List Words
Insularity
The state or quality of being an island or consisting of islands; insulation.
Bassoon
A wind instrument of the double reed kind, furnished with holes, which are stopped by the fingers, and by keys, as in flutes. It forms the natural bass to the oboe, clarinet, etc.
Landloper
Same as Landlouper.
Baluster
A small column or pilaster, used as a support to the rail of an open parapet, to guard the side of a staircase, or the front of a gallery. See Balustrade.
Pumper
One who pumps; the instrument or machine used in pumping.
Prelect
To read publicly, as a lecture or discourse.
Stipe
The stalk or petiole of a frond, as of a fern.
Funiculus
A cord, baud, or bundle of fibers; esp., one of the small bundles of fibers, of which large nerves are made up; applied also to different bands of white matter in the brain and spinal cord.
Slightness
The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
Beggar
One who begs; one who asks or entreats earnestly, or with humility; a petitioner.
Devilment
Deviltry.
Urchin
A hedgehog.
Valvule
A little valve; a valvelet.
Cursoriness
The quality of being cursory; superficial performance; as, cursoriness of view.
Petiole
A leafstalk; the footstalk of a leaf, connecting the blade with the stem. See Illust. of Leaf.
Saxophone
A wind instrument of brass, containing a reed, and partaking of the qualities both of a brass instrument and of a clarinet.
Stopcock
A bib, faucet, or short pipe, fitted with a turning stopper or plug for permitting or restraining the flow of a liquid or gas; a cock or valve for checking or regulating the flow of water, gas, ..
Parishioner
One who belongs to, or is connected with, a parish.
Twenty
One more that nineteen; twice; as, twenty men.
Arrowhead
The head of an arrow.
Tatterdemalion
A ragged fellow; a ragamuffin.
Tigella
That part of an embryo which represents the young stem; the caulicle or radicle.
Caulicle
A short caulis or stem, esp. the rudimentary stem seen in the embryo of seed; -- otherwise called a radicle.
Laic
Alt. of Laical
Garroter
One who seizes a person by the throat from behind, with a view to strangle and rob him.
Bibliolatry
Book worship, esp. of the Bible; -- applied by Roman Catholic divines to the exaltation of the authority of the Bible over that of the pope or the church, and by Protestants to an excessive r..
Debris
Broken and detached fragments, taken collectively; especially, fragments detached from a rock or mountain, and piled up at the base.
Valve
A door; especially, one of a pair of folding doors, or one of the leaves of such a door.
Acerbate
To sour; to imbitter; to irritate.
Regressive
Passing back; returning.
Functional
Pertaining to, or connected with, a function or duty; official.
Repress
To press again.
Campaigner
One who has served in an army in several campaigns; an old soldier; a veteran.
Recidivous
Tending or liable to backslide or relapse to a former condition or habit.
Repellency
The principle of repulsion; the quality or capacity of repelling; repulsion.
Constructional
Pertaining to, or deduced from, construction or interpretation.
Forthrightness
Straightforwardness; explicitness; directness.
Churchman
An ecclesiastic or clergyman.
Ruptured
of Rupture
Brindled
Having dark streaks or spots on a gray or tawny ground; brinded.
Overlavish
Lavish to excess.
Intemperateness
The state of being intemperate; excessive indulgence of any appetite or passion; as, intemperateness in eating or drinking.
Menacing
of Menace
Undertaker
One who undertakes; one who engages in any project or business.
Hydrant
A discharge pipe with a valve and spout at which water may be drawn from the mains of waterworks; a water plug.
Rheumy
Of or pertaining to rheum; abounding in, or causing, rheum; affected with rheum.
Precluded
of Preclude
Scholiast
A maker of scholia; a commentator or annotator.
Devilry
Conduct suitable to the devil; extreme wickedness; deviltry.
Pickled
of Pickle
