List Words
Knurled
Full of knots; gnarled.
Inconsequential
Not regularly following from the premises; hence, irrelevant; unimportant; of no consequence.
Circumspection
Attention to all the facts and circumstances of a case; caution; watchfulness.
Christendom
The profession of faith in Christ by baptism; hence, the Christian religion, or the adoption of it.
Colossal
Of enormous size; gigantic; huge; as, a colossal statue.
Impartially
In an impartial manner.
Exhilaration
The act of enlivening the spirits; the act of making glad or cheerful; a gladdening.
Completory
Serving to fulfill.
Adultness
The state of being adult.
Bastinado
A blow with a stick or cudgel.
Frostiness
State or quality of being frosty.
Impeller
One who, or that which, impels.
Overstrained
of Overstrain
Behemoth
An animal, probably the hippopotamus, described in Job xl. 15-24.
Stricken
Struck; smitten; wounded; as, the stricken deer.
Muricate
Alt. of Muricated
Anhydrous
Destitute of water; as, anhydrous salts or acids.
Conserving
of Conserve
Apology
Something said or written in defense or justification of what appears to others wrong, or of what may be liable to disapprobation; justification; as, Tertullian's Apology for Christianity.
Pricking
of Prick
Besiegement
The act of besieging, or the state of being besieged.
Foothold
A holding with the feet; firm standing; that on which one may tread or rest securely; footing.
Distressed
of Distress
Denture
An artificial tooth, block, or set of teeth.
Brobdingnagian
Colossal; of extraordinary height; gigantic.
Blackish
Somewhat black.
Ascertain
To render (a person) certain; to cause to feel certain; to make confident; to assure; to apprise.
Fuliginous
Pertaining to soot; sooty; dark; dusky.
Culminating
of Culminate
Dauntless
Incapable of being daunted; undaunted; bold; fearless; intrepid.
Paphian
Of or pertaining to Paphos, an ancient city of Cyprus, having a celebrated temple of Venus; hence, pertaining to Venus, or her rites.
Intermediator
A mediator.
Violaceous
Resembling violets in color; bluish purple.
Quakerism
The peculiar character, manners, tenets, etc., of the Quakers.
Bouleversement
Complete overthrow; disorder; a turning upside down.
Abysmal
Pertaining to, or resembling, an abyss; bottomless; unending; profound.
Alternately
In reciprocal succession; succeeding by turns; in alternate order.
Beautiless
Destitute of beauty.
Assever
See Asseverate.
Algidity
Chilliness; coldness
Encouraging
of Encourage
Economical
Pertaining to the household; domestic.
Alluvium
Deposits of earth, sand, gravel, and other transported matter, made by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas.
Gladiator
Originally, a swordplayer; hence, one who fought with weapons in public, either on the occasion of a funeral ceremony, or in the arena, for public amusement.
Falsifying
of Falsify
Floorwalker
One who walks about in a large retail store as an overseer and director.
Battler
A student at Oxford who is supplied with provisions from the buttery; formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he called for, answering nearly to a sizar at Cambridge.
Knobbed
Containing knobs; full of knobs; ending in a nob. See Illust of Antenna.
Falsification
The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not.
Condignly
According to merit.
