List Words
Heteromorphism
Alt. of Heteromorphy
Cannibal
A human being that eats human flesh; hence, any that devours its own kind.
Allegorist
One who allegorizes; a writer of allegory.
Salon
An apartment for the reception of company; hence, in the plural, fashionable parties; circles of fashionable society.
Euhemerist
One who advocates euhemerism.
Gaunt
Attenuated, as with fasting or suffering; lean; meager; pinched and grim.
Mated
of Mate
Misanthropy
Hatred of, or dislike to, mankind; -- opposed to philanthropy.
Anther
That part of the stamen containing the pollen, or fertilizing dust, which, when mature, is emitted for the impregnation of the ovary.
Musician
One skilled in the art or science of music; esp., a skilled singer, or performer on a musical instrument.
Lactic
Of or pertaining to milk; procured from sour milk or whey; as, lactic acid; lactic fermentation, etc.
Belligerence
Alt. of Belligerency
Patriarch
The father and ruler of a family; one who governs his family or descendants by paternal right; -- usually applied to heads of families in ancient history, especially in Biblical and Jewish histo..
Abode
of Abide
Quell
To die.
Hemorrhoids
Livid and painful swellings formed by the dilation of the blood vessels around the margin of, or within, the anus, from which blood or mucus is occasionally discharged; piles; emerods.
Pistil
An epistle.
Retarded
of Retard
Chancroid
A venereal sore, resembling a chancre in its seat and some external characters, but differing from it in being the starting point of a purely local process and never of a systemic disease; -- ..
Attaint
To attain; to get act; to hit.
Expeditionist
One who goes upon an expedition. [R].
Sagamore
The head of a tribe among the American Indians; a chief; -- generally used as synonymous with sachem, but some writters distinguished between them, making the sachem a chief of the first rank..
Pustule
A vesicle or an elevation of the cuticle with an inflamed base, containing pus.
Autocrat
An absolute sovereign; a monarch who holds and exercises the powers of government by claim of absolute right, not subject to restriction; as, Autocrat of all the Russias (a title of the Czar).
Heroine
A woman of an heroic spirit.
Diddler
A cheat.
Dignitary
One who possesses exalted rank or holds a position of dignity or honor; especially, one who holds an ecclesiastical rank above that of a parochial priest or clergyman.
Absolved
of Absolve
Attrahent
Attracting; drawing; attractive.
Quarterstaff
A long and stout staff formerly used as a weapon of defense and offense; -- so called because in holding it one hand was placed in the middle, and the other between the middle and the end.
Scrag
Something thin, lean, or rough; a bony piece; especially, a bony neckpiece of meat; hence, humorously or in contempt, the neck.
Shah
The title of the supreme ruler in certain Eastern countries, especially Persia.
Benumbing
of Benumb
Macule
A spot.
Malignity
The state or quality of being malignant; disposition to do evil; virulent enmity; malignancy; malice; spite.
Definer
One who defines or explains.
Forecast
To plan beforehand; to scheme; to project.
Usurper
One who usurps; especially, one who seizes illegally on sovereign power; as, the usurper of a throne, of power, or of the rights of a patron.
Puncher
One who, or that which, punches.
Goodman
A familiar appellation of civility, equivalent to "My friend", "Good sir", "Mister;" -- sometimes used ironically.
Caprid
Of or pertaining to the tribe of ruminants of which the goat, or genus Capra, is the type.
Oppressor
One who oppresses; one who imposes unjust burdens on others; one who harasses others with unjust laws or unreasonable severity.
Shoat
A young hog. Same as Shote.
Harrowing
of Harrow
Tyrant
An absolute ruler; a sovereign unrestrained by law or constitution; a usurper of sovereignty.
Shriven
of Shrive
Heartrending
Causing intense grief; overpowering with anguish; very distressing.
Expositor
One who, or that which, expounds or explains; an expounder; a commentator.
Emender
One who emends.
Anglophobia
Intense dread of, or aversion to, England or the English.
