List Words
Rollicking
of Rollic
Breezy
Characterized by, or having, breezes; airy.
Transported
of Transport
Dissimilitude
Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilarity.
Solatium
Anything which alleviates or compensates for suffering or loss; a compensation; esp., an additional allowance, as for injured feelings.
Gallant
Showy; splendid; magnificent; gay; well-dressed.
Elide
To break or dash in pieces; to demolish; as, to elide the force of an argument.
Holt
3d pers. sing. pres. of Hold, contr. from holdeth.
Innumerability
State of being innumerable.
Metabolism
The act or process, by which living tissues or cells take up and convert into their own proper substance the nutritive material brought to them by the blood, or by which they transform their ..
Furrowed
of Furrow
Thinned
of Thin
Scurrility
The quality or state of being scurrile or scurrilous; mean, vile, or obscene jocularity.
Blacklist
To put in a black list as deserving of suspicion, censure, or punishment; esp. to put in a list of persons stigmatized as insolvent or untrustworthy, -- as tradesmen and employers do for mutual ..
Stair
One step of a series for ascending or descending to a different level; -- commonly applied to those within a building.
Plunge
To thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse; to cause to penetrate or enter quickly and forcibly; to thrust; as, to plunge the body into water; to plunge a dagg..
Catalepsy
Alt. of Catalepsis
Cleave
To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast; to cling.
Substantialness
The quality or state of being substantial; as, the substantialness of a wall or column.
Conglobation
The act or process of forming into a ball.
Egotistical
Addicted to, or manifesting, egotism.
Decoct
To prepare by boiling; to digest in hot or boiling water; to extract the strength or flavor of by boiling; to make an infusion of.
Penalty
Penal retribution; punishment for crime or offense; the suffering in person or property which is annexed by law or judicial decision to the commission of a crime, offense, or trespass.
Overflow
To flow over; to cover woth, or as with, water or other fluid; to spread over; to inundate; to overwhelm.
Annals
A relation of events in chronological order, each event being recorded under the year in which it happened.
Transformism
The hypothesis, or doctrine, that living beings have originated by the modification of some other previously existing forms of living matter; -- opposed to abiogenesis.
Exclude
To shut out; to hinder from entrance or admission; to debar from participation or enjoyment; to deprive of; to except; -- the opposite to admit; as, to exclude a crowd from a room or house; to ..
Fireworm
The larva of a small tortricid moth which eats the leaves of the cranberry, so that the vines look as if burned; -- called also cranberry worm.
Confident
See Confidant.
Dandy
One who affects special finery or gives undue attention to dress; a fop; a coxcomb.
Shiver
One of the small pieces, or splinters, into which a brittle thing is broken by sudden violence; -- generally used in the plural.
Liquidize
To render liquid.
Reduced
of Reduce
Thirst
A sensation of dryness in the throat associated with a craving for liquids, produced by deprivation of drink, or by some other cause (as fear, excitement, etc.) which arrests the secretion of th..
Eyesore
Something offensive to the eye or sight; a blemish.
Judiciousness
The quality or state of being judicious; sagacity; sound judgment.
Presumptuous
Full of presumption; presuming; overconfident or venturesome; audacious; rash; taking liberties unduly; arrogant; insolent; as, a presumptuous commander; presumptuous conduct.
Scrupulosity
The quality or state of being scruppulous; doubt; doubtfulness respecting decision or action; caution or tenderness from the far of doing wrong or ofending; nice regard to exactness and propi..
Dapper
Little and active; spruce; trim; smart; neat in dress or appearance; lively.
Delirious
Having a delirium; wandering in mind; light-headed; insane; raving; wild; as, a delirious patient; delirious fancies.
Guerdon
A reward; requital; recompense; -- used in both a good and a bad sense.
Stormy
Characterized by, or proceeding from, a storm; subject to storms; agitated with furious winds; biosterous; tempestous; as, a stormy season; a stormy day or week.
Nicety
The quality or state of being nice (in any of the senses of that word.).
Reprobate
Not enduring proof or trial; not of standard purity or fineness; disallowed; rejected.
Trilogy
A series of three dramas which, although each of them is in one sense complete, have a close mutual relation, and form one historical and poetical picture. Shakespeare's " Henry VI." is an ex..
Unpleasant
Not pleasant; not amiable or agreeable; displeasing; offensive.
Nonattendance
A failure to attend; omission of attendance; nonappearance.
Caldron
A large kettle or boiler of copper, brass, or iron. [Written also cauldron.]
Leaving
of Leave
Anchor
A iron instrument which is attached to a ship by a cable (rope or chain), and which, being cast overboard, lays hold of the earth by a fluke or hook and thus retains the ship in a particular ..
