List Words
Dobbin
An old jaded horse.
Colt
The young of the equine genus or horse kind of animals; -- sometimes distinctively applied to the male, filly being the female. Cf. Foal.
Cross-staff
An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of celestial bodies.
Steed
A horse, especially a spirited horse for state of war; -- used chiefly in poetry or stately prose.
Gelding
of Geld
Wasteful
Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as, wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses.
Vandalic
Of or pertaining to the Vandals; resembling the Vandals in barbarism and destructiveness.
Inaptitude
Want of aptitude.
Bimuscular
Having two adductor muscles, as a bivalve mollusk.
Nephew
A grandson or grandchild, or remoter lineal descendant.
Dangerous
Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe.
Monachal
Of or pertaining to monks or a monastic life; monastic.
Depredatory
Tending or designed to depredate; characterized by depredation; plundering; as, a depredatory incursion.
Gaucho
One of the native inhabitants of the pampas, of Spanish-American descent. They live mostly by rearing cattle.
Bey
A governor of a province or district in the Turkish dominions; also, in some places, a prince or nobleman; a beg; as, the bey of Tunis.
Controlled
of Control
Veteran
Long exercised in anything, especially in military life and the duties of a soldier; long practiced or experienced; as, a veteran officer or soldier; veteran skill.
Prospection
The act of looking forward, or of providing for future wants; foresight.
Hector
A bully; a blustering, turbulent, insolent, fellow; one who vexes or provokes.
Overlooked
of Overlook
Bubo
An inflammation, with enlargement, of a lymphatic gland, esp. in the groin, as in syphilis.
God
Good.
Defacement
The act of defacing, or the condition of being defaced; injury to the surface or exterior; obliteration.
Dictator
One who dictates; one who prescribes rules and maxims authoritatively for the direction of others.
Stanch
To stop the flowing of, as blood; to check; also, to stop the flowing of blood from; as, to stanch a wound.
Worrisome
Inclined to worry or fret; also, causing worry or annoyance.
Delayed
of Delay
Countinghouse
Alt. of Countingroom
Aposteme
An abscess; a swelling filled with purulent matter.
Stripper
One who, or that which, strips; specifically, a machine for stripping cards.
Stickler
One who stickles.
Catling
A little cat; a kitten.
Graminivorous
Feeding or subsisting on grass, and the like food; -- said of horses, cattle, and other animals.
Eunuch
A male of the human species castrated; commonly, one of a class of such persons, in Oriental countries, having charge of the women's apartments. Some of them, in former times, gained high offici..
Blotted
of Blot
Dining
of Dine
Gastronomic
Alt. of Gastronomical
Nutritious
Nourishing; promoting growth, or preventing decay; alimental.
Pinacotheca
A picture gallery.
Ulceration
The process of forming an ulcer, or of becoming ulcerous; the state of being ulcerated; also, an ulcer.
Solarium
An apartment freely exposed to the sun; anciently, an apartment or inclosure on the roof of a house; in modern times, an apartment in a hospital, used as a resort for convalescents.
Slaughterer
One who slaughters.
Threaten
To utter threats against; to menace; to inspire with apprehension; to alarm, or attempt to alarm, as with the promise of something evil or disagreeable; to warn.
Nabob
A deputy or viceroy in India; a governor of a province of the ancient Mogul empire.
Piacular
Expiatory; atoning.
Sawdust
Dust or small fragments of wood (or of stone, etc.) made by the cutting of a saw.
Marmoreal
Alt. of Marmorean
Preacher
One who preaches; one who discourses publicly on religious subjects.
Commenter
One who makes or writes comments; a commentator; an annotator.
Publicist
A writer on the laws of nature and nations; one who is versed in the science of public right, the principles of government, etc.
