List Words
Listing
of List
Careening
of Careen
Oiled
of Oil
Jew's-stone
Alt. of Jewstone
Sloping
of Slope
Recumbent
Leaning; reclining; lying; as, the recumbent posture of the Romans at their meals. Hence, figuratively; Resting; inactive; idle.
Bishopric
A diocese; the district over which the jurisdiction of a bishop extends.
Cocker
To treat with too great tenderness; to fondle; to indulge; to pamper.
Snow-blind
Affected with blindness by the brilliancy of snow.
Furtherance
The act of furthering or helping forward; promotion; advancement; progress.
Outing
The act of going out; an airing; an excursion; as, a summer outing.
Hastening
of Hasten
Immediacy
The relation of freedom from the interventionof a medium; immediateness.
Continent
Serving to restrain or limit; restraining; opposing.
Strove
imp. of Strive.
Tumbled
of Tumble
Snaggy
Full of snags; full of short, rough branches or sharp points; abounding with knots.
Rugous
Wrinkled; rugose.
Basin
The quantity contained in a basin.
Heath
A low shrub (Erica, / Calluna, vulgaris), with minute evergreen leaves, and handsome clusters of pink flowers. It is used in Great Britain for brooms, thatch, beds for the poor, and for heating ..
Concave
Hollow and curved or rounded; vaulted; -- said of the interior of a curved surface or line, as of the curve of the of the inner surface of an eggshell, in opposition to convex; as, a concave ..
Tureen
A large, deep vessel for holding soup, or other liquid food, at the table.
Porringer
A porridge dish; esp., a bowl or cup from which children eat or are fed; as, a silver porringer.
Done
of Do
Raised
of Raise
Discharged
of Discharge
Consummated
of Consummate
Fulfilled
of Fulfill
Concierge
One who keeps the entrance to an edifice, public or private; a doorkeeper; a janitor, male or female.
Charwoman
A woman hired for odd work or for single days.
Janitress
Alt. of Janitrix
Attendant
Being present, or in the train; accompanying; in waiting.
Ostiary
The mouth of a river; an estuary.
Cerberus
A monster, in the shape of a three-headed dog, guarding the entrance into the infernal regions, Hence: Any vigilant custodian or guardian, esp. if surly.
Curator
One who has the care and superintendence of anything, as of a museum; a custodian; a keeper.
Cleaner
One who, or that which, cleans.
Castellan
A governor or warden of a castle.
Bellying
of Belly
Conservator
One who preserves from injury or violation; a protector; a preserver.
Porter
A man who has charge of a door or gate; a doorkeeper; one who waits at the door to receive messages.
Char
Alt. of Charr
Warder
One who wards or keeps; a keeper; a guard.
Watchdog
A dog kept to watch and guard premises or property, and to give notice of the approach of intruders.
Infectious
Having qualities that may infect; communicable or caused by infection; pestilential; epidemic; as, an infectious fever; infectious clothing; infectious air; infectious vices.
Predominating
of Predominate
Dactylic
A line consisting chiefly or wholly of dactyls; as, these lines are dactylics.
Erebus
A place of nether darkness, being the gloomy space through which the souls passed to Hades. See Milton's "Paradise Lost," Book II., line 883.
Gamekeeper
One who has the care of game, especially in a park or preserve.
Pestilence
Specifically, the disease known as the plague; hence, any contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating.
Pestiferous
Pest-bearing; pestilential; noxious to health; malignant; infectious; contagious; as, pestiferous bodies.
