List Words
Uncoil
To unwind or open, as a coil of rope.
Grinder
One who, or that which, grinds.
Epitomist
One who makes an epitome; one who abridges; an epitomizer.
Epitomizer
An epitomist.
Dogtooth
See Canine tooth, under Canine.
Unequaled
Not equaled; unmatched; unparalleled; unrivaled; exceeding; surpassing; -- in a good or bad sense; as, unequaled excellence; unequaled ingratitude or baseness.
Pontiff
A high priest.
Gamy
Having the flavor of game, esp. of game kept uncooked till near the condition of tainting; high-flavored.
Odorous
Having or emitting an odor or scent, esp. a sweet odor; fragrant; sweet-smelling.
Nidorous
Resembling the smell or taste of roast meat, or of corrupt animal matter.
Fecal
relating to, or containing, dregs, feces, or ordeure; faecal.
Bardish
Pertaining to, or written by, a bard or bards.
Inimitable
Not capable of being imitated, copied, or counterfeited; beyond imitation; surpassingly excellent; matchless; unrivaled; exceptional; unique; as, an inimitable style; inimitable eloquence.
Denticle
A small tooth or projecting point.
Gullible
Easily gulled; that may be duped.
Mephitic
Alt. of Mephitical
Stitcher
One who stitches; a seamstress.
Cuspid
One of the canine teeth; -- so called from having but one point or cusp on the crown. See Tooth.
Eyetooth
A canine tooth of the upper jaw.
Tusk
Same as Torsk.
Bicuspid
Alt. of Bicuspidate
Bucktooth
Any tooth that juts out.
Unparagoned
Having no paragon or equal; matchless; peerless.
Fore tooth
One of the teeth in the forepart of the mouth; an incisor.
Shortener
One who, or that which, shortens.
Separator
One who, or that which, separates.
Finisher
One who finishes, puts an end to, completes, or perfects; esp. used in the trades, as in hatting, weaving, etc., for the workman who gives a finishing touch to the work, or any part of it, and b..
Dentition
The development and cutting of teeth; teething.
Denticulation
The state of being set with small notches or teeth.
Frowy
Musty. rancid; as, frowy butter.
Gagtooth
A projecting tooth.
Molar
Of or pertaining to a mass of matter; -- said of the properties or motions of masses, as distinguished from those of molecules or atoms.
Musk
A substance of a reddish brown color, and when fresh of the consistence of honey, obtained from a bag being behind the navel of the male musk deer. It has a slightly bitter taste, but is special..
Fixative
That which serves to set or fix colors or drawings, as a mordant.
Perfume
To fill or impregnate with a perfume; to scent.
Aromatic
Alt. of Aromatical
Scent
To perceive by the olfactory organs; to smell; as, to scent game, as a hound does.
Salade
A helmet. See Sallet.
Aspic
The venomous asp.
Impecuniosity
The state of being impecunious.
Perfumery
Perfumes, in general.
Abuna
The Patriarch, or head of the Abyssinian Church.
Ambergris
A substance of the consistence of wax, found floating in the Indian Ocean and other parts of the tropics, and also as a morbid secretion in the intestines of the sperm whale (Physeter macroce..
Rigger
One who rigs or dresses; one whose occupation is to fit the rigging of a ship.
Dhow
A coasting vessel of Arabia, East Africa, and the Indian Ocean. It has generally but one mast and a lateen sail.
Sandbagger
An assaulter whose weapon is a sand bag. See Sand bag, under Sand.
Corsair
A pirate; one who cruises about without authorization from any government, to seize booty on sea or land.
Galleon
A sailing vessel of the 15th and following centuries, often having three or four decks, and used for war or commerce. The term is often rather indiscriminately applied to any large sailing ve..
Skipjack
An upstart.
Embargo
An edict or order of the government prohibiting the departure of ships of commerce from some or all of the ports within its dominions; a prohibition to sail.
Random Quote
"Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. 'Are you feeling all right?' I asked her. 'I feel all sleepy,' she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was...in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunised against measles. ...I dedicated two of my books to Olivia, the first was ‘James and the Giant Peach’. That was when she was still alive. The second was ‘The BFG’, dedicated to her memory after she had died from measles. You will see her name at the beginning of each of these books. And I know how happy she would be if only she could know that her death had helped to save a good deal of illness and death among other children."
I just checked google books for BFG, and the dedication is there.
https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/_/quybcXrFhCIC?hl=en&gbpv=1
Roald Dahl, 1986
