List Words
Etiology
The science of causes. Same as /tiology.
Stocky
Short and thick; thick rather than tall or corpulent.
Pudgy
Short and fat or sturdy; dumpy; podgy; as, a short, pudgy little man; a pudgy little hand.
Dispread
To spread abroad, or different ways; to spread apart; to open; as, the sun dispreads his beams.
Paunchy
Pot-bellied.
Overweight
Weight over and above what is required by law or custom.
Complaintful
Full of complaint.
Dictatorial
Pertaining or suited to a dictator; absolute.
Peruse
To observe; to examine with care.
Venturer
One who ventures, or puts to hazard; an adventurer.
Constrictive
Serving or tending to bind or constrict.
Speculator
One who speculates. Specifically: (a) An observer; a contemplator; hence, a spy; a watcher.
Sequential
Succeeding or following in order.
Sweltry
Suffocating with heat; oppressively hot; sultry.
Proscriptive
Of or pertaining to proscription; consisting in, or of the nature of, proscription; proscribing.
Political
Having, or conforming to, a settled system of administration.
Torrid
Parched; dried with heat; as, a torrid plain or desert.
Crabbing
The act or art of catching crabs.
Antiphon
A verse said before and after the psalms.
Vixenish
Of or pertaining to a vixen; resembling a vixen.
Stubbed
of Stub
Flushed
of Flush
Searing
of Sear
Philistine
A native or an inhabitant of ancient Philistia, a coast region of southern Palestine.
Impound
To shut up or place in an inclosure called a pound; hence, to hold in the custody of a court; as, to impound stray cattle; to impound a document for safe keeping.
Autonomous
Independent in government; having the right or power of self-government.
Wedgebill
An Australian crested insessorial bird (Sphenostoma cristatum) having a wedge-shaped bill. Its color is dull brown, like the earth of the plains where it lives.
Herpes
An eruption of the skin, taking various names, according to its form, or the part affected; especially, an eruption of vesicles in small distinct clusters, accompanied with itching or tingling, ..
Ingesta
That which is introduced into the body by the stomach or alimentary canal; -- opposed to egesta.
Cross-questioning
of Cross-question
Food
What is fed upon; that which goes to support life by being received within, and assimilated by, the organism of an animal or a plant; nutriment; aliment; especially, what is eaten by animals for..
Strand
One of the twists, or strings, as of fibers, wires, etc., of which a rope is composed.
Overweary
To weary too much; to tire out.
Chasing
of Chase
Swindler
One who swindles, or defrauds grossly; one who makes a practice of defrauding others by imposition or deliberate artifice; a cheat.
Perpetuate
To make perpetual; to cause to endure, or to be continued, indefinitely; to preserve from extinction or oblivion; to eternize.
Mulatto
The offspring of a negress by a white man, or of a white woman by a negro, -- usually of a brownish yellow complexion.
Shiftiness
The quality or state of being shifty.
Griffe
The offspring of a mulatto woman and a negro; also, a mulatto.
Fib
A falsehood; a lie; -- used euphemistically.
Crossbreed
A breed or an animal produced from parents of different breeds; a new variety, as of plants, combining the qualities of two parent varieties or stocks.
Viper
Any one of numerous species of Old World venomous makes belonging to Vipera, Clotho, Daboia, and other genera of the family Viperidae.
Ait
An islet, or little isle, in a river or lake; an eyot.
Nettled
of Nettle
Tubby
Resembling a tub; specifically sounding dull and without resonance, like a tub; wanting elasticity or freedom of sound; as, a tubby violin.
Memorialize
To address or petition by a memorial; to present a memorial to; as, to memorialize the legislature.
Bovid
Relating to that tribe of ruminant mammals of which the genus Bos is the type.
Half blood
The relation between persons born of the same father or of the same mother, but not of both; as, a brother or sister of the half blood. See Blood, n., 2 and 4.
Lancination
A tearing; laceration.
Hell
The place of the dead, or of souls after death; the grave; -- called in Hebrew sheol, and by the Greeks hades.
