List Words
Compurgation
The act or practice of justifying or confirming a man's veracity by the oath of others; -- called also wager of law. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager.
Competitive
Of or pertaining to competition; producing competition; competitory; as, a competitive examination.
Communicativeness
The quality of being communicative.
Comminute
To reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth.
Commencement
The first existence of anything; act or fact of commencing; rise; origin; beginning; start.
Combustible
Capable of taking fire and burning; apt to catch fire; inflammable.
Combat
To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight.
Coke
Mineral coal charred, or depriver of its bitumen, sulphur, or other volatile matter by roasting in a kiln or oven, or by distillation, as in gas works. It is lagerly used where / smokeless fi..
Coil
To wind cylindrically or spirally; as, to coil a rope when not in use; the snake coiled itself before springing.
Cockfight
A match or contest of gamecocks.
Climb
To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet.
Climacteric
Relating to a climacteric; critical.
Cleavers
A species of Galium (G. Aparine), having a fruit set with hooked bristles, which adhere to whatever they come in contact with; -- called also, goose grass, catchweed, etc.
Clamber
To climb with difficulty, or with hands and feet; -- also used figuratively.
Chyle
A milky fluid containing the fatty matter of the food in a state of emulsion, or fine mechanical division; formed from chyme by the action of the intestinal juices. It is absorbed by the lacteal..
Chitter
To chirp in a tremulous manner, as a bird.
Chips
A ship's carpenter.
Chipped
of Chip
Cater
A provider; a purveyor; a caterer.
Catena
A chain or series of things connected with each other.
Catchweed
See Cleavers.
Cartoon
A design or study drawn of the full size, to serve as a model for transferring or copying; -- used in the making of mosaics, tapestries, fresco pantings and the like; as, the cartoons of Raphael..
Carton
Pasteboard for paper boxes; also, a pasteboard box.
Carol
A round dance.
Caress
An act of endearment; any act or expression of affection; an embracing, or touching, with tenderness.
Cannonry
Cannon, collectively; artillery.
Cannonade
The act of discharging cannon and throwing ball, shell, etc., for the purpose of destroying an army, or battering a town, ship, or fort; -- usually, an attack of some continuance.
Candor
Whiteness; brightness; (as applied to moral conditions) usullied purity; innocence.
Bushel
A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts.
Bury
A borough; a manor; as, the Bury of St. Edmond's
Burnishing
of Burnish
Burnable
Combustible.
Bullfight
Alt. of Bullfighting
Bullet
A small ball.
Bruit
Report; rumor; fame.
Broken wind
The heaves.
Breakage
The act of breaking; a break; a breaking; also, articles broken.
Bowshot
The distance traversed by an arrow shot from a bow.
Bookworm
Any larva of a beetle or moth, which is injurious to books. Many species are known.
Boning
of Bone
Bombinate
To hum; to boom.
Bombardment
An attack upon a fortress or fortified town, with shells, hot shot, rockets, etc.; the act of throwing bombs and shot into a town or fortified place.
Bode
To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend to presage; to foreshow.
Bloating
of Bloat
Birdlime
An extremely adhesive viscid substance, usually made of the middle bark of the holly, by boiling, fermenting, and cleansing it. When a twig is smeared with this substance it will hold small bird..
Birdcall
A sound made in imitation of the note or cry of a bird for the purpose of decoying the bird or its mate.
Bibliophilist
A lover of books.
Bibliophile
A lover of books.
Bibliomaniac
One who has a mania for books.
Bibliolatrist
A worshiper of books; especially, a worshiper of the Bible; a believer in its verbal inspiration.
