List Words
Avocation
Pursuits; duties; affairs which occupy one's time; usual employment; vocation.
Setout
A display, as of plate, equipage, etc.; that which is displayed.
Vinous
Of or pertaining to wine; having the qualities of wine; as, a vinous taste.
Palp
Same as Palpus.
Velum
Curtain or covering; -- applied to various membranous partitions, especially to the soft palate. See under Palate.
Lessee
The person to whom a lease is given, or who takes an estate by lease.
Sailor
One who follows the business of navigating ships or other vessels; one who understands the practical management of ships; one of the crew of a vessel; a mariner; a common seaman.
Scarab
Alt. of Scarabee
Nurturing
of Nurture
Wassail
An occasion on which such good wishes are expressed in drinking; a drinking bout; a carouse.
Burglar
One guilty of the crime of burglary.
Accurse
To devote to destruction; to imprecate misery or evil upon; to curse; to execrate; to anathematize.
Spurning
of Spurn
Despising
of Despise
Cast-off
Cast or laid aside; as, cast-off clothes.
Dumping
of Dump
Despisal
A despising; contempt.
Hotel
A house for entertaining strangers or travelers; an inn or public house, of the better class.
Otter
Any carnivorous animal of the genus Lutra, and related genera. Several species are described. They have large, flattish heads, short ears, and webbed toes. They are aquatic, and feed on fish. Th..
Sofa
A long seat, usually with a cushioned bottom, back, and ends; -- much used as a comfortable piece of furniture.
Seating
of Seat
Necessaries
of Necessary
Liquefy
To convert from a solid form to that of a liquid; to melt; to dissolve; and technically, to melt by the sole agency of heat.
Acrook
Crookedly.
Joist
A piece of timber laid horizontally, or nearly so, to which the planks of the floor, or the laths or furring strips of a ceiling, are nailed; -- called, according to its position or use, binding..
Droit
A right; law in its aspect of the foundation of rights; also, in old law, the writ of right.
Stipula
A stipule.
Gopher
One of several North American burrowing rodents of the genera Geomys and Thomomys, of the family Geomyidae; -- called also pocket gopher and pouched rat. See Pocket gopher, and Tucan.
Legumin
An albuminous substance resembling casein, found as a characteristic ingredient of the seeds of leguminous and grain-bearing plants.
Trigger
A catch to hold the wheel of a carriage on a declivity.
Azimuth
The quadrant of an azimuth circle.
Subtile
Thin; not dense or gross; rare; as, subtile air; subtile vapor; a subtile medium.
Craving
of Crave
Invader
One who invades; an assailant; an encroacher; an intruder.
Quirt
A rawhide whip plaited with two thongs of buffalo hide.
Monadic
Alt. of Monadical
Emulate
Striving to excel; ambitious; emulous.
Nutting
of Nut
Publish
To make public; to make known to mankind, or to people in general; to divulge, as a private transaction; to promulgate or proclaim, as a law or an edict.
Buffoon
A man who makes a practice of amusing others by low tricks, antic gestures, etc.; a droll; a mimic; a harlequin; a clown; a merry-andrew.
Entitle
To give a title to; to affix to as a name or appellation; hence, also, to dignify by an honorary designation; to denominate; to call; as, to entitle a book "Commentaries;" to entitle a man "H..
Hooky
Full of hooks; pertaining to hooks.
Treadle
The part of a foot lathe, or other machine, which is pressed or moved by the foot.
Thinner
One who thins, or makes thinner.
Stirps
A race, or a fixed and permanent variety.
Rape
Sexual connection with a woman without her consent. See Age of consent, under Consent, n.
Rapt
Snatched away; hurried away or along.
Tern
Any one of numerous species of long-winged aquatic birds, allied to the gulls, and belonging to Sterna and various allied genera.
Latin
Of or pertaining to Latium, or to the Latins, a people of Latium; Roman; as, the Latin language.
Jesuitical
Of or pertaining to the Jesuits, or to their principles and methods.
