List Words
Vignette
A running ornament consisting of leaves and tendrils, used in Gothic architecture.
Headquarters
The quarters or place of residence of any chief officer, as the general in command of an army, or the head of a police force; the place from which orders or instructions are issued; hence, th..
Reverie
Alt. of Revery
Pickling
of Pickle
Artless
Free from guile, art, craft, or stratagem; characterized by simplicity and sincerity; sincere; guileless; ingenuous; honest; as, an artless mind; an artless tale.
Fuming
of Fume
Mummification
The act of making a mummy.
Require
To demand; to insist upon having; to claim as by right and authority; to exact; as, to require the surrender of property.
Predicate
To assert to belong to something; to affirm (one thing of another); as, to predicate whiteness of snow.
Pave
The pavement.
Drive
To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communicate motion to; as, to drive cattle; to drive a nail; smoke ..
Cauterize
To burn or sear with a cautery or caustic.
Hock
A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still. The name is also given indiscriminately to all Rhenish wines.
Fascinate
To influence in an uncontrollable manner; to operate on by some powerful or irresistible charm; to bewitch; to enchant.
Fission
A cleaving, splitting, or breaking up into parts.
Gage
A pledge or pawn; something laid down or given as a security for the performance of some act by the person depositing it, and forfeited by nonperformance; security.
Overfed
of Overfeed
Subfamily
One of the subdivisions, of more importance than genus, into which certain families are divided.
Sag
To sink, in the middle, by its weight or under applied pressure, below a horizontal line or plane; as, a line or cable supported by its ends sags, though tightly drawn; the floor of a room sa..
Scroll
A roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll; a schedule; a list.
Molder
Alt. of Moulder
Sorb
The wild service tree (Pyrus torminalis) of Europe; also, the rowan tree.
Fraught
A freight; a cargo.
Desolate
Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house.
Cremate
To burn; to reduce to ashes by the action of fire, either directly or in an oven or retort; to incremate or incinerate; as, to cremate a corpse, instead of burying it.
Fatten
To make fat; to feed for slaughter; to make fleshy or plump with fat; to fill full; to fat.
Imbibe
To drink in; to absorb; to suck or take in; to receive as by drinking; as, a person imbibes drink, or a sponge imbibes moisture.
Havoc
Wide and general destruction; devastation; waste.
Attenuate
To make thin or slender, as by mechanical or chemical action upon inanimate objects, or by the effects of starvation, disease, etc., upon living bodies.
Oviduct
A tube, or duct, for the passage of ova from the ovary to the exterior of the animal or to the part where further development takes place. In mammals the oviducts are also called Fallopian tubes..
Door
An opening in the wall of a house or of an apartment, by which to go in and out; an entrance way.
Sort
Chance; lot; destiny.
Outcome
That which comes out of, or follows from, something else; issue; result; consequence; upshot.
Maternity
The state of being a mother; the character or relation of a mother.
Disannul
To annul completely; to render void or of no effect.
Coadjuvancy
Joint help; cooperation.
Counteract
To act in opposition to; to hinder, defeat, or frustrate, by contrary agency or influence; as, to counteract the effect of medicines; to counteract good advice.
Vomitory
Causing vomiting; emetic; vomitive.
Paternity
The relation of a father to his child; fathership; fatherhood; family headship; as, the divine paternity.
Consanguinity
The relation of persons by blood, in distinction from affinity or relation by marriage; blood relationship; as, lineal consanguinity; collateral consanguinity.
Twink
To twinkle.
Vacate
To make vacant; to leave empty; to cease from filling or occupying; as, it was resolved by Parliament that James had vacated the throne of England; the tenant vacated the house.
Truckler
One who truckles, or yields servilely to the will of another.
Estranged
of Estrange
Quarantined
of Quarantine
Companionless
Without a companion.
Distal
Remote from the point of attachment or origin; as, the distal end of a bone or muscle
Dissociated
of Dissociate
Publicity
The quality or state of being public, or open to the knowledge of a community; notoriety; publicness.
Telegram
A message sent by telegraph; a telegraphic dispatch.
