List Words
Vociferation
The act of vociferating; violent outcry; vehement utterance of the voice.
Oval
Of or pertaining to eggs; done in the egg, or inception; as, oval conceptions.
Bobbery
A squabble; a tumult; a noisy disturbance; as, to raise a bobbery.
Impressment
The act of seizing for public use, or of impressing into public service; compulsion to serve; as, the impressment of provisions or of sailors.
Upset
To set up; to put upright.
Outrage
To rage in excess of.
Recurve
To curve in an opposite or unusual direction; to bend back or down.
Tear
A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moisten the parts and facilitate their motion. O..
Bend
To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to bend a bow; to bend the knee.
Kindly
According to the kind or nature; natural.
Despoil
To strip, as of clothing; to divest or unclothe.
Bowsprit
A large boom or spar, which projects over the stem of a ship or other vessel, to carry sail forward.
Flatter
One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens.
Turn
To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wholly, or repeatedly; to make to change positi..
Flex
To bend; as, to flex the arm.
Accost
To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of.
Angle
The inclosed space near the point where two lines meet; a corner; a nook.
Truckle
A small wheel or caster.
Rhapsody
A recitation or song of a rhapsodist; a portion of an epic poem adapted for recitation, or usually recited, at one time; hence, a division of the Iliad or the Odyssey; -- called also a book.
Muddle
To make turbid, or muddy, as water.
Quicksand
Sand easily moved or readily yielding to pressure; especially, a deep mass of loose or moving sand mixed with water, sometimes found at the mouth of a river or along some coasts, and very dan..
Conglomerate
Gathered into a ball or a mass; collected together; concentrated; as, conglomerate rays of light.
Unite
To put together so as to make one; to join, as two or more constituents, to form a whole; to combine; to connect; to join; to cause to adhere; as, to unite bricks by mortar; to unite iron bars b..
Plight
imp. & p. p. of Plight, to pledge.
Stew
A small pond or pool where fish are kept for the table; a vivarium.
Pass
To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal phrase defining the kind or manner of motio..
Lip
One of the two fleshy folds which surround the orifice of the mouth in man and many other animals. In man the lips are organs of speech essential to certain articulations. Hence, by a figure the..
Interlace
To unite, as by lacing together; to insert or interpose one thing within another; to intertwine; to interweave.
Pucker
To gather into small folds or wrinkles; to contract into ridges and furrows; to corrugate; -- often with up; as, to pucker up the mouth.
Fete
A feat.
Harbinger
One who provides lodgings; especially, the officer of the English royal household who formerly preceded the court when traveling, to provide and prepare lodgings.
Expect
To wait for; to await.
Forebode
To foretell.
Prefigure
To show, suggest, or announce, by antecedent types and similitudes; to foreshadow.
Areopagus
The highest judicial court at Athens. Its sessions were held on Mars' Hill. Hence, any high court or tribunal
Caucus
A meeting, especially a preliminary meeting, of persons belonging to a party, to nominate candidates for public office, or to select delegates to a nominating convention, or to confer regarding ..
Market
A meeting together of people, at a stated time and place, for the purpose of traffic (as in cattle, provisions, wares, etc.) by private purchase and sale, and not by auction; as, a market is hel..
Guess
To form an opinion concerning, without knowledge or means of knowledge; to judge of at random; to conjecture.
Visitation
The act of visiting, or the state of being visited; access for inspection or examination.
Symposium
A drinking together; a merry feast.
Woolpack
A pack or bag of wool weighing two hundred and forty pounds.
Perforation
The act of perforating, or of boring or piercing through.
Pepper
A well-known, pungently aromatic condiment, the dried berry, either whole or powdered, of the Piper nigrum.
Patch
A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, esp. upon an old garment to cover a hole.
Rip
A wicker fish basket.
Cave
A hollow place in the earth, either natural or artificial; a subterraneous cavity; a cavern; a den.
Tick
Credit; trust; as, to buy on, or upon, tick.
Watermark
A mark indicating the height to which water has risen, or at which it has stood; the usual limit of high or low water.
Stigmatize
To mark with a stigma, or brand; as, the ancients stigmatized their slaves and soldiers.
Chimaeroid
Related to, or like, the chimaera.
