List Words
Kindled
of Kindle
Turf
That upper stratum of earth and vegetable mold which is filled with the roots of grass and other small plants, so as to adhere and form a kind of mat; sward; sod.
Prevail
To overcome; to gain the victory or superiority; to gain the advantage; to have the upper hand, or the mastery; to succeed; -- sometimes with over or against.
Long-lived
Having a long life; having constitutional peculiarities which make long life probable; lasting long; as, a long-lived tree; they are a longlived family; long-lived prejudices.
Bide
To dwell; to inhabit; to abide; to stay.
Domiciliate
To establish in a permanent residence; to domicile.
Tussle
To struggle, as in sport; to scuffle; to struggle with.
Twattle
To prate; to talk much and idly; to gabble; to chatter; to twaddle; as, a twattling gossip.
Dorse
Same as dorsal, n.
Guttering
of Gutter
Twopence
A small coin, and money of account, in England, equivalent to two pennies, -- minted to a fixed annual amount, for almsgiving by the sovereign on Maundy Thursday.
Unbinding
of Unbind
Unburden
To relieve from a burden.
Unchurch
To expel, or cause to separate, from a church; to excommunicate.
Unction
The act of anointing, smearing, or rubbing with an unguent, oil, or ointment, especially for medical purposes, or as a symbol of consecration; as, mercurial unction.
Underscore
To draw a mark or line under; to underline.
Unfrock
To deprive or divest or a frock; specifically, to deprive of priestly character or privilege; as, to unfrock a priest.
Unlatching
of Unlatch
Unsettle
To move or loosen from a settled position or state; to unfix; to displace; to disorder; to confuse.
Unstring
To deprive of a string or strings; also, to take from a string; as, to unstring beads.
Unthrone
To remove from, or as from, a throne; to dethrone.
Untune
To make incapable of harmony, or of harmonious action; to put out of tune.
Upspear
To grow or shoot up like a spear; as, upspearing grass.
Urine
In mammals, a fluid excretion from the kidneys; in birds and reptiles, a solid or semisolid excretion.
Urticaria
The nettle rash, a disease characterized by a transient eruption of red pimples and of wheals, accompanied with a burning or stinging sensation and with itching; uredo.
Urtication
The act or process of whipping or stinging with nettles; -- sometimes used in the treatment of paralysis.
Vapor
Any substance in the gaseous, or aeriform, state, the condition of which is ordinarily that of a liquid or solid.
Venthole
A touchhole; a vent.
Ventilate
To open and expose to the free passage of air; to supply with fresh air, and remove impure air from; to air; as, to ventilate a room; to ventilate a cellar; to ventilate a mine.
Victual
Food; -- now used chiefly in the plural. See Victuals.
Vindication
The act of vindicating, or the state of being vindicated; defense; justification against denial or censure; as, the vindication of opinions; his vindication is complete.
Vomition
The act or power of vomiting.
Vomitive
Causing the ejection of matter from the stomach; emetic.
Reeky
Soiled with smoke or steam; smoky; foul.
Waterflood
A flood of water; an inundation.
Waterspout
A remarkable meteorological phenomenon, of the nature of a tornado or whirlwind, usually observed over the sea, but sometimes over the land.
Waxing
of Wax
Wheat
A cereal grass (Triticum vulgare) and its grain, which furnishes a white flour for bread, and, next to rice, is the grain most largely used by the human race.
Whelm
To cover with water or other fluid; to cover by immersion in something that envelops on all sides; to overwhelm; to ingulf.
Whirlwind
A violent windstorm of limited extent, as the tornado, characterized by an inward spiral motion of the air with an upward current in the center; a vortex of air. It usually has a rapid progre..
Infold
To wrap up or cover with folds; to envelop; to inwrap; to inclose; to involve.
Whistling
of Whistle
Whitehead
The blue-winged snow goose.
Wrangle
To argue; to debate; to dispute.
Wrestle
To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully.
Yuck
To itch.
Deeming
of Deem
Capitation
A numbering of heads or individuals.
Compressure
Compression.
Barway
A passage into a field or yard, closed by bars made to take out of the posts.
