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