List Words
Provincialism
A word, or a manner of speaking, peculiar to a province or a district remote from the mother country or from the metropolis; a provincial characteristic; hence, narrowness; illiberality.
Ruche
A plaited, quilled, or goffered strip of lace, net, ribbon, or other material, -- used in place of collars or cuffs, and as a trimming for women's dresses and bonnets.
Conjugation
the act of uniting or combining; union; assemblage.
Illiberal
Not liberal; not free or generous; close; niggardly; mean; sordid.
Unfledged
Not fledged; not feathered; hence, not fully developed; immature.
Inactive
Not active; having no power to move; that does not or can not produce results; inert; as, matter is, of itself, inactive.
Shattered
of Shatter
Dendritic
Alt. of Dendritical
Pervert
To turnanother way; to divert.
Wainscot
Oaken timber or boarding.
Annulate
One of the Annulata.
Evenness
The state of being ven, level, or disturbed; smoothness; horizontal position; uniformity; impartiality; calmness; equanimity; appropriate place or level; as, evenness of surface, of a fluid at ..
Brassy
Of or pertaining to brass; having the nature, appearance, or hardness, of brass.
Vociferous
Making a loud outcry; clamorous; noisy; as, vociferous heralds.
Grubby
Dirty; unclean.
Condescend
To stoop or descend; to let one's self down; to submit; to waive the privilege of rank or dignity; to accommodate one's self to an inferior.
Canicular
Pertaining to, or measured, by the rising of the Dog Star.
Revolution
The act of revolving, or turning round on an axis or a center; the motion of a body round a fixed point or line; rotation; as, the revolution of a wheel, of a top, of the earth on its axis, etc...
Shouting
of Shout
Duplicity
Doubleness; a twofold state.
Sump
A round pit of stone, lined with clay, for receiving the metal on its first fusion.
Refrangible
Capable of being refracted, or turned out of a direct course, in passing from one medium to another, as rays of light.
Misjudge
To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
Illusive
Deceiving by false show; deceitful; deceptive; false; illusory; unreal.
Fortissimo
Very loud; with the utmost strength or loudness.
Replication
An answer; a reply.
Blanch
To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach; as, to blanch linen; age has blanched his hair.
Bipetalous
Having two petals.
Pathfinder
One who discovers a way or path; one who explores untraversed regions.
Inobservant
Not observant; regardless; heedless.
Whining
of Whine
Fascinating
of Fascinate
Legation
The sending forth or commissioning one person to act for another.
Romanticist
One who advocates romanticism in modern literature.
Orbital
Of or pertaining to an orbit.
Buccaneer
A robber upon the sea; a pirate; -- a term applied especially to the piratical adventurers who made depredations on the Spaniards in America in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Fisherman
One whose occupation is to catch fish.
Water dog
A dog accustomed to the water, or trained to retrieve waterfowl. Retrievers, waters spaniels, and Newfoundland dogs are so trained.
Sea king
One of the leaders among the Norsemen who passed their lives in roving the seas in search of plunder and adventures; a Norse pirate chief. See the Note under Viking.
Ab
The fifth month of the Jewish year according to the ecclesiastical reckoning, the eleventh by the civil computation, coinciding nearly with August.
Minos
A king and lawgiver of Crete, fabled to be the son of Jupiter and Europa. After death he was made a judge in the Lower Regions.
Radiate
To emit rays; to be radiant; to shine.
Tithe
A tenth; the tenth part of anything; specifically, the tenthpart of the increase arising from the profits of land and stock, allotted to the clergy for their support, as in England, or devoted t..
Collector
One who collects things which are separate; esp., one who makes a business or practice of collecting works of art, objects in natural history, etc.; as, a collector of coins.
Legitimacy
The state, or quality, of being legitimate, or in conformity with law; hence, the condition of having been lawfully begotten, or born in wedlock.
Extortion
The act of extorting; the act or practice of wresting anything from a person by force, by threats, or by any undue exercise of power; undue exaction; overcharge.
Predecessor
One who precedes; one who has preceded another in any state, position, office, etc.; one whom another follows or comes after, in any office or position.
Inflective
Capable of, or pertaining to, inflection; deflecting; as, the inflective quality of the air.
Utopian
Of or pertaining to Utopia; resembling Utopia; hence, ideal; chimerical; fanciful; founded upon, or involving, imaginary perfections; as, Utopian projects; Utopian happiness.
Rejective
Rejecting, or tending to reject.
