List Words
Scull
The skull.
Agnation
Consanguinity by a line of males only, as distinguished from cognation.
Starry
Abounding with stars; adorned with stars.
Injustice
Want of justice and equity; violation of the rights of another or others; iniquity; wrong; unfairness; imposition.
Tearful
Abounding with tears; weeping; shedding tears; as, tearful eyes.
Miscarriage
Unfortunate event or issue of an undertaking; failure to attain a desired result or reach a destination.
Telluric
Of or pertaining to the earth; proceeding from the earth.
Pine
Woe; torment; pain.
Ill-omened
Having unlucky omens; inauspicious. See Note under Ill, adv.
Tyrannous
Tyrannical; arbitrary; unjustly severe; despotic.
Parochial
Of or pertaining to a parish; restricted to a parish; as, parochial duties.
Welkin
The visible regions of the air; the vault of heaven; the sky.
Alfilaria
The pin grass (Erodium cicutarium), a weed in California.
Ragpicker
One who gets a living by picking up rags and refuse things in the streets.
Archiepiscopate
The office of an archbishop; an archbishopric.
Dictature
Office of a dictator; dictatorship.
Repel
To drive back; to force to return; to check the advance of; to repulse as, to repel an enemy or an assailant.
Sister
A female who has the same parents with another person, or who has one of them only. In the latter case, she is more definitely called a half sister. The correlative of brother.
Patriarchate
The office, dignity, or jurisdiction of a patriarch.
Omnibus
A long four-wheeled carriage, having seats for many people; especially, one with seats running lengthwise, used in conveying passengers short distances.
Ensnarl
To entangle.
Deplorable
Worthy of being deplored or lamented; lamentable; causing grief; hence, sad; calamitous; grievous; wretched; as, life's evils are deplorable.
Pellicle
A thin skin or film.
Colonnade
A series or range of columns placed at regular intervals with all the adjuncts, as entablature, stylobate, roof, etc.
Irritation
The act of irritating, or exciting, or the state of being irritated; excitement; stimulation, usually of an undue and uncomfortable kind; especially, excitement of anger or passion; provocati..
Contest
To make a subject of dispute, contention, litigation, or emulation; to contend for; to call in question; to controvert; to oppose; to dispute.
Philosophy
Literally, the love of, including the search after, wisdom; in actual usage, the knowledge of phenomena as explained by, and resolved into, causes and reasons, powers and laws.
Retard
To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to hinder; as, to retard the march of an army; to retard the motion of a ship; -- o..
Cope
A covering for the head.
Facility
The quality of being easily performed; freedom from difficulty; ease; as, the facility of an operation.
Elutriation
The process of elutriating; a decanting or racking off by means of water, as finer particles from heavier.
Beget
To procreate, as a father or sire; to generate; -- commonly said of the father.
Frightened
of Frighten
Somebody
A person unknown or uncertain; a person indeterminate; some person.
Quintessence
The fifth or last and highest essence or power in a natural body. See Ferment oils, under Ferment.
Impersonator
One who impersonates; an actor; a mimic.
Contraposition
A placing over against; opposite position.
Console
To cheer in distress or depression; to alleviate the grief and raise the spirits of; to relieve; to comfort; to soothe.
Pressing
of Press
Chaos
An empty, immeasurable space; a yawning chasm.
Clashing
of Clash
Involve
To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.
Apprehending
of Apprehend
Yell
To cry out, or shriek, with a hideous noise; to cry or scream as with agony or horror.
Haulm
The denuded stems or stalks of such crops as buckwheat and the cereal grains, beans, etc.; straw.
Peroration
The concluding part of an oration; especially, a final summing up and enforcement of an argument.
Trident
A kind of scepter or spear with three prongs, -- the common attribute of Neptune.
Subjective
Of or pertaining to a subject.
Deadlock
A lock which is not self-latching, but requires a key to throw the bolt forward.
Discoverer
One who discovers; one who first comes to the knowledge of something; one who discovers an unknown country, or a new principle, truth, or fact.
