List Words
Sludge
Mud; mire; soft mud; slush.
Filth
Foul matter; anything that soils or defiles; dirt; nastiness.
Woodland
Land covered with wood or trees; forest; land on which trees are suffered to grow, either for fuel or timber.
Custos
A keeper; a custodian; a superintendent.
Region
One of the grand districts or quarters into which any space or surface, as of the earth or the heavens, is conceived of as divided; hence, in general, a portion of space or territory of indefini..
Slaver
A vessel engaged in the slave trade; a slave ship.
Debauch
To lead away from purity or excellence; to corrupt in character or principles; to mar; to vitiate; to pollute; to seduce; as, to debauch one's self by intemperance; to debauch a woman; to debauc..
Kaolin
Alt. of Kaoline
Patrol
To go the rounds along a chain of sentinels; to traverse a police district or beat.
Watcher
One who watches; one who sits up or continues; a diligent observer; specifically, one who attends upon the sick during the night.
Mud
Earth and water mixed so as to be soft and adhesive.
Befoul
To make foul; to soil.
Neighborhood
The quality or condition of being a neighbor; the state of being or dwelling near; proximity.
Besetting
of Beset
Depurant
Depurative.
Doorkeeper
One who guards the entrance of a house or apartment; a porter; a janitor.
Freighter
One who loads a ship, or one who charters and loads a ship.
Superintendent
Overseeing; superintending.
Soil
To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an inclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence (such food having the effect of purging them..
Serenaded
of Serenade
Watchman
One set to watch; a person who keeps guard; a guard; a sentinel.
Clyster
A liquid injected into the lower intestines by means of a syringe; an injection; an enema.
Switchman
One who tends a switch on a railway.
Wagoner
One who conducts a wagon; one whose business it is to drive a wagon.
Fireman
A man whose business is to extinguish fires in towns; a member of a fire company.
Hauler
One who hauls.
Mopping
of Mop
Envenomed
of Envenom
Nozzle
The nose; the snout; hence, the projecting vent of anything; as, the nozzle of a bellows.
Household
Those who dwell under the same roof and compose a family.
Vesicate
To raise little bladders or blisters upon; to inflame and separate the cuticle of; to blister.
Sparger
A vessel with a perforated cover, for sprinkling with a liquid; a sprinkler.
Wonted
of Wont
Contagious
Communicable by contact, by a virus, or by a bodily exhalation; catching; as, a contagious disease.
Diuretic
Tending to increase the secretion and discharge of urine.
Vulcanize
To change the properties of, as caoutchouc, or India rubber, by the process of vulcanization.
Abstergent
Serving to cleanse, detergent.
Singe
To burn slightly or superficially; to burn the surface of; to burn the ends or outside of; as, to singe the hair or the skin.
Cupel
A shallow porous cup, used in refining precious metals, commonly made of bone ashes (phosphate of lime).
Enema
An injection, or clyster, thrown into the rectum as a medicine, or to impart nourishment.
Guarder
One who guards.
Pestiferous
Pest-bearing; pestilential; noxious to health; malignant; infectious; contagious; as, pestiferous bodies.
Pestilence
Specifically, the disease known as the plague; hence, any contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating.
Gamekeeper
One who has the care of game, especially in a park or preserve.
Erebus
A place of nether darkness, being the gloomy space through which the souls passed to Hades. See Milton's "Paradise Lost," Book II., line 883.
Dactylic
A line consisting chiefly or wholly of dactyls; as, these lines are dactylics.
Predominating
of Predominate
Infectious
Having qualities that may infect; communicable or caused by infection; pestilential; epidemic; as, an infectious fever; infectious clothing; infectious air; infectious vices.
Watchdog
A dog kept to watch and guard premises or property, and to give notice of the approach of intruders.
Warder
One who wards or keeps; a keeper; a guard.
Random Quote
"Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. 'Are you feeling all right?' I asked her. 'I feel all sleepy,' she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was...in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunised against measles. ...I dedicated two of my books to Olivia, the first was ‘James and the Giant Peach’. That was when she was still alive. The second was ‘The BFG’, dedicated to her memory after she had died from measles. You will see her name at the beginning of each of these books. And I know how happy she would be if only she could know that her death had helped to save a good deal of illness and death among other children."
I just checked google books for BFG, and the dedication is there.
https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/_/quybcXrFhCIC?hl=en&gbpv=1
Roald Dahl, 1986
