List Words
Underneath
Beneath; below; in a lower place; under; as, a channel underneath the soil.
Castanets
Two small, concave shells of ivory or hard wood, shaped like spoons, fastened to the thumb, and beaten together with the middle finger; -- used by the Spaniards and Moors as an accompaniment ..
Sinner
One who has sinned; especially, one who has sinned without repenting; hence, a persistent and incorrigible transgressor; one condemned by the law of God.
Mannered
Having a certain way, esp. a polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self.
Willful
Of set purpose; self-determined; voluntary; as, willful murder.
Purring
of Pur
Fixation
The act of fixing, or the state of being fixed.
Bridewell
A house of correction for the confinement of disorderly persons; -- so called from a hospital built in 1553 near St. Bride's (or Bridget's) well, in London, which was subsequently a penal wor..
Deliquium
A melting or dissolution in the air, or in a moist place; a liquid condition; as, a salt falls into a deliquium.
Blatancy
Blatant quality.
Maceration
The act or process of macerating.
Melt
See 2d Milt.
Fulgurate
To flash as lightning.
Dematerialize
To deprive of material or physical qualities or characteristics.
Pentavalent
Having a valence of five; -- said of certain atoms and radicals.
Surcease
Cessation; stop; end.
Fivefold
In fives; consisting of five in one; five repeated; quintuple.
Evanesce
To vanish away; to become dissipated and disappear, like vapor.
Ebb
The European bunting.
Put-off
A shift for evasion or delay; an evasion; an excuse.
Sublimation
The act or process of subliming, or the state or result of being sublimed.
Violence
The quality or state of being violent; highly excited action, whether physical or moral; vehemence; impetuosity; force.
Quincuncial
Having the form of a quincunx.
Midriff
See Diaphragm, n., 2.
Hysterics
Hysteria.
Preponderate
To outweigh; to overpower by weight; to exceed in weight; to overbalance.
Caging
of Cage
Enervate
To deprive of nerve, force, strength, or courage; to render feeble or impotent; to make effeminate; to impair the moral powers of.
Outwit
To surpass in wisdom, esp. in cunning; to defeat or overreach by superior craft.
Oxgoad
A goad for driving oxen.
Irrefutable
Incapable of being refuted or disproved; indisputable.
Paisano
The chaparral cock.
Banish
To condemn to exile, or compel to leave one's country, by authority of the ruling power.
Picked
of Pick
Nagged
of Nag
Potentiality
The quality or state of being potential; possibility, not actuality; inherent capability or disposition, not actually exhibited.
Splendor
Great brightness; brilliant luster; brilliancy; as, the splendor ot the sun.
Gobbling
of Gobble
Exemplar
A model, original, or pattern, to be copied or imitated; a specimen; sometimes; an ideal model or type, as that which an artist conceives.
Stifling
of Stifle
Flat
A floor, loft, or story in a building; especially, a floor of a house, which forms a complete residence in itself.
Sopping
of Sop
Satiric
Alt. of Satirical
Unwilled
Deprived of the faculty of will or volition.
Silent
Free from sound or noise; absolutely still; perfectly quiet.
Disvaluation
Disesteem; depreciation; disrepute.
Gaudery
Finery; ornaments; ostentatious display.
Cate
Food. [Obs.] See Cates.
Continence
Alt. of Continency
Why
For what cause, reason, or purpose; on what account; wherefore; -- used interrogatively. See the Note under What, pron., 1.
