List Words
Overlavish
Lavish to excess.
Brindled
Having dark streaks or spots on a gray or tawny ground; brinded.
Ruptured
of Rupture
Churchman
An ecclesiastic or clergyman.
Forthrightness
Straightforwardness; explicitness; directness.
Constructional
Pertaining to, or deduced from, construction or interpretation.
Repellency
The principle of repulsion; the quality or capacity of repelling; repulsion.
Recidivous
Tending or liable to backslide or relapse to a former condition or habit.
Campaigner
One who has served in an army in several campaigns; an old soldier; a veteran.
Repress
To press again.
Functional
Pertaining to, or connected with, a function or duty; official.
Regressive
Passing back; returning.
Acerbate
To sour; to imbitter; to irritate.
Valve
A door; especially, one of a pair of folding doors, or one of the leaves of such a door.
Debris
Broken and detached fragments, taken collectively; especially, fragments detached from a rock or mountain, and piled up at the base.
Bibliolatry
Book worship, esp. of the Bible; -- applied by Roman Catholic divines to the exaltation of the authority of the Bible over that of the pope or the church, and by Protestants to an excessive r..
Garroter
One who seizes a person by the throat from behind, with a view to strangle and rob him.
Laic
Alt. of Laical
Caulicle
A short caulis or stem, esp. the rudimentary stem seen in the embryo of seed; -- otherwise called a radicle.
Tigella
That part of an embryo which represents the young stem; the caulicle or radicle.
Tatterdemalion
A ragged fellow; a ragamuffin.
Arrowhead
The head of an arrow.
Twenty
One more that nineteen; twice; as, twenty men.
Parishioner
One who belongs to, or is connected with, a parish.
Stopcock
A bib, faucet, or short pipe, fitted with a turning stopper or plug for permitting or restraining the flow of a liquid or gas; a cock or valve for checking or regulating the flow of water, gas, ..
Saxophone
A wind instrument of brass, containing a reed, and partaking of the qualities both of a brass instrument and of a clarinet.
Petiole
A leafstalk; the footstalk of a leaf, connecting the blade with the stem. See Illust. of Leaf.
Cursoriness
The quality of being cursory; superficial performance; as, cursoriness of view.
Valvule
A little valve; a valvelet.
Urchin
A hedgehog.
Devilment
Deviltry.
Beggar
One who begs; one who asks or entreats earnestly, or with humility; a petitioner.
Slightness
The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
Funiculus
A cord, baud, or bundle of fibers; esp., one of the small bundles of fibers, of which large nerves are made up; applied also to different bands of white matter in the brain and spinal cord.
Stipe
The stalk or petiole of a frond, as of a fern.
Prelect
To read publicly, as a lecture or discourse.
Pumper
One who pumps; the instrument or machine used in pumping.
Baluster
A small column or pilaster, used as a support to the rail of an open parapet, to guard the side of a staircase, or the front of a gallery. See Balustrade.
Landloper
Same as Landlouper.
Bassoon
A wind instrument of the double reed kind, furnished with holes, which are stopped by the fingers, and by keys, as in flutes. It forms the natural bass to the oboe, clarinet, etc.
Insularity
The state or quality of being an island or consisting of islands; insulation.
Socle
A plain block or plinth forming a low pedestal; any base; especially, the base of a statue, column, or the like. See Plinth.
Impaired
of Impair
Inferential
Deduced or deducible by inference.
Miserableness
The state or quality of being miserable.
Valvula
A little valve or fold; a valvelet; a valvule.
Accepter
A person who accepts; a taker.
Loiterer
One who loiters; an idler.
Stigmatose
Same as Stigmatic.
Procumbent
Lying down, or on the face; prone.
