List Words
Sorrow
The uneasiness or pain of mind which is produced by the loss of any good, real or supposed, or by diseappointment in the expectation of good; grief at having suffered or occasioned evil; regr..
Mope
To be dull and spiritless.
Ail
To affect with pain or uneasiness, either physical or mental; to trouble; to be the matter with; -- used to express some uneasiness or affection, whose cause is unknown; as, what ails the man? ..
Amylaceous
Pertaining to starch; of the nature of starch; starchy.
Adherent
Sticking; clinging; adhering.
Adhesive
Sticky; tenacious, as glutinous substances.
Curdled
of Curdle
Clammy
Having the quality of being viscous or adhesive; soft and sticky; glutinous; damp and adhesive, as if covered with a cold perspiration.
Jellied
Brought to the state or consistence of jelly.
Clingy
Apt to cling; adhesive.
Cartilaginous
Of or pertaining to cartilage; gristly; firm and tough like cartilage.
Impermeable
Not permeable; not permitting passage, as of a fluid. through its substance; impervious; impenetrable; as, India rubber is impermeable to water and to air.
Thickset
Close planted; as, a thickset wood; a thickset hedge.
Gluey
Viscous; glutinous; of the nature of, or like, glue.
Fibrous
Containing, or consisting of, fibers; as, the fibrous coat of the cocoanut; the fibrous roots of grasses.
Knife-edge
A piece of steel sharpened to an acute edge or angle, and resting on a smooth surface, serving as the axis of motion of a pendulum, scale beam, or other piece required to oscillate with the l..
Weaponry
Weapons, collectively; as, an array of weaponry.
Successor
One who succeeds or follows; one who takes the place which another has left, and sustains the like part or character; -- correlative to predecessor; as, the successor of a deceased king.
Advocated
of Advocate
Deadbeat
Making a beat without recoil; giving indications by a single beat or excursion; -- said of galvanometers and other instruments in which the needle or index moves to the extent of its deflecti..
Luster
One who lusts.
Sargasso
The gulf weed. See under Gulf.
Timing
of Time
Horselaugh
A loud, boisterous laugh; a guffaw.
Decennary
A period of ten years.
Fortnight
The space of fourteen days; two weeks.
Cortege
A train of attendants; a procession.
Smirk
To smile in an affected or conceited manner; to smile with affected complaisance; to simper.
Decade
A group or division of ten; esp., a period of ten years; a decennium; as, a decade of years or days; a decade of soldiers; the second decade of Livy.
Congeniality
The state or quality of being congenial; natural affinity; adaptation; suitableness.
Cooperation
The act of cooperating, or of operating together to one end; joint operation; concurrent effort or labor.
Month
One of the twelve portions into which the year is divided; the twelfth part of a year, corresponding nearly to the length of a synodic revolution of the moon, -- whence the name. In popular use,..
Lunation
The period of a synodic revolution of the moon, or the time from one new moon to the next; varying in length, at different times, from about 29/ to 29/ days, the average length being 29 d., 1..
Lustrum
A lustration or purification, especially the purification of the whole Roman people, which was made by the censors once in five years. Hence: A period of five years.
Ordnance
Heavy weapons of warfare; cannon, or great guns, mortars, and howitzers; artillery; sometimes, a general term for all weapons and appliances used in war.
Musketry
Muskets, collectively.
Glutinous
Of the nature of glue; resembling glue; viscous; viscid; adhesive; gluey.
Smarting
of Smart
Gummy
Consisting of gum; viscous; adhesive; producing or containing gum; covered with gum or a substance resembling gum.
Clotted
of Clot
Cohesive
Holding the particles of a homogeneous body together; as, cohesive attraction; producing cohesion; as, a cohesive force.
Gelatinous
Of the nature and consistence of gelatin or the jelly; resembling jelly; viscous.
Battologize
To keep repeating needlessly; to iterate.
Doughy
Like dough; soft and heavy; pasty; crude; flabby and pale; as, a doughy complexion.
Hanker
To long (for) with a keen appetite and uneasiness; to have a vehement desire; -- usually with for or after; as, to hanker after fruit; to hanker after the diversions of the town.
Marl
To cover, as part of a rope, with marline, marking a pecular hitch at each turn to prevent unwinding.
Wiry
Made of wire; like wire; drawn out like wire.
Grayback
The California gray whale.
Resolve
To separate the component parts of; to reduce to the constituent elements; -- said of compound substances; hence, sometimes, to melt, or dissolve.
Gummous
Gumlike, or composed of gum; gummy.
