List Words
Siss
To make a hissing sound; as, a flatiron hot enough to siss when touched with a wet finger.
Silage
Short for Ensilage.
Sicken
To make sick; to disease.
Sibilation
Utterance with a hissing sound; also, the sound itself; a hiss.
Shudder
To tremble or shake with fear, horrer, or aversion; to shiver with cold; to quake.
Shrive
To hear or receive the confession of; to administer confession and absolution to; -- said of a priest as the agent.
Shoaliness
The quality or state of being shoaly; little depth of water; shallowness.
Shining
of Shine
Changer
One who changes or alters the form of anything.
Shatter
To break at once into many pieces; to dash, burst, or part violently into fragments; to rend into splinters; as, an explosion shatters a rock or a bomb; too much steam shatters a boiler; an oak ..
Mono
The black howler of Central America (Mycetes villosus).
Turntable
A large revolving platform, for turning railroad cars, locomotives, etc., in a different direction; -- called also turnplate.
Phonograph
A character or symbol used to represent a sound, esp. one used in phonography.
Toparchy
A small state, consisting of a few cities or towns; a petty country governed by a toparch; as, Judea was formerly divided into ten toparchies.
Sepulture
The act of depositing the dead body of a human being in the grave; burial; interment.
Sepulcher
Alt. of Sepulchre
Role
A part, or character, performed by an actor in a drama; hence, a part of function taken or assumed by any one; as, he has now taken the role of philanthropist.
Sentimentalize
To regard in a sentimental manner; as, to sentimentalize a subject.
County
An earldom; the domain of a count or earl.
Seedbox
A capsule.
Combust
Burnt; consumed.
Sultanate
The rule or dominion of a sultan; sultanship.
Commonweal
Commonwealth.
Archduchy
The territory of an archduke or archduchess.
Chieftaincy
Alt. of Chieftainship
Town
Formerly: (a) An inclosure which surrounded the mere homestead or dwelling of the lord of the manor. [Obs.] (b) The whole of the land which constituted the domain. [Obs.] (c) A collection of ..
Scumble
To cover lighty, as a painting, or a drawing, with a thin wash of opaque color, or with color-crayon dust rubbed on with the stump, or to make any similar additions to the work, so as to produce..
Sculpture
The art of carving, cutting, or hewing wood, stone, metal, etc., into statues, ornaments, etc., or into figures, as of men, or other things; hence, the art of producing figures and groups, wh..
Department
Act of departing; departure.
Protectorate
Government by a protector; -- applied especially to the government of England by Oliver Cromwell.
City
A large town.
Mandatory
Containing a command; preceptive; directory.
Kingdom
The rank, quality, state, or attributes of a king; royal authority; sovereign power; rule; dominion; monarchy.
Smolder
Alt. of Smoulder
Principate
Principality; supreme rule.
Borough
In England, an incorporated town that is not a city; also, a town that sends members to parliament; in Scotland, a body corporate, consisting of the inhabitants of a certain district, erected by..
Republic
Common weal.
Metropolis
The mother city; the chief city of a kingdom, state, or country.
Dukedom
The territory of a duke.
Technicology
Technology.
Riding
of Ride
Scald
One of the ancient Scandinavian poets and historiographers; a reciter and singer of heroic poems, eulogies, etc., among the Norsemen; more rarely, a bard of any of the ancient Teutonic tribes.
Scrimmage
Formerly, a skirmish; now, a general row or confused fight or struggle.
Scribble
To card coarsely; to run through the scribbling machine.
Scrawl
See Crawl.
Ology
A colloquial or humorous name for any science or branch of knowledge.
Province
A country or region dependent on a distant authority; a portion of an empire or state, esp. one remote from the capital.
Scoring
of Score
Scoot
To walk fast; to go quickly; to run hastily away.
Scolding
of Scold
