List Words
Perspicuity
The quality or state of being transparent or translucent.
Jury-rigged
Rigged for temporary service. See Jury, a.
Intermittent
Coming and going at intervals; alternating; recurrent; periodic; as, an intermittent fever.
Clearness
The quality or state of being clear.
Commoner
One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility.
Profuseness
Extravagance; profusion.
Whinny
To utter the ordinary call or cry of a horse; to neigh.
Undulating
of Undulate
Sharpen
To give a keen edge or fine point to; to make sharper; as, to sharpen an ax, or the teeth of a saw.
Requitement
Requital
Shack
To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest.
Searching
of Search
Throughout
Quite through; from one extremity to the other of; also, every part of; as, to search throughout the house.
Detainment
Detention.
Liquidness
The quality or state of being liquid; liquidity; fluency.
Suet
The fat and fatty tissues of an animal, especially the harder fat about the kidneys and loins in beef and mutton, which, when melted and freed from the membranes, forms tallow.
Everywhere
In every place; in all places; hence, in every part; throughly; altogether.
Scrabble
To scrape, paw, or scratch with the hands; to proceed by clawing with the hands and feet; to scramble; as, to scrabble up a cliff or a tree.
Nomad
One of a race or tribe that has no fixed location, but wanders from place to place in search of pasture or game.
Clarion
A kind of trumpet, whose note is clear and shrill.
Constriction
The act of constricting by means of some inherent power or by movement or change in the thing itself, as distinguished from compression.
Thundery
Accompanied with thunder; thunderous.
Embrasure
An embrace.
Mobilization
The act of mobilizing.
Hereabouts
About this place; in this vicinity.
Slogan
The war cry, or gathering word, of a Highland clan in Scotland; hence, any rallying cry.
Inoculation
The act or art of inoculating trees or plants.
Grafting
of Graft
Bellowing
of Bellow
Rider
One who, or that which, rides.
Crenel
See Crenelle.
Mop
A made-up face; a grimace.
Cruelty
The attribute or quality of being cruel; a disposition to give unnecessary pain or suffering to others; inhumanity; barbarity.
Plasm
A mold or matrix in which anything is cast or formed to a particular shape.
Socket
An opening into which anything is fitted; any hollow thing or place which receives and holds something else; as, the sockets of the teeth.
Mouthing
of Mouth
Suffix
A letter, letters, syllable, or syllables added or appended to the end of a word or a root to modify the meaning; a postfix.
Commonage
The right of pasturing on a common; the right of using anything in common with others.
Peasantry
Peasants, collectively; the body of rustics.
Formication
A sensation resembling that made by the creeping of ants on the skin.
Proletarian
Of or pertaining to the proletaries; belonging to the commonalty; hence, mean; vile; vulgar.
Logotype
A single type, containing two or more letters; as, ae, Ae, /, /, /, etc. ; -- called also ligature.
Foresight
The act or the power of foreseeing; prescience; foreknowledge.
Audacity
Daring spirit, resolution, or confidence; venturesomeness.
Amid
See Amidst.
Confess
To make acknowledgment or avowal in a matter pertaining to one's self; to acknowledge, own, or admit, as a crime, a fault, a debt.
Demeanor
Management; treatment; conduct.
Clansman
One belonging to the same clan with another.
Pica
The genus that includes the magpies.
Foreground
On a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic picture, or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest part of the ..
