List Words
Sound
To make a noise; to utter a voice; to make an impulse of the air that shall strike the organs of hearing with a perceptible effect.
Bunkum
Speech-making for the gratification of constituents, or to gain public applause; flattering talk for a selfish purpose; anything said for mere show.
Vituperate
To find fault with; to scold; to overwhelm with wordy abuse; to censure severely or abusively; to rate.
Fiord
A narrow inlet of the sea, penetrating between high banks or rocks, as on the coasts of Norway and Alaska.
Reasoning
of Reason
Barometer
An instrument for determining the weight or pressure of the atmosphere, and hence for judging of the probable changes of weather, or for ascertaining the height of any ascent.
Mensurate
To measure.
Customary
Agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual.
Verbalize
To convert into a verb; to verbify.
Calibrate
To ascertain the caliber of, as of a thermometer tube; also, more generally, to determine or rectify the graduation of, as of the various standards or graduated instruments.
Weathercock
A vane, or weather vane; -- so called because originally often in the figure of a cock, turning on the top of a spire with the wind, and showing its direction.
Invincible
Incapable of being conquered, overcome, or subdued; unconquerable; insuperable; as, an invincible army, or obstacle.
Hale
Sound; entire; healthy; robust; not impaired; as, a hale body.
Songster
One who sings; one skilled in singing; -- not often applied to human beings.
Ordinate
Well-ordered; orderly; regular; methodical.
Defrayed
of Defray
Inconsistency
The quality or state of being inconsistent; discordance in respect to sentiment or action; such contrariety between two things that both can not exist or be true together; disagreement; incom..
Crotchetiness
The state or character of being crotchety, or whimsical.
Romanza
See Romance, 5.
Perversity
The quality or state of being perverse; perverseness.
Petulance
Alt. of Petulancy
Carelessness
The quality or state of being careless; heedlessness; negligenece; inattention.
Humorsomeness
Quality of being humorsome.
Blockhouse
An edifice or structure of heavy timbers or logs for military defense, having its sides loopholed for musketry, and often an upper story projecting over the lower, or so placed upon it as to hav..
Motte
A clump of trees in a prairie.
Cote
A cottage or hut.
Chalet
A herdsman's hut in the mountains of Switzerland.
Studying
of Study
Gauze
A very thin, slight, transparent stuff, generally of silk; also, any fabric resembling silk gauze; as, wire gauze; cotton gauze.
Stalwart
Alt. of Stalworth
Cot
A small house; a cottage or hut.
Bee
p. p. of Be; -- used for been.
Attribution
The act of attributing or ascribing, as a quality, character, or function, to a thing or person, an effect to a cause.
Rath
A hill or mound.
Spontoon
A kind of half-pike, or halberd, formerly borne by inferior officers of the British infantry, and used in giving signals to the soldiers.
Self-acting
Acting of or by one's self or by itself; -- said especially of a machine or mechanism which is made to perform of or for itself what is usually done by human agency; automatic; as, a self-act..
Offered
of Offer
Discretional
Alt. of Discretionary
Billy
A club; esp., a policeman's club.
Inadvertent
Not turning the mind to a matter; heedless; careless; negligent; inattentive.
Stoned
of Stone
Self-regulative
Tending or serving to regulate one's self or itself.
Extemporaneous
Composed, performed, or uttered on the spur of the moment, or without previous study; unpremeditated; off-hand; extempore; extemporary; as, an extemporaneous address or production.
Extemporary
Extemporaneous.
Self-adjusting
Capable of assuming a desired position or condition with relation to other parts, under varying circumstances, without requiring to be adjusted by hand; -- said of a piece in machinery.
Improviso
Not prepared or mediated beforehand; extemporaneous.
Wondering
of Wonder
Moved
of Move
Strangled
of Strangle
Metal
An elementary substance, as sodium, calcium, or copper, whose oxide or hydroxide has basic rather than acid properties, as contrasted with the nonmetals, or metalloids. No sharp line can be d..
