List Words
Duelist
One who fights in single combat.
Freeze
A frieze.
Trepidation
An involuntary trembling, sometimes an effect of paralysis, but usually caused by terror or fear; quaking; quivering.
Particle
A minute part or portion of matter; a morsel; a little bit; an atom; a jot; as, a particle of sand, of wood, of dust.
Ordeal
An ancient form of test to determine guilt or innocence, by appealing to a supernatural decision, -- once common in Europe, and still practiced in the East and by savage tribes.
Mechanic
The art of the application of the laws of motion or force to construction.
Allaying
of Allay
Lamina
A thin plate or scale; a layer or coat lying over another; -- said of thin plates or platelike substances, as of bone or minerals.
Rupture
The act of breaking apart, or separating; the state of being broken asunder; as, the rupture of the skin; the rupture of a vessel or fiber; the rupture of a lutestring.
Reposeful
Full of repose; quiet.
Racket
A thin strip of wood, having the ends brought together, forming a somewhat elliptical hoop, across which a network of catgut or cord is stretched. It is furnished with a handle, and is used for ..
Hew
To cut with an ax; to fell with a sharp instrument; -- often with down, or off.
Dethrone
To remove or drive from a throne; to depose; to divest of supreme authority and dignity.
Surface
The exterior part of anything that has length and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid, esp. the upper face; superficies; the outside; as, the surface of the earth; the surface of a dia..
Sweet
Having an agreeable taste or flavor such as that of sugar; saccharine; -- opposed to sour and bitter; as, a sweet beverage; sweet fruits; sweet oranges.
Resort
Active power or movement; spring.
Smooch
See Smutch.
Furlough
Leave of abserice; especially, leave given to an offcer or soldier to be absent from service for a certain time; also, the document granting leave of absence.
Scarecrow
Anything set up to frighten crows or other birds from cornfields; hence, anything terifying without danger.
Expansion
The act of expanding or spreading out; the condition of being expanded; dilation; enlargement.
Unsaddle
To strip of a saddle; to take the saddle from, as a horse.
Deconsecrate
To deprive of sacredness; to secularize.
Affectionateness
The quality of being affectionate; fondness; affection.
Cenotaph
An empty tomb or a monument erected in honor of a person who is buried elsewhere.
Outstanding
That stands out; undischarged; uncollected; not paid; as, outstanding obligations.
Technological
Of or pertaining to technology.
Emptiness
The state of being empty; absence of contents; void space; vacuum; as, the emptiness of a vessel; emptiness of the stomach.
Pawn
See Pan, the masticatory.
Fancy
The faculty by which the mind forms an image or a representation of anything perceived before; the power of combining and modifying such objects into new pictures or images; the power of read..
Tinker
A mender of brass kettles, pans, and other metal ware.
Peachy
Resembling a peach or peaches.
Just
Conforming or conformable to rectitude or justice; not doing wrong to any; violating no right or obligation; upright; righteous; honest; true; -- said both of persons and things.
Tetrameter
A verse or line consisting of four measures, that is, in iambic, trochaic, and anapestic verse, of eight feet; in other kinds of verse, of four feet.
Stickiness
The quality of being sticky; as, the stickiness of glue or paste.
Guru
A spiritual teacher, guide, or confessor amoung the Hindoos.
Conjugate
United in pairs; yoked together; coupled.
Cosset
A lamb reared without the aid of the dam. Hence: A pet, in general.
Notable
Capable of being noted; noticeable; plan; evident.
Liquid
Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid.
Buttress
A projecting mass of masonry, used for resisting the thrust of an arch, or for ornament and symmetry.
Escarpment
A steep descent or declivity; steep face or edge of a ridge; ground about a fortified place, cut away nearly vertically to prevent hostile approach. See Scarp.
Convenient
Fit or adapted; suitable; proper; becoming; appropriate.
True
Conformable to fact; in accordance with the actual state of things; correct; not false, erroneous, inaccurate, or the like; as, a true relation or narration; a true history; a declaration is tru..
Psychologic
Alt. of Psychological
Dodge
To start suddenly aside, as to avoid a blow or a missile; to shift place by a sudden start.
Redoubt
A small, and usually a roughly constructed, fort or outwork of varying shape, commonly erected for a temporary purpose, and without flanking defenses, -- used esp. in fortifying tops of hills an..
Underpinning
of Underpin
Fetter
A chain or shackle for the feet; a chain by which an animal is confined by the foot, either made fast or disabled from free and rapid motion; a bond; a shackle.
Truce
A suspension of arms by agreement of the commanders of opposing forces; a temporary cessation of hostilities, for negotiation or other purpose; an armistice.
Spile
A small plug or wooden pin, used to stop a vent, as in a cask.
