List Words
Fennel
A perennial plant of the genus Faeniculum (F. vulgare), having very finely divided leaves. It is cultivated in gardens for the agreeable aromatic flavor of its seeds.
Tend
To wait, as attendants or servants; to serve; to attend; -- with on or upon.
Apiary
A place where bees are kept; a stand or shed for bees; a beehouse.
Boiler
One who boils.
Olla-podrida
Any incongruous mixture or miscellaneous collection; an olio.
Cusp
A triangular protection from the intrados of an arch, or from an inner curve of tracery.
Record
An official contemporaneous memorandum stating the proceedings of a court of justice; a judicial record.
Lakh
One hundred thousand; also, a vaguely great number; as, a lac of rupees.
Navvy
Originally, a laborer on canals for internal navigation; hence, a laborer on other public works, as in building railroads, embankments, etc.
Lammas
The first day of August; -- called also Lammas day, and Lammastide.
Waggle
To reel, sway, or move from side to side; to move with a wagging motion; to waddle.
Negotiability
The quality of being negotiable or transferable by indorsement.
Boa
A genus of large American serpents, including the boa constrictor, the emperor boa of Mexico (B. imperator), and the chevalier boa of Peru (B. eques).
Gauged
of Gauge
Daddy
Diminutive of Dad.
Unco
Unknown; strange, or foreign; unusual, or surprising; distant in manner; reserved.
Vendor
A vender; a seller; the correlative of vendee.
Bowler
One who plays at bowls, or who rolls the ball in cricket or any other game.
Don
Sir; Mr; Signior; -- a title in Spain, formerly given to noblemen and gentlemen only, but now common to all classes.
Ozonic
Pertaining to, resembling, or containing, ozone.
Facies
The anterior part of the head; the face.
Grum
Morose; severe of countenance; sour; surly; glum; grim.
Bumped
of Bump
Couche
Not erect; inclined; -- said of anything that is usually erect, as an escutcheon.
Pons
A bridge; -- applied to several parts which connect others, but especially to the pons Varolii, a prominent band of nervous tissue situated on the ventral side of the medulla oblongata and conne..
Mist
Visible watery vapor suspended in the atmosphere, at or near the surface of the earth; fog.
Draughtsman
One who drinks drams; a tippler.
Levite
One of the tribe or family of Levi; a descendant of Levi; esp., one subordinate to the priests (who were of the same tribe) and employed in various duties connected with the tabernacle first, an..
Frow
A woman; especially, a Dutch or German woman.
Cabman
The driver of a cab.
Adduct
To draw towards a common center or a middle line.
Xenurine
A cabassou.
Cape
A piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into the sea or a lake; a promontory; a headland.
Ailing
of Ail
Soaped
of Soap
Humpy
Full of humps or bunches; covered with protuberances; humped.
Pick
The blow which drives the shuttle, -- the rate of speed of a loom being reckoned as so many picks per minute; hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread; as, so many picks to a..
Skin
That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole.
Aorist
A tense in the Greek language, which expresses an action as completed in past time, but leaves it, in other respects, wholly indeterminate.
Rucked
of Ruck
Abba
Father; religious superior; -- in the Syriac, Coptic, and Ethiopic churches, a title given to the bishops, and by the bishops to the patriarch.
Enmist
To infold, as in a mist.
Crick
The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it.
Doling
of Dole
Massed
of Mass
Forger
One who forges, makes, of forms; a fabricator; a falsifier.
Flower
The fairest, freshest, and choicest part of anything; as, the flower of an army, or of a family; the state or time of freshness and bloom; as, the flower of life, that is, youth.
Auric
Of or pertaining to gold.
Uvula
The pendent fleshy lobe in the middle of the posterior border of the soft palate.
Publicness
The quality or state of belonging to the community; as, the publicness of property.