List Words
Cay
See Key, a ledge.
Illustrate
To make clear, bright, or luminous.
Refinery
The building and apparatus for refining or purifying, esp. metals and sugar.
Chronograph
A chronoscope.
Ageless
Without old age limits of duration; as, fountains of ageless youth.
Marketing
of Market
Gulch
Act of gulching or gulping.
Hoar
White, or grayish white; as, hoar frost; hoar cliffs.
Burgrave
See Burggrave.
Quinsy
An inflammation of the throat, or parts adjacent, especially of the fauces or tonsils, attended by considerable swelling, painful and impeded deglutition, and accompanied by inflammatory fever. ..
Swag
To hang or move, as something loose and heavy; to sway; to swing.
Disobey
Not to obey; to neglect or refuse to obey (a superior or his commands, the laws, etc.); to transgress the commands of (one in authority); to violate, as an order; as, refractory children disobey..
Bacchanal
Relating to Bacchus or his festival.
Discomfited
of Discomfit
Fang
To catch; to seize, as with the teeth; to lay hold of; to gripe; to clutch.
Pneumonia
Inflammation of the lungs.
Putrefied
of Putrefy
Stab
To pierce with a pointed weapon; to wound or kill by the thrust of a pointed instrument; as, to stab a man with a dagger; also, to thrust; as, to stab a dagger into a person.
Unbenign
Not benign; malignant.
Inhospitable
Not hospitable; not disposed to show hospitality to strangers or guests; as, an inhospitable person or people.
Sea cock
In a steamship, a cock or valve close to the vessel's side, for closing a pipe which communicates with the sea.
Woe
Grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity.
Torpidness
The qualityy or state of being torpid.
Inanimation
Want of animation; lifeless; dullness.
Turret
A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the angles of a larger structure.
Practicing
of Practice
Impotence
Alt. of Impotency
Unimportance
Want of importance; triviality.
Decurrence
The act of running down; a lapse.
Bacchanalian
Of or pertaining to the festival of Bacchus; relating to or given to reveling and drunkenness.
Worse
Bad, ill, evil, or corrupt, in a greater degree; more bad or evil; less good; specifically, in poorer health; more sick; -- used both in a physical and moral sense.
Gymnosophy
The doctrines of the Gymnosophists.
Submergence
The act of submerging, or the state of being submerged; submersion.
Spillway
A sluiceway or passage for superfluous water in a reservoir, to prevent too great pressure on the dam.
Bothersome
Vexatious; causing bother; causing trouble or perplexity; troublesome.
Carte blanche
A blank paper, with a person's signature, etc., at the bottom, given to another person, with permission to superscribe what conditions he pleases. Hence: Unconditional terms; unlimited authority..
Hysteron proteron
A figure in which the natural order of sense is reversed; hysterology; as, valet atque vivit, "he is well and lives."
Debility
The state of being weak; weakness; feebleness; languor.
Stumpy
Full of stumps; hard; strong.
Listed
of List
Ethnic
Alt. of Ethnical
Sugar
A sweet white (or brownish yellow) crystalline substance, of a sandy or granular consistency, obtained by crystallizing the evaporated juice of certain plants, as the sugar cane, sorghum, beet ..
Sot
A stupid person; a blockhead; a dull fellow; a dolt.
Acidic
Containing a high percentage of silica; -- opposed to basic.
Yaws
A disease, occurring in the Antilles and in Africa, characterized by yellowish or reddish tumors, of a contagious character, which, in shape and appearance, often resemble currants, strawberr..
Bird
Orig., a chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling; and hence, a feathered flying animal (see 2).
Filter
Any porous substance, as cloth, paper, sand, or charcoal, through which water or other liquid may passed to cleanse it from the solid or impure matter held in suspension; a chamber or device ..
Dipsomaniac
One who has an irrepressible desire for alcoholic drinks.
Boozer
One who boozes; a toper; a guzzler of alcoholic liquors; a bouser.
Domineer
To rule with insolence or arbitrary sway; to play the master; to be overbearing; to tyrannize; to bluster; to swell with conscious superiority or haughtiness; -- often with over; as, to domin..
