List Words
Moonstone
A nearly pellucid variety of feldspar, showing pearly or opaline reflections from within. It is used as a gem. The best specimens come from Ceylon.
Emerald
A precious stone of a rich green color, a variety of beryl. See Beryl.
Chalcedony
A cryptocrystalline, translucent variety of quartz, having usually a whitish color, and a luster nearly like wax.
Meagerly
Alt. of Meagrely
Photomicrograph
An enlarged or macroscopic photograph of a microscopic object. See Microphotograph.
Aquamarine
A transparent, pale green variety of beryl, used as a gem. See Beryl.
Forcibly
In a forcible manner.
Seraglio
An inclosure; a place of separation.
Despond
To give up, the will, courage, or spirit; to be thoroughly disheartened; to lose all courage; to become dispirited or depressed; to take an unhopeful view.
Bordello
A brothel; a bawdyhouse; a house devoted to prostitution.
Bawdyhouse
A house of prostitution; a house of ill fame; a brothel.
Harem
The apartments or portion of the house allotted to females in Mohammedan families.
Tenderloin
A strip of tender flesh on either side of the vertebral column under the short ribs, in the hind quarter of beef and pork. It consists of the psoas muscles.
Dodder
A plant of the genus Cuscuta. It is a leafless parasitical vine with yellowish threadlike stems. It attaches itself to some other plant, as to flax, goldenrod, etc., and decaying at the root, is..
Reinvest
To invest again or anew.
Vanish
To pass from a visible to an invisible state; to go out of sight; to disappear; to fade; as, vapor vanishes from the sight by being dissipated; a ship vanishes from the sight of spectators on la..
Provost
A person who is appointed to superintend, or preside over, something; the chief magistrate in some cities and towns; as, the provost of Edinburgh or of Glasgow, answering to the mayor of other ..
Treasurer
One who has the care of a treasure or treasure or treasury; an officer who receives the public money arising from taxes and duties, or other sources of revenue, takes charge of the same, and ..
Perish
To be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away.
Doge
The chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa.
Prefect
A Roman officer who controlled or superintended a particular command, charge, department, etc.; as, the prefect of the aqueducts; the prefect of a camp, of a fleet, of the city guard, of prov..
Wend
To go; to pass; to betake one's self.
Brothel
A house of lewdness or ill fame; a house frequented by prostitutes; a bawdyhouse.
Scupper
An opening cut through the waterway and bulwarks of a ship, so that water falling on deck may flow overboard; -- called also scupper hole.
Somersault
Alt. of Somerset
Dishearten
To discourage; to deprive of courage and hope; to depress the spirits of; to deject.
Washpot
A pot or vessel in which anything is washed.
Capsize
To upset or overturn, as a vessel or other body.
Unoften
Not often.
Cherished
of Cherish
Ambrosia
The fabled food of the gods (as nectar was their drink), which conferred immortality upon those who partook of it.
Helpmeet
A wife; a helpmate.
Sympathizer
One who sympathizes.
Proximal
Toward or nearest, as to a body, or center of motion of dependence; proximate.
Squaw
A female; a woman; -- in the language of Indian tribes of the Algonquin family, correlative of sannup.
Helpmate
A helper; a companion; specifically, a wife.
Feme
A woman.
Confidante
One to whom secrets, especially those relating to affairs of love, are confided or intrusted; a confidential or bosom friend.
Manna
The food supplied to the Israelites in their journey through the wilderness of Arabia; hence, divinely supplied food.
Tubbed
of Tub
Heliochrome
A photograph in colors.
Sparsely
In a scattered or sparse manner.
Beryl
A mineral of great hardness, and, when transparent, of much beauty. It occurs in hexagonal prisms, commonly of a green or bluish green color, but also yellow, pink, and white. It is a silicate o..
Indulged
of Indulge
Cyanotype
A photographic picture obtained by the use of a cyanide.
Showery
Raining in showers; abounding with frequent showers of rain.
Ledger
A book in which a summary of accounts is laid up or preserved; the final book of record in business transactions, in which all debits and credits from the journal, etc., are placed under appr..
Exculpated
of Exculpate
Onerously
In an onerous manner.
Rigidly
In a rigid manner; stiffly.