List Words
Tonicity
The state of healthy tension or partial contraction of muscle fibers while at rest; tone; tonus.
Contrecoup
A concussion or shock produced by a blow or other injury, in a part or region opposite to that at which the blow is received, often causing rupture or disorganisation of the parts affected.
Breeziness
State of being breezy.
Jauntiness
The quality of being jaunty.
Operose
Wrought with labor; requiring labor; hence, tedious; wearisome.
Gordian
Pertaining to Gordius, king of Phrygia, or to a knot tied by him; hence, intricate; complicated; inextricable.
Mystifying
of Mystify
Imprison
To put in prison or jail; To arrest and detain in custody; to confine.
Adduce
To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege.
Eleatic
Of or pertaining to a certain school of Greek philosophers who taught that the only certain science is that which owes nothing to the senses, and all to the reason.
Sane
Being in a healthy condition; not deranged; acting rationally; -- said of the mind.
Worldly
Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions.
Dashboard
A board placed on the fore part of a carriage, sleigh, or other vehicle, to intercept water, mud, or snow, thrown up by the heels of the horses; -- in England commonly called splashboard.
Safety
The condition or state of being safe; freedom from danger or hazard; exemption from hurt, injury, or loss.
Stupor
Great diminution or suspension of sensibility; suppression of sense or feeling; lethargy.
Vellication
The act of twitching, or of causing to twitch.
Operable
Practicable.
Lenify
To assuage; to soften; to mitigate; to alleviate.
Instrumentalist
One who plays upon an instrument of music, as distinguished from a vocalist.
Purify
To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air...
Courtyard
A court or inclosure attached to a house.
Personalize
To make personal.
Curtilage
A yard, courtyard, or piece of ground, included within the fence surrounding a dwelling house.
Distribute
To divide among several or many; to deal out; to apportion; to allot.
Hopple
To impede by a hopple; to tie the feet of (a horse or a cow) loosely together; to hamper; to hobble; as, to hopple an unruly or straying horse.
Deaden
To make as dead; to impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; to lessen the force or acuteness of; to blunt; as, to deaden the natural powers or feelings; to deaden a sound.
Interlock
To unite, embrace, communicate with, or flow into, one another; to be connected in one system; to lock into one another; to interlace firmly.
Encage
To confine in a cage; to coop up.
Conserve
To keep in a safe or sound state; to save; to preserve; to protect.
Palladium
Any statue of the goddess Pallas; esp., the famous statue on the preservation of which depended the safety of ancient Troy.
Dodger
One who dodges or evades; one who plays fast and loose, or uses tricky devices.
Abalienate
To transfer the title of from one to another; to alienate.
Ascribe
To attribute, impute, or refer, as to a cause; as, his death was ascribed to a poison; to ascribe an effect to the right cause; to ascribe such a book to such an author.
Fortress
A fortified place; a large and permanent fortification, sometimes including a town; a fort; a castle; a stronghold; a place of defense or security.
Diversify
To make diverse or various in form or quality; to give variety to; to variegate; to distinguish by numerous differences or aspects.
Stipulate
Furnished with stipules; as, a stipulate leaf.
Anatomize
To dissect; to cut in pieces, as an animal vegetable body, for the purpose of displaying or examining the structure and use of the several parts.
Farand
See Farrand, n.
Customhouse
The building where customs and duties are paid, and where vessels are entered or cleared.
Limberness
The quality or state of being limber; flexibleness.
Elance
To throw as a lance; to hurl; to dart.
Jolterhead
Alt. of Jolthead
Fathead
A cyprinoid fish of the Mississippi valley (Pimephales promelas); -- called also black-headed minnow.
Clodpoll
A stupid fellow; a dolt.
Muddlehead
A stupid person.
Dunderpate
See Dunderhead.
Thickhead
A thick-headed or stupid person.
Numskull
A dunce; a dolt; a stupid fellow.
Presignify
To intimate or signify beforehand; to presage.
Suspended
of Suspend
