List Words
Break
To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or coal; to break a lock.
Brandied
Mingled with brandy; made stronger by the addition of brandy; flavored or treated with brandy; as, brandied peaches.
Hardtail
See Jurel.
Melilot
Any species of Melilotus, a genus of leguminous herbs having a vanillalike odor; sweet clover; hart's clover. The blue melilot (Melilotus caerulea) is used in Switzerland to give color and fl..
Jurel
A yellow carangoid fish of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts (Caranx chrysos), most abundant southward, where it is valued as a food fish; -- called also hardtail, horse crevalle, jack, buffalo jack,..
Hydrometer
An instrument, variously constructed, used for measuring the velocity or discharge of water, as in rivers, from reservoirs, etc., and called by various specific names according to its constru..
Blare
To sound loudly and somewhat harshly.
Blat
To cry, as a calf or sheep; to bleat; to make a senseless noise; to talk inconsiderately.
Bray
To pound, beat, rub, or grind small or fine.
Burr
Any rough or prickly envelope of the seeds of plants, whether a pericarp, a persistent calyx, or an involucre, as of the chestnut and burdock. Also, any weed which bears burs.
Burst
of Burst
Buzz
To make a low, continuous, humming or sibilant sound, like that made by bees with their wings. Hence: To utter a murmuring sound; to speak with a low, humming voice.
Cackle
To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does.
Cascade
A fall of water over a precipice, as in a river or brook; a waterfall less than a cataract.
Caw
To cry like a crow, rook, or raven.
Clang
To strike together so as to produce a ringing metallic sound.
Clangor
A sharp, harsh, ringing sound.
Clank
A sharp, brief, ringing sound, made by a collision of metallic or other sonorous bodies; -- usually expressing a duller or less resounding sound than clang, and a deeper and stronger sound than ..
Clash
To make a noise by striking against something; to dash noisily together.
Craunch
To crush with the teeth; to chew with violence and noise; to crunch.
Croak
To make a low, hoarse noise in the throat, as a frog, a raven, or a crow; hence, to make any hoarse, dismal sound.
Crump
Crooked; bent.
Crunch
To chew with force and noise; to craunch.
Discharge
To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.
Disgorge
To eject or discharge by the throat and mouth; to vomit; to pour forth or throw out with violence, as if from the mouth; to discharge violently or in great quantities from a confined place.
Dissiliency
The act of leaping or starting asunder.
Eject
To expel; to dismiss; to cast forth; to thrust or drive out; to discharge; as, to eject a person from a room; to eject a traitor from the country; to eject words from the language.
Eruct
Alt. of Eructate
Eructate
To eject, as wind, from the stomach; to belch.
Eructation
The act of belching wind from the stomach; a belch.
Erupt
To cause to burst forth; to eject; as, to erupt lava.
Eruption
The act of breaking out or bursting forth; as: (a) A violent throwing out of flames, lava, etc., as from a volcano of a fissure in the earth's crust. (b) A sudden and overwhelming hostile mov..
Expel
To drive or force out from that within which anything is contained, inclosed, or situated; to eject; as to expel air from a bellows.
Flare-up
A sudden burst of anger or passion; an angry dispute.
Gas
An aeriform fluid; -- a term used at first by chemists as synonymous with air, but since restricted to fluids supposed to be permanently elastic, as oxygen, hydrogen, etc., in distinction from ..
Grind
To reduce to powder by friction, as in a mill, or with the teeth; to crush into small fragments; to produce as by the action of millstones.
Groan
To give forth a low, moaning sound in breathing; to utter a groan, as in pain, in sorrow, or in derision; to moan.
Growl
To utter a deep guttural sound, sa an angry dog; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound.
Grumble
To murmur or mutter with discontent; to make ill-natured complaints in a low voice and a surly manner.
Gush
To issue with violence and rapidity, as a fluid; to rush forth as a fluid from confinement; to flow copiously.
Jangle
To sound harshly or discordantly, as bells out of tune.
Jar
A turn. [Only in phrase.]
Jet
Same as 2d Get.
Outbreak
A bursting forth; eruption; insurrection.
Outburst
A bursting forth.
Rasp
To rub or file with a rasp; to rub or grate with a rough file; as, to rasp wood to make it smooth; to rasp bones to powder.
Rush
A name given to many aquatic or marsh-growing endogenous plants with soft, slender stems, as the species of Juncus and Scirpus.
Scranch
To grind with the teeth, and with a crackling sound; to craunch.
Scrape
To rub over the surface of (something) with a sharp or rough instrument; to rub over with something that roughens by removing portions of the surface; to grate harshly over; to abrade; to make ..
Scratch
To rub and tear or mark the surface of with something sharp or ragged; to scrape, roughen, or wound slightly by drawing something pointed or rough across, as the claws, the nails, a pin, or t..