List Words
Melon
The juicy fruit of certain cucurbitaceous plants, as the muskmelon, watermelon, and citron melon; also, the plant that produces the fruit.
Helping
of Help
Moist
Moderately wet; damp; humid; not dry; as, a moist atmosphere or air.
Set-to
A contest in boxing, in an argument, or the like.
Itching
of Itch
Devout
Devoted to religion or to religious feelings and duties; absorbed in religious exercises; given to devotion; pious; reverent; religious.
Formal
See Methylal.
Current
Running or moving rapidly.
Beseeching
of Beseech
Healthful
Full of health; free from illness or disease; well; whole; sound; healthy; as, a healthful body or mind; a healthful plant.
Aware
Watchful; vigilant or on one's guard against danger or difficulty.
Animating
of Animate
Grace
The exercise of love, kindness, mercy, favor; disposition to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred.
Nice
Foolish; silly; simple; ignorant; also, weak; effeminate.
Conscientious
Influenced by conscience; governed by a strict regard to the dictates of conscience, or by the known or supposed rules of right and wrong; -- said of a person.
Meticulous
Timid; fearful.
Heated
of Heat
Kyrie eleison
Greek words, meaning "Lord, have mercy upon us," used in the Mass, the breviary offices, the litany of the saints, etc.
Acquitment
Acquittal.
Sedate
Undisturbed by passion or caprice; calm; tranquil; serene; not passionate or giddy; composed; staid; as, a sedate soul, mind, or temper.
Hot
of Hight
Gully
A large knife.
Careful
Full of care; anxious; solicitous.
Comprehension
The act of comprehending, containing, or comprising; inclusion.
Automatic
Alt. of Automatical
Reconciled
of Reconcile
Somber
Alt. of Sombre
Assiduous
Constant in application or attention; devoted; attentive; unremitting.
Voiceful
Having a voice or vocal quality; having a loud voice or many voices; vocal; sounding.
Cohort
A body of about five or six hundred soldiers; the tenth part of a legion.
Suit
The act of following or pursuing, as game; pursuit.
Orison
A prayer; a supplication.
Cong
An abbreviation of Congius.
Fervid
Very hot; burning; boiling.
Desirous
Feeling desire; eagerly wishing; solicitous; eager to obtain; covetous.
Dinghy
A kind of boat used in the East Indies.
Awful
Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling; terrible; as, an awful scene.
Elegiac
Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains.
Hindrance
The act of hindering, or the state of being hindered.
Sainthood
The state of being a saint; the condition of a saint.
Mnemonic
Alt. of Mnemonical
Trough
A long, hollow vessel, generally for holding water or other liquid, especially one formed by excavating a log longitudinally on one side; a long tray; also, a wooden channel for conveying water,..
Sweetmeat
Fruit preserved with sugar, as peaches, pears, melons, nuts, orange peel, etc.; -- usually in the plural; a confect; a confection.
Tincture
A tinge or shade of color; a tint; as, a tincture of red.
Antispast
A foot of four syllables, the first and fourth short, and the second and third long (#).
Screech
To utter a harsh, shrill cry; to make a sharp outcry, as in terror or acute pain; to scream; to shriek.
Tribrach
A poetic foot of three short syllables, as, meblius.
Dactyl
A poetical foot of three sylables (-- ~ ~), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented; as, L. tegm/n/, E. mer\b6ciful; -- so called from the similarity of its ..
Anacrusis
A prefix of one or two unaccented syllables to a verse properly beginning with an accented syllable.
Quantum
Quantity; amount.