster of islands:
- ophites
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noun,
a diabase in which elongate crystals of plagioclase are embedded in pyroxene.
- osselet
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noun,
a hard nodule on the leg of a horse, especially one on the inner side of the knee or the outer side of the fetlock.
- Silures
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plural noun,
a British Celtic tribe resident in southeastern Wales at the time of the Roman conquest of Britain.
- Orestes
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noun,
Classical Mythology. the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, and the brother of Electra and Iphigenia: he avenged the murder of Agamemnon by killing Clytemenestra and her lover, Aegisthus, then was pursued by the Furies until saved by Athena.
- spurtle
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noun,
a stick used to stir porridge.
- Orpheus
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noun,
Greek Legend. a poet and musician, a son of Calliope, who followed his dead wife, Eurydice, to the underworld. By charming Hades, he obtained permission to lead her away, provided he did not look back at her until they returned to earth. But at the last moment he looked, and she was lost to him forever.
- isohels
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noun,
a line on a weather map connecting points that receive equal amounts of sunshine.
- shortie
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noun,
a person of less than average stature (sometimes used as a disparaging and offensive term of address).
- ostlers
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noun,
hostler.
- shelter
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noun,
something beneath, behind, or within which a person, animal, or thing is protected from storms, missiles, adverse conditions, etc.; refuge.
- stereo-
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- sterile
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adjective,
free from living germs or microorganisms; aseptic:
- sterols
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noun,
any of a group of solid, mostly unsaturated, polycyclic alcohols, as cholesterol and ergosterol, derived from plants or animals.
- stipels
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noun,
a secondary stipule situated at the base of a leaflet of a compound leaf.
- ousters
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noun,
expulsion or removal from a place or position occupied:
- stipule
-
noun,
one of a pair of lateral appendages, often leaflike, at the base of a leaf petiole in many plants.
- Theiler
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noun,
Max, 1899–1972, South African medical scientist, in the U.S. after 1922: Nobel Prize in medicine 1951.
- loiters
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verb (used with object),
to pass (time) in an idle or aimless manner (usually followed by away):
- petrols
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noun,
British. gasoline.
- Elspeth
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noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- reptile
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noun,
any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia, comprising the turtles, snakes, lizards, crocodilians, amphisbaenians, tuatara, and various extinct members including the dinosaurs.
- repulse
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noun,
the act of repelling.
- pothers
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noun,
commotion; uproar.
- etoiles
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noun,
a star or something shaped like a star.
- eoliths
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noun,
a chipped stone of the late Tertiary Period in Europe once thought to have been flaked by humans but now known to be the product of natural, nonhuman agencies.
- potsies
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noun,
hopscotch.
- Ploesti
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noun,
a city in S Romania: center of a rich oil-producing region.
- reputes
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noun,
estimation in the view of others; reputation:
- tupelos
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noun,
any of several trees of the genus Nyssa, having ovate leaves, clusters of minute flowers, and purple, berrylike fruit, especially N. aquatica, of swampy regions of the eastern, southern, and midwestern U.S.
- euphroe
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noun,
a suspended batten or plate of wood or brass pierced with holes through which the cords of a crowfoot are rove to suspend an awning.
- puerile
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adjective,
of or relating to a child or to childhood.
- posture
-
noun,
the relative disposition of the parts of something.
- pleuro-
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- plessor
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noun,
plexor.
- resiles
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verb (used without object),
to spring back; rebound; resume the original form or position, as an elastic body.
- pouters
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noun,
a person who pouts.
- pterous
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- piteous
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adjective,
evoking or deserving pity; pathetic:
- heiress
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noun,
a woman who inherits or has a right of inheritance, especially a woman who has inherited or will inherit considerable wealth.
- Elohist
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noun,
a writer of one of the major sources of the Hexateuch, in which God is characteristically referred to as Elohim rather than Yahweh.
- pistole
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noun,
a former gold coin of Spain, equal to two escudos.
- Heloise
-
noun,
1101?–64, French abbess: pupil of and secretly married to Pierre Abélard.
Compare Abélard.
- resoles
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verb (used with object),
to put a new sole on (a shoe, boot, etc.).
- ethiops
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adjective, noun,
Ethiopian.
- topless
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adjective,
lacking a top:
- ulsters
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noun,
a former province in Ireland, now comprising Northern Ireland and a part of the Republic of Ireland.
- toupees
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noun,
a man's wig.
- rehouse
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verb (used with object),
to house again.
- reissue
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noun,
something that is issued again, as a book or a motion picture.
- tousles
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noun,
a disheveled or rumpled mass, especially of hair.
- eslisor
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noun,
elisor.
- trioses
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noun,
a monosaccharide that has three atoms of carbon.
- pushers
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noun,
a person or thing that pushes.
- espouse
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verb (used with object),
to make one's own; adopt or embrace, as a cause.
- triples
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noun,
an amount, number, etc., three times as great as another.
- esprits
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noun,
sprightliness of spirit or wit; lively intelligence.
- Troilus
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noun,
a warrior son of Priam, mentioned by Homer and Vergil and later represented as the lover of Cressida.
- poseurs
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noun,
a person who attempts to impress others by assuming or affecting a manner, degree of elegance, sentiment, etc., other than his or her true one.
- Epistle
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noun,
a letter, especially a formal or didactic one; written communication.
- troupes
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noun,
a company, band, or group of singers, actors, or other performers, especially one that travels about.
- poisers
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noun,
a person or thing that poises.
- replies
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noun,
an answer or response in words or writing.
- re-pose
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verb (used with or without object),
to pose again.
- estriol
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noun,
Biochemistry. an estrogenic hormone, C 18 H 21 (OH) 3 , occurring in urine during pregnancy.
- estrous
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adjective,
pertaining to or involving the estrus.
- poetess
-
noun,
a woman who writes poetry.
- reposit
-
verb (used with object),
to put back; replace.
- posters
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noun,
a placard or bill posted or intended for posting in a public place, as for advertising.
- poesies
-
noun,
the work or the art of poetic composition.
- plushes
-
noun,
a fabric, as of silk, cotton, or wool, whose pile is more than ⅛ inch (0.3 cm) high.
- Ephesus
-
noun,
an ancient city in W Asia Minor, S of Smyrna (Izmir): famous temple of Artemis, or Diana; early Christian community.
- 2,4,5-t
-
noun,
a light-tan, water-insoluble solid, C 8 H 5 Cl 3 O 3 , used chiefly for killing weeds.
- reships
-
verb (used with object),
to ship again.
- helpers
-
noun,
a person or thing that helps or gives assistance, support, etc.
- Thespis
-
noun,
flourished 6th century b.c, Greek poet.
- urolith
-
noun,
a urinary calculus.
- riposte
-
noun,
a quick, sharp return in speech or action; counterstroke:
- eelpout
-
noun,
any fish of the family Zoarcidae, especially Zoarces viviparus, of Europe.
- hessite
-
noun,
a rare mineral, silver telluride, Ag 2 Te, found in silver ores: sometimes contains gold.
- rissole
-
noun,
a small pastry, often in turnover form, filled with a mixture containing meat or fish and usually fried in deep fat.
- priests
-
noun,
a person whose office it is to perform religious rites, and especially to make sacrificial offerings.
- hetero-
-
- heteros
-
noun,
Informal. a heterosexual person.
- philtre
-
noun, verb (used with object),
philter.
- philter
-
noun,
a potion, charm, or drug supposed to cause the person taking it to fall in love, usually with some specific person.
- prestos
-
noun,
Music. a movement or piece in quick tempo.
- Theseus
-
noun,
an Attic hero, the husband of Phaedra, father of Hippolytus, and slayer of the Minotaur and the robber Procrustes.
- philous
-
- hipster
-
noun,
a usually young person who is trendy, stylish, or progressive in an unconventional way; someone who is hip.
- prostie
-
noun,
a prostitute.
- philos.
-
- prithee
-
interjection,
(I) pray thee.
- hirsute
-
adjective,
hairy; shaggy.
- Roussel
-
noun,
Albert (Charles Paul Mari) [al-ber sharl pawl ma-ree] /alˈbɛr ʃarl pɔl maˈri/ (Show IPA), 1869–1937, French composer.
- petrous
-
adjective,
Anatomy. noting or pertaining to the hard dense portion of the temporal bone, containing the internal auditory organs; petrosal.
- pileous
-
adjective,
hairy or furry.
- Photius
-
noun,
a.d. c820–891, patriarch of Constantinople 858–867, 877–882.
- results
-
noun,
something that happens as a consequence; outcome.
- uprises
-
noun,
an act of rising up.
- respite
-
noun,
a delay or cessation for a time, especially of anything distressing or trying; an interval of relief:
- heptose
-
noun,
any monosaccharide containing seven carbon atoms.
- piolets
-
noun,
an ice ax used in mountaineering.
- heriots
-
noun,
a feudal service or tribute, originally of borrowed military equipment and later of a chattel, due to the lord on the death of a tenant.
- Eleusis
-
noun,
a city in ancient Greece, in Attica.
- presets
-
noun,
a knob or button that activates a preset appliance:
- Proteus
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a sea god, son of Oceanus and Tethys, noted for his ability to assume different forms and to prophesy.
- sleuth
-
noun,
a detective. Synonyms: investigator, private investigator; private eye, gumshoe, shamus.
- louses
-
noun,
any small, wingless insect of the order Anoplura (sucking louse) parasitic on humans and other mammals and having mouthparts adapted for sucking, as Pediculus humanus (body louse or head louse) and Phthirius pubis (crab louse or pubic louse)
- soiree
-
noun,
an evening party or social gathering, especially one held for a particular purpose:
- oilers
-
noun,
a person or thing that oils.
- sliest
-
adjective,
a superlative of sly.
- purses
-
noun,
a woman's handbag or pocketbook.
- prises
-
noun,
leverage.
- posies
-
noun,
a flower, nosegay, or bouquet.
- slipes
-
noun,
a sledge, drag, or sleigh.
- posits
-
noun,
something that is posited; an assumption; postulate.
- sleets
-
noun,
precipitation in the form of ice pellets created by the freezing of rain as it falls (distinguished from hail2. ).
- lushes
-
noun,
drunkard; alcoholic; sot.
- posset
-
noun,
a drink made of hot milk curdled with ale, wine, or the like, often sweetened and spiced.
- Ophite
-
noun,
a diabase in which elongate crystals of plagioclase are embedded in pyroxene.
- lopers
-
noun,
a person or thing that lopes, as a horse with a loping gait.
- Sothis
-
noun,
the name for the star Sirius, the Dog Star, given by the ancient Egyptians.
- silure
-
plural noun,
a British Celtic tribe resident in southeastern Wales at the time of the Roman conquest of Britain.
- lories
-
noun,
any of several small, usually brilliantly colored Australasian parrots having the tongue bordered with a brushlike fringe for feeding on nectar and fruit juices.
- sortie
-
noun,
a rapid movement of troops from a besieged place to attack the besiegers.
- pusher
-
noun,
a person or thing that pushes.
- sirees
-
noun,
sirree.
- sit-up
-
noun,
an exercise in which a person lies flat on the back, lifts the torso to a sitting position, and then lies flat again without changing the position of the legs: formerly done with the legs straight but now usually done with the knees bent.
- posers
-
noun,
a person who poses.
- proses
-
noun,
the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.
- prosit
-
interjection,
(used as a toast to wish good health to one's drinking companions).
- sirups
-
noun,
any of various thick, sweet liquids prepared for table use from molasses, glucose, etc., water, and often a flavoring agent.
- poseur
-
noun,
a person who attempts to impress others by assuming or affecting a manner, degree of elegance, sentiment, etc., other than his or her true one.
- Sister
-
noun,
a female offspring having both parents in common with another offspring; female sibling.
- sleeps
-
noun,
the state of a person, animal, or plant that sleeps.
- purees
-
noun,
a cooked food, especially a vegetable or fruit, that has been put through a sieve, blender, or the like.
- lutose
-
adjective,
covered with a powdery substance resembling mud, as certain insects.
- sloper
-
noun,
a person or thing that slopes.
- presto
-
noun,
Music. a movement or piece in quick tempo.
- louies
-
noun,
looie.
- lusher
-
noun,
lush2 (def 1).
- luster
-
noun,
the state or quality of shining by reflecting light; glitter, sparkle, sheen, or gloss:
- prests
-
noun,
a loan.
- lustre
-
noun,
the state or quality of shining by reflecting light; glitter, sparkle, sheen, or gloss:
- solute
-
noun,
the substance dissolved in a given solution.
- protei
-
noun,
plural of proteus (def 3).
- poults
-
noun,
a young fowl, as of the turkey, the pheasant, or a similar bird.
- Sopher
-
noun,
scribe1 (def 3).
- soleus
-
noun,
a muscle in the calf of the leg, behind the gastrocnemius muscle, that helps extend the foot forward.
- pushes
-
- ptosis
-
noun,
a drooping of the upper eyelid.
- Sophie
-
noun,
a female given name.
- pother
-
noun,
commotion; uproar.
- possie
-
noun,
a job; position.
- sloths
-
noun,
habitual disinclination to exertion; indolence; laziness.
- ptero-
-
- Louise
-
noun,
Lake, a glacial lake in W Canada, in SW Alberta in the Canadian Rockies: resort. 5670 feet (1728 meters) above sea level.
- poster
-
noun,
a placard or bill posted or intended for posting in a public place, as for advertising.
- losers
-
noun,
a person, team, nation, etc., that loses:
- slurps
-
noun,
an intake of food or drink with a noisy sucking sound:
- sorels
-
noun,
Georges [zhawrzh] /ʒɔrʒ/ (Show IPA), 1847–1922, French engineer and social philosopher.
- loupes
-
noun,
any of several varieties of magnifying glasses, used by jewelers and watchmakers, of from 2 to 20 power and intended to fit in the eye socket, to be attached to spectacles, or to be held in the hand.
- pulses
-
noun,
the regular throbbing of the arteries, caused by the successive contractions of the heart, especially as may be felt at an artery, as at the wrist.
- preset
-
noun,
a knob or button that activates a preset appliance:
- Priest
-
noun,
a person whose office it is to perform religious rites, and especially to make sacrificial offerings.
- slopes
-
- Luther
-
noun,
Martin [mahr-tn;; German mahr-teen] /ˈmɑr tn;; German ˈmɑr tin/ (Show IPA), 1483–1546, German theologian and author: leader, in Germany, of the Protestant Reformation.
- luteo-
-
- pouter
-
noun,
a person who pouts.
- opuses
-
noun,
a musical composition.
- ouphes
-
noun,
an elf or goblin.
- oriels
-
noun,
a bay window, especially one cantilevered or corbeled out from a wall.
- pistes
-
noun,
a track or trail, as a downhill ski run or a spoor made by a wild animal.
- pilous
-
adjective,
pilose.
- reuses
-
noun,
a city in Catalonia, NE Spain, on the Mediterranean Sea.
- perses
-
noun,
a son of Perseus and Andromeda and the ancestor of the kings of Persia.
- piolet
-
noun,
an ice ax used in mountaineering.
- retuse
-
adjective,
having an obtuse or rounded apex with a shallow notch, as leaves.
- result
-
noun,
something that happens as a consequence; outcome.
- pishes
-
noun,
an exclamation of “pish!”.
- rustle
-
noun,
the sound made by anything that rustles:
- pisser
-
noun,
something extremely difficult or unpleasant.
- pistol
-
noun,
a short firearm intended to be held and fired with one hand.
- Rhesus
-
noun,
a macaque, Macaca mulatta, of India, used in experimental medicine.
- resole
-
verb (used with object),
to put a new sole on (a shoe, boot, etc.).
- Perlis
-
noun,
a state in Malaysia, on the SW Malay Peninsula. 310 sq. mi. (803 sq. km). Capital: Kangar.
- perish
-
Idioms,
perish the thought, may it never happen: used facetiously or as an afterthought of foreboding.
- resoil
-
verb (used with object),
to replace topsoil, especially that lost by erosion.
- pithos
-
noun,
a very large earthenware jar having a wide mouth, used by the ancient Greeks for storing liquids, as wine, or for holding food, as grain, or for the burial of the dead.
- resist
-
noun,
a substance that prevents or inhibits some effect from taking place, as a coating on a surface of a metallic printing plate that prevents or inhibits corrosion of the metal by acid.
- Piutes
-
noun,
Paiute.
- rutile
-
noun,
a common mineral, titanium dioxide, TiO 2 , usually reddish-brown in color with a brilliant metallic or adamantine luster, occurring in crystals: used to coat welding rods.
- resile
-
verb (used without object),
to spring back; rebound; resume the original form or position, as an elastic body.
- pilots
-
noun,
a person duly qualified to steer ships into or out of a harbor or through certain difficult waters.
- pilose
-
adjective,
covered with hair, especially soft hair; furry.
- pleur-
-
- pestle
-
noun,
a tool for pounding or grinding substances in a mortar.
- petro-
-
- Petrie
-
noun,
Sir (William Matthew) Flinders [flin-derz] /ˈflɪn dərz/ (Show IPA), 1853–1942, English Egyptologist and archaeologist.
- Petrel
-
noun,
any of numerous tube-nosed seabirds of the families Procellariidae, Hydrobatidae, and Pelecanoididae.
- rousts
-
verb (used with object),
to rout, as from a place:
- routes
-
noun,
a course, way, or road for passage or travel:
- rouses
-
noun,
a rousing.
- philo-
-
- Peters
-
noun,
penis.
- rouths
-
noun,
abundance; plenty.
- souple
-
noun,
silk from which only a portion of the sericin has been removed.
- Russo-
-
- rosets
-
noun,
resin; rosin.
- r-less
-
adjective,
r-dropping.
- pester
-
verb (used with object),
to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble:
- rupees
-
noun,
a cupronickel coin and monetary unit of India, Nepal, and Pakistan, equal to 100 paise. Abbreviation: R., Re.
- rushee
-
noun,
a college student who is rushed by a fraternity or sorority.
- rushes
-
noun,
the act of rushing; a rapid, impetuous, or violent onward movement.
- peruse
-
verb (used with object),
to read through with thoroughness or care:
- pileus
-
noun,
Mycology. the horizontal portion of a mushroom, bearing gills, tubes, etc., on its underside; a cap.
- russet
-
noun,
yellowish brown, light brown, or reddish brown.
- pleio-
-
- pelter
-
noun,
a person or thing that pelts.
- reests
-
verb (used with object),
to cure, smoke, or dry (meat or fish).
- polies
-
noun,
Informal. polyester (def 2):
- Petros
-
noun,
Canadian. the federally owned petroleum industry.
- shiest
-
noun,
a sudden start aside, as in fear.
- polers
-
noun,
a person or thing that poles.
- shires
-
noun,
one of the counties of Great Britain.
- relish
-
noun,
liking or enjoyment of the taste of something.
- others
-
noun,
the other one:
- shirts
-
noun,
a long- or short-sleeved garment for the upper part of the body, usually lightweight and having a collar and a front opening.
- Ostler
-
noun,
hostler.
- shleps
-
noun,
Also, schlepper. someone or something that is tedious, slow, or awkward; drag.
- shoers
-
noun,
a person who shoes horses or other animals.
- shiels
-
noun,
shieling.
- Sholes
-
noun,
Christopher Latham [ley-thuh m,, -th uh m] /ˈleɪ θəm,, -ðəm/ (Show IPA), 1819–90, U.S. inventor of the typewriter.
- osiers
-
noun,
any of various willows, as the red osier, having tough, flexible twigs or branches that are used for wickerwork.
- shorts
-
noun,
something that is short.
- shotes
-
noun,
shoat (def 1).
- shouts
-
noun,
a loud call or cry:
- relies
-
verb (used without object),
to depend confidently; put trust in (usually followed by on or upon):
- Polish
-
noun,
a substance used to give smoothness or gloss:
- polit.
-
- polite
-
adjective,
showing good manners toward others, as in behavior, speech, etc.; courteous; civil:
- shiers
-
noun,
a horse having a tendency to shy.
- sheols
-
noun,
the abode of the dead or of departed spirits.
- reship
-
verb (used with object),
to ship again.
- series
-
noun,
a group or a number of related or similar things, events, etc., arranged or occurring in temporal, spatial, or other order or succession; sequence.
- reshes
-
noun,
the 20th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- resets
-
noun,
an act or instance of setting again.
- pelite
-
noun,
any clayey rock, as mudstone or shale.
- plisse
-
noun,
a textile finish characterized by a puckered or blistered effect, produced by chemical treatment.
- Peleus
-
noun,
a king of the Myrmidons, the son of Aeacus and father of Achilles.
- septi-
-
- repute
-
noun,
estimation in the view of others; reputation:
- Sereth
-
noun,
German name of Siret.
- pluses
-
noun,
a plus quantity.
- serous
-
adjective,
resembling serum; of a watery nature.
- repels
-
verb (used with object),
to drive or force back (an assailant, invader, etc.).
- setose
-
adjective,
covered with setae or bristles; bristly.
- repots
-
verb (used with object),
to transfer (a plant) to another, especially larger, pot.
- set-up
-
noun,
Surveying.
station (def 14a).
a surveying instrument precisely positioned for observations from a station.
a gap between the end of a chain or tape being used for a measurement and the point toward which it is laid.
- sheers
-
noun,
shear (def 16).
- Sheets
-
noun,
a large rectangular piece of cotton, linen, or other material used as an article of bedding, commonly spread in pairs so that one is immediately above and the other immediately below the sleeper.
- repose
-
noun,
the state of reposing or being at rest; rest; sleep.
- poiser
-
noun,
a person or thing that poises.
- poises
-
noun,
a state of balance or equilibrium, as from equality or equal distribution of weight; equipoise.
- ouster
-
noun,
expulsion or removal from a place or position occupied:
- ousels
-
noun,
ouzel.
- Proust
-
noun,
Joseph Louis [zhaw-zef lwee] /ʒɔˈzɛf lwi/ (Show IPA), 1754–1826, French chemist.
- speers
-
noun,
Albert [al-bert;; German ahl-bert] /ˈæl bərt;; German ˈɑl bɛrt/ (Show IPA), 1905–81, German Nazi leader: appointed by Hitler as official Nazi architect.
- proles
-
noun,
a member of the proletariat.
- theses
-
noun,
a proposition stated or put forward for consideration, especially one to be discussed and proved or to be maintained against objections:
- sutler
-
noun,
(formerly) a person who followed an army or maintained a store on an army post to sell provisions to the soldiers.
- Hoples
-
noun,
a son of Ion.
- teleo-
-
- teleph
-
- holies
-
noun,
a place of worship; sacred place; sanctuary.
- Tereus
-
noun,
a Thracian prince, the husband of Procne, who raped his sister-in-law Philomela and was changed into a hoopoe as a punishment.
- Tessie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Theresa.
- hoists
-
- hoises
-
verb (used with object),
to hoist.
- theirs
-
noun,
any male person or animal; a man:
- Hitler
-
noun,
Adolf [ad-olf,, ey-dolf;; German ah-dawlf] /ˈæd ɒlf,, ˈeɪ dɒlf;; German ˈɑ dɔlf/ (Show IPA), (Adolf Schicklgruber"der Führer") 1889–1945, Nazi dictator of Germany, born in Austria: Chancellor 1933–45; dictator 1934–45.
- theol.
-
- histo-
-
- thesis
-
noun,
a proposition stated or put forward for consideration, especially one to be discussed and proved or to be maintained against objections:
- horses
-
noun,
a large, solid-hoofed, herbivorous quadruped, Equus caballus, domesticated since prehistoric times, bred in a number of varieties, and used for carrying or pulling loads, for riding, and for racing.
- hiero-
-
- Thess.
-
- Thiers
-
noun,
Louis Adolphe [lwee a-dawlf] /lwi aˈdɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1797–1877, French statesman: president 1871–73.
- thiols
-
- Hester
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Esther.
- thirls
-
verb (used with object),
to pierce.
- tholes
-
noun,
a pin, or either of two pins, inserted into a gunwale to provide a fulcrum for an oar.
- herpes
-
noun,
any of several diseases caused by herpesvirus, characterized by eruption of blisters on the skin or mucous membranes.
Compare chickenpox, genital herpes, oral herpes, shingles.
- tholus
-
noun,
tholos.
- heroes
-
noun,
a person noted for courageous acts or nobility of character:
- Thorpe
-
noun,
James Francis ("Jim") 1888–1953, U.S. track-and-field athlete and football and baseball player.
- thorps
-
noun,
a hamlet; village.
- heriot
-
noun,
a feudal service or tribute, originally of borrowed military equipment and later of a chattel, due to the lord on the death of a tenant.
- Horite
-
noun,
an ancient people of Edom living in the region of the Dead Sea, possibly identical with the Hurrians.
- supers
-
noun,
Informal.
a superintendent, especially of an apartment house.
supermarket.
supernumerary.
supervisor.
- thrips
-
noun,
any of several minute insects of the order Thysanoptera, that have long, narrow wings fringed with hairs and that infest and feed on a wide variety of weeds and crop plants.
- hurtle
-
noun,
Archaic. clash; collision; shock; clatter.
- stipel
-
noun,
a secondary stipule situated at the base of a leaflet of a compound leaf.
- stipes
-
noun,
Zoology. the second joint in a maxilla of crustaceans and insects.
- stipos
-
noun,
a tall, ornate, Italian desk with a drop lid.
- stirps
-
noun,
a stock; family or branch of a family; line of descent.
- Ilheus
-
noun,
a seaport in E Brazil.
- stoper
-
noun,
a machine for drilling rock from below.
- Stopes
-
noun,
Marie Carmichael, 1880–1958, English scientist and birth control advocate.
- stores
-
noun,
an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- stoups
-
noun,
a basin for holy water, as at the entrance of a church.
- stours
-
noun,
British Dialect.
tumult; confusion.
a storm.
- hustle
-
noun,
energetic activity, as in work.
- stoush
-
noun,
a fight or brawl.
- streps
-
noun,
streptococcus.
- hursts
-
noun,
Fannie, 1889–1968, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- hosels
-
noun,
the socket in the club head of an iron that receives the shaft.
- stripe
-
noun,
a relatively long, narrow band of a different color, appearance, weave, material, or nature from the rest of a surface or thing:
- strops
-
noun,
any of several devices for sharpening razors, especially a strip of leather or other flexible material.
- stupes
-
noun,
two or more layers of flannel or other cloth soaked in hot water and applied to the skin as a counterirritant.
- stupor
-
noun,
suspension or great diminution of sensibility, as in disease or as caused by narcotics, intoxicants, etc.:
- houses
-
noun,
a building in which people live; residence for human beings.
- housel
-
noun,
the Eucharist.
- houris
-
noun,
one of the beautiful virgins provided in paradise for all faithful Muslims.
- suites
-
noun,
a number of things forming a series or set.
- suitor
-
noun,
a man who courts or woos a woman.
- sulph-
-
- super-
-
- hostel
-
noun,
Also called youth hostel. an inexpensive, supervised lodging place for young people on bicycle trips, hikes, etc.
- Superi
-
plural noun,
(in ancient Rome) the gods.
- hosier
-
noun,
a person who makes or deals in hose or stockings or goods knitted or woven like hose.
- hereto
-
adverb,
to this matter, document, subject, etc.; regarding this point:
- Helper
-
noun,
a person or thing that helps or gives assistance, support, etc.
- steres
-
- tushes
-
noun,
an exclamation of “tush!”.
- tripes
-
noun,
the first and second divisions of the stomach of a ruminant, especially oxen, sheep, or goats, used as food.
Compare honeycomb tripe, plain tripe.
- triple
-
noun,
an amount, number, etc., three times as great as another.
- tripos
-
noun,
(at Cambridge University, England) any of various final honors examinations.
- tropes
-
noun,
Rhetoric.
any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense.
an instance of this. Compare figure of speech.
- troph-
-
- trophi
-
plural noun,
the mouthparts of an insect, including the labrum, mandibles, maxillae, labium, and hypopharynx.
- Epirus
-
noun,
an ancient district in NW Greece and S Albania.
- ephors
-
noun,
one of a body of magistrates in various ancient Dorian states, especially at Sparta, where a body of five was elected annually by the people.
- troupe
-
noun,
a company, band, or group of singers, actors, or other performers, especially one that travels about.
- tsuris
-
noun,
trouble; woe.
- eolith
-
noun,
a chipped stone of the late Tertiary Period in Europe once thought to have been flaked by humans but now known to be the product of natural, nonhuman agencies.
- Tupelo
-
noun,
any of several trees of the genus Nyssa, having ovate leaves, clusters of minute flowers, and purple, berrylike fruit, especially N. aquatica, of swampy regions of the eastern, southern, and midwestern U.S.
- elutes
-
verb (used with object),
to remove by dissolving, as absorbed material from an adsorbent.
- elopes
-
verb (used without object),
to run off secretly to be married, usually without the consent or knowledge of one's parents.
- triols
-
noun,
a compound having three hydroxyl groups.
- tushie
-
noun,
the buttocks.
- Eloise
-
noun,
a female given name.
- elites
-
noun,
(often used with a plural verb) the choice or best of anything considered collectively, as of a group or class of persons.
- tussle
-
noun,
a rough physical contest or struggle; scuffle.
- elisor
-
noun,
a person appointed by a court to perform the duties of a sheriff or coroner who is disqualified from acting in a certain case.
- Ulster
-
noun,
a former province in Ireland, now comprising Northern Ireland and a part of the Republic of Ireland.
- uprise
-
noun,
an act of rising up.
- uprose
-
noun,
an act of rising up.
- either
-
adverb,
also; too; as well; to the same degree (used after negative clauses coordinated by and, or, or nor, or after negative subordinate clauses):
- upsets
-
noun,
an upsetting or instance of being upset; overturn; overthrow.
- upshot
-
noun,
the final issue, the conclusion, or the result:
- ushers
-
noun,
a person who escorts people to seats in a theater, church, etc.
- Ussher
-
noun,
James, 1581–1656, Irish prelate and scholar.
- utero-
-
- triose
-
noun,
a monosaccharide that has three atoms of carbon.
- erupts
-
verb (used with object),
to release violently; burst forth with:
Synonyms: vent.
- helots
-
noun,
a member of the lowest class in ancient Laconia, constituting a body of serfs who were bound to the land and were owned by the state.
Compare Perioeci, Spartiate.
- Etoile
-
noun,
a star or something shaped like a star.
- thurls
-
noun,
the hip joint of cattle.
- Helios
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of the sun, represented as driving a chariot across the heavens; identified by the Romans with Sol.
- helio-
-
- Thurs.
-
- heists
-
noun,
a robbery or holdup:
- tie-up
-
noun,
a temporary stoppage or slowing of business, traffic, telephone service, etc., as due to a strike, storm, or accident.
- tilers
-
noun,
a person who lays tiles.
- tissue
-
noun,
Biology. an aggregate of similar cells and cell products forming a definite kind of structural material with a specific function, in a multicellular organism.
- Europe
-
noun,
a continent in the W part of the landmass lying between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, separated from Asia by the Ural Mountains on the E and the Caucasus Mountains and the Black and Caspian seas on the SE. In British usage, Europe sometimes contrasts with England. About 4,017,000 sq. mi. (10,404,000 sq. km).
- toiles
-
noun,
any of various transparent linens and cottons.
- Euless
-
noun,
a city in N Texas.
- topees
-
noun,
(in India) a lightweight helmet or sun hat made from the pith of the sola plant.
- topers
-
noun,
a hard drinker or chronic drunkard.
- tophus
-
noun,
a calcareous concretion formed in the soft tissue about a joint, in the pinna of the ear, etc., especially in gout; a gouty deposit.
- tousle
-
noun,
a disheveled or rumpled mass, especially of hair.
- Ethiop
-
adjective, noun,
Ethiopian.
- Tories
-
noun,
a member of the Conservative Party in Great Britain or Canada.
- torsel
-
noun,
a beam or slab of wood, stone, iron, etc., laid on a masonry wall to receive and distribute the weight from one end of a beam.
- estrus
-
noun,
Also, estrum [es-truh m] /ˈɛs trəm/ (Show IPA), oestrus. the period of heat or rut; the period of maximum sexual receptivity of the female.
- estops
-
verb (used with object),
Law. to hinder or prevent by estoppel.
- torses
-
noun,
a wreath of twisted silks of two alternating tinctures, usually a metal and a color, depicted supporting a crest or coronet, often upon a helmet.
- Esther
-
noun,
the wife of Ahasuerus.
- esters
-
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 .
- toshes
-
noun,
nonsense; bosh.
- tossup
-
noun,
the tossing of a coin to decide something by its fall.
- toupee
-
noun,
a man's wig.
- esprit
-
noun,
sprightliness of spirit or wit; lively intelligence.
- espies
-
noun,
James Pollard [pol-erd] /ˈpɒl ərd/ (Show IPA), 1785–1860, U.S. meteorologist.
- touses
-
noun,
a commotion; rumpus.
- sterol
-
noun,
any of a group of solid, mostly unsaturated, polycyclic alcohols, as cholesterol and ergosterol, derived from plants or animals.
- horsts
-
noun,
a portion of the earth's crust, bounded on at least two sides by faults, that has risen in relation to adjacent portions.
- splore
-
noun,
a frolic; revel; carousal.
- sphere
-
noun,
Geometry.
a solid geometric figure generated by the revolution of a semicircle about its diameter; a round body whose surface is at all points equidistant from the center. Equation: x 2 + y 2 + z 2 = r 2 .
the surface of such a figure; a spherical surface.
- sports
-
noun,
an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.
- Lesser
-
noun,
a small amount, quantity, or degree:
- lessor
-
noun,
a person, group, etc., who grants a lease.
- liters
-
noun,
a unit of capacity redefined in 1964 by a reduction of 28 parts in a million to be exactly equal to one cubic decimeter. It is equivalent to 1.0567 U.S. liquid quarts and is equal to the volume of one kilogram of distilled water at 4°C. Abbreviation: l.
- spouse
-
noun,
either member of a married pair in relation to the other; one's husband or wife.
- spelts
-
noun,
one of the earliest cultivated forms of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta, native to southern Europe and western Asia, used for livestock feed and as a grain for human consumption.
- Lister
-
noun,
Also called lister plow, middlebreaker, middlebuster. a plow with a double moldboard, used to prepare the ground for planting by producing furrows and ridges.
- Lester
-
noun,
a male given name: from the English placename “Leicester.”.
- spilth
-
noun,
spillage (def 1).
- isohel
-
noun,
a line on a weather map connecting points that receive equal amounts of sunshine.
- spurts
-
noun,
a sudden, forceful gush or jet.
- spouts
-
noun,
a pipe, tube, or liplike projection through or by which a liquid is discharged, poured, or conveyed.
- litho.
-
- istles
-
noun,
a fiber from any of several tropical American plants of the genus Agave or Yucca, used in making bagging, carpets, etc.
- spruit
-
noun,
(in southern Africa) a small stream.
- sprues
-
noun,
Metallurgy.
an opening through which molten metal is poured into a mold.
the waste metal left in this opening after casting.
- Lieut.
-
- lethes
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a river in Hades whose water caused forgetfulness of the past in those who drank of it.
- spiels
-
noun,
a usually high-flown talk or speech, especially for the purpose of luring people to a movie, a sale, etc.; pitch.
- Spiers
-
noun,
a person who spies, watches, or discovers.
- spiles
-
noun,
a peg or plug of wood, especially one used as a spigot.
- sprite
-
noun,
an elf, fairy, or goblin.
- letups
-
noun,
cessation; pause; relief.
- sprout
-
noun,
a shoot of a plant.
- sprits
-
noun,
a small pole or spar crossing a fore-and-aft sail diagonally from the mast to the upper aftermost corner, serving to extend the sail.
- steeps
-
noun,
a steep place; declivity, as of a hill.
- steels
-
noun,
any of various modified forms of iron, artificially produced, having a carbon content less than that of pig iron and more than that of wrought iron, and having qualities of hardness, elasticity, and strength varying according to composition and heat treatment: generally categorized as having a high, medium, or low-carbon content.
- lithos
-
noun,
lithography.
- spoils
-
noun,
Often, spoils. booty, loot, or plunder taken in war or robbery.
- steles
-
noun,
an upright stone slab or pillar bearing an inscription or design and serving as a monument, marker, or the like.
- Iseult
-
noun,
Also, Yseult. German Isolde. Arthurian Romance.
the daughter of a king of Ireland who became the wife of King Mark of Cornwall: she was the beloved of Tristram.
daughter of the king of Brittany, and wife of Tristram.
- Loiret
-
noun,
a department in central France. 2630 sq. mi. (6810 sq. km). Capital: Orléans.
- spirts
-
noun,
a sudden, forceful gush or jet.
- lepers
-
noun,
a person who has leprosy.
- souter
-
noun,
a person who makes or repairs shoes; cobbler; shoemaker.
- spoilt
-
noun,
Often, spoils. booty, loot, or plunder taken in war or robbery.
- steers
-
noun,
Informal. a suggestion about a course of action; tip:
- spites
-
noun,
a malicious, usually petty, desire to harm, annoy, frustrate, or humiliate another person; bitter ill will; malice.
- souths
-
- lepto-
-
- litres
-
noun,
liter.
- speels
-
verb (used with or without object),
to climb; ascend; mount.
- loiter
-
verb (used with object),
to pass (time) in an idle or aimless manner (usually followed by away):
- spiro-
-
- splosh
-
verb (used with or without object), noun,
splash.
- topis
-
noun,
topee.
- repos
-
noun,
a repurchase agreement.
- sloth
-
noun,
habitual disinclination to exertion; indolence; laziness.
- Thule
-
noun,
the ancient Greek and Latin name for an island or region variously identified as one of the Shetland Islands, Iceland, or Norway: supposed to be the most northerly region of the world.
- TORES
-
noun,
a torus.
- repot
-
verb (used with object),
to transfer (a plant) to another, especially larger, pot.
- resp.
-
- spite
-
noun,
a malicious, usually petty, desire to harm, annoy, frustrate, or humiliate another person; bitter ill will; malice.
- slues
-
noun,
the act of sluing.
- slipt
-
noun,
an act or instance of slipping.
- slush
-
noun,
partly melted snow.
- spits
-
noun,
saliva, especially when ejected.
- thurl
-
noun,
the hip joint of cattle.
- slurp
-
noun,
an intake of food or drink with a noisy sucking sound:
- sluit
-
noun,
(in South Africa) a deep, dry gulch or channel formed by erosion due to heavy rains.
- torse
-
noun,
a wreath of twisted silks of two alternating tinctures, usually a metal and a color, depicted supporting a crest or coronet, often upon a helmet.
- slosh
-
noun,
watery mire or partly melted snow; slush.
- 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.
- rept.
-
- toile
-
noun,
any of various transparent linens and cottons.
- resit
-
noun,
a test or examination that is retaken.
- tious
-
- tires
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- tirls
-
noun,
a wheel, cam, or any revolving mechanism or piece of machinery.
- tiles
-
noun,
a thin slab or bent piece of baked clay, sometimes painted or glazed, used for various purposes, as to form one of the units of a roof covering, floor, or revetment.
- Tirol
-
noun,
Tyrol.
- Resht
-
noun,
Rasht.
- TIROS
-
noun,
one of a series of satellites for transmitting television pictures of the earth's cloud cover.
- spire
-
noun,
a tall, acutely pointed pyramidal roof or rooflike construction upon a tower, roof, etc.
- Tiler
-
noun,
a person who lays tiles.
- topes
-
noun,
a small shark, Galeorhinus galeus, inhabiting waters along the European coast.
- torus
-
noun,
Architecture. a large convex molding, more or less semicircular in profile, commonly forming the lowest molding of the base of a column, directly above the plinth, sometimes occurring as one of a pair separated by a scotia and fillets. and column.
- spirt
-
noun,
a sudden, forceful gush or jet.
- toils
-
noun,
hard and continuous work; exhausting labor or effort.
- toise
-
noun,
an old French unit of length equivalent to 6.395 feet (1.949 meters).
- reset
-
noun,
an act or instance of setting again.
- toles
-
noun,
enameled or lacquered metalware, usually with gilt decoration, often used, especially in the 18th century, for trays, lampshades, etc.
- topee
-
noun,
(in India) a lightweight helmet or sun hat made from the pith of the sola plant.
- toper
-
noun,
a hard drinker or chronic drunkard.
- spilt
-
noun,
a spilling, as of liquid.
- slops
-
noun,
a quantity of liquid carelessly spilled or splashed about.
- torsi
-
noun,
a plural of torso.
- shirt
-
noun,
a long- or short-sleeved garment for the upper part of the body, usually lightweight and having a collar and a front opening.
- spile
-
noun,
a peg or plug of wood, especially one used as a spigot.
- sores
-
noun,
a sore spot or place on the body.
- tules
-
noun,
either of two large bulrushes, Scirpus lacustris or S. acutus, found in California and adjacent regions in inundated lands and marshes.
- tulip
-
noun,
any of various plants belonging to the genus Tulipa, of the lily family, cultivated in many varieties, and having lance-shaped leaves and large, showy, usually erect, cup-shaped or bell-shaped flowers in a variety of colors.
- Speer
-
noun,
Albert [al-bert;; German ahl-bert] /ˈæl bərt;; German ˈɑl bɛrt/ (Show IPA), 1905–81, German Nazi leader: appointed by Hitler as official Nazi architect.
- pulse
-
noun,
the regular throbbing of the arteries, caused by the successive contractions of the heart, especially as may be felt at an artery, as at the wrist.
- pulis
-
noun,
one of a Hungarian breed of medium-sized sheepdogs having long, fine hair that often mats, giving the coat a corded appearance.
- Sophi
-
noun,
Sophy.
- speel
-
verb (used with or without object),
to climb; ascend; mount.
- pules
-
verb (used without object),
to cry in a thin voice; whine; whimper.
- Tupis
-
noun,
a member of any of several related Indian peoples living in the valleys of various Brazilian rivers, especially the Amazon.
- sophs
-
noun,
a sophomore.
- Sorel
-
noun,
Georges [zhawrzh] /ʒɔrʒ/ (Show IPA), 1847–1922, French engineer and social philosopher.
- Prus.
-
- sorts
-
noun,
a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature:
- truss
-
noun,
Civil Engineering, Building Trades.
any of various structural frames based on the geometric rigidity of the triangle and composed of straight members subject only to longitudinal compression, tension, or both: functions as a beam or cantilever to support bridges, roofs, etc. Compare complete (def 8), incomplete (def 3), redundant (def 5c).
any of various structural frames constructed on principles other than the geometric rigidity of the triangle or deriving stability from other factors, as the rigidity of joints, the abutment of masonry, or the stiffness of beams.
- upset
-
noun,
an upsetting or instance of being upset; overturn; overthrow.
- sorus
-
noun,
Botany. one of the clusters of sporangia on the back of the fronds of ferns.
- Soter
-
noun,
Saint, pope a.d. 166?–175?.
- Uriel
-
noun,
one of the archangels. II Esdras 4.
- Prot.
-
- Usher
-
noun,
a person who escorts people to seats in a theater, church, etc.
- souse
-
noun,
an act of sousing.
- USPHS
-
- sotie
-
noun,
a satirical and topical comedy employing actors dressed in traditional fool's costume, popular in France during the late Middle Ages, and often used as a curtain raiser to mystery and morality plays.
- prost
-
interjection,
prosit.
- pross
-
noun,
prostitute.
- Uther
-
noun,
king of Britain and father of Arthur.
- utile
-
adjective,
useful.
- prose
-
noun,
the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.
- puree
-
noun,
a cooked food, especially a vegetable or fruit, that has been put through a sieve, blender, or the like.
- sluts
-
noun,
Disparaging and Offensive. a sexually promiscuous woman, or a woman who behaves or dresses in an overtly sexual way.
- reest
-
verb (used with object),
to cure, smoke, or dry (meat or fish).
- soils
-
noun,
the portion of the earth's surface consisting of disintegrated rock and humus.
- repel
-
verb (used with object),
to drive or force back (an assailant, invader, etc.).
- Toure
-
noun,
Sékou [sey-koo] /ˈseɪ ku/ (Show IPA), 1922–84, Guinean political leader: prime minister 1958-72; president 1958–84.
- Tours
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Indre-et-Loire, in W France, on the Loire River: Charles Martel defeated the Saracens near here a.d. 732.
- spies
-
- touse
-
noun,
a commotion; rumpus.
- spier
-
noun,
a person who spies, watches, or discovers.
- throe
-
noun,
a violent spasm or pang; paroxysm.
- tries
-
noun,
plural of try.
- reist
-
verb (used without object),
reest2 .
- triol
-
noun,
a compound having three hydroxyl groups.
- soler
-
noun,
Padre Antonio [ahn-taw-nyaw] /ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1729–83, Spanish organist and composer.
- trios
-
noun,
a musical composition for three voices or instruments.
- reels
-
noun,
a cylinder, frame, or other device that turns on an axis and is used to wind up or pay out something.
- spelt
-
noun,
one of the earliest cultivated forms of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta, native to southern Europe and western Asia, used for livestock feed and as a grain for human consumption.
- soles
-
noun,
a plural of sol3 .
- tripe
-
noun,
the first and second divisions of the stomach of a ruminant, especially oxen, sheep, or goats, used as food.
Compare honeycomb tripe, plain tripe.
- spiel
-
noun,
a usually high-flown talk or speech, especially for the purpose of luring people to a movie, a sale, etc.; pitch.
- puses
-
noun,
a yellow-white, more or less viscid substance produced by suppuration and found in abscesses, sores, etc., consisting of a liquid plasma in which white blood cells are suspended.
- speos
-
noun,
a cavelike temple, tomb, or the like, cut in rock.
- trois
-
noun,
the number 3.
- trop-
-
- trope
-
noun,
Rhetoric.
any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense.
an instance of this. Compare figure of speech.
- Purse
-
noun,
a woman's handbag or pocketbook.
- Solti
-
noun,
Sir Georg [gey-awrg,, jawrj] /ˈgeɪ ɔrg,, dʒɔrdʒ/ (Show IPA), 1912–97, British orchestra conductor, born in Hungary.
- purls
-
noun,
a basic stitch in knitting, the reverse of the knit, formed by pulling a loop of the working yarn back through an existing stitch and then slipping that stitch off the needle.
Compare knit (def 11).
- puris
-
noun,
poori.
- solus
-
adjective,
(referring to a man) alone; by oneself (used formerly in stage directions).
- tress
-
noun,
Usually, tresses. long locks or curls of hair.
- Thorp
-
noun,
a hamlet; village.
- rests
-
noun,
the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep:
- seeps
-
noun,
moisture that seeps out; seepage.
- Sept.
-
- Seoul
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of South Korea, in the W part.
- Strep
-
noun,
streptococcus.
- Steep
-
noun,
a steep place; declivity, as of a hill.
- Short
-
noun,
something that is short.
- strip
-
noun,
a striptease.
- Steel
-
noun,
any of various modified forms of iron, artificially produced, having a carbon content less than that of pig iron and more than that of wrought iron, and having qualities of hardness, elasticity, and strength varying according to composition and heat treatment: generally categorized as having a high, medium, or low-carbon content.
- Seler
-
noun,
Eduard [ey-doo-ahrt] /ˈeɪ duˌɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1859–1922, German archaeologist: first to decipher Mayan calendar and inscriptions.
- strop
-
noun,
any of several devices for sharpening razors, especially a strip of leather or other flexible material.
- shote
-
noun,
shoat (def 1).
- stupe
-
noun,
two or more layers of flannel or other cloth soaked in hot water and applied to the skin as a counterirritant.
- seise
-
verb (used with or without object),
Chiefly Law. seize.
- seers
-
noun,
a person who sees; observer.
- seels
-
verb (used with object),
Falconry. to sew shut (the eyes of a falcon) during parts of its training.
- septs
-
noun,
(in Scotland) a branch of a clan.
- sruti
-
noun,
the Vedas and some of the Upanishads, regarded as divinely revealed.
- shout
-
noun,
a loud call or cry:
- ruths
-
noun,
pity or compassion.
- suets
-
noun,
the hard fatty tissue about the loins and kidneys of beef, sheep, etc., used in cooking or processed to yield tallow.
- shpt.
-
- rusts
-
noun,
Also called iron rust. the red or orange coating that forms on the surface of iron when exposed to air and moisture, consisting chiefly of ferric hydroxide and ferric oxide formed by oxidation.
- suite
-
noun,
a number of things forming a series or set.
- Shute
-
noun,
Nevil (Nevil Shute Norway) 1899–1960, British novelist and aeronautical engineer.
- spurt
-
noun,
a sudden, forceful gush or jet.
- shuts
-
noun,
the act or time of shutting or closing.
- spues
-
noun,
something that is spewed; vomit.
- silos
-
noun,
a structure, typically cylindrical, in which fodder or forage is kept.
- silts
-
noun,
earthy matter, fine sand, or the like carried by moving or running water and deposited as a sediment.
- supes
-
noun,
a supernumerary.
- Shore
-
noun,
the land along the edge of a sea, lake, broad river, etc.
- Seres
-
noun,
the series of stages in an ecological succession.
- Russ.
-
abbreviation,
Russia.
- stirs
-
noun,
the act of stirring or moving.
- ster.
-
- shies
-
noun,
a sudden start aside, as in fear.
- sties
-
noun,
a pen or enclosure for swine; pigpen.
- stile
-
noun,
a series of steps or rungs by means of which a person may pass over a wall or fence that remains a barrier to sheep or cattle.
- shier
-
noun,
a horse having a tendency to shy.
- stipe
-
noun,
Botany, Mycology. a stalk or slender support, as the petiole of a fern frond, the stem supporting the pileus of a mushroom, or a stalklike elongation of the receptacle of a flower.
- shiel
-
noun,
shieling.
- step-
-
- shits
-
noun,
excrement; feces.
- Sheol
-
noun,
the abode of the dead or of departed spirits.
- stipo
-
noun,
a tall, ornate, Italian desk with a drop lid.
- shlep
-
noun,
Also, schlepper. someone or something that is tedious, slow, or awkward; drag.
- stirp
-
noun,
a line of descendants from a common ancestor.
- stole
-
noun,
an ecclesiastical vestment consisting of a narrow strip of silk or other material worn over the shoulders or, by deacons, over the left shoulder only, and arranged to hang down in front to the knee or below.
Compare tippet (def 2).
- shoes
-
noun,
an external covering for the human foot, usually of leather and consisting of a more or less stiff or heavy sole and a lighter upper part ending a short distance above, at, or below the ankle.
- stele
-
noun,
an upright stone slab or pillar bearing an inscription or design and serving as a monument, marker, or the like.
- stope
-
noun,
any excavation made in a mine, especially from a steeply inclined vein, to remove the ore that has been rendered accessible by the shafts and drifts.
- shoer
-
noun,
a person who shoes horses or other animals.
- sheet
-
noun,
a large rectangular piece of cotton, linen, or other material used as an article of bedding, commonly spread in pairs so that one is immediately above and the other immediately below the sleeper.
- stops
-
noun,
the act of stopping.
- sheer
-
noun,
a thin, diaphanous material, as chiffon or voile.
- sheep
-
noun,
any of numerous ruminant mammals of the genus Ovis, of the family Bovidae, closely related to the goats, especially O. aries, bred in a number of domesticated varieties.
- store
-
noun,
an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- setup
-
noun,
organization; arrangement.
- stoup
-
noun,
a basin for holy water, as at the entrance of a church.
- seti-
-
- steer
-
noun,
Informal. a suggestion about a course of action; tip:
- sero-
-
- stour
-
noun,
British Dialect.
tumult; confusion.
a storm.
- Supt.
-
- sushi
-
noun,
cold boiled rice moistened with rice vinegar, usually shaped into bite-size pieces and topped with raw seafood (nigiri-zushi) or formed into a long seaweed-wrapped roll, often around strips of vegetable or raw fish, and sliced into bite-size pieces (maki-zushi)
- THREE
-
noun,
a cardinal number, 2 plus 1.
- thirl
-
verb (used with object),
to pierce.
- situs
-
noun,
position; situation.
- Sleep
-
noun,
the state of a person, animal, or plant that sleeps.
- spout
-
noun,
a pipe, tube, or liplike projection through or by which a liquid is discharged, poured, or conveyed.
- sleet
-
noun,
precipitation in the form of ice pellets created by the freezing of rain as it falls (distinguished from hail2. ).
- rotes
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- Rosse
-
noun,
William Parsons, Third Earl of, William Parsons.
- Rosie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Rose.
- roshi
-
noun,
the religious leader of a group of Zen Buddhists.
- thio-
-
- roset
-
noun,
resin; rosin.
- ropes
-
noun,
a strong, thick line or cord, commonly one composed of twisted or braided strands of hemp, flax, or the like, or of wire or other material.
- roils
-
verb (used with object),
to render (water, wine, etc.) turbid by stirring up sediment.
- slept
-
noun,
the state of a person, animal, or plant that sleeps.
- rises
-
noun,
an act or instance of rising.
- there
-
noun,
that state or condition:
- sport
-
noun,
an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.
- thole
-
noun,
a pin, or either of two pins, inserted into a gunwale to provide a fulcrum for an oar.
- riots
-
noun,
a noisy, violent public disorder caused by a group or crowd of persons, as by a crowd protesting against another group, a government policy, etc., in the streets.
- riles
-
verb (used with object),
to irritate or vex.
- spore
-
noun,
Biology. a walled, single- to many-celled, reproductive body of an organism, capable of giving rise to a new individual either directly or indirectly.
- riels
-
noun,
a paper money and monetary unit of Cambodia, equal to 100 sen.
- spor-
-
- rhet.
-
- slier
-
adjective,
a comparative of sly.
- Shire
-
noun,
one of the counties of Great Britain.
- slipe
-
noun,
a sledge, drag, or sleigh.
- re-up
-
verb (used with or without object),
to reenlist.
- those
-
Idioms,
at that,
in spite of something; nevertheless:
in addition; besides:
- Spohr
-
noun,
Ludwig [loot-vikh,, lood-] /ˈlut vɪx,, ˈlud-/ (Show IPA), or Louis [loo-ee] /ˈlu i/ (Show IPA), 1784–1859, German violinist and composer.
- these
-
Idioms,
with this, following this; hereupon:
- rotls
-
noun,
a unit of weight used in Islamic countries, varying widely in value, but of the order of the pound.
- Soult
-
noun,
Nicolas Jean de Dieu [nee-kaw-lah zhahn duh dyœ] /ni kɔˈlɑ ʒɑ̃ də dyœ/ (Show IPA), (Duke of Dalmatia) 1769–1851, French marshal.
- sires
-
noun,
the male parent of a quadruped.
- Susie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Susanna or Susannah.
- sipes
-
verb (used without object),
(of liquid) to drip, ooze, or soak through.
- Siple
-
noun,
Mount, a mountain in Antarctica, on the E coast of Marie Byrd Land. 15,000 feet (4570 meters).
- siree
-
noun,
sirree.
- sprue
-
noun,
Metallurgy.
an opening through which molten metal is poured into a mold.
the waste metal left in this opening after casting.
- teels
-
noun,
til.
- tele-
-
- teles
-
noun,
television.
- rupee
-
noun,
a cupronickel coin and monetary unit of India, Nepal, and Pakistan, equal to 100 paise. Abbreviation: R., Re.
- Rules
-
noun,
a principle or regulation governing conduct, action, procedure, arrangement, etc.:
- routs
-
noun,
a defeat attended with disorderly flight; dispersal of a defeated force in complete disorder:
- telo-
-
- Routh
-
noun,
abundance; plenty.
- telos
-
noun,
the end term of a goal-directed process; especially, the Aristotelian final cause.
- terse
-
adjective,
neatly or effectively concise; brief and pithy, as language.
- roues
-
noun,
a dissolute and licentious man; rake.
- route
-
noun,
a course, way, or road for passage or travel:
- 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.
- sirup
-
noun,
any of various thick, sweet liquids prepared for table use from molasses, glucose, etc., water, and often a flavoring agent.
- sprit
-
noun,
a small pole or spar crossing a fore-and-aft sail diagonally from the mast to the upper aftermost corner, serving to extend the sail.
- roust
-
verb (used with object),
to rout, as from a place:
- their
-
noun,
any male person or animal; a man:
- Spree
-
noun,
a lively frolic or outing.
- theo-
-
- sites
-
noun,
the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment:
- sito-
-
- theor
-
- Theos
-
- rouse
-
noun,
a rousing.
- roups
-
noun,
any catarrhal inflammation of the eyes and nasal passages of poultry.
- sours
-
noun,
something that is sour.
- litre
-
noun,
liter.
- pros.
-
- Perle
-
noun,
a medicinal capsule that resembles a pearl in shape.
- Elsie
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- elute
-
verb (used with object),
to remove by dissolving, as absorbed material from an adsorbent.
- leers
-
noun,
a lascivious or sly look.
- pests
-
noun,
an annoying or troublesome person, animal, or thing; nuisance.
- pesto
-
noun,
a sauce typically made with basil, pine nuts, olive oil, and grated Parmesan blended together and served hot or cold over pasta, fish, or meat.
- leets
-
noun,
a special annual or semiannual court in which the lords of certain manors had jurisdiction over local disputes.
- lehrs
-
noun,
an oven used to anneal glass.
- pesos
-
noun,
a coin and monetary unit of Chile, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Guinea-Bissau, Mexico, and the Philippines, equal to 100 centavos.
- Euler
-
noun,
Leonhard [German ley-awn-hahrt] /German ˈleɪ ɔnˌhɑrt/ (Show IPA), 1707–83, Swiss mathematician.
- Leith
-
noun,
a seaport in SE Scotland, on the Firth of Forth: now part of Edinburgh.
- Perth
-
noun,
Also called Perthshire. a historic county in central Scotland.
- pert.
-
- Perse
-
noun,
(Alexis Saint-Léger Léger) 1887–1975, French diplomat and poet: Nobel Prize in literature 1960.
- leper
-
noun,
a person who has leprosy.
- euros
-
noun,
wallaroo.
- peris
-
noun,
one of a large group of beautiful, fairylike beings of Persian mythology, represented as descended from fallen angels and excluded from paradise until their penance is accomplished.
- peril
-
noun,
exposure to injury, loss, or destruction; grave risk; jeopardy; danger:
- peri-
-
- Lepus
-
noun,
the Hare, a small southern constellation south of Orion.
- Leros
-
noun,
one of the Dodecanese Islands of Greece, off the SW coast of Turkey. 21 sq. mi. (54 sq. km).
- etuis
-
noun,
a small, often decorative case, especially one for needles, toilet articles, or the like.
- Lethe
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a river in Hades whose water caused forgetfulness of the past in those who drank of it.
- letup
-
noun,
cessation; pause; relief.
- peres
-
noun,
Shimon [shi-mohn] /ʃɪˈmoʊn/ (Show IPA), born 1923, Israeli political leader, born in Poland: prime minister 1984–86, 1995–96.
- liers
-
noun,
a person or thing that lies, as in wait or in ambush.
- lipo-
-
- pelts
-
noun,
the act of pelting.
- lists
-
noun,
an enclosed arena for a tilting contest.
- Euro-
-
- elope
-
verb (used without object),
to run off secretly to be married, usually without the consent or knowledge of one's parents.
- liter
-
noun,
a unit of capacity redefined in 1964 by a reduction of 28 parts in a million to be exactly equal to one cubic decimeter. It is equivalent to 1.0567 U.S. liquid quarts and is equal to the volume of one kilogram of distilled water at 4°C. Abbreviation: l.
- phots
-
noun,
a unit of illumination, equal to 1 lumen per square centimeter. Abbreviation: ph.
- Elihu
-
noun,
a young man who entered into discourse with Job. Job. 32–37.
- herls
-
noun,
a barb of a feather, used especially in dressing anglers' flies.
- piles
-
noun,
an assemblage of things laid or lying one upon the other:
- Ipsus
-
noun,
an ancient village in central Asia Minor, in Phrygia: the scene of a battle (301 b.c.) between the successors of Alexander the Great.
- helps
-
noun,
the act of helping; aid or assistance; relief or succor.
- Isere
-
noun,
a river in SE France, flowing from the Alps to the Rhone River. 150 miles (240 km) long.
- Piers
-
noun,
a structure built on posts extending from land out over water, used as a landing place for ships, an entertainment area, a strolling place, etc.; jetty.
- Helot
-
noun,
a member of the lowest class in ancient Laconia, constituting a body of serfs who were bound to the land and were owned by the state.
Compare Perioeci, Spartiate.
- Eliot
-
noun,
Charles William, 1834–1926, U.S. educator: president of Harvard University 1869–1909.
- islet
-
noun,
a very small island.
- heli-
-
- Elise
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- heist
-
noun,
a robbery or holdup:
- phot.
-
- eusol
-
noun,
an antiseptic solution prepared from chlorinated lime and boric acid, formerly used in treating wounds.
- phore
-
- issue
-
noun,
the act of sending out or putting forth; promulgation; distribution:
- heels
-
noun,
the back part of the human foot, below and behind the ankle.
- Isth.
-
- phile
-
- istle
-
noun,
a fiber from any of several tropical American plants of the genus Agave or Yucca, used in making bagging, carpets, etc.
- Phil.
-
- elite
-
noun,
(often used with a plural verb) the choice or best of anything considered collectively, as of a group or class of persons.
- iters
-
noun,
a canal or passage.
- petri
-
- ither
-
adjective, pronoun, adverb,
other.
- petos
-
noun,
wahoo3 .
- Peter
-
noun,
penis.
- peles
-
noun,
peel3 .
- lites
-
noun,
light2 (def 36).
- pilot
-
noun,
a person duly qualified to steer ships into or out of a harbor or through certain difficult waters.
- Louth
-
noun,
a county in Leinster province, in the NE Republic of Ireland. 317 sq. mi. (820 sq. km). County seat: Dunkalk.
- ORuss
-
- Orth.
-
- Louhi
-
noun,
a sorceress, the mistress of Pohjola and an enemy of the Finns, eventually defeated by Vainamoinen.
- Louie
-
noun,
looie.
- orles
-
noun,
Heraldry.
a charge in the form of a narrow band following the form of the escutcheon within the edge, so that the extreme outer edge of the escutcheon is of the field tincture.
an arrangement in orle of small charges:
- Louis
-
noun,
louis d'or.
- erupt
-
verb (used with object),
to release violently; burst forth with:
Synonyms: vent.
- loupe
-
noun,
any of several varieties of magnifying glasses, used by jewelers and watchmakers, of from 2 to 20 power and intended to fit in the eye socket, to be attached to spectacles, or to be held in the hand.
- loups
-
noun,
a cloth mask, often of silk or velvet, that covers only half the face.
- Oriel
-
noun,
a bay window, especially one cantilevered or corbeled out from a wall.
- Holst
-
noun,
Gustav Theodore [goo s-tahv] /ˈgʊs tɑv/ (Show IPA), 1874–1934, English composer.
- lours
-
verb (used without object), noun,
lower2 .
- louse
-
noun,
any small, wingless insect of the order Anoplura (sucking louse) parasitic on humans and other mammals and having mouthparts adapted for sucking, as Pediculus humanus (body louse or head louse) and Phthirius pubis (crab louse or pubic louse)
- louts
-
noun,
an awkward, stupid person; clumsy, ill-mannered boor; oaf.
- Lotus
-
noun,
a plant believed to be a jujube or elm, referred to in Greek legend as yielding a fruit that induced a state of dreamy and contented forgetfulness in those who ate it.
- opsis
-
- estop
-
verb (used with object),
Law. to hinder or prevent by estoppel.
- Ophir
-
noun,
a country of uncertain location, possibly southern Arabia or the eastern coast of Africa, from which gold and precious stones and trees were brought for Solomon. I Kings 10:11.
- Esth.
-
- OPers
-
- Estes
-
noun,
a male given name.
- olpes
-
noun,
a form of the oinochoe.
- 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 .
- lures
-
noun,
anything that attracts, entices, or allures.
- lusts
-
noun,
intense sexual desire or appetite.
- oiler
-
noun,
a person or thing that oils.
- Luth.
-
- Oesel
-
noun,
German name of Saaremaa.
- Ethel
-
noun,
a female given name: from a Germanic word meaning “noble.”.
- osier
-
noun,
any of various willows, as the red osier, having tough, flexible twigs or branches that are used for wickerwork.
- Lith.
-
- Lopes
-
noun,
the act or the gait of loping.
- lithe
-
adjective,
bending readily; pliant; limber; supple; flexible:
- Peers
-
noun,
a person of the same legal status:
- peels
-
noun,
the skin or rind of a fruit, vegetable, etc.
- Prole
-
noun,
a member of the proletariat.
- loess
-
noun,
a loamy deposit formed by wind, usually yellowish and calcareous, common in the Mississippi Valley and in Europe and Asia.
- Loire
-
noun,
a river in France, flowing NW and W into the Atlantic: the longest river in France. 625 miles (1005 km) long.
- ethos
-
noun,
Sociology. the fundamental character or spirit of a culture; the underlying sentiment that informs the beliefs, customs, or practices of a group or society; dominant assumptions of a people or period:
- Ephes
-
- ephor
-
noun,
one of a body of magistrates in various ancient Dorian states, especially at Sparta, where a body of five was elected annually by the people.
- Epis.
-
- Epist
-
- loper
-
noun,
a person or thing that lopes, as a horse with a loping gait.
- ether
-
noun,
Also called diethyl ether, diethyl oxide, ethyl ether, ethyl oxide, sulfuric ether. Chemistry, Pharmacology. a colorless, highly volatile, flammable liquid, C 4 H 10 O, having an aromatic odor and sweet, burning taste, derived from ethyl alcohol by the action of sulfuric acid: used as a solvent and, formerly, as an inhalant anesthetic.
- outre
-
adjective,
passing the bounds of what is usual or considered proper; unconventional; bizarre.
- Osler
-
noun,
Sir William, 1849–1919, Canadian physician and professor of medicine.
- Outer
-
adjective,
situated on or toward the outside; external; exterior:
- ousts
-
verb (used with object),
to expel or remove from a place or position occupied:
- ousel
-
noun,
ouzel.
- lores
-
noun,
the body of knowledge, especially of a traditional, anecdotal, or popular nature, on a particular subject:
- Loris
-
noun,
Also called slender loris. a small, slender, tailless, large-eyed, nocturnal lemur, Loris gracilis, of southern India and Sri Lanka.
- ourie
-
adjective,
shabby; dingy.
- epulo
-
noun,
(in ancient Rome) a member of a body of priests who performed sacred rites during sacrificial banquets in honor of the gods.
- ouphe
-
noun,
an elf or goblin.
- loser
-
noun,
a person, team, nation, etc., that loses:
- loses
-
Idioms,
lose face. face (def 51).
- Other
-
noun,
the other one:
- oste-
-
- erose
-
adjective,
uneven, as if gnawed away.
- Osset
-
noun,
a member of an Aryan people of Ossetia whose religion combines features of Islam and Christianity.
- Pilos
-
noun,
Greek name of Navarino.
- petr-
-
- poise
-
noun,
a state of balance or equilibrium, as from equality or equal distribution of weight; equipoise.
- Hopis
-
noun,
a member of a Pueblo Indian people of northern Arizona.
- posts
-
noun,
a strong piece of timber, metal, or the like, set upright as a support, a point of attachment, a place for displaying notices, etc.
- House
-
noun,
a building in which people live; residence for human beings.
- pouts
-
noun,
the act of pouting; a protrusion of the lips.
- hier-
-
- plio-
-
- post-
-
- plier
-
noun,
pliers, (sometimes used with a singular verb) small pincers with long jaws, for bending wire, holding small objects, etc. (usually used with pair of).
- Ieper
-
noun,
Ypres.
- pours
-
noun,
the act of pouring.
- pleo-
-
- posse
-
noun,
posse comitatus.
- Horus
-
noun,
a solar deity, regarded as either the son or the brother of Isis and Osiris, and usually represented as a falcon or as a man with the head of a falcon.
- poss.
-
- potus
-
noun,
(in prescriptions) a drink.
- 30-30
-
- Piute
-
noun,
Paiute.
- polis
-
noun,
an ancient Greek city-state.
- hosts
-
noun,
a person who receives or entertains guests at home or elsewhere:
- posit
-
noun,
something that is posited; an assumption; postulate.
- hort.
-
- hist.
-
- Horst
-
noun,
a portion of the earth's crust, bounded on at least two sides by faults, that has risen in relation to adjacent portions.
- hoise
-
verb (used with object),
to hoist.
- poilu
-
noun,
a French common soldier.
- hurls
-
noun,
a forcible or violent throw; fling.
- Hurst
-
noun,
Fannie, 1889–1968, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- poet.
-
- poult
-
noun,
a young fowl, as of the turkey, the pheasant, or a similar bird.
- holes
-
noun,
an opening through something; gap; aperture:
- Pluto
-
noun,
Classical Mythology. a name given to Hades, under which he is identified by the Romans with Orcus.
- plush
-
noun,
a fabric, as of silk, cotton, or wool, whose pile is more than ⅛ inch (0.3 cm) high.
- horse
-
noun,
a large, solid-hoofed, herbivorous quadruped, Equus caballus, domesticated since prehistoric times, bred in a number of varieties, and used for carrying or pulling loads, for riding, and for racing.
- hurts
-
noun,
a blow that inflicts a wound; bodily injury or the cause of such injury.
- Poler
-
noun,
a person or thing that poles.
- HIRES
-
noun,
the act of hiring.
- plur.
-
- poles
-
noun,
a long, cylindrical, often slender piece of wood, metal, etc.:
- ileus
-
noun,
intestinal obstruction characterized by lack of peristalsis and leading to severe colicky pain and vomiting.
- ileo-
-
- piths
-
noun,
Botany. the soft, spongy central cylinder of parenchymatous tissue in the stems of dicotyledonous plants.
- Press
-
noun,
an act of pressing; pressure.
- hotel
-
noun,
a commercial establishment offering lodging to travelers and sometimes to permanent residents, and often having restaurants, meeting rooms, stores, etc., that are available to the general public.
- hosel
-
noun,
the socket in the club head of an iron that receives the shaft.
- houri
-
noun,
one of the beautiful virgins provided in paradise for all faithful Muslims.
- poser
-
noun,
a person who poses.
- Hours
-
noun,
a period of time equal to one twenty-fourth of a mean solar or civil day and equivalent to 60 minutes:
- ports
-
noun,
a city, town, or other place where ships load or unload.
- hosp.
-
- pret.
-
- prest
-
noun,
a loan.
- poses
-
noun,
a bodily attitude or posture:
- Hesse
-
noun,
Hermann [her-mahn] /ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1877–1962, German novelist and poet: Nobel Prize 1946.
- prise
-
noun,
leverage.
- Port.
-
- Pres.
-
- hopes
-
noun,
the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best:
- hests
-
noun,
behest.
- pores
-
noun,
a minute opening or orifice, as in the skin or a leaf, for perspiration, absorption, etc.
- pilus
-
noun,
a hair or hairlike structure.
- Heros
-
noun,
a person noted for courageous acts or nobility of character:
- holts
-
noun,
a wood or grove.
- prius
-
noun,
a brand of hybrid car, one of the first commercially successful, that runs at lower speeds on an electric motor powered by a battery pack, and at higher speeds on a gasoline engine, which can also recharge the battery.
- piste
-
noun,
a track or trail, as a downhill ski run or a spoor made by a wild animal.
- pious
-
adjective,
having or showing a dutiful spirit of reverence for God or an earnest wish to fulfill religious obligations.
- priss
-
noun,
a prissy person.
- prees
-
noun,
a test, trial, or taste; a test by sampling.
- herp.
-
- Soul
-
noun,
the principle of life, feeling, thought, and action in humans, regarded as a distinct entity separate from the body, and commonly held to be separable in existence from the body; the spiritual part of humans as distinct from the physical part.
- soup
-
noun,
a liquid food made by boiling or simmering meat, fish, or vegetables with various added ingredients.
- sops
-
noun,
a piece of solid food, as bread, for dipping in liquid food.
- Hose
-
noun,
a flexible tube for conveying a liquid, as water, to a desired point:
- lost
-
Idioms,
get lost, Slang.
to absent oneself:
to stop being a nuisance:
- supr
-
- Surt
-
noun,
the guardian and ruler of Muspelheim, destined to defeat Frey at Ragnarok and destroy the world with fire.
- sur-
-
- sure
-
Idioms,
for sure, as a certainty; surely:
- TOPS
-
noun,
the tops, top1 (def 22).
- Hos.
-
- Lose
-
Idioms,
lose face. face (def 51).
- sort
-
noun,
a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature:
- sori
-
noun,
plural of sorus.
- sots
-
noun,
a drunkard.
- Lore
-
noun,
the body of knowledge, especially of a traditional, anecdotal, or popular nature, on a particular subject:
- Loss
-
noun,
detriment, disadvantage, or deprivation from failure to keep, have, or get:
- lops
-
noun,
parts or a part lopped off.
- sore
-
noun,
a sore spot or place on the body.
- Hole
-
noun,
an opening through something; gap; aperture:
- sups
-
noun,
a mouthful or small portion of drink or liquid food; sip.
- Ipoh
-
noun,
a city in and the capital of Perak state, in W Malaysia.
- thi-
-
- Tore
-
noun,
a torus.
- lues
-
noun,
syphilis.
- tors
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- slut
-
noun,
Disparaging and Offensive. a sexually promiscuous woman, or a woman who behaves or dresses in an overtly sexual way.
- Hope
-
noun,
the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best:
- slur
-
noun,
a slurred utterance or sound.
- tosh
-
noun,
nonsense; bosh.
- slue
-
noun,
the act of sluing.
- toss
-
noun,
an act or instance of tossing.
- Este
-
noun,
a city in NE Italy: medieval fortress; ancient Roman ruins.
- slot
-
noun,
a narrow, elongated depression, groove, notch, slit, or aperture, especially a narrow opening for receiving or admitting something, as a coin or a letter.
- Hopi
-
noun,
a member of a Pueblo Indian people of northern Arizona.
- Toul
-
noun,
a fortress town in NE France, on the Moselle: siege 1870. 16,832.
- Lupe
-
noun,
a female given name.
- lure
-
noun,
anything that attracts, entices, or allures.
- hols
-
plural noun,
Sometimes, hol. British Informal. holiday (def 5).
- lush
-
noun,
drunkard; alcoholic; sot.
- slop
-
noun,
a quantity of liquid carelessly spilled or splashed about.
- sloe
-
noun,
the small, sour, blackish fruit of the blackthorn, Prunus spinosa, of the rose family.
- Lust
-
noun,
intense sexual desire or appetite.
- slit
-
noun,
a straight, narrow cut, opening, or aperture.
- soil
-
noun,
the portion of the earth's surface consisting of disintegrated rock and humus.
- Eth.
-
- lote
-
noun,
lotus.
- Loup
-
noun,
a cloth mask, often of silk or velvet, that covers only half the face.
- loth
-
adjective,
loath.
- Loti
-
noun,
a cupronickel coin, paper money, and monetary unit of Lesotho, equal to 100 lisente.
- hor.
-
- Soph
-
noun,
a sophomore.
- hops
-
noun,
an act of hopping; short leap.
- Tori
-
noun,
plural of torus.
- ter.
-
- tepe
-
noun,
(in Turkey, Iran, and Iraq) tell 2 .
- Holi
-
noun,
the Hindu spring festival.
- tel-
-
- sols
-
noun,
the syllable used for the fifth tone of a diatonic scale.
- teel
-
noun,
til.
- lour
-
verb (used without object), noun,
lower2 .
- 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.
- holp
-
verb,
a simple past tense of help.
- sole
-
noun,
the bottom or under surface of the foot.
- Sol.
-
- teil
-
noun,
Archaic. the European linden, Tilia europaea.
- lout
-
noun,
an awkward, stupid person; clumsy, ill-mannered boor; oaf.
- Host
-
noun,
a person who receives or entertains guests at home or elsewhere:
- lite
-
noun,
light2 (def 36).
- Lope
-
noun,
the act or the gait of loping.
- heel
-
noun,
the back part of the human foot, below and behind the ankle.
- heir
-
noun,
a person who inherits or has a right of inheritance in the property of another following the latter's death.
- sris
-
noun,
a Hindu title of address prefixed to the name of a deity, holy person, etc.
- Heer
-
noun,
an old unit of measure for linen and woolen yarn, equivalent to about 600 yards (550 meters).
- Heep
-
noun,
Uriah, Uriah Heep.
- tils
-
noun,
the sesame plant.
- stop
-
noun,
the act of stopping.
- SPUR
-
noun,
a U -shaped device that slips over and straps to the heel of a boot and has a blunt, pointed, or roweled projection at the back for use by a mounted rider to urge a horse forward.
- spue
-
noun,
something that is spewed; vomit.
- tire
-
noun,
British Dialect. fatigue.
- tirl
-
noun,
a wheel, cam, or any revolving mechanism or piece of machinery.
- thir
-
pronoun,
these.
- ile-
-
- iter
-
noun,
a canal or passage.
- HETP
-
noun,
a yellow, very poisonous liquid, (C 2 H 5 O) 6 P 4 O 7 , soluble in water, used as an insecticide.
- esse
-
noun,
being; existence.
- hets
-
noun,
a heterosexual person.
- Tiro
-
noun,
tyro.
- itol
-
- toil
-
noun,
hard and continuous work; exhausting labor or effort.
- Hilo
-
noun,
a seaport on E Hawaii island, in SE Hawaii.
- STOL
-
noun,
a convertiplane that can become airborne after a short takeoff run and has forward speeds comparable to those of conventional aircraft.
- iso-
-
- SPOT
-
noun,
a rounded mark or stain made by foreign matter, as mud, blood, paint, ink, etc.; a blot or speck.
- hers
-
noun,
Slang. a female:
- herl
-
noun,
a barb of a feather, used especially in dressing anglers' flies.
- THOR
-
noun,
Scandinavian Mythology. the god of thunder, rain, and farming, represented as riding a chariot drawn by goats and wielding the hammer Mjolnir: the defender of the Aesir, destined to kill and be killed by the Midgard Serpent.
- thou
-
noun,
one thousand dollars, pounds, etc.
- Here
-
noun,
this place:
- Ire.
-
- her.
-
- thru
-
preposition, adverb, adjective,
an informal, simplified spelling of through.
- ious
-
- Thur
-
- help
-
noun,
the act of helping; aid or assistance; relief or succor.
- tile
-
noun,
a thin slab or bent piece of baked clay, sometimes painted or glazed, used for various purposes, as to form one of the units of a roof covering, floor, or revetment.
- Hess
-
noun,
Dame Myra, 1890–1965, English pianist.
- Isle
-
noun,
a small island.
- this
-
Idioms,
with this, following this; hereupon:
- Stir
-
noun,
the act of stirring or moving.
- isls
-
- Ste.
-
- Ilse
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- thus
-
adverb,
in the way just indicated; in this way:
- 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.
- hest
-
noun,
behest.
- hilt
-
noun,
the handle of a sword or dagger.
- Eure
-
noun,
a department in NW France. 2331 sq. mi. (6035 sq. km). Capital: Evreux.
- Sour
-
noun,
something that is sour.
- hol-
-
- lip-
-
- sues
-
noun,
Eugène [œ-zhen] /œˈʒɛn/ (Show IPA), (Marie Joseph Sue) 1804–57, French novelist.
- eths
-
noun,
a letter in the form of a crossed d, written đ or ð, used in Old English writing to represent both voiced and unvoiced th and in modern Icelandic and in phonetic alphabets to represent voiced th.
- Lise
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
- suet
-
noun,
the hard fatty tissue about the loins and kidneys of beef, sheep, etc., used in cooking or processed to yield tallow.
- LISP
-
noun,
a speech defect consisting in pronouncing s and z like or nearly like the th- sounds of thin and this, respectively.
- LIST
-
noun,
a series of names or other items written or printed together in a meaningful grouping or sequence so as to constitute a record:
- lit.
-
- HERO
-
noun,
a person noted for courageous acts or nobility of character:
- suit
-
noun,
a set of clothing, armor, or the like, intended for wear together.
- the-
-
- 1080
-
- Spee
-
noun,
Maximilian von [mahk-si-mee-lee-ahn fuh n] /ˌmɑk sɪˈmi liˌɑn fən/ (Show IPA), 1861–1941, German admiral.
- lits
-
noun,
litas.
- litu
-
noun,
a plural of litas.
- hour
-
noun,
a period of time equal to one twenty-fourth of a mean solar or civil day and equivalent to 60 minutes:
- hots
-
noun,
the hots, Slang. intense sexual desire or attraction.
- topi
-
noun,
topee.
- Tess
-
noun,
a female given name, form of Theresa.
- Lois
-
noun,
a female given name.
- supe
-
noun,
a supernumerary.
- lieu
-
noun,
place; stead.
- lier
-
noun,
a person or thing that lies, as in wait or in ambush.
- Huss
-
noun,
John, 1369?–1415, Czech religious reformer and martyr.
- Leis
-
noun,
(in the Hawaiian Islands) a wreath of flowers, leaves, etc., for the neck or head.
- Eur.
-
- hire
-
noun,
the act of hiring.
- tole
-
noun,
enameled or lacquered metalware, usually with gilt decoration, often used, especially in the 18th century, for trays, lampshades, etc.
- leer
-
noun,
a lascivious or sly look.
- str.
-
- lees
-
noun,
plural of lee2 .
- Leet
-
noun,
a special annual or semiannual court in which the lords of certain manors had jurisdiction over local disputes.
- Lehr
-
noun,
an oven used to anneal glass.
- hurt
-
noun,
a blow that inflicts a wound; bodily injury or the cause of such injury.
- top-
-
- thee
-
pronoun,
the objective case of thou1 :
- Leos
-
noun,
Astronomy. the Lion, a zodiacal constellation between Virgo and Cancer, containing the bright star Regulus.
- hurl
-
noun,
a forcible or violent throw; fling.
- tope
-
noun,
a small shark, Galeorhinus galeus, inhabiting waters along the European coast.
- spit
-
noun,
saliva, especially when ejected.
- Hiss
-
noun,
a hissing sound, especially one made in disapproval.
- HRIP
-
- less
-
noun,
a smaller amount or quantity:
- LEST
-
conjunction,
for fear that; so that (one) should not (used negatively to introduce a clause expressive of an action or occurrence requiring caution):
- etui
-
noun,
a small, often decorative case, especially one for needles, toilet articles, or the like.
- Leto
-
noun,
the mother by Zeus of Apollo and Artemis, called Latona by the Romans.
- est.
-
- silo
-
noun,
a structure, typically cylindrical, in which fodder or forage is kept.
- Tour
-
noun,
a traveling around from place to place.
- pil-
-
- Elis
-
noun,
an ancient country in W Greece, in the Peloponnesus: site of the ancient Olympic Games.
- roil
-
verb (used with object),
to render (water, wine, etc.) turbid by stirring up sediment.
- ulto
-
- rite
-
noun,
a formal or ceremonial act or procedure prescribed or customary in religious or other solemn use:
- rit.
-
- Pier
-
noun,
a structure built on posts extending from land out over water, used as a landing place for ships, an entertainment area, a strolling place, etc.; jetty.
- Rise
-
noun,
an act or instance of rising.
- RIPS
-
noun,
a rent made by ripping; tear.
- pies
-
noun,
plural of pi2 .
- Piet
-
noun,
Scot. a magpie.
- RIPE
-
adjective,
having arrived at such a stage of growth or development as to be ready for reaping, gathering, eating, or use, as grain or fruit; completely matured.
- riot
-
noun,
a noisy, violent public disorder caused by a group or crowd of persons, as by a crowd protesting against another group, a government policy, etc., in the streets.
- rope
-
noun,
a strong, thick line or cord, commonly one composed of twisted or braided strands of hemp, flax, or the like, or of wire or other material.
- pile
-
noun,
an assemblage of things laid or lying one upon the other:
- rile
-
verb (used with object),
to irritate or vex.
- Riel
-
noun,
a paper money and monetary unit of Cambodia, equal to 100 sen.
- rhos
-
noun,
the 17th letter of the Greek alphabet (P, ρ).
- Rhee
-
noun,
Syngman [sing-muh n] /ˈsɪŋ mən/ (Show IPA), 1875–1965, president of South Korea 1948–60.
- Reus
-
noun,
a city in Catalonia, NE Spain, on the Mediterranean Sea.
- 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.
- rete
-
noun,
a pierced plate on an astrolabe, having projections whose points correspond to the fixed stars.
- elhi
-
adjective,
elementary and high-school:
- Pire
-
noun,
Dominique Georges Henri [French daw-mee-neek zhawrzh ahn-ree] /French dɔ miˈnik ʒɔrʒ ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1910–69, Belgian priest: Nobel Peace Prize 1958.
- Piro
-
noun,
piroplasmosis.
- rest
-
noun,
the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep:
- role
-
noun,
a part or character played by an actor or actress.
- phr.
-
- Pish
-
noun,
an exclamation of “pish!”.
- rout
-
noun,
a defeat attended with disorderly flight; dispersal of a defeated force in complete disorder:
- Ruse
-
noun,
a trick, stratagem, or artifice.
- Rus.
-
- Pest
-
noun,
an annoying or troublesome person, animal, or thing; nuisance.
- rule
-
noun,
a principle or regulation governing conduct, action, procedure, arrangement, etc.:
- rues
-
noun,
sorrow; repentance; regret.
- Tupi
-
noun,
a member of any of several related Indian peoples living in the valleys of various Brazilian rivers, especially the Amazon.
- tups
-
noun,
Chiefly British. a male sheep; ram.
- Else
-
Idioms,
or else, or suffer the consequences:
- Tush
-
noun,
an exclamation of “tush!”.
- rpt.
-
- Pet.
-
- peto
-
noun,
wahoo3 .
- pets
-
noun,
any domesticated or tamed animal that is kept as a companion and cared for affectionately.
- ROSE
-
noun,
any of the wild or cultivated, usually prickly-stemmed, pinnate-leaved, showy-flowered shrubs of the genus Rosa.
Compare rose family.
- Peul
-
noun,
Fulani.
- ROUS
-
noun,
(Francis) Peyton, 1879–1970, U.S. pathologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1966.
- roup
-
noun,
any catarrhal inflammation of the eyes and nasal passages of poultry.
- roue
-
noun,
a dissolute and licentious man; rake.
- ROTS
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- ROTL
-
noun,
a unit of weight used in Islamic countries, varying widely in value, but of the order of the pound.
- Roti
-
noun,
roast.
- Roth
-
noun,
Phillip, born 1933, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- phis
-
noun,
the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet (Φ, φ).
- rote
-
noun,
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure:
- Uele
-
noun,
a river in central Africa flowing W from the NE Democratic Republic of the Congo to the Ubangi River. 700 miles (1125 km) long.
- Ross
-
noun,
the rough exterior of bark.
- pise
-
noun,
rammed earth.
- piss
-
noun,
urine.
- peso
-
noun,
a coin and monetary unit of Chile, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Guinea-Bissau, Mexico, and the Philippines, equal to 100 centavos.
- pule
-
verb (used without object),
to cry in a thin voice; whine; whimper.
- pos.
-
- pose
-
noun,
a bodily attitude or posture:
- USPS
-
- posh
-
adjective,
sumptuously furnished or appointed; luxurious:
- purs
-
- purl
-
noun,
a basic stitch in knitting, the reverse of the knit, formed by pulling a loop of the working yarn back through an existing stitch and then slipping that stitch off the needle.
Compare knit (def 11).
- Puri
-
noun,
poori.
- pure
-
adjective,
free from anything of a different, inferior, or contaminating kind; free from extraneous matter:
- pot.
-
- puls
-
noun,
a coin and monetary unit of Afghanistan, the 100th part of an afghani.
- puli
-
noun,
one of a Hungarian breed of medium-sized sheepdogs having long, fine hair that often mats, giving the coat a corded appearance.
- pour
-
noun,
the act of pouring.
- puir
-
adjective,
poor.
- USPO
-
- USSR
-
noun,
a former federal union of 15 constituent republics, in E Europe and W and N Asia, comprising the larger part of the former Russian Empire: dissolved in December 1991. 8,650,069 sq. mi. (22,402,200 sq. km). Capital: Moscow.
Abbreviation: U.S.S.R., USSR.
- pts.
-
- pout
-
noun,
the act of pouting; a protrusion of the lips.
- pre-
-
- psst
-
interjection,
(used to attract someone's attention in an unobtrusive manner.)
- Utes
-
noun,
Informal. a utility vehicle.
- psis
-
noun,
the 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet (Ψ, ψ).
- Prut
-
noun,
a river in E Europe, flowing SE from the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine along the boundary between Moldavia (Moldova) and Romania into the Danube. 500 miles (800 km) long.
- pree
-
noun,
a test, trial, or taste; a test by sampling.
- prs.
-
- prie
-
noun,
a test, trial, or taste; a test by sampling.
- pro-
-
- Puss
-
noun,
a cat.
- puts
-
noun,
a throw or cast, especially one made with a forward motion of the hand when raised close to the shoulder.
- Eire
-
noun,
the Irish name of Ireland.
- repl
-
- pith
-
noun,
Botany. the soft, spongy central cylinder of parenchymatous tissue in the stems of dicotyledonous plants.
- uret
-
- plie
-
noun,
a movement in which the knees are bent while the back is held straight.
- resh
-
noun,
the 20th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- plot
-
noun,
a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose:
- Uris
-
noun,
a canton in central Switzerland. 415 sq. mi. (1075 sq. km). Capital: Altdorf.
- PLSS
-
- uro-
-
- reps
-
noun,
a transversely corded fabric of wool, silk, rayon, or cotton.
- plus
-
noun,
a plus quantity.
- poil
-
noun,
a yarn or thread made from silk, used for ribbon, velvet, and as the core of gold, silver, and tinsel yarn.
- repo
-
noun,
a repurchase agreement.
- Pol.
-
- USIS
-
- pole
-
noun,
a long, cylindrical, often slender piece of wood, metal, etc.:
- Rep.
-
- rel.
-
- reit
-
noun,
real-estate investment trust.
- pols
-
noun,
a politician, especially one experienced in making political deals, exchanging political favors, etc.
- Reis
-
plural noun,
a former money of account of Portugal and Brazil.
- pore
-
noun,
a minute opening or orifice, as in the skin or a leaf, for perspiration, absorption, etc.
- Pori
-
noun,
a seaport in W Finland, on the Gulf of Bothnia.
- Rees
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- Reel
-
noun,
a cylinder, frame, or other device that turns on an axis and is used to wind up or pay out something.
- user
-
noun,
a person or thing that uses.
- USES
-
noun,
the act of employing, using, or putting into service:
- Rush
-
noun,
the act of rushing; a rapid, impetuous, or violent onward movement.
- PetE
-
noun,
Billy, 1899–1966, U.S. theatrical producer.
- Peru
-
noun,
Spanish Perú [pe-roo] /pɛˈru/ (Show IPA). a republic in W South America. 496,222 sq. mi. (1,285,215 sq. km). Capital: Lima.
- Eris
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of discord and the sister of Ares: identified with the Roman goddess Discordia.
- shr.
-
- erst
-
adverb,
before the present time; formerly.
- Erse
-
noun,
Gaelic, especially Scottish Gaelic.
- orts
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- shot
-
noun,
a discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.
- Osee
-
noun,
Hosea.
- osis
-
- shop
-
noun,
a retail store, especially a small one.
- Trip
-
noun,
a journey or voyage:
- shoe
-
noun,
an external covering for the human foot, usually of leather and consisting of a more or less stiff or heavy sole and a lighter upper part ending a short distance above, at, or below the ankle.
- Eros
-
noun,
the ancient Greek god of love, identified by the Romans with Cupid.
- shit
-
noun,
excrement; feces.
- shut
-
noun,
the act or time of shutting or closing.
- Otis
-
noun,
Elisha Graves, 1811–61, U.S. inventor.
- 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).
- ours
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- Ouse
-
noun,
Also called Great Ouse. a river in E England, flowing NE to the Wash. 160 miles (260 km) long.
- oust
-
verb (used with object),
to expel or remove from a place or position occupied:
- out-
-
- outs
-
noun,
a means of escape or excuse, as from a place, punishment, retribution, responsibility, etc.:
- EPOS
-
noun,
an epic.
- epit
-
- shee
-
noun,
sídh.
- epi-
-
- Eph.
-
- shul
-
noun,
a synagogue.
- orle
-
noun,
Heraldry.
a charge in the form of a narrow band following the form of the escutcheon within the edge, so that the extreme outer edge of the escutcheon is of the field tincture.
an arrangement in orle of small charges:
- Sert
-
noun,
José María [haw-se mah-ree-ah] /hɔˈsɛ mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1876–1945, Spanish painter.
- site
-
noun,
the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment:
- esp.
-
- oils
-
noun,
any of a large class of substances typically unctuous, viscous, combustible, liquid at ordinary temperatures, and soluble in ether or alcohol but not in water: used for anointing, perfuming, lubricating, illuminating, heating, etc.
- ESOP
-
noun,
a plan under which a company's capital stock is acquired by its employees or workers.
- Oise
-
noun,
a river in W Europe, flowing SW from S Belgium through N France to the Seine, near Paris. 186 miles (300 km) long.
- eso-
-
- ole-
-
- situ
-
noun,
in situ.
- sits
-
verb,
(in prescriptions) may it be.
- oles
-
noun,
a cry of “olé.”.
- sith
-
adverb, conjunction, preposition,
since.
- Olpe
-
noun,
a form of the oinochoe.
- OPer
-
- Trio
-
noun,
a musical composition for three voices or instruments.
- sirs
-
noun,
a respectful or formal term of address used to a man:
- opes
-
adjective, verb (used with or without object),
open.
- 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.
- sire
-
noun,
the male parent of a quadruped.
- ESIS
-
- SIPS
-
noun,
an instance of sipping; a small taste of a liquid:
- sipe
-
verb (used without object),
(of liquid) to drip, ooze, or soak through.
- tri-
-
- opts
-
Verb phrases,
opt out, to decide to leave or withdraw:
- opus
-
noun,
a musical composition.
- silt
-
noun,
earthy matter, fine sand, or the like carried by moving or running water and deposited as a sediment.
- Orel
-
noun,
a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, on the left bank of the Oka River, S of Moscow.
- Seth
-
noun,
the third son of Adam. Gen. 4:25.
- ship
-
noun,
a vessel, especially a large oceangoing one propelled by sails or engines.
- sers
-
noun,
a unit of weight in India, varying in value but usually 1/40 of a maund: the government ser is divided into 80 tolas of 180 English grains and equals nearly 2 pounds 1 ounce avoirdupois (950 grams).
- Seel
-
verb (used with object),
Falconry. to sew shut (the eyes of a falcon) during parts of its training.
- sels
-
noun, adjective, pronoun,
self.
- pelt
-
noun,
the act of pelting.
- seis
-
noun,
sei whale.
- per.
-
- seer
-
noun,
a person who sees; observer.
- pere
-
noun,
father.
- seep
-
noun,
moisture that seeps out; seepage.
- Tues
-
- Pele
-
noun,
peel3 .
- tuis
-
noun,
a black New Zealand honey eater, Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae, having a patch of white feathers on each side of the throat, sometimes tamed as a pet.
- tule
-
noun,
either of two large bulrushes, Scirpus lacustris or S. acutus, found in California and adjacent regions in inundated lands and marshes.
- perh
-
- Ruth
-
noun,
pity or compassion.
- eous
-
- PERL
-
- Pers
-
- Rust
-
noun,
Also called iron rust. the red or orange coating that forms on the surface of iron when exposed to air and moisture, consisting chiefly of ferric hydroxide and ferric oxide formed by oxidation.
- seps
-
noun,
Simplified Employee Pension: a tax-deferred pension plan for companies with 25 or fewer employees or for self-employed persons, in which an IRA is funded by employer and employee contributions.
- sees
-
noun,
the seat, center of authority, office, or jurisdiction of a bishop.
- pehs
-
noun,
pe.
- Tshi
-
noun,
Twi.
- Peel
-
noun,
the skin or rind of a fruit, vegetable, etc.
- Peer
-
noun,
a person of the same legal status:
- Seri
-
noun,
a member of an American Indian people of western Sonora state, Mexico, on the Gulf of California.
- pees
-
noun,
the letter p.
- Sere
-
noun,
the series of stages in an ecological succession.
- Holt
-
noun,
a wood or grove.
- het
-
noun,
a heterosexual person.
- ESU
-
- Tpr
-
- tr.
-
- UPI
-
- tue
-
- els
-
noun,
Informal. elevated railroad.
- toe
-
noun,
one of the terminal digits of the human foot.
- tlr
-
- tui
-
noun,
a black New Zealand honey eater, Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae, having a patch of white feathers on each side of the throat, sometimes tamed as a pet.
- tlo
-
- Tiu
-
noun,
an English god of the sky and of war, the equivalent of Tyr in Scandinavian mythology.
- TRH
-
- Tu.
-
- ess
-
noun,
the letter S, s.
- eo-
-
- USP
-
- TPI
-
- up-
-
- USO
-
- Tro
-
- ESR
-
- TSE
-
- TSH
-
- EOS
-
noun,
the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn, identified by the Romans with Aurora.
- trp
-
- uti
-
- ESL
-
- USR
-
- tph
-
- UTE
-
noun,
Informal. a utility vehicle.
- Hel
-
noun,
the goddess ruling Niflheim: a daughter of Loki and Angerboda.
- eu-
-
- tup
-
noun,
Chiefly British. a male sheep; ram.
- EOE
-
- eir
-
- TES
-
noun,
ti1 .
- Ep.
-
- EIS
-
- ERP
-
- UPS
-
noun,
an upward movement; ascent.
- urs
-
noun,
an ancient Sumerian city on the Euphrates, in S Iraq: extensive excavations, especially of royal tombs.
- EEO
-
- 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.
- ure
-
- UIT
-
- Tor
-
noun,
a rocky pinnacle; a peak of a bare or rocky mountain or hill.
- HIS
-
noun,
any male person or animal; a man:
- hip
-
noun,
the projecting part of each side of the body formed by the side of the pelvis and the upper part of the femur and the flesh covering them; haunch.
- ule
-
noun,
caucho.
- Ehr
-
- Uri
-
noun,
a canton in central Switzerland. 415 sq. mi. (1075 sq. km). Capital: Altdorf.
- TSP
-
- hie
-
verb (used with object),
to hasten (oneself):
- TSI
-
- ERS
-
noun,
ervil.
- TSS
-
- EEL
-
noun,
any of numerous elongated, snakelike marine or freshwater fishes of the order Apodes, having no ventral fins.
- USE
-
noun,
the act of employing, using, or putting into service:
- EPS
-
- ese
-
- ERE
-
preposition, conjunction,
before.
- ETR
-
- hr.
-
- Eli
-
noun,
a Hebrew judge and priest. I Sam. 1–4.
- USS
-
- th-
-
- ETO
-
- EPT
-
- ERT
-
- ur-
-
- ult
-
- HEP
-
adjective,
hip4 .
- Hoe
-
noun,
a long-handled implement having a thin, flat blade usually set transversely, used to break up the surface of the ground, destroy weeds, etc.
- hit
-
noun,
an impact or collision, as of one thing against another.
- ETS
-
- uts
-
noun,
the syllable once generally used for the first tone or keynote of a scale and sometimes for the tone C: now commonly superseded by do.
- hop
-
noun,
an act of hopping; short leap.
- Pr.
-
- OSP
-
- OSS
-
- sho
-
- ot-
-
- ote
-
- OTS
-
- oui
-
adverb, noun,
yes.
- our
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- PEI
-
noun,
I(eoh) M(ing) [yoh ming] /yoʊ mɪŋ/ (Show IPA), born 1917, U.S. architect, born in China.
- she
-
noun,
a female person or animal.
- Ps.
-
- ORT
-
noun,
Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
- pt.
-
- PTO
-
- SES
-
noun,
the syllable used for the seventh tone of a scale and sometimes for the tone B.
- pee
-
noun,
the letter p.
- 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).
- Peh
-
noun,
pe.
- Sep
-
noun,
Simplified Employee Pension: a tax-deferred pension plan for companies with 25 or fewer employees or for self-employed persons, in which an IRA is funded by employer and employee contributions.
- SEL
-
noun, adjective, pronoun,
self.
- SEI
-
noun,
sei whale.
- See
-
noun,
the seat, center of authority, office, or jurisdiction of a bishop.
- ose
-
- shp
-
- SRO
-
- OIr
-
- LSS
-
- LST
-
- LTh
-
- ltr
-
- SLR
-
- SLP
-
- Luo
-
noun,
a member of a people living mainly in southwest Kenya.
- op.
-
- OES
-
noun,
the fifteenth letter of the English alphabet, a vowel.
- Teh
-
noun,
Te.
- OIt
-
- sht
-
- SLE
-
- SIT
-
verb,
(in prescriptions) may it be.
- sis
-
noun,
sister.
- ope
-
adjective, verb (used with or without object),
open.
- OPS
-
noun,
the ancient Roman goddess of plenty, and the wife of Saturn and mother of Jupiter: identified with the Greek goddess Rhea.
- SIR
-
noun,
a respectful or formal term of address used to a man:
- opt
-
Verb phrases,
opt out, to decide to leave or withdraw:
- SIP
-
noun,
an instance of sipping; a small taste of a liquid:
- Ore
-
noun,
a metal-bearing mineral or rock, or a native metal, that can be mined at a profit.
- Shu
-
noun,
the Confucian principle of refraining from actions toward others that would be disagreeable if done to oneself.
- se-
-
- Sp.
-
- LPS
-
plural,
a phonograph record played at 33 1/3 r.p.m.; long-playing record.
- POR
-
- piu
-
adverb,
more:
- pl.
-
- PL1
-
noun,
Computers. a high-level programming language that is designed for solving problems in science and engineering as well as in business data processing.
- pli
-
- res
-
noun,
an object or thing; matter.
- PLO
-
- PLR
-
- plu
-
noun,
plew.
- POE
-
noun,
Edgar Allan, 1809–49, U.S. poet, short-story writer, and critic.
- poi
-
noun,
a Hawaiian dish made of the root of the taro baked, pounded, moistened, and fermented.
- Ree
-
noun,
reeve3 .
- pis
-
noun,
the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet (II, π).
- RPS
-
- RIP
-
noun,
a rent made by ripping; tear.
- Re.
-
- put
-
noun,
a throw or cast, especially one made with a forward motion of the hand when raised close to the shoulder.
- pus
-
noun,
a yellow-white, more or less viscid substance produced by suppuration and found in abscesses, sores, etc., consisting of a liquid plasma in which white blood cells are suspended.
- Pul
-
noun,
a coin and monetary unit of Afghanistan, the 100th part of an afghani.
- PST
-
interjection,
(used to attract someone's attention in an unobtrusive manner.)
- PSS
-
- PSI
-
noun,
the 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet (Ψ, ψ).
- PSE
-
- PIT
-
noun,
a naturally formed or excavated hole or cavity in the ground:
- pir
-
noun,
a term of respect for the head of a religious group, especially in Pakistan and various areas of the Middle and Near East.
- So.
-
- Phi
-
noun,
the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet (Φ, φ).
- rut
-
noun,
a furrow or track in the ground, especially one made by the passage of a vehicle or vehicles.
- pes
-
noun,
a foot or footlike part.
- Rue
-
noun,
sorrow; repentance; regret.
- RTS
-
- rte
-
- rt.
-
- RSS
-
- RSE
-
- Rs.
-
- RPO
-
- ROT
-
noun,
the process of rotting.
- 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.
- PhL
-
- pho
-
noun,
a N Vietnamese soup made of beef or chicken stock with rice noodles and thin slices of beef or chicken.
- ROP
-
- PHS
-
- ROI
-
- ROE
-
noun,
the mass of eggs, or spawn, within the ovarian membrane of the female fish.
- pie
-
noun,
a baked food having a filling of fruit, meat, pudding, etc., prepared in a pastry-lined pan or dish and often topped with a pastry crust:
- rho
-
noun,
the 17th letter of the Greek alphabet (P, ρ).
- rhe
-
noun,
a centimeter-gram-second unit of fluidity, equal to the reciprocal of poise.
- PIO
-
- LSI
-
- oil
-
noun,
any of a large class of substances typically unctuous, viscous, combustible, liquid at ordinary temperatures, and soluble in ether or alcohol but not in water: used for anointing, perfuming, lubricating, illuminating, heating, etc.
- SOP
-
noun,
a piece of solid food, as bread, for dipping in liquid food.
- SSI
-
- Hus
-
noun,
Jan [jan;; Czech yahn] /dʒæn;; Czech yɑn/ (Show IPA), Huss, John.
- Hue
-
noun,
a gradation or variety of a color; tint:
- ise
-
- ish
-
- Isl
-
- St.
-
- SST
-
- Hts
-
- SSR
-
- SSE
-
- IRS
-
- ss.
-
- SRS
-
- SRI
-
noun,
a Hindu title of address prefixed to the name of a deity, holy person, etc.
- Sr.
-
- ISR
-
- ist
-
- spt
-
- ht.
-
- HST
-
- Is.
-
noun,
(used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- IRO
-
- il-
-
- IOU
-
- IHS
-
- STL
-
- ILP
-
- ILS
-
- ior
-
- Ios
-
noun,
a small hawk, Buteo solitarius, having two plumage phases and occurring only on the island of Hawaii, where it is a rare species and the only living indigenous bird of prey.
- IHP
-
- IOT
-
- ier
-
- io-
-
- STP
-
- ITU
-
- HUT
-
noun,
a small or humble dwelling of simple construction, especially one made of natural materials, as of logs or grass.
- iph
-
- IPO
-
- ipr
-
- STI
-
- IPS
-
- Ir.
-
- IRL
-
- SPS
-
- ILO
-
- lep
-
- Lt.
-
- Lie
-
noun,
a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood. Synonyms: prevarication, falsification.
Antonyms: truth.
- lis
-
noun,
the solmization syllable used for the semitone between the sixth and seventh degrees of a scale.
- leu
-
noun,
a coin and monetary unit of Romania, equal to 100 bani. Abbreviation: L.
- let
-
noun,
British. a lease.
- Les
-
- Ler
-
noun,
the personification of the sea and the father of Manannan: corresponds to the Welsh Llyr.
- LOE
-
noun, verb (used with or without object),
love.
- LEO
-
noun,
Astronomy. the Lion, a zodiacal constellation between Virgo and Cancer, containing the bright star Regulus.
- lei
-
noun,
(in the Hawaiian Islands) a wreath of flowers, leaves, etc., for the neck or head.
- Lee
-
noun,
protective shelter:
- LOP
-
noun,
parts or a part lopped off.
- Sou
-
noun,
(formerly) either of two bronze coins of France, equal to 5 centimes and 10 centimes.
- Sus
-
- hot
-
noun,
the hots, Slang. intense sexual desire or attraction.
- Sup
-
noun,
a mouthful or small portion of drink or liquid food; sip.
- tee
-
noun,
the letter T or t.
- Stu
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Stewart or Stuart.
- hrs
-
- ite
-
- HRE
-
- ITO
-
noun,
Prince Hirobumi [hee-raw-boo-mee] /ˈhi rɔˈbu mi/ (Show IPA), 1841–1909, Japanese statesman.
- Sue
-
noun,
Eugène [œ-zhen] /œˈʒɛn/ (Show IPA), (Marie Joseph Sue) 1804–57, French novelist.
- Lou
-
noun,
a male given name, form of Louis.
- IUS
-
- Lot
-
noun,
one of a set of objects, as straws or pebbles, drawn or thrown from a container to decide a question or choice by chance.
- SOS
-
noun,
any call for help:
- Sui
-
noun,
a dynasty ruling in China a.d. 589–618.
- sot
-
noun,
a drunkard.
- SPR
-
- Lir
-
noun,
Ler.
- E.
-
noun,
Edward (St. John) 1925–2000, U.S. writer and illustrator.
- TE
-
noun,
ti1 .
- el
-
noun,
Informal. elevated railroad.
- eh
-
interjection,
(an interrogative utterance, usually expressing surprise or doubt or seeking confirmation).
- T1
-
- i.
-
- ee
-
- t.
-
- UT
-
noun,
the syllable once generally used for the first tone or keynote of a scale and sometimes for the tone C: now commonly superseded by do.
- HO
-
noun,
a sexually promiscuous woman.
- PU
-
- EI
-
- R.
-
- RH
-
- RI
-
- er
-
interjection,
(used to express or represent a pause, hesitation, uncertainty, etc.).
- SU
-
- HL
-
- SL
-
- RO
-
- L2
-
- L.
-
- TL
-
- LH
-
- LI
-
noun,
the solmization syllable used for the semitone between the sixth and seventh degrees of a scale.
- LP
-
plural,
a phonograph record played at 33 1/3 r.p.m.; long-playing record.
- SI
-
noun,
the syllable used for the seventh tone of a scale and sometimes for the tone B.
- L1
-
- le
-
- HI
-
adjective,
an informal, simplified spelling of high:
- ol
-
- TP
-
- OH
-
noun,
the exclamation “oh.”.
- OE
-
noun,
oy2 .
- O.
-
- LU
-
noun,
a male or female given name, form of Lou.
- et
-
verb,
a simple past tense of eat.
- h.
-
- HP
-
- UL
-
- S.
-
- UI
-
- UH
-
interjection,
(used to indicate hesitation, doubt, or a pause).
- IP
-
- U.
-
- PH
-
- RP
-
- RU
-
- LR
-
- OU
-
noun,
a rare Hawaiian honeycreeper, Psittirostra psittacea, having an olive-green body, a parrotlike bill, and in the male a bright yellow head.
- TI
-
noun,
the syllable for the seventh tone of a diatonic scale.
- PO
-
noun,
a chamber pot.
- sh
-
interjection,
(used to urge silence.)
- PI
-
noun,
the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet (II, π).
- HE
-
noun,
any male person or animal; a man:
- PE
-
noun,
the 17th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- P.
-
noun,
Paul (Johann von) [poul yoh-hahn fuh n] /paʊl ˈyoʊ hɑn fən/ (Show IPA), 1830–1914, German playwright, novelist, poet, and short-story writer: Nobel Prize 1910.
- IT
-
noun,
(in children's games) the player called upon to perform some task, as, in tag, the one who must catch the other players.
- LO
-
adjective,
an informal, simplified spelling of low1 , used especially in labeling or advertising commercial products: