List Words
Cudgel
A staff used in cudgel play, shorter than the quarterstaff, and wielded with one hand; hence, any heavy stick used as a weapon.
Stiletto
A kind of dagger with a slender, rounded, and pointed blade.
Intemperance
The act of becoming, or state of being, intemperate; excess in any kind of action or indulgence; any immoderate indulgence of the appetites or passions.
Effigy
The image, likeness, or representation of a person, whether a full figure, or a part; an imitative figure; -- commonly applied to sculptured likenesses, as those on monuments, or to those of the..
Insistent
Standing or resting on something; as, an insistent wall.
Posing
of Pose
Unfit
To make unsuitable or incompetent; to deprive of the strength, skill, or proper qualities for anything; to disable; to incapacitate; to disqualify; as, sickness unfits a man for labor; sin un..
Strath
A valley of considerable size, through which a river runs; a valley bottom; -- often used in composition with the name of the river; as, Strath Spey, Strathdon, Strathmore.
Salient
Moving by leaps or springs; leaping; bounding; jumping.
Culpable
Deserving censure; worthy of blame; faulty; immoral; criminal.
Blasty
Affected by blasts; gusty.
Blamable
Deserving of censure; faulty; culpable; reprehensible; censurable; blameworthy.
Devitalize
To deprive of life or vitality.
Knavish
Like or characteristic of a knave; given to knavery; trickish; fraudulent; dishonest; villainous; as, a knavish fellow, or a knavish trick.
Favonian
Pertaining to the west wind; soft; mild; gentle.
Puffy
Swelled with air, or any soft matter; tumid with a soft substance; bloated; fleshy; as, a puffy tumor.
Clarity
Clearness; brightness; splendor.
Amiss
Astray; faultily; improperly; wrongly; ill.
Configuration
Form, as depending on the relative disposition of the parts of a thing' shape; figure.
Boastful
Given to, or full of, boasting; inclined to boast; vaunting; vainglorious; self-praising.
Obdurate
Hardened in feelings, esp. against moral or mollifying influences; unyielding; hard-hearted; stubbornly wicked.
Plugging
of Plug
Drought
Dryness; want of rain or of water; especially, such dryness of the weather as affects the earth, and prevents the growth of plants; aridity.
Leach
See 3d Leech.
Sport
That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.
Coherently
In a coherent manner.
Rapt
of Rap
Intertwine
To unite by twining one with another; to entangle; to interlace.
Palliation
The act of palliating, or state of being palliated; extenuation; excuse; as, the palliation of faults, offenses, vices.
Methodology
The science of method or arrangement; a treatise on method.
Transanimation
The conveyance of a soul from one body to another.
Economizing
of Economize
Wrap
To snatch up; transport; -- chiefly used in the p. p. wrapt.
Fugue
A polyphonic composition, developed from a given theme or themes, according to strict contrapuntal rules. The theme is first given out by one voice or part, and then, while that pursues its way,..
Specially
In a special manner; particularly; especially.
Precis
A concise or abridged statement or view; an abstract; a summary.
Atone
To agree; to be in accordance; to accord.
Enraged
of Enrage
Daydreamer
One given to daydreams.
Risibility
The quality of being risible; as, risibility is peculiar to the human species.
Departure
Division; separation; putting away.
Anchor
A iron instrument which is attached to a ship by a cable (rope or chain), and which, being cast overboard, lays hold of the earth by a fluke or hook and thus retains the ship in a particular ..
Leaving
of Leave
Caldron
A large kettle or boiler of copper, brass, or iron. [Written also cauldron.]
Nonattendance
A failure to attend; omission of attendance; nonappearance.
Unpleasant
Not pleasant; not amiable or agreeable; displeasing; offensive.
Trilogy
A series of three dramas which, although each of them is in one sense complete, have a close mutual relation, and form one historical and poetical picture. Shakespeare's " Henry VI." is an ex..
Reprobate
Not enduring proof or trial; not of standard purity or fineness; disallowed; rejected.
Nicety
The quality or state of being nice (in any of the senses of that word.).
Stormy
Characterized by, or proceeding from, a storm; subject to storms; agitated with furious winds; biosterous; tempestous; as, a stormy season; a stormy day or week.
