List Words
Enfold
To infold. See Infold.
Cockney
An effeminate person; a spoilt child.
Agamic
Not having visible organs of reproduction, as flowerless plants; agamous.
Remaining
of Remain
Indocile
Not teachable; indisposed to be taught, trained, or disciplined; not easily instructed or governed; dull; intractable.
Sough
A sow.
Crazed
of Craze
Tidy
The wren; -- called also tiddy.
Castrated
of Castrate
Preoccupied
of Preoccupy
Sureness
The state of being sure; certainty.
Voyage
Formerly, a passage either by sea or land; a journey, in general; but not chiefly limited to a passing by sea or water from one place, port, or country, to another; especially, a passing or jour..
Tolerable
Capable of being borne or endured; supportable, either physically or mentally.
Fenny
Pertaining to, or inhabiting, a fen; abounding in fens; swampy; boggy.
Bullheaded
Having a head like that of a bull. Fig.: Headstrong; obstinate; dogged.
Lavish
Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal; as, lavish of money; lavish of praise.
Callow
Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged.
Shortsighted
Not able to see far; nearsighted; myopic. See Myopic, and Myopia.
Burned
of Burn
Abiogenesis
The supposed origination of living organisms from lifeless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents; spontaneous generation; -- called also abiogeny, and opposed ..
Narrow-minded
Of narrow mental scope; illiberal; mean.
Ephemeral
Beginning and ending in a day; existing only, or no longer than, a day; diurnal; as, an ephemeral flower.
Ingemination
Repetition; reduplication; reiteration.
Popping
of Pop
Atticism
A favoring of, or attachment to, the Athenians.
Timbrel
A kind of drum, tabor, or tabret, in use from the highest antiquity.
Mulish
Like a mule; sullen; stubborn.
Bigoted
Obstinately and blindly attached to some creed, opinion practice, or ritual; unreasonably devoted to a system or party, and illiberal toward the opinions of others.
Antinomy
Opposition of one law or rule to another law or rule.
Revolve
To turn or roll round on, or as on, an axis, like a wheel; to rotate, -- which is the more specific word in this sense.
Doubleness
The state of being double or doubled.
Transplace
To remove across some space; to put in an opposite or another place.
Esprit
Spirit.
Impervious
Not pervious; not admitting of entrance or passage through; as, a substance impervious to water or air.
Ungenerous
Not generous; illiberal; ignoble; unkind; dishonorable.
Arborary
Of or pertaining to trees; arboreal.
Oxymoron
A figure in which an epithet of a contrary signification is added to a word; e. g., cruel kindness; laborious idleness.
Bushy
Thick and spreading, like a bush.
Outgrowth
That which grows out of, or proceeds from, anything; an excrescence; an offshoot; hence, a result or consequence.
Amphibology
A phrase, discourse, or proposition, susceptible of two interpretations; and hence, of uncertain meaning. It differs from equivocation, which arises from the twofold sense of a single term.
Acception
Acceptation; the received meaning.
Tacky
Sticky; adhesive; raw; -- said of paint, varnish, etc., when not well dried.
Arboreal
Of or pertaining to a tree, or to trees; of nature of trees.
Dendroid
Alt. of Dendroidal
Dendriform
Resembling in structure a tree or shrub.
Stunned
of Stun
Triennial
Continuing three years; as, triennial parliaments; a triennial reign.
Lasting
of Last
Barrage
An artificial bar or obstruction placed in a river or water course to increase the depth of water; as, the barrages of the Nile.
Marshy
Resembling a marsh; wet; boggy; fenny.
