List Words
Pitch
A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas, wood, ironwork, etc., to preserve them.
Enigma
A dark, obscure, or inexplicable saying; a riddle; a statement, the hidden meaning of which is to be discovered or guessed.
Liberated
of Liberate
Reconnoiter
Alt. of Reconnoitre
Stripe
A line, or long, narrow division of anything of a different color or structure from the ground; hence, any linear variation of color or structure; as, a stripe, or streak, of red on a green grou..
Stipple
To engrave by means of dots, in distinction from engraving in lines.
Palatial
Of or pertaining to a palace; suitable for a palace; resembling a palace; royal; magnificent; as, palatial structures.
Exhumation
The act of exhuming that which has been buried; as, the exhumation of a body.
Gelatin
Alt. of Gelatine
Gilt
of Gild
Responsibility
The state of being responsible, accountable, or answerable, as for a trust, debt, or obligation.
Pilgarlic
One who has lost his hair by disease; a sneaking fellow, or one who is hardly used.
Aye
Alt. of Ay
Affirmative
Confirmative; ratifying; as, an act affirmative of common law.
Permission
The act of permitting or allowing; formal consent; authorization; leave; license or liberty granted.
Universe
All created things viewed as constituting one system or whole; the whole body of things, or of phenomena; the / / of the Greeks, the mundus of the Latins; the world; creation.
Charge
To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.
Pupil
The aperture in the iris; the sight, apple, or black of the eye. See the Note under Eye, and Iris.
Ordain
To set in order; to arrange according to rule; to regulate; to set; to establish.
Glint
A glimpse, glance, or gleam.
Alphabet
The letters of a language arranged in the customary order; the series of letters or signs which form the elements of written language.
Barnacle
Any cirriped crustacean adhering to rocks, floating timber, ships, etc., esp. (a) the sessile species (genus Balanus and allies), and (b) the stalked or goose barnacles (genus Lepas and allie..
Scar
A mark in the skin or flesh of an animal, made by a wound or ulcer, and remaining after the wound or ulcer is healed; a cicatrix; a mark left by a previous injury; a blemish; a disfigurement.
Dear-bought
Bought at a high price; as, dear-bought experience.
Soak
To cause or suffer to lie in a fluid till the substance has imbibed what it can contain; to macerate in water or other liquid; to steep, as for the purpose of softening or freshening; as, to soa..
Besmear
To smear with any viscous, glutinous matter; to bedaub; to soil.
Stereotype
A plate forming an exact faximile of a page of type or of an engraving, used in printing books, etc.; specifically, a plate with type-metal face, used for printing.
Rubric
That part of any work in the early manuscripts and typography which was colored red, to distinguish it from other portions.
Slouch
A hanging down of the head; a drooping attitude; a limp appearance; an ungainly, clownish gait; a sidewise depression or hanging down, as of a hat brim.
Borrow
To receive from another as a loan, with the implied or expressed intention of returning the identical article or its equivalent in kind; -- the opposite of lend.
Engraft
See Ingraft.
Two-edged
Having two edges, or edges on both sides; as, a two-edged sword.
Ameliorate
To make better; to improve; to meliorate.
Trend
To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend; as, the shore of the sea trends to the southwest.
Aptness
Fitness; suitableness; appropriateness; as, the aptness of things to their end.
Clinch
To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly.
Conglomeration
The act or process of gathering into a mass; the state of being thus collected; collection; accumulation; that which is conglomerated; a mixed mass.
Overzealous
Too zealous.
Stuck
of Stick
Incubate
To sit, as on eggs for hatching; to brood; to brood upon, or keep warm, as eggs, for the purpose of hatching.
Fasten
To fix firmly; to make fast; to secure, as by a knot, lock, bolt, etc.; as, to fasten a chain to the feet; to fasten a door or window.
Arrange
To put in proper order; to dispose (persons, or parts) in the manner intended, or best suited for the purpose; as, troops arranged for battle.
Data
See Datum.
Invest
To put garments on; to clothe; to dress; to array; -- opposed to divest. Usually followed by with, sometimes by in; as, to invest one with a robe.
Icon
An image or representation; a portrait or pretended portrait.
Ask
To request; to seek to obtain by words; to petition; to solicit; -- often with of, in the sense of from, before the person addressed.
Draw
To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.
Lucidness
The quality of being lucid; lucidity.
Oftenness
Frequency.
Diagram
A figure or drawing made to illustrate a statement, or facilitate a demonstration; a plan.