List Words
Fop
One whose ambition it is to gain admiration by showy dress; a coxcomb; an inferior dandy.
Pestle
An implement for pounding and breaking or braying substances in a mortar.
Puppy
The young of a canine animal, esp. of the common dog; a whelp.
Analects
Alt. of Analecta
Scythe
An instrument for mowing grass, grain, or the like, by hand, composed of a long, curving blade, with a sharp edge, made fast to a long handle, called a snath, which is bent into a form convenien..
Interjacent
Lying or being between or among; intervening; as, interjacent isles.
Mailed
of Mail
Pacer
One who, or that which, paces; especially, a horse that paces.
Ontogenetic
Of or pertaining to ontogenesis; as, ontogenetic phenomena.
Funding
of Fund
Fosterage
The care of a foster child; the charge of nursing.
Tented
of Tent
Fatiguing
of Fatigue
Computable
Capable of being computed, numbered, or reckoned.
Assembling
of Assemble
Hostile
Belonging or appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence, or a desire to thwart and injure; occupied by an enemy or enemies; inimical; unfri..
Armor-plated
Covered with defensive plates of metal, as a ship of war; steel-clad.
Maturing
of Mature
Surety
The state of being sure; certainty; security.
Panoplied
Dressed in panoply.
Forgo
To pass by; to leave. See 1st Forego.
Avow
To declare openly, as something believed to be right; to own or acknowledge frankly; as, a man avows his principles or his crimes.
Daybreak
The time of the first appearance of light in the morning.
Maundy Thursday
The Thursday in Passion week, or next before Good Friday.
Rosary
A bed of roses, or place where roses grow.
Whitmonday
The day following Whitsunday; -- called also Whitsun Monday.
Scummed
of Scum
Onward
Moving in a forward direction; tending toward a contemplated or desirable end; forward; as, an onward course, progress, etc.
Mailclad
Protected by a coat of mail; clad in armor.
High-stepper
A horse that moves with a high step or proud gait; hence, a person having a proud bearing.
Journeying
of Journey
Hummer
One who, or that which, hums; one who applauds by humming.
Take-in
Imposition; fraud.
Swathed
of Swathe
Cross-crosslet
A cross having the three upper ends crossed, so as to from three small crosses.
Aculeiform
Like a prickle.
Well-set
Properly or firmly set.
Anaglyphic
Alt. of Anaglyphical
Duplicate
To make a duplicate of (something); to make a copy or transcript of.
Anastatic
Pertaining to a process or a style of printing from characters in relief on zinc plates.
Impale
To pierce with a pale; to put to death by fixing on a sharp stake. See Empale.
Molded
of Mould
Burgeon
To bud. See Bourgeon.
Lemma
A preliminary or auxiliary proposition demonstrated or accepted for immediate use in the demonstration of some other proposition, as in mathematics or logic.
Equidistant
Being at an equal distance from the same point or thing.
Bayonet
A pointed instrument of the dagger kind fitted on the muzzle of a musket or rifle, so as to give the soldier increased means of offense and defense.
Skeleton
The bony and cartilaginous framework which supports the soft parts of a vertebrate animal.
Wheezing
of Wheeze
Trimming
of Trim
Neoplatonism
A pantheistic eclectic school of philosophy, of which Plotinus was the chief (A. D. 205-270), and which sought to reconcile the Platonic and Aristotelian systems with Oriental theosophy. It t..
