List Words
Clashing
of Clash
Chaos
An empty, immeasurable space; a yawning chasm.
Pressing
of Press
Console
To cheer in distress or depression; to alleviate the grief and raise the spirits of; to relieve; to comfort; to soothe.
Contraposition
A placing over against; opposite position.
Impersonator
One who impersonates; an actor; a mimic.
Quintessence
The fifth or last and highest essence or power in a natural body. See Ferment oils, under Ferment.
Somebody
A person unknown or uncertain; a person indeterminate; some person.
Frightened
of Frighten
Beget
To procreate, as a father or sire; to generate; -- commonly said of the father.
Elutriation
The process of elutriating; a decanting or racking off by means of water, as finer particles from heavier.
Facility
The quality of being easily performed; freedom from difficulty; ease; as, the facility of an operation.
Cope
A covering for the head.
Retard
To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to hinder; as, to retard the march of an army; to retard the motion of a ship; -- o..
Philosophy
Literally, the love of, including the search after, wisdom; in actual usage, the knowledge of phenomena as explained by, and resolved into, causes and reasons, powers and laws.
Contest
To make a subject of dispute, contention, litigation, or emulation; to contend for; to call in question; to controvert; to oppose; to dispute.
Irritation
The act of irritating, or exciting, or the state of being irritated; excitement; stimulation, usually of an undue and uncomfortable kind; especially, excitement of anger or passion; provocati..
Colonnade
A series or range of columns placed at regular intervals with all the adjuncts, as entablature, stylobate, roof, etc.
Pellicle
A thin skin or film.
Deplorable
Worthy of being deplored or lamented; lamentable; causing grief; hence, sad; calamitous; grievous; wretched; as, life's evils are deplorable.
Ensnarl
To entangle.
Omnibus
A long four-wheeled carriage, having seats for many people; especially, one with seats running lengthwise, used in conveying passengers short distances.
Patriarchate
The office, dignity, or jurisdiction of a patriarch.
Sister
A female who has the same parents with another person, or who has one of them only. In the latter case, she is more definitely called a half sister. The correlative of brother.
Repel
To drive back; to force to return; to check the advance of; to repulse as, to repel an enemy or an assailant.
Dictature
Office of a dictator; dictatorship.
Archiepiscopate
The office of an archbishop; an archbishopric.
Ragpicker
One who gets a living by picking up rags and refuse things in the streets.
Alfilaria
The pin grass (Erodium cicutarium), a weed in California.
Welkin
The visible regions of the air; the vault of heaven; the sky.
Parochial
Of or pertaining to a parish; restricted to a parish; as, parochial duties.
Tyrannous
Tyrannical; arbitrary; unjustly severe; despotic.
Ill-omened
Having unlucky omens; inauspicious. See Note under Ill, adv.
Pine
Woe; torment; pain.
Telluric
Of or pertaining to the earth; proceeding from the earth.
Miscarriage
Unfortunate event or issue of an undertaking; failure to attain a desired result or reach a destination.
Tearful
Abounding with tears; weeping; shedding tears; as, tearful eyes.
Injustice
Want of justice and equity; violation of the rights of another or others; iniquity; wrong; unfairness; imposition.
Starry
Abounding with stars; adorned with stars.
Agnation
Consanguinity by a line of males only, as distinguished from cognation.
Scull
The skull.
Prink
To dress or adjust one's self for show; to prank.
Bungling
of Bungle
Crest
A tuft, or other excrescence or natural ornament, growing on an animal's head; the comb of a cock; the swelling on the head of a serpent; the lengthened feathers of the crown or nape of bird, et..
Propitiation
The act of appeasing the wrath and conciliating the favor of an offended person; the act of making propitious.
Perch
Any fresh-water fish of the genus Perca and of several other allied genera of the family Percidae, as the common American or yellow perch (Perca flavescens, / Americana), and the European perch ..
Mild
Gentle; pleasant; kind; soft; bland; clement; hence, moderate in degree or quality; -- the opposite of harsh, severe, irritating, violent, disagreeable, etc.; -- applied to persons and things..
Malefaction
A crime; an offense; an evil deed.
Binary
Compounded or consisting of two things or parts; characterized by two (things).
Entrap
To catch in a trap; to insnare; hence, to catch, as in a trap, by artifices; to involve in difficulties or distresses; to catch or involve in contradictions; as, to be entrapped by the devices o..
