List Words
Answering
of Answer
Rumpled
of Rumple
Rail
An outer cloak or covering; a neckerchief for women.
Flooring
of Floor
Obscurantist
Same as Obscurant.
Flagstone
A flat stone used in paving, or any rock which will split into such stones. See Flag, a stone.
Histrion
A player.
Zona
A zone or band; a layer.
Gambrel
The hind leg of a horse.
Wishbone
The forked bone in front of the breastbone in birds; -- called also merrythought, and wishing bone. See Merrythought, and Furculum.
Coarct
Alt. of Coarctate
Scansion
The act of scanning; distinguishing the metrical feet of a verse by emphasis, pauses, or otherwise.
Mestizo
The offspring of an Indian or a negro and a European or person of European stock.
Dominie
A schoolmaster; a pedagogue.
Plinth
In classical architecture, a vertically faced member immediately below the circular base of a column; also, the lowest member of a pedestal; hence, in general, the lowest member of a base; a ..
Interdictory
Belonging to an interdiction; prohibitory.
Abbe
The French word answering to the English abbot, the head of an abbey; but commonly a title of respect given in France to every one vested with the ecclesiastical habit or dress.
Tram
A four-wheeled truck running on rails, and used in a mine, as for carrying coal or ore.
Substructure
Same as Substruction.
Sapient
Wise; sage; discerning; -- often in irony or contempt.
Sill
The basis or foundation of a thing; especially, a horizontal piece, as a timber, which forms the lower member of a frame, or supports a structure; as, the sills of a house, of a bridge, of a loo..
Upland
High land; ground elevated above the meadows and intervals which lie on the banks of rivers, near the sea, or between hills; land which is generally dry; -- opposed to lowland, meadow, marsh, sw..
Curbing
of Curb
Poisoned
of Poison
Llano
An extensive plain with or without vegetation.
Rug
A kind of coarse, heavy frieze, formerly used for garments.
Sombrous
Gloomy; somber.
Groundwork
That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle.
Parotitis
Inflammation of the parotid glands.
Lava
The melted rock ejected by a volcano from its top or fissured sides. It flows out in streams sometimes miles in length. It also issues from fissures in the earth's surface, and forms beds coveri..
Jamb
The vertical side of any opening, as a door or fireplace; hence, less properly, any narrow vertical surface of wall, as the of a chimney-breast or of a pier, as distinguished from its face.
Under-age
Not having arrived at adult age, or at years of discretion; hence, raw; green; immature; boyish; childish.
Ankle
The joint which connects the foot with the leg; the tarsus.
Retrousse
Turned up; -- said of a pug nose.
Esplanade
A clear space between a citadel and the nearest houses of the town.
Crotch
The angle formed by the parting of two legs or branches; a fork; the point where a trunk divides; as, the crotch of a tree.
Consentient
Agreeing in mind; accordant.
Adherence
The quality or state of adhering.
Merrythought
The forked bone of a fowl's breast; -- called also wishbone. See Furculum.
Octoroon
The offspring of a quadroon and a white person; a mestee.
Vaporize
To convert into vapor, as by the application of heat, whether naturally or artificially.
Mule
A hybrid animal; specifically, one generated between an ass and a mare, sometimes a horse and a she-ass. See Hinny.
Coexisting
of Coexist
Tarsus
The ankle; the bones or cartilages of the part of the foot between the metatarsus and the leg, consisting in man of seven short bones.
Critique
The art of criticism.
Concatenate
To link together; to unite in a series or chain, as things depending on one another.
Giblets
The inmeats, or edible viscera (heart, gizzard, liver, etc.), of poultry.
Stylobate
The uninterrupted and continuous flat band, coping, or pavement upon which the bases of a row of columns are supported. See Sub-base.
Inter
To deposit and cover in the earth; to bury; to inhume; as, to inter a dead body.
Guardian
One who guards, preserves, or secures; one to whom any person or thing is committed for protection, security, or preservation from injury; a warden.
