List Words
Tickle
To touch lightly, so as to produce a peculiar thrilling sensation, which commonly causes laughter, and a kind of spasm which become dengerous if too long protracted.
Hexastich
Alt. of Hexastichon
Codicil
A clause added to a will.
Sift
To separate with a sieve, as the fine part of a substance from the coarse; as, to sift meal or flour; to sift powder; to sift sand or lime.
Stint
Any one of several species of small sandpipers, as the sanderling of Europe and America, the dunlin, the little stint of India (Tringa minuta), etc. Called also pume.
Prolificacy
Prolificness.
Revulsion
A strong pulling or drawing back; withdrawal.
Relinquish
To withdraw from; to leave behind; to desist from; to abandon; to quit; as, to relinquish a pursuit.
Snobby
Snobbish.
Liana
A luxuriant woody plant, climbing high trees and having ropelike stems. The grapevine often has the habit of a liane. Lianes are abundant in the forests of the Amazon region.
Avoid
To empty.
Corset
In the Middle Ages, a gown or basque of which the body was close fitting, worn by both men and women.
Pains
Labor; toilsome effort; care or trouble taken; -- plural in form, but used with a singular or plural verb, commonly the former.
Purging
of Purge
Furnish
To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to adorn; as, to furnish a family with provisions; to furnish one with arms for defense..
Dune
A low hill of drifting sand usually formed on the coats, but often carried far inland by the prevailing winds.
Outfield
Arable land which has been or is being exhausted. See Infield, 1.
Hayrick
A heap or pile of hay, usually covered with thatch for preservation in the open air.
Ogdoad
A thing made up of eight parts.
Bridle
The head gear with which a horse is governed and restrained, consisting of a headstall, a bit, and reins, with other appendages.
Conduct
The act or method of conducting; guidance; management.
Center
A point equally distant from the extremities of a line, figure, or body, or from all parts of the circumference of a circle; the middle point or place.
Kit
To cut.
Guarantee
In law and common usage: A promise to answer for the payment of some debt, or the performance of some duty, in case of the failure of another person, who is, in the first instance, liable to ..
Surfboat
A boat intended for use in heavy surf. It is built with a pronounced sheer, and with a view to resist the shock of waves and of contact with the beach.
Chapter
A division of a book or treatise; as, Genesis has fifty chapters.
Eidolon
An image or representation; a form; a phantom; an apparition.
Gradate
To grade or arrange (parts in a whole, colors in painting, etc.), so that they shall harmonize.
Sargassum
A genus of algae including the gulf weed.
Athlete
One who contended for a prize in the public games of ancient Greece or Rome.
Push
A pustule; a pimple.
Actionable
That may be the subject of an action or suit at law; as, to call a man a thief is actionable.
Bush
A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest.
Kelp
The calcined ashes of seaweed, -- formerly much used in the manufacture of glass, now used in the manufacture of iodine.
Fortify
To add strength to; to strengthen; to confirm; to furnish with power to resist attack.
Pursue
To follow with a view to overtake; to follow eagerly, or with haste; to chase; as, to pursue a hare.
Anathematizing
of Anathematize
Bough
An arm or branch of a tree, esp. a large arm or main branch.
Bourdon
A pilgrim's staff.
Wrestler
One who wrestles; one who is skillful in wrestling.
Bellyband
A band that passes under the belly of a horse and holds the saddle or harness in place; a girth.
Christophany
An appearance of Christ, as to his disciples after the crucifixion.
Rationality
The quality or state of being rational; agreement with reason; possession of reason; due exercise of reason; reasonableness.
Castigation
Corrective punishment; chastisement; reproof; pungent criticism.
Reenactment
The enacting or passing of a law a second time; the renewal of a law.
Thrill
A warbling; a trill.
Octateuch
A collection of eight books; especially, the first eight books of the Old Testament.
Stow
To place or arrange in a compact mass; to put in its proper place, or in a suitable place; to pack; as, to stowbags, bales, or casks in a ship's hold; to stow hay in a mow; to stow sheaves.
Repeat
To go over again; to attempt, do, make, or utter again; to iterate; to recite; as, to repeat an effort, an order, or a poem.
Octosyllable
Octosyllabic.
