List Words
Ginger
A plant of the genus Zingiber, of the East and West Indies. The species most known is Z. officinale.
Primitiveness
The quality or state of being primitive; conformity to primitive style or practice.
Shortly
In a short or brief time or manner; soon; quickly.
Adventurousness
The quality or state of being adventurous; daring; venturesomeness.
Ambitiousness
The quality of being ambitious; ambition; pretentiousness.
Precipitately
In a precipitate manner; headlong; hastily; rashly.
Security
Freedom from risk; safety.
Rise
To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light, as dough, and the like.
Dichastic
Capable of subdividing spontaneously.
Bowwow
An onomatopoetic name for a dog or its bark.
Dietetics
That part of the medical or hygienic art which relates to diet or food; rules for diet.
Ditty
A saying or utterance; especially, one that is short and frequently repeated; a theme.
Transmitter
One who, or that which, transmits; specifically, that portion of a telegraphic or telephonic instrument by means of which a message is sent; -- opposed to receiver.
Canzonet
A short song, in one or more parts.
Calypso
A small and beautiful species of orchid, having a flower variegated with purple, pink, and yellow. It grows in cold and wet localities in the northern part of the United States. The Calypso b..
Moodiness
The quality or state of being moody; specifically, liability to strange or violent moods.
Cavatina
Originally, a melody of simpler form than the aria; a song without a second part and a da capo; -- a term now variously and vaguely used.
Inwards
Toward the inside; toward the center or interior; as, to bend a thing inward.
Studded
of Stud
Radiograph
A picture produced by the Rontgen rays upon a sensitive surface, photographic or fluorescent, especially a picture of opaque objects traversed by the rays.
Jejunum
The middle division of the small intestine, between the duodenum and ileum; -- so called because usually found empty after death.
Embarkation
The act of putting or going on board of a vessel; as, the embarkation of troops.
Scavenger
A person whose employment is to clean the streets of a city, by scraping or sweeping, and carrying off the filth. The name is also applied to any animal which devours refuse, carrion, or anythin..
Rectum
The terminal part of the large intestine; -- so named because supposed by the old anatomists to be straight. See Illust. under Digestive.
Wimple
A covering of silk, linen, or other material, for the neck and chin, formerly worn by women as an outdoor protection, and still retained in the dress of nuns.
Stopping
of Stop
Duds
Old or inferior clothes; tattered garments.
Chronometer
An instrument for measuring time; a timekeeper.
Glumness
Moodiness; sullenness.
Flecked
of Fleck
Aubade
An open air concert in the morning, as distinguished from an evening serenade; also, a pianoforte composition suggestive of morning.
Vitals
Organs that are necessary for life; more especially, the heart, lungs, and brain.
Punctated
Alt. of Punctated
Serenata
Alt. of Serenate
Notched
of Notch
Tyke
See 2d Tike.
Abstracted
of Abstract
Previously
Beforehand; antecedently; as, a plan previously formed.
Misspent
of Misspend
Coumarin
The concrete essence of the tonka bean, the fruit of Dipterix (formerly Coumarouna) odorata and consisting essentially of coumarin proper, which is a white crystalline substance, C9H6O2, of v..
Cravat
A neckcloth; a piece of silk, fine muslin, or other cloth, worn by men about the neck.
Bandog
A mastiff or other large and fierce dog, usually kept chained or tied up.
If
In case that; granting, allowing, or supposing that; -- introducing a condition or supposition.
Circumvolution
The act of rolling round; the state of being rolled.
Theretofore
Up to that time; before then; -- correlative with heretofore.
Though
Granting, admitting, or supposing that; notwithstanding that; if.
Wishedly
According to wish; conformably to desire.
Skip
A charge of sirup in the pans.
Although
Grant all this; be it that; supposing that; notwithstanding; though.
Canine
A canine tooth.
