List Words
Scantiness
Quality or condition of being scanty.
Saw-toothed
Having a tooth or teeth like those of a saw; serrate.
Entrepreneur
One who creates a product on his own account; whoever undertakes on his own account an industrial enterprise in which workmen are employed.
Planner
One who plans; a projector.
Unworthy
Not worthy; wanting merit, value, or fitness; undeserving; worthless; unbecoming; -- often with of.
Smith
One who forges with the hammer; one who works in metals; as, a blacksmith, goldsmith, silversmith, and the like.
Melioration
The act or operation of meliorating, or the state of being meliorated; improvement.
Degeneracy
The act of becoming degenerate; a growing worse.
Performer
One who performs, accomplishes, or fulfills; as, a good promiser, but a bad performer; especially, one who shows skill and training in any art; as, a performer of the drama; a performer on the ..
Gray
White mixed with black, as the color of pepper and salt, or of ashes, or of hair whitened by age; sometimes, a dark mixed color; as, the soft gray eye of a dove.
Antelope
One of a group of ruminant quadrupeds, intermediate between the deer and the goat. The horns are usually annulated, or ringed. There are many species in Africa and Asia.
Gerontocracy
Government by old men.
Poverty
The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.
Decadency
A falling away; decay; deterioration; declension. "The old castle, where the family lived in their decadence."
Questionless
Unquestioning; incurious.
Puritanic
Alt. of Puritanical
Fettered
Seeming as if fettered, as the feet of certain animals which bend backward, and appear unfit for walking.
Bachelorhood
The state or condition of being a bachelor; bachelorship.
Ineluctable
Not to be overcome by struggling; irresistible; inevitable.
Inveigler
One who inveigles.
Alpha
The first letter in the Greek alphabet, answering to A, and hence used to denote the beginning.
Awfully
In an awful manner; in a manner to fill with terror or awe; fearfully; reverently.
Refurbish
To furbish anew.
Captive
A prisoner taken by force or stratagem, esp., by an enemy, in war; one kept in bondage or in the power of another.
Bachelorism
Bachelorhood; also, a manner or peculiarity belonging to bachelors.
Certified
of Certify
Inelastic
Not elastic.
Crackle
To make slight cracks; to make small, sharp, sudden noises, rapidly or frequently repeated; to crepitate; as, burning thorns crackle.
Malicious
Indulging or exercising malice; harboring ill will or enmity.
Scarf
A cormorant.
Articulated
of Articulate
Crepitant
Having a crackling sound; crackling; rattling.
Youth
of Youth
Existent
Having being or existence; existing; being; occurring now; taking place.
Pleach
To unite by interweaving, as branches of trees; to plash; to interlock.
Quadrivium
The four "liberal arts," arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy; -- so called by the schoolmen. See Trivium.
Regret
Pain of mind on account of something done or experienced in the past, with a wish that it had been different; a looking back with dissatisfaction or with longing; grief; sorrow; especially, a mo..
Necessary
Such as must be; impossible to be otherwise; not to be avoided; inevitable.
Shipwreck
The breaking in pieces, or shattering, of a ship or other vessel by being cast ashore or driven against rocks, shoals, etc., by the violence of the winds and waves.
Raven
A large black passerine bird (Corvus corax), similar to the crow, but larger. It is native of the northern parts of Europe, Asia, and America, and is noted for its sagacity.
Slake
To allay; to quench; to extinguish; as, to slake thirst.
Decimate
To take the tenth part of; to tithe.
Blinking
of Blink
Misrule
To rule badly; to misgovern.
Stained
of Stain
Paint
To cover with coloring matter; to apply paint to; as, to paint a house, a signboard, etc.
Elective
Exerting the power of choice; selecting; as, an elective act.
Segmentation
The act or process of dividing into segments; specifically (Biol.), a self-division into segments as a result of growth; cell cleavage; cell multiplication; endogenous cell formation.
Bespread
of Bespread
Putty
A kind of thick paste or cement compounded of whiting, or soft carbonate of lime, and linseed oil, when applied beaten or kneaded to the consistence of dough, -- used in fastening glass in sashe..
