List Words
Twink
To twinkle.
Consanguinity
The relation of persons by blood, in distinction from affinity or relation by marriage; blood relationship; as, lineal consanguinity; collateral consanguinity.
Paternity
The relation of a father to his child; fathership; fatherhood; family headship; as, the divine paternity.
Vomitory
Causing vomiting; emetic; vomitive.
Counteract
To act in opposition to; to hinder, defeat, or frustrate, by contrary agency or influence; as, to counteract the effect of medicines; to counteract good advice.
Coadjuvancy
Joint help; cooperation.
Disannul
To annul completely; to render void or of no effect.
Maternity
The state of being a mother; the character or relation of a mother.
Outcome
That which comes out of, or follows from, something else; issue; result; consequence; upshot.
Sort
Chance; lot; destiny.
Door
An opening in the wall of a house or of an apartment, by which to go in and out; an entrance way.
Oviduct
A tube, or duct, for the passage of ova from the ovary to the exterior of the animal or to the part where further development takes place. In mammals the oviducts are also called Fallopian tubes..
Attenuate
To make thin or slender, as by mechanical or chemical action upon inanimate objects, or by the effects of starvation, disease, etc., upon living bodies.
Havoc
Wide and general destruction; devastation; waste.
Imbibe
To drink in; to absorb; to suck or take in; to receive as by drinking; as, a person imbibes drink, or a sponge imbibes moisture.
Fatten
To make fat; to feed for slaughter; to make fleshy or plump with fat; to fill full; to fat.
Cremate
To burn; to reduce to ashes by the action of fire, either directly or in an oven or retort; to incremate or incinerate; as, to cremate a corpse, instead of burying it.
Desolate
Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house.
Fraught
A freight; a cargo.
Sorb
The wild service tree (Pyrus torminalis) of Europe; also, the rowan tree.
Molder
Alt. of Moulder
Scroll
A roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll; a schedule; a list.
Sag
To sink, in the middle, by its weight or under applied pressure, below a horizontal line or plane; as, a line or cable supported by its ends sags, though tightly drawn; the floor of a room sa..
Subfamily
One of the subdivisions, of more importance than genus, into which certain families are divided.
Overfed
of Overfeed
Gage
A pledge or pawn; something laid down or given as a security for the performance of some act by the person depositing it, and forfeited by nonperformance; security.
Fission
A cleaving, splitting, or breaking up into parts.
Fascinate
To influence in an uncontrollable manner; to operate on by some powerful or irresistible charm; to bewitch; to enchant.
Hock
A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still. The name is also given indiscriminately to all Rhenish wines.
Cauterize
To burn or sear with a cautery or caustic.
Drive
To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communicate motion to; as, to drive cattle; to drive a nail; smoke ..
Pave
The pavement.
Predicate
To assert to belong to something; to affirm (one thing of another); as, to predicate whiteness of snow.
Require
To demand; to insist upon having; to claim as by right and authority; to exact; as, to require the surrender of property.
Mummification
The act of making a mummy.
Fuming
of Fume
Artless
Free from guile, art, craft, or stratagem; characterized by simplicity and sincerity; sincere; guileless; ingenuous; honest; as, an artless mind; an artless tale.
Pickling
of Pickle
Reverie
Alt. of Revery
Headquarters
The quarters or place of residence of any chief officer, as the general in command of an army, or the head of a police force; the place from which orders or instructions are issued; hence, th..
Vignette
A running ornament consisting of leaves and tendrils, used in Gothic architecture.
Analysis
A resolution of anything, whether an object of the senses or of the intellect, into its constituent or original elements; an examination of the component parts of a subject, each separately, as ..
Thesis
A position or proposition which a person advances and offers to maintain, or which is actually maintained by argument.
Statue
The likeness of a living being sculptured or modeled in some solid substance, as marble, bronze, or wax; an image; as, a statue of Hercules, or of a lion.
Epode
The after song; the part of a lyric ode which follows the strophe and antistrophe, -- the ancient ode being divided into strophe, antistrophe, and epode.
Strewing
of Strew
Irradiation
Act of irradiating, or state of being irradiated.
Wearing
of Wear
Impoverishment
The act of impoverishing, or the state of being impoverished; reduction to poverty.
Immersion
The act of immersing, or the state of being immersed; a sinking within a fluid; a dipping; as, the immersion of Achilles in the Styx.
