List Words
Dude
A kind of dandy; especially, one characterized by an ultrafashionable style of dress and other affectations.
Dietaries
of Dietary
Standard
An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally.
Polygraph
In bibliography, a collection of different works, either by one or several authors.
Inland
Within the land; more or less remote from the ocean or from open water; interior; as, an inland town.
Agrarian
Pertaining to fields, or lands, or their tenure; esp., relating to an equal or equitable division of lands; as, the agrarian laws of Rome, which distributed the conquered and other public lands ..
Autochthon
One who is supposed to rise or spring from the ground or the soil he inhabits; one of the original inhabitants or aborigines; a native; -- commonly in the plural. This title was assumed by the ..
Ticklish
Sensible to slight touches; easily tickled; as, the sole of the foot is very ticklish; the hardened palm of the hand is not ticklish.
Monkery
The life of monks; monastic life; monastic usage or customs; -- now usually applied by way of reproach.
Cusped
of Cusp
Pythagoreanism
The doctrines of Pythagoras or the Pythagoreans.
Continency
Self-restraint; self-command.
Monasticism
The monastic life, system, or condition.
Teetotalism
The principle or practice of entire abstinence, esp. from intoxicating drinks.
Spiky
Like a spike; spikelike.
Prolix
Extending to a great length; unnecessarily long; minute in narration or argument; excessively particular in detail; -- rarely used except with reference to discourse written or spoken; as, a pro..
Companionable
Fitted to be a companion; fit for good fellowship; agreeable; sociable.
Clubbish
Rude; clownish.
Chivalric
Relating to chivalry; knightly; chivalrous.
Satire
A composition, generally poetical, holding up vice or folly to reprobation; a keen or severe exposure of what in public or private morals deserves rebuke; an invective poem; as, the Satires of J..
Epos
An epic.
Maid
A man who has not had sexual intercourse.
Obsoletism
A disused word or phrase; an archaism.
Survival
A living or continuing longer than, or beyond the existence of, another person, thing, or event; an outliving.
Baronet
A dignity or degree of honor next below a baron and above a knight, having precedency of all orders of knights except those of the Garter. It is the lowest degree of honor that is hereditary. Th..
Melodious
Containing, or producing, melody; musical; agreeable to the ear by a sweet succession of sounds; as, a melodious voice.
Hidalgo
A title, denoting a Spanish nobleman of the lower class.
Manly
Having qualities becoming to a man; not childish or womanish; manlike, esp. brave, courageous, resolute, noble.
Wreathy
Wreathed; twisted; curled; spiral; also, full of wreaths.
Hesitating
of Hesitate
Viscount
An officer who formerly supplied the place of the count, or earl; the sheriff of the county.
Depone
To lay, as a stake; to wager.
Dithyramb
A kind of lyric poetry in honor of Bacchus, usually sung by a band of revelers to a flute accompaniment; hence, in general, a poem written in a wild irregular strain.
Inebriant
Intoxicating.
Waldgrave
In the old German empire, the head forest keeper.
Meningitis
Inflammation of the membranes of the brain or spinal cord.
Lordling
A little or insignificant lord.
Glacis
A gentle slope, or a smooth, gently sloping bank; especially (Fort.), that slope of earth which inclines from the covered way toward the exterior ground or country (see Illust. of Ravelin).
Sensorium
The seat of sensation; the nervous center or centers to which impressions from the external world must be conveyed before they can be perceived; the place where external impressions are localize..
Valorous
Possessing or exhibiting valor; brave; courageous; valiant; intrepid.
Sheeny
Bright; shining; radiant; sheen.
Shined
of Shine
Noble-minded
Having a noble mind; honorable; magnanimous.
Starlike
Resembling a star; stellated; radiated like a star; as, starlike flowers.
Manful
Showing manliness, or manly spirit; hence, brave, courageous, resolute, noble.
Bopeep
The act of looking out suddenly, as from behind a screen, so as to startle some one (as by children in play), or of looking out and drawing suddenly back, as if frightened.
Suffused
of Suffuse
Glossy
Smooth and shining; reflecting luster from a smooth surface; highly polished; lustrous; as, glossy silk; a glossy surface.
Rhapsodic
Alt. of Rhapsodic
Georgic
A rural poem; a poetical composition on husbandry, containing rules for cultivating lands, etc.; as, the Georgics of Virgil.
