List Words
Escarpment
A steep descent or declivity; steep face or edge of a ridge; ground about a fortified place, cut away nearly vertically to prevent hostile approach. See Scarp.
Buttress
A projecting mass of masonry, used for resisting the thrust of an arch, or for ornament and symmetry.
Liquid
Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid.
Notable
Capable of being noted; noticeable; plan; evident.
Cosset
A lamb reared without the aid of the dam. Hence: A pet, in general.
Conjugate
United in pairs; yoked together; coupled.
Guru
A spiritual teacher, guide, or confessor amoung the Hindoos.
Stickiness
The quality of being sticky; as, the stickiness of glue or paste.
Tetrameter
A verse or line consisting of four measures, that is, in iambic, trochaic, and anapestic verse, of eight feet; in other kinds of verse, of four feet.
Just
Conforming or conformable to rectitude or justice; not doing wrong to any; violating no right or obligation; upright; righteous; honest; true; -- said both of persons and things.
Peachy
Resembling a peach or peaches.
Tinker
A mender of brass kettles, pans, and other metal ware.
Fancy
The faculty by which the mind forms an image or a representation of anything perceived before; the power of combining and modifying such objects into new pictures or images; the power of read..
Pawn
See Pan, the masticatory.
Emptiness
The state of being empty; absence of contents; void space; vacuum; as, the emptiness of a vessel; emptiness of the stomach.
Technological
Of or pertaining to technology.
Outstanding
That stands out; undischarged; uncollected; not paid; as, outstanding obligations.
Cenotaph
An empty tomb or a monument erected in honor of a person who is buried elsewhere.
Affectionateness
The quality of being affectionate; fondness; affection.
Deconsecrate
To deprive of sacredness; to secularize.
Unsaddle
To strip of a saddle; to take the saddle from, as a horse.
Expansion
The act of expanding or spreading out; the condition of being expanded; dilation; enlargement.
Scarecrow
Anything set up to frighten crows or other birds from cornfields; hence, anything terifying without danger.
Furlough
Leave of abserice; especially, leave given to an offcer or soldier to be absent from service for a certain time; also, the document granting leave of absence.
Smooch
See Smutch.
Resort
Active power or movement; spring.
Sweet
Having an agreeable taste or flavor such as that of sugar; saccharine; -- opposed to sour and bitter; as, a sweet beverage; sweet fruits; sweet oranges.
Surface
The exterior part of anything that has length and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid, esp. the upper face; superficies; the outside; as, the surface of the earth; the surface of a dia..
Dethrone
To remove or drive from a throne; to depose; to divest of supreme authority and dignity.
Hew
To cut with an ax; to fell with a sharp instrument; -- often with down, or off.
Racket
A thin strip of wood, having the ends brought together, forming a somewhat elliptical hoop, across which a network of catgut or cord is stretched. It is furnished with a handle, and is used for ..
Reposeful
Full of repose; quiet.
Rupture
The act of breaking apart, or separating; the state of being broken asunder; as, the rupture of the skin; the rupture of a vessel or fiber; the rupture of a lutestring.
Lamina
A thin plate or scale; a layer or coat lying over another; -- said of thin plates or platelike substances, as of bone or minerals.
Allaying
of Allay
Mechanic
The art of the application of the laws of motion or force to construction.
Ordeal
An ancient form of test to determine guilt or innocence, by appealing to a supernatural decision, -- once common in Europe, and still practiced in the East and by savage tribes.
Particle
A minute part or portion of matter; a morsel; a little bit; an atom; a jot; as, a particle of sand, of wood, of dust.
Trepidation
An involuntary trembling, sometimes an effect of paralysis, but usually caused by terror or fear; quaking; quivering.
Freeze
A frieze.
Duelist
One who fights in single combat.
Opposing
of Oppose
Hunk
A large lump or piece; a hunch; as, a hunk of bread.
Overtax
To tax or to task too heavily.
Swordplayer
A fencer; a gladiator; one who exhibits his skill in the use of the sword.
Struggler
One who struggles.
Aggregation
The act of aggregating, or the state of being aggregated; collection into a mass or sum; a collection of particulars; an aggregate.
Brisket
That part of the breast of an animal which extends from the fore legs back beneath the ribs; also applied to the fore part of a horse, from the shoulders to the bottom of the chest.
Schedule
A written or printed scroll or sheet of paper; a document; especially, a formal list or inventory; a list or catalogue annexed to a larger document, as to a will, a lease, a statute, etc.
Wrangler
An angry disputant; one who disputes with heat or peevishness.
