List Words
Control
A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.
Purifier
One who, or that which, purifies or cleanses; a cleanser; a refiner.
Weazen
Thin; sharp; withered; wizened; as, a weazen face.
Execution
The act of executing; a carrying into effect or to completion; performance; achievement; consummation; as, the execution of a plan, a work, etc.
Chrism
Olive oil mixed with balm and spices, consecrated by the bishop on Maundy Thursday, and used in the administration of baptism, confirmation, ordination, etc.
Loot
The act of plundering.
Chiliagon
A plane figure of a thousand angles and sides.
Cook
To make the noise of the cuckoo.
Individualize
The mark as an individual, or to distinguish from others by peculiar properties; to invest with individuality.
Interment
The act or ceremony of depositing a dead body in the earth; burial; sepulture; inhumation.
Ostracism
Banishment by popular vote, -- a means adopted at Athens to rid the city of a person whose talent and influence gave umbrage.
Fantasy
Fancy; imagination; especially, a whimsical or fanciful conception; a vagary of the imagination; whim; caprice; humor.
Attack
To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault.
Choke
To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.
Euthanasia
An easy death; a mode of dying to be desired.
Pan
A part; a portion.
Grand
Of large size or extent; great; extensive; hence, relatively great; greatest; chief; principal; as, a grand mountain; a grand army; a grand mistake.
Rap
A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.
Mold
A spot; a blemish; a mole.
Enthronement
The act of enthroning, or state of being enthroned.
Lineman
One who carries the line in surveying, etc.
Explosively
In an explosive manner.
Pound
To strike repeatedly with some heavy instrument; to beat.
Incredible
Not credible; surpassing belief; too extraordinary and improbable to admit of belief; unlikely; marvelous; fabulous.
Noble
Possessing eminence, elevation, dignity, etc.; above whatever is low, mean, degrading, or dishonorable; magnanimous; as, a noble nature or action; a noble heart.
Faithful
Full of faith, or having faith; disposed to believe, especially in the declarations and promises of God.
Shot
of Shoot
Butt
Alt. of But
Institution
The act or process of instituting; as: (a) Establishment; foundation; enactment; as, the institution of a school.
High-flown
Elevated; proud.
Berserker
One of a class of legendary heroes, who fought frenzied by intoxicating liquors, and naked, regardless of wounds.
Wavelet
A little wave; a ripple.
Unique
Being without a like or equal; unmatched; unequaled; unparalleled; single in kind or excellence; sole.
Fanatical
Characteristic of, or relating to, fanaticism; fanatic.
Prorate
To divide or distribute proportionally; to assess pro rata.
Future
That is to be or come hereafter; that will exist at any time after the present; as, the next moment is future, to the present.
Dull
Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension; stupid; doltish; blockish.
Lighten
To descend; to light.
Sui generis
Of his or its own kind.
Reefer
One who reefs; -- a name often given to midshipmen.
Slacken
To become slack; to be made less tense, firm, or rigid; to decrease in tension; as, a wet cord slackens in dry weather.
Quantum
Quantity; amount.
Anacrusis
A prefix of one or two unaccented syllables to a verse properly beginning with an accented syllable.
Dactyl
A poetical foot of three sylables (-- ~ ~), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented; as, L. tegm/n/, E. mer\b6ciful; -- so called from the similarity of its ..
Tribrach
A poetic foot of three short syllables, as, meblius.
Screech
To utter a harsh, shrill cry; to make a sharp outcry, as in terror or acute pain; to scream; to shriek.
Antispast
A foot of four syllables, the first and fourth short, and the second and third long (#).
Tincture
A tinge or shade of color; a tint; as, a tincture of red.
Sweetmeat
Fruit preserved with sugar, as peaches, pears, melons, nuts, orange peel, etc.; -- usually in the plural; a confect; a confection.
Trough
A long, hollow vessel, generally for holding water or other liquid, especially one formed by excavating a log longitudinally on one side; a long tray; also, a wooden channel for conveying water,..
