List Words
Alembic
An apparatus formerly used in distillation, usually made of glass or metal. It has mostly given place to the retort and worm still.
Probation
The act of proving; also, that which proves anything; proof.
Pipette
A small glass tube, often with an enlargement or bulb in the middle, and usually graduated, -- used for transferring or delivering measured quantities.
Bouncing
of Bounce
Foreman
The first or chief man
Gaffer
An old fellow; an aged rustic.
Viridescent
Slightly green; greenish.
Boatswain
An officer who has charge of the boats, sails, rigging, colors, anchors, cables, cordage, etc., of a ship, and who also summons the crew, and performs other duties.
Inspector
One who inspects, views, or oversees; one to whom the supervision of any work is committed; one who makes an official view or examination, as a military or civil officer; a superintendent; a ..
Oxalic
Pertaining to, derived from, or contained in, sorrel, or oxalis; specifically, designating an acid found in, and characteristic of, oxalis, and also certain plant of the Buckwheat family.
Culmen
Top; summit; acme.
Draper
One who sells cloths; a dealer in cloths; as, a draper and tailor.
Campanile
A bell tower, esp. one built separate from a church.
Yerk
To throw or thrust with a sudden, smart movement; to kick or strike suddenly; to jerk.
Saccule
A little sac; specifically, the sacculus of the ear.
Jurat
A person under oath; specifically, an officer of the nature of an alderman, in certain municipal corporations in England.
Orthopedist
One who prevents, cures, or remedies deformities, esp. in children.
Tor
A tower; a turret.
Otologist
One skilled in otology; an aurist.
Vasculum
Same as Ascidium, n., 1.
Pic
A Turkish cloth measure, varying from 18 to 28 inches.
Patera
A saucerlike vessel of earthenware or metal, used by the Greeks and Romans in libations and sacrificies.
Crucible
A vessel or melting pot, composed of some very refractory substance, as clay, graphite, platinum, and used for melting and calcining substances which require a strong degree of heat, as metals, ..
Sepoy
A native of India employed as a soldier in the service of a European power, esp. of Great Britain; an Oriental soldier disciplined in the European manner.
Vesper
The evening star; Hesper; Venus, when seen after sunset; hence, the evening.
Unhele
To uncover.
Pitcher
One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.; specifically (Baseball), the player who delivers the ball to the batsman.
Vilification
The act of vilifying or defaming; abuse.
Canister
A small basket of rushes, reeds, or willow twigs, etc.
Redcoat
One who wears a red coat; specifically, a red-coated British soldier.
Crankiness
Crankness.
Surveyor
One placed to superintend others; an overseer; an inspector.
Measurer
One who measures; one whose occupation or duty is to measure commondities in market.
Barmaster
Formerly, a local judge among miners; now, an officer of the barmote.
Appraiser
One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
Valuer
One who values; an appraiser.
Valuator
One who assesses, or sets a value on, anything; an appraiser.
Florist
A cultivator of, or dealer in, flowers.
Occupier
One who occupies, or has possession.
Washerman
A man who washes clothes, esp. for hire, or for others.
Tommy
Bread, -- generally a penny roll; the supply of food carried by workmen as their daily allowance.
Pinnacle
An architectural member, upright, and generally ending in a small spire, -- used to finish a buttress, to constitute a part in a proportion, as where pinnacles flank a gable or spire, and the li..
Chiropodist
One who treats diseases of the hands and feet; especially, one who removes corns and bunions.
Digger
One who, or that which, digs.
Harvestman
A man engaged in harvesting.
Assessor
One appointed or elected to assist a judge or magistrate with his special knowledge of the subject to be decided; as legal assessors, nautical assessors.
Sea god
A marine deity; a fabulous being supposed to live in, or have dominion over, the sea, or some particular sea or part of the sea, as Neptune.
Sea-maid
The mermaid.
Orts
of Ort
Washdish
A washbowl.
