List Words
Left
of Leave
Backset
A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback.
Iodine
A nonmetallic element, of the halogen group, occurring always in combination, as in the iodides. When isolated it is in the form of dark gray metallic scales, resembling plumbago, soft but br..
Metis
Alt. of Metisse
Wraith
An apparition of a person in his exact likeness, seen before death, or a little after; hence, an apparition; a specter; a vision; an unreal image.
Parch
To burn the surface of; to scorch; to roast over the fire, as dry grain; as, to parch the skin; to parch corn.
Confutation
The act or process of confuting; refutation.
Gloominess
State of being gloomy.
Eurasian
A child of a European parent on the one side and an Asiatic on the other.
Clarifier
That which clarifies.
Propane
A heavy gaseous hydrocarbon, C3H8, of the paraffin series, occurring naturally dissolved in crude petroleum, and also made artificially; -- called also propyl hydride.
Prorogue
To protract; to prolong; to extend.
Macaronic
Pertaining to, or like, macaroni (originally a dish of mixed food); hence, mixed; confused; jumbled.
Resistance
The act of resisting; opposition, passive or active.
Nitrate
A salt of nitric acid.
Defiant
Full of defiance; bold; insolent; as, a defiant spirit or act.
Springing
of Spring
Almoner
One who distributes alms, esp. the doles and alms of religious houses, almshouses, etc.; also, one who dispenses alms for another, as the almoner of a prince, bishop, etc.
Hoodwink
To blind by covering the eyes.
Unduly
In an undue manner.
Challenging
of Challenge
Xanthic
Tending toward a yellow color, or to one of those colors, green being excepted, in which yellow is a constituent, as scarlet, orange, etc.
Indispensable
Not dispensable; impossible to be omitted, remitted, or spared; absolutely necessary or requisite.
Strainer
One who strains.
Convulsive
Producing, or attended with, convulsions or spasms; characterized by convulsions; convulsionary.
Derived
of Derive
Thrum
One of the ends of weaver's threads; hence, any soft, short threads or tufts resembling these.
Overgreatness
Excessive greatness.
Simulacrum
A likeness; a semblance; a mock appearance; a sham; -- now usually in a derogatory sense.
Conflicting
of Conflict
Huff
To swell; to enlarge; to puff up; as, huffed up with air.
Exaltation
The act of exalting or raising high; also, the state of being exalted; elevation.
Satisfied
of Satisfy
Methane
A light, colorless, gaseous, inflammable hydrocarbon, CH4; marsh gas. See Marsh gas, under Gas.
Peek
To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep.
Lymph
A spring of water; hence, water, or a pure, transparent liquid like water.
Flay
To skin; to strip off the skin or surface of; as, to flay an ox; to flay the green earth.
Glutted
of Glut
Planking
of Plank
Discordancy
State or quality of being discordant; disagreement; inconsistency.
Betide
To happen to; to befall; to come to ; as, woe betide the wanderer.
Disentangle
To free from entanglement; to release from a condition of being intricately and confusedly involved or interlaced; to reduce to orderly arrangement; to straighten out; as, to disentangle a sk..
Plait
A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat; as, a box plait.
Spunk
Wood that readily takes fire; touchwood; also, a kind of tinder made from a species of fungus; punk; amadou.
Snout
The long, projecting nose of a beast, as of swine.
Conflict
A striking or dashing together; violent collision; as, a conflict of elements or waves.
Percolator
One who, or that which, filters.
Writhe
To twist; to turn; now, usually, to twist or turn so as to distort; to wring.
Antagonize
To contend with; to oppose actively; to counteract.
Struggle
To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.
