List Words
Malconformation
Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; ill form; disproportion of parts.
Clubfoot
A short, variously distorted foot; also, the deformity, usually congenital, which such a foot exhibits; talipes.
Cheval-de-frise
A piece of timber or an iron barrel traversed with iron-pointed spikes or spears, five or six feet long, used to defend a passage, stop a breach, or impede the advance of cavalry, etc.
Mantelet
A short cloak formerly worn by knights.
Balistraria
A narrow opening, often cruciform, through which arrows might be discharged.
Questioning
of Question
Stockade
A line of stout posts or timbers set firmly in the earth in contact with each other (and usually with loopholes) to form a barrier, or defensive fortification.
Creedless
Without a creed.
Embattle
To arrange in order of battle; to array for battle; also, to prepare or arm for battle; to equip as for battle.
Fieldwork
Any temporary fortification thrown up by an army in the field; -- commonly in the plural.
Marbled
of Marble
Transversely
In a transverse manner.
Thwartly
Transversely; obliquely.
Concerted
of Concert
Cooperant
Operating together; as, cooperant forces.
Gritty
Containing sand or grit; consisting of grit; caused by grit; full of hard particles.
Plaintiff
One who commences a personal action or suit to obtain a remedy for an injury to his rights; -- opposed to defendant.
Recusant
Obstinate in refusal; specifically, in English history, refusing to acknowledge the supremacy of the king in the churc, or to conform to the established rites of the church; as, a recusant lord...
Dynamite
An explosive substance consisting of nitroglycerin absorbed by some inert, porous solid, as infusorial earth, sawdust, etc. It is safer than nitroglycerin, being less liable to explosion from..
Unbelieving
Not believing; incredulous; doubting; distrusting; skeptical.
Vallum
A rampart; a wall, as in a fortification.
Redan
A work having two parapets whose faces unite so as to form a salient angle toward the enemy.
Sconce
A fortification, or work for defense; a fort.
Moist
To moisten.
Ensue
To follow; to pursue; to follow and overtake.
Dermatic
Alt. of Dermatine
Undersized
Of a size less than is common.
Tiny
Very small; little; puny.
Isthmian
Of or pertaining to an isthmus, especially to the Isthmus of Corinth, in Greece.
Covin
A collusive agreement between two or more persons to prejudice a third.
Irregularly
In an irregular manner.
Lexipharmic
See Alexipharmic.
Pardonableness
The quality or state of being pardonable; as, the pardonableness of sin.
Remissibility
The state or quality of being remissible.
Guzzling
of Guzzle
Harelip
A lip, commonly the upper one, having a fissure of perpendicular division like that of a hare.
Hauling
of Haul
Inset
To infix.
Tractive
Serving to draw; pulling; attracting; as, tractive power.
Outleap
To surpass in leaping.
Motility
Capability of motion; contractility.
Fortuitous
Happening by chance; coming or occuring unexpectedly, or without any known cause; chance; as, the fortuitous concourse of atoms.
Sew
Juice; gravy; a seasoned dish; a delicacy.
Disembody
To divest of the body or corporeal existence.
Affability
The quality of being affable; readiness to converse; courteousness in receiving others and in conversation; complaisant behavior.
Tabulation
The act of forming into a table or tables; as, the tabulation of statistics.
Solicitude
The state of being solicitous; uneasiness of mind occasioned by fear of evil or desire good; anxiety.
Malformation
Ill formation; irregular or anomalous formation; abnormal or wrong conformation or structure.
Objector
One who objects; one who offers objections to a proposition or measure.
Revest
To clothe again; to cover, as with a robe; to robe.