List Words
Refashion
To fashion anew; to form or mold into shape a second time.
Digression
The act of digressing or deviating, esp. from the main subject of a discourse; hence, a part of a discourse deviating from its main design or subject.
Periphrasis
See Periphrase.
Freely
In a free manner; without restraint or compulsion; abundantly; gratuitously.
Breccia
A rock composed of angular fragments either of the same mineral or of different minerals, etc., united by a cement, and commonly presenting a variety of colors.
Relevant
Relieving; lending aid or support.
Anastrophe
An inversion of the natural order of words; as, echoed the hills, for, the hills echoed.
Sure-footed
Not liable to stumble or fall; as, a sure-footed horse.
Temporize
To comply with the time or occasion; to humor, or yield to, the current of opinion or circumstances; also, to trim, as between two parties.
Accented
of Accent
Indiscernible
Not to be discerned; imperceptible; not discoverable or visible.
Sonant
Of or pertaining to sound; sounding.
Hang
To be suspended or fastened to some elevated point without support from below; to dangle; to float; to rest; to remain; to stay.
Excursion
A running or going out or forth; an expedition; a sally.
Janus
A Latin deity represented with two faces looking in opposite directions. Numa is said to have dedicated to Janus the covered passage at Rome, near the Forum, which is usually called the Temple o..
Roaming
of Roam
Tortility
The quality or state of being tortile, twisted, or wreathed.
Vagabondage
The condition of a vagabond; a state or habit of wandering about in idleness; vagrancy.
Rivel
To contract into wrinkles; to shrivel; to shrink; as, riveled fruit; riveled flowers.
Circumambiency
The act of surrounding or encompassing.
Snugness
The quality or state of being snug.
Slabbiness
Quality of being slabby.
Stoniness
The quality or state of being stony.
Immediateness
The quality or relations of being immediate in manner, place, or time; exemption from second or interventing causes.
Circumflexion
The act of bending, or causing to assume a curved form.
Sinuation
A winding or bending in and out.
Discursion
The act of discoursing or reasoning; range, as from thought to thought.
Circumnavigation
The act of circumnavigating, or sailing round.
Hardiness
Capability of endurance.
Errantry
A wandering; a roving; esp., a roving in quest of adventures.
Hairpin
A pin, usually forked, or of bent wire, for fastening the hair in place, -- used by women.
Viscidity
The quality or state of being viscid; also, that which is viscid; glutinous concretion; stickiness.
Incrassation
The act or process of thickening or making thick; the process of becoming thick or thicker.
Obliqueness
Quality or state of being oblique.
Indirectness
The quality or state of being indirect; obliquity; deviousness; crookedness.
Roundaboutness
The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
Shadiness
Quality or state of being shady.
Meiosis
Diminution; a species of hyperbole, representing a thing as being less than it really is.
Trope
The use of a word or expression in a different sense from that which properly belongs to it; the use of a word or expression as changed from the original signification to another, for the sake o..
Deflexure
A bending or turning aside; deflection.
Squint
Looking obliquely. Specifically (Med.), not having the optic axes coincident; -- said of the eyes. See Squint, n., 2.
Spissitude
The quality or state of being spissated; as, the spissitude of coagulated blood, or of any coagulum.
Vagary
A wandering or strolling.
Inspissation
The act or the process of inspissating, or thickening a fluid substance, as by evaporation; also, the state of being so thickened.
Chicanery
Mean or unfair artifice to perplex a cause and obscure the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry.
Fold
That which is folded together, or which infolds or envelops; embrace.
Clamminess
State of being clammy or viscous.
Sliminess
The quality or state of being slimy.
Ponderability
The quality or state of being ponderable.
Coagulation
The change from a liquid to a thickened, curdlike, insoluble state, not by evaporation, but by some kind of chemical reaction; as, the spontaneous coagulation of freshly drawn blood; the coag..