List Words
Opulency
See Opulence.
Osculate
To kiss.
Oust
See Oast.
Raspy
Like a rasp, or the sound made by a rasp; grating.
Jolty
That jolts; as, a jolty coach.
Joggling
of Joggle
Scratchy
Characterized by scratches.
Jostling
of Jostle
Scrawled
of Scrawl
Overact
To act or perform to excess; to exaggerate in acting; as, he overacted his part.
First-class
Of the best class; of the highest rank; in the first division; of the best quality; first-rate; as, a first-class telescope.
Overfatigue
Excessive fatigue.
Overmaster
To overpower; to subdue; to vanquish; to govern.
Overmeasure
To measure or estimate too largely.
Oversleep
To sleep beyond; as, to oversleep one's self or one's usual hour of rising.
Overtire
To tire to excess; to exhaust.
Oxygenate
To unite, or cause to combine, with oxygen; to treat with oxygen; to oxidize; as, oxygenated water (hydrogen dioxide).
Oxygenize
To oxidize.
Ozone
A colorless gaseous substance (O/) obtained (as by the silent discharge of electricity in oxygen) as an allotropic form of oxygen, containing three atoms in the molecule. It is a streng oxidi..
Paraffin
Alt. of Paraffine
Parole
A word; an oral utterance.
Pasturage
Grazing ground; grass land used for pasturing; pasture.
Paying
of Pay
Peat
A small person; a pet; -- sometimes used contemptuously.
Pentane
Any one of the three metameric hydrocarbons, C5H12, of the methane or paraffin series. They are colorless, volatile liquids, two of which occur in petroleum. So called because of the five carbon..
Peppercorn
A dried berry of the black pepper (Piper nigrum).
Percuss
To strike smartly; to strike upon or against; as, to percuss the chest in medical examination.
Perfuse
To suffuse; to fill full or to excess.
Perpetration
The act of perpetrating; a doing; -- commonly used of doing something wrong, as a crime.
Perusal
The act of carefully viewing or examining.
Petrol
Petroleum.
Petroleum
Rock oil, mineral oil, or natural oil, a dark brown or greenish inflammable liquid, which, at certain points, exists in the upper strata of the earth, from whence it is pumped, or forced by p..
Meiny
A family, including servants, etc.; household; retinue; train.
Pitch-black
Black as pitch or tar.
Pneumatics
That branch of science which treats of the mechanical properties of air and other elastic fluids, as of their weight, pressure, elasticity, etc. See Mechanics.
Fermentation
A state of agitation or excitement, as of the intellect or the feelings.
Acescence
Alt. of Acescency
Polemic
Of or pertaining to controversy; maintaining, or involving, controversy; controversial; disputative; as, a polemic discourse or essay; polemic theology.
Prating
of Prate
Precipitance
Alt. of Precipitancy
Precipitancy
The quality or state of being precipitant, or precipitate; headlong hurry; excessive or rash haste in resolving, forming an opinion, or executing a purpose; precipitation; as, the precipitanc..
Precociousness
Alt. of Precocity
Precocity
The quality or state of being precocious; untimely ripeness; premature development, especially of the mental powers; forwardness.
Prematurity
The quality or state of being premature; early, or untimely, ripeness; as, the prematurity of genius.
Prepayment
Payment in advance.
Prittle-prattle
Empty talk; trifling loquacity; prattle; -- used in contempt or ridicule.
Prosecution
The act or process of prosecuting, or of endeavoring to gain or accomplish something; pursuit by efforts of body or mind; as, the prosecution of a scheme, plan, design, or undertaking; the pr..
Incarceration
The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.
Pulverize
To reduce of fine powder or dust, as by beating, grinding, or the like; as, friable substances may be pulverized by grinding or beating, but to pulverize malleable bodies other methods must b..
Purr
To murmur as a cat. See Pur.
