List Words
Premium
A reward or recompense; a prize to be won by being before another, or others, in a competition; reward or prize to be adjudged; a bounty; as, a premium for good behavior or scholarship, for d..
Policy
Civil polity.
Jut
To shoot out or forward; to project beyond the main body; as, the jutting part of a building.
Lighthouse
A tower or other building with a powerful light at top, erected at the entrance of a port, or at some important point on a coast, to serve as a guide to mariners at night; a pharos.
Garb
Clothing in general.
Tic
A local and habitual convulsive motion of certain muscles; especially, such a motion of some of the muscles of the face; twitching; velication; -- called also spasmodic tic.
Supersedure
The act of superseding, or setting aside; supersession; as, the supersedure of trial by jury.
Bartering
of Barter
Treacherous
Like a traitor; involving treachery; violating allegiance or faith pledged; traitorous to the state or sovereign; perfidious in private life; betraying a trust; faithless.
Unprincipled
Being without principles; especially, being without right moral principles; also, characterized by absence of principle.
Sulk
A furrow.
Indeterminate
Not determinate; not certain or fixed; indefinite; not precise; as, an indeterminate number of years.
Silentness
State of being silent; silence.
Deniable
Capable of being, or liable to be, denied.
Retort
To bend or curve back; as, a retorted line.
Glare
To shine with a bright, dazzling light.
Chatter
To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct.
Papyrography
The process of multiplying copies of writings, etc., by means of the papyrograph.
Subaltern
Ranked or ranged below; subordinate; inferior; specifically (Mil.), ranking as a junior officer; being below the rank of captain; as, a subaltern officer.
Framing
of Frame
Masquerade
An assembly of persons wearing masks, and amusing themselves with dancing, conversation, or other diversions.
Junior
Less advanced in age than another; younger.
Centumviral
Of or pertaining to the centumviri, or to a centumvir.
Inaffected
Unaffected.
Extraction
The act of extracting, or drawing out; as, the extraction of a tooth, of a bone or an arrow from the body, of a stump from earth, of a passage from a book, of an essence or tincture.
Prenatal
Being or happening before birth.
Forewarn
To warn beforehand; to give previous warning, admonition, information, or notice to; to caution in advance.
Impend
To pay.
Retrenched
of Retrench
Edifying
of Edify
Litigant
Disposed to litigate; contending in law; engaged in a lawsuit; as, the parties litigant.
Disgrade
To degrade.
Under
Below or lower, in place or position, with the idea of being covered; lower than; beneath; -- opposed to over; as, he stood under a tree; the carriage is under cover; a cellar extends under the ..
Sharpen
To make sharp.
Cachexia
Alt. of Cachexy
Gesticulation
The act of gesticulating, or making gestures to express passion or enforce sentiments.
Abecedarian
One who is learning the alphabet; hence, a tyro.
Educating
of Educate
Jaundice
A morbid condition, characterized by yellowness of the eyes, skin, and urine, whiteness of the faeces, constipation, uneasiness in the region of the stomach, loss of appetite, and general lan..
Preceptive
Containing or giving precepts; of the nature of precepts; didactic; as, the preceptive parts of the Scriptures.
Conversion
The act of turning or changing from one state or condition to another, or the state of being changed; transmutation; change.
Overgrowth
Excessive growth.
Milling
of Mill
Enamor
To inflame with love; to charm; to captivate; -- with of, or with, before the person or thing; as, to be enamored with a lady; to be enamored of books or science.
Ossicle
A little bone; as, the auditory ossicles in the tympanum of the ear.
Twine
A twist; a convolution.
Pullulation
A germinating, or budding.
Scragged
Rough with irregular points, or a broken surface; scraggy; as, a scragged backbone.
Tottery
Trembling or vaccilating, as if about to fall; unsteady; shaking.
Shingly
Abounding with shingle, or gravel.
