List Words
Malapropos
Unseasonable or unseasonably; unsuitable or unsuitably.
Ragout
A dish made of pieces of meat, stewed, and highly seasoned; as, a ragout of mutton.
Vacuousness
The quality or state of being vacuous; emptiness; vacuity.
Compassed
of Compass
Chimerical
Merely imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wildly or vainly conceived; having, or capable of having, no existence except in thought; as, chimerical projects.
Melodics
The department of musical science which treats of the pitch of tones, and of the laws of melody.
Galilee
A porch or waiting room, usually at the west end of an abbey church, where the monks collected on returning from processions, where bodies were laid previous to interment, and where women were ..
Rouncy
A common hackney horse; a nag.
Calendarial
Of or pertaining to the calendar or a calendar.
Insensibleness
Insensibility.
Immatureness
The state or quality of being immature; immaturity.
Scarabee
A stylized representation of a scarab beetle in stone or faience; -- a symbol of resurrection, used by the ancient Egyptians as an ornament or a talisman, and in modern times used in jewelry, us..
Cavalierly
In a supercilious, disdainful, or haughty manner; arrogantly.
Phantasmal
Pertaining to, of the nature of, or resembling, a phantasm; spectral; illusive.
Centering
of Centre
Cuprous
Of, pertaining to, or derived from, copper; containing copper; -- said of those compounds of copper in which this element is present in its highest proportion.
Emolument
The profit arising from office, employment, or labor; gain; compensation; advantage; perquisites, fees, or salary.
Sippet
A small sop; a small, thin piece of toasted bread soaked in milk, broth, or the like; a small piece of toasted or fried bread cut into some special shape and used for garnishing.
It
As an indefinite object after some intransitive verbs, or after a substantive used humorously as a verb; as, to foot it (i. e., to walk).
Half-sword
Half the length of a sword; close fight.
Osseous
Composed of bone; resembling bone; capable of forming bone; bony; ossific.
Dummies
of Dummy
Athletics
The art of training by athletic exercises; the games and sports of athletes.
Gin
To begin; -- often followed by an infinitive without to; as, gan tell. See Gan.
Coppice
A grove of small growth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes. See Copse.
Commodities
of Commodity
Sketching
of Sketch
Disclosing
of Disclose
Brackishness
The quality or state of being brackish, or somewhat salt.
Pretypified
of Pretypify
Hyperdulia
Veneration or worship given to the Virgin Mary as the most exalted of mere creatures; higher veneration than dulia.
Gunning
The act or practice of hunting or shooting game with a gun.
Glancingly
In a glancing manner; transiently; incidentally; indirectly.
Witching
of Witch
Counter-compony
See Compony.
Prepubic
Situated in front of, or anterior to, the pubis; pertaining to the prepubis.
Claqueur
One of the claque employed to applaud at a theater.
Cut
Overcome by liquor; tipsy.
Isatin
An orange-red crystalline substance, C8H5NO2, obtained by the oxidation of indigo blue. It is also produced from certain derivatives of benzoic acid, and is one important source of artificial ..
Object
Sight; show; appearance; aspect.
Crusted
of Crust
Attained
of Attain
Flectional
Capable of, or pertaining to, flection or inflection.
Tincture
A slight taste superadded to any substance; as, a tincture of orange peel.
Employer
One who employs another; as, an employer of workmen.
Inference
That which inferred; a truth or proposition drawn from another which is admitted or supposed to be true; a conclusion; a deduction.
Fleeing
of Flee
Long-drawn
Extended to a great length.
Globate
Alt. of Globated
Supervisory
Of or pertaining to supervision; as, supervisory powers.
