List Words
Levee
The act of rising.
Fling
To cast, send, to throw from the hand; to hurl; to dart; to emit with violence as if thrown from the hand; as, to fing a stone into the pond.
Figuration
The act of giving figure or determinate form; determination to a certain form.
Acreage
Acres collectively; as, the acreage of a farm or a country.
Bourn
Alt. of Bourne
Bond
That which binds, ties, fastens, or confines, or by which anything is fastened or bound, as a cord, chain, etc.; a band; a ligament; a shackle or a manacle.
Disturb
To throw into disorder or confusion; to derange; to interrupt the settled state of; to excite from a state of rest.
Basis
The foundation of anything; that on which a thing rests.
Lexicology
The science of the derivation and signification of words; that branch of learning which treats of the signification and application of words.
Fixed
of Fix
Morphology
That branch of biology which deals with the structure of animals and plants, treating of the forms of organs and describing their varieties, homologies, and metamorphoses. See Tectology, and ..
Intervene
To come between, or to be between, persons or things; -- followed by between; as, the Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa.
Arbitrate
To hear and decide, as arbitrators; as, to choose to arbitrate a disputed case.
Arrangement
The act of arranging or putting in an orderly condition; the state of being arranged or put in order; disposition in suitable form.
Glottology
The science of tongues or languages; comparative philology; glossology.
Compact
Joined or held together; leagued; confederated.
Interpose
To place between; as, to interpose a screen between the eye and the light.
Prone
Bending forward; inclined; not erect.
Arranged
of Arrange
Systematized
of Systematize
Graded
of Grade
Catch
To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to grasp (anything) in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a ball.
Tectonics
The science, or the art, by which implements, vessels, dwellings, or other edifices, are constructed, both agreeably to the end for which they are designed, and in conformity with artistic se..
Fume
Exhalation; volatile matter (esp. noxious vapor or smoke) ascending in a dense body; smoke; vapor; reek; as, the fumes of tobacco.
Flutter
To vibrate or move quickly; as, a bird flutters its wings.
Scramble
To clamber with hands and knees; to scrabble; as, to scramble up a cliff; to scramble over the rocks.
Hasten
To press; to drive or urge forward; to push on; to precipitate; to accelerate the movement of; to expedite; to hurry.
Leak
A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape; as, a leak in a roof; a leak in a boat; a leak in a gas pipe.
Diffusion
The act of diffusing, or the state of being diffused; a spreading; extension; dissemination; circulation; dispersion.
Scald
To burn with hot liquid or steam; to pain or injure by contact with, or immersion in, any hot fluid; as, to scald the hand.
Smash
To break in pieces by violence; to dash to pieces; to crush.
Construction
The process or art of constructing; the act of building; erection; the act of devising and forming; fabrication; composition.
Manacle
A handcuff; a shackle for the hand or wrist; -- usually in the plural.
Breakdown
The act or result of breaking down, as of a carriage; downfall.
Embellishment
The act of adorning, or the state of being adorned; adornment.
Superflux
Superabundance; superfluity; an overflowing.
Filling
of Fill
Overplus
That which remains after a supply, or beyond a quantity proposed; surplus.
Expletive
Filling up; hence, added merely for the purpose of filling up; superfluous.
Plethora
Overfullness; especially, excessive fullness of the blood vessels; repletion; that state of the blood vessels or of the system when the blood exceeds a healthy standard in quantity; hyperaemia; ..
Compose
To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion.
Track
A mark left by something that has passed along; as, the track, or wake, of a ship; the track of a meteor; the track of a sled or a wheel.
Province
A country or region, more or less remote from the city of Rome, brought under the Roman government; a conquered country beyond the limits of Italy.
Realm
A royal jurisdiction or domain; a region which is under the dominion of a king; a kingdom.
Weave
To unite, as threads of any kind, in such a manner as to form a texture; to entwine or interlace into a fabric; as, to weave wool, silk, etc.; hence, to unite by close connection or intermixture..
Pigeonhole
A small compartment in a desk or case for the keeping of letters, documents, etc.; -- so called from the resemblance of a row of them to the compartments in a dovecote.
Rend
To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to tear asunder; to split; to burst; as, powder rends a rock in blasting; lightning rends an oak.
Impose
To lay on; to set or place; to put; to deposit.
Promise
In general, a declaration, written or verbal, made by one person to another, which binds the person who makes it to do, or to forbear to do, a specified act; a declaration which gives to the per..
Saw
imp. of See.
