List Words
Ethnic
Alt. of Ethnical
Listed
of List
Stumpy
Full of stumps; hard; strong.
Debility
The state of being weak; weakness; feebleness; languor.
Hysteron proteron
A figure in which the natural order of sense is reversed; hysterology; as, valet atque vivit, "he is well and lives."
Carte blanche
A blank paper, with a person's signature, etc., at the bottom, given to another person, with permission to superscribe what conditions he pleases. Hence: Unconditional terms; unlimited authority..
Bothersome
Vexatious; causing bother; causing trouble or perplexity; troublesome.
Spillway
A sluiceway or passage for superfluous water in a reservoir, to prevent too great pressure on the dam.
Submergence
The act of submerging, or the state of being submerged; submersion.
Gymnosophy
The doctrines of the Gymnosophists.
Worse
Bad, ill, evil, or corrupt, in a greater degree; more bad or evil; less good; specifically, in poorer health; more sick; -- used both in a physical and moral sense.
Bacchanalian
Of or pertaining to the festival of Bacchus; relating to or given to reveling and drunkenness.
Decurrence
The act of running down; a lapse.
Unimportance
Want of importance; triviality.
Impotence
Alt. of Impotency
Practicing
of Practice
Turret
A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the angles of a larger structure.
Inanimation
Want of animation; lifeless; dullness.
Torpidness
The qualityy or state of being torpid.
Woe
Grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity.
Sea cock
In a steamship, a cock or valve close to the vessel's side, for closing a pipe which communicates with the sea.
Inhospitable
Not hospitable; not disposed to show hospitality to strangers or guests; as, an inhospitable person or people.
Unbenign
Not benign; malignant.
Stab
To pierce with a pointed weapon; to wound or kill by the thrust of a pointed instrument; as, to stab a man with a dagger; also, to thrust; as, to stab a dagger into a person.
Putrefied
of Putrefy
Pneumonia
Inflammation of the lungs.
Fang
To catch; to seize, as with the teeth; to lay hold of; to gripe; to clutch.
Discomfited
of Discomfit
Bacchanal
Relating to Bacchus or his festival.
Disobey
Not to obey; to neglect or refuse to obey (a superior or his commands, the laws, etc.); to transgress the commands of (one in authority); to violate, as an order; as, refractory children disobey..
Swag
To hang or move, as something loose and heavy; to sway; to swing.
Quinsy
An inflammation of the throat, or parts adjacent, especially of the fauces or tonsils, attended by considerable swelling, painful and impeded deglutition, and accompanied by inflammatory fever. ..
Burgrave
See Burggrave.
Hoar
White, or grayish white; as, hoar frost; hoar cliffs.
Gulch
Act of gulching or gulping.
Marketing
of Market
Ageless
Without old age limits of duration; as, fountains of ageless youth.
Chronograph
A chronoscope.
Refinery
The building and apparatus for refining or purifying, esp. metals and sugar.
Illustrate
To make clear, bright, or luminous.
Cay
See Key, a ledge.
Swelter
To be overcome and faint with heat; to be ready to perish with heat.
Enwrap
To envelop. See Inwrap.
Welter
To roll, as the body of an animal; to tumble about, especially in anything foul or defiling; to wallow.
Decollete
Leaving the neck and shoulders uncovered; cut low in the neck, or low-necked, as a dress.
Tryst
Trust.
Brindle
The state of being brindled.
Nakedness
The condition of being naked.
Ranchero
A herdsman; a peasant employed on a ranch or rancho.
Archipelago
The Grecian Archipelago, or Aegean Sea, separating Greece from Asia Minor. It is studded with a vast number of small islands.
