List Words
Civic
Relating to, or derived from, a city or citizen; relating to man as a member of society, or to civil affairs.
Constablewick
The district to which a constable's power is limited.
Hamlet
A small village; a little cluster of houses in the country.
Accelerator
One who, or that which, accelerates. Also as an adj.; as, accelerator nerves.
Wapentake
In some northern counties of England, a division, or district, answering to the hundred in other counties. Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and Nottinghamshire are divided into wapentakes, instead of..
Exhaust
To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.
Arrondissement
A subdivision of a department.
Diocese
The circuit or extent of a bishop's jurisdiction; the district in which a bishop exercises his ecclesiastical authority.
Manifold
Various in kind or quality; many in number; numerous; multiplied; complicated.
Hundred
The product of ten mulitplied by ten, or the number of ten times ten; a collection or sum, consisting of ten times ten units or objects; five score. Also, a symbol representing one hundred units..
Territory
A large extent or tract of land; a region; a country; a district.
Municipal
Of or pertaining to a city or a corporation having the right of administering local government; as, municipal rights; municipal officers.
Urban
Of or belonging to a city or town; as, an urban population.
Soke
See Soc.
Citified
Aping, or having, the manners of a city.
District
Rigorous; stringent; harsh.
Burghal
Belonging to a burgh.
Oppidan
Of or pertaining to a town.
Ignition
The act of igniting, kindling, or setting on fire.
Element
One of the simple substances, as supposed by the ancient philosophers; one of the imaginary principles of matter.
Monad
An ultimate atom, or simple, unextended point; something ultimate and indivisible.
Caliduct
A pipe or duct used to convey hot air or steam.
Instance
The act or quality of being instant or pressing; urgency; solicitation; application; suggestion; motion.
Integral
Lacking nothing of completeness; complete; perfect; uninjured; whole; entire.
Furnace
An inclosed place in which heat is produced by the combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting metals, for warming a house, for baking pottery, etc.; as, an iron furnace; a hot-air fu..
Stimulus
A goad; hence, something that rouses the mind or spirits; an incentive; as, the hope of gain is a powerful stimulus to labor and action.
Polymer
Any one of two or more substances related to each other by polymerism; specifically, a substance produced from another substance by chemical polymerization.
Atmosphere
The whole mass of aeriform fluid surrounding the earth; -- applied also to the gaseous envelope of any celestial orb, or other body; as, the atmosphere of Mars.
Intake
The place where water or air is taken into a pipe or conduit; -- opposed to outlet.
Alkali
Soda ash; caustic soda, caustic potash, etc.
Anion
An electro-negative element, or the element which, in electro-chemical decompositions, is evolved at the anode; -- opposed to cation.
Minutia
A minute particular; a small or minor detail; -- used chiefly in the plural.
Transmission
The act of transmitting, or the state of being transmitted; as, the transmission of letters, writings, papers, news, and the like, from one country to another; the transmission of rights, tit..
Materiality
The quality or state of being material; material existence; corporeity.
Item
Also; as an additional article.
Carburetor
An apparatus in which coal gas, hydrogen, or air is passed through or over a volatile hydrocarbon, in order to confer or increase illuminating power.
Horn
A hard, projecting, and usually pointed organ, growing upon the heads of certain animals, esp. of the ruminants, as cattle, goats, and the like. The hollow horns of the Ox family consist externa..
Mesmeree
A person subjected to mesmeric influence; one who is mesmerized.
Neptunium
A new metallic element, of doubtful genuineness and uncertain indentification, said to exist in certain minerals, as columbite.
Metamer
Any one of several metameric forms of the same substance, or of different substances having the same composition; as, xylene has three metamers, viz., orthoxylene, metaxylene, and paraxylene.
Ion
One of the elements which appear at the respective poles when a body is subjected to electro-chemical decomposition. Cf. Anion, Cation.
Exasperate
To irritate in a high degree; to provoke; to enrage; to exscite or to inflame the anger of; as, to exasperate a person or his feelings.
Chivy
To goad, drive, hunt, throw, or pitch.
Harry
To strip; to lay waste; as, the Northmen came several times and harried the land.
Dog
A quadruped of the genus Canis, esp. the domestic dog (C. familiaris).
Vex
To to/s back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.
Plague
That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation.
Incanous
Hoary with white pubescence.
Fash
To vex; to tease; to trouble.
Badger
An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another.