List Words
Boon
A prayer or petition.
Calyx
The covering of a flower. See Flower.
Autoclave
A kind of French stewpan with a steam-tight lid.
Nones
The fifth day of the months January, February, April, June, August, September, November, and December, and the seventh day of March, May, July, and October. The nones were nine days before the ..
Furnisher
One who supplies or fits out.
Monody
A species of poem of a mournful character, in which a single mourner expresses lamentation; a song for one voice.
Stationer
A bookseller or publisher; -- formerly so called from his occupying a stand, or station, in the market place or elsewhere.
Baker
One whose business it is to bake bread, biscuit, etc.
Fruiterer
One who deals in fruit; a seller of fruits.
Attender
One who, or that which, attends.
Percipient
Having the faculty of perception; perceiving; as, a percipient being.
Audience
The act of hearing; attention to sounds.
Precipice
A sudden or headlong fall.
Fixedly
In a fixed, stable, or constant manner.
Firefly
Any luminous winged insect, esp. luminous beetles of the family Lampyridae.
Poulterer
One who deals in poultry.
Jeweler
One who makes, or deals in, jewels, precious stones, and similar ornaments.
Umbel
A kind of flower cluster in which the flower stalks radiate from a common point, as in the carrot and milkweed. It is simple or compound; in the latter case, each peduncle bears another little u..
Regulating
of Regulate
Knack
To crack; to make a sharp, abrupt noise to chink.
Tenth
Next in order after the ninth; coming after nine others.
Northeasterly
Pertaining to the northeast; toward the northeast, or coming from the northeast.
Transformer
One who, or that which, transforms. Specif. (Elec.), an apparatus for producing from a given electrical current another current of different voltage.
Earthling
An inhabitant of the earth; a mortal.
Seventy
Seven times ten; one more than sixty-nine.
E
E is the third tone of the model diatonic scale. E/ (E flat) is a tone which is intermediate between D and E.
Commanding
of Command
Bystander
One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting.
Epigraph
Any inscription set upon a building; especially, one which has to do with the building itself, its founding or dedication.
Panicle
A pyramidal form of inflorescence, in which the cluster is loosely branched below and gradually simpler toward the end.
Presbyter
An elder in the early Christian church. See 2d Citation under Bishop, n., 1.
Supervisor
One who supervises; an overseer; an inspector; a superintendent; as, a supervisor of schools.
Hesper
The evening; Hesperus.
Verticalness
Quality or state of being vertical.
Caput
The head; also, a knoblike protuberance or capitulum.
Superscription
The act of superscribing.
Psychosis
Any vital action or activity.
Hysteria
A nervous affection, occurring almost exclusively in women, in which the emotional and reflex excitability is exaggerated, and the will power correspondingly diminished, so that the patient l..
Delirium
A state in which the thoughts, expressions, and actions are wild, irregular, and incoherent; mental aberration; a roving or wandering of the mind, -- usually dependent on a fever or some other ..
Frivolity
The condition or quality of being frivolous; also, acts or habits of trifling; unbecoming levity of disposition.
Cretinism
A condition of endemic or inherited idiocy, accompanied by physical degeneracy and deformity (usually with goiter), frequent in certain mountain valleys, esp. of the Alps.
Hexavalent
Having a valence of six; -- said of hexads.
Nautical
Of or pertaining to seamen, to the art of navigation, or to ships; as, nautical skill.
Zanyism
State or character of a zany; buffoonery.
Hallucination
The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; error; mistake; a blunder.
Waitress
A female waiter or attendant; a waiting maid or waiting woman.
Idiocy
The condition or quality of being an idiot; absence, or marked deficiency, of sense and intelligence.
Amentia
Imbecility; total want of understanding.
Geodesist
One versed in geodesy.
Tripper
One who trips or supplants; also, one who walks or trips nimbly; a dancer.
