List Words
Oxytone
Having an acute sound; (Gr. Gram.), having an acute accent on the last syllable.
Impressionability
The quality of being impressionable.
Distorted
of Distort
Due
Owed, as a debt; that ought to be paid or done to or for another; payable; owing and demandable.
Foumart
The European polecat; -- called also European ferret, and fitchew. See Polecat.
Baffle
To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight.
Consist
To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained.
Blunder
To make a gross error or mistake; as, to blunder in writing or preparing a medical prescription.
Bran
The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain.
Prate
To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly; to babble.
Paddock
A toad or frog.
Passible
Susceptible of feeling or suffering, or of impressions from external agents.
Psychological
Of or pertaining to psychology. See Note under Psychic.
Blithe
Gay; merry; sprightly; joyous; glad; cheerful; as, a blithe spirit.
Currycomb
A kind of card or comb having rows of metallic teeth or serrated ridges, used in currying a horse.
Corrosion
The action or effect of corrosive agents, or the process of corrosive change; as, the rusting of iron is a variety of corrosion.
Weakening
of Weaken
Veranda
An open, roofed gallery or portico, adjoining a dwelling house, forming an out-of-door sitting room. See Loggia.
Immoderate
Not moderate; exceeding just or usual and suitable bounds; excessive; extravagant; unreasonable; as, immoderate demands; immoderate grief; immoderate laughter.
Bulwark
A rampart; a fortification; a bastion or outwork.
Bluebottle
A plant (Centaurea cyanus) which grows in grain fields. It receives its name from its blue bottle-shaped flowers.
Screw
A cylinder, or a cylindrical perforation, having a continuous rib, called the thread, winding round it spirally at a constant inclination, so as to leave a continuous spiral groove between on..
Fomentation
The act of fomenting; the application of warm, soft, medicinal substances, as for the purpose of easing pain, by relaxing the skin, or of discussing tumors.
Comminatory
Threatening or denouncing punishment; as, comminatory terms.
Compatibility
The quality or power of being compatible or congruous; congruity; as, a compatibility of tempers; a compatibility of properties.
Sociality
The quality of being social; socialness.
Inca
An emperor or monarch of Peru before, or at the time of, the Spanish conquest; any member of this royal dynasty, reputed to have been descendants of the sun.
Billowy
Of or pertaining to billows; swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows.
Virelay
An ancient French song, or short poem, wholly in two rhymes, and composed in short lines, with a refrain.
Decoy
To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap; to insnare; to allure; to entice; as, to decoy troops into an ambush; to decoy ducks into a net.
See
A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.
Wishy-washy
Thin and pale; weak; without strength or substance; -- originally said of liquids. Fig., weak-minded; spiritless.
Dubious
Doubtful or not settled in opinion; being in doubt; wavering or fluctuating; undetermined.
Conform
Of the same form; similar in import; conformable.
Revolutionize
To change completely, as by a revolution; as, to revolutionize a government.
Stentorious
Stentorian.
Collimate
To render parallel to a certain line or direction; to bring into the same line, as the axes of telescopes, etc.; to render parallel, as rays of light.
Folk
Alt. of Folks
Melee
A fight in which the combatants are mingled in one confused mass; a hand to hand conflict; an affray.
Tangible
Perceptible to the touch; tactile; palpable.
Expert
Taught by use, practice, or experience, experienced; having facility of operation or performance from practice; knowing and ready from much practice; clever; skillful; as, an expert surgeon; exp..
Amends
Compensation for a loss or injury; recompense; reparation.
Secondary
Suceeding next in order to the first; of second place, origin, rank, rank, etc.; not primary; subordinate; not of the first order or rate.
Sightless
Wanting sight; without sight; blind.
Seconding
of Second
Appointed
of Appoint
Corresponding
of Correspond
Acherontic
Of or pertaining to Acheron; infernal; hence, dismal, gloomy; moribund.
Cohere
To stick together; to cleave; to be united; to hold fast, as parts of the same mass.
Ebullience
Alt. of Ebulliency
