List Words
Bdellometer
A cupping glass to which are attached a scarificator and an exhausting syringe.
Burgee
A kind of small coat.
Guest
A visitor; a person received and entertained in one's house or at one's table; a visitor entertained without pay.
Repulse
The act of repelling or driving back; also, the state of being repelled or driven back.
Butte
A detached low mountain, or high rising abruptly from the general level of the surrounding plain; -- applied to peculiar elevations in the Rocky Mountain region.
Flawy
Full of flaws or cracks; broken; defective; faulty.
Pyritohedron
The pentagonal dodecahedron, a common form of pyrite.
Esker
See Eschar.
Flunk
To fail, as on a lesson; to back out, as from an undertaking, through fear.
Kidnap
To take (any one) by force or fear, and against one's will, with intent to carry to another place.
Despecificate
To discriminate; to separate according to specific signification or qualities; to specificate; to desynonymize.
Cinchonine
One of the quinine group of alkaloids isomeric with and resembling cinchonidine; -- called also cinchonia.
Purist
One who aims at excessive purity or nicety, esp. in the choice of language.
Buttonbush
A shrub (Cephalanthus occidentalis) growing by the waterside; -- so called from its globular head of flowers. See Capitulum.
Briar
Same as Brier.
Nihil
Nothing.
Poncho
A kind of cloak worn by the Spanish Americans, having the form of a blanket, with a slit in the middle for the head to pass through. A kind of poncho made of rubber or painted cloth is used by ..
Blazer
One who spreads reports or blazes matters abroad.
Hourly
Happening or done every hour; occurring hour by hour; frequent; often repeated; renewed hour by hour; continual.
Byname
To give a nickname to.
Duffer
A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap, flashy articles, as sham jewelry; hence, a sham or cheat.
Dilly
A kind of stagecoach.
Spoilt
of Spoil
Prore
The prow or fore part of a ship.
Wigwag
To signal by means of a flag waved from side to side according to a code adopted for the purpose.
Ripply
Having ripples; as, ripply water; hence, resembling the sound of rippling water; as, ripply laughter; a ripply cove.
Jilt
A woman who capriciously deceives her lover; a coquette; a flirt.
Behead
To sever the head from; to take off the head of.
Momus
The god of mockery and censure.
Advert
To turn the mind or attention; to refer; to take heed or notice; -- with to; as, he adverted to what was said.
Lessener
One who, or that which, lessens.
Iamb
An iambus or iambic.
Buying
of Buy
Teleostean
Of or pertaining to the teleosts.
Playday
A day given to play or diversion; a holiday.
Masoretical
Of or relating to the Masora, or to its authors.
Nought
See Naught.
Deuced
Devilish; excessive; extreme.
Cox
A coxcomb; a simpleton; a gull.
Drony
Like a drone; sluggish; lazy.
Leer
To learn.
Benefiter
One who confers a benefit; -- also, one who receives a benefit.
Pard
A leopard; a panther.
Oenanthate
A salt of the supposed /nanthic acid.
Yoked
of Yoke
Ennead
The number nine or a group of nine.
Balker
One who, or that which balks.
Hornless
Having no horn.
Firkin
A varying measure of capacity, usually being the fourth part of a barrel; specifically, a measure equal to nine imperial gallons.
Lauded
of Laud
