List Words
Frondeur
A member of the Fronde.
Wantage
That which is wanting; deficiency.
Stooped
of Stoop
Agony
Violent contest or striving.
Overlabor
To cause to labor excessively; to overwork.
Sax
A kind of chopping instrument for trimming the edges of roofing slates.
Rubella
An acute specific disease with a dusky red cutaneous eruption resembling that of measles, but unattended by catarrhal symptoms; -- called also German measles.
Assonantal
Assonant.
Pro
A Latin preposition signifying for, before, forth.
Tollgate
A gate where toll is taken.
Made
See Mad, n.
Envier
One who envies; one who desires inordinately what another possesses.
Exudate
To exude.
Postpositive
Placed after another word; as, a postpositive conjunction; a postpositive letter.
Sorghum
A genus of grasses, properly limited to two species, Sorghum Halepense, the Arabian millet, or Johnson grass (see Johnson grass), and S. vulgare, the Indian millet (see Indian millet, under I..
Dickens
The devil.
Infliction
The act of inflicting or imposing; as, the infliction of torment, or of punishment.
Stubby
Abounding with stubs.
Siege
Rank; grade; station; estimation.
Encumber
To impede the motion or action of, as with a burden; to retard with something superfluous; to weigh down; to obstruct or embarrass; as, his movements were encumbered by his mantle; his mind is ..
Grey
See Gray (the correct orthography).
Patriarchal
Of or pertaining to a patriarch or to patriarchs; possessed by, or subject to, patriarchs; as, patriarchal authority or jurisdiction; a patriarchal see; a patriarchal church.
Senescence
The state of growing old; decay by time.
Honeydew
A sweet, saccharine substance, found on the leaves of trees and other plants in small drops, like dew. Two substances have been called by this name; one exuded from the plants, and the other ..
Signifying
of Signify
Hyperorthodoxy
Orthodoxy pushed to excess.
Ideographic
Alt. of Ideographical
Sulcate
Alt. of Sulcated
Saltish
Somewhat salt.
Infelicity
The state or quality of being infelicitous; unhappiness; misery; wretchedness; misfortune; want of suitableness or appropriateness.
Incapacity
Want of capacity; lack of physical or intellectual power; inability.
Tippler
One who keeps a tippling-house.
Ameliorative
Tending to ameliorate; producing amelioration or improvement; as, ameliorative remedies, efforts.
Outdated
Being out of date; antiquated.
Bluestockingism
The character or manner of a bluestocking; female pedantry.
Creepy
Crawly; having or producing a sensation like that caused by insects creeping on the skin.
Griper
One who gripes; an oppressor; an extortioner.
Quartic
Of the fourth degree.
Concerned
of Concern
Ulcerated
of Ulcerate
Oversow
To sow where something has already been sown.
Foursquare
Having four sides and four equal angles.
Grizzle
Gray; a gray color; a mixture of white and black.
Merchandising
of Merchandise
Dishwater
Water in which dishes have been washed.
Insubordinate
Not submitting to authority; disobedient; rebellious; mutinous.
Oppression
The act of oppressing, or state of being oppressed.
Consignment
The act of consigning; consignation.
Naturism
The belief or doctrine that attributes everything to nature as a sanative agent.
Tamer
One who tames or subdues.
Random Quote
"Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. 'Are you feeling all right?' I asked her. 'I feel all sleepy,' she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was...in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunised against measles. ...I dedicated two of my books to Olivia, the first was ‘James and the Giant Peach’. That was when she was still alive. The second was ‘The BFG’, dedicated to her memory after she had died from measles. You will see her name at the beginning of each of these books. And I know how happy she would be if only she could know that her death had helped to save a good deal of illness and death among other children."
I just checked google books for BFG, and the dedication is there.
https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/_/quybcXrFhCIC?hl=en&gbpv=1
Roald Dahl, 1986
