List Words
Disheartening
of Dishearten
Transcription
The act or process of transcribing, or copying; as, corruptions creep into books by repeated transcriptions.
Tubercular
Having tubercles; affected with tubercles; tubercled; tuberculate.
Dense
Having the constituent parts massed or crowded together; close; compact; thick; containing much matter in a small space; heavy; opaque; as, a dense crowd; a dense forest; a dense fog.
Duncical
Like a dunce; duncish.
Consumptive
Of or pertaining to consumption; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting.
Nomenclator
One who calls persons or things by their names.
Doltish
Doltlike; dull in intellect; stupid; blockish; as, a doltish clown.
Distinctly
With distinctness; not confusedly; without the blending of one part or thing another; clearly; plainly; as, to see distinctly.
Lightly
With little weight; with little force; as, to tread lightly; to press lightly.
Imitation
The act of imitating.
Grubber
One who, or that which, grubs; especially, a machine or tool of the nature of a grub ax, grub hook, etc.
Wriggler
One who, or that which, wriggles.
Exquisitely
In an exquisite manner or degree; as, lace exquisitely wrought.
Fussily
In a fussy manner.
Conscientiously
In a conscientious manner; as a matter of conscience; hence; faithfully; accurately; completely.
Repository
A place where things are or may be reposited, or laid up, for safety or preservation; a depository.
Cache
A hole in the ground, or hiding place, for concealing and preserving provisions which it is inconvenient to carry.
Mine
See Mien.
Root
To turn up the earth with the snout, as swine.
Tussock
A tuft, as of grass, twigs, hair, or the like; especially, a dense tuft or bunch of grass or sedge.
Dictionary
A book containing the words of a language, arranged alphabetically, with explanations of their meanings; a lexicon; a vocabulary; a wordbook.
Facsimile
A copy of anything made, either so as to be deceptive or so as to give every part and detail of the original; an exact copy or likeness.
Travesty
Disguised by dress so as to be ridiculous; travestied; -- applied to a book or shorter composition.
Megrim
A kind of sick or nevrous headache, usually periodical and confined to one side of the head.
Septet
Alt. of Septette
Aria
An air or song; a melody; a tune.
Hassock
A rank tuft of bog grass; a tussock.
Restate
To state anew.
Onomasticon
A collection of names and terms; a dictionary; specif., a collection of Greek names, with explanatory notes, made by Julius Pollux about A.D.180.
Tasteful
Having a high relish; savory.
Distich
A couple of verses or poetic lines making complete sense; an epigram of two verses.
Ramrod
The rod used in ramming home the charge in a muzzle-loading firearm.
Continuo
Basso continuo, or continued bass.
Rewrite
To write again.
Ignis fatuus
A phosphorescent light that appears, in the night, over marshy ground, supposed to be occasioned by the decomposition of animal or vegetable substances, or by some inflammable gas; -- popularly ..
Fluorescence
That property which some transparent bodies have of producing at their surface, or within their substance, light different in color from the mass of the material, as when green crystals of fluor..
Forceps
A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies which it would be inconvenient or impracticable to seize with the fingers, especially ..
Puller
One who, or that which, pulls.
Tamper
One who tamps; specifically, one who prepares for blasting, by filling the hole in which the charge is placed.
Puncheon
A figured stamp, die, or punch, used by goldsmiths, cutlers, etc.
Engine
(Pronounced, in this sense, ////.) Natural capacity; ability; skill.
Grove
A smaller group of trees than a forest, and without underwood, planted, or growing naturally as if arranged by art; a wood of small extent.
Luxuriant
Exuberant in growth; rank; excessive; very abundant; as, a luxuriant growth of grass; luxuriant foliage.
Fashionable
Conforming to the fashion or established mode; according with the prevailing form or style; as, a fashionable dress.
Corposant
St. Elmo's fire. See under Saint.
Wordbook
A collection of words; a vocabulary; a dictionary; a lexicon.
Phosphor
Phosphorus.
Thicket
A wood or a collection of trees, shrubs, etc., closely set; as, a ram caught in a thicket.
Version
A change of form, direction, or the like; transformation; conversion; turning.
