List Words
Spigot
A pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask; also, the plug of a faucet or cock.
Boding
of Bode
Lounger
One who lounges; ar idler.
Horrendous
Fearful; frightful.
Crag
A steep, rugged rock; a rough, broken cliff, or point of a rock, on a ledge.
Wastrel
Any waste thing or substance
Pedicel
A stalk which supports one flower or fruit, whether solitary or one of many ultimate divisions of a common peduncle. See Peduncle, and Illust. of Flower.
Mephitis
Noxious, pestilential, or foul exhalations from decomposing substances, filth, or other source.
Pettiness
The quality or state of being petty or paltry; littleness; meanness.
Caudex
The stem of a tree., esp. a stem without a branch, as of a palm or a tree fern; also, the perennial rootstock of an herbaceous plant.
Do-nothingness
Inactivity; habitual sloth; idleness.
Pylon
A low tower, having a truncated pyramidal form, and flanking an ancient Egyptian gateway.
Bitume
Bitumen.
Reviser
One who revises.
Tenuity
The quality or state of being tenuous; thinness, applied to a broad substance; slenderness, applied to anything that is long; as, the tenuity of a leaf; the tenuity of a hair.
Systemic
Of or relating to a system; common to a system; as, the systemic circulation of the blood.
Reed
Red.
Cotyledon
One of the patches of villi found in some forms of placenta.
Shaft
The slender, smooth stem of an arrow; hence, an arrow.
Carpophore
A slender prolongation of the receptacle as an axis between the carpels, as in Geranium and many umbelliferous plants.
Sis
A colloquial abbreviation of Sister.
Explainer
One who explains; an expounder or expositor; a commentator; an interpreter.
Sorcery
Divination by the assistance, or supposed assistance, of evil spirits, or the power of commanding evil spirits; magic; necromancy; witchcraft; enchantment.
Abbreviature
An abbreviation; an abbreviated state or form.
Overexertion
Excessive exertion.
Unfruitful
Not producing fruit or offspring; unproductive; infertile; barren; sterile; as, an unfruitful tree or animal; unfruitful soil; an unfruitful life or effort.
Irritated
of Irritate
Sixteen
Six and ten; consisting of six and ten; fifteen and one more.
Overanxiety
The state of being overanxious; excessive anxiety.
Lovelorn
Forsaken by one's love.
Preach
To proclaim or publish tidings; specifically, to proclaim the gospel; to discourse publicly on a religious subject, or from a text of Scripture; to deliver a sermon.
Beadle
A messenger or crier of a court; a servitor; one who cites or bids persons to appear and answer; -- called also an apparitor or summoner.
Newsman
One who brings news.
Renitency
The state or quality of being renitent; resistance; reluctance.
Revolver
One who, or that which, revolves; specifically, a firearm ( commonly a pistol) with several chambers or barrels so arranged as to revolve on an axis, and be discharged in succession by the same ..
Acerbic
Sour or severe.
Prelate
A clergyman of a superior order, as an archbishop or a bishop, having authority over the lower clergy; a dignitary of the church.
Revertible
Capable of, or admitting of, reverting or being reverted; as, a revertible estate.
Gavel
A gable.
Homilist
One who prepares homilies; one who preaches to a congregation.
Stanch
A flood gate by which water is accumulated, for floating a boat over a shallow part of a stream by its release.
De facto
Actually; in fact; in reality; as, a king de facto, -- distinguished from a king de jure, or by right.
Octogenarian
A person eighty years, or more, of age.
Caulk
See Calk.
Jeopard
To put in jeopardy; to expose to loss or injury; to imperil; to hazard.
Expelled
of Expel
Cowboy
A cattle herder; a drover; specifically, one of an adventurous class of herders and drovers on the plains of the Western and Southwestern United States.
Weathered
of Weather
Billy goat
A male goat.
Faucet
A fixture for drawing a liquid, as water, molasses, oil, etc., from a pipe, cask, or other vessel, in such quantities as may be desired; -- called also tap, and cock. It consists of a tubular sp..
