List Words
Enshrine
To inclose in a shrine or chest; hence, to preserve or cherish as something sacred; as, to enshrine something in memory.
Ashy
Pertaining to, or composed of, ashes; filled, or strewed with, ashes.
Watching
of Watch
Adorer
One who adores; a worshiper; one who admires or loves greatly; an ardent admirer.
Besetment
The act of besetting, or the state of being beset; also, that which besets one, as a sin.
Miasma
Infectious particles or germs floating in the air; air made noxious by the presence of such particles or germs; noxious effluvia; malaria.
Exorhizae
of Exorhiza
Cattle
Quadrupeds of the Bovine family; sometimes, also, including all domestic quadrupeds, as sheep, goats, horses, mules, asses, and swine.
Offish
Shy or distant in manner.
Sharper
A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester.
Savanna
A tract of level land covered with the vegetable growth usually found in a damp soil and warm climate, -- as grass or reeds, -- but destitute of trees.
Mumps
Sullenness; silent displeasure; the sulks.
Smallpox
A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subs..
Chantry
An endowment or foundation for the chanting of masses and offering of prayers, commonly for the founder.
Sacristy
An apartment in a church where the sacred utensils, vestments, etc., are kept; a vestry.
Flimflam
A freak; a trick; a lie.
Morbidity
The quality or state of being morbid.
Delta
A tract of land shaped like the letter delta (/), especially when the land is alluvial and inclosed between two or more mouths of a river; as, the delta of the Ganges, of the Nile, or of the Mis..
Talisman
A magical figure cut or engraved under certain superstitious observances of the configuration of the heavens, to which wonderful effects are ascribed; the seal, figure, character, or image, o..
Transversal
Running or lying across; transverse; as, a transversal line.
Caviler
Alt. of Caviller
Flite
To scold; to quarrel.
Humanism
Human nature or disposition; humanity.
Saline
Consisting of salt, or containing salt; as, saline particles; saline substances; a saline cathartic.
Dagoba
A dome-shaped structure built over relics of Buddha or some Buddhist saint.
Crosspiece
A piece of any structure which is fitted or framed crosswise.
Swashing
of Swash
Unintelligence
Absence or lack of intelligence; unwisdom; ignorance.
Retrovert
To turn back.
Ambry
In churches, a kind of closet, niche, cupboard, or locker for utensils, vestments, etc.
Confessionary
A confessional.
Impalpability
The quality of being impalpable.
Improving
of Improve
Horrifying
of Horrify
Moorland
Land consisting of a moor or moors.
Mummer
One who mumms, or makes diversion in disguise; a masker; a buffon.
Observation
The act or the faculty of observing or taking notice; the act of seeing, or of fixing the mind upon, anything.
Weald
A wood or forest; a wooded land or region; also, an open country; -- often used in place names.
Verger
One who carries a verge, or emblem of office.
Plebeian
Of or pertaining to the Roman plebs, or common people.
Gyp
A college servant; -- so called in Cambridge, England; at Oxford called a scout.
Ennoble
To make noble; to elevate in degree, qualities, or excellence; to dignify.
Trickster
One who tricks; a deceiver; a tricker; a cheat.
Islet
A little island.
Pesterer
One who pesters or harasses.
Porousness
The quality of being porous.
Effluvium
Subtile or invisible emanation; exhalation perceived by the sense of smell; especially, noisome or noxious exhalation; as, the effluvium from diseased or putrefying bodies, or from ill drainage...
Playa
A beach; a strand; in the plains and deserts of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, a broad, level spot, on which subsequently becomes dry by evaporation.
Predict
To tell or declare beforehand; to foretell; to prophesy; to presage; as, to predict misfortune; to predict the return of a comet.
Reversionary
Of or pertaining to a reversion; involving a reversion; to be enjoyed in succession, or after the termination of a particular estate; as, a reversionary interest or right.
