List Words
Vaporize
To convert into vapor, as by the application of heat, whether naturally or artificially.
Octoroon
The offspring of a quadroon and a white person; a mestee.
Merrythought
The forked bone of a fowl's breast; -- called also wishbone. See Furculum.
Adherence
The quality or state of adhering.
Consentient
Agreeing in mind; accordant.
Crotch
The angle formed by the parting of two legs or branches; a fork; the point where a trunk divides; as, the crotch of a tree.
Esplanade
A clear space between a citadel and the nearest houses of the town.
Retrousse
Turned up; -- said of a pug nose.
Ankle
The joint which connects the foot with the leg; the tarsus.
Under-age
Not having arrived at adult age, or at years of discretion; hence, raw; green; immature; boyish; childish.
Jamb
The vertical side of any opening, as a door or fireplace; hence, less properly, any narrow vertical surface of wall, as the of a chimney-breast or of a pier, as distinguished from its face.
Lava
The melted rock ejected by a volcano from its top or fissured sides. It flows out in streams sometimes miles in length. It also issues from fissures in the earth's surface, and forms beds coveri..
Parotitis
Inflammation of the parotid glands.
Groundwork
That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle.
Sombrous
Gloomy; somber.
Rug
A kind of coarse, heavy frieze, formerly used for garments.
Llano
An extensive plain with or without vegetation.
Poisoned
of Poison
Curbing
of Curb
Upland
High land; ground elevated above the meadows and intervals which lie on the banks of rivers, near the sea, or between hills; land which is generally dry; -- opposed to lowland, meadow, marsh, sw..
Sill
The basis or foundation of a thing; especially, a horizontal piece, as a timber, which forms the lower member of a frame, or supports a structure; as, the sills of a house, of a bridge, of a loo..
Sapient
Wise; sage; discerning; -- often in irony or contempt.
Substructure
Same as Substruction.
Tram
A four-wheeled truck running on rails, and used in a mine, as for carrying coal or ore.
Abbe
The French word answering to the English abbot, the head of an abbey; but commonly a title of respect given in France to every one vested with the ecclesiastical habit or dress.
Interdictory
Belonging to an interdiction; prohibitory.
Plinth
In classical architecture, a vertically faced member immediately below the circular base of a column; also, the lowest member of a pedestal; hence, in general, the lowest member of a base; a ..
Dominie
A schoolmaster; a pedagogue.
Mestizo
The offspring of an Indian or a negro and a European or person of European stock.
Scansion
The act of scanning; distinguishing the metrical feet of a verse by emphasis, pauses, or otherwise.
Coarct
Alt. of Coarctate
Wishbone
The forked bone in front of the breastbone in birds; -- called also merrythought, and wishing bone. See Merrythought, and Furculum.
Gambrel
The hind leg of a horse.
Zona
A zone or band; a layer.
Histrion
A player.
Flagstone
A flat stone used in paving, or any rock which will split into such stones. See Flag, a stone.
Obscurantist
Same as Obscurant.
Flooring
of Floor
Rail
An outer cloak or covering; a neckerchief for women.
Rumpled
of Rumple
Answering
of Answer
Pietist
One of a class of religious reformers in Germany in the 17th century who sought to revive declining piety in the Protestant churches; -- often applied as a term of reproach to those who make a ..
Insolvable
Not solvable; insoluble; admitting no solution or explanation; as, an insolvable problem or difficulty.
Mesa
A high tableland; a plateau on a hill.
Kettledrum
A drum made of thin copper in the form of a hemispherical kettle, with parchment stretched over the mouth of it.
Defraud
To deprive of some right, interest, or property, by a deceitful device; to withhold from wrongfully; to injure by embezzlement; to cheat; to overreach; as, to defraud a servant, or a creditor..
Fulguration
The act of lightening.
Plaza
A public square in a city or town.
Suffixed
of Suffix
Railway
A road or way consisting of one or more parallel series of iron or steel rails, patterned and adjusted to be tracks for the wheels of vehicles, and suitably supported on a bed or substructure.
