List Words
Genuflect
To bend the knee, as in worship.
Genuflection
The act of bending the knee, particularly in worship.
Gin
Against; near by; towards; as, gin night.
Gleet
A transparent mucous discharge from the membrane of the urethra, commonly an effect of gonorrhea.
Glower
to look intently; to stare angrily or with a scowl.
Glyptic
Of or pertaining to gem engraving.
Highfaluting
High-flown, bombastic language.
Grater
One who, or that which, grates; especially, an instrument or utensil with a rough, indented surface, for rubbing off small particles of any substance; as a grater for nutmegs.
Greyhound
A slender, graceful breed of dogs, remarkable for keen sight and swiftness. It is one of the oldest varieties known, and is figured on the Egyptian monuments.
Griping
of Gripe
Grit
Sand or gravel; rough, hard particles.
Groaning
of Groan
Gum
The dense tissues which invest the teeth, and cover the adjacent parts of the jaws.
Gybe
See Jib.
Handsel
A sale, gift, or delivery into the hand of another; especially, a sale, gift, delivery, or using which is the first of a series, and regarded as on omen for the rest; a first installment; an ..
Hare
To excite; to tease, or worry; to harry.
Harum-scarum
Wild; giddy; flighty; rash; thoughtless.
Hastiness
The quality or state of being hasty; haste; precipitation; rashness; quickness of temper.
Heaving
of Heave
Helium
A gaseous element found in the atmospheres of the sun and earth and in some rare minerals.
Henpeck
To subject to petty authority; -- said of a wife who thus treats her husband. Commonly used in the past participle (often adjectively).
Hexane
Any one of five hydrocarbons, C6H14, of the paraffin series. They are colorless, volatile liquids, and are so called because the molecule has six carbon atoms.
Hives
The croup.
Hoarseness
Harshness or roughness of voice or sound, due to mucus collected on the vocal cords, or to swelling or looseness of the cords.
Hone
To pine; to lament; to long.
Hurricane
A violent storm, characterized by extreme fury and sudden changes of the wind, and generally accompanied by rain, thunder, and lightning; -- especially prevalent in the East and West Indies. ..
Hush
To still; to silence; to calm; to make quiet; to repress the noise or clamor of.
Hypothecate
To subject, as property, to liability for a debt or engagement without delivery of possession or transfer of title; to pledge without delivery of possession; to mortgage, as ships, or other p..
Impignorate
To pledge or pawn.
Impinge
To fall or dash against; to touch upon; to strike; to hit; to ciash with; -- with on or upon.
Impulsiveness
The quality of being impulsive.
Incompatibleness
The quality or state of being incompatible; incompatibility.
Inhalation
The act of inhaling; also, that which is inhaled.
Inhume
To deposit, as a dead body, in the earth; to bury; to inter.
Injured
of Injure
Inky
Consisting of, or resembling, ink; soiled with ink; black.
Insincerity
The quality of being insincere; want of sincerity, or of being in reality what one appears to be; dissimulation; hypocritical; deceitfulness; hollowness; untrustworthiness; as, the insincerit..
Insurgency
A state of insurrection; an uprising; an insurrection.
Inundation
The act of inundating, or the state of being inundated; an overflow; a flood; a rising and spreading of water over grounds.
Inurn
To put in an urn, as the ashes of the dead; hence, to bury; to intomb.
Inveigle
To lead astray as if blind; to persuade to something evil by deceptive arts or flattery; to entice; to insnare; to seduce; to wheedle.
Jacquerie
The name given to a revolt of French peasants against the nobles in 1358, the leader assuming the contemptuous title, Jacques Bonhomme, given by the nobles to the peasantry. Hence, any revolt of..
jarring
of Jar
Jounce
To jolt; to shake, especially by rough riding or by driving over obstructions.
Joust
To engage in mock combat on horseback, as two knights in the lists; to tilt.
Keloid
Applied to a variety of tumor forming hard, flat, irregular excrescences upon the skin.
Kerosene
An oil used for illuminating purposes, formerly obtained from the distillation of mineral wax, bituminous shale, etc., and hence called also coal oil. It is now produced in immense quantities, c..
Kicking
of Kick
Labyrinth
An edifice or place full of intricate passageways which render it difficult to find the way from the interior to the entrance; as, the Egyptian and Cretan labyrinths.
Lactation
A giving suck; the secretion and yielding of milk by the mammary gland.
