List Words
Objecting
of Object
Reptilian
Belonging to the reptiles.
Zenith
That point in the visible celestial hemisphere which is vertical to the spectator; the point of the heavens directly overhead; -- opposed to nadir.
Ketch
An almost obsolete form of vessel, with a mainmast and a mizzenmast, -- usually from one hundred to two hundred and fifty tons burden.
Peculate
To appropriate to one's own use the property of the public; to steal public moneys intrusted to one's care; to embezzle.
Obstructive
Tending to obstruct; presenting obstacles; hindering; causing impediment.
Foul-spoken
Using profane, scurrilous, slanderous, or obscene language.
Unjust
Acting contrary to the standard of right; not animated or controlled by justice; false; dishonest; as, an unjust man or judge.
Outrigger
Any spar or projecting timber run out for temporary use, as from a ship's mast, to hold a rope or a sail extended, or from a building, to support hoisting teckle.
Grime
Foul matter; dirt, rubbed in; sullying blackness, deeply ingrained.
Feculent
Foul with extraneous or impure substances; abounding with sediment or excrementitious matter; muddy; thick; turbid.
Morbific
Alt. of Morbifical
Snowy
White like snow.
Wonderland
A land full of wonders, or marvels.
Lamentation
The act of bewailing; audible expression of sorrow; wailing; moaning.
Symbology
The art of expressing by symbols.
Galleass
A large galley, having some features of the galleon, as broadside guns; esp., such a vessel used by the southern nations of Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. See Galleon, and Galley.
Olfactive
See Olfactory, a.
End-all
Complete termination.
Ravishment
The act of carrying away by force or against consent; abduction; as, the ravishment of children from their parents, of a ward from his guardian, or of a wife from her husband.
Disparaging
of Disparage
Overrated
of Overrate
Consecrated
of Consecrate
Desquamate
To peel off in the form of scales; to scale off, as the skin in certain diseases.
Lid
That which covers the opening of a vessel or box, etc.; a movable cover; as, the lid of a chest or trunk.
Stratify
To form or deposit in strata, or layers, as substances in the earth; to arrange in strata.
Laemodipoda
A division of amphipod Crustacea, in which the abdomen is small or rudimentary and the legs are often reduced to five pairs. The whale louse, or Cyamus, and Caprella are examples.
Lorcha
A kind of light vessel used on the coast of China, having the hull built on a European model, and the rigging like that of a Chinese junk.
Odoriferous
Bearing or yielding an odor; perfumed; usually, sweet of scent; fragrant; as, odoriferous spices, particles, fumes, breezes.
Unbiased
Free from bias or prejudice; unprejudiced; impartial.
Fawn-colored
Of the color of a fawn; light yellowish brown.
Pendulous
Depending; pendent loosely; hanging; swinging.
Strictly
In a strict manner; closely; precisely.
Valediction
A farewell; a bidding farewell.
Buy
To acquire the ownership of (property) by giving an accepted price or consideration therefor, or by agreeing to do so; to acquire by the payment of a price or value; to purchase; -- opposed to ..
Felicitation
The act of felicitating; a wishing of joy or happiness; congratulation.
Obedience
The act of obeying, or the state of being obedient; compliance with that which is required by authority; subjection to rightful restraint or control.
Assentation
Insincere, flattering, or obsequious assent; hypocritical or pretended concurrence.
Skeletal
Pertaining to the skeleton.
Koran
The Scriptures of the Mohammedans, containing the professed revelations to Mohammed; -- called also Alcoran.
Spindleshanks
A person with slender shanks, or legs; -- used humorously or in contempt.
Spleeny
Irritable; peevish; fretful.
Resignation
The act of resigning or giving up, as a claim, possession, office, or the like; surrender; as, the resignation of a crown or comission.
Passiveness
The quality or state of being passive; unresisting submission.
Inflexibly
In an inflexible manner.
Lurching
of Lurch
Stilt
A pole, or piece of wood, constructed with a step or loop to raise the foot above the ground in walking. It is sometimes lashed to the leg, and sometimes prolonged upward so as to be steadied by..
Corpse
A human body in general, whether living or dead; -- sometimes contemptuously.
Consentaneity
Mutual agreement.
Rhyme
An expression of thought in numbers, measure, or verse; a composition in verse; a rhymed tale; poetry; harmony of language.
Random Quote
"Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. 'Are you feeling all right?' I asked her. 'I feel all sleepy,' she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was...in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunised against measles. ...I dedicated two of my books to Olivia, the first was ‘James and the Giant Peach’. That was when she was still alive. The second was ‘The BFG’, dedicated to her memory after she had died from measles. You will see her name at the beginning of each of these books. And I know how happy she would be if only she could know that her death had helped to save a good deal of illness and death among other children."
I just checked google books for BFG, and the dedication is there.
https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/_/quybcXrFhCIC?hl=en&gbpv=1
Roald Dahl, 1986
