ig: Prefix, Suffix and Derived words
Prefixes of ig
- dig«Word Popularity Bar5/5
dig
- noun the site of an archeological exploration
excavation; archeological site.
- they set up camp next to the dig
- noun an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
shaft; gibe; shot; barb; slam; jibe.
- his parting shot was `drop dead'
- she threw shafts of sarcasm
- she takes a dig at me every chance she gets
- noun the site of an archeological exploration
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big
- adjective above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent
large.
- a large city
- set out for the big city
- a large sum
- a big (or large) barn
- a large family
- big businesses
- a big expenditure
- a large number of newspapers
- a big group of scientists
- large areas of the world
- adjective satellite significant
- graduation was a big day in his life
- adjective above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent
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pig
- noun domestic swine
grunter; hog; squealer; Sus scrofa.
- noun a coarse obnoxious person
slovenly person; sloven; slob.
- noun domestic swine
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fig
- noun a diagram or picture illustrating textual material
figure.
- the area covered can be seen from Figure 2
- noun Mediterranean tree widely cultivated for its edible fruit
common fig tree; common fig; Ficus carica.
- noun a diagram or picture illustrating textual material
- craig5/5
craig
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- rig4/5
rig
- noun gear (including necessary machinery) for a particular enterprise
- noun a truck consisting of a tractor and trailer together
trailer truck; tractor trailer; semi; trucking rig; articulated lorry.
- noun gear (including necessary machinery) for a particular enterprise
- brig4/5
brig
- noun two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on both masts
- noun a penal institution (especially on board a ship)
- noun two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on both masts
- whig4/5
whig
Acidulated whey, sometimes mixed with buttermilk and sweet herbs, used as a cooling beverage. Obs. or Prov. Eng.
- wig4/5
wig
- noun hairpiece covering the head and made of real or synthetic hair
- noun British slang for a scolding
wigging.
- noun hairpiece covering the head and made of real or synthetic hair
- leipzig4/5
leipzig
- noun a city in southeastern Germany famous for fairs; formerly a music and publishing center
- noun a city in southeastern Germany famous for fairs; formerly a music and publishing center
- ludwig4/5
ludwig
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- jig3/5
jig
- noun music in three-four time for dancing a jig
gigue.
- noun a fisherman's lure with one or more hooks that is jerked up and down in the water
- noun music in three-four time for dancing a jig
- swig3/5
swig
- noun a large and hurried swallow
gulp; draught; draft.
- he finished it at a single gulp
- verb strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat
slog; slug.
- He slugged me so hard that I passed out
- noun a large and hurried swallow
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gig
- noun long and light rowing boat; especially for racing
- noun an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish
fizgig; fishgig; lance; spear.
- noun long and light rowing boat; especially for racing
- twig3/5
twig
- noun a small branch or division of a branch (especially a terminal division); usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year
sprig; branchlet.
- verb branch out in a twiglike manner
- The lightning bolt twigged in several directions
- noun a small branch or division of a branch (especially a terminal division); usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year
- zig3/5
zig
- noun an angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions
zigzag; zag.
- noun an angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions
- danzig3/5
danzig
- noun a port city of northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula River on a gulf of the Baltic Sea; a member of the Hanseatic League in the 14th century
Gdansk.
- noun a port city of northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula River on a gulf of the Baltic Sea; a member of the Hanseatic League in the 14th century
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sprig
- noun a small branch or division of a branch (especially a terminal division); usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year
twig; branchlet.
- noun an ornament that resembles a spray of leaves or flowers
- noun a small branch or division of a branch (especially a terminal division); usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year
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- sig3/5
sig
Urine. Prov. Eng.
- haig3/5
haig
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- rosenzweig3/5
rosenzweig
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- mig3/5
mig
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- orig3/5
orig
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trig
- noun the mathematics of triangles and trigonometric functions
trigonometry.
- adjective satellite neat and smart in appearance
trim; clean-cut.
- a clean-cut and well-bred young man
- the trig corporal in his jaunty cap
- a trim beard
- noun the mathematics of triangles and trigonometric functions
- zweig2/5
zweig
- noun Austrian writer (1881-1942)
Stefan Zweig.
- noun Austrian writer (1881-1942)
- prig2/5
prig
- noun a person regarded as arrogant and annoying
snob; snoot; snot.
- noun a person regarded as arrogant and annoying
- whirligig2/5
whirligig
- noun a conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin
teetotum; top; spinning top.
- he got a bright red top and string for his birthday
- noun a large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride or amusement
roundabout; carrousel; carousel; merry-go-round.
- noun a conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin
- braunschweig2/5
braunschweig
- noun a city in central Germany
Brunswick.
- noun a city in central Germany
- gehrig2/5
gehrig
- noun baseball player who died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (1903-1941)
Henry Louis Gehrig; Lou Gehrig.
- noun baseball player who died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (1903-1941)
- oig2/5
oig
- noun the investigative arm of the Federal Trade Commission
Office of Inspector General.
- noun the investigative arm of the Federal Trade Commission
- shindig2/5
shindig
- noun a large and noisy party of people
shindy.
- noun a large and noisy party of people
- schleswig2/5
schleswig
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- liebig2/5
liebig
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- tig2/5
tig
A game among children. See Tag .
- leydig2/5
leydig
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- psig2/5
psig
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- greig2/5
- ivig2/5
- hedwig2/5
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- wittig2/5
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- lig2/5
lig
To recline; to lie still. Obs. or Scot. Chaucer. Spenser.
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- zelig2/5
zelig
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- roig2/5
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- heilig2/5
- notwendig2/5
- pfennig1/5
pfennig
- noun 100 pfennigs formerly equaled 1 Deutsche Mark in Germany
- noun 100 pfennigs formerly equaled 1 Deutsche Mark in Germany
- bigwig1/5
bigwig
- noun the most important person in a group or undertaking
kingpin; top banana.
- noun the most important person in a group or undertaking
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earwig
- noun any of numerous insects of the order Dermaptera having elongate bodies and slender many-jointed antennae and a pair of large pincers at the rear of the abdomen
- noun any of numerous insects of the order Dermaptera having elongate bodies and slender many-jointed antennae and a pair of large pincers at the rear of the abdomen
- zaftig1/5
zaftig
- adjective satellite (of a female body) healthily plump and vigorous;
zoftig; buxom.
- a generation ago...buxom actresses were popular"- Robt.A.Hamilton
- adjective satellite (of a female body) healthily plump and vigorous;
- thingamajig1/5
thingamajig
- noun something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known
gubbins; gismo; thingumabob; whatchamacallit; doohickey; doodad; thingumajig; widget; whatsis; thingamabob; thingummy; thingmabob; whatchamacallum; doojigger; gimmick; thingmajig; gizmo.
- she eased the ball-shaped doodad back into its socket
- there may be some great new gizmo around the corner that you will want to use
- noun something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known
- periwig1/5
periwig
- noun a wig for men that was fashionable in the 17th and 18th centuries
peruke.
- noun a wig for men that was fashionable in the 17th and 18th centuries
- eadwig1/5
eadwig
- noun King of England who was renounced by Northumbria in favor of his brother Edgar (died in 959)
Edwy.
- noun King of England who was renounced by Northumbria in favor of his brother Edgar (died in 959)
- hartig1/5
- yig1/5
- relig1/5
relig
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- frig1/5
frig
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- thig1/5
thig
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- slesvig1/5
- uig1/5
- enig1/5
- alig1/5
- refrig1/5
refrig
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- grig1/5
grig
(Zoöl.) (a) A cricket or grasshopper. Prov. Eng.(b) Any small eel .(c) The broad-nosed eel See Prov. Eng.Glut .
- schuldig1/5
- zellig1/5
zellig
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- zomig1/5
- geduldig1/5
- nodig1/5
- brillig1/5
- harig1/5
- taig1/5
taig
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- redig1/5
redig
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- zagazig1/5
- jbig1/5
- chlodwig1/5
- tubig1/5
- bushpig1/5
- guineapig1/5
guineapig
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- wettig1/5
- karig1/5
- spig1/5
spig
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- aussig1/5
- naig1/5
nag
- noun someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault
nagger; common scold; scold; scolder.
- noun an old or over-worked horse
plug; jade; hack.
- noun someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault
- minipig1/5
Suffixes of ig
- ignored«Word Popularity Bar5/5
ignored
- adjective satellite disregarded
neglected; unheeded.
- his cries were unheeded
- Shaw's neglected one-act comedy, `A Village Wooing'
- her ignored advice
- verb refuse to acknowledge
ignore; disregard; cut; snub.
- She cut him dead at the meeting
- adjective satellite disregarded
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ignore
- verb refuse to acknowledge
disregard; cut; snub.
- She cut him dead at the meeting
- verb bar from attention or consideration
dismiss; brush aside; brush off; discount; push aside; disregard.
- She dismissed his advances
- verb refuse to acknowledge
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ignore
- verb refuse to acknowledge
disregard; cut; snub.
- She cut him dead at the meeting
- verb bar from attention or consideration
dismiss; brush aside; brush off; discount; push aside; disregard.
- She dismissed his advances
- verb refuse to acknowledge
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ignorance
- noun the lack of knowledge or education
- noun the lack of knowledge or education
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ignorant
- adjective satellite uneducated in general; lacking knowledge or sophistication
unlettered; nescient; unlearned.
- an ignorant man
- nescient of contemporary literature
- an unlearned group incapable of understanding complex issues
- exhibiting contempt for his unlettered companions
- adjective satellite uneducated in the fundamentals of a given art or branch of learning; lacking knowledge of a specific field
illiterate.
- she is ignorant of quantum mechanics
- he is musically illiterate
- adjective satellite uneducated in general; lacking knowledge or sophistication
- ignition4/5
ignition
- noun the process of initiating combustion or catching fire
- noun the mechanism that ignites the fuel in an internal-combustion engine
ignition system.
- noun the process of initiating combustion or catching fire
- ignores4/5
ignore
- verb refuse to acknowledge
disregard; cut; snub.
- She cut him dead at the meeting
- verb bar from attention or consideration
dismiss; brush aside; brush off; discount; push aside; disregard.
- She dismissed his advances
- verb refuse to acknowledge
- igg3/5
igg
- noun one of the five major classes of immunoglobulins; the main antibody defense against bacteria
immunoglobulin G.
- noun one of the five major classes of immunoglobulins; the main antibody defense against bacteria
- ige3/5
ige
- noun one of the five major classes of immunoglobulins; present primarily in the skin and mucous membranes
immunoglobulin E.
- noun one of the five major classes of immunoglobulins; present primarily in the skin and mucous membranes
- iga3/5
iga
- noun one of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins; the chief antibody in the membranes of the gastrointestinal and respiratory tracts
immunoglobulin A.
- noun one of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins; the chief antibody in the membranes of the gastrointestinal and respiratory tracts
- igm3/5
igm
- noun one of the five major classes of immunoglobulins; involved in fighting blood infections and in triggering production of immunoglobulin G
immunoglobulin M.
- noun one of the five major classes of immunoglobulins; involved in fighting blood infections and in triggering production of immunoglobulin G
- ignited3/5
ignited
- adjective satellite set afire
enkindled; kindled.
- the ignited paper
- a kindled fire
- verb cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat
ignite; light.
- Great heat can ignite almost any dry matter
- Light a cigarette
- adjective satellite set afire
- ignite3/5
ignite
- verb cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat
light.
- Great heat can ignite almost any dry matter
- Light a cigarette
- verb start to burn or burst into flames
catch fire; take fire; combust; erupt; conflagrate.
- Marsh gases ignited suddenly
- The oily rags combusted spontaneously
- verb cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat
- igneous3/5
igneous
- adjective produced under conditions involving intense heat; especially from molten magma"
pyrogenous; pyrogenic.
- igneous rock is rock formed by solidification from a molten state
- igneous fusion is fusion by heat alone
- pyrogenic strata
- adjective produced by the action of fire or intense heat
eruptive.
- rocks formed by igneous agents
- adjective produced under conditions involving intense heat; especially from molten magma"
- igbo3/5
igbo
- noun a member of the largest ethnic group in southeastern Nigeria
- most Igbo are farmers
- noun a member of the largest ethnic group in southeastern Nigeria
- ignoble3/5
ignoble
- adjective completely lacking nobility in character or quality or purpose
- something cowardly and ignoble in his attitude
- I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part"- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
- adjective satellite not of the nobility
ungentle; untitled.
- of ignoble (or ungentle) birth
- untitled civilians
- adjective completely lacking nobility in character or quality or purpose
- ignatius3/5
ignatius
- noun bishop of Antioch who was martyred under the Roman Emperor Trajan (died 110)
Saint Ignatius; St. Ignatius.
- noun bishop of Antioch who was martyred under the Roman Emperor Trajan (died 110)
- ignominious3/5
ignominious
- adjective satellite (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame
opprobrious; shameful; inglorious; black; disgraceful.
- Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel Carson
- an ignominious retreat
- inglorious defeat
- an opprobrious monument to human greed
- a shameful display of cowardice
- adjective satellite (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame
- iguana3/5
iguana
- noun large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back; used as human food in Central America and South America
Iguana iguana; common iguana.
- noun large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back; used as human food in Central America and South America
- igor3/5
igor
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- ignacio3/5
ignacio
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- igd2/5
igd
- noun one of the five major classes of immunoglobulins; present in blood serum in small amounts
immunoglobulin D.
- noun one of the five major classes of immunoglobulins; present in blood serum in small amounts
- igniting2/5
ignite
- verb cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat
light.
- Great heat can ignite almost any dry matter
- Light a cigarette
- verb start to burn or burst into flames
catch fire; take fire; combust; erupt; conflagrate.
- Marsh gases ignited suddenly
- The oily rags combusted spontaneously
- verb cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat
- ignites2/5
ignite
- verb cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat
light.
- Great heat can ignite almost any dry matter
- Light a cigarette
- verb start to burn or burst into flames
catch fire; take fire; combust; erupt; conflagrate.
- Marsh gases ignited suddenly
- The oily rags combusted spontaneously
- verb cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat
- igniter2/5
igniter
- noun a substance used to ignite or kindle a fire
ignitor; lighter.
- noun a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires
light; ignitor; lighter.
- do you have a light?
- noun a substance used to ignite or kindle a fire
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ignoramus
- noun an ignorant person
uneducated person; know nothing.
- noun an ignorant person
- ignominy2/5
ignominy
- noun a state of dishonor
shame; disgrace.
- one mistake brought shame to all his family
- suffered the ignominy of being sent to prison
- noun a state of dishonor
- iglesias2/5
iglesias
- noun Spanish singer noted for his ballads and love songs (born in 1943)
Julio Iglesias.
- noun Spanish singer noted for his ballads and love songs (born in 1943)
- igbos2/5
igbo
- noun a member of the largest ethnic group in southeastern Nigeria
- most Igbo are farmers
- noun a member of the largest ethnic group in southeastern Nigeria
- igloo2/5
igloo
- noun an Eskimo hut; usually built of blocks (of sod or snow) in the shape of a dome
iglu.
- noun an Eskimo hut; usually built of blocks (of sod or snow) in the shape of a dome
- ignominiously2/5
ignominiously
- adverb in a dishonorable manner or to a dishonorable degree
shamefully; ingloriously; disgracefully; discreditably; dishonorably; dishonourably.
- his grades were disgracefully low
- adverb in a dishonorable manner or to a dishonorable degree
- ignorantly2/5
ignorantly
- adverb in ignorance; in an ignorant manner
- they lived ignorantly in their own small world
- adverb in ignorance; in an ignorant manner
- iguanas2/5
iguana
- noun large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back; used as human food in Central America and South America
Iguana iguana; common iguana.
- noun large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back; used as human food in Central America and South America
- iglesia2/5
iglesia
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- igitur2/5
igitur
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- ignace2/5
ignace
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- ignis2/5
ignis
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- igad2/5
igad
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- ignatia2/5
ignatia
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- iggs1/5
igg
- noun one of the five major classes of immunoglobulins; the main antibody defense against bacteria
immunoglobulin G.
- noun one of the five major classes of immunoglobulins; the main antibody defense against bacteria
- ignitable1/5
ignitable
- adjective satellite capable of burning
ignitible; burnable.
- adjective satellite capable of burning
- ignitions1/5
ignition
- noun the process of initiating combustion or catching fire
- noun the mechanism that ignites the fuel in an internal-combustion engine
ignition system.
- noun the process of initiating combustion or catching fire
- igniters1/5
igniter
- noun a substance used to ignite or kindle a fire
ignitor; lighter.
- noun a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires
light; ignitor; lighter.
- do you have a light?
- noun a substance used to ignite or kindle a fire
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ignitor
- noun a substance used to ignite or kindle a fire
lighter; igniter.
- noun a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires
light; lighter; igniter.
- do you have a light?
- noun a substance used to ignite or kindle a fire
- ignoramuses1/5
ignoramus
- noun an ignorant person
uneducated person; know nothing.
- noun an ignorant person
- iguazu1/5
iguazu
- noun a large waterfall on the border between Argentina and Brazil
Iguazu Falls; Iguassu Falls; Victoria Falls; Iguassu.
- noun a large waterfall on the border between Argentina and Brazil
- iguanidae1/5
iguanidae
- noun New World lizards
family Iguanidae; Iguania; family Iguania.
- noun New World lizards
- ignorances1/5
- ignominies1/5
ignominy
- noun a state of dishonor
shame; disgrace.
- one mistake brought shame to all his family
- suffered the ignominy of being sent to prison
- noun a state of dishonor
- igloos1/5
igloo
- noun an Eskimo hut; usually built of blocks (of sod or snow) in the shape of a dome
iglu.
- noun an Eskimo hut; usually built of blocks (of sod or snow) in the shape of a dome
- ignobly1/5
ignobly
- adverb in a currish manner; meanspiritedly
currishly.
- he behaved ignobly
- adverb in a currish manner; meanspiritedly
- iglu1/5
iglu
- noun an Eskimo hut; usually built of blocks (of sod or snow) in the shape of a dome
igloo.
- noun an Eskimo hut; usually built of blocks (of sod or snow) in the shape of a dome
- ignobility1/5
ignobility
- noun the quality of being ignoble
ignobleness.
- noun the quality of being ignoble
- igigi1/5
igigi
- noun any of a group of heavenly spirits under the god Anu
- noun any of a group of heavenly spirits under the god Anu
- iguanodon1/5
iguanodon
- noun massive herbivorous bipedal dinosaur with a long heavy tail; common in Europe and northern Africa; early Cretaceous period
- noun massive herbivorous bipedal dinosaur with a long heavy tail; common in Europe and northern Africa; early Cretaceous period
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iguanid
- noun lizards of the New World and Madagascar and some Pacific islands; typically having a long tail and bright throat patch in males
iguanid lizard.
- noun lizards of the New World and Madagascar and some Pacific islands; typically having a long tail and bright throat patch in males
- ignorable1/5
ignorable
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- igorot1/5
igorot
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- ignorantia1/5
ignorantia
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- ignimbrite1/5
ignimbrite
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- ignimbrites1/5
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- igraine1/5
igraine
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- ignitability1/5
- ignotus1/5
- ignoratio1/5
ignoratio
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- ignorer1/5
ignore
- verb refuse to acknowledge
disregard; cut; snub.
- She cut him dead at the meeting
- verb bar from attention or consideration
dismiss; brush aside; brush off; discount; push aside; disregard.
- She dismissed his advances
- verb refuse to acknowledge
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ignorant
- adjective satellite uneducated in general; lacking knowledge or sophistication
unlettered; nescient; unlearned.
- an ignorant man
- nescient of contemporary literature
- an unlearned group incapable of understanding complex issues
- exhibiting contempt for his unlettered companions
- adjective satellite uneducated in the fundamentals of a given art or branch of learning; lacking knowledge of a specific field
illiterate.
- she is ignorant of quantum mechanics
- he is musically illiterate
- adjective satellite uneducated in general; lacking knowledge or sophistication
Derived words of ig
- malignant«Word Popularity Bar5/5
malignant
- adjective dangerous to health; characterized by progressive and uncontrolled growth (especially of a tumor)
- adjective dangerous to health; characterized by progressive and uncontrolled growth (especially of a tumor)
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benign
- adjective not dangerous to health; not recurrent or progressive (especially of a tumor)
- adjective pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence
benignant.
- a benign smile
- the benign sky
- the benign influence of pure air
- adjective not dangerous to health; not recurrent or progressive (especially of a tumor)
- light5/5
light
- noun (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation
visible light; visible radiation.
- the light was filtered through a soft glass window
- noun any device serving as a source of illumination
light source.
- he stopped the car and turned off the lights
- noun (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation
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light
- noun (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation
visible light; visible radiation.
- the light was filtered through a soft glass window
- noun any device serving as a source of illumination
light source.
- he stopped the car and turned off the lights
- noun (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation
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migration
- noun the movement of persons from one country or locality to another
- noun a group of people migrating together (especially in some given time period)
- noun the movement of persons from one country or locality to another
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figure
- noun a diagram or picture illustrating textual material
fig.
- the area covered can be seen from Figure 2
- noun alternative names for the body of a human being
form; flesh; soma; frame; physique; material body; anatomy; shape; chassis; build; human body; physical body; bod.
- Leonardo studied the human body
- he has a strong physique
- the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak
- noun a diagram or picture illustrating textual material
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sign
- noun a perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened)
mark.
- he showed signs of strain
- they welcomed the signs of spring
- noun a public display of a message
- he posted signs in all the shop windows
- noun a perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened)
- figures5/5
figure
- noun a diagram or picture illustrating textual material
fig.
- the area covered can be seen from Figure 2
- noun alternative names for the body of a human being
form; flesh; soma; frame; physique; material body; anatomy; shape; chassis; build; human body; physical body; bod.
- Leonardo studied the human body
- he has a strong physique
- the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak
- noun a diagram or picture illustrating textual material
- signs5/5
sign
- noun a perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened)
mark.
- he showed signs of strain
- they welcomed the signs of spring
- noun a public display of a message
- he posted signs in all the shop windows
- noun a perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened)
- digital5/5
digital
- adjective displaying numbers rather than scale positions
- digital clock
- digital readout
- adjective relating to or performed with the fingers
- digital examination
- adjective displaying numbers rather than scale positions
- fighting5/5
fighting
- noun the act of fighting; any contest or struggle
scrap; combat; fight.
- a fight broke out at the hockey game
- there was fighting in the streets
- the unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap
- verb be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight
contend; struggle; fight.
- the tribesmen fought each other
- Siblings are always fighting
- Militant groups are contending for control of the country
- noun the act of fighting; any contest or struggle
- rigid5/5
rigid
- adjective satellite incapable of or resistant to bending
stiff.
- a rigid strip of metal
- a table made of rigid plastic
- a palace guardsman stiff as a poker
- stiff hair
- a stiff neck
- adjective satellite incapable of compromise or flexibility
strict.
- adjective satellite incapable of or resistant to bending
- lighting5/5
lighting
- noun having abundant light or illumination
light.
- they played as long as it was light
- as long as the lighting was good
- noun apparatus for supplying artificial light effects for the stage or a film
- noun having abundant light or illumination
- figured5/5
figured
- adjective satellite (of e.g. fabric design) adorned with patterns
- my dress is richly figured"- Amy Lowell
- verb judge to be probable
calculate; figure; reckon; forecast; estimate; count on.
- adjective satellite (of e.g. fabric design) adorned with patterns
- irrigation5/5
irrigation
- noun supplying dry land with water by means of ditches etc
- noun (medicine) cleaning a wound or body organ by flushing or washing out with water or a medicated solution
- noun supplying dry land with water by means of ditches etc
- alignment5/5
alignment
- noun an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty
alinement; alliance; coalition.
- noun the spatial property possessed by an arrangement or position of things in a straight line or in parallel lines
- noun an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty
- sunlight5/5
sunlight
- noun the rays of the sun
sun; sunshine.
- the shingles were weathered by the sun and wind
- noun the rays of the sun
- right5/5
right
- noun an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature; it is something that nobody can take away"
- they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights
- Certain rights can never be granted to the government but must be kept in the hands of the people"- Eleanor Roosevelt
- a right is not something that somebody gives you
- noun location near or direction toward the right side; i.e. the side to the south when a person or object faces east
- he stood on the right
- noun an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature; it is something that nobody can take away"
- night5/5
night
- noun the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
dark; nighttime.
- noun a period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom
- noun the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
- rights5/5
right
- noun an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature; it is something that nobody can take away"
- they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights
- Certain rights can never be granted to the government but must be kept in the hands of the people"- Eleanor Roosevelt
- a right is not something that somebody gives you
- noun location near or direction toward the right side; i.e. the side to the south when a person or object faces east
- he stood on the right
- noun an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature; it is something that nobody can take away"
- design5/5
design
- noun the act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan)
designing.
- he contributed to the design of a new instrument
- noun an arrangement scheme
plan.
- the awkward design of the keyboard made operation difficult
- it was an excellent design for living
- a plan for seating guests
- noun the act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan)
- weight5/5
weight
- noun the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity
- noun sports equipment used in calisthenic exercises and weightlifting; it is not attached to anything and is raised and lowered by use of the hands and arms
exercising weight; free weight.
- noun the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity
- signal5/5
signal
- noun any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message
signaling; sign.
- signals from the boat suddenly stopped
- noun any incitement to action
- he awaited the signal to start
- the victory was a signal for wild celebration
- noun any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message
- straight5/5
straight
- noun a heterosexual person; someone having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex
straight person; heterosexual person; heterosexual.
- noun a poker hand with 5 consecutive cards (regardless of suit)
- noun a heterosexual person; someone having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex
- fight5/5
fight
- noun a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war
battle; engagement; conflict.
- Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga
- he lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement
- noun the act of fighting; any contest or struggle
scrap; combat; fighting.
- a fight broke out at the hockey game
- there was fighting in the streets
- the unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap
- noun a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war
- origin5/5
origin
- noun the place where something begins, where it springs into being
root; beginning; rootage; source.
- the Italian beginning of the Renaissance
- Jupiter was the origin of the radiation
- Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River
- communism's Russian root
- noun properties attributable to your ancestry
extraction; descent.
- he comes from good origins
- noun the place where something begins, where it springs into being
- campaign5/5
campaign
- noun a race between candidates for elective office
run; political campaign.
- I managed his campaign for governor
- he is raising money for a Senate run
- noun a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
cause; drive; crusade; effort; movement.
- he supported populist campaigns
- they worked in the cause of world peace
- the team was ready for a drive toward the pennant
- the movement to end slavery
- contributed to the war effort
- noun a race between candidates for elective office
- flight5/5
flight
- noun a formation of aircraft in flight
- noun an instance of traveling by air
flying.
- flying was still an exciting adventure for him
- noun a formation of aircraft in flight
- signed5/5
signed
- adjective having a handwritten signature
- a signed letter
- verb mark with one's signature; write one's name (on)
subscribe; sign.
- She signed the letter and sent it off
- Please sign here
- adjective having a handwritten signature
- configuration5/5
configuration
- noun an arrangement of parts or elements
constellation.
- the outcome depends on the configuration of influences at the time
- noun any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline)
shape; contour; form; conformation.
- he could barely make out their shapes
- noun an arrangement of parts or elements
- signals5/5
signal
- noun any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message
signaling; sign.
- signals from the boat suddenly stopped
- noun any incitement to action
- he awaited the signal to start
- the victory was a signal for wild celebration
- noun any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message
- origins5/5
origin
- noun the place where something begins, where it springs into being
root; beginning; rootage; source.
- the Italian beginning of the Renaissance
- Jupiter was the origin of the radiation
- Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River
- communism's Russian root
- noun properties attributable to your ancestry
extraction; descent.
- he comes from good origins
- noun the place where something begins, where it springs into being
- obligation5/5
obligation
- noun the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty"- John D.Rockefeller Jr
duty; responsibility.
- we must instill a sense of duty in our children
- every right implies a responsibility
- noun the state of being obligated to do or pay something
- he is under an obligation to finish the job
- noun the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty"- John D.Rockefeller Jr
- designs5/5
design
- noun the act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan)
designing.
- he contributed to the design of a new instrument
- noun an arrangement scheme
plan.
- the awkward design of the keyboard made operation difficult
- it was an excellent design for living
- a plan for seating guests
- noun the act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan)
- tight5/5
tight
- adjective closely constrained or constricted or constricting
- tight skirts
- he hated tight starched collars
- fingers closed in a tight fist
- a tight feeling in his chest
- adjective satellite pulled or drawn tight
taut.
- taut sails
- a tight drumhead
- a tight rope
- adjective closely constrained or constricted or constricting
- obligations5/5
obligation
- noun the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty"- John D.Rockefeller Jr
duty; responsibility.
- we must instill a sense of duty in our children
- every right implies a responsibility
- noun the state of being obligated to do or pay something
- he is under an obligation to finish the job
- noun the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty"- John D.Rockefeller Jr
- neighbors5/5
neighbor
- noun a person who lives (or is located) near another
neighbour.
- noun a nearby object of the same kind
neighbour.
- Fort Worth is a neighbor of Dallas
- what is the closest neighbor to the Earth?
- noun a person who lives (or is located) near another
- nights5/5
night
- noun the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
dark; nighttime.
- noun a period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom
- noun the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
- bigger5/5
bigger
- adjective satellite large or big relative to something else
larger.
- adjective above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent
large; big.
- a large city
- set out for the big city
- a large sum
- a big (or large) barn
- a large family
- big businesses
- a big expenditure
- a large number of newspapers
- a big group of scientists
- large areas of the world
- adjective satellite large or big relative to something else
- reign5/5
reign
- noun a period during which something or somebody is dominant or powerful
- he was helpless under the reign of his egotism
- noun the period during which a monarch is sovereign
- during the reign of Henry VIII
- noun a period during which something or somebody is dominant or powerful
- biggest5/5
big
- adjective above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent
large.
- a large city
- set out for the big city
- a large sum
- a big (or large) barn
- a large family
- big businesses
- a big expenditure
- a large number of newspapers
- a big group of scientists
- large areas of the world
- adjective satellite significant
- graduation was a big day in his life
- adjective above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent
- obliged5/5
obliged
- adjective satellite under a moral obligation to do something
duty-bound.
- verb force somebody to do something
oblige; obligate; compel.
- We compel all students to fill out this form
- adjective satellite under a moral obligation to do something
- neighbor5/5
neighbor
- noun a person who lives (or is located) near another
neighbour.
- noun a nearby object of the same kind
neighbour.
- Fort Worth is a neighbor of Dallas
- what is the closest neighbor to the Earth?
- noun a person who lives (or is located) near another
- trigger5/5
trigger
- noun lever that activates the firing mechanism of a gun
gun trigger.
- noun a device that activates or releases or causes something to happen
- noun lever that activates the firing mechanism of a gun
- campaigns5/5
campaign
- noun a race between candidates for elective office
run; political campaign.
- I managed his campaign for governor
- he is raising money for a Senate run
- noun a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
cause; drive; crusade; effort; movement.
- he supported populist campaigns
- they worked in the cause of world peace
- the team was ready for a drive toward the pennant
- the movement to end slavery
- contributed to the war effort
- noun a race between candidates for elective office
- lightly5/5
lightly
- adverb without good reason
- one cannot say such things lightly
- adverb with few burdens
light.
- experienced travellers travel light
- adverb without good reason
- weights5/5
weight
- noun the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity
- noun sports equipment used in calisthenic exercises and weightlifting; it is not attached to anything and is raised and lowered by use of the hands and arms
exercising weight; free weight.
- noun the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity
- aboriginal5/5
aboriginal
- noun an indigenous person who was born in a particular place
indigen; indigene; aborigine; native.
- the art of the natives of the northwest coast
- the Canadian government scrapped plans to tax the grants to aboriginal college students
- noun a dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived
Aborigine; Australian Aborigine; native Australian; Abo.
- noun an indigenous person who was born in a particular place
- signaling5/5
signaling
- noun any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message
signal; sign.
- signals from the boat suddenly stopped
- verb communicate silently and non-verbally by signals or signs
signalise; signal; signalize; sign.
- He signed his disapproval with a dismissive hand gesture
- The diner signaled the waiters to bring the menu
- noun any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message
- investigators5/5
investigator
- noun a scientist who devotes himself to doing research
researcher; research worker.
- noun someone who investigates
- noun a scientist who devotes himself to doing research
- originated5/5
originate
- verb come into existence; take on form or shape
develop; rise; uprise; spring up; arise; grow.
- A new religious movement originated in that country
- a love that sprang up from friendship
- the idea for the book grew out of a short story
- An interesting phenomenon uprose
- verb bring into being
initiate; start.
- He initiated a new program
- Start a foundation
- verb come into existence; take on form or shape
- tiger5/5
tiger
- noun a fierce or audacious person
- he's a tiger on the tennis court
- it aroused the tiger in me
- noun large feline of forests in most of Asia having a tawny coat with black stripes; endangered
Panthera tigris.
- noun a fierce or audacious person
- antigen5/5
antigen
- noun any substance (as a toxin or enzyme) that stimulates an immune response in the body (especially the production of antibodies)
- noun any substance (as a toxin or enzyme) that stimulates an immune response in the body (especially the production of antibodies)
- might5/5
might
- noun physical strength
mightiness; power.
- noun physical strength
- high5/5
high
- noun a lofty level or position or degree
- summer temperatures reached an all-time high
- noun an air mass of higher than normal pressure
- the east coast benefits from a Bermuda high
- noun a lofty level or position or degree
- higher5/5
higher
- adjective satellite advanced in complexity or elaboration
- higher finance
- higher mathematics
- adjective satellite of education beyond the secondary level
- higher education
- higher learning
- adjective satellite advanced in complexity or elaboration
- foreign5/5
foreign
- adjective of concern to or concerning the affairs of other nations (other than your own)
- foreign trade
- a foreign office
- adjective relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world
strange.
- foreign nations
- a foreign accent
- on business in a foreign city
- adjective of concern to or concerning the affairs of other nations (other than your own)
- significant5/5
significant
- adjective important in effect or meaning
important.
- a significant change in tax laws
- a significant change in the Constitution
- a significant contribution
- significant details
- statistically significant
- adjective satellite fairly large
substantial.
- won by a substantial margin
- adjective important in effect or meaning
- religious5/5
religious
- noun a member of a religious order who is bound by vows of poverty and chastity and obedience
- adjective satellite concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church
spiritual.
- religious texts
- a member of a religious order
- lords temporal and spiritual
- spiritual leaders
- spiritual songs
- noun a member of a religious order who is bound by vows of poverty and chastity and obedience
- original5/5
original
- noun an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made
master; master copy.
- noun something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies
archetype; pilot.
- this painting is a copy of the original
- noun an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made
- religion5/5
religion
- noun a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny
religious belief; faith.
- he lost his faith but not his morality
- noun an institution to express belief in a divine power
organized religion; faith.
- he was raised in the Baptist religion
- a member of his own faith contradicted him
- noun a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny
- designed5/5
designed
- adjective done or made or performed with purpose and intent
intentional.
- style...is more than the deliberate and designed creation"- Havelock Ellis
- games designed for all ages
- well-designed houses
- verb make or work out a plan for; devise
project; design; contrive; plan.
- They contrived to murder their boss
- design a new sales strategy
- plan an attack
- adjective done or made or performed with purpose and intent
- intelligence5/5
intelligence
- noun the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience
- noun a unit responsible for gathering and interpreting information about an enemy
intelligence service; intelligence agency.
- noun the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience
- sight5/5
sight
- noun an instance of visual perception
- the sight of his wife brought him back to reality
- the train was an unexpected sight
- noun anything that is seen
- he was a familiar sight on the television
- they went to Paris to see the sights
- noun an instance of visual perception
- highest5/5
high
- noun a lofty level or position or degree
- summer temperatures reached an all-time high
- noun an air mass of higher than normal pressure
- the east coast benefits from a Bermuda high
- noun a lofty level or position or degree
- bright5/5
bright
- adjective emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts
- the sun was bright and hot
- a bright sunlit room
- adjective satellite having striking color
brilliant; vivid.
- bright dress
- brilliant tapestries
- a bird with vivid plumage
- adjective emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts
- height5/5
height
- noun the vertical dimension of extension; distance from the base of something to the top
tallness.
- noun the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
superlative; pinnacle; acme; top; summit; peak; elevation; tiptop; meridian.
- 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
- noun the vertical dimension of extension; distance from the base of something to the top
- assigned5/5
assigned
- adjective appointed to a post or duty
- assigned personnel
- assigned duties
- verb give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)
depute; assign; delegate; designate.
- adjective appointed to a post or duty
- neighborhood5/5
neighborhood
- noun a surrounding or nearby region
neck of the woods; vicinity; neighbourhood; locality.
- the plane crashed in the vicinity of Asheville
- it is a rugged locality
- he always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood
- I will drop in on you the next time I am in this neck of the woods
- noun people living near one another
neighbourhood.
- it is a friendly neighborhood
- my neighborhood voted for Bush
- noun a surrounding or nearby region
- slight5/5
slight
- noun a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval)
rebuff.
- verb pay no attention to, disrespect
cold-shoulder.
- She cold-shouldered her ex-fiance
- noun a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval)
- immigration5/5
immigration
- noun migration into a place (especially migration to a country of which you are not a native in order to settle there)
in-migration.
- noun the body of immigrants arriving during a specified interval
- the increased immigration strengthened the colony
- noun migration into a place (especially migration to a country of which you are not a native in order to settle there)
- michigan5/5
michigan
- noun a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
Great Lakes State; Wolverine State; MI.
- noun the 3rd largest of the Great Lakes; the largest freshwater lake entirely within the United States borders
Lake Michigan.
- noun a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
- dignity5/5
dignity
- noun the quality of being worthy of esteem or respect
self-respect; self-regard; self-worth.
- it was beneath his dignity to cheat
- showed his true dignity when under pressure
- noun formality in bearing and appearance
lordliness; gravitas.
- he behaved with great dignity
- noun the quality of being worthy of esteem or respect
- wright5/5
wright
- noun someone who makes or repairs something (usually used in combination)
- noun United States writer of detective novels (1888-1939)
Willard Huntington Wright; S. S. Van Dine.
- noun someone who makes or repairs something (usually used in combination)
- investigate5/5
investigate
- verb investigate scientifically
look into.
- Let's investigate the syntax of Chinese
- verb conduct an inquiry or investigation of
inquire; enquire.
- The district attorney's office investigated reports of possible irregularities
- inquire into the disappearance of the rich old lady
- verb investigate scientifically
- paradigm5/5
paradigm
- noun systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word
- noun a standard or typical example
epitome; prototype; image.
- he is the prototype of good breeding
- he provided America with an image of the good father
- noun systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word
- religions5/5
religion
- noun a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny
religious belief; faith.
- he lost his faith but not his morality
- noun an institution to express belief in a divine power
organized religion; faith.
- he was raised in the Baptist religion
- a member of his own faith contradicted him
- noun a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny
- delight5/5
delight
- noun a feeling of extreme pleasure or satisfaction
delectation.
- his delight to see her was obvious to all
- noun something or someone that provides a source of happiness
joy; pleasure.
- a joy to behold
- the pleasure of his company
- the new car is a delight
- noun a feeling of extreme pleasure or satisfaction
- signature5/5
signature
- noun your name written in your own handwriting
- noun a distinguishing style
touch.
- this room needs a woman's touch
- noun your name written in your own handwriting
- sovereign5/5
sovereign
- noun a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right
monarch; crowned head.
- adjective satellite (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces
self-governing; independent; autonomous.
- an autonomous judiciary
- a sovereign state
- noun a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right
- investigated5/5
investigate
- verb investigate scientifically
look into.
- Let's investigate the syntax of Chinese
- verb conduct an inquiry or investigation of
inquire; enquire.
- The district attorney's office investigated reports of possible irregularities
- inquire into the disappearance of the rich old lady
- verb investigate scientifically
- mighty5/5
mighty
- adjective satellite having or showing great strength or force or intensity
- struck a mighty blow
- the mighty logger Paul Bunyan
- the pen is mightier than the sword"- Bulwer-Lytton
- adverb (Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree
powerful; right; mightily.
- the baby is mighty cute
- he's mighty tired
- it is powerful humid
- that boy is powerful big now
- they have a right nice place
- they rejoiced mightily
- adjective satellite having or showing great strength or force or intensity
- fatigue5/5
fatigue
- noun temporary loss of strength and energy resulting from hard physical or mental work
tiredness; weariness.
- he was hospitalized for extreme fatigue
- growing fatigue was apparent from the decline in the execution of their athletic skills
- weariness overcame her after twelve hours and she fell asleep
- noun used of materials (especially metals) in a weakened state caused by long stress
- metal fatigue
- noun temporary loss of strength and energy resulting from hard physical or mental work
- designer5/5
designer
- noun a person who specializes in designing architectural interiors and their furnishings
interior decorator; house decorator; interior designer; room decorator; decorator.
- noun someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings)
architect.
- noun a person who specializes in designing architectural interiors and their furnishings
- frightened5/5
frightened
- adjective satellite made afraid
scared.
- the frightened child cowered in the corner
- too shocked and scared to move
- verb cause fear in
frighten; scare; fright; affright.
- The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me
- Ghosts could never affright her
- adjective satellite made afraid
- sighed5/5
sigh
- noun an utterance made by exhaling audibly
suspiration.
- noun a sound like a person sighing
- she heard the sigh of the wind in the trees
- noun an utterance made by exhaling audibly
- designing5/5
designing
- noun the act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan)
design.
- he contributed to the design of a new instrument
- verb make or work out a plan for; devise
project; design; contrive; plan.
- They contrived to murder their boss
- design a new sales strategy
- plan an attack
- noun the act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan)
- navigation5/5
navigation
- noun the guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place
pilotage; piloting.
- noun ship traffic
- the channel will be open to navigation as soon as the ice melts
- noun the guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place
- assign5/5
assign
- verb give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)
depute; delegate; designate.
- verb give out
portion; allot.
- We were assigned new uniforms
- verb give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)
- highlight5/5
highlight
- noun the most interesting or memorable part
high spot.
- the highlight of the tour was our visit to the Vatican
- noun an area of lightness in a picture
highlighting.
- noun the most interesting or memorable part
- heights5/5
heights
- noun a high place
high.
- they stood on high and observed the countryside
- he doesn't like heights
- noun the vertical dimension of extension; distance from the base of something to the top
tallness; height.
- noun a high place
- weighted5/5
weighted
- adjective satellite made heavy or weighted down with weariness
leaden.
- his leaden arms
- weighted eyelids
- verb weight down with a load
burthen; weight down; weight; burden.
- adjective satellite made heavy or weighted down with weariness
- delighted5/5
delighted
- adjective satellite greatly pleased
- verb give pleasure to or be pleasing to
delight; please.
- These colors please the senses
- a pleasing sensation
- adjective satellite greatly pleased
- highlights5/5
highlight
- noun the most interesting or memorable part
high spot.
- the highlight of the tour was our visit to the Vatican
- noun an area of lightness in a picture
highlighting.
- noun the most interesting or memorable part
- ambiguous5/5
ambiguous
- adjective open to two or more interpretations; or of uncertain nature or significance; or (often) intended to mislead
equivocal.
- an equivocal statement
- the polling had a complex and equivocal (or ambiguous) message for potential female candidates
- the officer's equivocal behavior increased the victim's uneasiness
- popularity is an equivocal crown
- an equivocal response to an embarrassing question
- adjective having more than one possible meaning
- ambiguous words
- frustrated by ambiguous instructions, the parents were unable to assemble the toy
- adjective open to two or more interpretations; or of uncertain nature or significance; or (often) intended to mislead
- foreigners5/5
foreigner
- noun a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country
alien; noncitizen; outlander.
- noun someone who is excluded from or is not a member of a group
outsider.
- noun a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country
- upright5/5
upright
- noun a vertical structural member as a post or stake
vertical.
- the ball sailed between the uprights
- noun a piano with a vertical sounding board
upright piano.
- noun a vertical structural member as a post or stake
- designers5/5
designer
- noun a person who specializes in designing architectural interiors and their furnishings
interior decorator; house decorator; interior designer; room decorator; decorator.
- noun someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings)
architect.
- noun a person who specializes in designing architectural interiors and their furnishings
- sigh5/5
sigh
- noun an utterance made by exhaling audibly
suspiration.
- noun a sound like a person sighing
- she heard the sigh of the wind in the trees
- noun an utterance made by exhaling audibly
- vigorous5/5
vigorous
- adjective satellite characterized by forceful and energetic action or activity
- a vigorous hiker
- gave her skirt a vigorous shake
- a vigorous campaign
- a vigorous foreign policy
- vigorous opposition to the war
- adjective satellite strong and active physically or mentally
- a vigorous old man who spent half of his day on horseback"- W.H.Hudson
- adjective satellite characterized by forceful and energetic action or activity
- migrants5/5
migrant
- noun traveler who moves from one region or country to another
migrator.
- adjective satellite habitually moving from place to place especially in search of seasonal work
migratory.
- appalled by the social conditions of migrant life
- migratory workers
- noun traveler who moves from one region or country to another
- righteousness5/5
righteousness
- noun adhering to moral principles
- noun adhering to moral principles
- neighboring5/5
neighboring
- adjective satellite having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching; Massachusetts and Conncecticut"
conterminous; contiguous; adjacent.
- Rhode Island has two bordering states
- the side of Germany conterminous with France
- Utah and the contiguous state of Idaho
- neighboring cities
- verb live or be located as a neighbor
neighbour; neighbor.
- the neighboring house
- adjective satellite having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching; Massachusetts and Conncecticut"
- investigating5/5
investigating
- noun the work of inquiring into something thoroughly and systematically
investigation.
- verb investigate scientifically
investigate; look into.
- Let's investigate the syntax of Chinese
- noun the work of inquiring into something thoroughly and systematically
- highly5/5
highly
- adverb to a high degree or extent; favorably or with much respect
extremely.
- highly successful
- He spoke highly of her
- does not think highly of his writing
- extremely interesting
- adverb at a high rate or wage
- highly paid workers
- adverb to a high degree or extent; favorably or with much respect
- eight5/5
eight
- noun the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one
ogdoad; octet; octad; VIII; eighter; 8; eighter from Decatur; octonary.
- noun a group of United States painters founded in 1907 and noted for their realistic depictions of sordid aspects of city life
Ashcan School.
- noun the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one
- slightly5/5
slightly
- adverb to a small degree or extent
somewhat; more or less.
- his arguments were somewhat self-contradictory
- the children argued because one slice of cake was slightly larger than the other
- adverb in a slim or slender manner
slimly; slenderly.
- a slenderly built woman
- slightly built
- adverb to a small degree or extent
- significantly5/5
significantly
- adverb in a statistically significant way
- the two groups differed significantly
- adverb in a significant manner
- our budget will be significantly affected by these new cuts
- adverb in a statistically significant way
- significance5/5
significance
- noun the quality of being significant
- do not underestimate the significance of nuclear power
- noun a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred
import; implication.
- the significance of his remark became clear only later
- the expectation was spread both by word and by implication
- noun the quality of being significant
- copyright5/5
copyright
- noun a document granting exclusive right to publish and sell literary or musical or artistic work
right of first publication.
- verb secure a copyright on a written work
- did you copyright your manuscript?
- noun a document granting exclusive right to publish and sell literary or musical or artistic work
- investigation5/5
investigation
- noun an inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities
probe.
- there was a congressional probe into the scandal
- noun the work of inquiring into something thoroughly and systematically
investigating.
- noun an inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities
- originally5/5
originally
- adverb in an original manner
- adverb with reference to the origin or beginning
in the beginning; primitively.
- adverb in an original manner
- indigenous5/5
indigenous
- adjective satellite originating where it is found
autochthonal; autochthonous; endemic; autochthonic.
- the autochthonal fauna of Australia includes the kangaroo
- autochthonous rocks and people and folktales
- endemic folkways
- the Ainu are indigenous to the northernmost islands of Japan
- adjective satellite originating where it is found
- eighteenth5/5
eighteenth
- noun position 18 in a countable series of things
- adjective satellite coming next after the seventeenth in position
18th.
- noun position 18 in a countable series of things
- immigrants5/5
immigrant
- noun a person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there
- noun a person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there
- insight5/5
insight
- noun clear or deep perception of a situation
penetration.
- noun a feeling of understanding
perceptiveness; perceptivity.
- noun clear or deep perception of a situation
- assignment5/5
assignment
- noun a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces)
duty assignment.
- hazardous duty
- noun the instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another
- noun a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces)
- intelligent5/5
intelligent
- adjective having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree
- is there intelligent life in the universe?
- an intelligent question
- adjective satellite possessing sound knowledge
well-informed.
- well-informed readers
- adjective having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree
- designated5/5
designate
- verb assign a name or title to
denominate.
- verb give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)
depute; assign; delegate.
- verb assign a name or title to
- investigations5/5
investigation
- noun an inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities
probe.
- there was a congressional probe into the scandal
- noun the work of inquiring into something thoroughly and systematically
investigating.
- noun an inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities
- sovereignty5/5
sovereignty
- noun government free from external control
- noun royal authority; the dominion of a monarch
reign.
- noun government free from external control
- insights5/5
insight
- noun clear or deep perception of a situation
penetration.
- noun a feeling of understanding
perceptiveness; perceptivity.
- noun clear or deep perception of a situation
- enlightenment5/5
enlightenment
- noun education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge
- noun (Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness
nirvana.
- noun education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge
- eighth5/5
eighth
- noun position eight in a countable series of things
- noun one part in eight equal parts
one-eighth.
- noun position eight in a countable series of things
- immigrant5/5
immigrant
- noun a person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there
- noun a person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there
- cigarette5/5
cigarette
- noun finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking
fag; coffin nail; cigaret; butt.
- noun finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking
- litigation5/5
litigation
- noun a legal proceeding in a court; a judicial contest to determine and enforce legal rights
judicial proceeding.
- noun a legal proceeding in a court; a judicial contest to determine and enforce legal rights
- eligible5/5
eligible
- adjective qualified for or allowed or worthy of being chosen
- eligible to run for office
- eligible for retirement benefits
- an eligible bachelor
- adjective qualified for or allowed or worthy of being chosen
- lightning5/5
lightning
- noun abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission of light
- noun the flash of light that accompanies an electric discharge in the atmosphere (or something resembling such a flash); can scintillate for a second or more
- noun abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission of light
- brigade5/5
brigade
- noun army unit smaller than a division
- verb form or unite into a brigade
- noun army unit smaller than a division
- assignments5/5
assignment
- noun a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces)
duty assignment.
- hazardous duty
- noun the instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another
- noun a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces)
- highlighted5/5
highlight
- noun the most interesting or memorable part
high spot.
- the highlight of the tour was our visit to the Vatican
- noun an area of lightness in a picture
highlighting.
- noun the most interesting or memorable part
- ambiguity5/5
ambiguity
- noun an expression whose meaning cannot be determined from its context
- noun unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning
equivocalness.
- noun an expression whose meaning cannot be determined from its context
- prestige5/5
prestige
- noun a high standing achieved through success or influence or wealth etc.
prestigiousness.
- he wanted to achieve power and prestige
- noun a high standing achieved through success or influence or wealth etc.
- righteous5/5
righteous
- adjective characterized by or proceeding from accepted standards of morality or justice
- the...prayer of a righteous man availeth much"- James 5:16
- adjective satellite morally justified
- righteous indignation
- adjective characterized by or proceeding from accepted standards of morality or justice
- tonight5/5
tonight
- noun the present or immediately coming night
- adverb during the night of the present day
this evening; this night.
- drop by tonight
- noun the present or immediately coming night
- highway5/5
highway
- noun a major road for any form of motor transport
main road.
- noun a major road for any form of motor transport
- eighteen5/5
eighteen
- noun the cardinal number that is the sum of seventeen and one
18; XVIII.
- adjective satellite being one more than seventeen
18; xviii.
- noun the cardinal number that is the sum of seventeen and one
- knight5/5
knight
- noun originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry; today in Great Britain a person honored by the sovereign for personal merit
- noun a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)
horse.
- noun originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry; today in Great Britain a person honored by the sovereign for personal merit
- tightly5/5
tightly
- adverb in a tight or constricted manner
- a tightly packed pub
- adverb securely fixed or fastened
- the window was tightly sealed
- adverb in a tight or constricted manner
- midnight5/5
midnight
- noun 12 o'clock at night; the middle of the night
- young children should not be allowed to stay up until midnight
- noun 12 o'clock at night; the middle of the night
- nigeria5/5
nigeria
- noun a republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea; gained independence from Britain in 1960; most populous African country
Federal Republic of Nigeria.
- noun a republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea; gained independence from Britain in 1960; most populous African country
- straightforward5/5
straightforward
- adjective satellite free from ambiguity
- a straightforward set of instructions
- adjective satellite without evasion or compromise
straight; square.
- a square contradiction
- he is not being as straightforward as it appears
- adjective satellite free from ambiguity
- eighty5/5
eighty
- noun the cardinal number that is the product of ten and eight
LXXX; 80; fourscore.
- adjective satellite being ten more than seventy
lxxx; 80; fourscore.
- noun the cardinal number that is the product of ten and eight
- overnight5/5
overnight
- adjective satellite lasting, open, or operating through the whole night
nightlong; all-night.
- a nightlong vigil
- an all-night drugstore
- an overnight trip
- adverb during or for the length of one night
- the fish marinates overnight
- adjective satellite lasting, open, or operating through the whole night
- rightly5/5
rightly
- adverb with honesty
justly; justifiedly.
- he was rightly considered the greatest singer of his time
- adverb with honesty
- lighter4/5
lighter
- noun a substance used to ignite or kindle a fire
ignitor; igniter.
- noun a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires
light; ignitor; igniter.
- do you have a light?
- noun a substance used to ignite or kindle a fire
- digestion4/5
digestion
- noun the process of decomposing organic matter (as in sewage) by bacteria or by chemical action or heat
- noun the organic process by which food is converted into substances that can be absorbed into the body
- noun the process of decomposing organic matter (as in sewage) by bacteria or by chemical action or heat
- malignancy4/5
malignancy
- noun (medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death
malignance.
- noun quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will
malignity; malignance.
- noun (medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death
- migrations4/5
migration
- noun the movement of persons from one country or locality to another
- noun a group of people migrating together (especially in some given time period)
- noun the movement of persons from one country or locality to another
- daylight4/5
daylight
- noun the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside
day; daytime.
- the dawn turned night into day
- it is easier to make the repairs in the daytime
- noun light during the daytime
- noun the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside
- digest4/5
digest
- noun a periodical that summarizes the news
- noun something that is compiled (as into a single book or file)
compilation.
- noun a periodical that summarizes the news
- lighted4/5
lighted
- adjective set afire or burning
lit.
- the lighted candles
- a lighted cigarette
- a lit firecracker
- verb make lighter or brighter
light; illuminate; illumine; light up; illume.
- This lamp lightens the room a bit
- adjective set afire or burning
- moonlight4/5
moonlight
- noun the light of the Moon
moonshine; Moon.
- moonlight is the smuggler's enemy
- the Moon was bright enough to read by
- verb work a second job, usually after hours
- The law student is moonlighting as a taxi driver
- noun the light of the Moon
- twilight4/5
twilight
- noun the time of day immediately following sunset
crepuscle; dusk; fall; gloaming; gloam; evenfall; nightfall; crepuscule.
- he loved the twilight
- they finished before the fall of night
- noun the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth
- noun the time of day immediately following sunset
- digestive4/5
digestive
- noun any substance that promotes digestion
- adjective relating to or having the power to cause or promote digestion
- digestive juices
- a digestive enzyme
- digestive ferment
- noun any substance that promotes digestion
- stigma4/5
stigma
- noun the apical end of the style where deposited pollen enters the pistil
- noun a symbol of disgrace or infamy
brand; stain; mark.
- And the Lord set a mark upon Cain"--Genesis
- noun the apical end of the style where deposited pollen enters the pistil
- figuring4/5
figuring
- noun problem solving that involves numbers or quantities
calculation; reckoning; computation.
- verb judge to be probable
calculate; figure; reckon; forecast; estimate; count on.
- noun problem solving that involves numbers or quantities
- digested4/5
digest
- noun a periodical that summarizes the news
- noun something that is compiled (as into a single book or file)
compilation.
- noun a periodical that summarizes the news
- signing4/5
signing
- noun language expressed by visible hand gestures
sign language.
- verb mark with one's signature; write one's name (on)
subscribe; sign.
- She signed the letter and sent it off
- Please sign here
- noun language expressed by visible hand gestures
- neighbours4/5
neighbour
- noun a person who lives (or is located) near another
neighbor.
- noun a nearby object of the same kind
neighbor.
- Fort Worth is a neighbor of Dallas
- what is the closest neighbor to the Earth?
- noun a person who lives (or is located) near another
- aligned4/5
aligned
- adjective brought into agreement or cooperation on the side of a faction, party, or cause
- verb place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight
line up; align; adjust; aline.
- align the car with the curb
- align the sheets of paper on the table
- adjective brought into agreement or cooperation on the side of a faction, party, or cause
- configurations4/5
configuration
- noun an arrangement of parts or elements
constellation.
- the outcome depends on the configuration of influences at the time
- noun any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline)
shape; contour; form; conformation.
- he could barely make out their shapes
- noun an arrangement of parts or elements
- fighter4/5
fighter
- noun someone who fights (or is fighting)
scrapper; combatant; belligerent; battler.
- noun a high-speed military or naval airplane designed to destroy enemy aircraft in the air
fighter aircraft; attack aircraft.
- noun someone who fights (or is fighting)
- digging4/5
digging
- noun the act of digging
excavation; dig.
- there's an interesting excavation going on near Princeton
- verb turn up, loosen, or remove earth
delve; dig; turn over; cut into.
- Dig we must
- turn over the soil for aeration
- noun the act of digging
- configure4/5
configure
- verb set up for a particular purpose
- configure my new computer
- configure a plane for a combat mission
- verb set up for a particular purpose
- flights4/5
flight
- noun a formation of aircraft in flight
- noun an instance of traveling by air
flying.
- flying was still an exciting adventure for him
- noun a formation of aircraft in flight
- fighters4/5
fighter
- noun someone who fights (or is fighting)
scrapper; combatant; belligerent; battler.
- noun a high-speed military or naval airplane designed to destroy enemy aircraft in the air
fighter aircraft; attack aircraft.
- noun someone who fights (or is fighting)
- digit4/5
digit
- noun one of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration
figure.
- 0 and 1 are digits
- noun the length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure
finger's breadth; fingerbreadth; finger.
- noun one of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration
- configured4/5
configured
- adjective satellite organized so as to give configuration to
- a magnet is surrounded by a configured field
- verb set up for a particular purpose
configure.
- configure my new computer
- configure a plane for a combat mission
- adjective satellite organized so as to give configuration to
- brightness4/5
brightness
- noun the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white
- noun intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty
cleverness; smartness.
- noun the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white
- investigator4/5
investigator
- noun a scientist who devotes himself to doing research
researcher; research worker.
- noun someone who investigates
- noun a scientist who devotes himself to doing research
- neighbour4/5
neighbour
- noun a person who lives (or is located) near another
neighbor.
- noun a nearby object of the same kind
neighbor.
- Fort Worth is a neighbor of Dallas
- what is the closest neighbor to the Earth?
- noun a person who lives (or is located) near another
- fights4/5
fight
- noun a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war
battle; engagement; conflict.
- Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga
- he lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement
- noun the act of fighting; any contest or struggle
scrap; combat; fighting.
- a fight broke out at the hockey game
- there was fighting in the streets
- the unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap
- noun a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war
- originating4/5
originate
- verb come into existence; take on form or shape
develop; rise; uprise; spring up; arise; grow.
- A new religious movement originated in that country
- a love that sprang up from friendship
- the idea for the book grew out of a short story
- An interesting phenomenon uprose
- verb bring into being
initiate; start.
- He initiated a new program
- Start a foundation
- verb come into existence; take on form or shape
- triggers4/5
trigger
- noun lever that activates the firing mechanism of a gun
gun trigger.
- noun a device that activates or releases or causes something to happen
- noun lever that activates the firing mechanism of a gun
- ligament4/5
ligament
- noun a sheet or band of tough fibrous tissue connecting bones or cartilages or supporting muscles or organs
- noun any connection or unifying bond
- noun a sheet or band of tough fibrous tissue connecting bones or cartilages or supporting muscles or organs
- align4/5
align
- verb place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight
line up; adjust; aline.
- align the car with the curb
- align the sheets of paper on the table
- verb be or come into adjustment with
- verb place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight
- digits4/5
digit
- noun one of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration
figure.
- 0 and 1 are digits
- noun the length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure
finger's breadth; fingerbreadth; finger.
- noun one of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration
- navigate4/5
navigate
- verb travel on water propelled by wind or by other means
voyage; sail.
- The QE2 will sail to Southampton tomorrow
- verb act as the navigator in a car, plane, or vessel and plan, direct, plot the path and position of the conveyance
pilot.
- Is anyone volunteering to navigate during the trip?
- Who was navigating the ship during the accident?
- verb travel on water propelled by wind or by other means
- originate4/5
originate
- verb come into existence; take on form or shape
develop; rise; uprise; spring up; arise; grow.
- A new religious movement originated in that country
- a love that sprang up from friendship
- the idea for the book grew out of a short story
- An interesting phenomenon uprose
- verb bring into being
initiate; start.
- He initiated a new program
- Start a foundation
- verb come into existence; take on form or shape
- tightened4/5
tighten
- verb make tight or tighter
fasten.
- Tighten the wire
- verb become tight or tighter
- The rope tightened
- verb make tight or tighter
- antigens4/5
antigen
- noun any substance (as a toxin or enzyme) that stimulates an immune response in the body (especially the production of antibodies)
- noun any substance (as a toxin or enzyme) that stimulates an immune response in the body (especially the production of antibodies)
- highland4/5
highland
- noun elevated (e.g., mountainous) land
upland.
- adjective used of high or hilly country
upland.
- noun elevated (e.g., mountainous) land
- pigment4/5
pigment
- noun dry coloring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint, etc.)
- noun any substance whose presence in plant or animal tissues produces a characteristic color
- noun dry coloring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint, etc.)
- straightened4/5
straighten
- verb straighten up or out; make straight
unbend.
- verb make straight
straighten out.
- verb straighten up or out; make straight
- overweight4/5
overweight
- noun the property of excessive fatness
corpulence; stoutness; adiposis.
- adjective satellite usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it
heavy; fleshy.
- noun the property of excessive fatness
- configuring4/5
configure
- verb set up for a particular purpose
- configure my new computer
- configure a plane for a combat mission
- verb set up for a particular purpose
- originality4/5
originality
- noun the ability to think and act independently
- noun the quality of being new and original (not derived from something else)
- noun the ability to think and act independently
- signaled4/5
signal
- noun any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message
signaling; sign.
- signals from the boat suddenly stopped
- noun any incitement to action
- he awaited the signal to start
- the victory was a signal for wild celebration
- noun any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message
- rigidity4/5
rigidity
- noun the physical property of being stiff and resisting bending
rigidness.
- noun the quality of being rigid and rigorously severe
rigidness; inflexibility.
- noun the physical property of being stiff and resisting bending
- vigor4/5
vigor
- noun forceful exertion
energy; vigour; zip.
- he plays tennis with great energy
- he's full of zip
- noun active strength of body or mind
vigour; dynamism; heartiness.
- noun forceful exertion
- tigers4/5
tiger
- noun a fierce or audacious person
- he's a tiger on the tennis court
- it aroused the tiger in me
- noun large feline of forests in most of Asia having a tawny coat with black stripes; endangered
Panthera tigris.
- noun a fierce or audacious person
- obligated4/5
obligated
- adjective caused by law or conscience to follow a certain course
- felt obligated to repay the kindness
- was obligated to pay off the student loan
- verb force somebody to do something
oblige; obligate; compel.
- We compel all students to fill out this form
- adjective caused by law or conscience to follow a certain course
- tighter4/5
tight
- adjective closely constrained or constricted or constricting
- tight skirts
- he hated tight starched collars
- fingers closed in a tight fist
- a tight feeling in his chest
- adjective satellite pulled or drawn tight
taut.
- taut sails
- a tight drumhead
- a tight rope
- adjective closely constrained or constricted or constricting
- fortnight4/5
fortnight
- noun a period of fourteen consecutive days
two weeks.
- most major tennis tournaments last a fortnight
- noun a period of fourteen consecutive days
- spotlight4/5
spotlight
- noun a focus of public attention
limelight; public eye; glare.
- he enjoyed being in the limelight
- when Congress investigates it brings the full glare of publicity to the agency
- noun a lamp that produces a strong beam of light to illuminate a restricted area; used to focus attention of a stage performer
spot.
- noun a focus of public attention
- originates4/5
originate
- verb come into existence; take on form or shape
develop; rise; uprise; spring up; arise; grow.
- A new religious movement originated in that country
- a love that sprang up from friendship
- the idea for the book grew out of a short story
- An interesting phenomenon uprose
- verb bring into being
initiate; start.
- He initiated a new program
- Start a foundation
- verb come into existence; take on form or shape
- weighting4/5
weighting
- noun (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance
weight.
- verb weight down with a load
burthen; weight down; weight; burden.
- noun (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance
- tighten4/5
tighten
- verb make tight or tighter
fasten.
- Tighten the wire
- verb become tight or tighter
- The rope tightened
- verb make tight or tighter
- signalling4/5
signal
- noun any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message
signaling; sign.
- signals from the boat suddenly stopped
- noun any incitement to action
- he awaited the signal to start
- the victory was a signal for wild celebration
- noun any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message
- vigour4/5
vigour
- noun forceful exertion
vigor; energy; zip.
- he plays tennis with great energy
- he's full of zip
- noun active strength of body or mind
vigor; dynamism; heartiness.
- noun forceful exertion
- pigments4/5
pigment
- noun dry coloring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint, etc.)
- noun any substance whose presence in plant or animal tissues produces a characteristic color
- noun dry coloring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint, etc.)
- tightening4/5
tightening
- noun the act of making something tighter
- the tightening of economic controls
- verb make tight or tighter
fasten; tighten.
- Tighten the wire
- noun the act of making something tighter
- ligaments4/5
ligament
- noun a sheet or band of tough fibrous tissue connecting bones or cartilages or supporting muscles or organs
- noun any connection or unifying bond
- noun a sheet or band of tough fibrous tissue connecting bones or cartilages or supporting muscles or organs
- aborigines4/5
aborigine
- noun an indigenous person who was born in a particular place
indigen; aboriginal; indigene; native.
- the art of the natives of the northwest coast
- the Canadian government scrapped plans to tax the grants to aboriginal college students
- noun a dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived
Aboriginal; Australian Aborigine; native Australian; Abo.
- noun an indigenous person who was born in a particular place
- reigns4/5
reign
- noun a period during which something or somebody is dominant or powerful
- he was helpless under the reign of his egotism
- noun the period during which a monarch is sovereign
- during the reign of Henry VIII
- noun a period during which something or somebody is dominant or powerful
- irrigated4/5
irrigate
- verb supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams
water.
- Water the fields
- verb supply with a constant flow or sprinkling of some liquid, for the purpose of cooling, cleansing, or disinfecting
- irrigate the wound
- verb supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams
- oblige4/5
oblige
- verb force somebody to do something
obligate; compel.
- We compel all students to fill out this form
- verb bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted
bind; obligate; hold.
- He's held by a contract
- I'll hold you by your promise
- verb force somebody to do something
- straighten4/5
straighten
- verb straighten up or out; make straight
unbend.
- verb make straight
straighten out.
- verb straighten up or out; make straight
- slightest4/5
slight
- noun a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval)
rebuff.
- verb pay no attention to, disrespect
cold-shoulder.
- She cold-shouldered her ex-fiance
- noun a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval)
- pigs4/5
pig
- noun domestic swine
grunter; hog; squealer; Sus scrofa.
- noun a coarse obnoxious person
slovenly person; sloven; slob.
- noun domestic swine
- neighborhoods4/5
neighborhood
- noun a surrounding or nearby region
neck of the woods; vicinity; neighbourhood; locality.
- the plane crashed in the vicinity of Asheville
- it is a rugged locality
- he always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood
- I will drop in on you the next time I am in this neck of the woods
- noun people living near one another
neighbourhood.
- it is a friendly neighborhood
- my neighborhood voted for Bush
- noun a surrounding or nearby region
- triggered4/5
trigger
- noun lever that activates the firing mechanism of a gun
gun trigger.
- noun a device that activates or releases or causes something to happen
- noun lever that activates the firing mechanism of a gun
- resigned4/5
resign
- verb leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily
vacate; give up; renounce.
- She vacated the position when she got pregnant
- The chairman resigned when he was found to have misappropriated funds
- verb give up or retire from a position
step down; quit; leave office.
- The Secretary of the Navy will leave office next month
- The chairman resigned over the financial scandal
- verb leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily
- neighbourhood4/5
neighbourhood
- noun a surrounding or nearby region
neck of the woods; neighborhood; vicinity; locality.
- the plane crashed in the vicinity of Asheville
- it is a rugged locality
- he always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood
- I will drop in on you the next time I am in this neck of the woods
- noun people living near one another
neighborhood.
- it is a friendly neighborhood
- my neighborhood voted for Bush
- noun a surrounding or nearby region
- weighed4/5
weigh
- verb have a certain weight
- verb show consideration for; take into account
count; consider.
- You must consider her age
- The judge considered the offender's youth and was lenient
- verb have a certain weight
- designation4/5
designation
- noun identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others
appellation; appellative; denomination.
- noun the act of putting a person into a non-elective position
assignment; naming; appointment.
- the appointment had to be approved by the whole committee
- noun identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others
- weigh4/5
weigh
- verb have a certain weight
- verb show consideration for; take into account
count; consider.
- You must consider her age
- The judge considered the offender's youth and was lenient
- verb have a certain weight
- heightened4/5
heighten
- verb become more extreme
rise.
- The tension heightened
- verb make more extreme; raise in quantity, degree, or intensity
- heightened interest
- verb become more extreme
- freight4/5
freight
- noun goods carried by a large vehicle
load; cargo; lading; shipment; loading; consignment; payload.
- noun transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates
freightage.
- noun goods carried by a large vehicle
- neighbouring4/5
neighbour
- noun a person who lives (or is located) near another
neighbor.
- noun a nearby object of the same kind
neighbor.
- Fort Worth is a neighbor of Dallas
- what is the closest neighbor to the Earth?
- noun a person who lives (or is located) near another
- migrant4/5
migrant
- noun traveler who moves from one region or country to another
migrator.
- adjective satellite habitually moving from place to place especially in search of seasonal work
migratory.
- appalled by the social conditions of migrant life
- migratory workers
- noun traveler who moves from one region or country to another
- almighty4/5
almighty
- adjective satellite having unlimited power
omnipotent; all-powerful.
- noun terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God
Jehovah; Creator; God Almighty; Lord; Divine; Maker; Godhead.
- adjective satellite having unlimited power
- weighing4/5
weighing
- noun careful consideration
advisement; deliberation.
- a little deliberation would have deterred them
- verb have a certain weight
weigh.
- noun careful consideration
- sights4/5
sights
- noun an optical instrument for aiding the eye in aiming, as on a firearm or surveying instrument
- noun an instance of visual perception
sight.
- the sight of his wife brought him back to reality
- the train was an unexpected sight
- noun an optical instrument for aiding the eye in aiming, as on a firearm or surveying instrument
- signatures4/5
signature
- noun your name written in your own handwriting
- noun a distinguishing style
touch.
- this room needs a woman's touch
- noun your name written in your own handwriting
- frightening4/5
frightening
- noun the act of inspiring with fear
terrorisation; terrorization.
- verb cause fear in
frighten; scare; fright; affright.
- The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me
- Ghosts could never affright her
- noun the act of inspiring with fear
- assigning4/5
assigning
- noun the act of distributing something to designated places or persons
assignment.
- the first task is the assignment of an address to each datum
- verb give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)
depute; assign; delegate; designate.
- noun the act of distributing something to designated places or persons
- emigration4/5
emigration
- noun migration from a place (especially migration from your native country in order to settle in another)
out-migration; expatriation.
- noun migration from a place (especially migration from your native country in order to settle in another)
- paradigms4/5
paradigm
- noun systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word
- noun a standard or typical example
epitome; prototype; image.
- he is the prototype of good breeding
- he provided America with an image of the good father
- noun systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word
- gigantic4/5
gigantic
- adjective satellite so exceedingly large or extensive as to suggest a giant or mammoth
mammoth.
- a gigantic redwood
- gigantic disappointment
- a mammoth ship
- a mammoth multinational corporation
- adjective satellite so exceedingly large or extensive as to suggest a giant or mammoth
- highlands4/5
highland
- noun elevated (e.g., mountainous) land
upland.
- adjective used of high or hilly country
upland.
- noun elevated (e.g., mountainous) land
- nigerian4/5
nigerian
- noun a native or inhabitant of Nigeria
- adjective of or relating to Nigeria
- the Nigerian capital used to be Lagos
- noun a native or inhabitant of Nigeria
- prestigious4/5
prestigious
- adjective satellite having an illustrious reputation; respected
esteemed; honored.
- our esteemed leader
- a prestigious author
- adjective satellite exerting influence by reason of high status or prestige
- a prestigious professor at a prestigious university
- adjective satellite having an illustrious reputation; respected
- ligand4/5
ligand
- noun a substance (an atom or molecule or radical or ion) that forms a complex around a central atom
- noun a substance (an atom or molecule or radical or ion) that forms a complex around a central atom
- intelligible4/5
intelligible
- adjective satellite capable of being apprehended or understood
graspable; understandable; perceivable; apprehensible.
- adjective well articulated or enunciated, and loud enough to be heard distinctly
- intelligible pronunciation
- adjective satellite capable of being apprehended or understood
- resign4/5
resign
- verb leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily
vacate; give up; renounce.
- She vacated the position when she got pregnant
- The chairman resigned when he was found to have misappropriated funds
- verb give up or retire from a position
step down; quit; leave office.
- The Secretary of the Navy will leave office next month
- The chairman resigned over the financial scandal
- verb leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily
- brighter4/5
bright
- adjective emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts
- the sun was bright and hot
- a bright sunlit room
- adjective satellite having striking color
brilliant; vivid.
- bright dress
- brilliant tapestries
- a bird with vivid plumage
- adjective emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts
- migrate4/5
migrate
- verb move from one country or region to another and settle there
transmigrate.
- Many Germans migrated to South America in the mid-19th century
- This tribe transmigrated many times over the centuries
- verb move periodically or seasonally
- birds migrate in the Winter
- The workers migrate to where the crops need harvesting
- verb move from one country or region to another and settle there
- highlighting4/5
highlighting
- noun an area of lightness in a picture
highlight.
- verb move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent
foreground; spotlight; play up; highlight.
- The introduction highlighted the speaker's distinguished career in linguistics
- noun an area of lightness in a picture
- assigns4/5
assign
- verb give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)
depute; delegate; designate.
- verb give out
portion; allot.
- We were assigned new uniforms
- verb give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)
- dignified4/5
dignified
- adjective having or expressing dignity; especially formality or stateliness in bearing or appearance
- her dignified demeanor
- the director of the school was a dignified white-haired gentleman
- verb confer dignity or honor upon
dignify; ennoble.
- He was dignified with a title
- adjective having or expressing dignity; especially formality or stateliness in bearing or appearance
- obligatory4/5
obligatory
- adjective morally or legally constraining or binding
- attendance is obligatory
- an obligatory contribution
- adjective satellite required by obligation or compulsion or convention
- he made all the obligatory apologies
- adjective morally or legally constraining or binding
- migrated4/5
migrate
- verb move from one country or region to another and settle there
transmigrate.
- Many Germans migrated to South America in the mid-19th century
- This tribe transmigrated many times over the centuries
- verb move periodically or seasonally
- birds migrate in the Winter
- The workers migrate to where the crops need harvesting
- verb move from one country or region to another and settle there
- mitigate4/5
mitigate
- verb lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of
extenuate; palliate.
- The circumstances extenuate the crime
- verb make less severe or harsh
- mitigating circumstances
- verb lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of
- sighted4/5
sighted
- adjective able to see
- verb catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes
spy; sight.
- he caught sight of the king's men coming over the ridge
- adjective able to see
- mitigation4/5
mitigation
- noun to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious
extenuation; palliation.
- noun a partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances
extenuation.
- noun to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious
- foreigner4/5
foreigner
- noun a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country
alien; noncitizen; outlander.
- noun someone who is excluded from or is not a member of a group
outsider.
- noun a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country
- delights4/5
delight
- noun a feeling of extreme pleasure or satisfaction
delectation.
- his delight to see her was obvious to all
- noun something or someone that provides a source of happiness
joy; pleasure.
- a joy to behold
- the pleasure of his company
- the new car is a delight
- noun a feeling of extreme pleasure or satisfaction
- highness4/5
highness
- noun the quality of being high or lofty
loftiness.
- noun (Your Highness or His Highness or Her Highness) title used to address a royal person
- noun the quality of being high or lofty
- niger4/5
niger
- noun an African river; flows into the South Atlantic
Niger River.
- noun a landlocked republic in West Africa; gained independence from France in 1960; most of the country is dominated by the Sahara Desert
Republic of Niger.
- noun an African river; flows into the South Atlantic
- reigned4/5
reign
- noun a period during which something or somebody is dominant or powerful
- he was helpless under the reign of his egotism
- noun the period during which a monarch is sovereign
- during the reign of Henry VIII
- noun a period during which something or somebody is dominant or powerful
- navigator4/5
navigator
- noun the ship's officer in charge of navigation
sailing master.
- noun the member of an aircrew who is responsible for the aircraft's course
- noun the ship's officer in charge of navigation
- rightful4/5
rightful
- adjective satellite legally valid
- a rightful inheritance
- adjective satellite having a legally established claim
true; lawful.
- the legitimate heir
- the true and lawful king
- adjective satellite legally valid
- triggering4/5
trigger
- noun lever that activates the firing mechanism of a gun
gun trigger.
- noun a device that activates or releases or causes something to happen
- noun lever that activates the firing mechanism of a gun
- eighties4/5
eighties
- noun the decade from 1880 to 1889
1880s.
- noun the decade from 1980 to 1989
1980s.
- noun the decade from 1880 to 1889
- nightly4/5
nightly
- adjective satellite happening every night
- nightly television now goes on until 3:00 or 4:00 a.m.
- adverb at the end of each day
every night.
- she checks on her roses nightly
- adjective satellite happening every night
- campaigning4/5
campaigning
- noun the campaign of a candidate to be elected
electioneering; candidacy; candidature; political campaign.
- verb run, stand, or compete for an office or a position
run; campaign.
- Who's running for treasurer this year?
- noun the campaign of a candidate to be elected
- weighs4/5
weigh
- verb have a certain weight
- verb show consideration for; take into account
count; consider.
- You must consider her age
- The judge considered the offender's youth and was lenient
- verb have a certain weight
- diligent4/5
diligent
- adjective satellite quietly and steadily persevering especially in detail or exactness
persevering.
- a diligent (or patient) worker
- with persevering (or patient) industry she revived the failing business
- adjective characterized by care and perseverance in carrying out tasks
- a diligent detective investigates all clues
- a diligent search of the files
- adjective satellite quietly and steadily persevering especially in detail or exactness
- ligands4/5
ligand
- noun a substance (an atom or molecule or radical or ion) that forms a complex around a central atom
- noun a substance (an atom or molecule or radical or ion) that forms a complex around a central atom
- brightest4/5
bright
- adjective emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts
- the sun was bright and hot
- a bright sunlit room
- adjective satellite having striking color
brilliant; vivid.
- bright dress
- brilliant tapestries
- a bird with vivid plumage
- adjective emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts
- poignant4/5
poignant
- adjective satellite arousing affect
affecting; touching.
- the homecoming of the released hostages was an affecting scene
- poignant grief cannot endure forever
- his gratitude was simple and touching
- adjective satellite keenly distressing to the mind or feelings
- poignant anxiety
- adjective satellite arousing affect
- nightingale4/5
nightingale
- noun European songbird noted for its melodious nocturnal song
Luscinia megarhynchos.
- noun English nurse remembered for her work during the Crimean War (1820-1910)
Lady with the Lamp; Florence Nightingale.
- noun European songbird noted for its melodious nocturnal song
- migrating4/5
migrate
- verb move from one country or region to another and settle there
transmigrate.
- Many Germans migrated to South America in the mid-19th century
- This tribe transmigrated many times over the centuries
- verb move periodically or seasonally
- birds migrate in the Winter
- The workers migrate to where the crops need harvesting
- verb move from one country or region to another and settle there
- nigger4/5
nigger
- noun (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person
nigga; nigra; jigaboo; coon; spade.
- only a Black can call another Black a nigga
- noun (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person
- frighten4/5
frighten
- verb cause fear in
scare; fright; affright.
- The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me
- Ghosts could never affright her
- verb drive out by frightening
- verb cause fear in
- frightful4/5
frightful
- adjective satellite provoking horror
ugly; horrifying; atrocious; horrible.
- an atrocious automobile accident
- a frightful crime of decapitation
- an alarming, even horrifying, picture
- war is beyond all words horrible"- Winston Churchill
- an ugly wound
- adjective satellite extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact
awful; terrible; tremendous.
- in a frightful hurry
- spent a frightful amount of money
- adjective satellite provoking horror
- outweigh4/5
outweigh
- verb be heavier than
- verb weigh more heavily
overbalance; outbalance; preponderate.
- these considerations outweigh our wishes
- verb be heavier than
- sighs4/5
sigh
- noun an utterance made by exhaling audibly
suspiration.
- noun a sound like a person sighing
- she heard the sigh of the wind in the trees
- noun an utterance made by exhaling audibly
- downright4/5
downright
- adjective satellite characterized by plain blunt honesty
- a downright answer
- a downright kind of person
- adjective satellite complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers
sheer; rank; right-down; out-and-out; absolute.
- absolute freedom
- an absolute dimwit
- a downright lie
- out-and-out mayhem
- an out-and-out lie
- a rank outsider
- many right-down vices
- got the job through sheer persistence
- sheer stupidity
- adjective satellite characterized by plain blunt honesty
- negligence4/5
negligence
- noun failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances
carelessness; nonperformance; neglect.
- noun the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern
neglectfulness; neglect.
- noun failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances
- rigorous4/5
rigorous
- adjective satellite rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard
strict.
- rigorous application of the law
- a strict vegetarian
- adjective satellite demanding strict attention to rules and procedures
tight; stringent.
- rigorous discipline
- tight security
- stringent safety measures
- adjective satellite rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard
- enlightened4/5
enlightened
- noun people who have been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity
initiate.
- it is very familiar to the initiate
- verb make understand
edify; enlighten.
- Can you enlighten me--I don't understand this proposal
- noun people who have been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity
- cigarettes4/5
cigarette
- noun finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking
fag; coffin nail; cigaret; butt.
- noun finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking
- resignation4/5
resignation
- noun acceptance of despair
surrender.
- noun the act of giving up (a claim or office or possession etc.)
- noun acceptance of despair
- figs4/5
fig
- noun a diagram or picture illustrating textual material
figure.
- the area covered can be seen from Figure 2
- noun Mediterranean tree widely cultivated for its edible fruit
common fig tree; common fig; Ficus carica.
- noun a diagram or picture illustrating textual material
- vigorously4/5
vigorously
- adverb with vigor; in a vigorous manner
smartly.
- he defended his ideas vigorously
- adverb with vigor; in a vigorous manner
- refrigerator4/5
refrigerator
- noun white goods in which food can be stored at low temperatures
icebox.
- noun white goods in which food can be stored at low temperatures
- negligible4/5
negligible
- adjective satellite so small as to be meaningless; insignificant
- the effect was negligible
- adjective satellite not worth considering
paltry; trifling.
- he considered the prize too paltry for the lives it must cost
- piffling efforts
- a trifling matter
- adjective satellite so small as to be meaningless; insignificant
- oversight4/5
oversight
- noun an unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something
inadvertence.
- noun management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group
supervising; superintendence; supervision.
- noun an unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something
- signifies4/5
signify
- verb denote or connote
intend; stand for; mean.
- `maison' means `house' in French
- An example sentence would show what this word means
- verb convey or express a meaning
- These words mean nothing to me!
- What does his strange behavior signify?
- verb denote or connote
- intriguing4/5
intriguing
- adjective satellite disturbingly provocative
challenging.
- an intriguing smile
- verb cause to be interested or curious
intrigue; fascinate.
- adjective satellite disturbingly provocative
- designate4/5
designate
- verb assign a name or title to
denominate.
- verb give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)
depute; assign; delegate.
- verb assign a name or title to
- indignation4/5
indignation
- noun a feeling of righteous anger
outrage.
- noun a feeling of righteous anger
- plight4/5
plight
- noun a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one
predicament; quandary.
- finds himself in a most awkward predicament
- the woeful plight of homeless people
- noun a solemn pledge of fidelity
troth.
- noun a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one
- signify4/5
signify
- verb denote or connote
intend; stand for; mean.
- `maison' means `house' in French
- An example sentence would show what this word means
- verb convey or express a meaning
- These words mean nothing to me!
- What does his strange behavior signify?
- verb denote or connote
- brightly4/5
brightly
- adverb with brightness
bright; brilliantly.
- the stars shone brilliantly
- the windows glowed jewel bright
- adverb with brightness
- cigar4/5
cigar
- noun a roll of tobacco for smoking
- noun a roll of tobacco for smoking
- diligence4/5
diligence
- noun conscientiousness in paying proper attention to a task; giving the degree of care required in a given situation
- noun persevering determination to perform a task
industry; industriousness.
- his diligence won him quick promotions
- frugality and industry are still regarded as virtues
- noun conscientiousness in paying proper attention to a task; giving the degree of care required in a given situation
- signified4/5
signified
- noun the meaning of a word or expression; the way in which a word or expression or situation can be interpreted
sense.
- the dictionary gave several senses for the word
- in the best sense charity is really a duty
- the signifier is linked to the signified
- verb denote or connote
signify; intend; stand for; mean.
- `maison' means `house' in French
- An example sentence would show what this word means
- noun the meaning of a word or expression; the way in which a word or expression or situation can be interpreted
- playwright4/5
playwright
- noun someone who writes plays
dramatist.
- noun someone who writes plays
- negligent4/5
negligent
- adjective characterized by neglect and undue lack of concern
- negligent parents
- negligent of detail
- negligent in his correspondence
- adjective characterized by neglect and undue lack of concern
- vigilance4/5
vigilance
- noun the process of paying close and continuous attention
watchfulness; alertness; wakefulness.
- wakefulness, watchfulness, and bellicosity make a good hunter
- vigilance is especially susceptible to fatigue
- noun vigilant attentiveness
watchfulness; weather eye.
- he keeps a weather eye open for trouble
- noun the process of paying close and continuous attention
- brigadier4/5
brigadier
- noun a general officer ranking below a major general
brigadier general.
- noun a general officer ranking below a major general
- lighthouse4/5
lighthouse
- noun a tower with a light that gives warning of shoals to passing ships
pharos; beacon; beacon light.
- noun a tower with a light that gives warning of shoals to passing ships
- fright4/5
fright
- noun an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)
fear; fearfulness.
- verb cause fear in
frighten; scare; affright.
- The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me
- Ghosts could never affright her
- noun an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)
- intrigued4/5
intrigue
- noun a crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends
machination.
- noun a clandestine love affair
- noun a crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends
- lightweight4/5
lightweight
- noun a professional boxer who weighs between 131 and 135 pounds
- noun someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous
whippersnapper; jackanapes.
- noun a professional boxer who weighs between 131 and 135 pounds
- signifying4/5
signify
- verb denote or connote
intend; stand for; mean.
- `maison' means `house' in French
- An example sentence would show what this word means
- verb convey or express a meaning
- These words mean nothing to me!
- What does his strange behavior signify?
- verb denote or connote
- flashlight4/5
flashlight
- noun a small portable battery-powered electric lamp
torch.
- noun a small portable battery-powered electric lamp
- contiguous4/5
contiguous
- adjective satellite very close or connected in space or time
immediate.
- contiguous events
- immediate contact
- the immediate vicinity
- the immediate past
- adjective satellite connecting without a break; within a common boundary
conterminous.
- the 48 conterminous states
- the contiguous 48 states
- adjective satellite very close or connected in space or time
- alright4/5
alright
- adjective satellite nonstandard usage
- adverb without doubt (used to reinforce an assertion)
all right.
- it's expensive all right
- adjective satellite nonstandard usage
- emigrants4/5
emigrant
- noun someone who leaves one country to settle in another
outgoer; emigree; emigre.
- noun someone who leaves one country to settle in another
- intrigue4/5
intrigue
- noun a crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends
machination.
- noun a clandestine love affair
- noun a crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends
- nigh4/5
nigh
- adjective not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances
close; near.
- near neighbors
- in the near future
- they are near equals
- his nearest approach to success
- a very near thing
- a near hit by the bomb
- she was near tears
- she was close to tears
- had a close call
- adjective satellite being on the left side
near.
- the near or nigh horse is the one on the left
- the animal's left side is its near or nigh side
- adjective not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances
- signification4/5
signification
- noun the message that is intended or expressed or signified
import; meaning; significance.
- what is the meaning of this sentence
- the significance of a red traffic light
- the signification of Chinese characters
- the import of his announcement was ambiguous
- noun the message that is intended or expressed or signified
- indignant4/5
indignant
- adjective satellite angered at something unjust or wrong
umbrageous; outraged; incensed.
- an indignant denial
- incensed at the judges' unfairness
- a look of outraged disbelief
- umbrageous at the loss of their territory
- adjective satellite angered at something unjust or wrong
- migratory4/5
migratory
- adjective used of animals that move seasonally
- migratory birds
- adjective satellite habitually moving from place to place especially in search of seasonal work
migrant.
- appalled by the social conditions of migrant life
- migratory workers
- adjective used of animals that move seasonally
- diligently4/5
diligently
- adverb with diligence; in a diligent manner
- we may diligently observe the Lord's supper on the first day of the week, diligently preach the gospel, or minister to the saint
- adverb with diligence; in a diligent manner
- ambiguities4/5
ambiguity
- noun an expression whose meaning cannot be determined from its context
- noun unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning
equivocalness.
- noun an expression whose meaning cannot be determined from its context
- copyrighted4/5
copyrighted
- adjective satellite (of literary or musical or dramatic or artistic work) protected by copyright
- permission to publish copyright material
- verb secure a copyright on a written work
copyright.
- did you copyright your manuscript?
- adjective satellite (of literary or musical or dramatic or artistic work) protected by copyright
- giggled4/5
giggle
- noun a foolish or nervous laugh
- verb laugh nervously
titter.
- The girls giggled when the rock star came into the classroom
- noun a foolish or nervous laugh
- whigs4/5
whig
- noun a member of the political party that urged social reform in 18th and 19th century England; was the opposition party to the Tories
- noun a supporter of the American Revolution
- noun a member of the political party that urged social reform in 18th and 19th century England; was the opposition party to the Tories
- brigades4/5
brigade
- noun army unit smaller than a division
- verb form or unite into a brigade
- noun army unit smaller than a division
- twigs4/5
twig
- noun a small branch or division of a branch (especially a terminal division); usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year
sprig; branchlet.
- verb branch out in a twiglike manner
- The lightning bolt twigged in several directions
- noun a small branch or division of a branch (especially a terminal division); usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year
- enigma4/5
enigma
- noun something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
mystery; secret; closed book.
- how it got out is a mystery
- it remains one of nature's secrets
- noun a difficult problem
riddle; conundrum; brain-teaser.
- noun something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
- prodigious4/5
prodigious
- adjective satellite so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe
colossal; stupendous.
- colossal crumbling ruins of an ancient temple
- has a colossal nerve
- a prodigious storm
- a stupendous field of grass
- stupendous demand
- adjective satellite of momentous or ominous significance
portentous.
- such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity"- Herman Melville
- a prodigious vision
- adjective satellite so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe
- enigmatic4/5
enigmatic
- adjective satellite not clear to the understanding
enigmatical; puzzling.
- I didn't grasp the meaning of that enigmatic comment until much later
- prophetic texts so enigmatic that their meaning has been disputed for centuries
- adjective satellite resembling an oracle in obscurity of thought
oracular.
- the oracular sayings of Victorian poets
- so enigmatic that priests might have to clarify it
- an enigmatic smile
- adjective satellite not clear to the understanding
- originals4/5
original
- noun an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made
master; master copy.
- noun something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies
archetype; pilot.
- this painting is a copy of the original
- noun an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made
- knights4/5
knight
- noun originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry; today in Great Britain a person honored by the sovereign for personal merit
- noun a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)
horse.
- noun originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry; today in Great Britain a person honored by the sovereign for personal merit
- delightful4/5
delightful
- adjective satellite greatly pleasing or entertaining
delicious.
- a delightful surprise
- the comedy was delightful
- a delicious joke
- adjective satellite greatly pleasing or entertaining
- insignificant4/5
insignificant
- adjective satellite not worthy of notice
undistinguished.
- adjective satellite signifying nothing
- insignificant sounds
- adjective satellite not worthy of notice
- nightmare4/5
nightmare
- noun a situation resembling a terrifying dream
incubus.
- noun a terrifying or deeply upsetting dream
- noun a situation resembling a terrifying dream
- thigh4/5
thigh
- noun the part of the leg between the hip and the knee
- noun the upper joint of the leg of a fowl
second joint.
- noun the part of the leg between the hip and the knee
- outright4/5
outright
- adjective satellite without reservation or exception
unlimited; straight-out.
- adverb without restrictions or stipulations or further payments
- buy outright
- adjective satellite without reservation or exception
- eligibility4/5
eligibility
- noun the quality or state of being eligible
- eligibility of a candidate for office
- eligibility for a loan
- noun the quality or state of being eligible
- thighs4/5
thigh
- noun the part of the leg between the hip and the knee
- noun the upper joint of the leg of a fowl
second joint.
- noun the part of the leg between the hip and the knee
- sigma4/5
sigma
- noun the 18th letter of the Greek alphabet
- noun the 18th letter of the Greek alphabet
- highways4/5
highway
- noun a major road for any form of motor transport
main road.
- noun a major road for any form of motor transport
- migraine4/5
migraine
- noun a severe recurring vascular headache; occurs more frequently in women than men
hemicrania; sick headache; megrim.
- noun a severe recurring vascular headache; occurs more frequently in women than men
- nightmares4/5
nightmare
- noun a situation resembling a terrifying dream
incubus.
- noun a terrifying or deeply upsetting dream
- noun a situation resembling a terrifying dream
- insightful4/5
insightful
- adjective satellite exhibiting insight or clear and deep perception
- an insightful parent
- the chapter is insightful and suggestive of new perspectives"-R.C.Angell
- adjective satellite exhibiting insight or clear and deep perception
- raleigh4/5
raleigh
- noun English courtier (a favorite of Elizabeth I) who tried to colonize Virginia; introduced potatoes and tobacco to England (1552-1618)
Sir Walter Raleigh; Sir Walter Ralegh; Walter Ralegh; Walter Raleigh; Ralegh.
- noun capital of the state of North Carolina; located in the east central part of the North Carolina
capital of North Carolina.
- noun English courtier (a favorite of Elizabeth I) who tried to colonize Virginia; introduced potatoes and tobacco to England (1552-1618)
- unambiguous4/5
unambiguous
- adjective having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning
- As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous"- Mario Vargas Llosa
- adjective admitting of no doubt or misunderstanding; having only one meaning or interpretation and leading to only one conclusion
unequivocal; univocal.
- unequivocal evidence
- took an unequivocal position
- an unequivocal success
- an unequivocal promise
- an unequivocal (or univocal) statement
- adjective having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning
- religiously4/5
religiously
- adverb by religion
sacredly.
- religiously inspired art
- adverb with extreme conscientiousness
conscientiously; scrupulously.
- he came religiously every morning at 8 o'clock
- adverb by religion
- brighton4/5
brighton
- noun a city in East Sussex in southern England that is a popular resort; site of the University of Sussex
- noun a city in East Sussex in southern England that is a popular resort; site of the University of Sussex
- foresight4/5
foresight
- noun providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future
foresightedness; foresightfulness.
- noun seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing
farsightedness; prospicience; prevision.
- noun providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future
- vigilant4/5
vigilant
- adjective satellite carefully observant or attentive; on the lookout for possible danger
wakeful; open-eyed; argus-eyed.
- a policy of open-eyed awareness
- the vigilant eye of the town watch
- there was a watchful dignity in the room
- a watchful parent with a toddler in tow
- adjective satellite carefully observant or attentive; on the lookout for possible danger
- hindsight4/5
hindsight
- noun understanding the nature of an event after it has happened
- hindsight is always better than foresight
- noun understanding the nature of an event after it has happened
- rigidly4/5
rigidly
- adverb in a rigid manner
stiffly; bolt.
- the body was rigidly erect
- he sat bolt upright
- adverb in a rigid manner
- saigon4/5
saigon
- noun a city in South Vietnam; formerly (as Saigon) it was the capital of French Indochina
Ho Chi Minh City.
- noun a city in South Vietnam; formerly (as Saigon) it was the capital of French Indochina
- investigative4/5
investigative
- adjective satellite designed to find information or ascertain facts
fact-finding; investigatory.
- a fact-finding committee
- investigative reporting
- adjective satellite designed to find information or ascertain facts
- leigh4/5
leigh
- noun English film actress (1913-1967)
Vivien Leigh.
- noun English film actress (1913-1967)
- figurative4/5
figurative
- adjective (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech
nonliteral.
- figurative language
- adjective satellite consisting of or forming human or animal figures
figural.
- a figural design
- the figurative art of the humanistic tradition"- Herbert Read
- adjective (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech
- pigeon4/5
pigeon
- noun wild and domesticated birds having a heavy body and short legs
- noun wild and domesticated birds having a heavy body and short legs
- pigeons4/5
pigeon
- noun wild and domesticated birds having a heavy body and short legs
- noun wild and domesticated birds having a heavy body and short legs
- miguel4/5
miguel
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- rodriguez4/5
rodriguez
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- dwight4/5
dwight
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- higgins4/5
higgins
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- briggs4/5
briggs
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- nigel4/5
nigel
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- abigail4/5
abigail
A lady's waiting-maid. Pepys.Her abigail reported that Mrs. Gutheridge had a set of night curls for sleeping in. Leslie.
- sigmund4/5
sigmund
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- triglycerides3/5
triglyceride
- noun glyceride occurring naturally in animal and vegetable tissues; it consists of three individual fatty acids bound together in a single large molecule; an important energy source forming much of the fat stored by the body
- noun glyceride occurring naturally in animal and vegetable tissues; it consists of three individual fatty acids bound together in a single large molecule; an important energy source forming much of the fat stored by the body
- triglyceride3/5
triglyceride
- noun glyceride occurring naturally in animal and vegetable tissues; it consists of three individual fatty acids bound together in a single large molecule; an important energy source forming much of the fat stored by the body
- noun glyceride occurring naturally in animal and vegetable tissues; it consists of three individual fatty acids bound together in a single large molecule; an important energy source forming much of the fat stored by the body
- malignancies3/5
malignancy
- noun (medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death
malignance.
- noun quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will
malignity; malignance.
- noun (medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death
- lightest3/5
light
- noun (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation
visible light; visible radiation.
- the light was filtered through a soft glass window
- noun any device serving as a source of illumination
light source.
- he stopped the car and turned off the lights
- noun (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation
- rayleigh3/5
rayleigh
- noun English physicist who studied the density of gases and discovered argon; made important contributions to acoustic theory (1842-1919)
Lord Rayleigh; John William Strutt; Third Baron Rayleigh.
- noun English physicist who studied the density of gases and discovered argon; made important contributions to acoustic theory (1842-1919)
- alignments3/5
alignment
- noun an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty
alinement; alliance; coalition.
- noun the spatial property possessed by an arrangement or position of things in a straight line or in parallel lines
- noun an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty
- ligation3/5
ligation
- noun (surgery) tying a duct or blood vessel with a ligature (as to prevent bleeding during surgery)
- noun (surgery) tying a duct or blood vessel with a ligature (as to prevent bleeding during surgery)
- candlelight3/5
candlelight
- noun the light provided by a burning candle
candle flame.
- noun the light provided by a burning candle
- digs3/5
digs
- noun an excavation for ore or precious stones or for archaeology
diggings.
- noun temporary living quarters
diggings; domiciliation; lodgings; pad.
- noun an excavation for ore or precious stones or for archaeology
- starlight3/5
starlight
- noun the light of the stars
- noun the light of the stars
- lignin3/5
lignin
- noun a complex polymer; the chief constituent of wood other than carbohydrates; binds to cellulose fibers to harden and strengthen cell walls of plants
- noun a complex polymer; the chief constituent of wood other than carbohydrates; binds to cellulose fibers to harden and strengthen cell walls of plants
- geiger3/5
geiger
- noun German physicist who developed the Geiger counter (1882-1945)
Hans Geiger.
- noun German physicist who developed the Geiger counter (1882-1945)
- disfigured3/5
disfigured
- adjective satellite having the appearance spoiled
- a disfigured face
- strip mining left a disfigured landscape
- verb mar or spoil the appearance of
deface; blemish; disfigure.
- scars defaced her cheeks
- The vandals disfigured the statue
- adjective satellite having the appearance spoiled
- firelight3/5
firelight
- noun the light of a fire (especially in a fireplace)
- noun the light of a fire (especially in a fireplace)
- digests3/5
digest
- noun a periodical that summarizes the news
- noun something that is compiled (as into a single book or file)
compilation.
- noun a periodical that summarizes the news
- obligate3/5
obligate
- verb force somebody to do something
oblige; compel.
- We compel all students to fill out this form
- verb commit in order to fulfill an obligation
- obligate money
- verb force somebody to do something
- digitalis3/5
digitalis
- noun a powerful cardiac stimulant obtained from foxglove
digitalin; digitalis glycoside.
- noun any of several plants of the genus Digitalis
foxglove.
- noun a powerful cardiac stimulant obtained from foxglove
- digesting3/5
digest
- noun a periodical that summarizes the news
- noun something that is compiled (as into a single book or file)
compilation.
- noun a periodical that summarizes the news
- astigmatism3/5
astigmatism
- noun (ophthalmology) impaired eyesight resulting usually from irregular conformation of the cornea; common in nearsighted people
astigmia.
- noun (optics) defect in an optical system in which light rays from a single point fail to converge in a single focal point
astigmia.
- noun (ophthalmology) impaired eyesight resulting usually from irregular conformation of the cornea; common in nearsighted people
- lamplight3/5
lamplight
- noun light from a lamp
- noun light from a lamp
- navigating3/5
navigate
- verb travel on water propelled by wind or by other means
voyage; sail.
- The QE2 will sail to Southampton tomorrow
- verb act as the navigator in a car, plane, or vessel and plan, direct, plot the path and position of the conveyance
pilot.
- Is anyone volunteering to navigate during the trip?
- Who was navigating the ship during the accident?
- verb travel on water propelled by wind or by other means
- blight3/5
blight
- noun a state or condition being blighted
- noun any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting
- noun a state or condition being blighted
- rigging3/5
rigging
- noun gear consisting of ropes etc. supporting a ship's masts and sails
tackle.
- noun formation of masts, spars, sails, etc., on a vessel
rig.
- noun gear consisting of ropes etc. supporting a ship's masts and sails
- vertigo3/5
vertigo
- noun a reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall
giddiness; dizziness; lightheadedness.
- noun a reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall
- lightness3/5
lightness
- noun a feeling of joy and pride
elation; high spirits.
- noun the property of being comparatively small in weight
weightlessness.
- the lightness of balsa wood
- noun a feeling of joy and pride
- lighten3/5
lighten
- verb make more cheerful
lighten up; buoy up.
- the conversation lightened me up a bit
- verb reduce the weight on; make lighter
- she lightened the load on the tired donkey
- verb make more cheerful
- nighttime3/5
nighttime
- noun the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
dark; night.
- noun the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
- aligning3/5
aligning
- adjective satellite causing to fall into line or into position
positioning.
- verb place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight
line up; align; adjust; aline.
- align the car with the curb
- align the sheets of paper on the table
- adjective satellite causing to fall into line or into position
- brightened3/5
brighten
- verb make lighter or brighter
lighten; lighten up.
- The paint will brighten the room
- verb become clear
clear up; clear; light up.
- The sky cleared after the storm
- verb make lighter or brighter
- belligerent3/5
belligerent
- noun someone who fights (or is fighting)
scrapper; combatant; fighter; battler.
- adjective satellite characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight
aggressive.
- aggressive acts against another country
- a belligerent tone
- noun someone who fights (or is fighting)
- weighty3/5
weighty
- adjective having relatively great weight; heavy
- a weighty load
- a weighty package
- adjective satellite powerfully persuasive
telling; cogent.
- a cogent argument
- a telling presentation
- a weighty argument
- adjective having relatively great weight; heavy
- signalled3/5
signal
- noun any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message
signaling; sign.
- signals from the boat suddenly stopped
- noun any incitement to action
- he awaited the signal to start
- the victory was a signal for wild celebration
- noun any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message
- rigged3/5
rigged
- adjective fitted or equipped with necessary rigging (sails and shrouds and stays etc)
- verb arrange the outcome of by means of deceit
rig; set up.
- rig an election
- adjective fitted or equipped with necessary rigging (sails and shrouds and stays etc)
- refrigeration3/5
refrigeration
- noun the process of cooling or freezing (e.g., food) for preservative purposes
infrigidation.
- noun deliberately lowering the body's temperature for therapeutic purposes
- refrigeration by immersing the patient's body in a cold bath
- noun the process of cooling or freezing (e.g., food) for preservative purposes
- instigated3/5
instigate
- verb provoke or stir up
set off; incite; stir up.
- incite a riot
- set off great unrest among the people
- verb serve as the inciting cause of
prompt; inspire.
- She prompted me to call my relatives
- verb provoke or stir up
- straightening3/5
straighten
- verb straighten up or out; make straight
unbend.
- verb make straight
straighten out.
- verb straighten up or out; make straight
- indigent3/5
indigent
- adjective satellite poor enough to need help from others
poverty-stricken; needy; necessitous; impoverished; destitute.
- adjective satellite poor enough to need help from others
- wight3/5
wight
- noun a human being; `wight' is an archaic term
creature.
- noun an isle and county of southern England in the English Channel
Isle of Wight.
- noun a human being; `wight' is an archaic term
- obliging3/5
obliging
- adjective satellite showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others
complaisant.
- to close one's eyes like a complaisant husband whose wife has taken a lover
- the obliging waiter was in no hurry for us to leave
- verb force somebody to do something
oblige; obligate; compel.
- We compel all students to fill out this form
- adjective satellite showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others
- digitized3/5
digitize
- verb put into digital form, as for use in a computer
digitise; digitalise; digitalize.
- he bought a device to digitize the data
- verb put into digital form, as for use in a computer
- digoxin3/5
digoxin
- noun digitalis preparation (trade name Lanoxin) used to treat congestive heart failure or cardiac arrhythmia; helps the heart beat more forcefully
Lanoxin.
- noun digitalis preparation (trade name Lanoxin) used to treat congestive heart failure or cardiac arrhythmia; helps the heart beat more forcefully
- signatories3/5
signatory
- noun someone who signs and is bound by a document
signer.
- noun someone who signs and is bound by a document
- indigestion3/5
indigestion
- noun a disorder of digestive function characterized by discomfort or heartburn or nausea
dyspepsia; upset stomach; stomach upset.
- noun a disorder of digestive function characterized by discomfort or heartburn or nausea
- lightening3/5
lightening
- noun descent of the uterus into the pelvic cavity that occurs late in pregnancy; the fetus is said to have dropped
- noun changing to a lighter color
whitening.
- noun descent of the uterus into the pelvic cavity that occurs late in pregnancy; the fetus is said to have dropped
- signatory3/5
signatory
- noun someone who signs and is bound by a document
signer.
- noun someone who signs and is bound by a document
- lightened3/5
lighten
- verb make more cheerful
lighten up; buoy up.
- the conversation lightened me up a bit
- verb reduce the weight on; make lighter
- she lightened the load on the tired donkey
- verb make more cheerful
- brighten3/5
brighten
- verb make lighter or brighter
lighten; lighten up.
- The paint will brighten the room
- verb become clear
clear up; clear; light up.
- The sky cleared after the storm
- verb make lighter or brighter
- aligns3/5
align
- verb place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight
line up; adjust; aline.
- align the car with the curb
- align the sheets of paper on the table
- verb be or come into adjustment with
- verb place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight
- digitizing3/5
digitize
- verb put into digital form, as for use in a computer
digitise; digitalise; digitalize.
- he bought a device to digitize the data
- verb put into digital form, as for use in a computer
- rightness3/5
rightness
- noun according with conscience or morality
- noun appropriate conduct; doing the right thing
appropriateness.
- noun according with conscience or morality
- airtight3/5
airtight
- adjective satellite having no weak points
air-tight.
- an airtight defense
- an airtight argument
- adjective satellite not allowing air or gas to pass in or out
gas-tight; air-tight.
- adjective satellite having no weak points
- invigorating3/5
invigorating
- adjective imparting strength and vitality
- the invigorating mountain air
- verb heighten or intensify
invigorate; enliven; animate; inspire; exalt.
- These paintings exalt the imagination
- adjective imparting strength and vitality
- wiggle3/5
wiggle
- noun the act of wiggling
wriggle; squirm.
- verb move to and fro
joggle; jiggle.
- Don't jiggle your finger while the nurse is putting on the bandage!
- noun the act of wiggling
- obliges3/5
oblige
- verb force somebody to do something
obligate; compel.
- We compel all students to fill out this form
- verb bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted
bind; obligate; hold.
- He's held by a contract
- I'll hold you by your promise
- verb force somebody to do something
- rigs3/5
rig
- noun gear (including necessary machinery) for a particular enterprise
- noun a truck consisting of a tractor and trailer together
trailer truck; tractor trailer; semi; trucking rig; articulated lorry.
- noun gear (including necessary machinery) for a particular enterprise
- freighter3/5
freighter
- noun a cargo ship
merchant ship; merchantman; bottom.
- they did much of their overseas trade in foreign bottoms
- noun a cargo ship
- signer3/5
signer
- noun someone who can use sign language to communicate
- noun someone who signs and is bound by a document
signatory.
- noun someone who can use sign language to communicate
- navigated3/5
navigate
- verb travel on water propelled by wind or by other means
voyage; sail.
- The QE2 will sail to Southampton tomorrow
- verb act as the navigator in a car, plane, or vessel and plan, direct, plot the path and position of the conveyance
pilot.
- Is anyone volunteering to navigate during the trip?
- Who was navigating the ship during the accident?
- verb travel on water propelled by wind or by other means
- transfigured3/5
transfigure
- verb elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration
glorify; spiritualize.
- verb change completely the nature or appearance of
transmogrify; metamorphose.
- In Kafka's story, a person metamorphoses into a bug
- The treatment and diet transfigured her into a beautiful young woman
- Jesus was transfigured after his resurrection
- verb elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration
- brightening3/5
brighten
- verb make lighter or brighter
lighten; lighten up.
- The paint will brighten the room
- verb become clear
clear up; clear; light up.
- The sky cleared after the storm
- verb make lighter or brighter
- wiggled3/5
wiggle
- noun the act of wiggling
wriggle; squirm.
- verb move to and fro
joggle; jiggle.
- Don't jiggle your finger while the nurse is putting on the bandage!
- noun the act of wiggling
- belligerents3/5
belligerent
- noun someone who fights (or is fighting)
scrapper; combatant; fighter; battler.
- adjective satellite characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight
aggressive.
- aggressive acts against another country
- a belligerent tone
- noun someone who fights (or is fighting)
- irrigate3/5
irrigate
- verb supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams
water.
- Water the fields
- verb supply with a constant flow or sprinkling of some liquid, for the purpose of cooling, cleansing, or disinfecting
- irrigate the wound
- verb supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams
- signers3/5
signer
- noun someone who can use sign language to communicate
- noun someone who signs and is bound by a document
signatory.
- noun someone who can use sign language to communicate
- rigor3/5
rigor
- noun something hard to endure
hardship; rigourousness; severeness; rigorousness; rigour; asperity; grimness; severity.
- the asperity of northern winters
- noun the quality of being valid and rigorous
rigour; validity; cogency.
- noun something hard to endure
- origen3/5
origen
- noun Greek philosopher and theologian who reinterpreted Christian doctrine through the philosophy of Neoplatonism; his work was later condemned as unorthodox (185-254)
- noun Greek philosopher and theologian who reinterpreted Christian doctrine through the philosophy of Neoplatonism; his work was later condemned as unorthodox (185-254)
- indigo3/5
indigo
- noun a blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically
anil; indigotin.
- noun deciduous subshrub of southeastern Asia having pinnate leaves and clusters of red or purple flowers; a source of indigo dye
indigo plant; Indigofera tinctoria.
- noun a blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically
- pedigree3/5
pedigree
- noun the descendants of one individual
lineage; parentage; descent; bloodline; ancestry; stemma; blood; line; stock; line of descent; origin; blood line.
- his entire lineage has been warriors
- noun line of descent of a purebred animal
- noun the descendants of one individual
- designations3/5
designation
- noun identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others
appellation; appellative; denomination.
- noun the act of putting a person into a non-elective position
assignment; naming; appointment.
- the appointment had to be approved by the whole committee
- noun identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others
- signifier3/5
signifier
- noun the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something
descriptor; word form; form.
- the inflected forms of a word can be represented by a stem and a list of inflections to be attached
- noun the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something
- headlights3/5
headlight
- noun a powerful light with reflector; attached to the front of an automobile or locomotive
headlamp.
- noun a powerful light with reflector; attached to the front of an automobile or locomotive
- mitigating3/5
mitigate
- verb lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of
extenuate; palliate.
- The circumstances extenuate the crime
- verb make less severe or harsh
- mitigating circumstances
- verb lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of
- investigates3/5
investigate
- verb investigate scientifically
look into.
- Let's investigate the syntax of Chinese
- verb conduct an inquiry or investigation of
inquire; enquire.
- The district attorney's office investigated reports of possible irregularities
- inquire into the disappearance of the rich old lady
- verb investigate scientifically
- sighing3/5
sigh
- noun an utterance made by exhaling audibly
suspiration.
- noun a sound like a person sighing
- she heard the sigh of the wind in the trees
- noun an utterance made by exhaling audibly
- sovereigns3/5
sovereign
- noun a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right
monarch; crowned head.
- adjective satellite (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces
self-governing; independent; autonomous.
- an autonomous judiciary
- a sovereign state
- noun a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right
- reigning3/5
reigning
- adjective satellite exercising power or authority
regnant; ruling.
- verb have sovereign power
reign.
- Henry VIII reigned for a long time
- adjective satellite exercising power or authority
- vigil3/5
vigil
- noun a period of sleeplessness
- noun the rite of staying awake for devotional purposes (especially on the eve of a religious festival)
watch.
- noun a period of sleeplessness
- ensign3/5
ensign
- noun a person who holds a commissioned rank in the United States Navy or the United States Coast Guard; below lieutenant junior grade
- noun an emblem flown as a symbol of nationality
national flag.
- noun a person who holds a commissioned rank in the United States Navy or the United States Coast Guard; below lieutenant junior grade
- mitigated3/5
mitigated
- adjective made less severe or intense
- he gladly accepted the mitigated penalty
- verb lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of
extenuate; mitigate; palliate.
- The circumstances extenuate the crime
- adjective made less severe or intense
- neighbourhoods3/5
neighbourhood
- noun a surrounding or nearby region
neck of the woods; neighborhood; vicinity; locality.
- the plane crashed in the vicinity of Asheville
- it is a rugged locality
- he always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood
- I will drop in on you the next time I am in this neck of the woods
- noun people living near one another
neighborhood.
- it is a friendly neighborhood
- my neighborhood voted for Bush
- noun a surrounding or nearby region
- tightness3/5
tightness
- noun a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit
stringency.
- noun a tight feeling in some part of the body
constriction.
- he felt a constriction in her chest
- she felt an alarming tightness in her chest
- emotion caused a constriction of his throat
- noun a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit
- cartwright3/5
cartwright
- noun a workman who makes and repairs carts and wagons
- noun English clergyman who invented the power loom (1743-1823)
Edmund Cartwright.
- noun a workman who makes and repairs carts and wagons
- originator3/5
originator
- noun someone who creates new things
mastermind; conceiver.
- noun someone who creates new things
- fatigued3/5
fatigued
- adjective satellite drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted
exhausted; spent; dog-tired; worn out; played out; fagged; worn-out; washed-out.
- the day's shopping left her exhausted
- he went to bed dog-tired
- was fagged and sweaty
- the trembling of his played out limbs
- felt completely washed-out
- only worn-out horses and cattle
- you look worn out
- verb lose interest or become bored with something or somebody
jade; fatigue; pall; tire; weary.
- I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food
- adjective satellite drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted
- outweighed3/5
outweigh
- verb be heavier than
- verb weigh more heavily
overbalance; outbalance; preponderate.
- these considerations outweigh our wishes
- verb be heavier than
- heighten3/5
heighten
- verb become more extreme
rise.
- The tension heightened
- verb make more extreme; raise in quantity, degree, or intensity
- heightened interest
- verb become more extreme
- intelligibility3/5
intelligibility
- noun the quality of language that is comprehensible
- noun the quality of language that is comprehensible
- navigable3/5
navigable
- adjective satellite able to be sailed on or through safely
- navigable waters
- a navigable channel
- adjective satellite able to be sailed on or through safely
- intelligences3/5
intelligence
- noun the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience
- noun a unit responsible for gathering and interpreting information about an enemy
intelligence service; intelligence agency.
- noun the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience
- campaigned3/5
campaign
- noun a race between candidates for elective office
run; political campaign.
- I managed his campaign for governor
- he is raising money for a Senate run
- noun a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
cause; drive; crusade; effort; movement.
- he supported populist campaigns
- they worked in the cause of world peace
- the team was ready for a drive toward the pennant
- the movement to end slavery
- contributed to the war effort
- noun a race between candidates for elective office
- alight3/5
alight
- verb to come to rest, settle
perch; light.
- Misfortune lighted upon him
- verb come down
climb down.
- the birds alighted
- verb to come to rest, settle
- sighting3/5
sighting
- noun the act of observing
- several sightings of enemy troops were reported
- verb catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes
spy; sight.
- he caught sight of the king's men coming over the ridge
- noun the act of observing
- frigid3/5
frigid
- adjective satellite sexually unresponsive
cold.
- was cold to his advances
- a frigid woman
- adjective satellite extremely cold
polar; arctic; icy; gelid; glacial.
- an arctic climate
- a frigid day
- gelid waters of the North Atlantic
- glacial winds
- icy hands
- polar weather
- adjective satellite sexually unresponsive
- litigants3/5
litigant
- noun (law) a party to a lawsuit; someone involved in litigation
litigator.
- plaintiffs and defendants are both litigants
- noun (law) a party to a lawsuit; someone involved in litigation
- zigzag3/5
zigzag
- noun an angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions
zig; zag.
- verb travel along a zigzag path
crank.
- The river zigzags through the countryside
- noun an angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions
- refrigerated3/5
refrigerated
- adjective satellite made or kept cold by refrigeration
- keep the milk refrigerated
- a refrigerated truck
- verb preserve by chilling
refrigerate.
- many foods must be refrigerated or else they will spoil
- adjective satellite made or kept cold by refrigeration
- stigmatized3/5
stigmatize
- verb to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful
stigmatise; brand; denounce; mark.
- He denounced the government action
- She was stigmatized by society because she had a child out of wedlock
- verb mark with a stigma or stigmata
stigmatise.
- They wanted to stigmatize the adulteress
- verb to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful
- stratigraphy3/5
stratigraphy
- noun the branch of geology that studies the arrangement and succession of strata
- noun the branch of geology that studies the arrangement and succession of strata
- highs3/5
high
- noun a lofty level or position or degree
- summer temperatures reached an all-time high
- noun an air mass of higher than normal pressure
- the east coast benefits from a Bermuda high
- noun a lofty level or position or degree
- immigrated3/5
immigrate
- verb migrate to a new environment
- only few plants can immigrate to the island
- verb introduce or send as immigrants
- Britain immigrated many colonists to America
- verb migrate to a new environment
- refrigerate3/5
refrigerate
- verb preserve by chilling
- many foods must be refrigerated or else they will spoil
- verb cool or chill in or as if in a refrigerator
- refrigerate this medicine
- verb preserve by chilling
- sightings3/5
sighting
- noun the act of observing
- several sightings of enemy troops were reported
- verb catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes
spy; sight.
- he caught sight of the king's men coming over the ridge
- noun the act of observing
- heavyweight3/5
heavyweight
- noun an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 201 pounds
- noun a wrestler who weighs more than 214 pounds
- noun an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 201 pounds
- signifiers3/5
signifier
- noun the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something
descriptor; word form; form.
- the inflected forms of a word can be represented by a stem and a list of inflections to be attached
- noun the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something
- consignment3/5
consignment
- noun goods carried by a large vehicle
load; cargo; lading; shipment; loading; freight; payload.
- noun the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital)
committal; commitment.
- noun goods carried by a large vehicle
- rigour3/5
rigour
- noun the quality of being valid and rigorous
rigor; validity; cogency.
- noun something hard to endure
hardship; rigourousness; severeness; rigor; rigorousness; asperity; grimness; severity.
- the asperity of northern winters
- noun the quality of being valid and rigorous
- niggers3/5
nigger
- noun (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person
nigga; nigra; jigaboo; coon; spade.
- only a Black can call another Black a nigga
- noun (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person
- assignee3/5
assignee
- noun (law) the party to whom something is assigned (e.g., someone to whom a right or property is legally transferred)
- noun (law) the party to whom something is assigned (e.g., someone to whom a right or property is legally transferred)
- pigmented3/5
pigment
- noun dry coloring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint, etc.)
- noun any substance whose presence in plant or animal tissues produces a characteristic color
- noun dry coloring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint, etc.)
- origination3/5
origination
- noun an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events
origin; inception.
- noun the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new
foundation; instauration; founding; introduction; creation; initiation; innovation; institution.
- she looked forward to her initiation as an adult
- the foundation of a new scientific society
- noun an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events
- transfiguration3/5
transfiguration
- noun a striking change in appearance or character or circumstances
metamorphosis.
- the metamorphosis of the old house into something new and exciting
- noun (Christianity) a church festival held in commemoration of the Transfiguration of Jesus
Transfiguration Day; August 6.
- noun a striking change in appearance or character or circumstances
- antigenic3/5
antigenic
- adjective of or relating to antigens
- adjective of or relating to antigens
- nigerians3/5
nigerian
- noun a native or inhabitant of Nigeria
- adjective of or relating to Nigeria
- the Nigerian capital used to be Lagos
- noun a native or inhabitant of Nigeria
- tigris3/5
tigris
- noun an Asian river; a tributary of the Euphrates River
Tigris River.
- noun an Asian river; a tributary of the Euphrates River
- digression3/5
digression
- noun a message that departs from the main subject
divagation; aside; excursus; parenthesis.
- noun a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern)
deviation; deflexion; deflection; diversion; divagation.
- a diversion from the main highway
- a digression into irrelevant details
- a deflection from his goal
- noun a message that departs from the main subject
- instigation3/5
instigation
- noun the verbal act of urging on
abettal; abetment.
- noun deliberate and intentional triggering (of trouble or discord)
fomentation.
- noun the verbal act of urging on
- digger3/5
digger
- noun a laborer who digs
- noun a machine for excavating
shovel; power shovel; excavator.
- noun a laborer who digs
- resigning3/5
resign
- verb leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily
vacate; give up; renounce.
- She vacated the position when she got pregnant
- The chairman resigned when he was found to have misappropriated funds
- verb give up or retire from a position
step down; quit; leave office.
- The Secretary of the Navy will leave office next month
- The chairman resigned over the financial scandal
- verb leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily
- nigra3/5
nigra
- noun (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person
nigga; nigger; jigaboo; coon; spade.
- only a Black can call another Black a nigga
- noun (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person
- alighted3/5
alight
- verb to come to rest, settle
perch; light.
- Misfortune lighted upon him
- verb come down
climb down.
- the birds alighted
- verb to come to rest, settle
- outweighs3/5
outweigh
- verb be heavier than
- verb weigh more heavily
overbalance; outbalance; preponderate.
- these considerations outweigh our wishes
- verb be heavier than
- rigors3/5
rigor
- noun something hard to endure
hardship; rigourousness; severeness; rigorousness; rigour; asperity; grimness; severity.
- the asperity of northern winters
- noun the quality of being valid and rigorous
rigour; validity; cogency.
- noun something hard to endure
- diggers3/5
digger
- noun a laborer who digs
- noun a machine for excavating
shovel; power shovel; excavator.
- noun a laborer who digs
- refrigerant3/5
refrigerant
- noun any substance used to provide cooling (as in a refrigerator)
- adjective satellite causing cooling or freezing
refrigerating.
- a refrigerant substance such as ice or solid carbon dioxide
- noun any substance used to provide cooling (as in a refrigerator)
- blighted3/5
blighted
- adjective satellite affected by blight; anything that mars or prevents growth or prosperity
spoilt.
- a blighted rose
- blighted urban districts
- verb cause to suffer a blight
blight; plague.
- Too much rain may blight the garden with mold
- adjective satellite affected by blight; anything that mars or prevents growth or prosperity
- fatigues3/5
fatigues
- noun military uniform worn by military personnel when doing menial labor
- noun temporary loss of strength and energy resulting from hard physical or mental work
fatigue; tiredness; weariness.
- he was hospitalized for extreme fatigue
- growing fatigue was apparent from the decline in the execution of their athletic skills
- weariness overcame her after twelve hours and she fell asleep
- noun military uniform worn by military personnel when doing menial labor
- navigators3/5
navigator
- noun the ship's officer in charge of navigation
sailing master.
- noun the member of an aircrew who is responsible for the aircraft's course
- noun the ship's officer in charge of navigation
- bight3/5
bight
- noun a loop in a rope
- noun a bend or curve (especially in a coastline)
- noun a loop in a rope
- bighorn3/5
bighorn
- noun wild sheep of mountainous regions of western North America having massive curled horns
Ovis canadensis; cimarron; Rocky Mountain bighorn; Rocky Mountain sheep; bighorn sheep.
- noun a river that flows from central Wyoming to the Yellowstone River in southern Montana
Bighorn River.
- noun wild sheep of mountainous regions of western North America having massive curled horns
- misalignment3/5
misalignment
- noun the spatial property of things that are not properly aligned
- noun the spatial property of things that are not properly aligned
- heightening3/5
heightening
- adjective satellite reaching a higher intensity
- their heightening fears
- verb become more extreme
rise; heighten.
- The tension heightened
- adjective satellite reaching a higher intensity
- signage3/5
signage
- noun signs collectively (especially commercial signs or posters)
- there will be signage displayed at each post
- noun signs collectively (especially commercial signs or posters)
- transmigration3/5
transmigration
- noun the passing of a soul into another body after death
- noun the passing of a soul into another body after death
- wriggled3/5
wriggle
- noun the act of wiggling
wiggle; squirm.
- verb to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)
twist; wrestle; writhe; worm; squirm.
- The prisoner writhed in discomfort
- The child tried to wriggle free from his aunt's embrace
- noun the act of wiggling
- reassigned3/5
reassign
- verb transfer somebody to a different position or location of work
transfer.
- verb transfer somebody to a different position or location of work
- litigant3/5
litigant
- noun (law) a party to a lawsuit; someone involved in litigation
litigator.
- plaintiffs and defendants are both litigants
- noun (law) a party to a lawsuit; someone involved in litigation
- malign3/5
malign
- verb speak unfavorably about
traduce; badmouth; drag through the mud.
- She badmouths her husband everywhere
- adjective evil or harmful in nature or influence
- prompted by malign motives
- believed in witches and malign spirits
- gave him a malign look
- a malign lesion
- verb speak unfavorably about
- vigilante3/5
vigilante
- noun member of a vigilance committee
vigilance man.
- noun member of a vigilance committee
- fortnightly3/5
fortnightly
- adjective satellite occurring every two weeks
biweekly.
- adverb every two weeks
biweekly.
- he visited his cousins fortnightly
- adjective satellite occurring every two weeks
- heightens3/5
heighten
- verb become more extreme
rise.
- The tension heightened
- verb make more extreme; raise in quantity, degree, or intensity
- heightened interest
- verb become more extreme
- resigns3/5
resign
- verb leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily
vacate; give up; renounce.
- She vacated the position when she got pregnant
- The chairman resigned when he was found to have misappropriated funds
- verb give up or retire from a position
step down; quit; leave office.
- The Secretary of the Navy will leave office next month
- The chairman resigned over the financial scandal
- verb leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily
- counterweight3/5
counterweight
- noun a weight that balances another weight
counterpoise; equalizer; equaliser; counterbalance; balance.
- verb constitute a counterweight or counterbalance to
counterpoise; counterpose.
- noun a weight that balances another weight
- straighter3/5
straight
- noun a heterosexual person; someone having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex
straight person; heterosexual person; heterosexual.
- noun a poker hand with 5 consecutive cards (regardless of suit)
- noun a heterosexual person; someone having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex
- wriggling3/5
wriggling
- adjective satellite moving in a twisting or snake-like or wormlike fashion
writhing; wriggly; wiggly.
- wiggly worms
- verb to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)
twist; wrestle; writhe; worm; wriggle; squirm.
- The prisoner writhed in discomfort
- The child tried to wriggle free from his aunt's embrace
- adjective satellite moving in a twisting or snake-like or wormlike fashion
- gigabit3/5
gigabit
- noun a unit of information equal to 1000 megabits or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bits
Gbit; Gb.
- noun a unit of information equal to 1000 megabits or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bits
- trigonometric3/5
trigonometric
- adjective of or relating to or according to the principles of trigonometry
- trigonometric function
- adjective of or relating to or according to the principles of trigonometry
- underweight3/5
underweight
- adjective satellite being very thin
boney; scraggy; skinny; scrawny; weedy.
- a child with skinny freckled legs
- a long scrawny neck
- adjective satellite being very thin
- searchlight3/5
searchlight
- noun a light source with reflectors that projects a beam of light in a particular direction
- noun a light source with reflectors that projects a beam of light in a particular direction
- emigrated3/5
emigrate
- verb leave one's country of residence for a new one
- Many people had to emigrate during the Nazi period
- verb leave one's country of residence for a new one
- redesign3/5
redesign
- verb design anew, make a new design for
- verb design anew, make a new design for
- cigars3/5
cigar
- noun a roll of tobacco for smoking
- noun a roll of tobacco for smoking
- paradigmatic3/5
paradigmatic
- adjective of or relating to a grammatical paradigm
- paradigmatic inflection
- adjective of or relating to a typical example
- paradigmatic learning
- adjective of or relating to a grammatical paradigm
- designates3/5
designate
- verb assign a name or title to
denominate.
- verb give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)
depute; assign; delegate.
- verb assign a name or title to
- frigate3/5
frigate
- noun a medium size square-rigged warship of the 18th and 19th centuries
- noun a United States warship larger than a destroyer and smaller than a cruiser
- noun a medium size square-rigged warship of the 18th and 19th centuries
- montaigne3/5
montaigne
A mountain. Obs.
- religiosity3/5
religiosity
- noun exaggerated or affected piety and religious zeal
religionism; religiousism; pietism.
- noun exaggerated or affected piety and religious zeal
- unintelligible3/5
unintelligible
- adjective poorly articulated or enunciated, or drowned by noise
- unintelligible speech
- adjective satellite not clearly understood or expressed
opaque.
- adjective poorly articulated or enunciated, or drowned by noise
- playwrights3/5
playwright
- noun someone who writes plays
dramatist.
- noun someone who writes plays
- firefighters3/5
firefighter
- noun a member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires
fire-eater; fire fighter; fireman.
- noun a member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires
- intrigues3/5
intrigue
- noun a crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends
machination.
- noun a clandestine love affair
- noun a crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends
- copyrights3/5
copyright
- noun a document granting exclusive right to publish and sell literary or musical or artistic work
right of first publication.
- verb secure a copyright on a written work
- did you copyright your manuscript?
- noun a document granting exclusive right to publish and sell literary or musical or artistic work
- designating3/5
designate
- verb assign a name or title to
denominate.
- verb give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)
depute; assign; delegate.
- verb assign a name or title to
- feigned3/5
feigned
- adjective satellite not genuine
- feigned sympathy
- verb make believe with the intent to deceive
affect; feign; pretend; dissemble; sham.
- He feigned that he was ill
- He shammed a headache
- adjective satellite not genuine
- exigencies3/5
exigency
- noun a pressing or urgent situation
- the health-care exigency
- noun a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action
pinch; emergency.
- he never knew what to do in an emergency
- noun a pressing or urgent situation
- insignia3/5
insignia
- noun a badge worn to show official position
- noun a badge worn to show official position
- giggling3/5
giggle
- noun a foolish or nervous laugh
- verb laugh nervously
titter.
- The girls giggled when the rock star came into the classroom
- noun a foolish or nervous laugh
- prodigal3/5
prodigal
- noun a recklessly extravagant consumer
squanderer; profligate.
- adjective satellite recklessly wasteful
spendthrift; extravagant; profligate.
- prodigal in their expenditures
- noun a recklessly extravagant consumer
- eyesight3/5
eyesight
- noun normal use of the faculty of vision
seeing; sightedness.
- noun normal use of the faculty of vision
- vestiges3/5
vestige
- noun an indication that something has been present
shadow; tincture; trace.
- there wasn't a trace of evidence for the claim
- a tincture of condescension
- noun an indication that something has been present
- milligrams3/5
milligram
- noun one thousandth (1/1,000) gram
mg.
- noun one thousandth (1/1,000) gram
- dignitaries3/5
dignitary
- noun an important or influential (and often overbearing) person
high muckamuck; high-up; panjandrum; VIP; very important person.
- noun an important or influential (and often overbearing) person
- navigational3/5
navigational
- adjective of or relating to navigation
- navigational aids
- adjective of or relating to navigation
- champaign3/5
champaign
- noun extensive tract of level open land
plain; field.
- they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain
- he longed for the fields of his youth
- noun a university town in east central Illinois adjoining Urbana
- noun extensive tract of level open land
- consigned3/5
consign
- verb commit forever; commit irrevocably
- verb give over to another for care or safekeeping
charge.
- consign your baggage
- verb commit forever; commit irrevocably
- enlighten3/5
enlighten
- verb make understand
edify.
- Can you enlighten me--I don't understand this proposal
- verb give spiritual insight to; in religion
irradiate.
- verb make understand
- giggle3/5
giggle
- noun a foolish or nervous laugh
- verb laugh nervously
titter.
- The girls giggled when the rock star came into the classroom
- noun a foolish or nervous laugh
- rightfully3/5
rightfully
- adverb by right
truly.
- baseball rightfully is the nation's pastime
- adverb by right
- alligator3/5
alligator
- noun leather made from alligator's hide
- noun either of two amphibious reptiles related to crocodiles but with shorter broader snouts
gator.
- noun leather made from alligator's hide
- enlightening3/5
enlightening
- adjective tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance
informative; illuminating.
- an enlightening glimpse of government in action
- an illuminating lecture
- verb make understand
edify; enlighten.
- Can you enlighten me--I don't understand this proposal
- adjective tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance
- trigeminal3/5
trigeminal
- noun the main sensory nerve of the face and motor nerve for the muscles of mastication
fifth cranial nerve; trigeminus; nervus trigeminus; trigeminal nerve.
- noun the main sensory nerve of the face and motor nerve for the muscles of mastication
- vignette3/5
vignette
- noun a brief literary description
sketch.
- noun a photograph whose edges shade off gradually
- noun a brief literary description
- digitally3/5
digitally
- adverb by means of the fingers
- the exam was carried out digitally
- adverb in terms of integers
- the time was digitally displayed
- adverb by means of the fingers
- birthright3/5
birthright
- noun a right or privilege that you are entitled to at birth
- free public education is the birthright of every American child
- noun an inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture)
patrimony.
- noun a right or privilege that you are entitled to at birth
- emigrant3/5
emigrant
- noun someone who leaves one country to settle in another
outgoer; emigree; emigre.
- noun someone who leaves one country to settle in another
- signor3/5
signor
- noun used as an Italian courtesy title; can be prefixed to the name or used separately
signior.
- noun used as an Italian courtesy title; can be prefixed to the name or used separately
- emigrate3/5
emigrate
- verb leave one's country of residence for a new one
- Many people had to emigrate during the Nazi period
- verb leave one's country of residence for a new one
- vignettes3/5
vignette
- noun a brief literary description
sketch.
- noun a photograph whose edges shade off gradually
- noun a brief literary description
- calligraphy3/5
calligraphy
- noun beautiful handwriting
chirography; penmanship.
- noun beautiful handwriting
- sightseeing3/5
sightseeing
- noun going about to look at places of interest
rubber-necking.
- verb visit famous or interesting sights
sightsee.
- noun going about to look at places of interest
- riga3/5
riga
- noun a port city on the Gulf of Riga that is the capital and largest city of Latvia; formerly a member of the Hanseatic League
capital of Latvia.
- noun a port city on the Gulf of Riga that is the capital and largest city of Latvia; formerly a member of the Hanseatic League
- ineligible3/5
ineligible
- adjective not eligible
- ineligible to vote
- ineligible for retirement benefits
- adjective satellite prohibited by official rules
- an ineligible pass receiver
- adjective not eligible
- pigmentation3/5
pigmentation
- noun the deposition of pigment in animals or plants or human beings
- noun coloration of living tissues by pigment
- noun the deposition of pigment in animals or plants or human beings
- refrigerators3/5
refrigerator
- noun white goods in which food can be stored at low temperatures
icebox.
- noun white goods in which food can be stored at low temperatures
- nightgown3/5
nightgown
- noun lingerie consisting of a loose dress designed to be worn in bed by women
gown; nightdress; night-robe; nightie.
- noun lingerie consisting of a loose dress designed to be worn in bed by women
- indefatigable3/5
indefatigable
- adjective satellite showing sustained enthusiastic action with unflagging vitality
unwearying; unflagging; tireless.
- an indefatigable advocate of equal rights
- a tireless worker
- unflagging pursuit of excellence
- adjective satellite showing sustained enthusiastic action with unflagging vitality
- redesigned3/5
redesign
- verb design anew, make a new design for
- verb design anew, make a new design for
- sleigh3/5
sleigh
- noun a vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs; for transportation over snow
sledge; sled.
- verb ride (on) a sled
sled.
- noun a vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs; for transportation over snow
- vestige3/5
vestige
- noun an indication that something has been present
shadow; tincture; trace.
- there wasn't a trace of evidence for the claim
- a tincture of condescension
- noun an indication that something has been present
- prodigy3/5
prodigy
- noun an unusually gifted or intelligent (young) person; someone whose talents excite wonder and admiration
- she is a chess prodigy
- noun a sign of something about to happen
omen; prognostic; prognostication; presage; portent.
- he looked for an omen before going into battle
- noun an unusually gifted or intelligent (young) person; someone whose talents excite wonder and admiration
- antigone3/5
antigone
- noun (Greek mythology) the daughter of King Oedipus who disobeyed her father and was condemned to death
- noun (Greek mythology) the daughter of King Oedipus who disobeyed her father and was condemned to death
- limelight3/5
limelight
- noun a focus of public attention
public eye; glare; spotlight.
- he enjoyed being in the limelight
- when Congress investigates it brings the full glare of publicity to the agency
- noun a lamp consisting of a flame directed at a cylinder of lime with a lens to concentrate the light; formerly used for stage lighting
calcium light.
- noun a focus of public attention
- frigates3/5
frigate
- noun a medium size square-rigged warship of the 18th and 19th centuries
- noun a United States warship larger than a destroyer and smaller than a cruiser
- noun a medium size square-rigged warship of the 18th and 19th centuries
- monsignor3/5
monsignor
- noun (Roman Catholic Church) an ecclesiastical title of honor bestowed on some priests
- noun (Roman Catholic Church) an ecclesiastical title of honor bestowed on some priests
- nightlife3/5
nightlife
- noun the entertainment available to people seeking nighttime diversion
night life.
- noun the activity of people seeking nighttime diversion (as at the theater, a nightclub, etc.)
night life.
- a futile search for intelligent nightlife
- in the summer the nightlife shifts to the dance clubs
- noun the entertainment available to people seeking nighttime diversion
- sigmoid3/5
sigmoid
- adjective curved in two directions (like the letter S)
- adjective of or relating to the sigmoid flexure in the large intestine
sigmoidal.
- adjective curved in two directions (like the letter S)
- giggles3/5
giggle
- noun a foolish or nervous laugh
- verb laugh nervously
titter.
- The girls giggled when the rock star came into the classroom
- noun a foolish or nervous laugh
- signet3/5
signet
- noun a seal (especially one used to mark documents officially)
- noun a seal (especially one used to mark documents officially)
- wigs3/5
wig
- noun hairpiece covering the head and made of real or synthetic hair
- noun British slang for a scolding
wigging.
- noun hairpiece covering the head and made of real or synthetic hair
- feigning3/5
feigning
- noun pretending with intention to deceive
pretence; pretense; dissembling.
- noun the act of giving a false appearance
pretence; pretense; pretending; simulation.
- his conformity was only pretending
- noun pretending with intention to deceive
- firefighter3/5
firefighter
- noun a member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires
fire-eater; fire fighter; fireman.
- noun a member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires
- oligopoly3/5
oligopoly
- noun (economics) a market in which control over the supply of a commodity is in the hands of a small number of producers and each one can influence prices and affect competitors
- noun (economics) a market in which control over the supply of a commodity is in the hands of a small number of producers and each one can influence prices and affect competitors
- sprigs3/5
sprig
- noun a small branch or division of a branch (especially a terminal division); usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year
twig; branchlet.
- noun an ornament that resembles a spray of leaves or flowers
- noun a small branch or division of a branch (especially a terminal division); usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year
- alligators3/5
alligator
- noun leather made from alligator's hide
- noun either of two amphibious reptiles related to crocodiles but with shorter broader snouts
gator.
- noun leather made from alligator's hide
- undersigned3/5
undersign
- verb sign at the bottom of (a document)
- verb sign at the bottom of (a document)
- unsightly3/5
unsightly
- adjective satellite unpleasant to look at
- unsightly billboards
- adjective satellite unpleasant to look at
- gigs3/5
gig
- noun long and light rowing boat; especially for racing
- noun an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish
fizgig; fishgig; lance; spear.
- noun long and light rowing boat; especially for racing
- profligate3/5
profligate
- noun a dissolute man in fashionable society
rake; rip; rakehell; blood; roue.
- noun a recklessly extravagant consumer
prodigal; squanderer.
- noun a dissolute man in fashionable society
- emigre3/5
emigre
- noun someone who leaves one country to settle in another
outgoer; emigree; emigrant.
- noun someone who leaves one country to settle in another
- incorrigible3/5
incorrigible
- adjective impervious to correction by punishment
- adjective impervious to correction by punishment
- vinaigrette3/5
vinaigrette
- noun oil and vinegar with mustard and garlic
sauce vinaigrette; French dressing.
- noun oil and vinegar with mustard and garlic
- figuration3/5
figuration
- noun representing figuratively as by emblem or allegory
- noun decorating with a design
- noun representing figuratively as by emblem or allegory
- cardigan3/5
cardigan
- noun knitted jacket that is fastened up the front with buttons or a zipper
- noun slightly bowlegged variety of corgi having rounded ears and a long tail
Cardigan Welsh corgi.
- noun knitted jacket that is fastened up the front with buttons or a zipper
- emigres3/5
emigre
- noun someone who leaves one country to settle in another
outgoer; emigree; emigrant.
- noun someone who leaves one country to settle in another
- poignantly3/5
poignantly
- adverb in a poignant or touching manner
touchingly; affectingly.
- she spoke poignantly
- adverb in a poignant or touching manner
- marigold3/5
marigold
- noun any of various tropical American plants of the genus Tagetes widely cultivated for their showy yellow or orange flowers
- noun any of various tropical American plants of the genus Tagetes widely cultivated for their showy yellow or orange flowers
- brigands3/5
brigand
- noun an armed thief who is (usually) a member of a band
bandit.
- noun an armed thief who is (usually) a member of a band
- sleight3/5
sleight
- noun adroitness in using the hands
dexterity; manual dexterity.
- noun adroitness in using the hands
- redesigning3/5
redesign
- verb design anew, make a new design for
- verb design anew, make a new design for
- feign3/5
feign
- verb make believe with the intent to deceive
affect; pretend; dissemble; sham.
- He feigned that he was ill
- He shammed a headache
- verb make a pretence of
assume; simulate; sham.
- She assumed indifference, even though she was seething with anger
- he feigned sleep
- verb make believe with the intent to deceive
- higginson3/5
higginson
- noun United States writer and soldier who led the first Black regiment in the Union Army (1823-1911)
Thomas Higginson; Thomas Wentworth Storrow Higginson.
- noun United States writer and soldier who led the first Black regiment in the Union Army (1823-1911)
- straightaway3/5
straightaway
- noun a straight segment of a roadway or racecourse
straight.
- adjective satellite performed with little or no delay
quick; prompt; immediate.
- an immediate reply to my letter
- a prompt reply
- was quick to respond
- a straightaway denial
- noun a straight segment of a roadway or racecourse
- piggy3/5
piggy
- noun a young pig
shote; piglet; shoat.
- adjective satellite resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy
hoggish; swinish; piggish; porcine.
- piggish table manners
- the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father
- swinish slavering over food
- noun a young pig
- reassignment3/5
reassignment
- noun assignment to a different duty
- noun assignment to a different duty
- counterintelligence3/5
counterintelligence
- noun intelligence activities concerned with identifying and counteracting the threat to security posed by hostile intelligence organizations or by individuals engaged in espionage or sabotage or subversion or terrorism
- noun intelligence activities concerned with identifying and counteracting the threat to security posed by hostile intelligence organizations or by individuals engaged in espionage or sabotage or subversion or terrorism
- seigneur3/5
seigneur
- noun a man of rank in the ancient regime
feudal lord; seignior.
- noun a man of rank in the ancient regime
- flashlights3/5
flashlight
- noun a small portable battery-powered electric lamp
torch.
- noun a small portable battery-powered electric lamp
- denigration3/5
denigration
- noun a belittling comment
belittling.
- noun an abusive attack on a person's character or good name
defamation; calumny; slander; aspersion.
- noun a belittling comment
- signposts3/5
signpost
- noun a post bearing a sign that gives directions or shows the way
guidepost.
- verb mark with a signpost, as of a path
- noun a post bearing a sign that gives directions or shows the way
- rigorously3/5
rigorously
- adverb in a rigorous manner
strictly.
- he had been trained rigorously by the monks
- adverb in a rigorous manner
- paige3/5
paige
- noun United States baseball player; a black pitcher noted for his longevity (1906-1982)
Leroy Robert Paige; Satchel Paige.
- noun United States baseball player; a black pitcher noted for his longevity (1906-1982)
- intelligentsia3/5
intelligentsia
- noun an educated and intellectual elite
clerisy.
- noun an educated and intellectual elite
- eigenvalues3/5
eigenvalue
- noun (mathematics) any number such that a given square matrix minus that number times the identity matrix has a zero determinant
characteristic root of a square matrix; eigenvalue of a matrix; eigenvalue of a square matrix.
- noun (mathematics) any number such that a given square matrix minus that number times the identity matrix has a zero determinant
- nightfall3/5
nightfall
- noun the time of day immediately following sunset
crepuscle; dusk; fall; gloaming; gloam; evenfall; twilight; crepuscule.
- he loved the twilight
- they finished before the fall of night
- noun the time of day immediately following sunset
- beige3/5
beige
- noun a very light brown
ecru.
- adjective satellite of a light greyish-brown color
- noun a very light brown
- bigotry3/5
bigotry
- noun the intolerance and prejudice of a bigot
dogmatism.
- noun the intolerance and prejudice of a bigot
- figurines3/5
figurine
- noun a small carved or molded figure
statuette.
- noun a small carved or molded figure
- eigenvalue3/5
eigenvalue
- noun (mathematics) any number such that a given square matrix minus that number times the identity matrix has a zero determinant
characteristic root of a square matrix; eigenvalue of a matrix; eigenvalue of a square matrix.
- noun (mathematics) any number such that a given square matrix minus that number times the identity matrix has a zero determinant
- oligarchy3/5
oligarchy
- noun a political system governed by a few people
- one of his cardinal convictions was that Britain was not run as a democracy but as an oligarchy
- the big cities were notoriously in the hands of the oligarchy of local businessmen
- noun a political system governed by a few people
- indignantly3/5
indignantly
- adverb in an indignant manner
- Miss Burney protested indignantly, her long thin nose turning pink with mortification at this irreverent piece of mimicry
- adverb in an indignant manner
- highlanders3/5
highlander
- noun a soldier in a Scottish regiment from the Highlands
- noun a native of the Highlands of Scotland
Highland Scot; Scottish Highlander.
- noun a soldier in a Scottish regiment from the Highlands
- antigua3/5
antigua
- noun the largest of the islands comprising Antigua and Barbuda
- noun the largest of the islands comprising Antigua and Barbuda
- jigsaw3/5
jigsaw
- noun a portable power saw with a reciprocating blade; can be used with a variety of blades depending on the application and kind of cut; generally have a plate that rides on the surface that is being cut
saber saw; reciprocating saw.
- noun fine-toothed power saw with a narrow blade; used to cut curved outlines
scroll saw; fretsaw.
- noun a portable power saw with a reciprocating blade; can be used with a variety of blades depending on the application and kind of cut; generally have a plate that rides on the surface that is being cut
- forthright3/5
forthright
- adjective satellite characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion
frank; straight-from-the-shoulder; outspoken; point-blank; candid; plainspoken; blunt; free-spoken.
- blunt talking and straight shooting
- a blunt New England farmer
- I gave them my candid opinion
- forthright criticism
- a forthright approach to the problem
- tell me what you think--and you may just as well be frank
- it is possible to be outspoken without being rude
- plainspoken and to the point
- a point-blank accusation
- adverb directly and without evasion; not roundabout
squarely; forthrightly.
- to face a problem squarely
- the responsibility lies squarely with them
- spoke forthright (or forthrightly) and to the point
- adjective satellite characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion
- effigy3/5
effigy
- noun a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture)
simulacrum; image.
- the coin bears an effigy of Lincoln
- the emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone
- noun a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture)
- insignificance3/5
insignificance
- noun the quality of having little or no significance
- noun the quality of having little or no significance
- wainwright3/5
wainwright
- noun a wagon maker
wagonwright; waggonwright.
- noun a wagon maker
- fulbright3/5
fulbright
- noun United States senator who is remembered for his creation of grants that fund exchange programs of teachers and students between the United States and other countries (1905-1995)
James William Fulbright; William Fulbright.
- noun United States senator who is remembered for his creation of grants that fund exchange programs of teachers and students between the United States and other countries (1905-1995)
- mulligan3/5
mulligan
- noun Irish version of burgoo
mulligan stew; Irish burgoo.
- noun Irish version of burgoo
- aright3/5
aright
- adverb in an accurate manner
right; correctly.
- the flower had been correctly depicted by his son
- he guessed right
- adverb in an accurate manner
- negligently3/5
negligently
- adverb in a negligent manner
- he did his work negligently
- adverb in a negligent manner
- tights3/5
tights
- noun skintight knit hose covering the body from the waist to the feet worn by acrobats and dancers and as stockings by women and girls
leotards.
- noun skintight knit hose covering the body from the waist to the feet worn by acrobats and dancers and as stockings by women and girls
- lighthearted3/5
lighthearted
- adjective satellite carefree and happy and lighthearted
light-hearted; blithe; lightsome; blithesome.
- was loved for her blithe spirit
- a merry blithesome nature
- her lighthearted nature
- trilling songs with a lightsome heart
- adjective satellite carefree and happy and lighthearted
- signora3/5
signora
- noun an Italian title of address equivalent to Mrs. when used before a name
- noun an Italian title or form of address for a married woman
- noun an Italian title of address equivalent to Mrs. when used before a name
- contiguity3/5
contiguity
- noun the attribute of being so near as to be touching
adjacency; contiguousness.
- noun the attribute of being so near as to be touching
- watertight3/5
watertight
- adjective satellite not allowing water to pass in or out
- adjective satellite without flaws or loopholes
unshakable; unassailable; bulletproof.
- an ironclad contract
- a watertight alibi
- a bulletproof argument
- adjective satellite not allowing water to pass in or out
- figurine3/5
figurine
- noun a small carved or molded figure
statuette.
- noun a small carved or molded figure
- migraines3/5
migraine
- noun a severe recurring vascular headache; occurs more frequently in women than men
hemicrania; sick headache; megrim.
- noun a severe recurring vascular headache; occurs more frequently in women than men
- intransigence3/5
intransigence
- noun the trait of being intransigent; stubbornly refusing to compromise
intransigency.
- noun the trait of being intransigent; stubbornly refusing to compromise
- maligned3/5
malign
- verb speak unfavorably about
traduce; badmouth; drag through the mud.
- She badmouths her husband everywhere
- adjective evil or harmful in nature or influence
- prompted by malign motives
- believed in witches and malign spirits
- gave him a malign look
- a malign lesion
- verb speak unfavorably about
- slighted3/5
slight
- noun a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval)
rebuff.
- verb pay no attention to, disrespect
cold-shoulder.
- She cold-shouldered her ex-fiance
- noun a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval)
- knightly3/5
knightly
- adjective satellite characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages
medieval; chivalric.
- chivalric rites
- the knightly years
- adjective satellite being attentive to women like an ideal knight
chivalrous; gallant.
- adjective satellite characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages
- bigoted3/5
bigoted
- adjective satellite blindly and obstinately attached to some creed or opinion and intolerant toward others
- a bigoted person
- an outrageously bigoted point of view
- adjective satellite blindly and obstinately attached to some creed or opinion and intolerant toward others
- unambiguously3/5
unambiguously
- adverb in an unambiguous manner
unequivocally.
- she stated her intentions unequivocally
- adverb so as to be unique
uniquely.
- he could determine uniquely the properties of the compound
- adverb in an unambiguous manner
- intelligently3/5
intelligently
- adverb in an intelligent manner
- she acted intelligently in this difficult situation
- adverb in an intelligent manner
- nightclub3/5
nightclub
- noun a spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink
night club; club; cabaret; nightspot.
- don't expect a good meal at a cabaret
- the gossip columnist got his information by visiting nightclubs every night
- he played the drums at a jazz club
- noun a spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink
- avignon3/5
avignon
- noun a town in southeastern France on the Rhone River; the seat of the papacy from 1309 to 1378 and the residence of antipopes during the Great Schism
- noun a town in southeastern France on the Rhone River; the seat of the papacy from 1309 to 1378 and the residence of antipopes during the Great Schism
- epigraph3/5
epigraph
- noun a quotation at the beginning of some piece of writing
- noun an engraved inscription
- noun a quotation at the beginning of some piece of writing
- delightfully3/5
delightfully
- adverb in a delightful manner
- the farm house, though in itself a small one, is delightfully situated
- adverb in a delightful manner
- indignity3/5
indignity
- noun an affront to one's dignity or self-esteem
- noun an affront to one's dignity or self-esteem
- nightclubs3/5
nightclub
- noun a spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink
night club; club; cabaret; nightspot.
- don't expect a good meal at a cabaret
- the gossip columnist got his information by visiting nightclubs every night
- he played the drums at a jazz club
- noun a spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink
- knighthood3/5
knighthood
- noun aristocrats holding the rank of knight
- noun aristocrats holding the rank of knight
- skylight3/5
skylight
- noun a window in a roof to admit daylight
fanlight.
- noun a window in a roof to admit daylight
- straightforwardly3/5
straightforwardly
- adverb with firmness and conviction; without compromise
squarely; foursquare.
- he stood foursquare for religious liberty and toleration"- C.G.Bowers
- dealt straightforwardly with all issues
- adverb with firmness and conviction; without compromise
- figural3/5
figural
- adjective satellite consisting of or forming human or animal figures
figurative.
- a figural design
- the figurative art of the humanistic tradition"- Herbert Read
- adjective satellite consisting of or forming human or animal figures
- epigram3/5
epigram
- noun a witty saying
quip.
- noun a witty saying
- unmitigated3/5
unmitigated
- adjective not diminished or moderated in intensity or severity; sometimes used as an intensifier
- unmitigated suffering
- an unmitigated horror
- an unmitigated lie
- adjective not diminished or moderated in intensity or severity; sometimes used as an intensifier
- caligula3/5
caligula
- noun Roman Emperor who succeeded Tiberius and whose uncontrolled passions resulted in manifest insanity; noted for his cruelty and tyranny; was assassinated (12-41)
Gaius; Gaius Caesar.
- noun Roman Emperor who succeeded Tiberius and whose uncontrolled passions resulted in manifest insanity; noted for his cruelty and tyranny; was assassinated (12-41)
- knighted3/5
knight
- noun originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry; today in Great Britain a person honored by the sovereign for personal merit
- noun a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)
horse.
- noun originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry; today in Great Britain a person honored by the sovereign for personal merit
- nightmarish3/5
nightmarish
- adjective satellite extremely alarming
hair-raising; bloodcurdling.
- adjective satellite extremely alarming
- epigrams3/5
epigram
- noun a witty saying
quip.
- noun a witty saying
- figuratively3/5
figuratively
- adverb in a figurative sense
- figuratively speaking,...
- adverb in a figurative sense
- unsigned3/5
unsigned
- adjective lacking a signature
- the message was typewritten and unsigned
- adjective lacking a signature
- mightily3/5
mightily
- adverb powerfully or vigorously
- he strove mightily to achieve a better position in life
- adverb (Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree
powerful; right; mighty.
- the baby is mighty cute
- he's mighty tired
- it is powerful humid
- that boy is powerful big now
- they have a right nice place
- they rejoiced mightily
- adverb powerfully or vigorously
- straightway3/5
straightway
- adverb at once
- straightway the clouds began to scatter
- adverb in a direct course
- plunged straightway to the rocks below
- adverb at once
- luigi3/5
luigi
Sorry, we do not have the definition for this word.
- brigham3/5
brigham
Sorry, we do not have the definition for this word.
- goodnight3/5
goodnight
Sorry, we do not have the definition for this word.
- stratigraphic3/5
stratigraphic
(Geol.) Pertaining to, or depended upon, the order or arrangement of strata; --as, .stratigraphical evidenceStrat`i*graph"ic*al*ly , adv.
- reconfiguration3/5
reconfiguration
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- gilligan3/5
gilligan
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- realignment3/5
realignment
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- oligonucleotide3/5
oligonucleotide
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- rodrigo3/5
rodrigo
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- leighton3/5
leighton
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- wiggins3/5
wiggins
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- riggs3/5
rig
- noun gear (including necessary machinery) for a particular enterprise
- noun a truck consisting of a tractor and trailer together
trailer truck; tractor trailer; semi; trucking rig; articulated lorry.
- noun gear (including necessary machinery) for a particular enterprise
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- creighton3/5
creighton
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- reconfigured3/5
reconfigured
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- digby3/5
digby
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- lightfoot3/5
lightfoot
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- sauvignon3/5
sauvignon
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- figaro3/5
figaro
An adroi and unscrupulous intriguer.
- eigenvectors3/5
- wrigley3/5
wrigley
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- biggs3/5
- brigitte3/5
brigitte
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- nightstand3/5
nightstand
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- mcknight3/5
mcknight
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- reconfigure3/5
reconfigure
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- originary3/5
originary
Causing existence; productive. R.The production of animals, in the originary way, requires a certain degree of warmth. Cheyne.
- epigenetic3/5
epigenetic
Of or pertaining to the epigenesis; produced according to the theory of epigenesis.
- obligor3/5
obligor
The person who binds himself, or gives his bond to another. Blackstone.
- religio3/5
religio
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- configurable3/5
configurable
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- intelligencer3/5
intelligencer
One who, or that which, sends or conveys intelligence or news; a messenger. All the intriguers in foreign politics, all the spies, and all the intelligencers . . . acted solely upon that principle. Burke.
- scintigraphy3/5
scintigraphy
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- mcveigh3/5
mcveigh
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- nonimmigrant3/5
nonimmigrant
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- investigational3/5
investigational
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- oligosaccharides2/5
oligosaccharide
- noun any of the carbohydrates that yield only a few monosaccharide molecules on complete hydrolysis
- noun any of the carbohydrates that yield only a few monosaccharide molecules on complete hydrolysis
- oligosaccharide2/5
oligosaccharide
- noun any of the carbohydrates that yield only a few monosaccharide molecules on complete hydrolysis
- noun any of the carbohydrates that yield only a few monosaccharide molecules on complete hydrolysis
- ligated2/5
ligate
- verb join letters in a ligature when writing
- verb bind chemically
- The enzyme ligated
- verb join letters in a ligature when writing
- benignant2/5
benignant
- adjective pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence
benign.
- a benign smile
- the benign sky
- the benign influence of pure air
- adjective satellite characterized by kindness and warm courtesy especially of a king to his subjects
gracious.
- our benignant king
- adjective pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence
- physostigmine2/5
physostigmine
- noun used in treatment of Alzheimer's disease and glaucoma
- noun used in treatment of Alzheimer's disease and glaucoma
- ligate2/5
ligate
- verb join letters in a ligature when writing
- verb bind chemically
- The enzyme ligated
- verb join letters in a ligature when writing
- eigen2/5
eigen
- noun German chemist who did research on high-speed chemical reactions (born in 1927)
Manfred Eigen.
- noun German chemist who did research on high-speed chemical reactions (born in 1927)
- vestigial2/5
vestigial
- adjective satellite not fully developed in mature animals
rudimentary.
- rudimentary wings
- adjective satellite not fully developed in mature animals
- stigmata2/5
stigmata
- noun marks resembling the wounds on the crucified body of Christ
- noun the apical end of the style where deposited pollen enters the pistil
stigma.
- noun marks resembling the wounds on the crucified body of Christ
- torchlight2/5
torchlight
- noun light from a torch or torches
- noun light from a torch or torches
- disfiguring2/5
disfigure
- verb mar or spoil the appearance of
deface; blemish.
- scars defaced her cheeks
- The vandals disfigured the statue
- verb mar or spoil the appearance of
- stigmas2/5
stigma
- noun the apical end of the style where deposited pollen enters the pistil
- noun a symbol of disgrace or infamy
brand; stain; mark.
- And the Lord set a mark upon Cain"--Genesis
- noun the apical end of the style where deposited pollen enters the pistil
- benignly2/5
benignly
- adverb in a benign manner
benignantly.
- this drug is benignly soporific
- adverb in a benign manner
- gaslight2/5
gaslight
- noun light yielded by the combustion of illuminating gas
- noun light yielded by the combustion of illuminating gas
- trigonal2/5
trigonal
- adjective satellite having threefold symmetry
rhombohedral.
- adjective satellite having threefold symmetry
- disfigure2/5
disfigure
- verb mar or spoil the appearance of
deface; blemish.
- scars defaced her cheeks
- The vandals disfigured the statue
- verb mar or spoil the appearance of
- benignity2/5
benignity
- noun the quality of being kind and gentle
graciousness; benignancy.
- noun a kind act
kindness.
- noun the quality of being kind and gentle
- daylights2/5
daylight
- noun the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside
day; daytime.
- the dawn turned night into day
- it is easier to make the repairs in the daytime
- noun light during the daytime
- noun the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside
- irrigations2/5
irrigation
- noun supplying dry land with water by means of ditches etc
- noun (medicine) cleaning a wound or body organ by flushing or washing out with water or a medicated solution
- noun supplying dry land with water by means of ditches etc
- fumigant2/5
fumigant
- noun a chemical substance used in fumigation
- noun a chemical substance used in fumigation
- lignins2/5
lignin
- noun a complex polymer; the chief constituent of wood other than carbohydrates; binds to cellulose fibers to harden and strengthen cell walls of plants
- noun a complex polymer; the chief constituent of wood other than carbohydrates; binds to cellulose fibers to harden and strengthen cell walls of plants
- righting2/5
right
- noun an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature; it is something that nobody can take away"
- they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights
- Certain rights can never be granted to the government but must be kept in the hands of the people"- Eleanor Roosevelt
- a right is not something that somebody gives you
- noun location near or direction toward the right side; i.e. the side to the south when a person or object faces east
- he stood on the right
- noun an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature; it is something that nobody can take away"
- trigonometry2/5
trigonometry
- noun the mathematics of triangles and trigonometric functions
trig.
- noun the mathematics of triangles and trigonometric functions
- digestible2/5
digestible
- adjective capable of being converted into assimilable condition in the alimentary canal
- adjective capable of being converted into assimilable condition in the alimentary canal
- spotlights2/5
spotlight
- noun a focus of public attention
limelight; public eye; glare.
- he enjoyed being in the limelight
- when Congress investigates it brings the full glare of publicity to the agency
- noun a lamp that produces a strong beam of light to illuminate a restricted area; used to focus attention of a stage performer
spot.
- noun a focus of public attention
- instigate2/5
instigate
- verb provoke or stir up
set off; incite; stir up.
- incite a riot
- set off great unrest among the people
- verb serve as the inciting cause of
prompt; inspire.
- She prompted me to call my relatives
- verb provoke or stir up
- invigorated2/5
invigorated
- adjective satellite with restored energy
fresh; refreshed; reinvigorated.
- verb heighten or intensify
invigorate; enliven; animate; inspire; exalt.
- These paintings exalt the imagination
- adjective satellite with restored energy
- highlander2/5
highland
- noun elevated (e.g., mountainous) land
upland.
- adjective used of high or hilly country
upland.
- noun elevated (e.g., mountainous) land
- righted2/5
right
- noun an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature; it is something that nobody can take away"
- they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights
- Certain rights can never be granted to the government but must be kept in the hands of the people"- Eleanor Roosevelt
- a right is not something that somebody gives you
- noun location near or direction toward the right side; i.e. the side to the south when a person or object faces east
- he stood on the right
- noun an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature; it is something that nobody can take away"
- aboriginals2/5
aboriginal
- noun a dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived
Aborigine; Australian Aborigine; native Australian; Abo.
- noun an indigenous person who was born in a particular place
indigen; indigene; aborigine; native.
- the art of the natives of the northwest coast
- the Canadian government scrapped plans to tax the grants to aboriginal college students
- noun a dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived
- poignancy2/5
poignancy
- noun a state of deeply felt distress or sorrow
poignance.
- a moment of extraordinary poignancy
- noun a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow)
pathos.
- the film captured all the pathos of their situation
- noun a state of deeply felt distress or sorrow
- configures2/5
configure
- verb set up for a particular purpose
- configure my new computer
- configure a plane for a combat mission
- verb set up for a particular purpose
- rigidities2/5
rigidity
- noun the physical property of being stiff and resisting bending
rigidness.
- noun the quality of being rigid and rigorously severe
rigidness; inflexibility.
- noun the physical property of being stiff and resisting bending
- wigner2/5
wigner
- noun United States physicist (born in Hungary) noted for his work on the structure of the atom and its nucleus (1902-1995)
Eugene Wigner; Eugene Paul Wigner.
- noun United States physicist (born in Hungary) noted for his work on the structure of the atom and its nucleus (1902-1995)
- disfigurement2/5
disfigurement
- noun an appearance that has been spoiled or is misshapen
disfiguration; deformity.
- there were distinguishing disfigurements on the suspect's back
- suffering from facial disfiguration
- noun the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something
disfiguration; defacement.
- the defacement of an Italian mosaic during the Turkish invasion
- he objected to the dam's massive disfigurement of the landscape
- noun an appearance that has been spoiled or is misshapen
- wiggling2/5
wiggle
- noun the act of wiggling
wriggle; squirm.
- verb move to and fro
joggle; jiggle.
- Don't jiggle your finger while the nurse is putting on the bandage!
- noun the act of wiggling
- deign2/5
deign
- verb do something that one considers to be below one's dignity
condescend; descend.
- verb do something that one considers to be below one's dignity
- irrigating2/5
irrigate
- verb supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams
water.
- Water the fields
- verb supply with a constant flow or sprinkling of some liquid, for the purpose of cooling, cleansing, or disinfecting
- irrigate the wound
- verb supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams
- instigating2/5
instigate
- verb provoke or stir up
set off; incite; stir up.
- incite a riot
- set off great unrest among the people
- verb serve as the inciting cause of
prompt; inspire.
- She prompted me to call my relatives
- verb provoke or stir up
- foreignness2/5
foreignness
- noun the quality of being alien or not native
curiousness; strangeness.
- the strangeness of a foreigner
- noun the quality of being alien or not native
- ligature2/5
ligature
- noun (music) a group of notes connected by a slur
- noun character consisting of two or more letters combined into one
- noun (music) a group of notes connected by a slur
- deigned2/5
deign
- verb do something that one considers to be below one's dignity
condescend; descend.
- verb do something that one considers to be below one's dignity
- reinvigorated2/5
reinvigorated
- adjective satellite with restored energy
fresh; refreshed; invigorated.
- verb impart vigor, strength, or vitality to
invigorate; reinvigorate.
- Exercise is invigorating
- adjective satellite with restored energy
- tightens2/5
tighten
- verb make tight or tighter
fasten.
- Tighten the wire
- verb become tight or tighter
- The rope tightened
- verb make tight or tighter
- lighters2/5
lighter
- noun a substance used to ignite or kindle a fire
ignitor; igniter.
- noun a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires
light; ignitor; igniter.
- do you have a light?
- noun a substance used to ignite or kindle a fire
- jigs2/5
jig
- noun music in three-four time for dancing a jig
gigue.
- noun a fisherman's lure with one or more hooks that is jerked up and down in the water
- noun music in three-four time for dancing a jig
- superhighway2/5
superhighway
- noun a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic
motorway; thruway; pike; freeway; throughway; state highway; expressway.
- noun an extensive electronic network (such as the internet) used for the rapid transfer of sound and video and graphics in digital form
information superhighway.
- noun a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic
- freighters2/5
freighter
- noun a cargo ship
merchant ship; merchantman; bottom.
- they did much of their overseas trade in foreign bottoms
- noun a cargo ship
- piggyback2/5
piggyback
- noun the act of carrying something piggyback
- verb ride on someone's shoulders or back
- noun the act of carrying something piggyback
- invigorate2/5
invigorate
- verb heighten or intensify
enliven; animate; inspire; exalt.
- These paintings exalt the imagination
- verb give life or energy to
quicken.
- The cold water invigorated him
- verb heighten or intensify
- hyperpigmentation2/5
hyperpigmentation
- noun unusual darkening of the skin
- noun unusual darkening of the skin
- reinvigorate2/5
reinvigorate
- verb impart vigor, strength, or vitality to
invigorate.
- Exercise is invigorating
- verb impart vigor, strength, or vitality to
- straightens2/5
straighten
- verb straighten up or out; make straight
unbend.
- verb make straight
straighten out.
- verb straighten up or out; make straight
- indigenes2/5
indigene
- noun an indigenous person who was born in a particular place
indigen; aboriginal; aborigine; native.
- the art of the natives of the northwest coast
- the Canadian government scrapped plans to tax the grants to aboriginal college students
- noun an indigenous person who was born in a particular place
- flighty2/5
flighty
- adjective satellite guided by whim and fancy
flyaway; head-in-the-clouds; scatterbrained.
- flighty young girls
- adjective satellite unpredictably excitable (especially of horses)
spooky; skittish; nervous.
- adjective satellite guided by whim and fancy
- pemphigus2/5
pemphigus
- noun a skin disease characterized by large thin-walled blisters (bullae) arising from normal skin or mucous membrane
- noun a skin disease characterized by large thin-walled blisters (bullae) arising from normal skin or mucous membrane
- brightens2/5
brighten
- verb make lighter or brighter
lighten; lighten up.
- The paint will brighten the room
- verb become clear
clear up; clear; light up.
- The sky cleared after the storm
- verb make lighter or brighter
- digester2/5
digester
- noun autoclave consisting of a vessel in which plant or animal materials are digested
- noun autoclave consisting of a vessel in which plant or animal materials are digested
- vitiligo2/5
vitiligo
- noun an acquired skin disease characterized by patches of unpigmented skin (often surrounded by a heavily pigmented border)
- noun an acquired skin disease characterized by patches of unpigmented skin (often surrounded by a heavily pigmented border)
- oliguria2/5
oliguria
- noun abnormally small production of urine; can be a symptom of kidney disease or obstruction of the urinary tract or edema or an imbalance of fluids and electrolytes in the body
- noun production of an abnormally small amount of urine
- noun abnormally small production of urine; can be a symptom of kidney disease or obstruction of the urinary tract or edema or an imbalance of fluids and electrolytes in the body
- floodlights2/5
floodlight
- noun light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography
flood; photoflood; flood lamp.
- verb illuminate with floodlights
- noun light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography
- aborigine2/5
aborigine
- noun an indigenous person who was born in a particular place
indigen; aboriginal; indigene; native.
- the art of the natives of the northwest coast
- the Canadian government scrapped plans to tax the grants to aboriginal college students
- noun a dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived
Aboriginal; Australian Aborigine; native Australian; Abo.
- noun an indigenous person who was born in a particular place
- impetigo2/5
impetigo
- noun a very contagious infection of the skin; common in children; localized redness develops into small blisters that gradually crust and erode
- noun a very contagious infection of the skin; common in children; localized redness develops into small blisters that gradually crust and erode
- weightings2/5
weighting
- noun (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance
weight.
- verb weight down with a load
burthen; weight down; weight; burden.
- noun (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance
- vertiginous2/5
vertiginous
- adjective satellite having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling
giddy; dizzy; woozy.
- had a dizzy spell
- a dizzy pinnacle
- had a headache and felt giddy
- a giddy precipice
- feeling woozy from the blow on his head
- a vertiginous climb up the face of the cliff
- adjective satellite having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling
- lightheadedness2/5
lightheadedness
- noun a reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall
giddiness; dizziness; vertigo.
- noun a frivolous lack of prudence
- noun a reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall
- perigee2/5
perigee
- noun periapsis in Earth orbit; the point in its orbit where a satellite is nearest to the Earth
- noun periapsis in Earth orbit; the point in its orbit where a satellite is nearest to the Earth
- straightness2/5
straightness
- noun (of hair) lack of a tendency to curl
- noun freedom from crooks or curves or bends or angles
- noun (of hair) lack of a tendency to curl
- obligates2/5
obligate
- verb force somebody to do something
oblige; compel.
- We compel all students to fill out this form
- verb commit in order to fulfill an obligation
- obligate money
- verb force somebody to do something
- lightens2/5
lighten
- verb make more cheerful
lighten up; buoy up.
- the conversation lightened me up a bit
- verb reduce the weight on; make lighter
- she lightened the load on the tired donkey
- verb make more cheerful
- straights2/5
straight
- noun a heterosexual person; someone having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex
straight person; heterosexual person; heterosexual.
- noun a poker hand with 5 consecutive cards (regardless of suit)
- noun a heterosexual person; someone having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex
- jiggling2/5
jiggle
- noun a slight irregular shaking motion
joggle.
- verb move to and fro
wiggle; joggle.
- Don't jiggle your finger while the nurse is putting on the bandage!
- noun a slight irregular shaking motion
- weightier2/5
weighty
- adjective having relatively great weight; heavy
- a weighty load
- a weighty package
- adjective satellite powerfully persuasive
telling; cogent.
- a cogent argument
- a telling presentation
- a weighty argument
- adjective having relatively great weight; heavy
- jiggled2/5
jiggle
- noun a slight irregular shaking motion
joggle.
- verb move to and fro
wiggle; joggle.
- Don't jiggle your finger while the nurse is putting on the bandage!
- noun a slight irregular shaking motion
- lightheaded2/5
lightheaded
- adjective satellite weak and likely to lose consciousness
light; swooning; faint; light-headed.
- suddenly felt faint from the pain
- was sick and faint from hunger
- felt light in the head
- a swooning fit
- light-headed with wine
- light-headed from lack of sleep
- adjective satellite lacking seriousness; given to frivolity
giddy; featherbrained; airheaded; empty-headed; dizzy; light-headed; silly.
- a dizzy blonde
- light-headed teenagers
- silly giggles
- adjective satellite weak and likely to lose consciousness
- ligatures2/5
ligature
- noun (music) a group of notes connected by a slur
- noun character consisting of two or more letters combined into one
- noun (music) a group of notes connected by a slur
- digitize2/5
digitize
- verb put into digital form, as for use in a computer
digitise; digitalise; digitalize.
- he bought a device to digitize the data
- verb put into digital form, as for use in a computer
- navigates2/5
navigate
- verb travel on water propelled by wind or by other means
voyage; sail.
- The QE2 will sail to Southampton tomorrow
- verb act as the navigator in a car, plane, or vessel and plan, direct, plot the path and position of the conveyance
pilot.
- Is anyone volunteering to navigate during the trip?
- Who was navigating the ship during the accident?
- verb travel on water propelled by wind or by other means
- epigraphy2/5
epigraphy
- noun the study of ancient inscriptions
- noun the study of ancient inscriptions
- tightest2/5
tight
- adjective closely constrained or constricted or constricting
- tight skirts
- he hated tight starched collars
- fingers closed in a tight fist
- a tight feeling in his chest
- adjective satellite pulled or drawn tight
taut.
- taut sails
- a tight drumhead
- a tight rope
- adjective closely constrained or constricted or constricting
- wiggles2/5
wiggle
- noun the act of wiggling
wriggle; squirm.
- verb move to and fro
joggle; jiggle.
- Don't jiggle your finger while the nurse is putting on the bandage!
- noun the act of wiggling
- frigidity2/5
frigidity
- noun sexual unresponsiveness (especially of women) and inability to achieve orgasm during intercourse
frigidness.
- noun the absence of heat
frigidness; cold; coldness; low temperature.
- the coldness made our breath visible
- come in out of the cold
- cold is a vasoconstrictor
- noun sexual unresponsiveness (especially of women) and inability to achieve orgasm during intercourse
- jiggle2/5
jiggle
- noun a slight irregular shaking motion
joggle.
- verb move to and fro
wiggle; joggle.
- Don't jiggle your finger while the nurse is putting on the bandage!
- noun a slight irregular shaking motion
- pigeonhole2/5
pigeonhole
- noun a specific (often simplistic) category
- noun a small compartment
cubbyhole.
- noun a specific (often simplistic) category
- signings2/5
signing
- noun language expressed by visible hand gestures
sign language.
- verb mark with one's signature; write one's name (on)
subscribe; sign.
- She signed the letter and sent it off
- Please sign here
- noun language expressed by visible hand gestures
- shortsightedness2/5
shortsightedness
- noun (ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability; distant objects appear blurred
nearsightedness; myopia.
- noun a lack of prudence and care by someone in the management of resources
improvidence.
- noun (ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability; distant objects appear blurred
- digitised2/5
digitise
- verb put into digital form, as for use in a computer
digitalise; digitalize; digitize.
- he bought a device to digitize the data
- verb put into digital form, as for use in a computer
- spotlighted2/5
spotlight
- noun a focus of public attention
limelight; public eye; glare.
- he enjoyed being in the limelight
- when Congress investigates it brings the full glare of publicity to the agency
- noun a lamp that produces a strong beam of light to illuminate a restricted area; used to focus attention of a stage performer
spot.
- noun a focus of public attention
- reinvigorating2/5
reinvigorate
- verb impart vigor, strength, or vitality to
invigorate.
- Exercise is invigorating
- verb impart vigor, strength, or vitality to
- indigene2/5
indigene
- noun an indigenous person who was born in a particular place
indigen; aboriginal; aborigine; native.
- the art of the natives of the northwest coast
- the Canadian government scrapped plans to tax the grants to aboriginal college students
- noun an indigenous person who was born in a particular place
- bullfighter2/5
bullfighter
- noun someone who fights bulls
toreador.
- noun someone who fights bulls
- instigates2/5
instigate
- verb provoke or stir up
set off; incite; stir up.
- incite a riot
- set off great unrest among the people
- verb serve as the inciting cause of
prompt; inspire.
- She prompted me to call my relatives
- verb provoke or stir up
- obligating2/5
obligate
- verb force somebody to do something
oblige; compel.
- We compel all students to fill out this form
- verb commit in order to fulfill an obligation
- obligate money
- verb force somebody to do something
- gigahertz2/5
gigahertz
- noun 1,000,000,000 periods per second
gigacycle per second; gigacycle; Gc; GHz.
- noun 1,000,000,000 periods per second
- fumigated2/5
fumigate
- verb treat with fumes, expose to fumes, especially with the aim of disinfecting or eradicating pests
fume.
- verb treat with fumes, expose to fumes, especially with the aim of disinfecting or eradicating pests
- blights2/5
blight
- noun a state or condition being blighted
- noun any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting
- noun a state or condition being blighted
- transfiguring2/5
transfigure
- verb elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration
glorify; spiritualize.
- verb change completely the nature or appearance of
transmogrify; metamorphose.
- In Kafka's story, a person metamorphoses into a bug
- The treatment and diet transfigured her into a beautiful young woman
- Jesus was transfigured after his resurrection
- verb elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration
- hypopigmentation2/5
hypopigmentation
- noun unusual lack of skin color
- noun unusual lack of skin color
- nearsightedness2/5
nearsightedness
- noun (ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability; distant objects appear blurred
myopia; shortsightedness.
- noun (ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability; distant objects appear blurred
- digesters2/5
digester
- noun autoclave consisting of a vessel in which plant or animal materials are digested
- noun autoclave consisting of a vessel in which plant or animal materials are digested
- navigability2/5
navigability
- noun the quality of being suitable for the passage of a ship or aircraft
- noun the quality of being suitable for the passage of a ship or aircraft
- transfigure2/5
transfigure
- verb elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration
glorify; spiritualize.
- verb change completely the nature or appearance of
transmogrify; metamorphose.
- In Kafka's story, a person metamorphoses into a bug
- The treatment and diet transfigured her into a beautiful young woman
- Jesus was transfigured after his resurrection
- verb elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration
- astigmatic2/5
astigmatic
- adjective of or relating to a defect in the eye or in a lens caused by a deviation from spherical curvature which prevents light rays from meeting at a common focus and so results in distorted images
- adjective of or relating to a defect in the eye or in a lens caused by a deviation from spherical curvature which prevents light rays from meeting at a common focus and so results in distorted images
- pigeonholed2/5
pigeonhole
- noun a specific (often simplistic) category
- noun a small compartment
cubbyhole.
- noun a specific (often simplistic) category
- invigorates2/5
invigorate
- verb heighten or intensify
enliven; animate; inspire; exalt.
- These paintings exalt the imagination
- verb give life or energy to
quicken.
- The cold water invigorated him
- verb heighten or intensify
- spotlighting2/5
spotlight
- noun a focus of public attention
limelight; public eye; glare.
- he enjoyed being in the limelight
- when Congress investigates it brings the full glare of publicity to the agency
- noun a lamp that produces a strong beam of light to illuminate a restricted area; used to focus attention of a stage performer
spot.
- noun a focus of public attention
- lentigo2/5
lentigo
- noun a small brownish spot (of the pigment melanin) on the skin
freckle.
- noun a small brownish spot (of the pigment melanin) on the skin
- lamplighter2/5
lamplighter
- noun (when gas was used for streetlights) a person who lights and extinguishes streetlights
- noun (when gas was used for streetlights) a person who lights and extinguishes streetlights
- floodlight2/5
floodlight
- noun light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography
flood; photoflood; flood lamp.
- verb illuminate with floodlights
- noun light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography
- piggybacking2/5
piggyback
- noun the act of carrying something piggyback
- verb ride on someone's shoulders or back
- noun the act of carrying something piggyback
- stigmatic2/5
stigmatic
- noun a person whose body is marked by religious stigmata (such as marks resembling the wounds of the crucified Christ)
stigmatist.
- adjective pertaining to or resembling or having stigmata
- noun a person whose body is marked by religious stigmata (such as marks resembling the wounds of the crucified Christ)
- pigeonholes2/5
pigeonhole
- noun a specific (often simplistic) category
- noun a small compartment
cubbyhole.
- noun a specific (often simplistic) category
- deigning2/5
deign
- verb do something that one considers to be below one's dignity
condescend; descend.
- verb do something that one considers to be below one's dignity
- righter2/5
right
- noun an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature; it is something that nobody can take away"
- they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights
- Certain rights can never be granted to the government but must be kept in the hands of the people"- Eleanor Roosevelt
- a right is not something that somebody gives you
- noun location near or direction toward the right side; i.e. the side to the south when a person or object faces east
- he stood on the right
- noun an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature; it is something that nobody can take away"
- deigns2/5
deign
- verb do something that one considers to be below one's dignity
condescend; descend.
- verb do something that one considers to be below one's dignity
- frightens2/5
frighten
- verb cause fear in
scare; fright; affright.
- The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me
- Ghosts could never affright her
- verb drive out by frightening
- verb cause fear in
- migrates2/5
migrate
- verb move from one country or region to another and settle there
transmigrate.
- Many Germans migrated to South America in the mid-19th century
- This tribe transmigrated many times over the centuries
- verb move periodically or seasonally
- birds migrate in the Winter
- The workers migrate to where the crops need harvesting
- verb move from one country or region to another and settle there
- delighting2/5
delight
- noun a feeling of extreme pleasure or satisfaction
delectation.
- his delight to see her was obvious to all
- noun something or someone that provides a source of happiness
joy; pleasure.
- a joy to behold
- the pleasure of his company
- the new car is a delight
- noun a feeling of extreme pleasure or satisfaction
- religionists2/5
religionist
- noun a person addicted to religion or a religious zealot
- noun a person addicted to religion or a religious zealot
- mightiest2/5
mighty
- adjective satellite having or showing great strength or force or intensity
- struck a mighty blow
- the mighty logger Paul Bunyan
- the pen is mightier than the sword"- Bulwer-Lytton
- adverb (Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree
powerful; right; mightily.
- the baby is mighty cute
- he's mighty tired
- it is powerful humid
- that boy is powerful big now
- they have a right nice place
- they rejoiced mightily
- adjective satellite having or showing great strength or force or intensity
- shortsighted2/5
shortsighted
- adjective satellite lacking foresight or scope
unforesightful; short; myopic.
- a short view of the problem
- shortsighted policies
- shortsighted critics derided the plan
- myopic thinking
- adjective unable to see distant objects clearly
nearsighted; myopic.
- adjective satellite lacking foresight or scope
- digitization2/5
digitization
- noun conversion of analog information into digital information
digitisation.
- noun conversion of analog information into digital information
- prefigured2/5
prefigure
- verb imagine or consider beforehand
- It wasn't as bad as I had prefigured
- verb indicate by signs
omen; auspicate; bode; betoken; portend; foreshadow; predict; foretell; augur; prognosticate; forecast; presage.
- These signs bode bad news
- verb imagine or consider beforehand
- digestibility2/5
digestibility
- noun the property of being easy to digest
digestibleness.
- noun the property of being easy to digest
- instigator2/5
instigator
- noun someone who deliberately foments trouble
firebrand; inciter; instigant; provoker.
- she was the instigator of their quarrel
- noun a person who initiates a course of action
initiator.
- noun someone who deliberately foments trouble
- oligarchs2/5
oligarch
- noun one of the rulers in an oligarchy
- noun one of the rulers in an oligarchy
- benighted2/5
benighted
- adjective satellite overtaken by night or darkness
nighted.
- benighted (or nighted) travelers hurrying toward home
- verb overtake with darkness or night
benight.
- adjective satellite overtaken by night or darkness
- originators2/5
originator
- noun someone who creates new things
mastermind; conceiver.
- noun someone who creates new things
- vigilantes2/5
vigilante
- noun member of a vigilance committee
vigilance man.
- noun member of a vigilance committee
- pedigrees2/5
pedigree
- noun the descendants of one individual
lineage; parentage; descent; bloodline; ancestry; stemma; blood; line; stock; line of descent; origin; blood line.
- his entire lineage has been warriors
- noun line of descent of a purebred animal
- noun the descendants of one individual
- mightier2/5
mighty
- adjective satellite having or showing great strength or force or intensity
- struck a mighty blow
- the mighty logger Paul Bunyan
- the pen is mightier than the sword"- Bulwer-Lytton
- adverb (Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree
powerful; right; mightily.
- the baby is mighty cute
- he's mighty tired
- it is powerful humid
- that boy is powerful big now
- they have a right nice place
- they rejoiced mightily
- adjective satellite having or showing great strength or force or intensity
- fatiguing2/5
fatigue
- noun temporary loss of strength and energy resulting from hard physical or mental work
tiredness; weariness.
- he was hospitalized for extreme fatigue
- growing fatigue was apparent from the decline in the execution of their athletic skills
- weariness overcame her after twelve hours and she fell asleep
- noun used of materials (especially metals) in a weakened state caused by long stress
- metal fatigue
- noun temporary loss of strength and energy resulting from hard physical or mental work
- uptight2/5
uptight
- adjective satellite being in a tense state
jumpy; highly strung; edgy; high-strung; jittery; restive; nervy; overstrung.
- adjective satellite being in a tense state
- wriggle2/5
wriggle
- noun the act of wiggling
wiggle; squirm.
- verb to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)
twist; wrestle; writhe; worm; squirm.
- The prisoner writhed in discomfort
- The child tried to wriggle free from his aunt's embrace
- noun the act of wiggling
- unrighteousness2/5
unrighteousness
- noun failure to adhere to moral principles
- forgave us our sins and cleansed us of all unrighteousness
- noun failure to adhere to moral principles
- headlight2/5
headlight
- noun a powerful light with reflector; attached to the front of an automobile or locomotive
headlamp.
- noun a powerful light with reflector; attached to the front of an automobile or locomotive
- amigo2/5
amigo
- noun a friend or comrade
- noun a friend or comrade
- digressions2/5
digression
- noun a message that departs from the main subject
divagation; aside; excursus; parenthesis.
- noun a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern)
deviation; deflexion; deflection; diversion; divagation.
- a diversion from the main highway
- a digression into irrelevant details
- a deflection from his goal
- noun a message that departs from the main subject
- plexiglas2/5
plexiglas
- noun a light transparent weather resistant thermoplastic
plexiglass.
- noun a light transparent weather resistant thermoplastic
- consignee2/5
consignee
- noun the person to whom merchandise is delivered over
- noun the person to whom merchandise is delivered over
- immigrate2/5
immigrate
- verb migrate to a new environment
- only few plants can immigrate to the island
- verb introduce or send as immigrants
- Britain immigrated many colonists to America
- verb migrate to a new environment
- nigga2/5
nigga
- noun (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person
nigra; nigger; jigaboo; coon; spade.
- only a Black can call another Black a nigga
- noun (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person
- obligingly2/5
obligingly
- adverb in accommodation
accommodatingly.
- obligingly, he lowered his voice
- adverb in accommodation
- assignor2/5
assignor
- noun (law) the party who makes an assignment
- noun (law) the party who makes an assignment
- vigils2/5
vigil
- noun a period of sleeplessness
- noun the rite of staying awake for devotional purposes (especially on the eve of a religious festival)
watch.
- noun a period of sleeplessness
- highbrow2/5
highbrow
- noun a person of intellectual or erudite tastes
- adjective satellite highly cultured or educated
highbrowed.
- highbrow events such as the ballet or opera
- a highbrowed literary critic
- noun a person of intellectual or erudite tastes
- lignite2/5
lignite
- noun intermediate between peat and bituminous coal
brown coal; wood coal.
- noun intermediate between peat and bituminous coal
- neighborly2/5
neighborly
- adjective satellite exhibiting the qualities expected in a friendly neighbor
neighbourly.
- adjective satellite exhibiting the qualities expected in a friendly neighbor
- dignities2/5
dignity
- noun the quality of being worthy of esteem or respect
self-respect; self-regard; self-worth.
- it was beneath his dignity to cheat
- showed his true dignity when under pressure
- noun formality in bearing and appearance
lordliness; gravitas.
- he behaved with great dignity
- noun the quality of being worthy of esteem or respect
- amigos2/5
- nonsignificant2/5
nonsignificant
- adjective attributable to chance
- adjective attributable to chance
- unenlightened2/5
unenlightened
- adjective not enlightened; ignorant
- the devices by which unenlightened men preserved the unjust social order
- adjective satellite lacking information or instruction
naive; uninstructed.
- lamentably unenlightened as to the laws
- adjective not enlightened; ignorant
- stigmatizing2/5
stigmatize
- verb to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful
stigmatise; brand; denounce; mark.
- He denounced the government action
- She was stigmatized by society because she had a child out of wedlock
- verb mark with a stigma or stigmata
stigmatise.
- They wanted to stigmatize the adulteress
- verb to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful
- denigrating2/5
denigrating
- adjective satellite (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign
libelous; denigrative; denigratory; calumnious; slanderous; libellous; calumniatory; defamatory.
- verb cause to seem less serious; play down
minimize; derogate; denigrate; belittle.
- Don't belittle his influence
- adjective satellite (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign
- alighting2/5
alight
- verb to come to rest, settle
perch; light.
- Misfortune lighted upon him
- verb come down
climb down.
- the birds alighted
- verb to come to rest, settle
- diggings2/5
diggings
- noun an excavation for ore or precious stones or for archaeology
digs.
- noun temporary living quarters
domiciliation; lodgings; pad; digs.
- noun an excavation for ore or precious stones or for archaeology
- realign2/5
realign
- verb align anew or better
realine.
- The surgeon realigned my jaw after the accident
- verb align anew or better
- searchlights2/5
searchlight
- noun a light source with reflectors that projects a beam of light in a particular direction
- noun a light source with reflectors that projects a beam of light in a particular direction
- freighted2/5
freight
- noun goods carried by a large vehicle
load; cargo; lading; shipment; loading; consignment; payload.
- noun transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates
freightage.
- noun goods carried by a large vehicle
- configurational2/5
configurational
- adjective of or relating to or characterized by configuration
- adjective of or relating to or characterized by configuration
- fumigation2/5
fumigation
- noun the application of a gas or smoke to something for the purpose of disinfecting it
- noun the application of a gas or smoke to something for the purpose of disinfecting it
- wrights2/5
wright
- noun United States writer of detective novels (1888-1939)
Willard Huntington Wright; S. S. Van Dine.
- noun United States writer whose work is concerned with the oppression of African Americans (1908-1960)
Richard Wright.
- noun United States writer of detective novels (1888-1939)
- mitigates2/5
mitigate
- verb lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of
extenuate; palliate.
- The circumstances extenuate the crime
- verb make less severe or harsh
- mitigating circumstances
- verb lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of
- rigours2/5
rigour
- noun the quality of being valid and rigorous
rigor; validity; cogency.
- noun something hard to endure
hardship; rigourousness; severeness; rigor; rigorousness; asperity; grimness; severity.
- the asperity of northern winters
- noun the quality of being valid and rigorous
- neigh2/5
neigh
- noun the characteristic sounds made by a horse
whinny; nicker; whicker.
- verb make a characteristic sound, of a horse
whinny; nicker; whicker.
- noun the characteristic sounds made by a horse
- assignation2/5
assignation
- noun a secret rendezvous (especially between lovers)
tryst.
- noun the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan
allocation; parceling; apportionment; apportioning; allotment; parcelling.
- the apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives is based on the relative population of each state
- noun a secret rendezvous (especially between lovers)
- spigot2/5
spigot
- noun a plug for a bunghole in a cask
tap.
- noun a regulator for controlling the flow of a liquid from a reservoir
faucet.
- noun a plug for a bunghole in a cask
- instigators2/5
instigator
- noun someone who deliberately foments trouble
firebrand; inciter; instigant; provoker.
- she was the instigator of their quarrel
- noun a person who initiates a course of action
initiator.
- noun someone who deliberately foments trouble
- nightingales2/5
nightingale
- noun European songbird noted for its melodious nocturnal song
Luscinia megarhynchos.
- noun English nurse remembered for her work during the Crimean War (1820-1910)
Lady with the Lamp; Florence Nightingale.
- noun European songbird noted for its melodious nocturnal song
- prefigures2/5
prefigure
- verb imagine or consider beforehand
- It wasn't as bad as I had prefigured
- verb indicate by signs
omen; auspicate; bode; betoken; portend; foreshadow; predict; foretell; augur; prognosticate; forecast; presage.
- These signs bode bad news
- verb imagine or consider beforehand
- zigzagging2/5
zigzag
- noun an angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions
zig; zag.
- verb travel along a zigzag path
crank.
- The river zigzags through the countryside
- noun an angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions
- gigabytes2/5
gigabyte
- noun a unit of information equal to 1000 megabytes or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bytes
G; GB.
- noun a unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bytes
gibibyte; GiB; G; GB.
- noun a unit of information equal to 1000 megabytes or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bytes
- ligne2/5
ligne
- noun a linear unit (1/40 inch) used to measure diameter of buttons
- noun a linear unit (1/40 inch) used to measure diameter of buttons
- farsighted2/5
farsighted
- adjective able to see distant objects clearly
presbyopic.
- adjective satellite planning prudently for the future
farseeing; long; prospicient; foresightful; longsighted; foresighted.
- large goals that required farsighted policies
- took a long view of the geopolitical issues
- adjective able to see distant objects clearly
- nightshade2/5
nightshade
- noun any of numerous shrubs or herbs or vines of the genus Solanum; most are poisonous though many bear edible fruit
- noun any of numerous shrubs or herbs or vines of the genus Solanum; most are poisonous though many bear edible fruit
- consignments2/5
consignment
- noun goods carried by a large vehicle
load; cargo; lading; shipment; loading; freight; payload.
- noun the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital)
committal; commitment.
- noun goods carried by a large vehicle
- weightlessness2/5
weightlessness
- noun the property of being comparatively small in weight
lightness.
- the lightness of balsa wood
- noun the property of being comparatively small in weight
- dignify2/5
dignify
- verb confer dignity or honor upon
ennoble.
- He was dignified with a title
- verb raise the status of
- I shall not dignify this insensitive remark with an answer
- verb confer dignity or honor upon
- stigmatize2/5
stigmatize
- verb to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful
stigmatise; brand; denounce; mark.
- He denounced the government action
- She was stigmatized by society because she had a child out of wedlock
- verb mark with a stigma or stigmata
stigmatise.
- They wanted to stigmatize the adulteress
- verb to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful
- assignees2/5
assignee
- noun (law) the party to whom something is assigned (e.g., someone to whom a right or property is legally transferred)
- noun (law) the party to whom something is assigned (e.g., someone to whom a right or property is legally transferred)
- outrigger2/5
outrigger
- noun a stabilizer for a canoe; spars attach to a shaped log or float parallel to the hull
- noun a stabilizer for a canoe; spars attach to a shaped log or float parallel to the hull
- zigzags2/5
zigzag
- noun an angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions
zig; zag.
- verb travel along a zigzag path
crank.
- The river zigzags through the countryside
- noun an angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions
- immigrating2/5
immigrate
- verb migrate to a new environment
- only few plants can immigrate to the island
- verb introduce or send as immigrants
- Britain immigrated many colonists to America
- verb migrate to a new environment
- indigence2/5
indigence
- noun a state of extreme poverty or destitution
need; pauperization; penury; pauperism.
- their indigence appalled him
- a general state of need exists among the homeless
- noun a state of extreme poverty or destitution
- ensigns2/5
ensign
- noun a person who holds a commissioned rank in the United States Navy or the United States Coast Guard; below lieutenant junior grade
- noun an emblem flown as a symbol of nationality
national flag.
- noun a person who holds a commissioned rank in the United States Navy or the United States Coast Guard; below lieutenant junior grade
- stigmatised2/5
stigmatise
- verb to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful
brand; stigmatize; denounce; mark.
- He denounced the government action
- She was stigmatized by society because she had a child out of wedlock
- verb mark with a stigma or stigmata
stigmatize.
- They wanted to stigmatize the adulteress
- verb to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful
- realigned2/5
realign
- verb align anew or better
realine.
- The surgeon realigned my jaw after the accident
- verb align anew or better
- reassign2/5
reassign
- verb transfer somebody to a different position or location of work
transfer.
- verb transfer somebody to a different position or location of work
- moonlighting2/5
moonlight
- noun the light of the Moon
moonshine; Moon.
- moonlight is the smuggler's enemy
- the Moon was bright enough to read by
- verb work a second job, usually after hours
- The law student is moonlighting as a taxi driver
- noun the light of the Moon
- slighter2/5
slight
- noun a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval)
rebuff.
- verb pay no attention to, disrespect
cold-shoulder.
- She cold-shouldered her ex-fiance
- noun a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval)
- zigzagged2/5
zigzag
- noun an angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions
zig; zag.
- verb travel along a zigzag path
crank.
- The river zigzags through the countryside
- noun an angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions
- neighbourly2/5
neighbourly
- adjective satellite exhibiting the qualities expected in a friendly neighbor
neighborly.
- adjective satellite exhibiting the qualities expected in a friendly neighbor
- circumnavigation2/5
circumnavigation
- noun traveling around something (by ship or plane)
- Magellan's circumnavigation of the earth proved that it is a globe
- noun traveling around something (by ship or plane)
- refrigerating2/5
refrigerating
- adjective satellite causing cooling or freezing
refrigerant.
- a refrigerant substance such as ice or solid carbon dioxide
- verb preserve by chilling
refrigerate.
- many foods must be refrigerated or else they will spoil
- adjective satellite causing cooling or freezing
- prefigure2/5
prefigure
- verb imagine or consider beforehand
- It wasn't as bad as I had prefigured
- verb indicate by signs
omen; auspicate; bode; betoken; portend; foreshadow; predict; foretell; augur; prognosticate; forecast; presage.
- These signs bode bad news
- verb imagine or consider beforehand
- demigods2/5
demigod
- noun a person with great powers and abilities
Ubermensch; superman.
- noun a person who is part mortal and part god
daemon.
- noun a person with great powers and abilities
- sidelights2/5
sidelight
- noun light carried by a boat that indicates the boat's direction; vessels at night carry a red light on the port bow and a green light on the starboard bow
running light.
- noun light carried by a boat that indicates the boat's direction; vessels at night carry a red light on the port bow and a green light on the starboard bow
- neighing2/5
neigh
- noun the characteristic sounds made by a horse
whinny; nicker; whicker.
- verb make a characteristic sound, of a horse
whinny; nicker; whicker.
- noun the characteristic sounds made by a horse
- coreligionists2/5
coreligionist
- noun someone having the same religion as another person
- noun someone having the same religion as another person
- refrigerants2/5
refrigerant
- noun any substance used to provide cooling (as in a refrigerator)
- adjective satellite causing cooling or freezing
refrigerating.
- a refrigerant substance such as ice or solid carbon dioxide
- noun any substance used to provide cooling (as in a refrigerator)
- gigabyte2/5
gigabyte
- noun a unit of information equal to 1000 megabytes or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bytes
G; GB.
- noun a unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bytes
gibibyte; GiB; G; GB.
- noun a unit of information equal to 1000 megabytes or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bytes
- realigning2/5
realign
- verb align anew or better
realine.
- The surgeon realigned my jaw after the accident
- verb align anew or better
- heavyweights2/5
heavyweight
- noun an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 201 pounds
- noun a wrestler who weighs more than 214 pounds
- noun an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 201 pounds
- nearsighted2/5
nearsighted
- adjective unable to see distant objects clearly
shortsighted; myopic.
- adjective unable to see distant objects clearly
- demigod2/5
demigod
- noun a person with great powers and abilities
Ubermensch; superman.
- noun a person who is part mortal and part god
daemon.
- noun a person with great powers and abilities
- prefiguring2/5
prefigure
- verb imagine or consider beforehand
- It wasn't as bad as I had prefigured
- verb indicate by signs
omen; auspicate; bode; betoken; portend; foreshadow; predict; foretell; augur; prognosticate; forecast; presage.
- These signs bode bad news
- verb imagine or consider beforehand
- negligee2/5
negligee
- noun a loose dressing gown for women
housecoat; neglige; peignoir; wrapper.
- noun a loose dressing gown for women
- signalized2/5
signalize
- verb provide with traffic signals
signalise.
- signalize a busy intersection
- verb communicate silently and non-verbally by signals or signs
signalise; signal; sign.
- He signed his disapproval with a dismissive hand gesture
- The diner signaled the waiters to bring the menu
- verb provide with traffic signals
- freights2/5
freight
- noun goods carried by a large vehicle
load; cargo; lading; shipment; loading; consignment; payload.
- noun transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates
freightage.
- noun goods carried by a large vehicle
- seigniorage2/5
seigniorage
- noun charged by a government for coining bullion
- noun charged by a government for coining bullion
- adige2/5
adige
- noun a river in northern Italy that flows southeast into the Adriatic Sea
River Adige.
- Verona is on the Adige
- noun a river in northern Italy that flows southeast into the Adriatic Sea
- epiglottitis2/5
epiglottitis
- noun inflammation of the epiglottis; characterized by fever and a severe sore throat and difficulty in swallowing
- noun inflammation of the epiglottis; characterized by fever and a severe sore throat and difficulty in swallowing
- brigs2/5
brig
- noun two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on both masts
- noun a penal institution (especially on board a ship)
- noun two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on both masts
- calligrapher2/5
calligrapher
- noun someone skilled in penmanship
calligraphist.
- noun someone skilled in penmanship
- signboard2/5
signboard
- noun structure displaying a board on which advertisements can be posted
sign.
- the highway was lined with signboards
- noun structure displaying a board on which advertisements can be posted
- fistfight2/5
fistfight
- noun a fight with bare fists
slugfest; fisticuffs.
- verb fight with the fists
- The man wanted to fist-fight
- noun a fight with bare fists
- blighting2/5
blight
- noun a state or condition being blighted
- noun any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting
- noun a state or condition being blighted
- digitizer2/5
digitizer
- noun device for converting analogue signals into digital signals
analog-to-digital converter; analog-digital converter; digitiser.
- noun device for converting analogue signals into digital signals
- nighthawk2/5
nighthawk
- noun a person who likes to be active late at night
nightbird; night owl.
- noun mainly nocturnal North American goatsucker
mosquito hawk; bullbat.
- noun a person who likes to be active late at night
- navigations2/5
navigation
- noun the guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place
pilotage; piloting.
- noun ship traffic
- the channel will be open to navigation as soon as the ice melts
- noun the guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place
- niggas2/5
nigga
- noun (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person
nigra; nigger; jigaboo; coon; spade.
- only a Black can call another Black a nigga
- noun (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person
- pigmy2/5
pigmy
- noun an unusually small individual
pygmy.
- noun any member of various peoples having an average height of less than five feet
Pygmy.
- noun an unusually small individual
- highnesses2/5
highness
- noun (Your Highness or His Highness or Her Highness) title used to address a royal person
- noun the quality of being high or lofty
loftiness.
- noun (Your Highness or His Highness or Her Highness) title used to address a royal person
- litigator2/5
litigator
- noun (law) a party to a lawsuit; someone involved in litigation
litigant.
- plaintiffs and defendants are both litigants
- noun (law) a party to a lawsuit; someone involved in litigation
- twiggy2/5
twiggy
- adjective satellite thin as a twig
twiglike.
- adjective satellite thin as a twig
- dogfight2/5
dogfight
- noun a fiercely disputed contest
- their rancor dated from a political dogfight between them
- a real dogfight for third place
- a prolonged dogfight over their rival bids for the contract
- noun disorderly fighting
tussle; hassle; scuffle; rough-and-tumble.
- noun a fiercely disputed contest
- unoriginal2/5
unoriginal
- adjective not original; not being or productive of something fresh and unusual
- the manuscript contained unoriginal emendations
- his life had been unoriginal, conforming completely to the given pattern"- Gwethalyn Graham
- adjective not original; not being or productive of something fresh and unusual
- gigantism2/5
gigantism
- noun excessive size; usually caused by excessive secretion of growth hormone from the pituitary gland
giantism; overgrowth.
- noun excessive largeness of stature
giantism.
- noun excessive size; usually caused by excessive secretion of growth hormone from the pituitary gland
- verdigris2/5
verdigris
- noun a blue or green powder used as a paint pigment
cupric acetate.
- noun a green patina that forms on copper or brass or bronze that has been exposed to the air or water for long periods of time
- noun a blue or green powder used as a paint pigment
- litigators2/5
litigator
- noun (law) a party to a lawsuit; someone involved in litigation
litigant.
- plaintiffs and defendants are both litigants
- noun (law) a party to a lawsuit; someone involved in litigation
- digitalization2/5
digitalization
- noun the administration of digitalis for the treatment of certain heart disorders
digitalisation.
- noun the administration of digitalis for the treatment of certain heart disorders
- lignes2/5
ligne
- noun a linear unit (1/40 inch) used to measure diameter of buttons
- noun a linear unit (1/40 inch) used to measure diameter of buttons
- neostigmine2/5
neostigmine
- noun a cholinergic drug (trade name Prostigmin) used to treat some ophthalmic conditions and to treat myasthenia gravis
Prostigmin.
- noun a cholinergic drug (trade name Prostigmin) used to treat some ophthalmic conditions and to treat myasthenia gravis
- rigmarole2/5
rigmarole
- noun a set of confused and meaningless statements
rigamarole.
- noun a long and complicated and confusing procedure
rigamarole.
- all that academic rigmarole was a waste of time
- noun a set of confused and meaningless statements
- rigel2/5
rigel
(Astron.) A fixed star of the first magnitude in the left foot of the constellation Orion. Written also Regel .
- misalignments2/5
misalignment
- noun the spatial property of things that are not properly aligned
- noun the spatial property of things that are not properly aligned
- plexiglass2/5
plexiglass
- noun a light transparent weather resistant thermoplastic
Plexiglas.
- noun a light transparent weather resistant thermoplastic
Plexiglas.
- noun a light transparent weather resistant thermoplastic
- outweighing2/5
outweigh
- verb be heavier than
- verb weigh more heavily
overbalance; outbalance; preponderate.
- these considerations outweigh our wishes
- verb be heavier than
- epigastrium2/5
epigastrium
- noun the region lying on or over the stomach (just below the sternum)
- noun the region lying on or over the stomach (just below the sternum)
- sidelight2/5
sidelight
- noun light carried by a boat that indicates the boat's direction; vessels at night carry a red light on the port bow and a green light on the starboard bow
running light.
- noun light carried by a boat that indicates the boat's direction; vessels at night carry a red light on the port bow and a green light on the starboard bow
- squiggly2/5
squiggly
- adjective satellite wavy and twisting
- adjective satellite wavy and twisting
- significative2/5
significative
- adjective satellite (usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly
indicatory; revelatory; indicative; suggestive.
- actions indicative of fear
- adjective satellite (usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly
- alights2/5
alight
- verb to come to rest, settle
perch; light.
- Misfortune lighted upon him
- verb come down
climb down.
- the birds alighted
- verb to come to rest, settle
- digitisation2/5
digitisation
- noun conversion of analog information into digital information
digitization.
- noun conversion of analog information into digital information
- freighting2/5
freight
- noun goods carried by a large vehicle
load; cargo; lading; shipment; loading; consignment; payload.
- noun transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates
freightage.
- noun goods carried by a large vehicle
- straightest2/5
straight
- noun a heterosexual person; someone having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex
straight person; heterosexual person; heterosexual.
- noun a poker hand with 5 consecutive cards (regardless of suit)
- noun a heterosexual person; someone having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex
- farsightedness2/5
farsightedness
- noun a reduced ability to focus on near objects caused by loss of elasticity of the crystalline lens after age 45
presbyopia.
- noun abnormal condition in which vision for distant objects is better than for near objects
hypermetropia; hypermetropy; hyperopia; longsightedness.
- noun a reduced ability to focus on near objects caused by loss of elasticity of the crystalline lens after age 45
- neighed2/5
neigh
- noun the characteristic sounds made by a horse
whinny; nicker; whicker.
- verb make a characteristic sound, of a horse
whinny; nicker; whicker.
- noun the characteristic sounds made by a horse
- backlighting2/5
backlighting
- noun lighting from behind
- noun lighting from behind
- reassigning2/5
reassign
- verb transfer somebody to a different position or location of work
transfer.
- verb transfer somebody to a different position or location of work
- counterweights2/5
counterweight
- noun a weight that balances another weight
counterpoise; equalizer; equaliser; counterbalance; balance.
- verb constitute a counterweight or counterbalance to
counterpoise; counterpose.
- noun a weight that balances another weight
- nightclothes2/5
nightclothes
- noun garments designed to be worn in bed
nightwear; sleepwear.
- noun garments designed to be worn in bed
- assignations2/5
assignation
- noun a secret rendezvous (especially between lovers)
tryst.
- noun the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan
allocation; parceling; apportionment; apportioning; allotment; parcelling.
- the apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives is based on the relative population of each state
- noun a secret rendezvous (especially between lovers)
- fistfights2/5
fistfight
- noun a fight with bare fists
slugfest; fisticuffs.
- verb fight with the fists
- The man wanted to fist-fight
- noun a fight with bare fists
- lightship2/5
lightship
- noun a ship equipped like a lighthouse and anchored where a permanent lighthouse would be impracticable
- noun a ship equipped like a lighthouse and anchored where a permanent lighthouse would be impracticable
- oligarch2/5
oligarch
- noun one of the rulers in an oligarchy
- noun one of the rulers in an oligarchy
- reignited2/5
reignite
- verb ignite anew, as of something burning
- The strong winds reignited the cooling embers
- verb ignite anew, as of something burning
- unintelligibility2/5
unintelligibility
- noun nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible
incoherency; incoherence.
- noun incomprehensibility as a consequence of being unintelligible
- noun nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible
- calligraphers2/5
calligrapher
- noun someone skilled in penmanship
calligraphist.
- noun someone skilled in penmanship
- outriggers2/5
outrigger
- noun a stabilizer for a canoe; spars attach to a shaped log or float parallel to the hull
- noun a stabilizer for a canoe; spars attach to a shaped log or float parallel to the hull
- religionist2/5
religionist
- noun a person addicted to religion or a religious zealot
- noun a person addicted to religion or a religious zealot
- rectosigmoid2/5
rectosigmoid
- adjective of or related to or near the sigmoid colon and the upper part of the rectum
- adjective of or related to or near the sigmoid colon and the upper part of the rectum
- signboards2/5
signboard
- noun structure displaying a board on which advertisements can be posted
sign.
- the highway was lined with signboards
- noun structure displaying a board on which advertisements can be posted
- wriggles2/5
wriggle
- noun the act of wiggling
wiggle; squirm.
- verb to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)
twist; wrestle; writhe; worm; squirm.
- The prisoner writhed in discomfort
- The child tried to wriggle free from his aunt's embrace
- noun the act of wiggling
- intriguer2/5
intriguer
- noun a person who devises plots or intrigues
designer.
- he is believed to be the principal designer of the terrorist bombing attack
- noun a person who devises plots or intrigues
- spigots2/5
spigot
- noun a plug for a bunghole in a cask
tap.
- noun a regulator for controlling the flow of a liquid from a reservoir
faucet.
- noun a plug for a bunghole in a cask
- straightjacket2/5
straightjacket
- noun a garment similar to a jacket that is used to bind the arms tightly against the body as a means of restraining a violent person
straitjacket.
- noun a garment similar to a jacket that is used to bind the arms tightly against the body as a means of restraining a violent person
- sprightly2/5
sprightly
- adjective satellite full of spirit and vitality
- a sprightly young girl
- a sprightly dance
- adjective satellite full of spirit and vitality
- tightrope2/5
tightrope
- noun tightly stretched rope or wire on which acrobats perform high above the ground
- noun tightly stretched rope or wire on which acrobats perform high above the ground
- stigmatization2/5
stigmatization
- noun the act of stigmatizing
branding; stigmatisation.
- noun the act of stigmatizing
- campaigners2/5
campaigner
- noun a politician who is running for public office
nominee; candidate.
- noun a politician who is running for public office
- litigated2/5
litigate
- verb engage in legal proceedings
- verb institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against
action; process; sue.
- He was warned that the district attorney would process him
- She actioned the company for discrimination
- verb engage in legal proceedings
- rightist2/5
rightist
- noun a member of a right wing political party
right-winger.
- adjective satellite believing in or supporting tenets of the political right
right-wing.
- noun a member of a right wing political party
- epigastric2/5
epigastric
- adjective of or relating to the anterior walls of the abdomen
- epigastric artery
- adjective lying on or over the stomach
- adjective of or relating to the anterior walls of the abdomen
- weightless2/5
weightless
- adjective having little or no weight or apparent gravitational pull; light
- floating freely in a weightless condition
- a baby bat...fluffy and weightless as a moth
- jackets made of a weightless polyester fabric
- adjective having little or no weight or apparent gravitational pull; light
- denigrate2/5
denigrate
- verb cause to seem less serious; play down
minimize; derogate; belittle.
- Don't belittle his influence
- verb charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone
sully; smirch; smear; defame; asperse; slander; calumniate; besmirch.
- The journalists have defamed me!" "The article in the paper sullied my reputation
- verb cause to seem less serious; play down
- undignified2/5
undignified
- adjective lacking dignity
- adjective lacking dignity
- intransigent2/5
intransigent
- adjective satellite impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason; she would have none of him"- W.Churchill
adamant; adamantine; inexorable.
- he is adamant in his refusal to change his mind
- Cynthia was inexorable
- an intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendency
- adjective satellite impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason; she would have none of him"- W.Churchill
- castigated2/5
castigate
- verb censure severely
objurgate; chastise; chasten; correct.
- She chastised him for his insensitive remarks
- verb inflict severe punishment on
- verb censure severely
- figment2/5
figment
- noun a contrived or fantastic idea
- a figment of the imagination
- noun a contrived or fantastic idea
- lighthouses2/5
lighthouse
- noun a tower with a light that gives warning of shoals to passing ships
pharos; beacon; beacon light.
- noun a tower with a light that gives warning of shoals to passing ships
- denigrated2/5
denigrate
- verb cause to seem less serious; play down
minimize; derogate; belittle.
- Don't belittle his influence
- verb charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone
sully; smirch; smear; defame; asperse; slander; calumniate; besmirch.
- The journalists have defamed me!" "The article in the paper sullied my reputation
- verb cause to seem less serious; play down
- unrighteous2/5
unrighteous
- adjective not righteous
- an unrighteous man
- an unrighteous law
- adjective not righteous
- emigrating2/5
emigrate
- verb leave one's country of residence for a new one
- Many people had to emigrate during the Nazi period
- verb leave one's country of residence for a new one
- assignable2/5
assignable
- adjective satellite legally transferable to the ownership of another
transferrable; conveyable; negotiable; transferable.
- negotiable bonds
- adjective satellite legally transferable to the ownership of another
- bigot2/5
bigot
- noun a prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from his own
- noun a prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from his own
- prodigies2/5
prodigy
- noun an unusually gifted or intelligent (young) person; someone whose talents excite wonder and admiration
- she is a chess prodigy
- noun a sign of something about to happen
omen; prognostic; prognostication; presage; portent.
- he looked for an omen before going into battle
- noun an unusually gifted or intelligent (young) person; someone whose talents excite wonder and admiration
- streetlights2/5
streetlight
- noun a lamp supported on a lamppost; for illuminating a street
street lamp.
- noun a lamp supported on a lamppost; for illuminating a street
- rightmost2/5
rightmost
- adjective satellite farthest to the right
- in the rightmost line of traffic
- adjective satellite farthest to the right
- resignations2/5
resignation
- noun acceptance of despair
surrender.
- noun the act of giving up (a claim or office or possession etc.)
- noun acceptance of despair
- exigency2/5
exigency
- noun a pressing or urgent situation
- the health-care exigency
- noun a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action
pinch; emergency.
- he never knew what to do in an emergency
- noun a pressing or urgent situation
- piglets2/5
piglet
- noun a young pig
shote; shoat; piggy.
- noun a young pig
- lightbulb2/5
lightbulb
- noun electric lamp consisting of a transparent or translucent glass housing containing a wire filament (usually tungsten) that emits light when heated by electricity
electric light; light bulb; electric-light bulb; bulb; incandescent lamp.
- noun electric lamp consisting of a transparent or translucent glass housing containing a wire filament (usually tungsten) that emits light when heated by electricity
- litigate2/5
litigate
- verb engage in legal proceedings
- verb institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against
action; process; sue.
- He was warned that the district attorney would process him
- She actioned the company for discrimination
- verb engage in legal proceedings
- significations2/5
signification
- noun the message that is intended or expressed or signified
import; meaning; significance.
- what is the meaning of this sentence
- the significance of a red traffic light
- the signification of Chinese characters
- the import of his announcement was ambiguous
- noun the message that is intended or expressed or signified
- modigliani2/5
modigliani
- noun Italian painter and sculptor (1884-1920)
Amedeo Modigliano.
- noun Italian painter and sculptor (1884-1920)
- uprightness2/5
uprightness
- noun the property of being upright in posture
erectness.
- noun position at right angles to the horizon
erectness; verticality; verticalness.
- noun the property of being upright in posture
- campaigner2/5
campaigner
- noun a politician who is running for public office
nominee; candidate.
- noun a politician who is running for public office
- signpost2/5
signpost
- noun a post bearing a sign that gives directions or shows the way
guidepost.
- verb mark with a signpost, as of a path
- noun a post bearing a sign that gives directions or shows the way
- oligarchic2/5
oligarchic
- adjective of or relating to or supporting or characteristic of an oligarchy
oligarchical.
- adjective of or relating to or supporting or characteristic of an oligarchy
- epiglottis2/5
epiglottis
- noun a flap of cartilage that covers the windpipe while swallowing
- noun a flap of cartilage that covers the windpipe while swallowing
- dignitary2/5
dignitary
- noun an important or influential (and often overbearing) person
high muckamuck; high-up; panjandrum; VIP; very important person.
- noun an important or influential (and often overbearing) person
- eighths2/5
eighth
- noun position eight in a countable series of things
- noun one part in eight equal parts
one-eighth.
- noun position eight in a countable series of things
- consign2/5
consign
- verb commit forever; commit irrevocably
- verb give over to another for care or safekeeping
charge.
- consign your baggage
- verb commit forever; commit irrevocably
- eightfold2/5
eightfold
- adjective satellite having eight units or components
octuple; eight-fold.
- adjective satellite having eight units or components
- slights2/5
slight
- noun a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval)
rebuff.
- verb pay no attention to, disrespect
cold-shoulder.
- She cold-shouldered her ex-fiance
- noun a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval)
- malignity2/5
malignity
- noun wishing evil to others
malevolence.
- noun quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will
malignancy; malignance.
- noun wishing evil to others
- digress2/5
digress
- verb lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking
divagate; wander; stray.
- She always digresses when telling a story
- her mind wanders
- Don't digress when you give a lecture
- verb wander from a direct or straight course
straggle; depart; sidetrack.
- verb lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking
- signore2/5
signore
- noun an Italian title of respect for a man; equivalent to the English `sir'; used separately (not prefixed to his name)
- noun an Italian title of address equivalent to Mrs. when used before a name
signora.
- noun an Italian title of respect for a man; equivalent to the English `sir'; used separately (not prefixed to his name)
- bigamy2/5
bigamy
- noun having two spouses at the same time
- noun the offense of marrying someone while you have a living spouse from whom no valid divorce has occurred
- noun having two spouses at the same time
- eights2/5
eight
- noun the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one
ogdoad; octet; octad; VIII; eighter; 8; eighter from Decatur; octonary.
- noun a group of United States painters founded in 1907 and noted for their realistic depictions of sordid aspects of city life
Ashcan School.
- noun the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one
- iphigenia2/5
iphigenia
- noun (Greek mythology) the daughter of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon; Agamemnon was obliged to offer her as a sacrifice to Artemis when the Greek fleet was becalmed on its way to Troy; Artemis rescued her and she later became a priestess
- noun (Greek mythology) the daughter of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon; Agamemnon was obliged to offer her as a sacrifice to Artemis when the Greek fleet was becalmed on its way to Troy; Artemis rescued her and she later became a priestess
- profligacy2/5
profligacy
- noun the trait of spending extravagantly
extravagance; prodigality.
- noun dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure
dissipation; dissolution; licentiousness; looseness.
- noun the trait of spending extravagantly
- unintelligent2/5
unintelligent
- adjective lacking intelligence
stupid.
- a dull job with lazy and unintelligent co-workers
- adjective lacking intelligence
- enigmas2/5
enigma
- noun something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
mystery; secret; closed book.
- how it got out is a mystery
- it remains one of nature's secrets
- noun a difficult problem
riddle; conundrum; brain-teaser.
- noun something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
- litigious2/5
litigious
- adjective of or relating to litigation
- adjective satellite inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits
disputatious; combative; contentious; disputative.
- a style described as abrasive and contentious
- a disputatious lawyer
- a litigious and acrimonious spirit
- adjective of or relating to litigation
- hooligans2/5
hooligan
- noun a cruel and brutal fellow
yobo; ruffian; tough; bully; roughneck; rowdy; yob; yobbo.
- noun a cruel and brutal fellow
- bigness2/5
bigness
- noun the property of having a relatively great size
largeness.
- noun the property of having a relatively great size
- uprights2/5
upright
- noun a vertical structural member as a post or stake
vertical.
- the ball sailed between the uprights
- noun a piano with a vertical sounding board
upright piano.
- noun a vertical structural member as a post or stake
- bigots2/5
bigot
- noun a prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from his own
- noun a prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from his own
- indigestible2/5
indigestible
- adjective digested with difficulty
- adjective digested with difficulty
- milligram2/5
milligram
- noun one thousandth (1/1,000) gram
mg.
- noun one thousandth (1/1,000) gram
- madrigal2/5
madrigal
- noun an unaccompanied partsong for 2 or 3 voices; follows a strict poetic form
- verb sing madrigals
- The group was madrigaling beautifully
- noun an unaccompanied partsong for 2 or 3 voices; follows a strict poetic form
- shenanigans2/5
shenanigan
- noun reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others
mischief-making; rascality; mischief; mischievousness; roguishness; roguery; devilment; deviltry; devilry.
- noun the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
chicanery; trickery; chicane; wile; guile.
- noun reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others
- brigand2/5
brigand
- noun an armed thief who is (usually) a member of a band
bandit.
- noun an armed thief who is (usually) a member of a band
- lightnings2/5
lightning
- noun abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission of light
- noun the flash of light that accompanies an electric discharge in the atmosphere (or something resembling such a flash); can scintillate for a second or more
- noun abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission of light
- litigating2/5
litigate
- verb engage in legal proceedings
- verb institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against
action; process; sue.
- He was warned that the district attorney would process him
- She actioned the company for discrimination
- verb engage in legal proceedings
- origami2/5
origami
- noun the Japanese art of folding paper into shapes representing objects (e.g., flowers or birds)
- noun the Japanese art of folding paper into shapes representing objects (e.g., flowers or birds)
- piglet2/5
piglet
- noun a young pig
shote; shoat; piggy.
- noun a young pig
- spaceflight2/5
spaceflight
- noun a voyage outside the Earth's atmosphere
space travel; spacefaring.
- noun a voyage outside the Earth's atmosphere
- belligerence2/5
belligerence
- noun hostile or warlike attitude or nature
belligerency.
- noun a natural disposition to be hostile
pugnacity; aggressiveness.
- noun hostile or warlike attitude or nature
- signposted2/5
signpost
- noun a post bearing a sign that gives directions or shows the way
guidepost.
- verb mark with a signpost, as of a path
- noun a post bearing a sign that gives directions or shows the way
- marigolds2/5
marigold
- noun any of various tropical American plants of the genus Tagetes widely cultivated for their showy yellow or orange flowers
- noun any of various tropical American plants of the genus Tagetes widely cultivated for their showy yellow or orange flowers
- oligodendrocytes2/5
oligodendrocyte
- noun a cell of the oligodendroglia
- noun a cell of the oligodendroglia
- eightieth2/5
eightieth
- noun position 80 in a countable series of things
- adjective satellite the ordinal number of eighty in counting order
80th.
- noun position 80 in a countable series of things
- footlights2/5
footlights
- noun theater light at the front of a stage that illuminate the set and actors
- noun theater light at the front of a stage that illuminate the set and actors
- exigent2/5
exigent
- adjective satellite demanding attention
insistent; instant; clamant; crying.
- clamant needs
- a crying need
- regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous"- H.L.Mencken
- insistent hunger
- an instant need
- adjective satellite requiring precise accuracy
exacting.
- an exacting job
- became more exigent over his pronunciation
- adjective satellite demanding attention
- misaligned2/5
misalign
- verb align imperfectly or badly
- the elements of the turbine were misaligned
- verb align imperfectly or badly
- streetlight2/5
streetlight
- noun a lamp supported on a lamppost; for illuminating a street
street lamp.
- noun a lamp supported on a lamppost; for illuminating a street
- nightshirt2/5
nightshirt
- noun nightclothes worn by men
- noun nightclothes worn by men
- prodigality2/5
prodigality
- noun the trait of spending extravagantly
extravagance; profligacy.
- noun excessive spending
high life; extravagance; highlife; lavishness.
- noun the trait of spending extravagantly
- antigonus2/5
antigonus
- noun a general of Alexander the Great and king of Macedonia; lost one eye; killed in a battle at Ipsus (382-301 BC)
Monophthalmos; Antigonus Cyclops.
- noun a general of Alexander the Great and king of Macedonia; lost one eye; killed in a battle at Ipsus (382-301 BC)
- unfeigned2/5
unfeigned
- adjective satellite not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed
true; genuine.
- genuine emotion
- her interest in people was unfeigned
- true grief
- adjective satellite not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed
- consignor2/5
consignor
- noun the person who delivers over or commits merchandise
consigner.
- noun the person who delivers over or commits merchandise
- nightdress2/5
nightdress
- noun lingerie consisting of a loose dress designed to be worn in bed by women
gown; night-robe; nightgown; nightie.
- noun lingerie consisting of a loose dress designed to be worn in bed by women
- intelligibly2/5
intelligibly
- adverb in an intelligible manner
understandably; clearly.
- the foreigner spoke to us quite intelligibly
- adverb in an intelligible manner
- sightedness2/5
sightedness
- noun normal use of the faculty of vision
seeing; eyesight.
- noun normal use of the faculty of vision
- straightedge2/5
straightedge
- noun hand tool consisting of a flat rigid rectangular bar (metal or wood) that can be used to draw straight lines (or test their straightness)
- noun hand tool consisting of a flat rigid rectangular bar (metal or wood) that can be used to draw straight lines (or test their straightness)
- vigna2/5
vigna
- noun genus of vines or erect herbs having trifoliate leaves and yellowish or purplish flowers; of warm or tropical regions; most species often placed in genus Phaseolus
genus Vigna.
- noun genus of vines or erect herbs having trifoliate leaves and yellowish or purplish flowers; of warm or tropical regions; most species often placed in genus Phaseolus
- affrighted2/5
affright
- noun an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
terror; panic.
- verb cause fear in
frighten; scare; fright.
- The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me
- Ghosts could never affright her
- noun an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
- enlightens2/5
enlighten
- verb make understand
edify.
- Can you enlighten me--I don't understand this proposal
- verb give spiritual insight to; in religion
irradiate.
- verb make understand
- hooliganism2/5
hooliganism
- noun willful wanton and malicious destruction of the property of others
malicious mischief; vandalism.
- noun willful wanton and malicious destruction of the property of others
- nonaligned2/5
nonaligned
- adjective not affiliated with any faction, party, or cause
- adjective not affiliated with any faction, party, or cause
- craigie2/5
craigie
- noun English lexicographer who was a joint editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (1872-1966)
Sir William Alexander Craigie; William A. Craigie.
- noun English lexicographer who was a joint editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (1872-1966)
- figurations2/5
figuration
- noun representing figuratively as by emblem or allegory
- noun decorating with a design
- noun representing figuratively as by emblem or allegory
- stoplight2/5
stoplight
- noun a red light on the rear of a motor vehicle that signals when the brakes are applied to slow or stop
brake light.
- noun a visual signal to control the flow of traffic at intersections
traffic signal; traffic light.
- noun a red light on the rear of a motor vehicle that signals when the brakes are applied to slow or stop
- lightbulbs2/5
lightbulb
- noun electric lamp consisting of a transparent or translucent glass housing containing a wire filament (usually tungsten) that emits light when heated by electricity
electric light; light bulb; electric-light bulb; bulb; incandescent lamp.
- noun electric lamp consisting of a transparent or translucent glass housing containing a wire filament (usually tungsten) that emits light when heated by electricity
- gunfight2/5
gunfight
- noun a fight involving shooting small arms with the intent to kill or frighten
gunplay; shootout.
- noun a fight involving shooting small arms with the intent to kill or frighten
- consigning2/5
consign
- verb commit forever; commit irrevocably
- verb give over to another for care or safekeeping
charge.
- consign your baggage
- verb commit forever; commit irrevocably
- taillights2/5
taillight
- noun lamp (usually red) mounted at the rear of a motor vehicle
rear lamp; rear light; tail lamp.
- noun lamp (usually red) mounted at the rear of a motor vehicle
- hooligan2/5
hooligan
- noun a cruel and brutal fellow
yobo; ruffian; tough; bully; roughneck; rowdy; yob; yobbo.
- noun a cruel and brutal fellow
- sovereignties2/5
sovereignty
- noun government free from external control
- noun royal authority; the dominion of a monarch
reign.
- noun government free from external control
- rightists2/5
rightist
- noun a member of a right wing political party
right-winger.
- adjective satellite believing in or supporting tenets of the political right
right-wing.
- noun a member of a right wing political party
- sightseers2/5
sightseer
- noun a tourist who is visiting sights of interest
tripper; rubberneck; excursionist.
- noun a tourist who is visiting sights of interest
- weightlifting2/5
weightlifting
- noun bodybuilding by exercise that involves lifting weights
weightlift.
- verb lift weights
press; weight-lift; weightlift.
- This guy can press 300 pounds
- noun bodybuilding by exercise that involves lifting weights
- oversights2/5
oversight
- noun an unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something
inadvertence.
- noun management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group
supervising; superintendence; supervision.
- noun an unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something
- wiggly2/5
wiggly
- adjective satellite curved or curving in and out
sinuate; sinuous.
- wiggly lines
- adjective satellite moving in a twisting or snake-like or wormlike fashion
writhing; wriggling; wriggly.
- wiggly worms
- adjective satellite curved or curving in and out
- madrigals2/5
madrigal
- noun an unaccompanied partsong for 2 or 3 voices; follows a strict poetic form
- verb sing madrigals
- The group was madrigaling beautifully
- noun an unaccompanied partsong for 2 or 3 voices; follows a strict poetic form
- significances2/5
significance
- noun the quality of being significant
- do not underestimate the significance of nuclear power
- noun a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred
import; implication.
- the significance of his remark became clear only later
- the expectation was spread both by word and by implication
- noun the quality of being significant
- niggling2/5
niggling
- adjective satellite (informal) small and of little importance
little; petty; footling; piffling; trivial; piddling; fiddling; picayune; lilliputian.
- a fiddling sum of money
- a footling gesture
- our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war
- a little (or small) matter
- a dispute over niggling details
- limited to petty enterprises
- piffling efforts
- giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction
- verb worry unnecessarily or excessively
niggle; fuss; fret.
- don't fuss too much over the grandchildren--they are quite big now
- adjective satellite (informal) small and of little importance
- paperweight2/5
paperweight
- noun a weight used to hold down a stack of papers
- noun a weight used to hold down a stack of papers
- hundredweight2/5
hundredweight
- noun a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms
centner; metric hundredweight; doppelzentner.
- noun a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds
short hundredweight; quintal; centner; cwt; cental.
- noun a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms
- bourguignon2/5
bourguignon
- noun reduced red wine with onions and parsley and thyme and butter
bourguignon sauce; Burgundy sauce.
- noun reduced red wine with onions and parsley and thyme and butter
- oligodendrocyte2/5
oligodendrocyte
- noun a cell of the oligodendroglia
- noun a cell of the oligodendroglia
- inveighed2/5
inveigh
- verb complain bitterly
rail.
- verb speak against in an impassioned manner
declaim.
- he declaimed against the wasteful ways of modern society
- verb complain bitterly
- highlighter2/5
highlighter
- noun a cosmetic used to highlight the eyes or cheekbones
- noun a fluorescent marker used to mark important passages in a text
- noun a cosmetic used to highlight the eyes or cheekbones
- castigate2/5
castigate
- verb censure severely
objurgate; chastise; chasten; correct.
- She chastised him for his insensitive remarks
- verb inflict severe punishment on
- verb censure severely
- figments2/5
figment
- noun a contrived or fantastic idea
- a figment of the imagination
- noun a contrived or fantastic idea
- affright2/5
affright
- noun an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
terror; panic.
- verb cause fear in
frighten; scare; fright.
- The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me
- Ghosts could never affright her
- noun an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
- sleighs2/5
sleigh
- noun a vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs; for transportation over snow
sledge; sled.
- verb ride (on) a sled
sled.
- noun a vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs; for transportation over snow
- seigneurs2/5
seigneur
- noun a man of rank in the ancient regime
feudal lord; seignior.
- noun a man of rank in the ancient regime
- unlighted2/5
unlighted
- adjective not set afire or burning
unlit.
- the table was bare, the candles unlighted
- held an unlit cigarette
- adjective satellite without illumination
unilluminated; lightless; unlit.
- came up the lightless stairs
- the unilluminated side of Mars
- through dark unlighted (or unlit) streets
- adjective not set afire or burning
- plighted2/5
plight
- noun a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one
predicament; quandary.
- finds himself in a most awkward predicament
- the woeful plight of homeless people
- noun a solemn pledge of fidelity
troth.
- noun a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one
- straightforwardness2/5
straightforwardness
- noun the quality of being direct and straightforward
downrightness.
- what some people take for rudeness is really straightforwardness
- noun without hypocrisy
singleness.
- the singleness of his motives could not be questioned
- noun the quality of being direct and straightforward
- rigger2/5
rigger
- noun someone who rigs ships
- noun a long slender pointed sable brush used by artists
rigger brush.
- noun someone who rigs ships
- castigating2/5
castigate
- verb censure severely
objurgate; chastise; chasten; correct.
- She chastised him for his insensitive remarks
- verb inflict severe punishment on
- verb censure severely
- gravedigger2/5
gravedigger
- noun a person who earns a living by digging graves
- noun a person who earns a living by digging graves
- oligopolies2/5
oligopoly
- noun (economics) a market in which control over the supply of a commodity is in the hands of a small number of producers and each one can influence prices and affect competitors
- noun (economics) a market in which control over the supply of a commodity is in the hands of a small number of producers and each one can influence prices and affect competitors
- nightie2/5
nightie
- noun lingerie consisting of a loose dress designed to be worn in bed by women
gown; nightdress; night-robe; nightgown.
- noun lingerie consisting of a loose dress designed to be worn in bed by women
- feigns2/5
feign
- verb make believe with the intent to deceive
affect; pretend; dissemble; sham.
- He feigned that he was ill
- He shammed a headache
- verb make a pretence of
assume; simulate; sham.
- She assumed indifference, even though she was seething with anger
- he feigned sleep
- verb make believe with the intent to deceive
- middleweight2/5
middleweight
- noun an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 165 pounds
- noun a wrestler who weighs 172-192 pounds
- noun an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 165 pounds
- gigolo2/5
gigolo
- noun a man who has sex with and is supported by a woman
- noun a man who has sex with and is supported by a woman
- belligerency2/5
belligerency
- noun hostile or warlike attitude or nature
belligerence.
- noun fighting; acts of overt warfare
hostilities.
- the outbreak of hostilities
- noun hostile or warlike attitude or nature
- obligatorily2/5
obligatorily
- adverb in an obligatory manner
- this rule applies obligatorily
- adverb in a manner that cannot be evaded
mandatorily; compulsorily.
- the ministry considers that contributions to such a fund should be met from voluntary donations rather than from rates compulsorily levied.
- adverb in an obligatory manner
- bigwigs2/5
bigwig
- noun the most important person in a group or undertaking
kingpin; top banana.
- noun the most important person in a group or undertaking
- neighborliness2/5
neighborliness
- noun a disposition to be friendly and helpful to neighbors
good-neighborliness; neighbourliness; good-neighbourliness.
- noun a disposition to be friendly and helpful to neighbors
- belligerently2/5
belligerently
- adverb with hostility; in a belligerent hostile manner
hostilely.
- he pushed her against the wall belligerently
- adverb with hostility; in a belligerent hostile manner
- countersigned2/5
countersign
- noun a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group
word; password; watchword; parole.
- he forgot the password
- noun a second confirming signature endorsing a document already signed
countersignature.
- noun a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group
- signalman2/5
signalman
- noun a railroad employee in charge of signals and point in a railroad yard
- noun a railroad employee in charge of signals and point in a railroad yard
- signori2/5
signior
- noun used as an Italian courtesy title; can be prefixed to the name or used separately
signor.
- noun used as an Italian courtesy title; can be prefixed to the name or used separately
- stigmatisation2/5
stigmatisation
- noun the act of stigmatizing
branding; stigmatization.
- noun the act of stigmatizing
- nightgowns2/5
nightgown
- noun lingerie consisting of a loose dress designed to be worn in bed by women
gown; nightdress; night-robe; nightie.
- noun lingerie consisting of a loose dress designed to be worn in bed by women
- oligarchical2/5
oligarchical
- adjective of or relating to or supporting or characteristic of an oligarchy
oligarchic.
- adjective of or relating to or supporting or characteristic of an oligarchy
- squiggles2/5
squiggle
- noun a short twisting line
curlicue.
- noun an illegible scrawl
- his signature was just a squiggle but only he could make that squiggle
- noun a short twisting line
- denigrates2/5
denigrate
- verb cause to seem less serious; play down
minimize; derogate; belittle.
- Don't belittle his influence
- verb charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone
sully; smirch; smear; defame; asperse; slander; calumniate; besmirch.
- The journalists have defamed me!" "The article in the paper sullied my reputation
- verb cause to seem less serious; play down
- litigations2/5
litigation
- noun a legal proceeding in a court; a judicial contest to determine and enforce legal rights
judicial proceeding.
- noun a legal proceeding in a court; a judicial contest to determine and enforce legal rights
- enigmatical2/5
enigmatical
- adjective satellite not clear to the understanding
enigmatic; puzzling.
- I didn't grasp the meaning of that enigmatic comment until much later
- prophetic texts so enigmatic that their meaning has been disputed for centuries
- adjective satellite not clear to the understanding
- cockfighting2/5
cockfighting
- noun participation in the sport of matching gamecocks in a cockfight
- noun participation in the sport of matching gamecocks in a cockfight
- sniggered2/5
snigger
- noun a disrespectful laugh
snicker; snort.
- verb laugh quietly
snicker.
- noun a disrespectful laugh
- circumnavigate2/5
circumnavigate
- verb travel around, either by plane or ship
compass.
- We compassed the earth
- verb travel around, either by plane or ship
- epigenesis2/5
epigenesis
- noun a geological change in the mineral content of rock after the rock has formed
- noun a geological change in the mineral content of rock after the rock has formed
- pigskin2/5
pigskin
- noun leather from the skin of swine
- noun leather from the skin of swine
- countersign2/5
countersign
- noun a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group
word; password; watchword; parole.
- he forgot the password
- noun a second confirming signature endorsing a document already signed
countersignature.
- noun a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group
- riggers2/5
rigger
- noun someone who rigs ships
- noun a long slender pointed sable brush used by artists
rigger brush.
- noun someone who rigs ships
- brigadiers2/5
brigadier
- noun a general officer ranking below a major general
brigadier general.
- noun a general officer ranking below a major general
- frighted2/5
fright
- noun an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)
fear; fearfulness.
- verb cause fear in
frighten; scare; affright.
- The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me
- Ghosts could never affright her
- noun an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)
- neighbourliness2/5
neighbourliness
- noun a disposition to be friendly and helpful to neighbors
good-neighborliness; neighborliness; good-neighbourliness.
- noun a disposition to be friendly and helpful to neighbors
- gravediggers2/5
gravedigger
- noun a person who earns a living by digging graves
- noun a person who earns a living by digging graves
- castigates2/5
castigate
- verb censure severely
objurgate; chastise; chasten; correct.
- She chastised him for his insensitive remarks
- verb inflict severe punishment on
- verb censure severely
- prizefighter2/5
prizefighter
- noun a professional boxer
gladiator.
- noun a professional boxer
- consigns2/5
consign
- verb commit forever; commit irrevocably
- verb give over to another for care or safekeeping
charge.
- consign your baggage
- verb commit forever; commit irrevocably
- jigging2/5
jig
- noun music in three-four time for dancing a jig
gigue.
- noun a fisherman's lure with one or more hooks that is jerked up and down in the water
- noun music in three-four time for dancing a jig
- mignonette2/5
mignonette
- noun Mediterranean woody annual widely cultivated for its dense terminal spikelike clusters greenish or yellowish white flowers having an intense spicy fragrance
sweet reseda; Reseda odorata.
- noun Mediterranean woody annual widely cultivated for its dense terminal spikelike clusters greenish or yellowish white flowers having an intense spicy fragrance
- prefiguration2/5
prefiguration
- noun an example that prefigures or foreshadows what is to come
- noun the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand
foreshadowing; adumbration.
- noun an example that prefigures or foreshadows what is to come
- inveigled2/5
inveigle
- verb influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering
wheedle; coax; cajole; sweet-talk; blarney; palaver.
- He palavered her into going along
- verb influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering
- uprightly2/5
uprightly
- adverb in an honorable manner
honorably.
- he acted honorably
- adverb in an upright position
- adverb in an honorable manner
- nonalignment2/5
nonalignment
- noun people (or countries) who are not aligned with other people (or countries) in a pact or treaty
nonalinement.
- noun people (or countries) who are not aligned with other people (or countries) in a pact or treaty
- overflight2/5
overflight
- noun a flight by an aircraft over a particular area (especially over an area in foreign territory)
- noun a flight by an aircraft over a particular area (especially over an area in foreign territory)
- circumnavigated2/5
circumnavigate
- verb travel around, either by plane or ship
compass.
- We compassed the earth
- verb travel around, either by plane or ship
- lightless2/5
lightless
- adjective satellite giving no light
- lightless stars `visible' only to radio antennae
- adjective satellite without illumination
unilluminated; unlighted; unlit.
- came up the lightless stairs
- the unilluminated side of Mars
- through dark unlighted (or unlit) streets
- adjective satellite giving no light
- squiggle2/5
squiggle
- noun a short twisting line
curlicue.
- noun an illegible scrawl
- his signature was just a squiggle but only he could make that squiggle
- noun a short twisting line
- sniggering2/5
snigger
- noun a disrespectful laugh
snicker; snort.
- verb laugh quietly
snicker.
- noun a disrespectful laugh
- snigger2/5
snigger
- noun a disrespectful laugh
snicker; snort.
- verb laugh quietly
snicker.
- noun a disrespectful laugh
- featherweight2/5
featherweight
- noun an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 126 pounds
- noun weighs 126-139 pounds
- noun an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 126 pounds
- overflights2/5
overflight
- noun a flight by an aircraft over a particular area (especially over an area in foreign territory)
- noun a flight by an aircraft over a particular area (especially over an area in foreign territory)
- depigmentation2/5
depigmentation
- noun absence or loss of pigmentation (or less than normal pigmentation) in the skin or hair
- noun absence or loss of pigmentation (or less than normal pigmentation) in the skin or hair
- airfreight2/5
airfreight
- verb transport (cargo) by air
air-ship; air-freight.
- verb transport (cargo) by air
- sigurd2/5
sigurd
- noun (Norse mythology) mythical Norse warrior hero who gains an accursed hoard of gold and was killed by Brynhild; Siegfried is the German counterpart
- noun (Norse mythology) mythical Norse warrior hero who gains an accursed hoard of gold and was killed by Brynhild; Siegfried is the German counterpart
- arraignment2/5
arraignment
- noun a legal document calling someone to court to answer an indictment
- noun a legal document calling someone to court to answer an indictment
- ambiguously2/5
ambiguously
- adverb in an ambiguous manner
equivocally.
- this letter is worded ambiguously
- adverb in an ambiguous manner
- figurehead2/5
figurehead
- noun a person used as a cover for some questionable activity
straw man; nominal head; front; strawman; front man.
- noun figure on the bow of some sailing vessels
- noun a person used as a cover for some questionable activity
- bligh2/5
bligh
- noun British admiral; was captain of the H.M.S. Bounty in 1789 when part of the crew mutinied and set him afloat in an open boat; a few weeks later he arrived safely in Timor 4,000 miles away (1754-1817)
William Bligh; Captain Bligh.
- noun British admiral; was captain of the H.M.S. Bounty in 1789 when part of the crew mutinied and set him afloat in an open boat; a few weeks later he arrived safely in Timor 4,000 miles away (1754-1817)
- effigies2/5
effigy
- noun a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture)
simulacrum; image.
- the coin bears an effigy of Lincoln
- the emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone
- noun a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture)
- irreligious2/5
irreligious
- adjective hostile or indifferent to religion
- adjective hostile or indifferent to religion
- shigella2/5
shigella
- noun rod-shaped Gram-negative enterobacteria; some are pathogenic for warm-blooded animals; can be used as a bioweapon
- noun rod-shaped Gram-negative enterobacteria; some are pathogenic for warm-blooded animals; can be used as a bioweapon
- arraigned2/5
arraign
- verb call before a court to answer an indictment
- verb accuse of a wrong or an inadequacy
- verb call before a court to answer an indictment
- wheelwright2/5
wheelwright
- noun someone who makes and repairs wooden wheels
wheeler.
- noun someone who makes and repairs wooden wheels
- centigrade2/5
centigrade
- adjective of or relating to a temperature scale on which the freezing point of water is 0 degrees and the boiling point of water is 100 degrees
- adjective of or relating to a temperature scale on which the freezing point of water is 0 degrees and the boiling point of water is 100 degrees
- undigested2/5
undigested
- adjective satellite not thought over and arranged systematically in the mind; not absorbed or assimilated mentally
- an undigested mass of facts gathered at random
- adjective satellite not digested
- undigested food
- adjective satellite not thought over and arranged systematically in the mind; not absorbed or assimilated mentally
- righteously2/5
righteously
- adverb in a righteous manner
- righteously indignant
- adverb in a righteous manner
- filigree2/5
filigree
- noun delicate and intricate ornamentation (usually in gold or silver or other fine twisted wire)
fillagree; filagree.
- verb make filigree, as with a precious metal
- noun delicate and intricate ornamentation (usually in gold or silver or other fine twisted wire)
- frighteningly2/5
frighteningly
- adverb in an alarming manner
scarily.
- the disturbing thing about the Minister's behavior is that far from being artificial, it too often rings frighteningly true
- adverb in an alarming manner
- religiousness2/5
religiousness
- noun piety by virtue of being devout
devoutness.
- noun the quality of being extremely conscientious
- his care in observing the rules of good health amounted to a kind of religiousness
- noun piety by virtue of being devout
- nightcap2/5
nightcap
- noun an alcoholic drink taken at bedtime; often alcoholic
- noun a cloth cap worn in bed
- noun an alcoholic drink taken at bedtime; often alcoholic
- highwayman2/5
highwayman
- noun a holdup man who stops a vehicle and steals from it
hijacker; road agent; highjacker.
- noun a holdup man who stops a vehicle and steals from it
- sightless2/5
sightless
- adjective satellite lacking sight
unseeing; eyeless.
- blind as an eyeless beggar
- adjective satellite lacking sight
- pigtail2/5
pigtail
- noun a plait of braided hair
- noun a plait of braided hair
- prodigiously2/5
prodigiously
- adverb to a prodigious degree
- the prices of farms rose prodigiously
- adverb to a prodigious degree
- calligraphic2/5
calligraphic
- adjective of or relating to or expressed in calligraphy
calligraphical.
- adjective of or relating to or expressed in calligraphy
- signally2/5
signally
- adverb as a signal
- a term that is used signally rather than symbolically
- adverb in a signal manner
unmistakably; remarkably.
- signally inappropriate methods
- adverb as a signal
- sigmoidoscopy2/5
sigmoidoscopy
- noun visual examination (with a sigmoidoscope) of the lower third of the colon in a search for polyps
flexible sigmoidoscopy.
- noun visual examination (with a sigmoidoscope) of the lower third of the colon in a search for polyps
- pigtails2/5
pigtail
- noun a plait of braided hair
- noun a plait of braided hair
- highwaymen2/5
highwayman
- noun a holdup man who stops a vehicle and steals from it
hijacker; road agent; highjacker.
- noun a holdup man who stops a vehicle and steals from it
- ptarmigan2/5
ptarmigan
- noun large Arctic and subarctic grouse with feathered feet and usually white winter plumage
- noun large Arctic and subarctic grouse with feathered feet and usually white winter plumage
- digraph2/5
digraph
- noun two successive letters (especially two letters used to represent a single sound: `sh' in `shoe')
digram.
- noun two successive letters (especially two letters used to represent a single sound: `sh' in `shoe')
- brigantine2/5
brigantine
- noun two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on the foremast and fore-and-aft rigged on the mainmast
hermaphrodite brig.
- noun two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on the foremast and fore-and-aft rigged on the mainmast
- pseudepigrapha2/5
pseudepigrapha
- noun 52 texts written between 200 BC and AD 200 but ascribed to various prophets and kings in the Hebrew scriptures; many are apocalyptic in nature
- noun 52 texts written between 200 BC and AD 200 but ascribed to various prophets and kings in the Hebrew scriptures; many are apocalyptic in nature
- trigram2/5
trigram
- noun a word that is written with three letters in an alphabetic writing system
- noun a word that is written with three letters in an alphabetic writing system
- uighur2/5
uighur
- noun a member of a people who speak Uighur and live in Xinjiang and adjacent areas
Uigur; Uygur.
- noun the Turkic language spoken by approximately 7,000,000 Uighur in extreme northwestern China
Uigur; Uygur.
- noun a member of a people who speak Uighur and live in Xinjiang and adjacent areas
- oligarchies2/5
oligarchy
- noun a political system governed by a few people
- one of his cardinal convictions was that Britain was not run as a democracy but as an oligarchy
- the big cities were notoriously in the hands of the oligarchy of local businessmen
- noun a political system governed by a few people
- irreligion2/5
irreligion
- noun the quality of not being devout
irreligiousness.
- noun the quality of not being devout
- signorina2/5
signorina
- noun an Italian courtesy title for an unmarried woman; equivalent to `Miss', it is either used alone or before a name
- noun an Italian title or form of address for an unmarried woman
- noun an Italian courtesy title for an unmarried woman; equivalent to `Miss', it is either used alone or before a name
- sigmoidal2/5
sigmoidal
- adjective of or relating to the sigmoid flexure in the large intestine
sigmoid.
- adjective of or relating to the sigmoid flexure in the large intestine
- enigmatically2/5
enigmatically
- adverb in a cryptic manner
mysteriously; cryptically.
- we will meet again," he said cryptically
- adverb in a cryptic manner
- bullfighting2/5
bullfighting
- noun the activity at a bullfight
tauromachy.
- noun the activity at a bullfight
- trigrams2/5
trigram
- noun a word that is written with three letters in an alphabetic writing system
- noun a word that is written with three letters in an alphabetic writing system
- vigilantism2/5
vigilantism
- noun the actions of a vigilance committee in trying to enforce the laws
- noun the actions of a vigilance committee in trying to enforce the laws
- niggardly2/5
niggardly
- adjective satellite petty or reluctant in giving or spending
scrimy; grudging.
- a niggardly tip
- adjective satellite petty or reluctant in giving or spending
- dirigible2/5
dirigible
- noun a steerable self-propelled aircraft
airship.
- adjective satellite capable of being steered or directed
steerable.
- noun a steerable self-propelled aircraft
- vigilantly2/5
vigilantly
- adverb in a watchful manner
watchfully.
- adverb in a watchful manner
- slighting2/5
slighting
- adjective satellite tending to diminish or disparage
deprecatory; belittling; deprecating; depreciatory; deprecative; depreciative.
- belittling comments
- managed a deprecating smile at the compliment
- deprecatory remarks about the book
- a slighting remark
- verb pay no attention to, disrespect
cold-shoulder; slight.
- She cold-shouldered her ex-fiance
- adjective satellite tending to diminish or disparage
- epigrammatic2/5
epigrammatic
- adjective satellite terse and witty and like a maxim
apothegmatic; aphoristic.
- much given to apothegmatic instruction
- adjective satellite terse and witty and like a maxim
- digraphs2/5
digraph
- noun two successive letters (especially two letters used to represent a single sound: `sh' in `shoe')
digram.
- noun two successive letters (especially two letters used to represent a single sound: `sh' in `shoe')
- castigation2/5
castigation
- noun a severe scolding
going-over; dressing down; upbraiding; earful; bawling out; chewing out.
- noun verbal punishment
chastisement.
- noun a severe scolding
- ziggurat2/5
ziggurat
- noun a rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
zikkurat; zikurat.
- noun a rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
- chignon2/5
chignon
- noun a roll of hair worn at the nape of the neck
- noun a roll of hair worn at the nape of the neck
- shipwrights2/5
shipwright
- noun a carpenter who helps build and launch wooden vessels
shipbuilder; ship builder.
- noun a carpenter who helps build and launch wooden vessels
- pigsty2/5
pigsty
- noun a pen for swine
pigpen; sty.
- noun a pen for swine
- highball2/5
highball
- noun a mixed drink made of alcoholic liquor mixed with water or a carbonated beverage and served in a tall glass
- noun a mixed drink made of alcoholic liquor mixed with water or a carbonated beverage and served in a tall glass
- penlight2/5
penlight
- noun a small flashlight resembling a fountain pen
- noun a small flashlight resembling a fountain pen
- rattigan2/5
rattigan
- noun British playwright (1911-1977)
Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan; Terence Rattigan.
- noun British playwright (1911-1977)
- ineligibility2/5
ineligibility
- noun the quality or state of being ineligible
- noun the quality or state of being ineligible
- indigenously2/5
indigenously
- adverb in an indigenous manner
- adverb in an indigenous manner
- jigger2/5
jigger
- noun a small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey
shot glass; pony.
- noun any small mast on a sailing vessel; especially the mizzenmast of a yawl
jiggermast.
- noun a small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey
- originalism2/5
originalism
- noun the belief that the United States Constitution should be interpreted in the way the authors originally intended it
- noun the belief that the United States Constitution should be interpreted in the way the authors originally intended it
- signifieds2/5
signified
- noun the meaning of a word or expression; the way in which a word or expression or situation can be interpreted
sense.
- the dictionary gave several senses for the word
- in the best sense charity is really a duty
- the signifier is linked to the signified
- verb denote or connote
signify; intend; stand for; mean.
- `maison' means `house' in French
- An example sentence would show what this word means
- noun the meaning of a word or expression; the way in which a word or expression or situation can be interpreted
- shipwright2/5
shipwright
- noun a carpenter who helps build and launch wooden vessels
shipbuilder; ship builder.
- noun a carpenter who helps build and launch wooden vessels
- forthrightness2/5
forthrightness
- noun the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech
candor; candidness; candour; directness; frankness.
- noun the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech
- uighurs2/5
uighur
- noun a member of a people who speak Uighur and live in Xinjiang and adjacent areas
Uigur; Uygur.
- noun the Turkic language spoken by approximately 7,000,000 Uighur in extreme northwestern China
Uigur; Uygur.
- noun a member of a people who speak Uighur and live in Xinjiang and adjacent areas
- indefatigably2/5
indefatigably
- adverb with indefatigable energy
inexhaustibly; tirelessly.
- she watched the show indefatigably
- adverb with indefatigable energy
- highborn2/5
highborn
- adjective satellite belonging to the peerage
coroneted; titled.
- the princess and her coroneted companions
- the titled classes
- adjective satellite belonging to the peerage
- disambiguate2/5
disambiguate
- verb state unambiguously or remove ambiguities from
- Can you disambiguate this statement?
- verb state unambiguously or remove ambiguities from
- digressive2/5
digressive
- adjective satellite of superficial relevance if any
tangential.
- a digressive allusion to the day of the week
- a tangential remark
- adjective satellite (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects
excursive; rambling; discursive.
- amusingly digressive with satirical thrusts at women's fashions among other things
- a rambling discursive book
- his excursive remarks
- a rambling speech about this and that
- adjective satellite of superficial relevance if any
- figureheads2/5
figurehead
- noun a person used as a cover for some questionable activity
straw man; nominal head; front; strawman; front man.
- noun figure on the bow of some sailing vessels
- noun a person used as a cover for some questionable activity
- priggish2/5
priggish
- adjective satellite exaggeratedly proper
puritanical; prissy; square-toed; straight-laced; straitlaced; strait-laced; tight-laced; victorian; prudish; prim; straightlaced.
- my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts
- adjective satellite exaggeratedly proper
- lignum2/5
lignum
- noun woody tissue
- noun woody tissue
- cockfight2/5
cockfight
- noun a match in a cockpit between two fighting cocks heeled with metal gaffs
- noun a match in a cockpit between two fighting cocks heeled with metal gaffs
- skintight2/5
skintight
- adjective satellite so tight as to cling to the skin
skin-tight.
- skintight jeans
- adjective satellite so tight as to cling to the skin
- obbligato2/5
obbligato
- noun a persistent but subordinate motif
obligato.
- noun a part of the score that must be performed without change or omission
obligato.
- noun a persistent but subordinate motif
- shigellosis2/5
shigellosis
- noun an acute infection of the intestine by shigella bacteria; characterized by diarrhea and fever and abdominal pains
bacillary dysentery.
- noun an acute infection of the intestine by shigella bacteria; characterized by diarrhea and fever and abdominal pains
- arraign2/5
arraign
- verb call before a court to answer an indictment
- verb accuse of a wrong or an inadequacy
- verb call before a court to answer an indictment
- indignities2/5
indignity
- noun an affront to one's dignity or self-esteem
- noun an affront to one's dignity or self-esteem
- brigid2/5
brigid
- noun Irish abbess; a patron saint of Ireland (453-523)
St. Brigid; Bridget; St. Bridget; Saint Bridget; Saint Brigid; Bride; Saint Bride; St. Bride.
- noun Irish abbess; a patron saint of Ireland (453-523)
- wigwam2/5
wigwam
- noun a Native American lodge frequently having an oval shape and covered with bark or hides
- noun a Native American lodge frequently having an oval shape and covered with bark or hides
- oligocene2/5
oligocene
(Geol.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, certain strata which occupy an intermediate position between the Eocene and Miocene periods. --n. The Oligocene period. See the Chart of Geology .
- investigatory2/5
investigatory
- adjective satellite designed to find information or ascertain facts
fact-finding; investigative.
- a fact-finding committee
- investigative reporting
- adjective satellite designed to find information or ascertain facts
- skylights2/5
skylight
- noun a window in a roof to admit daylight
fanlight.
- noun a window in a roof to admit daylight
- visigoths2/5
visigoth
- noun a member of the western group of Goths who sacked Rome and created a kingdom in present-day Spain and southern France
- noun a member of the western group of Goths who sacked Rome and created a kingdom in present-day Spain and southern France
- kigali2/5
kigali
- noun the national capital and largest city of Rwanda; located in central Rwanda
capital of Rwanda.
- noun the national capital and largest city of Rwanda; located in central Rwanda
- disambiguation2/5
disambiguation
- noun clarification that follows from the removal of ambiguity
- noun clarification that follows from the removal of ambiguity
- resignedly2/5
resignedly
- adverb with resignation and acceptance; in a resigned manner
- resignedly, I telegraphed back that it was all right with me if he insisted
- adverb in a hopeless resigned manner
abjectly.
- she shrugged her shoulders abjectly
- adverb with resignation and acceptance; in a resigned manner
- forthrightly2/5
forthrightly
- adverb directly and without evasion; not roundabout
squarely; forthright.
- to face a problem squarely
- the responsibility lies squarely with them
- spoke forthright (or forthrightly) and to the point
- adverb directly and without evasion; not roundabout
- sigint2/5
sigint
- noun intelligence information gathered from communications intelligence or electronics intelligence or telemetry intelligence
signals intelligence.
- noun intelligence information gathered from communications intelligence or electronics intelligence or telemetry intelligence
- epigraphs2/5
epigraph
- noun a quotation at the beginning of some piece of writing
- noun an engraved inscription
- noun a quotation at the beginning of some piece of writing
- wigwams2/5
wigwam
- noun a Native American lodge frequently having an oval shape and covered with bark or hides
- noun a Native American lodge frequently having an oval shape and covered with bark or hides
- brigit2/5
brigit
- noun Celtic goddess of fire and fertility and agriculture and household arts and wisdom; later associated with Saint Bridget
- noun Celtic goddess of fire and fertility and agriculture and household arts and wisdom; later associated with Saint Bridget
- tegucigalpa2/5
tegucigalpa
- noun the capital and largest city of Honduras
Honduran capital.
- noun the capital and largest city of Honduras
- highroad2/5
highroad
- noun a highway
trunk road.
- noun a highway
- highschool2/5
highschool
- noun a public secondary school usually including grades 9 through 12
senior high school; senior high; high; high school.
- he goes to the neighborhood highschool
- noun a public secondary school usually including grades 9 through 12
- insignificantly2/5
insignificantly
- adverb in an insignificant manner
- some people living insignificantly among us
- adverb not to a significant degree or amount
- Our budget will only be insignificantly affected by these new cuts
- adverb in an insignificant manner
- designedly2/5
designedly
- adverb with intention; in an intentional manner
advisedly; on purpose; by choice; intentionally; by design; deliberately; purposely.
- he used that word intentionally
- I did this by choice
- adverb with intention; in an intentional manner
- albigensian2/5
albigensian
Of or pertaining to the Albigenses.
- nightstick2/5
nightstick
- noun a short stout club used primarily by policemen
billy club; billystick; baton; billy; truncheon.
- noun a short stout club used primarily by policemen
- morrigan2/5
morrigan
- noun Celtic war goddess
Morrigu.
- noun Celtic war goddess
- nightspots2/5
nightspot
- noun a spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink
night club; club; cabaret; nightclub.
- don't expect a good meal at a cabaret
- the gossip columnist got his information by visiting nightclubs every night
- he played the drums at a jazz club
- noun a spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink
- tigress2/5
tigress
- noun a female tiger
- noun a female tiger
- bigfoot2/5
bigfoot
- noun large hairy humanoid creature said to live in wilderness areas of the United States and Canada
Sasquatch.
- noun large hairy humanoid creature said to live in wilderness areas of the United States and Canada
- bullfight2/5
bullfight
- noun a Spanish or Portuguese or Latin American spectacle; a matador baits and (usually) kills a bull in an arena before many spectators
corrida.
- noun a Spanish or Portuguese or Latin American spectacle; a matador baits and (usually) kills a bull in an arena before many spectators
- liguria2/5
liguria
- noun region of northwestern Italy on the Ligurian Sea
- noun region of northwestern Italy on the Ligurian Sea
- bullfights2/5
bullfight
- noun a Spanish or Portuguese or Latin American spectacle; a matador baits and (usually) kills a bull in an arena before many spectators
corrida.
- noun a Spanish or Portuguese or Latin American spectacle; a matador baits and (usually) kills a bull in an arena before many spectators
- delightedly2/5
delightedly
- adverb with delight
- delightedly, she accepted the invitation
- adverb with delight
- sverige2/5
sverige
- noun a Scandinavian kingdom in the eastern part of the Scandinavian Peninsula
Sweden; Kingdom of Sweden.
- noun a Scandinavian kingdom in the eastern part of the Scandinavian Peninsula
- frightfully2/5
frightfully
- adverb used as intensifiers
awful; terribly; awfully.
- terribly interesting
- I'm awful sorry
- adverb used as intensifiers
- unassigned2/5
unassigned
- adjective not assigned
- unassigned personnel
- adjective not assigned
- flightless2/5
flightless
- adjective satellite incapable of flying
- adjective satellite incapable of flying
- condign2/5
condign
- adjective satellite fitting or appropriate and deserved; used especially of punishment
- condign censure
- adjective satellite fitting or appropriate and deserved; used especially of punishment
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reconfigurable
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- lehigh2/5
lehigh
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- monseigneur2/5
monseigneur
My lord; -- a title in France of a person of high birth or rank; as, . It was given, specifically, to the dauphin, before the Revolution of 1789. (Abbrev. Mgr.)Monseigneur the Prince, orMonseigneur the Archibishop
- mignon2/5
- oligomers2/5
- chandigarh2/5
chandigarh
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- deadweight2/5
deadweight
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- rightward2/5
rightward
Toward the right. Rightward and leftward rise the rocks. Southey.
- origines2/5
origines
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- figueroa2/5
figueroa
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- nonreligious2/5
nonreligious
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- birthweight2/5
birthweight
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- citigroup2/5
citigroup
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- ligamentous2/5
ligamentous
Composing a ligament; of the nature of a ligament; binding; as, a strong .ligamentous membrane
- infighting2/5
infighting
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- eigenvector2/5
eigenvector
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- ligase2/5
ligase
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- sigismund2/5
sigismund
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- konigsberg2/5
konigsberg
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- unweighted2/5
unweighted
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- firefighting2/5
firefighting
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- sligo2/5
sligo
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- righthand2/5
righthand
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- interreligious2/5
interreligious
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- figura2/5
figura
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- intriguingly2/5
intriguing
- adjective satellite disturbingly provocative
challenging.
- an intriguing smile
- verb cause to be interested or curious
intrigue; fascinate.
- adjective satellite disturbingly provocative
- epigraphic2/5
epigraphic
Of or pertaining to epigraphs or to epigraphy; as, an epigraphic style;epigraphical works or studies.
- enright2/5
- inigo2/5
inigo
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- taiga2/5
taiga
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- firefight2/5
firefight
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- alighieri2/5
alighieri
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- designee2/5
designee
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- religieuse2/5
religieuse
A person bound by monastic vows; a nun; a monk.
- sigrid2/5
sigrid
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- multigenerational2/5
multigenerational
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- tigre2/5
tigre
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- shiga2/5
shiga
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- rigueur2/5
rigueur
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- ultrahigh2/5
ultrahigh
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- wigan2/5
wigan
A kind of canvaslike cotton fabric, used to stiffen and protect the lower part of trousers and of the skirts of women's dresses, etc.; -- so called from Wigan , the name of a town in Lancashire, England.
- ligamentum2/5
ligamentum
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- biggie2/5
biggie
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- ziggy2/5
ziggy
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- obligee2/5
obligee
The person to whom another is bound, or the person to whom a bond is given. Blackstone.
- redesignated2/5
redesignated
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- seigneurial2/5
seigneurial
Of or pertaining to the lord of a manor; manorial. Sir W. Temple.
- arkwright2/5
arkwright
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- rigg2/5
rig
- noun gear (including necessary machinery) for a particular enterprise
- noun a truck consisting of a tractor and trailer together
trailer truck; tractor trailer; semi; trucking rig; articulated lorry.
- noun gear (including necessary machinery) for a particular enterprise
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- preflight2/5
preflight
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- copyrightable2/5
copyrightable
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- designator2/5
designator
(Rom. Antiq.) An officer who assigned to each his rank and place in public shows and ceremonies.
- oligomeric2/5
- o'higgins2/5
o'higgins
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- religiosa2/5
religiosa
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- oligomer2/5
oligomer
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- religieux2/5
religieux
A person bound by monastic vows; a nun; a monk.
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- pigmentary2/5
pigmentary
Of or pertaining to pigments; furnished with pigments. Dunglison.
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- scaliger2/5
scaliger
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realignments
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- siglos2/5
siglos
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- berrigan2/5
berrigan
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- negligibly2/5
negligible
- adjective satellite so small as to be meaningless; insignificant
- the effect was negligible
- adjective satellite not worth considering
paltry; trifling.
- he considered the prize too paltry for the lives it must cost
- piffling efforts
- a trifling matter
- adjective satellite so small as to be meaningless; insignificant
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amerigo
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- coligny2/5
- hight2/5
hight
A variant of Height .
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- religieuses2/5
religieuse
A person bound by monastic vows; a nun; a monk.
- terrigenous2/5
terrigenous
Earthborn; produced by the earth.
- malalignment2/5
malalignment
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- giglio2/5
giglio
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- speight2/5
speight
(Zoöl.) A woodpecker; -- called also Obs. or Prov. Eng.specht ,spekt ,spight .
- insightfully2/5
insightful
- adjective satellite exhibiting insight or clear and deep perception
- an insightful parent
- the chapter is insightful and suggestive of new perspectives"-R.C.Angell
- adjective satellite exhibiting insight or clear and deep perception
- signa2/5
signa
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- gunfighter2/5
gunfight
- noun a fight involving shooting small arms with the intent to kill or frighten
gunplay; shootout.
- noun a fight involving shooting small arms with the intent to kill or frighten
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roderigo
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digiti
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- paradigmatically2/5
paradigmatical
Exemplary. --Par`a*dig*mat"ic*al*ly , adv. Obs.
- indigena2/5
indigena
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- brigandage2/5
brigandage
Life and practice of brigands; highway robbery; plunder.
- backlight2/5
backlight
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antireligious
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- daylighting2/5
daylight
- noun the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside
day; daytime.
- the dawn turned night into day
- it is easier to make the repairs in the daytime
- noun light during the daytime
- noun the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside
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nonmalignant
Not malignant, as a disease.
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noncontiguous
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interdigital
(Anat.) Between the fingers or toes; as, .interdigital space
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digastric
(Anat.) (a) Having two bellies; biventral; -- applied to muscles which are fleshy at each end and have a tendon in the middle, and esp. to the muscle which pulls down the lower jaw. (b) Pertaining to the digastric muscle of the lower jaw; as, the .digastric nerves
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rigoletto
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migrans
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- fumigatus2/5
fumigatus
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nigricans
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ligurian
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- refiguring2/5
refigure
To figure again. Shak.
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- aboriginality2/5
aboriginality
The quality of being aboriginal. Westm. Rev.
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irrigators
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- frigging2/5
frigging
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gigas
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eigenfunction
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- giga2/5
giga
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stratigraphical
(Geol.) Pertaining to, or depended upon, the order or arrangement of strata; --as, .stratigraphical evidenceStrat`i*graph"ic*al*ly , adv.
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- amiga2/5
amiga
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signifie
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- nigrum2/5
nigrum
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- killigrew2/5
killigrew
(Zoöl.) The Cornish chough. See under Prov. Eng. & Scot.Chough .
- whiggish2/5
whiggish
Of or pertaining to Whigs; partaking of, or characterized by, the principles of Whigs.
- hilfiger2/5
hilfiger
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- lightman2/5
lightman
A man who carries or takes care of a light. T. Brown.
- designators2/5
designator
(Rom. Antiq.) An officer who assigned to each his rank and place in public shows and ceremonies.
- lightroom2/5
lightroom
A small room from which the magazine of a naval vessel is lighted, being separated from the magazine by heavy glass windows.
- trigone2/5
trigone
(Anat.) A smooth triangular area on the inner surface of the bladder, limited by the apertures of the ureters and urethra.
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parmigiano
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- epigraphical2/5
epigraphical
Of or pertaining to epigraphs or to epigraphy; as, an epigraphic style;epigraphical works or studies.
- grigori2/5
grigori
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- indigents2/5
indigent
- adjective satellite poor enough to need help from others
poverty-stricken; needy; necessitous; impoverished; destitute.
- adjective satellite poor enough to need help from others
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antigravity
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- gigantea2/5
gigantea
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eigenstate
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- perigord2/5
perigord
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- highpoint2/5
highpoint
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heigh
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- bigg2/5
big
- adjective above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent
large.
- a large city
- set out for the big city
- a large sum
- a big (or large) barn
- a large family
- big businesses
- a big expenditure
- a large number of newspapers
- a big group of scientists
- large areas of the world
- adjective satellite significant
- graduation was a big day in his life
- adjective above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent
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religiose
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- indigeneity2/5
- tigger2/5
- lige2/5
lige
To lie; to tell lies. Obs.
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- signorelli2/5
- digne2/5
digne
Worthy; honorable; deserving. Obs. Chaucer.
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- scintigraphic2/5
- exigence2/5
exigence
Exigency. Hooker.
- obligors2/5
obligor
The person who binds himself, or gives his bond to another. Blackstone.
- stratigraphically2/5
stratigraphical
(Geol.) Pertaining to, or depended upon, the order or arrangement of strata; --as, .stratigraphical evidenceStrat`i*graph"ic*al*ly , adv.
- antigenicity2/5
antigenicity
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- bodyweight2/5
bodyweight
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canandaigua
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reinvigoration
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righthanded
Using the right hand habitually, or more easily than the left.
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highrise
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- trigo2/5
trigo
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- inflight2/5
inflight
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- digged2/5
dig
- noun the site of an archeological exploration
excavation; archeological site.
- they set up camp next to the dig
- noun an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
shaft; gibe; shot; barb; slam; jibe.
- his parting shot was `drop dead'
- she threw shafts of sarcasm
- she takes a dig at me every chance she gets
- noun the site of an archeological exploration
- refigured2/5
refigure
To figure again. Shak.
- figo2/5
- gigli2/5
gigli
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- tumorigenic2/5
tumorigenic
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ultralight
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- maigret2/5
maigret
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- sigillata2/5
sigillata
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- sigil2/5
sigil
A seal; a signature. Dryden.Of talismans and sigils knew the power. Pope.
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- giggly2/5
giggly
Prone to giggling. Carlyle.
- religioso2/5
religioso
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- biostratigraphic2/5
biostratigraphic
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- wigg2/5
wigg
A kind of raised seedcake. "Wiggs and ale." Pepys.
- nighter2/5
night
- noun the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
dark; nighttime.
- noun a period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom
- noun the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
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pigmentosum
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- unaligned2/5
unaligned
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- seige2/5
siege
- noun the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack
besieging; military blockade; beleaguering.
- noun the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack
- incorrigibly2/5
incorrigible
- adjective impervious to correction by punishment
- adjective impervious to correction by punishment
- sovereignly2/5
sovereign
- noun a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right
monarch; crowned head.
- adjective satellite (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces
self-governing; independent; autonomous.
- an autonomous judiciary
- a sovereign state
- noun a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right
- assignats2/5
assignat
One of the notes, bills, or bonds, issued as currency by the revolutionary government of France (1790-1796), and based on the security of the lands of the church and of nobles which had been appropriated by the state.
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nighters
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- ligating1/5
ligate
- verb join letters in a ligature when writing
- verb bind chemically
- The enzyme ligated
- verb join letters in a ligature when writing
- digestions1/5
digestion
- noun the process of decomposing organic matter (as in sewage) by bacteria or by chemical action or heat
- noun the organic process by which food is converted into substances that can be absorbed into the body
- noun the process of decomposing organic matter (as in sewage) by bacteria or by chemical action or heat
- malignantly1/5
malignantly
- adverb in a malignant manner, as of a tumor that spreads
- adverb in a malignant manner, as of a tumor that spreads
- malignance1/5
malignance
- noun (medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death
malignancy.
- noun quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will
malignity; malignancy.
- noun (medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death
- ligates1/5
ligate
- verb join letters in a ligature when writing
- verb bind chemically
- The enzyme ligated
- verb join letters in a ligature when writing
- semirigid1/5
semirigid
- adjective satellite having a form maintained by a rigid internal structure as well as by internal gas pressure
- adjective satellite not fully rigid
- adjective satellite having a form maintained by a rigid internal structure as well as by internal gas pressure
- nonrigid1/5
nonrigid
- adjective designating an airship having a shape maintained only by internal gas pressure and without a supporting structure
- adjective designating an airship having a shape maintained only by internal gas pressure and without a supporting structure
- fumigants1/5
fumigant
- noun a chemical substance used in fumigation
- noun a chemical substance used in fumigation
- gaslights1/5
gaslight
- noun light yielded by the combustion of illuminating gas
- noun light yielded by the combustion of illuminating gas
- twilights1/5
twilight
- noun the time of day immediately following sunset
crepuscle; dusk; fall; gloaming; gloam; evenfall; nightfall; crepuscule.
- he loved the twilight
- they finished before the fall of night
- noun the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth
- noun the time of day immediately following sunset
- disfigures1/5
disfigure
- verb mar or spoil the appearance of
deface; blemish.
- scars defaced her cheeks
- The vandals disfigured the statue
- verb mar or spoil the appearance of
- weightiness1/5
weightiness
- noun the relative importance granted to something
weight.
- his opinion carries great weight
- the progression implied an increasing weightiness of the items listed
- noun the property of being comparatively great in weight
heaviness.
- the heaviness of lead
- noun the relative importance granted to something
- ligations1/5
ligation
- noun (surgery) tying a duct or blood vessel with a ligature (as to prevent bleeding during surgery)
- noun (surgery) tying a duct or blood vessel with a ligature (as to prevent bleeding during surgery)
- migrational1/5
migrational
- adjective of or related to migration
- adjective of or related to migration
- benignantly1/5
benignantly
- adverb in a benign manner
benignly.
- this drug is benignly soporific
- adverb in a benign manner
- moonlights1/5
moonlight
- noun the light of the Moon
moonshine; Moon.
- moonlight is the smuggler's enemy
- the Moon was bright enough to read by
- verb work a second job, usually after hours
- The law student is moonlighting as a taxi driver
- noun the light of the Moon
- lightings1/5
lighting
- noun having abundant light or illumination
light.
- they played as long as it was light
- as long as the lighting was good
- noun apparatus for supplying artificial light effects for the stage or a film
- noun having abundant light or illumination
- zsigmondy1/5
zsigmondy
- noun German chemist (born in Austria) honored for his research on colloidal solutions (1865-1929)
Richard Adolph Zsigmondy.
- noun German chemist (born in Austria) honored for his research on colloidal solutions (1865-1929)
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- figurings1/5
figuring
- noun problem solving that involves numbers or quantities
calculation; reckoning; computation.
- verb judge to be probable
calculate; figure; reckon; forecast; estimate; count on.
- noun problem solving that involves numbers or quantities
- digitalin1/5
digitalin
- noun a powerful cardiac stimulant obtained from foxglove
digitalis; digitalis glycoside.
- noun a powerful cardiac stimulant obtained from foxglove
- digitalized1/5
digitalize
- verb put into digital form, as for use in a computer
digitise; digitalise; digitize.
- he bought a device to digitize the data
- verb administer digitalis such that the patient benefits maximally without getting adverse effects
- verb put into digital form, as for use in a computer
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weighty
- adjective having relatively great weight; heavy
- a weighty load
- a weighty package
- adjective satellite powerfully persuasive
telling; cogent.
- a cogent argument
- a telling presentation
- a weighty argument
- adjective having relatively great weight; heavy
- transfigures1/5
transfigure
- verb elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration
glorify; spiritualize.
- verb change completely the nature or appearance of
transmogrify; metamorphose.
- In Kafka's story, a person metamorphoses into a bug
- The treatment and diet transfigured her into a beautiful young woman
- Jesus was transfigured after his resurrection
- verb elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration
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superhighway
- noun a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic
motorway; thruway; pike; freeway; throughway; state highway; expressway.
- noun an extensive electronic network (such as the internet) used for the rapid transfer of sound and video and graphics in digital form
information superhighway.
- noun a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic
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wiggler
- noun one who can't stay still (especially a child)
squirmer; wriggler.
- the toddler was a real wiggler on plane trips
- noun larva of a mosquito
wriggler.
- noun one who can't stay still (especially a child)
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wight
- noun a human being; `wight' is an archaic term
creature.
- noun an isle and county of southern England in the English Channel
Isle of Wight.
- noun a human being; `wight' is an archaic term
- lignified1/5
lignify
- verb convert into wood or cause to become woody
- verb convert into wood or cause to become woody
- piggybacked1/5
piggyback
- noun the act of carrying something piggyback
- verb ride on someone's shoulders or back
- noun the act of carrying something piggyback
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bullfighter
- noun someone who fights bulls
toreador.
- noun someone who fights bulls
- lentigines1/5
lentigo
- noun a small brownish spot (of the pigment melanin) on the skin
freckle.
- noun a small brownish spot (of the pigment melanin) on the skin
- digitoxin1/5
digitoxin
- noun digitalis preparation used to treat congestive heart failure or cardiac arrhythmia
- noun digitalis preparation used to treat congestive heart failure or cardiac arrhythmia
- fumigate1/5
fumigate
- verb treat with fumes, expose to fumes, especially with the aim of disinfecting or eradicating pests
fume.
- verb treat with fumes, expose to fumes, especially with the aim of disinfecting or eradicating pests
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brightness
- noun the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white
- noun intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty
cleverness; smartness.
- noun the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white
- predigested1/5
predigested
- adjective satellite artificially partially digested as by enzymatic action
- predigested foods are a boon for those who are ill or have impaired digestion
- verb digest (food) beforehand
predigest.
- adjective satellite artificially partially digested as by enzymatic action
- oligochaeta1/5
oligochaeta
(Zoöl.) An order of Annelida which includes the earthworms and related species.
- irrigates1/5
irrigate
- verb supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams
water.
- Water the fields
- verb supply with a constant flow or sprinkling of some liquid, for the purpose of cooling, cleansing, or disinfecting
- irrigate the wound
- verb supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams
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disfiguration
- noun an appearance that has been spoiled or is misshapen
deformity; disfigurement.
- there were distinguishing disfigurements on the suspect's back
- suffering from facial disfiguration
- noun the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something
defacement; disfigurement.
- the defacement of an Italian mosaic during the Turkish invasion
- he objected to the dam's massive disfigurement of the landscape
- noun an appearance that has been spoiled or is misshapen
- pigeonholing1/5
pigeonholing
- noun a system for classifying things into groups
grouping.
- verb place into a small compartment
pigeonhole.
- noun a system for classifying things into groups
- fumigating1/5
fumigate
- verb treat with fumes, expose to fumes, especially with the aim of disinfecting or eradicating pests
fume.
- verb treat with fumes, expose to fumes, especially with the aim of disinfecting or eradicating pests
- digitising1/5
digitise
- verb put into digital form, as for use in a computer
digitalise; digitalize; digitize.
- he bought a device to digitize the data
- verb put into digital form, as for use in a computer
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disfigurement
- noun an appearance that has been spoiled or is misshapen
disfiguration; deformity.
- there were distinguishing disfigurements on the suspect's back
- suffering from facial disfiguration
- noun the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something
disfiguration; defacement.
- the defacement of an Italian mosaic during the Turkish invasion
- he objected to the dam's massive disfigurement of the landscape
- noun an appearance that has been spoiled or is misshapen
- oligospermia1/5
oligospermia
- noun insufficient spermatozoa in the semen
- noun insufficient spermatozoa in the semen
- jiggles1/5
jiggle
- noun a slight irregular shaking motion
joggle.
- verb move to and fro
wiggle; joggle.
- Don't jiggle your finger while the nurse is putting on the bandage!
- noun a slight irregular shaking motion
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prurigo
- noun chronic inflammatory disease of the skin characterized by blister capped papules and intense itching
- noun chronic inflammatory disease of the skin characterized by blister capped papules and intense itching
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righthander
- noun a person who uses the right hand more skillfully than the left
right-hander; right hander.
- noun a person who uses the right hand more skillfully than the left
- fightings1/5
fighting
- noun the act of fighting; any contest or struggle
scrap; combat; fight.
- a fight broke out at the hockey game
- there was fighting in the streets
- the unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap
- verb be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight
contend; struggle; fight.
- the tribesmen fought each other
- Siblings are always fighting
- Militant groups are contending for control of the country
- noun the act of fighting; any contest or struggle
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ligneous
- adjective satellite consisting of or containing lignin or xylem
- ligneous (or woody) tissue
- adjective satellite consisting of or containing lignin or xylem
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primigravida
- noun (obstetrics) a woman who is pregnant for the first time
gravida I.
- noun (obstetrics) a woman who is pregnant for the first time
- transmigrate1/5
transmigrate
- verb be born anew in another body after death
reincarnate.
- Hindus believe that we transmigrate
- verb move from one country or region to another and settle there
migrate.
- Many Germans migrated to South America in the mid-19th century
- This tribe transmigrated many times over the centuries
- verb be born anew in another body after death
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straightener
- noun a device for straightening
- a hair straightener
- noun a device for straightening
- vigors1/5
vigor
- noun forceful exertion
energy; vigour; zip.
- he plays tennis with great energy
- he's full of zip
- noun active strength of body or mind
vigour; dynamism; heartiness.
- noun forceful exertion
- straightener1/5
straightener
- noun a device for straightening
- a hair straightener
- noun a device for straightening
- ligule1/5
ligule
- noun (botany) any appendage to a plant that is shaped like a strap
- noun (botany) any appendage to a plant that is shaped like a strap
- transmigrating1/5
transmigrate
- verb be born anew in another body after death
reincarnate.
- Hindus believe that we transmigrate
- verb move from one country or region to another and settle there
migrate.
- Many Germans migrated to South America in the mid-19th century
- This tribe transmigrated many times over the centuries
- verb be born anew in another body after death
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digitize
- verb put into digital form, as for use in a computer
digitise; digitalise; digitalize.
- he bought a device to digitize the data
- verb put into digital form, as for use in a computer
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floodlight
- noun light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography
flood; photoflood; flood lamp.
- verb illuminate with floodlights
- noun light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography
- transmigrated1/5
transmigrate
- verb be born anew in another body after death
reincarnate.
- Hindus believe that we transmigrate
- verb move from one country or region to another and settle there
migrate.
- Many Germans migrated to South America in the mid-19th century
- This tribe transmigrated many times over the centuries
- verb be born anew in another body after death
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wiggler
- noun one who can't stay still (especially a child)
squirmer; wriggler.
- the toddler was a real wiggler on plane trips
- noun larva of a mosquito
wriggler.
- noun one who can't stay still (especially a child)
- rigidification1/5
rigidification
- noun the process of becoming stiff or rigid
stiffening; rigidifying.
- noun the process of becoming stiff or rigid
- fortnights1/5
fortnight
- noun a period of fourteen consecutive days
two weeks.
- most major tennis tournaments last a fortnight
- noun a period of fourteen consecutive days
- reinvigorates1/5
reinvigorate
- verb impart vigor, strength, or vitality to
invigorate.
- Exercise is invigorating
- verb impart vigor, strength, or vitality to
- piggybacks1/5
piggyback
- noun the act of carrying something piggyback
- verb ride on someone's shoulders or back
- noun the act of carrying something piggyback
- digitise1/5
digitise
- verb put into digital form, as for use in a computer
digitalise; digitalize; digitize.
- he bought a device to digitize the data
- verb put into digital form, as for use in a computer
- rigidness1/5
rigidness
- noun the physical property of being stiff and resisting bending
rigidity.
- noun the quality of being rigid and rigorously severe
rigidity; inflexibility.
- noun the physical property of being stiff and resisting bending
- figurer1/5
figurer
- noun an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines)
calculator; estimator; computer; reckoner.
- noun an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines)
- lamplighters1/5
lamplighter
- noun (when gas was used for streetlights) a person who lights and extinguishes streetlights
- noun (when gas was used for streetlights) a person who lights and extinguishes streetlights
- transmigrates1/5
transmigrate
- verb be born anew in another body after death
reincarnate.
- Hindus believe that we transmigrate
- verb move from one country or region to another and settle there
migrate.
- Many Germans migrated to South America in the mid-19th century
- This tribe transmigrated many times over the centuries
- verb be born anew in another body after death
- migrators1/5
migrator
- noun traveler who moves from one region or country to another
migrant.
- noun an animal (especially birds and fish) that travels between different habitats at particular times of the year
- noun traveler who moves from one region or country to another
- migrator1/5
migrator
- noun traveler who moves from one region or country to another
migrant.
- noun an animal (especially birds and fish) that travels between different habitats at particular times of the year
- noun traveler who moves from one region or country to another
- moonlighters1/5
moonlighter
- noun a person who holds a second job (usually after hours)
- noun a person who holds a second job (usually after hours)
- makeweight1/5
makeweight
- noun anything added to fill out a whole
filler.
- some of the items in the collection are mere makeweights
- noun a weight added to the scale to reach a required weight
- noun anything added to fill out a whole
- digitalised1/5
digitalise
- verb put into digital form, as for use in a computer
digitise; digitalize; digitize.
- he bought a device to digitize the data
- verb put into digital form, as for use in a computer
- obligees1/5
oblige
- verb force somebody to do something
obligate; compel.
- We compel all students to fill out this form
- verb bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted
bind; obligate; hold.
- He's held by a contract
- I'll hold you by your promise
- verb force somebody to do something
- primigravidae1/5
primigravida
- noun (obstetrics) a woman who is pregnant for the first time
gravida I.
- noun (obstetrics) a woman who is pregnant for the first time
- tardigrada1/5
tardigrada
(Zoöl.) A tribe of edentates comprising the sloths. They are noted for the slowness of their movements when on the ground. See Sloth , 3.
- digitalizing1/5
digitalize
- verb put into digital form, as for use in a computer
digitise; digitalise; digitize.
- he bought a device to digitize the data
- verb administer digitalis such that the patient benefits maximally without getting adverse effects
- verb put into digital form, as for use in a computer
- subfigure1/5
subfigure
- noun a figure that is a part of another figure
- noun a figure that is a part of another figure
- unoriginality1/5
unoriginality
- noun uncreativeness due to a lack of originality
- noun the quality of being unoriginal
- noun uncreativeness due to a lack of originality
- rigidifying1/5
rigidifying
- noun the process of becoming stiff or rigid
rigidification; stiffening.
- verb become rigid
rigidify.
- The body rigidified
- noun the process of becoming stiff or rigid
- ligules1/5
ligule
- noun (botany) any appendage to a plant that is shaped like a strap
- noun (botany) any appendage to a plant that is shaped like a strap
- originalities1/5
originality
- noun the ability to think and act independently
- noun the quality of being new and original (not derived from something else)
- noun the ability to think and act independently
- wrigglers1/5
wriggler
- noun one who can't stay still (especially a child)
wiggler; squirmer.
- the toddler was a real wiggler on plane trips
- noun larva of a mosquito
wiggler.
- noun one who can't stay still (especially a child)
- mastigophora1/5
mastigophora
- noun protozoa having flagella
Flagellata; class Flagellata; class Mastigophora.
- noun protozoa having flagella
- primigravidas1/5
primigravida
- noun (obstetrics) a woman who is pregnant for the first time
gravida I.
- noun (obstetrics) a woman who is pregnant for the first time
- rightest1/5
right
- noun an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature; it is something that nobody can take away"
- they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights
- Certain rights can never be granted to the government but must be kept in the hands of the people"- Eleanor Roosevelt
- a right is not something that somebody gives you
- noun location near or direction toward the right side; i.e. the side to the south when a person or object faces east
- he stood on the right
- noun an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature; it is something that nobody can take away"
- fastigiate1/5
fastigiate
- adjective satellite having clusters of erect branches (often appearing to form a single column)
- adjective satellite having clusters of erect branches (often appearing to form a single column)
- weeknight1/5
weeknight
- noun any night of the week except Saturday or Sunday
- noun any night of the week except Saturday or Sunday
- consignees1/5
consignee
- noun the person to whom merchandise is delivered over
- noun the person to whom merchandise is delivered over
- dealignment1/5
dealignment
- noun a process whereby voters are moved toward nonpartisanship thus weakening the structure of political parties
- noun a process whereby voters are moved toward nonpartisanship thus weakening the structure of political parties
- immigrations1/5
immigration
- noun migration into a place (especially migration to a country of which you are not a native in order to settle there)
in-migration.
- noun the body of immigrants arriving during a specified interval
- the increased immigration strengthened the colony
- noun migration into a place (especially migration to a country of which you are not a native in order to settle there)
- pedigreed1/5
pedigreed
- adjective satellite having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred animal
thoroughbred; pureblood; pedigree; pureblooded.
- adjective satellite having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred animal
- invigoration1/5
invigoration
- noun quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous
vivification; animation; brio; spiritedness.
- noun the activity of giving vitality and vigour to something
animation; vivification.
- noun quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous
- stigmatising1/5
stigmatise
- verb to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful
brand; stigmatize; denounce; mark.
- He denounced the government action
- She was stigmatized by society because she had a child out of wedlock
- verb mark with a stigma or stigmata
stigmatize.
- They wanted to stigmatize the adulteress
- verb to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful
- fatigability1/5
fatigability
- noun susceptibility to fatigue; a tendency to get tired or lose strength
- noun susceptibility to fatigue; a tendency to get tired or lose strength
- sprightliness1/5
sprightliness
- noun animation and energy in action or expression
liveliness; life; spirit.
- it was a heavy play and the actors tried in vain to give life to it
- noun animation and energy in action or expression
- nighthawks1/5
nighthawk
- noun a person who likes to be active late at night
nightbird; night owl.
- noun mainly nocturnal North American goatsucker
mosquito hawk; bullbat.
- noun a person who likes to be active late at night
- welterweight1/5
welterweight
- noun a weight of 28 pounds; sometimes imposed as a handicap in a horse race (such as a steeplechase)
- noun an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 148 pounds
- noun a weight of 28 pounds; sometimes imposed as a handicap in a horse race (such as a steeplechase)
- emigrations1/5
emigration
- noun migration from a place (especially migration from your native country in order to settle in another)
out-migration; expatriation.
- noun migration from a place (especially migration from your native country in order to settle in another)
- reignite1/5
reignite
- verb ignite anew, as of something burning
- The strong winds reignited the cooling embers
- verb ignite anew, as of something burning
- pigmies1/5
pigmy
- noun an unusually small individual
pygmy.
- noun any member of various peoples having an average height of less than five feet
Pygmy.
- noun an unusually small individual
- stigmatizes1/5
stigmatize
- verb to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful
stigmatise; brand; denounce; mark.
- He denounced the government action
- She was stigmatized by society because she had a child out of wedlock
- verb mark with a stigma or stigmata
stigmatise.
- They wanted to stigmatize the adulteress
- verb to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful
- bights1/5
bight
- noun a loop in a rope
- noun a bend or curve (especially in a coastline)
- noun a loop in a rope
- dogfights1/5
dogfight
- noun a fiercely disputed contest
- their rancor dated from a political dogfight between them
- a real dogfight for third place
- a prolonged dogfight over their rival bids for the contract
- noun disorderly fighting
tussle; hassle; scuffle; rough-and-tumble.
- noun a fiercely disputed contest
- tombigbee1/5
tombigbee
- noun a river that rises in northeastern Mississippi and flows southward through western Alabama to join the Alabama River and form the Mobile River
Tombigbee River.
- noun a river that rises in northeastern Mississippi and flows southward through western Alabama to join the Alabama River and form the Mobile River
- signaller1/5
signaller
- noun someone who communicates by signals
signaler.
- noun someone who communicates by signals
- weeknights1/5
weeknight
- noun any night of the week except Saturday or Sunday
- noun any night of the week except Saturday or Sunday
- pigging1/5
pig
- noun domestic swine
grunter; hog; squealer; Sus scrofa.
- noun a coarse obnoxious person
slovenly person; sloven; slob.
- noun domestic swine
- signaler1/5
signaler
- noun someone who communicates by signals
signaller.
- noun someone who communicates by signals
- origanum1/5
origanum
- noun any of various fragrant aromatic herbs of the genus Origanum used as seasonings
- noun any of various fragrant aromatic herbs of the genus Origanum used as seasonings
- intriguers1/5
intriguer
- noun a person who devises plots or intrigues
designer.
- he is believed to be the principal designer of the terrorist bombing attack
- noun a person who devises plots or intrigues
- signallers1/5
signaller
- noun someone who communicates by signals
signaler.
- noun someone who communicates by signals
- dignifying1/5
dignifying
- adjective satellite investing with dignity or honor
ennobling.
- the dignifying effect of his presence
- the ennobling influence of cultural surroundings
- verb confer dignity or honor upon
dignify; ennoble.
- He was dignified with a title
- adjective satellite investing with dignity or honor
- swigs1/5
swig
- noun a large and hurried swallow
gulp; draught; draft.
- he finished it at a single gulp
- verb strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat
slog; slug.
- He slugged me so hard that I passed out
- noun a large and hurried swallow
- oligomenorrhea1/5
oligomenorrhea
- noun abnormally light or infrequent menstruation
- noun abnormally light or infrequent menstruation
- dignifies1/5
dignify
- verb confer dignity or honor upon
ennoble.
- He was dignified with a title
- verb raise the status of
- I shall not dignify this insensitive remark with an answer
- verb confer dignity or honor upon
- peignoir1/5
peignoir
- noun a loose dressing gown for women
housecoat; neglige; negligee; wrapper.
- noun a loose dressing gown for women
- blighter1/5
blighter
- noun a persistently annoying person
pesterer; cuss; pest; gadfly.
- noun a boy or man
fella; cuss; lad; gent; fellow; bloke; chap; feller.
- that chap is your host
- there's a fellow at the door
- he's a likable cuss
- he's a good bloke
- noun a persistently annoying person
- weightlifter1/5
weightlifter
- noun an athlete who lifts barbells
lifter.
- noun an athlete who lifts barbells
- stigmatise1/5
stigmatise
- verb to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful
brand; stigmatize; denounce; mark.
- He denounced the government action
- She was stigmatized by society because she had a child out of wedlock
- verb mark with a stigma or stigmata
stigmatize.
- They wanted to stigmatize the adulteress
- verb to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful
- mightiness1/5
mightiness
- noun physical strength
might; power.
- noun physical strength
- originative1/5
originative
- adjective having the ability or power to create
creative.
- a creative imagination
- adjective satellite containing seeds of later development
seminal; germinal.
- seminal ideas of one discipline can influence the growth of another
- adjective having the ability or power to create
- weightlifters1/5
weightlifter
- noun an athlete who lifts barbells
lifter.
- noun an athlete who lifts barbells
- mitigations1/5
mitigation
- noun to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious
extenuation; palliation.
- noun a partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances
extenuation.
- noun to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious
- photopigment1/5
photopigment
- noun a special pigment found in the rods and cones of the retina
- noun a special pigment found in the rods and cones of the retina
- signalised1/5
signalise
- verb provide with traffic signals
signalize.
- signalize a busy intersection
- verb communicate silently and non-verbally by signals or signs
signal; signalize; sign.
- He signed his disapproval with a dismissive hand gesture
- The diner signaled the waiters to bring the menu
- verb provide with traffic signals
- cosigner1/5
cosigner
- noun one of two or more signers of the same document (as a treaty or declaration)
cosignatory.
- noun a signer in addition to the principal signer (to verify the authenticity of the principal signature or to provide surety)
- noun one of two or more signers of the same document (as a treaty or declaration)
- gigabits1/5
gigabit
- noun a unit of information equal to 1000 megabits or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bits
Gbit; Gb.
- noun a unit of information equal to 1000 megabits or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bits
- epigones1/5
epigone
- noun an inferior imitator of some distinguished writer or artist of musician
epigon.
- noun an inferior imitator of some distinguished writer or artist of musician
- signalize1/5
signalize
- verb provide with traffic signals
signalise.
- signalize a busy intersection
- verb communicate silently and non-verbally by signals or signs
signalise; signal; sign.
- He signed his disapproval with a dismissive hand gesture
- The diner signaled the waiters to bring the menu
- verb provide with traffic signals
- cockaigne1/5
cockaigne
- noun (Middle Ages) an imaginary land of luxury and idleness
- noun (Middle Ages) an imaginary land of luxury and idleness
- rigidified1/5
rigidify
- verb become rigid
- The body rigidified
- verb make rigid and set into a conventional pattern
petrify; ossify.
- rigidify the training schedule
- ossified teaching methods
- slogans petrify our thinking
- verb become rigid
- ligustrum1/5
ligustrum
- noun genus of Old World shrubs: privet
genus Ligustrum.
- noun genus of Old World shrubs: privet
- disobliging1/5
disobliging
- adjective satellite intentionally unaccommodating
uncooperative.
- the action was not offensive to him but proved somewhat disobliging
- verb to cause inconvenience or discomfort to
disoblige; bother; inconvenience; incommode; discommode; trouble; put out.
- Sorry to trouble you, but...
- adjective satellite intentionally unaccommodating
- weighings1/5
weighing
- noun careful consideration
advisement; deliberation.
- a little deliberation would have deterred them
- verb have a certain weight
weigh.
- noun careful consideration
- originations1/5
origination
- noun an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events
origin; inception.
- noun the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new
foundation; instauration; founding; introduction; creation; initiation; innovation; institution.
- she looked forward to her initiation as an adult
- the foundation of a new scientific society
- noun an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events
- digitizers1/5
digitizer
- noun device for converting analogue signals into digital signals
analog-to-digital converter; analog-digital converter; digitiser.
- noun device for converting analogue signals into digital signals
- transmigrations1/5
transmigration
- noun the passing of a soul into another body after death
- noun the passing of a soul into another body after death
- corrigible1/5
corrigible
- adjective capable of being corrected or set right
- a corrigible defect
- a corrigible prisoner
- adjective capable of being corrected or set right
- digitalisation1/5
digitalisation
- noun the administration of digitalis for the treatment of certain heart disorders
digitalization.
- noun the administration of digitalis for the treatment of certain heart disorders
- transfigurations1/5
transfiguration
- noun (Christianity) a church festival held in commemoration of the Transfiguration of Jesus
Transfiguration Day; August 6.
- noun (New Testament) the sudden emanation of radiance from the person of Jesus
Transfiguration of Jesus.
- noun (Christianity) a church festival held in commemoration of the Transfiguration of Jesus
- digitaria1/5
digitaria
- noun crab grass; finger grass
genus Digitaria.
- noun crab grass; finger grass
- moonlighted1/5
moonlight
- noun the light of the Moon
moonshine; Moon.
- moonlight is the smuggler's enemy
- the Moon was bright enough to read by
- verb work a second job, usually after hours
- The law student is moonlighting as a taxi driver
- noun the light of the Moon
- indigenousness1/5
indigenousness
- noun nativeness by virtue of originating or occurring naturally (as in a particular place)
autochthony; endemism.
- noun nativeness by virtue of originating or occurring naturally (as in a particular place)
- nightwear1/5
nightwear
- noun garments designed to be worn in bed
sleepwear; nightclothes.
- noun garments designed to be worn in bed
- highbrows1/5
highbrow
- noun a person of intellectual or erudite tastes
- adjective satellite highly cultured or educated
highbrowed.
- highbrow events such as the ballet or opera
- a highbrowed literary critic
- noun a person of intellectual or erudite tastes
- realigns1/5
realign
- verb align anew or better
realine.
- The surgeon realigned my jaw after the accident
- verb align anew or better
- trigon1/5
trigon
- noun a three-sided polygon
trilateral; triangle.
- noun (astrology) one of four groups of the zodiac where each group consists of three signs separated from each other by 120 degrees
triplicity.
- noun a three-sided polygon
- blighters1/5
blighter
- noun a persistently annoying person
pesterer; cuss; pest; gadfly.
- noun a boy or man
fella; cuss; lad; gent; fellow; bloke; chap; feller.
- that chap is your host
- there's a fellow at the door
- he's a likable cuss
- he's a good bloke
- noun a persistently annoying person
- dogfighting1/5
dogfight
- noun a fiercely disputed contest
- their rancor dated from a political dogfight between them
- a real dogfight for third place
- a prolonged dogfight over their rival bids for the contract
- noun disorderly fighting
tussle; hassle; scuffle; rough-and-tumble.
- noun a fiercely disputed contest
- bighorns1/5
bighorn
- noun a river that flows from central Wyoming to the Yellowstone River in southern Montana
Bighorn River.
- noun wild sheep of mountainous regions of western North America having massive curled horns
Ovis canadensis; cimarron; Rocky Mountain bighorn; Rocky Mountain sheep; bighorn sheep.
- noun a river that flows from central Wyoming to the Yellowstone River in southern Montana
- flighted1/5
flighted
- adjective satellite having feathers
- arrows flighted argent
- verb shoot a bird in flight
flight.
- adjective satellite having feathers
- fumigations1/5
fumigation
- noun the application of a gas or smoke to something for the purpose of disinfecting it
- noun the application of a gas or smoke to something for the purpose of disinfecting it
- lentiginous1/5
lentiginous
- adjective satellite relating to or covered with or resembling freckles
lentiginose; freckled.
- adjective satellite relating to or covered with or resembling freckles
- instigations1/5
instigation
- noun the verbal act of urging on
abettal; abetment.
- noun deliberate and intentional triggering (of trouble or discord)
fomentation.
- noun the verbal act of urging on
- mightinesses1/5
mightiness
- noun physical strength
might; power.
- noun physical strength
- disoblige1/5
disoblige
- verb to cause inconvenience or discomfort to
bother; inconvenience; incommode; discommode; trouble; put out.
- Sorry to trouble you, but...
- verb ignore someone's wishes
- verb to cause inconvenience or discomfort to
- colligation1/5
colligation
- noun the state of being joined together
conjunction; junction; conjugation.
- noun the connection of isolated facts by a general hypothesis
- noun the state of being joined together
- flighting1/5
flight
- noun a formation of aircraft in flight
- noun an instance of traveling by air
flying.
- flying was still an exciting adventure for him
- noun a formation of aircraft in flight
- semigloss1/5
semigloss
- noun a paint that dries with a finish between glossy and flat
- noun a paint that dries with a finish between glossy and flat
- neighs1/5
neigh
- noun the characteristic sounds made by a horse
whinny; nicker; whicker.
- verb make a characteristic sound, of a horse
whinny; nicker; whicker.
- noun the characteristic sounds made by a horse
- bighead1/5
bighead
- noun any of various diseases of animals characterized by edema of the head and neck
- noun any of various diseases of animals characterized by edema of the head and neck
- weightily1/5
weightily
- adverb in a serious manner
- the speech was weighty and it was weightily delivered
- adverb as something very heavy
- she moved weightily
- adverb in a serious manner
- signalers1/5
signaler
- noun someone who communicates by signals
signaller.
- noun someone who communicates by signals
- indigos1/5
indigo
- noun a blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically
anil; indigotin.
- noun deciduous subshrub of southeastern Asia having pinnate leaves and clusters of red or purple flowers; a source of indigo dye
indigo plant; Indigofera tinctoria.
- noun a blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically
- nigerien1/5
nigerien
- noun a native or inhabitant of Niger
- adjective of or relating to the people of Nigeria
Nigerian.
- a Nigerian novelist won the Nobel Prize for literature this year
- noun a native or inhabitant of Niger
- figwort1/5
figwort
- noun any of numerous tall coarse woodland plants of the genus Scrophularia
- noun any of numerous tall coarse woodland plants of the genus Scrophularia
- lighterage1/5
lighterage
- noun the fee charged for carrying goods in lighters
- noun the transportation of goods on a lighter
- noun the fee charged for carrying goods in lighters
- reigniting1/5
reignite
- verb ignite anew, as of something burning
- The strong winds reignited the cooling embers
- verb ignite anew, as of something burning
- negligees1/5
negligee
- noun a loose dressing gown for women
housecoat; neglige; peignoir; wrapper.
- noun a loose dressing gown for women
- mights1/5
might
- noun physical strength
mightiness; power.
- noun physical strength
- neighbored1/5
neighbor
- noun a person who lives (or is located) near another
neighbour.
- noun a nearby object of the same kind
neighbour.
- Fort Worth is a neighbor of Dallas
- what is the closest neighbor to the Earth?
- noun a person who lives (or is located) near another
- lightships1/5
lightship
- noun a ship equipped like a lighthouse and anchored where a permanent lighthouse would be impracticable
- noun a ship equipped like a lighthouse and anchored where a permanent lighthouse would be impracticable
- reassigns1/5
reassign
- verb transfer somebody to a different position or location of work
transfer.
- verb transfer somebody to a different position or location of work
- epigone1/5
epigone
- noun an inferior imitator of some distinguished writer or artist of musician
epigon.
- noun an inferior imitator of some distinguished writer or artist of musician
- houselights1/5
houselights
- noun lights that illuminate the audience's part of a theater or other auditorium
- noun lights that illuminate the audience's part of a theater or other auditorium
- lignites1/5
lignite
- noun intermediate between peat and bituminous coal
brown coal; wood coal.
- noun intermediate between peat and bituminous coal
- mitigative1/5
mitigative
- adjective satellite moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear
lenitive; mitigatory; alleviative; alleviatory; palliative.
- adjective satellite moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear
- nightcrawler1/5
nightcrawler
- noun terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers
earthworm; angleworm; dew worm; fishworm; wiggler; nightwalker; fishing worm; red worm; crawler.
- noun terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers
- nightshades1/5
nightshade
- noun any of numerous shrubs or herbs or vines of the genus Solanum; most are poisonous though many bear edible fruit
- noun any of numerous shrubs or herbs or vines of the genus Solanum; most are poisonous though many bear edible fruit
- nightwalker1/5
nightwalker
- noun terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers
earthworm; angleworm; dew worm; fishworm; wiggler; fishing worm; red worm; nightcrawler; crawler.
- noun terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers
- neglige1/5
neglige
- noun a loose dressing gown for women
housecoat; negligee; peignoir; wrapper.
- noun a loose dressing gown for women
- digestives1/5
digestive
- noun any substance that promotes digestion
- adjective relating to or having the power to cause or promote digestion
- digestive juices
- a digestive enzyme
- digestive ferment
- noun any substance that promotes digestion
- digestibilities1/5
digestibility
- noun the property of being easy to digest
digestibleness.
- noun the property of being easy to digest
- immigrates1/5
immigrate
- verb migrate to a new environment
- only few plants can immigrate to the island
- verb introduce or send as immigrants
- Britain immigrated many colonists to America
- verb migrate to a new environment
- cartwrights1/5
cartwright
- noun English clergyman who invented the power loom (1743-1823)
Edmund Cartwright.
- noun a workman who makes and repairs carts and wagons
- noun English clergyman who invented the power loom (1743-1823)
- unsightliness1/5
unsightliness
- noun ugliness that is unpleasant to look at
- noun ugliness that is unpleasant to look at
- cosigners1/5
cosigner
- noun one of two or more signers of the same document (as a treaty or declaration)
cosignatory.
- noun a signer in addition to the principal signer (to verify the authenticity of the principal signature or to provide surety)
- noun one of two or more signers of the same document (as a treaty or declaration)
- disobliged1/5
disoblige
- verb to cause inconvenience or discomfort to
bother; inconvenience; incommode; discommode; trouble; put out.
- Sorry to trouble you, but...
- verb ignore someone's wishes
- verb to cause inconvenience or discomfort to
- rigorousness1/5
rigorousness
- noun something hard to endure
hardship; rigourousness; severeness; rigor; rigour; asperity; grimness; severity.
- the asperity of northern winters
- noun excessive sternness
harshness; stiffness; severity; severeness; inclemency; rigor; rigour; hardness; rigourousness.
- severity of character
- the harshness of his punishment was inhuman
- the rigors of boot camp
- noun something hard to endure
- pigged1/5
pig
- noun domestic swine
grunter; hog; squealer; Sus scrofa.
- noun a coarse obnoxious person
slovenly person; sloven; slob.
- noun domestic swine
- highflyer1/5
highflyer
- noun a person of great ability and ambition
highflier.
- noun a person of great ability and ambition
- stratigraphies1/5
stratigraphy
- noun the branch of geology that studies the arrangement and succession of strata
- noun the branch of geology that studies the arrangement and succession of strata
- tettigoniidae1/5
tettigoniidae
- noun long-horned grasshoppers; katydids
family Tettigoniidae.
- noun long-horned grasshoppers; katydids
- rigidify1/5
rigidify
- verb become rigid
- The body rigidified
- verb make rigid and set into a conventional pattern
petrify; ossify.
- rigidify the training schedule
- ossified teaching methods
- slogans petrify our thinking
- verb become rigid
- sigmodon1/5
sigmodon
- noun American cotton rats
genus Sigmodon.
- noun American cotton rats
- obliger1/5
obliger
- noun someone who performs a service or does a favor
accommodator.
- noun someone who performs a service or does a favor
- signalizing1/5
signalize
- verb provide with traffic signals
signalise.
- signalize a busy intersection
- verb communicate silently and non-verbally by signals or signs
signalise; signal; sign.
- He signed his disapproval with a dismissive hand gesture
- The diner signaled the waiters to bring the menu
- verb provide with traffic signals
- signalise1/5
signalise
- verb provide with traffic signals
signalize.
- signalize a busy intersection
- verb communicate silently and non-verbally by signals or signs
signal; signalize; sign.
- He signed his disapproval with a dismissive hand gesture
- The diner signaled the waiters to bring the menu
- verb provide with traffic signals
- stigmatises1/5
stigmatise
- verb to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful
brand; stigmatize; denounce; mark.
- He denounced the government action
- She was stigmatized by society because she had a child out of wedlock
- verb mark with a stigma or stigmata
stigmatize.
- They wanted to stigmatize the adulteress
- verb to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful
- prestidigitator1/5
prestidigitator
- noun someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience
illusionist; conjurer; magician; conjuror.
- noun someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience
- neighboured1/5
neighbour
- noun a person who lives (or is located) near another
neighbor.
- noun a nearby object of the same kind
neighbor.
- Fort Worth is a neighbor of Dallas
- what is the closest neighbor to the Earth?
- noun a person who lives (or is located) near another
- bedight1/5
bedight
- verb decorate
bedeck; deck.
- deck the halls with holly
- verb decorate
- signalizes1/5
signalize
- verb provide with traffic signals
signalise.
- signalize a busy intersection
- verb communicate silently and non-verbally by signals or signs
signalise; signal; sign.
- He signed his disapproval with a dismissive hand gesture
- The diner signaled the waiters to bring the menu
- verb provide with traffic signals
- nightbird1/5
nightbird
- noun a person who likes to be active late at night
nighthawk; night owl.
- noun a person who likes to be active late at night
- righteousnesses1/5
righteousness
- noun adhering to moral principles
- noun adhering to moral principles
- nightcrawlers1/5
nightcrawler
- noun terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers
earthworm; angleworm; dew worm; fishworm; wiggler; nightwalker; fishing worm; red worm; crawler.
- noun terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers
- assignors1/5
assignor
- noun (law) the party who makes an assignment
- noun (law) the party who makes an assignment
- circumnavigations1/5
circumnavigation
- noun traveling around something (by ship or plane)
- Magellan's circumnavigation of the earth proved that it is a globe
- noun traveling around something (by ship or plane)
- indigirka1/5
indigirka
- noun a river in far eastern Siberia that flows generally northward to the Arctic Ocean
Indigirka River.
- noun a river in far eastern Siberia that flows generally northward to the Arctic Ocean
- triga1/5
triga
- noun type genus of the Triglidae
genus Triga.
- noun type genus of the Triglidae
- denigratory1/5
denigratory
- adjective satellite (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign
denigrating; libelous; denigrative; calumnious; slanderous; libellous; calumniatory; defamatory.
- adjective satellite (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign
- rigamarole1/5
rigamarole
- noun a set of confused and meaningless statements
rigmarole.
- noun a long and complicated and confusing procedure
rigmarole.
- all that academic rigmarole was a waste of time
- noun a set of confused and meaningless statements
- wigwag1/5
wigwag
- verb send a signal by waving a flag or a light according to a certain code
- verb signal by or as if by a flag or light waved according to a code
- verb send a signal by waving a flag or a light according to a certain code
- coreligionist1/5
coreligionist
- noun someone having the same religion as another person
- noun someone having the same religion as another person
- giggler1/5
giggler
- noun a person who laughs nervously
titterer.
- noun a person who laughs nervously
- triglochin1/5
triglochin
- noun perennial or annual bog or marsh plants; includes arrow grass
genus Triglochin.
- noun perennial or annual bog or marsh plants; includes arrow grass
- straightjackets1/5
straightjacket
- noun a garment similar to a jacket that is used to bind the arms tightly against the body as a means of restraining a violent person
straitjacket.
- noun a garment similar to a jacket that is used to bind the arms tightly against the body as a means of restraining a violent person
- reignites1/5
reignite
- verb ignite anew, as of something burning
- The strong winds reignited the cooling embers
- verb ignite anew, as of something burning
- prostigmin1/5
prostigmin
- noun a cholinergic drug (trade name Prostigmin) used to treat some ophthalmic conditions and to treat myasthenia gravis
neostigmine.
- noun a cholinergic drug (trade name Prostigmin) used to treat some ophthalmic conditions and to treat myasthenia gravis
- lightering1/5
lighter
- noun a substance used to ignite or kindle a fire
ignitor; igniter.
- noun a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires
light; ignitor; igniter.
- do you have a light?
- noun a substance used to ignite or kindle a fire
- strigiformes1/5
strigiformes
- noun owls
order Strigiformes.
- noun owls
- digitiser1/5
digitiser
- noun device for converting analogue signals into digital signals
analog-to-digital converter; analog-digital converter; digitizer.
- noun device for converting analogue signals into digital signals
- indigotin1/5
indigotin
- noun a blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically
anil; indigo.
- noun a blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically
- mitigatory1/5
mitigatory
- adjective satellite moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear
lenitive; mitigative; alleviative; alleviatory; palliative.
- adjective satellite moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear
- pyroligneous1/5
pyroligneous
- adjective of a substance produced by the effect of heat on wood, especially by destructive distillation
pyrolignic.
- adjective of a substance produced by the effect of heat on wood, especially by destructive distillation
- strigidae1/5
strigidae
- noun a family of nocturnal birds of the order Strigiformes
family Strigidae.
- noun a family of nocturnal birds of the order Strigiformes
- nightbirds1/5
nightbird
- noun a person who likes to be active late at night
nighthawk; night owl.
- noun a person who likes to be active late at night
- intelligibilities1/5
intelligibility
- noun the quality of language that is comprehensible
- noun the quality of language that is comprehensible
- firelighters1/5
firelighter
- noun (a piece of) a substance that burns easily and can be used to start a coal or coke fire
- noun (a piece of) a substance that burns easily and can be used to start a coal or coke fire
- highfliers1/5
highflier
- noun a person of great ability and ambition
highflyer.
- noun a person of great ability and ambition
- highbinders1/5
- nightwalkers1/5
nightwalker
- noun terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers
earthworm; angleworm; dew worm; fishworm; wiggler; fishing worm; red worm; nightcrawler; crawler.
- noun terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers
- physostigma1/5
physostigma
- noun African woody vines: calabar beans
genus Physostigma.
- noun African woody vines: calabar beans
- indigestibility1/5
indigestibility
- noun the property of being difficult to digest
indigestibleness.
- noun the property of being difficult to digest
- insignias1/5
insignia
- noun a badge worn to show official position
- noun a badge worn to show official position
- nigella1/5
nigella
- noun any plant of the genus Nigella
- noun any plant of the genus Nigella
- taillight1/5
taillight
- noun lamp (usually red) mounted at the rear of a motor vehicle
rear lamp; rear light; tail lamp.
- noun lamp (usually red) mounted at the rear of a motor vehicle
- inveigh1/5
inveigh
- verb complain bitterly
rail.
- verb speak against in an impassioned manner
declaim.
- he declaimed against the wasteful ways of modern society
- verb complain bitterly
- digressed1/5
digress
- verb lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking
divagate; wander; stray.
- She always digresses when telling a story
- her mind wanders
- Don't digress when you give a lecture
- verb wander from a direct or straight course
straggle; depart; sidetrack.
- verb lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking
- digressing1/5
digress
- verb lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking
divagate; wander; stray.
- She always digresses when telling a story
- her mind wanders
- Don't digress when you give a lecture
- verb wander from a direct or straight course
straggle; depart; sidetrack.
- verb lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking
- pigheaded1/5
pigheaded
- adjective satellite obstinate and stupid
bullheaded; bullet-headed.
- adjective satellite obstinate and stupid
- prodigals1/5
prodigal
- noun a recklessly extravagant consumer
squanderer; profligate.
- adjective satellite recklessly wasteful
spendthrift; extravagant; profligate.
- prodigal in their expenditures
- noun a recklessly extravagant consumer
- plights1/5
plight
- noun a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one
predicament; quandary.
- finds himself in a most awkward predicament
- the woeful plight of homeless people
- noun a solemn pledge of fidelity
troth.
- noun a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one
- earwigs1/5
earwig
- noun any of numerous insects of the order Dermaptera having elongate bodies and slender many-jointed antennae and a pair of large pincers at the rear of the abdomen
- noun any of numerous insects of the order Dermaptera having elongate bodies and slender many-jointed antennae and a pair of large pincers at the rear of the abdomen
- bigamist1/5
bigamist
- noun someone who marries one person while already legally married to another
- noun someone who marries one person while already legally married to another
- signior1/5
signior
- noun used as an Italian courtesy title; can be prefixed to the name or used separately
signor.
- noun used as an Italian courtesy title; can be prefixed to the name or used separately
- hightailed1/5
hightail
- verb leave as fast as possible
- We hightailed it when we saw the police walking in
- verb leave as fast as possible
- redesigns1/5
redesign
- verb design anew, make a new design for
- verb design anew, make a new design for
- stoplights1/5
stoplight
- noun a red light on the rear of a motor vehicle that signals when the brakes are applied to slow or stop
brake light.
- noun a visual signal to control the flow of traffic at intersections
traffic signal; traffic light.
- noun a red light on the rear of a motor vehicle that signals when the brakes are applied to slow or stop
- frights1/5
fright
- noun an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)
fear; fearfulness.
- verb cause fear in
frighten; scare; affright.
- The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me
- Ghosts could never affright her
- noun an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)
- inveighing1/5
inveigh
- verb complain bitterly
rail.
- verb speak against in an impassioned manner
declaim.
- he declaimed against the wasteful ways of modern society
- verb complain bitterly
- inveigle1/5
inveigle
- verb influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering
wheedle; coax; cajole; sweet-talk; blarney; palaver.
- He palavered her into going along
- verb influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering
- seignior1/5
seignior
- noun a man of rank in the ancient regime
feudal lord; seigneur.
- noun a man of rank in the ancient regime
- cardigans1/5
cardigan
- noun knitted jacket that is fastened up the front with buttons or a zipper
- noun slightly bowlegged variety of corgi having rounded ears and a long tail
Cardigan Welsh corgi.
- noun knitted jacket that is fastened up the front with buttons or a zipper
- paperweights1/5
paperweight
- noun a weight used to hold down a stack of papers
- noun a weight used to hold down a stack of papers
- signposting1/5
signpost
- noun a post bearing a sign that gives directions or shows the way
guidepost.
- verb mark with a signpost, as of a path
- noun a post bearing a sign that gives directions or shows the way
- highlife1/5
highlife
- noun excessive spending
high life; extravagance; prodigality; lavishness.
- noun excessive spending
- pigweed1/5
pigweed
- noun common weedy European plant introduced into North America; often used as a potherb
wild spinach; Chenopodium album; lamb's-quarters.
- noun leaves sometimes used as potherbs; seeds used as cereal; southern United States to Central America; India and China
Amaranthus hypochondriacus.
- noun common weedy European plant introduced into North America; often used as a potherb
- chiggers1/5
chigger
- noun small tropical flea; the fertile female burrows under the skin of the host including humans
Tunga penetrans; chigoe flea; chigoe.
- noun larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation
harvest mite; jigger; redbug.
- noun small tropical flea; the fertile female burrows under the skin of the host including humans
- exiguous1/5
exiguous
- adjective satellite extremely scanty
- an exiguous budget
- adjective satellite extremely scanty
- hightail1/5
hightail
- verb leave as fast as possible
- We hightailed it when we saw the police walking in
- verb leave as fast as possible
- swigging1/5
swig
- noun a large and hurried swallow
gulp; draught; draft.
- he finished it at a single gulp
- verb strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat
slog; slug.
- He slugged me so hard that I passed out
- noun a large and hurried swallow
- swigged1/5
swig
- noun a large and hurried swallow
gulp; draught; draft.
- he finished it at a single gulp
- verb strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat
slog; slug.
- He slugged me so hard that I passed out
- noun a large and hurried swallow
- inveighs1/5
inveigh
- verb complain bitterly
rail.
- verb speak against in an impassioned manner
declaim.
- he declaimed against the wasteful ways of modern society
- verb complain bitterly
- auriga1/5
auriga
(Anat.) The Charioteer, or Wagoner, a constellation in the northern hemisphere, situated between Perseus and Gemini. It contains the bright star Capella.
- niggle1/5
niggle
- verb worry unnecessarily or excessively
fuss; fret.
- don't fuss too much over the grandchildren--they are quite big now
- verb argue over petty things
squabble; pettifog; bicker; brabble; quibble.
- Let's not quibble over pennies
- verb worry unnecessarily or excessively
- rigatoni1/5
rigatoni
- noun tubular pasta in short ribbed pieces
- noun tubular pasta in short ribbed pieces
- circumnavigating1/5
circumnavigate
- verb travel around, either by plane or ship
compass.
- We compassed the earth
- verb travel around, either by plane or ship
- gunfights1/5
gunfight
- noun a fight involving shooting small arms with the intent to kill or frighten
gunplay; shootout.
- noun a fight involving shooting small arms with the intent to kill or frighten
- sleighing1/5
sleigh
- noun a vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs; for transportation over snow
sledge; sled.
- verb ride (on) a sled
sled.
- noun a vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs; for transportation over snow
- eightpence1/5
eightpence
- noun a coin worth eight pennies
- noun a coin worth eight pennies
- sleights1/5
sleight
- noun adroitness in using the hands
dexterity; manual dexterity.
- noun adroitness in using the hands
- flyweight1/5
flyweight
- noun weighs no more than 115 pounds
- noun an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 112 pounds
- noun weighs no more than 115 pounds
- chigger1/5
chigger
- noun small tropical flea; the fertile female burrows under the skin of the host including humans
Tunga penetrans; chigoe flea; chigoe.
- noun larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation
harvest mite; jigger; redbug.
- noun small tropical flea; the fertile female burrows under the skin of the host including humans
- nigher1/5
nigher
- adverb (comparative of `near' or `close') within a shorter distance
closer; nearer.
- come closer, my dear!
- they drew nearer
- getting nearer to the true explanation
- adjective not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances
close; near; nigh.
- near neighbors
- in the near future
- they are near equals
- his nearest approach to success
- a very near thing
- a near hit by the bomb
- she was near tears
- she was close to tears
- had a close call
- adverb (comparative of `near' or `close') within a shorter distance
- emigrates1/5
emigrate
- verb leave one's country of residence for a new one
- Many people had to emigrate during the Nazi period
- verb leave one's country of residence for a new one
- highlighters1/5
highlighter
- noun a cosmetic used to highlight the eyes or cheekbones
- noun a fluorescent marker used to mark important passages in a text
- noun a cosmetic used to highlight the eyes or cheekbones
- signalmen1/5
signalman
- noun a railroad employee in charge of signals and point in a railroad yard
- noun a railroad employee in charge of signals and point in a railroad yard
- reassignments1/5
reassignment
- noun assignment to a different duty
- noun assignment to a different duty
- rightfulness1/5
rightfulness
- noun anything in accord with principles of justice
right.
- he feels he is in the right
- the rightfulness of his claim
- noun anything in accord with principles of justice
- slightness1/5
slightness
- noun the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous
pettiness; puniness; triviality.
- noun smallness of stature
delicacy.
- noun the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous
- digresses1/5
digress
- verb lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking
divagate; wander; stray.
- She always digresses when telling a story
- her mind wanders
- Don't digress when you give a lecture
- verb wander from a direct or straight course
straggle; depart; sidetrack.
- verb lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking
- oligochaetes1/5
oligochaete
- noun hermaphroditic terrestrial and aquatic annelids having bristles borne singly along the length of the body
oligochaete worm.
- noun hermaphroditic terrestrial and aquatic annelids having bristles borne singly along the length of the body
- sniggers1/5
snigger
- noun a disrespectful laugh
snicker; snort.
- verb laugh quietly
snicker.
- noun a disrespectful laugh
- erigeron1/5
erigeron
- noun cosmopolitan genus of usually perennial herbs with flowers that resemble asters; leaves occasionally (especially formerly) used medicinally
genus Erigeron.
- noun cosmopolitan genus of usually perennial herbs with flowers that resemble asters; leaves occasionally (especially formerly) used medicinally
- pigman1/5
pigman
- noun a herder or swine
swineherd.
- noun a herder or swine
- prefigurative1/5
prefigurative
- adjective satellite indistinctly prophetic
adumbrative; foreshadowing.
- adjective satellite indistinctly prophetic
- corrigenda1/5
corrigenda
- noun a list of printing errors in a book along with their corrections
- noun a printer's error; to be corrected
corrigendum.
- noun a list of printing errors in a book along with their corrections
- prigs1/5
prig
- noun a person regarded as arrogant and annoying
snob; snoot; snot.
- noun a person regarded as arrogant and annoying
- enlightenments1/5
enlightenment
- noun education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge
- noun (Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness
nirvana.
- noun education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge
- prizefighting1/5
prizefight
- noun a boxing match between professional boxers for a cash prize
prize fight.
- verb box for a prize or money
- noun a boxing match between professional boxers for a cash prize
- sightseer1/5
sightseer
- noun a tourist who is visiting sights of interest
tripper; rubberneck; excursionist.
- noun a tourist who is visiting sights of interest
- respighi1/5
respighi
- noun Italian composer remembered for his symphonic poems (1879-1936)
Ottorino Respighi.
- noun Italian composer remembered for his symphonic poems (1879-1936)
- frightfulness1/5
frightfulness
- noun the quality of being frightful
- noun the quality of being frightful
- cosigned1/5
cosign
- verb sign jointly
co-sign.
- Husband and wife co-signed the lease
- verb sign and endorse (another person's signature), as for a loan
co-sign.
- verb sign jointly
- plantigrade1/5
plantigrade
- noun an animal that walks with the entire sole of the foot touching the ground as e.g. bears and human beings
plantigrade mammal.
- adjective (of mammals) walking on the whole sole of the foot (as rabbits, raccoons, bears, and humans do)
- noun an animal that walks with the entire sole of the foot touching the ground as e.g. bears and human beings
- birthrights1/5
birthright
- noun a right or privilege that you are entitled to at birth
- free public education is the birthright of every American child
- noun an inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture)
patrimony.
- noun a right or privilege that you are entitled to at birth
- sightly1/5
sightly
- adjective satellite very pleasing to the eye
comely; bonnie; fair; bonny.
- my bonny lass
- there's a bonny bay beyond
- a comely face
- young fair maidens
- adjective satellite very pleasing to the eye
- copyrighting1/5
copyright
- noun a document granting exclusive right to publish and sell literary or musical or artistic work
right of first publication.
- verb secure a copyright on a written work
- did you copyright your manuscript?
- noun a document granting exclusive right to publish and sell literary or musical or artistic work
- jigged1/5
jig
- noun music in three-four time for dancing a jig
gigue.
- noun a fisherman's lure with one or more hooks that is jerked up and down in the water
- noun music in three-four time for dancing a jig
- profligates1/5
profligate
- noun a dissolute man in fashionable society
rake; rip; rakehell; blood; roue.
- noun a recklessly extravagant consumer
prodigal; squanderer.
- noun a dissolute man in fashionable society
- seigniory1/5
seigniory
- noun the estate of a seigneur
signory; seigneury.
- noun the position and authority of a feudal lord
feudal lordship; seigneury.
- noun the estate of a seigneur
- lightweights1/5
lightweight
- noun a professional boxer who weighs between 131 and 135 pounds
- noun someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous
whippersnapper; jackanapes.
- noun a professional boxer who weighs between 131 and 135 pounds
- niggled1/5
niggle
- verb worry unnecessarily or excessively
fuss; fret.
- don't fuss too much over the grandchildren--they are quite big now
- verb argue over petty things
squabble; pettifog; bicker; brabble; quibble.
- Let's not quibble over pennies
- verb worry unnecessarily or excessively
- pfennigs1/5
pfennig
- noun 100 pfennigs formerly equaled 1 Deutsche Mark in Germany
- noun 100 pfennigs formerly equaled 1 Deutsche Mark in Germany
- indigofera1/5
indigofera
(Bot.) A genus of leguminous plants having many species, mostly in tropical countries, several of them yielding indigo, esp. Indigofera tinctoria , andI. Anil .
- gigo1/5
gigo
- noun (computer science) a rule stating that the quality of the output is a function of the quality of the input; put garbage in and you get garbage out
- noun (computer science) a rule stating that the quality of the output is a function of the quality of the input; put garbage in and you get garbage out
- prizefight1/5
prizefight
- noun a boxing match between professional boxers for a cash prize
prize fight.
- verb box for a prize or money
- noun a boxing match between professional boxers for a cash prize
- piggies1/5
piggy
- noun a young pig
shote; piglet; shoat.
- adjective satellite resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy
hoggish; swinish; piggish; porcine.
- piggish table manners
- the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father
- swinish slavering over food
- noun a young pig
- seigneuries1/5
seigneury
- noun the estate of a seigneur
seigniory; signory.
- noun the position and authority of a feudal lord
seigniory; feudal lordship.
- noun the estate of a seigneur
- twigged1/5
twig
- noun a small branch or division of a branch (especially a terminal division); usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year
sprig; branchlet.
- verb branch out in a twiglike manner
- The lightning bolt twigged in several directions
- noun a small branch or division of a branch (especially a terminal division); usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year
- coign1/5
coign
- noun expandable metal or wooden wedge used by printers to lock up a form within a chase
quoin; coigne.
- noun the keystone of an arch
quoin; coigne.
- noun expandable metal or wooden wedge used by printers to lock up a form within a chase
- seigneury1/5
seigneury
- noun the estate of a seigneur
seigniory; signory.
- noun the position and authority of a feudal lord
seigniory; feudal lordship.
- noun the estate of a seigneur
- aweigh1/5
aweigh
- adjective satellite (used of an anchor) hanging clear of the bottom
- anchors aweigh
- adjective satellite (of an anchor) just clear of the bottom
atrip.
- adjective satellite (used of an anchor) hanging clear of the bottom
- weigher1/5
weigher
- noun an official who weighs and records the weight
- noun an official who weighs and records the weight
- consignors1/5
consignor
- noun the person who delivers over or commits merchandise
consigner.
- noun the person who delivers over or commits merchandise
- nighties1/5
nightie
- noun lingerie consisting of a loose dress designed to be worn in bed by women
gown; nightdress; night-robe; nightgown.
- noun lingerie consisting of a loose dress designed to be worn in bed by women
- biggish1/5
biggish
- adjective satellite somewhat large
largish.
- adjective satellite somewhat large
- whirligigs1/5
whirligig
- noun a conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin
teetotum; top; spinning top.
- he got a bright red top and string for his birthday
- noun a large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride or amusement
roundabout; carrousel; carousel; merry-go-round.
- noun a conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin
- nightshirts1/5
nightshirt
- noun nightclothes worn by men
- noun nightclothes worn by men
- cosign1/5
cosign
- verb sign jointly
co-sign.
- Husband and wife co-signed the lease
- verb sign and endorse (another person's signature), as for a loan
co-sign.
- verb sign jointly
- trigonella1/5
trigonella
- noun Old World genus of frequently aromatic herbs
genus Trigonella.
- noun Old World genus of frequently aromatic herbs
- gelignite1/5
gelignite
- noun a type of dynamite in which the nitroglycerin is absorbed in a base of wood pulp and sodium or potassium nitrate
gelly.
- noun a type of dynamite in which the nitroglycerin is absorbed in a base of wood pulp and sodium or potassium nitrate
- insightfulness1/5
insightfulness
- noun shrewdness shown by keen insight
acumen.
- noun shrewdness shown by keen insight
- gigolos1/5
gigolo
- noun a man who has sex with and is supported by a woman
- noun a man who has sex with and is supported by a woman
- riggings1/5
rigging
- noun gear consisting of ropes etc. supporting a ship's masts and sails
tackle.
- noun formation of masts, spars, sails, etc., on a vessel
rig.
- noun gear consisting of ropes etc. supporting a ship's masts and sails
- bignoniaceae1/5
bignoniaceae
- noun trees or shrubs or woody vines or herbs having fruit resembling gourds or capsules; sometimes placed in the order Scrophulariales
family Bignoniaceae.
- noun trees or shrubs or woody vines or herbs having fruit resembling gourds or capsules; sometimes placed in the order Scrophulariales
- prizefighters1/5
prizefighter
- noun a professional boxer
gladiator.
- noun a professional boxer
- nonfigurative1/5
nonfigurative
- adjective satellite not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature
abstract; abstractionist; nonobjective.
- a large abstract painting
- adjective satellite not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature
- cigaret1/5
cigaret
- noun finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking
cigarette; fag; coffin nail; butt.
- noun finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking
- prefigurations1/5
prefiguration
- noun an example that prefigures or foreshadows what is to come
- noun the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand
foreshadowing; adumbration.
- noun an example that prefigures or foreshadows what is to come
- bantamweight1/5
bantamweight
- noun weighs 115-126 pounds
- noun an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 119 pounds
- noun weighs 115-126 pounds
- tardigrades1/5
tardigrade
- noun an arthropod of the division Tardigrada
- noun an arthropod of the division Tardigrada
- nonmigratory1/5
nonmigratory
- adjective used of animals that do not migrate
resident.
- adjective used of animals that do not migrate
- lightermen1/5
lighterman
- noun someone who operates a barge
bargeman; bargee.
- noun someone who operates a barge
- highflying1/5
highflying
- adjective satellite moving upward or along at a considerable height
- some highflying fighter pilot fired a cannon shell into it
- adjective satellite extravagant or ambitious or extreme in aims or opinions
- they did not understand what had happend at the once highflying company
- adjective satellite moving upward or along at a considerable height
- diligences1/5
diligence
- noun conscientiousness in paying proper attention to a task; giving the degree of care required in a given situation
- noun persevering determination to perform a task
industry; industriousness.
- his diligence won him quick promotions
- frugality and industry are still regarded as virtues
- noun conscientiousness in paying proper attention to a task; giving the degree of care required in a given situation
- inveigling1/5
inveigle
- verb influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering
wheedle; coax; cajole; sweet-talk; blarney; palaver.
- He palavered her into going along
- verb influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering
- oligochaete1/5
oligochaete
- noun hermaphroditic terrestrial and aquatic annelids having bristles borne singly along the length of the body
oligochaete worm.
- noun hermaphroditic terrestrial and aquatic annelids having bristles borne singly along the length of the body
- wriggly1/5
wriggly
- adjective satellite moving in a twisting or snake-like or wormlike fashion
writhing; wriggling; wiggly.
- wiggly worms
- adjective satellite moving in a twisting or snake-like or wormlike fashion
- weighers1/5
weigher
- noun an official who weighs and records the weight
- noun an official who weighs and records the weight
- hightailing1/5
hightail
- verb leave as fast as possible
- We hightailed it when we saw the police walking in
- verb leave as fast as possible
- unambiguity1/5
unambiguity
- noun clarity achieved by the avoidance of ambiguity
unequivocalness.
- noun clarity achieved by the avoidance of ambiguity
- freightage1/5
freightage
- noun the charge for transporting something by common carrier
freight rate; freight.
- we pay the freight
- the freight rate is usually cheaper
- noun transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates
freight.
- noun the charge for transporting something by common carrier
- negligences1/5
negligence
- noun failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances
carelessness; nonperformance; neglect.
- noun the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern
neglectfulness; neglect.
- noun failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances
- zigs1/5
zig
- noun an angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions
zigzag; zag.
- noun an angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions
- bignonia1/5
bignonia
(Bot.) A large genus of American, mostly tropical, climbing shrubs, having compound leaves and showy somewhat tubular flowers. B. capreolata is the cross vine of the Southern United States. The trumpet creeper was formerly considered to be of this genus.
- bighearted1/5
bighearted
- adjective satellite given or giving freely
liberal; giving; big; openhanded; bountiful; freehanded; bounteous; handsome.
- was a big tipper
- the bounteous goodness of God
- bountiful compliments
- a freehanded host
- a handsome allowance
- Saturday's child is loving and giving
- a liberal backer of the arts
- a munificent gift
- her fond and openhanded grandfather
- adjective satellite given or giving freely
- vinaigrettes1/5
vinaigrette
- noun oil and vinegar with mustard and garlic
sauce vinaigrette; French dressing.
- noun oil and vinegar with mustard and garlic
- nightdresses1/5
nightdress
- noun lingerie consisting of a loose dress designed to be worn in bed by women
gown; night-robe; nightgown; nightie.
- noun lingerie consisting of a loose dress designed to be worn in bed by women
- prizefights1/5
prizefight
- noun a boxing match between professional boxers for a cash prize
prize fight.
- verb box for a prize or money
- noun a boxing match between professional boxers for a cash prize
- pennyweight1/5
pennyweight
- noun a unit of apothecary weight equal to 24 grains
- noun a unit of apothecary weight equal to 24 grains
- signets1/5
signet
- noun a seal (especially one used to mark documents officially)
- noun a seal (especially one used to mark documents officially)
- seigniors1/5
seignior
- noun a man of rank in the ancient regime
feudal lord; seigneur.
- noun a man of rank in the ancient regime
- pigheadedness1/5
pigheadedness
- noun resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires
self-will; stubbornness; obstinacy; obstinance; bullheadedness.
- noun resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires
- triggerman1/5
triggerman
- noun a professional killer who uses a gun
hit man; gunslinger; hired gun; shooter; gun; hitman; gunman; torpedo; gun for hire.
- noun a professional killer who uses a gun
- hundredweights1/5
hundredweight
- noun a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms
centner; metric hundredweight; doppelzentner.
- noun a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds
short hundredweight; quintal; centner; cwt; cental.
- noun a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms
- nightwork1/5
nightwork
- noun work to be done at night
- noun work to be done at night
- bigamists1/5
bigamist
- noun someone who marries one person while already legally married to another
- noun someone who marries one person while already legally married to another
- weigela1/5
weigela
- noun deciduous shrub widely cultivated for its white or pink or red flowers
Weigela florida.
- noun deciduous shrub widely cultivated for its white or pink or red flowers
- circumnavigates1/5
circumnavigate
- verb travel around, either by plane or ship
compass.
- We compassed the earth
- verb travel around, either by plane or ship
- outfight1/5
outfight
- verb to fight better than; get the better of
- the Rangers outfought the Maple Leafs
- The French forces outfought the Germans
- verb to fight better than; get the better of
- flibbertigibbet1/5
flibbertigibbet
- noun a female fool
foolish woman.
- noun a female fool
- beigel1/5
beigel
- noun (Yiddish) glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust
bagel.
- noun (Yiddish) glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust
- wigmaker1/5
wigmaker
- noun someone who makes and sells wigs
- noun someone who makes and sells wigs
- nighest1/5
nighest
- adverb (superlative of `near' or `close') within the shortest distance
nearest; closest.
- that was the time he came nearest to death
- adjective not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances
close; near; nigh.
- near neighbors
- in the near future
- they are near equals
- his nearest approach to success
- a very near thing
- a near hit by the bomb
- she was near tears
- she was close to tears
- had a close call
- adverb (superlative of `near' or `close') within the shortest distance
- counterweighted1/5
counterweight
- noun a weight that balances another weight
counterpoise; equalizer; equaliser; counterbalance; balance.
- verb constitute a counterweight or counterbalance to
counterpoise; counterpose.
- noun a weight that balances another weight
- soigne1/5
soigne
- adjective satellite polished and well-groomed; showing sophisticated elegance
soignee.
- adjective satellite polished and well-groomed; showing sophisticated elegance
- seigniories1/5
seigniory
- noun the estate of a seigneur
signory; seigneury.
- noun the position and authority of a feudal lord
feudal lordship; seigneury.
- noun the estate of a seigneur
- calligraphies1/5
calligraphy
- noun beautiful handwriting
chirography; penmanship.
- noun beautiful handwriting
- pennyweights1/5
pennyweight
- noun a unit of apothecary weight equal to 24 grains
- noun a unit of apothecary weight equal to 24 grains
- nightriders1/5
nightrider
- noun member of a secret mounted band in United States South after the American Civil War; committed acts of intimidation and revenge
night rider.
- noun member of a secret mounted band in United States South after the American Civil War; committed acts of intimidation and revenge
- countersigns1/5
countersign
- noun a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group
word; password; watchword; parole.
- he forgot the password
- noun a second confirming signature endorsing a document already signed
countersignature.
- noun a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group
- anorexigenic1/5
anorexigenic
- adjective satellite causing loss of appetite
anorectic.
- an anorectic (or anorexigenic) drug
- adjective satellite causing loss of appetite
- niggles1/5
niggle
- verb worry unnecessarily or excessively
fuss; fret.
- don't fuss too much over the grandchildren--they are quite big now
- verb argue over petty things
squabble; pettifog; bicker; brabble; quibble.
- Let's not quibble over pennies
- verb worry unnecessarily or excessively
- litigates1/5
litigate
- verb engage in legal proceedings
- verb institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against
action; process; sue.
- He was warned that the district attorney would process him
- She actioned the company for discrimination
- verb engage in legal proceedings
- indignations1/5
indignation
- noun a feeling of righteous anger
outrage.
- noun a feeling of righteous anger
- ligularia1/5
ligularia
- noun genus of Old World herbs resembling groundsel: leopard plants
genus Ligularia.
- noun genus of Old World herbs resembling groundsel: leopard plants
- spaceflights1/5
spaceflight
- noun a voyage outside the Earth's atmosphere
space travel; spacefaring.
- noun a voyage outside the Earth's atmosphere
- signors1/5
signor
- noun used as an Italian courtesy title; can be prefixed to the name or used separately
signior.
- noun used as an Italian courtesy title; can be prefixed to the name or used separately
- shenanigan1/5
shenanigan
- noun reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others
mischief-making; rascality; mischief; mischievousness; roguishness; roguery; devilment; deviltry; devilry.
- noun the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
chicanery; trickery; chicane; wile; guile.
- noun reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others
- michiganders1/5
michigander
- noun a native or resident of Michigan
Wolverine.
- noun a native or resident of Michigan
- highjacked1/5
highjack
- noun seizure of a vehicle in transit either to rob it or divert it to an alternate destination
hijack.
- verb take arbitrarily or by force
hijack; commandeer; pirate.
- The Cubans commandeered the plane and flew it to Miami
- noun seizure of a vehicle in transit either to rob it or divert it to an alternate destination
- religionism1/5
religionism
- noun exaggerated religious zealotry
- noun exaggerated or affected piety and religious zeal
religiousism; religiosity; pietism.
- noun exaggerated religious zealotry
- affrights1/5
affright
- noun an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
terror; panic.
- verb cause fear in
frighten; scare; fright.
- The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me
- Ghosts could never affright her
- noun an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
- countersigning1/5
countersign
- noun a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group
word; password; watchword; parole.
- he forgot the password
- noun a second confirming signature endorsing a document already signed
countersignature.
- noun a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group
- lightproof1/5
lightproof
- adjective satellite not penetrable by light
light-tight.
- lightproof containers
- adjective satellite not penetrable by light
- lighterman1/5
lighterman
- noun someone who operates a barge
bargeman; bargee.
- noun someone who operates a barge
- signalization1/5
signalization
- noun a conspicuous indication
signalisation.
- noun a conspicuous indication
- plighting1/5
plight
- noun a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one
predicament; quandary.
- finds himself in a most awkward predicament
- the woeful plight of homeless people
- noun a solemn pledge of fidelity
troth.
- noun a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one
- misalign1/5
misalign
- verb align imperfectly or badly
- the elements of the turbine were misaligned
- verb align imperfectly or badly
- balbriggan1/5
balbriggan
- noun a cotton knit fabric used for underwear
- noun a cotton knit fabric used for underwear
- denigrations1/5
denigration
- noun a belittling comment
belittling.
- noun an abusive attack on a person's character or good name
defamation; calumny; slander; aspersion.
- noun a belittling comment
- pigmentations1/5
pigmentation
- noun the deposition of pigment in animals or plants or human beings
- noun coloration of living tissues by pigment
- noun the deposition of pigment in animals or plants or human beings
- rightfield1/5
rightfield
- noun the piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's right
right field; right.
- noun the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is expected to field balls in the right third of the outfield (looking from home plate)
right field.
- noun the piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's right
- highjacking1/5
highjacking
- noun robbery of a traveller or vehicle in transit or seizing control of a vehicle by the use of force
hijacking.
- verb take arbitrarily or by force
hijack; commandeer; highjack; pirate.
- The Cubans commandeered the plane and flew it to Miami
- noun robbery of a traveller or vehicle in transit or seizing control of a vehicle by the use of force
- cosigning1/5
cosign
- verb sign jointly
co-sign.
- Husband and wife co-signed the lease
- verb sign and endorse (another person's signature), as for a loan
co-sign.
- verb sign jointly
- tightropes1/5
tightrope
- noun tightly stretched rope or wire on which acrobats perform high above the ground
- noun tightly stretched rope or wire on which acrobats perform high above the ground
- cigarets1/5
cigaret
- noun finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking
cigarette; fag; coffin nail; butt.
- noun finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking
- sightlessness1/5
sightlessness
- noun the state of being blind or lacking sight
blindness; cecity.
- noun the state of being blind or lacking sight
- obligingness1/5
obligingness
- noun a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others
deference; compliance; complaisance; compliancy.
- noun a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others
- affrighting1/5
affright
- noun an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
terror; panic.
- verb cause fear in
frighten; scare; fright.
- The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me
- Ghosts could never affright her
- noun an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
- digitigrade1/5
digitigrade
- noun an animal that walks so that only the toes touch the ground as e.g. dogs and cats and horses
digitigrade mammal.
- adjective (of mammals) walking on the toes with the posterior part of the foot raised (as cats, dogs, and horses do)
- noun an animal that walks so that only the toes touch the ground as e.g. dogs and cats and horses
- nonsovereign1/5
nonsovereign
- adjective satellite (of peoples and political bodies) controlled by outside forces
nonautonomous.
- adjective satellite (of peoples and political bodies) controlled by outside forces
- vigorish1/5
vigorish
- noun an exorbitant or unlawful rate of interest
usury.
- noun a percentage (of winnings or loot or profit) taken by an operator or gangster
rake-off.
- noun an exorbitant or unlawful rate of interest
- malpighiaceae1/5
malpighiaceae
- noun tropical shrubs or trees
family Malpighiaceae.
- noun tropical shrubs or trees
- monsignors1/5
monsignor
- noun (Roman Catholic Church) an ecclesiastical title of honor bestowed on some priests
- noun (Roman Catholic Church) an ecclesiastical title of honor bestowed on some priests
- signalisation1/5
signalisation
- noun a conspicuous indication
signalization.
- noun a conspicuous indication
- flyweights1/5
flyweight
- noun weighs no more than 115 pounds
- noun an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 112 pounds
- noun weighs no more than 115 pounds
- wigmakers1/5
wigmaker
- noun someone who makes and sells wigs
- noun someone who makes and sells wigs
- unrigged1/5
unrigged
- adjective stripped of rigging
- adjective stripped of rigging
- middleweights1/5
middleweight
- noun an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 165 pounds
- noun a wrestler who weighs 172-192 pounds
- noun an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 165 pounds
- trigeminus1/5
trigeminus
- noun the main sensory nerve of the face and motor nerve for the muscles of mastication
fifth cranial nerve; trigeminal; nervus trigeminus; trigeminal nerve.
- noun the main sensory nerve of the face and motor nerve for the muscles of mastication
- monsignori1/5
monsignor
- noun (Roman Catholic Church) an ecclesiastical title of honor bestowed on some priests
- noun (Roman Catholic Church) an ecclesiastical title of honor bestowed on some priests
- emigree1/5
emigree
- noun someone who leaves one country to settle in another
outgoer; emigre; emigrant.
- noun someone who leaves one country to settle in another
- brigandine1/5
brigandine
- noun a medieval coat of chain mail consisting of metal rings sewn onto leather or cloth
- noun a medieval coat of chain mail consisting of metal rings sewn onto leather or cloth
- highjack1/5
highjack
- noun seizure of a vehicle in transit either to rob it or divert it to an alternate destination
hijack.
- verb take arbitrarily or by force
hijack; commandeer; pirate.
- The Cubans commandeered the plane and flew it to Miami
- noun seizure of a vehicle in transit either to rob it or divert it to an alternate destination
- straightedges1/5
straightedge
- noun hand tool consisting of a flat rigid rectangular bar (metal or wood) that can be used to draw straight lines (or test their straightness)
- noun hand tool consisting of a flat rigid rectangular bar (metal or wood) that can be used to draw straight lines (or test their straightness)
- soignee1/5
soignee
- adjective satellite polished and well-groomed; showing sophisticated elegance
soigne.
- adjective satellite polished and well-groomed; showing sophisticated elegance
- inveigles1/5
inveigle
- verb influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering
wheedle; coax; cajole; sweet-talk; blarney; palaver.
- He palavered her into going along
- verb influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering
- tardigrade1/5
tardigrade
- noun an arthropod of the division Tardigrada
- noun an arthropod of the division Tardigrada
- thingamajigs1/5
thingamajig
- noun something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known
gubbins; gismo; thingumabob; whatchamacallit; doohickey; doodad; thingumajig; widget; whatsis; thingamabob; thingummy; thingmabob; whatchamacallum; doojigger; gimmick; thingmajig; gizmo.
- she eased the ball-shaped doodad back into its socket
- there may be some great new gizmo around the corner that you will want to use
- noun something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known
- maligners1/5
maligner
- noun one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel
backbiter; traducer; libeler; defamer; slanderer; vilifier.
- noun one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel
- eighter1/5
eighter
- noun the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one
ogdoad; octet; octad; eight; VIII; 8; eighter from Decatur; octonary.
- adjective satellite being one more than seven
8; eight; viii.
- noun the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one
- bourguignons1/5
bourguignon
- noun reduced red wine with onions and parsley and thyme and butter
bourguignon sauce; Burgundy sauce.
- noun reduced red wine with onions and parsley and thyme and butter
- sprightlier1/5
sprightly
- adjective satellite full of spirit and vitality
- a sprightly young girl
- a sprightly dance
- adjective satellite full of spirit and vitality
- pigpen1/5
pigpen
- noun a pen for swine
pigsty; sty.
- noun a pen for swine
- highwater1/5
highwater
- noun the tide when the water is highest
high water; high tide.
- noun the tide when the water is highest
- lightheartedness1/5
lightheartedness
- noun the cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you
lightsomeness; carefreeness; insouciance.
- noun the cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you
- dirigibles1/5
dirigible
- noun a steerable self-propelled aircraft
airship.
- adjective satellite capable of being steered or directed
steerable.
- noun a steerable self-propelled aircraft
- cockfights1/5
cockfight
- noun a match in a cockpit between two fighting cocks heeled with metal gaffs
- noun a match in a cockpit between two fighting cocks heeled with metal gaffs
- malpighi1/5
malpighi
- noun Italian anatomist who was the first to use a microscope to study anatomy and was among the first to recognize cells in animals (1628-1694)
Marcello Malpighi.
- noun Italian anatomist who was the first to use a microscope to study anatomy and was among the first to recognize cells in animals (1628-1694)
- highfalutin1/5
highfalutin
- adjective satellite affectedly genteel
grandiose; la-di-da; highfaluting; hoity-toity; hifalutin.
- adjective satellite affectedly genteel
- armiger1/5
armiger
- noun a squire carrying the armor of a knight
armor-bearer.
- noun a nobleman entitled to bear heraldic arms
- noun a squire carrying the armor of a knight
- piggery1/5
piggery
- noun a farm where pigs are raised or kept
pig farm.
- noun a farm where pigs are raised or kept
- maligning1/5
malign
- verb speak unfavorably about
traduce; badmouth; drag through the mud.
- She badmouths her husband everywhere
- adjective evil or harmful in nature or influence
- prompted by malign motives
- believed in witches and malign spirits
- gave him a malign look
- a malign lesion
- verb speak unfavorably about
- millwright1/5
millwright
- noun a workman who designs or erects mills and milling machinery
- noun a workman who designs or erects mills and milling machinery
- biggin1/5
biggin
- noun a child's tight-fitting cap; often ties under the chin
- noun a child's tight-fitting cap; often ties under the chin
- filigreed1/5
filigree
- noun delicate and intricate ornamentation (usually in gold or silver or other fine twisted wire)
fillagree; filagree.
- verb make filigree, as with a precious metal
- noun delicate and intricate ornamentation (usually in gold or silver or other fine twisted wire)
- lightsome1/5
lightsome
- adjective satellite moving easily and quickly; nimble
light; tripping.
- the dancer was light and graceful
- a lightsome buoyant step
- walked with a light tripping step
- adjective satellite carefree and happy and lighthearted
light-hearted; blithe; blithesome; lighthearted.
- was loved for her blithe spirit
- a merry blithesome nature
- her lighthearted nature
- trilling songs with a lightsome heart
- adjective satellite moving easily and quickly; nimble
- gunsight1/5
gunsight
- noun a sight used for aiming a gun
gun-sight.
- noun a sight used for aiming a gun
- frigg1/5
frigg
(Scand. Myth.) The wife of Odin and mother of the gods; the supreme goddess; the Juno of the Valhalla. Cf. Freya .
- disambiguating1/5
disambiguate
- verb state unambiguously or remove ambiguities from
- Can you disambiguate this statement?
- verb state unambiguously or remove ambiguities from
- niggard1/5
niggard
- noun a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend
churl; skinflint; scrooge.
- noun a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend
- nightjar1/5
nightjar
- noun mainly crepuscular or nocturnal nonpasserine birds with mottled greyish-brown plumage and large eyes; feed on insects
goatsucker; caprimulgid.
- noun mainly crepuscular or nocturnal nonpasserine birds with mottled greyish-brown plumage and large eyes; feed on insects
- brigantines1/5
brigantine
- noun two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on the foremast and fore-and-aft rigged on the mainmast
hermaphrodite brig.
- noun two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on the foremast and fore-and-aft rigged on the mainmast
- unintelligibly1/5
unintelligibly
- adverb in an unintelligible manner
ununderstandably.
- the foreigners spoke unintelligibly
- adverb in an unintelligible manner
- highchair1/5
highchair
- noun a chair for feeding a very young child; has four long legs and a footrest and a detachable tray
feeding chair.
- noun a chair for feeding a very young child; has four long legs and a footrest and a detachable tray
- bigram1/5
bigram
- noun a word that is written with two letters in an alphabetic writing system
- noun a word that is written with two letters in an alphabetic writing system
- disambiguated1/5
disambiguate
- verb state unambiguously or remove ambiguities from
- Can you disambiguate this statement?
- verb state unambiguously or remove ambiguities from
- bombsight1/5
bombsight
- noun a sighting device in an aircraft for aiming bombs
- noun a sighting device in an aircraft for aiming bombs
- ziggurats1/5
ziggurat
- noun a rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
zikkurat; zikurat.
- noun a rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians
- biggins1/5
biggin
- noun a child's tight-fitting cap; often ties under the chin
- noun a child's tight-fitting cap; often ties under the chin
- antiguan1/5
antiguan
- noun a native or inhabitant of Antigua
- adjective of or relating to or characteristic of Antigua or its people
- Antiguan islands
- noun a native or inhabitant of Antigua
- gigue1/5
gigue
- noun music in three-four time for dancing a jig
jig.
- noun music in three-four time for dancing a jig
- lightwood1/5
lightwood
- noun tall Australian acacia yielding highly valued black timber
Acacia melanoxylon.
- noun tall Australian acacia yielding highly valued black timber
- sightsee1/5
sightsee
- verb visit famous or interesting sights
- verb visit famous or interesting sights
- foresighted1/5
foresighted
- adjective satellite planning prudently for the future
farseeing; farsighted; long; prospicient; foresightful; longsighted.
- large goals that required farsighted policies
- took a long view of the geopolitical issues
- adjective satellite planning prudently for the future
- sprigged1/5
sprigged
- adjective satellite decorated with designs of sprigs
- sprigged muslin
- adjective satellite decorated with designs of sprigs
- triggerfish1/5
triggerfish
- noun any of numerous compressed deep-bodied tropical fishes with sandpapery skin and erectile spines in the first dorsal fin
- noun any of numerous compressed deep-bodied tropical fishes with sandpapery skin and erectile spines in the first dorsal fin
- bigeye1/5
bigeye
- noun red fishes of American coastal tropical waters having very large eyes and rough scales
- noun red fishes of American coastal tropical waters having very large eyes and rough scales
- wheelwrights1/5
wheelwright
- noun someone who makes and repairs wooden wheels
wheeler.
- noun someone who makes and repairs wooden wheels
- frigga1/5
frigga
(Scand. Myth.) The wife of Odin and mother of the gods; the supreme goddess; the Juno of the Valhalla. Cf. Freya .
- nightcaps1/5
nightcap
- noun an alcoholic drink taken at bedtime; often alcoholic
- noun a cloth cap worn in bed
- noun an alcoholic drink taken at bedtime; often alcoholic
- millwrights1/5
millwright
- noun a workman who designs or erects mills and milling machinery
- noun a workman who designs or erects mills and milling machinery
- unfeignedly1/5
unfeignedly
- adverb with sincerity; without pretense
sincerely; truly.
- she praised him sincerely for his victory
- was unfeignedly glad to see his old teacher
- we are truly sorry for the inconvenience
- adverb with sincerity; without pretense
- midnights1/5
midnight
- noun 12 o'clock at night; the middle of the night
- young children should not be allowed to stay up until midnight
- noun 12 o'clock at night; the middle of the night
- unpigmented1/5
unpigmented
- adjective having no pigmentation
- adjective having no pigmentation
- jigsaws1/5
jigsaw
- noun a portable power saw with a reciprocating blade; can be used with a variety of blades depending on the application and kind of cut; generally have a plate that rides on the surface that is being cut
saber saw; reciprocating saw.
- noun fine-toothed power saw with a narrow blade; used to cut curved outlines
scroll saw; fretsaw.
- noun a portable power saw with a reciprocating blade; can be used with a variety of blades depending on the application and kind of cut; generally have a plate that rides on the surface that is being cut
- tightfisted1/5
tightfisted
- adjective satellite unwilling to part with money
hardfisted; closefisted.
- adjective satellite unwilling to part with money
- litigiousness1/5
litigiousness
- noun a quarrelsome disposition to engage in or carry on lawsuits
- charges of litigiousness and widespread perjury
- noun a quarrelsome disposition to engage in or carry on lawsuits
- pigsties1/5
pigsty
- noun a pen for swine
pigpen; sty.
- noun a pen for swine
- ereshkigal1/5
ereshkigal
- noun goddess of death and consort of Nergal
Ereshkigel; Eresh-kigal.
- noun goddess of death and consort of Nergal
- corrigendum1/5
corrigendum
- noun a printer's error; to be corrected
- noun a printer's error; to be corrected
- niggardliness1/5
niggardliness
- noun extreme stinginess
tightfistedness; parsimoniousness; minginess; meanness; closeness; niggardness; tightness; parsimony.
- noun extreme stinginess
- highballs1/5
highball
- noun a mixed drink made of alcoholic liquor mixed with water or a carbonated beverage and served in a tall glass
- noun a mixed drink made of alcoholic liquor mixed with water or a carbonated beverage and served in a tall glass
- jiggers1/5
jigger
- noun a small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey
shot glass; pony.
- noun any small mast on a sailing vessel; especially the mizzenmast of a yawl
jiggermast.
- noun a small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey
- cigarillo1/5
cigarillo
- noun small cigar or cigarette wrapped in tobacco instead of paper
- noun small cigar or cigarette wrapped in tobacco instead of paper
- sigmoidoscope1/5
sigmoidoscope
- noun an endoscope (a flexible fiberoptic probe) for examining the sigmoid colon
flexible sigmoidoscope.
- noun an endoscope (a flexible fiberoptic probe) for examining the sigmoid colon
- tightlipped1/5
tightlipped
- adjective satellite inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information
close; closelipped; closemouthed; secretive.
- although they knew her whereabouts her friends kept close about it
- adjective satellite inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information
- intertrigo1/5
intertrigo
- noun chafing between two skin surfaces that are in contact (as in the armpit or under the breasts or between the thighs)
- noun chafing between two skin surfaces that are in contact (as in the armpit or under the breasts or between the thighs)
- nightjars1/5
nightjar
- noun mainly crepuscular or nocturnal nonpasserine birds with mottled greyish-brown plumage and large eyes; feed on insects
goatsucker; caprimulgid.
- noun mainly crepuscular or nocturnal nonpasserine birds with mottled greyish-brown plumage and large eyes; feed on insects
- arraignments1/5
arraignment
- noun a legal document calling someone to court to answer an indictment
- noun a legal document calling someone to court to answer an indictment
- rushlight1/5
rushlight
- noun a tallow candle with a rush stem as the wick
rush candle.
- noun a tallow candle with a rush stem as the wick
- tigerish1/5
tigerish
- adjective satellite resembling a tiger in fierceness and lack of mercy
- a tigerish fury
- adjective satellite resembling a tiger in fierceness and lack of mercy
- piggish1/5
piggish
- adjective satellite resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy
hoggish; swinish; piggy; porcine.
- piggish table manners
- the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father
- swinish slavering over food
- adjective satellite resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy
- aigrette1/5
aigrette
- noun a long plume (especially one of egret feathers) worn on a hat or a piece of jewelry in the shape of a plume
aigret.
- noun a long plume (especially one of egret feathers) worn on a hat or a piece of jewelry in the shape of a plume
- tightfitting1/5
tightfitting
- adjective satellite fitting snugly
tight fitting; skinny; tightly fitting; tight-fitting.
- a tightly-fitting cover
- tight-fitting clothes
- adjective satellite fitting snugly
- prestidigitation1/5
prestidigitation
- noun manual dexterity in the execution of tricks
sleight of hand.
- noun manual dexterity in the execution of tricks
- oligodendroglia1/5
oligodendroglia
- noun tissue consisting of glial cells with sheetlike processes that form the myelin sheath of nerve fibers
oligodendria.
- noun tissue consisting of glial cells with sheetlike processes that form the myelin sheath of nerve fibers
- countersignature1/5
countersignature
- noun a second confirming signature endorsing a document already signed
countersign.
- noun a second confirming signature endorsing a document already signed
- flightiness1/5
flightiness
- noun the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment
arbitrariness; whimsy; whimsicality; capriciousness; whimsey.
- I despair at the flightiness and whimsicality of my memory
- noun the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment
- priggishness1/5
priggishness
- noun exaggerated and arrogant properness
primness.
- noun exaggerated and arrogant properness
- brigaded1/5
brigade
- noun army unit smaller than a division
- verb form or unite into a brigade
- noun army unit smaller than a division
- arraigning1/5
arraign
- verb call before a court to answer an indictment
- verb accuse of a wrong or an inadequacy
- verb call before a court to answer an indictment
- nightlong1/5
nightlong
- adjective satellite lasting, open, or operating through the whole night
all-night; overnight.
- a nightlong vigil
- an all-night drugstore
- an overnight trip
- adjective satellite lasting, open, or operating through the whole night
- bigos1/5
bigos
- noun a Polish stew of cabbage and meat
- noun a Polish stew of cabbage and meat
- piggeries1/5
piggery
- noun a farm where pigs are raised or kept
pig farm.
- noun a farm where pigs are raised or kept
- periwigs1/5
periwig
- noun a wig for men that was fashionable in the 17th and 18th centuries
peruke.
- noun a wig for men that was fashionable in the 17th and 18th centuries
- obligational1/5
obligational
- adjective relating or constituting or qualified to create a legal or financial obligation
- obligational authority
- adjective relating or constituting or qualified to create a legal or financial obligation
- straightaways1/5
straightaway
- noun a straight segment of a roadway or racecourse
straight.
- adjective satellite performed with little or no delay
quick; prompt; immediate.
- an immediate reply to my letter
- a prompt reply
- was quick to respond
- a straightaway denial
- noun a straight segment of a roadway or racecourse
- sigmas1/5
sigma
- noun the 18th letter of the Greek alphabet
- noun the 18th letter of the Greek alphabet
- uigur1/5
uigur
- noun a member of a people who speak Uighur and live in Xinjiang and adjacent areas
Uighur; Uygur.
- noun the Turkic language spoken by approximately 7,000,000 Uighur in extreme northwestern China
Uighur; Uygur.
- noun a member of a people who speak Uighur and live in Xinjiang and adjacent areas
- nondigestible1/5
nondigestible
- adjective satellite not digestible
- adjective satellite not digestible
- unrighteously1/5
unrighteously
- adverb in an unrighteous manner
- he acted unrighteously
- adverb in an unrighteous manner
- cigarillos1/5
cigarillo
- noun small cigar or cigarette wrapped in tobacco instead of paper
- noun small cigar or cigarette wrapped in tobacco instead of paper
- designative1/5
designative
- adjective satellite serving to designate
- adjective satellite serving to designate
- mulligans1/5
mulligan
- noun Irish version of burgoo
mulligan stew; Irish burgoo.
- noun Irish version of burgoo
- ptarmigans1/5
ptarmigan
- noun large Arctic and subarctic grouse with feathered feet and usually white winter plumage
- noun large Arctic and subarctic grouse with feathered feet and usually white winter plumage
- higgling1/5
higgle
- verb wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.)
chaffer; haggle; huckster.
- Let's not haggle over a few dollars
- verb wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.)
- obligato1/5
obligato
- noun a persistent but subordinate motif
obbligato.
- noun a part of the score that must be performed without change or omission
obbligato.
- noun a persistent but subordinate motif
- oligoclase1/5
oligoclase
- noun any of a series of triclinic feldspars that form rocks
plagioclase.
- noun any of a series of triclinic feldspars that form rocks
- bigotries1/5
bigotry
- noun the intolerance and prejudice of a bigot
dogmatism.
- noun the intolerance and prejudice of a bigot
- poignance1/5
poignance
- noun a state of deeply felt distress or sorrow
poignancy.
- a moment of extraordinary poignancy
- noun a state of deeply felt distress or sorrow
- arraigns1/5
arraign
- verb call before a court to answer an indictment
- verb accuse of a wrong or an inadequacy
- verb call before a court to answer an indictment
- contiguities1/5
contiguity
- noun the attribute of being so near as to be touching
adjacency; contiguousness.
- noun the attribute of being so near as to be touching
- aigrettes1/5
aigrette
- noun a long plume (especially one of egret feathers) worn on a hat or a piece of jewelry in the shape of a plume
aigret.
- noun a long plume (especially one of egret feathers) worn on a hat or a piece of jewelry in the shape of a plume
- highchairs1/5
highchair
- noun a chair for feeding a very young child; has four long legs and a footrest and a detachable tray
feeding chair.
- noun a chair for feeding a very young child; has four long legs and a footrest and a detachable tray
- unintelligently1/5
unintelligently
- adverb in an unintelligent manner
- he acted rather unintelligently in this crisis
- adverb in an unintelligent manner
- antiguans1/5
antiguan
- noun a native or inhabitant of Antigua
- adjective of or relating to or characteristic of Antigua or its people
- Antiguan islands
- noun a native or inhabitant of Antigua
- castigations1/5
castigation
- noun a severe scolding
going-over; dressing down; upbraiding; earful; bawling out; chewing out.
- noun verbal punishment
chastisement.
- noun a severe scolding
- chignons1/5
chignon
- noun a roll of hair worn at the nape of the neck
- noun a roll of hair worn at the nape of the neck
- invigilator1/5
invigilator
- noun someone who watches examination candidates to prevent cheating
- noun someone who watches examination candidates to prevent cheating
- straightlaced1/5
straightlaced
- adjective satellite exaggeratedly proper
puritanical; prissy; square-toed; straight-laced; straitlaced; strait-laced; tight-laced; victorian; prudish; prim; priggish.
- my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts
- adjective satellite exaggeratedly proper
- maligns1/5
malign
- verb speak unfavorably about
traduce; badmouth; drag through the mud.
- She badmouths her husband everywhere
- adjective evil or harmful in nature or influence
- prompted by malign motives
- believed in witches and malign spirits
- gave him a malign look
- a malign lesion
- verb speak unfavorably about
- filigrees1/5
filigree
- noun delicate and intricate ornamentation (usually in gold or silver or other fine twisted wire)
fillagree; filagree.
- verb make filigree, as with a precious metal
- noun delicate and intricate ornamentation (usually in gold or silver or other fine twisted wire)
- foresights1/5
foresight
- noun providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future
foresightedness; foresightfulness.
- noun seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing
farsightedness; prospicience; prevision.
- noun providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future
- weighbridge1/5
weighbridge
- noun platform scale flush with a roadway for weighing vehicles and cattle etc
- noun platform scale flush with a roadway for weighing vehicles and cattle etc
- unsighted1/5
unsighted
- adjective unable to see
blind.
- a person is blind to the extent that he must devise alternative techniques to do efficiently those things he would do with sight if he had normal vision"--Kenneth Jernigan
- adjective unable to see
- bigheaded1/5
bigheaded
- adjective satellite (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant
snotty; snot-nosed; stuck-up; persnickety; too big for one's breeches; uppish; snooty.
- a snotty little scion of a degenerate family"-Laurent Le Sage
- they're snobs--stuck-up and uppity and persnickety
- adjective satellite (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant
- intelligentsias1/5
intelligentsia
- noun an educated and intellectual elite
clerisy.
- noun an educated and intellectual elite
- uigurs1/5
uighur
- noun a member of a people who speak Uighur and live in Xinjiang and adjacent areas
Uigur; Uygur.
- noun the Turkic language spoken by approximately 7,000,000 Uighur in extreme northwestern China
Uigur; Uygur.
- noun a member of a people who speak Uighur and live in Xinjiang and adjacent areas
- churrigueresque1/5
churrigueresque
- adjective satellite having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation
baroque; churrigueresco.
- the building...frantically baroque"-William Dean Howells
- adjective satellite having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation
- bobsleigh1/5
bobsleigh
- noun formerly two short sleds coupled together
bobsled.
- noun a long racing sled (for 2 or more people) with a steering mechanism
bobsled; bob.
- noun formerly two short sleds coupled together
- pigpens1/5
pigpen
- noun a pen for swine
pigsty; sty.
- noun a pen for swine
- bombsights1/5
bombsight
- noun a sighting device in an aircraft for aiming bombs
- noun a sighting device in an aircraft for aiming bombs
- digram1/5
digram
- noun two successive letters (especially two letters used to represent a single sound: `sh' in `shoe')
digraph.
- noun two successive letters (especially two letters used to represent a single sound: `sh' in `shoe')
- invigilation1/5
invigilation
- noun keeping watch over examination candidates to prevent cheating
- noun keeping watch over examination candidates to prevent cheating
- disambiguates1/5
disambiguate
- verb state unambiguously or remove ambiguities from
- Can you disambiguate this statement?
- verb state unambiguously or remove ambiguities from
- eighteens1/5
eighteen
- noun the cardinal number that is the sum of seventeen and one
18; XVIII.
- adjective satellite being one more than seventeen
18; xviii.
- noun the cardinal number that is the sum of seventeen and one
- shindigs1/5
shindig
- noun a large and noisy party of people
shindy.
- noun a large and noisy party of people
- indefatigability1/5
indefatigability
- noun tireless determination
indefatigableness; tirelessness.
- noun tireless determination
- invigilators1/5
invigilator
- noun someone who watches examination candidates to prevent cheating
- noun someone who watches examination candidates to prevent cheating
- cruiserweight1/5
cruiserweight
- noun a professional boxer who weighs between 169 and 175 pounds
light heavyweight.
- noun a professional boxer who weighs between 169 and 175 pounds
- rushlights1/5
rushlight
- noun a tallow candle with a rush stem as the wick
rush candle.
- noun a tallow candle with a rush stem as the wick
- serigraphy1/5
serigraphy
- noun the act of making a print by the silkscreen method
- noun the act of making a print by the silkscreen method
- profligately1/5
profligately
- adverb in a dissolute way
dissolutely.
- adverb in a dissolute way
- wainwrights1/5
wainwright
- noun a wagon maker
wagonwright; waggonwright.
- noun a wagon maker
- rightism1/5
rightism
- noun the ideology of the political right; belief in or support of the tenets of the political right
- noun the ideology of the political right; belief in or support of the tenets of the political right
- unneighborly1/5
unneighborly
- adjective satellite not exhibiting the qualities expected in a friendly neighbor
unneighbourly.
- adjective satellite not exhibiting the qualities expected in a friendly neighbor
- higgle1/5
higgle
- verb wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.)
chaffer; haggle; huckster.
- Let's not haggle over a few dollars
- verb wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.)
- warrigal1/5
warrigal
- noun Australian wild horse
warragal.
- noun wolflike yellowish-brown wild dog of Australia
warragal; dingo; Canis dingo.
- noun Australian wild horse
- sigyn1/5
sigyn
- noun (Norse mythology) wife of Loki; held a cup over him during his punishment to spare him the pain of drops of poison
- noun (Norse mythology) wife of Loki; held a cup over him during his punishment to spare him the pain of drops of poison
- irreligiousness1/5
irreligiousness
- noun the quality of not being devout
irreligion.
- noun the quality of not being devout
- unneighbourly1/5
unneighbourly
- adjective satellite not exhibiting the qualities expected in a friendly neighbor
unneighborly.
- adjective satellite not exhibiting the qualities expected in a friendly neighbor
- saiga1/5
saiga
- noun goat-like antelope of central Eurasia having a stubby nose like a proboscis
Saiga tatarica.
- noun goat-like antelope of central Eurasia having a stubby nose like a proboscis
- slightingly1/5
slightingly
- adverb in a disparaging manner
disparagingly.
- these mythological figures are described disparagingly as belonging `only to a story'
- adverb in a disparaging manner
- albigenses1/5
albigenses
(Eccl. Hist.) A sect of reformers opposed to the church of Rome in the 12th centuries. The Albigenses were a branch of the Catharists (the pure). They were exterminated by crusades and the Inquisition. They were distinct from the Waldenses.
- visigoth1/5
visigoth
One of the West Goths. See the Note under --Goth .Vis`i*goth"ic a.
- agrigento1/5
agrigento
- noun a town in Italy in southwestern Sicily near the coast; the site of six Greek temples
Acragas.
- noun a town in Italy in southwestern Sicily near the coast; the site of six Greek temples
- bigamous1/5
bigamous
- adjective satellite of illegal marriage to a second person while legally married to a first
- adjective satellite of illegal marriage to a second person while legally married to a first
- nightspot1/5
nightspot
- noun a spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink
night club; club; cabaret; nightclub.
- don't expect a good meal at a cabaret
- the gossip columnist got his information by visiting nightclubs every night
- he played the drums at a jazz club
- noun a spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink
- fanlight1/5
fanlight
- noun a window above a door that is usually hinged to a horizontal crosspiece over the door
transom; transom window.
- noun a window in a roof to admit daylight
skylight.
- noun a window above a door that is usually hinged to a horizontal crosspiece over the door
- beiges1/5
beige
- noun a very light brown
ecru.
- adjective satellite of a light greyish-brown color
- noun a very light brown
- budgerigars1/5
budgerigar
- noun small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors
budgerygah; budgereegah; budgie; grass parakeet; lovebird; Melopsittacus undulatus; shell parakeet.
- noun small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors
- nightsticks1/5
nightstick
- noun a short stout club used primarily by policemen
billy club; billystick; baton; billy; truncheon.
- noun a short stout club used primarily by policemen
- knighting1/5
knight
- noun originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry; today in Great Britain a person honored by the sovereign for personal merit
- noun a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)
horse.
- noun originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry; today in Great Britain a person honored by the sovereign for personal merit
- gigot1/5
gigot
- noun lamb leg suitable for roasting
leg of lamb.
- noun lamb leg suitable for roasting
- beignets1/5
beignet
- noun a deep-fried, yeast-raised doughnut dusted with confectioners' sugar
French fritter.
- noun a deep-fried, yeast-raised doughnut dusted with confectioners' sugar
- budgerigar1/5
budgerigar
- noun small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors
budgerygah; budgereegah; budgie; grass parakeet; lovebird; Melopsittacus undulatus; shell parakeet.
- noun small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors
- tightwad1/5
tightwad
- noun a miserly person
cheapskate.
- noun a miserly person
- highboy1/5
highboy
- noun a tall chest of drawers divided into two sections and supported on four legs
tallboy.
- noun a tall chest of drawers divided into two sections and supported on four legs
- knighthoods1/5
knighthood
- noun aristocrats holding the rank of knight
- noun aristocrats holding the rank of knight
- prodigally1/5
prodigally
- adverb to a wasteful manner or to a wasteful degree
wastefully.
- we are still prodigally rich compared to others
- adverb to a wasteful manner or to a wasteful degree
- maigre1/5
maigre
- noun large European marine food fish
maiger; Sciaena aquila.
- noun large European marine food fish
- globigerina1/5
globigerina
- noun marine protozoan having a rounded shell with spiny processes
- noun marine protozoan having a rounded shell with spiny processes
- aigina1/5
aigina
- noun an island in the Aegean Sea in the Saronic Gulf
Aegina.
- noun an island in the Aegean Sea in the Saronic Gulf
- overnighter1/5
overnighter
- noun a guest who stays overnight
- noun a small traveling bag to carry clothing and accessories for staying overnight
overnight case; overnight bag.
- noun a guest who stays overnight
- highroads1/5
highroad
- noun a highway
trunk road.
- noun a highway
- mulligatawny1/5
mulligatawny
- noun a soup of eastern India that is flavored with curry; prepared with a meat or chicken base
- noun a soup of eastern India that is flavored with curry; prepared with a meat or chicken base
- fanlights1/5
fanlight
- noun a window above a door that is usually hinged to a horizontal crosspiece over the door
transom; transom window.
- noun a window in a roof to admit daylight
skylight.
- noun a window above a door that is usually hinged to a horizontal crosspiece over the door
- wigging1/5
wigging
- noun British slang for a scolding
wig.
- noun British slang for a scolding
- overnighters1/5
overnighter
- noun a guest who stays overnight
- noun a small traveling bag to carry clothing and accessories for staying overnight
overnight case; overnight bag.
- noun a guest who stays overnight
- ninigi1/5
ninigi
- noun grandson of Amaterasu and first ruler of Japan
Ninigino-Mikoto.
- noun grandson of Amaterasu and first ruler of Japan
- unassignable1/5
unassignable
- adjective satellite incapable of being transferred
untransferable; nontransferable.
- adjective satellite incapable of being transferred
- vigesimal1/5
vigesimal
- adjective relating to or based on the number twenty
- adjective relating to or based on the number twenty
- nonbelligerent1/5
nonbelligerent
- adjective satellite not directly at war
- nonbelligerent nations
- adjective satellite not directly at war
- beignet1/5
beignet
- noun a deep-fried, yeast-raised doughnut dusted with confectioners' sugar
French fritter.
- noun a deep-fried, yeast-raised doughnut dusted with confectioners' sugar
- designatum1/5
designatum
- noun something (whether existing or not) that is referred to by a linguistic expression
- noun something (whether existing or not) that is referred to by a linguistic expression
- foresightedness1/5
foresightedness
- noun providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future
foresight; foresightfulness.
- noun providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future
- blighty1/5
blighty
- noun a slang term for Great Britain used by British troops serving abroad
- noun a slang term for Great Britain used by British troops serving abroad
- signory1/5
signory
- noun the estate of a seigneur
seigniory; seigneury.
- noun the estate of a seigneur
- thighbone1/5
thighbone
- noun the longest and thickest bone of the human skeleton; extends from the pelvis to the knee
femur; femoris.
- noun the longest and thickest bone of the human skeleton; extends from the pelvis to the knee
- frigidly1/5
frigidly
- adverb without warmth or enthusiasm
frostily.
- `Come in if you have to,' he said frostily
- adverb without warmth or enthusiasm
- loligo1/5
loligo
- noun somewhat flattened cylindrical squid
- noun somewhat flattened cylindrical squid
- serigraph1/5
serigraph
- noun a print made using a stencil process in which an image or design is superimposed on a very fine mesh screen and printing ink is squeegeed onto the printing surface through the area of the screen that is not covered by the stencil
silkscreen; silk screen print.
- noun a print made using a stencil process in which an image or design is superimposed on a very fine mesh screen and printing ink is squeegeed onto the printing surface through the area of the screen that is not covered by the stencil
- liger1/5
liger
- noun offspring of a male lion and a female tiger
- noun offspring of a male lion and a female tiger
- pignut1/5
pignut
- noun an American hickory tree having bitter nuts
black hickory; Carya glabra; brown hickory; pignut hickory.
- noun an American hickory tree having bitter nuts
- tigresses1/5
tigress
- noun a female tiger
- noun a female tiger
- serigraphs1/5
serigraph
- noun a print made using a stencil process in which an image or design is superimposed on a very fine mesh screen and printing ink is squeegeed onto the printing surface through the area of the screen that is not covered by the stencil
silkscreen; silk screen print.
- noun a print made using a stencil process in which an image or design is superimposed on a very fine mesh screen and printing ink is squeegeed onto the printing surface through the area of the screen that is not covered by the stencil
- thighbones1/5
thighbone
- noun the longest and thickest bone of the human skeleton; extends from the pelvis to the knee
femur; femoris.
- noun the longest and thickest bone of the human skeleton; extends from the pelvis to the knee
- nonobligatory1/5
nonobligatory
- adjective satellite not required by rule or law
nonmandatory.
- adjective satellite not required by rule or law
- nighted1/5
nighted
- adjective satellite overtaken by night or darkness
benighted.
- benighted (or nighted) travelers hurrying toward home
- adjective satellite overtaken by night or darkness
- tigon1/5
tigon
- noun offspring of a male tiger and a female lion
tiglon.
- noun offspring of a male tiger and a female lion
- wigeon1/5
wigeon
- noun freshwater duck of Eurasia and northern Africa related to mallards and teals
widgeon; Anas penelope.
- noun freshwater duck of Eurasia and northern Africa related to mallards and teals
- wigged1/5
wigged
- adjective wearing a wig
- the judges all wigged and robed
- adjective wearing a wig
- undesigned1/5
undesigned
- adjective not done or made or performed with purpose or intent
- adjective not done or made or performed with purpose or intent
- unnavigable1/5
unnavigable
- adjective satellite incapable of being navigated
- adjective satellite incapable of being navigated
- digitate1/5
digitate
- adjective satellite resembling a finger
fingerlike.
- digitate leaves of the horse chestnut
- adjective satellite resembling a finger
- jiggered1/5
jiggered
- adjective satellite (British informal expletive) surprised
- Well I'm jiggered!
- adjective satellite (British informal expletive) surprised
- unobligated1/5
unobligated
- adjective not obligated
- adjective not obligated
- unenlightening1/5
unenlightening
- adjective failing to inform or clarify
unilluminating.
- an unenlightening comment
- adjective not edifying
unedifying.
- adjective failing to inform or clarify
- predesigned1/5
predesign
To design or purpose beforehand; to predetermine. Mitford.
- signac1/5
signac
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- vignola1/5
- ciguatera1/5
- indigenist1/5
indigenist
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- lightheartedly1/5
lighthearted
- adjective satellite carefree and happy and lighthearted
light-hearted; blithe; lightsome; blithesome.
- was loved for her blithe spirit
- a merry blithesome nature
- her lighthearted nature
- trilling songs with a lightsome heart
- adjective satellite carefree and happy and lighthearted
- mightest1/5
- interdigitated1/5
- malpighian1/5
malpighian
(Anat.) Of, pertaining to, or discovered by, Marcello Malpighi, an Italian anatomist of the 17th century.
- vignetting1/5
vignetting
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- oligodendroglioma1/5
oligodendroglioma
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- pierluigi1/5
pierluigi
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- multigrade1/5
- ligases1/5
- significator1/5
significator
One who, or that which, signifies. In this diagram there was one significator which pressed remarkably upon our astrologer's attention. Sir W. Scott.
- toxigenic1/5
toxigenic
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- relight1/5
relight
To light or kindle anew.
- exigences1/5
exigence
Exigency. Hooker.
- highveld1/5
- trigonometrical1/5
trigonometrical
Of or pertaining to trigonometry; performed by the rules of trigonometry. --Trig`o*no*met"ric*al*ly , adv.
- guignol1/5
guignol
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- transmigrants1/5
transmigrant
Migrating or passing from one place or state to another; passing from one residence to another. --n. One who transmigrates.
- eligibles1/5
eligible
- adjective qualified for or allowed or worthy of being chosen
- eligible to run for office
- eligible for retirement benefits
- an eligible bachelor
- adjective qualified for or allowed or worthy of being chosen
- hiroshige1/5
- irrigable1/5
irrigable
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- streight1/5
straight
- noun a heterosexual person; someone having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex
straight person; heterosexual person; heterosexual.
- noun a poker hand with 5 consecutive cards (regardless of suit)
- noun a heterosexual person; someone having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex
- ludwigshafen1/5
- nightlight1/5
nightlight
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- epigenetics1/5
epigenetic
Of or pertaining to the epigenesis; produced according to the theory of epigenesis.
- dirigiste1/5
- indigenisation1/5
- tige1/5
tige
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- firefights1/5
firefights
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- migraineurs1/5
- erigena1/5
- preassigned1/5
preassigned
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- pigg1/5
pig
- noun domestic swine
grunter; hog; squealer; Sus scrofa.
- noun a coarse obnoxious person
slovenly person; sloven; slob.
- noun domestic swine
- sightlines1/5
sightlines
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- righty1/5
righty
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- lignocellulosic1/5
lignocellulosic
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- antigenically1/5
antigenically
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- irrigator1/5
irrigator
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- bigtime1/5
- reinvestigation1/5
reinvestigation
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- rigoberto1/5
rigoberto
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- brigadoon1/5
brigadoon
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- whiggism1/5
whiggism
The principles of the Whigs.
- hypervigilant1/5
- whiggery1/5
whiggery
The principles or practices of the Whigs; Whiggism.
- originalist1/5
originalist
One who is original. R.
- higdon1/5
- migrainous1/5
- contiguously1/5
contiguous
- adjective satellite very close or connected in space or time
immediate.
- contiguous events
- immediate contact
- the immediate vicinity
- the immediate past
- adjective satellite connecting without a break; within a common boundary
conterminous.
- the 48 conterminous states
- the contiguous 48 states
- adjective satellite very close or connected in space or time
- hyperpigmented1/5
- giganteus1/5
giganteus
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- brigge1/5
brig
- noun two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on both masts
- noun a penal institution (especially on board a ship)
- noun two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on both masts
- seignorage1/5
seignorage
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- refigure1/5
refigure
To figure again. Shak.
- seigniorial1/5
seigniorial
Same as Seigneurial .
- gunfighters1/5
gunfighters
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- indigenized1/5
- nightside1/5
- frigidaire1/5
frigidaire
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- incorrigibility1/5
incorrigibility
The state or quality of being incorrigible. The ingratitude, the incorrigibility, the strange perverseness . . . of mankind. Barrow.
- dignitas1/5
- tigrinya1/5
tigrinya
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- unirrigated1/5
- exigua1/5
exigua
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- multigrain1/5
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- colligative1/5
- quadriga1/5
quadriga
(Rom. Antiq.) A car or chariot drawn by four horses abreast.
- semigroup1/5
semigroup
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- seigneurie1/5
seigneurie
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- kirkcudbright1/5
kirkcudbright
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- undesignated1/5
- vestigia1/5
vestigia
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- tigh1/5
tigh
A close, or inclosure; a croft. Obs. Cowell.
- insignis1/5
insignis
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- rightsizing1/5
rightsizing
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- bighas1/5
bigha
A measure of land in India, varying from a third of an acre to an acre.
- righto1/5
righto
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- relitigation1/5
relitigation
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- highhanded1/5
highhanded
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- eigenspace1/5
eigenspace
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- monsignore1/5
monsignore
My lord; -- an ecclesiastical dignity bestowed by the pope, entitling the bearer to social and domestic rank at the papal court. (Abbrev. Mgr.)
- diglossic1/5
- delignification1/5
- biggies1/5
biggies
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- eigenmode1/5
eigenmode
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- cultigens1/5
- garrigue1/5
garrigue
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- dirige1/5
dirige
A service for the dead, in the Roman Catholic Church, being the first antiphon of Matins for the dead, of which Dirige is the first word; a dirge. Evensongs and placebo and dirige. Wyclif.
Resort, I pray you, unto my sepulture To sing my dirige with great devotion. Lamentation of Mary Magdalene.
- rigsby1/5
rigsby
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- multigroup1/5
- reconfigurability1/5
reconfigurability
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- cardiganshire1/5
- designees1/5
designees
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- rigida1/5
rigida
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- vigneron1/5
vigneron
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- overnights1/5
overnight
- adjective satellite lasting, open, or operating through the whole night
nightlong; all-night.
- a nightlong vigil
- an all-night drugstore
- an overnight trip
- adverb during or for the length of one night
- the fish marinates overnight
- adjective satellite lasting, open, or operating through the whole night
- aryepiglottic1/5
- aiguille1/5
aiguille
A needle-shaped peak.
- digitals1/5
digital
- adjective displaying numbers rather than scale positions
- digital clock
- digital readout
- adjective relating to or performed with the fingers
- digital examination
- adjective displaying numbers rather than scale positions
- albigensians1/5
albigensian
- adjective of or relating to Albigenses or Albigensianism
- adjective of or relating to Albigenses or Albigensianism
- brights1/5
bright
- adjective emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts
- the sun was bright and hot
- a bright sunlit room
- adjective satellite having striking color
brilliant; vivid.
- bright dress
- brilliant tapestries
- a bird with vivid plumage
- adjective emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts
- dight1/5
dight
To prepare; to put in order; hence, to dress, or put on; to array; to adorn. Archaic "She gan the house to dight." Chaucer.Two harmless turtles, dight for sacrifice. Fairfax.
The clouds in thousand liveries dight. Milton.
- dirigisme1/5
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- bigs1/5
big
- adjective above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent
large.
- a large city
- set out for the big city
- a large sum
- a big (or large) barn
- a large family
- big businesses
- a big expenditure
- a large number of newspapers
- a big group of scientists
- large areas of the world
- adjective satellite significant
- graduation was a big day in his life
- adjective above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent
- assignability1/5
assignability
The quality of being assignable.
- windigo1/5
- laevigata1/5
laevigata
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- eigh1/5
eigh
An exclamation expressing delight.
- irrigant1/5
irrigant
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- boresight1/5
- lightyears1/5
lightyears
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- autoignition1/5
- dentigerous1/5
dentigerous
Bearing teeth or toothlike structures.
- ligure1/5
ligure
A kind of precious stone. The third row a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst. Ex. xxviii. 19.
- tigres1/5
tiger
- noun a fierce or audacious person
- he's a tiger on the tennis court
- it aroused the tiger in me
- noun large feline of forests in most of Asia having a tawny coat with black stripes; endangered
Panthera tigris.
- noun a fierce or audacious person
- highbush1/5
highbush
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- antiforeign1/5
antiforeign
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- redesignation1/5
- biga1/5
biga
(Antiq.) A two-horse chariot.
- lightfastness1/5
- vignerons1/5
- codesign1/5
codesign
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- bigha1/5
bigha
A measure of land in India, varying from a third of an acre to an acre.
- meighen1/5
meighen
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- serpiginous1/5
serpiginous
(Med.) Creeping; -- said of lesions which heal over one portion while continuing to advance at another.
- uninvestigated1/5
- seignorial1/5
- interdigitation1/5
interdigitation
(Anat.) The state of interdigitating; interdigital space. Owen.
- insigne1/5
insigne
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- pigtailed1/5
pigtail
- noun a plait of braided hair
- noun a plait of braided hair
- eyebright1/5
eyebright
(Bot.) A small annual plant ( Euphrasia officinalis ), formerly much used as a remedy for diseases of the eye.
- diglycerides1/5
- wigger1/5
wig
- noun hairpiece covering the head and made of real or synthetic hair
- noun British slang for a scolding
wigging.
- noun hairpiece covering the head and made of real or synthetic hair
- sigils1/5
sigil
A seal; a signature. Dryden.Of talismans and sigils knew the power. Pope.
- consigliere1/5
- straightly1/5
straight
- noun a heterosexual person; someone having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex
straight person; heterosexual person; heterosexual.
- noun a poker hand with 5 consecutive cards (regardless of suit)
- noun a heterosexual person; someone having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex
- biguanides1/5
- signifiant1/5
significant
- adjective important in effect or meaning
important.
- a significant change in tax laws
- a significant change in the Constitution
- a significant contribution
- significant details
- statistically significant
- adjective satellite fairly large
substantial.
- won by a substantial margin
- adjective important in effect or meaning
- lignification1/5
lignification
(Bot.) A change in the character of a cell wall, by which it becomes harder. It is supposed to be due to an incrustation of lignin.
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ambigua
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- triglyphs1/5
triglyph
(Arch.) An ornament in the frieze of the Doric order, repeated at equal intervals. Each triglyph consists of a rectangular tablet, slightly projecting, and divided nearly to the top by two parallel and perpendicular gutters, or channels, called glyphs, into three parts, or spaces, called femora. A half channel, or glyph, is also cut upon each of the perpendicular edges of the tablet. See Illust. of Entablature .
- gigging1/5
gig
- noun long and light rowing boat; especially for racing
- noun an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish
fizgig; fishgig; lance; spear.
- noun long and light rowing boat; especially for racing
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- sigla1/5
sigla
The signs, abbreviations, letters, or characters standing for words, shorthand, etc., in ancient manuscripts, or on coins, medals, etc. W. Savage.
- digitata1/5
digitata
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- origenist1/5
origenist
A follower of Origen of Alexandria.
- aligner1/5
align
- verb place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight
line up; adjust; aline.
- align the car with the curb
- align the sheets of paper on the table
- verb be or come into adjustment with
- verb place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight
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- sightlessly1/5
sightless
- adjective satellite lacking sight
unseeing; eyeless.
- blind as an eyeless beggar
- adjective satellite lacking sight
- relighting1/5
relight
To light or kindle anew.
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parmigiana
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- rigorism1/5
rigorism
Rigidity in principle or practice; strictness; -- opposed to laxity.
- primigenius1/5
primigenius
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- giganteum1/5
giganteum
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- epiglottic1/5
epiglottic
(Anat.) Pertaining to, or connected with, the epiglottis.
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- lightyear1/5
lightyear
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- miggs1/5
miggs
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pignatelli
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- obligatoriness1/5
obligatoriness
The quality or state of being obligatory.
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- zwanziger1/5
zwanziger
Am Austrian silver coin equivalent to 20 kreutzers, or about 10 cents.
- yesternight1/5
yesternight
The last night; the night last past.
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- nighty1/5
nighty
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nonpigmented
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- assigner1/5
assign
- verb give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)
depute; delegate; designate.
- verb give out
portion; allot.
- We were assigned new uniforms
- verb give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)
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- bewigged1/5
bewig
To cover (the head) with a wig. Hawthorne.
- oligopolist1/5
oligopolist
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- overweighted1/5
overweight
- noun the property of excessive fatness
corpulence; stoutness; adiposis.
- adjective satellite usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it
heavy; fleshy.
- noun the property of excessive fatness
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- allnight1/5
allnight
Light, fuel, or food for the whole night. Obs. Bacon.
- ligurians1/5
- outrightly1/5
outright
- adjective satellite without reservation or exception
unlimited; straight-out.
- adverb without restrictions or stipulations or further payments
- buy outright
- adjective satellite without reservation or exception
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- rigorist1/5
rigorist
One who is rigorous; -- sometimes applied to an extreme Jansenist.
- alloantigen1/5
alloantigen
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- safelight1/5
safelight
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- rigi1/5
rigi
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- brighteners1/5
brighteners
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nightwatchman
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migratoria
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- ambigu1/5
ambigu
An entertainment at which a medley of dishes is set on at the same time.
- signalment1/5
signalment
The act of signaling, or of signalizing; hence, description by peculiar, appropriate, or characteristic marks. Mrs. Browning.
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- signoff1/5
- tigrinum1/5
tigrinum
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- enlightener1/5
enlightener
One who enlightens or illuminates; one who, or that which, communicates light to the eye, or clear views to the mind.
- discontiguous1/5
- rightwards1/5
rightward
Toward the right. Rightward and leftward rise the rocks. Southey.
- biggles1/5
biggles
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- wiggy1/5
wiggy
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- misconfiguration1/5
misconfiguration
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- craigs1/5
craigs
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- lightkeeper1/5
lightkeeper
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predesignate
(Logic) A term used by Sir William Hamilton to define propositions having their quantity indicated by a verbal sign; as, .; -- contrasted with preindesignate, defining propositions of which the quantity is not so indicated.all ,none , etc
- multigenic1/5
- obligately1/5
obligate
- verb force somebody to do something
oblige; compel.
- We compel all students to fill out this form
- verb commit in order to fulfill an obligation
- obligate money
- verb force somebody to do something
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malignant
- adjective dangerous to health; characterized by progressive and uncontrolled growth (especially of a tumor)
- adjective dangerous to health; characterized by progressive and uncontrolled growth (especially of a tumor)
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- gigantes1/5
gigantes
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nightstands
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- interdigitate1/5
interdigitate
To interweave. R.
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pseudepigraphic
Of or pertaining to pseudepigraphy.
- ahigh1/5
ahigh
On high. Obs. Shak.
- pignon1/5
pignon
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- indigency1/5
indigency
Indigence. New indigencies founded upon new desires. South.
- spight1/5
spite
- noun feeling a need to see others suffer
spitefulness; maliciousness; malice; venom.
- noun malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty
spitefulness; cattiness; bitchiness; nastiness.
- noun feeling a need to see others suffer
- relighted1/5
relight
To light or kindle anew.
- biguanide1/5
biguanide
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gigawatts
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clearsighted
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trigonum
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niggaz
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figurational
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headright
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veliger
(Zoöl.) Any larval gastropod or bivalve mollusk in the state when it is furnished with one or two ciliated membranes for swimming.
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sightline
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significand
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digue
A bank; a dike. Obs. Sir W. Temple.
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champignon
(Bot.) An edible species of mushroom ( Agaricus campestris ).
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frigidarium
The cooling room of the Roman thermæ, furnished with a cold bath.
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topflight
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higher
- adjective satellite advanced in complexity or elaboration
- higher finance
- higher mathematics
- adjective satellite of education beyond the secondary level
- higher education
- higher learning
- adjective satellite advanced in complexity or elaboration
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hagigah
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wrightii
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amigas
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enlightener
One who enlightens or illuminates; one who, or that which, communicates light to the eye, or clear views to the mind.
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weightless
- adjective having little or no weight or apparent gravitational pull; light
- floating freely in a weightless condition
- a baby bat...fluffy and weightless as a moth
- jackets made of a weightless polyester fabric
- adjective having little or no weight or apparent gravitational pull; light
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- reinvestigate1/5
reinvestigate
To investigate again. --Re`in*ves`ti*ga"tion n.
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- reinvestigated1/5
reinvestigate
To investigate again. --Re`in*ves`ti*ga"tion n.
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lollobrigida
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refigure
To figure again. Shak.
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doigt
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viga
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zig
- noun an angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions
zigzag; zag.
- noun an angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions
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anigh
Nigh. Archaic
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speedlight
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originary
Causing existence; productive. R.The production of animals, in the originary way, requires a certain degree of warmth. Cheyne.
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pseudepigraphical
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almightiness
Omnipotence; infinite or boundless power; unlimited might. Jer. Taylor.
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migmatite
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gigawatt
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relitigate
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aboriginal
- noun an indigenous person who was born in a particular place
indigen; indigene; aborigine; native.
- the art of the natives of the northwest coast
- the Canadian government scrapped plans to tax the grants to aboriginal college students
- noun a dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived
Aborigine; Australian Aborigine; native Australian; Abo.
- noun an indigenous person who was born in a particular place
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cigale
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significator
One who, or that which, signifies. In this diagram there was one significator which pressed remarkably upon our astrologer's attention. Sir W. Scott.
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configurative
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frigida
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transmigrant
Migrating or passing from one place or state to another; passing from one residence to another. --n. One who transmigrates.
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bigshot
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levigate
Made less harsh or burdensome; alleviated. Obs. Sir. T. Elyot.
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delightsome
Very pleasing; delightful. "Delightsome vigor." Grew.Ye shall be a delightsome land, . . . saith the Lord. Mal. iii. 12.
--De*light"some*ly , adv. --De*light"some*ness , n.
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nonmigrant
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highhandedness
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gigantomachy
A war of giants; especially, the fabulous war of the giants against heaven.
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quadrigeminal
Fourfold; having four similar parts, or two pairs of similar parts.
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predesign
To design or purpose beforehand; to predetermine. Mitford.
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figurate
Of a definite form or figure. Plants are all figurate and determinate, which inanimate bodies are not. Bacon.
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- kight1/5
kite
- noun a bank check that has been fraudulently altered to increase its face value
- noun a bank check drawn on insufficient funds at another bank in order to take advantage of the float
- noun a bank check that has been fraudulently altered to increase its face value
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transmigratory
Passing from one body or state to another.
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triglyph
(Arch.) An ornament in the frieze of the Doric order, repeated at equal intervals. Each triglyph consists of a rectangular tablet, slightly projecting, and divided nearly to the top by two parallel and perpendicular gutters, or channels, called glyphs, into three parts, or spaces, called femora. A half channel, or glyph, is also cut upon each of the perpendicular edges of the tablet. See Illust. of Entablature .
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vigdis
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remigration
Migration back to the place from which one came. Sir M. Hale.
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sigillum
(Rom. & Old Eng. Law) A seal.
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backsight
(Surv.) The reading of the leveling staff in its unchanged position when the leveling instrument has been taken to a new position; a sight directed backwards to a station previously occupied. Cf. Foresight , n., 3.
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gig
- noun long and light rowing boat; especially for racing
- noun an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish
fizgig; fishgig; lance; spear.
- noun long and light rowing boat; especially for racing
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height
- noun the vertical dimension of extension; distance from the base of something to the top
tallness.
- noun the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
superlative; pinnacle; acme; top; summit; peak; elevation; tiptop; meridian.
- 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
- noun the vertical dimension of extension; distance from the base of something to the top
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sennight
The space of seven nights and days; a week. Written also Archaic. Shak. Tennyson.se'nnight .
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migratorius
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lightfast
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incorrigible
- adjective impervious to correction by punishment
- adjective impervious to correction by punishment
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nigripes
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digenea
(Zoöl.) A division of Trematoda in which alternate generations occur, the immediate young not resembling their parents.
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miglio
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indigenize
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blacklight
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vertiginous
- adjective satellite having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling
giddy; dizzy; woozy.
- had a dizzy spell
- a dizzy pinnacle
- had a headache and felt giddy
- a giddy precipice
- feeling woozy from the blow on his head
- a vertiginous climb up the face of the cliff
- adjective satellite having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling
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footlight
One of a row of lights in the front of the stage in a theater, etc., and on a level therewith.
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overdesign
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highrises
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brightener
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gigantical
Bulky, big. Obs. Burton. --Gi*gan"tic*al*ly , adv.
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consignation
The act of consigning; the act of delivering or committing to another person, place, or state. Obs.So is despair a certain consignation to eternal ruin. Jer. Taylor.
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farsight
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nightlights
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bigmouth
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thigh
- noun the part of the leg between the hip and the knee
- noun the upper joint of the leg of a fowl
second joint.
- noun the part of the leg between the hip and the knee
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overweight
- noun the property of excessive fatness
corpulence; stoutness; adiposis.
- adjective satellite usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it
heavy; fleshy.
- noun the property of excessive fatness
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overtighten
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nonassignable
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piggy
- noun a young pig
shote; piglet; shoat.
- adjective satellite resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy
hoggish; swinish; piggish; porcine.
- piggish table manners
- the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father
- swinish slavering over food
- noun a young pig
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jiggly
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trigona
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affreightment
The act of hiring, or the contract for the use of, a vessel, or some part of it, to convey cargo.
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nigritude
Blackness; the state of being black. Lamb.
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religionless
Destitute of religion.
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significancy
The quality or state of being significant.
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delightfulness
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pseudepigraphy
The ascription of false names of authors to works.
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origenism
(Eccl. Hist.) The opinions of Origen of Alexandria, who lived in the 3d century, one of the most learned of the Greek Fathers. Prominent in his teaching was the doctrine that all created beings, including Satan, will ultimately be saved.
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digerati
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strigil
(Gr. & Rom. Antiq.) An instrument of metal, ivory, etc., used for scraping the skin at the bath.
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intransigent
- adjective satellite impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason; she would have none of him"- W.Churchill
adamant; adamantine; inexorable.
- he is adamant in his refusal to change his mind
- Cynthia was inexorable
- an intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendency
- adjective satellite impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason; she would have none of him"- W.Churchill
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significatory
Significant. --n. That which is significatory.
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tigrina
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lightener
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fastigiata
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piggin
A small wooden pail or tub with an upright stave for a handle, -- often used as a dipper.
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straight
- noun a heterosexual person; someone having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex
straight person; heterosexual person; heterosexual.
- noun a poker hand with 5 consecutive cards (regardless of suit)
- noun a heterosexual person; someone having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex
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riggle
See Wriggle .
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eightball
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bourguignonne
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digamma
(Gr. Gram.) A letter (, ) of the Greek alphabet, which early fell into disuse. ✍ This form identifies it with the Latin F, though in sound it is said to have been nearer V. It was pronounced, probably, much like the English W.
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overnight
- adjective satellite lasting, open, or operating through the whole night
nightlong; all-night.
- a nightlong vigil
- an all-night drugstore
- an overnight trip
- adverb during or for the length of one night
- the fish marinates overnight
- adjective satellite lasting, open, or operating through the whole night
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signon
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cantiga
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upright
- noun a vertical structural member as a post or stake
vertical.
- the ball sailed between the uprights
- noun a piano with a vertical sounding board
upright piano.
- noun a vertical structural member as a post or stake
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fightback
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ligas
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highbred
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epigrammatist
One who composes epigrams, or makes use of them. The brisk epigrammatist showing off his own cleverness. Holmes.
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circumnavigator
One who sails round. W. Guthrie.
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piggle
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rigorist
One who is rigorous; -- sometimes applied to an extreme Jansenist.
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unreligious
Irreligious. Wordsworth.
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figurant
One who dances at the opera, not singly, but in groups or figures; an accessory character on the stage, who figures in its scenes, but has nothing to say; hence, one who figures in any scene, without taking a prominent part.
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superhigh
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undesigned
- adjective not done or made or performed with purpose or intent
- adjective not done or made or performed with purpose or intent
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nightmarish
- adjective satellite extremely alarming
hair-raising; bloodcurdling.
- adjective satellite extremely alarming
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cultigen
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lighthorse
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lightish
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nigricollis
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albigeois
(Eccl. Hist.) A sect of reformers opposed to the church of Rome in the 12th centuries. The Albigenses were a branch of the Catharists (the pure). They were exterminated by crusades and the Inquisition. They were distinct from the Waldenses.
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assignat
One of the notes, bills, or bonds, issued as currency by the revolutionary government of France (1790-1796), and based on the security of the lands of the church and of nobles which had been appropriated by the state.
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retighten
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eighth
- noun position eight in a countable series of things
- noun one part in eight equal parts
one-eighth.
- noun position eight in a countable series of things
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lowlight
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aligners
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enlight
To illumine; to enlighten. R.Which from the first has shone on ages past, Enlights the present, and shall warm the last. Pope.
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right
- noun an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature; it is something that nobody can take away"
- they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights
- Certain rights can never be granted to the government but must be kept in the hands of the people"- Eleanor Roosevelt
- a right is not something that somebody gives you
- noun location near or direction toward the right side; i.e. the side to the south when a person or object faces east
- he stood on the right
- noun an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature; it is something that nobody can take away"
- higgler1/5
higgle
- verb wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.)
chaffer; haggle; huckster.
- Let's not haggle over a few dollars
- verb wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.)
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coigny
A quoin. See you yound coigne of the Capitol? yon corner stone? Shak.
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insignes
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ureterosigmoidostomy
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champignon
(Bot.) An edible species of mushroom ( Agaricus campestris ).
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playwright
- noun someone who writes plays
dramatist.
- noun someone who writes plays
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redesignate
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braunschweiger
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diglyceride
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ligula
(Bot.) See Ligule .
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fatigable
Easily tired. Obs. Bailey.
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reweighed
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ligamenta
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reweigh
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nonnavigable
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pignus
(Rom. Law) A pledge or pawn.
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calligraphy
- noun beautiful handwriting
chirography; penmanship.
- noun beautiful handwriting
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zig
- noun an angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions
zigzag; zag.
- noun an angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions
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nonsignificant
- adjective attributable to chance
- adjective attributable to chance
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signifer
Bearing signs. Obs. "The signifer sphere, or zodiac." Holland.
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vigoroso
(Mus.) Vigorous; energetic; with energy; -- a direction to perform a passage with energy and force.
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brigate
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gigatons
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sevennight
A week; any period of seven consecutive days and nights. See Sennight .
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indigested
Not digested; undigested. "Indigested food." Dryden.
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spright
Spirit; mind; soul; state of mind; mood. Obs. "The high heroic spright." Spenser.Wondrous great grief groweth in my spright. Spenser.
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original
- noun an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made
master; master copy.
- noun something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies
archetype; pilot.
- this painting is a copy of the original
- noun an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made
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unoriginated
Not originated; existing from all eternity. F. W. Newman.
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sinigrin
(Chem.) A glucoside found in the seeds of black mustard ( Brassica nigra , formerlySinapis nigra ) It resembles sinalbin, and consists of a potassium salt of myronic acid.
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immitigable
Not capable of being mitigated, softened, or appeased. Coleridge.
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intelligencer
One who, or that which, sends or conveys intelligence or news; a messenger. All the intriguers in foreign politics, all the spies, and all the intelligencers . . . acted solely upon that principle. Burke.
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ligature
- noun (music) a group of notes connected by a slur
- noun character consisting of two or more letters combined into one
- noun (music) a group of notes connected by a slur
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eigne
(Law) Eldest; firstborn. Blackstone.
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nightclub
- noun a spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink
night club; club; cabaret; nightspot.
- don't expect a good meal at a cabaret
- the gossip columnist got his information by visiting nightclubs every night
- he played the drums at a jazz club
- noun a spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink
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milligramme
A measure of weight, in the metric system, being the thousandth part of a gram, equal to the weight of a cubic millimeter of water, or .01543 of a grain avoirdupois.
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epigynous
(Bot.) Adnate to the surface of the ovary, so as to be apparently inserted upon the top of it; -- said of stamens, petals, sepals, and also of the disk.
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gigantesque
Befitting a giant; bombastic; magniloquent. The sort of mock-heroic gigantesque With which we bantered little Lilia first. Tennyson.
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piggin
A small wooden pail or tub with an upright stave for a handle, -- often used as a dipper.
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aurigae
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foreignism
Anything peculiar to a foreign language or people; a foreign idiom or custom. It is a pity to see the technicalities of the so-called liberal professions distigured by foreignisms. Fitzed. Hall.
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intransigent
- adjective satellite impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason; she would have none of him"- W.Churchill
adamant; adamantine; inexorable.
- he is adamant in his refusal to change his mind
- Cynthia was inexorable
- an intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendency
- adjective satellite impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason; she would have none of him"- W.Churchill
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dubignon
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mitigator
One who, or that which, mitigates.
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epigraphical
Of or pertaining to epigraphs or to epigraphy; as, an epigraphic style;epigraphical works or studies.
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housewright
A builder of houses.
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biostratigraphical
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sovereigntist
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corrige
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poligar
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- shortsightedly1/5
shortsighted
- adjective satellite lacking foresight or scope
unforesightful; short; myopic.
- a short view of the problem
- shortsighted policies
- shortsighted critics derided the plan
- myopic thinking
- adjective unable to see distant objects clearly
nearsighted; myopic.
- adjective satellite lacking foresight or scope
- overnighted1/5
overnight
- adjective satellite lasting, open, or operating through the whole night
nightlong; all-night.
- a nightlong vigil
- an all-night drugstore
- an overnight trip
- adverb during or for the length of one night
- the fish marinates overnight
- adjective satellite lasting, open, or operating through the whole night
- ligger1/5
ligger
A baited line attached to a float, for night fishing. See Leger , a.
- grigorievich1/5
grigorievich
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- epigrammatically1/5
epigrammatically
In the way of epigram; in an epigrammatic style.
- epigraphist1/5
epigraphist
A student of, or one versed in, epigraphy.
- trigonid1/5
- fuliginous1/5
fuliginous
Pertaining to soot; sooty; dark; dusky.
- pseudepigraphal1/5
- indigenised1/5
- exigible1/5
exigible
That may be exacted; repairable. R. A. Smith.
- alrighty1/5
- ligures1/5
ligure
A kind of precious stone. The third row a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst. Ex. xxviii. 19.
- vestigially1/5
vestigial
- adjective satellite not fully developed in mature animals
rudimentary.
- rudimentary wings
- adjective satellite not fully developed in mature animals
- emigrationist1/5
emigrationist
An advocate or promoter of emigration.
- unignorable1/5
- significate1/5
significate
(Logic) One of several things signified by a common term. Whately.
- digenetic1/5
- significatum1/5
- vigs1/5
vigs
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- lighty1/5
lighty
Illuminated. Obs. Wyclif.
- seignory1/5
seignory
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- lignage1/5
lineage
- noun the descendants of one individual
pedigree; parentage; descent; bloodline; ancestry; stemma; blood; line; stock; line of descent; origin; blood line.
- his entire lineage has been warriors
- noun the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors
filiation; line of descent; descent.
- noun the descendants of one individual
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- epigrapher1/5
epigraph
- noun a quotation at the beginning of some piece of writing
- noun an engraved inscription
- noun a quotation at the beginning of some piece of writing
- prelitigation1/5
- centigram1/5
centigram
The hundredth part of a gram; a weight equal to .15432 of a grain. See Gram .
- squiggled1/5
squiggle
- noun a short twisting line
curlicue.
- noun an illegible scrawl
- his signature was just a squiggle but only he could make that squiggle
- noun a short twisting line
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- preflighting1/5
- scintigram1/5
scintigram
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- overtightening1/5
- lignosulfonate1/5
lignosulfonate
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- signific1/5
signific
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- sigmatic1/5
- configurated1/5
configurate
To take form or position, as the parts of a complex structure; to agree with a pattern. Known by the name of uniformity; Where pyramids to pyramids relate And the whole fabric doth configurate. Jordan.
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- wiggen1/5
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- woodpigeon1/5
woodpigeon
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- ultralights1/5
ultralights
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- pterostigma1/5
pterostigma
(Zoöl.) A thickened opaque spot on the wings of certain insects.
- clearsightedness1/5
- figurativeness1/5
figurativeness
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- niggun1/5
- interdigitations1/5
interdigitation
(Anat.) The state of interdigitating; interdigital space. Owen.
- perigastric1/5
perigastric
(Zoöl.) Surrounding the stomach; -- applied to the body cavity of Bryozoa and various other Invertebrata.
- earthlight1/5
- gastight1/5
gastight
So tightly fitted as to preclude the escape of gas; impervious to gas.
- rightless1/5
rightless
Destitute of right. Sylvester.
- tzigane1/5
tzigane
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- designable1/5
designable
Capable of being designated or distinctly marked out; distinguishable. Boyle.
- lexigram1/5
lexigram
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- ultraright1/5
- perigordian1/5
- fatiguability1/5
fatiguability
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- emigré1/5
emigré
One of the natives of France who were opposed to the first Revolution, and who left their country in consequence.
- sunbright1/5
- trigraph1/5
trigraph
Three letters united in pronunciation so as to have but one sound, or to form but one syllable, as -ieu in adieu; a triphthong.
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- bigelovii1/5
bigelovii
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- uliginosum1/5
uliginosum
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- hights1/5
height
- noun the vertical dimension of extension; distance from the base of something to the top
tallness.
- noun the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
superlative; pinnacle; acme; top; summit; peak; elevation; tiptop; meridian.
- 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
- noun the vertical dimension of extension; distance from the base of something to the top
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- subirrigation1/5
- nonintelligent1/5
- microlight1/5
microlight
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- ligulate1/5
ligulate
(Bot.) Like a bandage, or strap; strap-shaped.
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- rubiginosa1/5
rubiginosa
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- nightwatchmen1/5
nightwatchmen
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- dirigo1/5
- tightener1/5
tightener
That which tightens; specifically (Mach.) , a tightening pulley.
- overweigh1/5
overweigh
To exceed in weight; to overbalance; to weigh down. Drayton. Hooker.
- negligibility1/5
- bigtooth1/5
bigtooth
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- vestigium1/5
- prefigurement1/5
prefigurement
The act of prefiguring; prefiguration; also, that which is prefigured. Carlyle.
- fastigium1/5
- dirigent1/5
dirigent
Directing. Baxter.
- undigestible1/5
undigestible
Indigestible.
- squiggling1/5
squiggle
- noun a short twisting line
curlicue.
- noun an illegible scrawl
- his signature was just a squiggle but only he could make that squiggle
- noun a short twisting line
- reigle1/5
reigle
A hollow cut or channel for quiding anything; Carew.as, the .reigle of a side post for a flood gate
- mitigator1/5
mitigator
One who, or that which, mitigates.
- ambiguousness1/5
ambiguousness
Ambiguity.
- despight1/5
- corrigibility1/5
corrigibility
Quality of being corrigible; capability of being corrected; corrigibleness.
- hightop1/5
- sigillaria1/5
sigillaria
(Rom. Antic.) Little images or figures of earthenware exposed for sale, or given as presents, on the last two days of the Saturnalia; hence, the last two, or the sixth and seventh, days of the Saturnalia.
- centigrams1/5
centigram
The hundredth part of a gram; a weight equal to .15432 of a grain. See Gram .
- famiglietti1/5
- signee1/5
signee
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- laigh1/5
laigh
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- consiglieri1/5
- brigalow1/5
- religation1/5
- migo1/5
migo
To go astray. Spenser.
- greige1/5
- digenic1/5
- swiggers1/5
swiggers
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- grigoryevich1/5
grigoryevich
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- antiforeigner1/5
- liggen1/5
- litigative1/5
- vinaigre1/5
vinaigre
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- oligophagous1/5
oligophagous
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- unintelligence1/5
unintelligence
Absence or lack of intelligence; unwisdom; ignorance. Bp. Hall.
- ligs1/5
lig
To recline; to lie still. Obs. or Scot. Chaucer. Spenser.
- navigant1/5
- configurationally1/5
configurational
- adjective of or relating to or characterized by configuration
- adjective of or relating to or characterized by configuration
- twight1/5
- riginal1/5
riginal
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- lovelight1/5
- vignetted1/5
vignetted
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- voltigeur1/5
voltigeur
A tumbler; a leaper or vaulter.
- feigner1/5
feign
- verb make believe with the intent to deceive
affect; pretend; dissemble; sham.
- He feigned that he was ill
- He shammed a headache
- verb make a pretence of
assume; simulate; sham.
- She assumed indifference, even though she was seething with anger
- he feigned sleep
- verb make believe with the intent to deceive
- epigeic1/5
- antireligion1/5
- baigan1/5
- northlight1/5
- woodpigeons1/5
- gaslighting1/5
gaslight
- noun light yielded by the combustion of illuminating gas
- noun light yielded by the combustion of illuminating gas
- figurally1/5
figural
- adjective satellite consisting of or forming human or animal figures
figurative.
- a figural design
- the figurative art of the humanistic tradition"- Herbert Read
- adjective satellite consisting of or forming human or animal figures
- nonsigners1/5
- veligers1/5
veliger
(Zoöl.) Any larval gastropod or bivalve mollusk in the state when it is furnished with one or two ciliated membranes for swimming.
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- sterigmata1/5
- reweighing1/5
reweighing
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- pseudoreligious1/5
- oligotrophy1/5
- aigre1/5
aigre
Sour. Obs. Shak.
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- thigmotropism1/5
- garigue1/5
- lighteners1/5
lighteners
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- antigene1/5
antigene
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- resighting1/5
- unfigured1/5
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- equigranular1/5
- conchiglie1/5
- undesigning1/5
undesigning
Having no artful, ulterior, or fraudulent purpose; sincere; artless; simple.
- refighting1/5
refighting
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- highth1/5
highth
Variant of Obs.Height .
- mistigris1/5
mistigris
A variety of the game of poker in which the joker is used, and called mistigris or mistigri.
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rigolet
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- skylighted1/5
skylight
- noun a window in a roof to admit daylight
fanlight.
- noun a window in a roof to admit daylight
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milligramme
A measure of weight, in the metric system, being the thousandth part of a gram, equal to the weight of a cubic millimeter of water, or .01543 of a grain avoirdupois.
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- designado1/5
- underweighted1/5
underweight
- adjective satellite being very thin
boney; scraggy; skinny; scrawny; weedy.
- a child with skinny freckled legs
- a long scrawny neck
- adjective satellite being very thin
- obligator1/5
obligator
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- calligram1/5
calligram
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consignation
The act of consigning; the act of delivering or committing to another person, place, or state. Obs.So is despair a certain consignation to eternal ruin. Jer. Taylor.
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coinvestigator
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twig
- noun a small branch or division of a branch (especially a terminal division); usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year
sprig; branchlet.
- verb branch out in a twiglike manner
- The lightning bolt twigged in several directions
- noun a small branch or division of a branch (especially a terminal division); usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year
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frontignan
A sweet muscadine wine made in Frontignan (Languedoc), France.
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migraineur
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- gigant1/5
gigant
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nigged
(Masonry) Hammer-dressed; -- said of building stone.
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- sprigging1/5
sprig
- noun a small branch or division of a branch (especially a terminal division); usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year
twig; branchlet.
- noun an ornament that resembles a spray of leaves or flowers
- noun a small branch or division of a branch (especially a terminal division); usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year
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digitation
A division into fingers or fingerlike processes; also, a fingerlike process.
- lightfooted1/5
lightfooted
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- weighable1/5
weighable
Capable of being weighed.
- anight1/5
anight
In the night time; at night. ArchaicDoes he hawk anights still? Marston.
- rigadoon1/5
rigadoon
A gay, lively dance for one couple, -- said to have been borrowed from Provence in France. W. Irving.Whose dancing dogs in rigadoons excel. Wolcott.
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proctosigmoiditis
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- reignition1/5
reignition
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- refight1/5
refight
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- epigrammatists1/5
epigrammatist
One who composes epigrams, or makes use of them. The brisk epigrammatist showing off his own cleverness. Holmes.
- infighter1/5
infighter
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- bigshots1/5
- antiglare1/5
- remiges1/5
remiges
(Zoöl.) The quill feathers of the wings of a bird.
- epigramme1/5
epigram
- noun a witty saying
quip.
- noun a witty saying
- figurato1/5
figurato
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- tiges1/5
tiges
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- slighty1/5
- digestor1/5
- unoriginate1/5
unoriginate
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- pedigerous1/5
pedigerous
(Zoöl.) Bearing or having feet or legs.
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- circumnavigators1/5
circumnavigator
One who sails round. W. Guthrie.
- indignance1/5
indignance
Indignation. Obs. Spenser.
- consigne1/5
consign
- verb commit forever; commit irrevocably
- verb give over to another for care or safekeeping
charge.
- consign your baggage
- verb commit forever; commit irrevocably
- jiggering1/5
jigger
- noun a small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey
shot glass; pony.
- noun any small mast on a sailing vessel; especially the mizzenmast of a yawl
jiggermast.
- noun a small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey
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- caligo1/5
caligo
(Med.) Dimness or obscurity of sight, dependent upon a speck on the cornea; also, the speck itself.
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- obligative1/5
- tigerfish1/5
- emigrationists1/5
emigrationist
An advocate or promoter of emigration.
- uplights1/5
- lightful1/5
lightful
Full of light; bright. R. "Lightful presence." Marston.
- benightedness1/5
benightedness
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- aiguillettes1/5
aiguillette
A point or tag at the end of a fringe or lace; an aglet.
- armigerous1/5
armigerous
Bearing arms. R.They belonged to the armigerous part of the population, and were entitled to write themselves Esquire. De Quincey.
- precampaign1/5
- nonambiguous1/5
- prefight1/5
- reinvestigating1/5
reinvestigate
To investigate again. --Re`in*ves`ti*ga"tion n.
- grigorevich1/5
grigorevich
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- candlelighting1/5
candlelight
- noun the light provided by a burning candle
candle flame.
- noun the light provided by a burning candle
- globigii1/5
globigii
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- filigrane1/5
filigrane
Filigree. ArchaicWith her head . . . touches the crown of filigrane. Longfellow.
- unknightly1/5
- ligamental1/5
ligamental
Composing a ligament; of the nature of a ligament; binding; as, a strong .ligamentous membrane
- nonsignatories1/5
- tiglium1/5
tiglium
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- prignano1/5
prignano
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- epigraphists1/5
epigraphist
A student of, or one versed in, epigraphy.
- trigged1/5
trig
- noun the mathematics of triangles and trigonometric functions
trigonometry.
- adjective satellite neat and smart in appearance
trim; clean-cut.
- a clean-cut and well-bred young man
- the trig corporal in his jaunty cap
- a trim beard
- noun the mathematics of triangles and trigonometric functions
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- pigeonite1/5
- lighte1/5
light
- noun (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation
visible light; visible radiation.
- the light was filtered through a soft glass window
- noun any device serving as a source of illumination
light source.
- he stopped the car and turned off the lights
- noun (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation
- antiforeignism1/5
- frontignac1/5
frontignac
A sweet muscadine wine made in Frontignan (Languedoc), France.
- perigynous1/5
perigynous
(Bot.) Having the ovary free, but the petals and stamens borne on the calyx; -- said of flower such as that of the cherry or peach.
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assigner
One who assigns, appoints, allots, or apportions.
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