List Words
Elance
To throw as a lance; to hurl; to dart.
Limberness
The quality or state of being limber; flexibleness.
Customhouse
The building where customs and duties are paid, and where vessels are entered or cleared.
Farand
See Farrand, n.
Anatomize
To dissect; to cut in pieces, as an animal vegetable body, for the purpose of displaying or examining the structure and use of the several parts.
Stipulate
Furnished with stipules; as, a stipulate leaf.
Diversify
To make diverse or various in form or quality; to give variety to; to variegate; to distinguish by numerous differences or aspects.
Fortress
A fortified place; a large and permanent fortification, sometimes including a town; a fort; a castle; a stronghold; a place of defense or security.
Ascribe
To attribute, impute, or refer, as to a cause; as, his death was ascribed to a poison; to ascribe an effect to the right cause; to ascribe such a book to such an author.
Abalienate
To transfer the title of from one to another; to alienate.
Dodger
One who dodges or evades; one who plays fast and loose, or uses tricky devices.
Palladium
Any statue of the goddess Pallas; esp., the famous statue on the preservation of which depended the safety of ancient Troy.
Conserve
To keep in a safe or sound state; to save; to preserve; to protect.
Encage
To confine in a cage; to coop up.
Interlock
To unite, embrace, communicate with, or flow into, one another; to be connected in one system; to lock into one another; to interlace firmly.
Deaden
To make as dead; to impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; to lessen the force or acuteness of; to blunt; as, to deaden the natural powers or feelings; to deaden a sound.
Hopple
To impede by a hopple; to tie the feet of (a horse or a cow) loosely together; to hamper; to hobble; as, to hopple an unruly or straying horse.
Distribute
To divide among several or many; to deal out; to apportion; to allot.
Curtilage
A yard, courtyard, or piece of ground, included within the fence surrounding a dwelling house.
Personalize
To make personal.
Courtyard
A court or inclosure attached to a house.
Purify
To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air...
Instrumentalist
One who plays upon an instrument of music, as distinguished from a vocalist.
Lenify
To assuage; to soften; to mitigate; to alleviate.
Operable
Practicable.
Vellication
The act of twitching, or of causing to twitch.
Stupor
Great diminution or suspension of sensibility; suppression of sense or feeling; lethargy.
Safety
The condition or state of being safe; freedom from danger or hazard; exemption from hurt, injury, or loss.
Dashboard
A board placed on the fore part of a carriage, sleigh, or other vehicle, to intercept water, mud, or snow, thrown up by the heels of the horses; -- in England commonly called splashboard.
Worldly
Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions.
Sane
Being in a healthy condition; not deranged; acting rationally; -- said of the mind.
Eleatic
Of or pertaining to a certain school of Greek philosophers who taught that the only certain science is that which owes nothing to the senses, and all to the reason.
Adduce
To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege.
Imprison
To put in prison or jail; To arrest and detain in custody; to confine.
Mystifying
of Mystify
Gordian
Pertaining to Gordius, king of Phrygia, or to a knot tied by him; hence, intricate; complicated; inextricable.
Operose
Wrought with labor; requiring labor; hence, tedious; wearisome.
Jauntiness
The quality of being jaunty.
Breeziness
State of being breezy.
Contrecoup
A concussion or shock produced by a blow or other injury, in a part or region opposite to that at which the blow is received, often causing rupture or disorganisation of the parts affected.
Tonicity
The state of healthy tension or partial contraction of muscle fibers while at rest; tone; tonus.
Resiliency
The act of resiling, springing back, or rebounding; as, the resilience of a ball or of sound.
Cockhorse
A child's rocking-horse.
Intellectualist
One who overrates the importance of the understanding.
Accessoriness
The state of being accessory, or connected subordinately.
Proportional
Having a due proportion, or comparative relation; being in suitable proportion or degree; as, the parts of an edifice are proportional.
Semicircle
The half of a circle; the part of a circle bounded by its diameter and half of its circumference.
Larcener
Alt. of Larcenist
Mediety
The middle part; half; moiety.
Superadd
To add over and above; to add to what has been added; to annex, as something extrinsic.