List Words
Perfumed
of Perfume
Perpetually
In a perpetual manner; constantly; continually.
Corvette
A war vessel, ranking next below a frigate, and having usually only one tier of guns; -- called in the United States navy a sloop of war.
Immovably
In an immovable manner.
Primly
In a prim or precise manner.
Epithalamium
A nuptial song, or poem in honor of the bride and bridegroom.
Odorate
Odorous.
Orle
A bearing, in the form of a fillet, round the shield, within, but at some distance from, the border.
Erminois
See Note under Ermine, n., 4.
Rotting
of Rot
Tenne
A tincture, rarely employed, which is considered as an orange color or bright brown. It is represented by diagonal lines from sinister to dexter, crossed by vertical lines.
Turnover
The act or result of turning over; an upset; as, a bad turnover in a carriage.
Griffin
An Anglo-Indian name for a person just arrived from Europe.
Celebrated
of Celebrate
Meritorious
Possessing merit; deserving of reward or honor; worthy of recompense; valuable.
Fossilize
To convert into a fossil; to petrify; as, to fossilize bones or wood.
Putrefy
To render putrid; to cause to decay offensively; to cause to be decomposed; to cause to rot.
Somerset
A leap in which a person turns his heels over his head and lights upon his feet; a turning end over end.
Essenced
of Essence
Principled
of Principle
Redolent
Diffusing odor or fragrance; spreading sweet scent; scented; odorous; smelling; -- usually followed by of.
Yeomanly
Pertaining to a yeoman; becoming or suitable to, a yeoman; yeomanlike.
Reverend
Worthy of reverence; entitled to respect mingled with fear and affection; venerable.
Ethical
Of, or belonging to, morals; treating of the moral feelings or duties; containing percepts of morality; moral; as, ethic discourses or epistles; an ethical system; ethical philosophy.
Epopee
Alt. of Epopoeia
Unprejudiced
Not prejudiced; free from undue bias or prepossession; not preoccupied by opinion; impartial; as, an unprejudiced mind; an unprejudiced judge.
Venerated
of Venerate
Heliotrope
An instrument or machine for showing when the sun arrived at the tropics and equinoctial line.
Triolet
A short poem or stanza of eight lines, in which the first line is repeated as the fourth and again as the seventh line, the second being, repeated as the eighth.
Steepness
Quality or state of being steep; precipitous declivity; as, the steepnessof a hill or a roof.
Budge
To move off; to stir; to walk away.
Acclivity
A slope or inclination of the earth, as the side of a hill, considered as ascending, in opposition to declivity, or descending; an upward slope; ascent.
Squarely
In a square form or manner.
Empyrean
The highest heaven, where the pure element of fire was supposed by the ancients to subsist.
Statically
In a statical manner.
Implacably
In an implacable manner.
Pungy
A small sloop or shallop, or a large boat with sails.
Lateen
Of or pertaining to a peculiar rig used in the Mediterranean and adjacent waters, esp. on the northern coast of Africa. See below.
Sloop
A vessel having one mast and fore-and-aft rig, consisting of a boom-and-gaff mainsail, jibs, staysail, and gaff topsail. The typical sloop has a fixed bowsprit, topmast, and standing rigging, wh..
Frigate
Originally, a vessel of the Mediterranean propelled by sails and by oars. The French, about 1650, transferred the name to larger vessels, and by 1750 it had been appropriated for a class of war ..
Galiot
A small galley, formerly used in the Mediterranean, built mainly for speed. It was moved both by sails and oars, having one mast, and sixteen or twenty seats for rowers.
Embargo
An edict or order of the government prohibiting the departure of ships of commerce from some or all of the ports within its dominions; a prohibition to sail.
Skipjack
An upstart.
Galleon
A sailing vessel of the 15th and following centuries, often having three or four decks, and used for war or commerce. The term is often rather indiscriminately applied to any large sailing ve..
Corsair
A pirate; one who cruises about without authorization from any government, to seize booty on sea or land.
Sandbagger
An assaulter whose weapon is a sand bag. See Sand bag, under Sand.
Dhow
A coasting vessel of Arabia, East Africa, and the Indian Ocean. It has generally but one mast and a lateen sail.
Rigger
One who rigs or dresses; one whose occupation is to fit the rigging of a ship.
Ambergris
A substance of the consistence of wax, found floating in the Indian Ocean and other parts of the tropics, and also as a morbid secretion in the intestines of the sperm whale (Physeter macroce..
Abuna
The Patriarch, or head of the Abyssinian Church.
