List Words
Casemate
A bombproof chamber, usually of masonry, in which cannon may be placed, to be fired through embrasures; or one capable of being used as a magazine, or for quartering troops.
Citadel
A fortress in or near a fortified city, commanding the city and fortifications, and intended as a final point of defense.
Bruise
To injure, as by a blow or collision, without laceration; to contuse; as, to bruise one's finger with a hammer; to bruise the bark of a tree with a stone; to bruise an apple by letting it fal..
Circumscription
An inscription written around anything.
Merlon
One of the solid parts of a battlemented parapet; a battlement. See Illust. of Battlement.
Inspire
To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate.
Horde
A wandering troop or gang; especially, a clan or tribe of a nomadic people migrating from place to place for the sake of pasturage, plunder, etc.; a predatory multitude.
Crony
A crone.
Straggle
To wander from the direct course or way; to rove; to stray; to wander from the line of march or desert the line of battle; as, when troops are on the march, the men should not straggle.
Embarrassment
A state of being embarrassed; perplexity; impediment to freedom of action; entanglement; hindrance; confusion or discomposure of mind, as from not knowing what to do or to say; disconcertedne..
Patter
To strike with a quick succession of slight, sharp sounds; as, pattering rain or hail; pattering feet.
Squeal
To cry with a sharp, shrill, prolonged sound, as certain animals do, indicating want, displeasure, or pain.
Rounded
of Round
Totter
To shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; to be unsteady; to stagger; as,an old man totters with age.
Battering
of Batter
Fantastic
Existing only in imagination; fanciful; imaginary; not real; chimerical.
Chevron
One of the nine honorable ordinaries, consisting of two broad bands of the width of the bar, issuing, respectively from the dexter and sinister bases of the field and conjoined at its center.
Violent
Moving or acting with physical strength; urged or impelled with force; excited by strong feeling or passion; forcible; vehement; impetuous; fierce; furious; severe; as, a violent blow; the viole..
Endorse
Same as Indorse.
Snag
A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch; a knot; a protuberance.
Dabster
One who is skilled; a master of his business; a proficient; an adept.
Plenty
Full or adequate supply; enough and to spare; sufficiency; specifically, abundant productiveness of the earth; ample supply for human wants; abundance; copiousness.
War
Ware; aware.
Overgrown
of Overgrow
Lock step
A mode of marching by a body of men going one after another as closely as possible, in which the leg of each moves at the same time with the corresponding leg of the person before him.
Fix
Fixed; solidified.
Riveted
of Rivet
Revokement
Revocation.
Strut
To swell; to bulge out.
Bed
An article of furniture to sleep or take rest in or on; a couch. Specifically: A sack or mattress, filled with some soft material, in distinction from the bedstead on which it is placed (as, a ..
Reassure
To assure anew; to restore confidence to; to free from fear or terror.
Stomp
To stamp with the foot.
Opposite
Placed over against; standing or situated over against or in front; facing; -- often with to; as, a house opposite to the Exchange.
Conceiver
One who conceives.
External
Outward; exterior; relating to the outside, as of a body; being without; acting from without; -- opposed to internal; as, the external form or surface of a body.
Assure
To make sure or certain; to render confident by a promise, declaration, or other evidence.
Matchless
Having no equal; unequaled.
Extremity
The extreme part; the utmost limit; the farthest or remotest point or part; as, the extremities of a country.
Insolent
Deviating from that which is customary; novel; strange; unusual.
Distinguished
of Distinguish
Emergency
Sudden or unexpected appearance; an unforeseen occurrence; a sudden occasion.
Peripheral
Of or pertaining to a periphery; constituting a periphery; peripheric.
Magnificent
Doing grand things; admirable in action; displaying great power or opulence, especially in building, way of living, and munificence.
Relief
The act of relieving, or the state of being relieved; the removal, or partial removal, of any evil, or of anything oppressive or burdensome, by which some ease is obtained; succor; alleviation; ..
Obtuse
Not pointed or acute; blunt; -- applied esp. to angles greater than a right angle, or containing more than ninety degrees.
Pean
One of the furs, the ground being sable, and the spots or tufts or.
Uncommon
Not common; unusual; infrequent; rare; hence, remarkable; strange; as, an uncommon season; an uncommon degree of cold or heat; uncommon courage.
Exceeding
of Exceed
Succubus
A demon or fiend; especially, a lascivious spirit supposed to have sexual intercourse with the men by night; a succuba. Cf. Incubus.
Addition
The act of adding two or more things together; -- opposed to subtraction or diminution.
