Commonly used words in written English - letter S with 1076 words, sorted alphabetically
The list of words starting with the letter S that occur frequently in written English is based on an analysis of the Google Books Ngram (a collection compiled by Peter Norvig in 2012, containing close to one trillion words).
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Word Frequency is calculated as the number of occurrences in one million words.
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Word Definition is sourced from the WordNet dictionary. You'll have to look up each word page for its complete definition and Part of Speech (POS) categories.
| Word | Frequency | Definition |
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766 | (noun) the 19th letter of the Roman alphabet | |
18 | (noun) Nazi militia created by Hitler in 1921 that helped him to power but was eclipsed by the SS after 1943 | |
10 | (noun) a day of rest and worship: Sunday for most Christians; Saturday for the Jews and a few Christians; Friday for Muslims | |
8 | (noun) a structure resembling a bag in an animal | |
9 | (verb) plunder (a town) after capture; (noun) a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases | |
10 | (noun) a formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it; the two Protestant ceremonies are baptism and the Lord's Supper; in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church there are seven traditional rites accepted as instituted by Jesus: baptism and confirmation and Holy Eucharist and penance and holy orders and matrimony and extreme unction | |
44 | (adjective) concerned with religion or religious purposes | |
58 | (verb) endure the loss of; (noun) personnel that are sacrificed (e.g., surrendered or lost in order to gain an objective) | |
28 | (adjective) experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness | |
12 | (verb) put a saddle on; (noun) a seat for the rider of a horse or other animal | |
8 | (adverb) in an unfortunate way | |
7 | (noun) emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being | |
70 | (adjective) free from danger or the risk of harm; (noun) strongbox where valuables can be safely kept | |
13 | (verb) make safe | |
18 | (adverb) with safety; in a safe manner | |
68 | (noun) the state of being certain that adverse effects will not be caused by some agent under defined conditions | |
17 | (adjective) having wisdom that comes with age and experience; (noun) a mentor in spiritual and philosophical topics who is renowned for profound wisdom | |
1,019 | (verb) past and past participle of say | |
36 | (verb) traverse or travel on (a body of water); (noun) a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel | |
12 | (noun) riding in a sailboat | |
17 | (noun) any member of a ship's crew | |
59 | (noun) a person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization | |
36 | (noun) a reason for wanting something done | |
9 | (noun) food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing; usually consisting of or including greens | |
36 | (noun) something that remunerates | |
61 | (noun) a particular instance of selling | |
6 | (noun) capital of the state of Oregon in the northwestern part of the state on the Willamette River | |
78 | (noun) income (at invoice values) received for goods and services over some given period of time | |
8 | (noun) a man salesperson | |
5 | (adjective) (of angles) pointing outward at an angle of less than 180 degrees; (noun) (military) the part of the line of battle that projects closest to the enemy | |
6 | (adjective) containing salt | |
7 | (noun) the capital and largest city of Zimbabwe | |
10 | (noun) a venture off the beaten path | |
11 | (noun) any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn | |
5 | (noun) a car that is closed and that has front and rear seats and two or four doors | |
69 | (verb) add salt to; (adjective) (of speech) painful or bitter | |
8 | (verb) greet in a friendly way; (noun) an act of honor or courteous recognition | |
5 | (verb) save from ruin, destruction, or harm; (noun) property or goods saved from damage or destruction | |
26 | (noun) a means of preserving from harm or unpleasantness | |
26 | (noun) a guided missile fired from land or shipboard against an airborne target | |
839 | (pronoun) the same thing as something previously mentioned; (adjective) same in identity | |
133 | (verb) take a sample of; (noun) a small part of something intended as representative of the whole | |
21 | (noun) (statistics) the selection of a suitable sample for study | |
32 | (noun) (Old Testament) Hebrew prophet and judge who anointed Saul as king | |
20 | (verb) give authority or permission to; (noun) formal and explicit approval | |
5 | (adjective) established by authority; given authoritative approval | |
10 | (noun) a consecrated place where sacred objects are kept | |
46 | (noun) a loose material consisting of grains of rock or coral | |
7 | (noun) the region of the shore of a lake or sea or ocean | |
10 | (noun) a sedimentary rock consisting of sand consolidated with some cement (clay or quartz etc.) | |
10 | (verb) make into a sandwich; (noun) two (or more) slices of bread with a filling between them | |
14 | (adjective) of hair color; pale yellowish to yellowish brown | |
13 | (noun) North American woodland herb similar to and used as substitute for the Chinese ginseng | |
7 | (adjective) free from filth and pathogens | |
6 | (noun) (Hinduism) an ancient language of India (the language of the Vedas and of Hinduism); an official language of India although it is now used only for religious purposes | |
25 | (noun) the legendary patron saint of children; an imaginary being who is thought to bring presents to children at Christmas | |
6 | (verb) excavate the earth beneath; (noun) a watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant | |
19 | (noun) (Old Testament) the wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac | |
82 | (noun) the seventh and last day of the week; observed as the Sabbath by Jews and some Christians | |
10 | (noun) (Judeo-Christian and Islamic religions) chief spirit of evil and adversary of God; tempter of mankind; master of Hell | |
20 | (verb) broadcast or disseminate via satellite; (adjective) surrounding and dominated by a central authority or power | |
7 | (noun) witty language used to convey insults or scorn | |
46 | (noun) the contentment one feels when one has fulfilled a desire, need, or expectation | |
7 | (adverb) in a satisfactory manner | |
32 | (adjective) giving satisfaction | |
42 | (adjective) filled with satisfaction | |
31 | (verb) meet the requirements or expectations of | |
10 | (adjective) providing freedom from worry | |
11 | (adjective) being the most concentrated solution possible at a given temperature; unable to dissolve still more of a substance | |
8 | (noun) the act of soaking thoroughly with a liquid | |
23 | (noun) the seventh and last day of the week; observed as the Sabbath by Jews and some Christians | |
11 | (verb) behave saucily or impudently towards; (noun) flavorful relish or dressing or topping served as an accompaniment to food | |
7 | (noun) a native or inhabitant of Saudi Arabia | |
6 | (noun) (Old Testament) the first king of the Israelites who defended Israel against many enemies (especially the Philistines) | |
24 | (verb) attack brutally and fiercely; (noun) a member of an uncivilized people | |
70 | (preposition) except; excepting; not including; leaving out; deducting; reserving; saving; (verb) to keep up and reserve for personal or special use | |
35 | (adjective) rescued; especially from the power and consequences of sin | |
27 | (adjective) characterized by thriftiness | |
25 | (noun) a fund of money put by as a reserve | |
10 | (noun) a person who rescues you from harm or danger | |
221 | (verb) cut with a saw; (noun) hand tool having a toothed blade for cutting | |
12 | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the early Saxons or Anglo-Saxons and their descendents (especially the English or Lowland Scots) and their language; (noun) a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Angles and Jutes to become Anglo-Saxons; dominant in England until the Norman Conquest | |
610 | (verb) communicate or express nonverbally; (noun) the chance to speak | |
98 | (noun) a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations | |
9 | (noun) a white trivalent metallic element; sometimes classified in the rare earth group; occurs in the Scandinavian mineral thortveitite | |
140 | (verb) measure by or as if by a scale; (noun) an ordered reference standard | |
5 | (noun) the act of arranging in a graduated series | |
5 | (verb) sell illegally, as on the black market; (noun) the skin that covers the top of the head | |
16 | (verb) examine minutely or intensely; (noun) the act of scanning; systematic examination of a prescribed region | |
10 | (noun) disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people | |
9 | (noun) the process of translating photographs into a digital form that can be recognized by a computer | |
10 | (verb) mark with a scar; (noun) a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue | |
14 | (adjective) deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand | |
37 | (adverb) only a very short time before | |
7 | (noun) a small and inadequate amount | |
9 | (adjective) made afraid | |
8 | (noun) a variable color that is vivid red but sometimes with an orange tinge | |
5 | (verb) distribute loosely; (noun) a haphazard distribution in all directions | |
28 | (adjective) occurring or distributed over widely spaced and irregular intervals in time or space | |
13 | (noun) a small number (of something) dispersed haphazardly | |
17 | (noun) an outline or synopsis of a play (or, by extension, of a literary work) | |
108 | (noun) the place where some action occurs | |
9 | (noun) the painted structures of a stage set that are intended to suggest a particular locale | |
8 | (verb) catch the scent of; get wind of; (noun) an odor left in passing by which a person or animal can be traced | |
43 | (verb) plan for an activity or event; (noun) an ordered list of times at which things are planned to occur | |
15 | (adjective) planned or scheduled for some certain time or times | |
6 | (noun) setting an order and time for planned events | |
9 | (noun) an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world | |
7 | (noun) diagram of an electrical or mechanical system | |
80 | (verb) form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner; (noun) an elaborate and systematic plan of action | |
7 | (noun) any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact | |
6 | (noun) German statesman who served as chancellor of Germany (born in 1918) | |
52 | (noun) a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines | |
10 | (adjective) characteristic of scholars or scholarship | |
20 | (noun) financial aid provided to a student on the basis of academic merit | |
5 | (adjective) of or relating to schools; (noun) a Scholastic philosopher or theologian | |
523 | (verb) educate in or as if in a school; (noun) an educational institution | |
10 | (noun) the act of teaching at school | |
236 | (noun) a particular branch of scientific knowledge | |
96 | (adjective) of or relating to the practice of science | |
44 | (noun) a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences | |
41 | (noun) an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet" | |
42 | (verb) gain points in a game; (noun) a written form of a musical composition; parts for different instruments appear on separate staves on large pages | |
31 | (noun) a large number or amount | |
6 | (noun) evaluation of performance by assigning a grade or score | |
7 | (verb) reject with contempt; (noun) lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike | |
8 | (verb) make a small cut or score into; (noun) whiskey distilled in Scotland; especially whiskey made from malted barley in a pot still | |
35 | (noun) one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; located on the northern part of the island of Great Britain; famous for bagpipes and plaids and kilts | |
8 | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of Scotland or its people or culture or its English dialect or Gaelic language | |
34 | (noun) award-winning United States film actor (1928-1999) | |
18 | (noun) the dialect of English used in Scotland | |
9 | (verb) explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody; (noun) someone employed to discover and recruit talented persons (especially in the worlds of entertainment or sports) | |
7 | (verb) make into scrap or refuse; (noun) a small piece of something that is left over after the rest has been used | |
10 | (verb) cut the surface of; wear away the surface of; (noun) a competitor who has withdrawn from competition | |
14 | (verb) make a loud, piercing sound; (noun) sharp piercing cry | |
6 | (noun) sharp piercing cry; (adjective) marked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter | |
52 | (verb) test or examine for the presence of disease or infection; (noun) a white or silvered surface where pictures can be projected for viewing | |
13 | (noun) the display of a motion picture | |
18 | (verb) turn like a screw; (noun) a simple machine of the inclined-plane type consisting of a spirally threaded cylindrical rod that engages with a similarly threaded hole | |
6 | (verb) score a line on with a pointed instrument, as in metalworking; (noun) informal terms for journalists | |
21 | (verb) write a script for; (noun) a written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance | |
35 | (noun) any writing that is regarded as sacred by a religious group | |
8 | (verb) move through text or graphics in order to display parts that do not fit on the screen; (noun) a document that can be rolled up (as for storage) | |
8 | (noun) a prolonged intense look | |
7 | (noun) an artist who creates sculptures | |
18 | (noun) a three-dimensional work of plastic art | |
5 | (noun) a state in north central United States | |
41 | (noun) the compass point midway between south and east; at 135 degrees | |
184 | (noun) a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land | |
28 | (verb) make tight; secure against leakage; (noun) a device incised to make an impression; used to secure a closing or to authenticate documents | |
11 | (adjective) established irrevocably | |
6 | (verb) put together with a seam; (noun) joint consisting of a line formed by joining two pieces | |
9 | (noun) muckraking United States journalist who exposed bad conditions in mental institutions (1867-1922) | |
95 | (verb) try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of; (noun) the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone | |
18 | (adjective) having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought, expression, or intellect | |
73 | (verb) lend flavor to; (noun) a period of the year marked by special events or activities in some field | |
11 | (adjective) occurring at or dependent on a particular season | |
49 | (verb) show to a seat; assign a seat for; (noun) a space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane) | |
21 | (adjective) (of persons) having the torso erect and legs bent with the body supported on the buttocks | |
21 | (noun) an area that includes places where several people can sit | |
8 | (noun) a major port of entry and the largest city in Washington; located in west central Washington on the protected waters of Puget Sound with the snow-capped peaks of the Cascade Range and Mount Rainier visible to the south and east; an aerospace and computer center; site of the University of Washington | |
46 | (adjective) (of champagne) moderately dry | |
453 | (adverb) in the second place; (verb) give support or one's approval to | |
71 | (adjective) being of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate; (noun) the defensive football players who line up behind the linemen | |
17 | (adverb) in the second place | |
6 | (noun) the trait of keeping things secret | |
78 | (adjective) not open or public; kept private or not revealed; (noun) something that should remain hidden from others (especially information that is not to be passed on) | |
5 | (noun) an administrative unit responsible for maintaining records and other secretarial duties; especially for international organizations | |
96 | (noun) a person who is head of an administrative department of government | |
7 | (verb) generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids | |
16 | (noun) the organic process of synthesizing and releasing some substance | |
8 | (adverb) in secrecy; not openly | |
19 | (noun) a subdivision of a larger religious group | |
335 | (noun) a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical) | |
7 | (adjective) relating to or based upon a section (i.e. as if cut through by an intersecting plane); (noun) a piece of furniture made up of sections that can be arranged individually or together | |
77 | (noun) a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle | |
19 | (adjective) of or relating to the doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations | |
100 | (verb) assure payment of; (adjective) free from fear or doubt; easy in mind | |
155 | (noun) the state of being free from danger or injury | |
18 | (verb) deposit as a sediment; (noun) matter that has been deposited by some natural process | |
1,489 | (verb) perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight; (noun) the seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located | |
63 | (verb) go to seed; shed seeds; (noun) a small hard fruit | |
6 | (noun) young plant or tree grown from a seed | |
62 | (adjective) having vision, not blind | |
80 | (verb) try to get or reach; (noun) the movement of a read/write head to a specific data track on a disk | |
5 | (noun) someone making a search or inquiry | |
43 | (noun) an attempt to acquire or gain something | |
550 | (verb) appear to exist | |
8 | (adjective) appearing as such but not necessarily so | |
15 | (adverb) from appearances alone | |
44 | (verb) divide into segments; (noun) one of the parts into which something naturally divides | |
10 | (noun) (genetics) the separation of paired alleles during meiosis so that members of each pair of alleles appear in different gametes | |
35 | (verb) take hold of; grab | |
14 | (noun) a sudden occurrence (or recurrence) of a disease | |
31 | (adverb) not often | |
73 | (adjective) of superior grade; (verb) pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives | |
76 | (adjective) chosen in preference to another | |
74 | (noun) an assortment of things from which a choice can be made | |
16 | (adjective) tending to select; characterized by careful choice | |
287 | (adjective) (used as a combining form) relating to--of or by or to or from or for--the self; (noun) your consciousness of your own identity | |
10 | (adjective) concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others | |
55 | (verb) exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent; (noun) the activity of persuading someone to buy | |
14 | (noun) someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money | |
6 | (noun) English comic actor (1925-1980) | |
35 | (noun) the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money | |
12 | (adjective) of or relating to meaning or the study of meaning | |
5 | (noun) the study of language meaning | |
5 | (noun) one of two divisions of an academic year | |
22 | (noun) one of the two competitions in the next to the last round of an elimination tournament | |
7 | (noun) a substance as germanium or silicon whose electrical conductivity is intermediate between that of a metal and an insulator; its conductivity increases with temperature and in the presence of impurities | |
11 | (noun) any meeting for an exchange of ideas | |
9 | (noun) a private place of education for the young | |
5 | (noun) a fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia; equal to one hundredth of a yen or rupiah or riel | |
42 | (noun) assembly possessing high legislative powers | |
30 | (noun) a member of a senate | |
82 | (verb) cause to go somewhere | |
25 | (noun) the act of causing something to go (especially messages) | |
39 | (adjective) older; higher in rank; longer in length of tenure or service; (noun) an undergraduate student during the year preceding graduation | |
26 | (noun) street names for marijuana | |
30 | (noun) an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation | |
265 | (verb) detect some circumstance or entity automatically; (noun) a general conscious awareness | |
6 | (adjective) detected by instinct or inference rather than by recognized perceptual cues | |
10 | (noun) mental responsiveness and awareness | |
18 | (adjective) able to feel or perceive | |
6 | (noun) becoming aware of something via the senses | |
40 | (adjective) responsive to physical stimuli | |
26 | (noun) (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation | |
12 | (noun) any device that receives a signal or stimulus (as heat or pressure or light or motion etc.) and responds to it in a distinctive manner | |
18 | (adjective) involving or derived from the senses | |
164 | (adjective) caused or enabled to go or be conveyed or transmitted; (noun) 100 senti equal 1 kroon in Estonia | |
99 | (verb) pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law; (noun) a string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language | |
37 | (noun) tender, romantic, or nostalgic feeling or emotion | |
7 | (adjective) given to or marked by sentiment or sentimentality | |
119 | (verb) act as a barrier between; stand between; (adjective) independent; not united or joint | |
43 | (adjective) spaced apart | |
21 | (adverb) apart from others | |
44 | (noun) the state of lacking unity | |
100 | (noun) the month following August and preceding October | |
75 | (verb) arrange in a sequence; (noun) serial arrangement in which things follow in logical order or a recurrent pattern | |
7 | (adjective) in regular succession without gaps | |
33 | (noun) (Middle Ages) a person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord | |
14 | (noun) any of several noncommissioned officer ranks in the Army or Air Force or Marines ranking above a corporal | |
12 | (adjective) pertaining to or composed in serial technique; (noun) a serialized set of programs | |
164 | (noun) similar things placed in order or happening one after another | |
103 | (adjective) concerned with work or important matters rather than play or trivialities | |
37 | (adverb) in a serious manner | |
6 | (noun) the quality of arousing fear or distress | |
24 | (noun) an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service) | |
9 | (noun) a firework that moves in serpentine manner when ignited | |
27 | (noun) an amber, watery fluid, rich in proteins, that separates out when blood coagulates | |
65 | (noun) a person working in the service of another (especially in the household) | |
170 | (verb) serve a purpose, role, or function; (noun) (sports) a stroke that puts the ball in play | |
34 | (noun) (court games) the player who serves to start a point | |
288 | (verb) be used by; as of a utility; (noun) work done by one person or group that benefits another | |
186 | (noun) performance of duties or provision of space and equipment helpful to others | |
33 | (noun) an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal | |
46 | (noun) a meeting for execution of a group's functions | |
20 | (noun) United States composer who promoted 20th century music (1896-1985) | |
460 | (verb) establish as the highest level or best performance; (noun) a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used | |
101 | (noun) the context and environment in which something is set | |
26 | (verb) settle into a position, usually on a surface or ground; (noun) a long wooden bench with a back | |
52 | (adjective) established or decided beyond dispute or doubt | |
75 | (noun) a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it | |
20 | (noun) a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country | |
10 | (noun) a gradual sinking to a lower level | |
7 | (noun) the way something is organized or arranged | |
116 | (adjective) being one more than six; (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of six and one | |
13 | (adjective) being one more than sixteen; (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of sixteen and one | |
20 | (adjective) coming next after the sixteenth in position; (noun) position 17 in a countable series of things | |
23 | (adjective) coming next after the sixth and just before the eighth in position; (noun) position seven in a countable series of things | |
23 | (adjective) being ten more than sixty; (noun) the cardinal number that is the product of ten and seven | |
358 | (adjective) (used with count nouns) of an indefinite number more than 2 or 3 but not many | |
66 | (adjective) intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality | |
18 | (adverb) causing great damage or hardship | |
15 | (noun) excessive sternness | |
6 | (noun) waste matter carried away in sewers or drains | |
6 | (noun) a waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water | |
6 | (noun) joining or attaching by stitches | |
94 | (verb) tell the sex (of young chickens); (noun) either of the two categories (male or female) into which most organisms are divided | |
79 | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by sexuality | |
14 | (noun) the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles | |
8 | (adverb) with respect to sexuality | |
18 | (verb) represent the effect of shade or shadow on; (noun) relative darkness caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque body | |
6 | (adjective) protected from heat and light with shade or shadow | |
8 | (noun) (plural) something that reminds you of someone or something | |
47 | (verb) follow, usually without the person's knowledge; (noun) shade within clear boundaries | |
22 | (verb) equip with a shaft; (noun) a line that forms the length of an arrow pointer | |
9 | (noun) title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran | |
17 | (verb) move or cause to move back and forth | |
8 | (adjective) disturbed psychologically as if by a physical jolt or shock | |
28 | (noun) English poet and dramatist considered one of the greatest English writers (1564-1616) | |
13 | (noun) the act of causing something to move up and down (or back and forth) with quick movements | |
7 | (noun) a sedimentary rock formed by the deposition of successive layers of clay | |
469 | (auxiliary verb) used to express what is inevitable or seems likely to happen in the future | |
19 | (verb) make shallow; (adjective) lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center | |
20 | (verb) compel through a sense of shame; (noun) a painful emotion resulting from an awareness of inadequacy or guilt | |
8 | (verb) take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship; (noun) the largest city of China; located in the east on the Pacific; one of the largest ports in the world | |
98 | (verb) make something, usually for a specific function; (noun) any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline) | |
36 | (adjective) having the shape of | |
9 | (noun) any process serving to define the shape of something | |
145 | (verb) have in common; (noun) assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group | |
50 | (adjective) have in common; held or experienced in common | |
18 | (noun) someone who holds shares of stock in a corporation | |
26 | (adjective) unselfishly willing to share with others; (noun) using or enjoying something jointly with others | |
6 | (verb) play the shark; act with trickery; (noun) any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales | |
48 | (adjective) keenly and painfully felt; as if caused by a sharp edge or point; (noun) a musical notation indicating one half step higher than the note named | |
19 | (adverb) in a well delineated manner | |
7 | (adjective) ruined or disrupted | |
13 | (noun) United States clarinetist and leader of a swing band (1910-2004) | |
1,872 | (pronoun) used to refer to a woman, girl, or female animal previously mentioned or easily identified | |
13 | (verb) cut with shears; (noun) (physics) a deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves | |
6 | (noun) a protective covering (as for a knife or sword) | |
20 | (verb) get rid of; (noun) an outbuilding with a single story; used for shelter or storage | |
30 | (noun) woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat | |
12 | (adverb) straight up or down without a break; (verb) cause to sheer | |
63 | (verb) come down as if in sheets; (noun) any broad thin expanse or surface | |
18 | (noun) a support that consists of a horizontal surface for holding objects | |
47 | (verb) fall out of the pod or husk; (noun) ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun | |
8 | (noun) English writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851) | |
24 | (verb) provide shelter for; (noun) a structure that provides privacy and protection from danger | |
5 | (adjective) protected from danger or bad weather | |
14 | (verb) watch over like a shepherd, as a teacher of her pupils; (noun) a clergyman who watches over a group of people | |
14 | (noun) the principal law-enforcement officer in a county | |
10 | (noun) United States general who was commander of all Union troops in the West; he captured Atlanta and led a destructive march to the sea that cut the Confederacy in two (1820-1891) | |
13 | (verb) establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment | |
18 | (verb) protect, hide, or conceal from danger or harm; (noun) a protective covering or structure | |
78 | (verb) change place or direction; (noun) an event in which something is displaced without rotation | |
14 | (adjective) continuously varying | |
10 | (noun) an English coin worth one twentieth of a pound | |
19 | (verb) emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light | |
13 | (adjective) marked by exceptional merit; (noun) the work of making something smooth and shiny by rubbing or waxing it | |
144 | (verb) hire for work on a ship; (noun) a vessel that carries passengers or freight | |
10 | (noun) goods carried by a large vehicle | |
18 | (noun) conveyance provided by the ships belonging to one country or industry | |
24 | (verb) put a shirt on; (noun) a garment worn on the upper half of the body | |
6 | (noun) a coarse term for defecation | |
38 | (verb) surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off; (noun) the violent interaction of individuals or groups entering into combat | |
10 | (adjective) struck with fear, dread, or consternation | |
10 | (verb) furnish with shoes; (noun) footwear shaped to fit the foot (below the ankle) with a flexible upper of leather or plastic and a sole and heel of heavier material | |
23 | (noun) a particular situation | |
28 | (noun) a disassembled barrel; the parts packed for storage or shipment | |
23 | (verb) hit with a missile from a weapon; (noun) a new branch | |
17 | (noun) the act of firing a projectile | |
59 | (verb) do one's shopping; (noun) a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services | |
15 | (noun) searching for or buying goods or services | |
49 | (verb) serve as a shore to; (noun) the land along the edge of a body of water | |
264 | (adverb) without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold; (adjective) primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration | |
15 | (noun) the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required | |
6 | (noun) a failing or deficiency | |
32 | (adverb) for a short time | |
67 | (noun) a solid missile discharged from a firearm | |
1,094 | (auxiliary verb) used to express the opinion that the action of the main verb is one of duty, or what is proper, or what is a good idea | |
66 | (verb) lift onto one's shoulders; (noun) the part of the body between the neck and the upper arm | |
12 | (verb) utter in a loud voice; talk in a loud voice (usually denoting characteristic manner of speaking) | |
16 | (adjective) in a vehement outcry | |
8 | (noun) encouragement in the form of cheers from spectators | |
6 | (verb) push roughly; (noun) the act of shoving (giving a push to someone or something) | |
706 | (verb) give an exhibition of to an interested audience; (noun) the act of publicly exhibiting or entertaining | |
15 | (verb) spray or sprinkle with; (noun) a plumbing fixture that sprays water over you | |
68 | (noun) something shown to the public | |
11 | (noun) a place of worship hallowed by association with some sacred thing or person | |
10 | (verb) reduce in size; reduce physically | |
9 | (noun) a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems | |
11 | (verb) raise one's shoulders to indicate indifference or resignation; (noun) a gesture involving the shoulders | |
31 | (adjective) not open | |
8 | (verb) start suddenly, as from fright; (adjective) wary and distrustful; disposed to avoid persons or things | |
36 | (noun) the syllable naming the seventh (subtonic) note of any musical scale in solmization | |
8 | (noun) a person's brother or sister | |
10 | (adverb) intentionally so written (used after a printed word or phrase); (verb) urge to attack someone | |
6 | (noun) the Italian region on the island of Sicily | |
41 | (adjective) deeply affected by a strong feeling; (noun) people who are sick | |
15 | (noun) defectiveness or unsoundness | |
409 | (verb) take sides for or against; (noun) a place within a region identified relative to a center or reference location | |
6 | (noun) walk consisting of a paved area for pedestrians; usually beside a street or roadway | |
9 | (noun) English poet (1554-1586) | |
14 | (noun) the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack | |
9 | (noun) a range of mountains (usually with jagged peaks and irregular outline) | |
23 | (verb) heave or utter a sigh; breathe deeply and heavily; (noun) an utterance made by exhaling audibly | |
71 | (verb) take aim by looking through the sights of a gun (or other device); (noun) an instance of visual perception | |
5 | (noun) an optical instrument for aiding the eye in aiming, as on a firearm or surveying instrument | |
136 | (verb) mark with one's signature; write one's name (on); (noun) a perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened) | |
92 | (adjective) notably out of the ordinary; (noun) any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message | |
19 | (noun) your name written in your own handwriting | |
42 | (adjective) having a handwritten signature | |
62 | (noun) the quality of being significant | |
137 | (adjective) important in effect or meaning | |
41 | (adverb) in a statistically significant way | |
5 | (noun) the meaning of a word or expression; the way in which a word or expression or situation can be interpreted | |
17 | (verb) convey or express a meaning | |
7 | (noun) language expressed by visible hand gestures | |
51 | (verb) keep from expression, for example by threats or pressure; (noun) the state of being silent (as when no one is speaking) | |
39 | (adjective) marked by absence of sound | |
9 | (adverb) without speaking | |
7 | (noun) a white or colorless vitreous insoluble solid (SiO2); various forms occur widely in the earth's crust as quartz or cristobalite or tridymite or lechatelierite | |
10 | (noun) a tetravalent nonmetallic element; next to oxygen it is the most abundant element in the earth's crust; occurs in clay and feldspar and granite and quartz and sand; used as a semiconductor in transistors | |
22 | (noun) a fabric made from the fine threads produced by certain insect larvae | |
10 | (noun) a word used for misbehaving children | |
66 | (verb) coat with a layer of silver or a silver amalgam; (adjective) made from or largely consisting of silver | |
226 | (adjective) marked by correspondence or resemblance | |
26 | (noun) the quality of being similar | |
51 | (adverb) in like or similar manner | |
24 | (noun) one of the twelve Apostles (first century) | |
188 | (adjective) having few parts; not complex or complicated or involved; (noun) any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties | |
19 | (noun) the quality of being simple or uncompounded | |
18 | (verb) make simpler or easier or reduce in complexity or extent | |
148 | (adverb) absolutely; altogether; really | |
8 | (noun) United States divorcee whose marriage to Edward VIII created a constitutional crisis leading to his abdication | |
6 | (verb) make a pretence of | |
6 | (adjective) reproduced or made to resemble; imitative in character | |
23 | (noun) the act of imitating the behavior of some situation or some process by means of something suitably analogous (especially for the purpose of study or personnel training) | |
12 | (adjective) occurring or operating at the same time | |
29 | (adverb) at the same instant | |
75 | (verb) commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law; (noun) estrangement from god | |
499 | (preposition) between a particular past time and the present; (conjunction) seeing that; because; considering; formerly followed by 'that' | |
14 | (adjective) open and genuine; not deceitful | |
8 | (adverb) with sincerity; without pretense | |
8 | (noun) the quality of being open and truthful; not deceitful or hypocritical | |
6 | (noun) a region of southeastern Pakistan | |
6 | (noun) ratio of the length of the side opposite the given angle to the length of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle | |
29 | (verb) deliver by singing | |
14 | (noun) the capital of Singapore; one of the world's biggest ports | |
19 | (noun) a person who sings | |
27 | (noun) the act of singing vocal music | |
222 | (verb) hit a single; (adjective) used of flowers having usually only one row or whorl of petals | |
20 | (adjective) composed of one member, set, or kind; (noun) the form of a word that is used to denote a singleton | |
27 | (verb) fall or descend to a lower place or level; (noun) plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe | |
10 | (noun) a descent as through liquid (especially through water) | |
11 | (noun) a person who sins (without repenting) | |
9 | (noun) any of various air-filled cavities especially in the bones of the skull | |
7 | (verb) drink in sips; (noun) a small drink | |
167 | (noun) term of address for a man | |
90 | (noun) a female person who has the same parents as another person | |
65 | (verb) be seated | |
159 | (noun) the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located) | |
58 | (adjective) not moving and therefore easy to attack; (noun) (photography) the act of assuming a certain position (as for a photograph or portrait) | |
28 | (adjective) situated in a particular spot or position | |
235 | (noun) the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time | |
194 | (adjective) denoting a quantity consisting of six items or units; (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one | |
21 | (adjective) being one more than fifteen; (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of fifteen and one | |
17 | (adjective) coming next after the fifteenth in position; (noun) position 16 in a countable series of things | |
29 | (adjective) coming next after the fifth and just before the seventh in position; (noun) position six in a countable series of things | |
5 | (noun) the decade from 1960 to 1969 | |
32 | (adjective) being ten more than fifty; (noun) the cardinal number that is the product of ten and six | |
197 | (verb) cover or stiffen or glaze a porous material with size or sizing (a glutinous substance); (adjective) (used in combination) sized | |
13 | (adjective) having a specified size | |
7 | (adjective) of or relating to or forming or attached to a skeleton | |
11 | (noun) something reduced to its minimal form | |
35 | (verb) make a sketch of; (noun) preliminary drawing for later elaboration | |
5 | (verb) move along on skis; (noun) narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used in pairs for gliding over snow | |
110 | (noun) an ability that has been acquired by training | |
19 | (adjective) having or showing or requiring special skill | |
90 | (verb) bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of; (noun) a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch | |
9 | (verb) bound off one point after another; (noun) a gait in which steps and hops alternate | |
12 | (verb) pass around or about; move along the border; (noun) cloth covering that forms the part of a garment below the waist | |
16 | (noun) the bony skeleton of the head of vertebrates | |
52 | (noun) the atmosphere and outer space as viewed from the earth | |
10 | (noun) block consisting of a thick piece of something | |
7 | (adjective) killed; 'slain' is formal or literary as in "slain warriors"; (noun) people who have been slain (as in battle) | |
6 | (verb) close violently; (noun) winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge | |
7 | (verb) hit with something flat, like a paddle or the open hand; (noun) a blow from a flat object (as an open hand) | |
8 | (verb) designate or schedule; (noun) (formerly) a writing tablet made of slate | |
12 | (noun) the killing of animals (as for food) | |
80 | (verb) work very hard, like a slave; (noun) a person who is owned by someone | |
36 | (noun) the practice of owning slaves | |
85 | (verb) be asleep; (noun) a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended | |
21 | (noun) the state of being asleep | |
10 | (noun) the part of a garment that is attached at the armhole and that provides a cloth covering for the arm | |
12 | (adjective) being of delicate or slender build | |
12 | (verb) hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels in a different direction; (noun) a share of something | |
30 | (verb) move smoothly along a surface; (noun) a small flat rectangular piece of glass on which specimens can be mounted for microscopic study | |
8 | (adjective) being a smooth continuous motion | |
56 | (verb) pay no attention to, disrespect | |
65 | (adverb) to a small degree or extent | |
5 | (verb) take off weight; (adjective) being of delicate or slender build | |
38 | (verb) insert inconspicuously or quickly or quietly; (noun) a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc. | |
7 | (verb) make a clean cut through; (noun) a long narrow opening | |
7 | (noun) a favorite saying of a sect or political group | |
38 | (verb) be at an angle; (noun) an elevated geological formation | |
10 | (verb) assign a time slot; (noun) a position in a grammatical linguistic construction in which a variety of alternative units are interchangeable | |
66 | (verb) become slow or slower; (adjective) not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time | |
9 | (adverb) more slowly | |
67 | (adverb) without speed ('slow' is sometimes used informally for 'slowly') | |
6 | (verb) spend time at a lower socio-economic level than one's own, motivated by curiosity or desire for adventure; usage considered condescending and insensitive; (noun) a district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living conditions | |
486 | (adverb) on a small scale; (adjective) limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent | |
79 | (adjective) small or little relative to something else | |
17 | (adjective) showing mental alertness and calculation and resourcefulness; (noun) a kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a sore | |
6 | (verb) stain by smearing or daubing with a dirty substance; (noun) slanderous defamation | |
27 | (verb) inhale the odor of; perceive by the olfactory sense; (noun) the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form | |
83 | (verb) change one's facial expression by spreading the lips, often to signal pleasure; (noun) a facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth; usually shows pleasure or amusement | |
17 | (noun) a facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth; usually shows pleasure or amusement; (adjective) smiling with happiness or optimism | |
87 | (noun) someone who works at something specified | |
32 | (verb) inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes; (noun) a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas | |
19 | (adjective) emitting smoke in great volume | |
38 | (verb) make smooth or smoother, as if by rubbing; (adjective) having a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges or irregularities | |
6 | (adverb) with no problems or difficulties | |
19 | (verb) move smoothly and sinuously, like a snake; (noun) limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous | |
16 | (verb) utter in an angry, sharp, or abrupt tone; (noun) a spell of cold weather | |
8 | (verb) to grasp hastily or eagerly; (noun) a small fragment | |
46 | (verb) fall as snow; (noun) precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals | |
1,948 | (conjunction) provided that; on condition that; in case that; if; (adverb) to a very great extent or degree | |
14 | (verb) rub soap all over, usually with the purpose of cleaning; (noun) a cleansing agent made from the salts of vegetable or animal fats | |
9 | (verb) cause to become sober; (adjective) not affected by a chemical substance (especially alcohol) | |
488 | (adjective) relating to human society and its members | |
20 | (noun) a political theory advocating state ownership of industry | |
42 | (noun) a political advocate of socialism | |
6 | (noun) the action of establishing on a socialist basis | |
16 | (adverb) by or with respect to society | |
6 | (adjective) relating to human society and its members | |
351 | (noun) an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization | |
7 | (adjective) involving social as well as economic factors | |
13 | (adjective) of or relating to or determined by sociology | |
7 | (noun) a social scientist who studies the institutions and development of human society | |
20 | (noun) the study and classification of human societies | |
6 | (verb) hit hard; (noun) hosiery consisting of a cloth covering for the foot; worn inside the shoe; reaches to between the ankle and the knee | |
5 | (noun) a bony hollow into which a structure fits | |
10 | (noun) ancient Athenian philosopher; teacher of Plato and Xenophon (470-399 BC) | |
9 | (noun) a sweet drink containing carbonated water and flavoring | |
30 | (noun) a silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group; occurs abundantly in natural compounds (especially in salt water); burns with a yellow flame and reacts violently in water; occurs in sea water and in the mineral halite (rock salt) | |
6 | (noun) an upholstered seat for more than one person | |
64 | (adjective) yielding readily to pressure or weight | |
12 | (adverb) with low volume | |
46 | (noun) (computer science) written programs or procedures or rules and associated documentation pertaining to the operation of a computer system and that are stored in read/write memory | |
115 | (noun) the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock | |
6 | (noun) a colloid that has a continuous liquid phase in which a solid is suspended in a liquid | |
23 | (adjective) relating to or derived from the sun or utilizing the energies of the sun | |
66 | (adjective) disposed of to a purchaser | |
96 | (verb) serve as a soldier in the military; (noun) an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army | |
29 | (verb) put a new sole on; (noun) the underside of footwear or a golf club | |
22 | (adverb) without any others being included or involved | |
15 | (adjective) dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises | |
5 | (adverb) in a grave and sedate manner | |
7 | (verb) make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently | |
6 | (noun) a petitioner who solicits contributions or trade or votes | |
73 | (adjective) of definite shape and volume; firm; neither liquid nor gaseous; (noun) matter that is solid at room temperature and pressure | |
11 | (noun) a union of interests or purposes or sympathies among members of a group | |
12 | (adjective) devoid of creatures; (noun) one who lives in solitude | |
8 | (noun) a state of social isolation | |
8 | (verb) fly alone, without a co-pilot or passengers; (adjective) composed or performed by a single voice or instrument | |
12 | (noun) (Old Testament) son of David and king of Israel noted for his wisdom (10th century BC) | |
6 | (noun) the quantity of a particular substance that can dissolve in a particular solvent (yielding a saturated solution) | |
14 | (adjective) (of a substance) capable of being dissolved in some solvent (usually water) | |
189 | (noun) a homogeneous mixture of two or more substances; frequently (but not necessarily) a liquid solution | |
28 | (verb) find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of | |
16 | (adjective) explained or answered | |
16 | (adjective) capable of meeting financial obligations; (noun) a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances | |
22 | (noun) finding a solution to a problem | |
1,589 | (determiner) an unspecified amount or number of; (adjective) remarkable | |
20 | (noun) a human being | |
28 | (adverb) in some unspecified way or manner; or by some unspecified means | |
93 | (noun) a human being | |
300 | (pronoun) used with, or sometimes added to, a word referring to a number to indicate an additional amount, unknown, unspecified, or forgotten | |
8 | (adverb) at some indefinite or unstated time | |
222 | (adverb) on certain occasions or in certain cases but not always | |
93 | (adverb) to a small degree or extent | |
29 | (adverb) in or at or to some place; (noun) an indefinite or unknown location | |
242 | (noun) a male human offspring | |
84 | (noun) a short musical composition with words | |
6 | (verb) praise in a sonnet; (noun) a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme | |
216 | (adverb) in the near future | |
21 | (adverb) comparatives of 'soon' or 'early' | |
17 | (adjective) having or appealing to those having worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir-faire | |
10 | (noun) an open skin infection | |
22 | (noun) an emotion of great sadness associated with loss or bereavement | |
33 | (adjective) causing dejection | |
124 | (noun) an approximate definition or example | |
5 | (noun) grouping by class or kind or size | |
65 | (adjective) that is looked for | |
127 | (noun) the immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life | |
191 | (verb) appear in a certain way; (adjective) financially secure and safe | |
9 | (adjective) having volume or deepness; (noun) a measure of the depth of water taken with a sounding line | |
12 | (verb) dope (a racehorse); (noun) liquid food especially of meat or fish or vegetable stock often containing pieces of solid food | |
6 | (verb) go sour or spoil; (adjective) having a sharp biting taste | |
267 | (verb) get (a product) from another country or business; (noun) a document (or organization) from which information is obtained | |
262 | (adverb) in a southern direction; (adjective) situated in or facing or moving toward or coming from the south | |
16 | (adverb) to, toward, or in the southeast; (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the southeast | |
97 | (adjective) in or characteristic of a region of the United States south of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line | |
5 | (noun) the cardinal compass point that is at 180 degrees; (adjective) moving toward the south | |
14 | (adverb) to, toward, or in the southwest; (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the southwest | |
5 | (adjective) of a region of the United States generally including New Mexico; Arizona; Texas; California; and sometimes Nevada; Utah; Colorado; (noun) a dialect of Middle English | |
30 | (adjective) greatest in status or authority or power; (noun) a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right | |
19 | (noun) government free from external control | |
95 | (noun) an elected governmental council in a communist country (especially one that is a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics); (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the former Soviet Union or its people | |
8 | (noun) the government of the Soviet Union | |
10 | (verb) place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth; (noun) an adult female hog | |
195 | (verb) place at intervals; (noun) the unlimited expanse in which everything is located | |
5 | (adjective) arranged with spaces between; often used as a combining form | |
8 | (noun) the time between occurrences of a repeating event | |
55 | (noun) a parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; a former colonial power | |
22 | (noun) the complete duration of something | |
69 | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of Spain or the people of Spain; (noun) the Romance language spoken in most of Spain and the countries colonized by Spain | |
26 | (verb) refrain from harming; (adjective) thin and fit | |
16 | (verb) emit or produce sparks; (noun) a small but noticeable trace of some quality that might become stronger | |
24 | (adjective) pertaining to or involving or having the nature of space | |
144 | (verb) use language | |
48 | (noun) someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous) | |
78 | (noun) the utterance of intelligible speech | |
11 | (verb) pierce with a spear; (noun) a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon | |
233 | (adjective) for a special service or occasion; (noun) a special offering (usually temporary and at a reduced price) that is featured in advertising | |
25 | (noun) an expert who is devoted to one occupation or branch of learning | |
7 | (noun) the act of specializing; making something suitable for a special purpose | |
5 | (verb) become more focused on an area of activity or field of study | |
20 | (adjective) developed or designed for a special activity or function | |
17 | (adverb) in a special manner | |
9 | (noun) an asset of special worth or utility | |
140 | (noun) (biology) taxonomic group whose members can interbreed | |
192 | (adjective) (sometimes followed by 'to') applying to or characterized by or distinguishing something particular or special or unique; (noun) a medicine that has a mitigating effect on a specific disease | |
42 | (adverb) in distinction from others | |
29 | (noun) a detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work | |
8 | (noun) the quality of being specific rather than general | |
42 | (adjective) clearly and explicitly stated | |
29 | (verb) decide upon or fix definitely | |
48 | (noun) an example regarded as typical of its class | |
9 | (noun) something or someone seen (especially a notable or unusual sight) | |
8 | (adjective) characteristic of spectacles or drama; (noun) a lavishly produced performance | |
15 | (noun) a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind) | |
10 | (adjective) of or relating to a spectrum | |
42 | (noun) an ordered array of the components of an emission or wave | |
8 | (verb) to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds | |
18 | (noun) a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence) | |
9 | (adjective) not financially safe or secure | |
123 | (noun) (language) communication by word of mouth | |
90 | (verb) travel at an excessive or illegal velocity; (noun) distance travelled per unit time | |
6 | (adverb) with speed | |
5 | (adjective) accomplished rapidly and without delay | |
21 | (verb) orally recite the letters of or give the spelling of; (noun) a verbal formula believed to have magical force | |
12 | (noun) forming words with letters according to the principles underlying accepted usage | |
11 | (noun) English philosopher and sociologist who applied the theory of natural selection to human societies (1820-1903) | |
46 | (verb) use up a period of time in a specific way | |
27 | (noun) the act of spending or disbursing money | |
80 | (adjective) depleted of energy, force, or strength | |
8 | (noun) the male reproductive cell; the male gamete | |
42 | (noun) a particular environment or walk of life | |
8 | (adjective) of or relating to spheres or resembling a sphere | |
7 | (verb) make more interesting or flavorful; (noun) aromatic substances of vegetable origin used as a preservative | |
8 | (noun) predatory arachnid with eight legs, two poison fangs, two feelers, and usually two silk-spinning organs at the back end of the body; they spin silk to make cocoons for eggs or traps for prey | |
7 | (verb) stand in the way of; (noun) a transient variation in voltage or current | |
10 | (verb) cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container; (noun) liquid that is spilled | |
22 | (verb) revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis; (noun) a swift whirling motion (usually of a missile) | |
18 | (adjective) of or relating to the spine or spinal cord | |
6 | (noun) (biology) tiny fibers that are seen in cell division; the fibers radiate from two poles and meet at the equator in the middle | |
16 | (noun) a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf | |
9 | (noun) creating thread | |
11 | (verb) form a spiral; (noun) a plane curve traced by a point circling about the center but at increasing distances from the center | |
166 | (verb) infuse with spirit; (noun) the vital principle or animating force within living things | |
5 | (adjective) displaying animation, vigor, or liveliness | |
33 | (noun) an alcoholic beverage that is distilled rather than fermented | |
80 | (adjective) concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul; (noun) a kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the southern United States | |
6 | (noun) concern with things of the spirit | |
47 | (verb) hurt the feelings of; (noun) feeling a need to see others suffer | |
6 | (noun) a large dark-red oval organ on the left side of the body between the stomach and the diaphragm; produces cells involved in immune responses | |
18 | (adjective) very good; of the highest quality | |
31 | (adjective) (especially of wood) cut or ripped longitudinally with the grain; (noun) extending the legs at right angles to the trunk (one in front and the other in back) | |
7 | (adjective) resembling a sound of violent tearing as of something ripped apart or lightning splitting a tree | |
9 | (verb) become unfit for consumption or use; (noun) (usually plural) valuables taken by violence (especially in war) | |
66 | (noun) support consisting of a radial member of a wheel joining the hub to the rim | |
40 | (adjective) uttered through the medium of speech or characterized by speech; sometimes used in combination | |
6 | (noun) a male spokesperson | |
6 | (verb) wipe with a sponge, so as to clean or moisten; (noun) a porous mass of interlacing fibers that forms the internal skeleton of various marine animals and usable to absorb water or any porous rubber or cellulose product similarly used | |
23 | (verb) assume sponsorship of | |
17 | (adjective) happening or arising without apparent external cause | |
7 | (adverb) in a spontaneous manner | |
8 | (verb) scoop up or take up with a spoon; (noun) a piece of cutlery with a shallow bowl-shaped container and a handle; used to stir or serve or take up food | |
7 | (noun) a small usually single-celled asexual reproductive body produced by many nonflowering plants and fungi and some bacteria and protozoans and that are capable of developing into a new individual without sexual fusion | |
48 | (verb) wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner; (noun) an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition | |
50 | (verb) detect with the senses; (noun) a short section or illustration (as between radio or tv programs or in a magazine) that is often used for advertising | |
17 | (noun) spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor and lens | |
8 | (adjective) having spots or patches (small areas of contrasting color or texture) | |
19 | (noun) a person's partner in marriage | |
15 | (verb) be discharged in sprays of liquid; (noun) a pesticide in suspension or solution; intended for spraying | |
78 | (verb) distribute or disperse widely; (adjective) prepared or arranged for a meal; especially having food set out | |
15 | (noun) process or result of distributing or extending over a wide expanse of space | |
129 | (verb) develop suddenly; (noun) the season of growth | |
8 | (noun) the lowest stone in an arch -- from which it springs | |
6 | (noun) capital of the state of Illinois | |
5 | (verb) cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force; (noun) the act of sprinkling or splashing water | |
11 | (verb) incite or stimulate; (noun) any sharply pointed projection | |
12 | (verb) watch, observe, or inquire secretly; (noun) (military) a secret agent hired by a state to obtain information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors | |
6 | (noun) a smallest army unit | |
13 | (noun) a cavalry unit consisting of two or more troops and headquarters and supporting arms | |
99 | (verb) make square; (adjective) having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle | |
11 | (verb) press firmly; (noun) the act of gripping and pressing firmly | |
6 | (verb) attend upon as a squire; serve as a squire; (noun) young nobleman attendant on a knight | |
5 | (noun) a soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group; turns yellow in air; occurs in celestite and strontianite | |
14 | (noun) the United States intelligence agency that protects current and former presidents and vice presidents and their immediate families and protects distinguished foreign visitors; detects and apprehends counterfeiters; suppresses forgery of government securities and documents | |
39 | (noun) the quality or attribute of being firm and steadfast | |
6 | (noun) the act of stabilizing something or making it more stable | |
45 | (verb) shelter in a stable; (adjective) resistant to change of position or condition | |
12 | (verb) load or cover with stacks; (noun) an orderly pile | |
114 | (verb) provide with staff; (noun) personnel who assist their superior in carrying out an assigned task | |
197 | (verb) perform (a play), especially on a stage; (noun) a large platform on which people can stand and can be seen by an audience | |
12 | (verb) color with a liquid dye or tint; (noun) a soiled or discolored appearance | |
11 | (adjective) marked or dyed or discolored with foreign matter | |
6 | (noun) (histology) the use of a dye to color specimens for microscopic study | |
6 | (noun) a way of access (upward and downward) consisting of a set of steps | |
17 | (noun) a flight of stairs or a flight of steps | |
15 | (verb) mark with a stake; (noun) instrument of execution consisting of a vertical post that a victim is tied to for burning | |
13 | (noun) Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition (1879-1953) | |
7 | (verb) walk stiffly; (noun) a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ | |
5 | (verb) come to a stop; (noun) a compartment in a stable where a single animal is confined and fed | |
29 | (verb) to mark, or produce an imprint in or on something; (noun) a type or class | |
10 | (noun) standing posture | |
264 | (verb) be standing; be upright; (noun) the position where a thing or person stands | |
229 | (adjective) conforming to or constituting a standard of measurement or value; or of the usual or regularized or accepted kind; (noun) a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated | |
9 | (adjective) brought into conformity with a standard | |
87 | (adjective) (of persons) on the feet; having the torso in an erect position supported by straight legs; (noun) social or financial or professional status or reputation | |
13 | (noun) a mental position from which things are viewed | |
15 | (noun) United States railroad executive and founder of Stanford University (1824-1893) | |
15 | (noun) United States inventor who built a steam-powered automobile (1849-1918) | |
8 | (noun) a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem | |
8 | (verb) secure or fasten with a staple or staples; (adjective) necessary or important, especially regarding food or commodities | |
90 | (verb) feature as the star; (noun) (astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior | |
8 | (verb) stiffen with starch; (noun) a complex carbohydrate found chiefly in seeds, fruits, tubers, roots and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice; an important foodstuff and used otherwise especially in adhesives and as fillers and stiffeners for paper and textiles | |
27 | (verb) fixate one's eyes; (noun) a fixed look with eyes open wide | |
12 | (adjective) (used of eyes) open and fixed as if in fear or wonder | |
7 | (adverb) completely; (adjective) complete or extreme | |
237 | (verb) get off the ground; (noun) the beginning of anything | |
50 | (adjective) (especially of eyes) bulging or protruding as with fear | |
8 | (adjective) excited by sudden surprise or alarm and making a quick involuntary movement | |
6 | (adjective) so remarkably different or sudden as to cause momentary shock or alarm | |
6 | (noun) a state of extreme hunger resulting from lack of essential nutrients over a prolonged period | |
1,268 | (verb) express in words; (noun) the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation | |
85 | (adjective) declared as fact; explicitly stated | |
179 | (noun) a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc | |
15 | (noun) a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs | |
20 | (adjective) showing little if any change; (noun) a crackling or hissing noise caused by electrical interference | |
80 | (verb) assign to a station; (noun) a facility equipped with special equipment and personnel for a particular purpose | |
11 | (adjective) standing still | |
29 | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) a devotion consisting of fourteen prayers said before a series of fourteen pictures or carvings representing successive incidents during Jesus' passage from Pilate's house to his crucifixion at Calvary | |
37 | (adjective) of or relating to statistics | |
7 | (adverb) with respect to statistics | |
44 | (noun) a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters | |
21 | (noun) a sculpture representing a human or animal | |
7 | (noun) high level of respect gained by impressive development or achievement | |
110 | (noun) the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society | |
54 | (adjective) enacted by a legislative body; (noun) an act passed by a legislative body | |
16 | (adjective) relating to or created by statutes | |
118 | (verb) stay the same; remain in a certain state; (noun) continuing or remaining in a place or state | |
6 | (noun) a woman's close-fitting foundation garment | |
17 | (adverb) at a steady rate or pace | |
32 | (verb) make steady; (adjective) not subject to change or variation especially in behavior | |
21 | (verb) take without the owner's consent; (noun) a stolen base; an instance in which a base runner advances safely during the delivery of a pitch (without the help of a hit or walk or passed ball or wild pitch) | |
7 | (noun) avoiding detection by moving carefully | |
37 | (verb) emit steam; (noun) water at boiling temperature diffused in the atmosphere | |
11 | (verb) travel by means of steam power; (noun) a cooking utensil that can be used to cook food by steaming it | |
70 | (verb) get ready for something difficult or unpleasant; (noun) an alloy of iron with small amounts of carbon; widely used in construction; mechanical properties can be varied over a wide range | |
18 | (verb) devote (oneself) fully to; (adjective) having a sharp inclination | |
8 | (verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | |
7 | (noun) the act of setting and holding a course | |
7 | (noun) experimental expatriate United States writer (1874-1946) | |
39 | (verb) grow out of, have roots in, originate in; (noun) the tube of a tobacco pipe | |
154 | (verb) shift or move by taking a step; (noun) the act of changing location by raising the foot and setting it down | |
26 | (noun) English writer (1832-1904) | |
80 | (noun) the course along which a person has walked or is walking in | |
10 | (noun) a conventional or formulaic conception or image | |
8 | (adjective) incapable of reproducing | |
10 | (noun) British money; especially the pound sterling as the basic monetary unit of the UK | |
17 | (adjective) severe and unremitting in making demands; (noun) the rear part of a ship | |
7 | (noun) any of several fat-soluble organic compounds having as a basis 17 carbon atoms in four rings; many have important physiological effects | |
10 | (noun) United States psychologist and psychophysicist who proposed Stevens' power law to replace Fechner's law (1906-1973) | |
7 | (noun) Scottish author (1850-1894) | |
8 | (noun) someone who manages property or other affairs for someone else | |
14 | (noun) United States film actor who portrayed incorruptible but modest heros (1908-1997) | |
35 | (verb) be or become fixed; (noun) an implement consisting of a length of wood | |
13 | (adverb) extremely; (adjective) not moving or operating freely | |
551 | (adverb) with reference to action or condition; without change, interruption, or cessation; (verb) lessen the intensity of or calm | |
16 | (verb) act as a stimulant | |
14 | (adjective) emotionally aroused | |
10 | (adjective) rousing or quickening activity or the senses | |
20 | (noun) the act of arousing an organism to action | |
38 | (noun) any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action | |
8 | (verb) specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement | |
14 | (verb) move an implement through; (noun) a prominent or sensational but short-lived news event | |
10 | (adjective) set into a usually circular motion in order to mix or blend | |
10 | (adjective) exciting strong but not unpleasant emotions; (noun) agitating a liquid with an implement | |
6 | (noun) a link or loop or knot made by an implement in knitting, crocheting, embroidery, or sewing | |
109 | (verb) have on hand; (adjective) routine | |
9 | (noun) someone who holds shares of stock in a corporation | |
7 | (noun) the capital and largest city of Sweden; located in southern Sweden on the Baltic | |
7 | (noun) close-fitting hosiery to cover the foot and leg; come in matched pairs (usually used in the plural) | |
18 | (noun) a frame that supports a boat while it is under construction | |
5 | (verb) stir up or tend; of a fire | |
6 | (noun) a wide scarf worn about their shoulders by women | |
31 | (verb) bear to eat; (noun) an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion | |
123 | (verb) kill by throwing stones at; (adjective) of any of various dull tannish or grey colors | |
9 | (verb) lure with a stool, as of wild fowl; (noun) a simple seat without a back or arms | |
88 | (verb) come to a halt, stop moving; (noun) the event of something ending | |
60 | (adjective) (of a nose) blocked | |
13 | (noun) the kind of playing that involves pressing the fingers on the strings of a stringed instrument to control the pitch | |
13 | (noun) a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card | |
42 | (noun) the act of storing something | |
124 | (verb) keep or lay aside for future use; (noun) a supply of something available for future use | |
43 | (verb) take by force; (noun) a violent weather condition with winds 64-72 knots (11 on the Beaufort scale) and precipitation and thunder and lightning | |
254 | (noun) a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events | |
8 | (noun) a strong very dark heavy-bodied ale made from pale malt and roasted unmalted barley and (often) caramel malt with hops | |
9 | (noun) a kitchen appliance used for cooking food | |
66 | (adverb) in a straight line; in a direct course; (adjective) having no deviations | |
7 | (verb) straighten up or out; make straight | |
10 | (adjective) free from ambiguity | |
52 | (verb) use to the utmost; exert vigorously or to full capacity; (noun) (physics) deformation of a physical body under the action of applied forces | |
7 | (adjective) showing signs of mental and emotional tension | |
6 | (adjective) narrow; (noun) a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water | |
6 | (noun) a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs | |
14 | (verb) drive (a vessel) ashore; (noun) a pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole | |
63 | (adjective) being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird | |
8 | (adverb) in a strange manner | |
36 | (noun) anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found | |
7 | (verb) tie with a strap; (noun) an elongated leather strip (or a strip of similar material) for binding things together or holding something in position | |
34 | (adjective) relating to or concerned with strategy | |
109 | (noun) the branch of military science dealing with military command and the planning and conduct of a war | |
16 | (noun) one of several parallel layers of material arranged one on top of another (such as a layer of tissue or cells in an organism or a layer of sedimentary rock) | |
6 | (noun) German composer of many operas; collaborated with librettist Hugo von Hoffmannsthal to produce several operas (1864-1949) | |
13 | (verb) cover or provide with or as if with straw; (adjective) of a pale yellow color like straw; straw-colored | |
6 | (verb) wander from a direct course or at random; (adjective) (of an animal) having no home or having wandered away from home | |
6 | (verb) move quickly in a straight line; (noun) an unbroken series of events | |
72 | (verb) to extend, wave or float outward, as if in the wind; (noun) a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth | |
194 | (noun) a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings | |
131 | (noun) the property of being physically or mentally strong | |
16 | (verb) make strong or stronger | |
13 | (adjective) given added strength or support | |
10 | (noun) becoming stronger | |
100 | (verb) to stress, single out as important; (noun) the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch) | |
16 | (adjective) bearing a stress or accent | |
22 | (verb) occupy a large, elongated area; (adjective) easily stretched | |
17 | (adjective) (of muscles) relieved of stiffness by stretching | |
10 | (noun) act of expanding by lengthening or widening | |
6 | (adjective) (used in combination) affected by something overwhelming | |
30 | (adjective) severe and unremitting in making demands | |
28 | (adverb) restricted to something | |
10 | (verb) walk with long steps; (noun) significant progress (especially in the phrase 'make strides') | |
10 | (noun) bitter conflict; heated often violent dissension | |
61 | (verb) deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon; (noun) a group's refusal to work in protest against low pay or bad work conditions | |
38 | (noun) the act of contacting one thing with another; (adjective) sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect | |
33 | (verb) thread on or as if on a string; (noun) a lightweight cord | |
12 | (noun) (usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement | |
28 | (verb) remove the surface from; (noun) a relatively long narrow piece of something | |
8 | (adjective) having only essential or minimal features | |
13 | (verb) to exert much effort or energy | |
8 | (noun) an effortful attempt to attain a goal | |
31 | (verb) touch lightly and repeatedly, as with brushing motions; (noun) (sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand | |
7 | (verb) walk leisurely and with no apparent aim | |
232 | (adjective) having strength or power greater than average or expected | |
54 | (adverb) with strength or in a strong manner | |
43 | (adjective) (used in combination) affected by something overwhelming | |
46 | (adjective) relating to or caused by structure, especially political or economic structure | |
278 | (verb) give a structure to; (noun) a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts | |
13 | (adjective) having definite and highly organized structure | |
90 | (verb) to exert strenuous effort against opposition; (noun) an energetic attempt to achieve something | |
12 | (adjective) engaged in a struggle to overcome especially poverty or obscurity | |
14 | (noun) United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington (1755-1828) | |
5 | (adjective) tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield | |
16 | (adjective) caught or fixed | |
316 | (noun) a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution | |
63 | (adjective) produced or marked by conscious design or premeditation | |
21 | (noun) workplace for the teaching or practice of an art | |
552 | (verb) be a student; follow a course of study; be enrolled at an institute of learning; (noun) applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading) | |
26 | (noun) reading carefully with intent to remember | |
25 | (verb) cram into a cavity; (noun) miscellaneous unspecified objects | |
6 | (adjective) filled with something | |
10 | (verb) walk unsteadily | |
6 | (verb) cause to be perplexed or confounded; (noun) the base part of a tree that remains standing after the tree has been felled | |
14 | (adjective) lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity; (noun) a person who is not very bright | |
132 | (verb) designate by an identifying term; (noun) a particular kind (as to appearance) | |
45 | (noun) a submersible warship usually armed with torpedoes; (verb) be a substitute | |
5 | (verb) form into subdivisions | |
11 | (noun) an area composed of subdivided lots | |
6 | (adjective) quieted and brought under control | |
400 | (verb) cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to; (adjective) being under the power or sovereignty of another or others | |
20 | (adjective) taking place within the mind and modified by individual bias | |
5 | (noun) judgment based on individual personal impressions and feelings and opinions rather than external facts | |
9 | (verb) vaporize and then condense right back again; (adjective) lifted up or set high | |
11 | (verb) move forward or under in a sliding motion; (adjective) beneath the surface of the sea | |
15 | (noun) something (manuscripts or architectural plans and models or estimates or works of art of all genres etc.) submitted for the judgment of others (as in a competition) | |
55 | (verb) refer for judgment or consideration | |
25 | (verb) rank or order as less important or consider of less value; (adjective) lower in rank or importance | |
6 | (verb) offer to buy, as of stocks and shares | |
7 | (noun) someone who expresses strong approval | |
12 | (noun) a payment for consecutive issues of a newspaper or magazine for a given period of time | |
12 | (noun) a section of a section; a part of a part; i.e., a part of something already divided | |
60 | (adjective) following in time or order | |
33 | (adverb) happening at a time subsequent to a reference time | |
7 | (noun) a set whose members are members of another set; a set contained within another set | |
6 | (verb) wear off or die down | |
15 | (adjective) functioning in a supporting capacity; (noun) an assistant subject to the authority or control of another | |
16 | (noun) a grant paid by a government to an enterprise that benefits the public | |
5 | (verb) support oneself | |
10 | (noun) minimal (or marginal) resources for subsisting | |
90 | (noun) the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists | |
48 | (adjective) having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary | |
21 | (adverb) in a strong substantial way | |
9 | (adjective) defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established; (noun) any word or group of words functioning as a noun | |
40 | (verb) put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items; (noun) a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another | |
8 | (noun) working as a substitute for someone who is ill or on leave of absence | |
16 | (noun) an event in which one thing is substituted for another | |
17 | (noun) the substance that is acted upon by an enzyme or ferment | |
20 | (adjective) able to make fine distinctions | |
8 | (verb) make a subtraction | |
10 | (noun) a residential district located on the outskirts of a city | |
7 | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of or situated in suburbs | |
72 | (verb) attain success or reach a desired goal | |
12 | (adjective) coming after or following | |
125 | (noun) an event that accomplishes its intended purpose | |
93 | (adjective) having succeeded or being marked by a favorable outcome | |
32 | (adverb) with success; in a successful manner | |
28 | (noun) a group of people or things arranged or following in order | |
22 | (adjective) in regular succession without gaps | |
5 | (adverb) in proper order or sequence | |
26 | (noun) a person who follows next in order | |
5 | (verb) be fatally overwhelmed | |
1,478 | (adverb) to so extreme a degree | |
7 | (verb) draw into the mouth by creating a practical vacuum in the mouth | |
7 | (noun) a republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea; achieved independence from Egypt and the United Kingdom in 1956 | |
42 | (adjective) happening without warning or in a short space of time | |
78 | (adverb) happening unexpectedly | |
18 | (noun) French writer whose novels described the sordid side of city life (1804-1857) | |
89 | (verb) undergo or be subjected to | |
58 | (adjective) troubled by pain or loss; (noun) misery resulting from affliction | |
12 | (verb) be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity | |
102 | (adjective) of a quantity that can fulfill a need or requirement but without being abundant | |
40 | (adverb) to a sufficient degree | |
6 | (verb) attach a suffix to; (noun) an affix that is added at the end of the word | |
9 | (noun) a legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US Constitution; guaranteed to women by the 19th amendment | |
55 | (verb) sweeten with sugar; (noun) a white crystalline carbohydrate used as a sweetener and preservative | |
252 | (verb) imply as a possibility | |
56 | (noun) an idea that is suggested | |
8 | (adjective) tending to suggest something improper or indecent | |
22 | (noun) the act of killing yourself | |
53 | (verb) be agreeable or acceptable to; (noun) a set of garments (usually including a jacket and trousers or skirt) for outerwear all of the same fabric and color | |
50 | (adjective) meant or adapted for an occasion or use | |
15 | (noun) a musical composition of several movements only loosely connected | |
18 | (adjective) outfitted or supplied with clothing | |
7 | (verb) convert into a sulfate; (noun) a salt or ester of sulphuric acid | |
7 | (noun) an abundant tasteless odorless multivalent nonmetallic element; best known in yellow crystals; occurs in many sulphide and sulphate minerals and even in native form (especially in volcanic regions) | |
8 | (noun) United States architect known for his steel framed skyscrapers and for coining the phrase 'form follows function' (1856-1924) | |
8 | (noun) a salt or ester of sulphuric acid | |
9 | (verb) treat with sulphur in order to preserve | |
12 | (noun) the ruler of a Muslim country (especially of the former Ottoman Empire) | |
92 | (noun) a quantity of money | |
27 | (verb) be a summary of | |
58 | (noun) a brief statement that presents the main points in a concise form | |
101 | (verb) spend the summer; (noun) the warmest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox | |
17 | (verb) reach the summit (of a mountain); (noun) a meeting of heads of governments | |
15 | (verb) call in an official matter, such as to attend court | |
7 | (noun) an order to appear in person at a given place and time | |
117 | (verb) expose one's body to the sun; (noun) the star that is the source of light and heat for the planets in the solar system | |
44 | (noun) first day of the week; observed as a day of rest and worship by most Christians | |
12 | (noun) the imperial dynasty of China from 960 to 1279; noted for art and literature and philosophy | |
9 | (adjective) doomed to extinction | |
11 | (noun) the rays of the sun | |
7 | (adjective) bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer | |
9 | (adjective) of a declining industry or technology; (noun) the time in the evening at which the sun begins to fall below the horizon | |
10 | (noun) the rays of the sun | |
14 | (adjective) including more than a specified category | |
6 | (adjective) surpassingly good | |
15 | (adjective) concerned with or comprehending only what is apparent or obvious; not deep or penetrating emotionally or intellectually | |
17 | (noun) a caretaker for an apartment house; represents the owner as janitor and rent collector | |
66 | (adjective) of high or superior quality or performance; (noun) one of greater rank or station or quality | |
15 | (noun) the quality of being superior | |
11 | (adjective) not existing in nature or subject to explanation according to natural laws; not physical or material; (noun) supernatural forces and events and beings collectively | |
7 | (verb) take the place or move into the position of | |
10 | (noun) an irrational belief arising from ignorance or fear | |
22 | (noun) management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group | |
19 | (noun) one who supervises or has charge and direction of | |
16 | (noun) a light evening meal; served in early evening if dinner is at midday or served late in the evening at bedtime | |
30 | (verb) add as a supplement to what seems insufficient; (noun) a quantity added (e.g. to make up for a deficiency) | |
9 | (adjective) added to complete or make up a deficiency | |
17 | (noun) someone whose business is to supply a particular service or commodity | |
196 | (verb) give something useful or necessary to; (noun) an amount of something available for use | |
9 | (noun) the activity of supplying or providing something | |
266 | (verb) give moral or psychological support, aid, or courage to; (noun) the activity of providing for or maintaining by supplying with money or necessities | |
64 | (adjective) sustained or maintained by aid (as distinct from physical support) | |
18 | (noun) a person who backs a politician or a team etc. | |
30 | (noun) the act of bearing the weight of or strengthening; (adjective) furnishing support and encouragement | |
8 | (adjective) furnishing support or assistance | |
86 | (verb) express a supposition | |
68 | (adjective) based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence | |
8 | (adverb) believed or reputed to be the case | |
7 | (noun) the cognitive process of supposing | |
12 | (verb) bring under control by force or authority | |
11 | (adjective) kept from public knowledge by various means | |
12 | (noun) the failure to develop some part or organ | |
18 | (adverb) (in writing) at an earlier place | |
10 | (noun) power to dominate or defeat | |
66 | (adjective) final or last in your life or progress | |
22 | (noun) a port in southern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea; formerly a major Phoenician seaport famous for silks | |
158 | (adjective) physically secure or dependable | |
44 | (adverb) definitely or positively ('sure' is sometimes used informally for 'surely') | |
228 | (verb) come to the surface; (adjective) on the surface | |
7 | (verb) see one's performance improve; (noun) a sudden or abrupt strong increase | |
22 | (noun) a physician who specializes in surgery | |
33 | (noun) the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures | |
21 | (adjective) of or relating to or involving or used in surgery | |
8 | (verb) be or do something to a greater degree | |
24 | (adjective) more than is needed, desired, or required; (noun) a quantity much larger than is needed | |
41 | (verb) cause to be surprised; (noun) the astonishment you feel when something totally unexpected happens to you | |
32 | (adjective) taken unawares or suddenly and feeling wonder or astonishment | |
26 | (adjective) causing surprise or wonder or amazement | |
12 | (adverb) in a surprising manner | |
32 | (verb) give up or agree to forgo to the power or possession of another; (noun) the delivery of a principal into lawful custody | |
10 | (verb) extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle | |
32 | (adjective) confined on all sides | |
35 | (adjective) closely encircling | |
12 | (noun) the area in which something exists or lives | |
8 | (noun) close observation of a person or group (usually by the police) | |
101 | (verb) consider in a comprehensive way; (noun) a detailed critical inspection | |
6 | (noun) an engineer who determines the boundaries and elevations of land or structures | |
34 | (noun) a state of surviving; remaining alive | |
47 | (verb) continue to live and avoid dying | |
12 | (adjective) still in existence | |
13 | (noun) one who lives through affliction | |
7 | (noun) the state of being susceptible; easily affected | |
12 | (adjective) (often followed by 'of' or 'to') yielding readily to or capable of | |
26 | (verb) imagine to be the case or true or probable; (noun) someone who is under suspicion | |
21 | (adjective) believed likely | |
6 | (verb) hang freely | |
20 | (adjective) (of undissolved particles in a fluid) supported or kept from sinking or falling by buoyancy and without apparent attachment | |
17 | (noun) a mixture in which fine particles are suspended in a fluid where they are supported by buoyancy | |
25 | (noun) the state of being suspected | |
10 | (adjective) not as expected | |
23 | (verb) supply with necessities and support | |
9 | (adjective) capable of being sustained | |
26 | (adjective) maintained at length without interruption or weakening | |
8 | (verb) join with a suture; (noun) an immovable joint (especially between the bones of the skull) | |
22 | (verb) pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking; (noun) a small amount of liquid food | |
11 | (verb) drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged; (noun) low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog | |
6 | (verb) sweep majestically; (noun) stately heavy-bodied aquatic bird with very long neck and usually white plumage as adult | |
8 | (noun) a group of many things in the air or on the ground | |
12 | (noun) controlling influence | |
14 | (verb) promise solemnly; take an oath | |
11 | (verb) excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin; (noun) condensation of moisture on a cold surface | |
20 | (noun) a Scandinavian kingdom in the eastern part of the Scandinavian Peninsula | |
13 | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of Sweden or its people or culture or language; (noun) a Scandinavian language that is the official language of Sweden and one of two official languages of Finland | |
12 | (verb) move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions; (noun) a wide scope | |
9 | (adjective) taking in or moving over (or as if over) a wide area; often used in combination; (noun) the act of cleaning with a broom | |
51 | (adjective) having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar; (noun) a food rich in sugar | |
8 | (verb) increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity; (noun) the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea | |
12 | (noun) an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement | |
17 | (adjective) possessing sweep | |
18 | (noun) a small bird that resembles a swallow and is noted for its rapid flight | |
7 | (adverb) in a swift manner | |
12 | (verb) travel through water | |
14 | (noun) the act of swimming | |
26 | (verb) move in a curve or arc, usually with the intent of hitting; (noun) a state of steady vigorous action that is characteristic of an activity | |
6 | (noun) changing location by moving back and forth; (adjective) characterized by a buoyant rhythm | |
12 | (adjective) of or relating to Switzerland or its people or culture; (noun) the natives or inhabitants of Switzerland | |
34 | (verb) lay aside, abandon, or leave for another; (noun) control consisting of a mechanical or electrical or electronic device for making or breaking or changing the connections in a circuit | |
9 | (noun) the act of changing one thing or position for another | |
15 | (noun) a landlocked federal republic in central Europe | |
7 | (adjective) characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance | |
32 | (noun) a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard | |
7 | (adjective) bound by or stated on oath | |
13 | (noun) the largest Australian city located in southeastern Australia on the Tasman Sea; state capital of New South Wales; Australia's chief port | |
12 | (noun) a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme | |
62 | (noun) an arbitrary sign (written or printed) that has acquired a conventional significance | |
23 | (adjective) relating to or using or proceeding by means of symbols | |
7 | (noun) a system of symbols and symbolic representations | |
7 | (verb) represent or identify by using a symbol; use symbols | |
6 | (adjective) having similarity in size, shape, and relative position of corresponding parts | |
12 | (noun) (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane | |
18 | (adjective) of or relating to the sympathetic nervous system | |
33 | (noun) an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion | |
10 | (noun) a long and complex sonata for symphony orchestra | |
11 | (noun) a meeting or conference for the public discussion of some topic especially one in which the participants form an audience and make presentations | |
70 | (noun) (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease | |
7 | (noun) (Judaism) the place of worship for a Jewish congregation | |
34 | (noun) a complex of concurrent things | |
6 | (noun) a council convened to discuss ecclesiastical business | |
9 | (noun) the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences | |
29 | (noun) the process of producing a chemical compound (usually by the union of simpler chemical compounds) | |
8 | (verb) combine so as to form a more complex, product | |
13 | (adjective) involving or of the nature of synthesis (combining separate elements to form a coherent whole) as opposed to analysis; (noun) a compound made artificially by chemical reactions | |
5 | (noun) a common venereal disease caused by the treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta) | |
11 | (noun) an Asian republic in the Middle East at the east end of the Mediterranean; site of some of the world's most ancient centers of civilization | |
5 | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of Syria or its people or culture; (noun) a native or inhabitant of Syria | |
769 | (noun) instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity | |
27 | (adjective) characterized by order and planning | |
9 | (adverb) in a systematic or consistent manner | |
12 | (adjective) affecting an entire system |