List Words
Battalion
A body of troops; esp. a body of troops or an army in battle array.
Plumbing
of Plumb
Supply
To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an aqueduct supplies an artificial lake; -- of..
Accouterments
Alt. of Accoutrements
Brigade
A body of troops, whether cavalry, artillery, infantry, or mixed, consisting of two or more regiments, under the command of a brigadier general.
Plant
A vegetable; an organized living being, generally without feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though consisting sometimes only of a single leafy ..
Platoon
Formerly, a body of men who fired together; also, a small square body of soldiers to strengthen the angles of a hollow square.
Covey
A brood or hatch of birds; an old bird with her brood of young; hence, a small flock or number of birds together; -- said of game; as, a covey of partridges.
Equipage
Furniture or outfit, whether useful or ornamental; especially, the furniture and supplies of a vessel, fitting her for a voyage or for warlike purposes, or the furniture and necessaries of an ..
Fleet
To sail; to float.
Ensemble
The whole; all the parts taken together.
Materiel
That in a complex system which constitutes the materials, or instruments employed, in distinction from the personnel, or men; as, the baggage, munitions, provisions, etc., of an army; or the bui..
Apparatus
of Apparatus
Movement
The act of moving; change of place or posture; transference, by any means, from one situation to another; natural or appropriate motion; progress; advancement; as, the movement of an army in ..
Buskin
A strong, protecting covering for the foot, coming some distance up the leg.
Oleomargarine
A liquid oil made from animal fats (esp. beef fat) by separating the greater portion of the solid fat or stearin, by crystallization. It is mainly a mixture of olein and palmitin with some li..
Fluid
Having particles which easily move and change their relative position without a separation of the mass, and which easily yield to pressure; capable of flowing; liquid or gaseous.
Madame
My lady; -- a French title formerly given to ladies of quality; now, in France, given to all married women.
Cheese
The curd of milk, coagulated usually with rennet, separated from the whey, and pressed into a solid mass in a hoop or mold.
Jest
A deed; an action; a gest.
Geodesy
That branch of applied mathematics which determines, by means of observations and measurements, the figures and areas of large portions of the earth's surface, or the general figure and dimenshi..
Madam
A gentlewoman; -- an appellation or courteous form of address given to a lady, especially an elderly or a married lady; -- much used in the address, at the beginning of a letter, to a woman. The..
Bespatter
To soil by spattering; to sprinkle, esp. with dirty water, mud, or anything which will leave foul spots or stains.
Deanery
The office or the revenue of a dean. See the Note under Benefice, n., 3.
Chorography
the mapping or description of a region or district.
Tintinnabulous
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the tinkling of a bell; having a tinkling sound; tintinnabular.
Dabble
To wet by little dips or strokes; to spatter; to sprinkle; to moisten; to wet.
Churl
A rustic; a countryman or laborer.
Splash
To strike and dash about, as water, mud, etc.; to plash.
Geoscopy
Knowledge of the earth, ground, or soil, obtained by inspection.
Humectate
To moisten; to wet.
Swash
An oval figure, whose moldings are oblique to the axis of the work.
Irrigate
To water; to wet; to moisten with running or dropping water; to bedew.
Extinguisher
One who, or that which, extinguishes; esp., a hollow cone or other device for extinguishing a flame, as of a torch or candle.
Heroic
Of or pertaining to, or like, a hero; of the nature of heroes; distinguished by the existence of heroes; as, the heroic age; an heroic people; heroic valor.
Rectory
The province of a rector; a parish church, parsonage, or spiritual living, with all its rights, tithes, and glebes.
Devising
of Devise
Besprinkle
To sprinkle over; to scatter over.
Overpowered
of Overpower
Spray
A small shoot or branch; a twig.
Rain
Reign.
Hose
of Hose
Pile
A hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton, and the like; also, the nap when thick or heavy, as of carpeting and velvet.
Harvesting
of Harvest
Geognosy
That part of geology which treats of the materials of the earth's structure, and its general exterior and interior constitution.
Mermaid
A fabled marine creature, typically represented as having the upper part like that of a woman, and the lower like a fish; a sea nymph, sea woman, or woman fish.
Surveying
of Survey
Physiography
The science which treats of the earth's exterior physical features, climate, life, etc., and of the physical movements or changes on the earth's surface, as the currents of the atmosphere and..
Wet
Containing, or consisting of, water or other liquid; moist; soaked with a liquid; having water or other liquid upon the surface; as, wet land; a wet cloth; a wet table.
Milk
A white fluid secreted by the mammary glands of female mammals for the nourishment of their young, consisting of minute globules of fat suspended in a solution of casein, albumin, milk sugar, ..
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