List Words
Hugger-mugger
Privacy; secrecy. Commonly in the phrase in hugger-mugger, with haste and secrecy.
Sliver
To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit; as, to sliver wood.
Devour
To eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to feast upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon.
Partition
The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; separation; division; distribution; as, the partition of a kingdom.
Separation
The act of separating, or the state of being separated, or separate.
Quarantine
A space of forty days; -- used of Lent.
Red-hot
Red with heat; heated to redness; as, red-hot iron; red-hot balls. Hence, figuratively, excited; violent; as, a red-hot radical.
Sultry
Very hot, burning, and oppressive; as, Libya's sultry deserts.
Keen
Sharp; having a fine edge or point; as, a keen razor, or a razor with a keen edge.
Kiloliter
Alt. of Kilolitre
Barbarize
To become barbarous.
Friday
The sixth day of the week, following Thursday and preceding Saturday.
Abhorrence
Extreme hatred or detestation; the feeling of utter dislike.
Indisposition
The state of being indisposed; disinclination; as, the indisposition of two substances to combine.
Retardation
The act of retarding; hindrance; the act of delaying; as, the retardation of the motion of a ship; -- opposed to acceleration.
Strongly
In a strong manner; so as to be strong in action or in resistance; with strength; with great force; forcibly; powerfully; firmly; vehemently; as, a town strongly fortified; he objected strong..
Grotesque
A whimsical figure, or scene, such as is found in old crypts and grottoes.
Indisputable
Not disputable; incontrovertible; too evident to admit of dispute.
Dividend
A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- applied to the profits as appropriated among ..
Oppress
To impose excessive burdens upon; to overload; hence, to treat with unjust rigor or with cruelty.
Trestle
A movable frame or support for anything, as scaffolding, consisting of three or four legs secured to a top piece, and forming a sort of stool or horse, used by carpenters, masons, and other work..
Quarry
Same as 1st Quarrel.
Consolidation
The act or process of consolidating, making firm, or uniting; the state of being consolidated; solidification; combination.
Consign
To give, transfer, or deliver, in a formal manner, as if by signing over into the possession of another, or into a different state, with the sense of fixedness in that state, or permanence of ..
Smoke
The visible exhalation, vapor, or substance that escapes, or expelled, from a burning body, especially from burning vegetable matter, as wood, coal, peat, or the like.
Cure
Care, heed, or attention.
Chiliad
A thousand; the aggregate of a thousand things; especially, a period of a thousand years.
Dish
A vessel, as a platter, a plate, a bowl, used for serving up food at the table.
G
G is the name of the fifth tone of the natural or model scale; -- called also sol by the Italians and French. It was also originally used as the treble clef, and has gradually changed into the c..
Decagram
Alt. of Decagramme
Millennium
A thousand years; especially, the thousand years mentioned in the twentieth chapter in the twentieth chapter of Revelation, during which holiness is to be triumphant throughout the world. Som..
Disburse
To pay out; to expend; -- usually from a public fund or treasury.
Installment
The act of installing; installation.
Coddle
To parboil, or soften by boiling.
Beau
A man who takes great care to dress in the latest fashion; a dandy.
Latch
To smear; to anoint.
Swinger
One who swings or whirls.
Back
A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
Jointure
A joining; a joint.
Inconceivable
Not conceivable; incapable of being conceived by the mind; not explicable by the human intellect, or by any known principles or agencies; incomprehensible; as, it is inconceivable to us how the ..
Toss
To throw with the hand; especially, to throw with the palm of the hand upward, or to throw upward; as, to toss a ball.
Clothe
To put garments on; to cover with clothing; to dress.
Fluky
Formed like, or having, a fluke.
Drain
To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to cause the exhaustion of.
Circumjacent
Lying round; bordering on every side.
Coating
of Coat
Racer
One who, or that which, races, or contends in a race; esp., a race horse.
Uphold
To hold up; to lift on high; to elevate.
Patrimony
A right or estate inherited from one's father; or, in a larger sense, from any ancestor.
Infrequent
Seldom happening or occurring; rare; uncommon; unusual.
