List Words
Minos
A king and lawgiver of Crete, fabled to be the son of Jupiter and Europa. After death he was made a judge in the Lower Regions.
Ab
The fifth month of the Jewish year according to the ecclesiastical reckoning, the eleventh by the civil computation, coinciding nearly with August.
Sea king
One of the leaders among the Norsemen who passed their lives in roving the seas in search of plunder and adventures; a Norse pirate chief. See the Note under Viking.
Water dog
A dog accustomed to the water, or trained to retrieve waterfowl. Retrievers, waters spaniels, and Newfoundland dogs are so trained.
Fisherman
One whose occupation is to catch fish.
Buccaneer
A robber upon the sea; a pirate; -- a term applied especially to the piratical adventurers who made depredations on the Spaniards in America in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Orbital
Of or pertaining to an orbit.
Romanticist
One who advocates romanticism in modern literature.
Legation
The sending forth or commissioning one person to act for another.
Fascinating
of Fascinate
Whining
of Whine
Inobservant
Not observant; regardless; heedless.
Pathfinder
One who discovers a way or path; one who explores untraversed regions.
Bipetalous
Having two petals.
Blanch
To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach; as, to blanch linen; age has blanched his hair.
Replication
An answer; a reply.
Fortissimo
Very loud; with the utmost strength or loudness.
Illusive
Deceiving by false show; deceitful; deceptive; false; illusory; unreal.
Misjudge
To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
Refrangible
Capable of being refracted, or turned out of a direct course, in passing from one medium to another, as rays of light.
Sump
A round pit of stone, lined with clay, for receiving the metal on its first fusion.
Duplicity
Doubleness; a twofold state.
Shouting
of Shout
Revolution
The act of revolving, or turning round on an axis or a center; the motion of a body round a fixed point or line; rotation; as, the revolution of a wheel, of a top, of the earth on its axis, etc...
Canicular
Pertaining to, or measured, by the rising of the Dog Star.
Condescend
To stoop or descend; to let one's self down; to submit; to waive the privilege of rank or dignity; to accommodate one's self to an inferior.
Grubby
Dirty; unclean.
Vociferous
Making a loud outcry; clamorous; noisy; as, vociferous heralds.
Brassy
Of or pertaining to brass; having the nature, appearance, or hardness, of brass.
Evenness
The state of being ven, level, or disturbed; smoothness; horizontal position; uniformity; impartiality; calmness; equanimity; appropriate place or level; as, evenness of surface, of a fluid at ..
Annulate
One of the Annulata.
Wainscot
Oaken timber or boarding.
Pervert
To turnanother way; to divert.
Dendritic
Alt. of Dendritical
Shattered
of Shatter
Inactive
Not active; having no power to move; that does not or can not produce results; inert; as, matter is, of itself, inactive.
Unfledged
Not fledged; not feathered; hence, not fully developed; immature.
Illiberal
Not liberal; not free or generous; close; niggardly; mean; sordid.
Conjugation
the act of uniting or combining; union; assemblage.
Ruche
A plaited, quilled, or goffered strip of lace, net, ribbon, or other material, -- used in place of collars or cuffs, and as a trimming for women's dresses and bonnets.
Provincialism
A word, or a manner of speaking, peculiar to a province or a district remote from the mother country or from the metropolis; a provincial characteristic; hence, narrowness; illiberality.
Sanctuary
A sacred place; a consecrated spot; a holy and inviolable site.
Nonacid
Destitute of acid properties; hence, basic; metallic; positive; -- said of certain atoms and radicals.
Enduring
of Endure
Couch
To lay upon a bed or other resting place.
Untidy
Unseasonable; untimely.
Yorkshire
A county in the north of England.
Knead
To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; esp., to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well mixed mass, as the materials of bread, cake, etc.; as, to knead dough..
Niche
A cavity, hollow, or recess, generally within the thickness of a wall, for a statue, bust, or other erect ornament. hence, any similar position, literal or figurative.
Murmuring
of Murmur
