List Words
Stanch
A flood gate by which water is accumulated, for floating a boat over a shallow part of a stream by its release.
Homilist
One who prepares homilies; one who preaches to a congregation.
Gavel
A gable.
Revertible
Capable of, or admitting of, reverting or being reverted; as, a revertible estate.
Prelate
A clergyman of a superior order, as an archbishop or a bishop, having authority over the lower clergy; a dignitary of the church.
Acerbic
Sour or severe.
Revolver
One who, or that which, revolves; specifically, a firearm ( commonly a pistol) with several chambers or barrels so arranged as to revolve on an axis, and be discharged in succession by the same ..
Renitency
The state or quality of being renitent; resistance; reluctance.
Newsman
One who brings news.
Beadle
A messenger or crier of a court; a servitor; one who cites or bids persons to appear and answer; -- called also an apparitor or summoner.
Preach
To proclaim or publish tidings; specifically, to proclaim the gospel; to discourse publicly on a religious subject, or from a text of Scripture; to deliver a sermon.
Lovelorn
Forsaken by one's love.
Overanxiety
The state of being overanxious; excessive anxiety.
Sixteen
Six and ten; consisting of six and ten; fifteen and one more.
Irritated
of Irritate
Unfruitful
Not producing fruit or offspring; unproductive; infertile; barren; sterile; as, an unfruitful tree or animal; unfruitful soil; an unfruitful life or effort.
Overexertion
Excessive exertion.
Abbreviature
An abbreviation; an abbreviated state or form.
Sorcery
Divination by the assistance, or supposed assistance, of evil spirits, or the power of commanding evil spirits; magic; necromancy; witchcraft; enchantment.
Explainer
One who explains; an expounder or expositor; a commentator; an interpreter.
Sis
A colloquial abbreviation of Sister.
Carpophore
A slender prolongation of the receptacle as an axis between the carpels, as in Geranium and many umbelliferous plants.
Shaft
The slender, smooth stem of an arrow; hence, an arrow.
Cotyledon
One of the patches of villi found in some forms of placenta.
Reed
Red.
Systemic
Of or relating to a system; common to a system; as, the systemic circulation of the blood.
Tenuity
The quality or state of being tenuous; thinness, applied to a broad substance; slenderness, applied to anything that is long; as, the tenuity of a leaf; the tenuity of a hair.
Reviser
One who revises.
Bitume
Bitumen.
Pylon
A low tower, having a truncated pyramidal form, and flanking an ancient Egyptian gateway.
Do-nothingness
Inactivity; habitual sloth; idleness.
Caudex
The stem of a tree., esp. a stem without a branch, as of a palm or a tree fern; also, the perennial rootstock of an herbaceous plant.
Pettiness
The quality or state of being petty or paltry; littleness; meanness.
Mephitis
Noxious, pestilential, or foul exhalations from decomposing substances, filth, or other source.
Pedicel
A stalk which supports one flower or fruit, whether solitary or one of many ultimate divisions of a common peduncle. See Peduncle, and Illust. of Flower.
Wastrel
Any waste thing or substance
Crag
A steep, rugged rock; a rough, broken cliff, or point of a rock, on a ledge.
Horrendous
Fearful; frightful.
Lounger
One who lounges; ar idler.
Boding
of Bode
Spigot
A pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask; also, the plug of a faucet or cock.
Pickled
of Pickle
Devilry
Conduct suitable to the devil; extreme wickedness; deviltry.
Scholiast
A maker of scholia; a commentator or annotator.
Precluded
of Preclude
Rheumy
Of or pertaining to rheum; abounding in, or causing, rheum; affected with rheum.
Hydrant
A discharge pipe with a valve and spout at which water may be drawn from the mains of waterworks; a water plug.
Undertaker
One who undertakes; one who engages in any project or business.
Menacing
of Menace
Intemperateness
The state of being intemperate; excessive indulgence of any appetite or passion; as, intemperateness in eating or drinking.
