List Words
Precipitancy
The quality or state of being precipitant, or precipitate; headlong hurry; excessive or rash haste in resolving, forming an opinion, or executing a purpose; precipitation; as, the precipitanc..
Precipitance
Alt. of Precipitancy
Prating
of Prate
Polemic
Of or pertaining to controversy; maintaining, or involving, controversy; controversial; disputative; as, a polemic discourse or essay; polemic theology.
Acescence
Alt. of Acescency
Fermentation
A state of agitation or excitement, as of the intellect or the feelings.
Pneumatics
That branch of science which treats of the mechanical properties of air and other elastic fluids, as of their weight, pressure, elasticity, etc. See Mechanics.
Pitch-black
Black as pitch or tar.
Meiny
A family, including servants, etc.; household; retinue; train.
Petroleum
Rock oil, mineral oil, or natural oil, a dark brown or greenish inflammable liquid, which, at certain points, exists in the upper strata of the earth, from whence it is pumped, or forced by p..
Petrol
Petroleum.
Perusal
The act of carefully viewing or examining.
Perpetration
The act of perpetrating; a doing; -- commonly used of doing something wrong, as a crime.
Perfuse
To suffuse; to fill full or to excess.
Percuss
To strike smartly; to strike upon or against; as, to percuss the chest in medical examination.
Peppercorn
A dried berry of the black pepper (Piper nigrum).
Pentane
Any one of the three metameric hydrocarbons, C5H12, of the methane or paraffin series. They are colorless, volatile liquids, two of which occur in petroleum. So called because of the five carbon..
Peat
A small person; a pet; -- sometimes used contemptuously.
Paying
of Pay
Pasturage
Grazing ground; grass land used for pasturing; pasture.
Parole
A word; an oral utterance.
Paraffin
Alt. of Paraffine
Ozone
A colorless gaseous substance (O/) obtained (as by the silent discharge of electricity in oxygen) as an allotropic form of oxygen, containing three atoms in the molecule. It is a streng oxidi..
Oxygenize
To oxidize.
Oxygenate
To unite, or cause to combine, with oxygen; to treat with oxygen; to oxidize; as, oxygenated water (hydrogen dioxide).
Overtire
To tire to excess; to exhaust.
Oversleep
To sleep beyond; as, to oversleep one's self or one's usual hour of rising.
Overmeasure
To measure or estimate too largely.
Overmaster
To overpower; to subdue; to vanquish; to govern.
Overfatigue
Excessive fatigue.
First-class
Of the best class; of the highest rank; in the first division; of the best quality; first-rate; as, a first-class telescope.
Overact
To act or perform to excess; to exaggerate in acting; as, he overacted his part.
Scrawled
of Scrawl
Jostling
of Jostle
Scratchy
Characterized by scratches.
Joggling
of Joggle
Jolty
That jolts; as, a jolty coach.
Raspy
Like a rasp, or the sound made by a rasp; grating.
Oust
See Oast.
Osculate
To kiss.
Opulency
See Opulence.
Oilstone
A variety of hone slate, or whetstone, used for whetting tools when lubricated with oil.
Octane
Any one of a group of metametric hydrocarcons (C8H18) of the methane series. The most important is a colorless, volatile, inflammable liquid, found in petroleum, and a constituent of benzene or ..
Obsequiousness
The quality or state of being obsequious.
Obliterate
To erase or blot out; to efface; to render undecipherable, as a writing.
Narration
The act of telling or relating the particulars of an event; rehearsal; recital.
Chronology
The science which treats of measuring time by regular divisions or periods, and which assigns to events or transactions their proper dates.
Yesteryear
The year last past; last year.
Foretime
The past; the time before the present.
Synopsis
A general view, or a collection of heads or parts so arranged as to exhibit a general view of the whole; an abstract or summary of a discourse; a syllabus; a conspectus.
