List Words
Artfully
In an artful manner; with art or cunning; skillfully; dexterously; craftily.
Aptly
In an apt or suitable manner; fitly; properly; pertinently; appropriately; readily.
Broncho
A native or a Mexican horse of small size.
Bidding prayer
The prayer before the sermon, with petitions for various specified classes of persons.
Right-minded
Having a right or honest mind.
Abidance
The state of abiding; abode; continuance; compliance (with).
Sciotheric
Of or pertaining to a sundial.
Milvine
A bird related to the kite.
Stylops
A genus of minute insects parasitic, in their larval state, on bees and wasps. It is the typical genus of the group Strepsiptera, formerly considered a distinct order, but now generally refer..
Zephyr
The west wind; poetically, any soft, gentle breeze.
Zephyrus
The west wind, or zephyr; -- usually personified, and made the most mild and gentle of all the sylvan deities.
Abrase
Rubbed smooth.
Abrupt
Broken off; very steep, or craggy, as rocks, precipices, banks; precipitous; steep; as, abrupt places.
Accelerate
To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of; -- opposed to retard.
Accrual
Accrument.
Acetylene
A gaseous compound of carbon and hydrogen, in the proportion of two atoms of the former to two of the latter. It is a colorless gas, with a peculiar, unpleasant odor, and is produced for use ..
Achieve
To carry on to a final close; to bring out into a perfected state; to accomplish; to perform; -- as, to achieve a feat, an exploit, an enterprise.
Acquit
Acquitted; set free; rid of.
Acquittance
The clearing off of debt or obligation; a release or discharge from debt or other liability.
Aerodynamics
The science which treats of the air and other gaseous bodies under the action of force, and of their mechanical effects.
Aftergrass
The grass that grows after the first crop has been mown; aftermath.
Aggrandizement
The act of aggrandizing, or the state of being aggrandized or exalted in power, rank, honor, or wealth; exaltation; enlargement; as, the emperor seeks only the aggrandizement of his own famil..
Aggression
The first attack, or act of hostility; the first act of injury, or first act leading to a war or a controversy; unprovoked attack; assault; as, a war of aggression. "Aggressions of power."
Amortize
To make as if dead; to destroy.
Ampleness
The state or quality of being ample; largeness; fullness; completeness.
Anabasis
A journey or expedition up from the coast, like that of the younger Cyrus into Central Asia, described by Xenophon in his work called "The Anabasis."
Anamorphosis
A distorted or monstrous projection or representation of an image on a plane or curved surface, which, when viewed from a certain point, or as reflected from a curved mirror or through a poly..
Aphonia
Alt. of Aphony
Arc
A portion of a curved line; as, the arc of a circle or of an ellipse.
Argon
A substance regarded as an element, contained in the atmosphere and remarkable for its chemical inertness.
Assailment
The act or power of assailing; attack; assault.
Ataxia
Alt. of Ataxy
Attain
To achieve or accomplish, that is, to reach by efforts; to gain; to compass; as, to attain rest.
Axe
A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, etc. It is wielded by a wooden helve or handle, so fixed in a..
Ballooning
The art or practice of managing balloons or voyaging in them.
Bamboo
A plant of the family of grasses, and genus Bambusa, growing in tropical countries.
Barking
of Bark
Bauble
A trifling piece of finery; a gewgaw; that which is gay and showy without real value; a cheap, showy plaything.
Benzine
A liquid consisting mainly of the lighter and more volatile hydrocarbons of petroleum or kerosene oil, used as a solvent and for cleansing soiled fabrics; -- called also petroleum spirit, pet..
Bespot
To mark with spots, or as with spots.
Bibliolater
Alt. of Bibliolatrist
Bibliolatrist
A worshiper of books; especially, a worshiper of the Bible; a believer in its verbal inspiration.
Bibliomaniac
One who has a mania for books.
Bibliophile
A lover of books.
Bibliophilist
A lover of books.
Birdcall
A sound made in imitation of the note or cry of a bird for the purpose of decoying the bird or its mate.
Birdlime
An extremely adhesive viscid substance, usually made of the middle bark of the holly, by boiling, fermenting, and cleansing it. When a twig is smeared with this substance it will hold small bird..
Bloating
of Bloat
Bode
To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend to presage; to foreshow.
Bombardment
An attack upon a fortress or fortified town, with shells, hot shot, rockets, etc.; the act of throwing bombs and shot into a town or fortified place.
