List Words
Emergency
Sudden or unexpected appearance; an unforeseen occurrence; a sudden occasion.
Distinguished
of Distinguish
Insolent
Deviating from that which is customary; novel; strange; unusual.
Extremity
The extreme part; the utmost limit; the farthest or remotest point or part; as, the extremities of a country.
Matchless
Having no equal; unequaled.
Assure
To make sure or certain; to render confident by a promise, declaration, or other evidence.
External
Outward; exterior; relating to the outside, as of a body; being without; acting from without; -- opposed to internal; as, the external form or surface of a body.
Conceiver
One who conceives.
Opposite
Placed over against; standing or situated over against or in front; facing; -- often with to; as, a house opposite to the Exchange.
Stomp
To stamp with the foot.
Reassure
To assure anew; to restore confidence to; to free from fear or terror.
Bed
An article of furniture to sleep or take rest in or on; a couch. Specifically: A sack or mattress, filled with some soft material, in distinction from the bedstead on which it is placed (as, a ..
Strut
To swell; to bulge out.
Revokement
Revocation.
Riveted
of Rivet
Fix
Fixed; solidified.
Lock step
A mode of marching by a body of men going one after another as closely as possible, in which the leg of each moves at the same time with the corresponding leg of the person before him.
Overgrown
of Overgrow
War
Ware; aware.
Plenty
Full or adequate supply; enough and to spare; sufficiency; specifically, abundant productiveness of the earth; ample supply for human wants; abundance; copiousness.
Dabster
One who is skilled; a master of his business; a proficient; an adept.
Snag
A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch; a knot; a protuberance.
Endorse
Same as Indorse.
Violent
Moving or acting with physical strength; urged or impelled with force; excited by strong feeling or passion; forcible; vehement; impetuous; fierce; furious; severe; as, a violent blow; the viole..
Chevron
One of the nine honorable ordinaries, consisting of two broad bands of the width of the bar, issuing, respectively from the dexter and sinister bases of the field and conjoined at its center.
Fantastic
Existing only in imagination; fanciful; imaginary; not real; chimerical.
Battering
of Batter
Totter
To shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; to be unsteady; to stagger; as,an old man totters with age.
Rounded
of Round
Squeal
To cry with a sharp, shrill, prolonged sound, as certain animals do, indicating want, displeasure, or pain.
Patter
To strike with a quick succession of slight, sharp sounds; as, pattering rain or hail; pattering feet.
Embarrassment
A state of being embarrassed; perplexity; impediment to freedom of action; entanglement; hindrance; confusion or discomposure of mind, as from not knowing what to do or to say; disconcertedne..
Straggle
To wander from the direct course or way; to rove; to stray; to wander from the line of march or desert the line of battle; as, when troops are on the march, the men should not straggle.
Crony
A crone.
Horde
A wandering troop or gang; especially, a clan or tribe of a nomadic people migrating from place to place for the sake of pasturage, plunder, etc.; a predatory multitude.
Inspire
To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate.
Merlon
One of the solid parts of a battlemented parapet; a battlement. See Illust. of Battlement.
Circumscription
An inscription written around anything.
Bruise
To injure, as by a blow or collision, without laceration; to contuse; as, to bruise one's finger with a hammer; to bruise the bark of a tree with a stone; to bruise an apple by letting it fal..
Citadel
A fortress in or near a fortified city, commanding the city and fortifications, and intended as a final point of defense.
Casemate
A bombproof chamber, usually of masonry, in which cannon may be placed, to be fired through embrasures; or one capable of being used as a magazine, or for quartering troops.
Saturated
of Saturate
Masterly
Suitable to, or characteristic of, a master; indicating thorough knowledge or superior skill and power; showing a master's hand; as, a masterly design; a masterly performance; a masterly policy...
Toggle
A wooden pin tapering toward both ends with a groove around its middle, fixed transversely in the eye of a rope to be secured to any other loop or bight or ring; a kind of button or frog capable..
Unrivaled
Having no rival; without a competitor; peerless.
Frosty
Attended with, or producing, frost; having power to congeal water; cold; freezing; as, a frosty night.
Farrow
A little of pigs.
Disregardful
Neglect; negligent; heedless; regardless.
Drink
To swallow anything liquid, for quenching thirst or other purpose; to imbibe; to receive or partake of, as if in satisfaction of thirst; as, to drink from a spring.
Designer
One who designs, marks out, or plans; a contriver.
