OntoWordNet This is a beta version (v0.72) of the OWL alignment of WordNet 1.6 Noun Synsets to the DOLCE-Lite-Plus ontology library (this version aligned to DOLCE-Lite-Plus 397: for details, see http://dolce.semanticweb.org. This file takes about 3 minutes to load into Protégé 3.2 (measure taken on a PowerBook G4 1.5 GHz, 1Gb RAM, allowing 730Mb of memory). The alignment is part of the OntoWordNet programme, which aims at: 1) reengineering WordNet lexicon as a formal ontology, and in particular: 1.1) distinguishing synsets that can be formalized as classes from those that can be formalized as individuals 1.2) interpreting the hyperonymy relation of WordNet as either owl:subClassOf or rdf:type 1.3) interpreting lexical relations from WordNet as ontological relations 2) aligning the top-level of WordNet to a foundational ontology, allowing for re-interpretation of hyperonymy (as owl:subClassOf) when it is the case 3) checking the consistency of the overall result, and correcting the cases for inconsistency 4) modularizing the resulting ontology into modules according to an initial proposal of 'domains', which will be revised and reinterpreted according to logical and formal ontological principles 5) learning and revising formal domain relations (either from glosses or from corpora) Until now, the tasks 1.1, 1.2, and 2 have been fulfilled as far as Noun Synsets are concerned. More than 60,000 OWL classes have been created, and almost 5,000 OWL individuals. About 20 classes and 10 individuals still need corrections and will be included in the next version. Almost 1,000 classes have been aligned to 90 DOLCE-Lite-Plus classes, in order to make sense of the main peculiarities of WordNet taxonomies when formal axioms constrain the intended meaning (as derived from DOLCE-Lite-Plus). Such alignment has been performed by interpreting WordNet noun synset taxonomy until the third or fourth level. In many branchings, I am convinced that lower levels are semantically consistent, while in others, I expect that further refinement is still needed. The task 3) has been partly done, but corrections are not yet in place in this version (about 700 noun synsets of WordNet 1.6 have multiple hyperonyms, and some inconsistencies after alignment to DOLCE-Lite-Plus have been discovered). Ongoing work is on tasks 1.3), 3), 4), and 5), and on the reengineering and alignment of the Verb and Adjective Synsets. Moreover, a mapping of OWN to WordNet 2.0 is envisaged in the short term. For some of the principles underlying the alignment work and the OWN programme, see: - Gangemi A, Guarino N, Masolo C, Oltramari A, Restructuring WordNet's Top-Level, AI Magazine, Fall 2003. - Gangemi A, Navigli R, Velardi P, The OntoWordNet Project: extension and axiomatization of conceptual relations in WordNet, Meersman R, et al. (eds.), Proceedings of ODBASE03 Conference, Springer, 2003. 0.72 annual native to South America having underground stolons bearing edible starchy tubers; widely cultivated as a garden vegetable; vines are poisonous large flaring bone forming one half of the pelvis; made up of the ilium and ischium and pubis small brown-and_white European moth introduced into eastern United States; pest of various shade and fruit trees herbs and subshrubs of warm North America type genus of the family Balanidae containing a nonpurulent clear watery content a car for use of the train crew; usually the last car on the train lightness created by sunlight an area of the ozone layer (near the poles) that is seasonally depleted of ozone causing something to go; 'the cost of sending their children to college' a sugar that is a constituent of nucleic acids a communication system based on broadcasting electromagnetic waves a ruined building; 'they explored several Roman ruins' a thorny Eurasian bush with plumlike fruits introduced into the United States from Mexico; feeds on the foliage of the bean plant plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits; the principal salad peppers a part of the fireplace taken as a symbol (synecdoche) for home; 'driven from hearth and home'; 'fighting in defense of their firesides' person of exceptional holiness stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings; male has drum-like organs for producing a high-pitched drone an untrained person who pretends to be a physician and who dispenses medical advice copperheads an Indian tree of the family Combretaceae that is a source of timber and gum evergreen Australasian tree having white or silvery bark and young leaves and yellow flowers a sound suggestive of a vocal utterance; 'the noisy voice of the waterfall'; 'the incessant voices of the artillery' a member of the House of Commons of Great Britain who is not a party leader a system of epicyclic gears in which at least one wheel axis itself revolves about another fixed axis someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce) tall bushy European perennial grown for its masses of light-textured pinnate foliage and slender spikes of blue flowers; sometimes used medicinally a small lyre-shaped instrument that is placed between the teeth and played by twanging a wire tongue while changing the shape of the mouth cavity (British) a peddler of sand at a seashore resort; used now only to express great happiness in the expression 'happy as a sandboy' a ship that is small the greatest possible degree of something: 'what he did was beyond the bounds of acceptable behavior'; 'to the limit of his ability' (British slang) an unpleasant smell small moas infestation of the human intestine with Ascaris roundworms an attendant on an airplane a circuit in a computer that fires when any of its inputs fire type genus of the Rhamnaceae: buckthorns trousers reaching to the foot cosmetic powder for the face common American wren that nests around houses the interchange of sections between pairing homologous chromosomes during the prophase of meiosis any of several tropical and subtropical treelike herbs of the genus Musa having a terminal crown of large entire leaves and usually bearing hanging clusters of elongated fruits gin (or vodka) with dry vermouth large coniferous evergreen tree of North Africa and Spain having flattened branches and scalelike leaves yielding a hard fragrant wood; bark yields a resin used in varnishes the visual elements of television the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another an offshore platform (floating or fixed to the sea bed) from which many oil wells can be bored radially small porous bowl made of bone ash used in assaying to separate precious metals from e.g. lead a plant having foliage that persists and remains green throughout the year a one-sided agreement whereby you promise to do (or refrain from doing) something in return for a performance (not a promise) hinged or detachable flat section (as of a table or door) ending something (e.g. gold or silver) as no longer the legal tender of a country a long ridge or pile; 'a huge bank of earth' any land or sea or air vehicle designed to carry troops tropical west African evergreen tree bearing pungent aromatic seeds used as a condiment and in folk medicine sausage meat rolled and baked in pastry a continuous nonspatial whole or extent or succession in which no part or portion is distinct of distinguishable from adjacent parts inflammation of a diverticulum in the digestive tract (especially the colon); characterized by painful abdominal cramping and fever and constipation chiefly tropical aquatic or bog herbs: pipeworts voluntary promotion of human welfare any alcoholic beverage of inferior quality the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area a threaded screw for machine parts; screws into a tapped hole a literary or scientific association for the promotion of learning a temporary associate; 'politics makes strange bedfellows' an engineer concerned with the design and construction of automobiles a family of aquatic fungi of order Chytridiales an assessment of the physical condition of a newborn infant; involves heart rate and muscle tone and respiratory effort and color and reflex responsiveness characteristic way of bearing one's body: 'stood with good posture' a chisel with a thin blade for woodworking a transmission line for high-frequency signals a recurrent rhythmical series fine Burgundy wine usually white and dry a member of a North American Indian people living in Baja California teaching reading by training beginners to associate letters with their sound values document effecting a property transfer two barrel vaults intersecting at right angles a sheath worn to protect a finger an organism that feeds on dead organic matter especially a fungus or bacterium the branch of engineering that deals with the interaction of surfaces in relative motion (as in bearings or gears): their design and friction and wear and lubrication cake having layers held together by a sweet filling and usually covered with frosting the enclosure of something in a box lilac of northern China having ovate leaves and profuse early summer rose-lilac flowers an agent in the buying and selling of stocks and bonds a computer network that spans a wider area than does a local area network an unplanned expedient extraneous noise contaminating sound measurements that cannot be separated from the desired signal a formal gown for evening wear a genus of Elephantidae "the sudden occurrence of an audible event; 'the sound awakened them'" a 15-year cycle used as a chronological unit in ancient Rome and adopted in some medieval kingdoms the property of being of short spatial extent small moths whose larvae spin silken tunnels and feed on stored food products a general tendency as of opinion: 'not openly liberal but that is the tendency of the book' the act of taking occupancy lynxes an attempt to get something; 'they made a futile play for power'; 'he made a bid to gain attention' a verse line having five metrical feet a smoker who uses a pipe the bivalent radical CH2 derived from methane any skeletal muscle having three origins (but especially the triceps brachii) heavily armored and highly spiked dinosaur with semi-upright posture shrewdness shown by keen insight a woman proprietor acid or granitic glass; usually dark, but transparent in thin pieces (chemistry) the sum of the relative atomic masses of the constituent atoms of a molecule usually coiled worship of a lord because of his rank or title a wrench that has a gauge that indicates the amount of torque being applied a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the liver and to cause irritability and anger source of strophanthin which in in moderate doses is a cardiac stimulant but in larger doses a violent poison (Scottish) a short time; 'bide a wee' flesh of eel; elongate fatty-fleshed fish found in fresh water in Europe and America; large eels usually smoked or pickled photographs or other visual representations in a printed publication a poison secreted by certain animals an oil well with a strong natural flow so that pumping is not necessary a firm that sells and buys computers small Brazilian evergreen resinous tree or shrub having dark green leaflets and white flowers followed by bright red fruit; used as a street tree and lawn specimen especially pretty plant having a delicate fringe of threadlike rays around flower heads having very slender white or pink rays; United States and Canada marks resembling the wounds on the crucified body of Christ a writ issued by a court at the request of one of the parties to a suit; it requires a witness to bring to court or to a deposition any relevant documents under the witness's control snails and slugs and their relatives the act of cutting costs a lamp that provides light for reading any of several green orchids of the genus Habenaria a judicial proceeding soft woolen fabric used especially for baby clothes a mixture of cement and sand and water that is sprayed on a surface under pneumatic pressure huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur; late Jurassic the cortex of the frontal lobe loose or flaccid body fat invests in a theatrical production a train or bus or taxi traveling empty a pitch that curves downward rapidly as it approaches the plate forming or dividing words into syllables rod that moves or is moved by a piston a diacritical mark (~) placed over the letter n in Spanish to indicate a palatal nasal sound or over a vowel in Portuguese to indicate nasalization tall perennial reedlike grass originally of southeastern Asia: sugarcane milk thickened with a butter and flour roux progressive wasting of muscle tissues razor clams a revolving spool with a handle; attached to a fishing rod a division of nonflowering plants characterized by rhizoids rather than true roots and having little or no organized vascular tissue and showing alternation of generations between gamete-bearing forms and spore-bearing forms; comprises true mosses (Bryopsida) and liverworts (Hepaticopsida) and hornworts (Anthoceropsida) hyacinth with loosely flowered spikes, several growing from one bulb a gripping tool with two hinged arms and (usually) serrated jaws someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for their own use in former times was free and cultivated his own land any of numerous carnivorous usually bottom-dwelling warm-water marine fishes found worldwide but most abundant in the Pacific an advocate of secularism; someone who believes that religion should be excluded from government and education prostrate or semi-erect subshrub of tropical America, and Australia; heavily armed with recurved thorns and having sensitive soft gray-green leaflets that fold and droop at night or when touched or cooled the area that is visible through an optical instrument "a place that attracts many visitors; 'New York is a mecca for young artists'" theater where opera is performed something used in serving food or drink a drug (trade name Thorazine) derived from phenothiazine that has anti-psychotic effects and is used as a sedative and tranquilizer California annual having white flowers with a deep purple blotch on each petal a heading of a subsection printed within the body of the text the pelt or fur (especially the underfur) of a seal; 'a coat of seal' moth whose larvae are fall armyworms a framework on wheels; helps babies learn to walk curassows; guans; chachalacas made from the wood of an American tropical vine two words are homographs if they are spelled the same way but differ in meaning (e.g. fair) fragile branching stoneworts a bell that rings to signal a call a native or inhabitant of Maldives the part of a garment that covers your back; 'they pinned a 'kick me' sign on his back' much-branched hirsute weed native to northeastern North America a toilet that is available to the public both terrestrial and arboreal snake of United States southwest an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence a Spanish dance in triple time; accompanied by guitar and castanets lemon tree having fruit with a somewhat insipid sweetish pulp propels bright light high in the sky, or used to propel a lifesaving line or harpoon a stringed instrument that has a keyboard monochrome painting or stained glass etc., in shades of gray imitating the effect of relief chicken and onions and mushrooms braised in red wine and seasonings an intermediate platform in a staircase a spleenwort of eastern to southern United States any handsome young man for dancers or gymnasts a path or strip (as cut by one course of mowing) the central area of a church the equipment needed to play a game; 'the child received several games for his birthday' someone who teaches geometry an exercise device consisting of an endless belt on which a person can walk or jog without changing place triteness or triviality of style a point or fact or remark that settles something conclusively minute arthropod often infesting the underground parts of truck-garden and greenhouse crops an optical device for viewing photographic transparencies a pointed projection beech fern of North American woodlands having straw-colored stripes very acid volcanic rock the 18th letter of the Greek alphabet chiefly freshwater green algae; solitary or colonial a gift that significantly increases the recipient's wealth the act of increasing in size or volume or quantity or scope schizophrenia characterized by mild symptoms or by some preexisting tendency to schizophrenia an argument opposeed to a proposal a real number (a scalar) that is the product of two vectors small 2- or 3-needled pinon of Mexico and southern Texas the central idea that is expanded in a document or discourse any tree of the genus Genipa bearing yellow flowers and edible fruit with a thick rind gin and brandy with lemon juice and grenadine shaken with an egg white and ice coextensive with the order Gymnophiona: legless amphibians a wrestling_hold in which you wrap your legs around the opponents body and put your feet together and squeeze a window that open by sliding horizontally a way of organizing business to reduce the taxes it must pay the angular distance between an imaginary line around a heavenly body parallel to its equator and the equator itself the grammatical relation created by a transitive verb the largest breed of dogs; formerly used to hunt wolves a sugar-coated medicated candy the area of AI concerned with the practical use of robots containing all the vascular plants that do not bear seeds: ferns, horsetails, club mosses, and whisk ferns; in some classifications considered a subdivision of Tracheophyta a variety of hamster common to Europe and Asia a league of football teams an adherent of Satan or Satanism a three-dimensional closed surface such that every point on the surface is equidistant from the center the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations; 'his lectures have no structure' a television reporter who coordinates a broadcast to which several correspondents contribute an orange-red crystalline compound used in making red pigments and in dyeing loose-fitting trousers with elastic cuffs; worn by athletes any activity that is easy to do; 'marketing this product will be no picnic' the act of propping up with shores any of a variety of plants grown indoors for decorative purposes the family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of SW and S Asia a conjunction (like 'since' or 'that' or 'who') that introduces a dependent clause filling again by supplying what has been used up long-tailed arboreal mustelid of Central and South America small spiny outgrowth on the wings of certain insects large and brightly colored handkerchief; often used as a neckerchief a seemingly endless time interval (waiting) a determiner (as 'the' in English) that indicates specificity of reference a evergreen plant with large showy dark green leaves; contains a poison that swells the tongue and throat hence the name deftness in handling matters; 'he has a master's touch' (British) a railway car at the end of the train; it can be detached without stopping the train an antibiotic drug used as an antineoplastic in chemotherapy someone who enlists workers to join a union a tool for cutting grass on lawns genus of herbs of temperate Australia including some from genus Helipterum restoring compressed information to its normal form for use or display a sling-like device used in various primitive societies to propel a dart or spear a drug (trade name Dramamine) used to treat motion sickness a group of people working together to achieve a political goal a thermometer calibrated in degrees centigrade a periodical that is published every week the quality of agreeing; being suitable and appropriate horseflies a blight affecting the leaves of oats and other grasses a narrow zigzag ribbon used as trimming a mechanism that rotates any plant of the genus Gazania valued for their showy daisy flowers weedy herb of eastern North America an instep flattened so the entire sole rests on the ground one of two genera of stilts; similar to avocets but with straight bills fire delivered on a specific target in response to a request from the supported unit woody vines having disklike tips on the tendrils the cultivation of soil for raising crops the act of giving something in return for something received; 'deductible losses on sales or exchanges of property are allowable' a small asexual spore that develops inside the cell of some bacteria and algae becoming stronger supported by dynamic action of air against its surfaces a greater than average tide occurring during the new and full moons informal term a planned undertaking a genus of Hyaenidae someone with great regard for worldly possessions something (as a course of action) that is recommended the act of mating by male animals; 'the bull was worth good money in servicing fees' conversion from one way of encoding data to another way a poem having lines beginning with letters of the alphabet in regular order a contract whose performance depends on a fact or event that affects legal relations a drop of rain formerly a long hairpin; usually with an ornamental head genus of aromatic European herbs with yellow flowers a graduated glass tube used to transfer definite volumes of a liquid calla having a rose-colored spathe a ceremony having religious meaning a stand (usually movable) selling hot coffee and food (especially at night) a feeling of anger and animosity; 'having one's hackles or dander up' behaves like a tyrant the pivot about which a lever turns a surface-active agent that promotes the formation of an emulsion a person who fixes the boundaries of land claims a person who likes to be active late at night the act of protecting something by covering it a scar from a cut made by a sword the branch of electronics that deals with miniature components inactivity and lack of energy a shade of brown with a tinge of red any of diverse minute acellular or unicellular organisms usually nonphotosynthetic visual receptor cell sensitive to color attention; 'don't pay him any mind' biennial yellow-flowered Eurasian plant having aromatic leaves used as carminative or flavoring agent; widely cultivated especially as green manure or cover crop the body of faculty and students of a college large harmless plankton-eating northern shark; often swims slowly or floats at the sea surface as many as a house will accommodate; 'they entertained a houseful of guests' a philosophical theory as to what is beautiful; 'he despised the esthetic of minimalism' the fifth of the seven canonical hours; about 3 p.m. worn with a dinner jacket a pad worn by football players to protect their shoulders a heavy woolen cloth heavily napped and felted, often with a plaid design an American whose ancestors were born in Africa a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed; 'the conviction came as no surprise' any one of the seven days in a week titmice and chickadees any plant of the genus Astilbe having compound leaves and showy panicles of tiny colorful flowers the state of having cells the act of glamorizing; making something or someone more beautiful (often in a superficial way) "something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows; 'training is a necessary preliminary to employment'; 'drinks were the overture to dinner'" a genus of Thraupidae a native or inhabitant of Nepal a woman who is a Jew mambas a wall of the abdomen a violent commotion or disturbance; 'the storms that had characterized their relationship had died away'; 'it was only a tempest in a teapot' regional anesthesia resulting from injection of an anesthetic into the epidural space of the spinal cord; sensation is lost in the abdominal and genital and pelvic areas; used in childbirth and gynecological surgery fungous disease of lettuce that first rots lower leaves and spreads upward a unit of measurement for work tall East Indian cedar having spreading branches with nodding tips; highly valued for its appearance as well as its timber the shoemaker's trade a tetracycline antibiotic (trade name Minocin) used to treat a variety of bacterial and rickettsial infections a green transparent form of beryl; highly valued as a gemstone the physical property of being stiff and resisting bending New World vipers with hollow fangs and a heat-sensitive pit on each side of the head edible seeds of various pod-bearing plants a genus of fungi belonging to the family Polyporaceae any of various perennial South American plants of the genus Loasa having stinging hairs and showy white or yellow or reddish-orange flowers the state or condition of touching or of being in immediate proximity: 'litmus paper turns red on contact with an acid' a sharp collision produced by striking or dashing against something someone whose business is advertising the sensation produced by low temperatures; 'he shivered from the colda'; 'the cold helped clear his head' a place for buying and selling; open only to members small bottom-dwelling shark of warm shallow waters on both coasts of North and South America and from southeast Asia to Australia has double walls separated by vacuum and is used to maintain substances at high or low temperatures slender long-tailed monkey of Asia purified resinous extract of hemp plant; used as a hallucinogen diverse genus of herbs or woody subshrubs of north temperate regions an abundant tasteless odorless multivalent nonmetallic element; best known in yellow crystals; occurs in many sulphide and sulphate minerals and even in native form (especially in volcanic regions) a ski tow offering only a rope to hold onto someone who sews by operating a sewing machine a green mineral used as an ore of copper and for making ornamental objects an early form of sextant sliced veal knuckle or shin bone cooked with olive oil and wine and tomatoes and served with rice or vegetables fungal infection of nonhairy parts of the skin the middle muscular layer of the heart wall a consonant pronounced with aspiration "(usually plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant" a businessperson engaged in retail trade very small brightly colored (esp. red) nocturnal fishes of shallow waters of tropical reefs; they make sounds like a squirrel's bark cock of the rocks tomato and cheese pizza with pepperoni meal made from dried peas the state of being out of favor; 'he is in disfavor with the king' night lizards the quantity that a barrow will hold a restaurant that resembles a dining car pan with a convex bottom, used for frying in Chinese cooking the state of being everywhere at once (or seeming to be everywhere at once) genus of ladybugs large brown seaweeds having fluted leathery fronds tropical usually epiphytic ferns; Africa to Asia and Polynesia to Australia widely cultivated current bearing edible black aromatic berries dark brown highly poisonous seed of the calabar-bean vine; source of physostigmine and used in native witchcraft a period of general fear of communists a weak estrogenic hormone secreted by the mammalian ovary the act of pressing; 'he gave the button a press'; 'he used pressure to stop the bleeding' someone afflicted by aphakia; someone lacking the natural lenses of the eyes the manner in which something is expressed in words: 'use concise military verbiage'- G.S.Patton tall perennial of the eastern United States having large basal leaves and white summer flowers approval to do something; 'he asked permission to leave' a local court with criminal jurisdiction and sometimes administrative functions type genus of the family Lactobacillaceae nut-bearing shrub of eastern North America a print made by exposing a photosensitive surface to direct contact with a photographic negative a long-acting barbiturate used as a sedative large shrub or small tree of the eastern United States having bristly stems and large clusters of pink flowers any cactus of the genus Epiphyllum having flattened jointed irregularly branching stems and showy tubular flowers the principle that the total electric charge of a system remains constant despite changes inside the system an additional tax levied on private property for public improvements that enhance the value of the property (Brit) a major or main route a short trip; 'take a run into town' a concise reference book providing specific information about a subject or location someone who takes more time than necessary any of several evergreen perennials of the genus Pyrola the bearing of fruit North American mulberry having dark purple edible fruit "(computing) a collection of standard programs and subroutines that are stored and available for immediate use" deciduous shrubs having aromatic bark; eastern China; southwestern and eastern United States the quality of promoting good health where works of art can be displayed the maximum operating capability of a system; 'test pilots try to push the envelope' a school for teaching foreign languages any distinct quantity contained in a polynomial; 'the general term of an algebraic equation of the n-th degree' an unsophisticated country person a transmission from Earth to a spacecraft or the path of such a transmission military action involving the use of electromagnetic energy to determine or exploit or reduce or prevent hostile use of the electromagnetic spectrum someone with special training in biochemistry the antiparticle of a muon; decays to positron and neutrino and antineutrino (football) the act of warding off a tackler by holding the arm fully extended with the hand against the opponent a person who is paid to pray for the soul of another either of the corners of the eye where the upper and lower eyelids meet a firm of lawyers South American tree having fruit similar to the true guava genus of herbs of Eurasia and the Americas: spurred gentians the operation of division in which the sequence of steps is performed without writing them out any of several flowering weeds of the genus Boehmeria lacking stinging hairs having distinct longitudinal stripes: of Colorado Plateau from Arizona to western Colorado a sculpture suspended in midair whose delicately balanced parts can be set in motion by air currents type genus of the Polygalaceae: milkwort; seneca; snakeroot condensation of moisture on a cold surface; 'the cold glasses were streaked with sweat' (psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions loon family the envelope of gases surrounding any celestial body the superior of an abbey of monks (psychoanalysis) the third sexual and social stage in a child's development; sexual interest focuses on the child's own sex organs and those of others a genus of Cercopidae a typeface used in ancient Roman inscriptions having irregularly cross-banded back; of arid foothills and canyons of southern Arizona and Mexico grounds; 'don't do it on my account'; 'the paper was rejected on acount of its length'; 'he tried to blame the victim but his success on that score was doubtful' an emergency procedure that employs rhythmic compression of the heart (either through the chest wall or (during surgery) directly to the heart) in an attempt to maintain circulation during cardiac arrest someone who runs an establishment that houses and cares for babies for a fee a vein that drains a venous network in the floor and medial wall of the eye socket inflammation of the gums the order of animals fine particles of wood made by sawing wood common thorny tropical American tree having terminal racemes of yellow flowers followed by sickle-shaped or circinate edible pods and yielding good timber and a yellow dye and mucilaginous gum any of various small short-necked dabbling river ducks of Europe and America "(optics) defect in an optical system in which light rays from a single point fail to converge in a single focal point" extreme greed for material wealth large long-jawed oceanic sport fishes; related to sailfishes and spearfishes; not completely cold-blooded i.e. able to warm their brains and eyes dark sweet ale brewed from black malt an attainment that is successful; 'his success in the marathon was unexpected'; 'his new play was a great success' processing data that is given in the form of chained lists a crochet stitch a tray for making cubes of ice in a refrigerator a hall where concerts are given widely distributed family of herbs and shrubs of the order Gentianales; most with milky juice a detachment empowered to force civilians to serve in the army or navy European orchid having lanceolate leaves spotted purple and pink to white or mauve flowers spotted or lined deep red or purple process for producing permanent prints in a carbon pigment venomous semiaquatic snake of swamps in southern United States an angel of the second order whose gift is knowledge; usually portrayed as a winged child larger of two tall fast-running flightless birds similar to ostriches but three-toed; found from Brazil to Patagonia a mineral consisting of zirconium oxide annual of Mediterranean to Portugal having hairy stems and minutely spiny-toothed leaves and large heads of yellow flowers the joint of a mammal or bird that corresponds to the human elbow domestic cockroaches the property of being close together nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata small common sandpiper that breeds in northern or arctic regions and winters in southern United States or Mediterranean regions gives advice about personal problems a verbal command for action; 'when I give the word, charge!' the part of a scene between the foreground and the background an expression of agreement that is not supported by real conviction a liquid preparation used on wet hair to it a tint "a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished; 'they drew up a six-step plan'; 'they discussed plans for a new bond issue'" "the state that exists when one person or group has power over another; 'her apparent dominance of her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her'" European mountain clover with fragrant usually pink flowers any implement that is used to make an edge sharper a pattern resembling a mosaic a turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction etc. an area on a baseball diamond (on either side of home plate) marked by lines within which the batter must stand when at bat a coupling (as in a chain) that has one end that turns on a headed pin a cancerous ulcer of soft tissue and bone dried leaves of the coca plant (and related plants that also contain cocaine); chewed by Andean people for their simulating effect a playing card or a domino or a die whose upward face shows five pips the head of a government established by the military (as in a defeated country) a holly shrub a strongly made box for money or valuables; can be locked piroplasms and cattle pathogens someone who does not believe the doctrine of free will any of the celestial bodies (other than comets or satellites) that revolve around the sun in the solar system genus of brown-spored gill fungi closely related to Agaricus; here placed in its own family Strophariaceae any of several mostly spotted fishes that resemble groupers a beam of light generated by a laser a bicycle with a sturdy frame and fat tires; originally designed for riding in mountainous country a large shallow dish used for serving food a cell of the neuroglia used in various card or board games (in games or plays or other performances) the time during which play proceeds; 'rain stopped play in the 4th inning' weedy herb of the eastern United States to Texas having golden-yellow flowers; sometimes becomes invasive; sometimes placed in genus Senecio a family of protoctista a line generated by a point on a circle rolling along a straight line an ornamental ribbon or cord the act of changing or reversing the direction of the course; 'he took a turn to the right' a drug of abuse that is considered relatively mild a genus of fungi having subterranean sporophores resembling tubers used for healing or soothing swelling of the bursa in the knee coarse European herb with palmately-divided leaves and clusters of small reddish-purple flower heads valve or gate that controls rate of water flow through a sluice power to direct or determine: 'under control' an electromagnetic device used to locate explosive mines an essay or article that gives a critical evaluation (as of a book or play) a card game for two players using a reduced pack of 32 cards a covering that protects an inside surface "a system or procedure for identifying persons" urgently demanding attention; 'the insistence of their hunger'; 'he pressed his demand with considerable instancy' a tube filled with powder (as a broken firecracker) that burns with a fizzing noise 1 species of aquatic plant: golden club malaria mosquitoes; distinguished by the adult's head-downward stance and absence of breathing tubes in the larvae "the state of being carelessly or partially dressed" a coverall worn by children a soft yellow wax secreted by glands in the ear canal inappropriate and unpleasing manner or style esp of expression an analyst of conditions affecting a particular industry wind moving 19-24 knots; 5 on the Beaufort scale electronic equipment not in direct communication (or under the control of) the central processing unit People of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture the legendary sword of King Arthur a device that terminates the flow in a pipe the space between two lines or planes that intersect; the inclination of one line to another; measured in degrees or radians an instrument designed and used to take the life of a condemned person an obsolete British unit of capacity equal to 18 Imperial gallons a spotted or calico horse or pony lining of the reticulum (or second stomach) of a ruminant used as food the academic department responsible for teaching and research in anthropology large waxwing of northern North America; similar to but larger than the cedar waxwing succeeding with great difficulty; 'just winning the shore exhausted him' for measuring and indicating fluid pressure a bird's foot with folds of skin between the toes a gray lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group; is used in special alloys; occurs in monazite and bastnasite Chinese dumpling filled with spiced minced pork; usually served in soup shears for cutting grass or shrubbery short-horned grasshoppers; true locusts a sandwich made with a filling of sliced chicken the study of the structure of the body and its parts without the use of a microscope an artificial source of visible illumination fished for the hides and vitamin-rich liver type and sole genus of the family Menuridae statistical measure of the variance of two random variables measured in the same mean time period someone who talks while asleep brownish New World mouse; most widely distributed member of the genus a hole (as in a ski mask) for the mouth a partnership in which employees get a share of the profits in addition to their wages a tour of bars or public houses (usually taking one drink at each stop) a crystalline acid made from aniline and used as a dye a drugless method of treatment based on the belief that disease symptoms arise from problems with ligaments and connective tissues the perception of pleasant arrangements of musical notes chowder containing clams small European brown bat a protective cover that protects the face of a watch the period of time during which you are absent from work or duty; 'a ten day's leave to visit his mother' red fishes of American coastal tropical waters having very large eyes and rough scales a particle that is less complex than an atom; regarded as constituents of all matter a machine for performing calculations automatically the military forces of a nation presiding officer of a school a fastener with a tapered threaded shank and a slotted head systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word having the radiating lobes each deeply cleft or divided having flowers of pink to mauve or violet-blue an antibiotic produced by the actinomycete Streptomyces griseus and used to treat tuberculosis widely distributed Old World water shrew crisp flake made from corn the performance of a legal contract as specified by its terms the property of being long-lived any of several weedy vetches grown for forage a formal expression of praise a manner that does not take forms and ceremonies seriously any of various fleshy edible underground roots or tubers protects the hip and thigh distress and disorientation especially in adolescence resulting from conflicting pressures and uncertainty about and one's self and one's role in society a sense of personal inferiority arising from conflict between the desire to be noticed and the fear of being humiliated langur of southern Asia; regarded as sacred in India something given as a token of love type genus of Hydrangeacea; large genus of shrubs and some trees and vines with white or pink or blue flower clusters; sometimes placed in family Saxifragaceae innermost chamber of the Jewish Tabernacle and temple a structure erected to commemorate persons or events a small display that will show you the telephone number of the party calling you branch of the ascending pharyngeal artery that supplies the dura mater of the posterior cranial fossa woodpeckers; jacamars; puffbirds; barbets; honey guides; toucans the transportation of burdens by porters common turnstone of North American Pacific coast an open-surface excavation for extracting stone or slate: 'a British term for 'quarry' is 'stone pit'' a book of tickets that can be torn out and used a singular metaphysical entity from which material properties are said to derive boisterous celebration a person authorized to serve in a position of authority on a vessel; 'he is the officer in charge of the ship's engines' breeds on the northern great plains of Canada a deity worshipped by the Japanese goatsuckers; frogmouths; oilbirds a large family of endoparasitic amebas that invade the digestive tract Asiatic nut trees: wingnuts biennial of perennial taprooted herbs of northern hemisphere electrical discharges in the atmosphere the quality of being incapable of exchange or interchange (anatomy) a muscular partition separating the abdominal and thoracic cavities; functions in respiration plant grown for its ornamental red or purple foliage much-branched North American herb with an odor like fennel genus of South African trees having pinnate leaves and rose-purple flowers followed by leathery pods money returned to a payer containing solely the California condor "the state of being without clothing or covering of any kind" shrub or vine of the genus Lonicera a woman who is not married a person who jumps from a plane and performs various gymnastic maneuvers before pulling the parachute cord a word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward a sharp metal spike to hold a candle the dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia the cardinal number that is the product of ten and one thousand "an idea accepted as a demonstrable truth" any incitement to action; 'he awaited the signal to start'; 'the victory was a signal for wild celebration' a person conceived as a consumer of food; 'he has four mouths to feed' a buoy that can be heard (at night) any of several plants of the genus Rhexia usually having pink-purple to magenta flowers; eastern North America terrestrial orchids of Australia to New Caledonia tall marsh plant with pokerlike seed heads that explode when mature shedding large quantities of down; its long flat leaves are used for making mats and chair seats; of North America, Europe, Asia and North Africa circular-shaped; spins round and round the back of a saddle seat (obscene) insulting terms of address Asian coral snakes a uniform movement without rotation a device used to soften the tone of a musical instrument stock with a par value of __25/share a ballroom dance in fast duple time any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe; several species contain a potent nerve poison; closely related to spiny puffers a drying oil extracted from flax seed and used in making such things as oil paints any of several severe febrile diseases characterized by skin rashes or spots on the skin a member of a society founded in Ireland in 1795 to uphold Protestantism and the British sovereign money demanded for the return of a captured person any of various infectious diseases of animals the landed estate of a lord (including the house on it) tropical trees and shrubs with aromatic leaves and often valuable hard wood the act of inclining; bending forward; 'an inclination of his head indicated his agreement' any plant of the genus Cannabis; a coarse bushy annual with palmate leaves and clusters of small green flowers; yields tough fibers and narcotic drugs being characteristic of a girl an offensive lack of good manners used for baking or roasting Old World vine with lobed evergreen leaves and black berrylike fruits sharp curved horny process on the toe of a bird or some mammals or reptiles cream that has been beaten until light and fluffy food prepared by cooking and straining or processed in a blender small smooth-haired breed of African origin having a tightly curled tail and the inability to bark large order of chiefly tropical liverworts a Scottish reel for eight dancers sorting one thing from others: 'the separation of wheat from chaff'; 'the separation of mail by postal zones' (soccer) a forward on a soccer team a defensive organized before contact is made with the enemy and while time for organization is available; usually includes a fortified zone (with pillboxes) and communication systems a category of taxpayers based on the amount of their income a genus of bacteria a thrusting blow with a knife changing location by moving back and forth usually or stone or brick; supports the wall of a building the attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality and literal truth the occupation of a tailor an adherent of the theological doctrines of John Calvin an Asiatic herb cultivated in Europe for its sweet edible tuberous root one of two branches of the internal carotid artery; divides into three branches the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface a genus of Formicidae "the act of using; 'the steps were worn from years of use'" (chemistry) variability in chemical composition without variation in crystalline form the common wintergreen having many-flowered racemes of pink-tinged white flowers; Europe and North America feeding on corpses or carrion the place within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located protection of soil against erosion or deterioration a large gilled fungus with a broad cap and a long stalk; the cap is dark brown; the white gills turn dark purplish brown with age; edible and choice naval defense system dwarf prostrate mat-forming shrub of arctic and alpine regions of North America and Greenland having deep green elliptic leaves that taper toward the base deep vein of the penis; enters the prostatic plexus small donkey used as a pack animal hairy nectar-eating fly that resembles a bee; larvae are parasitic on larvae of bees and related insects a whitish rubber derived from the coagulated milky latex of the gutta-percha tree a kind of therapsid a pin for holding women's hair in place plausible glib talk (especially useful to a salesperson) a yard outside the front or rear door of a house short-tailed Old World burrowing rodent with large cheek pouches soundless Eurasian swan; commonly domesticated strong lightweight material developed in the laboratory; fibers of more than one kind are bonded together chemically monetary unit in Honduras a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of an affront; 'turning his back on me was a deliberate insult' any of various aromatic resinous substances used for healing and soothing a finding as to the applicability of a rule of law to particular facts an affront to one's dignity or self-esteem disagreeable aftereffects from the use of drugs (especially alcohol) an instrument used in colorimetric analysis to determine the quantity of a substance from the color it yields with specific reagents derivative of butadiene used in making neoprene by polymerization large-headed turtle with powerful hooked jaws found in or near water; prone to bite type genus of the family_Phalangeridae: cuscuses made of fruit with rich biscuit dough usually only on top of the fruit green pigment consisting of Prussian blue mixed with gamboge a resident of South Carolina the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger; 'the proposal required great boldness' someone who cleans windows for pay the position of speaker an optical phenomenon that results in a false or deceptive visual impression a woman's lavatory in a public (or semi-public) building a recurrence of a prior experience; 'the reliving of a strong emotion can be therapeutic' a regular customer tropical rhizomatous plant cultivated as an ornamental for its large sagittate leaves a colorless liquid unsaturated nitrile made from propene disposing of property by voluntary transfer without receiving value in return red breed of domestic rabbits; hybrid between Old_World_rabbit and hare a small low motor vehicle with four wheels and an open framework; used for racing small Old World falcon formerly trained and flown at small birds the act of hitting a baseball so that it flies straight out from the batter; 'the batter hit a liner to the shortstop' small mild-flavored onion- or garlic-like clustered bulbs a method of self-defense without weapons that was developed in China and Japan; holds and blows are supplemented by clever use of the attacker's own weight and strength a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays outer space as viewed from the earth usually with a sloping top a native or inhabitant of Asia a breeding ground for gregarious birds (such as rooks) small family of chiefly tropical shrubs and trees of genera Drimys and Pseudowintera; sometimes included in Magnoliaceae large genus of coarse gummy herbs of western North and Central America South African evergreen partly woody vine grown for its clusters of rosy purple flowers followed by edible pods like snap beans; also grown as green manure; sometimes placed in genus Dolichos wild goat of mountain areas of Eurasia and North Africa having large recurved horns a long fillet of fish breaded and fried the act of swallowing; 'one swallow of the liquid was enough'; 'he took a drink of his beer and smacked his lips' for storage of clothing (trousseau) and household goods in anticipation of marriage a table where breakfast is eaten a kind of arboreal rodent having a long bushy tail any of various Old or New World bats having very long ears a lamellar mixture of cementite and ferrite formed during the cooling of austenite; a micro-constituent of steel and cast iron a protective covering worn over the face the quality of not conforming strictly to law used in some classifications for the class Lycopsida: club mosses branches of the internal iliac artery that supply the hip joint and gluteal region an application for a job a German dialect spoken in northern Germany a seam used in surgery a small locker at the stern of a boat or between decks of a ship masonry done with bricks and mortar corn whose young ears are sweet and suitable for eating as a vegetable tent caterpillars the destructive distillation of coal (as in coke ovens) a resident of Alaska a compact mass; 'a ball of mud caught him on the shoulder' a colorless crystalline acid with a fruity taste; used in making polyester resins the male is bright red with black wings and tail (archaic) once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe a light mattress a forest (or part of a forest) where trees are grown for commercial use the sound made by a horse follower of Rastafarianism East Indian tree with valuable hard lustrous yellowish wood; the act of scaling in weight or quantity or dimension triangular pointed end pierces tops of cans Old World woodpecker with a peculiar habit of twisting the neck any of several plants of the genus Freesia valued for their one-sided clusters of usually fragrant yellow or white or pink tubular flowers any animistic religion similar to Asian shamanism especially as practiced by certain Native American tribes a method of examining stained cells in a cervical smear for early diagnosis of uterine cancer European mignonette cultivated as a source of yellow dye; naturalized in North America any woodland plant of the genus Anemone grown for its beautiful flowers and whorls of dissected leaves an international alliance involving many different countries medicine that is protected by a patent and available without a doctor's prescription enlarged heart commonly found among athletes trained for endurance a preliminary introduction to a statute or constitution (usually explaining its purpose) ownership of stocks; the state or fact of holding stock: 'prohibition of unrestricted intercorporate stockholding'- W.Z.Ripley one of the two ends of a magnet where the magnetism seems to be concentrated enlarged thyroid gland resulting from iodine deficiency the key on electric typewriters that causes a carriage return and a line feed a small pipe sounding a tone of standard frequency; used to establish the starting pitch for unaccompanied singing any member of a Pentecostal religious body cart for serving tea or light refreshments something difficult to carry large thrush common in eastern American woodlands; noted for its melodious song the standard typewriter keyboard; the keys for Q, W, E, R, T, and Y are the first six from the left on the top row of letter keys the branch of psychology concerned with the behavior of animals a numerical value regardless of its sign a senior clergyman of central North America; winters in Texas and the south Mississippi valley supplementary material that is collected and appended at the back of a book the act of putting something in working order again a circular band of a precious metal worn on the finger; 'she had rings on every finger' a detachment assigned to protect the rear of a (retreating) military body subnormal body temperature not having enough food to develop or function formally separation of substances in solution my means of their unequal diffusion through semipermeable membranes any of various deciduous or evergreen shrubs of the genus Hydrangea the ability to reflect beams or rays a logician skilled in dialectic the freedom of teachers and students to express their ideas in school without religious or political or institutional restrictions a person trained in practical applications of the theory of electricity a means of persuading or arguing; 'he used all his conversational weapons' a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury large semiaquatic rodent with webbed hind feet and a broad flat tail; construct complex dams and underwater lodges twining deciduous shrub with hairy leaves and spikes of yellow-orange flowers; northeastern America a native or inhabitant of Polynesia where a wall or building narrows abruptly the imposition of duties or quotas on imports in order to protect domestic industry against foreign competition; 'he made trade protection a plank in the party platform' large burrowing rodent of South and Central America; highly esteemed as food a misconception resulting from incorrect information has plug at each end; used to make connections at a patchboard bushy tree with pink to purple flowers candy containing a fruit or nut the act of moving something by repeated tugs or pushes; 'vigorous worrying finally loosened the saw' the feeling of being intimidated a threadlike extension of a nerve cell fire for which the point of impact (the bursts) cannot be observed the body of individuals who manage businesses the date on which a financial obligation must be repaid a quality characterized by magnificence of scale; 'the expansiveness of their extravagant life style was soon curtailed' cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments (astronomy) an indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels; they are now believed to be an optical illusion candy made with chocolate a word that modifies something other than a noun a colorless liquid hydrocarbon extracted from petroleum or coal tar and used in making synthetic resins a statistic characterizing human populations (or segments of human populations broken down by age or sex or income etc.) belief in the kinship of a group of people with a common totem a law that is believed to come directly from God the great circle representing the apparent annual path of the sun; the plane of the Earth's orbit around the sun; makes an angle of about 23 degrees with the equator; 'all of the planets rotate the sun in approximately the same ecliptic' a branch of the Indo-European languages that (judging from inscriptions and place names) was spread widely over Europe in the pre-Christian era the semantic relation of being a manner of does something pain that feels hot as if it were on fire any fish providing sport for the angler bookkeeper debits the transaction to one account and credits it to another the act of counting parasite in invertebrates and lower vertebrates of no known economic importance a host that is used by a parasite in the course of its life cycle an instrument for measuring freezing and melting points a half expressed as a percentage an afterimage of a taste equipment for making records painted turtles invasion of the bloodstream by virulent microorganisms from a focus of infection a trust created by the free and deliberate act of the parties involved (usually on the basis of written documentation) a highly developed state; 'they performed with great polish' small plant with slender bent stems bearing branched clusters of a few white star-shaped flowers with petals shaped like cat's ears; southeastern Washington and northeastern Oregon to Montana (Brit) rate per quarter for water from a public supply widespread tropical mosquito that transmits filarial worms a pad worn by football and hockey players inflammation of the fauces and pharynx introduced into United States from the Orient; larvae feed on roots of sugarcane and other grasses an art movement based on expressionism; developed in 1980s in Europe and US; crudely drawn garish paintings a parenteral cephalosporin (trade name Claforan) used for severe infections of the lungs or throat or ears or urinary tract a club organized to sing together the presence of endometrium elsewhere than in the lining of the uterus; causes premenstrual pain and dysmenorrhea a carved pyramidal ornament; used in 13th century England grown especially for its edible aromatic bulbous stem base a particular point in the time of a cycle; measured from some arbitrary zero and expressed as an angle technical skill or fluency or style exhibited by a virtuoso meteorology of the total extent of the atmosphere; especially the upper layers a heel that is an extension of the sole of the shoe a conventional religious picture painted in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church a hamburger with melted cheese on it a sequence of 8 bits (enough to represent one character of alphanumeric data) processed as a single unit of informationconstructs and returns a byte specifier from size and position. a young child a device that measures alcohol content of a person's breath a piece of turf dug out of a lawn or fairway (by an animals hooves or a golf club) a person who does something thoughtless or annoying; 'some joker is blocking the driveway' a short-haired tailless breed of cat believed to originate on the Isle of Man the light of a fire (especially in a fireplace) a small refracting telescope water directly from the spigot any of various church officers a routine that can be loaded once and executed repeatedly one who tries a contract granting the right to operate a subsidiary business: 'he got the beer concession at the ball park' an indoor tv antenna; 2 extendible rods forming a V a twilled fabric with a herringbone pattern the hypothetical acid (H2Cr2O7) from which dichromates are derived; known only in solution and in the form of dichromate salts a movement forward; 'he listened for the progress of the troops' a playing card in the major suit of hearts; 'he led the queen of hearts' the quality of having the same center (as circles inside one another) a synthetic narcotic drug similar to morphine but less habit-forming; used in treating heroin addiction the saclike body cavity of a coelenterate the virus causing poliomyelitis large greenish June beetle of southern United States massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa giant tortoises the limits of the values a function can take; 'the range of this function is the interval from 0 to 1' measures heat radiation; extremely sensitive intelligence of all types and forms of immediate interest; usually disseminated without delays for evaluation or interpretation performance of duties helpful to others; 'the mayor tried to maintain city services' or 'the medical services are excellent' the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves) type genus of the Chalcididae dry red Bordeaux or Bordeaux-like wine an inhabitant of Scandinavia room where work is done any of various soft thick unsweetened baked dishes: 'corn pudding' a blast of a horn the sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down the act of causing something to move to a lower level the outward force on a body moving in a curved path around another body a sheet perforated with printing through which ink or paint can pass to create a printed pattern a participant in a religious retreat an interpretation of the meaning of something a political theory favoring the abolition of governments pie containing blueberries and sugar an operation in which two or more activities are interleaved marine mollusk characterized by well-developed head and eyes and sucker-bearing tentacles the act of making up your mind about something; 'the burden of decision was his'; 'he drew his conclusions quickly' genus of large crested guans (the piping guans) ethnic slur; offensive terms for persons of Latin American descent a fungous blight attacking the stems of plants large vulture of the high Andes having black plumage and white neck ruff the legal duty of a fiduciary to act in the best interests of the beneficiary small genus of Asian deciduous or evergreen shrubs having fragrant flowers: winter_sweet a genus of plants of the family Crassulaceae a motley assortment of things one who deals in wax candles any of various small spider-like marine arthropods having small thin bodies and long slender legs money collected under a tariff a low shoe laced over the instep a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity tall ash of Europe to the Caucasus having leaves shiny dark-green above and pale downy beneath any of several hereditary diseases of the muscular system characterized by weakness and wasting of skeletal muscles a railroad employer who is in charge of a rail yard a person who takes part in a rebellion in the hope of improving conditions a woman headmaster an attribute of sound pain resulting from rapid change in pressure lyrebirds a clef that puts middle C on the fourth line of the staff; used for writing music for bassoons or cellos or tenor horns an earth-covered Navajo lodge; traditionally built with the entrance facing east administration of the line functions of an organization; administration of activities contributing directly to the organization's output the hearing organ of the inner ear; contains receptors that respond to sound waves the occurrence of high tide on one side of the earth coinciding with high tide on the opposite side the weather or climate at some place; 'the atmosphere was thick with fog' a seat consisting of a board and a rope; used while working aloft or over the side of a ship perennial succulent herb with small solitary axillary or terminal flowers any of various ferns of the genera Dryopteris or Polystichum or Lastreopsis having somewhat shield-shaped coverings on the sori the trail of an animal (especially a deer) the basic monetary unit in many countries; equal to 100 centimes weedy perennial of north temperate regions having woolly foliage and dirty white flowers in a leafy spike a book of directions for using or operating some piece of equipment family of New World tropical and subtropical herbs and shrubs and trees a thermometer calibrated in degrees Fahrenheit any of several metabolic disorders marked by excessive urination and persistent thirst 1 species: South American tree: tipu_tree a lock whose tumblers are levers that must be raised to a given position so that the bolt can move a flock of coots arrangement for deferred payment for goods and services (histology) the use of a dye to color specimens for microscopic study "goods or services bought from a foreign country" a decorative molding; a series of egg-shaped figures alternating with another shape a parasympathomimetic drug (trademark Mecholyl) that stimulates secretions and smooth muscle activity a routine that controls an output device one of a set of cards used in gambling games the ability to recall past occurrences the part of the ear that is responsible for sensations of sound an extended journey someone employed to provide service in a dining room large shaggy-haired toothless anteater with long tongue and powerful claws; of South America a group of musicians playing only brass and percussion instruments Australian moundbird; incubates eggs naturally in sandy mounds a small dynamo with a secondary winding that produces a high voltage enabling a spark to jump between the poles of a spark plug in a gasoline engine (trademark) a duplicating machine that makes quick positive or negative copies directly on the surface of prepared paper a price that is too high obscene terms for female genitals any plant of the genus Hypoxis having long grasslike leaves and yellow star-shaped flowers: Africa; Australia; southern Asia; North America a member of the a nomadic tribe of Arabs a transparent dome on top of an airplane where the navigator can make celestial observations a method of execution widespread in the ancient world; victim's hands and feet are bound or nailed to a cross a succession of waves spaced at regular intervals an inexperienced sailor; a sailor on the first voyage the doctrine that formal structure rather than content is what should be represented presence of diverticula in the walls of the colon fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain the responsibility of a lawyer to act in the best interests of the client a fatty acid found in animal oils and fats; has an unpleasant smell resembling goats the branches of mathematics that study and develop the principles of mathematics for their own sake rather than for their immediate usefulness an indefinitely short time; 'wait just a moment'; 'it only takes a minute'; 'in just a bit' ridge-like ingrowth of the exoskeleton of an arthropod that supports internal organs and provides attachment points for muscles pit viper with horny segments at the end of the tail that rattle when shaken calyx composed of scales or bristles or featherlike hairs in plants of the Compositae such as thistles and dandelions rum and lime or lemon juice with sugar and sometimes bitters the creation of something in the mind a game in which a pitcher allows the opposing team no hits zebra mussels the shortest distance that permits radio signals (of a given frequency) to travel from the transmitter to the receiver by reflection from the ionosphere one of a limited class of noun modifiers that determine the referents of noun phrases deciduous shrubby tree of northeastern and central United States having a sweet edible nut and often forming dense thickets (British) a roster of names showing the order in which people should perform certain duties (often plural) a payment that is made to a performer or writer or director of a television show or commercial that is paid for every repeat showing; 'he could retire on his residuals' a member of an Algonquian people formerly living in New Jersey and New York and parts of Delaware and Pennsylvania bushy subshrub having flower heads that resemble asters with broad white rays; found in desert areas of Arizona east to Kansas and south to Mexico an opinion that agrees with the court's disposition of the case but is written to express a particular judge's reasoning a writ ordering a prisoner to be brought before a judge the practice of measuring angles and distances on the ground so that they can be accurately plotted on a map a long hooded overcoat a characteristic emotional quality; 'it ended on a sour note'; 'there was a note of gaiety in her manner'; 'he detected a note of sarcasm' an unsaturated acid (C4H6O2) used to make resins and plastics the outermost of the three gluteal muscles an instrument of punishment designed and used to inflict torture on the condemned person a drafting instrument resembling a compass that is used for dividing lines into equal segments or for transferring measurements (med) the process of removing a heavy metal from the bloodstream by means of a chelate as in treating lead or mercury poisoning pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; 'groundnut' and 'monkey nut' are British terms propulsion by means of the discharge a jet of fluid toward the rear a collection of books that can be rented by readers in return for a small daily fee a piece of electronic equipment for continual observation of the function of the heart Australian rat kangaroos authoritative approval chick-pea plant; Asiatic herbs the act of authorizing the angular separation between two objects as perceived by an observer; 'he recorded angular distances between the stars' a pilot hired to fly experimental airplanes through maneuvers designed to test them an inflammatory and often suppurating lesion on the skin or an internal mucous surface resulting in necrosis of tissue corncrakes a fungus causing dry rot connects two things so they move together a diatonic scale with notes separated by whole tones except for the 3rd and 4th and 7th and 8th a change in the relative numbers of the different groups of individuals making up a population dark-colored heavy-bodied beers usually imported from Germany or Holland or Scandinavia the acute angle between the direction of the undisturbed relative wind and the chord of an airfoil belief that a work of art is an end in itself or its own justification tall Paleozoic trees superficially resembling modern screw pines; structurally intermediate in some ways between cycads and conifers someone who assists a nurse in tasks that require little formal training tall rush of temperate regions 1 species: tree fern of Central and South America South American shrub or small tree widely cultivated in the tropics; not a true potato genus of tropical epiphytic or terrestrial Old World orchids; one of the most popular orchid genera a young woman who is employed a group of street musicians in Mexico an indefinite but relatively small number; 'they bought a case of beer and drank a few' a hand-operated data input device that moves the cursor on a computer screen the official who keeps a town's records tree bearing aromatic bark or berries usually fresh-squeezed juice of limes coelanterate genus of order Madreporaria, including staghorn corals used in some classification systems for plants that bear catkins a daughter of your niece or nephew the quality of prevailing generally; being widespread; 'the prevalence of dysentery is horrible' the soldier who carries the standard of the unit in military parades or in battle a large landscaped area for playing golf failure to declare income in order to avoid paying taxes on it showy erect biennial or short-lived perennial cultivated for its terminal racemes of orange-yellow flowers; sometimes placed in genus Cheiranthus felt hat with a creased crown a race between (usually high-performance) automobiles three-dimensional vision students beginning elementary school familyof arthropods of the suborder Megaloptera, including snakeflies a gliding or sliding step in ballet a vein located in the anterior medial part of the orbit; connects the superior ophthalmic with the angular vein the act of repeating (law) the determination of a person's innocence or guilt by due process of law; 'he had a fair trial and the jury found him guilty' (slang) someone who is excellent at something a hatchet with a broad blade on one end and a hammer head of the other European salamander having dark skin with usually yellow spots someone who wastes time the use of electric shock as a form of punishment someone who is expert in the art of escaping white-spored agarics with a fleshy stalk and notched gills; of various colors both edible and inedible onion with white to deep red tunic; California a compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone; 'Al Smith used to say, 'Let's look at the record''; 'his name is in all the recordbooks' an informal term for a youth or man; 'a nice guy'; 'the guy's only doing it for some doll' a variety of adelgid arrangement in which things follow in logical order or a recurrent pattern; 'the sequence of names was alphabetical' an architectural ornament in the form of three arcs arranged in a circle the solar calendar now in general use, introduced by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582 AD to correct an error in the Julian calendar by suppressing 10 days, making Oct 5 be called Oct 15, and providing that only centenary years divisible by 400 should be leap years; it was adopted by Great Britain and the American colonies in 1752 fossil amphibian of the Devonian having well-developed forelimbs; found in Pennsylvania the act of washing dishes large feline of forests in most of Asia having a tawny coat with black stripes; endangered the voice used to indicate that the subject of the verb is performing the action or causing the happening denoted by the verb the act or practice of collecting coins relation by which any position with respect to any other position is established a line giving the name of the writer of a story or article largest and most widely distributed genus of bats the activity of flying a glider a room set aside for viewing television a thin layer or stratum of (especially metamorphic) rock negative pole formal withdrawal or separation from an alliance or federation the sound made by a lion a member of the tribe of Franks who settled in the Netherlands in the 4th century AD a set of confused and meaningless statements offensive terms for a person of Chinese descent something that rises rapidly and dies away; 'a wave of emotion swept over him'; 'there was a sudden wave of buying before the market closed' a member of the majority people of Punjab in NW India a circuit consisting of a T-network with an additional arm bridging the two series arms the chest of a woman a simple instrument for indicating changes in atmospheric pressure the secretion of saliva large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs a subdivision of a larger religious group a climber having canary-colored flowers the possibility of future success; 'his prospects as a writer are excellent' the people of a nation or country or a community of persons bound by a common heritage; 'a nation of Catholics'; 'the whole country worshipped him' English from about 1100 to 1450 wild ginger a genus of North American perennial herbs of the family Boraginaceae a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks any of various plants of the genus Rudbeckia cultivated for their large usually yellow daisies with prominent central cones the act of catching a pass in football; 'the tight end made a great reception on the 20 yard line' moth whose larvae attack dried fruits and cereal products small white egrets projects successive frames from a reel of film to create moving pictures primitive reptile having no opening in the temporal region of the skull; all extinct except turtles an ornamental knot that resembles a small turban right-eyed flatfish; many are valued as food; most common in warm seas esp. European apoapsis in solar orbit; the point in the orbit of a planet or comet that is at the greatest distance from the sun in some older classifications considered the family of the basking sharks an involuntary intake of breath through a wide open mouth a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface; 'His face has many wrinkles' type genus of the Blattidae: cockroaches infesting buildings worldwide tooth_fungi the trait of acting more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment a person who plays the kettledrums a circular ring for holding up a curtain a support that you can lean against while sitting; 'the back of the dental chair was adjustable' a conspiracy not to talk about some situation or event; 'there was a conspiracy of silence about police brutality' a loss of the ability to write or to express thoughts in writing because of a brain lesion thick-walled asexual resting spore of certain fungi and algae Old World orioles an ambiguity with one interpretation that is indelicate a day commemorating a saint a series of bricks place next to each other (usually in a straight line) fire on enemy troops or weapons or positions that are near the supported unit and are the most immediate and serious threat to it a charge required as compensation for the delay of a ship or freight car or other cargo beyond its scheduled time of departure something hideous or frightful; 'they regarded the atom bomb as a monstrosity' the doctrine that representations of nature or human behavior should be accurate imitations a polite name for any woman a plexus of nerves supplying the heart and nearby structures (football) putting the ball in play by passing it (between the legs) to a back a healthy state of well-being (physical chemistry) the gaseous state of hot ionized material consisting of ions and electrons and present in the stars and fusion reactors: sometimes regarded as a fourth state of matter distinct from normal gasses a redistribution of something; 'there was a reshuffle of cabinet officers' water beetles the state of being putrid any of several submerged or floating freshwater perennial aquatic weeds belonging to the family Potamogetonaceae one who is employed to saw wood Chinese silkworm moth the labor of unloading something stork with a grooved bill whose upper and lower parts touch only at the base and tip absence of moral or spiritual values; 'the powers of darkness' the musical interval between one note and another four notes away from it loss due to not showing up; 'he lost the game by default' a German man; used before the name as a title equivalent to Mr in English a patent medicine whose efficacy is questionable a refrigerator in which food is frozen and stored for long periods of time "a high place; 'they stood on high and observed the coutryside' or 'he doesn't like heights'" a swift cursory examination or inspection; 'I gave him the once-over' any of numerous seed-eating songbirds of Europe or North America resistant to oils and aging; used in waterproof products a barge that is designed and equipped for use as a dwelling the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals the state of being first in importance type and sole genus of the family Mycoplasmatacaea an urn in which tea is brewed and from which it is served an artist who paints any disease of the throat or fauces marked by spasmodic attacks of intense suffocative pain genus of chiefly North American perennial herbs: silkweed; milkweed a painful burning sensation in the chest caused by acidic backflow from the stomach irritating the esophagus; symptomatic of an ulcer or other disorder belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group low-cost life insurance; valid only for a stated period of time type genus of Picidae comprises plants often included in the genus Chrysanthemum electric phenomena in animals or plants "a substance used to provide cooling (as in a refrigerator)" resembles a groined vault but has ribbed arches a group of related languages spoken in Asia and SE Europe has a cabin and plumbing and other conveniences necessary for living on board thin sauteed cutlets of veal a group's refusal to obey orders in protest against discrimination a wooden peg or pin inserted into the eye at the end of rope in order to fasten it to something an impression that something might be the case; 'he had an intuition that something had gone wrong' a noisy or scolding or domineering woman a financial condition of being indebted a slice of beef usually cooked by broiling the friendship characteristic of blood brothers a kind of gorilla small dun-colored North American flycatcher a trivial act of lying a crossbar that is attached to the traces of a draft horse and to the vehicle or implement that the horse is pulling a tall and often cultivated buckeye of the central United States large South African antelope; considered the swiftest hoofed mammal a lever with a pointed projection that serves as a fulcrum; used to roll heavy wheels tasty mixture or liquid into which bite-sized foods are dipped a vessel used for trawling for fish a military area where combat forces operate "natural objects visible in the sky" a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.; 'he kept finding excuses to stay'; 'every day he had a new alibi for not getting a job'; 'his transparent self-justification was unacceptable' milk-secreting organ of female mammals the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble the increase in activity of the adrenal glands just before puberty a rule used by a carpenter informal terms for a difficult situation; 'he got into a terrible fix'; 'he made a muddle of his marriage' any property relating to or occupying space the activity of designing and constructing aircraft a bleak and desolate atmosphere milky-juiced herb: lettuce; prickly lettuce a periodic state during which you are conscious and aware of the world an executioner who uses electricity to kill the condemned person a resident of Lesbos the testing of an idea; 'it was an experiment in living'; 'not all experimentation is done in laboratories' the domain controlled by an archduke or archduchess a register of persons who are socially prominent fast-growing herbaceous evergreen tree of South America having a broad trunk with high water content and dark green oval leaves a maid who is a lady's personal attendant a native or inhabitant of England type genus of the Ascaphidae; in some classifications included in the family Leiopelmatidae a rule that when literal compliance is impossible the intention of a donor or testator should be carried out as nearly as possible someone punished for the errors of others a strictly literal interpretation (as distinct from the intention); 'he followed instructions to the letter'; 'he obeyed the letter of the law' consisting of or covered with oil a Scottish cap with straight sides and a crease along the top from front to back; worn by Highlanders as part of military dress the concluding part of any performance genus of Old World shrubs or low trees having fragrant flowers in showy panicles: lilacs (anatomy) dividing partition between two tissues or cavities a member of the Mayan people living in south central Guatemala the quality of being impossible to investigate; 'the inscrutability of the future' a screwdriver for Phillips screws aquatic South American rodent resembling a small beaver; bred for its fur yellow pigment consisting of neutral lead chromate a district where gold is mined a bridge supported by trusses similar to American white pelican opposition between two conflicting forces or ideas a diacritical mark (^) placed above a vowel in some languages to indicate a special phonetic quality a skirt made of long blades of grass the manner of using the feet (informal) something with no concrete substance; 'his dreams all turned to smoke'; 'it was just smoke and mirrors' fruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle: e.g. blackberry; raspberry; pineapple equipment for making records on magnetic media fatty pinkish flesh of small salmon caught in the Pacific and Great Lakes an indicator as on a dial a distinguishing emblem; 'his tie proclaimed his school colors' an electromagnetic wave generated by oscillations in an electric circuit no capable of being moved or rearranged any flowerless plant such as a fern (pteridophyte) or moss (bryophyte) in which growth occurs only at the tip of the main stem a pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water a family of dicotyledonous plants of order Sapindales found mostly in the north temperate zone European herb with yelow-green flowers resembling and closely related to the trilliums; reputed to be poisonous an attache who is a specialist in cultural matters annual weed of Europe and North America having a rosette of basal leaves and tiny flowers followed by oblong seed capsules the transformation of ordinary white tin into powdery gray tin a very cold temperatures a sharp high-pitched cry (especially by a dog) someone who demands physical evidence in order to be convinced (especially when this demand is out of place) disease of cattle that can be transmitted to humans; results from infection with actinomycetes; characterized by hard swellings that exude pus through long sinuses the quality of being determined to do or achieve something; 'his determination showed in his every movement'; 'he is a man of purpose' genus of tropical American and Asiatic spiny evergreen trees and shrubs agile Old World viverrine having a spotted coat and long ringed tail "an event whose occurrence ends something; 'his death marked the ending of an era'" the experience of thinking that a new situation had occurred before cake flavored with ginger type genus of the Tuberculariaceae; fungi with nodules of red or pink conidia; some cause diebacks of woody plants herbs of temperate regions: pennycress a person of great ability and ambition amphipod crustacean parasitic on cetaceans deciduous shrub of eastern North America whose leaves turn scarlet in autumn and having racemes of yellow flowers followed by ellipsoid glossy red berries a barbiturate with sedative and hypnotic effects; used to relive insomnia and as an anticonvulsant the main land mass of a country or continent; as distinguished from an island or peninsula tropical American tree bearing sweet pulpy fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds an isotonic solution of sodium chloride and distilled water a medium-sized schnauzer a roll of photographic film a landing for docking and (un)loading ships an unhappy and worried mental state; 'there was too much anger and disturbance'; 'she didn't realize the upset she caused me' an American eating apple with red or yellow and red skin includes bone-headed (pachycephalosaurs) and horned (ceratopsian) dinosaurs any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes a quantity that has no factor but itself and 1 orchid growing along streams or ponds of western North America having leafy stems and 1 greenish-brown and pinkish flower in the axil of each upper leaf a chisel with a broad edge for dressing stone a long-acting crystalline barbiturate (trade name Mebaral) used as a sedative and as an anticonvulsant in the treatment of epilepsy a temporary shortage of rainfall a school in a university offering study leading to degrees beyond the bachelor's degree small biscuit (rich with cream and eggs) cut into diamonds or sticks and baked in an oven or (especially originally) on a griddle vinaigrette with chili sauce and chopped watercress dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States; often farmed someone who educates the capability or quality of shrinking or contracting esp by muscle fibers and even some other forms of living matter a green or yellow or brown mineral consisting of a hydrated silicate; it occurs as crystals in limestone and is used a gemstone magic performed with the help of beneficent spirits an electric motor for starting an engine the removal of salt (especially from sea water) the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music; 'he tried to sing the tenor part' any Christian religion that believes the second coming of Christ is imminent European perennial bellflower that grows in clumps with spreading stems and blue or white flowers a gymnastic apparatus used for strengthening exercises; uprights fastened to a wall and connected by horizontal rungs white-flowered annual European herb bearing triangular notched pods; nearly cosmopolitan as an introduced weed pondweed with floating leaves; of northern United States and Europe a heterosexual person; someone having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex the fixing of wages at a given level late-spring-blooming rhododendron of eastern North America having rosy to pink-purple flowers filamentous anaerobic bacteria electrophoresis to separate antigens and antibodies Borneo monkey having a long bulbous nose nest where birds lay their eggs and hatch their young a recording barometer; automatically records on paper the variations in atmospheric pressure an audio-system that can reproduce and amplify signals to produce sound a consoling aspect of a difficult situation; 'every cloud has a silver lining' or 'look on the bright side of it' type genus of the Pomacentridae: damselfishes a tress of false hair used by women to give shape to a coiffure a turbine with blades arranged to develop torque from gradual decrease of steam pressure from inlet to exhaust a broad and deep undulation of the ocean a complete list of things; usually arranged systematically; 'it does not pretend to be a catalogue of his achievements' a genus of Siphonophora the act of adding a seasoning to food persons who administer the law a variable color that lies beyond blue in the spectrum contemporaries of the same status a prismatoid whose bases are polygons having the same number of sides and whose other faces are trapezoids or parallelograms the pressure at a given point in a liquid measured in terms of the vertical height of a column of the liquid needed to produce the same pressure the extent of something from side to side "something approximating the shape of a circle; 'the chairs were arranged in a circle'" an instance of intense bargaining European cave-dwelling aquatic salamander with permanent external gills a swimming stroke in which the arms move forward and backward while the legs do a scissors kick any whiskey distilled from sour mash (England) a landowner (14th and 15th centuries) who was free but not of noble birth any of a group of crystalline silicate mineral common in igneous and metamorphic rocks a genus of Equidae the metal bob of a plumb line whiskey with ice a mounted policeman "a relation between different business enterprises" "established customary state esp. of society; 'order ruled in the streets'; 'law and order'" prostrate herb having heads of deep pink to white flowers; found in coastal dunes from British Columbia to Baja California a sandal with a sole made of rope or rubber and a cloth upper part the moment of a couple is the product of its force and the distance between its opposing forces a very sleepy state; 'sleepiness causes many driving accidents' a cylinder of calcium carbonate projecting upward from the floor of a limestone cave formerly a bank note issued by the US Treasury and redeemable in silver the area over which a radio or tv transmission can be received secretly importing prohibited goods or goods on which duty is due the fruiting bodies of the fungi of the genus Xylaria an American any of the liver-generated steroid acids and stored with bile found in warm waters of western Atlantic extreme hostility; 'the virulence of the malicious old man' minute arachnid sometimes found in old papers a gathering of persons representative of some larger group; 'each nation sent a contingent of athletes to the Olympics' someone who inflicts severe physical pain a dredging bucket with hinges like the shell of a clam plant having ovate leaves in a basal rosette and white starlike flowers netted with green local names for a cowboy ('vaquero' is used especially in SW and C Texas; 'buckaroo' is used especially in California) someone who owes money the common annual twining or bushy bean plant grown for its edible seeds or pods type genus of the Ceratodontidae: extinct genus of lungfishes a genus of Araucaria the univalent radical derived from benzoic acid of Pacific coast of California and southward used primarily as eating apples a thin pad filled with straw or sawdust and used as a mattress a card certifying the bearer's right to use the library "a relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another" a poor ability to understand or to profit from experience a small private compartment for one on a sleeping car weighs no more than 130 pounds currency issued by a government or central bank and consisting of printed paper that can circulate as a substitute for specie a saw intended to be used by two people an organ in its earliest stage of development; the foundation for subsequent development (ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability lined with boron or filled with boron trifluoride gas inborn pattern of behavior often responsive to specific stimuli: 'the spawning instinct in salmon'; 'altruistic instincts in social animals' greatness of magnitude small terrestrial ferns of Old World tropics and subtropics: claw ferns; sometimes placed in family Cryptogrammataceae aquatic perennial of North America and Ireland and Hebrides having translucent green leaves in a basal spiral and dense buttonlike racemes of minute white flowers a current below the surface of a fluid a steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain; may contain a lake a gray fungus frequently found near melting snow banks a complex of females; sexual attraction to the father someone who speaks in a childish way incapability of being cured or healed the error of a compass due to local magnetic disturbances a genus of Peripatidae Scandinavian liquor usually flavored with caraway seeds government free from external control a resident of a colony the object of a feeling of intense aversion; something to be avoided; 'cats were his greatest antipathy' periodic maintenance on a car or machine; 'it was time for an overhaul on the tractor' chorea occurring chiefly in children and associated with rheumatic fever family of false morels or lorchels; some are edible and some are poisonous the primary tissue of higher plants composed of thin-walled cells that remain capable of cell division even when mature; constitutes the greater part of leaves, roots, the pulp of fruits, and the pith of stems any of the carbohydrates that yield only a few monosaccharide molecules on complete hydrolysis Eurasian tree with orange-red berrylike fruits large genus of perennial and biennial pungent bulbous plants: garlic; leek; onion; chive; sometimes placed in family Alliacea as the type genus small land tortoise of southern Europe an area that includes seats for several people; 'there is seating for 40 students in this classroom' abnormally low blood sugar usually resulting from excessive insulin or a poor diet "the amount and state of snow for skiing" clover ferns any of several robust long-tailed lizards with collars of two dark bands; of central and western United States and northern Mexico a texture like that of marble a woman protege a thermionic tube having two electrodes; used as a rectifier a non-finite form of the verb; in English it is used adjectivally and to form compound tenses a view from the side of something an informal party of people with hospitality for all comers a button on a coat extreme fatigue monetary unit in Costa Rica cortical areas that are neither motor or sensory but are thought to be involved in higher processing of information semi-climbing prickly evergreen shrub of tropical America having compound leaves sensitive to light and touch the feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well lac purified by heating and filtering; usually in thin orange or yellow flakes but sometimes bleached white cobra used by the Pharaohs as a symbol of their power over life and death a closed chain of 6 carbon atoms with hydrogen atoms attached someone who lives in a place; 'a liver in cities' an angle that is not a right angle or a multiple of a right angle marine microorganism having a calcareous shell with openings where pseudopods protrude a natural body passageway Old World terrestrial lizard a share that has been allocated again an acute infectious disease occurring in epidemic form and featuring paroxysms of pain (usually in the chest) the ratio of the weight of an object being moved along a surface and the force that maintains contact between the object and the surface shrubby or herbaceous low-growing evergreen perennials a system of conveying mail by aircraft one of two small cylindrical cell organelles composes of 9 triplet microtubules; form the asters during mitosis the act of treating with medicines or remedies something that is extraordinary or remarkable or prominent: 'a snorter of a sermon'; 'the storm wasn't long but it was a snorter' where coal is dug from the ground any of various timber trees of the genus Flindersia New World leaf-nosed bats an officer of the court who is employed to execute writs and processes and make arrests etc. sweet alyssum roast cut from the the round; usually suitable for roasting large scallop inhabiting deep waters of the North American Atlantic coast an electromagnetic wave frequency between audio and infrared a force over an area produced by a pressure difference a steel alloy made with chromium and tungsten people having the same social or economic status; 'the working class'; 'an emerging professional class' someone skilled in making a roof from plant stalks or foliage any of several annual or perennial Eurasian grasses North American swallow that lives in colonies and builds bottle-shaped mud nests on cliffs and walls "a sudden happening that brings very good fortune" cranes a circumstance upon which subsequent events depend; 'his absence is the hinge of our plan' the branch of mathematics dealing with groups the line along which warring troops meet a genus of Haemulidae a person who does not manifest devotion to a deity oxeye the representation of what is perceived; basic component in the formation of a concept time for play or diversion a sixth part any particle that obeys Fermi-Dirac statistics and is subject to the Pauli exclusion principle a vein that receives blood from the tongue and the floor of the mouth and empties into the internal jugular or the facial vein boatbills a charge for storing goods in a cellar educational recognition that a course of studies has been successfully completed a plumb line attached to a narrow board the occurrence of a water flow resulting from sudden rain or melting snow croakers large African viper that inflates its body when alarmed the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat; 'they had a fierce wrestle'; 'we watched his grappling and wrestling with the bully' sharing thoughts and feelings aromatic herb having heads of small pink or whitish flowers; widely distributed in United States, Europe and Asia a private detective employed by a hotel or retail store a thief who grabs and runs; 'a purse snatcher' the act of hitting vigorously; 'he gave the table a whack' the audience reached by written communications (books or magazines or newspapers etc.) a method of instruction a practitioner of homeopathy the brother of your father or mother; the husband of your aunt a mine where copper is dug from the ground the unwanted discharge of a fluid from some container; 'they tried to stop the escape of gas from the damaged pipe'; 'he had to clean up the leak' the act of stigmatizing "the event that occured at the beginning of something; 'from its creation the plan was doomed to failure'" a plug for connecting a telephone a toothed metal band driven by two wheels a superficial aspect as opposed to the real nature of something; 'it was not what it appeared to be on the surface' a woman's short housecoat or wrapper the property of using one hand more than the other a valley with steep sides; formed by a rift in the earth's crust genus of bracket fungi forming corky or woody perennial shelflike sporophores often of large size; includes some that cause destructive heartrot in trees genus of Mediterranean herbs: cupid's dart the speed of an aircraft relative to the air in which it is flying the smooth muscle sphincter of the common bile duct a pad of paper for keeping notes a neuron in the cerebral cortex with short dendrites and with either a long axon or a short axon that ramifies in the gray matter an agricultural insecticide the work of applying something; 'the doctor prescribed a topical application of iodine'; 'a complete bleach requires several applications'; 'the surface was ready for a coating of paint'; the largest Eurasian bird of prey; having black feathers hanging around the bill a square post supporting a structural member at the corner of a building the belief that all international disputes can be settled by arbitration a forward pass in which the receiver is protected by a screen of blockers a move made to gain a tactical end a newspaper headline that runs across the full page a family of languages spoken in southern Africa the time when something begins (especially life); 'they divorced after the birth of the child' or 'his election signaled the birth of a new age' tropical trees having papery leaves and large fruit music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time) the act of enfolding something the quality of being dissimilar the quality of being oblique and rambling indirectly an edible agaric with a brown fruiting body that is often compound tall reedlike grass common in salt meadows an illuminated area; 'he stepped into the light' "a lump of hard consolidated mineral matter; 'he threw a rock at me'" the branch of geology that studies water on the earth and in the atmosphere: its distribution and uses and conservation the male sex organ of spore-producing plants; produces antherozoids; equivalent to the anther in flowers the furcula of a domestic fowl the fruit of a variety of winter melon vine; a large smooth-skinned greenish-white melon with pale green flesh any fungus of the genus Discina alternative name in some classification systems for the family Caesalpiniaceae a legal system for assessing and collecting taxes a studio especially for an artist or designer a temperamental disposition to be agreeable a variety of Japanese honeysuckle that grows like a vine; established as an aggressive escape in southeastern United States an organized program of advertisements comprising flowering plants that produce seeds enclosed in an ovary; in some systems considered a class (Angiospermae) and in others a division (Magnoliophyta or Anthophyta) the act of bringing something under international control payment or reward (esp from a government) for acts such as catching criminals or killing predatory animals or enlisting in the military feathery fern of tropical Asia and Malaysia a harness strap that connects the nose piece to the girth; prevents the horse from throwing back its head Clinoril is the trade name for this nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug poinsettia of United States and eastern Mexico; often confused with Euphoria heterophylla (computer science) the interval between the time data is requested by the system and the time the data is provided by the drive; 'access time is the sum of seek time and rotational latency and command processing overhead' exercise that builds muscles through tension a member of a military unit trained as shock troops for hit-and-run raids the branch of physics that studies the internal structure of atomic nuclei lens system focuses image on a photosensitive mosaic that is scanned by an electron beam a container that is used to put or keep things in swifts; in former classifications included in the order Coraciiformes crabmeat usually canned; from Japan a finance company that buys (at a discount) the installment sales contracts of retail merchants plate iron thinner than tank iron someone who obtains pleasure from receiving punishment a large cylindrical bag of heavy cloth; for carrying personal belongings an artist's jointed model of the human body a buffer that keeps track of key strokes until the computer is ready to respond to them batter for making fritters the state of being assimilated any of several large suckers of the Mississippi valley data processing fast enough to keep up with an outside process surgical removal of the spleen cornetfishes (meteorology) altitude of the lowest layer of clouds Eurasian marten having a brown coat with pale breast and throat fern of tropical America: from southern United States to West Indies and Mexico to Brazil a person who hews a verse line having eight syllables or a poem of octosyllabic lines a unit of capacity or volume in the apothecary system equal to one eighth of a fluid ounce an account with a securities brokerage whose transactions are settled on a cash basis type genus of the family Zygnemataceae young bird esp. of domestic fowl the act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise someone who popularizes a new fashion a cystic tumor (usually benign) of the ovary malheur wire lettuce injustice by virtue of not being equitable a place equipped with instruments etc for testing engines a machinery under working conditions West Indian evergreen shrub having clusters of funnel-shaped yellow-white flowers that are fragrant by night (dentistry) the normal spatial relation of the teeth when the jaws are closed a passenger bus with an electric motor that draws power from overhead wires a movie camera that records sounds in synchrony with the visual images a fungus having an acutely conic cap and dry stalks perspective drawing of an architect's design the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall); 'he enjoyed the evening light across the lake' light emitted during absorption of radiation of some other (invisible) wavelength a white powder that is used to fluoridate toothpaste the branch of geology that studies earthquakes a native or inhabitant of Lebanon the ranking vice president in a firm that has more than one ornamental work (such a embroidery or latticework) having a pattern of openings American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae flowering plant with two cotyledons a very sweet white spread resembling marshmallow candy an oral antidiabetic drug (trade names DiaBeta and Micronase) that stimulates the release of insulin from the pancreas a final appearance or performance before retirement soft-finned fishes comprising the freshwater whitefishes; formerly included in the family Salmonidae inexpensive seating area in the rearmost or uppermost and balcony or section of seats any of several fishes having rigid flattened spines an agreement (or contract) in which property is transferred from the seller (vendor) to the buyer (vendee) for a fixed price in money (paid or agreed to be paid by the buyer); 'the salesman faxed the sales agreement to his home office' a rocket powerful enough to travel into outer space large alligator of southeastern United States a checkerboard game for two players who each have 12 pieces; the object is to jump over and so capture the opponent's pieces the sediment from fermentation of an alcoholic beverage flesh of fish from the sea used as food a small piece of cloth a sentence (in the indicative mood) that makes a declaration a negotiator who acts as a link between parties any plant of the genus Cryptocoryne; evergreen perennials growing in fresh or brackish water; tropical Asia a hearing held by the U.S. senate to gather information on which to approve or reject candidates for high federal office that are nominated by the president North American rock cress having very long curved pods low shrubby plant having yellow flowers with four petals arranged in a cross; Bermuda and southeastern United States to West Indies and eastern Mexico genus of shrubs or small trees having indehiscent pods with black seeds; roots and bark yield fish poisons the property of lasting forever an opener for removing caps or corks from bottles a tradesman who sells hosiery (and (in England) knitwear) lizards of the New World and Madagascar and some Pacific islands; typically having a long tail and bright throat patch in males a drawing made with a silver-tipped instrument on specially prepared paper (15th & 16th centuries) a disorderly outburst or tumult; 'they were amazed by the furious disturbance they had caused' a person afflicted with manic-depressive illness (British) a worker in an inn or public house who serves customers and does various chores a unit of length equal to a quarter of 1 mile usually containing only the king vulture winning all but one of the tricks in a hand of bridge a comparatively long time; 'this won't take long'; 'they haven't been gone long' narrow French stick loaf the study of animals and plants in the natural world (usually at an elementary level) a long brightly-colored shawl; worn mainly by Mexican men a state of quiet (but possibly temporary) inaction a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another excess of urea in the urine an X-ray representation of blood vessels made after the injection of a radiopaque substance; 'angiograms are produced by angiography' "an act that does not achieve its intended goal" a fabric woven with lisle thread a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places a man devoted to the pursuit of pleasure tea tortrix a paint with water-soluble pigments; used by artists a dried and smoked herring having a reddish color a government policy for dealing with the budget (especially with taxation and borrowing) the offspring who came first in the order of birth staring into a crystal ball to arouse visions of future or distant events similarity by virtue of correspondence a man's double-breasted frock coat a mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes a weave used to produce the effect of parallel diagonal ribs (British) a game in which coins or discs are slid by hand across a board toward a mark the convolution of parietal lobe that is bounded in front by the central gyrus long-winged web-footed aquatic bird of the gull family willingness or readiness to receive esp impressions or ideas: 'their receptivity to the proposal' generic name for certain synthetic or semisynthetic materials that can be molded or extruded into objects or films or filaments or used for making e.g. coatings and adhesives a padded gymnastic apparatus on legs any of various old rustic dances involving kicking and leaping a Chinese breed of small short-legged dogs with a long silky coat and broad flat muzzle the time before the regular games begin when football or baseball teams play practice games a man who is a foster parent a baby conceived by artificial insemination a wheel that has a tire and rim and hubcap; used to propel the car a bell activated by the magnetic effect of an electric current one of many subfamilies into which some classification systems subdivide the Liliaceae a Cypriot monetary unit equal to one thousandth of a pound the power of imagination; 'popular imagination created a world of demons' any of the membranous air-filled extensions of the lungs of birds harmony in which each chord has four notes that create four melodic lines lyre snakes tall evening primrose with inconspicuous flowers purchasing back something previously sold the branch of science dealing with physical and biological aspects of the oceans similar to but smaller than American lobsters a person who puts finishing edges on a garment crop grown for its enlarged roots: e.g. beets; potatoes; turnips someone who gambles extravagantly the quality of requiring deliberate effort a style of architecture developed in Italy and western Europe between the Roman and the Gothic styles after 1000 AD; characterized by round arches and vaults and by the substitution of piers for columns and profuse ornament and arcades exposure to the rays of the sun a bathroom or kitchen fixture for holding a bar of soap an organism that thrives in a relatively acid environment a noblewoman holding the rank of viscount in her own right the quality of being significant; 'do not underestimate the significance of nuclear power' a commonly prescribed tricyclic antidepressant (trade name Prozac); a serotonin-selective re-uptake inhibitor the part of a wharf that is next to a ship trees native to tropical America and Africa with milky juice and large palmately lobed leaves a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; 'what is the probability of rain?'; 'we have a good chance of winning' the editor of a newspaper a drug originally taken in the form of powder ('dust') for its hallucinogenic effects a compound containing metal combined with carbon monoxide the legislative hall where members debate and vote and conduct other business; 'there was a motion from the floor' a band (usually elastic) worn around the leg to hold up a stocking (or around the arm to hold up a sleeve) a thin polyester film a member of the Salishan people living in NW Washington a dark purplish red a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms a device used for pulling something; 'he grabbed the pull and opened the drawer' any of various pungent capsicum fruits an admiral junior to a vice admiral worship of the sun a sudden or abrupt strong increase: 'stimulated a surge of speculation'; 'an upsurge of emotion'; 'an upsurge in violent crime' water-filled container surrounding a machine to cool it; especially that surrounding the cylinder block of an engine one who supervises or has charge and direction of small long-tailed monkey of Central and South America with greenish fur and black muzzle low-growing much-branched perennial of Canary Islands having orange-red to scarlet or purple flowers; naturalized in United States a diet that limits the intake of salt (sodium chloride); often used in treating hypertension or edema or certain other disorders a sweetened delicacy (as a preserve or pastry) something better: 'I expected better of him' densely hairy perennial of central North America having edible tuberous roots a social scientist who studies the institutions and development of human society backache affecting the lumbar region or lower back; can be caused by muscle strain or arthritis or vascular insufficiency or a ruptured intervertebral disc a charge added at a restaurant for every bottle of wine served that was not bought on the premises dermatitis of the thighs and buttocks of infants; supposedly caused by ammonia in the urine in the child's diapers an isotope of hydrogen which has one neutron (as opposed to zero neutrons in hydrogen) beliefs of a person or social group in which they have an emotional investment (either for or against something); 'he has very conservatives values'returns things in order as multiple values. a sleeveless garment like cloak but shorter (Levi's is a trademark) a brand of jeans a genus of Sciaenidae Brit informal the localized death of living cells (as from the interruption of blood supply) a person who forces women to become prostitutes disinfection of water by the addition of small amounts of chlorine or a chlorine compound an integer that can be divided without remainder into the difference between two other integers; '2 is a modulus of 5 and 9' a young domestic cock; not older than one year the path of an aircraft or rocket through the air an endorsement made in a passport that allows the bearer to enter the country issuing it a disorder of the urinary bladder the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases lily of western United States having orange-red to crimson maroon-spotted flowers one of two veins serving the ear region a mathematician whose specialty is algebra a dog trained to work with sportsmen when they hunt with guns a faithful depiction or reflection; 'the best mirror is an old friend' waxy white nearly leafless plant with stems in clusters and racemes of white flowers; northwestern United States to northern California and east to Idaho spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil a Japanese martial art employing principles similar to judo feeling an inappropriate lack of seriousness a diningroom attendant who is in charge of the waiters and the seating of customers a lengthy rebuke; 'a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline'; 'the teacher gave him a talking to' a single person or thing; 'he is the best one'; 'this is the one I ordered' wild basil abnormal adhesion and rigidity of the bones of a joint a connoisseur of fine wines; a grape nut cash for day-to-day spending on incidental expenses written language that is readily intelligible a stiff course hair or filament; natural or synthetic "animal or plant group having natural relations"animal or plant group having natural relations the land around a house or other building; 'it was a small house with almost no yard at all' the supplement of an interior angle of a polygon yellow-flowered pitcher plant of southeastern United States having trumpet-shaped leaves with the orifice covered with an arched hood the outermost layer of the epidermis consisting of dead cells that slough off animals that exist only in fiction (usually in children's stories) large long-winged bird with hooked bill and tubular nostrils that wanders the open seas a member of a religious order living in common olives picked ripe and cured in brine then dried or pickled or preserved canned or in oil a rapid rise a unit with administrative responsibilities ridleys large mild and succulent yellow-skinned onion; often eaten raw has carbon electrodes the organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract; the prominent part of the face of man or other mammals; 'he has a cold in the nose' with an amethyst color the ability to perform some physical act; contrasting with mental ability a gun carriage elevated so that the gun can be fired over the parapet offensive terms for Native Americans a familiar term of address for a man a dark purple-red; the dye was discovered in 1859, the year of the battle of Magenta a condition caused by blocking the airways to the lungs (as with food or swelling of the larynx) a small indefinite number; 'he's coming for a couple of days' beef loin muscle a bishop of highest rank a word that names a part of a given word; 'brim' and 'crown' are meronyms of 'hat'' a cord with an attached hook that is used to fire certain types of cannon a harsh noise made by scraping; 'the scrape of violin bows distracted her' deciduous semi-evergreen shrub used for hedges kauri pine a genus of tropical Asian and Malaysian palm trees the amount of fluid that flows in a given time a herbicide that is effective in controlling woody plants but is toxic to animals a device designed to transmit electricity, heat, etc. a garment size for a large person an elected member of a board of officials who run New England towns coextensive with the Rhodophyta: red algae a long pin for holding meat in position while it is being roasted a junction where two or more railway lines meet or cross an authorization allowing police to perform specified acts mossy European creeping sedum with yellow flowers; widely introduced as a ground cover a short nose; flattened and turned up at the end used for etching by electrolytic means a British unit of weight equivalent to 2240 pounds extinct large sirenian mammal formerly found near Asiatic coast of the Bering Sea a nobleman of highest rank in Spain or Portugal small European finch with a cheerful song tuberous-rooted twining annual vine bearing clusters of purplish flowers and pods with four jagged wings; Old World tropics a nobleman (in various countries) of varying rank a poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit a small package of emergency rations; issued to United States troops in World War II a steel or aluminum rod that can be moved up or down to control the rate of the nuclear reaction a congenital cleft in the middle of the upper lip a book of recipes and cooking directions "(physics and chemistry) the smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element""returns true if object is not a cons; otherwise returns false. In general , atom is true of anything that is not a list. The one exception is the empty list, which is both a list and an atom." punch served in a pitcher instead of a punch bowl widespread genus of herbs with pink or white or blue or purple flowers: speedwell broad-winged soaring hawks (law) an increase in a beneficiary's share in an estate (as when a co-beneficiary dies or fails to meet some condition or rejects the inheritance) the quality of being deceitful and underhanded viviparous blennies of temperate and tropical seas any new participant in some activity of Australia and Tasmania; often cultivated; hardy in cool climates an officiating priest celebrating the Eucharist turnstones chamois notation marking the end of principal parts of a musical composition; two adjacent bar lines 1 species; an Australian evergreen sumac the quality of being dishonest generates a current proportional to displacement of pan the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience a formal document giving notice of your intention to resign; 'he submitted his resignation as of next month' a white or silvered surface where pictures can be projected for viewing the naval officer in command of a military ship (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit a course that reviews and updates a topic for those who have not kept abreast of developments an ancient upright stone slab bearing markings a thermoplastic polyamide; a family of high-strength resilient synthetic materials a rich and spectacular ceremony any of numerous small songbirds with short stout bills adapted for crushing seeds loud confused noise from many sources any system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material small orchid with two elliptic leaves and a slender raceme of small green flowers; western North America a carrier for holding skis on top of a vehicle a campaign aimed to correct abuses or malpractices; 'the reforms he proposed were too radical for the politicians' a type of dance music originating in the 1950s; a blend of rhythm-and-blues with country-and-western the sound made by something moving rapidly or by steam coming out of a small aperture bowerbirds one of three divisions of an academic year type genus of the family Plantaginaceae; large cosmopolitan genus of mostly small herbs act of working jointly: 'they worked either in collaboration or independently' a theory that gases consist of small particles in random movement walks from place to place a liquid produced by condensation from a vapor during distilling; the product of distilling an attribute of color tropical Old World or Australian epiphytic fern frequently forming tufts in tree crotches the predominant wind direction; 'the prevailing wind is from the southwest' the quantity contained in a box; 'he gave her a box of chocolates' a penalty for a fault or mistake that involves losing or giving up something; 'the contract specified forfeits if the work was not completed on time' strong feelings of dislike unpasteurized milk deciduous shrub having purple capsules enclosing scarlet seeds (trademark) a felt-tipped pen lack of intellectual power a heavy plow with a single wide blade; used chiefly in cotton fields floating aquatic carnivorous perennial of central and southern Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia having whorls of 6 to 9 leaves ending in hinged lobes for capturing e.g. water fleas any of numerous conifers of the genus Larix all having deciduous needlelike leaves a judgment reached before the evidence is available a structure resembling a cord that suspends the testis within the scrotum and contains the vas deferens and other vessels and nerves the leg from the knee to foot someone having a relation analogous to that of a male sponsor to his godchild a bucket for lifting material from a channel or riverbed an edible and choice fungus that has a brown cap with greenish yellow under surface and a stalk that become dull red with age genus of large monoecious mostly deciduous trees: London plane; sycamore the act of digging up something (especially a corpse) that has been buried large football-shaped winter squash with a warty gray-green rind "the position where a thing or person stands" slippery scaleless food fish of North Atlantic coastal waters "a dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon" a person who holds extreme views a refusal by a negotiator to come to terms in the hope of obtaining a better deal crayfish the reproductive organs of a man a slender stick of incense burned before a joss by the Chinese a copy of the official document giving details of a person's birth a hymn or verse in Christian liturgy glorifying God the supreme commander of a fleet; ranks above a vice admiral and below a fleet admiral fungal infection of the face and neck reddish-gray wolf of southwestern North America a breathing device that is placed over the mouth and nose; supplies oxygen from an attached storage tank a person who breeds and trains hawks and who follows the sport of falconry a movement in an arc; 'a sweep of his arm' a oval large stadium with tiers of seats; an arena in which contests and spectacles are held corals having calcareous skeletons aggregations of which form reefs and islands passes the weft thread between the warp threads a thermometer that records temperature variations on a graph as a function of time the construction of robots to look like animals (developed for Disneyland) (rugby) the method of beginning play in which the forwards of each team crouch side by side with locked arms; play starts when the ball is put between them and the two sides compete for possession a salt of tungstic acid rails of New Zealand type genus of Burseraceae; tropical and subtropical American shrubs and trees some yielding timber and gum elemi an inappropriate and excessive reaction to an allergen (as pollen or dust or animal hair or certain foods); severity ranges from mild allergy to severe systemic reactions leading to anaphylactic shock any shrub or small tree of the genus Rauwolfia having leaves in whorls and cymose flowers; yield substances used medicinally especially as emetics or purgatives any small spherical group of cells containing a cavity the utterance of intelligible speech engines collectively mountain avens wild turkey of Central and northern South America genus of western American hairy herbs with showy flowers family of desert shrubs and trees (mostly halophytes and zerophytes) genus of shrubby often succulent herbs of tropical Africa and Asia; includes some plants often placed in genus Coleus a school that holds classes in the evenings for students who cannot attend during the day the act of deleting something written or printed a short trip that is taken in the performance of a necessary task or mission erect annual European herbs a place where foodstuffs are processed and packed; 'they came from an apple packinghouse' stock is publicly traded but most is held by a few shareholders who have no plans to sell the power or right to prohibit or reject a proposed or intended act esp the power of a chief executive to reject a bill passed by the legislature young nobleman attendant on a knight raccoons; coatis; cacomistles; kinkajous; and sometimes pandas fer-de-lance a base or platform on which hay or corn is stacked herbaceous climbing plant valuable as fodder and for soil-building a writer of pamphlets (usually taking a partisan stand on public issues) the power to foresee the future the source of trained people from which workers can be hired rusts having sessile one-celled teliospores in a single layer amount spent for diagnosis or treatment or prevention of medical problems a stew of vegetables and (sometimes) meat fine-grained rock consisting of compacted clay particles the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land "the way two individuals relate to each other; 'their chemistry was wrong from the beginning -- they hated each other'" the form of empiricism that bases knowledge on perceptual experience the territorial jurisdiction of a bishop showy succulent ground-hugging plant of Rocky Mountains regions having deep to pale pink flowers and fleshy farinaceous roots; the Montana state flower type genus of family Haemodoraceae the study of musical sound the cortex of the kidney containing the glomeruli and the convoluted tubules a place where books are bound a toxic condition caused by inhaling or ingesting the insecticide Malathion a broad flat muscle in the calf of the leg under the gastrocnemius muscle the incapability of becoming perfect small hardy range horse of the western plains descended from horses brought by the Spanish excessive desire to acquire or possess more (esp material wealth) than one needs or deserves any of several very tall, late-blooming tulips bearing large squarish flowers on sturdy stems a period of unusually cold weather (archaic) a stronghold the act of laying slates for a roof the bivalent radical UO2 which forms salts with acids blackish stilt of New Zealand sometimes considered a color phase of the white-headed stilt speed of rotation is proportional to the frequency of the A.C. power a coat made from the soft lustrous fur of minks a beloved person; used as terms of endearment a quantity of paper; 480 or 500 sheets; one ream equals 20 quires an exercise designed to strength the flexor muscles of the leg type genus of the family Mytilidae: smooth-shelled marine mussels a photographer who operates a movie camera any of the glands in the eyes that secrete tears using language effectively to please or persuade a loose fitting jacket; resembles a shirt with four patch pockets and a belt warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings good judgment in avoiding trouble or accidents on the road moth whose larvae live in and feed on bee honeycombs a person with an unusual or odd personality order of mammals having few or no teeth including: New World anteaters; sloths; armadillos a phylum including: rotifers a statistical relation between two or more variables such that systematic changes in the value of one variable are accompanied by systematic changes in the other a family of tropical trees and shrubs of the order Myrtales someone who writes an account of another person's life a spermatozoon or an ovum the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue; 'the company operated at a loss last year' the ratio of the weight of an airplane to its wing area a gazebo sited to command a fine view the act of determining the properties of somethingthe act of determining the properties of something an establishment where perfumes are made a brilliant and notable success a period of slow economic growth and high unemployment (stagnation) while prices rise (inflation) a trap made of netting to catch fish or birds or insects a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend attempting to get personal recognition for yourself (especially by unacceptable means) a saw used with one hand for cutting wood a digit from 0 to 9 in decimal notation a medical specialist in the nervous system and the disorders affecting it a variety of aster the aggregation of vehicles coming and going in a particular locality a diagonal path a fabric with a nap that is longer and softer than velvet a wrench for gripping and turning a pipe; has two serrated jaws that are adjusted to grip the pipe visual imagery intricate or ingenious puzzle consisting of boxes within boxes low level country a character conveying the lexical meaning of a logogram small active carnivore that probably fed on protoceratops; possibly related more closely to birds than to other dinosaurs a container used in shaking A social division of (usually preliterate) people annual of southern United States and Mexico having bristly leaves and pale yellow flowers a crystal of snow "(Navy) the location to which a ship or fleet is assigned for duty" primitive wingless insects: bristletail deciduous European shrub or small tree having bright red fruit colloquial: the best clothes you have are worn to church on Sunday a genus of Dasypodidae one of three veins draining the pelvic area a small spoon used for stirring tea or coffee; holds about one fluid dram an oil derived from wood pulp and used in making soaps or lubricants roe of beluga sturgeon usually from Russia; highly valued conviction for rape shrub with narrow-elliptic glossy evergreen leaves and yellow flowers with leathery petaloid sepals large brown aquatic larva of the dobsonfly; used as fishing bait a ringing or booming sensation in one or both ears; a symptom of an ear infection or Meniere's disease (British) a peer who is entitled to sit in the House of Lords the academic department responsible for teaching philosophy a Scottish breed with a black-and-tan coat making trouble just for the fun of it dry brandy distilled in the Armagnac district of France a semiliquid mass of partially digested food that passes from the stomach through the pyloric sphincter into the duodenum breaking camp small bottom-dwelling sharks a belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion a cord fastened around the neck with an ornamental clasp and worn as a necktie a gum resin from the conium hemlock tree the governor of a district or province in the Ottoman Empire a formulation adopted in tackling a problem; 'his approach to every problem is to draw up a list of pros and cons' worthless people any of various low aquatic herbs of the genus Chrysosplenium a card game in which the object is to hold cards having a higher count than those dealt to the bank up to but not exceeding 21 a range of mental vision; 'in his sight she could do no wrong' the study of prehistoric human artifacts and human fossils a minor road branching off of a main road horse trained for battle the act of participating in the celebration of the Eucharist a narrow field that has been cleared to check the spread of a prairie fire or forest fire any plant of the Eurasian genus Helleborus evergreen shrub widely cultivated for its large fragrant waxlike white flowers and glossy leaves a gradation involving small or imperceptible differences between grades a preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing a category falling within certain defined limits someone who teaches art the dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit; 'three nights later he collapsed' cornbread muffin a rounded thickly curled hairdo small railway in an amusement park a test to determine allergic sensitivity by applying small pads soaked with allergen to the unbroken skin the surveyor who marks positions with a range pole a substance added to another to make it less hard (music) the relative duration of a musical note either of two arteries branching from the external carotid artery and supplying structure of the face type genus of the Manidae the percentage of all rental units (as in hotels) are occupied or rented at a given time a candle or small bulb that burns in a bedroom at night (as for children or invalids) soup made from chicken boiled with leeks activity aimed at bringing about an overthrow of a legally constituted government large timber tree of western North America with trunk diameter to 12 feet and height to 200 feet (military) withdrawal to a more favorable position government revenue from domestic sources (excluding customs) a picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous scene an academy for train air force officers an agreement whereby persons owning stock with voting powers retain ownership while transferring the voting rights to the trustees an old formal French dance in quadruple time drains the front of the scalp; unites with the supraorbital vein to form the angular vein someone who enters by force in order to conquer a painter of theatrical scenery money bet or invested by experienced gamblers or investors (especially if they have inside information) an ointment used in treating bruises a sentence composed of at least one main clause and one subordinate clause a group of workers who work for a specific period of time an Oscan-speaking member of an ancient people of Campania pigeon that executes backward somersaults in flight or on the ground a bird that frequents coastal waters and the open ocean: gulls; pelicans; gannets; cormorants; albatrosses; petrels; etc. any basic cognitive process in which some entity comes to stand for or represent something else any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping the act that results in something coming to be; 'the devising of plans'; 'the fashioning of pots and pans'; 'the making of measurements' a lean hickory-smoked ham; has dark red meat (physiology) moving of a body part toward the central axis of the body any of numerous marine mammals that come on shore to breed; chiefly of cold regions SE Asian badger with a snout like a pig a former gold coin in US worth 5 dollars a line that forms the length of an arrow pointer the town (or city) where you grew up or where you have your principal residence; 'he never went back to his hometown again' (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil large genus of white-spored agarics that include a white or milky juice when cut or broken; includes both edible and poisonous species the property possessed by a slope that is very gradual a major subclass of crustaceans eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms a debtor's accounts of money he owes; normally arise from the purchase of products or services an approach to psychology that emphasizes internal mental processes a doorbell to be used at night a common venereal disease caused by the Treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta) return to an original state; 'the recovery of the forest after the fire was surprisingly rapid' a garment (especially for women) that extends from the shoulders to the waist or hips; 'he stared as she buttoned her top' an unfledged or nestling hawk tailless amphibian similar to a frog but more terrestrial and having drier warty skin an operation moving an organ from one person (the donor) to another (the recipient) abnormal pigmentation "any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence: 'the thing I like about her is ...'" a parallelepiped bounded by six similar faces (either rhombuses or parallelograms) common European skate used as food container used to keep bread or cake in "an abstract mental location; 'he has a special place in my thoughts'; 'a place in my heart'; 'a political system with no place for the less prominent groups'" a dwarfed ornamental tree or shrub grown in a tray or shallow pot the part of a ship's equipment or cargo that is thrown overboard to lighten the load in a storm chiefly short-legged arboreal nonpasserine birds that nest in holes an exercise designed to strengthen the extensor muscles of the leg type genus of the Musophagidae depression resulting from an undermining of your morale bursts with sudden violence from internal energy small genus of shrubs and trees of Australia and New Zealand a kiln for drying hops plant of western North America having trifoliate leaves and white or pink spider-shaped flowers; sometimes used as an ornamental a narrative about someone who investigates crimes and obtains evidence leading to their resolution bee that cuts rounded pieces from leaves and flowers to line its nest a secretary immediately subordinate to the head of a department of government a newly married man (especially one who has long been a bachelor) small genus of large deciduous shrubs having large clusters of winged seeds that turn red as they mature; central and southern China parasitic or saprobic organisms living chiefly in fresh water or moist soil a person who owes allegiance to that nation; 'a monarch has a duty to his subjects' a person engaged in publishing periodicals or books or music a tooth that has grown in a faulty position a white crystalline carbohydrate used as a sweetener and preservative genus of Old World hominoids; Miocene and Pliocene a genus of the family Cruciferae one of a system of veins that drain the thoracic and abdominal walls; arises as a continuation of the right ascending lumbar vein and terminates in the superior vena cava an expression forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence but not containing a finite verb wooden ball struck with mallets in playing polo an adolescent girl wearing bobby socks (common in the 1940s) a drumbeat of bugle call that signals the military to return to their quarters largest chevrotain; of marshy areas of west Africa rather small Eurasian tree producing red to black acid edible fruit oceanic sharks the prejudice that members of the white race are superior to members of other races the senior officer of a service of the armed forces a curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage tall rush with soft erect or arching stems found in Eurasia, Australia, New Zealand, and common in North America a passageway between buildings or giving access to a basement either of the buttocks a believer or follower of Islam the use of algebra to study geometric properties; operates on symbols defined in a coordinate system productions of art (especially fine antiques) genus of tropical American woody vines small family of mainly tropical ferns any substance that acts as an antigen to cause agglutinin production a fragrant colorless flammable volatile liquid ester made from ethanol and acetic acid; used in flavorings and perfumes and as a solvent for plastics a small shelter for bells; has a gable or shed roof the act of putting in alphabetical order enforced isolation to prevent spread of disease tall shrub of eastern Australia having obolanceolate to obovate leaves and red flowes in compact racemes someone who works metal (especially by hammering it when it is hot and malleable) "the relation between opposed entities" in former classifications a division of Malacostraca; superseded by the orders Mysidacea and Euphausiacea the bacteria that produce crown gall disease in plants the percentage of all rental units (as in hotels) that are unoccupied or not rented at a given time doubt about the truth of something a piece of material that is used as the inside surface of a garment in some classifications considered a subfamily (Sylviinae) of the family Muscicapidae: Old World (true) warblers; American kinglets and gnatcatchers aromatic annual with a tall stems of small whitish flowers enclosed in a greatly enlarged saucer- or bell-shaped calyx the act of reciprocating the act of rescuing a ship or its crew or its cargo from a shipwreck or a fire counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood a group of symbols that make a mathematical statement a set of 32 chessmen the heat required for a fluid substance to break up into simpler constituents the use of spectroscopy to determine the masses of small electrically charged particles tendency to be kind and forgiving a specialized leaf or bract that protects a bud or catkin Chinese tree with aromatic bark; yields a less desirable cinnamon than Ceylon cinnamon a communication that leaves you disheartened or daunted a general kind of something; 'ignore the genus communism' star-shapped cells with long processes; found in the white matter of the brain and spinal cord black-seeded bean of South America; usually dried a doorway that allows entrance to or exit from a building a friendly nation an abnormal state in which the normal flow of a liquid (such as blood) is slowed or stopped oval or circular; to allow light into a dome or vault palmyra identification mark on skin, made by burning dogtooth violet of western North America having bright yellow flowers a tendency or force that influences events; 'the winds of change' (ecology) the process by which a plant or animal becomes established in a new habitat (biology) genus from which the name of a family or subfamily is formed; it is not necessarily the most representative genus by often the largest or best known or earliest described an abnormal and usually permanent contraction of a muscle epilepsy characterized by akinesia a common name for a variety of Sarcosomataceae an artificial reservoir for storing liquids; especially an underground tank for storing rainwater utensils made from ceramic material any plant of the genus Monstera; often grown as houseplants the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium a Protestant layman who assists the minister tail is black tipped a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus a poisonous berry of a plant of the genus Actaea decorative pillow cover someone who exterminates; someone whose occupation is the extermination of troublesome rodents and insects a former English silver coin worth four pennies plutonic igneous rock having visibly crystalline texture a slender short-haired blue-eyed breed of cat having a pale coat with dark ears paws face and tail tip an amphibole mineral consisting of calcium magnesium silicate in monoclinic crystalline form; a source of jade that is less valuable than from jadeite; once believed to cure kidney disorders coextensive with the order Aepyorniformes an ornamental but poisonous flowering shrub having narrow evergreen leaves and clusters of fragrant white to pink or red flowers: native to East Indies but widely cultivated in warm regions 1 species: corkwood the office of a regent an avoidance of danger or difficulty; 'that was a narrow escape' contact at a single point or along a line this stinkhorn has a cap with a granulose surface at the apex and smells like decaying flesh originally thought to be a single vitamin but now separated into several B vitamins annual sunflower grown for silage and for its seeds which are a source of oil; common throughout United States and much of North America any of the unit of the troy system of weights forage grasses an area adjoining a port where goods that are intended for reshipment can be received and stored without payment of duties an inflammation of the kidney handsome hardy North American grass with foliage turning pale bronze in autumn a storm during which hail falls New World curlew that breeds in northern North America oil palm of Africa the basic unit of money in the Netherlands; equal to 100 cents lemmings a professional killer a slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water similar to ice cream but made of milk (USSR) a collective farm owned by the communist state clover native to Ireland with yellowish flowers; often considered the true or original shamrock the state of existing in reality; having substance the act of adding salt to food primitive dinosaur actually lacking horns and having only the beginning of a frill; long hind and short front limbs; may have been bipedal an undergarment with shirt and drawers in one piece money that you currently expect to receive from notes or accounts food or meals in general; 'she sets a fine table'; 'room and board' small fish having rows of luminous organs along each side; some surface at night great auk an inhabitant of Arcadia the imperial authority symbolized by a scepter in some classifications considered a subgenus of Carduelis: siskins and New World goldfinches an instrument for measuring altitude of heavenly bodies someone who takes a part or a share an artificial language based on words common to the Romance languagesan artificial language based on words common to the Romance languages a reflex response to the passage of electric current through the body (chemistry) a change directly from the solid to the gaseous state without becoming liquid any of numerous plants of the genus Euphorbia; usually having milky often poisonous juice highly venomous viper of North Africa and southwest Asia having a horny spine above each eye formative one-cell-thick layer of tissue between xylem and phloem in most vascular plants that is responsible for secondary growth a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth (architecture) a vaulted structure; 'arches and vaulting' a heterocyclic organic compound with a penetrating odor the solid part of the earth earliest horse; extinct primitive dog-sized 4-toed Eocene animal an inconvenient discomfort a genus of fungi belonging to the family Hygrophoraceae a religious orientation of doubt; a denial of ultimate knowledge of the existence of God; 'agnosticism holds that you can neither prove nor disprove God's existence' any evergreen shrub or tree of the genus Myrtus extract of the heartwood of Acacia catechu used for dying and tanning and preserving fishnets and sails; formerly used medicinally a short musical composition with words; 'a successful musical must have at least three good songs' a cup from which coffee is drunk the shell of a marine organism a member of an Anabaptist movement in Holland noted for its simplicity of life a colorless fuming corrosive liquid; used chiefly in rocket fuels a small projection of tissue at the base of a hair, tooth, or feather the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison) a person who induces hypnosis inflammation of a gland or lymph node any of several bog orchids of the genus Arethusa having 1 or 2 showy flowers (often plural) the branch of electrical engineering concerned with the technology of electronic communication at a distance the property of deserving praise a team game that resembles basketball; a soccer ball is to be thrown so that it passes through a ring on the top of a post leaves sometimes used for salad a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off) a small Leclanche cell containing no free liquid; the electrolyte is a paste and the negative zinc pole forms the container of the cell; used in flashlights, portable radios, etc. the first canonical hour; at daybreak a machine for shaping metal or wood; the workpiece turns about a horizontal axis against a fixed tool the domain controlled by a grand duke or grand duchess gradually diminishing in brightness or loudness or strength the belief in a gradual transition from capitalism to socialism by democratic means a piece of land where waste materials are dumped the period immediately before something; 'on the eve of the French Revolution' monetary unit in Japan category used in some classifications: coextensive with division Eumycota "any particular collection of letters or packages that is delivered; 'your mail is on the table'" an inscription (as in a book or musical work) dedicating it to someone or something the process of budding and unfolding of blossoms common weedy European plant introduced into North America; often used as a potherb a feeling of being oppressed early stage of an embryo produced by cleavage of an ovum; a hollow sphere whose wall is composed of a single layer of cells a plant body without true stems or roots or leaves or vascular system; characteristic of the thallophytes black-faced chimpanzees of central Africa; closely related to eastern chimpanzees someone who runs a short distance at top speed the failure to attend any of various dung beetles small brown bat of California and northern Mexico a wrinkle at the outer corner of your eyes gliding in a hang glider a room in which torture is inflicted the long plaintive cry of a hound or a wolf the social act of assembling; 'they demanded the right of assembly' a lawyer who specializes in the business of conveyancing properties a native or inhabitant of New Zealand any organic substance that occurs in neural activity (informal) a state of sexual arousal something planted secretly for discovery by another; 'the police used a plant to trick the thieves'; 'he claimed that the evidence against him was a plant' a human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part between the knee and ankle the common gull of Eurasia and northeastern North America a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then jerked overhead an addition to the length of something an alternative to the normal procedure; triggered if an unusual but anticipated situation arises the first section of a communication poisonous waste materials; can cause injury (especially by chemical means) a divine manifestation a large genus constituting the order Sphagnales: atypical mosses of temperate bogs with leaves that can hold much water at this time; 'the disappointments of the here and now'; 'she is studying at the moment' the people of Great Britain the schedule of programs to be broadcast on a network an event that causes someone to die a phrase that functions as a verb the smuggling of guns and ammunition into a country secretly and illegally (chemical warfare) a gas that is poisonous to breath or contact any of numerous orchids of the genus Pterostylis having leaves in a basal rosette and green flowers often striped purple or brown or red with the dorsal sepal incurved to form a hood a substance that unites or bonds the order of protoctista small pieces or streamers of colored paper that are thrown around on festive occasions (as at a wedding) someone who believes that God and the universe are the same a serious bacterial disease of young chickens a decorative representation of a string of flowers suspended between two points; used on pottery or in architectural work an idea evoked by some experience; 'his reaction to the news was to start planning what to do' the kinship relation between a male offspring and the siblings used to liquefy air or oxygen etc. a chair left outside for use on a lawn or in a garden a job for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time; 'the play had bookings throughout the summer' web-toed salamanders orange tortrix spleenwort of Europe and Africa and Asia having pinnate fronds and yielding an astringent the principal theme in a speech or literary work large-eyed arboreal prosimian having foxy faces and long furry tails the act of restraining power or action or limiting excess; 'his common sense is a bridle to his quick temper' the presence of macrocytes in the blood a journey in a vehicle driven by someone else; 'he took the family for a drive in his new car' in a vessel with two hulls, an enclosed area between the frames at each side a sound property that is free from loudness or stridency a fear of foreigners or strangers any likeness of a person; 'the photographer made excellent portraits' the act of mediating a bar attached parallel to a wall to provide a handgrip for steadying oneself a method of literary criticism that analyzes details of a text in order to reveal its structure and meaning a club to promote and regulate horse racing an respiratory infection of the nose and throat in cattle type genus of the family Notoryctidae: comprising solely the marsupial mole small genus of dioecious tropical aquatic plants an epidemic that is geographically widespread; occurring throughout a region or even throughout the world archaebacteria found in anaerobic environments such as animal intestinal tracts or sediments or sewage and capable of producing methane; a source of natural gas the equation representing the relation between selected values of one variable (x) and observed values of the other (y); it permits the prediction of the most probable values of y fresh soft French cheese containing at least 72% fat a short novel erect evergreen treelike shrub of China and Korea and Japan having acuminate leaves and flowers in long erect panicles; resembles Japanese privet "an artifact surviving from the past" an expression of approval and commendation; 'he always appreciated praise for his work' an alloy used to make high-energy permanent magnets; contains aluminum and iron and nickel plus cobalt or copper or titanium an effort above and beyond the call of duty a barbed hook for catching fish Mexican bean; usually dried greatness of volume the practice of investing things with symbolic meaning small sparrow-like songbird of mountainous regions of Eurasia dark-colored ill-tempered honeybee supposedly of German origin the quality of occurring at an inconvenient time the responsibilities of a citizen a widely occurring iron oxide ore; a mixture of goethite and hematite and lepidocrocite unrefined brown sugar made from palm sap large migratory American butterfly having deep orange wings with black and white markings; the larvae feed on milkweed a defensive football player who takes a position close behind the linemen communication between animals (of the same species) a disease affecting the skin an infinitive with an adverb between 'to' and the verb (e.g., 'to boldly go') the tendency for a color to look the same under widely different viewing conditions deciduous trees: honey locusts one of the natural periods into which the year is divided by the equinoxes and solstices or atmospheric conditions; 'the regular sequence of the seasons' Old World herb with aromatic parsleylike leaves and seed act of decreasing in length: 'the dress needs shortening' nocturnal indris with thick gray-brown fur and a long tail a dress crepe; similar to Canton crepe a operation that removes a circular section of bone from the skull act of reversing the order or place of a person of Polish descent a colorless basic antibiotic that inhibits the growth of Gram-positive organisms a thin strip of wood used in playing the game of jackstraws any of several Asian and North American conifers of the genera Thuja and Thujopsis a style of theatrical dancing that is not as restricted as classical ballet; movements are expressive of feelings an edible morel with a cup-shaped or saucer-shaped fruiting body can be up to 20 cm wide; the fertile surface inside the cup has wrinkles radiating from the center; can be easily confused with inedible mushrooms a drug or other agent that stimulates sexual desire large food fish of warm waters worldwide having long anal and dorsal fins that with caudal fin suggest a three-lobed tail monetary unit in Malawi a hard brick used as a paving stone a hook delivered with an exaggerated swing a slang term for jail a concern that seriously reflects on your honor any of various African plants of the genus Streptocarpus widely cultivated especially as houseplants for their showy blue or purple primroselike flowers a person who claims or is alleged to perform miracles an adherent of Mahayana Buddhism of Europe terminal part of the forelimb in certain vertebrates (e.g. apes or kangaroos): 'the kangaroo's forearms seem undeveloped but the powerful five-fingered hands are skilled at feinting and clouting'- Springfield (Mass.) Union a devoted (almost religiously so) adherent of a cause or person or activity: 'the cultured votary of science'; offspring of a male lion and a female tiger the mistake of misrepresenting the facts a boy who has grown up on a farm the act of communicating with a deity (especially as a petition or in adoration or contrition or thanksgiving) anything that covers; 'there was a blanket of snow' tallow from the body of a mature sheep the act of rotating in a circle or spiral hedge sparrow a band of leather or rope that is placed around an animal's neck as a harness or to identify it a score of zero in tennis or squash; 'it was 40 love' with ovules on thin extensions of the placentae into a compound ovary (biology) the appearance of two or more distinctly different forms in the life cycle of some organisms a stringed musical instrument that has a triangular frame consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and a curved neck; the strings stretched between the neck and the soundbox are plucked with the fingers an outstanding example of its kind; 'his roses were beauties'; 'when I make a mistake it's a beaut' (British) a safe for storing meat the downward slope of a hill a device for producing a high voltage from a low-voltage source small flower with a flat strap-shaped corolla usually occupying the peripheral rings of a composite flower any plant of the genus Forestiera permission to do something; 'she was granted leave to speak' a book in which the log is written the system of phones used in a particular language the act of restoring something to its original state an advocate of Maoism a pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole; 'he tried to pick up the strands of his former life'; 'I could hear several melodic strands simultaneously' woody vine of the southern United States having purple or blue flowers with leathery recurved sepals grape from a cultivated variety of the common grape vine of Europe fixing (of prices or wages etc) at a particular level: 'a freeze on hiring' chiefly Asiatic perennials: spirea the disclosure of something secret; 'they feared exposure of their campaign plans' the property of having a naturally light complexion a state in which you want to learn more about something an upward slope or grade (as in a road); 'the car couldn't make the grade' a person who becomes aware of through the senses tiny Mediterranean fishes usually canned or salted; used for hors d'oeuvres or as seasoning in e.g. sauces a progressive tense used to express action that will be on-going in the future; 'I will be running' is an example of the future progressive' a beam of light passing through it is brought to a point or focus the discharge of urine an advertising campaign intended to improve public relations iron deficiency anemia in young women; characterized by weakness and menstrual disturbances and a green color to the skin the cost of carrying or transporting an organism that can assume more than one adult form as in the castes of ants or termites a basket in which sewing materials can be stored a pistol with a revolving cylinder having six chambers for bullets people in general; 'they're just country folk'; 'the common people determine the group character and preserve its customs from one generation to the next' heats water or supplies warmth to a room a barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea any disease or abnormality that is determined by the sex hormones; 'hemophilia is determined by a gene defect on an X chromosome' an antihypertensive drug (trade name Aldomet) used in the treatment of high blood pressure marked by dry skin and swellings around lips and nose as well as mental deterioration a gathering of producers to promote business: 'world fair'; 'trade fair'; 'book fair' a jury of 12 to determine the facts and decide the issue in civil or criminal proceedings a native or inhabitant of Turkey most primitive genus of horned dinosaurs; early Cretaceous someone who engages in drinking bouts a speaker who lisps Australian timber tree whose bark yields a poison confinement during wartime an irreverent mental attitude pole-handled hook used to pull or push boats a feeling of resentful anger a rug spread out in front of a fireplace an important or distinguished visitor hybrid from Ipomoea nil opposing brims are turned up and caught together to form points a balance consisting of a lever with two equal arms and a pan suspended from each arm in a decomposed state anything that serves as an expedient; 'he uses drugs as a psychological crutch' the side of a right triangle opposite the right angle a room in which justice is administered according to the laws cosmopolitan herbaceous or woody plants with hollow jointed stems and narrow long-bladed leaves in some classifications considered the type genus of the family Hypodermatidae: warble flies a state of no activity a faint star of enormous density deciduous Chinese shrub or small tree with often trilobed leaves grown for its pink-white flowers one species: Australian pitcher plant a hot spiciness meat carved from the breast of a fowl a member of a former political party in the US that favored a strong centralized federal government (electronics) a graph of frequency response with signal amplitude or gain plotted against frequency an exaggerated opinion of your own importance a laborer in a railroad maintenance gang the hoist at the pithead of a mine usually dull-colored medium-sized nocturnal moth; the usually smooth-bodied larvae are destructive agricultural pests a star that varies noticeably in brightness the quality of taking advantage; 'she turned her writing skills to good account' owls a jar in which cookies are kept (an sometimes money is hidden) twelve dozen a member of a municipal legislative body (as a city council); 'aldermen usually represent city wards' a slow pace of running a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness an instrument for measuring the angular distance between celestial objects; resembles an octant a native of the Highlands of Scotland a genus of Platalea food that is not preserved by canning or dehydration or freezing or smoking liquorice-flavored usually colorless sweet liqueur made from aniseed leanness (usually caused by starvation) a small railroad car propelled by hand or by a small motor a fact that logically justifies some premise or conclusion; 'there is reason to believe he is lying' a device for producing or controlling light surgical removal of a kidney bagel flavored with onion Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips the branch of science that studies society and the relationships of individual within a society the impression created by doing something unusual or extraordinary that people notice and remember; 'it was in London that he made his mark'; 'he left an indelible mark on the American theater' the layer of epidermis immediately under the stratum corneum in the skin of the palms and soles "a group of persons together in one place" a broad band that passes over the back of a horse and supports the shafts of a vehicle the property of a sound that has a rich and pleasing timbre a movement upward; 'they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon' an asset that is saleable though not material or physical spindly upright shrub of southern Australia and Tasmania having white to rose or purple-red flowers a specialist in immunology a suspenseful adventure story a wound made by cutting; 'he put a bandage over the cut' deciduous small trees or shrubs of China and eastern North America the final resolution of the main complication of a literary or dramatic work testacean rhizopods a family of ctenophores any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration a skilled worker who cuts and engraves precious stones someone who climbs mountains a silver-white or gray ore of arsenic a cushion on a throne for a prince in India an ornament at the top of a spire or gable; usually a foliated fleur-de-lis a jellied candy coated with sugar crystals Eurasian plant with heart-shaped trifoliate leaves and white pink- or purple-veined flowers a dish in which sugar is served heat absorbed by a unit mass of material when it changes from a solid to a gaseous state searching out and harassing dissenters smallness of stature neckwear worn in a slipknot with long ends overlapping vertically in front a worker who packs things into containers safflower an extension of a gable that serves as a bell cote flesh of young Atlantic cod weighing up to 2 pounds; also young haddock and pollock; often broiled oaks a cell for violent prisoners atlas moth alders usually rich dark brown the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another a list of crimes for which an accused person has been previously convicted; 'he ruled that the criminal record of the defendant could not be disclosed to the court'; 'the prostitute had a record a mile long' a delay line based on the time of propagation of sound waves exploitation by a stronger country of weaker one; the use of the weaker country's resources to strengthen and enrich the stronger country a natural phenomenon involving living plants and animals a solid lump of a precious metal (especially gold) as found in the earth any of a small order of slender typically tropical insects that nest in colonies in silken tunnels that they spin a hotel for motorists; provides direct access from rooms to parking area small genus of epiphytic cacti of Mexico tropical American tree bearing large pulpy green fruits a chemical or biological material that inhibits bacterial growth a cake or sweet bread usually served with coffee in stud poker: a card dealt face down and not revealed until the showdown the situation in a contest in which the winner is undecided at the end; 'the game ended in a draw'; 'their record was 3 wins, 6 losses and a tie' gracile hominid of southern Africa; from about 3 million years ago; formerly Plesianthropus_transvaalensis Australian annual everlasting having light pink nodding flower heads; sometimes placed in genus Helipterum suicide of a terminally ill person that involves an assistant who serves to make dying as painless and dignified as possible usually rod-shaped bacteria that oxidize ammonia or nitrites: nitrobacteria the cutting of spiral grooves on the inside of the barrel of a firearm at least partially equivalent to the order Gadiformes in some classifications one of 7 vertebrae in the human spine located in the neck region common yellow-flowered perennial bedstraw; North America and Europe and Asia a twisting force a light green color varying from bluish green to yellowish green a white or colored monoclinic feldspar an acid that is known only by virtue of its salts (as ammonium carbamate) or its esters (as urethane) machines or machine systems collectively a sudden or mysterious disappearance exaggerated masculinity deciduous European oak valued for its tough elastic wood the event of something being raised 1 species: balsa bramble with sweet edible black or dark purple berries that usually do not separate from the receptacle pocket mice a queue of people waiting to buy tickets lightly built medium-size theropods a magazine printed on good quality paper a gallant or courtly gentleman Eurasian perennial herb with white flowers that emit flammable vapor in hot weather a flammable gaseous fluorocarbon used in making plastics (polytetrafluoroethylene resins) the senior medical officer in an army or navy Malaysian palm whose pithy trunk yields sago--a starch used as a food thickener and fabric stiffener; Malaya to Fiji the positive fractional part of the representation of a logarithm; in the expression log 643 = 2.808 the mantissa is .808 a mirror; usually a ladies' dressing mirror an irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown a vigil held over a corpse the night before burial; 'there's no weeping at an Irish wake' someone shirking their duty a facial expression characteristic of a person laughing; 'his face wrinkled in a silent laugh of derision' large genus of rock plants having thick fleshy leaves either of two arteries that supply blood to the neck and arms New World harvest mice fatty pink flesh of fish from northern coastal Atlantic; usually marketed fresh microscopic organism such as an amoeba or paramecium the application of a thin coat of metal (as by electrolysis) sweet dark amber variety a catch for locking a door any of three compounds (acetoacetic acid, acetone, and/or beta-hydroxybutyric acid) found in excess in blood and urine of persons with metabolic disorders someone who attends concerts for the ash from smokers' cigars or cigarettes a member of the prehistoric people who spoke Proto-Indo_European a natural skill; 'he has a nose for good deals' a highly polished convex-cut but unfaceted gem small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and no hood a warning device that is tripped off by fire or smoke the precise measurement of angles material used to pave an area the act of walking somewhere; 'he took a walk after lunch' a device attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing stick insects the tertiary phosphate of sodium used as a builder in soaps and detergents evergreen oak of the Pacific coast area having large leathery leaves; yields tanbark a rightful concern or responsibility; used in such phrases as 'it's none of your business' or 'mind your own business' l species: saguaro a ring of iron or circle of rope used in the game of quoits a pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes type genus of the Apidae: honeybees any plant of the genus Ammobium having yellow flowers and silvery foliage a wrench with a V-shaped jaw and serrations on one side (resembles the open jaws of an alligator) an outline or synopsis of a play relieving pressure putting a condemned person to death a feeling of being unable to manage a piece of furniture with open shelves for displaying small ornaments singing joyful religious songs (especially at Christmas) a person addicted to cocaine a feeling of lowness of spirits act of getting or draining something such as electricity or a liquid from a source: 'the drawing of water from the well' a member of a formerly tribal people now living in south central India a large and hurried swallow; 'he finished it at a single gulp' a primary in which only registered members of a particular political party can vote; 'closed primaries strengthen party unity' (law) a railing that encloses the part of the courtroom where the the judges and lawyers sit and the case is tried any of various angiospermous trees having yellow wood limiting the number of children born the field of science concerned with processes of communication and control (especially the comparison of these processes in biological and artificial systems) a continuous chronological succession without an interruption; 'they won the championship three years in a row' large harsh-voiced American wren of arid regions of the United States southwest and Mexico a wooden covering for the upper part of a paddlewheel a spacecraft that carries astronauts from the command module to the surface of the moon and back a member of the Algonquian people formerly of the Pamlico river valley in North Carolina a pernicious evil influence hornworts an imaginary line around the moon parallel to its equator medium-size pine of northwestern Mexico; bark is dark brown and furrowed when mature a genus of Megachiroptera a member of a North American Indian people of the Colorado river valley near the mouth of the Gila river; allied to the Maricopa American golden-crested kinglet miscellaneous curios a fastener used on clothing a gum prepared for chewing; sweetened and flavored (law) any property that is considered by law or custom as inseparable from an inheritance is inherited with that inheritance formerly a contemptuous term of address to an inferior man or boy; often used in anger anchusa of southern Africa having blue to red-purple flowers a drug that causes dilation of blood vessels the branch of the carotid artery that supplies blood to the face and tongue and external parts of the head an antibiotic (a semisynthetic oral penicillin) used to treat bacterial infections (trade name Amoxil) the ratio of the size of an image to the size of the object the second moment around the mean; the expected value of the square of the deviations of a random variable from its mean value cheap clothing (as issued to sailors) bushy-tailed European wildcat resembling the domestic tabby and regarded as the ancestor of the domestic cat the aggregate of short sales on an open market a biologist specializing in the study of plants a state police officer soft-wooded tree with lax racemes of usually red or pink flowers; tropical Australia and Asia; naturalized in southern Florida and West Indies arboreal monkey of western and central Africa with long silky fur and reduced thumbs a genus of Stromateidae a racehorse considered one year old until the second Jan. 1 following its birth an aroused excitement (as from teasing) a twelve-sided polygon diagonal line traversing a shield from the upper right corner to the lower left plants that are variously modified to serve as insect traps: families Sarraceniaceae; Nepenthaceae; Droceraceae "a flat man-made object that is thin relative to its length and width" the act of painting with oil paints small genus of low perennial herbs of montane Europe; in some classifications included in genus Tussilago milk secreted by a woman who has recently given birth a circular band used to hold a particular person's napkin the general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled; 'in spite of his troubles he never gave up hope' a contestant that you are matched against a usually horned animal that as either shed its horns or had them removed a warrant substituting a lesser punishment for a greater one someone who buys and sells stock shares one of four small oval masses that protrude slightly from the underside of the thalamus and function as synaptic centers on the way to the cerebral cortex compensation (given or received) for an injury or insult; 'an act for which there is no reparation'; 'how can I make amends?' any spiny succulent plant of the family Cactaceae native chiefly to arid regions of the New World temporary cessation or suspension used with one hand for cutting metal annual or perennial grasses cosmopolitan in northern hemisphere: bent grass (so named from 'bent' meaning an area of unfenced grassland) a hand tool for driving screws; has a tip that fits into the head of a screw a contract binding one party into the service of another for a specified term a hymn that is sung at the end of a service as the clergy and choir withdraw duck-billed dinosaur with nasal passages that expand into a crest like a hollow helmet an imaginary creature usually having various human and animal parts "an abnormal condition" medium-sized larch of northeastern Russia and Siberia having narrowly conic crown and soft narrow bright-green leaves; used in cultivation extremely high fever type genus of the Glareolidae: the pratincoles whale with plates of whalebone along the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water the fourth stage of the prophase of meiosis a concert given for the benefit of some charitable cause a plane figure with the shape of half a circle the doctrine that the various objects labeled by the same term have nothing in common but their name diplomacy in which the nations threaten to use force in order to obtain their objectives a rampart built around the top of a castle with regular gaps for firing arrows or guns a shawl with a knotted fringe at each corner; worn by Jews at morning prayer the name of a work of art or literary composition etc.; 'he looked for books with the word 'jazz' in the title'; 'he refused to give titles to his paintings'; 'I can never remember movie titles' (informal) a single chance or instance; 'he couldn't afford __50 a throw' a child who is female used cosmetically mostly by women for softening and cleaning the skin (sports) a professional athlete who is free to sign a contract to play for any team biennial east Asian herb grown for its usually bright blue flowers an agreement by two or more people to commit suicide together at a given place and time; 'the two lovers killed themselves in a suicide pact' a return call any of various small edible herring or related food fishes frequently canned an emblem (an eagle with wings and legs spread) on the obverse of the Great Seal of the US any of various cosmetic preparations that are applied to the skin someone who rides the near horse of a pair in order to guide the horses pulling a carriage (especially a carriage without a coachman) equipment needed for doing or making something; 'writing materials' or 'birth-control material' European biennial introduced in North America having flower heads in crowded clusters at ends of spiny-winged branches (classical mythology) the second age of the world, characterized by opulence and irreligion; by extension, a period secondary in achievement to a golden age a very dark gray color (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous a transmission that is operated manually with a gear lever and a clutch pedal the organized action of making of goods and services for sale; 'American industry is making increased use of computers to control production'"the organized action of making of goods and services for sale; 'American industry is making increased use of computers to control production'" a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval) (informal) the live birth of a child cultivated for fruit the act of investing; laying out money or capital in an enterprise with the expectation of profit a long thin implement made of metal or wood a man's coat having knee-length skirts front and back; worn in the 19th century sound of something in rapid motion: 'whir of a bird's wings'; 'the whir of the propellers' octopuses and paper nautilus "an event used to justify starting a war" mixture of ground raw chicken and mushrooms with pistachios and truffles and onions and parsley and lots of butter and bound with eggs a vertical shaft around which there is a stairway the act of pretending a tiny or scarcely detectable amount shrub bearing oval-fruited kumquats the wife or widow of a king a small rug; several can be used in a room an auditory hallucination of strange nonverbal sounds a green to black mineral of the amphibole group; consists of silicates of calcium and sodium and magnesium and iron a game in which balls are rolled at an object or group of objects with the aim of knocking them over small brownish South American birds that build oven-shaped clay nests European carp closely resembling wild goldfish a landing of a spacecraft in the sea at the end of a space flight evergreen tree of eastern Asia and Philippines having large leathery leaves and small green-white flowers in compact cymes; bark formerly used medicinally a vanilla-scented resin from various trees of the genus Styrax a stipulated condition; 'he accepted subject to one provision' a star who plays leading roles in the cinema presumably in the common ancestral line to dinosaurs and crocodiles and birds a large gun that is usually on wheels common European partridge filamentous green algae an unpredictable phenomenon; 'it's a toss-up whether he will win or lose' very tender and very nutritious tissue from marrowbones any of various uncultivated umbelliferous plants with foliage resembling that of carrots or parsley an extemporaneous speech or remark; 'a witty impromptu must not sound premeditated' important economic pests a member of a North American Indian people living in coastal California between Monterey and San Francisco Bay slow-growing procumbent evergreen shrublet of northern North America and Japan having white flowers and numerous white fleshy rough-hairy seeds small plains antelope of southeastern Africa a magazine devoted to comic strips genus of fossil plants having leaves similar to those of the witch hazel a wide (ornamented) belt worn over the right shoulder to support a sword or bugle by the left hip used in former classifications for peach and almond trees which are now included in genus Prunus a secret look the relaxation or relief of muscle spasms an awkward stupid person deciduous shrub of western North America having spikes of pink flowers followed by round white berries "the degree of visibility of your environment" a cruciferous plant of the genus Raphanus having a pungent edible root inflammation of a bone as a consequence of infection or trauma or degeneration any agent that reduces intestinal gas an oblong metal ring with a spring clip; used in mountaineering to attach a rope to a piton or to connect two ropes a track or mark left by something that has passed; 'there as a trail of blood'; 'a tear left its trail on her cheek' a shackle for the ankles or feet the ratio of the drag on a body moving through air to the product of the velocity and the surface area of the body V-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service adult female bird a pupil who lives at school during term time ability to produce solutions in some problem domain; 'the skill of a well-trained boxer'; 'the science of pugilism' a genus of tuberous-rooted vines of the family Dioscoreaceae; has twining stems and heart-shaped leaves and axillary racemes tropical American cacti usually tall and branching with stout spines and funnel-shaped flowers and globular or ovoid often edible fruit (geology) a horizontal dislocation type genus of the Psittacidae: usually restricted to the African gray the target company defends itself by selling off its crown jewels any notation that uses 2 characters (usually 0 and 1) fern of southern tropical Africa having fronds with white undersides a fishing rod designed for casting a spinning lure the process of becoming vitreous tall erect herbs with sword-shaped leaves; cosmopolitan in fresh and salt marshes the act of making a list of items poisonous (but rarely fatal) woodland fungus having a scarlet cap with white warts and white gills any of several breeds reared for cock-fighting the plane that is in the foreground of a drawing or painting; coextensive with but different from the objective surface of the work skill in carving or fashioning objects from wood (computer science) the use of a central computer by many users simultaneously type genus of the family Astacidae; Old World crayfish the exterior curve of an arch the mass of eggs deposited by fish or amphibians or molluscs made of carpet; widely used in 19th century the trait of not being considerate and thoughtful of others North American fern with evergreen fronds a deliberate display of emotion for effect any of various chiefly fall-blooming herbs of the genus Aster with showy daisylike flowers a submerged bank of sand near a shore or in a river; can be exposed at low tide weakest but most important chess piece anchovies a genus of fungi belonging to the family Polyporaceae the state of being of noble birth worm lizards (British) a parsonage (especially one provided for the holder of a benefice) a stone out the outer corner of two intersecting masonry walls common blue-gray shark of southwest Pacific; sport and food fish a mold for setting concrete; 'they built elaborate forms for pouring the foundation' dermatitis caused exposure to sunlight (Jewish cookery) bread made with rye flour; usually contains caraway seeds a member of the Algonquian people who formerly lived around Massachusetts Bay (voodooism) a spirit or supernatural force that reanimates a dead body a composite sensory nerve supplying the hair cells of the vestibular organ and the hair cells of the cochlea a tax deduction that is granted in order to encourage a particular type of commercial activity a student of synonyms moths whose larvae are cutworms: underwings seed of rape plants; source of an edible oil a judge of a probate court slender shrubby willow of dry areas of North America a moss in which the main axis is terminated by the archegonium (and hence the capsule) a shelf over a mantelpiece yucca of southwestern United States and Mexico with a tall spike of creamy white flowers skill in handling boats southern European gerbil a piece of electronic equipment that keeps track of the operation of a system continuously and warns of trouble (in US) a quadrilateral with no parallel sides the act of hitting a baseball along the ground a small portable battery-powered electric lamp a member of the North American Indian people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona and Nevada and California small bluish-gray heron of the westrn hemisphere a low woody perennial plant usually having several major branches a subsidiary organ of government created for a special purpose; 'are the judicial instrumentalities of local governments adequate?'; 'he studied the French instrumentalities for law enforcement' a pitcher who does not start the game (sociology) the conventions that embody the fundamental values of a group snow bunting small European sole a relatively well-defined prevailing wind white or light-colored crested parrot of the Australian region; often kept as cage birds a small decorative writing desk former name of the Characidae an index of changes in wholesale prices in the state between puberty and adulthood a native or inhabitant of Germany an antibiotic and antifungal agent a somatic sensation of acute discomfort; 'as the intensity increased the sensation changed from tickle to pain' one who holds up the train of a gown or robe on a ceremonial occasion portico at the west end of an early Christian basilica or church a sharp spasm of pain in the side resulting from running any of several veins draining the walls of the anal canal and rectum the activity of writing by hand: 'handwriting can be slow and painful for one with arthritis' a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a mechanical system: 'the principle of the conservation of mass'; 'the principle of jet propulsion'; 'the right-hand rule for inductive fields' an inhabitant of the ancient Roman Empire the property of being rigid and resistant to pressure; not easily scratched a man who works in a quarry type genus of the Oestridae: sheep botflies unreasonable and inordinate self-esteem (personified as one of the deadly sins) liqueur poured over shaved ice a native or inhabitant of Macedon the space created by the swing of a scythe or the cut of a mowing machine shock caused by poor distribution of the blood flow a puzzle in which words corresponding to numbered clues are to be found and written in to squares in the puzzle any policy that advocates maintaining peaceful international relations frequency per minute an earthquake at the sea bed any of several small palms of the genus Rhapis; cultivated as houseplants consists of a weighted blade between two vertical poles; used for beheading people a weak argument set up to be easily refuted a division of the United Kingdom excessive crowding; 'traffic congestion' any of several small insects esp. aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants a car for passengers who wish to smoke the branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals rod-shaped gram-negative enterobacteria; some are pathogenic for warm-blooded animals a leukocyte that has granules in its cytoplasm (especially boxing) equipment that protects an athlete's mouth the mathematics of triangles and trigonometric functions cactus of the genus Echinocactus having stout sharp spines the deep vascular inner layer of the skin any of various water-soluble colloidal carbohydrates that occur in ripe fruit and vegetables; used in making fruit jellies and jams very tall tree of Queensland and New South Wales sometimes included in the family Saxifragaceae a native or inhabitant of South America "an assemblage of people or animals or things collected together; 'a congregation of children pleaded for his autograph'; 'a great congregation of birds flew over'" New World arboreal porcupines a drink credited with magical power; can make the one who takes it love the one who gave it amphibious quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur with a long thin neck and whiplike tail; of the Cretaceous mostly in the southern hemisphere a family of Amerindian language spoken in the great interior valley of California one of two forms that coelenterates take: is the free-swimming sexual stage in the life cycle of a coelenterate and has a gelatinous umbrella-shaped body and tentacles lack of passion, force or animation a weapon with a handle and blade with a sharp point a US federal official who regulates the national banks cereal made of especially rolled oats with dried fruits and nuts and honey or brown sugar a module designed to be inserted into a larger piece of equipment; 'he loaded a cartridge of fresh tape into the tape deck' the department in charge of the navy (as in Great Britain) a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it "the event of something burning (often destructive); 'they lost everything in the fire'" a disappointing decline after ad previous rise: 'the anticlimax of a brilliant career' Scandinavian punch made of claret and aquavit with spices and raisins and orange peel and sugar ethnic slur; offensive term for a Jew a trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs together with yttrium; forms highly magnetic compounds "a compound formed by solvation (the combination of solvent molecules with molecules or ions of the solute)" the operator of a railway locomotive keen and shared excitement; 'the stage crackled with electricity whenever she was on it' creeping red-berried perennial herb distinguished by clustered leaf whorls at tips of shoots; Greenland to Alaska a member of the Wakashan people living on Vancouver Island and in the Cape Flattery region of NW Washington something you have to do; 'he minded his own specialized occasions' evergreen shrub having almost heart-shaped foliage and bright yellow pealike flowers followed by flat pods with flat wings; Australia and Tasmania a massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its way a weight of 28 pounds; sometimes imposed as a handicap in a horse race (such as a steeple chase or hurdle race) a natural projection or outgrowth from a plant body or organ a former Spanish gold coin a painful and involuntary muscular contraction wealth regarded as an evil influence an article that is offered for sale a clip with a spring that closes the metal jaws low creeping shrub of Arctic Europe and America the inflection of verbs an unshaved growth of hair on the upper lip; 'he looked younger after he shaved off his mustache' a toxic alkaloid found in certain tropical South American trees that is a powerful relaxant for striated muscles; used by South American indians as an arrow poison; 'curare acts by blocking cholinergic transmission at the myoneural junction' a loop of leather suspended from the ceiling of bus or train; passengers hold onto it a brief film; often shown prior to showing the feature a solid dark brown horse furniture made by (or in the style of) Thomas Chippendale; graceful outlines and Gothic motifs and massive rococo carvings the smallest infinite integer tropical Asiatic perennial herbs any of various flowering plants of the genus Iberis cultivated for their showy clusters of white to red or purple flowers; native to Mediterranean region that part of the cerebral cortex in either hemisphere of the brain lying directly behind the forehead discharge between electrodes creating visible streamers of ionized particles genus of tropical Asiatic and African trees an American hickory tree having bitter nuts an artifact needed for an undertaking or to perform a service"an artifact needed for an undertaking or to perform a service" disease of elms caused by a fungus a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose-skinned citrus of China the sediment that is left after the evaporation of seawater American hardwood tree bearing edible nuts a jelly-like substance (hydrated silica) where bread and cakes are baked, and sometimes sold a main thoroughfare a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel a strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument a chain (usually with a handle at the end) that is pulled in order to operate some mechanism (e.g. to flush a toilet) the head administrative officer of a college or university genus of perennial herbs of cool temperate regions; sometimes placed in family Melanthiaceae large genus of brambles bearing berries the position of being turned outward; 'the eversion of the foot' an organ specialized for producing spores position or arrangement of the body and its limbs; 'he assumed an attitude of surrender' potato moths a native or inhabitant of Sri Lanka Australian tree with acid foliage slender transparent larva of eels and certain fishes maintenance at a regularly scheduled time a string that can be passed through a hole in a door for raising the latch from outside paint used by an artist work decorated and varnished in the Japanese manner with a glossy durable black lacquer people who are defeated; 'the Romans had no pity for the defeated' a French verse form of 10 or 13 lines running on two rhymes; the opening phrase is repeated as the refrain of the second and third stanzas a material used for making a quilt, or a quilted fabric in some classifications included in Lycopodiales bulbous Spanish iris with red-violet flowers set of standards established and enforced by government for fire prevention and safety in case of fire as in fire escapes etc a kind of loud horn formerly used on motor vehicles a low bed to be slid under a higher bed glabrous annual with slender taproot and clusters of white flowers; western Europe especially western Mediterranean and Atlantic coastal areas the final path followed by an aircraft as it is landing the act of scandalizing in some classifications either coextensive with the Lemuroidea or comprising the true lemurs fine ravellings of cotton or linen fibers type genus of the Laridae small room is which a monk or nun lives "a small piece; 'a nub of coal' or 'a stub of a pencil'" the act of fusing (or melting) together insecticide a Hindu religious teacher; used as a title of respect extinct fishlike jawless vertebrate having a heavily armored body; of the Paleozoic deep ditch cut by running water (especially after a prolonged downpour) a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth (computer science) computer hardware that holds and spins a magnetic or optical disk and reads and writes information on it a white or reddish mineral consisting of hydrous chlorides of potassium and magnesium; used as a fertilizer and as a source of potassium and magnesium an office where government employees work large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges assigning to a cause or source cookie filled with a paste of raisins and nuts a slip of paper included with your pay that records how much money you have earned and how much tax or insurance etc. has been taken out someone who skirmishes (e.g., as a member of a scouting party) the act of dropping something; 'they expected the drop would be successful' a substance used to ignite or kindle a fire (slang) a batch of things that go together; 'he bought the whole schmeer' a schematic or preliminary plan small shrub with gray-green leaves and yellow flowers followed by glaucous blue berries a design that consists of recurring shapes or colors the art of sorcery the right or chance to choose: 'given my druthers, I'd eat cake' a trailer that can be loaded with new cars for delivery to sales agencies a formidable task or requirement; 'finishing in time was a tall order but we did it' a comedy characterized by slapstick and burlesque shrub of northwestern North America bearing red berries a cypriniform fish of the family Catostomidae interlobular veins of the liver Madagascan roller with terrestrial and crepuscular habits that feeds on e.g. insects and worms a noun formed from a verb (such as the '-ing' form of an English verb when used as a noun) shrub or small tree of eastern United States having black inedible berries the wife of a sheik (informal) a clothing measurement: 'a number 13 shoe' a completely inverted ovule turned back 180 degrees on its stalk a school building without boarding facilities a squad formed to fire volleys at a military funeral or to carry out a military execution a toxic colorless flammable liquid (CS2); used in the manufacture of rayon and cellophane and carbon tetrachloride and as a solvent for rubber a shop that sells miscellaneous articles appropriate as gifts loosening the ties that fasten something; 'the tying of bow ties is an art; the untying is easy' individualism in social and economic affairs; belief not only in personal liberty and self-reliance but also in free competition "a basic group of natural objects" an alert and energetic person a large bowl for mixing and serving a salad a stadium where bullfights take place an early French settler in the Maritimes the organic circulation of carbon from the atmosphere into organisms and back again someone who sells etchings and engravings etc. a woman's fur shoulder cape with hanging ends; often consisting of the whole fur of a fox or marten orange root; important source of carotene a yellow volatile essential oil obtained from costusroot; used in perfumes a unit of angular distance equal to half a quadrant the phenomenon of a person or thing rising into the air by apparently supernatural means mantises; in former classifications considered a suborder of Orthoptera a committee appointed to consider ethical issues a courteous manner that respects accepted social usage a print produced by an engraving that has been scraped to represent light or shade monetary unit in Pakistan coextensive with the class Nuda relative position in a graded series: 'always a step behind'; 'subtle gradations in color'; 'keep in step with the fashions' a passenger train that is ridden primarily by commuters (archaic) once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe a professional whose work is consistently of high quality; 'as an actor he was a consummate craftsman' the concentration of a colloidal solution whose colloid will not pass through a semipermeable membrane; solution is placed in a bag of the membrane and the solvent is evaporated off a decorative loop of braid or cord a member of a people who inhabited ancient Sumer (law) a judicial reexamination of the proceedings of a court (especially by an appellate court) inhabits streams from S Carolina to Florida; esteemed panfish the 200th anniversary the pleasing scent produced when incense is burned; 'incense filled the room' a native or inhabitant of Luxembourg a small bottle for holding pills any of several small sharks someone who creates plans for buildings a knot that prevents a rope from passing through a hole ball used in playing lacrosse the waging of armed conflict against an enemy; 'thousands of people were killed in the war' rorquals; blue whales (chemistry) the capacity of a substance to take part in a chemical reaction; 'catalytic activity' unlawfully distilled Irish whiskey the seat on which reserve players sit during a game New World vipers: pit vipers (Greek) a benevolent spirit abnormal alignment of one or both eyes a legal system for protecting the rights of inventors any of several brightly colored butterflies a territorial division of a state; entitled to elect one member to the United States House of Representatives a network of horizontal and vertical lines that provide coordinates for locating points on an image the part of a tape recorder that reproduces the recorded material systematic organization someone who makes articles from copper the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical; 'the tower had a pronounced tilt'; 'the ship developed a list to starboard'; 'he walked with a heavy inclination to the right' an officer in the Episcopal church who helps a parish priest with secular matters the basic unit of money in Indonesia; equal to 100 sen an indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude type genus of the Anatidae: freshwater ducks fertilization of two or more ova released during the same menstrual cycle by sperm from separate acts of coitus (especially by different males) a chain formerly worn at the waist by women; for carrying a purse or bunch of keys etc. a trap for birds or small mammals; often has a noose skill in an occupation or trade leaf fibers of the raffia palm tree; used to make baskets and mats etc. any of various air-filled cavities especially in the bones of the skull deciduous thicket-forming Old World shrub with clusters of white flowers and small bright red berries someone who takes the worse side just for the sake of argument a member of the agricultural people living in the central Volga provinces of European Russia a sharp organ of offense or defense (as of a wasp or stingray or scorpion) often connected with a poison gland the act of banishing someone an effect of climate on biological processes (as the effect on joint pains etc.) cooking (meat) by dry heat in an oven (usually with fat added) a prison for forced laborers; 'China has many work camps for political prisoners' the straight segment of a racetrack leading to the finish line a firm covering (often made of plaster of Paris) that immobilizes broken bones while they heal large evergreen with extremely large erect or spreading leaves; cultivated widely in tropics for its edible rhizome and shoots; used in wet warm regions as a stately ornamental injurious to onion plants and sometimes tobacco squids and cuttlefishes long-eared deer of western North America with two-pronged antlers an official who remains in office after his term medicinal bark of cinchona trees; source of quinine and quinidine the author of a mournful poem lamenting the dead the gears that transmit power from an automobile engine via the driveshaft to the live axle a common mineral consisting of crystallized calcium carbonate; a major constituent of limestone a dry scab formed on the skin following a burn or cauterization of the skin fruit (especially peach) whose flesh does not adhere to the pit pinniped mammal having external ear flaps and hind limbs used for locomotion on land; valued for its soft underfur the part of an animal corresponding to the human face the art of preaching a family of Chilopoda a follower of Tractarianism and supporter of the Oxford movement (which was expounded in pamphlets called 'Tracts for the Times') any of various domesticated animals fat from the back and sides and belly of a hog carcass cured with salt the offer of money for helping to find a criminal or for returning lost property a milkshake with egg in it a shag rug made in Sweden (British) a check given by the British government to someone who is unemployed; it can be cashed either at a bank or at the post office the part of the brain (in a fold of the cerebral cortex of the temporal lobe on both sides of the brain) that receives impulses from the ear by way of the auditory nerve (football) an attempt to advance the ball by running into the line; 'the linebackers were ready to stop a rush' the vocal apparatus of the larynx; the true vocal folds and the space between them where the voice tone is generated an assemblage of beams forming a rigid structure (as a roof truss) any of several orchids of the genus Cycnoches having slender arching columns of flowers suggesting the neck of a swan European orchid whose flowers resemble bumble bees in shape and color abnormal skin sensations (as tingling or tickling or itching or burning) usually associated with peripheral nerve damage a foul or degraded condition a young salmon up to 2 years old someone employed to ride horses in horse races someone who works underwater a troupe of minstrels a short section of a musical composition a method of examination in which the examiner feels the size or shape or firmness or location of something (of body parts when the examiner is a health professional) evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries; leaves turn red in autumn the blood considered as the seat of vitality a family of fish including: flashlight fishes sand lances number of people in a particular group type genus of the family Ixodidae a storehouse where a stock of things is kept Australian breed of toy dogs having a silky blue coat a noisy and vigorous or ranting public speaker the minimum velocity needed to escape a gravitational field distinctive often spiny-stemmed palms found as climbers in tropical and subtropical forest a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit; 'he worked in the coal beds' an account that shows totals of amounts entered in a subsidiary ledger a unit of amount of wood cut for burning; 128 cubic feet a cold dry wind that blows south out of the mountains into Italy and the western Mediterranean a barb on a harpoon or arrow a liquid aldehyde with a penetrating odor; made from plant hulls and corn cobs; used in making furan and as a solvent a political theory favoring collectivism in a classless society a professional boxer (football) the person who plays tailback the right of a clergyman to refuse to divulge confidential information received from a person during confession or similar exchanges a small (and usually shabby) cafe selling wine and beer and coffee an expressive style that uses excessive words arises below the chin from veins draining the lower face; joins the external jugular vein the section of a band or orchestra that plays brass instruments young cow a horse of a brownish orange to light brown color the responsibility of a trustee to act in the best interests of the beneficiary a person of mixed European and Asian descent the cheapest accommodations on a passenger ship the selection of a random sample; each element of the population has an equal chance of been selected wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation; has poorer drainage than a swamp; soil is unfit for cultivation but can be cut and dried and used for fuel a ballot cast by a voter who votes for all the candidates of one party slightly hairy perennial having deep green leathery leaves and flowers that are ultimately purplish-green type genus of Araliaceae; large widely distributed genus of shrubs and trees and vines: spikenard; Hercules'-club any of various semisweet cookies that the British serve with tea type genus of the family Euglenaceae: green algae with a single flagellum a woman of great prestige or ability tree of eastern North America with thin lustrous yellow or gray bark a coil (the armature) rotates between the poles of an electromagnet (the field magnet) causing a current to flow in the armature a sharp pointed device attached to the cartridge of a record player small seed of any of various annual cereal grasses especially Setaria italica a large conical loaf of concentrated refined sugar temporary love of an adolescent a metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter a boat propelled by an internal-combustion engine e.g. basketball widely distributed brown or black North American salamander with vertical yellowish blotches alcoholic beverage made with malt a large whitish Rhizopogon that becomes grayish brown in maturity body covering of a living animal a radio receiver that combines a locally generated frequency with the carrier frequency to produce a supersonic signal that is demodulated and amplified a flowering shrub heavy-bodied reptile with a dorsal sail or crest; of the late Paleozoic dark green erect herb of northwestern United States and southwestern Canada having stiff leaves in dense tufts and yellow flower heads; sometimes placed in genus Haplopappus those trying to overthrow the established order a loose narrow strip of skin near the base of a fingernail; tearing it produces a painful sore that is easily infected a book intended for general readership a ray of sunlight relevance by virtue of being applicable to the matter at hand a piece of waterproofed cloth spread on the ground (as under a tent) to protect from moisture a building housing an instrument for projecting the positions of the planets onto a domed ceiling "the condition of the optical properties of the eye" a plant that completes its entire life cycle within the space of a year a jaunty rhythm in music a fraction with fractions in the numerator or denominator any of various fungi of the genus Erysiphe producing powdery conidia on the host surface energy derived from sources that do not use up natural resources or harm the environment European sedge having small edible nutlike tubers mud daubers; some digger wasps European sedge having rough-edged leaves and spikelets of reddish flowers and aromatic roots tiny glossy black ant; nests outdoors but invades houses for food a bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass a fungus that is edible when young and fresh; has a dark brown convex cap with a yellow to greenish under surface and reddish stalk rare doglike carnivorous marsupial of Tasmania having stripes on its back; probably extinct the chemical analysis of excrement (for medical diagnosis or for paleontological purposes) the vertical axis in a plane coordinate system the number of opening per inch of a screen; measures size of particles; 'a 100 mesh screen' or '100 mesh powdered cellulose' an oxide containing five atoms of oxygen in the molecule loose hemp or jute fiber obtained by unravelling old ropes; when impregnated with tar it was used to caulk seams and pack joints in wooden ships bone linking the scapula and sternum a small round hat worn by women a nomadic community a blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart; all veins except the pulmonary carry unaerated blood a candy shaped like a small life saver a channel that carries water away from a mill or water wheel or turbine a woman of refinement the use of harmful bacteria as a weapon smooth dogfishes violent state of the elements: 'the sea hurled itself in thundering rage against the rocks' in some classifications an alternative name for the Falconiformes spider crabs a native or inhabitant of Korea who speaks the Korean language the type genus of the family Vitaceae; woody vines with simple leaves and small flowers; includes a wide variety of grapes suitable for formal occasions framework for holding objects the way of proper and honest behavior; 'he taught his children to keep strictly to the straight and narrow' someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation member of an international gang of Jamaican criminals who sell drugs and violence; 'A much publicized raid on a yardie stronghold had first been simulated at Riot City' type and sole genus of the Antilocapridae comprising one species brown sauce with sauteed chopped onions and parsley and dry white wine or vinegar anacondas (Roman Catholic Church) a Latin versicle meaning 'lift up your hearts' a genus of Hirundinidae in constant change: 'his opinions are in flux' the lowest sail on the foremast of a square-rigged vessel inflammation of the middle ear; common in children a bowl-shaped drinking vessel; especially the Eucharistic cup (baseball or softball) the person who plays second base the central gear in a epicyclic train West Indian locust tree having pinnate leaves and panicles of large white or purplish flowers; yields very hard tough wood land tortoises "(chemistry) a substance formed by chemical union of two or more elements or ingredients in definite proportion by weight" the act of throwing dice a loose robe; imitated from robes originally worn by Japanese a word invented (usually unwittingly by subtracting an affix) on the assumption that a familiar word derives from it any of various card games based on whist for four players a biased way of looking at or presenting something a member of an Algonquian people formerly living W of Lake Michigan along the Fox River a fossil that must be studied microscopically a buoy resembling a cone position 30 in a countable series of things a toothbrush with an electric motor in the handle that vibrates the head of the brush alveolitis caused by an allergic reaction to fungal spores in the dust that is inhaled from moldy hay a tool that throws out a blast of steam laden with sand; used to clean or grind hard surfaces the act of bending backward the collection and study of airmail stamps a procedure adopted to meet an emergency (especially a medical emergency) a method of offset printing using photomechanical plates a tiny granule in the cytoplasm a common law writ issued by a superior court to one of inferior jurisdiction demanding the record of a particular case a safety belt used in a car or plane to hold you in your seat in case of an accident any ameba of the genus Endamoeba bore-to-projectile difference in diameter a single sharp crash of thunder a copy of a newly published book that is sent for review to a writer or periodical a thwarting and distressing situation any of the sciences that deal with the earth or its parts needlepoint done with small stitches holds loose papers or magazines a native or naturalized member of a state or other political community a person who enjoys taking risks the output power of a transducer divided by the input power the act of contaminating with dust particles a leaf having a toothed margin a person who receives support and protection from an influential patron who furthers the protege's career persistent determination tissue making up the lymphatic system a contrived or fantastic idea; 'a figment of the imagination' the expression of disapproval covering to protect an injured thumb a complementary (free) ticket; 'the start got passes for his family' a large digital computer serving 100-400 users and occupying a special air-conditioned room two bony processes descending from the body of the sphenoid bone a high pommel of a saddle a white or gray mineral consisting of lithium aluminum phosphate; a source of lithium a triglyceride of stearic acid a long narrow sled without runners; boards curve upward in front humble request for help a writ issued by authority of law; usually compels the defendant's attendance in a civil suit; failure to appear results in a default judgment against the defendant a bottle opener to pry off caps twining woody vine of Madagascar having thick dark waxy evergreen leaves and clusters of large fragrant waxy white flowers along the stems; widely cultivated in warm regions deliberately unintelligible gibberish a social and political problem caused by conflict between races occupying the same or adjacent regions genus of western North American low evergreen shrubs growing in dense tufts the pus-producing bacterium that causes gonorrhea oily or greasy matter making up the bulk of fatty tissue in animals and in seeds and other plant tissue either of two flat triangular bones one on each side of the shoulder in human beings a small knob negotiation between an employer and trade union able to right itself when on its back by flipping into the air with a clicking sound female leopard any of several small slim salamanders of the United States Pacific coast shaped like a spearhead with flaring pointed lobes at the base thrashers a funnel-shaped spider web; the funnel-web spider perches in the center of the web rod-shaped gram-negative enterobacteria; cause typhoid fever and food poisoning magnetic tape for use in recording sound large brilliantly patterned East Indian pheasant a contribution of money to a religious organization termination by an act of destruction a true statement; 'he told the truth'; 'he thought of answering with the truth but he knew they wouldn't believe it' a lucid state of mind; not confused a watch with a hinged metal lid to protect the crystal associating with others in a brotherly or friendly way; especially with an enemy type genus of the family Globigerinidae irrigation of the colon for cleansing purposes by injecting large amounts of fluid high into the colon a clever remark a Dravidian language spoken primarily in central India a very soft leather made from the skins of calves and having a suede finish on the flesh side a state of forcible subjugation; 'the repression of Christian sects' wrynecks a word or phrase used to complete a grammatical construction one guilty of malfeasance a seat with a cushion that is used as a throne by Indian princes "a factor in a given situation whose bearing and importance is not apparent; 'I don't know what the new man will do; he's still an unknown quantity'" any of numerous chiefly annual herbs of the genus Calendula widely cultivated for their yellow or orange flowers; often used for medicinal and culinary purposes an awkward situation; 'that's a fine how-d'ye-do' a loud harsh or strident noise in a state of progressive putrefaction pretense that your position is stronger than it really is; 'his bluff succeeded in getting him accepted' deciduous tree widely grown in southern United States as an ornamental for its handsome maplelike foliage and long racemes of yellow-green flowers followed by curious leaflike pods two performers or singers who perform together a roof covered with slate the branch of biology that studies the formation and early development of living organisms painful expectation the transfer of heat through a fluid (liquid or gas) caused by molecular motion the basic unit of money in Paraguay; equal to 100 centimos stocky lemur of southeastern Asia monetary unit in Portugal engraving or carving in relief any of various liquids sold as medicine (as by a travelling medicine show) but medically worthless badminton played with one person on each side type genus of the Pleuronectidae small plant having pleasantly acid-tasting arrow-shaped leaves; common in dry places an individual person; 'tickets are __5 per head' a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others a mental disorder characterized by the conversion of mental conflict into somatic forms (into paralysis or anesthesia having no apparent cause) state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness; 'the crash intruded on his awareness' a cone-shaped device held to the mouth to intensify and direct the human voice the practice of casually mentioning important people in order to impress your listener a time signature indicating four beats to the bar poisoning from ingesting botulin; affects the CNS the most important league in any sport (especially baseball) the thick short innermost digit of the forelimb any of various plants of the genus Peperomia; grown primarily for their often succulent foliage someone injured or killed in an accident any of the four areas into which a plane is divided by two orthogonal coordinate axes a pass to a receiver downfield from the passer North American goldeneye diving duck the successful ending of the American Revolution; 'they maintained close relations with England even after independence' a public garden where tea is served water pimpernel of Europe to China a material that has been or is capable of being adsorbed sawyer beetles type genus of the Coccidae includes species highly destructive to structures and living trees the type genus of the family Bromeliaceae which incudes tropical American plants with deeply cleft calyx an impact printer that uses a bar to carry the type slugs breed of slender agile medium-sized hound found chiefly in the Balearic Islands; said to have been bred originally by the pharaohs of ancient Egypt small light-colored hamster often kept as a pet large somewhat primitive fish-eating diving bird of the northern hemisphere having webbed feet placed far back; related to the grebes the selection of a suitable sample for study a Japanese supervisor (trademark) covers small cuts and blisters derision of someone or something as foolish or absurd or inconsistent the ratio of the gross weight of an airplane to some factor determining its lift a person responsible for hiring workers; 'the boss hired three more men for the new job' a silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group; occurs abundantly in natural compounds (especially in salt water); burns with a yellow flame and reacts violently in water; occurs in sea water and in the mineral halite (rock salt) Old World bird having a very long tail that jerks up and down as it walks small reddish-brown wallabies of scrubby areas of Australia and New Guinea a tributary of the coronary sinus; on the posterior wall of the left atrium a diet of foods that can be served in liquid or strained form (plus custards or puddings); prescribed after certain kinds of surgery a family of fungi that have a stalk and cap and a wrinkled mass of tissue (the gleba) where spores are produced; are often dismissed as misshapen forms of other fungi a small vehicle the curve of y=sin x a morbid fear of insects code using a string of 8 binary digits to represent characters visual representation as by photography or painting the act of exterminating a child's four-wheeled toy cart sometimes used for coasting birch of western United States resembling the paper birch but having brownish bark tamarins North American herb having whorled leaves and terminal clusters of small pinkish or purple flower heads a fast motorboat annihilation by vaporizing something durable fragrant wood; used in building (as in the roof of Cordova Cathedral) diagnosis of neuromuscular disorders with the use of an electromyograph a system for paying for goods by installments sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish) medium-sized swamp gum of New South Wales and Victoria the quality of lying or intersecting at right angles a course of study leading to an academic degree fastening electrical equipment to earth a small preschool for small children the termination of a ruler or institution (especially by force) wild llama a hole left after a nail is removed any element of the lanthanide series (atomic numbers 57' through 71') confusion resulting from failure to understand a coming together of people diced lobster meat in milk or cream a serving consisting of a sandwich or sandwiches with garnishes the second lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle; 'he had to shift down into second to make the hill' any of the cells of a plant or animal except the reproductive cells any of various usually white herons having long plumes during breeding season the geometry of 2-dimensional figures a war whose objective is less than the unconditional defeat of the enemy a woman hunter small Asian tree with pinkish flowers and pear-shaped fruit; widely cultivated "(usually plural) the deepest and most remote part; 'from the depths of darkest Africa'; 'signals received from the depths of space'" a tooth situated at the back of the mouth the largest or most massive thing of its kind; 'it was a leviathan among redwoods'; 'they were assigned the leviathan of textbooks' care for the skin fraud (as by use of forged documents or false claims or perjury) that misleads a court or jury and induces a finding for the one perpetrating the fraud (medicine) cleaning a wound or body organ by flushing or washing out with water or a medicated solution the underside of the foot a flock of flying birds the act of relieving ills and changing for the better a viscous polysaccharide acid found in connective tissues and in lubricating fluids in the body a linear sequence of words as spoken or written one of the elements that collectively form a system of numbers; '0 and 1 are digits' one of the items to be considered a soft fabric made from the wool of the Cashmere goat the act of creating something by casting it in a mold an unspecified person; 'he dropped a word in the right quarter' a weightlifting exercise in which you lie on your back on a bench and press weights upward a genus of sea anemone common in rock pools the smallest detectable sensation a durable cotton fabric with a velvety nap one not needing an inner tube to be airtight lumpy deposits of body fat esp. on women's thighs etc. a person who grants something a student enrolled in a college or university the crime of forcing a woman to submit to sexual intercourse against her will a gingersnap flavored with brandy someone who gets in (to a party) without an invitation or without paying the domain controlled by an emir a flight maneuver; aircraft slides sideways in the air burrowing marine mollusk inherited wealth; 'he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth' the part of the thoracic cavity between the lungs that contains the heart and aorta and esophagus and trachea and thymus a mixture of sodium and calcium hydroxides; absorbs liquids and gases a municipal debt instrument with a maturity of less than 2 years (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell glass that diffuses light due to a rough surface produced by abrasion or etching descriptive word or phrase the highest level or degree attainable: 'his landscapes were deemed the acme of beauty'; 'the artist's gifts are at their acme'; 'at the height of her career'; 'the peak of perfection'; 'summer was at its peak'; '...catapulted Einstein to the pinnacle of fame'; 'the summit of his ambition'; 'so many highest superlatives achieved by man'; 'at the top of his profession' formerly a strong horse ridden into battle cognitive processes that presuppose the availability of knowledge and put it to use a shared orientation leading to mutual understanding; 'they are on the same wavelength' a streak of losses unicellular green algae that reproduce by spores any of the large fierce Australian ants of the genus Myrmecia a circular or oval window; 17th or 18th C French architecture prayers proclaiming God's anger against sinners; read in the Church of England on Ash Wednesday a wild and vicious elephant separated from the herd carpet beetles a share set aside for a specific purpose a rhetorical device in which the speaker reproaches the audience in order to incite or convince them (British) a form of football played with an oval ball someone who adheres to the doctrine that ordinary moral distinctions are invalid a cremation chamber fueled by gas a compact fine-textured usually white gypsum used for carving largest mammal ever known; bluish-gray migratory whalebone whale mostly of southern hemisphere very rich drop friedcake dusted with confectioners' sugar and served with lemon sauce or preserves an armored pilothouse on a warship the side that is on the west a difficult situation; 'he dropped the topic like a hot potato' a person who is at least six feet tall a chemical formula based on analysis and molecular weight a sudden decline in strength or number or importance; 'the fall of the House of Hapsburg' layers of ice cream and syrup and whipped cream large brightly marked tropical insect with a process like a snout that was formerly thought to emit light an automobile race run over public roads competition (real or figurative) for popular support someone who admires; especially an admirer of a young woman; 'she had many admirers' any scene regarded as a setting for exhibiting or doing something; 'All the world's a stage'--Shakespeare; 'it set the stage for peaceful negotiations' a sharp pointed implement (usually steel) partially melted snow army ants commitment to some purpose; 'the devotion of his time and wealth to science' communication by the exchange of letters the part of the seating at a racecourse or stadium consisting of tiers with rows of individual seats that are under a protective roof someone who fights (or is fighting) a mask to protect the face of the catcher in baseball type genus of the family Engraulidae a gene that causes normal cells to change into cancerous tumor cells a general officer of the highest rank an electrical conductor connecting telephones or television or power stations review by a court of law of actions of a government official or entity or of some other legally appointed person or body or the review by an appellate court of the decision of a trial court a textbook designed for cramming barrier to communication resulting from speaking different languages monetary unit in Tunisia the person immediately affected by or concerned with an action an implement consisting of a strip of leather a convex shape that narrows toward a point a member of the Algonquian people of Rhode Island and Massachusetts who greeted the Pilgrims a glass container used to store and display items in a shop or museum or home a program in a program library a plan for actively doing something viral diseases causing eruptions of the skin or mucous membrane enthusiastic and assured vigor and liveliness; 'a performance of great elan and sophistication' a large building formerly occupied by a ruler and fortified against attack severe censure a special situation; 'this thing has got to end'; 'it is a remarkable thing' a plate of iron an English coin worth one twentieth of a pound an institution dedicated to education violation (either through fraud or negligence) by a trustee of a duty that equity requires of him analysis of verse into metrical patterns small wingless insect with a long bristlelike tail an agaric with a dark brown conical cap; fruits in early spring the act of changing from one use or function or purpose to another prejudice against (fear or dislike of) homosexual people and homosexuality fritillaries any of various insects having leathery forewings and membranous hind wings and chewing mouthparts an almost pleasurable sensation of fright; 'a frisson of surprise shot through him' a member of the US House of Representatives the extreme end of something; especially something pointed a drug that can produce mood changes and distorted perceptions a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA) the utterance of sounds modulated by the nasal resonators the branch of medical science that studies the blood and lymph vessels and their disorders the act of incurring (making yourself subject to something undesirable) corals forming featherlike colonies informal term for clothing a sailboat with two parallel hulls held together by single deck a long oar used in an open boat a kind of pick that is used for digging; has a flat baled set at right angles to the handle a operation performed by off-line equipment not under the control of the central processing unit a musical composition for three performers woody vine of Texas having showy solitary nodding scarlet flowers eccentricity that is not easily explained the vertical blade on a rudder rescuing from error and returning to a rightful course (computer science) the speed with which a computational device can execute instructions; measured in MIPS noctuid moth larvae that travel in large groups and destroy grains and alfalfa in the Plains states any of various New World woodland mice small sharp-billed yellow-and-black Eurasian finch goose barnacles an equation containing differentials of a function a brutal indiscriminate murderer a serious chronic and progressive inflammation of the colon producing frequent bouts of diarrhea with abdominal pain and nausea and fever and weight loss a tax on capital gains; 'he avoided the capital gains tax by short selling' heating a building by radiation from panels containing hot water or electrical heaters a person easily deceived or cheated (especially in financial matters) ichneumon flies the state of having good sense and sound judgment; 'his rationality may have been impaired'; 'he had to rely less on reason than on rousing their emotions' any pair of genes that tend to be transmitted together; 'the genes of Drosophila fall into four linkage groups' an elaborate analytical or explanatory essay or discussion a woman aviator a group's refusal to work in protest against low pay or bad work conditions; 'the strike lasted more than a month before it was settled' blood poisoning caused by putrefactive bacteria; results from eating putrified matter a measure of a material's ability to conduct an electrical charge a bell tower; usually stands alone unattached to a building a linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard; 'he is six feet tall' located near the base of the neck a radioactive transuranic element which has been synthesized a single serving of a beverage; 'I asked for a hot drink'; 'likes a drink before dinner' tiny insectivorous West Indian bird having red-and-green plumage and a long straight bill loss of emotional control often resulting in emotional collapse a unit of radioactivity equal to one thousandth of a curie a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back ('rick' and 'wrick' are British) a dicotyledonous family of order Ebenales carnivorous saurischian dinosaurs with short forelimbs; Jurassic and Cretaceous a worker who peels the skins from fruits and vegetables an unsteady uneven gait a member of an Iroquoian people formerly living around Cayuga Lake in New York state a solution containing chemicals that can change the color of a photographic print large (20-ft) and swift carnivorous dinosaur having an upright 15-in slashing claw on each hind foot; early Cretaceous a state of commotion and loud confused noise a broad cartridge belt worn over the shoulder by soldiers slender stemlike structure by which some twining plants attach themselves to an object for support someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead; 'he consulted several mediums' type genus of Hydnaceae West Indian evergreen with medium to long leaves a Russian soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation epiphytic clusia of British_Guiana type genus of the family Argonautidae: paper nautilus allemande sauce with chopped parsley a fluid in the gaseous state having neither independent shape nor volume and being able to expand indefinitely (informal) an amount of alcohol sufficient to intoxicate; 'he got a load on and started a brawl' cephalopod mollusk of warm seas whose females have delicate papery spiral shells a group of Finnic languages including Finnish and Estonian a theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music the branch of physics that studies subatomic particles and their interactions a specific state of mind that is temporary; 'a case of the jitters' "a relation of mutual dependence or action or influence" inflammatory histiocytosis associated with disturbance of cholesterol metabolism; occurs chiefly in young children and is characterized by cystic defects of the skull and diabetes insipidus wooden frame with a glass top in which small plants are protected from the cold a sphere of intense political activity a member of a legation a tomato-flavored consomme; often served chilled annual herb of the eastern Himalayas (Kashmir) having purple florets and a fragrant root that yields a volatile oil used in perfumery and for preserving furs an antiarrhythmic drug (trade name Cordarone) that has potentially fatal side effects and is used to control serious heart rhythm problems only when safer agents have been ineffective gametophore bearing antheridia as in certain mosses and liverworts membranous structure enclosing the yolk of eggs in birds reptiles marsupials and some fishes; circulates nutrients to the developing embryo flesh of lean-fleshed fish caught along Atlantic coast of southern U.S. tall plant with small lance-shaped leaves and numerous tiny white or pink flowers any of several North American plants of the genus Erysimum having large yellow flowers any meeting for an exchange of ideas a cook who specializes in fried foods the central area or point of lowest barometric pressure within a storm a garden on a flat roof of a building genus of fungi forming continuous hyaline spores a highly energetic and indefatigable person art of unknown origin that reflects traditional values of a society an electrically powered mixer with whirling blades that mix or chop or liquefy foods a scientist trained in mineralogy mean-spirited disagreeable contrariness a board perforated with regularly spaced holes into which pegs can be fitted the part of the large intestine that descends from the transverse colon to the sigmoid colon a complex neural structure (shaped like a sea horse) consisting of gray matter and located on the floor of each lateral ventricle; intimately involved in motivation and emotion as part of the limbic system; has a central role in the formation of memories guaranteed by the 1st amendment to the US constitution kraits a male human offspring; 'their son became a famous judge'; 'his boy is taller than he is' where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching small genus of Asian trees or shrubs the framework and covering of an airplane or rocket (excluding the engines) a laboratory for biological research a unit of pain intensity (British) a local tax on property (usually used in the plural) any of a variety of carbohydrates that yield four monosaccharide molecules on complete hydrolysis someone who insists on giving unwanted advice an attitude toward religion or religious practices one game in the series of games constituting a playoff refractory anemia characterized by sideroblasts in the bone marrow an Italian woman of rank someone who indulges in idle or absent-minded daydreaming (informal) someone who spoils the pleasure of others a feudal lord who was lord to his own tenants on land held from a superior lord fiber from leaves of the pandanus tree; used for woven articles (such as mats) the part of the stage on the actor's right small tadpole-shaped cold-water fishes with pelvic fins forming a sucker; related to lumpfish the vector sum of all the forces exerted by an electrical or magnetic field (on a unit mass or unit charge or unit magnetic pole) at a given point in the field a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem the 14th letter of the Greek alphabet a sign of assent or salutation or command a programmer for whom computing is its own reward; may enjoy the challenge of breaking into other computers a nuclear reactor that uses water as a coolant and moderator; the steam produced can drive a steam turbine a tame parrot dignified manner or conduct a album into which clippings or notes or pictures can be pasted the tone is produced by air passing across a sharp-edged fissure or lip similar to shortfin mako but darker blue the lowest part of an entablature; rests immediately on the capitals of the columns an offering of a tenth part of some personal income warmed leftovers a dummy pigeon used to decoy others a United States unit of weight equivalent to 2000 pounds a water lily with yellow flowers change toward something smaller or lower fertilization of a second ovum after a pregnancy has begun; results in two fetuses of different ages in the uterus at the same time; 'superfetation is normal in some animal species' a genus of Strigidae plants with four-petaled flowers American breed of chicken having barred gray plumage raised for meat and brown eggs small creeping evergreen shrubs: trailing arbutus the outer and slightly shorter of the two bones of the human forearm large American moth having yellow wings with purplish or brownish markings; larvae feed on e.g. maple and pine trees a worker in a livery stable droplets of water vapor suspended in the air near the ground a storm in which violent winds are drawn into the column of hot air rising over a severely bombed area "a cooler darker spot appearing periodically on the surface of the sun; associated with a strong magnetic field" medium-sized stout-bodied neutral-colored moths comb-like antennae fungi that carry out asexual reproduction by thick-walled resting spores that produce zoospores upon germination; sometimes placed in class Oomycetes either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman good judgment the quality of being natural or based on natural principles: 'he accepted the naturalness of death'; 'the spontaneous naturalness of his manner' barley grown for its highly ornamental flower heads with delicate long silky awns; North America and northeastern Asia tropical shrub having glossy foliage and fragrant nocturnal flowers with crimped or wavy corollas; northern India to Thailand lawn bowling at a jack using biased wooden balls people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest; 'the Western world' narrow strip of pasta dough made with eggs the property possessed by a slope or surface that rises goats the state of being anonymous house finches and purple finches (theology) God's act of bringing the universe into existence anemia characterized by an increase in the concentration of corpuscular hemoglobin (British colloquialism) an excavation; usually a quarry or mine a boat that is small the study of plant nutrition and growth especially as a way to increase crop yield an obvious truth a popular but erroneous etymology common North American beetle: larvae feed on roots and adults on leaves and flowers of e.g. rose bushes or apple trees or grape vines sleep before midnight safety as a consequence of entailing no risk moths whose larvae are armyworms the act of assuming or maintaining a squatting position a single-track railway a monument commemorating a nation's dead heroes records electric currents associated with contractions of the heart the act of arranging in grades any of various flowers of plants of the genus Dianthus cultivated for their fragrant flowers a source of nourishment the makeup (usually burnt cork) used by a performer in order to imitate a Negro an event known to have happened or something known to have existed; 'your fears have no basis in fact'; 'how much of the story is fact and how much fiction is hard to tell' an obstruction in a pipe or tube; 'we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe' the court on which badminton is played a new or different meaning minimal language unit that has a syntactic (or morphological) function flour prepared from wheat the person in charge of performances in a circus ring an electrode placed between the cathode and anode of a vacuum tube to control the flow of electrons through the tube the momentary present; 'Now is a good time to do it'; 'it worked up to right now' a heterocyclic compound having a metal ion attached by coordinate bonds to at least two nonmetal ions any of several Oriental arts of weaponless self-defense; usually practiced as a sport; 'he had a black belt in the martial arts' one who checks the correctness of something an apparatus used for the distillation of liquids; consists of a vessel in which a substance is vaporized by heat and a condenser where the vapor is condensed flour beetles sparkling mineral water from springs at Vichy France or similar to it class of protozoa having cilia or hairlike appendages on part or all of the surface during some part of the life cycle a visitor to whom hospitality is extended living accommodations (especially those assigned to military personnel) American deciduous magnolia having large leaves and fruit like a small cucumber tufted perennial of western Europe and Azores having bright pink to white flowers a return made with the back of the hand facing the direction of the stroke someone who takes advantage of the generosity of others state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy the act of waiting (remaining inactive in one place while expecting something); 'the wait was an ordeal for him' a printed work offered for distribution a lever that sends a telegraph signal when it is depressed and the circuit is closed a genus of herbs belonging to the family Boraginaceae that grow in temperate regions and have blue or purple flowers shaped like funnels a verse form suited to the treatment of heroic or elevated themes; dactylic hexameter or iambic pentameter "a hypothetical force to which the functions and qualities peculiar to living things are sometimes ascribed" type genus of the Pseudococcidae a pen that is supplied with ink from a reservoir in its barrel a person who sponsors someone (the godchild) at baptism Europe a river steamboat on which theatrical performances could be given (especially on the Mississippi River) vivid blue to purple-blue perennial grass of marshy meadows and ditches having broad leaves; Europe and North America any igneous rock with crystals embedded in a finer groundmass of minerals wheat with soft starch kernels used in pastry and breakfast cereals a person who hates France and everything French equality of distribution fruit-eating mostly brilliant blue songbird of the East Indies small swift bat with leathery ears and a long tail; common in warm regions a grant to a person or school for some educational project a bird's feather made into a pen for writing an immature childish person; 'he remained a child in practical matters as long as he lived'; 'stop being a baby!' any of various Old World aromatic shrubs or subshrubs with usually mauve or blue flowers; widely cultivated a conventional or formulaic conception or image: 'regional stereotypes have been part of America since its founding' motion-picture film with sound effects and dialogue recorded on it a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa) a resident of Oxford a function that takes the value 1 if a specified function of the arguments exceeds a given threshold and 0 otherwise a leader in a campaign or movement a switch made from the stems of the rattan palms a war between factions in the same country the Christian worship services a pinnate leaf having two pairs of leaflets an ornament that resembles a spray of leaves or flowers the entire scale of musical notes monetary unit in Lesotho fire delivered by supporting units to protect or assist a unit in combat a field of closely mowed turf for playing bowls the quality of not sticking out in an unwelcome way a recently discovered large wild pig of Paraguay fancy domestic pigeon having blue-and-white plumage and heavily muffed feet the activity of protecting something from loss or danger a farewell sermon to a graduating class at their commencement ceremonies shell beans cooked as limas any of various pines having yellow wood Peruvian shrub with small pink to lavender tubular flowers; leaves yield a tonic and diuretic a small island ball about the size of a fist used in playing tennis music composed for dancing the samba a very high narrow heel on women's shoes an astronomical telescope designed to collect and record light from cosmic sources Siberian breed of white or cream dog of the spitz family a district into which a city or town is divided for the purpose of administration and elections the cortical part of the neencephalon the quality of being funny; 'I fail to see the humor in it' a fractional monetary unit in Bahrain and Iraq and Jordan and Kuwait and Southern Yemen and Yemen; equal to one thousandth of a dinar a small team of policemen working as part of a police platoon loose scales shed from the scalp typically rod-shaped usually gram-positive bacteria that produce endospores someone who has won first place in a competition a set of twenty members; 'four score and seven years ago' a thin flour-and-water biscuit usually made without shortening; often served with cheese a small carved or molded figure an heir whose right to an inheritance cannot be defeated if that person outlives the ancestor type genus of the Rynchopidae: skimmers large edible fish found off coast of United States from Massachusetts to Mexico the abnormal development of male sexual characteristics in a female (usually as the result of hormone therapies or adrenal malfunction) tropical American epiphytic ferns having rhizomes with tubers and roots as well as scales emptying accomplished by draining the time of life between the ages of 12 and 20 space for one line of print (one column wide and 1/14 inch deep) used to measure advertising comprising the leafy members of the order Jungermanniales the field of science concerned with cognition; includes parts of cognitive psychology and linguistics and computer science and neuroscience and philosophy of mind male parent of an animal especially a domestic animal such as a horse any of a variety of carbohydrates that yield two monosaccharide molecules on complete hydrolysis (dentistry) a technique for repairing a tooth; resinous material is applied to the surface of the tooth where it adheres to the tooth's enamel a small vacuum tube; used at high frequencies head or body louse a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then smoothly lifted overhead a printing telegraph that operates like a typewriter an autocracy governed by two rulers any boreal low-growing evergreen plant of the genus Diapensia a figure representing the human form the stage of pregnancy at which the mother first feels movements of the fetus a person who enjoys telling or playing jokes any of various herbs of the genus Gentianopsis having the margins of the corolla lobes fringed; sometimes included in genus Gentiana a submerged ridge of rock or coral near the surface of the water screws into a nut to form a fastener large genus of largely terrestrial orchids with one or a few plicate leaves and slender spikes or tiny mostly green flowers; cosmopolitan a dibasic acid (H2MnO4) found only in solution and in manganate salts a tool used with workers' hands inability to name objects or to recognize written or spoken names of objects a contemptuous or scornful remark truncated cloth cone used to indicate wind direction encouragement of the progress or growth or acceptance of something a movement intended to bring about social and humanitarian reforms the latest possible moment; 'it is high time you went to work' the branch of botany that studies and cultivates fruits a bell attached to the door of a small shop; warns the proprietor that a customer has entered the shop a cut of beef from the shoulder blade a company that provides shipping services the commercial activity involved in constructing buildings; 'their main business is home construction'; 'workers in the building trades' a partly sheltered anchorage a member of the North American Indian people (related to the Aztecs) of the SW US a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea an enzymatic process in cell metabolism that synthesizes ATP from ADP the articulation of speech regarded from the point of view of its intelligibility to the audience milkweed of southern North America having large starry purple-pink flowers (psychology) an urge to accept or approach a situation or an object quality of being international in scope: 'he applauded the internationality of scientific terminology' a black-and-white photograph or slide syphilis of the spinal cord a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof an official appointed by a government agency to conduct an investigation or administrative hearing so that the agency can exercise its statutory powers someone suspected of committing murder a system of units for measuring lumber based on the board_foot honey diluted in water; becomes mead when fermented offensive terms for a person of German descent a female ballet dancer any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets etc. a disputed factual contention that is generally left for a jury to decide "the space between stars" the process of giving birth young Atlantic cod or haddock esp. one split and boned for cooking a tumor that is not cancerous fabric woven from cotton fibers large pelagic game fish having an elongated upper jaw and long sail-like dorsal fin a device that facilitates breathing a rope for raising or lowering a sail or flag small genus comprising plants often included in genus Matricaria the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; 'the apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives is based on the relative populaton of each state' an abnormally low concentration of gamma globulin in the blood and increased risk of infection small intestines of hogs prepared as food money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose the state of being unable to produce offspring dehydrated skimmed milk a homeless child who has been abandoned and roams the streets (Jewish folklore) a demon that enters the body of a living person and controls that body's behavior a period count of the population a covered passageway; often between streets with shops or stalls a long tuft of hair left on top of the shaven head horizontal bar to be jumped or vaulted over a hypothetical pendulum suspended by a weightless frictionless thread of constant length any of various early flowering spring hyacinths native to Eurasia having dense spikes of rounded blue flowers resembling bunches of small grapes a single pleat turned in one direction unrelatedness by virtue of falling outside the matter at hand a book with cardboard or cloth or leather covers a witty saying a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent; 'alcohol (or drink) ruined him' a full supply; 'there was plenty of food for everyone' the efficient use of resources; 'economy of effort' a person who tends to shrink from social contacts and to become preoccupied with their own thoughts a married woman (usually middle-aged with children) who is staid and dignified (trade mark) a yellow insecticide used as a dust or spray to control garden pests and house flies and mites "something long and thin and flexible" food and game fish of North American coastal waters with a mouth from which hooks easily tear out the residue of partially burnt tobacco left caked in the bowl of a pipe after smoking 1 genus: aromatic tropical trees of eastern Africa and Florida to West Indies an expert able to appreciate a field; especially in the fine arts someone who provides outfits current through primary coil induces current in secondary coil a nobleman entitled to bear heraldic arms a member of the people of Gujarat the act of making a master recording from which copies can be made; 'he received a bill for mastering the concert and making 100 copies' an act of gracious kindness a service station that sells gasoline feet of calves used as food; usually jellied any of various common orange trees yielding sour or bitter fruit; used as grafting stock your memory for meanings and general (impersonal) facts a Russian unit of length (71 cm) (British) a cup of tea any of numerous yellow or orange butterflies the trait of being manly; having the characteristics of an adult male (Great Britain) a university degree with honors a type of soil that develops in arid climates fish that live on the sea bottom especially commercially important gadoid fishes like cod and haddock or flatfish like flounder a member of the Semitic speaking people of northern Ethiopia a dark brown mineral of the amphibole group; magnesium iron silicate the act of subjugating by cruelty acidulous gum resin of the creosote bush any of various more-or-less horizontal spars or poles used to extend the foot of a sail or for handling cargo or in mooring the axle of a self-propelled vehicle that provides the driving power people sharing a given language or dialect a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed; 'he planted a field of wheat' a jerky back and forth kind of mobility; 'he walked with the wiggliness of a child on high heels' goods or money obtained illegally minute sedentary marine invertebrate having a saclike body with siphons through which water enters and leaves a gesture that is part of a sign language the commercial enterprise of storing goods and materials a reward or payment the line formed by measuring the hip at its greatest part of western North America the horizontal surface of an aircraft's tail assembly that is fixed and to which the elevator is hinged the trait of not being cautious and watchful an ancient Greek burlesque with a chorus of satyrs Australian term for a pal someone who cuts or grinds designs on glass "an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another: 'the change was intended to increase sales'; 'this storm is certainly a change for the worse'" an instruction that interrupts the program being executed; 'Pascal perfroms calls by simply giving the name of the routine to be executed' the water present in hydrated compounds cell from which a spore develops type genus of the family Eimeriidae; includes serious pathogens (historically) a Muslim who opposed the crusades an ankle-length black garment worn by priests or choristers a cloth or leather covering for the leg from the knee to the ankle concerned with actual use rather than theoretical possibilities congenital deafness that results in inability to speak a locomotor response toward or away from an external stimulus impairment of the sense of smell (as by damage to olfactory nasal tissue or the olfactory nerve or by obstruction of the nasal passages) a chemical compound that is added to protect against decay or decomposition a dagger with a slender blade deciduous New Zealand tree whose inner bark yields a strong flax-like fiber called New Zealand cotton the total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it); 'he studied the entire Wagnerian oeuvre'; 'Picasso's work can be divided into periods' European grass much used for hay and in United States also for turf and green manure a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol any salt or ester of hypochlorous acid the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure a globulin present in blood plasma; converts to fibrin when blood clots a bag filled with sand; used as a weapon or to build walls or as ballast street crossing where pedestrians have right of way; often marked in some way especially with diagonal stripes wax from plants; especially from the trunks of certain palms any political orientation favoring compromise to avoid conflict tropical American tree yielding a reddish resin used in cements and varnishes a flashy suit of extreme cut a hygrometer consisting of a dry-bulb and a wet-bulb thermometer; their difference indicates the dryness of the surrounding air crustose lichens that are a source of the dye archil and of litmus a variety of aster thick (often creamy) soup bread containing chopped nuts a score in American football; being in possession of the ball across the opponents' goal line Australian timber tree zebra with less continuous stripes a mixture of clays and water; pumped down the drill pipe to lubricate and cool the drilling bit a firing range for rocket missiles a building in which commercial banking is transacted; 'the bank is on the corner of Nassau and Witherspoon' bird parasites a congenital bright red superficial vascular tumor resembling a strawberry; tends to decrease in size during childhood trunkfish having hornlike spines over the eyes separation into portions absorbent material fastened to a handle; for cleaning floors a native or inhabitant of Parthia a brittle gray crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors; occurs in germanite and argyrodite any of various types of fold formed by doubling fabric back upon itself and then pressing or stitching into shape skill acquired through experience in a trade; 'instructional designers are trained in something that might be called tradecraft'; often used to discuss skill in espionage; 'the CIA chief of station accepted responsibility for his agents' failures of tradecraft' secret information about an enemy (or potential enemy); 'we sent out planes to gather intelligence on their radar coverage' tropical Asiatic herbs similar to Colocasia but distinguished by a large sterile spadix an open fabric woven together at regular intervals assassin bugs "an artifact that protects or shelters or conceals" a state of mental disturbance and disorientation a dentist who specializes in the care of children's teeth cause of leprosy vine widely distributed in eastern North America producing racemes of purple to maroon flowers and abundant usually subterranean edible peanutlike one-seeded pods a short simple song (or the words of a poem intended to be sung) a knot used to connect the ends of two large ropes or hawsers a boating song sung by Venetian gondoliers the shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code fire distributed in depth by successive changes in the elevation of the gun large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing white wine grape "the state of having become filled with vacuoles" one of a family of granular intrusive rocks the act of making a visible mark on a surface a mental image of something previously experienced a metal stretcher with wheels the property of being of short temporal extent the quantity that a car will hold a coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current a mine where sulphur is dug from the ground a short broad slightly convex medieval sword with a sharp point a small building with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate a wrestling hold in which the opponent's arm is twisted up behind his back estimation of the amount of lumber in a log a retailer of meat the quality of being affordable the action of attacking the enemy the name by which a corporation is identified tallow mixed with oil; used to make leather soft and waterproof a cup-shaped ascocarp in many lichens and ascomycetous fungi the study of (especially prehistoric) antiquities an insufficient quantity or number an apparatus for exposing something to the air (as sewage) a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed) a conventional expression of farewell a feeling of protective affection the word class that qualifies verbs or clauses shares in a corporation that entitle the shareholder to voting and proxy rights biennial or perennial herbs of north temperate regions: winter cress a group of machine parts that fit together to form a self-contained unit abasia related to abnormal movements of the legs the gum resin of various plants; has strong taste and odor; formerly used as an antispasmodic old fashioned; two wings one above the other reduction or lack of an immune response to a specific antigen one chap's arbitrary assertion acts of overt warfare; 'the outbreak of hostilities' a glove made of fine soft leather (as kidskin) an embroidered rug made from a coarse Indian felt a military engineer who lays or detects and disarms mines piety by virtue of being devout a native or inhabitant of Sierra Leone a small harmless grass snake type genus of the Sterculiaceae: deciduous or evergreen trees of Old and New World tropics and subtropics a fit of shivering a British sweet made with molasses and butter and almonds the act of gambling; 'he did it on a bet' the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess; 'drink was his downfall' data processing in which the operations performed are determined by a system of priorities the quality of being produced by people and not occurring naturally imperfect development; nondevelopment of a part a white mineral consisting of fluorides of aluminum and sodium; a source of fluorine a table designed for a particular task rust fungi any of various plants of the genus Centaurea having purple thistlelike flowers brilliantly colored south Asian pheasant a bargain rate for travellers on commercial routes (usually air routes) translation of the words of a foreign opera (or choral work) projected on a screen above the stage a euphemism for defecation; 'he had a bowel movement' a comedian who uses gags cake or coffeecake topped with a mixture of sugar and butter and flour a gathering of military personnel for duty; 'he was thrown in the brig for missing muster' horse botflies any cost incurred by a producer or wholesaler or retailer or distributor (as for advertising and shipping etc) the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; 'flood control in the Missouri basin' an involuntary vibration (as if from illness or fear) a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger of pain without showing fear small dark purple fruit used especially in jams and pies common climber of eastern North America that sprawls over other plants and bears numerous panicles of small creamy white flowers head of a former executive department; combined with the War Secretary to form the Defense Secretary in 1947 any of various Old World herbs of the genus Anchusa having one-sided clusters of trumpet-shaped flowers the flower of a chrysanthemum plant very small free-living arachnid that is parasitic on animals or plants; related to ticks fished for the hide and vitamin-rich liver breeding cattle any customary and rightful perquisite appropriate to your station in life (British) an English country landowner down of the swan a house where rooms are rented a painter of portraits a bag that fills with air plays stressing the irrational or illogical aspects of life, usually to show that modern life is pointless; 'Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco have written plays for the theater of the absurd' an elaborate representation of scenes from history etc; usually involves a parade with rich costumes (computer science) a device that converts information in memory to video output to a display injury to the brain caused by a blow; usually resulting in loss of consciousness tail is white tipped rust fungus causing rust spots on apples and pears etc an archaic drinking vessel having or distinguished by crooks or curves or bends or angles a person who follows or serves another the starting place for each hole on a golf course a block of absorbent material saturated with ink; used to transfer ink evenly to a rubber stamp small South African tree with long silvery silky foliage impractical romantic ideals and attitudes the owner or manager of a brewery Old World catfishes an extremely talented young man a man's sleeveless garment worn underneath a coat someone who specializes in the treatment of disease by electricity large edible rays having a long snout and thick tail with pectoral fins continuous with the head; swim by undulating the edges of the pectoral fins a sloping edge on a cutting tool the study of the physical properties of sound any of various algae of the family Fucaceae small fast-growing tree native to Asia; widely grown as shelterbelts and hedges an advocate of secessionism herbaceous vine of tropical America and Africa a fabric made from viscose (cellulose xanthate) fibers a weapon consisting of arrows and the bow to shoot them any of numerous perennial bulbous herbs having linear or broadly lanceolate leaves and usually a single showy flower a flat rectangular paper container for papers moth having dull forewings and red-marked hind wings type genus of the family Peneidae a woman's foundation garment rolled on to the hips room in a hotel or club set apart for smokers the horizontal axis in a plane coordinate system a coat made of fur silver-haired shrub of central and southern United States and Mexico; a troublesome weed on rangelands a steep rugged rock or cliff the efferent duct of the testis in man the grammatical relation of a word or phrase to a predicate a piece of furniture with tableware for a meal laid out on it; 'I reserved a table at my favorite restaurant' reciprocal action and reaction a hoof divided into two parts at its distal extremity (as of ruminants or swine) a faction that is unwilling to accept new ideas long-legged web-footed black-and-white shorebird with slender upward-curving bill a vertebrate animal having four feet or legs or leglike appendages the rate at which circuits or other devices operate when handling digital information a shortened version of a written work a hormone-like plant product a long sturdy pin used by women to secure a hat to their hair a knot for tying a line to a spar or ring any of various small decorative flowering trees or shrubs of the genus Chionanthus any of several insects living on the bark of plants a maker of shirts someone whose talk is trivial drivel act of transferring property title from one person to another sharp-tailed grouse motion sickness experienced while traveling in an car a person (such as an actor or musician or celebrity) brought from a foreign country tropical herb having orange-red flowers followed by pods suggesting a swallow with outspread wings; a weed throughout the tropics (trademark) a brand of phonograph a personal computer that can easily be carried by hand a Polynesian rain dance performed by a woman (in an election with more than 2 options) the number of votes for the candidate or party receiving the greatest number (but less that half of the votes) a paperback periodic publication as a physical object; 'tripped over a pile of magazines' a book issued to holders of checking accounts a sheet of stationery with name and address of the organization printed at the top a word is a string of bits stored in computer memory; 'large computers use words up to 64 bits long' a missile carried on a warship secures entrance everywhere the act of fortifying or strengthening defenses the traditional body of rules and practices relating to commerce and navigation or to business transacted at sea or to general maritime affairs a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder; 'the patient developed severe pain and distension' genus of Old World tropical plants cultivated for their variegated leaves; various plants sometimes placed in genera Plectranthus or Solenostemon vodka and beef bouillon or consomme an arctic atmospheric condition with clouds over snow produce a uniform whiteness and objects are difficult to see; occurs when the light reflected off the snow equals the light coming through the clouds any of a class of carbohydrates whose molecules contain chains of monosaccharide molecules a white stripe in the middle of a road to mark traffic lanes a large-scale farming enterprise an extreme state of worry and agitation; 'his stewing over the fight kept him awake most of the night' genus of economically important tropical plants: cassava a word that denotes a manner of doing something; 'march' is a troponym of 'walk'' large genus of unarmed trees and shrubs of Old World tropics small bright-colored American songbird with a weak unmusical song a scientist trained in physics open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss loud cries made while weeping the wife or widow of a marquis anything that is necessary but lacking; 'he had sufficient means to meet his simple needs'; 'I tried to supply his wants' the range of the eye; 'they were soon out of view' a brownish-black mineral; the major source of chromium medium-large deciduous timber tree of central and southern United States; acorns deeply immersed in the cup and mature in first year a van used for moving home or office furniture the experience of losing a loved one; 'he sympathized on the loss of their grandfather' a homosexual man a journey by a large group to escape from a hostile environment a screw with a hexagonal hole in the head tall arborescent yucca of southwestern United States a white crystalline compound used as an analgesic and also as an antipyretic an important Brazilian timber tree yielding a heavy hard dark-colored wood streaked with black hagfishes as distinguished from lampreys a traditional Japanese system of unarmed combat; sharp blows and kicks are given to pressure-sensitive points on the body of the opponent is high-fired, vitrified and nonporous a sweet crystalline aldehyde formed by the breakdown of sugars a radio wave propagated on or near the earth's surface the act of paying too much electrical heating elements contained in a flexible pad a shop that sells cheap secondhand goods the quality of being superior grayish quiet-dispositioned highly productive European honeybee harvest flies very thin crisp brown toast anything that is seen; 'he was a familiar sight on the television' or 'they went to Paris to see the sights' a bituminous coal that burns with a luminous flame any of the chemical elements fluorine or chlorine or bromine or iodine or astatine any of several plants of the genus Arctotis having daisylike flowers an instrument (acoustic or optical or electronic) for finding the distance of an object a network of nerves formed by cervical and thoracic spinal nerves and supplying the arm and parts of the shoulder the friendly hope that something will succeed the occurrence of a small flash or spark something that is a source of danger; 'earthquakes are a constant threat in Japan' European songbird noted for its melodious nocturnal song an award (as for meritorious service) given without claim or obligation a genus of Picidae a gun that fires gas shells a monthly payment to someone who is retired from work a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretch across each end relative of the paramecium; often used in genetics research ferret of prairie regions of United States; nearly extinct an unwelcome conspicuousness a financial institution that accepts deposits and channels the money into lending activities; 'he cashed a check at the bank'; 'that bank holds the mortgage on my home' an antibacterial medicine (trade name Macrodantin) used to treat infections of the urinary tract a form of communism based on the writings of Marx and Lenin (economics) the ratio of the quantity and quality of units produced to the labor per unit of time a common complex mineral consisting of calcium fluoride phosphate or calcium chloride phosphate; a source of phosphorus for trustworthy prisoners employed in government projects any compound of carbon and another element or a radical dark brown American hawk species having a reddish-brown tail common warbler of western North America the act of reducing the amount or number; 'the mayor proposed extensive cuts in the city budget' medium-sized wildcat of Central and South America having a dark-striped coat Australasian evergreen conifer having a graceful head of celery-like foliage composed of phyllodes borne in the axils of scalelike leaves an informal term for disfavor; 'he is in the doghouse' use of chemical to destroy diseased or malignant tissue; used in treatment of skin cancer catmint a large needle used to sew up canvas packages flexion of the toes when the sole of the foot is stroked firmly on the outer side from the heel to the front in persons over the age of 2 years; under 2 years the results should be extension of the toes (Babinski reflex) intensive prearranged fire delivered when the immanence of enemy attack is discovered forbidden or tabu sexual intercourse between individuals a crystalline compound used as an antithyroid drug in the treatment of goiter an area near a fireplace (usually paved and extending out into a room) an implement for cooking a consequence of someone's efforts or of a particular set of circumstances; 'skill is the product of hours of practice'; 'his reaction was the product of hunger and fatigue' any shrubby trees or woody vines of the genus Euonymus having showy usually reddish berries a thin steak that can be cooked quickly a coarse cloth with a bright print perennial of western United States having racemes of pink to purple flowers followed by flat pods that separate into nearly orbicular joints the quality of requiring little effort; 'such effortlessness is achieved only after hours of practice' a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Saxons and Jutes to become Anglo-Saxons the act of coating something with a protective layer of tin a newspaper column devoted to personal problems the act of referring; 'reference to an encyclopedia produced the answer' an incorporated administrative district established by state charter; 'the city raised the tax rate' lack of experience and the knowledge and understanding derived from experience a flat double pleat made by folding under the fabric on either side of it bluish-green blacksnake found from Ohio to Texas the initiating or popularizing of a trend or fashion a quantity that is large enough to achieve a purpose or satisfy a desire; 'enough is as good as a feast'; 'there is more than a sufficiency of lawyers in this country' any chamber that is connected to other chambers or passageways (especially one of the two upper chambers of the heart) (metonymy) a singer; 'he wanted to hear trained voices sing it' a native or inhabitant of Hungary an administrator in a college or university the persistence of a sound after its source has stopped any work of art whose special value lies in its evocation of a historical period monetary unit in Russia the act of disappointing someone any of numerous herbs and subshrubs of the genus Lythrum a car suitable for traveling over rough terrain the size of something as given by the distance around it vigorously growing rose having clusters of numerous small flowers; used for hedges and as grafting stock someone trained in forestry the feeling of patient submissive humbleness bat having a leaflike flap at the end of the nose; especially of the families Phyllostomatidae and Rhinolophidae and Hipposideridae drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem; 'the assignment was to make a construction that could be used in proving the Pythagorean theorem' performance by or technique of a pianist; 'a program of pianism' an imaginary line connecting points on the Earth's surface where the magnetic declination is the same the level of intellectual development as measured by an intelligence test narrow elongated seed capsule peculiar to the family Cruciferae a large drinking bowl a lively interest; 'enthusiasm for his program is growing' small hard green-and-white inedible fruit of the prairie gourd plant a conceited dandy who is overly impressed by his own accomplishments a (temporary) relief from harm or discomfort "a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography); 'it was a mountainous area'; 'Bible country'" nocturnal gregarious pig-like wild animals of North and South America puffy dish of cheese and eggs (whites beaten separately) and white sauce (British) a bicycle that must be pedaled equipment used in bowling an input-output device providing access to a computer; has a keyboard and display inflammation of the mouth a lack of malleability the crossing of the optic nerves from the two eyes at the base of the brain one who practices yoga and has achieved a high level of spiritual insight an American follower of the Mennonite Bishop Amman a characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward a certain condition or character or effect: 'the alkaline inclination of the local waters'; 'fabric with a tendency to shrink' beans eaten before they are ripe as opposed to dried radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp and medusa forms the family of tonal languages spoken in E Asia (in China and Tibet and Burma and Thai) a logical relation between propositions p and q of the form 'if p then q'; if p is true then q cannot be false an antibiotic obtained from the actinomycete Streptomyces erythreus; effective against many Gram-positive bacteria and some Gram-negative the display of motion picture taking a short walk out and back; 'we took a turn in the park' an area where many people go for recreation the quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate deliberately avoiding one of four periods of play into which some games are divided; 'both teams scored in the first quarter' considerable capital (wealth or income); 'he is a man of means' any of a group of papovaviruses associated with genital or oral carcinomas or a group associated with benign genital tumors marine bivalve common in Philippine coastal waters characterized by a large thin flat translucent shell music consisting of a single vocal part (usually with accompaniment) blue goose in the white color phase large light-gray African rhinoceros having two horns; endangered; sometimes placed in genus Diceros someone whose age is in the seventies a genus of mammals of the family Bovidae a genus of Hystricidae barbets a screen in a church; separates the nave from the choir or chancel a report of work accomplished during a specified time period the back of a military formation or procession; 'infantrymen were in the rear' (biology) similarity because of common evolution smooth brown oval nut of south central United States tall tufted perennial tropical American grass naturalized as pasture and forage grass in southern United States a worker skilled in applying plaster large (up to 6 ft) grayish-brown barracuda highly regarded as a food and sport fish; may be dangerous to swimmers a disease of cattle and sheep that is attributed to toxins absorbed from the intestines (anatomy) an encircling girdle-like structure (as the ridge around the base of a tooth) an artery that originates from the abdominal aorta just below the diaphragm and branches into the left gastric artery and the common hepatic artery and the splenic artery hybrid winter-blooming begonia grown for its many large pink flowers; derived from B dregei and B socotrana the time between two reigns, governments, etc. bread made with cracked wheat that has been ground fine a detailed list of all the items in stock (astronomy) the precise date that is the point of reference for which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is referred large black gibbon of Sumatra having the 2nd and 3rd toes partially united by a web a factory system in which an article is conveyed through sites at which successive operations are performed on it bottled or canned juice of tomatoes bristle ferns; kidney ferns small Old World birds resembling but not related to true quail a building for indoor sports lacking honor or integrity a shaker for mixing cocktails converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance wormlike marine bivalve that bores into wooden piers and ships by means of drill-like shells a life of ease and pleasure bee moths; corn borers; flour moths small slender toy spaniel with erect ears and a black-spotted brown to white coat a grain of barley an explosive material that is easily molded around the object it is intended to destroy tropical American timber tree the act of exchanging one thing for another; 'the devil promised Adam immortality in exchange for his disobedience' a support for the head common smelt of eastern North America and Alaska a large cask (especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 hogsheads or 126 gallons) money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage the act of pouring a liquid offering (especially wine) as a religious ceremony a marriage performed by a government official rather than by a clergyman genus of often spiny American shrubs and trees a morbid fear of fire a spirit believed to inhabit an object or preside over a place (especially in ancient Roman religion) genus of low branching shrubs of western North America a possible alternative; 'bankruptcy is always a possibility' a hard heavy dark mineral that is the chief source of tin the state of being bothered a crochet stitch a suggestive or sneering look or grin metal formed into a thin plate a kind of New World oriole delay of menarche beyond age 18 hockey played on a field; two opposing teams use curved sticks to drive a ball into the opponents' net a signal (especially electronic or by radio) indicating the precisely correct time a red to reddish brown mineral consisting of iron oxide hydroxide (FeO(HO)); often found in iron ores together with goethite the area of a theater or concert hall where the audience sits the best record in the whole world "knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote: 'early peoples passed on plant and animal lore through legend'" a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling; 'there was still a rusty iron hoop for tying a horse' an opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through the flesh of wild animals that is used for food a musical work that has been created; 'the composition is written in four movements' a chronic disease interfering with the normal functioning of the liver; the major cause is chronic alcoholism a serving that has been cut from a larger portion; 'a piece of pie'; 'a slice of bread' a male attendant of the bridegroom at a wedding hunting rabbits with beagles a letter of credit issued by a bank or express company that is payable on presentation to any correspondent of the issuer (Russian Jewish) baked or fried turnover filled with potato or meat or cheese; often eaten as a snack an unexpected and amazing event: 'the stunner was what happened on Saturday' someone who identifies and punishes people for their opinions trying on clothes to see whether they fit paying excessive attention to the clock (in anticipation of stopping work) any plant of the genus Pulsatilla; sometimes included in genus Anemone the totality of surrounding conditions; 'he longed for the comfortable environment of his livingroom' a large bottle for holding corrosive liquids; usually cushioned in a special container the mental ability to form an opinion by distinguishing and evaluating used in some classifications for a subgroup of finches inflammation of a joint or joints a person who acts as parent and guardian for a child in place of the child's natural parents but without legally adopting the child one of a pair of identical beds arboreal civet of Asia having a long prehensile tail and shaggy black hair a coming to or returning home; 'on the eve of his return to Australia we gave him a goodbye party' the act of evacuating; leaving a place in an orderly fashion; esp. for protection a former French coin of low denomination; often used of any small amount of money; 'he hasn't a sou to his name' the act or process of complicating the table that conferees sit around as they hold a meeting the act of coming down to the earth (or other surface); 'the plane made a smoothe landing'; 'his landing on his feet was catlike' anything owned or possessed the type genus of Rhizobiaceae; usually occur in the root nodules of legumes; can fix atmospheric oxygen small genus of low perennial herbs having yellow rhizomes and white or yellow flowers someone who owns slaves rough-hairy Old World herbs precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents a cell in the germinal layer of the skin (the prickle-cell layer); has many spines and radiating processes a tent with a fly "the whole" faithful support for a religion or cause or political party a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive) a substance believed to cure all ills a statistic representing how closely two variables co-vary; it can vary from -1 (perfect negative correlation) through 0 (no correlation) to +1 (perfect positive correlation); 'what is the correlation between those two variables?' a cleansing agent made from the salts of vegetable or animal fats worship of snakes any of various plants of the genus Erodium clump-forming deciduous perennial swamp plant of western North America similar to Symplocarpus foetidus but having a yellow spathe pest on citrus trees pasta shaped like pearls of barley; frequently prepared with lamb in Greek cuisine a visual presentation showing how something works; 'the lecture was accompanied by dramatic demonstrations' a white sparkling wine either produced in Champagne or resembling that produced there the pleasure of remembering some pleasant event; 'he basked in the afterglow of his victory' an understanding of yourself and your goals and abilities firewood cut and stacked in cords; wood sold by the cord a bit with a cutting blade that can be adjusted to different sizes a hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide) an arthropod genus formerly called genus Ctenocephalus a kind of color printing, used for the finest facsimile reproductions of works of art an aura of heightened value or interest or meaning surrounding a person or thing the joint between the cannon bone and the pastern the scenery and other properties used to identify the location of a dramatic production; 'the sets were meticulously authentic' a form of behavior that evades unpleasant realities a protective structure or device (usually metal) a light-colored crystalline powder used as a surgical antiseptic; Merthiolate is the trademark compensation received by virtue of holding an office or having employment (usually in the form of wages or fees); 'a clause in the U.S. constitution prevents sitting legislators from receiving emoluments from their own votes' someone who demonstrates an article to a prospective buyer terrestrial isopod having an oval segmented body (a shape like a sow) easing the severity of a pain or a disease without removing the cause a narrow opening as e.g. between planks in a wall a maker and repairer and seller of equipment for horses hair growing in the pubic area a variety of aster large Chilean evergreen conifer having intertwined branches and bearing edible nuts from dairies regulated by an authorized medical milk commission the expensive white fur of the ermine a broad horizontal band across a shield large spotted shark of warm surface waters worldwide; resembles a whale and feeds chiefly on plankton African ibis venerated by ancient Egyptians decline to a lower status or level a covering to disguise or conceal the face any plant disease characterized by drooping and shriveling; usually caused by parasites attacking the roots a drug that induces sleep a soft silver-white univalent element of the alkali metal group; the lightest metal known; occurs in several minerals the basic unit of money in Ghana foods like breads and cakes cooked in an oven inflammation of a bursa; frequently in the shoulder an acknowledgment or expression of goodwill at parting the 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet spending money raised by borrowing; used by governments to stimulate their economy whining in a tearful manner a metal piece (usually a disc) used as money large genus of tropical trees having pinnate leaves and paniculate flowers and cultivated commercially for their dramatically grained and colored timbers a service involving care for other people's children a person who lived during the reign of Victoria an ant that attacks colonies of other ant species and carries off the young to be reared as slaves tiny marine organisms each the size of a period found in great numbers on lobsters' lips; identified tentatively in 1995 as a new phylum or as possible link between Entoprocta and Ectoprocta someone who visits pathological production of gummy exudates in citrus and various stone-fruit trees bushy annual widely grown in China and Japan for the flour made from its seeds someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience a position in the manual of arms; the rifle is held vertically on the right side with the butt on the ground; often used as a command annual or perennial herb with aromatic finely-cut leaves a structurally different form of an element: 'graphite and diamond are allotropes of carbon' a recent arrival; 'he's a newcomer to Boston' the cup-shaped hollow in the hipbone into which the head of the femur fits to form a ball-and-socket joint long bench with backs; used in church by the congregation a learned fool a wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad; 'three cars had jumped the rails' time during which clocks are set one hour ahead of local standard time; widely adopted during summer to provide extra daylight in the evenings castrated male chicken tropical Asian tree with hard white wood and bark formerly used as a remedy for dysentery and diarrhea a larva of a woodborer (physics) any of several devices that maintain and control a nuclear reaction for the production of energy or artificial elements a (usually long) dramatic speech intended to give the illusion of unspoken reflections a small cave (usually with attractive features) a thick blue cloth used to make overcoats and coats for sailors etc a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment adviser to business about efficient management practices large arctic and subarctic grouse with feathered feet and usually white winter plumage the attitude that society should be governed by an elite group of individuals sauteed veal cutlet in a breadcrumb-and-cheese coating served with tomato sauce a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc. the legal relation that exists when one person justifiably places reliance on another whose aid or protection is sought in some matter a tricyclic antidepressant (trade name Imavate) used to treat clinical depression having the function of uniting a group of similar things; 'the Democratic Party is an umbrella for many liberal groups'; 'under the umbrella of capitalism' large white heron of Florida and the Florida Keys a hereditary disorder characterized by low levels of beta-lipoproteins and lipids and cholesterol the ocular muscle whose contraction turns the eyeball down and medially wahoos the act of whipping with a horsewhip; 'that villain needs a good horsewhipping' a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that just out into the sea) a crease on the palm; its length is said by palmists to indicate how long you will live medical care in a hospital evergreen of eastern North America with leathery leaves and numerous white flowers a native or inhabitant of Byelorussia a player on a minor-league baseball team an implement for practical use (especially in a household) slender arboreal snake found from southern Arizona to Bolivia genus of bulbous plants of South Africa; sometimes placed in subfamily Hyacinthaceae a formal contractual relationship established to provide for regular banking or brokerage or business services; 'he asked to see the executive who handled his account' inflation caused by an increase in demand or in the supply of money a domesticated gallinaceous bird though to be descended from the red jungle fowl an inherited form of anemia caused by faulty synthesis of hemoglobin an expert in soil management and field-crop production large recently extinct long-horned European wild ox; considered one of the ancestors of domestic cattle writing in capital letters a person of unquestioning obedience a plexus of nerves serving the teeth a rolling hitch similar to a clove_hitch sea anemones any of several small bushy trees having pink or white blossoms and usually bearing nuts not used technically; any animals kept for use or profit "the state of being silent (as when no one is speaking); 'there was a shocked silence': 'he gestured for silence'" removal of a breast leaving the underlying muscles and the lymph nodes intact pigeon-like bird of arid regions of the Old World having long pointed wings and tail and precocial downy young a process of combining several molecules to form a polymer or polymeric compound a high narrow platform above a deck or in an engine room or boiler room a small flute; pitched an octave above the standard flute an admiral ranking below a full admiral and above a rear admiral a unit of inductance equal to one thousandth of a henry a confusion of activity and gossip; 'the buzz of excitement was so great that a formal denial was issued' any plant of the family Asclepiadaceae (Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and individual consciousness measuring worms a rude or vulgar fool the branch of medicine dealing with the heart and its diseases the musical quality of the voice while singing eelpouts a complex inorganic compound that contains ammonia molecules angling with an artificial fly as a lure a texture without roughness; smooth to the touch the sound of something crunching; 'he heard the crunch of footsteps on the gravel path' an anxiety disorder characterized by free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling of light-headedness or irritability etc; a functional disorder (not organic) abnormally rapid heartbeat a trial that is invalid or inconclusive the most direct route; 'he made a beeline for the bathroom' the investigation of criminal activities to determine the perpetrator; 'detection is hard on the feet' duty of a child to its parents useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly: 'if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste'; 'mindless dissipaton of natural resources' type genus of the Charadriidae: plovers 1 species: climbing fumitory a disk used in throwing competitions getting something back again; 'upon the restitution of the book to its rightful owner the child was given a tongue lashing' lowered area in front of a stage where an orchestra accompanies the performers the time that has elapsed; 'forget the past' running at a jog trot as a form of exercise a manner that is rude and insulting a fungus with a cap that can vary from red to dark brown; superficially resembles a bolete a son who has the same first name as his father a band of warriors (originally a unit of a Roman Legion) a tetrahedron with four equilateral triangular faces a system of units used to express the weight of something a market characterized by rising prices for securities 1 species: yerba_mansa coarse Old World perennial having a large bulb and tall stalk of greenish purple-tinged flowers; widely naturalized the quality of being resistant to variation buildings in a continuous row along a road an acquired skin disease characterized by patches of unpigmented skin (often surrounded by a heavily pigmented border) the coalescing of small particles that are suspended in solution; these larger masses are then (usually) precipitated the process of turning some plant material into stone by infiltration with water carrying mineral particles without changing the original shape genus of large tropical east Asian cormous aroids: devil's tongue; snake palm monetary unit in the Republic of Afghanistan a person of intellectual or erudite tastes dried leaf of the bay laurel a debtor who flees to avoid paying a person who is not a member of one's own religion; used in this sense by Mormons and Hindus destructiveness that causes harm or injury European hawthorn having deeply cleft leaves and bright red fruits; widely cultivated in many varieties and often grown as impenetrable hedges; established as an escape in eastern North America a shot aimed at a person's head North American fern the act of ejecting someone or forcing them out a conveyance that transports mail a feeling of pride in yourself refutation by example consolidating by incorporation a large tract of grassy open land on which livestock can graze; 'they used to drive the cattle across the open range every spring'; 'he dreamed of a home on the range' a thin porridge or soup (usually oatmeal and water flavored with meat) satisfactoriness by virtue of conforming to approved standards an enzyme that induces coagulation a substance that undergoes a rapid chemical change (with the production of gas) on being heated or struck twining shrub of North America having three-valved yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds a branch of the Germanic languages a person who transfers his ownership interest in something by signing a check or negotiable security delicate fern of the eastern United States having a twining stem and palmately-lobed sterile fronds and forked fertile fronds a person who is not a serf or a slave a distinguishing characteristic esp in different species of a genus a loosely woven coarse fabric of cotton or linen; used in clothing any of several kinds of reproduction without fertilization a color lacking hue; white or gray or black carnivorous larva of lacewing flies circular rounded protuberance (as on a vault or shield or belt) the body excluding the head and neck and limbs; 'they moved their arms and legs and bodies' a play executed by a basketball team a flexible strip (wood or rubber) used in drawing curved lines gymnosperms with simple persistent needlelike or scalelike leaves a person used as a cover for some questionable activity a descendent or heir; 'a scion of royal stock' a temporary military hospital near the battle lines strained or paradoxical use of words either in error (as 'blatant' to mean 'flagrant') or deliberately (as in a mixed metaphor: 'blind mouths') soft light-colored nondurable wood of the poplar relatively small gnawing animals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing flooding caused by a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river during the spring or summer the application of tiles to cover a surface conscientiousness in paying proper attention to a task; giving the degree of care required in a given situation some transgression committed with the assistance of someone trusted by the victim; 'the police decided that the crime was an inside job' a substance capable of reducing the surface tension of a liquid in which it is dissolved the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field shrubs or herbs the wall that separates the stage from the auditorium in a modern theater a show having a wing tip invoking a spirit or devil a state of political conflict using means short of armed warfare a genus of Colubridae an oak having leaves resembling those of chestnut trees any circular or rotating mechanism; 'the machine punched out metal circles' a person who inspires fear or dread; 'he was the terror of the neighborhood' semisweet golden-colored table or dessert wine from around Bordeaux in France; similar wine from California a confusion of voices and other sounds the gracefulness of a person or animal that is flexible and supple any treelike cycad of the genus Macrozamia having erect trunks and pinnate leaves and large cones with sometimes edible nuts; Australia a small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold a vertical post that a victim is tied to for execution by burning tupelos: deciduous trees of moist habitats especially swamps and beside ponds heavy short-tailed oceanic bird of polar regions (chess) a direct attack on an opponent's king North American thrush noted for its complex and appealing song the execution of low priority programs while higher priority programs are not using the processing system the limit beyond which something happens or changes; 'on the verge of tears'; 'on the brink of bankruptcy' (computer science) a listing of the files stored in memory (usually on a hard disk) a ship with a reinforced bow to break up ice and keep channels open for navigation either of two Soviet space stations launched in the 1970s a metrical unit with stressed-stressed syllables manner of walking; 'he had a funny walk' the rare-earth elements with atomic numbers 57 through 71; having properties similar to lanthanum the English language as used in the US an evil spirit the act of making equal or uniform a member of a North American Indian people living in central Baja California a drug that is taken for nonmedicinal reasons (usually for mind-altering effects); drug abuse can lead to physical and mental damage and (with some substances) dependence and addiction characterized by convulsions and possibly coma during or immediately after pregnancy any of a large group of small songbirds that feed on insects taken on the wing the exposure of an impostor or a fraud; 'he published an expose of the graft and corruption in city government' the act of removing tangles from you hair with a comb the property of being able to survive and grow; 'the vitality of a seed' soil bacteria that oxidize ammonia to nitrites widely distributed fern of tropical southern hemisphere having leathery pinnatifid fronds a US coin worth one fourth of a dollar; 'he fed four quarters into the slot machine' monetary unit in Mozambique bowling down an alley at a target of nine wooden pins a compound that sets of fixes something use of the mails to defraud someone European birch with dull white to pale brown bark and somewhat drooping hairy branches peace of mind an act that is legally a crime but that seem to have no victims; 'he considers prostitution to be a victimless crime' nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate gull family; skimmer family; jaeger family; auk family someone who engages in ice skating a bundle of sticks and branches bound together extinct robust human of Middle Paleolithic in Europe and western Asia the state of being interested someone who takes the place of another person a man paid to drive a privately owned car a saclike structure in any of various animals the median ridge on the breastbone of birds that fly a set of garments consisting of sweat pants and a sweatshirt an oral beta blocker (trade name Tenormin) used in treating hypertension and angina; has adverse side effects (depression and exacerbation of congestive heart failure etc.) a number equal to the difference between the number of baryons and the number of antibaryons in any subatomic structure; it is conserved in all types of particle interactions East Indian tree with thick leathery leaves and edible fruit the philosophical theory that formal (logical or mathematical) statements have no meaning but that its symbols (regarded as physical entities) exhibit a form that has useful applications a vein running from the foot up the back of the leg to the knee an antibody that causes precipitation when it unites with its antigen the term during which some position is held surgical removal of the stapes of the middle ear the state of being grimy a mica that is a biotite containing iron larceny of property having a value less than some amount (the amount varies by locale) equipment used by a photographer a stick of carrot eaten raw any substance that tends to increase the flow or urine large fish-eating Indian crocodilian with a long slender snout the tendency for perceived objects to give rise to very similar perceptual experiences in spite of wide variations in the conditions of observation (football) a person who plays in the backfield fire directed to an area to prevent the enemy from using that area plant having small narrow leaves and blue-violet flowers in long open clusters; Utah and Colorado to New Mexico and Arizona tall evergreen of Japan and China yielding valuable soft wood a fork-like spoon with a cutting edge; coined by Edward Lear true mosses: bryophytes having leafy rather than thalloid gametophytes: comprises orders Andreaeales; Bryales; Dicranales; Eubryales; Sphagnales a doctrine that is taught; 'the teaching of religion'; 'he believed all the Christian precepts' binturongs wooden ball that is bowled in the Italian game of bocce a warrant to apprehend an offender commonplaceness as a consequence of being humdrum and not exciting a maid who is employed to clean and care for bedrooms (now primarily in hotels) a substance that is emitted or released a professor visiting another college or university to teach for a limited time a member of the South American people living in Argentina and Bolivia and Paraguay the year (reckoned from January 1 to December 31) according to Gregorian calendar shrew mole of eastern Asia a laborer who carries supplies to masons or bricklayers an inorganic compound containing the divalent ion -O-O- the quality of lacking any definite purpose a drive with its own power supply and fan mounted outside the computer system enclosure and connected to the computer by a cable an elected member of the British Parliament: a member of the House of Commons a man of great strength or bravery small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body a cell that can be recharged willful wanton and malicious destruction of the property of others the part of footwear that covers the toes a sloping chute down which children can slide the part of a missile or torpedo that carries the explosive charge a member of a nomadic people of the northern Ural mountains the floor or bottom of a wagon or truck or trailer box and water turtles a small piece of tortilla a band that goes over the shoulder and supports a garment or bag monetary unit in Saudi Arabia scads especially mackerel scad; cosmopolitan process of changing to an inferior state a shipboard system for collecting and displaying tactical data small cigar or cigarette wrapped in tobacco instead of paper twining perennials having cordate leaves and flowers arranged in conelike spikes a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection the highest leaders in an organization (e.g. the commander-in-chief and senior officers of the military) originates from the uper part of the aorta that supplies the small intestines and the cecum and the colon the doctrine that knowledge is acquired by reason without resort to experience an act performed to strengthen approved behavior one of many small solid celestial bodies thought to have existed at an early stage in the development of the solar system (British) a farm that supplies the needs of a large estate of establishment cow-cockles success in satisfying a test or requirement; 'his future depended on his passing that test'; 'he got a pass in introductory chemistry' a second staircase at the rear of a building a person engaged in slave trade a junction between two dissimilar metals across which a voltage appears one of the strands twisted together to make yarn or rope or thread; often used in combination: 'three-ply cord' or 'four-ply yarn' strong flexible twig South American plant cultivated for its very large nocturnally fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers a cereal served hot the section of a band or orchestra that plays trumpets or cornets an electric cell that generates an emf by an irreversible conversion of chemical to electrical energy; cannot be recharged a colorless liquid hydrocarbon; highly inflammable; carcinogenic small harmless hammerhead having a spade-shaped head; abundant in bays and estuaries (H4Fe(CN)6), a white unstable acid formed from ferrocyanide salts the act of liberating on probation a viewer who gives a flirtatious or lewd look at another person a catch mechanism that acts as a switch; 'the pressure activates the tripper and releases the water' a blood clot in a cerebral artery or vein bushy aromatic European perennial herb having clusters of buttonlike white-rayed flower heads; valued traditionally for medicinal uses; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum an elected member of a board of officials who run New England towns unstratified soil deposited by a glacier; consists of sand and clay and gravel and boulders mixed together a room (in a residence) containing a bath or shower and usually a washbasin and toilet perennial European herb with long creeping stolons a type of slime mushroom lightly sauteed veal cutlets spread with a Soubise sauce and liver paste then sprinkled with grated Parmesan and baked briefly knowledge of an event before it occurs condors; turkey buzzards; king vultures a bag in which students carry their books long-rooted morning glory of western United States a term used for any state of depression that is not psychotic a judgment of not guilty a woodworking plane that has interchangeable cutters of various shapes epiphytic cactus of Brazilian ancestry widely cultivated as a houseplant having jointed flat segments and usually rose-purple flowers that bloom in winter a series of things depending on each other as if linked together: 'the chain of command'; 'a complicated concatenation of circumstances' one of the cells of the retina that is sensitive to light the normal degeneration and death of living cells a visible impression on a surface made by the hoof of an animal wool not used before; wool not processed or woven before dry white Italian wine from Verona an airfoil that controls lateral motion a budget is balanced when current expenditures are equal to receipts the consistency of something that breaks under pressure insurance issued jointly by two or more underwriters moths whose larvae are army cutworms any north temperate plant of the genus Mentha with aromatic leaves and small mauve flowers ornamental plant of Middle East cultivated for its dark purple spathe of eastern and central United States brown rat commonly found in sewers the application of very thin coat of color over the surface of a picture edible nutlike seeds of an American lotus having the flavor of a chinquapin a yellow dye made from the bark of the quercitron oak tree a group of countries in special alliance Australian clover fern a large hemispherical brass or copper drum with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it a hat made of fur lichens having dark brown erect or pendulous much-branched cylindrical thallus a physician who specializes in the ear and its diseases an economic system (Europe in 18th C) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests damage inflicted by burning a cut from the fleshy part of an animal's side between the ribs and the leg monetary unit on Malta a window that sticks out from the outside wall of a house a person of greater than average size marine algae in which the chlorophyll is masked by a red or purplish pigment; source of agar and carrageenan coelenterates typically having alternation of generations; hydroid phase is usually colonial giving rise to the medusoid phase by budding: hydras and jellyfishes a toxic condition caused by ingesting or inhaling mercury a young horse the semantic relation that holds between two words that can (in a given context) express the same meaning a person whose occupation is to serve at table (as in a restaurant) adaptation to a new climate (a new temperature or altitude or environment) the chemistry of radioactive substances any of several tropical American climbing plants with smooth shiny evergreen leaves a horny material from the upper jaws of certain whales; used as the ribs of fans or as stays in corsets returns the value in the current stack frame of the slot given by indicator. This macro can be used only when a Stack Backtrace dialog box is visible and when a frame is selected.bus or train that stops at all stations or stops land and buildings together considered as a place of business; 'bread is baked on the premises' nonmotile gram-positive aerobic bacteria a variety of jaeger epithelium originating in the embryonic mesoderm; lines the primordial body cavity the blood group whose red cells carry neither the A nor B antigens; 'people with type O blood are universal donors' a loosely woven fabric used for flags, etc. either of two infectious diseases transmitted to humans by the bite of a rat or mouse; characterized by fever and headache and nausea and skin eruptions grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet Mediterranean herbs having small white or pink flowers an electrician responsible for lighting on a movie or tv set a state of cooperation a variety of arctic_fox having a pale gray winter coat herb of the Mediterranean region having pungent seeds used like those of caraway epiphytic ferns of southeastern Asia to New Guinea any of a group of antidepressant drugs that inhibit the action of monoamine oxidase in the brain and so allow monoamines to accumulate marsh herb with a long spike of purple flowers; originally of Europe but now rampant in eastern United States conventional metaphoric name for something, used esp. in Old English and Old Norse poetry 1 species: one-flowered wintergreen; sometimes included in genus Pyrola medium-sized live-bearing shark with eyes at either end of a flattened hammer-shaped head; worldwide in warm waters; can be dangerous the gravity of the sun; 'solar gravity creates extreme pressures and temperatures' a shallow box in which seedlings are started the representation of dancing by symbols as music is represented by notes a colloid that has a continuous liquid phase in which a solid is suspended in a liquid a light-weight hat worn in tropical countries for protection from the sun precipitation in very small drops the act of propagating type genus of the Malpighiaceae the basic unit of money in Equatorial Guinea rewording something in less technical terminology slow-growing creeping plant with semi-evergreen leaves on erect wiry stems; used as ground cover a disposition to be distant and unsympathetic in manner (Old Testament) an idol made by Aaron for the Israelites to worship; destroyed by Moses; it is now used to refer to anything worshipped undeservedly the act of approaching or entering; 'he gained access to the builidng' a written instrument legally conveying property to a trustee often used to secure an obligation such as a mortgage or promissory note any membranous gap between the bones of the cranium in an infant or fetus rowdy or boisterous play the study of microscopic structures of tissues and organs black-and-white shorebird with stout legs and bill; feed on oysters etc. any of several callas of the genus Zantedeschia having yellow spathes a Spanish dance in triple time accompanied by guitar and castanets the molar that is the last of the permanent teeth to erupt a fan that blows hot air out of the attic of a building a coffee maker that forces live steam under pressure through dark-roast coffee grounds a bean plant grown primarily for its edible seed rather than its pod a pledge that something will happen or that something is true; 'there is no guarantee that they are not lying' the imparting of news or promises etc.; 'he gave us the news and made a great show of the giving'; 'giving his word of honor seemed to come too easily' cotton with long rough hairy fibers obtained from suet and used in making soap, candles and lubricants a bowling game using a pin smaller than a tenpin but proportionately wider 100 qindarka equal 1 lek carrying something to full completion; 'I appreciated his follow-through on his promise' an artist skilled at drawing a common mineral (iron disulfide) that has a pale yellow color lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling (Old Testament) the ethnic group claiming descent from Abraham and Isaac (especially from Isaac's son Jacob); the nation whom God chose to receive his revelation and with whom God chose to make a covenant (Exodus 19) a system for interpreting and enforcing the laws a usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair "something that people do or cause to happen" small tree of southern United States having panicles of dull white flowers followed by dark purple fruits a competition that takes place on a field rather than on a running track a musical note having the time value of a sixty-fourth of a whole note pink or white flesh of large Pacific salmon deductive reasoning in which a conclusion is derived from two premises the prime factors of a quantity are all of the prime quantities that will exactly divide the given quantity the limit on the upper (or northernmost) side of something the social act of separating or parting company; 'the separation of church and state' coloring that conceals or disguises an animal's shape a colloquial expression for invitation; 'he didn't get no invite to the party' a board used to support the back of someone or something not very intelligent or interested in culture (Brit) one who sells goods on the installment plan last of the seven canonical hours the estate remaining after debts and funeral expenses and administrative expenses have been deducted from the gross estate; the estate then left to be distributed (and subject to federal and state inheritance taxes) a place where food is dispensed to the needy a B vitamin essential for the normal function of the nervous system and the gastrointestinal tract the sound made by beating a drum the total mass of living matter in a given unit area management through specified channels of communication nuclear energy regarded as a source of power inhumaneness evidenced by an unwillingness to be kind or forgiving any of numerous begonias having prominent shaggy creeping stems or rhizomes small genus of low-branching profusely flowering trees of tropical America whiteflies a Chinese puzzle consisting of a square divided into seven pieces that must be arranged to match particular designs throwing cargo overboard to lighten the load when in distress a person in charge of paying wages large genus of herbs with simple leaves and racemes of yellow flowers; mainly of tropical Africa small evergreen ferns: lipferns; in some classifications placed in family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceae a terminal connected to a computer by a data link Asiatic grass introduced into United States rangelands for pasture and fodder the noise made by a bell technical aspects of doing something; 'mechanisms of communication'; 'the mechanics of prose style' adopting a vain conceited posture a list of foods and information about their caloric content the disposal of explosive mines an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely mercifulness as a consequence of being lenient or tolerant a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape; 'they fell into a conversational rut' a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it the most favorable environment for a plant or animal; 'water is the element of fishes' the act of accomplishing something a scientific theory of the origin of species of plants and animals thin flat unleavened cake of baked oatmeal the passage in the root of a tooth through which its nerve and blood vessels enter the pulp cavity mutual exchange of commercial or other privileges an angle of 360 degrees marine gastropods having smooth rounded short-spired shells the quality of being productive or having the power to produce spread made of cheese mixed with butter or cream or cream cheese and seasonings a curved support that permits the supported object to rotate to and fro trailing plant having crowded clusters of 3 brilliant deep pink flowers resembling a single flower blooming near the ground; found in dry gravelly or sandy soil; southwestern United States and Mexico a public transportation system for moving passengers harmless woodland snake of southeastern United States small chiefly ground dweller that stays within easy jumping distance of water; of United States southwest and northern Mexico a sterilization procedure with women; both Fallopian tubes are tied in two places and the tubes removed in between the ligations one of many subfamilies into which some classification systems subdivide the Liliaceae but not widely accepted; includes genus Hemerocallis monetary unit in Bhutan a commercially sponsored ad on radio or television short underpants for women or children (usually used in the plural) the fur of young lambs the entry in a dictionary of information about a word a kingbird seen in the southwestern United States; largely gray with a yellow abdomen a member of the North American Indian people of the Wilamette basin in Oregon an elemental being believed to inhabit the air Pacific coast tree having aromatic foliage and small umbellate flowers followed by olivelike fruit; yields a hard tough wood a machine that makes knitted textiles any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers memorization by repetition the fur of a squirrel a routine designed to yield a random number someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction (law) a trivial sum (usually 1.00) awarded as recognition that a legal injury was sustained (as for technical violations of a contract) a flammable alcohol derived from butanes and used for solvents a student who attains higher standards than the IQ indicated an antimetabolite used to treat certain cancers tripletail found in the Pacific a window that opens by pivoting either horizontally or vertically surgical removal of part or all of the sigmoid colon (usually to remove a malignant tumor) a colony of rabbits any sail set on a stay (as between two masts) a unit of electrical resistance equal to the resistance between two points on a conductor when a potential difference of one volt between them produces a current of one ampere a piece of starched cloth covering the shoulders of a nun's habit a machine that trims timber the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane a vein that passes along the radial edge of the forearm and joins the cephalic vein near the elbow someone with a sociopathic personality; a person with an antisocial personality disorder ('psychopath' was once widely used but has now been superseded by 'sociopath') any of various yeastlike budding fungi of the genus Blastomyces; cause disease in humans and other animals compensation for a wrong; 'we were unable to get satisfaction from the local store' a large rigid dirigible designed to carry passengers or bombs a plane curve generated by one point moving at a constant distance from a fixed point; 'he calculated the circumference of the circle' (music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written a stable quark with an electric charge of +2/3 and a mass 607 times that of an electron coextensive with the genus Spirula; included in the order Belemnoidea in some older classifications a stadium for horse shows or horse races a female demon believed to have sexual intercourse with sleeping men type genus of the Cynipidae: gall wasps a small dirty uncomfortable room a card on which are printed the person's name and business affiliation "a collection containing a variety of sorts of things; 'a great assortment of cars was on display'; 'he had a variety of disorders'" Old World wild swine having a narrow body and prominent tusks from which most domestic swine come; introduced in United States a barbiturate (trade name Nembutal) used as a sedative and hypnotic and anti-spasmodic an imaginary line around the Earth forming the great circle that is equidistant from the north and south poles; 'the equator is the boundary between the northern and southern hemispheres' South American raccoon North American boles a member of a committee a common bean plant grown for its edible golden pod the point of intersection of lines or the point opposite the base of a figure a curt or disdainful rejection any shrub or small tree of the genus Myrica with aromatic foliage and small wax-coated berries someone who insists on something; 'a stickler for promptness' degree conferred on someone who successfully completes law school a charity that is deemed to receive the major part of its support from the public (rather than from a small group of individuals) the mineral form of calcium nitrate medium to large terrestrial ferns of tropical Asia to Polynesia and Australia; naturalized in Americas a native or inhabitant of Guinea a technical term for pregnancy a violent hot sand-laden wind on the deserts of Arabia and North Africa hot green or red pepper of southwestern United States and Mexico orchestral music played at the begining of an opera or oratorio flesh of a small fowl bred for roasting doing a proper act in a wrongful or injurious manner a solid solution in which alpha iron is the solvent a person's manner of walking Indian tree having fragrant nocturnal white flowers and yielding a reddish wood used for planking; often grown as an ornamental or shade tree a mechanism operated by the resistance offered or the pressure transmitted when a liquid is forced through a small opening or tube the property of being smooth and shiny a multimedia system in which related items of information are connected and can be presented together a German art song of the 19th century a challenge to a fight or duel the taste experience when salt is taken into the mouth any wild sheep inhabiting mountainous regions commonly cultivated anthurium having bright scarlet spathe and spadix a line indicating the high-water or low-water limits of the tides any of various tall plants of the genus Alcea; native to the Middle East but widely naturalized and cultivated for its very large variously colored flowers the 300th anniversary caudal fin has a central projection something proposed (as a plan) one of the veins serving the spongy part of the cranial bones small bit used in dentistry or surgery squirrel-sized South American toothless anteater with long silky golden fur a woman who is a patron intonations characteristic of questions and requests and statements an odorous gum resin formerly used in medicines an uncontrolled fire in a wooded area type genus of the family Strombidae arrangements made between nations to assist each other preferred stock or convertible bonds or stock warrants that can be converted into common stock a show of military force or preparedness; 'he confused the enemy with feints and demonstrations' a print obtained from a line drawing stiff short-trunked yucca of southern United States and tropical America with rigid spine-tipped leaves and clusters of white flowers "a shape that spreads outward; 'the skirt had a wide flare'" a dish served as an appetizer before the main meal a conditioned response that anticipates the occurrence of an aversive stimulus cream that has at least 18% butterfat an outpouring of gossip a long rambling joke whose humor derives from its pointlessness some who takes off all their clothes and runs naked through a public place any basic right or freedom to which all human beings are entitled and in whose exercise a government may not interfere (including rights to life and liberty as well as freedom of thought and expression and equality before the law) West Indian woody scrambler with spiny stems and numerous fragrant white flowers in panicles followed by small yellow to orange fruits masonry without mortar mariposa having umbel-like clusters of a few large deep yellow bell-shaped flowers atop slender stems; California coastal ranges milk fermented by bacteria; used to treat gastrointestinal disorders a steep course where skiers jump follower of Zoroaster and Zoroastrianism (immunology) a technique that uses antibodies linked to a fluorescent dye in order to study antigens in a sample of tissue a group gathered in response to a summons any of numerous fern allies of the genus Selaginella dilute sulfuric acid used in storage batteries small family of brown algae: gulfweeds; rockweeds the securities markets in the aggregate; 'the market always frustates the small investor' a divided skirt a table or matrix of all contingencies and the actions to be taken for each a sudden outburst (as of protest) the branch of the United States government that is responsible for carrying out the laws a student of cognitive processes representation of all parties in proportion to their popular vote any of various antibiotics obtained from penicillium molds (or produced synthetically) and used in the treatment of various infections and diseases a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road the semantic relation that holds between a whole and its parts shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus someone new to a field or activity any plant of the genus Eriophyllum European breed of small dog resembling a terrier with dark wiry hair and a tufted muzzle a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly NIL(biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category the position of viceroy a family of mosses a sermon on a moral or religious topic social or solitary hymenopterans typically having a slender body with the abdomen attached by a narrow stalk and having a formidable sting a general or descriptive heading for a section of a written work; 'the novel had chapter titles' a place where school children cross a street on the way to school a dicotyledonous genus of the family Cunoniaceae tree of the Amazon valley yielding a light brittle timber locally regarded as resistant to insect attack a woman who tells fortunes the liquid parts of the body mental responsiveness and awareness an atom having a valence of one British a small and inadequate amount any of several North American trees of the genus Populus having a tuft of cottony hairs on the seed either of two large veins that return oxygen-depleted blood to the right atrium of the heart an internal ring of smooth muscle formed by circular fibers of the rectum a holding in the form of shares of corporations the act of affirming or asserting or stating something a machine for making textiles the act of increasing the density of something a stable order an instance of a student reciting a lesson that has been learned a unit of magnetic flux density equal to one millionth of a gauss evergreen of Tasmanian mountains having sharp-pointed leaves the curve inward one of two arteries (branches of the pulmonary trunk) that carry venous blood from the heart to the lungs a disease of raspberries a pond for watering horses a slave condemned to row in a galley a withered dryness dried navy beans baked slowly with molasses and salt pork an insured person; the client in whose name an insurance policy is written breed of toy dogs having a long straight silky white coat the common European short-winged hawk (British) something outstandingly difficult; 'the problem was a real snorter' sound of strumming: 'the strum of a guitar' a preparation of soap and fatty acids that forms a rich lather for softening the beard before shaving a dentist specializing in the extraction of teeth a canal connecting the third and fourth ventricles any of numerous fishes of the class Chondrichthyes characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton and placoid scales: sharks; rays; skates a player who makes a score in a game or contest a comfortable upholstered armchair slender hairy plant with few leaves and golden-yellow flower heads; sandy desert areas of southeastern California to southwestern Utah and western Arizona and northwestern Mexico the virus causing hepatitis A having an empty stomach a cruel act; a deliberate infliction of pain and suffering widely distributed in warm countries the fruit of a muskmelon vine; any of several sweet melons related to cucumbers any negative stimulus to which an organism will learn to make a response that avoids it a source of help and advice and encouragement; 'he played uncle to lonely students' tropical American plants with stiff lancelike leaves and spikes of white blossoms; sometimes considered a genus of Amaryllidaceae eukaryotic one-celled living organisms distinct from multicellular plants and animals: protozoa, slime molds, and eukaryotic algae a sign of something about to happen; 'he looked for an omen before going into battle' a disposition to kindness and compassion; benign good will: 'the victor's grace in treating the vanquished' pieces of different materials sewn together in a pattern confinement to your own home the restatement of a message (as a religious one) in rational terms (anatomy) a depression or fissure where vessels or nerves or ducts enter an organ: 'the hilum of the kidney'; 'hilum of the lung' a witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person visual receptor cell sensitive to dim light a prominent forelock (especially one brushed upward from the forehead) the quality of being honest of the Bering Sea and north Pacific small genus of chiefly American herbs a low or downcast state: 'each confesson brought her into an attitude of abasement'- H.L.Menchken lawfulness by virtue of conformity to a legal statute a concerted campaign to end something that is injurious; 'the war on poverty'; 'the war against crime' monetary unit in Denmark "a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period; 'all the reporters were expected to adopt the style of the newspaper'" a dealer in poultry and poultry products someone who launches harpoons leaf bugs the terminal of a battery that is connected to the positive plate a mechanical device that cleans the windshield a rack for displaying containers filled with spices a firm rather dry variety meat (usually beef or veal); 'a five-pound beef heart will serve six' catalpa tree of central United States inflammation of both the head of the penis and the foreskin difference in the refractive power of the two eyes any tax in which the rate increases as the amount subject to taxation increases widespread in United States except northern regions; black or brown with yellow bands typical earwigs fungus gnats straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes small genus of Australian herbs grown for their flowers inflammation of the vagina (usually associated with candidiasis) the branch of pure mathematics that deals with the nature and relations of sets the act of marrying; the nuptial ceremony; 'their marriage was conducted in the chapel' the indoor court in which squash is played a military or naval pilot of fighter planes a workman who puts up laths family of fungi belonging to the order Pesisales participating in athletic sports performed on a running track or on the field associated with it a bromide that darkens when exposed to light; used in making photographic emulsions simultaneous processing by two or more processing units as the agent of or on someone's part; usually expressed as 'on behalf of' rather than 'in behalf of': 'the guardian signed the contract on behalf of the minor child'; 'this letter is written on behalf of my client' the route regularly followed by a passenger bus the force attracting atoms to each other and binding them together in a molecule: 'basic dyes have an affinity for wool and silk' an animal that has undergone mutation an improper demeanor the earliest known dinosaurs "the atmosphere and outer space considered as a whole" withdrawing into the background; making yourself inconspicuous a brief written record; 'he made a note of the appointment' any cedar of the genus Cedrus seizing property that belongs to someone else and holding it until profits pay the demand for which it was seized self-improvement in behavior or morals by abandoning some vice; 'the family rejoiced in the drunkard's reform' cactus of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico having edible juicy fruit East Indian tree having long pods containing a black cathartic pulp used as a horse medicine a genus of Lorisidae swallows and martins the generic use of the word to refer to any human being; 'it was every man for himself' a patterned wood inlay used to cover a floor a silent signal of warning or recognition; 'she started to speak but he gave her the high sign' (Chinese cookery) a sauce based on soy sauce a genus of Ephippidae common coral root having yellowish- or reddish- or purplish-brown leafless stems bearing loose racemes of similarly colored flowers with white purple-spotted lips; Guatemala to Canada (British) an officer ranking next below a lieutenant used as a Hindi courtesy title; equivalent to English 'Mr' common perennial of eastern North America having flowers with usually violet-purple rays a horse race between people riding in sulkies behind horses that are trotting or pacing gymnospermous flowering plants; supposed link between conifers and angiosperms; in some systems classified as as class (Gnetopsida) and in others as a subdivision (Gnetophytina or Gnetophyta) a union of political organizations a narrow strip of wood on the neck of some stringed instruments (violin or cello or guitar etc) where the strings are held against the wood with the fingers the reason for a court's judgment (as opposed to the decision itself) evergreen rambling yellow-flowered shrub of western China the dregs remaining after brewing coffee lining of the stomach of a ruminant (especially a bovine) used as food any of several nerves of the sympathetic part of the autonomic nervous system that innervate viscera and blood vessels a segmented marine worm with bright red body; often used for bait the process of carrying out an instruction by a computer the act of removing floating material from the surface of a liquid a person who has fallen into a decadent state (morally or artistically) fern with long narrow strap-shaped leaves a man who is no longer a woman's boyfriend the act of taking possession of or power over something; 'the Nazi assumption of power in 1934' a noisy fight in a crowd surgical reconstruction or replacement of a malformed or degenerated joint an interpretation that clears up ambiguity; 'the professor's clarification helped her to understand the textbook' a person subject to strong states of emotion extant Australian lungfishes (law) legal proceedings consisting of the judicial examination of issues by a competent tribunal; 'most of these complaints are settled before they go to trial' a piece of paper recording work planned or done on a project an outer protective covering such as a cuticle or seed coat or rind or shell a spot caused the staining with rust or ink complete and wholehearted fidelity (electronics) the reception of a signal by extracting it from the carrier wave a succession of clicks constituting the order Opuntiales a block of metal that is cast in a particular shape for convenient handling the time yet to come the position of warden turkeys and some extinct forms informal clothing designed to be worn when you are relaxing type genus of the Chimaeridae the act of cleaning (fabrics) with a solvent other than water a painting or drawing included in a book (especially in illuminated medieval manuscripts) either of two veins that drain the diaphragm attaches to something or holds something in place making the motions of attack and defense with the fists and arms; a part of training for a boxer European perennial subshrub with red-purple or bright rose flowers with red and white spots a transparency mounted in a frame; viewed with a slide projector a sharp blow a depression in an otherwise level surface; 'there was a dip in the road' trees or shrubs or woody vines or herbs having gourd-like or capsular fruit; sometimes placed in the order Scrophulariales surgical removal of the thyroid gland people coming and going on foot someone who devotes themselves completely; 'there are no greater givers than those who give themselves' the swapping of horses (accompanied by much bargaining) a compound used as a fertilizer and as a source of nitrogen compounds a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound an electrically neutral ionized gas in an electric discharge; distinctly different from solids and liquids and normal gases a violent rainstorm near the time of an equinox the condition of being unable to adapt properly to your environment with resulting emotional instability an artery that supplies the medullary cavity of the long bone a block that can be opened to receive the bight of a rope being unsettled or in doubt: 'the uncertainty of the outcome' the body of codified laws governing the affairs of a Christian church a cutting instrument with a sharp-edged pointed metal blade with a handle a strong tightly twisted cotton thread (usually made of long-staple cotton) a drug or therapy or preventive that cures or prevents a disease: 'there is no magic bullet against cancer a family of reptiles caimans an underground structure where ballistic missiles can be stored and fired an undulating curve behavior that breaches the rule or etiquette or custom or morality a kind of hedged investment meant to capture slight differences in price; when there is a difference in the price of something on two different markets the arbitrageur simultaneously buys at the lower price and sells at the higher price a meeting at which hockey players receive special evaluation and instruction the revival of learning and culture machine in which the kinetic energy of a moving fluid is converted into mechanical energy by causing a bladed rotor to rotate as much as a teacup will hold someone who walks without raising the feet deciduous shrubby tree of eastern North America having deeply fissured bark and sprays of small fragrant white flowers and sour-tasting leaves special advantage or influence; 'the chairman's nephew has a lot of pull' the act of discovering or expressing the quantity of something the quality of being intent and concentrated; 'the intentness of his gaze' an advocate of some ideology a reckless pedestrian who crosses a street illegally free-living Gram-negative pink to purplish-brown bacteria containing bacteriochlorophyll hickory of the eastern United States having a leaves with 7 or 9 leaflets and thin-shelled very bitter nuts an emergency procedure whereby respiration that is maintained artificially medium-sized tree of eastern Australia having creamy-white flowers a program exemplifying a contemplated series; intended to attract sponsors a cooling system that uses a fluid to transfer heat from one place to another the night after the wedding when bride and groom sleep together a crescent-shaped lake (often temporary) that is formed when a meander of a river is cut off from the main channel tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory the quality of being particular and pertaining to a specific case or instance; 'the particularity of human situations' a large room in a stock exchange where the trading is done; 'he is a floor trader' pyelonephritis resulting from the spread of a bladder infection New Zealand forest tree a synthetic material resembling clay but remaining soft; used as a substitute for clay or wax in modeling (especially in schools) a large fat human face the time period between dawn and noon; 'I spent the morning running errands' the absolute value of a complex number a form of socialist theory advocating state ownership of industry but managements by guilds of workers "a written account of ownership or obligation" a group of broadcasting stations that all transmit the same program simultaneously the act of making less strict 20 aspers equal 1 kuru the most common dolphin of North Atlantic and Mediterranean; often kept captive and trained to perform a colorless flammable liquid alkane derived from petroleum and used as a solvent position at right angles to the horizon typical lampreys a rapid and irregular heart beat large Australian swan having black plumage and a red bill an instrument that measures atmospheric pressure money paid out lack of vitality; 'an enervation of mind greater than any fatigue' repetition or recapitulation in reverse order widespread European weed having yellow daisylike flowers; sometimes an obnoxious weed and toxic to cattle if consumed in quantity any of various lecanoras that yield the dye archil an examination administered at the end of an academic term drawing position in chess: any of a player's possible moves would place his king in check the quality or state of being the same in quantity or measure or value or status a cable between a computer and a printer (computer science) a language designed for programming computers the act of containing something skill in shooting (informal) someone who is a detective copperheads an artist specializing in scenic subjects the practical application of science to commerce or industry a versatile person who is expert at many things; 'she's the best all-rounder they've seen in years' related by blood necklike opening to the uterus an organ stop producing a gentle tremolo effect the addition or substitution of chlorine in organic compounds a collateral agreement to answer for the debt of another in case that person defaults surgical incision into a vein removing by cutting off or clipping a strip of leather used in flogging the quality of constantly diligent and attentive airplane powered by a turbojet engine a mildly windy state of the air an electrical phenomenon whereby an electric charge is stored a person who stares inquisitively mahoganylike wood of the sabicu an attack intended to ruin someone's reputation a person with the same name as another a unit of measurement of physical force wolf of arctic North America having white fur and a black-tipped tail the journalistic use of subject matter that appeals to vulgar tastes; 'the tabloids relied on sensationalism to maintain their circulation' a variety of muskmelon vine having fruit with a tan rind and orange flesh an open-mouthed kiss in which your tongue is inserted into the other's mouth (Brit) someone who asses the monetary worth of possessions the relation between variables when the regression equation is linear: e.g., y = ax + b a person who plays the piano New World warblers something (such as a fact or circumstance) that shows an action to be reasonable or necessary: 'he considered misrule a justification for revolution' manatees; dugongs; Stellar's sea cow spiny evergreen xerophytic shrub having showy rose-purple flowers and forming dense thickets; of dry rocky mountain slopes of California a mission serving diplomatic ends the body of individuals whose work helps to maintain the health of their clients the person who collects fares on a public conveyance the act of purging of sin or guilt; 'purification through repentance' a block of soap or wax records the highest and lowest temperatures reached during a period of time aromatic fresh or dried gray-green leaves used widely as seasoning for meats and fowl and game etc a genus of fish of the family Clinidae including pikeblennies rower's seat that slides fore and aft the act of showing regard for others an indication of some hidden activity; 'with all that smoke there must be a fire somewhere' device for converting digital signals into analogue signals any of various deciduous terrestrial orchids having fleshy tubers and flowers in erect terminal racemes account of payments owed; usually the left side of a financial statement a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides) the act of hitting a baseball lightly without swinging the bat acid red or yellow cherry-like fruit of a tropical American shrub very rich in vitamin C a device for holding something for the electrical transmission of pictures a skirt stiffened with hoops coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers; native to Old World tropics; a naturalized weed elsewhere a roofed gate to a churchyard, formerly used as a temporary shelter for the bier during funerals the expertness characteristic of a professional person "a collection of coins" the craft of an electrician genus of bog herbs of arctic and northern temperate regions any of several spiny shrubs of the genus Daviesia having yellow flowers and triangular seeds; Australia the ledger that contains all of the financial accounts of a business; contains offsetting debit and credit accounts (including control accounts) the layer of the earth between the crust and the core platform for a lookout at or near the top of a mast a person of French descent an ocean trip taken for pleasure cardinals avadavats a healthy reddish complexion loosestrife distinguished from the horned screamer by a feathery crest on the back of the head a person with fair skin and hair Japanese orchid with white-striped leaves and slender erect racemes of rose to magenta flowers; often cultivated; sometimes placed in genus Bletia (math) a condition specified for the solution to a set of differential equations beads used in counting prayers (especially Catholic rosary) any final competition to determine a championship covering with an overlapping design as with tiles or shingles the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring; 'his teams are always good on defense' an intuitive assumption; 'jump to a conclusion' act of closing down a bank because of a fiscal emergency or failure a vein formed by branches from the back surface of the eye and the ciliary body; empties into the ophthalmic veins a genus of Old World grasses four books in the New Testament that tell the story of Christ's life and teachings the legal proceedings initiated by a creditor to repossess the collateral for loan that is in default any of several water-loving cresses a sleeveless jacket of buoyant or inflatable design large heavy-bodied brilliantly marked and extremely venomous west African viper a wheeled vehicle drawn by horses a quark with an electric charge of +2/3 and a mass 2900 times that of an electron and a charm of +1 a photographic print that has been enlarged total absence of matter an organism with cells characteristic of all life forms except primitive microorganisms such as bacteria; i.e. an organism with 'good' or membrane-bound nuclei in its cells genus of small to medium-sized usually rock-inhabiting ferns of temperate and cold regions; in some classification systems placed in Polypodiaceae a skilled worker who is employed to restore or refinish antique furniture an explosive white crystalline weak acid (H2N2O2) one of the units (or cars) in a telpherage large electrical home appliances (refrigerators or washing machines etc.) that are typically finished in white enamel something joined by two equal and opposite forces that act along parallel lines desperate actions taken as a means to an end; 'he had to resort to desperate measures' (Mexico) dried beans cooked and mashed and then fried in lard with various seasonings a complex system of interconnecting cavities; concerned with hearing and equilibrium Eurasian plant having loose racemes of pink or purple flowers and spiny stems and tough roots a vein formed by several small veins on the surface of the spleen; joins the superior mesenteric to form the portal vein a genus of Megalonychidae tall pyramidal spruce native to northern Europe having dark green foliage on spreading branches with pendulous branchlets and long pendulous cones the willful and unlawful crippling or mutilation of another person an extensible membrane enclosing the contractile substance of a muscle fiber destructive parasitic fungi causing brown rot in plants a malicious attack a ballet that stresses the drama with features of comedy aquatic fungi growing chiefly on plant debris and animal remains 1 species: twinflower someone trained in compiling bibliographies a sack for holding customer's groceries a tray or stand for writing implements and containers for ink a short-haired breed with body similar to the Siamese cat but having a solid dark brown or gray coat a hardy genus of terrestrial orchids of Europe and northern Africa and western Asia woody plants with erect stems of tropical South America and South Africa and Madagascar; in some classifications included in the family Musaceae a brush that is made with the short stiff hairs of an animal or plant any of several short-billed Old World rails pleasantness resulting from something that can be enjoyed; 'the enjoyableness of an afternoon at the beach' American sandpiper that inflates its chest when courting the upper deck of an aircraft carrier; used as a runway a written certificate that gives the holder the right to purchase shares of a stock for a specified price within a specified period of time plant of southeastern Europe having yellow flowers like those of mustard and pods with open valves resembling bucklers a song characteristically played outside the house of a woman a corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice: 'the various turpitudes of modern society' an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine; 'he searched through piles of letters and clippings' an accounting entry acknowledging sums that are owing a feeling of lack of concern wax-coated Mexican shrub related to Euphorbia antisyphilitica young of any of various fur-bearing animals: 'a fox kit' a thin straight surgical knife used in dissection and surgery any of 4 vertical supports at the corners of a bedstead chronic leukemia characterized by lymphoblast-like cells; more common in older men the muscle that extends the forearm and abducts the ulna in pronation of the wrist a strip of netting dividing the playing area in tennis or badminton Japanese beverage from fermented rice usually served hot small medusa equipment used in gymnastic exercises all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you; 'his world was shattered'; 'we live in different worlds'; 'for them demons were as much a part of reality as trees were' a vest capable of resisting the impact of a bullet a collection of internet sites that offer text and graphics and sound and animation resources through the hypertext transfer protocol an advocate of strict observance of ritualistic forms the time of maturity when power and vigor are greatest ornamental evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having dark green pinnate leaves and racemes of yellow flowers followed by blue-black berries the ball that the player strikes with his cue mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another) light balanced arm that carries the cartridge the fabric used in upholstering a month in the Jewish calendar a resident of Nebraska a chemical bond consisting of a hydrogen atom between two electronegative atoms (e.g., oxygen or nitrogen) with one side be a covalent bond and the other being an ionic bond unpaid labor (as for the maintenance of roads) required by a lord of his vassals in lieu of taxes an order of bacteria a unit of military aircraft a disease of Scotch pines tropical American bluejay-like bird having greenish and bluish plumage a solid solution of two simple salts used to break down doors of fortified buildings a headlong plunge into water a failure of the seller's guarantee of good title breaking up and scattering by dispersion; 'the dissipation of the mist' a theory that tries to link the four fundamental forces; 'according to supersymmetry each force emerged separately during the big bang' small genus of deciduous climbing and creeping shrubs with white flowers in flat clusters; sometimes placed in family Saxifragaceae insurance against loss due to ill health mental understanding as an enlightening experience; 'he finally saw the light'; 'can you shed light on this problem?' a colorless gas with a strong fishy smell; used as a pesticide signal going into an electronic system the date on which an event occurred in some previous year Asian breed of large fowl with dense plumage and feathered legs an unstable construction with playing cards; 'he built three levels of his cardcastle before it collapsed' the state of being friends marine gastropod mollusk having a very small thin shell a binary compound of carbon with a more electropositive element large genus of decorative plants with thistlelike flower heads; cosmopolitan in distribution a special eat in a theater or grandstand box small large-mouthed tropical marine fishes common along sandy bottoms; males brood egg balls in their mouths; popular aquarium fishes a moist aromatic yeast-raised bread made with rye flour and molasses and orange rind slender tropical shallow-water East Indian fish covered with transparent plates genus of soft-bodied polychete marine worms the common American weasel distinguished by large size and black-tipped tail either of a pair of large venous sinuses in the cranial cavity a manner of speaking; 'he spoke with a thick tongue'; 'she has a glib tongue' (British and Australian) a cheap wine of inferior quality darkness; 'it vanished into the night' a word that is derived from another word an evergreen shrub set of standards established and enforced by local government for the structural safety of buildings a process that alters the energy or structure or composition of atomic nuclei a roast cut from the blade a native or inhabitant of Syria a ring given and worn as a sign of betrothal monetary unit in Thailand elegant room where guests are received the basic unit of money in Austria extreme emotional intensity; 'the wildness of his anger' a person works at lumbering the distance covered by a step; 'he stepped off ten paces from the old tree and began to dig' a mental image that is similar to a visual perception the reverse side that does not bear the representation of a person's head a box or chest or cabinet for holding hand tools blow air into a bag and squeeze it out through pipes the relation that exists when things occur at the same time; 'the drug produces an increased synchrony of the brain waves' a small metal plate that attaches to the toe or heel of a shoe (as in tap dancing) a bus or train or airplane that plies back and forth between two points grasshoppers and locusts; crickets any of several cacti of the genus Cereus Australasian bird with tongue and bill adapted for extracting nectar a last-in first-out kind of queue (LIFO) annihilation by pulverizing something smaller than and often included in the closely related Taxodium distichum an audible acoustic wave frequency a pair of sticks used to eat food with; oriental type genus of the Apogonidae microorganism resembling bacteria inhabiting arthropod tissues but capable of causing disease in vertebrates a variable in a logical or mathematical expression whose value depends in the independent variable; if f(x)=y, y is the dependent variable strict observance of formalities low semi-evergreen perennial herb having small spikes of white or pinkish flowers; native to southern United States but grown elsewhere raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2; 'I decided his double was a bluff' the fluid-filled cavity that surrounds the developing embryo any of various plants of the genus Sabbatia having usually pink cymose flowers; occur from acid bogs to brackish marshes a severely critical attack; 'the reviewers gave his book a sound slating' a card game for 2 players; played with 32 cards and king high very light cake cricket frog of eastern United States (trademark) a kind of plasterboard any of various powdered mixtures used in baking as a substitute for yeast "the outer boundary of an object or a material layer constituting or resembling such a boundary; 'there is a special cleaner for these surfaces'; 'the cloth had a pattern of red dots on a white surface'" a timber along the top of a wall to support the ends of joists, etc., and distribute the load the theological doctrine that salvation results from the interaction of human will and divine grace large European marine food fish a band of fabric or leather sewn inside the crown of a hat a heavy perfume made from the patchouli plant a herder of sheep (on an open range); someone who keeps the sheep together in a flock the act of spoiling someone whose job is to dye cloth (physics) the resistance of a material to the establishment of a magnetic field in it someone who works slowly and monotonously crowberries a compiler or writer of a dictionary a bitter salt used in detergents government of a country by its own people the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation; 'his state is in the deep south' concrete with metal and/or mesh added to provide extra support against stresses a paper jacket for a book; a jacket on which promotional information is printed tropical Atlantic fish with a long snout; swims snout down loss of all ability to communicate large carnivorous bipedal dinosaur having huge claws sweetened cream beaten with wine or liquor an immature animal or plant cell that develops into a gamete by meiosis skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on a means of escape in an emergency (British) a restaurant where tea and light meals are available yellow-throated American wood warbler a piece of land prepared for playing a game; 'the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field' four performers or singers who perform together formality and propriety of manner arboreal monkey of tropical America with long slender legs and long prehensile tail magma of any composition that cooled very rapidly heavy-bodied marine bottom-lurkers with eyes on flattened top of the head a native of inhabitant of Mexico a bishop having jurisdiction over a diocese type genus of the Mobulidae a fellow worker the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals a burrowing mammal having limbs adapted for digging a protagonist who lacks the characteristics that would make him a hero (or her a heroine) a lyric poet (British) a rowboat a bent tube fitting into a swimmer's mouth and extending above the surface; allows swimmer to breathe while face down in the water any identifying characteristic a (postulated) group of languages including many of the indigenous languages of Russia (but not Russian) a roasting spit that can be turned the part of the sea that can be seen from the shore; 'there was a ship in the offing' a stairway whose steps move continuously on a circulating belt the blood group whose red cells carry the B antigen a deep fissure a hard green Swiss cheese made with skim-milk curd and flavored with clover tropical rose-colored New World spoonbill (Judaism) the ceremonial dinner on the first night (or both nights) of Passover verboseness resulting from excessive repetitions the territory claimed by a juvenile gang as its own the porous calcified substance from which bones are made any orchid of the genus Psychopsis: spectacular large tiger-striped orchids a red that reflects little light murres the act of moving with great haste; 'he made a dash for the door' someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission annual or biennial cress growing in damp places sometimes used in salads or as a potherb; troublesome weed in some localities a person who creates models a slow march to be played for funeral processions a small pinion having cylindrical bars instead of teeth, used chiefly in inexpensive clocks a chart showing the relative positions of the stars in a particular part of the sky a light brown operated by pressing on a pedal a man who is White flesh of large trout of northern lakes a act of reducing a salary a woman who looks after babies in her own home while their parents are working a computer that represents information by numerical (binary) digits change in the structure of rock by natural agencies such as pressure or heat of introduction of new chemical substances a weed the quality of being disagreeable; and unpleasant separation of an epiphysis from the long bone to which it is normally attached without fracture of the bone (British) a ready-cooked and highly seasoned pork sausage abnormally light or infrequent menstruation an institution for the advancement of art or science or literature 1 species: hyacinth bean California annual having flower heads with yellow rays tipped with white (electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients); 'the pulsations seemed to be coming from a star' a 16th-century ship loaded with treasure motherless calf in a range herd of cattle hydrocarbon gases, usually propane or butane, kept under pressure the overhead inside lining of a room; 'he hated painting the ceiling' a beta blocker (trade name Lopressor) used in treating hypertension and angina and arrhythmia and acute myocardial infarction; has adverse side effects (depression and exacerbation of congestive heart failure etc.) tall large-horned humped south African cattle for meat or draft a triangle that contains an obtuse interior angle an abnormally large head; differs from hydrocephalus because there is no increased intracranial pressure and the overgrowth is symmetrical a native or inhabitant of Latvia extremely large pelagic tropical ray that feeds on plankton and small fishes; usually harmless but its size make it dangerous if harpooned an inherited disorder of metabolism in which the urine has a odor characteristic of maple syrup; if untreated it can lead to mental retardation and death in early childhood a building equipped with special equipment and personnel for a particular purpose; 'he started looking for a gas station'; 'the train pulled into the station' extinct family: mastodons an orienting response to food a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs a small strip of wood or plastic; used to pick food from between the teeth the property of being incompressible a loop knot that neither slips not jams (military) cloud of smoke to obscure movements any of the chemically inert gaseous elements of the helium group (group 8A or 0 of the periodic table) an antifungal and antibiotic (trade name Mycostatin) discovered in NY State; derived from soil fungi actinomycetes the act of coercing someone into government service a fast movement (usually in triple time) the doctrine that practical consequences are the criteria of knowledge and meaning and value a dog used in hunting game a single individual; 'every man jack' any fungus of the class Gasteromycetes spiny-finned food fishes of warm waters having well-developed teeth a chocolate bar made by the Hershey company military censorship of civilian communications (correspondence or printed matter of films) entering or leaving of circulating within territories controlled by armed forces surgical removal of a body part or tissue small moth whose larvae live in apples and English walnuts pleomorphic gram-negative nonmotile microorganism similar to both viruses and bacteria; parasitic in mammals one who works strenuously a beam made of wood a small spineless globe-shaped cactus; source of mescal buttons a mineral (fluosilicate of aluminum) that occurs in crystals of various colors and is used as a gemstone a clique that seeks power usually through intrigue one of two stout poles with foot rests in the middle; used for walking high above the ground; 'he was so tall I thought he was on stilts' wild pigeon of western North America; often mistaken for the now extinct passenger pigeon any number of entities (members) considered as a unit fall webworms the top of a staircase an electrical circuit that combines capacitance and inductance in such a way that a periodic electric oscillation will reach maximum amplitude something given for victory or superiority in a contest or competition; 'the prize was a free trip to Europe' surgical removal of part or all of the prostate gland something of small importance trumpeter of Brazil and Guiana; often kept to protect poultry in Brazil someone who supplies provisions (especially food) an interior angle formed be two meeting walls; 'a piano was in one corner of the room' a paint that provides a hard glossy transparent coating a stinkhorn having a stalk without a cap; the slimy gleba is simply plastered on its surface near the apex where winged insects can find it grayish Old World turtledove with a black band around the neck; often caged a quality of variability and lack of uniformity 2 species of tropical American shrubs or trees a type of submachine gun that is designed and manufactured in Israel; 'the Uzi is the weapon of choice for America's crack pedlars' fleshy maritime plant having fleshy stems with rudimentary scalelike leaves and small spikes of minute flowers; formerly used in making glass a configuration or pattern of elements so unified as a whole that it cannot be described merely as a sum of its parts rabbits; hares; pikas; formerly considered the suborder Duplicidentata of the order Rodentia the official house or establishment of an important person (as a sovereign or president); 'he refused to live in the governor's residence' the head of a human being a formally arranged gathering; 'next year the meeting will be in Chicago' killing by the administration of poison the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes; 'the casual couplings of adolescents'; 'the mating of some species occurs only in the spring' the art of wine making an edict of the Russian tsar tropical tree with large prickly pods of seeds that resemble beans and are used for jewelry and rosaries a part of a broadcast serial a sleep disorder characterized by sudden and uncontrollable episodes of deep sleep; 'he believes that narcolepsy is attributable to an inability to suppress REM sleep during waking' the ordinary person complete attention; intense mental effort a university student who has not yet received a first degree small birds of the Old World tropics having bright plumage and short wide bills an angel believed to have special affection for a particular individual a long whip stitch or overhand stitch overlying an edge to prevent raveling stock that has been bought back by the issuing corporation and is available for retirement or resale; it is issued but not outstanding; it cannot vote and pays no dividends (sports) the state of a professional athlete who is free to negotiate a contract to play for any team an abnormal outgrowth or enlargement of some part of the body a morbid fear of dogs a genus of Bothidae water fern of Europe and Asia and the eastern United States distinguished by four clover-like leaflets the young of certain carnivorous mammals such as the bear or wolf or lion genus of western United States annuals with showy yellow or white flowers tripletails a city district frequented by vagrants and alcoholics and addicts similar to but smaller than the dobsonfly a person who shows fear or timidity the act of bearing the weight of or strengthening; 'he leaned against the wall for support'; 'they forded the stream supporting their packs over their heads' a table linen made from linen damask the act of subjecting to experimental test; 'they agreed to end the testing of atomic weapons' the time of the physical formation and development of the earth (especially prior to human history) any of several muscles of the trunk large deciduous tree of the Pacific coast having deeply parted bristle-tipped leaves a covering (plate or mat) that protects the surface of a table (i.e., from the condensation on a cold glass or bottle) arctic foxes a court of commissioned officers for the discipline and punishment of military personnel worn as part of a man's formal evening dress a unit measuring force per unit area deep veins of the clitoris; join the vesical plexus sea hares porcupine of Borneo and Sumatra having short spines and a long tail persuasive relevance fern of Peru and Bolivia a fricative sound uttered as an expression of dislike or contempt; 'the performers could not be heard over the hissing of the audience' symptoms that mimic those of meningitis but without inflammation of the meninges a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts; 'Ancient Troy was a great city' coral snakes an iodine containing protein that is obtained from the thyroid gland and exhibits the general properties of the globulins slender yellow-flowered European mustard often troublesome as a weed; formerly used as an anthelmintic a shape distorted by twisting or folding absence of emotion an authoritative direction or instruction to do something (from MOdulate-DEModulate) a communications device used to connect computers by a telephone line a military structure where arms and ammunition and other military equipment are stored and training is given in the use of arms an inflammation of bone and bone marrow (usually caused by bacterial infection) any plant of the genus Kalmia a house roof made with a plant material (as straw) a wrestling hold in which the opponent's arms are crossed in front of his own neck to exert pressure on his windpipe the basic unit of money in Albania a fat sausage-shaped curl a letter of credit given to a business concern for commercial purposes informal language consisting of words and expressions that are not considered appropriate for formal occasions; often vituperative or vulgar; 'their speech was full of slang expressions' a tower once used to make shot; molten lead was poured through a sieve and dropped into water a contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts distributor points and current flows to the spark plugs jacamars an ornamental tassel on the hilt of a sword preliminary drawing for later elaboration; 'he made several studies before starting to paint' someone appointed by a ruler as an administrative deputy an agent (physical or chemical) that inactivates or destroys viruses small sandpiper-like shorebird having lobate toes and being good swimmers; breed in the arctic and winter in the tropics tall timber tree of New Zealand having white straight-grained wood medieval provincial dialects of French formerly spoken in the S of France an infection with Staphylococcus bacteria; usually marked by abscess formation a loving feeling a man participant in his own marriage ceremony shrubby honeysuckle with purple flowers; western North America borrowing and leaving an article as security for repayment of the loan the position of curator a dummy gun or piece of artillery made usually of wood "something that is conceived to be absolute; something that does not depends on anything else and is beyond human control; 'no mortal being can influence the absolute'" the quality of being lax and neglectful lofty evergreen of United States coastal foothills from Oregon to Big Sur poker in which each player gets 5 cards face down and bets a made without drawing any further cards a United States warship larger than a destroyer and smaller than a cruiser a large knife used to carve cooked meat a variety of paper wasp the basic unit of money in Suriname; equal to 100 cents a woman's one-piece bathing suit a unit of acoustic absorption equivalent to the absorption by a square foot of a surface that absorbs all incident sound a musician who performs a solo type genus of the Sciuridae; typical moderate-sized arboreal squirrels any of several toxic or carcinogenic hydrocarbons that occur as impurities in herbicides leaping rodent of Australian desert areas a covering that protects the outside of a building an avalanche volcanic water and mud down the slopes of a volcano any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears hard-rinded fruits medium-sized fir of northeastern North America; leaves smell of balsam when crushed; much used for pulpwood and Christmas trees a terrestrial evergreen shrub or small tree of western Australia having brilliant yellow-orange flowers; parasitic on roots of grasses any of several perennial vines of the genus Lathyrus an arrangement of events used as a measure of duration; 'on the geological time scale mankind has existed but for a brief moment' following the third position; number four in a countable series sirens a formal entry into a position or office; 'his initiation into the club'; 'he was ordered to report for induction into the arm' the latest and most admired style in clothes and cosmetics and behavior inflammation of the synovial membrane that lines a synovial joint; results in pain and swelling a native or inhabitant of Burundi worn by stripteasers; covering for the pubic area an agency responsible for social work concerned with the welfare and vocational training of children the inner layer of the periosteum the branch of engineering science concerned with the design and construction of aircraft a specialist in wine making shrubby herb cultivated for their soft velvety foliage and showy scarlet flowers comprising all living cephalopods except the family Nautilidae: the orders Octopoda (octopuses) and Decapoda (squids and cuttlefish) a mineral or mineral variety belonging to the amphibole group a man who serves as a sailor quantitative analysis by weight a member of a Tanoan people living in the SW US a colored stick of composition wax used for writing and drawing type genus of the Dactylopiidae materials using sight or sound to present information: 'language tapes and videocassettes and other audiovisuals' a male servant (especially a footman) ('cease' is a noun only in the phrase 'without cease') end a trance-like state in which the person can follow instructions but voluntary action is weak or absent the act of creating something by thinking flatworms a bodily passage or tube conveying a secretion or other substance perpetual life after death a system of rules of conduct or method of practice; 'he quickly learned the discipline of prison routine' or 'for such a plan to work requires discipline' the justification for some act or belief; 'he offered a persuasive defense of the theory' a flag that shows its nationality type genus of the Rhyniaceae; small leafless dichotomously branching fossil plants with terminal sporangia and smooth branching rhizomes use of a word to govern two or more words though appropriate to only one; 'Mr. Pickwick took his hat and his leave' is an example of zeugma' a mixture of seeds used to feed caged birds a family of Nematoda Old World perennial bulbous herbs any kind of physical activity outside a spacecraft by one of the crew a young male horse under the age of four a device to convey illuminating gas from the pipe to the gas burner a rein designed to keep the horse's head in the desired position Old World perennial plants grown for their showy flowers photographic film wound on a spool treasure of unknown ownership found hidden (usually in the earth) phalarope of northern oceans and lakes tropical American fern having fronds with light golden undersides a person who freely enlist for military service in some classifications included in the genus Martynia and hence the two taxonomic names for some of the unicorn plants fecal matter of animals a native or inhabitant of Tanzania the sum of the internal energy of a system and the product of its volume and pressure room for storing goods and supplies used in a business a punctuation mark (-) used between parts of a compound word or between the syllables of a word when the word is divided at the end of a line of text active lizard having a network of dusky dark markings; of semiarid areas from Oregon and Idaho to Baja California a person without moral scruples American spider that constructs a silk-lined nest with a hinged lid a complete extent or range: 'a face that expressed a gamut of emotions (Spain; Portugal; etc) a woman chaperon hermit crabs the branch of psychology that studies the social and mental development of children algae having the pigments chlorophyll and carotene and xanthophyll a genus of dicotyledonous plants of the family Anacardiaceae property consisting of houses and land an actor situated in the audience whose acting is rehearsed but seems spontaneous to the audience prodigious squandering (usually by a government) spreading short-trunked tree of Japan a momentary brightness metal supports for logs in a fireplace; 'the andirons were too hot to touch' an enclosure within which something originates or develops (from the Latin for womb) the fundamental principle of physics that the total energy of an isolated system is constant despite internal changes the significance of a story or event; 'the moral of the story is to love thy neighbor' large aquatic salamanders: hellbenders; giant salamanders pepper that is ground from whole peppercorns with husks on the intellectual fruitfulness of a creative imagination an ancestor in the direct line combination of lenses at the viewing end of optical instruments a visible display; 'she made a parade of her sorrows' a statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance; 'they send me an accounting every month' work that is left incomplete a cord or rope or cable that is hanging loosely; 'he took of the slack' orchid having two triangular leaves and a short lax raceme of green to rust-colored flowers with the lip flushed mauve; Europe and Asia and North America and Greenland plantlike flagellates containing chlorophyll; often considered unicellular algae the appearance of being plain and unpretentious a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations; 'great care is taken to keep the operating rooms aseptic' a salt used especially in baking powder a male with the same parents as someone else; 'my brother still lives with our parents' a segment of a citrus fruit; 'he ate a section of the orange' Chinese evergreen conifer discovered in 1955; not yet cultivated elsewhere a malignant neoplasm of cartilage cells one of the four playing cards in a deck bearing the picture of a king alpha-beta brass containing tin; resistant to sea water; Admiralty Metal is a trademark a fan run by an electric motor small wildcat of the mountains of Siberia Tibet and Mongolia an employee who performs clerical work (e.g., keeps records or accounts) made by boiling pure sugar until it hardens "an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization" one of the original members when an organization was founded a diplomat of the highest rank; accredited as representative from one country to another the habit of neglecting cleanliness either of the first pair of fang-like appendages near the mouth of an arachnid; often modified for grasping and piercing establishing something (e.g. gold or silver) as the legal tender of a country marine and freshwater eukaryotic algae: diatoms fabric draped and bound at intervals to form graceful loops a actual object referred to by a linguistic expression chromatin found only in female cells; 'the presence or absence of sex chromatin in cells obtained by amniocentesis makes it possible to determine the sex of a fetus' a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages secrets known only to an initiated minority a cone-shaped paper hat formerly placed on the head of slow or lazy pupils texture of fibers in wood dogfishes having a spine in each dorsal fin a disposition to fight the most primitive mammals comprising the only extant members of the subclass Prototheria a resident of the city of Washington a dicot family of the order Urticales including: genera Ulmus; Celtis; Planera; Trema a specialist in the systematic recording and analysis of the costs incident to production a bomb that has a detonating mechanism that can be set to go off at a particular time pebbles of flint used in masonry construction doing something in opposition to another way of doing it that you don't like; 'his style of painting was a reaction against cubism' a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms chiefly terrestrial orchids with tubers or fleshy roots often having long slender spurs and petals and lip lobes; includes species formerly placed in genus Gymnadeniopsis a short amusing opera the trait of being blunt and outspoken punishment inflicted by kicking the victim in the behind the univalent hydrocarbon radical C2H5 derived from ethane by the removal of one hydrogen atom a prescribed procedure to be followed routinely small shrubby maple of eastern North America; scarlet in autumn creeping European bramble bearing dewberries the experience of becoming familiar with something a kind of food poisoning caused by eating foods contaminated with Salmonella typhimurium an internal-combustion engine having cylinders arranged radially around a central crankcase any of the bivalent metals (calcium or strontium or barium or magnesium) the act of negating fine powdery material such as dry earth or pollen that can be blown about in the air; 'the furniture was covered with dust' a ball-and-socket joint between the head of the humerus and a cavity of the scapula a tall elegant chest of drawers a person who places expediency above principle concealing something under the ground a health resort near a spring or at the seaside yellow endocrine tissue that forms in a ruptured Graafian follicle a particular orthography or writing system primitive reptile-like fossil birds of the Jurassic or early Cretaceous (biology) a branching or armlike part of an animal the grounds in back of a house dried seedless grape found on sea beaches from Virginia to South America having greenish-yellow flowers and orange or yellow berries sweetened mixture of milk and eggs baked or boiled or frozen spiced hot milk with rum or wine a competitive exhibition of farm products; 'she won a blue ribbon for her baking at the county fair' for obtaining interference fringes creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries the ability to create egg-shaped with the narrower end at the base coextensive with the family Polygonaceae, tropical African timber tree with mahoganylike wood a journalist who writes editorials of deserts of northern Africa and southern Asia large whalebone whale with long flippers noted for arching or humping its back as it dives the principal law-enforcement officer in a county 1 species: pickaback plant someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest the complete set of inflected forms of a verb pain in the teeth that results from a change in air pressure (as in flying of mountain climbing) something added to increase softness milk that has been exposed briefly to high temperatures to destroy microorganisms and prevent fermentation a household servant a set of instructions coded so that the computer can use it directly without further translation a plant that bears fruit once and dies very dry pale sherry from Spain any defensive pleading that affirms facts rather than merely denying the facts alleged by the plaintiff a sequence of foot movements that make up a particular dance; 'he taught them the waltz step' a rotating pointer on the face of a timepiece; 'the big hand counts the minutes' any of a group of RNA viruses including those that cause influenza and mumps large genus of perennials that develop from bulbs or rhizomes gingerbread cut in the shape of a person the moon interrupts light from the sun the two openings to the nasal cavity in the nose shrub with stiff-pointed flattened stems resembling leaves (cladophylls); used for making brooms crabapple-like fruit used for preserves a feeling of dismal cheerlessness primitive saurischian carnivorous dinosaurs a painting of a person's face surgical removal of the uterus small oval seeds of the sesame plant a language that cannot be used as its own metalanguage type genus of the Mylodontidae; sometimes included in family Megatheriidae "a part of the earth that can be considered separately; 'the outdoor world'; 'the world of insects'" egg-thickened veloute the state of being confined; 'he was held in solitary confinement' the intensity of light falling on a photographic film or plate; 'he used the wrong exposure' small genus of perennial erect or spreading aromatic herbs; United States flukes a stream or river connected to a larger one fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube purging the body by the use of a cathartic to stimulate evacuation of the bowels a small container (open at one end) in which dice are shaken by hand and from which they are thrown silvery mojarra found along sandy shores of the western Atlantic the perceptual effect of the juxtaposition of very different colors effects (as nosebleed or nausea) of oxygen deficiency in the blood and tissues at high altitudes a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line monetary unit in Equatorial Guinea a genus of fish of the family Apogonidae (British) a highway the Hindu or Moslem system of keeping women secluded a percussion instrument consisting of a concave brass disk; makes a loud crashing sound when hit with a drumstick or when two are struck together a document listing the alternatives that is used in voting used to start an engine American blackberry with oblong black fruit any of numerous evergreen conifers of the genus Cupressus of north temperate regions having dark scalelike leaves and rounded cones a form of energy associated with moving electrons and protons a pad worn by football or baseball or hockey players the act of opening something; 'the ray of light revealed his cautious opening of the door' address to an absent or imaginary person lack of solid substance and strength North American annual or biennial with long soft hairs on the leaves fish with dorsoventrally flattened bodies; includes: rays; skates; guitarfishes; sawfishes brightly spotted crab of sandy beaches of the United States Atlantic coast arises near the apex of the heart and empties into the coronary sinus type genus of the family_Syngnathidae a milkshake made with malt powder small thornless tree or shrub of tropical America whose seed pods are a source of tannin a specialist in the study of nutrition the substitution or addition of iodine atoms in organic compounds people whose blood has the same antigens the organic process by which food is converted into substances that can be absorbed into the body an advocate of federalism an inhabitant of Lappland a polymer of vinyl formaldehyde a white mineral consisting of silica; found in volcanic rocks any of several cultivated grapes used for wine and raisins excessive blood in an organ or other body part the disqualification of a judge or jury by reason of prejudice or conflict of interest; a judge can be recused by objections of either party or they can disqualify themselves a gambler who accepts and pays off bets (especially on horse races) a trustful relationship; 'he took me into his confidence'; 'he betrayed their trust' the study and treatment of disorders associated with flight (especially with space flight) an isogram connecting points at which something occurs or arrives at the same time "(statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn; 'it is an estimate of the mean of the population'" a fraudulent or duplicitous representation a work of art (composition or drama) that is part of the standard repertory but has become hackneyed from much repetition the beginning or early stages; 'the onset of pneumonia' a family of dicotyledonous plants of the order Polemoniales; includes figwort and snapdragon and foxglove and toadflax and speedwell and mullein; in some classifications placed in the order Scrophulariales inflammation of a nerve accompanied by pain and sometimes loss of function a basic knitting stitch a continuing shrill noise; 'the clash of swords and the shrilling of trumpets'--P. J. Searles epilepsy characterized by clonus of muscle groups and progressive mental deterioration and genetic origin an appearance that is not attractive or beautiful; 'fine clothes could not conceal the girl's homeliness' small freshwater sculpin of Europe and North America an expensive vessel propelled by sail or power and used for cruising or racing small family of soft-finned bottom-livers with large eyes; relatives of lizardfishes radiation consisting of waves of energy associated with electric and magnetic fields resulting from the acceleration of an electric charge a poison produced by microorganisms extent downward or backward or inward: 'the depth of the water'; 'depth of a shelf'; 'depth of a closet' space sought for occupation by a nation whose population is expanding a US coin worth one dollar; 'the dollar coin has never been popular in the United States' sleepers a monocotyledonous genus of palm trees the number of people that can be seated in a vehicle or auditorium or stadium etc. too high a value or price assigned to something a woman prophet a family of smut fungi having a simple promycelium bearing the spores in an apical cluster a time period when you are not required to work; 'he requested time off to attend his grandmother's funeral' sort or variety; 'every description of book was there' (physics) the mass of a body in motion relative to the observer: it is equal to the rest mass multiplied by a factor that is greater than 1 and that increases as the magnitude of the velocity increases a low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae; has small bell-shaped pink or purple flowers a rebuke for making a mistake a piece of metal specially designed to conduct (and radiate) heat a well-known genus of fungus; has funnel-shaped fruiting body; includes the chanterelles a person suffering a nervous breakdown leafy wildflower with lavender-pink flowers that open in the evening and remain through cool part of the next day; found in open woods or brush in mountains of southern Colorado to Arizona and into Mexico the process of bubbling as gas escapes the time during human development before the appearance of the written word ranges from Central America to southwestern United States any of numerous wild or cultivated irises with hairlike structures on the falls (the drooping sepals) a pilgrimage to Mecca; every Muslim must make this journey at least once any of several gypsum cements; a white powder (a form of calcium sulphate) that forms a paste when mixed with water and hardens into a solid; used in making molds and sculptures and casts for broken limbs large Australian prawn a large bag (or pair of bags) hung over a saddle angle iron used as a bracket a delicate decorative fabric woven in an open web of symmetrical patterns a sword fern with arching or drooping pinnate fronds; a popular houseplant the light noise like the noise of silk clothing or leaves blowing in the wind the alveolar artery that goes through the mandibular canal to supply the lower teeth the act of renting (an apartment or house or car) a bus that makes a limited number of pre-scheduled stops the film industry (Australian) a curved piece of wood; when properly thrown will return to thrower brodiaea having an umbel of violet or blue-violet flowers atop a leafless stalk; northern Oregon to southern California a region of high pressure travelling through a gas at a high velocity restraint of a person's liberty an grand and imposing entrance (often extended metaphorically); 'the portals of the cathedral'; 'the portals of heaven'; 'the portals of success' breed of various very small compact wiry-coated dogs of Belgian origin having a short bearded muzzle a central depository where things can be left or picked up one who trains or exhibits animals small manta (to 4 feet) that travels in schools transient impairment of cortical function demonstrable only by 3-per-second brain-wave spikes a small rubber ball used in the game of handball nearly leafless wildflower with erect reddish-purple stems bearing racemes of pale pinkish and brownish-striped flowers; western Canada to Mexico type genus of the Bradypodidae: three-toed sloths climbing vine native to China; cultivated in New Zealand for its fuzzy edible green-meated fruit a disreputable or clumsy man massive powerful herbivorous odd-toed_ungulate of southeast Asia and Africa having very thick skin and one or two horns on the snout small genus of stingless herbs a board to select personnel for involuntary military service the action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community a noblewoman who holds the rank of baron or who is the wife or widow of a baron an inevitable event a fireplace in which a fire is burning; 'they sat by the fire and talked' where food is served from machines a family of birds of the order Coraciiformes a person who makes radiographs someone who (fraudulently) assumes the appearance of another a wide piece of cloth hanging from around the neck to support an injured arm someone who teaches a section of a large college course large late-ripening apple with skin striped with yellow and red any of various rhizomatous usually perennial plants of the genus Arnica a square dance figure; couples march counterclockwise in a circle a large vein along the line of the Sylvian fissure to the cavernous sinus a genus of Stichaeidae opens and closes a passageway by sliding over a port the dried grains or kernels or corn used as animal feed or ground for meal tape coated with adhesive pungent bottled sauce for steak chiefly tropical trees or shrubs or herbs having milky juice and often showy flowers; many are sources of drugs a belief in the magical power of fetishes (or the worship of a fetish) someone who gathers crops or fruits etc. distributes sound waves evenly the passage that is being read; 'he lost his place on the page' player acts out a phrase for others to guess hypertension that is secondary to another disease intense aversion verbal abuse; a crude substitute for argument fast-growing evergreen shrub of southeastern United States having arching interlaced branches and racemes of white flowers any cup-shaped concavity; 'bees filled the waxen cups with honey'; 'he wore a jock strap with a metal cup'; 'the cup of her bra' a flabby softness a comment (usually added to a text); 'his notes were appended at the end of the article' an elementary particle with positive charge; interaction of a positron and an electron results in annihilation Pacific shark valued for its fins (used by Chinese in soup) and liver (rich in vitamin A) oil obtained from fish brown North American horned owl measures electric charge any of several small gregarious cetacean mammals having a blunt snout and many teeth minute wingless arthropods: telsontails a can that holds beer a breed of stocky medium-sized short-haired dog with a brindled coat and square-jawed muzzle developed in Germany "the place where people vote" partly mineralized copal dug from the ground people who are highly experienced or who have inside information; 'the smart money said Truman would lose the election' the side toward the wind a thin membrane around the cytoplasm of a cell; controls passage of substances in and out of the cell the quality of being able to cause death or fatal disasters platform surrounding the head of a lower mast a personal enemy; 'they had been political foes for years' weasels; polecats; ferrets; minks; fishers; otters; badgers; skunks; wolverines; martens any alloy whose principal component is copper an object created by carving (as wood or ivory or stone) the hallucinatory alkaloid that is the active agent in mescal buttons someone excellent of their kind; 'he's a jimdandy of a soldier' protozoa having four membranous ciliary organelles accompany the peroneal arteries; arising in the heel and running up the back of the leg to join the posterior tibial veins of the popliteal vein fights on foot with small arms Australian conifer bearing two-inch seeds tasting like roasted chestnuts; among the aborigines the tree is hereditary property protected by law a corporate security (usually bonds or preferred stock) that can be exchanged for another form of security (usually common stock) a calcareous material harder and denser than bone that comprises the bulk of a tooth widespread in North America omelet cooked quickly and slid onto a plate inflammation of a breast (or udder) a flat-bottomed boat used on upper Great Lakes the act of bringing near or bringing together especially the cut edges of tissue not used in all classifications; in some classifications considered coextensive with the Lemuroidea; in others includes both Lemuroidea and Tarsioidea (Judaism) an initiation ceremony marking the 12th birthday of a Jewish girl and signifying the beginning of religious responsibility tropical American weed having pale yellow or orange flowers naturalized in southern United States angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object) a medium (art or business) that disseminates moving pictures: 'theater pieces transferred to celluloid'; 'this story would be good cinema'; 'film coverange of sporting events' having membranous expansions along sides of body and limbs and tail European herb with bright yellow flowers; a common weed in grain fields a body of dancers or singers who perform together any of various plants of the genus Craspedia grown for their downy foliage and globose heads of golden flowers; Australia and New Zealand a long fiberglass implement used for pole vaulting a written evaluation of a work of literature an organism that has the characteristics of a more primitive type of that organism veins that drain the inner ear an efficient incentive; 'they hoped it would act as a spiritual dynamic on all churches' (computer science) a network of computers the act of digging; 'there's an interesting excavation going on near Princeton' a school for students intermediate between elementary school and college; usually grades 9 to 12 mud turtles; musk turtles a viral disease (usually fatal) of rabbits a timepiece that shows the time of day a game in which something round (as a plate) is spun on edge and the name of a player is called; the named player must catch the spinning object before it falls or pay a forfeit sugar-glazed jellied candy a body of people associated together; 'diplomatic corps' obstruction or narrowing of the mitral valve (as by scarring from rheumatic fever) a small garden where vegetables are grown a device to retain larger pieces while smaller pieces and liquids pass through status with respect to the relations between people or groups: 'on good terms with her in-laws'; 'on a friendly footing' a (usually long) dramatic speech by a single actor a clef that puts middle C on the bottom line of the staff sturdy carnivorous burrowing mammal with strong claws widely distributed in the northern hemisphere (computer science) a tiny electromagnetic coil and metal pole used to write and read magnetic patterns on a disk veins that drain the posterior body wall and the lumbar vertebral venous plexuses an instrument for extracting tight-fitting components a store that sells only one kind of merchandise reserve assets in the International Money Fund; designed to supplement reserves of gold and convertible currencies used to maintain stability in the foreign exchange market baking shelled eggs a commissioned naval officer who ranks above a captain and below a rear admiral; the lowest grade of admiral the sum of recognized accomplishments; 'the lawyer has a good record' the basic unit of money in Nicaragua; equal to 100 centavos dullness owing to length or slowness conenoses small African deciduous tree with spreading crown having leaves clustered toward ends of branches and lilaclike clusters of creamy flowers type genus of the Meliaceae: East Indian and Australian deciduous trees with leaves resembling those of the ash any opponent of technological progress sexual pleasure obtained by inflicting harm (physical or psychological) on others the contemplation of your own thoughts and desires and conduct an agent or device intended to prevent conception the property of being to the north the letter A in red; Puritans required adulterers to wear it a verb (or verb construction) that requires an object to be grammatical a dessert of sliced fruit and ice cream covered with whipped cream and cherries and nuts admits cooling air to car's radiator youthful appearance in an old person a fleshy bright red saprophytic plant of the mountains of western North America that appears in early spring while snow is on the ground software that can be used by a group of people who are working on the same information but may be distributed in space any of several western American plants of the genus Cheiranthus having large yellow flowers any of various plants of the genus Cymbidium having narrow leaves and a long drooping cluster of numerous showy and variously colored boat-shaped flowers; extensively hybridized and cultivated as houseplants and important florists' flowers a variety of aster vulnerability to forceful attack rush of Australia large tropical American evergreen yielding chicle gum and edible fruit; sometimes placed in genus Achras someone who arranges (or tries to arrange) marriages for others informal abbreviation of 'representative' the state of being overrun in unpleasantly large numbers (as by parasites) a base found in DNA (but not in RNA) and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with adenine a stronghold that is reinforced for protection from enemy fire; with apertures for defensive fire someone legally empowered to witness signatures and certify a document's validity and to take depositions grasshopper with short antennae a detailed critical inspection glass decorated by facet-cutting or grinding the humanistic study of literature the act of taking a step in walking solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels a device that indicates the amount of fuel remaining in a vehicle the end of a calendar year; 'he had to unload the merchandise before the year-end' (often plural) systems used in transmitting messages electronically any of various evergreen climbing shrubs of the genus Stephanotis having fragrant waxy flowers tropical African climbing plant having yellow flowers with a dark purple center something that keeps things out or hinders sight; 'they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet' a genus of Carangidae the act of packing or storing away large genus of tropical and subtropical herbs and shrubs and trees often grown as ornamentals for their profusion of large flowers in a variety of colors records electric currents generated by the brain uncastrated adult male of domestic cattle an exhilarating psychological state of pride and optimism; an absence of depression someone who cleans soot from chimneys a temporary military unit formed to accomplish a particular objective jointed-foot invertebrates: arachnids; crustaceans; insects; millipedes; centipedes a camera with a photoflash attachment an open-air market in an Arabian city someone who makes or repairs tents a guerrilla who fights only in cities and towns the basic unit of money in Cambodia; equal to 100 sen a legal instrument authorizing someone to act as the grantor's agent a light glancing touch; 'there was a brief kiss of their hands in passing' exercise by lifting weights thinly sliced sweet pickles some third thing similar to two opposites but distinct from both type genus of the Trogonidae an interpreter and guide in the Near East an intermediate floor just above the ground floor someone who lives near wharves and lives by pilfering from ships or warehouses any worm of the Chaetognatha; transparent marine worm with horizontal lateral and caudal fins and a row of movable curved spines at each side of the mouth any of numerous plants of the genus Hypericum having yellow flowers and transparently dotted leaves; traditionally gathered on St John's eve to ward off evil small genus of timber trees of eastern Asia, Australasia and tropical Africa that form large buttresses a cycloid generated by a point outside the rolling circle something that aids or promotes well-being: 'for the common good' strangeness as a consequence of being old fashioned; 'some words in her dialect had a charming quaintness' receives veins from the upper surfaces of the stomach and empties into the portal vein the hemisphere south of the equator any of several large caribou living in coniferous forests of southern Canada; in some classifications included in the species Rangifer tarandus an almond covered with a sugar coating that is hard and flavored and colored a secondary or inferior position or status: 'tennis has had to take a backseat while his work is so demanding' a call of names of those receiving mail a tapir found in Malaya and Sumatra loud and confused and empty talk; 'mere rhetoric' small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage blue cheese of Denmark an enclosure within a courtroom for the jury a form of penicillin effective against penicillin-resistant staphylococci a cell that is specialized to conduct nerve impulses a piece of metal (as in a ring or other jewelry) that holds a gem in place; 'the diamond was in a plain gold mount' a genus of Scolopacidae the system of numbering pages a bet that a horse will finish a race no worse than second membrane of the young sporophore of various mushrooms extending from the margin of the cap to the stem and is ruptured by growth; represented in mature mushroom by an annulus around the stem and sometimes a cortina on the margin of the cap the higher of two berths small gate or door (especially one that is part of a larger door) male wood_duck a capital tax on property imposed by municipalities type genus of the Chamaeleontidae as cast-iron or steel block for supporting a journal or bearing wakes sleeper at preset time erect perennial strong-scented with serrate pointed leaves and a loose panicle of yellowish flowers; the eastern United States small chimpanzee of swamp forests in Zaire; a threatened species a bitter or critical manner of speaking a person who advocates the supremacy of some particular group over all others a particular instance of selling; 'he has just made his first sale'; 'they had to complete the sale before the banks closed' trailing perennial evergreen herb of northwestern United States with small white flowers; used medicinally any North American shrubby perennial herb of the genus Heliopsis having large yellow daisylike flowers Eurasian plant apple-scented foliage and white-rayed flowers and feathery leaves used medicinally; in some classification systems placed in genus Anthemis a fault or defect in a system or machine an attendant who takes care of baggage European herb somewhat resembling celery widely naturalized in Britain coastal regions and often cultivated as a potherb a brief social visit: 'senior professors' wives no longer make afternoon calls on newcomers' the atomic process that occurs during a chemical reaction; 'he determined unique mechanisms for the photochemical reactions' a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality; 'sculpture is a form of art'; 'what kinds of desserts are there?' pale yellowish tree cricket widely distributed in North America a procedure in which blood is drawn and separated into its components by dialysis; some are retained and the rest are returned to the donor by transfusion a single-reed woodwind with a conical bore "a cause of pain or injury or loss; 'he feared the dangers of traveling by air'" an unwholesome atmosphere; 'the novel spun a miasma of death and decay' activity undertaken as part of a commercial enterprise New Zealand conifer flesh of swordfish usually served as steaks inflammation of the choroid layer behind the retina any surgery that involves the nervous system (brain or spinal cord or peripheral nerves) an unofficial vote taken to determine opinion on some issue wine containing not more than 14 percent alcohol usually served with a meal a layer of masonry; 'a course of bricks' a medical establishment run by a group of medical specialists someone subject to melancholia a bag of strong paper with handles; carries goods while shopping recent immigrants who are lumped together as a class by their low socioeconomic status in spite of different cultural backgrounds nonalcoholic beverage (usually carbonated) remoras found attached to sharks palm having palmate or fan-shaped leaves diagram of an electrical or mechanical system the act of committing a crime a stone in the exterior of a large and important building; usually carved with a date and laid with appropriate ceremonies a naval spectacle; a mock sea battle put on by the ancient Romans a game played on an ice rink by two opposing teams of 6 skaters each who try to knock a flat round puck into the opponents' goal with hockey sticks perennial shrub of the eastern Mediterranean region and southwestern Asia having flowers whose buds are used as capers small web-spinning mite; a serious orchard pest any of the small slender limbless burrowing wormlike amphibians of the order Gymnophiona; inhabit moist soil in tropical regions tangled mass of prickly plants rotating records cause a stylus to vibrate and the vibrations are amplified acoustically or electronically the ratio of the number of workers that had to be replaced in a given time period to the average number of workers triggerfishes 100 mongo equal 1 tugrik a female businessman an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk the innermost of the three gluteal muscles the act of dyeing or tinting one's hair the playing of a game of tenpins or duckpins etc a bed that is built in and fixed to a wall a room in which photographs are developed a political advocate of socialism a thistle-like flower head with edible fleshy leaves and heart scallops in white wine sauce served in scallop shells a family of lichens a small hard particle; 'a grain of sand' the pearly lining of the dark shells is a source of mother-of-pearl (mythology) the spirit of thunder and lightning believed by Native Americans to take the shape of a great bird an amount or percentage deducted a string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language; 'he always spoke in grammatical sentences' "a relation between mathematical expressions (such as equality or inequality)" having knowledge of; 'he had no awareness of his mistakes'; 'his sudden consciousness of the problem he faced'; 'their intelligence and general knowingness was impressive' for steep mountains; a cogwheel on the locomotive engages cogs on a center rail to provide traction a participle (usually at the begining of a sentence) apparently modifying a word other than the word intended: e.g., 'flying across the country' in 'flying across the country the Rockies came into view' an ethical system that evaluates actions by reference to personal well-being through a life based on reason Eurasian toad with variable chiefly green coloring small deciduous open-crowned tree of eastern North America having creamy white flowers and large leaves in umbrellalike formations at ends of branches a system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment the phenomenon of sediment or gravel accumulating the trait of being willing to give your money or time a projecting ridge on a mountain or submerged under water someone who forces their way aboard ship; 'stand by to repel boarders' a slight or superficial understanding of a subject a window having two sashes that slide up and down codfish preserved in salt; must be desalted and flaked by soaking in water and pounding; used in e.g. codfish cakes small quantity of fried batter containing fruit or meat or vegetables a family of fish of the order Heterosomata residue from making butter from sour raw milk; or pasteurized milk curdled by adding a culture "a causal agent creating and controlling things in the universe; 'nature has seen to it that men are stronger than women'" a band or collar that holds an individual stone in a jewellery setting the person who plays that position on a football team; 'the left guard was injured on the play' mean-spirited cowardice metal ring on a rotating part of a machine to provide a continuous electrical connection through brushes on stationary contacts the early stage of growth or development common crow of N. America where food is canned holds dirty clothes to be washed or wet clothes to be dried dough used for very light flaky rich pastries Cataflam is the trade name of this nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug rate of metabolism; the amount of energy expended in a give period a worker who is hired to perform a job star-shaped structure formed in the cytoplasm of a cell having fibers like rays that surround the centrosome during mitosis a mixed nerve that supplies the pharynx, larynx, lungs, heart, esophagus, stomach, and most of the abdominal viscera a steel gray metallic mineral (a sulphide of lead and antimony) a drug that reduces excitability and calms a person temporary living quarters a list of people who are out of favor a small bit that drills a first hole to guide a larger drill any of the equal portions into which the capital stock of a corporation is divided and ownership of which is evidenced by a stock certificate; 'he bought 100 shares of IBM at the market price' usually built parallel to the shoreline where you live; 'deliver the package to my home'; 'he doesn't have a home to go to'; 'your place or mine?' a wide light-weight board that can be placed across the lap and used for writing a fungus of the genus Verticillium heat-resistant dishware in which food can be cooked as well as served (informal) any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out a restless desire for change and excitement the branch of psychology that studies abnormal mentation and behavior a conjugated protein having a carbohydrate component imperfectly known parasites of the muscles of vertebrates any of several large African antelopes of the genus Kobus having curved ridged horns and frequenting e.g. swamps and rivers a single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance large genus of chiefly perennial erect branching herbs of north temperate regions some poisonous a large thick pad filled with resilient material and often incorporating coiled springs, used as a bed or part of a bed the official act of consigning a person to a prison (or mental hospital) an olympics for winter sports a different or fresh set of clothes; 'she brought a change in her overnight bag' an officer of the law type genus of the family Cynocephalidae riding a horse as a sport a genus of Serranidae macaroon containing coconut the cost of borrowing something a bath in warm mud (as for treating rheumatism) a mineral consisting of chloride and vanadate of lead; a source of vanadium type genus of the Lampridae ornamental needlework done by drawing threads to form lacelike patterns a vestibule leading to the nave of a church a chronic contagious viral disease marked by inflammation of the conjunctiva and cornea of the eye and the formation of scar tissue swordtails quantitative chemical analysis by color using a colorimeter oil and vinegar with mustard and garlic an abnormal but benign thickening of the prickle-cell layer of the skin (as in psoriasis) lac in its natural state as scraped off twigs and dried resistance by potential customers to aggressive selling practices steel that is quenched in oil the quality of being instrumental for some purpose a casual manner a computer capable of performing a large number of mathematical operations per second the property of giving little resistance to pressure sensitivity to the action of radiant energy type genus of the Priacanthidae the time of life between puberty and adulthood title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran a bit resembling a snaffle bit; used with a separate curb a flammable gray crystalline compound (NaH) one of the parallel filaments projecting from the main shaft of a feather small tree of West Indies and Florida having large odd-pinnate leaves and panicles of red-striped purple to white flowers followed by decorative curly winged seedpods; yields fish poisons several things grouped together small genus of aromatic herbs of Mediterranean regions; widely cultivated a young woman; 'a young lady of 18' the formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion fine white clay used in making tobacco pipes and pottery and in whitening leather an unusual appearing ghostly figure; 'we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us' the edge of a steep place a wrestler who weighs 154-172 pounds small dry indehiscent fruit with the seed distinct from the fruit wall type genus of the family Elaeocarpaceae a signal that serves to indicate or suggest something; 'a sign of foul play'; 'indications of strain' the common European annual marigold a correction by emending; a correction resulting from critical editing a grid-like instrument for measuring the altitude, direction, and velocity of movement of clouds (British) a form of protest by workers in which they deliberately slow down in order to cause problem from their employers something that protrudes a resident of modern Rome European weed widely naturalized in North America having yellow flower heads and leaves resembling a cat's ears a building housing fire apparatus and firemen thin crusty lichen thallus; adheres closely to or is embedded in the surface on which it grows a female spokesperson a low wall the right to be free a white or colorless slightly acid solid that is soluble in water and ethanol; used in the manufacture of glass and paper and adhesives and in detergents and as a flux in welding; also used as an antiseptic and food preservative the syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization the act of preventing a morbid fear of thunder and lightning larvae bore into and feed on apples large scissors with strong blades a toiletry for the hair a stroke with a curved piece of wood with taut horsehair strands that is used in playing stringed instruments monetary unit in Seychelles (slang) a gangster's pistol a finance company owned by a manufacturer to finance dealers' inventories or to make loans to consumers buying the company's products a problem-oriented language used to describe job requirements to an operating system a mental representation; 'I tried to describe his appearance to the police' an application that provides the user with tools needed to write and edit and format text and to send it to a printer earwigs and a few related forms a basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct; 'their principles of composition characterized all their works' a complex consisting of an organic base in association with hydrogen chloride a catcher's mask with bars an unpleasant carriage a judicial writ from an appellate court ordering the court of record to produce the records of trial "the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with; 'he encountered a general feeling of resistance from many citizens'; 'despite opposition from the newspapers he went ahead'" a nonresidential junior college offering a curriculum fitted to the needs of the community dioecious trees or shrubs of New Zealand; similar in habit to Dacrydium any of several spore-bearing aquatic or marsh plants having short rhizomes and quill-like leaves; worldwide except Polynesia opposes intoxicating beverages a consonant characterized by a hissing sound (like s or sh) a person who was born in a particular place any bacterium of the genus Thiobacillus a room (usually in the basement of a building) that contains a furnace for heating the building scandent thicket-forming ferns of Asia to western Pacific makes things out of wood the branch of engineering science that studies rocket design and operation the arousal of strong emotions and emotional behavior stemless plant with tufts of grasslike leaves and erect panicle of minute creamy white flowers; southwestern United States and Mexico the quality of being incapable of mutation a long narrow boat designed for quick turning and use in rough seas device or stratagem for concealment or deceit a formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote; 'he made a motion to adjourn'; 'she called for the question' a barrier consisting of a horizontal rail and supports analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic elimination of unacceptable alternatives flagellates parasitic in intestines of vertebrates including humans the act of shipping again (especially by transferring to another ship) an appraisal of the value of something a sleeve with a large armhole and tight cuff plover family any immature mammal a projection of the globe onto a flat map using a grid of lines of latitude and longitude perennial herbs of eastern North America and Asia having aromatic tuberous roots: ginseng a sac or cavity containing fluid especially lymph or cerebrospinal fluid the activity of putting things together in groups"the activity of putting things together in groups" the evolution of one type of organism from another by a long series of gradual changes a unit of angular distance equal to 60 degrees a freely moving joint in which movement is limited to rotation; 'the articulation of the radius and ulna in the arm is a pivot joint' a writing system using pictographs rise and fall of the voice pitch a device that works on mechanical principles perennial having tufted basal leaves and short leafless stalks each bearing a solitary yellow flower head; dry hillsides and plains of west central North America; sometimes placed in genus Hymenoxys hominy prepared by bleaching in lye (Roman Catholic Church) a devotion consisting of 14 prayers before the 14 stations of the cross fragrant oval yellowish tropical fruit used in jellies and confections one of the supports for a piece of furniture firm chewy candy made from caramelized sugar and butter and milk confusion about what you are or what you are doing a school in which students learn to dance a woman poet genus of tropical American herbs or subshrubs a double-barreled smoothbore shoulder weapon for firing shot at short ranges a marked recovery of strength or spirits during an illness any of several southern African geraniums having fragrant 3- to 5-lobed leaves and pink flowers an aqueous solution of sodium hypochlorite plant having basal grasslike leaves and a narrow open cluster of starlike yellowish-orange flowers atop a leafless stalk; southwestern United States; only species of Anthericum growing in North America balls used in playing pool sauteed strips of beef and mushrooms in sour cream sauce served with noodles a fleshy fruit (apple or pear or related fruits) having seed chambers and an outer fleshy part (chemistry) law stating that the proportions in which two elements separately combine with a third element are also the proportions in which they combine together the base that must be touched first by a base runner in baseball the place where a saddler works a company that produces plays the driver of a team of horses doing hauling tiny gray woolly tufted annual with small golden-eyllow flower heads; southeastern California to northwestern Arizona and southwestern Utah; sometimes placed in genus Eriophyllum inflammation of the sclera a football play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate; 'the coach sent in a passing play on third and long' something written by one's own hand a clutch in which the frictional surfaces are cone-shaped formerly used to treat burns composition (often improvised) for a solo instrument (especially solo organ) and not a regular part of a service or performance chute with flowing water down which toboggans and tubes and people slide into a pool small birds resembling warblers but having some of the habits of titmice the process of raising a quantity to some assigned power a party of people to search for someone a disposition to be lenient in judging others; 'softness is not something permitted of good leaders' a passage full of ornate and flowery language a distinguishing difference: 'he learned the distinction between gold and lead' a woman who performs a solo Oriental dance using exaggerated abdominal movements skillfulness in the command of fundamentals deriving from practice and familiarity; 'practice greatly improves proficiency' a perambulator that resembles a bassinet the angular distance of a point in an orbit past the point of periapsis measured in degrees a brief dramatic piece (usually comic) presented after a play someone who does work (as sewing or embroidery) with a needle eastern North American herb whose yellow flowers are (or were) used in dyeing (usually 'the stage'); the theater as a profession; 'an early movie simply showed a long kiss by two actors of the contemporary stage' water scorpions type of the Diomedeidae a white crystalline carboxylic acid used as a preservative the anion OH having one oxygen and one hydrogen atom tropical vine having umbels of small purple flowers and edible roots sometimes boiled as a potato substitute; Colombia a member of the Salish people in NW Washington the merging of adjacent sounds or syllables or words pallid bottom-dwelling flat-headed fish with large eyes and a duck-like snout small scallop inhabiting shallow waters and mud flats of the North American Atlantic coast a system of timekeeping that defines the beginning and length and divisions of the year tree having palmate leaves and large clusters of white to red flowers followed by brown shiny inedible seeds deep-water wormlike mollusks lacking calcareous plates on the body but having fine slimy spicules on the covering mantle adhereing to the concrete construal of something a bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group small genus of temperate Old World terrestrial orchids mid-sized digital computer pattern of weaving or structure of a fabric a mill that is powered by men or animals walking on a circular belt or climbing steps chopped meat mixed with potatoes and browned a chocolate candy containing little sugar part of an insect's body that bears the wings and legs a financial institution that makes loans a structure or natural landmark of historic interest; set aside by national government for preservation and public enjoyment an animal skin made smooth and flexible by removing the hair and tanning primarily a prairie turtle of western United States and northern Mexico respiratory disorder characterized by wheezing; often of allergic origin a surveying instrument consisting of a spirit level and a sighting tube; used to measure the angle of inclination of a line from the observer to the target a mat on which wrestling matches are conducted a lamp consisting of a flame directed at a cylinder of lime with a lens to concentrate the light; formerly used for stage lighting (British) a policeman stationed at an intersection to direct traffic liverworts with prostrate and usually dichotomously branched thalli a native or inhabitant of Sierra_Leone tissue consisting or or containing fibers in both animals and plants the state of being genuine fungus causing white pine blister rust and having a complex life cycle requiring a plant of genus Ribes as alternate host using several conjunctions in close succession, especially where some might be omitted (as in 'he ran and jumped and laughed for joy') medium-sized moth whose larvae are corn earworms one of 4 vertebrae in the human coccyx trogons a series of tube (joined by screwed collars) that connects a drilling platform to the drilling bit; rotates the bit and supplies drilling mud a large ornate wagon for carrying a musical band; 'the gaudy bandwagon led the circus parade' a historian who writes annals toothed whales: dolphins; porpoises; sperm whales; beaked whales a texture like that of wood a native or inhabitant of Bolivia a steel that contains less that 0.9% carbon a public building in which a variety of games of chance can be played (operated as a business) money spent for inadequate return; 'the senator said that the project was a waste of money' the practice of dentistry in some classifications considered a separate order: alderflies; dobsonflies; snake flies position 12 in a countable series of things an attitude of admiration or esteem; 'she lost all respect for him' shrub of West Indies and South America that is a source of indigo dye a male spokesperson a resin derived from allyl alcohol that hardens when cured; used as an adhesive a vessel in which substances can be ground with a pestle deciduous climbing shrub with fragrant yellow-white flowers in axillary whorls any area of the body especially sensitive to sexual stimulation a means or instrumentality for communicating that part of the cerebral cortex in either hemisphere of the brain lying below the crown of the head a notation that makes a note sharp or flat or natural although that is not part of the key signature goldenrod in logic: a proposition that is not susceptible of proof or disproof; its truth is assumed to be self-evident music composed in quadruple time for dancing the gavotte involuntary rolling of the tongue and twitching of the face or trunk or limbs a variety of green lacewing sadness caused by grief or affliction the quality of serving to build or improve bog orchid of eastern North America with a spike of pure white fringed flowers the political doctrine that supports the rights and powers of the common people in their struggle with the privileged elite an action; 'how could you do such a thing?' a religious person who believes Jesus is the Christ and is a member of a Christian denomination a shipboard missile system the form of a literary work submitted for publication equipment for a horse a distillate of petroleum, especially one used medicinally a localized swelling filled with blood (linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages; 'the Beijing dialect uses four tones' a positive feeling of liking; 'he had trouble expressing the affection he felt'; 'the child won everyone's heart' any of various venomous elapid snakes of Asia and Africa and Australia the act of making angulate (having corners) small creatures resembling pieces of fuzzy rope; each with a cluster of swimming bells serving as the head and long elastic tentacles for drawing in prey an inability (usually of a male) to copulate an incompetent person; usually used in negative constructions: 'he's no slouch when it comes to baseball' a government-maintained detention facility egg-shaped chocolate candy fine parchment prepared from the skin of a young animal e.g. a calf or lamb a sharp narrow ridge found in rugged mountains handling an operation that involves providing labor and materials be supplied as needed an obstacle on a golf course the space in a ship or aircraft for storing cargo the doctrine that the meaning of a proposition consists of the operations involved in proving or applying it perennial of Europe and North Africa; foliage turns black in drying the process of educating yourself moves air in or out of something a skeletal muscle whose contraction extends or stretches a body part European bunting the male being bright yellow any of several large freshwater leeches a large ladle; 'he used a scoop to serve the ice cream' "any long object resembling a thin line; 'a mere ribbon of land'; 'the lighted ribbon of traffic'; 'from the air the road was a gray thread'; 'a thread of smoke climbed upward'" monetary unit of Venezuela a triangular piece of cloth the mistress of a chateau or large country house fossil hagfish of the Pennsylvanian period (c. 300 million years ago) that resembled modern hagfishes a person of authority who subjects others to undue pressures a break in a journey for the night (civil law) a law established by following earlier judicial decisions a sling made with gin any of various pale or ashy mosses of the genus Sphagnum whose decomposed remains form peat one who is absent from school without permission a red-purple to deep purple dye obtained from snails or made synthetically small silvery drumfish often mistaken for white perch; found along coasts of United States from New York to Mexico a specialist in oncology the spine and part of the sides are bound in one material and the rest in another a branch of the maxillary artery that supplies the alveolar process a member of a cult the quality of lacking intensity or substance; 'a shrill yet sweet tenuity of voice'- Nathaniel Hawthorne glass tube closed at one end a native or inhabitant of Cyprus swearing to the truth of a statement; to lie under oath is to become subject to prosecution for perjury any sedge of the genus Eriophorum; north temperate bog plants with tufted spikes light puffy bread made of a puff batter and traditionally baked in the pan with roast beef a chromosome that determines the sex of an individual; 'mammals have two sex chromosomes' a common North American maple tree; 5-lobed leaves are light green above and silvery white beneath; source of hard close-grained but brittle light-brown wood a woman villain fleshy folds of tissue as those surrounding the mouth allows the photographer to view and focus the exact scene being photographed a metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells; used to make dyes and drugs fern having pinnatifid fronds and growing in wet places; cosmopolitan in north temperate regions (British) informal term for information; 'give me the gen on your new line of computers' the front or forward projection of a tool or weapon; 'he ducked under the nose of the gun' soft and wool; for babies a commercial enterprise owned by the people who work for it the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture a flash of light (especially reflected light) newspaper with half-size pages engaging in a racket a person who founds or establishes some institution; 'George Washington is the father of his country' an expert who gives advice a puddle of mud; 'the children loved a mud puddle' a compound derived from ammonium with hydrogen atoms replaced by organic groups; used as surface-active agents, disinfectants, and in drugs genus of flowering herbs of western United States (in boxing) the act of one boxer holding onto the other to avoid being hit and to rest momentarily (nautical) a lightweight rope made of several rope yarns loosely wound together the external pouch that contains the testes silky-foliaged herb of Rocky Mts with bluish-white flowers the quality of being insoluble a deaf person who is unable to speak the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year seizing and holding (an office or powers) by force (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species the state of needing help from something a member of a work crew the branch of the coronary artery that supplies the muscles of the atria a number of transformers in series; provides a high-voltage source sometimes placed in genus Scilla aromatic dwarf shrub common on banks and hillsides in Europe; naturalized in United States small blue-flowered fringed gentian of east central North America intelligence as revealed by an ability to give correct responses without delay the act of participating in an athletic contest in which you try to jump as high as possible over a (horizontal) high bar a pardonable sin regarded as entailing only a partial loss of grace a priest who hears confession and gives absolution genus of large duck-billed dinosaurs; late Cretaceous sexual intercourse between individuals who are not married to one another an interchange that does not require left-hand turns research designed to determine most efficient way to do something bur marigold of eastern and northern United States and Canada common in wet pastures and meadows a native or inhabitant of Australia temperature just below the boiling point: 'the stew remained at a simmer for hours' any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Carpinus the act of enclosing something in a case changing the ground level to a smooth horizontal or gently sloping surface a group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable tall spreading evergreen native to Mexico having drooping branches; believed to have been introduced into Portugal from Goa its Indian territory a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound; 'the singer held the note too long' a closed litter carried on the shoulders of four bearers a picture painted with oil paints a white crystalline insecticide that has low toxicity for mammals; is used in home gardens; extracted from the roots of derris and cube large pure white wild swan of western North America having a sonorous cry someone who dislikes women in particular for counting individual ionizing events the scientific study of food preparation and intake the act of releasing by untangling or unsnarling something a set of gears a mass of ice and snow that permanently covers a large area of land (e.g., the polar regions or a mountain peak) a sedative and tranquilizer (trade name Miltown and Equanil and Meprin) used to treat muscle tension and anxiety a book regarded as authoritative in its field a thin wedge of material (wood or metal or stone) for driving into crevices an extra component of a machine or other apparatus a modified bud consisting of a thickened globular underground stem serving as a reproductive structure a light soft mineral consisting of hydrated sodium borate in crystalline form; an important source of boron a chair that swivels on its base modulation of the frequency of the (radio) carrier wave political independence; 'seeking complete political separateness for Taiwan' a pliable sheet of tissue that covers or lines or connects organs or cells of animals or plants genus of small clump-forming fan palms of China and Japan a crease on the palm; palmists say it indicates your emotional nature a venture at something new or different; 'as an experiment he decided to grow a beard' hard straight return made on the forehand side (as in tennis or badminton or squash) a strong post on a wharf or quay around which to attach mooring lines a public utility that provides electricity outer membrane covering an axon herbaceous to shrubby evergreen or deciduous annuals or perennials, diffuse (spreading) or caespitose (tufted or matted); from Alaska and western Canada to Mexico large tropical spiders; tarantulas a learning process in which an organism's behavior becomes dependent on the occurrence of a stimulus in its environment a concealed lighting_fixture iris of northern Italy having deep blue-purple flowers; similar to but smaller than Iris germanica a pronoun that refers to an antecedent an abnormal condition of pregnancy characterized by hypertension and edema and protein in the urine the basic unit of money in Russia a small nipple-shaped protuberance concerned with taste, touch, or smell; 'the papillae of the tongue' an article giving opinions or perspectives perennial herb of the eastern United States having arrowhead-shaped leaves and an elongate pointed spathe and green berries large genus of low much-branched woody evergreens ranging from prostrate subshrubs to trees: true heaths an airfield that functions in a subsidiary capacity a specialist in the study of linguistic meaning fodder harvested while green and kept succulent by partial fermentation as in a silo a component that is added to something to improve it; 'the addition of a bathroom was a major improvement'; 'the addition of cinammon improved the flavor' a large breed having a smooth white coat with black or brown spots; originated in Dalmatia large attractive palmlike evergreen cycad of New South Wales an appellation signifying nobility; 'your majesty' is the appropriate title to use in addressing a king' inflammation of the ureter terrestrial Siberian squirrel atmospheric pressure as indicated by a barometer caused by consuming milk from cattle suffering from trembles ginkgos: in some systems classified as a class (Ginkgopsida) and in others as a subdivision (Ginkgophytina or Ginkgophyta); used in some classifications for one of five subdivisions of Gymnospermophyta anthurium; calla lily; jack-in-the-pulpit; philodendron nonpasserine bird having long wings and weak feet; spends much of its time in flight a very large person; impressive in size or qualities a whorl of leaves growing around a stem large stout fern of extreme western Europe Ericaceae; Clethraceae; Diapensiaceae; Epacridaceae; Lennoaceae; Pyrolaceae; Monotropaceae a firearm that reloads itself and keeps firing until the trigger is released good news perennial rushlike flowerless herbs with jointed hollow stems and narrow toothlike leaves that spread by creeping rhizomes; tend to become weedy; common in northern hemisphere; some in Africa and South America any acoustic unit of measurement American plant with cream-colored flowers and tuberous roots resembling kernels of corn a brokerage account of someone who sells short (sells securities he does not own) a righteye flounder found in the Pacific a short musical passage that seems to have been made spontaneously without advance preparation a malignant disorder in which there is progressive (but painless) enlargement of lymph tissue followed by enlargement of the spleen and liver a colorless odorless inert gaseous element occurring in the earth's atmosphere in trace amounts a stout sword with a curved blade and thick back an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport small slender dog of greyhound type developed in England a family of dicotyledonous trees of order Myrtales that includes the sour gum trees a lorchel with deep brownish red fertile part and white stalk someone who hunts or fishes illegally on the property of another a supporter of Parliament and Oliver Cromwell during the English Civil War a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank); 'he peeled off five one-thousand-zloty notes' 1 species: yellow bells a platform from which an auctioneer sells; 'they put their paintings on the block' a spirit tending to cause harm productive work (especially physical work done for wages); 'his labor did not require a great deal of skill' a person (in Britain) who is employed to look after the affairs of businesses that are affected by legislation of the British Parliament a weapon whose explosive power derives from a nuclear reaction inflexible and maladaptive patterns of behavior any means of control; 'he took up the reins of government' lack of strength or vigor esp from illness the property of being neither parallel nor perpendicular, but at a slanting angle an aircraft that is supported in flight by unpowered rotating horizontal wings (or blades); forward propulsion is provided by a conventional propeller in former classification systems: one of two major plant divisions, including all plants that do not bear seeds: ferns, mosses, algae, fungi subfamily of the crow family: jays "(astronomy) a collection of star systems; any of the billions of systems each having many stars and nebulae and dust; 'extragalactic nebula' is a former name for 'galaxy''" the distance that something can be thrown; 'it is just a stone's throw from here' convulsions accompanied by impaired consciousness a principle underlying the formulation of jurisprudence a fabric of uneven yarn that has an uneven knobby effect domestic beast of burden descended from the African wild ass; patient but stubborn morally objectionable behavior a glass-enclosed tower for the visual observation of aircraft around an airport someone who transmits messages by telegraph a liquid that boils at below -160 C and is used as a refrigerant (British slang) an absolute certainty; 'it's a dead cert' pleasing and appropriate manner or style esp of expression type genus of the Cercopithecidae: guenons a hair style that draws the hair back so that it hangs down in back of the head like a pony's tail disclosing information or giving evidence about another an advocate of gnosticism a native or inhabitant of Angola a clothing fabric in a plaid weave "any tangible possession that is owned by someone; 'that hat is my property'" motive power comes from energy of a nuclear reactor the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance; 'geometry is the mathematical science of shape' a backward somersault a house (usually large and impressive) on an estate in the country a thick short powerful neck the player judged to be the most important to the sport puffins flight at very low altitudes a polypeptide antibiotic of known chemical structure effective against several types of Gram-positive organisms; usually applied locally a polished surface that forms images by reflecting light type genus of the Moraceae: mulberries pinworms a public entertainment or exhibition; 'a remarkable show of skill' a small amount of solid food; a mouthful; 'all they had left was a bit of bread' water chestnut whose spiny fruit has two rather than 4 prongs a wooden board where meats or vegetables can be cut 100 pesewas equal 1 cedi (British) a sleeveless tunic worn by English girls as part of a school uniform the military governor of a German town in the 12th and 13th centuries damselflies downy juicy fruit with sweet yellowish or whitish flesh a long-haired breed of cat slender European grass of shady places; grown also in northeastern America and temperate Asia steel whose characteristics are determined by the amount of carbon it contains fire that is delivered in order to render the target ineffective or unusable a cleaverlike knife used in the Philippines a group of submarines operating together in attacking enemy convoys a set of carpenter's tools state of being disconnected a matter that is an actual fact or is demonstrable as a fact the intellectual conception of a thing as it is in itself, not as it is known through perception a horsewhip once used by a driver of a buggy; 'since buggies have been replaced by cars the buggy whip has become a symbol for anything that is hopelessly outmoded' an Australian tree of the genus Brachychiton a small piece of toasted or fried bread; served in soup or salads European vetchlike herb naturalized in the eastern United States having umbels of pink-and-white flowers and sharp-angled pods the vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof a flight or run by an aircraft over a target; 'the plane turned to make a second pass' vagueness attributable to being not clearly defined a medium that disseminates via telecommunications an endowed church office giving income to its holder judiciousness in avoiding harm or danger; 'he exercised caution in opening the door'; 'he handled the vase with care' a serious and sedate individual temporary blindness caused by exposure to sunlight reflected from snow or ice one (as a retailer or distributor) that stocks goods very rich thick butter cookie a collider that operates at very low temperatures low-growning to prostrate shrub with slender trailing branches; New Zealand a condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders a small warship built to conform with treaty limitation on tonnage and armament (1925-30) a brittle transparent solid with irregular atomic structure a sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade passageway between seating areas as in an auditorium or passenger vehicle or between areas of shelves of goods as in stores "anything that suggests a wall in structure or effect; 'a wall of water'; 'a wall of smoke'; 'a wall of prejudice'" type genus of the family Polyangiaceae: myxobacteria with rounded fruiting bodies enclosed in a membrane plant that grows on or among rocks or is suitable for a rock garden trees and shrubs having berries or drupes or capsules as fruits; sometimes placed in the order Oleales: olive; ash; jasmine; privet; lilac exceedingly short-lived meson something that is compiled (as into a single book or file) the daily written record of events (as arrests) in a police station a Brazilian religious cult of African origin; combines voodoo elements with singing a chanting and dancing a frame attached to a wagon to increase the amount of hay it can carry any of numerous fungi of the family Clavariaceae often brightly colored that grow in often intricately branched clusters like coral infection that occurs while you are being treated for another infection a medicated skin preparation made from glycerin and glycerinated gelatin a clergyman appointed to prepare condemned prisoners for death a forcible tearing or separation of one body part from another footwear that covers the whole foot and lower leg Ansaid is the trademark of a brand of this nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug that is administered only orally the jurisdiction or office of an abbot ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore water lily of eastern North America having pale yellow blossoms and edible globular nutlike seeds a social system that provides separate facilities for minority groups teaching individually pupils (usually hired privately) a mistake resulting from neglect a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language giant salamanders; in some classifications included in the genus Cryptobranchus an unforeseen development; 'events suddenly took an awkward turn' a flexible pipe for conveying a liquid or gas (surgery) the act of puncturing a body cavity or organ with a hollow needle in order to draw out fluid either of two parts that mutually complete each other brewed by forcing steam through powdered coffee beans the ohmic resistance of a conductor Old World annual having heart-shaped leaves and large seeds with short grayish lint removed with difficulty; considered an ancestor of modern short-staple cottons densely tufted fern ally of southwestern United States to Peru; curls up in a tight ball when dry and expands and grows under moist conditions herb having a basal cluster of gray-green leaves and leafless stalks each with a solitary broad yellow flower head; desert areas Idaho to Arizona people noted for their plain dress and simple life style the state of being in action or exerting power; 'the agency of providence'; 'she has free agency' a blood disease characterized by the presence of abnormal hemoglobins in the blood veins that receive blood from interlobular veins of kidney and rectal venules a native or inhabitant of Azerbaijan horned dinosaurs growing crops and feed and livestock all on the same farm the 3rd letter of the Hebrew alphabet personal items sold aboard ship or at a naval base the boundary marking the edge of the sun's influence; the boundary (roughly 100 AU from the sun) between the interplanetary medium and the interstellar medium; where the solar wind and the wind from other stars meet a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco a consideration of a topic (as in a meeting) with a view to changing an earlier decision creeping evergreen shrub with bright yellow star-shaped summer flowers; useful as ground cover a reduction in intensity (of a crisis or a war) a musical composition for two performers an ankle-length shoe worn by ancient Romans cuttings of plants set in the ground to grow as hawthorn for hedges or vines: 'a quickset of a vine planted in a vineyard' a detailed analysis; 'he studied the anatomy of crimes' most primitive teleost fishes; all are soft-finned: salmon; trout; herring; shad; sardines; anchovies; whitefish; smelts; tarpon small tender herb grown for its fluffy brushlike blue to lavender blooms a British peer ranking below a marquess and above a viscount a member of the South American people living in Paraguay and Bolivia an intellectual (who is bald?) a board appointed to advise the chief administrator Mexican-like meat mixture covered with cornbread topping the role of the character after whom the play is named any of numerous small chiefly blue butterflies of the family Lycaenidae the quality of being kind or helpful or generous a stand-in for movie stars to perform dangerous stunts; 'his first job in Hollywood was as a double for Clrak Gable' a former British bronze coin worth a quarter of a penny a quarter of the circumference of a circle a habitual or characteristic mental attitude having honest intentions; 'he acted in good faith'; 'doubt was expressed as to the good faith of the immigrants' a follower of the doctrine of antinomianism "something used to beautify" any coniferous tree of the genus Picea a craftsman who makes the bodies of motor vehicles an angry disturbance; 'he didn't want to make a fuss'; 'they had labor trouble'; 'a spot of bother' the domain controlled by a duke or duchess made with sweetened cream cheese and eggs and cream baked in a crumb crust a young pig a group of girls or young women the decade from 1990 to 1999 a person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability) one who suffers for the sake of principle plant bearing small rounded usually pungent fruits "a combination of points and lines and planes that form a visible palpable shape" a single-wheeled vehicle driven by pedals cylindrical casing containing an explosive charge and a bullet; fired from a rifle or handgun herb with grayish leaves found along the east coast of North America; used as an ornamental plant animal living wholly or chiefly in or on water a wardress in a prison any of several breeds of small to medium-sized gun dogs with a long silky coat and long frilled ears a representation having no reference to concrete objects or specific examples a small four-stringed guitar (Hawaiian) a particular civilization at a particular stage ownerless half-wild mongrel dog common around Asian villages especially India a multistoried building of offices or apartments: 'tower_block' is the British term for 'high-rise'' a figure on the surface of of sphere bounded by arcs of 3 or more great circles elaborate symmetrical ornamentation tattlers small kingfisher with greenish-blue and orange plumage (mathematics) any set of points that satisfy a set of postulates of some kind; 'assume the vector space is finite dimensional' unconsciousness induced by narcotics or anesthesia something curved in shape the ceremonial induction into a position; 'the new president obviously enjoyed his inauguration' small genus of perennial tuberous herbs of tropical Asia: taro the branch of medicine that deals with diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs the office of admiral (British) keeping watch over examination candidates to prevent cheating a process of printing on paper coated with bichromated gelatin containing pigment equipment designed to receive a specific signal and automatically transmit a specific reply a law conferring privileges on owners of homesteads frozen dessert containing cream and sugar and flavoring the course along which a person has walked or is walking in; 'I followed in his steps'; 'he retraced his steps' Peruvian shrub or small tree having large glossy leaves and cymes of fragrant yellow to green or red flowers; cultivated for its medicinal bark the surface of a paved roadway small South African tree having creamy yellow fragrant flowers usually growing on stream banks the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord; 'the fall broke his back' blackish aphid that infests e.g. beans and sugar beets a fungus family of order Helotiales large green white-striped hawkmoth larva that feeds on tobacco and related plants; similar to tomato_hornworm probably native to southern China; widely cultivated as source of table and juice oranges any of several attractive trees of southwestern South America and New Zealand and New Caledonia having glossy evergreen leaves and scented wood tropical and subtropical annual or perennial herbs or low shrubs a ship that runs through or around a naval blockade a pump that use centrifugal force to discharge fluid into a pipe a part of a ship's company organized for special duties ashore a female horse used for breeding epaulets that indicate rank a queen dowager who is mother of the reigning sovereign a genus of birds of the family Meleagrididae including the ocellated turkey extreme tonus; muscular rigidity; a common symptom in catatonic schizophrenia the act of participating in an athletic competition in which you must jump blowing tobacco smoke out into the air; 'they smoked up the room with their ceaseless puffing' fresh corn and lima beans with butter or cream someone who takes bodies from graves and sells them for anatomical dissection sensibility to trouble (as in the phrase 'wring one's withers'); 'the lawsuit was wringing his withers'; 'our withers are unwrung'--Shakespeare a small muscle on each side of the back of a fowl pungent Old World wild onion a sign placed in front of an expression to denote that a root is to be extracted cotton made absorbent by removal of the natural wax the state of being contaminated acts on behalf of other persons or organizations absorbent paper used to dry ink one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States a member of a Muslim Turkic people of W Asia (especially in Kazakstan) the formation of a close personal relationship between women a small plastic magnetic disk enclosed in a stiff envelope with a radial slit; used to store data or programs for a microcomputer; 'floppy disks are noted for their relatively slow speed and small capacity and low price' artillery fire delivered by a mortar surveillance of some place or some person by the police (as in anticipation of a crime) paying the raider to give up a takeover attempt (as by an extravagant buyback of the stock they hold in your corporation) judgment based on individual personal impressions and feelings and opinions rather than external facts pantropical climber having white fragrant nocturnal flowers yeast-raised dinner roll made by folding a disk of dough before baking the act of dispersing something the quantity contained in a can "a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure" a perch native to Europe a porch that resembles the deck on a ship law determining the fundamental political principles of a government an upstart who makes conceited, sardonic, insolent comments the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise (historically) a member of the nomadic people of the Syrian and Arabian deserts at the time of the Roman Empire marine crab with some legs flattened and fringed for swimming type genus of the Tapiridae a fixed charge for borrowing money; usually a percentage of the amount borrowed; 'how much interest do you pay on your mortgage?' a ladle for serving soup closely related to and often included in genus Arabis the genus of Cephalotaxus (see plum-yews) a detonator that explodes when struck carnivorous dinosaur of the Permian in North America having a crest or dorsal sail any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin a worker who makes glasses for remedying defects of vision a salt or ester of oxalacetic acid a threat of divine punishment or vengeance device for resetting instruments or controls a shallow pool for children a set of elements such that addition and multiplication are commutative and associative and multiplication is distributive over addition and there are two elements 0 and 1; 'the set of all rational numbers is a field' a commissioned officer in the army or air force or marine corp coins made of gold a natural and unavoidable catastrophe that interrupts the expected course of events; 'he discovered that his house was not insured against acts of God' a phylum in the kingdom Protoctista American fern whose clustered sporangia resemble a snake's rattle the result of mathematical differentiation; the instantaneous change of one quantity relative to another; df(x)/dx a congenital abnormality in the septum between the left and right sides of the heart an ornamental cloth pad worn on the shoulder a violent denunciation a penetrating examination of your own beliefs and motives two or more sounds or tones at the same pitch or in octaves: 'singing in unison' very short-stemmed plant with thick leaves with soothing mucilaginous juice; leaves develop spiny margins with maturity; native to Mediterranean region; grown widely in tropics and as houseplants a man-made receptacle that houses a swarm of bees heavy cart; drawn by a horse; used for farm work correction by erasing ballads sung by minstrels moth whose larvae destroy grains and forage plants someone who deliberately stirs up trouble a elaborate manner of doing something; 'she served coffee with great stateliness' a crude block of lead or iron poured from a smelting furnace good-natured frankness a diver in the deeper parts of the sea an investigation conducted using a probe instrument authorized by law and limiting work or official business one of five biological categories: Monera or Protista or Plantae or Fungi or Animalia a form containing a set of questions; submitted to people to gain statistical information Dalmatian bitter wild cherry tree bearing fruit whose juice is made into maraschino liqueur use of a series of subjects with a single predicate a ticket that allows a passenger to change conveyances any dog trained to hunt raccoons a charity supported by individual subscriptions; defrays the demands on a community for social welfare any of several marine reptiles of the Mesozoic having a body like a porpoise with dorsal and tail fins and paddle-shaped limbs type genus of the Tetraonidae: capercaillies the quality of not being particularly suitable deciduous shrub widely cultivated for its white or pink or red flowers a submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore a partsong in which voices follow each other; one voice starts and others join in one after another until all are singing different parts of the song at the same time; 'they enjoyed singing rounds' a tape deck for playing and recording cassette tapes (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor) small rodent of open areas of United States plains states type genus of the Physeteridae a hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone any of various plant glucosides that form soapy lathers when mixed and agitated with water; used in detergents and foaming agents and emulsifiers metal tweezers used by marijuana smokers to hold a roach genus of tropical herbs and woody vines having trifoliate leaves and showy flowers in axillary clusters a balance for weighing very small objects a jumble of things to be given away (computer science) a small temporary window in a graphical user interface that appears in order to request information from the user; after the information has been provided the user dismisses the box with 'okay' or 'cancel' a longing for something better than the present situation any of various edible North American web-footed turtles living in fresh or brackish water a sky wave that is reflected by the ionosphere powerful free-swimming tropical ray noted for 'soaring' by flapping winglike fins; usually harmless but has venomous tissue near base of the tail as in stingrays an exasperated feeling of annoyance someone who participates in a public display of group feeling surgery to remove tissue or growths from a bodily cavity (as the uterus) by scraping with a curette an act that makes a previous act of no effect (as if not done) a small punch press mounted on a workbench a thin strip of stiff material that is fitted into the mouthpiece of woodwind instruments and that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it the property of being shaped like a rectangle tropical woody vines and herbaceous plants having aromatic herbage and minute flowers in spikelets a radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium; the heaviest of the inert gasses; occurs naturally (especially in areas over granite) and is considered a hazard to health deep orange edible root of the cultivated carrot plant a large wine bottle (holds 4/5 of a gallon) Old World (true) flycatchers any of several nonparametric measures of correlation (used when the assumptions of standard correlational analysis are not met) one who follows the teachings of Buddha a demand by a broker that a customer deposit enough to bring his margin up to the minimum requirement the body of ordained religious practitioners revival from inactivity and disuse; 'it produced a resurrection of hope' a poisonous fungus with a bright yellow brown cap and a long cinnamon colored stalk a man with a chauvinistic belief in the inferiority of women a genus of Polyodontidae light ship's boat; often for personal use of captain (military) the part of the line of battle that projects closest to the enemy the act of installing something (as equipment); 'the telephone installation took only a few minutes' the uppermost watertight deck a part of the script in which the speaking roles are limited to two actors a young woman who is the most charming and beautiful of several rivals; 'she was the belle of the ball' someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts a bow fixed transversely on a wooden stock grooved to direct the arrow (quarrel) a fixed capacitor consisting of two electrodes separated by an electrolyte the choice of taking what is offered or nothing at all a machine that cuts grain and binds it in sheaves fern of North America and Europe whose rhizomes and stalks yield an oleoresin used to expel tapeworms outward or token appearance or form; 'he tried to give his actions a semblance of authenticity'; 'the situation soon took on a different color' European weed having a winged stem and hairy leaves; adventive in the eastern United States a small elevator used to convey food (or other goods) from one floor of a building to another someone whose profession involves using his head to solve problems the policy of a political group; 'He won in a vote along party lines' made of creme de menthe and brandy English breed of compact domestic fowl; raised primarily to crossbreed to produce roasters wood panelling used to line the walls of a room a person who belongs to the political left a corrosion-resistant bronze containing phosphorus; used in bearings and gears simple parasitic fungi including pond scum parasites (medieval) the code of conduct observed by a knight errant who is wandering in search of deeds of chivalry a unit of inductance equal to one billionth of a henry type genus of the Elopidae: tenpounder threads gear with the teeth of a worm wheel or rack the act of sending a message; causing a message to be transmitted someone who is a member of a legislative assembly a genus of Stichaeidae herb of the Pacific islands grown throughout the tropics for its edible root and in temperate areas as an ornamental for its large glossy leaves any of three glycerides of butyric acid (usually preceded by 'with') relation of delimitation; 'he inquired with respect to the address' lettuce with long dark-green spoon-shaped leaves a suite of furniture for the bedroom a small anatomically normal sac or bladderlike structure (especially one containing fluid) a strong liking; 'my own preference is for good literature'; 'the Irish have a penchant for blarney'; 'martinis are an acquired taste' the process of forming and relating ideas something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality; 'the livingroom was pure camp' a policy of advocating war an alloy that emits sparks when struck or scratched with steel; used in lighter flints a long seat for more than one person someone who is believed to heal through magical powers dories annual of southern California with intricately branched stems and lax cymes of aromatic deep blue bell-shaped flowers an inclination of the top half of the body forward and downward a metal pipe of large diameter used to connect a stove to a flue (synecdoche) a part of a person is used to refer to a person; 'he looked out at a roomful of faces'; 'when he returned to work he met many new faces' Spanish version of burgoo someone who enjoys outdoor activities (pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid posterior branch of the facial vein; formed by temporal veins in front of the ear tall coarse plant having thick stems and cluster of white to purple flowers a United States dry unit equal to 0.5 quart or 33.6 cubic inches the widely studied plant virus that causes tobacco mosaic; it was the first virus discovered (1892) the study of poetic meter and the art of versification "any region in space outside the solar system" usualness by virtue of being familiar or well known similar in size and habits to Desmodus rotundus; of tropical America including southern California and Texas drumfish any member of the family Cyprinodontidae thin sheet of sponge cake spread with jelly and then rolled up small shrubby tree of eastern North America similar to the Judas tree having usually pink flowers; found in damp sheltered underwood a fictional mouse endowed with great strength and courage "tenants of an estate considered as a group" the negative of the opposition a card (usually plastic) that assures a seller that the person using it has a satisfactory credit rating and that the issuer will see to it that the seller receives payment for the merchandise delivered a cranelike device (usually one of a pair) for suspending or lowering equipment (as a lifeboat) a fitted overcoat with a velvet collar hares and rabbits a brisk and lively tempo top of the side of boat; topmost plank of a wooden vessel popular in China and Japan and Taiwan; gelatinous mushrooms; most are dried solid unweathered rock lying beneath surface deposits of soil genus of trees and shrubs widely naturalized in southern United States and West Indies; coextensive with the family Casuarinaceae and order Casuarinales a high-stepping horse originating in Kentucky a diluted solution a family of dicotyledonous plants of the order Myrtales insurance against loss due to fire a lack of elegance as a consequence of wearing threadbare or dirty clothing milkweed of central North America; a threatened species crossbill very spicy drop cookes sweetened partially with molasses common in fresh and salt water appearing along the shore as algal blooms spice from the dried aromatic bark of the Ceylon cinnamon tree; used as rolled strips or ground the income arising from land or other property; 'the average return was about 5%' the times at the beginning and end of the working day when many people are traveling to or from work edible mushroom a yellow mineral consisting of nickel sulfide; a minor source of nickel any flowering vine of the genus Wisteria any shrub or small tree of the genus Bumelia sound is produced by means of pipes arranged in sets supplied with air from a bellows and controlled from a large complex musical keyboard a nonmilitary citizen characteristic life processes and phenomena of living organisms: 'the biology of viruses' a piece of furniture with a writing surface and usually drawers or other compartments a tax on every gallon of gasoline sold well-seasoned balls of ground fish and eggs and crushed crumbs simmered in fish stock a lively dance from Provence; all the dancers join hands and execute various figures small family of herbs having flowers with 3 petals and 3 sepals; in some classification systems considered a subfamily of the Liliaceae abnormal narrowing of a bodily canal or passageway an insect that carries pollen from one flower to another an object occurring naturally; not made by man very slender aerobic spirochetes; free-living or parasitic in mammals mediation by an umpire materials that make a soft covering for a seat a file with two flat surfaces a preparation that softens or scents a bath the head of the Roman Catholic Church being of a suspicious nature; 'his suspiciousness destroyed his marriage' act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics any of various plant parts that resemble buttons an optical device for projecting images of celestial bodies and other astronomical phenomena onto the inner surface of a hemispherical dome a group of languages of East Africa belonging to the Chari-Nile group renewed rapid production of an antibody on the second (or subsequent) encounter with the same antigen cells composed of fat an arthropod family of the order Hymenoptera including: yellow jackets; hornets; mason wasps the body of faculty and students of a university monetary unit in South Africa a manual of black magic (for invoking spirits and demons) a cylindrical metal appliance that heats a lock of hair curled around it a file of memoranda or notices that remind of things to be done any of various showy orchids of the genus Calanthe having white or yellow or rose-colored flowers and broad leaves folded lengthwise an ester of carbamic acid (Your Highness or His Highness of Her Highness) title used to address a royal person apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions a vein that drains the tympanic cavity and empties into the retromandibular vein trailing grass native to Europe now cosmopolitan in warm regions; used for lawns and pastures especially in southern United States and India exaggerated and arrogant properness any animal or plant material used to fertilize land especially animal excreta usually with litter material a metallic element having four allotropic forms; used in a wide variety of alloys; found in stibnite botfly larva; typically develops inside the body of a horse or sheep or human clothing to be worn at a beach edible long-stalked mushroom with white flesh and gills and spores; found in open woodlands in autumn reddish-brown European ant typically living in anthills in woodlands agile long-tailed nocturnal African lemur with dense woolly fur and large eyes and ears a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride an articulatory gesture made by turning the tip of the tongue back against the roof of the mouth someone who plays billiards a representative of the federal government to American Indian tribes (especially on Indian reservations) a large family of trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs bearing bean pods; divided for convenience into the subfamilies Caesalpiniaceae; Mimosaceae; Papilionaceae a consonant produced without sound from the vocal cords a demand especially in the phrase 'the call of duty' the human act of creating a procession of land vehicles traveling together one-twelfth of a solar or tropical year a time of difficulty a holder of buildings or lands by any kind of title (as ownership or lease) someone who makes or repairs guns a state of extreme anger; 'she fell into a rage and refused to answer' a 20th-century philosophical movement; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for what they make of themselves the fallacy of believing that temporal succession implies a causal relation a graduated glass tube for measuring volume changes in chemical reactions between gases duck hunting mat-forming herb of Turkestan with nearly double orange-yellow flowers a connection that fastens things together the porosity of a sponge a kindly and lenient attitude toward people found in Arctic and North Atlantic a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars a machine for sewing usually metal placed in windows to prevent escape birch of swamps and river bottoms throughout the eastern United States having reddish-brown bark a large heavy knife used in Central and South America as a weapon or for cutting vegetation a genus of chordates in the class Larvacea (US usage) flesh of either quail or grouse variety of French bean plant bearing light-colored beans that are usually dried rather large North American brown bat; widely distributed low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog "a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something" a discina with a flat or saucer-shaped fertile body that is brown on the upper surface; has a short stalk; not recommended for eating the branch of dentistry dealing with extraction of teeth dividing into four equal parts perennial of southwestern United States having leathery blue-green pinnatifid leaves and thick plumelike spikes of yellow flowers; sometimes placed in genus Cleome a monster able to change appearance from human to wolf any fabric used to make trousers a genus of Echeneididae the title of a viscount tennis played with one person on each side any court that has jurisdiction above an inferior court radar that controls the delivery of fire on a military target aromatic anis-scented seeds excessive amounts of ketone bodies in the urine as in diabetes mellitus or starvation enteritis characterized by bloody diarrhea and severe abdominal pain ray with back covered with white or yellow spots; widely distributed in warm seas a person who believes that the white race is or should be supreme 100 fen equal 1 yuan a systematic orderly arrangement someone who patrols the borders of a country any of various breeds raised for milk or meat or wool a person who breeds animals the exponential return of a system to equilibrium after a disturbance measurement of the pH level and the oxygen and carbon dioxide concentrations in arterial blood; important in diagnosis of many respiratory diseases columbine of eastern North America having long-spurred red flowers energy from the sun that is converted into thermal or electrical energy large genus of usually woolly or hairy herbs or subshrubs or shrubs; temperate eastern hemisphere; tropical Australasia a thickened triangular layer of conjunctiva extending from the nasal edge of the eye to the cornea; pterygia arise from irritation of the pinguecula a nonmetallic bivalent element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless nonflammable diatomic gas; constitutes 28 percent of the atmosphere by volume; the most abundant element in the earth's crust the quality of being prudent and sensible uses centrifugal force to separate particles from a suspension a genus of Accipitridae the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age) the reovirus causing infant enteritis correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (esp. final sounds) a new trial in which issues already litigated and to which the court has already rendered a verdict or decision are reexamined by the same court; occurs when the initial trial is found to have been improper or unfair due to procedural errors the branch of psychology that studies persons and their relationships with others and with groups and with society as a whole the common European raspberry; fruit red or orange large black east African antelope with sharp back-curving horns a peptic hormone produced in the small intestine; activates the pancreas and liver deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule a small club-shaped structure typically bearing four basidiospores at the ends of minute projections; unique to basidiomycetes a unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 foot/sec/sec to a mass of 1 pound; equal to 0.1382 newtons a young bear the deck between the bridge and the forecastle a ticket good for a trip on an airplane type genus of the Dasypodidae large American pelican; white with black wing feathers the third day of the week; the second working daythe third day of the week; the second working day robin of Mexico and Central America nonpasserine large-headed bird with a short tail and long sharp bill; usually crested and bright-colored; feed mostly on fish a secondary and sometimes unexpected consequence an easy gait of a horse; midway between a walk and a trot a knot used to drag a gun carriage the quality of lacking diversity or variation (even to the point of boredom) a pronoun that points out an intended referent of northern North America (of animals having several estrous cycles in one breeding season) a state or interval of sexual inactivity or quiescence between periods of activity a freely movable joint any grass of the genus Chloris; occurs in short grassland especially on waste ground or poor soils a broad flat body part (as of the shoulder or tongue) the tide while water is flowing out a material having the property of admitting light diffusely; a partly transparent material (informal) 'in the dumps'; 'have the mopes' inactivity resulting from a dislike of work a substance that lessens the hardness of water giving it more efficient sudsing a dough-like mixture of whiting and boiled linseed oil; used especially to patch woodwork or secure panes of glass evergreen Asiatic tree having glossy pinnate leaves and racemose creamy-white scented flowers; used as a shade tree the fruit of the wild cherry tree a sudden abandonment (as from a political party) someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs meat from a loin of beef young people collectively; 'rock music appeals to the young'; 'youth everywhere rises in revolt' a roof with two or more slopes on each side of the ridge a control device that maintains a steady speed in a machine (as by controlling the supply of fuel) putting seeds in the ground to grow; 'the planting of corn is hard work' resident of a college town not affiliated with the college a bag filled with rosin; used by baseball pitchers to improve their grip on the ball a legal document signed and sealed and delivered to effect a transfer of property and to show the legal right to possess it; 'he signed the deed'; 'he kept the title to his car in the glove compartment' East Indian shrub often cultivated for its hairy leaves and orange-red flowers a garment worn over other garments important marine food and game fishes found in all tropical and temperate seas; some are at least partially endothermic and can thrive in colder waters (informal) a user of (usually soft) drugs; 'the office was full of secret heads' any of several tropical American trees bearing fruit with soft edible pulp a row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another; 'the entrance was guarded by ranks of policemen' an amino acid important in the formation of urea the official (in tennis or soccer) who watches the lines New Zealand conifer a unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being (meteorology) the vertical movement of heat or other properties by massive motion within the atmosphere work to be done at night a form of chromesthesia in which experiences of color accompany auditory stimuli a physical phenomenon associated with the atmosphere a letter of intent saying that a letter security is being bought for investment and not for resale; avoids need for SEC registration speckled birds that feed on nuts waggish behavior a vein serving the thalamus and corpus striatum a person who rides a pedal-driven vehicle a vein that accompanies the vertebral vein but passes through the foramen of the transverse process of the 7th cervical vertebra and empties into the brachiocephalic vein a straight line joining the apex and a point on the base a woman master who directs the work of others European herb with small fragrant crimson or white spurred flowers a parasitic louse that infests the body of human beings (formerly) a horse-drawn wagon that delivered ice door to door a person who acts and gets things done; 'he's a principal actor in this affair'; 'when you want something done get a doer'; 'he's a miracle worker' fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula; sap yields a brown sugar (jaggery) and trunk pith yields sago any external parasitic organism (as fleas) small-holed Swiss cheese a shape whose base is a cone and whose sides taper up to a point slightly larger than a violin, tuned a fifth lower elevation esp above sea level or the earth's surface converting from one code to another wild and domestic cattle; in some classifications placed in the subfamily Bovinae or tribe Bovini (Scotland) a game played on ice; curling stones (heavy stones with handles) are slid toward a target a variety of the loosestrife herb a room in a private house where people can sit and talk and relax the rattling noise produced when snoring anchusa of southern Africa having blue flowers with white throats act of lowering in rank or position a deliberate act of acquisition (usually plural) religious observance or prayers (usually spoken silently); 'he returned to his devotions' wading bird of Florida, Cuba and Jamaica having a drooping bill and a distinctive wailing call ctenophore have long tentacles and flattened body has a narrow neck a group of animals (a herd or flock) moving together any member of a ship's crew distilled from a mash of corn and malt and rye and aged in charred oak barrels chewy candy of sugar or syrup boiled until thick and pulled until glossy you wash your body with a sponge or washcloth instead of in a bathtub a member of a Finnish people living in the NW Urals in Russia the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation a departure; especially of airplanes a disposition to behave aggressively similar to American angelica tree but less prickly; China a person's social heritage: previous experience or training; 'he is a lawyer with a sports background' large diverse group of bony fishes; includes most living species "the state of being employed or having a job; 'they are looking for employment'; 'he was in the employ of the city'" thimbleweed of northern North America a joint that can rotate within a socket "an individual or group or structure or other entity regarded as a structural or functional constituent of a whole; 'the reduced the number of units and installations'; 'the word is a basic linguistic unit'" any of various orchids of the genus Epipactis the evidence by which something is attested any of several social wasps that construct nests of a substance like paper an oral antidiabetic drug used in the treatment of adult-onset diabetes mellitus a square knot used in a reef line the basic unit of money in Mauritania small edible crab of Pacific coast of North America a plant of the genus Portulaca having pink or red or purple or white ephemeral flowers any part of a harness that fits about the horse's head a strangler tree native to southern Florida and West Indies; begins as an epiphyte eventually developing many trunklike aerial roots and covering enormous areas a shifty deceptive person agreement in person between pronouns and verbs someone who cuts flat glass to size a substance used in a printer to develop a xerographic image coelenterates in which the polyp stage is absent or at least inconspicuous: jellyfishes American plants closely resembling Old World mistletoe the quality of being alien perennial herbs of the Mediterranean region a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore (physics) a rate of change of velocity (ice hockey) the method of starting play; a referee drops the puck between two opposing players a genus of Sylviidae any fern of the genus Woodsia "the state of being unemployed or not having a job: 'unemployment is a serious social evil'; 'the rate of unemployment is an indicator of the health of an economy'" a theological school for training ministers or priests or rabbis the property of being prompt and efficient; 'it was done with dispatch' an informal term for a person's role; 'he took off his politician's hat and talked frankly' a rectangular piece of absorbent cloth (or paper) for drying or wiping a historian of art an inaccurate count members of a business organization; 'he worked for a brokerage house' an account compiled at the end of an accounting period to show gross and net profit or loss a hand tool that is used to hold or twist a nut or bolt marten of North Asian forests having luxuriant dark brown fur in some classifications considered the family comprising the giant pandas any bone that develops within membranous tissue without previous cartilage formation; e.g. the clavicle and bones of the skull a depression forming the ground under a body of water; 'he searched for treasure on the ocean bed' beef or chicken or seafood marinated in spicy soy sauce and grilled or broiled an advantage to the benefit of someone or something; 'the outcome was in his favor' a genus of Labridae in some classification includes Viscaceae: parasitic or hemiparasitic shrublets or shrubs or small trees of tropical and temperate regions; attach to hosts by haustoria the parts of an engine through which burned gases or steam are discharged "(biology) the normal rigid state of fullness of a cell or blood vessel or capillary resulting from pressure of the contents against the wall or membrane" a plumbing fixture (usually attached to the wall) used by men to urinate small threadlike worm infesting human intestines and rectum esp. in children the alignment of the wheels of a motor vehicle closer together at the bottom than at the top fishes distinguished by abdominal pelvic fins: families Mugilidae; Atherinidae; Sphyraenidae the feeling of despair in the face of obstacles an accurate clock (especially used in navigation) an apparatus that provides a source of X rays strongly aromatic with a smell of aniseed; leaves and seeds used for seasoning a horse bred for racing an organism such as an insect that habitually shares the nest of a species of ant the disagreeable quality of one who dissents act of performing music steel strings are twanged while being pressed with a movable steel bar for a glissando effect events that provide the generative force that is the origin of something; 'they are trying to determine the cause of the crash' the quality of being a competitive advantage bushy annual weed of central North America having greenish flowers and winged seeds (Anglican Church) an ecclesiastical dignitary usually ranking just below a bishop a sabbatical leave lasting one year white sauce made with stock instead of milk a visible indication made on a surface; 'some previous reader had covered the pages with dozens of marks' (medical) any objective evidence of the presence of a disorder or disease; 'there were no signs of asphixiation' delivering an address to a public audience; 'the people came to see the candidates and hear the speaking' a judicial certificate saying that a will is genuine and conferring on the executors the power to administer the estate offering words of homage as an act of worship; 'they sang a hymn of praise to God' coins made of silver Eurasian shrub resembling the tamarisk a marine turtle transportation of (household or office) belongings to a new address rewording for the purpose of clarification the belief in magical spells that harness occult forces or evil spirits to produce unnatural effects in the world the act of rotating as if on an axis; 'the rotation of the top kept time with the music' typewriting in which the fingers are trained to hit particular keys; typist can read and type at the same time a holly tree a joyful song (usually celebrating the birth of Christ) a rodent native to the mountains of Chile and Peru and now bred in captivity sausage or jellied loaf made of chopped parts of the head meat and sometimes feet and tongue of a calf or pig a genus of birds a request; 'many calls for Christmas stories'; 'not many calls for buggywhips' cell from which another cell of an organism (usually of a different sort) develops: 'a sperm cell develops from a sperm mother cell' a stopping; 'a cessation of the thunder' the act of shortening something by cutting off the ends; 'the barber gave him a good cut' monetary unit in Vietnam the state of being potent; a male's capacity to have sexual intercourse an unhindered shot from the foul line; given to penalize the other team for committing a foul the rotating armature of a motor or generator a branch of the facial artery that supplies the lips of the mouth an elevated place serving as a seat the quality of being essential to maintain life the faculty of touch; 'only sight and touch enable us to locate objects in the space around us' calculation by mathematical methods; 'the problems at the end of the chapter demonstrated the mathematical processes involved in the derivation'; 'they were learning the basic operations of arithmetic' the act of following prey stealthily the position of chairman a person who practices nudity for reasons of health or religion either of two galaxies orbiting the Milky Way; visible near the south celestial pole any standardized procedure for measuring sensitivity or memory or intelligence or aptitude etc; 'the test was standardized on a large sample of students' loss of sensation in a small area of the body (as when a local anesthetic is injected for a tooth extraction) measures temperature by changes in the pressure of a gas kept at constant volume silver-and-black killifish of saltwater marshes along the United States Atlantic coast the quality possessed by something with a great price or value a prayer asking God's help as part of a religious service any sacred song used to praise the Deity an attendant who checks coats or baggage a well-built sexually attractive man a vertical passageway through a building (as for an elevator) smut fungus attacking heads of corn or sorghum and causing a covered smut social exchange, esp. of opinions, attitudes, etc. white root of a turnip plant any of the skeletal muscles of the face part of a ship above the main deck a water-soluble brownish-yellow pigment made by boiling wood soot a medical instrument for examining the larynx a kind of artificial heart that has been used with some success a severe blow the helmsman of a ship's boat or a racing crew a member of the nomadic peoples of Mongolia puffed breeches of the 16th and 17th centuries usually worn over hose rough annual herbs of Europe and the Americas: fiddlenecks one of 5 vertebrae in the human spine having five leaflets European wormwood similar to common wormwood in its properties any of numerous trees and shrubs grown for their beautiful glossy foliage and sweetly fragrant starry flowers a mixture of gases (especially oxygen) required for breathing; the stuff that the wind consists of pleasure derived from sexual activities a highly unsaturated antibiotic acid obtained from an actinomycete a state of depression so severe that the person loses contact with reality and suffers a variety of functional impairments North American fern with narrow fronds on yellowish leafstalks 16 white and 16 black pieces the short adductor muscle of the thigh a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian a member of the small group of Quechuan people living in the Cuzco valley in Peru who established hegemony over their neighbors to create the great Inca Empire that lasted from about 1100 until the Spanish conquest in the early 1530s a fabric with prominent rounded crosswise ribs destroying the moral basis for a doctrine or policy common Eurasian and American wild climber with pink flowers; sometimes placed in genus Convolvulus the leading units moving at the head of an army small Central American tree having loose racemes of purple-tinted green flowers the shedding of blood resulting in murder; 'he avenged the blood of his kinsmen' receives blood from the head and arms and chest and empties into the right atrium of the heart; formed from the azygos and both brachiocephalic veins large genus of evergreen lianas of tropical America a fee charged for work done the dividend of a fractionreturns the numerator of the canonical reduced form of rational. a person who is a brilliant and precious as a piece of jewelry a tactic used to mislead or delay a persisting angry mood type of the Bennettitales a farm together with its buildings fungus causing a disease characterized by a white powdery mass of conidia smallest flowering plants known; of the Americas someone give to disputes over words a traditional Moslem headdress consisting of a long scarf wrapped around the head a fatty oil obtained from the menhaden fish and used in paint and ink and in treating leather a person suffering from neurosis a complex carbohydrate found in many plants and used as a sweetening agent (in Scotland or Ireland) a mountain or tall hill; 'they were climbing the ben' a calendar based on lunar cycles a long wandering and eventful journey the theory that it is impossible to measure both energy and time (or position and momentum) completely accurately at the same time the bar-shaped typewriter key that introduces spaces when used the trait of being uncommunicative skillfulness in speaking or writing a person who loves or is loved a striated sphincter muscle that constricts the urethra a large bushy moustache (with hair growing sometimes down the sides of the mouth) a correlation in which large values of one variable are associated with large values of the other and small with small; the correlation coefficient is between 0 and +1 a primitive hominid resembling Neanderthal man but living in Africa a game enjoyed by children a system of graduating sizes of type in multiples of the point a member of the Muskhogean people formerly living in Alabama hysteria with cataleptic symptoms connecting the fetus with the placenta an artificial crown for a tooth (with 'in') guardianship over; 'my fate is in your hands'; 'too much power in the president's hands'; 'the children are in the custody of their mother' any of various trees of the genera Eucalyptus or Liquidambar or Nyssa that are sources of gum a chemical substance that causes sneezing and coughing and crying; 'police used a sternutatory to subdue the mob' ratio (in percent) of the maximum breadth to the maximum length of a skull hemlock; hemlock fir; hemlock spruce inflammation of the laminated tissue that attaches the hoof to the foot of a horse searching for or buying goods or services: 'went shopping for a reliable plumber'; 'does her shopping at the mall rather than down town' a center where conferences can be conducted an inhabitant of Berlin a native or inhabitant of Zaire someone who leaves one country to settle in another any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae a person who advocates war or warlike policies provides books for use outside the building the process of becoming warmer; a rising temperature a course offered for a small group of advanced students express mail carried by relays of riders on horseback; especially between Missouri and California around 1860 large family comprising many typical cup fungi a relief pilot on an airplane (trademark) a transparent thermoplastic acrylic resin sea basses a person active in party politics in ancient mythology any of 9 daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne; protector of an art or science catalyst in converting histidine to histamine the act of procrastinating strictly parasitic protozoans that are usually immobile; includes plasmodia and coccidia and piroplasms and malaria parasites an era of history having some distinctive feature plant with dense clusters of tight green flower buds equal parts of coffee and hot milk a person who performs in the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan shrikes an instance of change; the rate or magnitude of change mesquite pod used in tanning and dying breed of sled dog developed in Alaska someone who enters into a subcontract with the primary contractor any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout; larger than porpoises the young of various fishes burrowing toad of the northern hemisphere with a horny spade-like projection on each hind foot a native or inhabitant of Europe tall biennial water hemlock of northeastern North America having purple-spotted stems and clusters of extremely poisonous tuberous roots resembling small sweet potatoes the act of delaying strips of dried beef one of the largest and most famous duck-billed dinosaurs monetary unit in Syria the position of the offensive back on a football team who lines up farthest from the line of scrimmage type and sole genus of Carchariidae: sand sharks chinch bugs a shade of blue tinged with green (computer science) any font that is contained in a cartridge that can be plugged into a computer printer a range for conducting tests wild ass of Tibet and Mongolia a wheelchair propelled by a motor burrows among roots of shrubs and beneath rocks in desert and rocky hillside areas and beach sand of western United States any grammatical case other than the nominative lodging for occasional or secondary use; 'they bought a pied-a-terre in London' lean-fleshed fish often farmed; baked or braised a disparaging term for an openly homosexual man a United States dry unit equal to 2 pints or 67.2 cubic inches a woman songster (especially of popular songs) a resident of Arizona a piece of machinery or a mechanical device; has moving parts that perform some function glossitis with atrophy of tongue tissue; sometimes accompanies pernicious anemia type genus of the Oxalidaceae; large genus of plants having leaves that resemble clover and variously colored flowers usually clustered in umbels the property of being unyielding to the touch a mayor of a municipality in Germany or Holland or Flanders or Austria a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances a cabinetmaker whose work involves making things by joining pieces of wood a woman singer having a contralto voice an oil lamp with a glass chimney and perforated metal lid to protect the flame from high winds; candlestick with a glass chimney low-growing strong-smelling coastal shrub of warm parts of the New World having unisexual flowers in conelike spikes and thick succulent leaves a genus of grasses of the family Gramineae small bright red and blue aquarium fish from streams in Brazil and Columbia a genus of fish in the family Caproidae a person who has been evacuated from a dangerous place black and gold grunt found from Bermuda to Caribbean to Brazil interchange of subject and predicate of a proposition any sail set forward of the foremast of a vessel the physical (or animal) side of a person as opposed to the spirit or intellect communication by means of transmitted signals a sport that is played outdoors a movie that apparently takes place at a slower than normal speed; achieved by taking the film at a faster rate a newspaper that is published every day a means of surviving; 'farming is a hard means of subsistence' a title of address formerly used for a man of rank and authority a place where eggs are hatched under artificial conditions (especially fish eggs); 'the park authorities operated a trout hatchery' an opening that permits escape or release; 'he blocked the way out'; 'the canyon had only one issue' frigate birds a long-playing phonograph record; designed to be played at 33.3 rpm the hours just after midnight an animal or plant that nourishes and supports a parasite; the host does not benefit and is often harmed by the association a gas or liquid that has been passed through a filter sakis a compass that does not depend on magnetism but uses a gyroscope instead one species the quality of being sufficiently interesting to be reported in news bulletins; 'the judge conceded the newsworthiness of the trial'; 'he is no longer news in the fashion world' inability to control the flow of urine and involuntary urination a plant disease caused by the ergot fungus "a perceptual structure; 'the composition presents problems for students of musical form'; 'a visual pattern must include not only objects but the spaces between them'" iron having a low carbon content that is tough and malleable and so can be forged and welded a chemical phenomenon in which an organic molecule splits into simpler substances a class in which you learn to draw or paint the abductor muscle of the great toe the facts about an actual situation; 'he didn't know the score' (computer science) a program designed to perform such editorial functions as rearrangement or modification or deletion of data one from which water can be pumped out the office of primate the quality of being false or artificial an earthstar with a bluish spore sac and a purplish brown gleba; at maturity the outer layer splits into rays that bend backward and elevate the spore sac a building on a farm paper that has been waterproofed by treatment with wax of paraffin a unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity; used to indicate the force to which a body is subjected when it is accelerated the act of saturating something a rite or body of rites prescribed for public worship an inhabitant of a border area (especially the border between Scotland and England) a way of letting you know that someone else is calling when you are using your telephone sociable aquatic animal widely distributed along streams and lake borders in North America a large building at an airport where aircraft can be stored and maintained someone (physician or clergyman) who substitutes temporarily for another member of the same profession rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton a painful inflammation of the big toe and foot caused by defects in uric acid metabolism resulting in deposits of the acid and its salts in the blood and joints a framework worn at the back below the waist for giving fullness to a woman's skirt a stairway or ladder that leads from one deck to another on a ship (British) a uniformed doorman the rate of flow of energy or particles across a given surface sudden and unexpected death of an apparently healthy infant during sleep 12 o'clock at night; the middle of the night; 'young children should not be allowed to stay up until midnight' a Scandinavian language that is spoken in Norway white and olive green east African monkey with long white tufts of hair beside the face tart lemon-flavored carbonated drink genus of widely distributed white-spored agarics being poisonous with few exceptions a vulgar person an order of fungi belonging to the class Gasteromycetes a small ball of glass that is used in various games gregarious burrowing rodent larger than the chinchillas specification of design principles (including data formats and procedures) for creating a network configuration of data processors a shrub of salt marshes of eastern and south central North America and West Indies; fruit is surrounded with white plumelike hairy tufts common black-striped reddish-brown ground squirrel of western North America; resembles a large chipmunk excessive desire to possess or dominate the time set for the start of an action or operation court-ordered support paid by one spouse to the other who has custody of the children after the parents are separated a quicker tempo than andante but not as fast as allegro reddish-brown stiff-tailed duck of North America and and northern South America something that is supposed to be secret but is generally known; 'their love affair was an open secret' manner or conduct of a physician in the presence of a patient (British) finding a way to take money back from people that they were given in another way; 'the Treasury will find some clawback for the extra benefits members received' the tip of a toe (British slang) a large satisfying meal comprises some tropical American species usually placed in genus Masdevallia: diminutive plants with small flowers carried on one scape the strength of a radio wave picked up by a radio telescope a grass of the genus Agropyron a pike with a long tapering double-edged blade with lateral projections; 16th and 17th centuries a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and satisfaction and absolution a plant where livestock are slaughtered and processed and packed as meat products a basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body; 'he was called for setting an illegal pick' any of various fruit of cucurbitaceous vines including: muskmelons; watermelons; cantaloupes; cucumbers the property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts; the main part; 'the majority of his customers prefer it'; 'the bulk of the work is finished' injury to a muscle (often caused by overuse); results in swelling and pain lip fern of Texas to Oklahoma and Colorado and Arizona and Mexico having tall erect tufted fronds any of several large vultures of Africa and Eurasia a hotel for travelers a raised mark on the skin (as produced by a blow) the act of securing possession of rebounding basketball after a missed shot sand crickets (law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance fetal-looking colonial rodent of east Africa; neither mole nor rat; they feed on tubers and have a social structure similar to that of honeybees and termites (formerly) a loud cry (or repeated cries) of pain or rage or sorrow wood of a pecan tree usually evergreen Eurasian shrubs publications from which information is obtained a genus of bacteria a thin sharp implement used for picking; 'he used a pick to clean dirt out of the cracks' American purple gallinule the act of gathering something"the act of gathering something" the quality of being cloudy a violent release of energy caused by a chemical or nuclear reaction a two-wheeled vehicle carrying artillery ammunition a sacrifice made by hitting a long fly ball a short pithy saying expressing a general truth an ulceration (especially of the lips or living of the mouth) small shrubby African tree having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers long-horned grasshoppers; katydids bristly herb of eastern and central North America having black fruit and medicinal bark a compensating equivalent a chemical substance formed as a result of a chemical reaction; 'a product of lime and nitric acid' the ships belonging to one country or industry the recording (column or paper strip) on which the constituents of a mixture are adsorbed in chromatography a reapportioning of something a spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus a person who rings church bells (as for summoning the congregation) North American plant similar to true licorice and having a root with similar properties the fruit of a cantaloup vine; small to medium-sized melon with yellowish flesh a form of schizophrenia characterized by a tendency to remain in a fixed stuporous state for long periods; the catatonia may give way to short periods of extreme excitement an inclination to favor some person or group sediment that has settled at the bottom of a liquid a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments (trademark) an alloy based on tungsten with cobalt or nickel as a binder; used in making metal-cutting tools thornbills behavior intended to please your parents; 'their children were never very strong on obedience'; 'he went to law school out of respect for his father's wishes' a skin condition marked by an overgrowth of layers of horny skin tall North American perennial with heart-shaped leaves and purple-streaked white flowers the inanimate property of something that has died any telescope designed to collect and record electromagnetic radiation from cosmic sources mostly perennial herbs of northern hemisphere often with mat-forming habit; most often placed in genus Arenaria: sandworts an athlete who plays tennis a mixture of substances (usually salt and ice) to obtain a temperature below the freezing point of water a cap with a flat circular top and a visor a fee charged for exchanging currencies birds having keeled breastbones for attachment of flight muscles a horse behind which a hunter hides while stalking game type and only genus of the family Phoeniculidae anise_trees: evergreen trees with aromatic leaves one of two equal parts of a divisible whole; 'half a loaf' or 'half an hour' or 'a century and one half' large family of small soft-finned fishes; killifishes; flagfishes; swordtails; guppies a variety of knapweed a kind of antbird a genus of fungi belonging to the family Boletaceae diameter of a tube or gun barrel fruiting body of some rust fungi bearing chains of aeciospores abnormally intense sexual desire in men a very small spaniel the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender; 'we tried to collect the money he owed us' small genus of east Asian and Australian timber trees mayflies a soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group having no stable isotope; was discovered in radioactive form as a fission product of uranium the ability to identify the pitch of a tone any of several weekdays when banks are closed; a legal holiday in Britain spirally twisted elongate rodlike bacteria usually living in stagnant water a malignant neoplasm of the skin an officer in the navy a burial chamber (usually underground) water that contains salts that prevent the formation of lather with soap the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon a mark shaped like an arrowhead; used to mark convicts' clothing fire designed to disturb the rest of enemy troops and to curtail movement and to lower enemy morale an act of limiting or restricting (as by regulation) bowl-shaped strainer; used to wash or drain foods in an editor who prepares text for publication the capital city of a province European fern with leathery and sparsely hairy fronds narrow; models display clothes on it at a fashion show the bitter bark of a South American tree; used in medicines and liqueurs and bitters any of several bizarre ferns of the genus Lecanopteris having swollen hollow rhizomes that provide homes for symbiotic ants any of various small insectivorous birds of the northern hemisphere that climb about on trees edible east Asian mushroom having a golden or dark brown to blackish cap and an inedible stipe genus of low-growing mat-forming New Zealand plants; in some classifications includes species placed in genus Haastia small active lizard of United States and north to British Columbia the negative prefix a- or un- expresses hope that something will be successful a mainly tropical genus of American plant belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae informal terms for a (young) woman coextensive with or a subphylum of Bryozoa two species of coarse annual foxtails that are naturalized weeds in United States a resident of Anjou genus of tropical American herbs sometimes included in genus Eupatorium any of several herbs of the genus Heuchera an attribute that is inadequate or deficient a male sworn (usually by a ceremony involving the mingling of blood) to treat another as his brother Old World lizards any of various mostly harmless snakes that live in or near water the heat required to raise the temperature of one gram of a substance one degree centigrade turtledoves crickets a temporary accommodation of a disagreement between parties pending a permanent settlement coextensive with the family Proteaceae turning away or in the opposite direction: 'he made an abrupt turn away from her' thunder snake a low triangular area where a river divides before entering a larger body of water a significant word used in indexing or cataloging tropical American herbs sometimes included in genus Episcia family based on male descent; 'he had no sons and there was no one to carry on his name' a day on which work is suspended by law or custom the distance between things; 'fragile items require separation and cushioning' a single bet on two horse races in the same day a family of Trematoda a parallelogram with four equal sides; an oblique-angled equilateral parallelogram eggs beaten and cooked to a soft firm consistency while stirring dark reddish-purple table grape of California type genus of the Centropomidae: snooks a transparent filter that reduces the light (or some wavelengths of the light) passing through it a small edible agaric with a slender stalk; usually found on rotting hardwoods a person who lives and works on land an upholstered armchair evergreen herbs of southeastern United States North American bulbous plant a sentimental affection; 'she had a soft spot for her youngest son' gin or vodka and lime juice an expected time to live as calculated on the basis of statistical probabilities a press that is used to extract the juice from grapes an informal word for any attempt or effort; 'he gave it his best shot' a fresh horse especially (formerly) to replace one killed or injured in battle an opening that resembles a mouth (as of a cave or a gorge); 'he rode into the mouth of the canyon'; 'they built a fire at the mouth of the cave' a disease affecting the liver the quality of being deserving (e.g., deserving assistance); 'there were many children whose deservingness he recognized and rewarded' a cruelly rapacious person moderate weather; suitable for outdoor activities a variety of red ash having glossy branchlets and lower leaf surfaces shooting artillery shells Old World ground-living cuckoo having a long dagger-like hind claw moderately sweet raised roll containing spices and raisins and citron and decorated with a cross-shaped sugar glaze one of the Muslim people of N Africa; of mixed Arab and Berber descent; converted to Islam in the 8th century; conquerors of Spain in the 8th century a wage sufficient for a worker and family to subsist comfortably a garden for growing herbs type genus of the Chlamydomonadaceae; solitary doubly-flagellated plant-like algae common in fresh water and damp soil; multiply freely; often a pest around filtration plants any of several very heavy and sometimes curved needles used by upholsterers African tree having rather lightweight cedar-scented wood varying in color from pink to reddish brown a high-power incandescent lamp that emits infrared radiation; used for heating a cut of meat including more than one rib common European glabrous annual centaury with flowers in dense cymes used to wind a spring-driven device (as a clock) a fabric of linen or cotton or silk or wool with a reversible pattern woven into it large heavily built goat antelope of eastern Himalayan area a permanent diplomatic mission headed by a minister one who denies large oval cherry tomato a religious adviser (not necessarily a priest) in the Eastern Orthodox Church decrease in the diameter of blood vessels the trait of judging wisely and objectively; 'a man of discenment' small freshwater branchiopod having a transparent body with many appendages; swims on its back a soft thin cloth woven from raw silk (or an imitation) the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply; 'an age of abundance' butterfly fishes the concentration of a solution as determined by titration a written record of a commercial transaction an empty area or space; 'the huge desert voids'; 'the emptiness of outer space' income obtained with a minimum of effort type genus of the Gnetaceae; small trees or shrubs usually with climbing jointed stems and terminal spikes of flowers with orange-red seeds clustered in rough cones vigorous Philippine evergreen twining liana; grown for spectacular festoons of green lobster-claw-like flowers a blight of potatoes a spout that terminates in a grotesquely carved figure of a person or animal a ship powered by one or more steam engines a machine for sorting things into classes where metal is cut and shaped etc., by machine tools the right to obtain or make use of or take advantage of something (as services or membership) a colorless acid used to make dyes and perfumes the process of printing from a surface on which the printing areas are not raised but are ink-receptive (as opposed to ink repellent) a game resembling tennis but played on a table with paddles and a light hollow ball dry red table wine from the Rioja region of northern Spain a person who requires medical care; 'the number of emergency patients has grown rapidly' (psychoanalysis) anxiety resulting from real or imagined threats to your sexual functions; originally applied only to men but can in principal apply to women a substance that readily conducts e.g. electricity and heat East Asian perennial herbs: plume poppy a speedy red or red-and-tan American hound a general course along which something has a tendency to develop; 'I couldn't follow the direction of his thoughts'; 'his ideals determined the direction of his career'; 'they proposed a new direction for the firm' a brief high-pitched buzzing or humming sound: 'the zing of the passing bullet' a candy that usually has a center of fondant or fruit or nuts coated in chocolate a thin layer of gold on something an exploding firework used as a warning signal a class of Annelida a white or pale green mineral (calcium magnesium silicate) of the amphibole group used as a form of asbestos a strong three-ply twine used to sew or tie packages wood of any of various alder trees; resistant to underwater rot; used for bridges etc partial displacement of a joint or organ a galaxy having a spiral structure; arms containing younger stars spiral out from old stars at the center a soft gray ductile metallic element used in alloys; occurs in niobite; formerly called columbium any of the Scandinavian people who raided the coasts of Europe from the 8th to the 11th centuries document transferring title or right or claim to another the cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge; 'the child's acquisition of language' a speech act that conveys information fragrant black nutlike seeds of the tonka bean tree; used in perfumes and medicines and as a substitute for vanilla genus of tropical American epiphytic orchids with showy racemose flowers an outstanding leader of a political movement Chickadee having a dark crown the square of a body of any size of type a short lively tune played on brass instruments; 'he entered to a flourish of trumpets'; 'her arrival was greeted with a rousing fanfare' the median plane of the body (or some part of the body) an open area at the meeting of two or more streets the first and last; signifies God's eternity a substance (such as calcium oxide) that absorbs water and is used to remove moisture a fractional monetary unit in Bangladesh and India and Nepal and Pakistan an ancient Hebrew liquid measure equal to about 10 gallons (military) a prescribed drill in handling a rifle a loan by a lender to a customer without the use of a third party; direct lending gives the lender greater discretion in making loans "the cards held in a card game by a given player at any given time; 'I didn't hold a good hand all evening'; 'he kept trying to see my hand'" inflammation of the retina a pair of levers hinged at the fulcrum a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number impracticality by virtue of thinking of things in their ideal form rather than as they really are a cloth with parallel diagonal lines or ribs 1 species: spike heath an elementary encyclopedia dealing with general knowledge the organization of data (and its storage allocations in a computer) striped pole outside a barbershop a company that moves the possessions of a family or business from one site to another small bowl for rinsing the fingers at table a medicine that induces nausea and vomiting small perennial herb of cooler regions of North America with racemose purple flowers someone employed to work in a garden a diagonal matrix in which all of the diagonal elements are equal a competitive exhibition of horses cutting away parts to create a desired shape a young person who belongs to a British or American group that shave their heads and gather at rock concerts or engage in white supremacist demonstrations young domestic cat activity that tries to conceal something; 'no mask could conceal his ignorance'; 'they moved in under a mask of friendship' all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age (astronomy) a relatively small celestial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit soft-shell clams greenling with whitish body marked with black bands small genus of deciduous shrubs of the southeastern United States a small carrier attached to the side of a motorcycle the thin membrane around the lungs a small object used in playing certain board games; 'he taught me to set up the men on the chess board'; 'he sacrificed a piece to get a strategic advantage' the office of a receiver East Indian annual erect herb; source of sesame seed or benniseed and sesame oil someone who performs the duties of an attendant for someone else a wind from the east a laminate made of thin layers of wood a springboard from which swimmers can dive instrument to detect and measure acoustic radiation a waiter who manages wine service in a hotel or restaurant not interchangeable pheasants; turkeys; grouse; partridges; quails; chickens; brush turkeys; curassows; hoatzins a projection of the globe onto a cone with its point over one of the earth's poles an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation; 'a low moved in over night bringing sleet and snow' (British) a student in the sixth form a star that explodes and becomes extremely luminous in the process any of several vines of the genera Convolvulus and Calystegia having a twining habit a light shade of red cresses that grow in clear ponds and streams a subfamily of Uto-Aztecan languages spoken mainly in the SW US an instrument that measures the height above ground; used in navigation the strength of a solution; number of molecules of a substance in a given volume (expressed as moles/cubic meter) perennial plant of Europe and America having racemes of white or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves; often rooting at water margin and spreading across the surface a drawing illustrating the relations between certain quantities plotted with reference to a set of axes reinforcing looped stitch for edges, as around a buttonhole small European thrush having reddish flanks "the whole collection of existing things" 'windcheater' is a British term any agent that destroys or prevents the growth of fungi an area in a town where a public market is set up quiet and inactive restfulness (Roman Catholic) a greeting signifying Christian love for those assisting at the Eucharist the mechanical energy that a body has by virtue of its motion deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come; 'he hoped it was an augury'; 'it was a sign from God' underground pod of of the peanut vine a trite or obvious remark order of chiefly parasitic lower fungi: Albuginaceae and Peronosporaceae and Pythiaceae a small jet-propelled winged missile that carries a bomb the system of joints in the body "(biology) a substance in which specimens are preserved or displayed" any of numerous American oaks having 4 stamens in each floret, acorns requiring two years to mature and leaf veins usually extending beyond the leaf margin to form points or bristles mule deer of western Rocky Mountains an entrance to an amphitheater or stadium an amino acid found in the jack bean a small sofa a household sieve (as for flour) a noncommissioned officer ranking above corporal and below sergeant first class in the army or marines or above airman 1st class in the air force shrubby clematis of the eastern United States having curly foliage any of various hard resins from trees of the family Dipterocarpaceae and of the genus Agathis; especially the amboyna pine the property of being shorter than average stature the portion of the loin (especially of beef) just in front of the rump the act of distributing something to designated places or persons; 'the first task is the assignment of an address to each datum' a chisel with a blade like a trough for cutting channels or grooves either of the anterior pair of wings on an insect that has 4 wings unfermented or fermenting malt seafood in Newburg sauce served on toast or rice mostly tropical songbird; the male is usually bright orange and black an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion; 'the bottleneck in mail delivery it the process of sorting' someone who releases people from captivity or bondage an actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech a travelling company of entertainers; including trained animals; 'he ran away from home to join the circus' a chemical substance that repels insects small marlin (to 180 pounds) of western Atlantic a man's coat cut diagonally from the waist to the back of the knees a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world a frenzy of emotion; as for something unattainable a system of evaluation (in education or industry) based on awarding points according to rules southern European plant having spiny leaves and purple flowers cultivated for its edible leafstalks and roots the written form of a word the sacred writings of the Christian religion; 'he went to carry the Word to the heathen' "the final aggregate; 'the sum of all our troubles did not equal the misery they suffered'" the person in charge of a post office a long thin sewing needle with a sharp point acute delirium caused by alcohol poisoning a stately court dance of the 16th and 17th centuries a reddish opal with small patches of brilliant color a defenseless victim epilepsy in which a seizure is induced by whirling or running a green crystal (violet in water) used as a dye or stain or bactericide or fungicide or anthelmintic or burn treatment a room in which soldiers under guard are confined a small model of house that children can play inside of broad blade; used for cutting rather than stabbing an orderly assigned to serve a British military officer round gourd of the calabash tree Old World genus of annual to perennial herbs: woad a derogatory term used by Jews to refer to non-Jewish women opahs a primate of the family Hominidae a trancelike state with loss of voluntary motion and failure to react to stimuli a stew made with chicken a fleshy underground stem or root serving for reproductive and food storage moth whose larvae feed on and mat together with webbing various stored foods agile slender-bodied arboreal mustelids somewhat larger than weasels southern African weasel a variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something; 'the project was subject to the usual vicissitudes of exploratory research' combining into a solid mass an American Indian woman a person who investigates and reports or edits news stories an acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal) pre-release software that has received an alpha test but still has more bugs than a regular release; 'beta software is usually available only to particular users who will test it' substituting a more inclusive term for a less inclusive one or vice versa "an abstract collection of numbers or symbols; 'the set of prime numbers is infinite'" "the condition of containing or being covered by a liquid (especially water); 'he confirmed the wetness of the paint'" sweet green or white mint-flavored liqueur an improvement that makes something more agreeable a genus of birds of the family Aldecinidae a weight used to hold down a stack of papers marine fishes having a tapering body with an armored head and venomous spines type genus of the Aplodontiidae: comprising the mountain beavers any of various South American plants of the genus Alstroemeria valued for their handsome umbels of beautiful flowers large species having three ridges on its back; found in southeastern United States a person skilled in large scale financial transactions time without end large ferocious bear of Eurasia a machine with a large revolving drum in which cement is mixed with other materials to make concrete a small thin crisp cake or cookie a characteristic state or mode of living; 'social life'; 'city life'; 'real life' the path followed by a moving object "a circular region whose area is indicated by the length of its radius; 'they located it within a radius of 2 miles'" spavin caused by distension of the veins a commercial product that refills a container with its appropriate contents; 'he got a refill for his ball-point pen' or 'he got a refill for his notebook' a resident of Vermont a club-shaped wooden object; set up in groups as a target loss of memory for events immediately following a trauma; sometimes in effect for events during and for a long time following the trauma a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball); 'he came all the way around on Williams' hit' a benign epithelial tumor forming a rounded mass rupture in smooth muscle tissue through which a bodily structure protrudes a woman instructor activates the firing mechanism of a gun the quantity of an element whose weight in grams is numerically equal to the atomic weight of the element a series of stages through which an organism passes between recurrences of a primary stage "possession with the right to transfer possession to others" the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked a bit or drill having deep helical grooves babblers anoxia resulting from slow peripheral circulation (such as follows congestive cardiac failure) a fighter plane used for suicide missions by Japanese pilots in World War II mat-forming perennial of central Europe with large fragrant pink or red flowers inflammation of the lungs with congestion caused by viruses or bacteria or irritants hatred of mankind one modified to increase speed and acceleration parasitic on mice of genus Peromyscus (especially P. leucopus) and bites humans; principal vector for Lyme disease in eastern United States (especially New England); northern form was for a time known as Ixodes dammini (deer tick) any habitation at a high altitude the inedible nutlike seed of the horse chestnut purplish-black wild grape of the eastern United States with tough skins that slip easily from the flesh; cultivated in many varieties a stick carried in the hand for support in walking tree bearing large brown nuts containing e.g. caffeine; source of cola extract an upright in house framing an infection caused by the herpes simples virus; affects the skin and nervous system; produces small temporary (but sometimes painful) blisters on the skin and mucous membranes small genus of tropical South American annuals a chromosome like a straight rod with the centromere in terminal position sorting and allocating aid on the basis of need for or likely benefit from medical treatment or food a variety of different things or activities; 'he answered a range of questions'; 'he was impressed by the range and diversity of the collection' rod-shaped soil bacteria large tropical American cockroaches a second-year undergraduate a primary cell consisting of a zinc anode, a cathode of mercury oxide, and an electrolyte of potassium hydroxide (British) something worn on the shoulder of a military uniform as an emblem of a division etc. oil distilled from camphor resin a variety of mammoth a device that requires skill for proper use inability to make purposeful movements the valve between the left atrium and the left ventricle the quantity contained in a crate millet having yellow grains in large drooping spikes a whistle on a boat that is sounded as a warning a blast of wind laden with sand a pad worn in baseball by catchers and by football players a painting of inanimate objects such as fruit or flowers castrated male horse an outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously; 'after the Civil War the carpetbaggers from the north tried to take over the south' left-eyed marine flatfish whose tail tapers to a point; of little commercial value a financial statement that gives operating results for a specific period a baseball thrown with maximum velocity; 'he swung late on the fastball'; 'He showed the batters nothing but smoke' the feeling aroused by something strange and surprising the study of language in relation to its sociocultural context dark brown syrupy balsam from the Peruvian balsam tree used especially in dressing wounds and treating certain skin diseases a vehicle designed to carry something; 'refrigerated carriers have revolutionized the grocery business' an unpaired sinus of the dura mater the act of intimidating a weaker person to make them do something a particular day specified as the time something will happen; 'the date of the election is set by law' an obstacle that you are expected to overcome; 'the last hurdle before graduation' former name for the genus Australopithecus South American evergreen tree yielding winter's bark and a light soft wood similar to basswood social control by dominating a tax on capital or property data processing in which some of the functions are performed in different places and connected by transmission facilities a festival marked by merrymaking and processions a unit responsible for gathering and interpreting intelligence the relative proportion of salt in a solution the property of being invulnerable; the property of being incapable of being hurt (physically or emotionally) a variety of spiderwort a cut of meat from the breast or lower chest especially of beef dry white Chablis-type table wine made from Chardonnay grapes barely audible a person who performs fellatio the personification of death; 'Death walked the streets of the plague-bound city' a complex of enzymes that cause glycolysis; originally found in yeast but also present in higher organisms any of various instruments for measuring a quantity moist bread containing banana pulp curved arteries of the kidney a sharp-pointed tip on a stem or leaf a valuable timber tree of tropical South America normal or sound powers of mind in some classifications the type genus of the subfamily Peristediinae: armored sea robins a white dicarboxylic acid formed from oxidation of sugar or starch damselfishes after death the soul begins a new cycle of existence in another human of animal body a basket made of wickerwork a photograph made with a telephoto lens a form of canasta in which sequences can be melded an electrical load that exceeds the available electrical power small genus of deciduous West Indian trees or shrubs: carib wood a poor white person in the southern US large United States wren with a musical call a ship built to carry passengers an object worked on; a result produced by working; 'he held the job in his left hand and worked on it with his right' (criminal law) a plea in which the defendant claims innocence due to mental incompetence at the time one of the main longitudinal beams (or plates) of a vessel; can extend vertically into the water to provide lateral stability one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water) a commercially prepared mixture of flour and salt and a leavening agent ground dried garlic and salt an opening time period; 'it was the dawn of the Roman Empire' metal container for storing dry foods such as tea or flour a fungal disease of onions an ominous sign that war threatens assault with intent to rob leaves can be used as seasoning for almost any meat and stews and stuffings and vegetables (military) granted in an emergency such as family sickness or death tropical fern widespread in Old World; naturalized in Jamaica and Florida any of various yellow dyes; not related chemically to alizarin but applied in the same manner the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group a specific number of stocks or shares owned: 'sell holdings he has in corporations' a parallelogram with four right angles a small brownish spot (of the pigment melanin) on the skin the act of presenting a play or a piece of music or other entertainment; 'we congratulated him on his performance at the recital' the quality of aiding an enemy a stringed instrument that is played by depressing keys that cause hammers to strike tuned strings and produce sounds a quick reflex inspiration suddenly checked by closure of the glottis producing an audible sound small genus of tropical African timber trees having pale golden heartwood uniformly striped with dark brown or black: muffin containing bran a writ ordering the release of goods that have been unlawfully detained type genus of Tribonemaceae Canada jays fungi having smooth perithecia with dark one-celled ascospores an event marking a unique or important historical change or one on which important developments depend noctuid moth larvae that travel in multitudes destroying esp. grass and grain delicate endemic Bermudian fern with creeping rootstock a firm engaged in trading rust fungus that attacks wheat a woman ambassador a transitive verb that takes both a direct and an indirect object a genus of Soleidae a device that makes a loud warning sound type genus of the Monocanthidae a pipeline used to transport natural gas; 'the workmen broke through the gas line' (ancient Rome) a professional combatant or a captive who entertained the public by engaging in mortal combat a list of dishes available at a restaurant; 'the menu was in French' a fluid (gas or liquid) used to cool a system; transfers heat away from one part to another 1 species: parasite yew any of various juicy purple- or green-skinned fruit of the genus Vitis; grow in clusters fruit of various buckthorns yielding dyes or pigments a colorless; pungent fuming vesicatory liquid acid HCOOH found in ants and many plants; used in finishing textiles mariposa with clusters of bell-shaped vermilion or orange or yellow flowers atop short stems; southern California to Arizona and Mexico found in warm shallow waters of western Atlantic a position of great esteem (and supposed superiority); 'they put him on a pedestal' a temporary arrangement erected around a building for convenience of workers climbing salamanders terrestrial porcupine the quality of being able to meet a need satisfactorily: 'he questioned the adequacy of the usual sentimental interpretation of the Golden Rule a bin for holding flour "the state of being omnipotent; having unlimited power" West Indian timber tree having very hard wood the common bean plant grown for the beans rather than the pods especially a variety with large red kidney-shaped beans a feeling of sexual love the removal of contaminants a mineral that is a source of rare earths; consists of silicates of iron and beryllium and cerium and yttrium and erbium the quality of being warm-hearted and considerate and humane and sympathetic a freely moving joint in which the bones are so articulated as to allow extensive movement in one plane a large sailing ship an oral vaccine (containing live but weakened poliovirus) that is given to provide immunity to poliomyelitis flat-podded green bean the first largest innermost toe male salmon that has recently spawned a device to hurl clay pigeons into the air for trapshooters large white roundish Asiatic legume; usually dried a man whose wife is dead especially one who has not remarried a favorite saying of a sect or political group art and technique of printing with movable type one who provides a warrant or guarantee to another a specialist in the branch of biology dealing with animals tissue between the cells of a structure or part in plant or animal a cylindrical drawstring bag used by sailors to hold their clothing and other gear a hammer used in laying bricks mutual communication any of various plants of the genus Althaea; similar to but having smaller flowers than genus Alcea singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument an insane person not of baic importance the natural process by which the body repairs itself oil-secreting gland situated at the base of the tail in most birds any plant of the genus Inula a shop where shoes are sold a Sudanese sorghum having exceptionally large soft white grains a forest fire that burns the humus; may not appear on the surface type genus of the Salviniaceae: water ferns a straight line that generates a cylinder or cone a creature of Teutonic mythology; usually represented as breathing fire and having a reptilian body and sometimes wings mouse-eared chickweed an erroneous belief that is held in the face of evidence to the contrary narrow padded board on collapsible supports; used for ironing clothes any of various plants of the genus Limonium of temperate salt marshes having spikes of whit or mauve flowers a device used in photography to synchronize the peak of a flash with the opening of the camera shutter pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or ground any movable possession (especially articles of clothing); 'she packed her things and left' a resident of Dublin the time of life between 20 and 30 large tropical Asian tree frequently dwarfed as a houseplant; source of Assam rubber a pattern of symptoms including loss of appetite and bloating and weight loss and muscle pain and steatorrhea; associated with celiac disease and sprue and cystic fibrosis a mask with a filter protects the face an lungs against poisonous gases a sour made with whiskey very rare Central American bird; the national bird of Guatemala large evergreen arborescent herb having huge paddle-shaped leaves and bearing inedible fruit that resemble bananas but edible young flower shoots; sometimes placed in genus Musa any of a number of tiny parallel grooves such as: the scratches left by a glacier on rocks or the streaks or ridges in muscle tissue a genus of flagellate protoctista a Spanish or Portuguese or Latin American spectacle; a matador baits and (usually) kills a bull in an arena before many spectators the green color of an emerald bowling down an alley at a target of ten wooden pins adult male of a wild or domestic duck the state of being unsanitary the number of which a given number is the logarithm (trademark) a type of inflatable air mattress a prince who rules a territory a polygon with one or more reentrant angles (physics) the interaction that binds protons and neutrons together in the nuclei of atoms; mediated by gluons small black or brown speckled auks of northern seas (colloquial) a person who responds 'I don't know' in public opinion poll a ribald person; someone who uses vulgar and offensive language a business that makes its facilities available to others for a fee; achieves economy of scale a narrow band or strip of ribbon worn as a headband fragrant wood of two incense trees of the genus Protium correction of an unstable part of the spine by joining two or more vertebrae; usually done surgically but sometimes done by traction or immobilization an expert on mythology puffball-like mushroom of the genus Tulostoma "a prominent aspect of something: 'the map showed roads and other features'; 'generosity is one of his best characteristics'" arteries that accompany the bronchioles the surface soil that must be moved away to get at coal seams and mineral deposits single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission; important as pathogens and for biochemical properties; taxonomy is difficult; often considered plants a Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism the systematic account of natural phenomena plant materials and animal waste used as fuel the domain ruled by a sheik a state of abnormal softening of tissue sensationalist journalism having one husband at a time a swaggering show of courage someone devoted to the promotion of human welfare and to social reforms a muscle that flexes and supinates the forearm a holiday taken by a newly married couple a fungus convex cap and a dingy yellow under surface and a dry stalk small paper bag holding a measure of tea a railroad employee in charge of signals and point in a railroad yard a white solid fatty acid found in waxes (such as beeswax) a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit; 'I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner' a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity; 'the whole body filed out of the auditorium' one- or two-person submarine; for naval operations or underwater exploration a straight bar of light metal with a spirit level in it plant with terminal racemes of showy white to pink or purple flowers; the English cottage garden hollyhock a form of solo dancing that involves rapid acrobatic moves in which different parts of the body touch the ground; normally performed to the rhythm of rap music loss of air pressure in a tire when a hole is made by some sharp object wild goat of Iran and adjacent regions a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations rare-roasted beef tenderloin coated with mushroom paste in puff pastry monetary unit in Greece the part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth a member of the Germanic people who overran Gaul and Spain and N Africa and sacked Rome in 455 a raincoat made from cotton fabric treated with oil and pigment to make it waterproof the least favorable outcome; 'the worst that could happen' an Old World reptile family of Sauria largest living frog; up to a foot and weighing up to 10 lbs; Africa the act of coming to land after a voyage a fee levied for the use of roads or bridges (used for maintenance) a hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons) bitter brown seed containing caffein; source of cola extract the body of laws governing the issuance and selling of securities the chief executive and political committee of the Communist Party a stinging herb of tropical America a long piece of brightly colored cloth (cotton or silk) used as clothing (a skirt or loincloth or sash etc.) in India and Pakistan and Burma a woman in charge of nursing in a medical institution a military unit that is part of the airforce any of various usually edible freshwater percoid fishes having compressed bodies and shiny scales; especially (but not exclusively) of the genus Lepomis uttering a loud inarticulate cry as of pain or excitement "matter that remains after something has been removed" dicot aquatic plants a watch that represents time by the position of hands on a dial a pain that is felt when the area is touched any of several seals lacking external ear flaps and having a stiff hairlike coat with hind limbs reduced to swimming flippers the mean of n numbers expressed as the reciprocal of the arithmetic mean of the reciprocals of the numbers British money; especially the pound sterling as the basic monetary unit of the UK any of several large worms having a broad flattened body with a mat of coarse hairs covering the back the style in which a garment is cut; 'a dress of traditional cut' any of several erect perennial rhizomatous herbs of the genus Circaea having white flowers that open at dawn; northern hemisphere a gauge boson that mediates the (extremely weak) gravitational interactions between particles European annual with pale rose-colored flowers; cultivated flower or self-sown grainfield weed; introduced in North America; sometimes classified as a soapwort someone who drops things (especially one who cannot catch a ball) any of various highly prized edible subterranean fungi of the genus Tuber; grow naturally in southwestern Europe having macaroni as the base barn originally built to hold tithes paid in kind and common in England a living body of an animal or person a journey organized for a particular purpose money offered as a bribe perennial herb with an odorless rhizome widespread in moist places in northern hemisphere a challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy; 'he could never refuse a dare' European perennial weedy plant with greenish flowers (mineral extraction) a surface-active chemical used in flotation process to increase the attraction to a specific mineral (British) paid magistrate (appointed by the Home Secretary) dealing with police cases an illusory state of well-being collection belonging to a theatrical company the business of selling real estate swift-running bipedal dinosaurs the expense of maintaining property (e.g., paying property taxes and utilities and insurance); it does not include depreciation or the cost of financing or income taxes tropical South American tree having a wide-spreading crown of bipinnate leaves and coiled ear-shaped fruits; grown for shade and ornament as well as valuable timber an expression of gratitude; 'he expressed his appreciation in a short note' a relation between living organisms; esp between people a genus of Capromyidae in some classifications considered a subfamily of Triglidae comprising the armored searobins any of several small-fruited cherry trees frequented or fed on by birds an English coin worth 5 shillings laying explosive mines in concealed places to destroy enemy personnel and equipment a family of Pinaceae the commonest and least severe form of actinomycosis; affects the face and neck regions a musician who gives recitals a person who holds unorthodox opinions in any field (not merely religion) a member of an extinct species of human being; probably an ancestor of modern man algae resembling confervae especially in having branching filaments characterized by delirium and the formation of buboes a change for the better; progress in development tall terrestrial birds: ostriches extreme effortfulness a metal casting containing the cylinders and cooling ducts of an engine; 'the engine had to be replaced because the block was cracked' an impression in a surface (as made by a blow) the network of all communication channels used within an organization a final climactic stage; 'their achievements stand as a culmination of centuries of development' a mathematician specializing in trigonometry a liquid preparation containing calamine; used to treat itching or mild skin irritations tall perennial herb having clusters of white flowers; the eastern United States stout-bodied lizards the act of brushing your hair; 'he gave his hair a quick brush' a white powder comprised of calcium hydroxide, chloride, and hypochlorite and used to bleach and/or disinfect large silvery game fish of warm Atlantic coastal waters especially off Florida a metrical unit with stressed-stressed-unstressed syllables used in some especially older classifications; coextensive with the family Anatidae a neurochemical occurring naturally in the brain and having analgesic properties a reply that repeats what has just been said (diplomacy) an international agreement any of various large eagles that usually feed on fish a disorder of the glands of the body (in India and Burma) robbery by a gang of armed dacoits an affinity for neural tissues an area where a group of families live together arctic deer with large antlers in both sexes; called reindeer in Eurasia and caribou in North America an unfavorable omen a device for beating eggs or whipping cream a club that people join in order to buy selected books at reduced prices a soft gray mineral; the chief ore of antimony someone who works as hard as a slave a pump to remove bilgewater attire to wear on formal occasions in the evening long-cultivated hybrid of Rheum palmatum; stems often cooked in pies or as sauce or preserves herb of tropical America having vanilla-scented flowers; climbs up trees a daily written record of (usually personal) experiences and observations a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person aromatic annual or perennial herbs and shrubs a wrongful act that the actor had no right to do; improper professional conduct; 'he charged them with electoral malpractices' a red fluorescent dye resulting from the action of bromine on fluorescein; used in cosmetics and as a biological stain for studing cell structures a unit of weight equal to 4,000 pounds hard close-grained wood of any of various birch trees; used especially in furniture and interior finishes and plywood a covering for the leg (usually extending from the knee to the ankle) genus of tropical American epiphytic orchids a passage for water (or other fluids) (British) a road on which you are not allowed to stop (unless you have a breakdown) informal terms for the mouth the act of surrendering (under agreed conditions); 'they were protected until the capitulation of the fort' creeping or climbing evergreen having spiny zigzag stems with shiny leaves and racemes of pale-green flowers; Canary Islands to southern Europe and Ethiopia and India no alternation of generations the medusoid phase being entirely suppressed: sea anemones; corals evidence (usually the testimony of a witness) directly related to the fact in dispute a theatrical entertainment of broad and earthy humor; consists of comic skits and short turns (and sometimes striptease) a standard port between a computer and its peripherals that is used in some computers a rack for parking bicycles dasyures; native cats; pouched mice; banded_anteaters; Tasmanian devils a long sleeveless vestment worn by a priest when celebrating Mass uses scattered light to show particles too small to see with ordinary microscopes a silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite liver or liver-and-white hunting dog developed in Germany; 3/4 pointer and 1/4 bloodhound small whitish mites a sweet liquid preservative used as an antifreeze and in brake fluid introduction during embryonic development of characters or structure not present in the earlier evolutionary history of the strain or species (as addition of the placenta in mammalian evolution) any of a number of hoofed mammals superficially similar but not necessarily closely related taxonomically hardy British hound having long pendulous ears and a thick coarse shaggy coat with an oily undercoat; bred for hunting otters treating an infectious disease by injecting an antitoxin or specific serum the upper and widest of the three bones making up the hipbone continual and persistent demands a second-rate prize fighter the difference in value over a period of time of a country's imports and exports of merchandise; 'a nation's balance of trade is favorable when its exports exceed its imports' a measure of the money supply; M2 plus deposits at institutions that are not banks (such as savings and loan associations) receives the end of a header in floor or roof framing in order to leave an opening for a staircase or chimney etc. the act of pouncing a straight line connecting two points on a curve chiefly Old World herbs or shrubs: saltworts blind snakes armadillos; American anteaters; sloths (Great Britain) a small farm worked by a crofter pain in the chest ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight unit of solar radiation playing the position of catcher on a baseball team slang terms for sexual intercourse a stop consonant made by the suction of air into the mouth (as in Bantu) placental mammals having hooves with an odd number of toes on each foot coffee with the caffeine removed mature female of mammals of which the male is called 'bull' a state of partial or total darkness; 'he struck a match to dispell the gloom' either of two veins serving the choroid coat of the eye a moralistic rebuke; 'your preaching is wasted on him' a complex of buildings in which a college is housed mantispids dried fibrous part of the gourd-like fruit of a plant of the genus Luffa; used as a washing sponge or strainer South American plant with roots used as a vegetable and herbage used for stock feed a machine that automatically stamps letters or packages passing through it and computes the total charge airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc. Australian bird that resembles a pheasant; the courting male displays long tail feathers in a lyre shape annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains moving or still pictures in contrasting colors that appear three-dimensional when superimposed an atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance European hawkweed having flower heads with bright orange-red rays; a troublesome weed especially as naturalized in northeastern North America; sometimes placed in genus Hieracium flesh of any of various important food fishes of warm seas low-growing shrub with spreading branches and flowers in loose heads; desert regions of western United States (California to Utah) accompanies the middle cerebral artery deep in the Sylvian fissure; empties into the basal vein a small chamber in which packing is compressed around a shaft to form a seal type genus of the Balaenidae: Greenland whales beeches of temperate southern hemisphere except Africa: southern beech a family of edible fungi including the true morels a supporting column carved in the shape of a person the force that produces magnetic flux the act of designating or identifying something any of various plants of the genus Ursinia grown for their yellow- or orange- or white-rayed flowers herb with downy leaves and small purple or white flowers that yields a pungent oil used as a flavoring the branch of dentistry dealing with the appearance of the teeth a nerve fiber encased in a sheath of myelin something added to complete or make perfect: 'a fine wine is a perfect complement to the dinner' a noticeable decline in performance: 'the team went into a slump'; 'a sudden slack in output'; 'a drop-off in attendance'; 'a falloff in automobile sales' correct or appropriate behavior part of the peritoneum attached to the stomach and to the colon and covering the intestines an unneighborly disposition a pouch projecting from the top front of each atrium of the heart an alloy of nickel and copper and other metals (such as iron and/or manganese and/or aluminum) a plumbing fixture that provides a flow of water a contradiction of ideas that serves as the determining factor in their interaction; 'this situation created the inner dialectic of American history' decorative work made of silver a heavy metal sphere attached to a flexible wire; used in the hammer throw advantage given to a competitor to equalize chances of winning opera with a happy ending and in which some of the text is spoken the linings of the brake shoes are moved hydraulically against the brake drum to stop its rotation an organ specialized for sucking nourishment or for adhering to objects by suction a mark made by a chattering tool on the surface of a workpiece mentioning something by saying it will not be mentioned increasing the size of a bet (as in poker); 'I'll see your raise and double it' a cartridge that contains ink and can be replaced North African gerbils an alloy of gold and silver oil from the peppermint plant used as flavoring someone who makes or enacts laws a local and habitual twitching especially in the face the etched plate used to reproduce an illustration a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events a clerk who marks data on a chart a quantity that is twice as great as another; '36 is the double of 18' "something immaterial (as a circumstance or influence) that contributes to producing a result" the quality of being natural and without pretensions a thin varnish made by dissolving lac in ethanol; used to finish wood food that fulfills the requirements of Jewish dietary law the domain controlled by a viscount or viscountess wormlike burrowing snake of warm regions having vestigial eyes small penguin of South America and southern Africa with a braying call the lane for vehicles that are moving slowly a boulder that has been carried by a river to a place remote from its place of origin a muscle that draws a part away from the median line large North American mountain marmot a hired had on a ranch the quantity a kettle will hold the quantity a pocket will hold exhibiting openly in public view; 'a display of courage' an absorbent aluminum silicate clay formed from volcanic ash a business that manufactures and sells computers "a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list; 'he noticed an item in the New York Times'; 'she had several items on her shopping list'; 'the main point on the agenda was taken up first'" a member of the Uniat Church includes all recent members of the order Hyracoidea cartilage that is largely composed of fibers like those in ordinary connective tissue a program for defending a country against its enemies the branch of physics that studies the deformation and flow of matter a substance that can be used or prepared for use as food a ribbed fabric used in clothing and upholstery a true bug: long-legged predacious bug living mostly on other insects; a few suck blood of mammals cowbirds a punctuation mark (!) used after an exclamation the celebration of the Eucharist (in the Roman Catholic Church and some Protestant Churches) yellow oval tropical fruit North American fern often bearing bulbils on the leaflets an evergreen shrub Atlantic coast round clams with hard shells; large clams usually used for chowders or other clam dishes a solution used as a cleanser for the eyes the unlawful act of capturing and carrying away a person against their will and holding them in false imprisonment text that is in a form that a computer can store and display on a computer screen the trait of condescending to those of lower social status "all of something including all its component elements or parts; 'Europe as a whole'; 'the whole of American literature'" a message transmitted by telegraph a fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia; equal to one hundredth of a yen or rupiah or riel believing two contradictory ideas at the same time including by incorporation an average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n normal tonicity of the muscles; 'exercise improves muscle tone' natural height of a person or animal in an upright position a company of people assembled at a table for a meal or game; 'he entertained the whole table with his witty remarks' the selection of a new member (usually by a vote of the existing membership) shrub with dark-green glossy foliage and solitary pale yellow flowers; northern China a port where merchandise can be imported and re-exported with paying import duties a dull and listless state resulting from weariness a rod used to clean the barrel of a firearm a hinged switch that can assume either of two positions a closed political meeting viral disease in solanaceous plants (tomatoes; potatoes; tobacco) resulting in mottling and often shriveling of the leaves an oxide of copper the time of life between 80 and 90 crepes flamed in a sweet orange-and-lemon flavored liqueur sauce a partition that divides a ship or plane into compartments a diocese of the Eastern Christian Church small shrub of colder parts of North America and Greenland the trait of displaying arrogance by patronizing those considered inferior edible glands of an animal sound practical judgment; 'he hasn't got the sense God gave little green apples' tropical click beetles vein that is a tributary of the subclavian vein or external jugular vein and accompanies the descending scapular artery a sport adapted from jujitsu (using principles of not resisting) and similar to wrestling; developed in Japan a gathering of passengers sufficient to fill an automobile the quality possessed by something that you can get along without muscular diaphragm that controls the size of the pupil; it forms the colored portion of the eye a secret rendezvous (especially between lovers) a gown worn by academics or judges large sweet fleshy tropical fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated an unusual ceratopsian dinosaur having many large spikes around the edge of its bony frill and a long nose horn; late Cretaceous a vegetable of the mustard family: especially mustard greens; various cabbages; broccoli; cauliflower; brussels sprouts a perfective tense used to express action completed in the present; 'I have finished' is an example of the present perfect' carpenter ants the male has branched mandibles resembling antlers moths whose larvae are tobacco hornworms or tomato hornworms the act of making a proposal; 'they listened to her proposal' a state of danger involving risk a person belonging to the worldwide group descended from the ancient Israelites (or converted to it) and connected by cultural or religious ties the wrist bone on the thumb side of the hand that articulates with the 1st and 2nd metacarpals mynas a viral infection (usually in children) marked by sore throat and fever and papules in the mouth and throat and headache and abdominal pain; usually subsides in a short time the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate used as a sedative and a hypnotic the upper angle between an axis and an offshoot such as a branch or leafstalk the act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute) amnesia about particular events that is very convenient for the person who cannot remember; 'why do politicians always develop selective amnesia when questioned about their transgressions?' large Japanese ornamental having long needles in bunches of 2; widely planted in United States because of its resistance to salt and smog a small plexus formed by the fifth sacral and coccygeal nerves the people who inhabit a territory or state; 'the population seemd to be well fed and clothed' especially a vane in the form of a rooster a system of linguistic units or elements used in a particular language understatement, esp. expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary wind moving 8-12 knots; 3 on the Beaufort scale (football) grasping an opposing player with the intention of stopping by throwing to the ground (British) a quarter of a hundredweight (28 pounds) any font whose different characters have different widths an employee of a theater who performs work involved in putting on a theatrical production either of a pair of strong posts that support a windlass on a ship's deck a computer that represents information by variable quantities (e.g., positions or voltages) a market for short-term debt instruments a settlement of differences; 'they reached an accommodation with Japan' an percussion instrument similar to a xylophone but having metal bars and rotating disks in the resonators that produce a vibrato sound the contestant who wins the contest an extra wheel and tire an informal reference to a marriage proposal; 'he was ready to pop the question' a faulty shot in billiards; the cue tip slips off the cue ball (electricity) the act of increasing voltage or power or current wild dabbling duck from which domestic ducks are descended; widely distributed an animal being fattened or suitable for fattening a young person (especially a young man or boy) a musical group that uses jugs and washboards and kazoos and other improvised instruments one who studies the nature and effects of poisons and their treatment a document (or organization) from which information is obtained; 'the reporter had two sources for the story' a sound defeat the side that is forward or prominent a transient shower of meteors when a meteor swarm enters the earth's atmosphere 1 species: coral necklace a region subject to dust storms; especially the central region of United States subject to dust storms in the 1930s generic term for inflammatory conditions of the skin the act of supplying fresh air and getting rid of foul air Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside small wheel or roller sends or receives radio or television signals hazel of western United States with conspicuous beaklike involucres on the nuts the wanton killing of many people the part of grammar that deals with the inflections of words type genus of the family Spirochaetaceae; flexible undulating chiefly aquatic bacteria a crown-like jewelled headdress worn by women on formal occasions the state of being insulated a bomb that explodes at a pre-set depth under water; anti-submarine device a radioactive transuranic metallic element; produced by bombarding plutonium with helium nuclei the circumstances and ideas of the present age; 'behind the times'; 'in times like these' a pill in the form of a small rounded container with medicine inside the relative tendency or disposition to be sociable or associate with one's fellows a long piece of writing hawkmoths a branch of the celiac artery that supplies the lesser curvature of the stomach and the abdominal part of the esophagus douroucoulis the territory of a count palatine the trait of lacking a sense of responsibility capability of being equated a great circle on the celestial sphere that passes through both celestial poles a genus of dicotyledonous plants (Hinduism) an ascetic holy man formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance a fund reserved to pay workers' pensions a small iron that can be carried while traveling a collection of resources; 'he dipped into his intellectual armoryto find an answer' a ratite bird order: birds intermediate in characteristics between ostriches and emus: recent and extinct rheas in the manner of a slattern a brief show (music or dance etc) performed between the sections of another performance a mechanical device using confined air to absorb the shock of motion a room in a school where lessons take place of northern Europe and America; resembling a miniature fir a genus of Sterninae trees and shrubs and woody vines usually having bright-colored fruits a meeting at which a number of athletic contests are held made of metal and used to fasten things or make cages or fences etc a native or inhabitant of Colombia an order of dicotyledonous plants large brightly colored food fish of deep Atlantic waters minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell; moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae a native or inhabitant of the Samoan Islands pitcher plants any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa Asia and Australia; fabled to warn of crocodiles a wound that does not damage important internal organs or shatter any bones southern European plant commonly cultivated for its spikes of small starry greenish-white flowers a drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving; 'the industrial revolution was also a cultural revolution' a skin disease of adults (more often women) in which blood vessels of the face enlarge resulting in a flushed appearance a person of exceptional importance and reputation a place used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence) a simple sugar found in honey and in many ripe fruits an agaric with a relatively small pink to red cap and white gills and stalk imaginary or visionary theorization a soft silvery-white tetravalent radioactive metallic element; isotope 232 is used as a power source in nuclear reactors; occurs in thorite and in monazite sands swift lizard with long black-banded tail and long legs; of deserts of United States and Mexico long-legged spotted cat of Africa and southwestern Asia having nonretractile claws; the swiftest mammal; can be trained to run down game a farm where horses are bred asphodel having erect smooth unbranched stem either flexuous or straight breed of medium-sized spaniels originating in America having chocolate or liver-colored curly coat a worker who holds or is invested with an office lamb succory any of several breeds of Indian cattle especially a large American heat- and tick-resistant grayish humped breed evolved in the Gulf States by interbreeding Indian cattle and now used chiefly for crossbreeding a symbol of commercialism or greed; 'he worships the almighty dollar' or 'the dollar sign means little to him' an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement an apartment with a living space and a bathroom and a small kitchen "either of two points where the lines of force of the Earth's magnetic field are vertical" a conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts an ill-tempered and offensive disposition a hospital for recuperation or for the treatment of chronic diseases dextrose used as sweetening agent the act of increasing the wealth or prestige or power or scope of something Old World star of Bethlehem having edible young shoots calling out an official list of names dense shrub of moist riverbanks and flood plains of the eastern United States having attractive fragrant foliage and dense racemes of dark purple flowers a finding (in criminal law) that the defendant is guilty of some charges but innocent of others a path set aside for walking; 'after the blizzard he shoveled the front walk' the season when new plays are produced small mass of erectile tissue at the end of the body of the clitoris a pencil of soft slate (or soapstone) used for writing on a slate a disease of livestock caused by locoweed poisoning; characterized by weakness and lack of coordination and trembling and partial paralysis the act of causing to become less small Asiatic wildcat perennial shrub having large star-shaped yellow flowers in narrowly pyramidal cymes any general wasting of body and mind resulting from any debilitating chronic disease when the regression line is linear (y = ax + b) the regression coefficient is the constant (a) that represents the rate of change of one variable (y) as a function of changes in the other (x); it is the slope of the regression line a variety of goldenrod poorly drained soils on top of peat and under marsh or swamp vegetation the idea of something that is perfect; something that one hopes to attain a woman taskmaster (Italian) the proprietor of an inn a zone or area resembling an island deciduous trees or some shrubs of North America; southeastern Europe; eastern Asia large Pacific salmon valued as food; adults die after spawning the orifice through which urine is discharged renal failure that can result from a variety of systemic disorders a unit of work equal to a force of one pound moving through a distance of one foot tall tropical feather palm tree native to Syria bearing sweet edible fruit the act of mixing different breeds of animals a fabric similar to jersey that is made with two sets of needles producing a double thickness joined by interlocking stitches the manner of uttering a word a fabric made to resemble suede leather breathing heavily (as after exertion) large genus of chiefly African liliaceous plants; in some systems placed in family Aloeaceae the act of soiling something any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave the uppermost part of a shape; 'at the peak of the pyramid' megalosaurs small herring processed like a sardine a relative by marriage domestic breed with long white silky hair a parent of your grandparent widely distributed fast-moving ten-armed cephalopod mollusk having a long tapered body with triangular tail fins a tower that is part of a defensive structure (such as a castle) a compartment in an aircraft used for some specific purpose; 'he opened the bomb bay' an adult male singer with the lowest voice type genus of the Gadidae: the typical codfishes an animal that produces gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes (spermatozoa) made by polymerizing butadiene indication by demonstration a dog trained to guide the blind a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat a branch arising from the trunk or a bough of a tree grown in Australasia and Polynesia for its large root with fine edible white flesh a White Protestant of Anglo-Saxon ancestry any of several plants of the genus Polygonatum having paired drooping yellowish-green flowers and a thick rootstock with scars shaped like Solomon's seal an act of winning the love of someone salamanders found near cold streams throughout the year small gray fox of the plains of western North America (Old Testament) the bush that burned without being consumed and from which God spoke to Moses a slide of a large mass of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff a specialist assigned to the staff of a diplomatic mission a license to sell liquor for consumption on the premises pink-flowered marsh plant of the eastern United States a knot used to fasten a rope temporarily to an object; usually tied double type genus of the family Helicidae an ungainly posture with arms and legs spread about a family of Ural-Altaic languages a feeling of self-respect and personal worth the substitution of one method of payment for another a turn to the left; 'take a left at the corner' small plump hybrid developed by crossbreeding Plymouth Rock and Cornish fowl (in simulation) the ratio of the simulation time to the time of the real process a body of people who form part of society or economy; 'the public sector' the result of alteration or modification; 'there were marked changes in the lining of the lungs'; 'there had been no change in the mountains' a female domestic native grape of southeastern United States; origin of many cultivated varieties someone who spends money prodigally a written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance the wing of a chicken in the theories of Jean Piaget: the application of a general schema to a particular instance a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee an especially noisy and unrestrained merrymaker plant having hemispherical heads of yellow trumpet-shaped flowers; found in coastal dunes from California to British Columbia immersing the body in sunlight study of the earth's surface; includes people's responses to topography and climate and soil and vegetation a simple bookkeeping system; transactions are entered in only one account an unbroken or imperfectly broken mustang a foreign girl serving as an au pair distinguished from the family Geraniaceae by the irregular flowers someone who makes or mends dresses an instruction that is either not recognized by an operating system or is in violation of the procedural rules an electric elevated railway a headdress that protects the head and face the anterior part of the anterior pituitary a native or inhabitant of Bulgaria opposition to the flow of sound through a surface; acoustic resistance is the real component of acoustic impedance and acoustic reactance is the imaginary component an entrance intended for the use of servants or for delivery of goods and removal of refuse type genus of the family Chlamydiaceae: disease-causing parasites the difference in electrical potential between two points in a circuit expressed in volts a downward stroke from the heel to the tip of the bow the personal outfit of a bride; clothes and accessories and linens spider monkeys spreading thorny shrub of tropical Asia bearing large erect racemes of red-marked yellow flowers the force used in pulling; 'the pull of the moon'; 'the pull of the current' a chemical reaction accompanied by the absorption of heat government provision for unemployed or injured or aged; financed by contributions from employers and employees as well as by government revenue a great raja; a Hindu prince or king in India ranking above a raja fern of New Zealand and Australia having trailing fronds with dark green buttonlike leaflets a muscle that relaxes while another contracts a militant aggressiveness any of those hardwood trees of the genus Dalbergia that yield rosewood--valuable cabinet woods of a dark red or purplish color streaked and variegated with black a large piece of fabric (as canvas) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel a physician skilled in the diagnosis and treatment of allergies "the state of being omniscient; having infinite knowledge" one of the areas between or below or above the lines of a musical staff; 'the spaces are the notes F-A-C-E' sometimes classified as an order: sea_squirts a fault; 'he shot holes in my argument' nutcracker of the western United States compensation for death or injury suffered by a worker in the course of his employment tropical American climbing plant with deeply incised leaves a pilot's seat in an airplane that can be forcibly ejected in the case of an emergency; then the pilot descends by parachute duration of service: 'her longevity as a star'; 'had unusual longevity in the company' a lightweight cloth covering (an afghan or bedspread) that is casually thrown over something any of several veins serving the cerebral hemispheres of the brain a straight line from the center to the perimeter of a circle (or from the center to the surface of a sphere) a speaker who utters a sudden exclamation the goal in ice hockey a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory and analgesic drug (trade name Ponstel) used to treat mild pain (especially menstrual cramps) the basic unit of money is Lesotho the quality of being more noticeable than anything else; 'the predomination of blues gave the painting a quiet tone' small shrubby mallee bush or tall-growing bean plant having large flat edible seeds a round arch resting on corbels type genus of the Meleagrididae: wild and domestic turkeys erect shrub or climber of India and China with red olivelike fruit a diet designed to avoid the foods that you are allergic to used in some classifications for the swans any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beings fear resulting from the awareness of danger cup-like structure around the base of the stalk of certain fungi small root or division of a root Italian comedy of the 16th to 18th centuries improvised from standardized situations and stock characters an account of the author's personal experiences small tufted perennial herb of mountains of central and southern Europe having very small flowers of usually leafless stems; sometimes placed in genus Lepidium a pleading made by a plaintiff in reply to the defendant's plea or answer countries occupying the African continent the basic unit of money in Laos a monumental archway; usually they are built to commemorate some notable victory fish whose flesh is dried and flaked for Japanese cookery; may be same species as skipjack tuna a high-pitched woodwind instrument; a slender tube closed at one end with finger holes on one end and an opening near the closed end across which the breath is blown moving over territory to search for something; 'scouring the entire area revealed nothing' a book setting forth the forms of church service the trait of thinking carefully before acting a state of fury so great the face becomes discolored a long carpenter's plane used to shape the edges of boards so they will fit together the entire frequency range of electromagnetic waves the iron carbide constituent of steel and cast iron; very hard and brittle self-induced fluorescence any well-liked individual; 'he's a sweetheart' North American night heron the quality of being exalted in character or ideals or conduct either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes muddiness created by stirring up sediment or having foreign particles suspended merchandise maintained aboard merchant ships for sale to crew a small bone; especially one in the middle ear a short coat springboks (trademark) a kind of revolver an expression of strong disapproval; pronouncing as wrong or morally culpable; 'his uncompromising condemnation of racism' (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence a formal spoken communication delivered to an audience; 'he listened to an address on minor Roman poets' an airplane with a single wing tropical American evergreen trees or shrubs bearing yellow flowers and succulent edible fruit with a thick rind a painting depicting an expanse of natural scenery genus of attractive tropical shrubs or trees with usually red flowers an act exempting someone; 'he was granted immunity from prosecution' a crude idol of Krishna the hollow shaft of a feather a native or inhabitant of Montserrat a rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode; often used in emergency systems because of its low self-discharge rate shrublet of southwestern United States to Mexico having brilliant scarlet flowers; sometimes placed in genus Zauschneria cleaning by getting rid of impurities a resident of Laconia a room-sized chamber in which the oxygen pressure is above normal for the atmosphere; used in treating breathing disorders or carbon monoxide poisoning as in the phrase 'They swam in the nude' paper for making cartridge cases coextensive with the genus Sparganium a picket inside of a man's coat a broken piece of pottery iron that has been cast or worked in structural shapes newt of humid coast from Alaska to southern California type genus of the Sapindaceae clothing worn for doing manual labor any plant of the order Psilophytales: a savannah plant any of several raspberries bearing red fruit shame resulting from strong dislike of yourself or your actions the art of training falcons to hunt and return the quality of not being unavailable when needed a large extinct ground sloth a hollow twanging sound a bonus; something extra (especially a share of a surplus) a lesson in performing music utensils made with copper a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow); 'the film captured all the pathos of their situation' the phenomenon of vitality and freshness being restored; 'the annual rejuvenation of the landscape' an acute intelligence (an analogy based on the well known sharpness of steel traps); 'he's as sharp as a steel trap'; 'a mind like a steel trap' large stocky grebe of circumpolar regions having a dark neck a cut of meat from the upper part of a rear leg an outdoor area for children's play the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded; 'the use of industrial robots created redundancy among workers' a way especially designed for a particular use a horse stabled with another or one of several horses owned by the same person a friendly informal reference to a grown man; 'he likes to play golf with the boys' the craft of composing type and printing from it a female comedian the act of preceding strong desire for something (not food or drink): 'a thirst for knowledge'; 'hunger for affection' alternatively, a member of the family Nymphaeaceae; a small genus of American aquatic plants exploding cucumber; squirting cucumber thin syrup made from pomegranate juice; used in mixed drinks someone who helps to found a colony the act of flipping a coin a vague idea in which some confidence is placed; 'his impression of her was favorable'; 'what are your feelings about the crisis?'; 'it strengthened my belief in his sincerity' heat absorbed by a unit mass of a solid at its melting point in order to convert the solid into a liquid at the same temperature; 'the heat of fusion is equal to the heat of solidification' (British) a commission with jurisdiction over fisheries and navigation in a port or river a woman's surname before marriage a genus of Lymantriidae art and literature attempting to express the working of the subconscious and characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions perennial herb of North America (New York to Illinois and mountains of Alaska) having aromatic leaves and clusters of yellowish-pink flower-like balls a market in which more people want to buy than want to sell a variant form of a grapheme as 'm' or 'M' a rectangular array of elements set out by rows and columns where tapes and records are recorded a white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum: the ammonium double sulfate of aluminum uniform of the United States army; made from cloth of a dull olive color small moth-like insect having two pairs of hairy membranous wings and aquatic larvae anything with a round or oval shape that is closed or nearly closed partial or total loss of memory: 'he has a total blackout for events of the evening' an imprecise or incomplete account; 'newspapers gave only an approximation of the actual events' a term in a proposition that is related to the referent of the proposition blue lotus of India and southeastern Asia a list of employees and their salaries; 'the company had a long payroll' a body of voters who have the same interests; 'he failed to get the Black vote' an accessory for a computer climbing palm of Sri Lanka and southern India remarkable for the great length of the stems which are used for Malacca canes small finch of North American coniferous forests a fibrocartilaginous disc between all of the vertebrae of the spinal column (except between the first two) a bus that shuttles between two points irregular and infrequent or difficult evacuation of the bowels; can be a symptom of intestinal obstruction or diverticulitis any of various organs that synthesize substances needed by the body and release it through ducts or directly into the bloodstream statement of charges for telephone service social insurance for the disabled large extremely venomous pit viper of Central and South America a farewell remark; 'they said their good-byes' the emblem of Canada a man who is a member of a church vestry the sport of shooting at clay pigeons that are hurled upward in such a way as to simulate the flight of a bird "the data presented to a user by a meter or similar instrument; 'he could not believe the meter reading'" cockroaches and mantids any of various young herrings (other than brislings) canned as sardines in Norway drops of fresh water that fall as precipitation from clouds a freely moving joint in which the articulations allow only gliding motions the supervisor of the military police light emitted at a p-n junction is proportional to the bias current; color depends on the material used small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring a layer of lead surrounding the highly reactive core of a nuclear reactor either of two small masses of tissue one on each side of the pharynx skill with numbers and mathematics Old World tree frogs the act of leaving secretly or without explanation a cause of difficulty and suffering; 'war is hell'; 'go to blazes' flounder of eastern coast of North America an indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint pipits and wagtails walls that project out from the wall of a room and surround the chimney base a stony meteor lacking chondrules a state of friendship and cordiality the side that is on the east a mechanism for advancing film in a camera or projector a television tube that displays images in full color a slightly elastic machine-knitted fabric anchovy pear tree the longest vein in the body; runs from foot to the groin where it joins the femoral vein a young man who is employed to do odd jobs in a business office a group of officers who patrol the borders of a country an abnormally small head and underdeveloped brain snug calf-length trousers worn by women and girls tapeworms whose larvae are parasitic in humans and domestic animals white arctic gull; migrates as far south as England and New Brunswick tissue consisting of large stellate neuroglial cells an abnormally low level of albumin in the blood serum a fine closely woven cotton fabric the head of the US Public Health Service someone who tries to persuade a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter) someone skilled in shooting white sauce with grated cheese the leader of a troop of Scouts a confused disturbance far greater than its cause merits a numerical scale used to compare variables with one another or with some reference number small but widely distributed genus of orchids closely related to genus Cleistes;: of damp or boggy areas of north temperate zone the timbre characteristic of a certain range and manner of production of the human voice a plant of the family Caryophyllaceae the government bureau that keeps a record of patents and grants new ones development of excess fibrous connective tissue in an organ an authority on computers and computing the act of bending low with the limbs close to the body the line on a mountain above which there is perpetual snow and ice a shout to attract attention; 'he gave a great halloo but no one heard him' a vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortune hickory of the eastern United States resembling the shagbark but having a much larger nut the philosophical theory of knowledge any of numerous small insects whose larvae feed on fruits an order of insects including: lacewings; antlions; dobsonflies; alderflies; fishflies; mantispids; spongeflies a top that makes a humming noise as it spins group of Baptist congregations work done in addition to regular working hours large evergreen tree of Tasmania shuffling by splitting the pack and interweaving the two halves at their corners small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and used by certain Native American peoples as jewelry the position of a player on a football team who is stationed behind the line of scrimmage a musical time signature indicating two or four half notes to a measure artillery or mortar fire delivered in a constant direction at several quadrant elevations an adult who is sexually attracted to children someone handicapped by inferior vision a reflecting telescope that has a paraboloidal primary mirror and a hyperboloidal secondary mirror; light is brought to a focus through an aperture in the center of the primary mirror a disorder of the lips marked by scaling and fissures at the corners of the mouth; caused by a deficiency of riboflavin the side of a coin or medal bearing the principal stamp or design one of the chartered companies of London originating with the craft guilds very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem a fabric used for suits type of perennial onion grown chiefly as a curiosity or for early salad onions; having bulbils that replace the flowers the use of certain marks to clarify meaning of written material by grouping words grammatically into sentences and clauses and phrases a small table for holding articles of various kinds: 'a bedside stand' a subsidiary point facing opposite from the main point that makes an object hard to remove a proper fraction whose denominator is a power of 10 yields the staple food of 50 percent of world's population a hand shovel for shoveling coal a dull hollow sound; 'the basketball made a thunk as it hit the rim' the stage of meiosis or mitosis when chromosomes move toward opposite ends of the nuclear spindle the final detailed script for making a movie or TV program (nautical) each of the eight half-hour units of nautical time signaled by strokes of a ship's bell; eight bells signals 4:00, 8:00, or 12:00 o'clock, either a.m. or p.m. for counting neutrons a North American Indian warrior one of the periods into which the game of polo is divided bronze with 3 or 4 parts copper to 1 part tin; used in making bells work paid for at a rate per unit of time any asset that is concealed until it can be used advantageously special cell constituting the base of the basidium in various fungi especially of the order Tremellales the act of forcing a way into or through something; 'the penetration of upper management by women' a cart that can be tilted to empty contents without handling an inclination to criticize opposing opinions or chocking behavior a systematic body of regulations defining the way of life of members of a religious order; 'the rule of St. Dominic' a knee-high boot without laces; part of a riding habit freshwater algae consisting of minute filaments containing spiral chlorophyll bands a small coil in series with the anode of a vacuum tube and coupled to the grid to provide feedback genus of small bark beetles destructive especially to mature conifers (architecture) the arrangement of columns (especially freestanding columns) in a structure paper with lines appropriate for writing music hybrids of Petunia axillaris and Petunia integrifolia: a complex group of petunias having single or double flowers in colors from white to purple a starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics sudden brief flush and sensation of heat associated with menopause huge creature of the sea resembling a snake or dragon the position of a player on a football team who is stationed on the line of scrimmage a short piece of wire with alligator clips on both ends the agreeable quality of one who assents the activity of getting dressed any of the yeastlike imperfect fungi of the genus Monilia a person who learns by rote a large entrance or reception room or area a mania restricted to one thing or idea large game fish of Australia and New Zealand the wife of a duke or a woman holding ducal title in her own right a small case for carrying business cards South African shrub grown for its profusion of white flowers the wife of your husband by a subsequent marriage a sale intended to dispose of all remaing stock a member of the Siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the Platte and Missouri rivers in Nebraska widely cultivated tropical plant of India having yellow flowers and a large aromatic deep yellow rhizome; source of a condiment and a yellow dye a short composition for a solo instrument; intended as an exercise or to demonstrate technical virtuosity the general estimation that the public has for a person; 'he acquired a reputation as an actor before he started writing'; 'he was a person of bad report' significant progress (especially in the phrase 'make strides' or 'make rapid strides') imperial moths the office of inspector a headache located at the back of the head; usually caused by body tension resulting from overwork or psychological stress the act of going from one place to another; 'he enjoyed selling but he hated the travel' a honeysuckle shrub of southern Russia to central Asia a member of an artistic movement that expressed ideas indirectly via symbols a skin disease characterized by large thin-walled blisters (bullae) arising from normal skin or mucous membrane keyboard; strings are plucked by plectra mounted on pivots the soil that is remaining after the soluble elements have been dissolved "a demarcated area of the Earth" small sandpiper that breeds in the arctic and migrates south along sandy coasts in most of world (physics) the rate of doing work; measured in watts (= joules/second) woodlands in full leaf; 'the greenwood was Robin Hood's home' a heavy towel or mat to stand on while drying yourself after a bath a photograph of someone's face (especially one made for police records) paralysis of one side of the body the vegetative part of a fungus consisting of a mass of branching threadlike hyphae a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics) a heavy wheel that stores kinetic energy and smoothes the operation of a reciprocating engine genus of horned dinosaurs ode sung by the chorus in classical Greek drama a tool for cutting female (internal) screw threads an attempt to put the soccer ball into the net by using the head a water lily having large leaves and showy fragrant flowers that float on the water; of temperate and tropical regions an instrument that magnifies the image of distant objects saliva spilling from the mouth an apparatus that converts vapor into liquid response to an inquiry or experiment decline in activity: 'a serious loss of business' division of a usually pinnately divided leaf the bony cavity containing the eyeball small yellow-marked social wasp commonly nesting in the ground someone who bites long coarse hair growing from the crest of the animal's neck the act of making a piece of equipment rugged (strengthening to resist wear or abuse) any of several plants of the genus Calochortus having flowers with petals shaped like cat's ears singing by changing back and forth between the chest voice and a falsetto the one friend who is closest to you water that has condensed on a cool surface overnight from water vapor in the air; 'in the morning the grass was wet with dew' a musician who plays the saxophone the lack of elasticity "(medical) a curving or bending; often abnormal; 'curvature of the spine'" work that involves handling papers: forms or letters or reports etc. the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest a country on the Balkan Peninsula a lighter for cigarettes an inability to remember or think of something you normally can do; often caused by emotional tension; 'I knew his name perfectly well but I had a temporary block' the ground floor facade or interior in Renaissance architecture anthropoid apes and human beings an alphabet of characters intended to represent specific sounds of speech a sandwich that resembles a hamburger but made with tuna instead of beef annual Eurasian herb similar in fragrance and medicinal uses to chamomile though taste is more bitter and effect is considered inferior the appearance of truth; the quality of seeming to be true evergreen South American shrub naturalized in United States; occasionally responsible for poisoning livestock the rig on a lateen-rigged sailing vessel "any region in space outside the Earth's atmosphere; 'the astronauts walked in space without a tether'" a period of unusually hot weather a white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily; occurs in rare earth minerals and is usually classified as a rare earth the arithmetic operation of summing; calculating the sum of two or more numbers; 'the summation of four and three gives seven'; 'four plus three equals seven' the branch of geology that studies the characteristics and configuration and evolution of rocks and land forms a person you know well and regard with affection and trust; 'he was my best friend at the university' animal tissue consisting predominantly of contractile cells hard fat around the kidneys and loins in beef and mutton any of several edible vegetable oils that can be used in salad dressings someone who is sought by law officers; someone trying to elude justice a rude decoration inscribed on rocks or walls eastern Asian shrub cultivated especially for its persistent foliage an ordinary thermometer with a dry bulb; used to measure the air temperature a variety of aster sound of tooting softly and repeatedly as on a flute a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 pints or 1.136 liters genus of herbs and shrubs of Australia and South Africa: everlasting_flower; most species usually placed in genus Helipterum bending the head or body or knee as a sign of reverence or submission or shame clover ferns yellow transparent exudate of the balsam fir; used as a transparent cement in optical devices (especially in microscopy) and as a mounting medium small bushy-tailed South American burrowing rodents a woman's cloak with dolman sleeves maple of the United States Pacific coast; fruits are white when mature the state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed any of various comounds composed of fatty acids and phosphoric acid and a nitrogenous base; an important constituent of membranes delicacy that is highly dangerous because of a potent nerve poison in ovaries and liver the act of terminating a life a plane figure with rounded sides curving inward at the top and intersecting at the bottom; conventionally used on playing cards and valentines; 'he drew a heart and called it a valentine' the act of exploding with noise and violence; 'his fulminations frightened the horses' an exhibition of pictures or objects viewed through a small hole or magnifying glass electronic text that is stored as strings of characters and that can be displayed in a variety of formats generosity evidenced by a willingness to give freely food fish of the Indo-Pacific region resembling gurnards someone who is the first to think of or make something a compound used as a fixing agent in photographic developing a medical instrument for dilating a bodily passage or cavity in order to examine the interior a resistor inserted into a circuit to compensate for changes (as those arising from temperature fluctuations) the chief executive of a republic the political orientation of those who favor government by the people of by their elected representatives a polyester fabric "any activity that occupies a person's attention; 'he missed the bell in his occupation with the computer game'" a no-nonsense attitude in business or politics; 'they play hardball in the Senate' a small parachute that pulls the main parachute from its storage pack the lower joint of the leg of a turkey a notation used by mathematicians a resident of Connecticut a place on a bus route where buses stop to discharge and take on passengers erect plant with blue-violet flowers in rings near tips of stems; Idaho to Utah and Wyoming genus of terrestrial orchids of Europe and Asia and North Africa a form of chorea in which spasms occur mainly when the patient is erect a rate of pay that is 1.5 times the regular rate; for overtime work the uninflected form of the verb credit extended by a business to a customer an order of plants of subclass Rosidae including geraniums and many other plants; see Euphorbiaceae; Geraniaceae; Rutaceae; Malpighiaceae; Simaroubaceae; Meliaceae; Zygophyllaceae; Tropaeolaceae a firm in the publishing business reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect) an English barrister of the highest rank a sweeping stroke or blow any people believing themselves to be chosen by God your foster sister is a female who is not a daughter of your parents but who is raised by your parents weighs no more than 126 pounds 100 years molding in the form of a ring; at top of a column a company that owns and manages mines spring-flowering garden perennial of Asiatic origin having finely divided aromatic leaves and white to pink-purple flowers; source of an insecticide; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum a march accompanying quick time arborescent perennial shrub having palmately lobed furry leaves and showy red-purple flowers; southwestern United States any imaginary place where spiritual beings (demons or fairies or angels or the like) abide; 'science has emptied the spirit world of its former inhabitants' cultivated Asiatic primrose plant with erect leafy stems bearing clusters of rayless yellow flower heads on bent individual stalks; moist regions of southwestern United States one who is third-rate or distinctly inferior a cover for a pillow; 'the burglar carried his loot in a pillowcase' either of two ferns of the genus Davallia having a soft gray hairy rootstock small rough-coated terrier of British origin absence of coordination of organs or body parts that usually work together harmoniously the quality of smelling or tasting old or stale or mouldy someone who is jobless a device (as a sliding plate) for regulating the flow of air into a furnace or other heating device soreness and warmth caused by friction; 'he had a nasty chafe on his knee' an arcade with coin-operated devices for entertainment a hair-thin fiber made of glass that functions as a waveguide for light; used in bundles to transmit images a genus of Ophiodontidae any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare; 'the break in the eighth frame cost him the match' the earliest state of immaturity conformity with some esthetic standard of correctness or propriety; 'it was performed with justness and beauty' drygoods for household use that are typically made of white cloth pouched moles someone who conducts a statistical survey a disease affecting the trunks of pear and apple trees "the condition of the weather" the cultivation of cranberries an abnormal particle (e.g. an air bubble or part of a clot) circulating in the blood tall evergreen timber tree of western North America having resinous wood and short needles the craft of building and repairing airplanes an accident that destroys a ship at sea someone for whom you have a deep affinity an advocate of the principles of monarchy algae having the chlorophyll masked by brown and yellow pigments cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca any of various small implements used to hold loose articles together an award for winning a championship argumentation that is specious or excessively subtle and intended to be misleading preservation and methodical arrangement as of documents and papers etc: 'I having some filing to do' a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission; 'they called for artillery support' deep-rooted coarse-textured plant native to the Mediterranean region having blue flowers and pinnately compound leaves; widely cultivated in Europe for its long thick sweet roots a thin cylindrical pointed implement for writing; a rod of marking substance encased in wood someone who conforms to established standards of conduct (especially in religious matters) the feast day of a saint whose name one bears secret agreement an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others a disease (common in India and around the Mediterranean area) caused by a rickettsia that is transmitted to humans by a reddish brown tick (ixodid) that lives on dogs and other mammals bearded reddish sheep of southern Asia the production or use of theories Australian annual sometimes cultivated for its racemes of purple flowers and edible yellow egg-shaped fruit an advocate of Platonism extinct reptiles of the Upper Triassic a Spanish unit of length (about a yard) having different values in different localities a quantity that can be processed or transported at one time; 'the system broke down under excessive loads' someone who is morally reprehensible; 'you dirty dog' type genus of the Mullidae: goatfishes a kind of carpet with loops like a Brussels carpet but with a close velvet pile of cut loops a difference of opinion message that is transmitted by radio or television lettuce valued especially for its edible stems of southern Eurasia and northern Africa any of various large usually brown North American leaf-eating beetles common in late spring; the larvae feed on roots of grasses etc. a basket for serving bread mechanical vibrations transmitted by an elastic medium; 'falling trees make a sound in the forest even when no one is there to hear them' (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms a person who surrenders to (or is taken by) the enemy in time of war a crescent-shaped metal ornament of the Bronze Age tropical American evergreen tree bearing kidney-shaped nuts that are edible only when roasted a shelter (often underground) reinforced against bombing; used during air raids lower ferns coextensive with the family Marattiaceae a present given in celebration of a person's birthday the folding top of a horse-drawn carriage a chest to hold ammunition an assertion that something is true or factual; 'his claim that he was innocent'; 'evidence contradicted the government's claims' validating the authenticity of something or someone prickly bushy Eurasian plant; a troublesome weed in central and western United States common tanager of southwestern United States and Mexico destructive to various grape plants meatballs simmered in stock a trap arranged on a roadway for catching speeders a minor nonspecific ailment a program of education in liberal arts and sciences (usually in preparation for higher education) a span of 2000 years a fiber obtained from the abaca plant in the Philippines the radioactive particles that settle to the ground after a nuclear explosion a movement like that of an ocean wave; 'a wave of settlers'; 'troops advancing in waves' exaggerated praise (as for promotional purposes) any of numerous plants widely cultivated for their showy single or double red or pink or white flowers a genus of Xenicidae primitive fishes having thick bony scales with a shiny covering a formal declaration that documents a fact of relevance to finance and investment; the holder has a right to receive interest or dividends; 'he held several valuable securities' a feeling of thankfulness and appreciation; 'he was overwhelmed with gratitude for their help' one part in a quadrillion plant whose succulent young shoots are cooked and eaten as a vegetable white Australian cockatoo with roseate tinged plumage a person to whom money is paid a morbid fear of cats any of various breeds raised for wool or edible meat or skin a thermometer that registers the temperature at some distant point part music with one dominant voice (in a homophonic style) a dirty shabbily clothed urchin poisonous fetid Old World herb having sticky hairy leaves and yellow-brown flowers; yields hyoscyamine and scopolamine the commonest type of solidified lava; a dense dark gray fine-grained igneous rock composed chiefly of calcium-rich plagioclase feldspar and pyroxene an athletic game that is played outdoors mostly epiphytic climbing cacti that bloom at night an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship property that has economic utility: a monetary value or an exchange value an undecorated arch that is included in order to strengthen or support a construction any of various long-legged carion-eating hawks of South and Central America a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility the act of damning brush turkeys a ship intended for combat a unit used to measure weight; 'he placed two weights in the scale pan' an adherent of Protestantism one of a pair of long straps (usually connected to the bit or the headpiece) used to control a horse reduced ability to focus caused by loss of elasticity of crystalline lens with age chicory inability to perceive written words whisk ferns; comprising the family Psilotaceae or Psilotatae: vascular plants with no roots, partial if any leaf differentiation, and rudimentary spore sacs African genus tight-fitting trousers; usually of tartan (British) someone who breaks up stone plastid containing pigments other than chlorophyll usually yellow or orange carotenoids a rationale for dialectical materialism based on change through the conflict of opposing forces pain in a muscle or group of muscles a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality: 'a moderate degree of intelligence'; 'a high level of care is required'; 'it is all a matter of degree' an expert who is devoted to one occupation or branch of learning (architecture) a slender upright spire at the top of a buttress of tower a metal mounting for the circuit components of an electronic device a viral disease of cattle causing a mild skin disease affecting the udder; used to innoculate humans against smallpox alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Mimosaceae an early warning about a future event a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables the sound made by corvine birds the immediate proximity of someone or something; 'she blushed in his presence'; 'he sensed the presence of danger'; 'he was well behaved in front of company' a polyhedron any plane section of which is a convex polygon annual to perennial woody herbs of temperate North America, Europe and Asia: rockcress the person who plays left field an underground tunnel with recesses where bodies were buried (as in ancient Rome) type genus of the Euphorbiaceae: very large genus of diverse plants all having milky juice small lemur having its tail barred with black filter of paper that passes the coffee and retains the coffee grounds a program for a race meeting; lists the races and the names of the horses a unit of electrical power in an AC circuit equal to the power dissipated when 1 volt produces a current of 1 ampere a disorder characterized by an abnormal increase in the number of red blood cells in the blood a rhythmic syncopated Cuban folk dance in duple time a complex ester used for making fibers or resins or plastics or as a plasticizer a woman participant in her own marriage ceremony a map projection in which quadrilaterals formed by meridians and parallels have an area on the map proportional to their area on the globe a hinged blind for a window the operation of gathering information about an enemy periwinkles dressed half of a beef carcass a female massager a fence or wattle built across a stream to catch or retain fish warning of danger or death a material's capacity to conduct electricity; measured as the reciprocal of electrical resistance a system that cools by evaporation the flesh of fish used as food (South Africa) a small hill rising up from the African veld electricity produced by friction a pipe used to transport liquids or gases; 'a pipeline runs from the wells to the seaport' a chore that causes discomfort the neural path of a reflex a professional person trained in library science and engaged in library services the period of time that it takes for a planet (as, e.g., Earth or Mars) to make a complete revolution around the sun; 'a Martian year takes 687 of our days' position 90 in a countable series of things determining again any of numerous hybrid begonias having tuberous roots and variously colored flowers a person who is rejected (from society or home) a garment that can be purchased separately and worn in combinations with other garments a veterinarian who treats horses a small family of rod-shaped bacteria any of various types of cabbage a man who has recently been married egg-laying tubular structure at the end of the abdomen in many female insects and some fishes a diet that does not require chewing; advised for those with intestinal disorders a chemical bond in which one atom loses an electron to form a positive ion and the other atom gains to electron to form a negative ion the quality of resembling a saint the anterior portion of the brain the act of assuming or maintaining a reclining position thornless tree yielding heavy wood a valet or personal maid a spoon larger than a teaspoon and smaller than a tablespoon training patients in self-induced relaxation a building where ambassadors live or work an epicycloid in which the rolling circle equals the fixed circle the process of coughing up and spitting out nut of any of various walnut trees having a wrinkled two-lobed seed with a hard shell loss of the ability to move a body part the proposition that must follow from the major and minor premises of a syllogism actively exploring with the hands; 'he was feeling for the light switch' carton containing six bottles or cans a genus of Vespidae attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates coextensive with the family Oleaceae; in some classifications included in the order Gentianales the transmission of information the questioning of a person (or a conversation in which information is elicited); often conducted by journalists; 'my interviews with teen-agers revealed a weakening of religious bonds' a family of fossil protoctists music written in the rhythm of the bolero dance someone skilled at conversation waste matter that contaminates the water or air or soil small genus of low-growing evergreens of Chile and Australia; some yield dyes a train that carries mail a time unit used in industry for measuring work brown bear of coastal Alaska and British Columbia execution by fire a dungeon with a trap door in the ceiling that is tis only means of entry or exit in some classifications the type genus of the family Aegypiidae type genus of the Leporidae: hares a small bagpipe formerly popular in France an essential amino acid; isomeric with leucine someone who climbs as a sport a mournful poem; a lament for the dead a participant in a date; 'his date never stopped talking' a victory that is won by incurring terrible losses usually brightly-colored Australian weaverbirds; often kept as cage birds thought that makes something comprehensible a useless effort large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters any recently hatched animal (especially birds) a combination of interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity; 'he bought a new stereo system'; 'the unit consists of a motor and a small computer' a canvas tent for use in the field any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Strophanthus having whorled leaves and showy flowers of various colors in dense and few-flowered corymbose clusters; some have poisonous seeds extinct order of jawless vertebrates paper cut to an appropriate size for writing letters; usually with matching envelopes an investor with a pessimistic market outlook a radical political movement that advocates bringing industry and government under the control of labor unions common epiphytic or sometimes terrestrial fern having pale yellow-green strap-shaped leaves; Florida to West Indies and Mexico and south to Uruguay a strong wind moving 45-90 knots; force 7 to 10 on Beaufort scale a person who is being chased; 'the film jumped back and forth from the pursuer to the pursued' white Southerner supporting Reconstruction policies after the Civil War usually for self-interest a hole (as in the wall of a building) made by rats (law) compensation for losses that can readily be proven to have occurred and for which the injured party has the right to be compensated a hard brittle gray polyvalent metallic element that resembles iron but is not magnetic; used in making steel; occurs in many minerals (formal) any non-European non-White person the act of becoming betrothed or engaged a dissonant chord is followed by a consonant chord one haploid set of chromosomes with the genes they contain; the full DNA sequence of an organism a portable gun; 'he wore his firearm in a shoulder holster' a slender variety of centaury a vehicle capable of traveling in outer space; technically a satellite around the sun a traveling show; having sideshows and rides and games of skill etc. any of a group of parasitic microorganisms that live in arthropods (as ticks and mites) and can cause disease if transmitted to human beings someone who cuts cloth etc. to measure in making garments an ancient Greek drinking cup; two handles and footed base thread of catgut or silk or wire used by surgeons to stitch tissues together the property of having a sunken area burdock two or more operations performed at the same time (or within a give interval) the dead body of an animal esp. one slaughtered and dressed for food flat blade-like projection on the arm of an anchor European anemone with solitary white flowers common in deciduous woodlands the act of subtracting (removing a part from the whole); 'he complained about the subtraction of money from their paychecks' a building dedicated to a particular activity; 'they were raising money to build a new center for research' friendliness evidence by a kindly and helpful disposition wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound; 'the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs' a native or inhabitant of Central America the local voltage change across the cell wall as a nerve impulse is transmitted bread slice dipped in egg and milk and fried; topped with sugar or fruit or syrup North American songbird whose call resembles a cat's mewing an unenlightened state; 'he was in the dark concerning their intentions'; 'his lectures dispelled the darkness' the hard protective layer covering the body of many invertebrates especially arthropods small genus comprising terrestrial ferns formerly placed in genera Ceterach or Grammitis or Gymnogramma; Chile; Spain and Morocco; Australia and New Zealand respectful deference; 'pay court to the emperor' an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus) an advocate of capitalism ny new embodiment of a familiar idea; 'the incarnation of evil'; 'the very avatar of cunning' the land inside an oxbow bend in a river a retaliatory action against an enemy in wartime a restless seeker after amusement or social companionship marine invertebrates with tube feet and calcite-covered five-part radially symmetrical bodies a resident of Indiana small North American owl having hornlike tufts of feathers a fabric with long coarse nap; 'he bought a shag rug' mosquito that transmits yellow fever and dengue predicting what the weather will be a former British gold coin worth 21 chillings noise produced by the friction of the stylus of a record player moving over the rotating record the branch of physics concerned with the motion of bodies in a frame of reference a cry of approval as from an audience at the end of great performance the act of starting a fire the act of starting something; 'he was responsible for the beginning of negotiations' the physical or emotional or sexual mistreatment of children a squall advancing along a front that forms a definite line any of a group of steroid hormones that exhibit progesterone-like activity an ornament (such as a knot of ribbon or a rosette) usually worn on the hat a person's breast or chest a knapsack (usually for a soldier) a broad plank along a gunwale to keep water from splashing over the side a musical instrument in which taut strings provide the source of sound "(usually plural) a social group whose members control some field of activity and who have common aims; 'the iron interests stepped up production'" capability of existing or happening or being true; 'there is a possibility that his sense of smell has been impaired' study of literary works from different cultures (often in translation) an unstated doubt that prevents you from accepting something wholeheartedly a disease of plants characterized by the gradula dying of the young shoots starting at the tips and progressing to the larger branches secreted into the duodenum by the pancreas large Indian antelope; male is blue-grey with white markings; female is brownish with no horns a surrounding or nearby region; 'the plane crashed in the vicinty of Asheville'; 'it is a rugged locality'; 'he always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood' knocking the puck away by jabbing at it with the hockey stick a room in which tests are conducted equipment required to perform a test a spherical model of the heavens any writing that is regarded as sacred by a religious group common fly that frequents human habitations and spreads many diseases a dermatitis of the scalp that is common in infants the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and onethe cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one becoming open or being made open; 'the opening of his arms was the sign I was waiting for' infestation with chiggers surgical removal of the bony arches on one or more vertebrae a person who has deposited money in a bank or similar institution a genus of the family Cruciferae "the state of being active; 'his sphere of activity'; 'he is out of action'" erect tropical Asian shrub whose small lateral leaflets rotate on their axes and jerk up and down under the influence of sunshine a girl who is a member of the Girl Scouts of America the wing of a fowl; 'he preferred the drumsticks to the wings' any of numerous plants of the genus Erysimum having fragrant yellow or orange or brownish flowers a male religious of an order of mendicant preachers of the gospel lobsters; crabs a feeling facetious merriment a mixture of glucose and fructose found in fruits; sweeter than glucose a motor vehicle (usually armored) for transporting military personnel and their equipment a league of teams that do not belong to a major league (especially baseball) (law) compensation in excess of actual damages (a form of punishment awarded in cases of malicious or willful misconduct) a particular perspective or aspect of a situation; 'although he saw it in a different light, he still did not understand' happening or existing or done at the same time an enterprise connected with commerce a secondary role or function; 'he hated to play second fiddle to anyone' an oxide containing three atoms of oxygen in the molecule a biologist who studies bacteria lampreys the musical interval between one note and another six notes away from it a small abnormal patch on or inside the body a salve containing a fatty substance obtained from the wool of sheep asceticism practiced in a monastery the master gland of the endocrine system a light colored mineral consisting of calcium magnesium carbonate; a source of magnesium; used as a ceramic and as fertilizer bright yellow songbird with black wings a machine used for picking hops a pack of 52 playing cards a fat-soluble vitamin that helps clot blood a genus of plants a pointed iron tool that is used to separate strands of a rope or cable (as in splicing) a house used by a chapter of a fraternity a specialist in care for the feet veins that accompany the perforating arteries; drain leg muscles; empty into the deep femoral vein a carpenter who helps build and launch wooden vessels butter blended with minced onion a unit of magnetic field strength equal to one-hundred-thousandth of an oersted the passage of gases through fine tubes because of differences in pressure or temperature a cut of beef from the neck of the animal the angle included by a photographic lens the capability of a technological system to perform as intended used in some classifications: essentially equivalent to Potamogetonaceae Scotch malt whiskey and club soda genus of chiefly American perennial leafy-stemmed orchids: lady's slippers; sometimes includes species of genus Paphiopedilum (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups; 'a new strain of microorganisms' gall midges a person who is part mortal and part god a gelatinous preparation made from gelatin and glycerin and water; used as a base for ointments and suppositories shrub or small tree of western United States having white flowers and blue berries; fruit used in wines and jellies tropical chiefly South American shrubs and trees the last few hours before death food cooked and served in a casserole ground snakes evergreen shrub of western United States bearing small red or black fruits insuring obedience to the laws the delivery of a principal into lawful custody dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes a drug (or other chemical agent) that causes abortion an electronic circuit permits only voltage pulses of predetermined height to pass a group of Finnic languages spoken in the northwest Urals a groove or furrow in cloth etc especially the shallow concave groove on the shaft of a column enchanter's nightshade a fine point of etiquette or petty formality the type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs: 'a marine habitat' type genus of the Cuculidae chiefly marine protozoa having two flagella; a chief constituent of plankton an arranger who writes for orchestras thin piece of wood or cardboard tipped with combustible chemical; ignites with friction; 'he always carries matches to light his pipe' European perennial toxic vetch a calculator that keeps a record of the number of times something happens (Irish) a cudgel made of hardwood (usually oak or blackthorn) food fish of European coastal waters complete power over a person or situation the expected value of the square of the deviations of a random variable from the point of origin fat that exudes from meat while it is being roasted or fried any artificially elegant style of language coarse herbs with whitish discoid flower heads and silky pappus shrubby grayish lavender of southwestern Europe having usually reddish-purple flowers an instrument for determining the specific gravity of a liquid or solid the application of a faith healer's hands to the patient's body the bag containing the gas in a balloon (British) 'use your noddle' the quality of being bad by virtue of lacking merit or value light frame covered with tissue paper; flown in wind at end of a string South American cavy; possibly ancestral to the domestic guinea pig (sports) a record of win versus losses an increase in the number of outstanding shares of a corporation without changing the shareholders' equity; 'they announced a two-for-one split of the common stock' a smouldering fire; 'the smoulder became a blaze' a small case with a flat bottom and (usually) a shoulder strap perennial herb of southeastern United States having white-rayed flower heads; formerly used as in folk medicine all living things (except people) that are undomesticated; 'chemicals could kill all the wildlife' a woman who is an unpleasant person the difference in value over a period of time of a country's imports and exports of services and payments of property incomes a movie featuring shooting and violence needed encouragement; 'the result was a provocation of vigorous investigation' the state of the world as it really is rather than as you might want it to be; 'businessmen have to face harsh realities' a record book as a physical object someone authorized to exercise the powers of sheriff in emergencies chiefly tropical herbaceous plants (including shrubs and trees) with racemose flowers: genera Phytolacca; Agdestis; Ercilla; Rivina; Trichostigma happiness felt in a secure relationship; 'with his classmates he felt a sense of belonging' the exposition (often superficially) of a particular philosophy an act intending or showing kindness and good will a soldier who received a Section Eight discharge as unfit for military service parsley with smooth leaves and enlarged edible taproot resembling a savory parsnip representing figuratively as by emblem or allegory the reproduction of sound with little or no distortion small bright-colored insect that feeds on plant juices the property of being perpetual (seemingly ceaseless) an enclosure for cattle a tall cylindrical vertical upright bony tissue formed during the healing of a fractured bone a condition in which the ends of toes and fingers become wide and thick; a symptom of heart or lung disease hyenas a pin inserted through an axletree to hold a wheel on "communication that relies on hearing" a short sleep (usually not in bed) (military) signal to turn the lights out the property of being resistant to decay; 'he advertised the imperishability of the product' the network of people and facilities that supports you (enables you to live in a certain style) an insect active in all stages a manifestly unjust verdict; not true to the evidence a boxing decision in which the judges are not unanimous in some classifications coextensive with the Homaridae a copper-base alloy containing beryllium child's foot-operated two-wheeled vehicle a screen used in India to separate women from men or strangers small genus of North American herbs: wood mints a mound of stones piled up as a memorial or to mark a boundary or path the absolute bottom a transmission that automatically changes the gears according to the speed of the car a toy clown that jumps out of a box when the lid is opened any S-hemisphere evergreen of the genus Podocarpus having a pulpy fruit with one hard seed untanned hide especially of cattle; cut in strips it is used for whips and ropes a conic map projection having distances between meridians equal to those distance on a globe a starter (as on a motorcycle) that is activated with the foot and the weight of the body a woman who is a beggar a dictionary that is small enough to carry in your pocket a broad medium-high heel on women's shoes severe anemia in newborn babies; the result of Rh incompatibility between maternal and fetal blood; typically occurs when the child of an Rh-negative mother inherits Rh-positive blood from the father; can be diagnosed before birth by amniocentesis "lack of independence or self-sufficiency" genus of mallows characterized by red and yellow flowers often placed in other genera a hostel for pilgrims in Turkey a faint patch of light in the night sky that appears opposite the sun; a reflection of sunlight by micrometeoric material in space several kinds of rum with fruit juice and usually apricot liqueur the verbal act of agreeing the quality of being exotic; 'he loved the exocitism of Egypt' a change in the units or form of an expression: 'conversion from Fahrenheit to Centigrade genus of Old World herbs or subshrubs: elecampane a female homosexual a fighter who strikes the opponent with his head a bird's foot that has claws a strong paper or thin cardboard with a smooth light brown finish made from e.g. Manila hemp a yellow-white fat from cocoa beans any of various plants of the genus Stapelia having succulent leafless toothed cactus-like stems and large evil-smelling flowers often star-shaped a house for the farmer and family the wide part of a river where it nears the sea; fresh and salt water mix the science of planting and caring for forests and the management of growing timber a minute scale (on a plant or fungus) the act of constraining quality of being easily damaged or destroyed a derogatory term for a white person (said to have been used by North American Indians) the center of a cambered road a cloud of solid or liquid particles in a gas small genus of chiefly Asiatic parasitic shrubs someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains a loom with an attachment for forming openings for the passage of the shuttle between the warp threads an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business a breach serious enough to destroy the value of the contract and to give a basis for an action for breach of contract the pointed head or striking tip of an arrow the office of bailiff a cap that seals a bottle a resident of Athens "the location of the target that is to be hit" a structure (often made of wood) where people can sit to watch an event (game or parade) an opening in the vamp of a shoe at the instep an organ stop with the tone of a flue pipe a short wooden club with a heavy knob on one end; used by aborigines in southern Africa a girl who is a member of Campfire Girls; for girls age 7-18 made of porous clay fired at low heat the branch of engineering that deals with the construction of buildings (as distinguished from architecture as a design art) any of several evergreen plants of the genus Yucca having usually tall stout stems and a terminal cluster of white flowers; warmer regions of North America leishmaniasis of the skin; characterized by ulcerative skin lesions clover of western United States the act of specializing; making something suitable for a special purpose a toiletry applied to the skin in order to mask unpleasant odors chewing steadily an antibiotic derived from tetracycline that is effective against many infections; 'Vibramycin is the trade name of doxycycline' large roundworms parasitic in intestines of vertebrates the playing of a card to start a trick in bridge; 'the lead was in the dummy' a space set back or indented leather from the skin of a cow the growing part of a long bone between the diaphysis and the epiphysis small burrowing Australian marsupial that resembles a mole North American blackbird whose bluish-black plumage is rusty-edged in the fall a process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light flesh of very large tuna the application of the principles of the natural sciences to medicine the high-pitched continuing noise made by animals (birds or monkeys) round seedless or seeded fruit with a bread-like texture; eaten boiled or baked or roasted or ground into flour; roasted seeds resemble chestnuts; of Pacific Islands long and light rowing boat; especially for racing tough-skinned larva of certain crane flies the murder or execution of someone a growth-regulating chemical sprayed on fruit trees; entire crop can be harvested at one time a writing system based on alphabetic characters a heavy creamy-colored paper resembling parchment ephedras: in some classifications included in the Gnetaceae a large mirror between two windows a red as dark as red wine a youthful female person; 'the baby was a girl'; 'the girls were just learning to ride a tricycle' ground snakes the roads and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods small very thin pancake a thin rubber or latex sheath worn over the penis during intercourse as a contraceptive or prophylactic device a crystalline compound found in vanilla beans and some balsam resins; used in perfumes and flavorings a parasitic plant lacking chlorophyll and leaves and true stems and roots and reproducing by spores a genus of bacteria the aggregate of actively swimming animals in a body of water ranging from microscopic organisms to whales a candy made by spinning sugar that has been boiled to a high temperature the principal groomsman at a wedding thin wafer-like bread of Scandinavia large ground squirrel of the North American far north a freight car that is equipped with refrigeration system food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing; usually consisting of or including greens any of several venomous New World snakes brilliantly banded in red and black and either yellow or white; widely distributed in South and Central America an open skin infection an ordinary verdict declaring which party prevails without any special findings of fact a telephone line serving two or more subscribers small genus of chiefly east Asiatic hardy terrestrial orchids similar to genus Bletia parasitic fungi: downy mildews any immature animal a physiological need for food a class of globulins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response the act of hiding playing cards in a gambling game so they are available for personal use later circular building for repairing locomotives in former classifications: comprising plants with a vascular system including ferns and fern allies as well as seed plants an order or plants of the subclass Asteridae including: Campanulaceae; Lobeliaceae; Cucurbitaceae; Goodeniaceae; Stylidiaceae; Calyceraceae; Compositae perennial succulents of South Africa dark-green kiwi-sized tropical fruit with white flesh; used chiefly for jellies and preserves immediate intuitive awareness the sex chromosome that is carried by men; 'human males have one X chromosome and one Y chromosome' tall fan palm of Africa and India and Malaysia yielding a hard wood and sweet sap that is a source of palm wine and sugar; leaves used for thatching and weaving method or manner of conduct in relation to others: 'honest dealing' a removable circuit board for a personal computer; fits into a slot in the mother board association of ex-servicemen; 'the American Legion' a small distance; 'my horse lost the race by a nose' a mail pouch that is sealed shut and that is used to carry communications between a legation and its home office a large and imposing house word of greeting used to begin a letter "the condition of being noisy (as in a communication channel)" the atomic number of an extra stable strongly bound atomic nucleus: 2, 8, 20, 28, 50, 82 or 126 oil from walnuts medium to tall fast-growing tree with orange flowers and feathery bipinnate leaves silky-hairy beneath; eastern Australia a United States liquid unit equal to 8 fluid ounces a quality appropriate to a parent a tributary of the facial vein that drains the lower lip an entrance at one side of a building a large family of solitary short-tongued bees most of which burrow in the ground a base of operations for a naval fleet a hanging fold of loose skin on an elderly person's neck green algae superficially resembling horsetail ferns: stoneworts (geometry) the area created by a plane cutting through a solid any tree of the genus Sterculia childbirth during which the mother is encouraged to be an active participant type genus of the Atrichornithidae genus of hardy perennials with palmately lobed leaves and long racemes of small nodding five-petaled flowers; western North America a small compact computer a variety of Gastromycete a city district inhabited by people living in huts and shanties a linear array of numbers side by side the chief source of beryllium; colored transparent varieties are valued as gems a powerful newspaper proprietor an especially rich vein of precious ore one of two shafts extending from the body of a cart or carriage on either side of the animal that pulls it a stupid fool a believer in Malthusian theory caused by herpes simplex virus type 1 (HVS-1) a movable covering that provided protection from above; used by Roman troops when approaching the walls of a besieged fortification class of echinoderms including the sea cucumbers a punctuation mark (;) used to connect independent clauses; indicates a closer relation than does a period a group of chiefly woody plants considered among the most primitive of angiosperms; perianth poorly developed or lacking; flowers often unisexual and often in catkins and often wind pollinated; contains 23 families including the Betulaceae and Fagaceae (includes the Amentiferae); sometimes classified as a superorder a small wave on the surface of a liquid a kind of ironware with stone gray enamel the act of marrying again "a natural object resembling a machine in structure and function; 'the mechanism of the ear'" one of the large bitts used to secure the cable of a dropped anchor a fine-grit whetstone for sharpening razors a swampy arm or slow-moving outlet of a lake (term used mainly in Mississippi and Louisiana) a clearly written style of longhand with large round curves the activity of recording business transactions (football) a person who kicks the football by dropping it from the hands and contacting it with the foot before it hits the ground quarters of midshipmen and junior officers on a British warship (physics) a coefficient that expresses how much of a specified property is possessed by a specified substance something determined in relation to something that includes it; 'he wanted to feel a part of something bigger than himself'; 'I read a portion of the manuscript'; 'the smaller component is hard to reach' a large genus of tall rough herbs belonging to the family Boraginaceae not permitting the passage of light a conical shape with a wider and a narrower opening at the two ends feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and being unable to roar; domestic cats; wildcats important food fish of Europe people who are homeless; 'the homeless lived on the city streets' domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age: 'so many head of cattle'; 'wait till the cows come home'; 'seven thin and ill-favored kine'- Bible; 'a team of oxen' small tree or shrub of southern Australia the act of harassing someone a feeling of diffidence about doing something a boy attending school giving a Christian name at baptism the layer of soil on the surface agitating a liquid with a stirring implement the streets of a city viewed as a depressed environment in which there is poverty and crime and prostitution and dereliction; 'she tried to keep her children off the street' an epidermal cell that is a precursor of a melanocyte slender long-legged African wildcat having large untufted ears and tawny black-spotted coat someone who is an active supporter and advocate a sudden violent entrance; a bursting in; 'the recent irruption of bad manners' a record or narrative description of past events: 'a history of France'; 'he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president'; 'the story of exposure to lead' (computer science) a coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors strict conformity to the letter of the law rather than its spirit genus of plants strongly resembling those of genus Silene: catchfly type genus of the Balaenopteridae an adherent of any branch of Taoism actress who plays the leading female role baboons a room or building where movies or television shows or radio programs are produced and recorded a member of a monotheistic sect of Zoroastrian origin; descended from the Persians; now found in western India a light comfortable shoe designed for running nocturnal burrowing snake of western United States with shiny tan scales Old World gooselike duck slightly larger than a mallard with variegated mostly black-and-white plumage and a red bill a unit of length used in navigation; equivalent to the distance spanned by one second of arc in latitude; 1,852 meters unoriginality as a result of being dull and hackneyed a zoologist who studies protozoans unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values a vertical line marking the boundary between musical bars a lack of penetration or subtlety; 'they took advantage of her simplicity' the main stem or central part about which plant organs or plant parts such as branches are arranged type genus of the Recurvirostridae: avocets the position of magistrate someone who kills by strangling a native or inhabitant of Chile (Old Testament) God's means of destroying sinners; 'his sermons were full of fire and brimstone' an antihypertensive (trade name Catapres) that can be administered orally or via transdermal patches any of various religions other than Christianity or Judaism or Islamism genus of poisonous tropical American evergreen shrubs and trees having entire leaves and large cymose flowers the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering (nautical) at the ends of the transverse deck beams of a vessel; 'on her beam-ends' means heeled over on the side so that the deck is almost vertical a series derived from the expansion of an exponential expression a band of people associated temporarily in some activity; 'they organized a party to search for food'; 'the company of cooks walked into the kitchen' a member of the Praetorian Guard a light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element small herb with scalelike leaves on reddish-brown stems and berrylike fruits; parasitic on spruce and larch trees coal suitable for use under steam boilers cell clusters in the pancreas that form the endocrine part of that organ; secrete insulin and other hormones robbery at gunpoint a takeover that is resisted by the management of the target company the inner embryonic membrane of higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth) an insufficient charge tissue from an animal of one species used as a temporary graft (as in cases of severe burns) on an individual of another species the quality of lacking an esthetically pleasing shape commonly cultivated anthurium having bright scarlet spathe and spadix sweet almond-flavored milk pudding thickened with gelatin or cornstarch; usually molded any of various single-celled fungi that reproduce asexually by budding or division the act of causing something to happen in some classifications many plants usually assigned to the genus Chrysanthemum have been divided among other genera: e.g. Argyranthemum; Dendranthema; Leucanthemum; Tanacetum a congenital defect in which one or more toes or fingers are abnormally positioned flour made by grinding the entire wheat berry including the bran; ('whole_meal_flour' is British usage) as by a sentry tree frogs perennial poppy mallow of United States southern plains states having rose-red or rose-purple flowers arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal an article created or assembled by needle and thread saving someone or something from harm of from an unpleasant situation; 'the salvation of his party was the president's major concern' one of four playing cards in a deck having three pips a genus of Hominidae an instrument for execution by strangulation aromatic perennial of southeastern Russia (geometry) a ratio describing the shape of a conic section; the ratio of the distance between the foci to the length of the major axis; 'a circle is an ellipse with zero eccentricity' a window in a ship or airplane (informal) a crushing remark pliers for perforating paper or leather large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin an identifying appellation signifying status or function: e.g. Mr. or General; 'the professor didn't like his friends to use his formal title' a store where builders can purchase materials for building houses and related structures (British) an evening when members of a club or college can bring their friends as guests cosmopolitan family of herbs and shrubs plant living on another plant and obtaining from it organic nutriment the property of weakness by virtue of careless construction a member of the Algonquian people belonging to the Abnaki confederacy and living in the Penobscot valley in N Maine edible greenish substance in boiled lobster the act of forcing the enemy to withdraw slender branching American grass of some value for grazing in central United States similar to blue flag; the eastern United States a stiff hollow protective spine on a porcupine or hedgehog informal term for sleep one who has lived in a village most of their life a sport in which participants must travel on skis those in a business responsible for maintaining the physical plant South African shrub having flat acuminate leaves and yellow flowers; leaves are aromatic when dried and used to make an herbal tea a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it; 'he bought his brother's business'; 'a small mom-and-pop business'; 'a racially integrated business concern' a gruff or angry utterance (suggestive of the growling of an animal) flightless birds having flat breastbones lacking a keel for attachment of flight muscles: ostriches; cassowaries; emus; moas; rheas; kiwis; elephant birds spatial largeness (especially inside a building) a nonharmonic note inserted for transition between harmonic notes sometimes placed in family Convallariaceae: lilyturf large citrus tree having large sweet deep orange fruit that is easily peeled; widely cultivated in Florida an economic system based on state ownership of capital flagellate symbiotic in the intestines of e.g. termites a detergent in liquid form a semi-aquatic plant that grows in soft wet land; most are monocots: sedge, sphagnum, grasses, cattails, etc; possibly heath the rind of a lemon a clan identified by their kinship to a common totemic object the reasoning involved in making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions rather than on the basis of direct observation the wage demanded from management for workers by their union representatives Asiatic shrub or small tree widely planted in United States and Europe; in some classifications assigned to its own genus Platycladus an entertainment that is offered to the public a heavy woolen fabric with a long nap a box for growing plants on a windowsill small establishment where handcrafts or manufacturing are done long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat prearranged fire delivered at a predetermined time typical ground squirrels someone who collects census data by visiting individual homes high status importance owing to marked superiority; 'a scholar of great eminence' having both pectoral and pelvic fins enlarged the branch of biology that studies microorganisms and their effects on humans (physics) vibration produced by resonance the top horizontal surface of a table a fatal form of thalassemia in which there is no hemoglobin; skeletal deformations; heart and spleen and liver enlarged a gauge for indicating negative atmospheric pressure type genus of the Buxaceae strong hemp-like fiber from sansevieria used for e.g. cordage the average IQ of the adults in a given population a college that offers only the first two years terminating in an associate degree the act of inhabiting a sleeveless cloak that is lined or trimmed with fur biennial or short-lived perennial prairie rocket having orange-yellow flowers; western North America to Minnesota and Kansas; sometimes placed in genus Cheiranthus tropical fern having leathery oleanderlike fronds; Asia to Polynesia the act of choosing or selecting; 'your choice of colors was unfortunate'; 'you can take your pick' common scaup of North America; males have purplish heads a nonexistent goal; 'he lived without a reason progressing toward no-goal' the most powerful chess piece a parallel beam of light passing through it is caused to diverge or spread out a balm applied to the lips a disorder in which a lesion to the central nervous system leaves you unable to formulate a statement or to express yourself in an organized manner any of several deciduous Asian trees of the genus Ailanthus a level of existence or development; 'he lived on a worldly plane' property owned by a government printing from a plate with raised characters a party of people with stretchers to carry an injured person a term used in Scottish names of promontories; 'the Mull of Kintyre' Russian pancake of buckwheat flour and yeast; usually served with caviar and sour cream a unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 cm/sec/sec to a mass of 1 gram a activeness of an energetic personality endoscopic examination of the abdomen through the abdominal wall a chest especially for storing valuables the belief that the spirits of dead people can communicate with people who are still alive (especially via a medium) genus of tall leafy perennial herbs of eastern America and eastern Asia having flowers that resemble asters a predetermined hiding place for the deposit and distribution of illicit goods (such as drugs or stolen property) blood type antibodies a group that defends a principle; 'a bastion against corruption'; 'the last bastion of communism' a fraudulent business scheme coextensive with the genus Platanus: plane trees formal or perfunctory politeness a plant fiber used for making rope a therapeutic procedure with instruments to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body; 'they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available'; 'he died while undergoing surgery' the branch of biology that studies the structure and activity of macromolecules essential to life (and especially with their genetic role) rowdy behavior a person who draws cartoons one who sets written material into type "an artifact that belongs to another time" a woman's shoe with a very high thick sole a search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria a gun that is discharged once every minute (usually as part of a military funeral) annual of southern United States to Mexico having large whitish or yellowish flowers mottled with purple and a long curving beak Mexican shrub often cultivated for its scarlet-bracted flowers perennial of damp places in mountains of Eurasia and North America having dull-colored blue or violet flowers a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum a family of fish including: carp; tench; roach; rudd; dace oat grass penguins genets the person who is most outstanding or excellent; 'he could beat the best of them' a word for horse used by children or in adult slang the quality of having a moderate degree of heat: 'an agreeable warmth in the house' a social club for female undergraduates murder of your own parents the third mast from the bow in a vessel having three or more masts; the after and shorter mast of a yawl, ketch, or dandy the act of fixing firmly in place; 'she resented his planting himself in the doorway' the state of wandering from place to place; having no permanent home or means of livelihood the inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions: 'educaton has for its object the formation of character'- Herbert Spencer the act of equiping with weapons in preparation for war cynipid gall wasps, chiefly affecting oaks a savory jelly made with gelatin obtained by boiling calves' feet the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor someone who bullies weaker people a weak soluble dibasic acid (the parent acid of cyanamide salts) medium for spoken communication; 'he gave air to his objections' thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord; results in progressive muscle atrophy that starts in the limbs any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval smooth-skinned fruit with a single pit Eurasian butterfly with brown wings and white markings tall widely distributed elm of eastern North America stalking deer a small high-pitched flute similar to a piccolo; has a shrill tone and is used chiefly to accompany drums in a marching band teaching beginners to read a diplomat who is acceptable to the government to which he is sent a chronological account of events in successive years 1 species a mass spectrometer that produces a graphical representation of the mass spectrum prescribed identifying clothing for soldiers a boundary line created by a fence type genus of the Corixidae: boat bugs someone who deliberately foments trouble; 'she was the instigator of their quarrel' a member of a senate judgment rendered through analysis and adjudication of the factual issues presented weedy trailing mat-forming herb with bright yellow flowers cultivated for its edible mildly acid leaves eaten raw or cooked especially in Indian and Greek and Middle Eastern cuisine; cosmopolitan oil palms as far as something can go a tray (or large plate) for serving food or drinks; usually made of silver a resident of Kentucky the experience of being unfamiliar with a person or situation that is actually very familiar; associated with certain types of epilepsy dried rolled strips of cinnamon bark tea leaves that have been steamed and dried without fermenting unoriginality as a result of being too conventional large showy finches related to cardinals pie made with meat or fowl enclosed in pastry or covered with pastry or biscuit dough very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow into sandy beaches a savings account in which deposits and withdrawals are recorded in the depositor's passbook a subsonic jet airliner operated over short distances any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something sweet cider heated with spices and citrus fruit treacherous cowardice no longer active; extinguished; 'the extinction of the volcano' a genus of Macropodidae a protective ornamental covering used to screen a light bulb from direct view a plant exudate a program in which the audience participates by telephone the quality of being complete and indiscriminate: 'the totality of war and its consequences'; 'the all-embracing totality of the state' a well-bred person perennial Eurasian gentian with sky-blue funnel-shaped flowers of damp open heaths a fungus that infects various cereal plants forming compact black masses of branching filaments that replace many grains of the plant; source of medicinally important alkaloids and of lysergic acid a boxer who weighs no more than 135 pounds the trait of being willing to yield to the will of another person or a superior force etc. African woody vines: calabar beans a common benign tumor of cartilage cells a change downward; 'there was a sharp drop-off in sales' in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae: chain ferns a usually malignant tumor arising from connective tissue (bone or muscle etc.); one of the four major types of cancer an inscrutable person who keeps his thoughts and intentions secret peafowl enzyme found in most plant and animal cells that functions as an oxidative catalyst; decomposes hydrogen peroxide into hydrogen and water genera of ferns and fern allies an inclination to approve; 'that style is in favor this season' the property of something that cannot be pervaded by a liquid the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced; 'as he heard the news he was suddenly flooded with relief' an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution; 'he mailed the circular to all subscribers' small spiny-finned fish of coastal or brackish waters having a large head and elongated tapering body having the ventral fins modified as a sucker a printed copy of the order of the day a laborer who is obliged to do menial work small nonvenomous arachnid resembling a tailless scorpion common genus of marine bubble shells of the Pacific coast of North America "the state or condition of having no home (especially the state of living in the streets)" giving detailed instructions, as for a military operation delicately iridescent thimble-shaped ctenophores a four-sided polygon a specialist in tribology a piece of cloth used for dusting "a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country" a planet (usually Venus) seen at sunset in the western sky any of four things that correspond to one another exactly (usually informal) especially a young rabbit wild or uncultivated flowering plant blue pigment made of powdered lapis lazuli the economic condition in which credit is difficult to secure a short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent tree ferns of temperate Australasia having bipinnatifid or tripinnatifid fronds and usually marginal sori; in some classification systems placed in family Cyatheaceae an appliance that corrects dental irregularities fungi parasitic upon the ovaries of various grasses an agent who represents performers a mound of glacial drift rotating a log rapidly in the water (as a competitive sport) a tax collected by requiring a stamp to be purchased and attached (usually on documents or publications) anything placed on the edge to finish something; such as a fringe on clothing or a rug an antibiotic (trade name Azactam) used against severe infections; has minimal side effects a power mower you can ride on a plaster for the shin a convulsive gasp made while weeping a loosestrife vine dense coat of fine silky hairs on an mammals e.g. cat or seal or weasel an isogram connecting points having equal barometric pressure at a given time a young mind not yet affected by experience (according to John Locke) a fastening (usually with two projecting horns) around which a rope can be secured the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone an opening through which fluid is admitted to a tube or container an inexperienced and untrained recruit the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions a stiff hair family of perennial aromatic herbs: genera Saururus; Anemopsis; Houttuynia parasitic spore-forming protozoan a private school run by a religious body argus pheasants a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect; 'white is the coolest summer color' genus of North and South American perennial herbs or shrubs with yellow flowers; in some classifications include species placed in other genera especially Hazardia squeezing out by applying pressure the coefficient of elasticity for a shearing force an easterly wind in the western Mediterranean area a white solid mineral that occurs naturally as periclase; a source of magnesium a biochemical catalyst such as an enzyme a horse with a cylindrical body covered with leather and two upright handles (pommels) near the center; held upright by two steel supports, one at each end silkworm moths (medical) any disturbance in the function of an organ or body part a boil or abscess on the gums a tunic worn over a knight's armor type genus of the Juncaceae; perennial tufted glabrous marsh plants of temperate regions: rushes a member of a people of Turkic speech and Mongolian race inhabiting vast regions of central Siberia a structure composed of or provided with blood vessels a tabular array of the days (usually for one year) "any communication that encodes a message; 'signals from the boat sudddenly stopped'" ***some hyponyms may be moved to 'communication entity' (British) short for dividend; especially one paid by a cooperative society the position of the head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development; 'the position of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development was created in 1966' pus pocket formation around a tooth a family of saprobic fungi of order Blastocladiales Australian and Tasmanian lizards slang terms for fellatio an aquatic plant of the family Nymphaeaceae a flat tortilla topped with refried beans an American weedy plant with small white or greenish flowers a team that plays basketball a road divided down the middle by a barrier that separates traffic going in different directions a long hooded cloak woven of wool in one piece; worn by Arabs and Moors an animal pathogen that is a virus a branch of the basilar artery that supplies the labyrinth a mine where silver ore is dug tall erect and very leafy perennial herb of eastern North America having dense spikes of blue flowers 100 satangs equal 1 baht the people of England either of two equal and opposite angles formed by the intersection of two straight lines very small two-winged flies with hairy wings that develop in moss and damp vegetable matter: sand flies used as a bond in masonry or for covering a wall small silvery fish; Nova Scotia to Brazil the head of a state government a confectioner's shop a machine that inserts stales into sheets of paper in order to fasten them together the state of relying on something a lavishly produced performance; 'they put on a Christmas spectacular' unfaithfulness by virtue of being unreliable or treacherous the emission of electrons from very hot substances large room used mainly for dancing a put or call option backed by the shares underlying the option an explosion (as of dynamite) a smooth plate of copper that has been etched or engraved the general outward appearance of something; 'the face of the city is changing' a way or means to achieve something; 'the road to fame' a circular hoop for holding a towel Buddhist worthy of nirvana who postpones it to help others a rock drill having cruciform cutting edges; used in mining lively attentiveness any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries a malignant tumor of the epithelial tissue periapsis in orbit around Jupiter a member of an Athapaskan people that migrated to Arizona and New Mexico and Utah the act of preventing someone from participating by finding them unqualified one of the two seasons in tropical climates a small canal or duct as in some bones and parts of plants bone (calcified tissue) surrounding the pulp cavity of a tooth inflammation of the spleen ribbonfishes any installation designed to accommodate patrons in their automobiles a male subordinate; 'the chief stationed two men outside the building'; 'he awaited word from his man in Havana' a straight line that is not at right angles to a side inflammation of the eyelid wrought iron of high purity made in Sweden a dark red resinous substance derived from various trees and used in photoengraving a meeting for lunch; usually to conduct business while eating deciduous flat-growing shrub with a fanned herringbone pattern and having reddish flowers and orange-red berries; used as a ground cover rank-smelling tropical American pigweed a popular trend that attracts growing support; 'when they saw how things were going everybody jumped on the bandwagon' an anniversary celebrating the passage of 25 years training in marching and the use of weapons a strip of cloth wound around the leg to form legging; used by soldiers in World War I a trace program that produces output for selected conditions having an acrid smell 1 genus: Casuarina in various games or performances: either of two periods of play separated by an interval a group of Plains Indians formerly living in what is now North and South Dakota and Nebraska and Kansas and Arkansas and Louisiana and Oklahoma and Texas a drawing made with charcoal medium to large deciduous timber tree of the eastern United States and southeastern Canada having dark outer bark and yellow inner bark used for tanning; broad 5-lobed leaves are bristle-tipped mesquite of Gulf Coast and Caribbean islands from Mexico to Venezuela either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces having no evident sex or sex organs a framework for holding wood that is being sawed French history: the king could warrant imprisonment or death in a signed letter under his seal free-swimming larva of ascidians; they have a tail like a tadpole that contains the notochord a subclass of Sporozoa a man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with beaver or silk intellectual sustenance worship of yourself a weave in which the filling and warp threads intertwine alternately producing a checkerboard effect epiphytic or terrestrial climbing shrubs of Central and South America; used as ornamental houseplants for their velvety foliage the family of languages spoken in Australia and Formosa and Malaysia and Polynesia a person with specialized training who assists lawyers a cracker sprinkled with salt before baking a woman sculptor a strategy of delay a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time; 'this cartridge has a powder charge of 50 grains' spatial extent the first presentation of a bill in a legislature someone who participates in contests in order to collect trophies the act of rowing as a sport (Hinduism or Buddhism) a sacred word or syllable repeated in prayer or meditation a correlation in which large values of one variable are associated with small values of the other; the correlation coefficient is between 0 and -1 a liquid lying above a sediment (floating on the surface) a planner who draws up a personal scheme of action a prose narrative shorter than a novel mayonnaise with chopped pickles and sometimes capers and shallots and parsley and hard-cooked egg; sauce for seafood especially fried fish a workman who lays and repairs railroad tracks an urn in which coffee is made and kept hot a competition that involves jumping as far as possible from a running start a series of question put to an individual (such as a political candidate) to elicit their views a green slightly translucent variety of chalcedony used as a gemstone axis of a compound leaf or compound inflorescence marginal consciousness; 'his grogginess was caused as much by exhaustion and by the blows'; 'someone stole his wallet while he was in a drunken stupor' a lack of conformity with law or custom or practice etc. having a rounded apex and tapering base a smaller variety of kudu the mental state of being preoccupied by something large hawk of Eurasia and North America used in falconry a precinct in which law enforcement is the responsibility of particular police force a method of accounting in which each item is entered as payments are received or made any of various trees of the genus Sorbus a brief section of a literary or dramatic work that forms part of a connected series a stone used for paving forward movement; 'the ship made little headway against the gale' any device serving as a source of electromagnetic radiation imprisonment (especially for a long time) a thin uniform layer of hazy cloud at high altitude a resident of Savoy malaria parasites see o any oil palm tiny American bird having brilliant iridescent plumage and long slender bills; wings are specialized for vibrating flight a caryophyllaceous genus of the family Chenopodiaceae an infectious tropical disease resembling syphillis in its early stages; marked by red skin eruptions and ulcerating lesions a prolonged intense look a basal part of the diencephalon governing autonomic nervous system a wooden ball used in playing croquet an unemployed person who participates in a hunger march annual grass of Europe and North Africa; grains used as food and fodder (referred to primarily in the plural: 'oats') small shrubs of scrub and dry woodland regions of southern Europe and North Africa; grown for their showy flowers and soft often downy and aromatic evergreen foliage a sociological theory based on the premise that society comes before individuals showing characteristics of both sexes a public institution for the care of orphans an applicant who is being considered for a job and of several small active brown birds of the northern hemisphere with short upright tails; they feed on insects similar to pumpkin pie but made with winter squash instead of pumpkin the back of a horse a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) coextensive with the subclass Prototheria golden pheasants a small bar of metal across the fingerboard of a musical instrument; when the string is stopped by a finger at the metal bar it will produce a note of the desired pitch large web-footed birds of the southern hemisphere having long narrow wings; noted for powerful gliding flight reduction in cost of production due to a large number of items produced the swelling of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water) marine invertebrates that resemble mollusks an aromatic balsam genus of coarse western American herbs with large roots containing an aromatic balsam a member of a Caucasian people living in the Caucasus but not speaking an Indo-European language an abnormal distension of an artery "(physical chemistry) a sample of matter in which substances in different phases are in equilibrium; 'in a static system oil cannot be replaced by water on a surface'; 'a system generating hydrogen peroxide'" a object designed to fill a hole tightly an insignificant place; 'he came out of nowhere' grayish-green shrub of desert regions of southwestern United States nd Mexico having sparse foliage and terminal spikes of bluish violet flowers; locally important as source of a light-colored honey of excellent flavor an explanation or definition of an obscure word in a text a species of bacteria a rounded dilation or expansion in a canal or vessel or organ a vinaigrette with garlic and herbs: oregano and basil and dill coarse sprawling Australasian plant with red or yellow flowers; cultivated for its edible young shoots and succulent leaves a sharp decrease in some quantity: 'a drop of 57 points on the Dow Jones index'; 'there was a drop in pressure in the pulmonary artery' any orchid of the genus Disa; beautiful orchids with dark green leaves and usually hooded flowers; much prized as emblematic flowers in their native regions a socially prominent person sealed vessel where water is converted to steam an authoritative rule California evergreen shrub having glossy opposite leaves and terminal clusters of a few fragrant white flowers a box for holding matches killing by gunfire guaranteed by the 2nd amendment to the US constitution the superlative form of an adjective; 'best' is the superlative form of 'good'' a population that is part of a larger population violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked an edible fungus with a reddish cap and close pale gills and dry stalk; found under hardwoods a game in which players use long sticks to shove wooden disks onto the scoring area marked on a smooth surface (Britain) thick cream made from scalded milk a variety of aster any of various devices for taking hold of objects; usually have two hinged legs with handles above and pointed hooks below some point or period in time; 'it should arrive any day now'; 'after that day she never trusted him again'; 'those were the days'; 'these days it is not unusual' type genus of the Bacillaceae; includes many saprophytes important in decay of organic matter and a number of parasites large mild crisp thick-walled capsicum peppers usually bell-shaped or somewhat oblong duck of the northern hemisphere much valued for the fine soft down of the females a family of Dermoptera a speedometer reading for the momentary rate of travel the branch of the United States government that has the power of legislating one who was versed in the practice of alchemy an allegorical play popular in the 15th and 16th centuries; characters personified virtues and vices tiger sharks small steak from the thin end of the short loin containing a T-shaped bone and small piece of tenderloin diabetes mellitus with an early onset fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit the act of rearranging things to give a misleading impression Eurasian mullein with showy purple or pink flowers electricity produced by water power converts the negative half wave of an alternating current into a positive half wave any of several North American species of small pike the branch of military science dealing with military command and the planning and conduct of a war chiefly fruticose maritime rock-inhabiting lichens plant growing naturally in very salty soil detailed record of the background of a person or group under study or treatment a prostitute's customer (Brit) a school providing training for a special field or profession a device for keeping the score in a game of billiards the front part of the upper of a shoe small-eared Mexican bat with a long slender nose a genus of Old World mints of the family Labiatae a lack of coordination of movements half-shrubby perennial valuable as sheep forage in the United States genus of tropical American orchid species often included in genus Cypripedium or Paphiopedilum and Selenipedium: lady_slippers small opening between things a type of house built in New England; has two stories in front and one behind a sum granted as reimbursement for expenses the atmospheric layer between the mesosphere and the exosphere ordinary clothing suitable for public appearances (as opposed to costumes or sports apparel or work clothes etc.) West African plant bearing pungent peppery seeds a dish of roast pheasant served in a manner characteristic of expensive restaurants the modal logic of knowledge and uncertainty and ignorance someone who salvages the hard ridge that forms the upper part of the nose; 'her glasses left marks on the bridge of her nose' the luminous flux incident on a unit area alert carnivorous mammal with pointed muzzle and ears and a bushy tail; most are predators that do not hunt in packs a native or inhabitant of Saudi Arabia a researcher who works in the field a position on a basketball team of the player who participates in the center jump to start the game an artistic movement in 19th century France; artists and writers strove for detailed realistic and factual description flounders with both eyes on the right side of the head the act of hearing again canine tooth of a carnivorous animal; used to seize and tear its prey a warm cupboard where you put newly washed clothes until they are completely dry a failure to get on base safely in baseball; 'you only get 3 outs per inning' an economic system in which the government owns most means of production but some degree of private capitalism is allowed an uncontrolled fire that consumes brush and shrubs and bushes any of several seeds that yield oil more or less flat-topped cluster of flowers in which the central or terminal flower opens first a sadly pensive longing a native or inhabitant of Siberia an Italian courtesy title for an unmarried woman; equivalent to Miss with used before a name a pleasant and secluded part of a garden; usually attached to a mansion any of several small owls having ear tufts and a whistling call repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning and another at the end of successive clauses, i.e., simultaneous use of anaphora and epistrophe European evergreen eryngo with twisted spiny leaves naturalized on United States east coast; roots formerly used as an aphrodisiac the biceps muscle of the thigh; it flexes the knee and rotates the leg laterally family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to Carolina and W to the Great Plains a cooperative unit an implement that has hairs or bristles firmly set into a handle a brachycephalic person extreme distress of body or mind the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme: 'that book is a fraud' meat patties rolled in rice and simmered in a tomato sauce an ardent early supporter of a cause or reform the first branch of the subclavian artery; divided into four parts tropical shrubs and herbs; source of croton oil flesh of large domesticated fowl usually roasted that which is good or valuable or useful: 'weigh the good against the bad'; 'among the highest goods of all are happiness and self-realization' vegetables (especially cucumbers) preserved in brine or vinegar a pendent spear of ice formed by the freezing of dripping water a shot made with an underhand scooping motion riding on a long light sled with low handrails the act of linking things together flat mild onion having purplish tunics; used as garnish on hamburgers and salads an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity male red grouse a response that reveals a person's feelings or attitude; 'he was pleased by the audience's reaction to his performance'; 'John feared his mother's reaction when she saw the broken lamp' the left side of a ship or aircraft to someone facing the bow or nose an overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration; 'he stared over the edge with a feeling of awe' a small room for storing brooms and other cleaning equipment a group of people attractively arranged (as if in a painting) the superior of a group of nuns a spasm of the cardiac sphincter (between the esophagus and the stomach); if the cardiac sphincter does not relax during swallowing the passage of food into the stomach is obstructed an official or legal cancellation a philosopher who subscribes to nativism African antelopes: puku having a dark or somber color the cry of an ass the act of appealing for help a membrane (as a cell membrane) that allows some molecule to pass through but not others army unit smaller than a division a stretch of water without current or movement; 'suddenly they were in slack water' small berrylike fruit a blight of the heads of cereals a device that scans automatically for some signal or condition a written or printed symbol (as for punctuation); 'his answer was just a punctuation mark' the doctrine that reality consists of a single basic substance or element any member of the people of Eastern Europe or Russian Asia who speak a Slavonic language any stoppage attributable to unusual activity; 'the legislation ran into a logjam' the number of sperm in an ejaculate; 'the sperm count is used as an indicator of male fertility' type genus of the Blenniidae a long bun shaped to hold a frankfurter saprophytic and parasitic fungi that live on plants an atom of carbon monetary unit in Jordan the proprietor of a saloon butterfly-shaped bone at the base of the skull any disease-producing agent esp. a virus or bacterium or other microorganism the act of taking of a person by force a musical instrument with strings stretch over a flat sounding box; played with a plectrum and with fingers any member of the peoples speaking a language in the Altaic language group refuge from danger or observation; 'he felt secure in his father's shadow' someone who operates and aircraft any of a class of green pigments consisting of chrome yellow and iron blue a shout or song of praise to God a machine that drives piling into the ground those in an organization responsible for preventing spying or theft the scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting) small genus of southeastern Asian tropics: teak a Russian artificial satellite; 'Sputnik was the first man-made satellite to orbit the earth' an anthropologist who studies ethnology a disease of the heads of wheat plants a dough of flour and water and shortening the sound made by a gentle blow a condition in which the opposing teeth do not mesh normally juicy canes whose sap is a source of molasses and commercial sugar; fresh canes are sometimes chewed for the juice flagellate with a thick test composed of plates a genus of fungi of the family Blastodiaceae large spiny shrub of eastern Asia having clusters of yellow flowers; often cultivated in shelterbelts and hedges diffusion of molecules through a semipermeable membrane from a place of higher concentration to a place of lower concentration until the concentration on both sides is equal a dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth creating bread or pastry in an oven double-thick center cut of beef tenderloin a cerate made of camphor and wax and spermaceti and castor oil a genus of Cathartidae enticing someone astray from right behavior perennial herb with showy yellow flowers; the eastern United States comparatively large neuroglial cell activities organized by civilians for their own protection in time of war or disaster mantises wood of any of various maple trees; especially the hard close-grained wood of the sugar maple; used esp for furniture and flooring ctenophores having two long pinnate tentacles a substance believed to maintain life indefinitely a fungus with a whitish often circular cap and a white pore surface and small pores and a white central stalk; found under conifers; edible but not popular the heliocentric parallax of a star of temperate Eurasia wheat flake including the bran a delayed reaction indicating surprise anal intercourse committed by a man with a man or woman a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits land plant growing in surroundings having an average supply of water; compare xerophyte and hydrophyte large river turtle of the southern United States and northern Mexico small motile sulphur bacteria any salt or ester of chromic acid a trust created and operating during the grantor's lifetime "a whole building made up of interconnected or related structures"a whole building made up of interconnected or related structures someone who earns a living by playing or teaching golf a wheel worked by hand a blue flag with a white square in the center indicates that the vessel is ready to sail a notation used by chemists to express technical facts in chemistry a secondary school usually including 7th and 8th grades a source of aid or support that may be drawn upon when needed: 'the local library is a valuable resource' any of various water spirits apricots preserved by drying deciduous shrubby tree or eastern North America with compound leaves that turn brilliant red in fall and dense panicles of greenish yellow flowers followed by crimson acidic berries a movement in a new direction; 'the turning of the wind' tropical evergreen subshrubs (some climbers) to trees of Asia and Australasia to Americas a member of the middle class as duty that you are assigned to perform especially in the armed forces: 'hazardous duty' an official who performs the duties of an office temporarily; 'he acted as a caretaker until a new president could be elected' the timbre of a musical sound; 'the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music' a small syringe with detachable nozzles; used for vaginal lavage and enemas a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide with small amounts of other gases; made by blowing steam over hot coke or coal baked pudding of apples and breadcrumbs a station that serves as headquarters for police in a particular district; serves as a place from which policemen are dispatched and to which arrested persons are brought; 'in England they call a police station a police office' inability to see clearly in dim light; due to a deficiency of vitamin A or to a retinal disorder a member of a people native to the Philippines chiefly inhabiting central Luzon around and including Manila the exercise of a profession; 'the practice of the law'; 'I took over his practice when he retired' the quality of hearty sincerity the part of a pair of trousers that covers the leg a performer who dances sea lilies weakly climbing European perennial with white or pink flowers; naturalized in North America and an invasive weed a shape that curves or bulges outward type genus of the Chaetodontidae rapid sliding up or down the musical scale; 'the violinist was indulgent with his swoops and slides' 1/7000 pound; equals a troy grain or 64.799 milligrams stress at which a person breaks down or a situation becomes crucial inflammation of a blood vessel the contraction of the chambers of the heart (especially the ventricles) to drive blood into the aorta and pulmonary artery the inventor to whom a patent is issued strong canvas attached with springs to a metal frame and used for tumbling sea_catfishes an American plant of the genus Malvastrum a mixture of decaying vegetation and manure; used as a fertilizer a native or inhabitant of Portugal (informal) a person who is almost identical to another a phenolic amino acid of which thyroxine is a derivative an evergreen tree basically a small telescope with an attached spirit level rotating around a vertical axis; for measuring relative heights of land one thousandth of a second the process of producing pictures in contrasting colors that appear three-dimensional when superimposed and viewed through spectacles with one red and one green lens impatience with annoyances: 'his intolerance of interruptions' a pitch thrown sidearm instead of overhead the guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place showing your contempt by derision giant crabs of Japan a machine for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers a woman who wears clothes to display fashions; 'she was too fat to be a mannequin' a jail in a local police station north Australian tree having white flowers and broad leaves an electronic dictionary in a word processor that can be used to catch misspelled words a fighting ax used by North American indians the phenomenon in which waves of light or other radiation are restricted in direction of vibration a distinguishing quality; 'it has the distinction of being the cheapest restaurant in town' vulnerability to destruction a judgment entered after a written confession by the debtor without the expense of ordinary legal proceedings an elaborate song for solo voice a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port an ore that is the chief source of zinc; consists largely of zinc sulfide in crystalline form ants (informal) an informal discussion (usually among men) an outer garment that has sleeves and covers the body from shoulder down; worn outdoors an instrument for measuring electrical resistance in ohms a mute for a violin fishes closely related to greenlings the large opening at the base of the cranium through which the spinal cord passes a supplier of victuals or supplies to an army a person of nearly the same age as another one of three equal parts of a divisible whole; 'it contains approximately a third of the minimum daily requirement' a monocotyledonous flowering plant a person appointed to represent or act on behalf of others a flow or discharge a gang of criminals assembled in one place; 'a nest of thieves' use of the faculty of vision a short note acknowledging a source of information or quoting a passage; 'the student's essay failed to list several important citations'; 'the article includes mention of similar clinical cases' orchid having dense clusters of gently spiraling creamy white flowers with 2 upper petals forming a hood; western North America tropical marine gastropods having beautifully colored spiral shells a small diagonal needlepoint stitch a building or complex of buildings where an organization for the promotion of some cause is situated writing that presents the main points in a concise form a semisynthetic analogue of cephalosporin tropical American feather palm whose large nuts yield valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory a Chinese breed of small dog similar to a Pekingese a square-shaped object (geometry) a curve generated by the intersection of a plane and a circular cone herbs almost entirely of mountains of China and Tibet; often monocarpic a storage device that handles data so that the next item to be retrieved is the item most recently stored; last in first out (LIFO) flamingos large whipscorpion of Mexico and southern United States that emits a vinegary odor when alarmed a short high-pitched noise; 'the squeak of of shoes on powdery snow' fungus causing damping off disease in seedlings someone to whom property (especially realty) is devised by will a structure resembling a bag in an animal an extravagant comedy in which action is more salient than characterization a written evaluation of a student's scholarship and deportment; 'his father signed his report card' a record of things worth remembering property of a personal character that is portable but not used in business; 'she left some of her personal effects in the house'; 'I watched over their effects until they returned' pouched mice a thorough physical examination; includes a variety of tests depending on the age and sex and health of the person taking an excursion for pleasure a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone any regulation or policy that restricts international trade lettuce with relatively soft leaves in a loose head; easily broken or bruised the hemisphere north of the equator an expression of opposition to a course of action wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir) a scholar during the Renaissance who (because knowledge was limited) could know almost everything about many topics a vivid mental image; 'he had a vision of his own death' (golf) someone responsible for the maintenance of a golf course negotiable debt obligations of the US government secured by its full faith and credit something added to enhance food or gasoline or paint or medicine ribbon-like flatworms that are parasitic in the intestines of humans and other vertebrates a plant of the genus Aquilegia having irregular showy spurred flowers; north temperate regions especially mountains an electrical connector socket designed for the insertion of a plug a doubled wage (for working overtime) someone who races the luge a person who is appointed to a job or position "(plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively; 'old people'; 'there were at least 200 people in the audience'" removal of fluid from a joint by centesis the quality of being elongated the tobacco used to form the core of a cigar a device on an aircraft for carrying bombs a ceremonial dance performed before a battle or after a victory a custard-like food made from curdled milk (formal) a person who announces important news; 'the chieftain had a herald who announced his arrival with a trumpet' the science or art of strategy ability; 'he wanted to try his hand at singing' type genus of the Muscicapidae a forward gear ratio giving high vehicle velocity for a given engine speed the act of deposing someone a native or inhabitant of Asian Georgia a resident of Wisconsin green foliage a board measure = 1980 board feet a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport; 'he always rode the bus to work' sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body a swelling on a plant stem consisting of overlapping immature leaves or petals the act of performing a jump of skis from a high ramp overhanging a snow covered slope any of various low-growing plants of the genus Sagina having small spherical flowers resembling pearls the quality of being difficult to grasp or pin down: 'the author's elusiveness may at times be construed as evasiveness' metal plate bolted along sides of two rails or beams the student with the best grades who delivers the valedictory at graduation ornamental tree with inedible fruit widely cultivated in many varieties for its pink blossoms bellflower of Europe and Asia and North Africa having bluish flowers and an edible tuberous root used with the leaves in salad pantropical vine widely cultivated in several varieties for its large sweet orange-fleshed tuberous root the person who consigns merchandise the act of putting one thing into another a line on a graph indicating a statistical trend large genus of epiphytic or lithophytic orchids of tropical America someone who sells or applies cosmetics a glycoside derived from glucose lack of attention and due care the treasurer at a college or university the part of grammar that deals with combinations of simple words into compound words colonial siphonophore of up to 130 ft long a member of the North American Indian people of Arizona and adjacent Mexico and California an annual Eurasian plant cultivated in North America having showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers any of various invertebrate animals resembling a plant such as a sea anemone or coral or sponge something that demonstrates a lack of professional competency self-propelled engine used to draw trains along railway tracks small rodent with soft pearly gray fur; native to the Andes but bred in captivity for fur a married man; a woman's partner in marriage any of several more or less arboreal marsupials somewhat resembling martens a neutral or uncommitted person (especially in politics) Australian evergreen shrubs: waratahs a program that can be located in different parts of memory at different times agoutis and pacas a large cloth used to cover furniture that is not in use for a long period marine and freshwater dinoflagellates someone who steals valuables from graves or crypts the third stage; characterized by involvement of internal organs especially the brain and spinal cord as well as the heart and liver allows current to pass from one conductor to another burrowing chiefly nocturnal mammal with body covered with strong horny plates the purchase of securities or commodities by a short seller to close out a short sale small rough-haired breed of terrier from Scotland collective aspect of the set of characteristics by which a thing is recognizable or known an enzyme liberated from blood platelets that converts prothrombin into thrombin as blood starts to clot "matter deposited by water or ice or wind" a small sphere seeded grape that has been dried a toy dog developed from the greyhound the quality possessed by something that is excessively expensive a color varying from dark purplish brown to dark red a tale in rhymed verse for children horses; asses; zebras; extinct animals lily of eastern North America having orange to orange-red purple-spotted flowers the lower part of anything; 'curled up on the foot of the bed'; 'the foot of the page'; 'the foot of the list'; 'the foot of the mountain' a tract of land cleared for some special purposes (recreation or burial etc.) plant having branching leafy stems each branch with an especially showy solitary flower head with many narrow pink or lavender or white rays; northwestern United States mountains a woman who is thoroughly disliked; 'she said her son thought Hilary was a bitch' medium-sized evergreen native to eastern North America to the east coast of Mexico; often cultivated as shade tree for it wide-spreading crown; extremely hard tough durable wood once used in shipbuilding deciduous shrub of southeastern and central United States a natural habitation for bees; as in a hollow tree migration into a place one of the veins serving the fingers or toes plant bugs; bedbugs; some true bugs; also includes suborders Heteroptera (true bugs) and Homoptera (e.g. aphids; plant lice; cicadas) the principle that a person's nationality at birth is the same as that of his natural parents the decade from 1960 to 1969 a ratite bird order: recently extinct flightless birds of New Zealand fatty red flesh of salmon of Pacific coast and rivers saclike structure in which ascospores are formed through sexual reproduction of ascomycetes type genus of the Oriolidae a member of a rural Finnish people living in E Russia greenish aphid; pest on garden and crop plants someone who contracts for and supervises the construction of a building an aqueous solution of chlorine used as a bleaching agent the position of the head of the Department of Veterans Affairs; 'the post of Secretary of Veterans Affairs was created in 1989' small marine fish with black mouth and gill cavity small flat mass of chopped food densely branching perennial of the eastern United States with white to crimson or purple flowers a person employed to watch for something to happen a student's book or booklet containing problems with spaces for solving them (British) a small pan or cup (usually of tin) a passenger ship used for pleasure cruises violent pangs of suffering; 'death throes' a bit for horses that is a solid bar of metal a wave made with the fingers a diminutive flower, especially one that is part of a composite flower someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads) a sheep up to the age of one year; one yet to be sheared a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply; 'war was declared in November but actual fighting did not begin until the following spring' a communication that belittles somebody or something large sweet easily-peeled Florida fruit with deep orange rind a feeling of delight at being filled with wonder and enchantment a pudding cooked by steaming a short note; 'the secretary keeps the minutes of the meeting' a handle (as of a gun or saw) shaped like the butt of a pistol small fatty fish usually canned an order to appear in person at a given place and time the upper branches and leaves of a tree a layer of cells on the inside of the blastula a thorny stem or twig the largest wrist bone on the thumb side the fur of a rabbit vocal vibrato especially an excessive or poorly controlled one defensive measures designed to destroy attacking enemy aircraft or missiles or to nullify their effectiveness pungent powder or paste prepared from ground mustard seeds small order of basidiomycetous fungi having fleshy often globose fruiting bodies; includes puffballs and earthstars a condition in which overactivity of the sebaceous glands causes the skin to become oily any pigment producing the orange color the passive introduction of a substance (a fluid or drug or electrolyte) into a vein or between tissues (as by gravitational force) unsegmented worms: roundworms; threadworms; eelworms a solo tap dance emphasizing sharp taps common large Eurasian vole codling moths a genus of Megachiroptera large sheepdog with a profuse shaggy blue-gray-and-white coat and short tail; believed to trace back to Roman occupation of Britain the musical interval between adjacent keys on a keyboard instrument a competitor who holds a preeminent position the organization of a nation of the basis of communism the act of making meat tender by pounding or marinating it a person who differentiates a state of dishonor; 'one mistake brought shame to all his family'; 'suffered the ignominy of being sent to prison' sea spiders a public utility that provides telephone service a specially marked area within which a game is played; 'players had to reserve a court in advance' a blight of bean plants an imaginary place considered to be perfect or ideal rare north temperate bog orchid bearing a solitary white to pink flower marked with purple at the tip of an erect reddish stalk above 1 basal leaf protects the thigh a general term for aphasia that results from lesions outside of Broca's area or Wernicke's area of the cerebral cortex an instrument showing the angle that an aircraft makes with the horizon a large fungus of the family Helvellaceae the middle between extremes the ratio of the weight of an airplane to its wingspan a furnace that burns oil a dark green dye used as a stain, an antiseptic, a chemical indicator, and an antidote in cyanide poisoning a davenport with upright armrests ornamental tree with inedible fruits widely cultivated in many varieties for its white blossoms a fungus family of division Lichenes flatworm parasitic in liver and bile ducts of domestic animals and humans the first class in college or high school very large; to dry yourself after swimming (British) a trailer equipped with living quarters vein of the sacral region a written work (as a novel) that has been recast in a new form: 'the play is an adaptation of a short novel' an arrangement of sights that makes possible the rapid aiming of a firearm at short ranges sage grouse a warm tubular covering for the hands pinkish-brown hoopoe with black-and-white wings an arbitrary sign (written or printed) that has acquired a conventional significance an infection with a parasite of the genus Schistosoma; common in the tropics and Far East; symptoms depend on the part of the body infected a woman sahib deciduous subshrub of southeastern Asia having pinnate leaves and clusters of red or purple flowers; a source of indigo dye a burning piece of wood or cardboard; 'if you drop a match in there the whole place will explode' the outermost atmospheric layer the middle of the chief navigable channel of a waterway that forms the boundary line between states evergreen rhizomatous perennials of tropical America and Philippines and Indonesia power to influence or coerce; 'the puissance of the labor vote' the act of breaking away or withdrawing from: 'there was a breakaway by the discontented members'; 'a breaking away from family and neighborhood' thunderous verbal attack widely distributed evergreen or semi-evergreen shrublets; America; Europe and North Africa to Asia Minor and central Asia; includes plants often placed in genus Crocanthemum a shop that sells women's clothes and jewelry a lock of hair that has been artificially waved or curled the center around which something rotates annual or perennial herbs or subshrubs tuberculin (a derivative of tubercle bacillus) is injected intradermally; a red area appearing 1-3 days later signifies an exposure (past or present) to tubercle bacilli and the need for further testing general acceptance or use: 'the currency of ideas' exposing someone to laughter someone who operates a forge someone who is a very fierce fighter sliced assorted cold meats masonry made of stone the wife of a grand duke or a woman holding that rank in her own right the longest part of the alimentary canal; where digestion is completed the part of the Earth's surface forming a cap over a pole; characterized by frigid climate a cylindrical firework that projects a series of colored balls of fire flesh of any of a number of wild game birds suitable for food an acid containing only one replaceable hydrogen atom per molecule a clef that puts middle C on the third line of a staff a false boast that can harm others; especially a false claim to be married to someone (formerly actionable at law) a person who spreads malicious gossip beard worms an iron spike attached to the shoe to prevent slipping on ice when walking or climbing the work of a sailor the ossicle between the malleus and the stapes a legal document declaring a person's wishes regarding the disposal of their property when they die the ratio of the force exerted by a machine to the force applied to it the branch of the carotid artery that supplies blood to the brain and eyes and internal parts of the head stocky shaggy-coated North American carnivorous mammal flat metal base is heated and used to smooth cloth the Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by Francethe Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France an unaccented beat (especially the last beat of a measure) brownish Old World bunting often eaten as a delicacy tall Australian reedlike grass sometimes used for hay true flies; mosquitoes; gnats; crane flies strips of ginger root cooked in sugar syrup and coated with sugar someone in charge of training an athlete or a team any of numerous plants of the genus Convolvulus an employee who sacrifices his own individuality for the good of an organization temporal veins that empty into the pterygoid plexus type genus of the Auriculariaceae treatment of damaged or decaying trees the score in a bowling match terseness achieved by expressing a great deal in just a few words the furthest or highest degree of something; 'he carried it to extremes' extremely poisonous usually white fungus with a prominent cup-shaped base; differs from edible Agaricus only in its white gills shrew moles a buyout using borrowed money; the target company's assets are usually security for the loan a game show in which contestants answer questions a surface burn "a part of a part" showy perennial of marshlands of eastern and central North America having waxy lanceolate leaves and flower with lower part creamy white and upper parts pale pink to deep purple small genus of Old World weedy prostrate annuals: knawel a stiff flour pudding steamed or boiled usually containing e.g. currents and citron (classical mythology) a minor nature goddess usually depicted as a beautiful maiden; 'the ancient Greeks believed that nymphs inhabited forests and bodies of water' fungus causing yellow spot (a sugarcane disease in Australia) type genus of the Dacrymycetaceae: fungi with a bifurcate basidium that lacks septa Australian shrub having simple obovate leaves and brilliant scarlet flowers dust-like asexual spore of ferns; once thought to be seeds and to make the possessor invisible Chinese herb with palmately compound leaves and small greenish flowers and forked aromatic roots believed to have medicinal powers a business engaged in the manufacture of automobiles the property possessed by something or someone of outstanding importance a light-proof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other the univalent unsaturated organic radical C3H5; derived from propylene a flavoring made from (or imitating) lemons four people considered as a unit; 'he joined a barbershop quartet'; 'the foursome teed off before 9 a.m.' someone who has retired from active working the shovel or bucket of dredge or backhoe the act of joining things in such a way that motion is possible a canned field ration issued by the United States army the state (and responsibilities) of a person who has attained maturity a company that sells oil a form of capital punishment; victim is suspended by the neck from a gallows or gibbet until dead; 'in those days the hanging of criminals was a public entertainment' genus of tropical American orchids having showy male and female flowers usually on separate inflorescences internal organs collectively (especially those in the abdominal cavity) the property of being able to occupy less space the right in English law of presenting a nominee to a vacant ecclesiastical benefice a sleeve that extends in one piece to the neckline of a coat or sweater with seams from the armhole to the neck an instrument with a handle and a flexible lash that is used for whipping a heavy toxic silvery-white radioactive metallic element; occurs in many isotopes; used for nuclear fuels and nuclear weapons a tincture of opium or any preparation in which opium is the main ingredient the bark of a dog densely branched Eurasian plant; foliage turns purple-red in autumn a loud resonant repeating noise; 'he could hear the clang of distant bells' a tumor virus transmitted by leafhoppers a board that is pulled by a speedboat as a person stands on it and skims over the top of the water a strong downward air current edible European lobster resembling the American lobster but slenderer New Zealand tree with glossy leaves and scaly reddish-brown bark kangaroos; wallabies the ball first struck by the cue ball a crack on the inside of a horse's forefoot advanced bipedal carnivorous dinosaur a stool for piano players; usually adjustable in height any of several games played with small rectangular blocks the property of being strong and resolute a variable color averaging a vivid red a small light typewriter a mound of fatty tissue covering the pubic area in women the visual perception of space the part of the ear visible externally American breed of heavy-bodied brownish-red general-purpose chicken prostitution of talents or offices or services for reward the property possessed by a large mass bribery of a purchasing agent in order to induce the agent to enter into a transaction any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors reproduction by parents of different races (especially by white and non-white persons) a unit of pressure irrelevance by virtue of being inapplicable to the matter at hand a future prospect or potential; 'this room has great possibilities' any of various twining shrubs of the genus Argyreia having silvery leaves and showy purple flowers primitive genus of termites; mostly extinct; sometimes considered the most primitive Isoptera a earlier period in someone's life (especially one that they have reason to keep secret); 'reporters dug into the candidate's past' type genus of the family Peridiniidae an encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926; symptoms include paralysis of the extrinsic eye muscle and extreme muscular weakness an automatic reaction (architecture) a step or step-like projection on the top of a gable wall a supporter of the Confederate States of America "a public exhibition or entertainment; 'they wanted to see some of the shows on Broadway'" the act of scoring in a game or sport; 'the winning score came with less than a minute left to play' preoccupation with yourself to the exclusion of everything else a system of elements that interact on mechanical principles a unit of the US air force larger than a squadron and smaller than a wing a period of seven consecutive days starting on Sunday the quality of being unpleasant; 'I flinched at the nastiness of his wound' an actuarial table indicating life expectancy and probability of death as a function or age and sex and occupation etc inflammation of the eyelids characterized by redness and swelling and dried crusts a mechanism for transmitting motion by gears for some specific purpose (as the steering gear of a vehicle) the cognitive process of reaching a decision; 'a good executive must be good at decision making' a person authorized to conduct religious worship a layer in the stratosphere (at approximately 20 miles) that contains a concentration of ozone sufficient to block most ultraviolet radiation from the sun a practice session in preparation for a public performance of a play or speech or concert cormorants (biology) the species that best exemplifies the essential characteristics of the genus to which it belongs a face without any interpretable expression (as that of a good poker player) a policy designed to redress past discrimination against women and minority groups through measures to improve their economic and educational opportunities; 'affirmative action has been extremely controversial and was challenged in 1978 in the Bakke decision' nitrogen in a liquid state an extra boiler (as a ship's boiler that is used while the ship is in port) a dark band in the spectrum of white light that has been transmitted through a substance that exhibits absorption at selective wavelengths the bud of a rose a covering for the ankles the act of making something wet a heathen (especially a Muslim) a genus of Scolopacidae the pattern of syllable formation in a particular language strong reinforcing stitch for edges of blanket and other thick material; similar to buttonhole_stitch conceived or born during war a drug (trade name Pepcid) used to treat peptic ulcers and gastritis and esophageal reflux common European woodland flycatcher with grayish-brown plumage genus of small evergreen tropical and subtropocal American cycads hawks; Old World vultures; kites; harriers; eagles the noise of squawking; 'the squawk of car horns' a written order for the payment of a sum to a named individual; obtainable and payable at a post office anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny a Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man any covering for the body or a body part a colloidal extract of algae; used especially in culture media and as a gelling agent in foods someone makes things complex an engineer trained to design and construct and maintain public works (roads or bridges or harbors etc.) the presence of greater than normal amounts of fat in the feces which are frothy and foul smelling and floating; a symptom of disorders of fat metabolism and malabsorption syndrome a crystalline amino acid occurring naturally in sugar beets and sugar cane the responsible official at a mill that is under absentee ownership common shrub of the eastern United States with smooth bark someone who advises others how to invest their money something (usually a supporting document) that is enclosed in an envelope with a covering letter waxwings an announcer on television any political orientation favoring aggressive policies a crater on the Earth's moon the trait of being agreeably submissive and manageable the position and power of one who occupies a throne the direction in which the wind is blowing nonparticipation in a dispute or war a firearm having a flintlock type of gunlock Hungarian wine made from Tokay grapes a member of a North American Indian people living in the Sacramento valley in California the inner branch of the common iliac artery on either side of the body; divides into several branches that supply blood to the pelvic and gluteal areas a very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses; the most difficult gas to liquefy; occurs in economically extractable amounts in certain natural gases (as those found in Texas and Kansas) soles availability for use; 'the materials at the command of the potters grew' interlobular veins of the kidney; receive blood from the arcuate vein and empty into the renal veins a path for electrical current to flow mat-forming plant with deep pink flowers on short erect leafy stems; rocky places at high elevations from Oregon to California position 60 in a countable series of things shaking a person to determine whether a large amount of liquid is present in a body cavity poisonous crystalline alkaloid occurring with ephedrine and isomorphic with it a small telescope attached to a large telescope to use in setting the line of the larger one the act of damaging something or someone a uniformly warty stocky toad of washes and streams of semiarid southwestern United States one of the minute active bodies into which sporozoans divide in one stage of their life cycle (chemistry) the existence of different kinds of crystal of the same chemical compound a test to determine allergic sensitivity to various substances by applying them to scratches in the skin sauce for pasta; contains tomatoes and garlic and herbs "a commodity that enters competition with established merchandise; 'a well publicized entrant is the pocket computer'" a ship powered by a gas turbine the act of stylizing; causing to conform to a particular style a false statement trademarked tv prompting device type genus of family Lophiidae a resident of Iowa the act of compiling (as into a single book or file or list); 'the job of compiling the inventory took several hours' a manservant (usually the head servant of a household) who has charge of wines and the table a slot (usually in a door) through which mail can be delivered the finishing line for a foot race; 'he broke the tape in record time' the part of a modern theater stage between the curtain and the orchestra (ie, in front of the curtain) a group of animal DNA viruses including viruses of ducks and woodchucks and squirrels and others as well as the virus causing hepatitis B in humans past events to be put aside; 'let bygones be bygones' a devotional watch (especially on the eve of a religious festival) small tree of China and Japan bearing large yellow to red plums usually somewhat inferior to European plums in flavor terrestrial ferns of tropical Asia and Africa something that hinders as if with bonds the intersection of a railway and a road on the same level; barriers close road when trains pass (informal) a woman who sings popular songs laborious cogitation a blow that renders the opponent unconscious a genus of Istiophoridae especially fine or decorative clothing an expressway in a German-speaking country any of various ornamental evergreens of the genus Lomatia having attractive fragrant flowers sessile marine coelenterates including solitary and colonial polyps; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed edible tropical and warm-water prawn a brimless Scottish cap with a flat top American woodland mouse with white feet and underparts (music) a tremulous effect produced by rapid repetition of a single tone or rapid alternation of two tones smaller in amount or degree: 'the less I see of you the better'; 'people have lost their heads for less' the art of flying airplane boas of western North America fiddle-shaped someone receiving intensive training for a naval technical rating a writing system using picture symbols; used in ancient Egypt a wingless sterile ant or termite having a large head and powerful jaws adapted for defending the colony cosmopolitan in temperate regions except North America any of several rough-skinned newts found in western North America an abnormally egotistical person someone skilled in weaving baskets the dignity or rank or position of a duke persuasion of voters in a political campaign a colloidal preparation of protein (albumin or gelatin) and silver oxide; used in aqueous solution as an antibacterial agent small European owl the relation between an anaphor and its antecedent "the substance of the body" image is transferred from a relief type plate to a roller a Spanish title of respect for a man; equivalent to English 'Mr' a utensil with a conical ridged center that is used for squeezing juice from citrus fruit any activity that is performed in an especially solemn elaborate or formal way; 'the ceremony of smelling the cork and tasting the wine'; 'he makes a ceremony of addressing his golf ball'; 'he disposed of it without ceremony' form class; coextensive with subdivision Deuteromycota something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares; 'the exam was full of trap questions'; 'it was all a snare and delusion' a source of scopolomine one of the paired abdominal appendages of certain aquatic crustaceans that function primarily for carrying the eggs in females and are usually adapted for swimming advancing as if in the game of leapfrog cause of Lyme disease; transmitted primarily by ticks of genus Ixodes paper that is poisoned or coated with a sticky substance to kill flies a routine that can call itself large hare introduced in North America; does not turn white in winter a state or atmosphere of harmony or mutual civility and respect an alphabet used by the deaf; letters are represented by finger positions capacity or power to produce a desired effect order of imperfect fungi lacking conidiophores of having conidiophores that are superficial and not enclosed in a pycnidium used to follow the path of a celestial body and reflect its light into a telescope; has a movable and a fixed mirror genus of mainly American more-or-less succulent herbs outer membrane enclosing the embryo in higher vertebrates (reptiles; birds; mammals) "the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located): 'a good site for the school'" a declaration that is made as if no supporting evidence were necessary a lightweight jacket worn over bedclothes (as when sitting in bed) one having power to influence another: 'she was the most important influence in my life'; 'he was a bad influence on the chldren' a table (in a restaurant or bar) surrounded by two high-backed benches substituting metonymy of one figurative sense for another the property of being easily bent without breaking a United States liquid unit equal to 16 fluid ounces; two pints equal one quart the practice of cooperating: 'economic cooperation'; 'they agreed on a policy of cooperation' an algorithmic language having statements that resemble algebraic expressions any family of amphibians a cut of beef from the sirloin upright deciduous European shrub widely naturalized in United States having clusters of juicy berries fungal infection of the groin (most common in men) an internal-combustion engine that burns heavy oil a sweet innocent mild-mannered person (especially a child) the number by which a multiplicand is multiplied a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; 'there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field' a tool for driving something with force an affix that added in front of the word the position of the cabinet minister who is in charge of government affairs people elected or appointed to administer a government a cord or chain (often bearing gems) worn about the neck as an ornament (especially by women) water bugs type genus of the Zapodidae "a public display of a (usually written) message; 'he posted signs in all the shop windows'" a statistical compilation that provides a context for economic or financial conditions; 'this business index is computed relative to the base year of 1995' (in England) a suit or dress for formal occasions aromatic West Indian tree that produces allspice berries an alloy similar to pewter "one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided" leather from the skin of swine Eurasian checkered lily with pendant flowers usually veined and checkered with purple or maroon on a pale ground and shaped like the bells carried by lepers in medieval times; widely grown as an ornamental larva of a lappet moth female homosexuality a file of mug shots (pictures of criminals that are kept on file by the police) "the state of a person's cognitive processes" small family comprising the electric eels individual serving of minced e.g. meat or fish in a rich creamy sauce baked in a small pastry mold or timbale shell someone who uses a divining rod to find underground water the moral principle that behavior should be determined by duty the second presentation of a bill in a legislature; to approve its general principles (Britain) or to discuss a committee's report and take a vote (US) "a substance that exerts some force or effect" a bank gaining financial control over another financial institution through a payment in cash or an exchange of stock finding a solution to a problem a long race run over open country a strong fabric used for mattress and pillow covers cell division in which the nucleus divides into nuclei containing the same number of chromosomes American nocturnal goatsucker with gray-and-white plumage the inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle a dealer in books; a merchant who sells books a bowl for holding breakfast cereal a wide scarf worn about their shoulders by women satisfaction with your (or another's) achievements; 'he takes pride in his son's success' a neutral middle vowel; occurs in unstressed syllables where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence; 'the birthplace of civilization' the measurement of viscosity nocturnal beetle common in warm regions having luminescent abdominal organs a colorless flammable gas used chiefly in welding and in organic synthesis a lustrous gray strong metallic element resembling titanium; it is used in nuclear reactors as a neutron absorber; it occurs in baddeleyite but is obtained chiefly from zircon a memory image that is similar to a visual perception the quality of being contrary to fact oat of southern Europe and southwestern Asia "a region in which military operations are in progress; 'the army was in the field awaiting action'" a demand for a show of hands in a card game; 'after two raises there was a call' European annual grass often found as a weed in waste ground especially along roadsides and hedgerows a plastic containing resins acts which the law requires be done or forborne a member of the people of Kashmir a monarchy with a king or queen as head of state price charged for goods picked up at the factory small stocky diving bird without webbed feet; frequents fast-flowing streams and feeds along the bottom fine woodwork done by a joiner withdrawal for prayer and study and meditation; 'a religous retreat' the branch of mechanics that deals with the motion of gases (especially air) and their effects on bodies in the flow a diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel in German to indicate a change in sound working as a substitute for someone who is ill or on leave of absence fancy was held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than imagination a small hole (usually round and finished around the edges) in cloth or leather for the passage of a cord a color television tube in which three primary colors are combined to give the full range of colors characterized by one unified purpose French or Italian bread sliced and spread with garlic butter then crisped in the oven a person suffering from syphilis an employer who exploits Italian immigrants in the U.S. a removable dental appliance that is worn in the palate for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes a garden featuring rocks; usually alpine plants a league of hockey teams tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites washing out a hollow organ (especially the stomach) by flushing with water a show in which the actors are puppets the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church of Scotland an essential oil obtained from the leaves of eucalypts inflammation of the skin a person who has religious faith nowhere to be found in a giant void; 'it vanished into thin air' soft unsegmented marine worms having a threadlike proboscis and the ability to stretch and contract an act of hindering someone's plans or efforts uncertainty about the truth or factuality of existence of something; 'the dubiousness of his claim'; 'there is no question about the validity of the enterprise' Old World boas a trail for horses extinct flightless bird of New Zealand articles of the same kind or material; usually used in combination: silverware; software "a building material consisting of thin strips of wood that provide a foundation for a coat of plaster" the domain of a suzerain a feeling of great happiness a family of plants a spiritual leader of the Christian Church a pocket in a garment (usually below the waist) to which access is provided by a vertical or diagonal slit in the outside of the garment the quality or state of having merit or value a small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint any of numerous plants of the genus Capparis a certificate of deposit from which withdrawals can be made only after advance notice or at a specified future date measure sensitivity of hearing any of various tropical lianas of the genus Scindapsus viscid herb of arid or desert habitats of southwestern United States having pendulous yellow flowers a linear unit of measurement (equal to 6 feet) for water depth a second confirming signature endorsing a document already signed a form of all fours in which the players bid for the privilege of naming trumps an office that finds suitable employment for applicants small bulb or bulb-shaped growth arising from the leaf axil or in the place of flowers care and treatment of a convalescent patient slender tactile process on the jaws of a fish a ballot cast by a voter who votes for candidates from more than one party a vacant lot used by city boys to play games an East Indian sailor a genus of fern sometimes placed in its own family Azollaceae an expression of regret at having caused trouble for someone; 'he wrote a letter of apology to the hostess' white sauce with whipping cream and shrimp butter box turtles a complex of beliefs and values and customs including worship of many gods especially the Trimurti composed of Brahma the Creator; Vishnu the preserver; and Shiva the destroyer putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house a sudden involuntary movement: 'he awoke with a start' small butterflies having striped markings under the wings a thick chowder made with clams and potatoes and onions and salt pork and milk veins passing from the scrotum to the pudendal veins largest carnivore of Madagascar; intermediate in some respects between cats and civets sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound); 'he enjoyed the street noises'; 'they heard indistinct noises of people talking' (in horse racing) a finish in second place a definition that reports the standard uses of a word or phrase or symbol trumpetfishes a religious holiday for Jews a commissioned officer with combat units (not a staff officer or a supply officer) a native or inhabitant of Vietnam plant with an elongated celery-like head of broad stalked leaves used as a vegetable in east Asia someone who is no longer alive; 'I wonder what the dead person would have done' a hard nonresilient rubber formed by vulcanizing natural rubber a person motivated by irrational enthusiasm (as for a cause) a program that gives a computer instructions that provide the user with tools to accomplish a task; 'he has tried several different word processing applications' the common people at a local level (as distinguished from the centers of political activity) pancake batter baked in a waffle iron the position of the head of the State Department; 'the position of Secretary of State was established in 1789' a act of describing something male peafowl; having a crested head and very large fanlike tail marked with iridescent eyes or spots the 50th wedding anniversary area reserved for persons leading the responsive amens in some classifications considered a suborder of Carnivora small to medium-sized thorny tree of tropical Asia and northern Australia having dense clusters of scarlet or crimson flowers and black seeds type genus of the Ambystomatidae a native or inhabitant of Ghana the use of radio to send telegraphic messages (usually by Morse code) a radar that is part of an early warning system a residential district occupied primarily with tenement houses a short labored intake of breath with the mouth open; 'she gave a gasp and fainted' a knot uniting the ends of two lines a short pornographic film shown in a small coin-operated booth African antelopes: sassabies an area that is approximately central within some larger region; 'it is in the center of town'; 'they ran forward into the heart of the struggle'; 'they were in the eye of the storm' a friction clutch that will slip with the torque is too great any of several ganglia that seem to be involved in the regulation of voluntary movement any of numerous cultivated plants of the genus Delphinium a state of misfortune or affliction: 'debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity'; 'a life of hardship' a small imperfect pearl a transparent paper-like product that is impervious to moisture and used to wrap candy or cigarettes etc. the quality of being inconsistent and lacking a harmonious uniformity among things or parts amaryllis of tropical America often cultivated as a houseplant for its showy white to red flowers "a group of persons who are engaged in a common activity; 'platoons of tourists poured out of the busses'; 'the defensive platoon of the football team'" a member of a European light cavalry unit; renowned for elegant dress a girl attending school wild dove of the United States having a mournful call coloring serving to as natural camouflage a gasteromycete with a leathery stalk and a fruiting body that is globose and has a pale yellow spore case a square matrix with all off-diagonal elements equal to zero right to obtain a writ of habeas corpus as protection against illegal imprisonment foil made of gold a person in a kneeling position compulsory force or threat; 'confessed under duress' any of various English folk dances performed by men in costume (in India and Burma) a member of an armed gang of robbers housing in a large building that is divided into separate units; 'there is a block of classrooms in the west wing' extinct flightless bird related to the dodo any of various kelps esp. of the genus Laminaria a long-haired dog formerly trained to crouch on finding game but now to point the peak of a hill; 'the sun set behind the brow of distant hills' a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Athapaskan language and living in the subarctic regions of western Canada and central Alaska flowering shrubs or trees having bright yellow flowers; all parts of the plant are poisonous a government that undertakes responsibility for the welfare of its citizens through programs in public health and public housing and pensions and unemployment compensation etc. a kind of pink beryl used as a gemstone a portable drill with a plate that is pressed against the chest to force the drill point into the work influenza caused by the Asian virus that was first isolated in 1957 type genus of the Latimeridae: coelacanth an evergreen shrub position five in a countable series of things; 'he was fifth out of several hundred runners' a commercial bribe paid by a seller to a purchasing agent in order to induce the agent to enter into the transaction empties into the external iliac vein act of expanding in scope; making more widely available: 'extension of the program to all in need' 1 species; a dwarf creeping mat-forming evergreen herb a highly vascular membrane in the eye between the retina and the sclera an artificial plant resembling a bonsai "the aggregation of a country's military aircraft" a woman assemblyman family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs a freedom from financial difficulty that promotes a comfortable state: 'a life of luxury and ease'; 'he had all the material comforts of this world' a feeling of excessive concern hairlike structure especially on the surface of a cell or microorganism any plant of the genus Hoya having fleshy leaves and usually nectariferous flowers a bond issued by a state or local government a serving to each of a group (usually alcoholic); 'he ordered a second round' all rows of knit stitches a Portuguese title of respect; equivalent to English 'Mr' food of a ruminant regurgitated to be chewed again anemia resulting from destruction of erythrocytes meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean) a black sausage containing pig's blood and other ingredients a person who likes to join groups abnormal softening of bones caused by deficiencies of phosphorus or calcium or vitamin D a blue-black plant pigment having a blue-green alcohol solution a round bun shaped to hold a hamburger patty deliberate vagueness or ambiguity a brass instrument consisting of a long tube whose length can be varied by a U-shaped slide one of the first temporary teeth of a young mammal a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female the territorial and administrative division of some countries (such as France) marine colonial hydrozoans dishcloth gourds a meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed: 'a banquet for the graduating seniors'; 'the Thanksgiving feast' a perfumed oil or ointment for the hair a resource provided by the mind or one's personal capabilities: 'to have resource against loneliness' a public act of violence by an unruly mob the chairman of the board of directors of a corporation North American cordgrass having leaves with dry membranous margins and glumes with long awns bread containing caraway seeds an anthropologist who studies such cultural phenomena as kinship systems a machine (outside some banks) that dispenses cash when a personal coded card is used any occupant who dwells in a place a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata; 'the second movement is slow and melodic' type genus of Chlorococcales; unicellular green algae occurring singly or in a layer on soil or damp rock a beggar who approaches strangers asking for money a small informal restaurant; serves wine a person having kinship with another or others; 'he's kin'; 'he's family' sails a yacht a fictitious name used when the person performs a particular social role a simple small knot (often used as part of other knots) a gloomy ill-tempered feeling someone who flees from an uncongenial situation; 'fugitives from the seatshops' (astronomy) the plane on which a body is orbiting a loose dress designed to be worn in bed by women a genus of ferns belonging to the family Polypodiaceae (in some classification systems included in genus Asplenium) robber flies a standing subway or bus passenger who grips a hanging strap for support a circuit consisting of two branches (4 arms arranged in a diamond configuration) across which a meter is connected a church endowment a maker and seller of fashionable clothing small genus of perennial herbs having rhizomes and palmate leaves and small solitary flowers; of northeastern United States and Japan a device for treating injury or disease an occurrence of control or strength weakening; 'the relaxation of requirements': 'the loosening of his grip'; 'the slackening of the wind' the trait of practicing self discipline a filthy run-down dilapidated place of western North America; male is black and yellow and orange-red the manner of construction of something and the disposition of its parts; 'artists must study the structure of the human body'; 'the architecture of a computer's system software' ship with a fore-and-aft rig a low evergreen shrub with small purple flowers and black berrylike fruit dull and pompous gravity the act of robbing a helpless person; 'he was charged with rolling drunks in the park' someone who skates insect that in the adult state has four wings more or less covered with tiny scales comprising solely the aye-aye an energetic style someone who teaches music the quality of having great facility and competence follower of Lutheranism evergreen shrubs of Australia and Tasmania common Indian weaverbird type genus of Peripatidae; onychophorans of chiefly New World tropical regions the quality of not conforming to fact or truth small low-growing annual or perennial herbs of temperate and cool regions kidney-shaped a hormone secreted by the adrenal medulla in response to stress (trade name Adrenalin); stimulates autonomic nerve action kept down by unjust use of force or authority: 'the tyrant's oppression of the people' English breed of strong stocky dog having a broad skull and smooth coat the branch of zoology that studies mammals a star in a television show an individuals prescribed share of work: 'her stint as a lifeguard exhausted her' fighting with knives the quality of being free from change or variation a long strip of inked material for making characters on paper with a typewriter type genus of the Helotiaceae a condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry; 'in a hurry to lock the door' North American deciduous shrub cultivated for it abundant clusters of coral-red berrylike fruits toothed frogs: terrestrial or aquatic or arboreal one of the long curved tail feathers of a rooster a belief in the importance of the individual and the virtue of self-reliance and personal independence the body of electors who formally elect the US president and vice-president someone who speaks with involuntary pauses and repetitions a trust that gives the trustee discretion to pay the beneficiary as much of the trust income as the trustee believes appropriate shrub or small tree of New Zealand and Chile having pendulous racemes of tubular golden-yellow flowers; yields a hard strong wood a large outdoor fire soup made from a calf's head or other meat in imitation of green turtle soup cuts at right angles to the grain (or major axis) the 15th letter of the Hebrew alphabet a bundle of sensory nerve fibers going to the thalamus any of various thick-rinded fruits of the gourd family with edible yellow to orange flesh that mature in the fall and can be stored for several months a judgment of the logistic support required for some particular military operation a shade of pink tinged with yellow large genus of terrestrial ferns of tropics and subtropics; sometimes placed in family Polypodiaceae total destruction; 'bomb tests resulted in the annihilation of the atoll' a small bag for traveling overnight supports climbing plants a security that makes no interest payments but instead is sold at a deep discount from its face value a penetration of an enemy's defense in depth and strength the process of taking in and expelling air during breathing; 'he took a deep breath and dived into the pool'; 'he was fighting to his last breath' any of various plants of the genus Agapanthus having umbels of showy blue to purple flowers a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food North American bamboo a garment closure (zipper or buttons) concealed by a fold of cloth the mast next above the foremast a modern Russian triumvirate "any substance that adulterates (lessens the purity or effectiveness of a substance); 'it is necessary to remove the adulterants before use'" a person who is of equal standing with another in a group a common iris of the eastern United States having blue or blue-violet flowers; root formerly used medicinally a dark cloud of great vertical extent charged with electricity; associated with thunderstorms used in some classifications for the family Hypocreaceae an ornamental design made of strips of wood or metal any of various fruit bats of the genus Nyctimene distinguished by nostrils drawn out into diverging tubes a mechanical device that blows air onto a fire to make it burn more fiercely another word for person; a person not meriting identification; 'a strange personage appeared at the door' a resident of New York a sharp-pointed tool for marking wood or metal to be cut an open shaft through the floors of a building (as for a stairway) a takeover that is welcomed by the management of the target company "group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent" spongy rubber; made by introducing air bubbles before vulcanization undisputed credibility a Roman Catholic who is a strong advocate of the papacy large agile arboreal monkey with long limbs and tail and white upper eyelids a genus of Decapoda an edible jelly (sweet or pungent) made with gelatin and used as a dessert or salad base or a coating for foods (British) a greengrocer's shop the act of comprising something a performance of a drama someone who travels on foot by running a genus of Anatidae an annulment of a marriage mallee fowl used as a leaven in baking and brewing a 60/40 alloy of copper and nickel several small veins from the pericardium a folding stool a perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened); 'he showed signs of strain'; 'they welcomed the signs of spring' a position on a basketball team a genus of fungi belonging to the family Secotiaceae; they resemble boletes but the spores are not discharged from the basidium grampus a rhymed couplet that forms a complete syntactic unit young bird not yet fledged inhabits both coasts of tropical Atlantic a coarse fabric, usually of straw or hemp a list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting) sandarac tree gram-positive rod-shaped bacteria that produce lactic acid esp. in milk the act of adjusting or aligning the parts of a device in relation to each other a mythical monster having the head of man (with horns) and the body of a lion and the tail of a scorpion a Roman Catholic system of casuistry that when expert opinions differ an actor can follow any solidly probable opinion that he wishes even though some different opinion might be more probable the act of managing something; 'he was given overall management of the program'; 'is the direction of the economy a function of government?' any of the scrolled spongy bones of the nasal passages in man and other vertebrates rations issued for United States troops in the field a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention the act of singing psalms or hymns the stem of various climbing palms of the genus Calamus and related genera used to make wickerwork and furniture and canes plant with bright red tubular flowers in long narrow clusters near tips of erect stems; coastal ranges from central California southward a difficult or awkward situation; 'his back was to the wall'; 'competition was pushing them to the wall' a project of personal concern to someone; 'this project is his baby' unit of mass for expressing masses of atoms or molecules (genetics) one of two principles of heredity formulated by Gregor Mendel on the basis of his experiments with plants; the principles were limited and modified by subsequent genetic research a metal conductor that carries electricity over a distance monkeys; apes; hominids a counter at a large party where you can purchase drinks by the glass a bell hung round the neck of a sheep so that the sheep can be easily located a fine-grained fertile soil deposited by water flowing over flood plains or in river beds meat from a mature domestic sheep type genus of the Ameiuridae: bullhead catfishes a stone tool from the Neolithic Age anesthesia of an area supplied by a nerve; produced by an anesthetic agent applied to the nerve a dark purplish red to blackish red any inadvertent infection of humans by an animal pathogen the position of council member inflammation of the sheath surrounding a tendon a honey-colored edible mushroom commonly associated with the roots of trees in late summer and fall; do not eat raw a species of Gram-negative aerobic bacteria that produce gas and acid from sugars and are sometimes involved in the souring of milk chemical process in which one atom or ion or group changes places with another long bean pods always sliced into half-inch lengths; a favorite in Britain a temporary fortification built by troops in the field a thin plain-weave cotton or linen fabric; used for shirts or dresses common aquatic plant of eastern North America having floating and submerged leaves and white yellow-spotted flowers blasphemous behavior an expression of grievance or resentment a bottle that holds beer popular aquarium fish someone who skates on a skateboard someone who breaks a record a man who is engaged to be married line of descent traced through the paternal side of the family small region of cytoplasm adjacent to the nucleus; contains the centrioles and serves to organize the microtubules a ladle that has a cup with a long handle African antelope with ridged curved horns; moves with enormous leaps the quality or nature of being harmful or evil a very strong drive resulting from oxygen deficiency in bodily tissues (short of anoxia) succulent shrubs and herbs wrong use or application characterized by destruction of both epidermis and dermis any of various sprouted beans: especially mung beans or lentils or edible soybeans a disinclination to work or exert yourself "people (or countries) who are not aligned with other people (or countries) in a pact or treaty" the rays of the sun; 'the shingles were weathered by the sun and wind' a clergyman who watches over a group of people the feeling of lively and cheerful joy; 'he could hardly conceal his excitement when she agreed' a constituent part of any structure or building a small slip noose made with seizing a female checker a slap with the flat of the hand a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural); 'he mastered the rudiments of geometry' a roofing tile with a S-shape; laid so that curves overlap a mask covering the upper part of the face but with holes for the eyes alternative classification for some genera included in Potamogetonaceae; one species a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind sclerosis of the arterial walls a holy war by Muslims against unbelievers fanatical patriotism a smooth curve fitted to the set of paired data in regression analysis; for linear regression the curve is a straight line the phenomenon of spontaneous changes in the nucleus of an atom (spaceflight) a trajectory that passes close to a planetary body in order to gain energy from its gravitational field an orator who can hold his listeners spellbound erect annual herb with oval leaves and pink flowers; used to flavor e.g. meats or soups or salads; southeastern Europe and naturalized elsewhere the study of methods of improving genetic qualities by selective breeding (especially as applied to human mating) a machine that tools or polishes metal the existing state of affairs North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil a Gothic style in 14th and 15th century England; characterized by vertical lines, a four-centered (Tudor) arch, fan vaulting a trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs with yttrium increase in velocity the dried stalks and leaves of a field crop (especially corn) used as animal fodder after the grain has been harvested a port in China or Korea or Japan that once was open to foreign trade on the basis of a trading treaty a milky substance found in certain cancerous growths a curl of hair made by dampening a strand of hair and curling it and holding the curl with a clip or bobby pin a physicist who applies the methods of physics to biology a device that makes grooves by cutting or punching transferring ownership someone who prefers negotiations to armed conflict in the conduct of foreign relations having the first and second toes of each foot directed backward and the third and fourth forward a stroke of the oar that either misses the water or digs too deeply; 'he caught a crab and lost the race' the tastes in art and manners that are favored by a social group a counter where you can purchase food or drink frangipani of India having an erect habit and conical form; grown in temple gardens an organization of military air forces any of numerous large Old Wold hawks intermediate in some respects between typical hawks and typical eagles any of various cultivated cabbage plants having a short thick stalk and large compact head of edible usually green leaves something that protects from direct sunlight dead and rotting flesh; unfit for human food absence of the head (as in the development of some monsters) tropical American trees: tonka beans a decorative toecap having a point extending toward the throat of the shoe a decimal unit of weight based on the gram the longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code 1 genus a device used to detect and measure light and other radiations Eastern United States plant with whorls of blue-and-white flowers chicken cooked and served in a casserole a nerve plexus formed by the 4th and 5th lumbar and 1st, 2nd, 3rd sacral nerves; supplies the pelvic region and lower limbs a genus of Parulidae a long loud emotional utterance; 'he gave a howl of pain'; 'howls of laughter'; 'their howling had no effect' hard or painful trouble or struggle: 'a country in the throes of economic collapse' a device that, on receiving radar signals, transmits coded signals in response to help navigators determine their position a mixture of substances having a minimum melting point an administrative division of a county; 'the town is responsible for snow removal' the state of being polluted the key on an electric typewriter that causes a tabulation a member of the Siouan people formerly living in the western Dakotas; the were prominent in resisting the white encroachment into the N Great Plains arborescent cactus of western Mexico bearing a small oblong edible berrylike fruit the group or radical of acetic acid the second half of the menstrual cycle after ovulation; the corpus luteum secretes progesterone which prepares the endometrium for the implantation of an embryo; if fertilization does not occur then menstrual flow begins the pitch range of the highest male voice the potential space between layers of the pleura behavior befitting a young maiden the continuous flow of ideas and feelings that constitute an individual's conscious experience North American yellow-breasted songbirds a stroke of luck grasses of the genera Alopecurus and Setaria having dense silky or bristly brushlike flowering spikes reading superficially or at random "position or manner in which something is situated" someone who is paid to admit only those who have purchase tickets tobacco thrips any wrapper or covering brittle stars juxtaposing words having a common derivation (as in 'sense and sensibility') a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem a medication capable of destroying or expelling parasitic intestinal worms a leukocyte readily stained with eosin wind blowing across the path or a ship or aircraft an exercising weight; two spheres connected by a short bar that serves as a handle short hairy perennial with early spring blue-violet or lilac flowers; North America and Siberia the flues and stops on a pipe organ a female fool the detachment of a person from their regular organization for temporary assignment elsewhere a teacher who is paid to cram students for examinations gloomy semidarkness caused by cloud cover something that should remain hidden from others (especially information that is not to be passed on); 'the combination to the safe was a secret'; 'he tried to keep his drinking a secret' type genus of the Loranthaceae: 1 species a decorative accompaniment (often improvised) added above a basic melody a clear appearance; 'a manifestation of great emotion' a feather covering the shoulder of a bird any of various widely distributed beetles the serous fluid in which the embryo is suspended inside the amnion; 'before a woman gives birth her waters break' American swift that nests in e.g. unused chimneys the quality of being predictable with great confidence a bottle for holding soft drinks brightly colored beetle that feeds on plant leaves; larvae infest roots and stems increased pressure in the eyeball causes damage to the optic disc and impaired vision (sometimes progressing to blindness) reddish or black juice or resin from certain trees of the genus Pterocarpus and used in medicine and tanning etc (slang) a packet of narcotics a nerve plexus lying beneath the sternocleidomastoid muscle a flexible rodlike structure that forms the supporting axis of the body in the lowest chordates and lowest vertebrates and in embryos of higher vertebrates found in still or slow-moving fresh or brackish water; useful oxygenator for cool water ponds and aquaria a unit of length equal to half of 1 mile the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal); 'the policeman on the beat got credit for the collar' typical shipworm eastern North American sapsucker having a pale yellow abdomen the usual activities in your day; 'the doctor made his rounds' the activity or result of distributing or disposing persons or things properly or methodically; 'in this new organization the container is much smaller' a vessel in which the consecrated Host is exposed for adoration an act that incriminates someone on a false charge a network of tiny blood vessels between the cerebral surface of the pia mater and the cerebral cortex a tropical flowering shrub having bright orange or red flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana a piece of furniture used for a writing desk a person who is owned by someone a writer who composes speeches for others to deliver a short thin stick of wood used in making matches a genus of fungus belonging to the family Tricholomataceae the 5th letter of the Hebrew alphabet perennial herb of eastern North America, having red flowers with narrow notched petals small brownish-gray warbler with a black crown edible tuberous root of various yam plants of the genus Dioscorea grown in the tropics world-wide for food clothing for the head the profession of reporting or photographing or editing news stories for one of the media a basic antibiotic derived from a soil actinomycete mostly tropical trees and shrubs and lianas: ginseng; hedera a mineral consisting of manganese tetroxide; a source of manganese the property of having a melody a long monotonous harangue a measure of a child's development (in body size or motor skill or psychological function) expressed in terms of age norms an ambiguous grammatical construction; 'they are flying planes' a universally mounted spinning wheel that offers resistance to turns in any direction "the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract; 'a singer takes good care of his voice'; 'the giraffe cannot make any vocalizations'" an infinite quantity having 2 or 3 lenses with wide aperture for use in microscopes a blanket containing and electric heating element that can be controlled to the desired temperature by a rheostat inflammation of the foreskin of the penis; usually caused by bacterial infection a food mixer powered by an electric motor intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings) an behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual a large unpleasant woman an antibiotic obtained from an actinomycete and used (as a sulphate) as an intestinal antiseptic in surgery (formerly) a British infantryman armed with a light flintlock musket the 2nd cervical vertebra; serves as a pivot for turning the head a superiority in numbers a harsh mixture of sounds the act of signalling (e.g., summoning) by whistling or blowing a whistle; 'the whistle signalled the end of the game' a pause during which things are calm or activities are diminished; 'there was never a letup in the noise' the section of a band or orchestra that plays percussion instruments an effort to minimize or curtail damage or loss a book containing sheets of paper on which sketches can be drawn a witty comment or writing an agaric with a pallid cap and a stalk that is enlarged near the base mental infirmity as a consequence of old age; sometimes shown by foolish infatuations an Eskimo summer dwelling cud-chewing mammal used as a draft or saddle animal in desert regions European tree bearing edible small speckled brown fruit phalangers; koalas tropical American timber tree with dark hard heavy wood and small plumlike purple fruit any of several small dull-colored singing birds feeding on seeds or insects a superstructure on the upper deck of a ship the act of killing; 'he had two deaths on his conscience' smooth-leaved kale a message transmitted by means of the sun's rays man with strong sexual desires a printer's error; to be corrected the process whereby changes in the current flow in a circuit produce magnetism or an EMF a laborer who digs any plant of the genus Xeranthemum native to southern Europe having chaffy or silvery flower heads with purplish tubular flowers the study of the operation of factors causing degeneration in the type of offspring produced the act of gouging fast-growing round-headed tree with fragrant white to deep rose flowers; planted as an ornamental British slang for prison air pollution by a mixture of smoke and fog South American bean having very long succulent pods a band of musicians who play rock-'n'-roll music a vaguely specified social event; 'the party was quite an affair' a stinkhorn of genus Pseudocolus; the fruiting body first resembles a small puffball that soon splits open to form a stalk with tapering arms that arch and taper to a common point a flashing light synchronized with the periodic movement of an object makes it appear stationary the act of beginning something new; 'they looked forward to the debut of their new product line' a showy decoration that is basically valueless; 'all the tinsel of self-promotion' in some classifications includes Lobeliaciae rootless carnivorous swamp plants having at the base of the stem a rosette of foliage and trap-leaves consisting of slender tubes swollen in the middle; each tube passes into two long spirally twisted arms with stiff hairs Prostrate perennial of coastal sand dunes Florida to Texas genus of perennial North American herbs with aromatic usually cormous roots "articles of commerce" an innkeeper (especially British) removes mist from the windshield of a car foolish or senseless behavior a group of minerals with similar crystal structures containing a silicate chain and combinations of chiefly sodium and calcium and magnesium and iron and aluminum an attempt to take control of a corporation a system of writing or printing using patterns of raised dots that can be read by touch a space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane); 'he booked their seats in advance'; 'he sat in someone else's place' a parent of your father or mother meaningless syllables in the refrain of a part-song common North American weed with linear leaves and small discoid heads of yellowish flowers; widely naturalized throughout temperate regions; sometimes placed in genus Erigeron a silvery-white color (criminal law) money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial; 'the judge set bail at 10,000'; 'a 10,000 bond was furnished by an alderman' an azure blue semiprecious stone (medicine) someone who gives blood or tissue or an organ to be used in another person "the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time; 'the present international situation is dangerous'; 'wondered how such a state of affairs had come about'; 'eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation'- Franklin D.Roosevelt" an obstacle to attention Old World snipe larger and darker than the whole snipe lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing neutering a female by removing the ovaries the act of apportioning or distributing something; 'the captain was entrusted with the deal of provisions' an article of clothing (garment or shoe) that is easily slipped on or off "one of the natural units into which linguistic messages can be analyzed" disgrace or shame; 'he brought reproach upon his family' 100 kurus equal 1 lira a point or extent in space the top of the head a state of clinical depression in which the individual is lethargic and slow to initiate action (trademark) a thermosetting plastic used as electric insulators and for making plastic ware and telephone receivers etc. the childhood of a girl the state of inactivity following an interruption; 'the negotiations were in arrest'; 'held them in check'; 'during the halt he got some lunch'; 'he spent the entire stay in his room' genus of deciduous trees and shrubs of tropical Africa and Asia a pointed arch; usually has a joint (instead of a keystone) at the apex cookie-sized candy made of brown sugar and butter and pecans small extremely elongate earth-living centipedes East Indian shrub cultivated especially for ornament for its pale yellow to deep purple blossoms a board game in which players try to move their pieces into their opponent's bases a general interest that leads people to want to know more; 'She was the center of attention' the quality of not being safe a genus of Gempylidae a plain hand-drawn letter widely distributed in rugged ground of eastern United States a representation of an abstract idea in concrete terms a federation of tribes (especially native American tribes); 'the Shawnee nation' large 5-needled European pine; yields cembra nuts and a resinous exudate a solitary burrowing short-tongued bee oblong cream puff an overcrowded residential area "(physics and chemistry) the simplest structural unit of an element or compound" something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease a light creamy dessert set with gelatin the period between birth and the present time; 'I have known him all his life' clarified butter used in Indian cookery a prescription drug that is provided again; 'he got a refill of his prescription' lettuce and crabmeat dressed with sauce Louis a form of mercury poisoning among people who ate fish from mercury-contaminated waters of Minamata Bay off Japan in the 1950s; characterized by severe neurological degeneration the work of caring for the sick or injured or infirm water rats "a sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures)" a square dance figure; partners circle each other taking sideways steps worn around the wrist for decoration small meat pie or turnover a fixed line on a ship's compass indicating its heading the eldest daughter of a British sovereign the practice of scrupulous adherence to prescribed or external forms the 11th letter of the Hebrew alphabet a legal document summarizing the agreement between parties medieval body armor that covers the chest and back a financial institution that collects regular contributions from employers to provide retirement income for employees a place for shooting (firing or driving) projectiles of various kinds; 'the army maintains a missile range in the desert'; 'any good golf club will have a range' a person used by another to gain an end a train that carries passengers loosely matted plant with mosslike foliage studded with tiny starry 4-petaled white blossoms; mountains of central and southern Europe any of various fungi of the family Rhizopogonaceae having subterranean fruiting bodies similar to the truffle a card expressing sympathy an instrument that measures the altitude and azimuth of celestial bodies; used in navigation a commercial preparation that is sprayed on the hair to hold it in place type genus of the family Homaridae: common edible lobsters any of various soft sweet desserts thickened usually with flour and baked or boiled or steamed rice and chicken cooked together with or without other ingredients and variously seasoned an aromatic ointment used in antiquity a prism whose bases are quadrangles a periodical that is published every month large flicker of eastern North America with a red neck and yellow undersurface to wings and tail a state of disorder involving group violence the process of becoming acid or being converted into an acid ornamental evergreen treelike shrub of United States Pacific coast having large white flowers and red berrylike fruits; often placed in genus Photinia one of the two competitions in the next to the last round of an elimination tournament a reeling sensation; feeling about to fall the activity of transporting goods by truck where perfumes are sold hair resembling thatched roofing material small reddish slave-making ant species "something created to provide a particular service; 'the assembly plant is an enormous facility'" right or rights belonging to a person by reason of citizenship including esp the fundamental freedoms and privileges guaranteed by the 13th and 14th amendments and subsequent acts of congress including the right to legal and social and economic equality American breed of large powerful hound dogs used for hunting raccoons and other game North American plant having large leaves and yellowish green flowers growing in racemes; yields a toxic alkaloid used medicinally a small adhesive disk of paste; used to seal letters one of two or more atoms with the same atomic number but with different numbers of neutrons the state of lacking unity a quarter of a hundredweight (25 pounds) a process for identifying minerals or crystals; a small rod is coated with a powdered form of the substance and subjected to suitably modified X-rays; the pattern of diffracted rings is used for identification the act of providing or using the instruments needed for some implementation inflammation of the entire brain small willow of eastern North America having grayish leaves and silky catkins that come before the leaves medium-sized mackerel of temperate Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico a memorandum summarizing the items of an agreement drafty artfulness (especially in deception) the young of a herring or sprat or similar fish (logic) an inference that follows directly from the proof of another proposition a descendant of the Arabs who inhabited Palestine a member of the branch of Islam that accepts the first four caliphs as rightful successors to Mohammed a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area; 'they went for a walk in the park' widely distributed genus of evergreen shrubs or trees of southern United States and Middle East and China and Japan a narrow thin strip of wood used as backing for plaster or to make latticework a genus of Sparidae a genus of Loriinae cloth that covers the chest or breasts inflammation of the female pelvic organs (especially the Fallopian tubes) caused by infection by any of several microorganisms (chiefly gonococci and chlamydia); symptoms are abdominal pain and fever and foul-smelling vaginal discharge a walkway made of wooden boards; usually at seaside horse adapted for drawing heavy loads use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse: 'around the rock the ragged rascal ran' minute aquatic herbs floating on or below the water surface of still water consisting of a leaflike frond or plant body and single root a pariah who is avoided by others the king of England a vote by the electorate determining public opinion on a question of national importance strong dark heavy-bodied porter any letter expressing an intention to take (or forgo) some action elimination of superfluous details a dictionary giving equivalent words in two languages a room enclosed largely with glass and affording exposure to the sun the monetary unit in Haiti an indolent or clumsy rolling about: 'a good wallow in the water' a large base of operations for an army woolly thistle of western and central Europe and Balkan Peninsula small genus of tropical African trees with maplelike leaves the leader of an Arab village or family a sweet innocent baby (baseball or softball) a substitute for the regular batter a block (usually one sector) that cannot reliably hold data type genus of the Musaceae: bananas the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress formal attendance (in court or at a hearing) of a party in an action recall or remembrance; 'it came to mind' a building used to house military personnel a smoky yellow or brown quartz the public performance of a sacrament or solemn ceremony with all appropriate ritual; 'the celebration of marriage' making something valid by formally ratifying or confirming it; 'the ratification of the treaty'; 'confirmation of the appointment' a long narrow depression in a surface court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated any alga of the genus Chlorella removal of a breast and the underlying muscles (pectoralis major and pectoralis minor) and lymph nodes in the adjacent armpit oysters in cream type genus of the Bufonidae; common toads of New and Old Worlds a vasodilator (trade name Loniten) used to treat severe hypertension; one side effect is hirsutism so it is also sold (trade name Rogaine) as a treatment for male-patterned baldness matter to be printed; exclusive of graphical materials erect Old World perennial with faintly musk-scented foliage and white or pink flowers; adventive in United States seed of neem trees; source of pesticides and fertilizer and medicinal products type genus of the Gomphotheriidae monetary unit in Cuba a bitter cress of Europe and America a team that plays baseball fungi having each pore separate though crowded specialized technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject genus of woolly aromatic herbs or subshrubs or shrubs of Mediterranean region tall leafy-stemmed Eurasian perennial with white flowers; widely naturalized; often placed in genus Chrysanthemum an eviction in reprisal for the tenant's good-faith complaints against the landlord; illegal in many states a reddish brown dye used especially on hair handsomely striped or mottled wood of the zebrawood tree; used especially for cabinetwork a smooth crisp fabric a cream spread on the skin; contains a chemical to filter out ultraviolet light and so protect from sunburn damsel fishes the layer of unmyelinated neurons (the gray matter) forming the cortex of the cerebrum type genus of the family Tylenchidae the process of organ formation an engine in which ignition occurs outside the chamber (cylinder or turbine) in which heat is converted to mechanical energy an effervescing salt containing sodium bicarbonate and Rochelle salt and tartaric acid a member of a Hindu people descended from Brahmins and Rajputs who live in Nepal cocoa of superior quality a unit of geological time the time of life between youth and old age (e.g., between 40 and 60 years of age) the goods sold by a haberdasher a worker who fulls (cleans and thickens) freshly woven cloth for a living thick cushion used as a seat a stick used by hockey players to move the puck studies of the rules for forming admissible sentences a purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness); 'he had doubts about the whole enterprise' "the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes" the quality of being good looking and attractive a strong post on the deck of a ship around which mooring lines can be attached evergreen tree of West Indies and Central America having edible purple fruit star-shaped in cross section and dark green leaves with golden silky undersides the daily event of the sun rising above the horizon the quality of being careful and painstaking; 'I admired the carefulness of his work' the quality of being rustic or gauche opera in which the musical and dramatic elements are equally important; the music is appropriate to the action an expressway in an Italian-speaking country moral philosophy based on the application of general ethical principles to resolve moral dilemmas a tone language that uses pitch changes a U-shaped section of drainpipe that holds liquid and so prevents a return flow of sewer gas a closet for storing outwear bleeding from the nose flagellates parasitic in intestines of vertebrates monitor lizards the common North American shiner a fire engine carrying ladders an order of animals including elephants and mammoths a side road little traveled (as in the countryside) playing a set of bells that are (usually) hung in a tower something (especially a game) that is played again narrow pathway high in the air (as above a stage; between parts of a building; along a bridge) management that is careless or inefficient a ship abandoned on the high seas a public meeting or assembly for open discussion a state of innocence static at radio wavelengths preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else in some classifications included in family Moraceae a dark-green plant pigment having a brilliant green alcohol solution an underwater mountain rising above the ocean floor surveillance by electronic means (e.g. television) dry pale amber variety common European perennial having showy yellow and orange flowers; a naturalized weed in North America a hazard on a golf course the property of sticking to a surface a restaurant where food is cooked on a grill edible leaves of the common dandelion collected from the wild; used in salads and in making wine sturdy annual of Peru musk-scented shrub or tree of southern and southeastern Australia having creamy-yellow flower heads any of various shrubs of the genus Deutzia having usually toothed opposite leaves and shredding bark and white or pink flowers in loose terminal clusters the act of renouncing pickled flower buds used as a pungent relish in various dishes and sauces an introductory textbook eggs beaten with milk or cream and cooked until set perennial Old World herb having rayed flower heads with blue florets cultivated for its root and its heads of crisp edible leaves used in salads a valuable silver ore consisting of silver sulfide (Ag2S) an electrical conductor that makes a common connection between several circuits; 'the busbar in this computer can transmit data either way between any two components of the system' the bodily property of a protruding belly tufted herbs resembling grasses: rushes North American shrubby willow having dark bark and linear leaves growing close to streams and lakes a geographical area constituting a city or town the systematic use of spies to get military or political secrets a semiautomatic rifle a small and economical car a plastic made from cellulose (or a derivative of cellulose) where professional or clerical duties are performed; 'he rented an office in the new building' alert agile lizard with reduced limbs and an elongated body covered with shiny scales; more dependent on moisture than most lizards; found in tropical regions worldwide any plant of the genus Helianthus having large flower heads with dark disk florets and showy yellow rays the end (tip) of a finger (finance) an account of the net value of a business at a specified date small cane of watery or moist areas in southern United States the quality of being limited or restricted; 'it is a good plan but it has serious limitations' plant having heads of fragrant white trumpet-shaped flowers; grows in sandy arid regions sweet green or greenish-yellow variety of plum a woman who is a foster parent biographical sketch a bit with a bar mouthpiece that is designed to combine a curb and snaffle rebuking a person harshly a Muslim council of state restriction imposed by the government on documents or weapons that are available only to certain authorized people perennial Eurasian herb having heads of red or yellow flowers and common in meadows and pastures; formerly used medicinally for kidney disorders a toxic anticonvulsant drug (trade name Mesantoin) used in the treatment of epilepsy when less toxic anticonvulsants have been ineffective a lack of creative imagination a chemical agent that destroys plants or inhibits their growth a phrase or pronunciation that is peculiar to a particular locality the trait of acting suddenly on impulse without reflection a union-operated placement office where jobs are allotted to applicants according to seniority or rotation a cheap lodging house a party who files a notice with a law court a classical Greek god after the overthrow of the Titans a political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government (as opposed to democracy or liberalism) South American shrub or small tree having long shining evergreen leaves and panicles of green or yellow flowers a clock mounted on a wall plant and equipment for providing natural-gas service a musician who plays the guitar an aerial half a wavelength long consisting of two rods connected to a transmission line at the center an athlete who plays for pay the branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis and (nonsurgical) treatment of diseases of the internal organs (especially in adults) milkweed of southwestern United States and Mexico; poisonous to livestock a coarse annual herb introduced into North America from Siberia; dangerous to sheep and cattle on western rangelands because of its high oxalate content stalk bearing one or more sporangia genus of New Zealand mat-forming herbs or subshrubs: vegetable_sheep the act of crushing chiefly tropical marine fishes with fleshy lips and powerful teeth; usually brightly colored the transmission of a letter; 'the postmark indicates the time of mailing' compact discs used to reproduce sound (voice and music) a tract of land declared by the national government to be public property bluish edible crab of Atlantic and Gulf coasts of North America a soft lightweight fabric (usually printed) a fund accumulated to finance a war (or a political campaign) waves breaking on the shore a musician who plays the lute a mass of woven steel fibers used as an abrasive a drug (trade name Tagamet) used to treat peptic ulcers by decreasing the secretion of stomach acid a person who poses for a photographer or painter or sculptor; 'the president didn't have time to be a model so the artist worked from photos' a representation of the earth or the heavens; 'the cosmography of Ptolemy' the state of being known for some unfavorable act or quality the prejudice that members of one race are intrinsically superior to members of other races an ill-defined or arbitrary shape an extremely dangerous or difficult mission formerly the chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation; produces an intense monochromatic beam of coherent light an alloy of tin and lead and antimony used to make printing type special emphasis attached to something; 'the stress was more on accuracy than on speed' the spatial relation between something and the course along which it points or moves; 'he checked the direction and velocity of the wind' "action taken by a group of people"action taken by a group of people "a hypothetical object capable of absorbing all the electromagnetic radiation falling on it" someone who has supervisory duties at a summer camp a female human offspring; 'her daughter cared for her in her old age' an open-air street market for inexpensive or secondhand articles slender tropical fish with a long tubular snout and bony plates instead of scales a saturated fatty acid occurring naturally in animal and vegetable fats the bones of the skull that frame the mouth and serve to open it; the bones that hold the teeth typical gazelles a metal cap or band placed on a wooden pole to prevent splitting one of many families or subfamilies into which some classification systems subdivide the Liliaceae but not widely accepted; includes genus Hosta warfare using chemical agents to kill or injure or incapacitate the enemy materials like iron (nickel or cobalt) become magnetized in a magnetic field and retain their magnetism when the field is removed a ship equipped for laying underwater mines small dried seedless raisin grown in the Mediterranean region and California; used in cooking painful inflammation of the muscles around the shins; frequent among runners a genus of Phyllostomatidae polished courtesy; elegance of manner a radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons the sudden collapse of something into a hollow beneath it waterleaf marsh plant having elongated linear leaves and round prickly fruit chocolate cookie with white cream filling still sweet wine often served with dessert or after a meal an order of spiny-finned fish in the superorder Acanthopterygii a squire carrying the armor of a knight (Judaism) an initiation ceremony marking the 13th birthday of a Jewish boy and signifying the beginning of religious responsibility; 'a bar mitzvah is an important social event' informal; 'her best bib and tucker' European perennial whose serrate leaves yield a yellow dye angioma consisting of a mass of lymphatic vessels thick plate iron used in the production of boilers a strip of material to cover the joint of a door or window to exclude the cold flesh of any of numerous North American food fishes with toothless jaws wire for tying up bales of hay place where something began and flourished; 'the U.S. is the home of basketball' a .22 caliber pistol or rifle a sloping mass of rocks at the base of a cliff attraction for iron; associated with electric currents as well as magnets; characterized by fields of force a small sharp-pointed tool for punching holes in leather or fabric the trait of being frivolous; not serious or sensible a flat metal tumbler in a lever lock a plow with a double moldboard designed to move dirt to either side of a central furrow a very small person (resembling a Lilliputian) an isomer of amphetamine (trade name Dexedrine) used as a central nervous system stimulant deciduous thorny shrub native to China having red or white blossoms small genus of herbs usually included in the genus Origanum a chemical substance that is present at the start of a chemical reaction the weaker half of a sword's blade from the forte to the tip Old World egret the doctrine that ideas are the only reality the quality of happening accidentally and by lucky chance a coat of arms that occupies one quarter of an escutcheon; combining four coats of arms on one shield usually represented intermarriages cost of bribing someone: 'they say that every politician has a price' the extent of the front of shop or plot of land (as along a street or river etc) any wood from which dye is obtained the middle of the three gluteal muscles a recording of someone reading a book; designed for use by blind people a form to use when filing a claim an organ stop resulting in a soft muted sound type genus of the Lutjanidae: snappers a short jacket; worn mostly by women the state of actually existing objectively: 'a hope that progressed from possibility to actuality' of tundra of northern Canada; in some classifications included in the species Rangifer tarandus mild white cheese made from curds of soured skim milk the feel of mechanical action: 'this piano has a wonderful touch' serving dishes of silver of middle and southern United States; male is deep rose-red the female mostly yellow small blue-flowered fringed gentian of western United States (Rocky Mountains) especially around hot springs in Yellowstone National Park your usual mood; 'he has a happy disposition' a genus of Melolonthidae common in north Atlantic coastal waters of the United States large cosmopolitan genus of white-flowered terrestrial orchids chiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened body of 15 to 173 segments each with a pair of legs the foremost being modified into poison fangs a genus of Falconidae an open-deck (or half-decked) motorboat a deep concavity in the temporal bone at the root of the zygomatic arch that receives the condyle of the mandible an electromagnet (as on a tape recorder) that converts electrical variations into magnetic variations that can be stored on a surface a later retrieved Old World herbs and subshrubs: candytuft a fox terrier with smooth hair a spar projecting from the bow of a vessel a genus of Vespertilionidae a dangerous crocodile widely distributed in Africa an antineoplastic drug used to treat some forms of cancer close interaction: 'they kept in daily contact'; 'they claimed that they had been in contact with extraterrestrial beings' any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals a message expressing a favorable opinion; 'words of approval seldom passed his lips' type genus of the Canidae: domestic and wild dogs; wolves; jackals someone who writes a new law or plan; 'the framers of the Constitution' electronic jamming over a wide range of frequencies simultaneously an oxide containing two atoms of oxygen in the molecule large wading bird that resembles a curlew; has a long slightly upturned bill tropical tree of Florida and West Indies yielding edible fruit the handle of a broom a small container (as one holding electronic equipment) common erect hairy perennial of plains and prairies of southern and central United States having sunflowerlike flowers a large seaplane that floats on the full rather than on pontoons tall South American tree bearing brazil nuts a count of troops killed in an operation or time period: 'the daily body count increased as the war went on' plant adapted for life with a limited supply of water; compare hydrophyte and mesophyte any of several cultivated sour cherry trees bearing fruit with dark skin and juice (chemistry) the absorption of a liquid by a solid or gel "an event that could have occurred but never did" the act of congregating white-seeded bean; usually dried group refusal to resort to violence even in defense against violence a promotion intended to create goodwill for a person or institution medium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter a grunting sound when caught larvae are parasitic on sheep washing of loaded ion-exchange resins to remove captured ions; used to obtain uranium ions chiefly deep-sea fishes related to the Ophidiidae in some older classifications includes the Branchiopoda and Copepoda and Ostracoda and Cirripedia; no longer in technical use a person regarded as arrogant and annoying small commonly luminescent crustaceans; important element of marine plankton: krill reconnaissance either by visual observation from the air or through the use of airborne sensors the basic meaning of something; the crucial part the quality of being the present: 'a study of the pastness of the present and...of the presentness of the past'- R.E.Spiller the normal brainwave in the encephalogram of a person in deep dreamless sleep; occurs with high voltage and low frequency (1 to 4 hertz) dwarf herbaceous elder of Europe having pink flowers and a nauseous odor a preparation designed to beautify the body a substance (as the plant enzyme papain) applied to meat to make it tender lack of physical strength a dealer in works of art requiring esthetic evaluation middle of an academic term or a political term in office reason for being southern European annual with spiky heads of crimson flower; extensively cultivated in United States for forage a fence of steel wires woven into a diamond pattern fatty matter in bones extracted with solvents or by boiling or steaming; used chiefly in candles and cheap soaps an in lubricating greases when light passes sharp edges or goes through narrow slits the rays are deflected and produce fringes of light and dark bands a compound made artificially by chemical reactions thorn apple a woman sold into prostitution the reading of a passage assigned by the teacher any ore from which uranium can be extracted similar in purpose to a light microscope but achieves much greater resolving power by using a parallel beam of electrons to illuminate the object instead of a beam of light in most modern classifications, replacement for the Protista; includes: Protozoa; Euglenophyta; Chlorophyta; Cryptophyta; Heterokontophyta; Rhodophyta; unicellular protists and their descendant multicellular organisms: regarded as distinct from plants and animals the act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods) a sibling who is male prepared mustard thinned with vinegar and getable oil with sugar and seasonings a single line of words in a poem marks on a glaciated rock caused by the movement of a glacier a test to insure that a vehicle is roadworthy a saint who is considered to be a defender of some group or nation North American walnut tree with hard dark wood and edible nut any of several plants of the genus Datura the property of an attractively thin person long-haired chimpanzees of east-central Africa including the Gombe-Kasakela population; closely related to the central chimpanzees a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets; 'let C be the union of the sets A and B' use of two conjoined nouns instead of a noun and modifier any of several United States plants having long stalks of funnel-shaped white or yellow flowers indicates rank rudds large widely distributed genus of coarse hairy herbs with whitish involucres garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering a door-like movable barrier in a fence or wall a fixed day for holding a public market an angry stare esp an animal produced by a cross between two pure breeds the branch of medicine that deals with the nervous system and its disorders small slender fish (to 8 inches) with body covered by bony plates; chiefly of deeper north Pacific waters the part of the brain continuous with the spinal cord and comprising the medulla oblongota and pons and midbrain and parts of the hypothalamus having husk or outer brown layers removed sheep frogs a coach of baseball players type genus of the Amiidae an unmarried girl (especially a virgin) an adolescent male any long thin projection that is transient; 'tongues of flame licked at the walls'; 'rifles exploded quick knives of fire into the dark' the right to equal protection of the laws a power tool for cutting wood exerting shrewd or devious influence especially for one's own advantage; 'his manipulation of his friends was scandalous' the dishonesty of a charlatan behavior that makes your feelings public; 'a display of emotion' a photograph transmitted and reproduced by telephotography the act of removing from association intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc: 'the depth of my feeling'; 'the profoundness of the silence' a gambling game using two dice 1/10 gram (physics) the maximum displacement of a periodic wave small veins in the sclera near the corneal margin; empty into the anterior ciliary veins wildflowers of western North America preparation for the delivery of shellfire on a target the unit of solid angle adopted under the System International d'Unites the course of developmental changes in an organism from fertilized zygote to maturity when another zygote can be produced any of numerous beetles that roll balls of dung on which they feed and in which they lay eggs an implement for cutting grass or crops; has a curved blade and a short handle a false or unsupportable quality the act of cancelling; calling off some arrangement a church congregation guided by a pastor someone who refuses to believe (as in a divinity) someone who loves (and usually collects) books an order in the subclass Telosporidia the member of an aircrew who is responsible for the aircraft's course a man who is the lover of a girl or young woman; 'if I'd known he was her boyfriend I wouldn't have asked' (Roman Catholic) a representative of the Holy See in a country that has no formal diplomatic relations with it the act of vindicating; 'subsequent events have proved to be a vindication of his position' an act of plundering low-growing evergreen shrub of eastern North America with leathery leaves and clusters of fragrant pink or white flowers an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events tree bearing edible nuts any of two or three large heavy-bodied lizards; only known venomous lizards work made of iron (gratings or rails or railings etc); 'the houses had much ornamental ironwork' something that extricates you from embarrassment a food fish of European Atlantic waters resembling the cod; sometimes placed in genus Gadus large gregarious forest-dwelling cranelike bird of South America having glossy black plumage and a loud prolonged cry; easily domesticated a strong flame that burns brightly; 'the blaze spread rapidly' a member of a council a position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration: 'a decision unfavorable to the opposition'; 'his conclusion took the evidence into accout'; 'satisfied with the panel's determination' a brief statement; 'he didn't say a word about it' a family of languages spoken in S and SE Asia a place of business for retailing goods a unit of girl or boy scouts low mat-forming grass of southern United States and tropical America; grown as a lawn grass inflammation of the alveoli in the lungs caused by inhaling dust; with repeated exposure the condition may become chronic the act of projecting out from something a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health a member of the communist party a tight embrace vinegar made from cider meat from a loin of pork an English breed having a long silky golden coat large 3-needled pine of southeastern United States having very long needles and gnarled twisted limbs; bark is red-brown deeply ridgedged; an important timber tree type genus of the family Didelphidae a piece of furniture holding one or more electric light bulbs a genre of French painting characterized by bright flat shapes and symbolic treatments of abstract ideas sanicle of Europe and Asia having white to pale pink flowers monetary unit in Uruguay insurance paid to the elderly the act of twisting or deforming the shape of something (e.g., oneself) the quantity a skep can hold an arrow with a wide barbed head the ratio of the inductance of a circuit in henries to its resistance in ohms using a piece of donated corneal tissue to repair the eye of someone who has had a cataract removed; 'epikeratophakia gave her a living contact lens' affairs between nations; 'you can't really keep up with world affairs by watching television' a furnace (as on a steam locomotive) in which fuel is burned a situation in golf where an opponent's ball blocks the line between your ball and the hole any of several plants of the genus Gutierrezia having tiny matchlike flower heads a native of ancient Troy a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe); 'I have this pipe dream about being emperor of the universe' pentails type genus of the Gerreidae nullification by the destruction of the legal force; rendering null; 'the vitiation of the contract' the act of thickening a small locomotive used to move cars around but not to make trips a new device or process created by study and experimentation cultivated as feed for livestock the front of the head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear; 'he washed his face'; 'I wish I had seen the look on his face when he got the news' a worker who drives mules removal of fluid from the abdomen by centesis type genus of the Soleidae the largest genus in th Agaricales; rusty-spored agarics having prominent cortinae (cobwebby partial veils) a political system governed by a single individual slow-growing geophytic cacti; northern and eastern Mexico; southern Texas muskrats a flat pocket sewn to the outside of a garment a former Turkish term of respect; especially for government officials a U-shaped bone at the base of the tongue that supports the tongue muscles a mental or physical breakdown a unit of area equal to one yard by one yard square a large orchestra; can perform symphonies; 'we heard the Vienna symphony' thick chocolate sauce served hot an irretrievable loss; 'that was the shipwreck of their romance' long-tailed gray-and-white songbird of the southern United States able to mimic songs of other birds American herbs or shrubs usually growing in dry sunny habitats on prairies and hillsides a witty or clever person with a fine mind immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence the watery layer of the earth's surface; includes water vapor any of various mints of the genus Thymus basin for holy water pie made of pecans and sugar and corn syrup and butter and eggs seed of the dill plant used as seasoning green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts cord or ribbon worn as an insignia of honor or rank the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend of western Europe: Scandinavia to northern Spain and Portugal the conversion of metals into their oxides as a result of heating to a high temperature an incorrect income tax return the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year famous orchid of northern India having large pale to deep lilac-blue flowers silvery and bluish drumfish of shallow California coastal waters leaves of the tobacco plant dried and prepared for smoking or ingestion any gland having ducts that pour secretions into the digestive tract a sleeping room in a motel place where a broker conducts his business pan for collecting liquid waste energy in a mechanical form the act of attaching an inside lining (to a garment or curtain etc.) a process that liberates or discharges something; 'there was a sudden release of oxygen'; 'the release of iodine from the thyroid gland' the quality of being unsuited to the end in view fear of the unknown or unfamiliar and of making decisions compatibility of observations; 'there was no agreement between theory and measurment'; 'the results of two tests were in correspondence' a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age; 'they had three children'; 'they were able to send their kids to college' the usual (iambic) meter of a ballad someone who supervises (an examination) deciduous shrubby tree of Europe and western Asia having gray leaves and small yellow fruits covered in silvery scales; sometimes spiny brown algae seaweed with serrated edges a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person the activity of selecting the scenes to be shown and putting them together to create a film the branch of psychology concerned with quantitative relations between physical stimuli and their psychological effects heartwood of a palo santo; yields an aromatic oil used in perfumes a figure of a horse behind which a hunter hides while stalking game an actor who plays villainous roles breaking down the costs of some operation and reporting on each factor separately the state of being complete and entire; having everything that is needed golden South American monkey with long soft hair forming a mane the consequence of an effort or activity; 'they gathered a harvest of examples'; 'a harvest of love' a covering material made of glass fibers in resins the power of argument or evidence to cause belief twisted seed pods of the divi-divi tree; source of tannin genus of tall erect or branched American annual or perennial herbs with showy flowers: sunflowers a noise made by the driver of an automobile to give warning; the harsh sound of a duck tree bearing pear-shaped fruit with a thick woody epicarp the energy required to separate particles from a molecule or atom or nucleus; equals the mass defect wingless usually flattened blood-sucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals unclearness by virtue of not being explicit mild mental retardation a publication (such as a book) that has been modified or updated and offered again for sale the act of hitting a baseball so that it drops suddenly wealth reckoned in terms of money: 'all his money is in real estate' a street show a plane equipped with skis so it can land on a snowfield a focus of public attention; 'he enjoyed being in the limelight' violet of eastern North America having softly pubescent leaves and stems and clear yellow flowers with brown-purple veins a platform from which criminals are executed (hanged or beheaded) any recognized accomplishment; 'they admired his performance under stress' slow-burning; used instead of celluloid for motion-picture film an ape or monkey a kind act an esoteric or occult matter that is traditionally secret a file in which records are stored upright on one edge anything that tends to arouse; 'his approval was an added fillip' coextensive with the genus Gonorhynchus a straw hat with a tall crown and broad brim; worn in American southwest and in Mexico an electrical force linking atoms a wild headlong rush of frightened animals (horses or cattle) an implement used by a golfer to hit a golf ball a sudden very loud noise a robe worn before dressing or while lounging a drug (trade name Atabrine) once used to treat malaria antbirds any of several North American perennial herbs with hairy foliage and small yellowish or greenish flowers work paid for according to the quantity produced annual or perennial herbs a large salivary gland; in human beings it is located in front of and below each ear an oxide of barium; a whitish toxic powder long-wooled mutton sheep originally from Lincolnshire sauteed cutlets (usually veal or poultry) that have been pounded thin and coated with flour calibrating something (a musical instrument or electronic circuit) to a standard frequency a firm durable fabric with a twill weave the greatest number or amount or degree: 'she has the most to lose' active strength of body or mind a method of examining body organs by scanning them with X rays and using a computer to construct an image the folding roof of a carriage a plant that furnishes nectar suitable for making honey the quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you a German round dance resembling a slow polka a large monocotyledonous genus of pinnate-leaved palms found in Asia and Africa a second test of an experimental product (such as computer software) carried out by an outside organization ground dried berrylike fruit of a West Indian allspice tree; suggesting combined flavors of cinnamon and nutmeg and cloves a metal or plastic disk that can be used (as a substitute for coins) in slot machines the act of exhausting something entirely 100 seniti equal 1 pa'anga a dictator or dictatorial person the part of a radio receiver by means of which radio signals are received someone who sells tickets (e.g., theater seats or travel accommodations) a nobleman ruling a German castle and surrounding grounds by hereditary right a commercial undertaking that risks a loss but promises a profit rear gunsight having an adjustable eyepiece with a small aperture through which the front sight and the target are aligned increase by a factor of three jumping bristletails a wrench with jaws that have projecting lugs to engage the object that is to be rotated a painful inflammation of the tonsils and surrounding tissues the imaging of remembered or invented scenes; 'I could see her clearly in my mind's eye' a fleet of military vehicles controlled by a single agency and available for use as needed a kind of hard lead that is used for grids in storage batteries the position of disciple any process whereby sounds are left out of spoken words or phrases the charge for carrying burdens by porters an athlete who plays basketball genus of western American low tufted herbs: Easter daisy the quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance; 'the daintiness of her touch'; 'the fineness of her features' someone engaged in or experienced in warfare a place where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation a doctrine that life is a vital principle distinct from physics and chemistry 1 species: Jamaican cherry; sometimes placed in family Flacourtiaceae an insulated panel containing switches and dials and meters for controlling electrical devices; 'he checked the instrument panel'; 'suddenly the board lit up like a Christmas tree' a serviceman who has seen considerable active service; 'the veterans laughed at the new recruits' the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it a turn made in skiing insect that resembles a mantis; larvae are parasites in the nests of spiders and wasps an art class using a live human model severe and often fatal malaria characterized by kidney damage resulting in dark urine disposing of money or property with the expectation that the same thing (or an equivalent) will be returned a branch of the internal carotid artery that supplies the eye and neighboring structures someone who assists in a plot type genus of Proteaceae; tropical African shrubs a life preserver in the form of a ring of buoyant material the sound of someone playing a set of bells heating by means of wall or floor or baseboard or ceiling panels containing electric conductors or heating pipes a cane concealing a sword or dagger scrambling perennial Eurasian wild pea having yellowish flowers and compressed seed pods; cultivated for forage a triple resulting from a line drive hormone secreted by the pineal gland the first coat of paint applied to a surface a resonating chamber in a musical instrument (as the body of a violin) a stroke (in tennis or badminton or squash) that puts the ball in play; 'his powerful serves won the game' the act of someone who picks up or takes something; 'the pickings were easy'; 'clothing could be had for the taking' marine food sport fishes mainly of warm coastal waters the doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs the means whereby something is accomplished; 'my greed was the instrument of my destruction' or 'science has given us new tools to fight disease' a house built of sod or adobe laid in horizontal courses a writer of poems having one wife at a time vertical bars attached to the bumper to prevent locking bumpers with another vehicle the manner in which something fits; 'I admired the fit of her coat' (nautical) to be lowered over a ship's side for coming aboard (mining terms) a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposes a quick look flesh of any of various rabbits or hares (wild or domesticated) eaten as food a theatrical company that performs plays from a repertoire an analytic or interpretive literary composition for sweeping; bundle of straws or twigs attached to a long handle an academic degree conferred on someone who has successfully completed undergraduate studies most widely distributed kangaroo rat: plains and mountain areas of central and western United States normal body temperature a boat built by Noah to save his family and animals from the Flood solitary wasp that digs nests in the soil and stocks them with paralyzed insects for the larvae the act of exhibiting; 'a remarkable exhibition of musicianship' a series of arches supported by piers used to carry a road (or railroad) over a valley a hexahedron with six equal squares as faces a reptile genus of Iguanidae a person who performs skillfully paste made primarily of anchovies; used in sauces and spreads the 1st cervical vertebra a chaplain in one of the military services any of various widely distributed plums grown in the cooler temperate areas two-year-old sheep type genus of the Callithricidae: true marmosets an interpretation that provides additional information the eating of excrement or other filth North American grass cultivated in western United States as excellent forage crop using or enjoying something jointly with others a halocarbon in which some hydrogen atoms have been replaced by fluorine; used in refrigerators and aerosols East Indian shrub a league ranked by quality; 'he played baseball in class D for two years'; 'Princeton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA' swift-footed terrestrial plover-like bird of southern Asia and Africa a genus of Carcharhinidae a radical who agitates for reform genus of protozoans related to Amoeba boiled or baked buckwheat low-growing loosely mat-forming Eurasian pink with single crimson-eyed pale pink flowers a servant employed to do a variety of jobs a machine for spinning yarn and thread asphodel with leafy stem and fragrant yellow flowers a plane with a concave blade for making moulding with beadwork an equal exchange; 'we had no money so we hd to live by barter' any of numerous orchids of the genus Masdevallia; tufted evergreen often diminutive plants whose flowers in a remarkable range of colors are usually tricornlike with sepals fused at the base to form a tube amount of money received per unit time; 'women's pay rate is lower than men's' a short light metallic sound outfitting a ship again (by repairing or replacing parts) a room in which a conference can be held one who is playfully mischievous a group of religious congregations having its own organization and a distinctive faith a game played in daylight extinct species of primitive hominid with upright stature but small brain; formerly Pithecanthropus erectus a slice of bacon destroys crocodile eggs a simplified description of a complex entity or process; 'the computer program was based on a model of the circulatory and respiratory systems' common gray wild goose of Europe; ancestor of many domestic breeds bottom-dwelling fish having scaleless slimy skin and a broad thick head with a wide mouth a party of people taking a role in legal proceedings a person who speaks indistinctly one of several parallel layers of material arranged one on top of another (such as a layer of tissue or cells in an organism) the line formed by the edge of a garment around the neck any acid that has hydroxyl groups in addition to the hydroxyl group in the acid itself long narrow flat-bottomed boat propelled by sculling; traditionally used on canals of Venice 1/1000 gram any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk free-swimming oceanic tunicate with a barrel-shaped transparent body genus of African shrubs or small trees newts type genus of the family Macropodidae: typical kangaroos and wallabies a thick and heavy shoe either of two punctuation marks ([ or ]) used to enclose textual material East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient disturbances in salt-water balance and symptoms of weakness and muscular cramps and twitching and convulsions and sometimes paralysis; usually caused by a benign tumor of the cortex of the adrenal gland that leads to excess secretion of aldosterone small pale yellowish soft-furred rodent of southwestern United States and Mexico quality or fact or degree of being audible or perceptible by the ear small gray seed of a poppy flower; used whole or ground in baked items a muscular sac attached to the liver that secretes bile and stores it until needed for digestion fabric woven of metallic wire Eurasian garden perennial having scarlet flowers in dense terminal heads education in elementary subjects (reading and writing and arithmetic) provided to young students at a grade school chiefly tropical clump-forming plants of skeletal broom-like appearance lacking roots account of payments received; usually the right side of a financial statement a constituent of a sentence at the first step in an analysis: e.g., subject and predicate a schoolhouse with special facilities for fine arts the act of suffocating by constricting the windpipe; 'no evidence that the choking was done by the accused' a fence made of upright pickets a personal representative with legal standing (as by power of attorney or the executor of a will) worship of words an instrument for measuring viscosity a railroad track having the standard width of 56.5 inches monetary unit in Sweden genus of American plants widely cultivated for their flowers citing as evidence or proof type genus of the Scorpaenidae: scorpionfishes the Roman Catholic doctrine that the whole substance of the bread and the wine changes into the substance of the body and blood of Christ when consecrated in the Eucharist the brown fur of a muskrat having the property of containing fat; 'he recommended exercise to reduce my adiposity' a staff officer in charge of supplies for a whole army a resident of Cambridge the apparatus of pipes and fixtures for the distribution of water or gas in a building and for the disposal of sewage a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme; 'the word 'pocket' has two syllables' work made of wood; especially moldings or stairways or furniture a movable piece of tissue partly connected to the body conducts current between rotating and stationary parts of a generator or motor the most commonly used method of computing a correlation coefficient between the ranks of scores on two variables a combination of interacting parts that work to slow a motor vehicle a gambling card game of Spanish origin; 3 or 4 cards are dealt face up and players bet that one of the will be matched before the others as the cards are dealt from the pack one at a time a point of termination or completion set of standards established and enforced by government for health requirements as in plumbing etc ancient brass cannon the antiparticle of a neutrino an inclination to do something; 'he felt leanings toward frivolity' a cloth of an olive-brown color used for military uniforms a mirror (especially one made of polished metal) for use in an optical instrument uncooked meat loud confusing disagreeable sounds any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm waters sugar made from the sap of the sugar maple tree discoloration due to dirtiness stone parsley a paved area beside a main road where cars can stop temporarily the pointed part of barbed wire tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface "a collection of objects laid on top of each other" hypothetical organism formerly thought to be intermediate between apes and human beings a condition characterized by abnormal deposits of melanin (especially in the skin) a European forage grass grown for hay; a naturalized weed in United States a regular rate of repetition; 'the cox raised the beat' the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system; 'he studied law at Yale' an apparatus for burning fuel (or refuse) surface layer of ground containing a matt of grass and grass roots voracious aquatic turtle with a flat flexible shell covered by a leathery skin; can inflict painful bites a mold lined with cake or crumbs and filled with fruit or whipped cream or custard a needle used in sewing to pull thread through cloth cruel or inhumane treatment a pair of people who live together; 'a married couple from Chicago' making or becoming a single unit; 'the union of opposing factions'; 'he looked forward to the unification of his family for the holidays' manakins chipmunks of eastern North America profound knowledge European perennial plant naturalized in United States having triangular ovate leaves and lilac-pink flowers a native or inhabitant of Albania a room where merchandise (such as cars) is displayed; 'in England a showroom is called a saleroom' a device consisting of two movable rails and necessary connections, used to turn a train from one track to another or to store rolling stock creepers the quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth the early part of night (from dinner until bedtime) spent in a special way; 'an evening at the opera' long-bodied marine fishes having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp teeth; closely related to snake_mackerel a 20th century movement in art and literature (developing out of Dadaism) that used fantastic images and incongruous juxtapositions in order to represent unconscious thoughts and dreams any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts one of a battery of related tests a mild viral disease transmitted by the bite of the sand fly Phlebotomus papatasii relation of mutual understanding or trust between people an antenna that sends or receives signals equally in all directions blister beetles engine does not run the basic unit of money in Guatemala; equal to 100 centavos large genus of low-growing shrubby ribbed cacti of Mexico and southwestern United States the total amount of money paid in wages; 'the company had a large payroll' a mental disorder characterized by episodes of mania and depression any of various tiny insects whose larvae are parasites on eggs and larvae of other insects; many are beneficial in destroying injurious insects a morel whose pitted fertile body is attached to the stalk with little free skirt around it; the fertile body is gray when young and black in old age the 8th letter of the Hebrew alphabet birch leaf miner the style of expressing yourself; 'he suggested a better formulation'; 'his manner of expression showed how much he cared' a daughter or your brother or sister a genus of trees or shrubs that have beautiful and valuable wood dry seedlike fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn indifference by personal withdrawal; 'emotional distance' any of several large eared seals of the north Pacific related to fur seals but lacking their valuable coat an unbound manuscript of some ancient classic the academic department responsible for teaching and research in sociology common North American finch of brushy pasturelands the status of belonging to a particular nation by birth or naturalization primitive dinosaur found in Argentina a method of controlling the flight of a missile or spacecraft by reference to the positions of celestial bodies the art of making and decorating pottery mastiff bats a monocotyledonous genus of the family Orchidaceae a branch of the hepatic artery that supplies the pyloric portion of the stomach on the lesser curvature a state of mind in which consciousness is fragile and voluntary action is poor or missing; a state resembling deep sleep coarse perennial Eurasian oatlike grass found on roadside verges and rough grassland and in hay meadows; introduced in North America for forage a remark (or act) expressing praise and admiration a subset of data in a database that are used in a specific application an open-air marketplace for farm products a paying (taxi) passenger snapping turtles Eurasian herb naturalized in America having white flowers and poisonous hairy foliage and bearing black berries that are sometimes poisonous but sometimes edible a light medieval helmet with a slit for vision the thought processes involved in solving a problem least shrews a B vitamin that prevents beriberi; maintains appetite and growth the property of something that has been weakened or reduced in thickness or density one of a pack of cards used in playing card games a time assigned on a schedule or agenda; 'the TV program has a new time slot' a final settlement; 'the conclusion of a business deal'; 'the conclusion of the peace treaty' conflict between members of the same organization (usually concealed from outsiders) a method that prepares a mother for natural childbirth; the pregnant woman (in classes and at home) practices (usually with the help of a coach) learns about the physiology of childbirth and techniques of relaxation and concentration and breathing (on the stock exchange) the price at which a broker is willing to buy a certain security a mixture of methyl and ethyl chloride; sprayed on as a local anesthetic a state of steady vigorous action that is characteristic of an activity; 'the party went with a swing'; 'it took time to get into the swing of things' a nonconformist writer or artist who lives an unconventional life electric catfish North African mongoose; in ancient times thought to devour crocodile eggs one of a number of families into which the family Polypodiaceae has been subdivided in some classification systems; Pteridaceae is itself in turn sometimes subdivided into the families Actiniopteridaceae; Adiantaceae; Cryptogrammataceae; includes genera Acrostichum; Adiantopsis; Adiantum; Anogramma; Bommeria; Cheilanthes; Coniogramme; Doryopteris; Gymnopteris; Hemionitis; Jamesonia; Paraceterach; Pellaea; Pityrogramma; Pteris; Ptilopteris type genus of the Ptilonorhynchidae a collision between motor vehicles that produces minor damage a person who is weak and excessively sentimental a short nail with a thick head; used to protect the soles of boots (chemistry) a chain of atoms in a molecule that forms a closed loop 1 species creative writing valued for esthetic content the content of a particular domain or field of knowledge a period of five years a religious cult practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries (especially Haiti); involves witchcraft and animistic deities an ambulance used to transport patients to a mental hospital Central and South American feather palms box with a lid; used for storage; usually large and sturdy the explanation of past events in terms of scientific causes (as geological causes) a judicial writ from a higher court ordering a lower court not to exercise jurisdiction in a particular case (informal) a chance to do something; 'he wanted a shot at the champion' a chemical reaction and its reverse proceed at equal rates an ornament that interlaces simulated foliage in an intricate design an entertainer who attracts large audiences; 'he was the biggest drawing card they had' a conduit that carries away sewage or surface water unrefined or only partly refined sugar strips of grapefruit peel cooked in sugar syrup and coated with sugar the antiparticle of a neutron a sum of money allotted on a regular basis; usually for some specific purpose a small loosely aggregated mass of flocculent material suspended in or precipitated from a liquid made into thread and woven into linen fabric vertical tie post in a roof truss a type of bronze used for parts subject to wear or corrosion (especially corrosion by sea water) a safe place; 'He ran to safety' the opposite of oldness an athlete who plays cricket a water solution of ammonia a potent androgenic hormone the process of decomposing organic matter (as in sewage) by bacteria an oil from chaulmoogra trees; used in treatment of skin diseases and leprosy reason; 'there was no occasion for complaint' a barrier that serves to enclose an area large hare of Arctic America almost completely white in winter memory for episodes in your own life a race between people riding bicycles type genus of the family Erinaceidae: hedgehogs the act of legislating large tree native to southeastern Asia; the nuts yield oil used in varnishes; nut kernels strung together are used locally as candles a piece of cloth used as decoration or to mend or cover a hole a statement made with careful qualifications a frank and honest person insect whose female has a saw-like ovipositor for inserting eggs into the leaf or stem tissue of a host plant a conference at which press and tv reporters ask questions of a politician or other celebrity the region of the hips and groin and lower abdomen the overhang at the lower edge of a roof nocturnal prowler of western United States and Mexico an acute disease characterized by fever and swollen lymph nodes; some believe it can be transmitted by kissing the activity of exerting you muscles in various was to keep fit; 'the doctor recommended regular exercise'; 'he did some exercising'; 'the physical exertion required by his work kept him fit' pudding made with grated carrots the evasion of work or duty beet lacking swollen root; grown as a vegetable for its edible leaves and stalks the opinion joined by a majority of the court (generally known simply as 'the opinion') the monovalent group -CN in a chemical compound a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance prompt willingness: 'readiness to continue discussions' a member of the Siouan people of Virginia and North Carolina a small cushion that is used for decorative purposes spinach the clear colorless transparent jelly that fills the posterior chamber of the eyeball a small amount of money; 'he managed it on a shoestring' a charge account that does not have to be paid to zero balance a wheel composed of abrasive material; used for grinding a manager who supervises the sales activity for a district a type of ascomycetous fungus a formal document charging a public official with misconduct in office the practice of serving yourself (as in a grocery or cafeteria) the act of attaining a new office or right the branch of geology that studies volcanoes Portuguese man-of-war the act of charging a liquid with a gas making it effervescent an executive officer of a firm or corporation a family of fungi belonging to the order Agaricales one who investigates insurance claims or claims for damages and recommends an effective settlement a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time the rate of change (at a point) of the angle between a curve and a tangent to the curve a nonmetallic univalent element that is normally a colorless and odorless highly flammable diatomic gas; the simplest and lightest and most abundant element in the universe a sentimental story or personal distress; designed to arouse sympathy the state of being a parent the quality of being not easily seen the ship in which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from England to Massachusetts in 1620 small kitchen (formerly) a title of respect for a man in Turkey or Egypt; 'he introduced me to Ahmet Bey' a synthetic fabric a low area that has been filled in (biology) growth anew of lost or destroyed parts or organs an impression made from an etched plate fragments of wood; 'it was smashed into matchwood stops the flow of blood from an artery by applying pressure stairs in India leading down to a landing on the water a native or inhabitant of Brazil a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba members of a family line; 'his people have been farmers for generations'; 'are your people still alive?' a design stitched through layers of fabric and a filling an instance of misfortune a soft thin absorbent paper for use in toilets eight performers or singers who perform together someone who prowls or sneaks about; usually with unlawful intentions (British) colloquial terms for an umbrella science and technology of electronic systems and devices for aeronautics and astronautics: 'avionics has become even more important with the development of the space program' a cupboard-like repository or piece of furniture with doors and shelves and drawers; for storage or display Nalfon is the trademark of a brand of this nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug a contractor concerned with the development and manufacture of systems of defense (ophthalmology) faulty refraction of light rays in the eye as in astigmatism or myopia family of fleshy stinkhornlike fungi feeling no fear a drug that prevents or alleviates nausea and vomiting African shrike North American perennial having a resinous odor and yellow flowers a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock an organic process that takes place in the body; 'respiratory activity'an organic process that takes place in the body; 'respiratory activity' a bill for an amount due the simplest for of vault; a single continuous arch typewritten matter especially a typewritten copy of a manuscript an instance of rapid strong pulsation (of the heart); 'he felt a throbbing in his head' a word formed by joining two others (e.g., 'smog' is a blend of 'smoke' and 'fog') the act of branching out or dividing into branches financial aid provided to a student on the basis of academic merit a pasture subject to common use hardy working dog developed in Belgium for herding sheep tree ferns: genera Dicksonia; Cibotium; Culcita; Thyrsopteris unverifiable but popularly accepted as possibly factual unbiased impartial unconcern chiefly east Asian shrubs a building containing dressing rooms for bathers the mother of your father or mother three-sided tropical American nut with white oily meat and hard brown shell light microscopy in which the specimen is irradiated at wavelengths that excite fluorochromes type genus of the Agamidae a vertical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (as a monument or a column of air) an electrical (or electronic) fitting that is connected to a source of power and equipped to receive an insert type genus of the Anhingidae any compound that contains water of crystallization for washing yourself, usually in a bathroom American songbird; male is black and orange or yellow (computer science) the actuator that moves a read/write head to the proper data track wild indigo of the eastern United States having racemes of blue flowers any of various undomesticated mammals of the family Canidae that are thought to resemble domestic dogs as distinguished from jackals or wolves laying hands on a person's head to invoke spiritual blessing in Christian ordination a finance company that makes small loans to industrial workers a cycloid generated by a point inside the rolling circle small cormous perennial grown for its low rosette of succulent foliage and racemes of pink-tinged white flowers; eastern North America a rosid dicot genus of the family Umbelliferae; includes parsnips a form of epilepsy in which attacks are induced by peripheral stimulation any of several Old World shrubby broad-leaved willows having large catkins; some are important sources for tanbark and charcoal woodwork that has been machined at a mill the process of forming a ring by forming one or more hydrogen bonds a drum diving petrels family of extinct Mesozoic cephalopods free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression the act of fighting; any contest or struggle; 'a fight broke out at the hockey game'; 'there was fighting in the streets' embroidery done with loosely twisted worsted yarn a fancy docking facility for small yachts and cabin cruisers feather stars; formerly called family Comatulidae "a piece broken off of something else; 'a fragment of rock'" a bomb that is designed to start fires a substance formed during a chemical process before the desired product is obtained European birch with silvery white peeling bark and markedly drooping branches fine white Philippine fiber from stalks of unopened leaves of talipot palms; used in making hats a dye that is applied by reducing the dye to a base-soluble form, applying the dye, then regenerating the insoluble dye by oxidation in the material a severe disease chiefly of children and characterized by painful inflammation of the joints and frequently damage to the heart valves yellow squash with a thin curved neck and somewhat warty skin small elongate fishes of shallow northern seas; a long dorsal fin consists entirely of spines concern with things of the spirit an ornament in the shape of a ball on the hilt of a sword or dagger a room containing lockers for the temporary storage of clothing and personal possessions capturing a steer with a lasso type genus of the Culicidae: widespread genus of mosquitoes distinguished by holding the body parallel to the resting surface any of various small gray-and-black songbirds of North America a unit of illumination equal to 1 lumen per square centimeter; 10,000 phots equal 1 lux compound lens or lens system designed to be free of astigmatism and able to form approximately point images someone who supports or champions something a modified leaf or leaflike part just below and protecting an inflorescence very hot prepared mustard a card with words or numbers of pictures that are flashed to a class by the teacher suddenly disappearing from sight a quality of refined gracefulness and good taste a hand tool used for opening sealed containers (bottles or cans) terrestrial ferns of Pacific islands and Asia; sometimes placed in family Polypodaceae or Adiantaceae comprising all vertebrates with upper and lower jaws a compartment on a ship between decks; often used as a hospital; 'they put him in the sick bay' complex system of paths or tunnels a small area at a racecourse where awards are given to the owners of winning horses a custom among some peoples whereby the husband of a pregnant wife is put to bed at the time of bearing the child of the plains of central and eastern Africa the ceremony or sacrament of marriage genus of Old World herbs with linear entire leaves and yellow or purple flower heads Old World leaf-nosed bats a large number of things or people considered together; 'a crowd of insects assembled around the flowers' returns the eighth element of list, using one-based addressing.position eight in a countable series of things leave granted to a sailor or naval officer any plant of the genus Amorphophallus North American silkworm moth; larvae feed on the leaves of forest trees sage of eastern United States a movement back from an impact genus of epiphytic orchids of tropical Asia an abrupt emphatic exclamation launches aircraft from a warship the guardianship and control exercised by a deity; 'divine providence' the period between infection and the appearance of symptoms of the disease glass having a relatively low softening point (anatomy) a structure that resembles a shell in shape a plastic made with fluorocarbon sirenian mammal of tropical coastal waters of America; the flat tail is rounded razorfishes evergreen tropical trees and shrubs with milky sap a ridge of thick planking along the side of a wooden ship a layer of boards applied to the studs and joists of a building to strengthen it and serve as a foundation for a weatherproof exterior a light inflated pastry or puff shell any of several plant glycoproteins that act like specific antibodies but are not antibodies in that they are not evoked by an antigenic stimulus the most common flea attacking humans puffins black-and-red or black-and-yellow orioles of the American tropics the act of persevering malicious satisfaction a trumpet-shaped device to intensify and direct the human voice; formerly held to the ear by a hard-of-hearing person several repetitions of a melodic phrase in different keys hydras; polyps; jellyfishes; sea anemones; corals genus of antelopes of North African deserts the stirrup-shaped ossicle that transmits sound to the cochlea fracture of the skull where the bone is pushed in a thing that is different; 'he inspected several changes before selecting one' the academic department responsible for teaching and research in linguistics Australian plant of genus Pipturus whose fiber is used in making cloth a keyboard for manually entering characters to be printed an evasive maneuver by an aircraft a sweet liquid secretion that is attractive to pollinators any of several rock-loving cresses of the genus Arabis converts electrical signals into sounds an element that occurs at very small quantities in the body but is nonetheless important for many biological processes an edible agaric with large silky white caps and thick stalks the subordination that occurs when a conjunction makes one linguistic unit a constituent of another removal of fluid from the subarachnoid space of the lumbar region of the spinal cord for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes an airfield equipped with control tower and hangers as well as accommodations for passengers and cargo shrubby 2-needled pine of coastal northwestern United States; red to yellow-brown bark fissured into small squares the distant past beyond memory widely distributed in United States except northwest and far west regions one-half the major axis of an ellipse; the distance from the center of an ellipse to one end a rod that transmits motion (especially one that connects a rotating wheel to a reciprocating shaft) bottom-dwelling freshwater turtle inhabiting muddy rivers of North and Central America a volunteer who records (usually by phone) contributions pledged in a fund drive lack of movement or room for movement any of numerous superior eating apples with yellow or greenish yellow skin flushed with red largest tuna; to 1500 pounds; of mostly temperate seas: feed in polar regions but breed in tropics any plant of the genus Filago having capitate clusters of small woolly flower heads a cleaning pad containing soap an area of closely cropped grass surrounding the hole on a golf course an opening that allows the passage of liquids or grain a specific size and style of type within a type family large genus of small tropical usually succulent herbs: radiator plants a native or inhabitant of Oman small trees, shrubs, and herbs of warm arid and saline regions; often resinous; some poisonous: genera Zygophyllum; Tribulus; Guaiacum: Larrea the act of running away with a lover (usually to get married) the throwing of an object in order to determine an outcome randomly; 'he risked his fortune on a throw of the dice' freedom from constraint or embarrassment; 'I am never at ease with strangers' a box for holding pencils crested ill-smelling South American bird whose young have claws on the first and second digits of the wings carries skiers up a hill a colorless oily liquid occurring as a glyceride in almost all natural fats; used in making soap and cosmetics and ointments and lubricating oils flightless cold-water seabirds: penguins the amount of money needed to purchase something; 'the price of gasoline'; 'he got his new car on excellent terms'; 'how much is the damage?' (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera; 'sharks belong to the fish family' an area reserved for some particular purpose; 'the laboratory's floor space' increase by a factor of two a worker who is employed to cover objects with paint any of numerous deciduous trees and shrubs of the genus Salix stiff perennial of the eastern United States having small linear leaves and numerous tiny white flower heads a (Japanese) musician who plays the koto health care for the aged; a federally administered system of health insurance available to persons aged 65 and over type genus of the Testudinidae hormone secreted by the pituitary gland; stimulates contractions of the uterus and ejection of milk a data transmission rate; the maximum amount of information (bits/second) that can be transmitted along a channel utmost importance the act of entering some territory or domain (often in large numbers); 'the incursion of television into the American livingroom' ground dried fish used as fertilizer and as feed for domestic livestock any of a numerous plants grown for their 5-petal flowers; abundant in temperate regions; alleged to have medicinal properties small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns a curve or surface whose equation (in Cartesian coordinates) is of the second degree a slack suit for women primitive terrestrial mammal with few if any teeth; of tropical Central and South America a canal made by erosion or excavation any of numerous venomous aquatic viviparous snakes having a fin-like tail; of warm littoral seas; feed on fish which they immobilize with quick-acting venom where clothes are stored used to nail down carpets small shrubby tree of eastern North America having leaves exuding an odor of balsam when crushed shrub with terminal tufts of elongated leaves used locally for thatching and clothing; thick sweet roots are used as food; tropical southeastern Asia, Australia and Hawaii an arrangement (usually in the floor or a wall of a room) for admitting or excluding heated air from the room the minister responsible for state finances a usually cotton fabric with a short pile imitating velvet small genus of tropical and subtropical leguminous herbs or shrubs or trees the quality of being frightful a noisy riotous fight gum from an acacia tree; used as a thickener (especially in candies and pharmaceuticals) a poker hand with Ace-to-10 in the same suit fearless daring art and literature that represents events and social conditions as they actually are (without idealization) two of three equal parts of a divisible whole baseball a lofty peak an agent that makes things white or colorless a special advantage or immunity or benefit not enjoyed by all a solution obtained by steeping or soaking a substance (usually in water) monetary unit in Libya a mattress filled with straw or a pad made of quilts; used as a bed an officer holding the rank of major or lieutenant colonel or colonel a genus of Cotingidae a genus of grasses of the family Gramineae grown in America and Asia a foreboding about what is about to happen someone who attacks in search of booty a small fungus with a fragile cap that cracks to expose the white context and a white stalk that is practically enclosed by the cap any of a large class of synthetic fabrics a contract in which in the event of a breach by one of the parties can be considered as several independent agreements expressed in a single instrument a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations; 'the Soviet Union' deciduous erect spreading broom native to western Europe; widely cultivated for its rich yellow flowers a report published by the British government; bound in blue Old World genus of tropical evergreen usually spiny shrubs a call that passes control to a subroutine; after the subroutine is executed control returns to the next instruction in main program American butterfly having dark brown wings with white and golden orange spots grinds roasted coffee beans a severe tropical cyclone usually with heavy rains and winds moving a 73-136 knots (12 on the Beaufort scale) an apartment in a building without an elevator too much permissiveness the side that is seen or that goes first a form of bronchitis characterized by excess production of sputum leading to a chronic cough and obstruction of air flow large tree of Old World tropics having foul-smelling orange-red blossoms followed by red pods enclosing oil-rich seeds sometimes used as food a developmental abnormality in which there is only one eye