List Words
Prescription
The act of prescribing, directing, or dictating; direction; precept; also, that which is prescribed.
Ethereality
The state of being ethereal; etherealness.
Disrespectful
Wanting in respect; manifesting disesteem or lack of respect; uncivil; as, disrespectful behavior.
Didactic
Alt. of Didactical
Ivy
A plant of the genus Hedera (H. helix), common in Europe. Its leaves are evergreen, dark, smooth, shining, and mostly five-pointed; the flowers yellowish and small; the berries black or yellow. ..
Epiphany
An appearance, or a becoming manifest.
Enchant
To charm by sorcery; to act on by enchantment; to get control of by magical words and rites.
Smartness
The quality or state of being smart.
Pew
One of the compartments in a church which are separated by low partitions, and have long seats upon which several persons may sit; -- sometimes called slip. Pews were originally made square, but..
Pert
Open; evident; apert.
Battle
Fertile. See Battel, a.
Fenestra
A small opening; esp., one of the apertures, closed by membranes, between the tympanum and internal ear.
Bight
A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow.
Jungle
A dense growth of brushwood, grasses, reeds, vines, etc.; an almost impenetrable thicket of trees, canes, and reedy vegetation, as in India, Africa, Australia, and Brazil.
Possibilities
of Possibility
Martingale
Alt. of Martingal
Virtual
Having the power of acting or of invisible efficacy without the agency of the material or sensible part; potential; energizing.
Reasonableness
Quality of being reasonable.
Jackscrew
A jack in which a screw is used for lifting, or exerting pressure. See Illust. of 2d Jack, n., 5.
Virtuality
The quality or state of being virtual.
Jigger
A species of flea (Sarcopsylla, / Pulex, penetrans), which burrows beneath the skin. See Chigoe.
Wrist
The joint, or the region of the joint, between the hand and the arm; the carpus. See Carpus.
Judgment
The act of judging; the operation of the mind, involving comparison and discrimination, by which a knowledge of the values and relations of thins, whether of moral qualities, intellectual con..
Preside
To be set, or to sit, in the place of authority; to occupy the place of president, chairman, moderator, director, etc.; to direct, control, and regulate, as chief officer; as, to preside at a ..
Wild
Living in a state of nature; inhabiting natural haunts, as the forest or open field; not familiar with, or not easily approached by, man; not tamed or domesticated; as, a wild boar; a wild ox..
Headwork
Mental labor.
Pulley
A wheel with a broad rim, or grooved rim, for transmitting power from, or imparting power to, the different parts of machinery, or for changing the direction of motion, by means of a belt, co..
Hemp
A plant of the genus Cannabis (C. sativa), the fibrous skin or bark of which is used for making cloth and cordage. The name is also applied to various other plants yielding fiber.
Crusty
Having the nature of crust; pertaining to a hard covering; as, a crusty coat; a crusty surface or substance.
Purchase
To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire.
Gibbet
A kind of gallows; an upright post with an arm projecting from the top, on which, formerly, malefactors were hanged in chains, and their bodies allowed to remain asa warning.
Defying
of Defy
Reins
The kidneys; also, the region of the kidneys; the loins.
Palilogy
The repetition of a word, or part of a sentence, for the sake of greater emphasis; as, "The living, the living, he shall praise thee."
Voltage
Electric potential or potential difference, expressed in volts.
Specter
Alt. of Spectre
Stiffener
One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat.
Foison
Rich harvest; plenty; abundance.
Glean
To gather after a reaper; to collect in scattered or fragmentary parcels, as the grain left by a reaper, or grapes left after the gathering.
Chairman
The presiding officer of a committee, or of a public or private meeting, or of any organized body.
Prosecute
To follow or pursue with a view to reach, execute, or accomplish; to endeavor to obtain or complete; to carry on; to continue; as, to prosecute a scheme, hope, or claim.
Implied
Virtually involved or included; involved in substance; inferential; tacitly conceded; -- the correlative of express, or expressed. See Imply.
Replacement
The act of replacing.
Hazing
of Haze
Raillery
Pleasantry or slight satire; banter; jesting language; satirical merriment.
Excogitation
The act of excogitating; a devising in the thoughts; invention; contrivance.
Stool
A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.
Personate
To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise.
Emetic
Inducing to vomit; exciting the stomach to discharge its contents by the mouth.
Convener
One who convenes or meets with others.
