List Words
Polishing
of Polish
Snigger
See Snicker.
Volume
A roll; a scroll; a written document rolled up for keeping or for use, after the manner of the ancients.
Slew
of Slay
Elegant
Exercising a nice choice; discriminating beauty or sensitive to beauty; as, elegant taste.
Disoblige
To do an act which contravenes the will or desires of; to offend by an act of unkindness or incivility; to displease; to refrain from obliging; to be unaccommodating to.
Decennium
A period of ten years.
Monostich
A composition consisting of one verse only.
Canto
One of the chief divisions of a long poem; a book.
Indict
To write; to compose; to dictate; to indite.
Bill
A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal.
Enumerate
To count; to tell by numbers; to count over, or tell off one after another; to number; to reckon up; to mention one by one; to name over; to make a special and separate account of; to recount; ..
Dissemination
The act of disseminating, or the state of being disseminated; diffusion for propagation and permanence; a scattering or spreading abroad, as of ideas, beliefs, etc.
Fascicle
A small bundle or collection; a compact cluster; as, a fascicle of fibers; a fascicle of flowers or roots.
Handbook
A book of reference, to be carried in the hand; a manual; a guidebook.
Codex
A book; a manuscript.
Selfhood
Existence as a separate self, or independent person; conscious personality; individuality.
Coincidence
The condition of occupying the same place in space; as, the coincidence of circles, surfaces, etc.
Libel
A brief writing of any kind, esp. a declaration, bill, certificate, request, supplication, etc.
Inconsiderable
Not considerable; unworthy of consideration or notice; unimportant; small; trivial; as, an inconsiderable distance; an inconsiderable quantity, degree, value, or sum.
Gradus
A dictionary of prosody, designed as an aid in writing Greek or Latin poetry.
Slavey
A maidservant.
Accurate
In exact or careful conformity to truth, or to some standard of requirement, the result of care or pains; free from failure, error, or defect; exact; as, an accurate calculator; an accurate m..
Wee
A little; a bit, as of space, time, or distance.
Emery
Corundum in the form of grains or powder, used in the arts for grinding and polishing hard substances. Native emery is mixed with more or less magnetic iron. See the Note under Corundum.
Slicker
That which makes smooth or sleek.
Detrition
A wearing off or away.
Teeny
Very small; tiny.
Minuscule
Any very small, minute object.
Species
Visible or sensible presentation; appearance; a sensible percept received by the imagination; an image.
Kopeck
A small Russian coin. One hundred kopecks make a rouble, worth about sixty cents.
Rupee
A silver coin, and money of account, in the East Indies.
Orismology
That departament of natural history which treats of technical terms.
Trice
To pull; to haul; to drag; to pull away.
Exquisite
Carefully selected or sought out; hence, of distinguishing and surpassing quality; exceedingly nice; delightfully excellent; giving rare satisfaction; as, exquisite workmanship.
Palaver
Talk; conversation; esp., idle or beguiling talk; talk intended to deceive; flattery.
Hour
The twenty-fourth part of a day; sixty minutes.
Parauque
A bird (Nyctidromus albicollis) ranging from Texas to South America. It is allied to the night hawk and goatsucker.
Abradant
A material used for grinding, as emery, sand, powdered glass, etc.
Petit
Small; little; insignificant; mean; -- Same as Petty.
Rehash
To hash over again; to prepare or use again; as, to rehash old arguments.
Gazetteer
A writer of news, or an officer appointed to publish news by authority.
Stook
A small collection of sheaves set up in the field; a shock; in England, twelve sheaves.
Replica
A copy of a work of art, as of a picture or statue, made by the maker of the original.
Smoothing
of Smooth
Fata Morgana
A kind of mirage by which distant objects appear inverted, distorted, displaced, or multiplied. It is noticed particularly at the Straits of Messina, between Calabria and Sicily.
Phosphorescence
The quality or state of being phosphorescent; or the act of phosphorescing.
Reword
To repeat in the same words; to reecho.
Synonymy
The quality of being synonymous; sameness of meaning.
Thesaurus
A treasury or storehouse; hence, a repository, especially of knowledge; -- often applied to a comprehensive work, like a dictionary or cyclopedia.