List Words
Prosecute
To follow or pursue with a view to reach, execute, or accomplish; to endeavor to obtain or complete; to carry on; to continue; as, to prosecute a scheme, hope, or claim.
Chairman
The presiding officer of a committee, or of a public or private meeting, or of any organized body.
Glean
To gather after a reaper; to collect in scattered or fragmentary parcels, as the grain left by a reaper, or grapes left after the gathering.
Foison
Rich harvest; plenty; abundance.
Stiffener
One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat.
Specter
Alt. of Spectre
Voltage
Electric potential or potential difference, expressed in volts.
Palilogy
The repetition of a word, or part of a sentence, for the sake of greater emphasis; as, "The living, the living, he shall praise thee."
Reins
The kidneys; also, the region of the kidneys; the loins.
Defying
of Defy
Gibbet
A kind of gallows; an upright post with an arm projecting from the top, on which, formerly, malefactors were hanged in chains, and their bodies allowed to remain asa warning.
Purchase
To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire.
Crusty
Having the nature of crust; pertaining to a hard covering; as, a crusty coat; a crusty surface or substance.
Hemp
A plant of the genus Cannabis (C. sativa), the fibrous skin or bark of which is used for making cloth and cordage. The name is also applied to various other plants yielding fiber.
Pulley
A wheel with a broad rim, or grooved rim, for transmitting power from, or imparting power to, the different parts of machinery, or for changing the direction of motion, by means of a belt, co..
Headwork
Mental labor.
Wild
Living in a state of nature; inhabiting natural haunts, as the forest or open field; not familiar with, or not easily approached by, man; not tamed or domesticated; as, a wild boar; a wild ox..
Preside
To be set, or to sit, in the place of authority; to occupy the place of president, chairman, moderator, director, etc.; to direct, control, and regulate, as chief officer; as, to preside at a ..
Judgment
The act of judging; the operation of the mind, involving comparison and discrimination, by which a knowledge of the values and relations of thins, whether of moral qualities, intellectual con..
Wrist
The joint, or the region of the joint, between the hand and the arm; the carpus. See Carpus.
Jigger
A species of flea (Sarcopsylla, / Pulex, penetrans), which burrows beneath the skin. See Chigoe.
Virtuality
The quality or state of being virtual.
Jackscrew
A jack in which a screw is used for lifting, or exerting pressure. See Illust. of 2d Jack, n., 5.
Reasonableness
Quality of being reasonable.
Virtual
Having the power of acting or of invisible efficacy without the agency of the material or sensible part; potential; energizing.
Martingale
Alt. of Martingal
Possibilities
of Possibility
Jungle
A dense growth of brushwood, grasses, reeds, vines, etc.; an almost impenetrable thicket of trees, canes, and reedy vegetation, as in India, Africa, Australia, and Brazil.
Bight
A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow.
Fenestra
A small opening; esp., one of the apertures, closed by membranes, between the tympanum and internal ear.
Battle
Fertile. See Battel, a.
Pert
Open; evident; apert.
Pew
One of the compartments in a church which are separated by low partitions, and have long seats upon which several persons may sit; -- sometimes called slip. Pews were originally made square, but..
Smartness
The quality or state of being smart.
Enchant
To charm by sorcery; to act on by enchantment; to get control of by magical words and rites.
Epiphany
An appearance, or a becoming manifest.
Ivy
A plant of the genus Hedera (H. helix), common in Europe. Its leaves are evergreen, dark, smooth, shining, and mostly five-pointed; the flowers yellowish and small; the berries black or yellow. ..
Didactic
Alt. of Didactical
Disrespectful
Wanting in respect; manifesting disesteem or lack of respect; uncivil; as, disrespectful behavior.
Ethereality
The state of being ethereal; etherealness.
Prescription
The act of prescribing, directing, or dictating; direction; precept; also, that which is prescribed.
Justification
The act of justifying or the state of being justified; a showing or proving to be just or conformable to law, justice, right, or duty; defense; vindication; support; as, arguments in justific..
Inadvertence
Alt. of Inadvertency
Inobservance
Want or neglect of observance.
Nestle
To make and occupy a nest; to nest.
Informative
Having power to inform, animate, or vivify.
Reestablishment
The act reestablishing; the state of being reestablished.
Distraction
The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation.
Resilience
Alt. of Resiliency
Shallowness
Quality or state of being shallow.
