List Words
Trouncing
of Trounce
Awesome
Causing awe; appalling; awful; as, an awesome sight.
Pi
A mass of type confusedly mixed or unsorted.
Galloping
of Gallop
Qui vive
The challenge of a French sentinel, or patrol; -- used like the English challenge: "Who comes there?"
Intervention
The act of intervening; interposition.
Clangorous
Making a clangor; having a ringing, metallic sound.
Perverse
Turned aside; hence, specifically, turned away from the right; willfully erring; wicked; perverted.
Collapse
To fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or parts of (a thing) fall in together, or be crushed in together; as, a ..
Heavy
Having the heaves.
Canaille
The lowest class of people; the rabble; the vulgar.
Roman
Of or pertaining to Rome, or the Roman people; like or characteristic of Rome, the Roman people, or things done by Romans; as, Roman fortitude; a Roman aqueduct; Roman art.
Keep
To care; to desire.
Attest
To bear witness to; to certify; to affirm to be true or genuine; as, to attest the truth of a writing, a copy of record.
Intumescence
The act or process of swelling or enlarging; also, the state of being swollen; expansion; tumidity; especially, the swelling up of bodies under the action of heat.
Decide
To cut off; to separate.
Ministry
The act of ministering; ministration; service.
Homeric
Of or pertaining to Homer, the most famous of Greek poets; resembling the poetry of Homer.
Former
One who forms; a maker; a creator.
Crass
Gross; thick; dense; coarse; not elaborated or refined.
Black hole
A dungeon or dark cell in a prison; a military lock-up or guardroom; -- now commonly with allusion to the cell (the Black Hole) in a fort at Calcutta, into which 146 English prisoners were thrus..
Dingy
Alt. of Dinghy
Shag
Coarse hair or nap; rough, woolly hair.
Misapply
To apply wrongly; to use for a wrong purpose; as, to misapply a name or title; to misapply public money.
Reclaimed
of Reclaim
Quip
A smart, sarcastic turn or jest; a taunt; a severe retort; a gibe.
Leaping
of Leap
Taunt
Very high or tall; as, a ship with taunt masts.
Sufficient
Equal to the end proposed; adequate to wants; enough; ample; competent; as, provision sufficient for the family; an army sufficient to defend the country.
Mocking
of Mock
Completely
In a complete manner; fully.
Unquestionable
Not questionable; as, an unquestionable title.
Rugose
Wrinkled; full of wrinkles; specifically (Bot.), having the veinlets sunken and the spaces between them elevated, as the leaves of the sage and horehound.
Jail
A kind of prison; a building for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.
Worry
To harass by pursuit and barking; to attack repeatedly; also, to tear or mangle with the teeth.
Misreport
To report erroneously; to give an incorrect account of.
Ostensorium
Alt. of Ostensory
Hammer
An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle.
Adaptability
Alt. of Adaptableness
Pindaric
Of or pertaining to Pindar, the Greek lyric poet; after the style and manner of Pindar; as, Pindaric odes.
Gut
A narrow passage of water; as, the Gut of Canso.
Osculatory
Of or pertaining to kissing; kissing.
Furbelow
A plaited or gathered flounce on a woman's garment.
Pliability
The quality or state of being pliable; flexibility; as, pliability of disposition.
Preparation
The act of preparing or fitting beforehand for a particular purpose, use, service, or condition; previous arrangement or adaptation; a making ready; as, the preparation of land for a crop of ..
Drilling
of Drill
Prosaic
Alt. of Prosaical
Parvenu
An upstart; a man newly risen into notice.
Scarify
To scratch or cut the skin of; esp. (Med.), to make small incisions in, by means of a lancet or scarificator, so as to draw blood from the smaller vessels without opening a large vein.
Ideal
Existing in idea or thought; conceptional; intellectual; mental; as, ideal knowledge.