List Words
Sclerotic
Hard; firm; indurated; -- applied especially in anatomy to the firm outer coat of the eyeball, which is often cartilaginous and sometimes bony.
Sledge
A strong vehicle with low runners or low wheels; or one without wheels or runners, made of plank slightly turned up at one end, used for transporting loads upon the snow, ice, or bare ground; a ..
Expulsive
Having the power of driving out or away; serving to expel.
Melpomene
The Muse of tragedy.
Undercurrent
A current below the surface of water, sometimes flowing in a contrary direction to that on the surface.
Inflow
To flow in.
Horsewoman
A woman who rides on horseback.
Guillotine
A machine for beheading a person by one stroke of a heavy ax or blade, which slides in vertical guides, is raised by a cord, and let fall upon the neck of the victim.
Unable
Not able; not having sufficient strength, means, knowledge, skill, or the like; impotent' weak; helpless; incapable; -- now usually followed by an infinitive or an adverbial phrase; as, unable f..
Loyally
In a loyal manner; faithfully.
Enlightenment
Act of enlightening, or the state of being enlightened or instructed.
Quizzical
Relating to quizzing: given to quizzing; of the nature of a quiz; farcical; sportive.
Diffusiveness
The quality or state of being diffusive or diffuse; extensiveness; expansion; dispersion. Especially of style: Diffuseness; want of conciseness; prolixity.
Productivity
The quality or state of being productive; productiveness.
Proceeding
of Proceed
Bonanza
In mining, a rich mine or vein of silver or gold; hence, anything which is a mine of wealth or yields a large income.
Puffball
A kind of ball-shaped fungus (Lycoperdon giganteum, and other species of the same genus) full of dustlike spores when ripe; -- called also bullfist, bullfice, puckfist, puff, and puffin.
Quincunx
An arrangement of things by fives in a square or a rectangle, one being placed at each corner and one in the middle; especially, such an arrangement of trees repeated indefinitely, so as to f..
Categorize
To insert in a category or list; to class; to catalogue.
Hoy
A small coaster vessel, usually sloop-rigged, used in conveying passengers and goods from place to place, or as a tender to larger vessels in port.
Pentarchy
A government in the hands of five persons; five joint rulers.
Hover
A cover; a shelter; a protection.
Floridity
The quality of being florid; floridness.
Randan
The product of a second sifting of meal; the finest part of the bran.
Exteriority
Surface; superficies; externality.
Gilding
of Gild
Pentagram
A pentacle or a pentalpha.
Screed
A strip of plaster of the thickness proposed for the coat, applied to the wall at intervals of four or five feet, as a guide.
Ambiguous
Doubtful or uncertain, particularly in respect to signification; capable of being understood in either of two or more possible senses; equivocal; as, an ambiguous course; an ambiguous express..
Woolsack
A sack or bag of wool; specifically, the seat of the lord chancellor of England in the House of Lords, being a large, square sack of wool resembling a divan in form.
Hemlock
The name of several poisonous umbelliferous herbs having finely cut leaves and small white flowers, as the Cicuta maculata, bulbifera, and virosa, and the Conium maculatum. See Conium.
Tirade
A declamatory strain or flight of censure or abuse; a rambling invective; an oration or harangue abounding in censorious and bitter language.
Phoebe
The pewee, or pewit.
Procreativeness
The power of generating.
Whorl
A circle of two or more leaves, flowers, or other organs, about the same part or joint of a stem.
Suture
The act of sewing; also, the line along which two things or parts are sewed together, or are united so as to form a seam, or that which resembles a seam.
Elbowchair
A chair with arms to support the elbows; an armchair.
Octavo
A book composed of sheets each of which is folded into eight leaves; hence, indicating more or less definitely a size of book so made; -- usually written 8vo or 8¡.
Ex officio
From office; by virtue, or as a consequence, of an office; officially.
Flagellum
A young, flexible shoot of a plant; esp., the long trailing branch of a vine, or a slender branch in certain mosses.
Cart
A common name for various kinds of vehicles, as a Scythian dwelling on wheels, or a chariot.
Rocker
One who rocks; specifically, one who rocks a cradle.
Originality
The quality or state of being original.
Stinker
One who, or that which, stinks.
Kayak
A light canoe, made of skins stretched over a frame, and usually capable of carrying but one person, who sits amidships and uses a double-bladed paddle. It is peculiar to the Eskimos and other A..
Autocratic
Alt. of Autocratical
Comprehensive
Including much; comprising many things; having a wide scope or a full view.
Settle
A seat of any kind.
Ruching
A ruche, or ruches collectively.
Capable
Possessing ability, qualification, or susceptibility; having capacity; of sufficient size or strength; as, a room capable of holding a large number; a castle capable of resisting a long assault...
