List Words
Inveigle
To lead astray as if blind; to persuade to something evil by deceptive arts or flattery; to entice; to insnare; to seduce; to wheedle.
Inurn
To put in an urn, as the ashes of the dead; hence, to bury; to intomb.
Inundation
The act of inundating, or the state of being inundated; an overflow; a flood; a rising and spreading of water over grounds.
Insurgency
A state of insurrection; an uprising; an insurrection.
Insincerity
The quality of being insincere; want of sincerity, or of being in reality what one appears to be; dissimulation; hypocritical; deceitfulness; hollowness; untrustworthiness; as, the insincerit..
Inky
Consisting of, or resembling, ink; soiled with ink; black.
Injured
of Injure
Inhume
To deposit, as a dead body, in the earth; to bury; to inter.
Inhalation
The act of inhaling; also, that which is inhaled.
Incompatibleness
The quality or state of being incompatible; incompatibility.
Impulsiveness
The quality of being impulsive.
Impinge
To fall or dash against; to touch upon; to strike; to hit; to ciash with; -- with on or upon.
Impignorate
To pledge or pawn.
Hypothecate
To subject, as property, to liability for a debt or engagement without delivery of possession or transfer of title; to pledge without delivery of possession; to mortgage, as ships, or other p..
Hush
To still; to silence; to calm; to make quiet; to repress the noise or clamor of.
Hurricane
A violent storm, characterized by extreme fury and sudden changes of the wind, and generally accompanied by rain, thunder, and lightning; -- especially prevalent in the East and West Indies. ..
Hone
To pine; to lament; to long.
Hoarseness
Harshness or roughness of voice or sound, due to mucus collected on the vocal cords, or to swelling or looseness of the cords.
Hives
The croup.
Hexane
Any one of five hydrocarbons, C6H14, of the paraffin series. They are colorless, volatile liquids, and are so called because the molecule has six carbon atoms.
Henpeck
To subject to petty authority; -- said of a wife who thus treats her husband. Commonly used in the past participle (often adjectively).
Helium
A gaseous element found in the atmospheres of the sun and earth and in some rare minerals.
Heaving
of Heave
Hastiness
The quality or state of being hasty; haste; precipitation; rashness; quickness of temper.
Harum-scarum
Wild; giddy; flighty; rash; thoughtless.
Hare
To excite; to tease, or worry; to harry.
Handsel
A sale, gift, or delivery into the hand of another; especially, a sale, gift, delivery, or using which is the first of a series, and regarded as on omen for the rest; a first installment; an ..
Gybe
See Jib.
Gum
The dense tissues which invest the teeth, and cover the adjacent parts of the jaws.
Groaning
of Groan
Grit
Sand or gravel; rough, hard particles.
Griping
of Gripe
Greyhound
A slender, graceful breed of dogs, remarkable for keen sight and swiftness. It is one of the oldest varieties known, and is figured on the Egyptian monuments.
Grater
One who, or that which, grates; especially, an instrument or utensil with a rough, indented surface, for rubbing off small particles of any substance; as a grater for nutmegs.
Highfaluting
High-flown, bombastic language.
Glyptic
Of or pertaining to gem engraving.
Glower
to look intently; to stare angrily or with a scowl.
Gleet
A transparent mucous discharge from the membrane of the urethra, commonly an effect of gonorrhea.
Gin
Against; near by; towards; as, gin night.
Genuflection
The act of bending the knee, particularly in worship.
Genuflect
To bend the knee, as in worship.
Gasoline
A highly volatile mixture of fluid hydrocarbons, obtained from petroleum, as also by the distillation of bituminous coal. It is used in making air gas, and in giving illuminating power to water ..
Garrulity
Talkativeness; loquacity.
Garner
A granary; a building or place where grain is stored for preservation.
Gargoyle
A spout projecting from the roof gutter of a building, often carved grotesquely.
Gagging
of Gag
Fussiness
The quality of being fussy.
Furloughing
of Furlough
Fulgor
Dazzling brightness; splendor.
Vasoconstrictor
A substance which causes constriction of the blood vessels. Such substances are used in medicine to raise blood pressure.