# Register & Style **Type:** Topic **Words:** 2323 ## About Words marked by formal, informal, slang, archaic, dialectal, or literary usage. ## Words by Level ### A1 - girl — A female child.; frequency rank 198 - dad — A father; a male parent (informal).; frequency rank 213 - hi — A friendly, informal greeting said when you meet someone.; frequency rank 247 - mom — Mother (informal).; frequency rank 254 - real — Actually existing or happening, not imagined or invented.; frequency rank 264 - guess — To give an answer or opinion without being sure if it is correct.; frequency rank 307 - speak — To say words using your voice.; frequency rank 464 - dog — A common four-legged animal often kept as a pet or for work.; frequency rank 529 - dinner — The main meal of the day, usually eaten in the evening.; frequency rank 550 - daddy — A father; used especially by or to young children (informal).; frequency rank 610 - ball — A round object used in games and sports, which is thrown, hit, or kicked.; frequency rank 868 - dress — To put clothes on yourself or someone else.; frequency rank 929 - address — the details of where someone lives or where a building is; frequency rank 1129 - bird — An animal with feathers and wings that lays eggs and can usually fly.; frequency rank 1336 - language — A system of words and grammar used by the people of a particular country or community to communicate.; frequency rank 1406 - grandma — Your grandmother (informal).; frequency rank 1414 - grandpa — Your grandfather (informal).; frequency rank 1535 - interview — a formal meeting where someone is asked questions to see if they are right for a job.; frequency rank 1711 - garden — An area of ground, usually next to a house, where flowers, vegetables, or other plants are grown.; frequency rank 1741 - juice — The liquid that comes from fruit or vegetables, often drunk as a cold drink.; frequency rank 2409 - garbage — Things you throw away because they are no longer wanted; waste.; frequency rank 2664 - doll — A toy made to look like a small person, especially a baby or child.; frequency rank 2681 - coke — A glass, bottle, or can of cola, especially Coca-Cola.; frequency rank 3705 - sop — to soak up liquid ### A2 - yeah — An informal way of saying yes.; frequency rank 57 - hey — An informal way of saying hello.; frequency rank 96 - guy — A man or boy (informal).; frequency rank 187 - kill — To make a person, animal, or plant die.; frequency rank 235 - um — a sound used while hesitating, thinking, or searching for words; frequency rank 322 - kid — A child or young person (informal).; frequency rank 384 - stupid — Showing a lack of intelligence or good sense.; frequency rank 514 - million — The number 1,000,000.; frequency rank 635 - law — An official rule that everyone in a country or community must obey.; frequency rank 714 - agent — A person who arranges business or deals on behalf of someone else.; frequency rank 926 - killer — A person who kills another person.; frequency rank 938 - upon — On; resting on the surface of something (a more formal word than 'on').; frequency rank 1086 - er — a sound used while hesitating or searching for words; frequency rank 1103 - yep — informal: yes; used to give an affirmative answer or confirm a statement; frequency rank 1134 - pop — To burst with a short, sharp sound; to make something burst this way.; frequency rank 1309 - awful — Very bad or unpleasant.; frequency rank 1345 - common — Happening or found often; usual.; frequency rank 1373 - advice — An opinion you give someone about what they should do.; frequency rank 1435 - dressed — Past tense and past participle of dress; wearing clothes.; frequency rank 1507 - audience — The people watching or listening to a performance, speech, or program.; frequency rank 1590 - split — To divide or break something into parts, often along a line.; frequency rank 1729 - based — Built on or developed from a particular thing, place, or idea.; frequency rank 1753 - speech — A formal talk given to an audience.; frequency rank 1772 - pal — A friend; someone you spend time with.; frequency rank 1785 - permission — The act of allowing someone to do something.; frequency rank 1855 - invite — To ask someone to come to an event or to your home.; frequency rank 1965 - familiar — Easy to recognize because you have seen, heard, or known it before.; frequency rank 1971 - proper — Right, suitable, or correct for a particular situation.; frequency rank 2004 - request — To ask for something politely or formally.; frequency rank 2026 - talent — A natural ability to do something well.; frequency rank 2177 - monkey — A small to medium-sized animal that usually has a long tail and lives mainly in trees.; frequency rank 2204 - sale — The act of selling something, or an item that is sold.; frequency rank 2401 - unusual — Not usual or common; different from what you normally see; frequency rank 2443 - understanding — Knowledge of how something works or what it means.; frequency rank 2519 - conference — A large formal meeting where people discuss a particular subject, often over several days.; frequency rank 2561 - chat — To talk in a friendly, informal way.; frequency rank 2649 - customer — A person or company that buys goods or services from a shop or business.; frequency rank 2889 - sauce — A thick or liquid mixture served with or on food to add flavour.; frequency rank 3015 - grass — A common green plant with thin leaves that covers fields, lawns, and gardens.; frequency rank 3020 - exam — A formal test of knowledge or skill, especially in school.; frequency rank 3348 - complain — To say that you are unhappy or annoyed about something.; frequency rank 3462 - apply — To make a formal request for something such as a job or a place.; frequency rank 3496 - romance — A romantic relationship or love affair between two people.; frequency rank 3637 - junk — Old or useless things that you no longer want.; frequency rank 3654 - granny — Your grandmother (informal).; frequency rank 3805 - complaint — A statement that you are unhappy or annoyed about something.; frequency rank 4024 - function — What something is used for or what it does.; frequency rank 4033 - coin — A piece of money made of metal, usually round and flat.; frequency rank 4138 - debate — A formal discussion in which people give opposing views, often ending in a vote.; frequency rank 4717 - sausage — A tube of minced meat and seasoning in a thin skin, cooked and eaten as food.; frequency rank 5129 - receipt — A piece of paper showing that you have paid for something.; frequency rank 5692 - mainly — For the most part; chiefly.; frequency rank 6133 - acceptable — Good enough to be approved or allowed.; frequency rank 7336 - pronounce — To make the sound of a word or letter.; frequency rank 7481 - granddad — Your grandfather (informal).; frequency rank 7699 - context — The situation or set of facts that surround an event and help you understand it.; frequency rank 7980 - drummer — a person who plays a drum or a drum kit; frequency rank 9648 - macaroni — pasta formed into narrow tubes, especially short curved tubes; frequency rank 14274 - ping-pong — informal or trademark name for table tennis, a game in which players hit a light ball across a table divided by a net; frequency rank 15195 - summary — A short statement that gives the main points of something.; frequency rank 15803 - informal — Relaxed and friendly, not following strict rules or ceremony.; frequency rank 15810 - unmarked — bearing no identifying label, sign, number, or visible mark; frequency rank 18085 - dependant — a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support); frequency rank 45749 ### B1 - gonna — informal spoken form of 'going to,' used before a verb to express a future action or intention; frequency rank 90 - dude — A man, especially a young one (informal).; frequency rank 697 - chief — The leader or head of a group, organization, or tribe.; frequency rank 721 - totally — Completely; in every way.; frequency rank 760 - swear — To use rude or offensive language.; frequency rank 817 - marriage — The legal or formal union of two people as partners for life.; frequency rank 843 - killing — The act of causing someone or something to die.; frequency rank 933 - yo — informal: a greeting or call used to attract someone's attention; frequency rank 1106 - heaven — In many religions, the home of God where good people are believed to go after death.; frequency rank 1154 - awesome — Extremely good or impressive (informal).; frequency rank 1176 - bunch — A number of things growing or fastened together in a cluster.; frequency rank 1209 - according — according to: as stated, reported, or believed by a particular person or source; frequency rank 1210 - kick — To hit something with your foot.; frequency rank 1224 - bomb — A weapon that explodes and causes damage.; frequency rank 1311 - vote — To formally show which person or choice you support in an election or decision.; frequency rank 1464 - monster — A large, frightening, imaginary creature.; frequency rank 1498 - doc — An informal word for a doctor.; frequency rank 1525 - penny — A small coin worth one hundredth of a pound or, in the US, one cent.; frequency rank 2284 - properly — In the correct or right way.; frequency rank 2294 - rare — Not happening or found very often; uncommon.; frequency rank 2406 - tail — The long, thin part that sticks out at the back of an animal's body.; frequency rank 2588 - agreement — An arrangement between people or groups about what each will do.; frequency rank 2670 - dozen — A group or set of twelve.; frequency rank 2726 - ceremony — A formal event held to mark an important occasion.; frequency rank 2929 - mile — A unit of distance equal to about 1.6 kilometres.; frequency rank 3082 - construction — The act or process of building something.; frequency rank 3117 - apology — A statement saying that you are sorry for something you have done.; frequency rank 3317 - shark — a mostly marine fish with a cartilaginous skeleton, rough skin, and several rows of teeth; frequency rank 3618 - objection — A reason or statement showing that you disagree with something.; frequency rank 3760 - reception — The area near the entrance of a hotel or office where visitors are welcomed.; frequency rank 4003 - permit — To allow someone to do something.; frequency rank 4265 - document — An official or formal piece of writing that gives information or proof.; frequency rank 4567 - application — A formal written or spoken request for a job, a place, or assistance.; frequency rank 4727 - collar — The part of a shirt, coat, or dress that fits around the neck.; frequency rank 4788 - conclusion — a decision or opinion reached after careful thought; frequency rank 4936 - formal — Following accepted rules of polite or official behaviour, dress, or language.; frequency rank 5013 - genetic — Relating to genes or to the genes you inherit from your parents.; frequency rank 5133 - presentation — A talk in which you show or explain something to a group of people.; frequency rank 5530 - pond — A small area of still water, smaller than a lake and often man-made.; frequency rank 5617 - occur — To happen or take place.; frequency rank 5860 - literature — Written works such as novels, poems, and plays valued as art.; frequency rank 5894 - nickname — An informal name for a person, often a short or funny version of their real name.; frequency rank 5925 - diner — a small informal restaurant, often with booths, a counter, and simple meals; frequency rank 6130 - historical — Connected with the past or with the study of history.; frequency rank 6505 - examination — A formal test of knowledge or skill, usually written and taken under timed conditions.; frequency rank 6608 - casual — Relaxed and informal; not formal or smart.; frequency rank 6638 - gown — A woman's long, formal dress, often worn on special occasions.; frequency rank 6755 - syndrome — A group of symptoms or signs that together point to a particular illness or condition.; frequency rank 6843 - antique — Old and valuable because of its age and history.; frequency rank 7448 - gasoline — a volatile, flammable blend of liquid hydrocarbons refined chiefly from petroleum and used mainly as fuel in spark-ignition engines; petrol; frequency rank 8020 - potion — a drink believed to have medicinal, magical, or poisonous effects; frequency rank 8250 - juicy — Containing a lot of juice; pleasantly wet to eat.; frequency rank 8332 - haunt — (of a ghost) To appear repeatedly in a place.; frequency rank 8565 - greeting — Something you say or do to welcome someone or acknowledge them.; frequency rank 8782 - doorstep — a step directly outside the entrance to a building; frequency rank 8784 - gravy — A thick, savory sauce made from the juices of cooked meat.; frequency rank 8925 - elf — a supernatural being from Germanic folklore, later often imagined as graceful, magical, and humanlike; frequency rank 9352 - declaration — A formal or strong statement announcing something.; frequency rank 9677 - literary — Relating to literature or written works.; frequency rank 10186 - fireman — a man whose job is to extinguish fires; a dated or gender-specific term for a firefighter; frequency rank 10303 - acquire — to get or come to own something; frequency rank 10343 - negotiation — Formal discussion in which people try to reach an agreement.; frequency rank 10562 - acceptance — The act of taking or receiving something that is offered.; frequency rank 10912 - freight — the charge for transporting something by common carrier; frequency rank 10932 - habitat — The natural place where a plant or animal lives.; frequency rank 12288 - giggle — To laugh in a quiet, silly, or nervous way.; frequency rank 12531 - pianist — a person who plays the piano, especially professionally or with considerable skill; frequency rank 12906 - dissolve — To mix into a liquid and become part of it.; frequency rank 13434 - garment — A piece of clothing.; frequency rank 14408 - calcium — the chemical element with symbol Ca and atomic number 20, a soft, silvery, reactive alkaline-earth metal that occurs naturally only in compounds; frequency rank 14517 - rainforest — A thick forest in a warm area that has a lot of rain all year.; frequency rank 16043 - grasshopper — a plant-eating insect with powerful hind legs adapted for jumping; frequency rank 16644 - improper — Not suitable, right, or correct for the situation.; frequency rank 16729 - conservation — The protection of the environment and natural resources.; frequency rank 17003 - extinguisher — a portable device containing a substance used to put out a small fire; frequency rank 18517 - kiddie — a young child; an informal and sometimes affectionate term; frequency rank 18957 - gingerbread — a cake, biscuit, or other baked food flavored chiefly with ginger and often sweetened with molasses or honey; frequency rank 19476 - wrapper — paper, plastic, or another material folded around an object to cover or protect it; frequency rank 19754 - petal — one of the usually colored, leaflike parts that form the corolla of a flower; frequency rank 24701 - hater — a person who strongly dislikes someone or something; frequency rank 25290 - tester — a device or instrument used to test the quality, operation, or properties of something; frequency rank 29799 - teacup — a small cup, usually with a handle and saucer, used for drinking tea; frequency rank 30779 - wintertime — the season or period of winter; frequency rank 35763 - grower — a person or business that cultivates a particular crop, usually for sale; frequency rank 40466 - portly — having a rather stout or heavy body, especially in a dignified-looking way; frequency rank 49791 - banknote — a piece of paper or polymer currency issued in a fixed denomination by a bank or other authorized monetary authority; frequency rank 57043 - approver — a person or authority empowered to approve a request, decision, or proposal; frequency rank 86481 - bibliography — a list of books, articles, or other sources relating to a subject or used in preparing a work; frequency rank 107145 - mare — a female horse or other equine animal ### B2 - hell — In some religions, a place of punishment where evil people are believed to go after death.; frequency rank 255 - damn — Used to express anger, surprise, or annoyance (informal).; frequency rank 388 - em — an informal, usually unstressed form of them, commonly written ’em; frequency rank 533 - mama — An informal, affectionate word for mother.; frequency rank 968 - bloody — Covered in or marked by blood.; frequency rank 989 - cute — Pretty and attractive, especially in a small, sweet way.; frequency rank 1014 - grand — Large, impressive, and magnificent.; frequency rank 1133 - dumb — Stupid or silly (informal).; frequency rank 1643 - ed — a written abbreviation of edition, especially in bibliographic references; frequency rank 1795 - contract — A formal written agreement between people or companies that the law can enforce.; frequency rank 1811 - contract — To become smaller or tighter; to make something smaller.; frequency rank 1811 - divorce — The legal ending of a marriage.; frequency rank 1825 - siren — a device that produces a loud, rising and falling sound as a warning, or the sound it makes; frequency rank 2819 - mighty — Very strong, large, or powerful.; frequency rank 2880 - pee — To pass urine from the body (informal).; frequency rank 2976 - gross — Very unpleasant or disgusting (informal).; frequency rank 2995 - motion — The act or process of moving; movement.; frequency rank 3093 - reckon — To think or believe something (informal).; frequency rank 3175 - hood — A part of a coat or jacket that covers your head.; frequency rank 3520 - alley — a narrow road or passage, especially between or behind buildings; frequency rank 3699 - grief — Deep sadness, especially after someone you love dies.; frequency rank 3720 - testimony — A formal statement made by a witness in a court of law.; frequency rank 3868 - prom — A formal dance held for students, usually near the end of the school year.; frequency rank 4187 - amongst — In the middle of or surrounded by; a more formal word for "among".; frequency rank 4198 - Mexican — relating to Mexico, its people, languages, or culture; frequency rank 4303 - Dutch — relating to the Netherlands, its people, culture, or language; frequency rank 4307 - khan — a title borne by rulers or high-ranking leaders among Turkic, Mongol, and other Central Asian peoples; frequency rank 4396 - dough — a thick, moldable mixture of flour and liquid, often with other ingredients, that is baked into bread or pastry; frequency rank 4502 - oath — A serious, formal promise to do something or to tell the truth.; frequency rank 4590 - dated — Old-fashioned and no longer modern or popular.; frequency rank 4703 - sucker — a gullible person who is easily deceived or exploited; informal and disapproving; frequency rank 4964 - tomb — A grave or stone structure where a dead person is buried.; frequency rank 5105 - copper — A soft reddish-brown metal (symbol Cu) used in wires, pipes, and coins.; frequency rank 5308 - donkey — A grey animal with long ears, similar to a small horse, used for carrying loads.; frequency rank 5346 - shrink — To become smaller in size or amount.; frequency rank 5482 - convention — A way of behaving or doing things that most people in a group accept as normal.; frequency rank 5583 - possessed — Controlled by an evil spirit.; frequency rank 5648 - honorable — Deserving respect and praise.; frequency rank 6028 - hallelujah — used to praise or thank God, especially in worship or song; frequency rank 6043 - disorder — An illness or condition that affects the normal working of the body or mind.; frequency rank 6067 - gangster — A member of an organized group of criminals.; frequency rank 6194 - unto — To (old or formal use, showing who receives something); frequency rank 6426 - whereas — Used to compare two facts and show a contrast between them.; frequency rank 6627 - duel — A formal fight between two people with weapons, arranged to settle a matter of honor.; frequency rank 6818 - hairy — Covered with a lot of hair.; frequency rank 6844 - probation — a court-ordered period in which an offender remains in the community under stated conditions instead of, or after, imprisonment; frequency rank 7014 - keeper — A person who looks after or guards something or someone.; frequency rank 7099 - hose — a long flexible tube used to carry water, gas, or another fluid; frequency rank 7126 - treaty — A formal written agreement between two or more countries.; frequency rank 7167 - mint — A place where coins are officially made.; frequency rank 7254 - obligation — Something you must do because of a law, promise, or moral duty.; frequency rank 7305 - bunk — a narrow bed or sleeping berth, especially one fixed to a wall or arranged in tiers on a ship, train, or in shared quarters; frequency rank 7781 - hart — an adult male deer, especially a red deer more than five years old; frequency rank 7934 - missus — a man's wife or female partner; informal, especially in British English; frequency rank 8097 - grim — Worrying, unpleasant, and offering little hope.; frequency rank 8350 - rehearse — to practise a play, piece of music, speech, or other performance before presenting it publicly; frequency rank 8354 - ghetto — A poor area of a city where people of one ethnic group or background live, often separated from the rest.; frequency rank 8884 - pow — used to imitate or emphasize the sudden sound of a gunshot, explosion, or hard impact; frequency rank 9554 - hump — a rounded raised mass, bulge, or protuberance, including the raised part of a camel's back; frequency rank 9607 - evaluation — A careful judgement about the value or quality of something.; frequency rank 9883 - accusation — A statement that someone has done something wrong or illegal.; frequency rank 9930 - thorn — a hard, sharp-pointed growth on a plant, botanically often a modified stem or branch; frequency rank 10304 - daft — Silly, foolish, or stupid (informal).; frequency rank 10362 - pry — to force something apart, open, or out of position by using leverage; frequency rank 10472 - cracker — a thin, dry, crisp biscuit, often eaten with cheese or a spread; frequency rank 10524 - hindu — a person who follows Hinduism; frequency rank 11232 - pip — a small, hard seed inside an apple, orange, or similar fruit, chiefly in British English; frequency rank 11328 - squirt — to force liquid out in a thin, fast stream; frequency rank 11508 - circumstance — A fact or condition that affects a situation or event.; frequency rank 11540 - nipple — the small projecting part of a breast or mammary gland through which milk can pass; frequency rank 11648 - providence — the protective guidance, care, or ordering of events attributed to God or another divine power; frequency rank 11863 - projector — a device that projects an enlarged image or beam of light onto a surface; frequency rank 12367 - cockpit — the compartment in an aircraft where the pilots sit and operate the controls; frequency rank 12843 - metropolitan — relating to a large city or to the densely populated area surrounding it; frequency rank 12965 - rite — A formal ceremony, especially a religious one, done in a set way.; frequency rank 13110 - caste — social status or position conferred by a system based on class; frequency rank 13135 - prehistoric — Belonging to the time before history was written down.; frequency rank 13209 - erection — Anything erected or built.; frequency rank 13235 - casually — In a relaxed way, without showing much concern.; frequency rank 13354 - uncommon — Not happening or found very often; rare.; frequency rank 13575 - whine — to complain in an irritating, high-pitched, or drawn-out voice; informal and disapproving; frequency rank 13724 - blooming — Producing flowers; in flower.; frequency rank 13756 - bologna — a large, finely ground cooked sausage, typically made from a mixture of meats and served in slices; frequency rank 13914 - mentality — a habitual way of thinking or a characteristic set of attitudes and beliefs; frequency rank 13923 - left-handed — using the left hand more naturally or skillfully than the right; frequency rank 14636 - potassium — the chemical element with symbol K and atomic number 19, a soft, silvery, highly reactive alkali metal that occurs naturally only in compounds; frequency rank 14816 - catfish — a mainly freshwater fish with whiskerlike barbels around its mouth; frequency rank 14911 - bio — A short description of a person's life or background, often on a profile.; frequency rank 15283 - delicacy — A special and tasty food, often rare or typical of a certain culture.; frequency rank 15321 - kimono — a traditional Japanese robe with wide sleeves, a wrapped front, and a broad sash; frequency rank 15655 - canon — A general rule or principle that is widely accepted in a field.; frequency rank 16498 - slang — Very informal words and expressions used in everyday speech rather than formal language.; frequency rank 16865 - dud — informal: a thing, person, or event that is defective, worthless, or unsuccessful; frequency rank 17273 - madhouse — an extremely noisy, confused, or chaotic place or situation; frequency rank 17384 - dodo — a large flightless bird formerly native to Mauritius that became extinct in the seventeenth century; frequency rank 17589 - ottoman — a low upholstered seat without a back or arms, often used as a footrest and sometimes containing storage; frequency rank 17674 - mannequin — a life-size model of the human body used to display or fit clothing; frequency rank 17831 - tiara — a jeweled ornamental headpiece worn on formal occasions; frequency rank 17861 - goner — informal: a person or thing that is doomed, ruined, or beyond rescue; frequency rank 18201 - caveman — an early human popularly imagined as living in caves; frequency rank 18653 - madden — to make someone extremely angry, annoyed, or frustrated; frequency rank 18819 - mushy — soft, wet, and lacking a firm shape or texture, like mush; frequency rank 18840 - consensual — agreed to by everyone directly involved; based on consent; frequency rank 19724 - tubby — informal: short, broad, and plump in build; frequency rank 20280 - pelican — a large waterbird with a long bill and a broad, expandable throat pouch used for catching fish; frequency rank 20453 - chipper — cheerful, lively, and in good spirits; frequency rank 20894 - piazza — a public square, especially an open pedestrian square in an Italian town or city; frequency rank 20928 - feller — a person whose work is cutting down trees; frequency rank 21058 - pesky — informal: annoying, troublesome, or difficult to deal with; frequency rank 21383 - hooky — informal, especially in play hooky: unauthorized absence from school or work; frequency rank 21532 - spoiler — information that reveals an important plot event or ending and may reduce a story's surprise; frequency rank 22805 - therein — (formal) in or into that thing or place; frequency rank 22939 - outreach — organized efforts to contact and provide information or services to people who might otherwise lack access; frequency rank 23346 - slush — partly melted snow or ice, especially when lying wet and dirty on the ground; frequency rank 24091 - spirituality — the quality of being concerned with the human spirit, soul, or sacred experience rather than only with material things; frequency rank 24109 - chipmunk — a small striped ground squirrel with cheek pouches, native chiefly to North America; frequency rank 24351 - tripe — the prepared stomach lining of a cow or another ruminant, eaten as food; frequency rank 24862 - moldy — covered with, affected by, or smelling of mold; frequency rank 24891 - compost — decayed organic material used to fertilize soil and improve its structure; frequency rank 25615 - tote — informal: to carry something, especially something heavy or awkward; frequency rank 25886 - tomboy — a girl who behaves or dresses in ways traditionally associated with boys; frequency rank 27269 - broomstick — the long handle of a broom, or sometimes the whole broom; frequency rank 27298 - termite — a pale, soft-bodied social insect that lives in a colony and feeds chiefly on wood or other cellulose-rich material; frequency rank 27312 - inaugural — marking the beginning or first occurrence of an activity, series, or institution; frequency rank 28007 - knighthood — the rank, title, or dignity of a knight, especially an honor conferred by a British monarch; frequency rank 30117 - flatulence — the presence or release of excessive gas in the digestive system; frequency rank 31264 - suitably — In a way that is right or appropriate for the situation.; frequency rank 35532 - grimy — covered or stained with ingrained dirt, grease, or soot; frequency rank 35597 - swinger — a person who takes part in consensual partner-swapping or group sexual activity; frequency rank 36144 - diphtheria — A serious infectious disease that affects the throat and breathing.; frequency rank 36219 - prospectus — a document describing a proposed project, publication, institution, or business and inviting interest or participation; frequency rank 37258 - mucky — informal, especially British: covered with dirt or mud; dirty and messy; frequency rank 37467 - gooseberry — a small, round, tart berry, usually green, yellow, or red, used fresh or in preserves and desserts; frequency rank 37850 - crier — historical: an official who publicly announced news, proclamations, or court proceedings; frequency rank 38655 - pedantic — Too concerned with small details and formal rules, often in a way that annoys others.; frequency rank 42522 - buttonhole — a slit in a garment through which a button passes to fasten it; frequency rank 46741 - preservative — a substance added to food, medicine, wood, or another material to prevent decay, spoilage, or deterioration; frequency rank 49319 - royalist — a supporter of monarchy or of a particular monarch or royal dynasty; frequency rank 49557 - bookish — Very fond of reading and studying.; frequency rank 55846 - dilly-dally — informal: to waste time through indecision, delay, or aimless activity; frequency rank 56862 - retread — a worn tire fitted with a new outer tread so that it can be used again; frequency rank 79404 - overpay — to pay more than the required, reasonable, or fair amount for something or to someone; frequency rank 86506 - silly-billy — informal, especially British: a silly or foolish person, used as a mild or affectionate teasing expression; frequency rank 101847 - herbivorous — feeding chiefly or entirely on plants; frequency rank 117009 - invalidity — the state of lacking legal, formal, or factual validity; frequency rank 131872 - unusualness — The quality of being strange, rare, or different from what is normal.; frequency rank 308183 - tradesperson — a skilled manual worker in a particular trade or craft; frequency rank 646582 - lunatic — a person with severe mental illness - scoot — to move quickly or hastily, often with a sense of urgency or excitement ### C1 - jake — dated US slang, disparaging: an unsophisticated person from the countryside; a rustic or yokel; frequency rank 1465 - rick — a stack of hay, straw, or similar material stored outdoors, often under thatch; frequency rank 2138 - chamber — A large room, often used for a formal or specific purpose.; frequency rank 3635 - wicked — Morally bad; cruel or evil.; frequency rank 3942 - troy — designating a system of weights used chiefly for precious metals and gemstones; frequency rank 4471 - cocaine — an addictive stimulant drug obtained from coca leaves or made synthetically, used illegally and sometimes medically as a local anesthetic; frequency rank 4585 - drake — an adult male duck; frequency rank 5168 - almighty — having unlimited power; omnipotent, especially as an epithet for God; frequency rank 5388 - sperm — a male reproductive cell that can fertilize an egg cell; frequency rank 5684 - quid — one pound sterling, in informal British usage; the plural is also quid; frequency rank 5947 - plea — An urgent, emotional request for help.; frequency rank 6293 - inappropriate — Not suitable for a particular situation, time, or place.; frequency rank 6309 - pledge — A serious, formal promise to do something.; frequency rank 6377 - Swedish — relating to Sweden, its people, culture, or language; frequency rank 6508 - dang — informal: a mild exclamation of annoyance or surprise, used as a euphemism for damn; frequency rank 6630 - grease — a thick oily or fatty substance, especially one used to lubricate machinery; frequency rank 7512 - jackass — informal and insulting: a foolish, stupid, or badly behaved person; frequency rank 7744 - petition — A formal written request, usually signed by many people, asking an authority to do something.; frequency rank 7879 - whilst — During the time that; while (chiefly British and formal).; frequency rank 7896 - shrine — a sacred place dedicated to a deity, saint, ancestor, relic, or other revered figure; frequency rank 8017 - morse — Morse code, a system representing letters and numbers by sequences of short and long signals; frequency rank 8864 - amendment — A change or addition made to a law, document, or formal proposal.; frequency rank 9448 - specimen — A single example of something, used to show what the whole group is like.; frequency rank 9649 - sod — a piece or layer of grass-covered surface soil held together by its roots; frequency rank 9949 - puss — an informal or affectionate term for a cat; frequency rank 10070 - blimey — an informal British exclamation expressing surprise, excitement, anger, or alarm; frequency rank 10706 - squire — historically, a young nobleman who attended a knight before becoming a knight himself; frequency rank 11189 - gala — a special public celebration or entertainment, often held for a formal or charitable purpose; frequency rank 11437 - chamberlain — an officer who manages the household of a monarch or noble, often with important ceremonial or administrative duties; frequency rank 11533 - aurora — a display of colored light in the polar sky caused by charged solar particles interacting with the upper atmosphere; frequency rank 11572 - ladyship — a respectful title or form of reference for a woman who holds or is entitled to a rank of nobility; frequency rank 11872 - indictment — A formal legal charge accusing someone of a serious crime.; frequency rank 12064 - stuffy — Warm and lacking fresh air.; frequency rank 12526 - Persian — relating to Iran, especially its Persian people, language, culture, or history; frequency rank 12534 - munch — To eat something steadily, often noisily, with the mouth closed.; frequency rank 12572 - archive — A collection of historical documents or records, or the place where they are kept.; frequency rank 13020 - spleen — a dark-red organ near the stomach that filters blood and supports the immune system; frequency rank 13224 - fez — a brimless felt hat shaped like a short cone, typically red and often fitted with a tassel; frequency rank 13532 - gaga — informal and sometimes disparaging: mentally confused or physically feeble, especially through old age; frequency rank 14469 - gourmet — Of food: high in quality and carefully prepared.; frequency rank 14859 - graft — To join part of one plant onto another so they grow together as one.; frequency rank 15709 - quill — the stiff hollow shaft of a feather, or a large feather with such a shaft; frequency rank 15918 - acre — A unit of land area equal to about 4,047 square metres.; frequency rank 16204 - wad — a small, compact mass of soft material, such as cotton, paper, or cloth; frequency rank 16920 - historically — with respect to history; frequency rank 17105 - hoof — the hard covering at the end of the foot of a horse, deer, sheep, or other ungulate; frequency rank 17150 - demented — wildly irrational, disturbed, or out of control; frequency rank 17186 - bubbly — Cheerful, lively, and full of energy.; frequency rank 17358 - papal — relating to the pope, the papacy, or the pope's authority; frequency rank 17839 - mead — an alcoholic drink made by fermenting honey with water, sometimes with added herbs, spices, or fruit; frequency rank 17890 - gloat — usually disapproving: to feel or show excessive satisfaction about one's success or another person's misfortune; frequency rank 18144 - seminary — an institution that trains candidates for the priesthood, ministry, or rabbinate; frequency rank 18465 - rarity — The fact of being uncommon or hard to find.; frequency rank 18493 - lavatory — A room with a toilet, especially in formal or British usage.; frequency rank 18514 - smelt — to extract a metal from its ore by heating and chemical reduction; frequency rank 18710 - yeast — any of various single-celled fungi that ferment sugars and reproduce chiefly by budding; frequency rank 18831 - crock — a thick earthenware pot or jar used for cooking or storage; frequency rank 18896 - louse — a small, wingless parasitic insect that lives on the skin, hair, or feathers of a person or animal; frequency rank 18924 - swagger — a conspicuously confident, arrogant, or self-important manner of walking or behaving; frequency rank 19209 - gent — an informal term for a man, especially one regarded as a gentleman; frequency rank 19477 - allegation — A claim, usually an accusation, that someone has done something wrong, made without proof.; frequency rank 20077 - yap — to give a quick, sharp, high-pitched bark or cry; frequency rank 20110 - autobiography — an account of a person's life written by that person; frequency rank 20799 - spec — informal: a detailed specification describing required features, dimensions, or performance; frequency rank 21376 - veterinary — relating to the medical and surgical treatment of animals; frequency rank 21523 - lordy — informal or dated: used to express surprise, alarm, frustration, or other strong feeling; frequency rank 21542 - mangy — affected by mange, or looking as though affected by it; frequency rank 21841 - adjourn — to suspend or end a meeting or official session, often until a stated later time; frequency rank 21993 - fro — away or backward, now used chiefly in the fixed expression to and fro; frequency rank 22053 - admiralty — historical: the British government department and its officers formerly responsible for naval affairs; frequency rank 22360 - parliamentary — Relating to or made by a parliament.; frequency rank 22473 - tot — informal: a very young child; frequency rank 22862 - shrew — a small, active, insect-eating mammal with a pointed snout, resembling a mouse; frequency rank 23210 - plait — chiefly British: to braid hair, cord, or another flexible material by crossing strands over one another; frequency rank 23325 - mite — any of numerous minute arachnids, many of which live as parasites on animals or plants; frequency rank 23452 - garter — a band worn around the leg to hold up a sock or stocking; frequency rank 23629 - sans — without a person or thing, often used for concise, humorous, or literary effect; frequency rank 23720 - armistice — a formal agreement between belligerents to stop fighting, usually for a specified or indefinite period and without itself constituting a peace treaty; frequency rank 23931 - epileptic — relating to epilepsy or involving seizures caused by epilepsy; frequency rank 24057 - ratty — informal, especially US: old, worn, dirty, or in poor condition; frequency rank 24325 - drat — used to express mild annoyance or disappointment; dated or humorous; frequency rank 24517 - duds — informal, plural: clothes, especially ordinary, rough, or distinctive clothes; frequency rank 24565 - amend — To make formal changes to a document, law, or agreement.; frequency rank 24845 - nozzle — a projecting tube or spout that directs or controls a stream of liquid, gas, or other material; frequency rank 25018 - discourse — Serious discussion or the exchange of ideas about a subject, in speech or writing.; frequency rank 25024 - mumps — a contagious viral illness, especially of children, that causes fever and painful swelling of the salivary glands; frequency rank 25085 - commendation — Praise or formal approval given to someone.; frequency rank 25101 - carte — a menu or bill of fare; frequency rank 25276 - molest — sensitive: to touch or assault someone sexually without consent, especially a child; frequency rank 25454 - loin — a cut of meat from the back of an animal between the ribs and the hip; frequency rank 25603 - tater — a potato; an informal or dialectal term; frequency rank 25968 - symposium — a formal meeting at which specialists give presentations and discuss a particular subject; frequency rank 26227 - deathly — resembling or suggesting death, especially by being extremely pale, still, cold, or unpleasant; frequency rank 27816 - christen — to baptize someone in a Christian ceremony and formally give them a name; frequency rank 27918 - exonerate — to officially clear someone from blame, an accusation, or criminal responsibility; frequency rank 29698 - jetty — a structure projecting into water to protect a shore or harbor, influence currents, or provide a landing place; frequency rank 29703 - chambermaid — a woman employed to clean and care for bedrooms, now chiefly in a hotel and historically in a private household; frequency rank 29902 - nunnery — a convent for nuns, or the buildings occupied by such a religious community; frequency rank 30739 - low-down — informal: dishonest, unfair, or contemptible; frequency rank 30945 - joust — a formal combat or sporting contest in which two mounted opponents charge each other with lances; frequency rank 31917 - trappings — the outward signs, accessories, or equipment associated with a role, rank, or activity; frequency rank 32400 - hogwash — informal: foolish, false, or meaningless talk or writing; nonsense; frequency rank 32928 - croupier — a casino employee who manages a gaming table, handles bets, and pays winnings; frequency rank 33863 - stateroom — a private sleeping cabin on a passenger ship or train; frequency rank 34225 - mosey — informal, especially US: to walk or move in a relaxed, unhurried way; frequency rank 34392 - castration — surgical removal of the testes or ovaries (usually to inhibit hormone secretion in cases of breast cancer in women or prostate cancer in men); frequency rank 34865 - corduroy — a durable cotton fabric with raised parallel ribs running along its surface; frequency rank 35529 - certifiable — capable of being officially certified, verified, or guaranteed; frequency rank 35841 - buttock — either of the two rounded fleshy parts at the back of the pelvis, formed chiefly by the gluteal muscles; frequency rank 35954 - commonality — a feature or quality shared by two or more people or things; frequency rank 36016 - suds — The bubbles and foam made by soap mixed with water.; frequency rank 36779 - treatise — A formal, usually lengthy, systematic discourse on some subject.; frequency rank 37403 - tidbit — a small and especially tasty piece of food; frequency rank 40215 - watershed — an event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend; frequency rank 40894 - shuck — to remove the husk, pod, or shell from food such as corn, nuts, or oysters; frequency rank 42085 - perjure — to knowingly make a false statement under oath and thereby commit perjury, usually used reflexively; frequency rank 42896 - hamstring — any of the muscles and tendons at the back of the thigh that bend the knee; frequency rank 43200 - cataract — a clouding of the eye's natural lens that impairs vision; frequency rank 43429 - tubular — shaped like a tube or made from one or more tubes; frequency rank 43456 - hullabaloo — a loud commotion, uproar, or noisy fuss; frequency rank 44001 - herewith — together with this letter, document, or other formal communication; frequency rank 44115 - reenact — To act out a past event, especially a historical one, in order to show how it happened.; frequency rank 44237 - despot — a ruler who holds absolute power and uses it in a cruel, oppressive, or arbitrary way; frequency rank 45289 - unrestrained — not subject to restraint; frequency rank 45511 - egoist — a person who is chiefly concerned with their own interests and gives little regard to others; frequency rank 46111 - insofar — to the degree or extent that; used chiefly in the construction 'insofar as'; frequency rank 46585 - headpiece — something worn on or covering the head, especially an ornamental or protective item; frequency rank 46736 - eye-opener — an experience, fact, or revelation that produces a sudden and surprising understanding; frequency rank 47235 - Tasmanian — a native or inhabitant of Tasmania, an island state of Australia; frequency rank 48818 - ratify — to give formal approval to an agreement, treaty, or decision so that it becomes officially valid; frequency rank 48894 - elopement — the act of secretly running away with a partner in order to marry, often without family approval; frequency rank 50133 - grandpapa — an informal or old-fashioned term for one's grandfather; frequency rank 50428 - mitre — a tall ceremonial headdress worn by a bishop or certain other church dignitaries; frequency rank 52729 - dialectic — of or relating to or employing dialectic; frequency rank 53078 - goggle — to stare with the eyes wide open, especially in surprise or amazement; frequency rank 54026 - ordination — the ceremony or process by which someone is officially made a priest, minister, or other religious leader; frequency rank 54926 - topknot — a knot, bun, or gathered arrangement of hair worn on the top of the head; frequency rank 55088 - tiptop — informal: excellent or of the highest quality; frequency rank 56157 - natured — having a specified temperament or disposition, used chiefly in compounds such as good-natured and ill-natured; frequency rank 57581 - confectionery — sweets, chocolates, candies, and other foods made chiefly with sugar, considered collectively; frequency rank 58193 - flat-footed — informal: directly, openly, and without qualification or hesitation; frequency rank 59105 - camisole — a short, sleeveless undergarment for the upper body, traditionally worn by women; frequency rank 59845 - menfolk — the male members of a family, community, or other group, often in traditional or old-fashioned usage; frequency rank 59999 - bated — held back, reduced, or restrained, now used chiefly in the phrase 'with bated breath'; frequency rank 60405 - miscarry — to lose an embryo or fetus spontaneously before it can survive independently; frequency rank 62822 - inquirer — formal: a person who asks a question or seeks information; frequency rank 63729 - unpretentious — not trying to appear more important, cultured, or impressive than one really is; modest and sincere; frequency rank 64090 - ratification — the act of formally approving and making an agreement, treaty, or decision valid; frequency rank 64385 - laugher — a person who laughs, especially one with a characteristic or frequent laugh; frequency rank 65240 - good-day — dated or formal: a greeting or farewell equivalent to good day; frequency rank 66263 - poetical — Synonym of poetic.; frequency rank 67897 - embalm — to preserve a dead body by treating it with chemicals, oils, or spices; frequency rank 67905 - outdoorsman — chiefly North American, a man experienced in outdoor pursuits such as hiking, hunting, fishing, or camping; frequency rank 68638 - potash — potassium carbonate or an impure mixture of potassium salts formerly obtained from wood ashes; frequency rank 70318 - therefor — formal, especially legal: for that thing, action, or reason; in return for it; frequency rank 71342 - going-over — informal: a severe scolding, reprimand, or beating; frequency rank 73900 - poky — informal, especially British: too small, cramped, or lacking space; frequency rank 74121 - adjudication — the formal process of settling a dispute or deciding a legal case; frequency rank 76448 - schoolmistress — a woman who teaches in or is in charge of a school, now chiefly in historical contexts; frequency rank 79667 - entente — an informal alliance or friendly understanding between states or political powers; frequency rank 86274 - recommence — formal: to begin again or cause an activity to begin again; frequency rank 90092 - dog-tired — informal: extremely tired; exhausted; frequency rank 100880 - pneumatics — the branch of mechanics concerned with gases and their use to transmit force, especially through compressed air; frequency rank 106531 - beefeater — a person who eats beef, especially one characterized as eating a great deal of it; frequency rank 106993 - hatful — the amount that a hat can hold; frequency rank 108748 - indenture — a formal contract binding a person to work for another for a fixed period, especially as an apprentice or servant; frequency rank 112852 - commercialize — to develop an idea, product, or service so that it can be sold commercially; frequency rank 121476 - chargeable — required to be paid for or capable of being assigned to an account; frequency rank 126752 - derange — to disturb the order, arrangement, or normal operation of something; formal; frequency rank 173730 - inroad — a noticeable advance, effect, or penetration, especially in the phrase make an inroad or make inroads; frequency rank 184014 - concatenation — a series of things linked together, or the act of linking them into a chain or sequence; frequency rank 198947 - industrialism — a social and economic system based on large-scale mechanized industry rather than chiefly on agriculture or craft production; frequency rank 202694 - contextually — In a way that depends on or refers to the surrounding context.; frequency rank 212788 - stuffiness — The state of being warm and lacking fresh air.; frequency rank 225076 - miscall — to call or name a person or thing incorrectly; frequency rank 228348 - heathenism — dated: beliefs or conduct regarded as non-Christian or irreligious; frequency rank 342152 - quean — archaic or dialect, disparaging: a woman or girl; frequency rank 368436 - systematize — to arrange facts, ideas, or activities into an organized and coherent system; frequency rank 388332 - sure-enough — informal: real, actual, or genuine, especially when the fact is surprising or emphatic; frequency rank 447034 - remittent — medicine: decreasing in severity at intervals without disappearing completely; frequency rank 449249 - stuffily — In a boring, formal, and pompous way.; frequency rank 597206 - gnarly — difficult, dangerous, or challenging, often used to describe extreme sports or activities - indentured — bound by a formal contract to work for another for a specified time, often without pay in exchange for passage to a new country - roughshod — acting without regard for others; inconsiderate or overbearing (chiefly in 'ride/run roughshod over') - smite — to strike with a firm blow - drawing-room — a formal sitting room for receiving guests - détente — an easing of hostility or strained relations, especially between countries ### C2 - peter — usually peter out: to diminish gradually in strength, quantity, or activity and finally stop; 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frequency rank 6467 - orphanage — a residential institution that houses and cares for children without parents or guardians; frequency rank 6558 - epic — constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic; frequency rank 6793 - faggot — historical: a bundle of sticks or branches bound together for fuel; frequency rank 6835 - yah — a dialect or eye-dialect spelling of you; frequency rank 6940 - steed — A stallion, especially one used for riding.; frequency rank 7591 - abigail — historical: a lady's maid or female personal attendant; frequency rank 7636 - madonna — an artistic representation of the Virgin Mary, especially with the infant Jesus; frequency rank 8274 - stereo — a sound system that records or reproduces audio through two or more separate channels; frequency rank 8318 - Negro — dated and now generally offensive: a historical racial label for a Black person; retained in quotations and some historical institutional names; frequency rank 8375 - cartel — an association of independent businesses or producers that coordinate prices, output, or markets in order to limit competition; frequency rank 8535 - douche — offensive slang: an unpleasant, contemptible, or obnoxious person; frequency rank 8897 - rover — a person who wanders or travels without settling in one place; frequency rank 9089 - erotic — relating to sexual desire, love, or sexual excitement; frequency rank 9134 - thug — a violent criminal or a person hired to intimidate or attack others; frequency rank 9149 - yer — nonstandard pronunciation spelling of your; frequency rank 9645 - padre — a Christian priest, especially in a Spanish- or Portuguese-speaking community; frequency rank 10094 - sermon — Religious discourse; a written or spoken address on a religious or moral matter.; frequency rank 10376 - cadet — a student or trainee preparing to become a military or police officer; frequency rank 10481 - lea — an open grassy field, meadow, or pasture; chiefly literary; frequency rank 10682 - mutt — informal: a foolish, contemptible, or irritating person; frequency rank 10711 - tit — a small, active songbird that often feeds on insects and seeds; frequency rank 10857 - shag — strong, coarse-cut tobacco; frequency rank 10890 - knob — a rounded handle on a door, drawer, lid, or similar object; frequency rank 11104 - ducky — informal, especially British and sometimes dated: an affectionate form of address for a person; frequency rank 11377 - anal — of, near, intended for, or involving the anus; frequency rank 11404 - viva — chiefly British: an oral examination, especially one for an academic degree; frequency rank 11522 - signor — a courtesy title used before the name of, or in addressing, an Italian man; equivalent to Mr. or sir; frequency rank 11754 - mandarin — the major group of Chinese varieties spoken across much of China, especially Standard Mandarin; frequency rank 11770 - posse — a group of people summoned by a law officer to help keep order or pursue a suspect; frequency rank 11917 - platter — a large, shallow dish or tray used for serving food; frequency rank 12452 - babu — South Asian, often historical in English: a respectful title or form of address for a man, commonly placed after a personal name; frequency rank 12657 - git — an eye-dialect or pronunciation spelling of get; frequency rank 12920 - wench — a girl or young woman; now dated and often humorous, dismissive, or offensive; frequency rank 12953 - loony — informal and potentially offensive: a person regarded as foolish, eccentric, or mentally unstable; frequency rank 13108 - raccoon — a nocturnal North American mammal with a black facial mask, dexterous forepaws, and a ringed tail; frequency rank 13238 - booby — a foolish or inept person; dated and insulting; frequency rank 13441 - cactus — Any member of the family Cactaceae, a family of flowering New World succulent plants suited to a hot, semi-desert climate.; frequency rank 13669 - python — a large nonvenomous constricting snake of the family Pythonidae, native chiefly to Africa, Asia, and Australia; frequency rank 13845 - ahoy — nautical: used to hail a ship, lookout, or person and attract attention; frequency rank 13870 - elope — to leave secretly in order to marry, or to marry privately without a public ceremony or advance announcement; frequency rank 13899 - bey — historical: a governor, ruler, or other high official in the Ottoman Empire and some of its former territories; frequency rank 14000 - mercer — historical: a merchant who dealt in textiles, especially silk and other fine cloth; frequency rank 14039 - girlie — informal, often dated: a girl or young woman, sometimes used as an affectionate form of address; frequency rank 14131 - assailant — a person who physically attacks another person; frequency rank 14233 - proctor — especially in the US, a person who supervises an examination to prevent cheating; frequency rank 14357 - concubine — historical: a woman recognized as a man's sexual partner but given lower social or legal status than a wife; frequency rank 14495 - homage — An artistic work imitating another in a flattering style.; frequency rank 14820 - limousine — a large luxurious car, often with a chauffeur and sometimes with a lengthened passenger compartment; frequency rank 14849 - roach — a silvery-green European freshwater fish, or any of several related fishes; frequency rank 14932 - chestnut — of a golden brown to reddish brown color; frequency rank 14986 - jerky — moving or proceeding in sudden, uneven starts rather than smoothly; frequency rank 15013 - dementia — a syndrome involving progressive decline in memory, reasoning, language, or other cognitive abilities; frequency rank 15160 - Hun — a member of a nomadic confederation that entered Europe in late antiquity and reached its greatest power under Attila in the fifth century; frequency rank 15183 - hoop — a rigid circular or curved band of metal, wood, or another material, used for holding, fastening, hanging, or forming a framework; frequency rank 15186 - topless — having the chest or breasts uncovered; frequency rank 15777 - privy — sharing secret or private knowledge of something, normally followed by to; frequency rank 16016 - tod — a former British unit of weight for wool, usually equal to 28 pounds (about 12.7 kilograms); frequency rank 16200 - pox — dated, especially in the pox or great pox: syphilis; frequency rank 16310 - damsel — dated or literary: a young unmarried woman, especially one of noble birth; frequency rank 16365 - attire — clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion; frequency rank 16672 - curator — A person who manages and organizes a collection in a museum, gallery, or library.; frequency rank 17107 - nightgown — a loose garment, especially a dresslike one, worn in bed; frequency rank 17161 - dole — chiefly British and informal: money paid by the government to people who are unemployed; frequency rank 17461 - alderman — a member of a municipal council, especially in a city or in a historical system of local government; frequency rank 17917 - emir — a ruler, prince, governor, or military commander in an Islamic country or polity; frequency rank 18050 - uber — informal: extreme, outstanding, or superior to others of its kind; frequency rank 18100 - mavis — the song thrush; chiefly literary or Scottish; frequency rank 18297 - chivalry — honourable, generous, and courteous conduct, especially toward someone perceived as vulnerable; frequency rank 18348 - psychosis — a severe mental state involving impaired contact with reality, often including delusions or hallucinations; frequency rank 18415 - eskimo — historical collective label for Inuit and Yupik peoples and related Arctic communities; now often considered outdated or offensive, especially in Canada and Greenland; frequency rank 18738 - pap — US dialect: father; pa; frequency rank 18865 - castor — historical: a small table container or a stand holding cruets and shakers for condiments; frequency rank 18899 - coney — archaic or historical: a rabbit, especially the European rabbit, or its fur; frequency rank 18937 - Neanderthal — a member of an extinct human species, Homo neanderthalensis, that lived in Europe and western Asia until about 40,000 years ago; frequency rank 19202 - bale — a large quantity of material compressed and tightly bound for storage or transport; frequency rank 19228 - armpit — the hollow beneath the shoulder where the arm joins the body; frequency rank 19242 - cavalier — showing an arrogant or dismissive lack of proper concern; frequency rank 19244 - deadbeat — informal, disparaging: a lazy or irresponsible person who avoids work or depends on others for support; frequency rank 19322 - pug — a small, sturdy dog with a short muzzle, broad wrinkled face, smooth coat, and tightly curled tail; frequency rank 19456 - eulogy — a speech or piece of writing praising a person who has died, usually delivered at a funeral; frequency rank 19473 - gunny — a coarse, strong fabric made from jute or hemp, especially for sacks; frequency rank 19539 - eradicate — to destroy or remove something completely, especially a disease, problem, or harmful practice; frequency rank 19679 - vixen — a female fox; frequency rank 19944 - thyself — the reflexive or emphatic form of thou, meaning yourself; archaic or literary; frequency rank 20313 - hunchback — a dated and potentially offensive term for a person with a markedly hunched back or kyphosis; frequency rank 20466 - filly — a young female horse, especially one below the age at which it is called a mare; frequency rank 20477 - Siamese — historical: relating to Siam, the former name of Thailand, or to its people, culture, or language; frequency rank 20577 - rupee — the monetary unit of India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Mauritius, and the Seychelles; frequency rank 20578 - swag — informal: money or goods obtained by theft or other illegal activity; frequency rank 20786 - hussy — old-fashioned, offensive: an insulting term for a woman or girl judged sexually immoral; frequency rank 20802 - courtesan — historical: a woman who had wealthy or powerful lovers or clients, often in exchange for financial support and with access to elite society; frequency rank 20817 - chalice — a stemmed ceremonial cup, especially the cup used for wine in the Christian Eucharist; frequency rank 20844 - sanatorium — an institution providing medical treatment, rest, and supervised recovery, especially for chronic illnesses such as tuberculosis; chiefly historical; frequency rank 21291 - midge — a very small two-winged fly, including both biting and non-biting kinds; frequency rank 21427 - aphrodisiac — a food, drug, or other substance believed to increase sexual desire or arousal; frequency rank 21487 - spinster — dated and often disparaging: an unmarried woman, especially one regarded as past the usual age for marriage; frequency rank 21652 - britches — informal or dialectal: trousers; especially breeches; frequency rank 21720 - harlot — dated and offensive: a woman described as a prostitute or as sexually promiscuous; frequency rank 21873 - bourne — a boundary or limit, especially in archaic or literary use; frequency rank 21899 - sable — black or very dark, especially in literary description or heraldry; frequency rank 21976 - trotter — a foot of a pig or sheep, especially when prepared as food; frequency rank 22402 - melodrama — a sensational dramatic work with exaggerated emotions, clear moral oppositions, stock characters, and an eventful plot; frequency rank 22413 - libel — a published false statement in a lasting form, such as writing or an image, that unjustly damages a person's reputation; also the legal wrong of publishing it; frequency rank 22556 - infidel — historical and often offensive: a person regarded as not accepting the religion considered true by the speaker; frequency rank 22653 - knave — dated: a dishonest, deceitful, or unscrupulous man; frequency rank 22760 - grange — a farm or farmhouse with its outbuildings, especially one formerly belonging to a monastery or estate; frequency rank 23203 - requisition — A formal, official request for supplies or services.; frequency rank 23320 - octave — An interval of twelve semitones spanning eight degrees of the diatonic scale, representing a doubling or halving in pitch frequency.; frequency rank 23331 - sabbatical — an extended period of authorized leave from regular work, often for study, travel, or research; frequency rank 23376 - vamp — a short, repeated, often improvised musical accompaniment or chord progression; frequency rank 23481 - magnolia — a tree or shrub of the genus Magnolia, typically bearing large, fragrant flowers; frequency rank 23493 - rummy — in informal British use, odd, peculiar, or suspicious; frequency rank 23609 - Mongolian — relating to Mongolia, its people, language, or culture; frequency rank 23611 - flaunt — to display something ostentatiously so that it attracts notice or admiration; frequency rank 23689 - sonata — a substantial musical composition for one instrument or a small group, usually arranged in several contrasting movements; frequency rank 23804 - grievance — A complaint about being treated unfairly, especially one serious enough to act on.; frequency rank 23955 - lombard — historical: a pawnshop or lending house that advances money against pledged goods; frequency rank 24074 - chevalier — a knight or chivalrous, courtly gentleman, especially in a historical or literary context; frequency rank 24226 - bray — to laugh loudly and harshly; frequency rank 24247 - rosebud — the unopened or partly opened flower bud of a rose; frequency rank 24381 - fie — archaic or literary: an exclamation expressing disgust, disapproval, shame, or outrage, often followed by on or upon; frequency rank 24501 - clack — a sharp, hard sound made when solid objects strike together; frequency rank 24772 - wer — historical: a man, or the monetary value assigned to a man's life under early Germanic law; frequency rank 24913 - barmaid — chiefly British: a woman who serves drinks in a bar or pub; frequency rank 25100 - inquisitor — a person who asks questions in a searching, persistent, or harsh manner; frequency rank 25158 - squaw — dated and offensive: a Native American woman or wife; frequency rank 25186 - tartar — a hard deposit of mineralized dental plaque that forms on teeth; dental calculus; frequency rank 25261 - pulpit — A raised platform in a church, sometimes enclosed, where the minister or preacher stands when giving the sermon; also, the lectern on such a platform.; frequency rank 25817 - esquire — in the United States, a lawyer, especially when Esquire or Esq. is placed after the person's name; frequency rank 26289 - injun — offensive and dated: an alteration of Indian formerly used for a Native American; frequency rank 26303 - dabble — to take part in an activity casually or without serious commitment; frequency rank 26658 - res — informal: resolution or image detail, especially in high-res and low-res; frequency rank 26859 - idiocy — extremely foolish behavior, an absurd act, or a serious lack of good judgment; frequency rank 27017 - ode — a formal lyric poem, often addressed to and celebrating or reflecting on a person, event, object, or idea; frequency rank 27245 - circumcision — the surgical removal of the foreskin, often performed as a religious rite or medical procedure; frequency rank 27293 - vail — to lower or take off something, especially a hat, as a sign of respect or submission; frequency rank 27769 - amok — in an uncontrolled, often violent frenzy, chiefly in the expression 'run amok'; frequency rank 27910 - archduke — a prince of the former ruling house of Austria, especially a son or male-line grandson of an emperor; frequency rank 28006 - blam — used to represent a sudden explosive impact or gunshot; frequency rank 28034 - minstrel — historical: a travelling musician, singer, poet, or storyteller, especially in medieval Europe; frequency rank 28124 - soiree — formal: an evening social gathering or party, often held in a private home and sometimes featuring music or conversation; frequency rank 28149 - creole — a natural language that developed in a contact community from elements of two or more languages and became a community's first language; frequency rank 28228 - fen — a low, waterlogged wetland fed by groundwater or runoff, often peat-forming and richer in minerals than a bog; frequency rank 28240 - skedaddle — informal: to leave or run away quickly, especially in alarm; frequency rank 28329 - rectory — a house provided for or occupied by a rector or another member of the clergy; frequency rank 28441 - cornbread — bread made chiefly from cornmeal, especially as a traditional food in the United States; frequency rank 28506 - musketeer — historical: a foot soldier armed with a musket; frequency rank 28508 - betrothal — a formal agreement or mutual promise to marry; an engagement; frequency rank 28571 - goldsmith — a craftsperson who makes, repairs, or sells objects made of gold, especially jewelry; frequency rank 28572 - thoroughbred — a horse of the Thoroughbred breed, developed chiefly for racing from English mares and imported Arabian, Barb, and Turkoman stallions; frequency rank 28605 - emporium — a large store or marketplace offering a wide variety of goods; frequency rank 28647 - trove — a valuable or interesting collection of things, especially one that has been discovered; frequency rank 29528 - debutante — a young woman formally introduced into fashionable society, traditionally at a ball or reception; frequency rank 29680 - mews — chiefly British, a short street or courtyard lined with buildings that were originally stables and are now often homes; frequency rank 30103 - dominus — historical: a lord or master; a title formerly applied to a knight, cleric, or academic master; frequency rank 30121 - shiner — any of numerous small, silvery North American freshwater fishes, especially minnows used as bait; frequency rank 30126 - trig — dated or dialectal: neat, trim, and smart in appearance; frequency rank 30176 - diocese — a district under the pastoral and administrative authority of a bishop; frequency rank 30342 - sunder — literary: to split, sever, or force apart; frequency rank 30375 - kidder — informal: a person who jokes, teases, or tries to deceive others playfully; frequency rank 30534 - matrimonial — relating to marriage or to the relationship between married partners; frequency rank 30588 - trollop — old-fashioned and offensive: an insulting term for a woman regarded as sexually promiscuous or immoral; frequency rank 31367 - crone — disparaging or literary: an old woman, especially one portrayed as ugly or frightening; frequency rank 31438 - sirree — informal, chiefly US: an emphatic form of sir used after yes or no; frequency rank 31491 - gad — dated: a mild exclamation of surprise, emphasis, or impatience, used as a euphemism for God; frequency rank 31519 - topaz — a hard aluminium fluorosilicate mineral, often transparent and cut as a gemstone in colorless, yellow, blue, pink, brown, or other varieties; frequency rank 31523 - beeswax — the wax produced by honeybees to build honeycomb, used in candles, polish, and other products; frequency rank 31714 - kinsman — a male relative, especially one belonging to the same extended family; now often literary or historical; frequency rank 31924 - ejaculate — to expel semen from the reproductive tract, typically during orgasm; frequency rank 32071 - bijou — a small jewel, ornament, or finely made decorative object; frequency rank 32082 - jaunty — showing cheerful self-confidence in a lively, carefree manner; frequency rank 32087 - wormwood — a strongly aromatic, intensely bitter plant of the genus Artemisia, especially Artemisia absinthium; frequency rank 32105 - prim — excessively proper, formal, or easily shocked by behavior; frequency rank 32367 - juggler — a performer who repeatedly throws and catches several objects or performs similar dexterity tricks; frequency rank 32495 - chiffon — a very light, sheer fabric woven from silk or synthetic fibers; frequency rank 32566 - nipper — informal, chiefly British: a young child; frequency rank 32816 - belated — coming, happening, or being done later than expected or appropriate; frequency rank 32876 - waterworks — a system of reservoirs, treatment facilities, pumps, and pipes that supplies water to a community; frequency rank 32895 - shaver — a tool or machine used for shaving, especially an electric razor; frequency rank 32925 - kodak — a camera, especially a small hand camera (historical generic use of the trademark); frequency rank 33317 - lancer — historical: a cavalry soldier armed with a lance; frequency rank 33402 - palazzo — an imposing urban residence or public building in Italy, especially one of historical or architectural importance; frequency rank 33618 - palp — a paired sensory or feeding appendage near the mouth of an arthropod or another invertebrate; frequency rank 33772 - palladium — a rare, lustrous, silvery-white chemical element with atomic number 46 and symbol Pd; frequency rank 33934 - whopping — exceptionally large, impressive, or extreme; frequency rank 33993 - vinaigrette — a dressing or sauce made chiefly from oil, vinegar, and seasonings; frequency rank 34068 - boer — historical: a Dutch-speaking settler or farmer in southern Africa, especially an ancestor of the Afrikaner population; frequency rank 34078 - nether — situated below or beneath; lower, chiefly in literary or fixed expressions; frequency rank 34103 - squatter — a person who occupies land or a building without legal title, permission, or a tenancy agreement; frequency rank 34371 - smock — a loose garment worn over other clothes to protect them, traditionally by artists, workers, or farm laborers; frequency rank 34413 - crawfish — chiefly US: a small freshwater crustacean resembling a lobster; a crayfish; frequency rank 34440 - yore — a time long past, now used chiefly in the phrase 'of yore'; frequency rank 34625 - telepath — a person believed or imagined to communicate thoughts directly without speech or other physical signals; frequency rank 34712 - moonstone — a translucent feldspar gemstone that displays a floating pearly or bluish sheen called adularescence; frequency rank 34721 - modus — a customary payment or other composition made instead of a tithe in kind; historical English law; frequency rank 34965 - aloe — any succulent plant of the genus Aloe, with a rosette of thick pointed leaves; frequency rank 35165 - doge — historical: the elected chief magistrate of the former republics of Venice or Genoa; frequency rank 35300 - fakir — a Muslim religious mendicant, especially a Sufi ascetic who renounces material possessions; frequency rank 35665 - whittle — to cut or shape wood by repeatedly shaving off small pieces with a knife; frequency rank 35682 - verily — Truly; in truth (now old-fashioned or formal).; frequency rank 35814 - instigate — to cause, encourage, or provoke an action or event, especially one that is troublesome or unlawful; frequency rank 36216 - woodcock — a stocky woodland wading bird of the genus Scolopax, with mottled plumage and a long slender bill; frequency rank 36422 - peregrine — the peregrine falcon, a powerful and widely distributed bird of prey noted for its extremely fast dive; frequency rank 36603 - palais — a palace or grand public building, especially one with a French name or cultural setting; frequency rank 36794 - horner — historical: a craftsperson who works animal horn into combs, vessels, handles, or other goods; frequency rank 37029 - curtsy — a formal gesture of greeting or respect made by bending the knees and lowering the body; frequency rank 37216 - highwayman — historical: an armed robber, typically on horseback, who stopped and robbed travelers on public roads; frequency rank 37287 - hackney — a carriage or cab kept for public hire; now chiefly historical except in the term hackney carriage; frequency rank 37319 - dumbbell — a short bar with a weight at each end, held in one hand for exercise; frequency rank 37901 - workday — a day on which a person normally works rather than taking time off; frequency rank 38151 - mulatto — offensive and dated: a historical racial label for a person of mixed Black and white ancestry, especially someone with one Black and one white parent; frequency rank 38170 - columbine — any plant of the genus Aquilegia, with showy flowers whose petals or sepals have long backward-pointing spurs; frequency rank 38275 - handmaiden — historical: a female personal attendant or servant; frequency rank 38479 - dragoon — historical: a mounted soldier trained to fight on foot, later a cavalry soldier; frequency rank 38628 - bodice — the fitted upper part of a woman's dress, above the waist; frequency rank 38733 - orc — in fantasy literature and games, a member of a race of aggressive, often monstrous humanoid creatures; frequency rank 38795 - phallus — formal, anatomical, or anthropological: the penis, especially when erect; frequency rank 38824 - hetman — a Cossack leader or military commander; frequency rank 38942 - crumpet — a small, round British bread made from yeast batter, with holes on top, usually toasted and eaten with butter; frequency rank 39099 - fathead — informal and insulting: a stupid or foolish person; frequency rank 39112 - pish — dated: used to express impatience, disdain, contempt, or dismissal; frequency rank 39139 - agitator — a person who vigorously stirs others into political or social action, often a disapproving label for a protest organizer; frequency rank 39155 - levee — The steep bank of a river.; frequency rank 39450 - evert — to turn a structure outward or inside out, especially an organ, sac, eyelid, or other body part; frequency rank 39486 - craw — the crop or food-storage pouch in the throat of a bird or some other animals; frequency rank 39609 - porthole — a small, usually circular window in the side of a ship, aircraft, or similar vehicle; frequency rank 39611 - furlong — a unit of distance equal to one eighth of a mile, 220 yards, or 201.168 metres, now used chiefly in horse racing; frequency rank 39725 - boorish — rough, rude, and insensitive in behavior or manners; frequency rank 39918 - avian — Relating to or typical of birds.; frequency rank 39961 - coastguard — chiefly British, an official employed to watch coastal waters, help vessels in danger, and enforce maritime law; frequency rank 40010 - logistic — relating to the detailed organization and movement of people, materials, or equipment; frequency rank 40076 - wheeze — To breathe with difficulty, making a whistling or rasping sound.; frequency rank 40562 - ramrod — a rod used to push a charge down the barrel of a muzzle-loading firearm or to clean a gun barrel; frequency rank 40586 - clothesline — a rope, cord, or wire from which washed clothes are hung to dry; frequency rank 40648 - hocus — dated: to trick, cheat, or deceive someone; frequency rank 40871 - dusky — lighted by or as if by twilight; frequency rank 40886 - macro — a saved instruction or abbreviation that expands into a longer sequence of computer commands; frequency rank 41119 - nary — informal or dialectal: not a single; not any, used before a singular count noun; frequency rank 41122 - fief — historical: land, revenue, or another right held from a feudal superior in return for allegiance and service; frequency rank 41399 - incontinence — inability to control the bladder or bowels, resulting in involuntary urination or defecation; frequency rank 41593 - tabernacle — the portable sanctuary used by the Israelites according to the Hebrew Bible; frequency rank 41807 - satyr — a male woodland spirit in ancient Greek mythology, associated with Dionysus and represented with both human and animal features; frequency rank 42065 - vesta — historical: a short friction match, especially one made with a wax-coated stem; frequency rank 42305 - epilogue — a concluding section added to a literary work that comments on or reveals what happens after the main narrative; frequency rank 42374 - nonce — the present occasion or time, chiefly in the phrase for the nonce; frequency rank 42635 - minuet — a slow, formal dance in triple time that was fashionable in European courts during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; frequency rank 42937 - nitric — relating to nitrogen, especially nitrogen in a relatively high oxidation state; frequency rank 43011 - caveat — a warning, reservation, or qualification attached to a statement or agreement; frequency rank 43395 - hairball — a compact mass of swallowed hair or fur formed in the digestive tract of a person or animal; a trichobezoar; frequency rank 43846 - een — Scots and Northern English: eyes; frequency rank 44033 - addendum — a section of additional information appended to a document or publication; frequency rank 44444 - vestal — a Vestal Virgin, one of the priestesses who tended the sacred fire of Vesta in ancient Rome; frequency rank 44555 - vespers — an evening service of prayer in several Christian traditions; one of the canonical hours; frequency rank 44681 - dippy — informal: foolish, eccentric, or lacking common sense; frequency rank 44728 - sot — dated and disapproving: a habitual drunkard; frequency rank 45370 - mim — archaic or dialect: prim, demure, or affectedly modest; frequency rank 45442 - surrealism — An early 20th-century art and literary movement that used dreamlike, fantastic images to express the unconscious mind.; frequency rank 45637 - poorhouse — historical: an institution maintained to house and support poor or homeless people, often under harsh conditions; frequency rank 45902 - whelp — a young dog or wolf, or the young of certain other carnivorous mammals; frequency rank 46220 - dressy — stylish or formal enough for a special occasion; frequency rank 46317 - swarthy — Dark-skinned; black.; frequency rank 46410 - gizzard — a thick-walled muscular part of the digestive tract that grinds food in birds and various other animals; frequency rank 46458 - groat — historical: an English or Scottish coin, especially the English silver coin worth four old pence; frequency rank 46552 - dobbin — dated: a quiet, patient horse used for ordinary farm work or transport; frequency rank 46925 - whereof — of which or of whom; now chiefly formal or archaic; frequency rank 47148 - welt — a raised, often red mark on the skin caused by a blow, pressure, or irritation; frequency rank 47169 - tyne — Scottish and Northern English, archaic: to lose, mislay, forfeit, or cease to possess something; frequency rank 47247 - anathema — something or someone intensely disliked, rejected, or regarded as wholly unacceptable; frequency rank 47420 - intendant — a public administrator or governor, especially an official in historical France, Spain, Portugal, or their colonies; frequency rank 47790 - sheepskin — the skin of a sheep, especially when tanned as leather or used with the fleece still attached; frequency rank 48003 - vert — historical forest law: green vegetation in a forest, especially as cover or food for game; frequency rank 48113 - yucca — any of a genus of evergreen plants with stiff sword-shaped leaves and tall clusters of white flowers, native chiefly to warm, dry parts of North and Central America; frequency rank 48293 - croup — an illness, chiefly in young children, that causes a harsh barking cough and difficulty breathing; frequency rank 48547 - florin — a gold coin first minted in medieval Florence, or any of several European coins modeled on it; frequency rank 48780 - sibyl — in the ancient world, a woman believed to deliver divine prophecies or oracles; frequency rank 48788 - pageantry — elaborate, colorful ceremony and display, especially on a public or royal occasion; frequency rank 48842 - saddlebag — one of a pair of bags carried across or beside a saddle, or a similar bag fitted to a bicycle or motorcycle; frequency rank 48924 - moorish — lowercase, literary: resembling or characteristic of moorland; boggy or marshy; frequency rank 49096 - melancholia — historical psychiatry: a condition of profound depression, often with fear, guilt, slowed thought, or withdrawal; frequency rank 49246 - halcyon — Pertaining to the halcyon or kingfisher.; frequency rank 49873 - laundress — a woman employed to wash and iron clothes; now dated; frequency rank 49929 - waif — especially historical: a homeless, abandoned, or neglected person, especially a child; frequency rank 49981 - jingo — dated: used as a mild oath, usually in the phrase by jingo; frequency rank 50146 - triumvirate — a group of three people who share authority or responsibility; frequency rank 50829 - thereto — to that or to it, chiefly in formal, legal, or literary language; frequency rank 51027 - masher — a utensil or machine used to crush food or another material into a soft mass; frequency rank 51088 - abdication — the formal act of giving up a throne or other position of sovereign power; frequency rank 51145 - patten — historical: a wooden clog or raised overshoe worn to keep an ordinary shoe above wet or muddy ground; frequency rank 51318 - assignation — often dated: a secret appointment to meet, especially between lovers; frequency rank 51517 - esprit — lively intelligence, wit, or vivacious cleverness; frequency rank 52201 - cussed — chiefly US, informal or dialectal: annoying, ill-tempered, or stubbornly difficult; frequency rank 52312 - coquette — dated: a woman who deliberately flirts without intending a serious relationship; frequency rank 52419 - nubile — dated, chiefly of a young woman: considered old enough or eligible to marry; frequency rank 52650 - talc — an extremely soft hydrous magnesium silicate mineral with a greasy or soapy feel, used in ceramics, paint, paper, plastics, and powders; frequency rank 52660 - crevasse — a deep crack or fissure in a glacier, ice sheet, or snowfield; frequency rank 52723 - abolitionist — historical: a person who campaigned to end slavery, especially in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Atlantic world; frequency rank 53052 - lunkhead — informal and insulting: a stupid, clumsy, or slow-witted person; frequency rank 53209 - pectoral — of or relating to the chest, breast, or corresponding front region of an animal's body; frequency rank 53221 - pewter — a grey, workable alloy consisting chiefly of tin mixed with small amounts of other metals; frequency rank 53352 - finny — having fins or resembling a fin; frequency rank 53790 - rigmarole — a long, complicated, and often unnecessary procedure; frequency rank 54002 - Bolshevism — historical and political: the revolutionary Marxist doctrine and strategy of the Bolshevik faction led by Lenin; frequency rank 54049 - bushman — dated, often capitalized: a member of one of the San peoples of southern Africa; San or a specific community name is generally preferred; frequency rank 54055 - polecat — a dark-brown Eurasian mustelid that releases a strong-smelling secretion when threatened; frequency rank 54189 - swipes — dated British slang: weak, watery, or inferior beer; frequency rank 54511 - perspire — to produce sweat through the pores of the skin; a formal word for sweat; frequency rank 54726 - kilowatt — a unit of power equal to one thousand watts; symbol kW; frequency rank 54849 - boll — the rounded seed capsule of a plant such as cotton or flax; frequency rank 55298 - mastiff — an old breed of powerful deep-chested smooth-coated dog used chiefly as a watchdog and guard dog; frequency rank 55393 - highfalutin — informal and disapproving: pompous, pretentious, or designed to seem important or sophisticated; frequency rank 55500 - lich — archaic: a corpse or dead body, surviving especially in compounds such as lich-gate or lych-gate; frequency rank 55509 - quoth — said; an archaic past-tense verb used chiefly before a first- or third-person subject; frequency rank 55524 - muggins — chiefly British, informal and insulting: a foolish or easily deceived person; frequency rank 55660 - hussar — historical: a soldier in one of the light-cavalry units of Hungary or other European armies; frequency rank 55894 - gentlewoman — a woman of high social standing or good family, or one regarded as cultured and well-mannered; old-fashioned; frequency rank 55972 - windowpane — A fabric pattern of widely-spaced intersecting vertical and horizontal lines forming large squares.; frequency rank 56090 - excommunicate — to officially exclude someone from participation or membership in a church or religious community; frequency rank 56220 - sheldrake — an older name for a shelduck, especially a male bird of the genus Tadorna; frequency rank 56241 - shiftless — lacking ambition or initiative and habitually unwilling to work steadily; frequency rank 56307 - ineligible — not qualified or permitted to be chosen, receive something, or take part; frequency rank 56448 - wold — an open, rolling tract of upland country, especially one used as a regional name in England; frequency rank 56493 - mote — a tiny particle or speck, especially one visible in the air; frequency rank 56525 - slippy — slippery; difficult to stand on, hold, or control because it is smooth or wet; frequency rank 56932 - scow — a broad, flat-bottomed boat used chiefly to carry bulk freight; frequency rank 56978 - praetor — an annually elected magistrate of the Roman Republic, especially one responsible for administering justice; frequency rank 57160 - procurer — a person who obtains or supplies someone or something for another, often through effort or special arrangements; frequency rank 57699 - washerwoman — historical: a woman employed to wash other people's clothes and household linen; frequency rank 57736 - codicil — a legal document added to a will to explain, modify, add, or revoke a provision; frequency rank 57744 - transfuse — to transfer blood or another fluid into a person's or animal's bloodstream; frequency rank 57869 - unction — the ceremonial act of anointing someone with oil, especially as a religious rite; frequency rank 58116 - traipse — informal: to walk from place to place, especially wearily, reluctantly, or over a needlessly long distance; frequency rank 58150 - nohow — dated or dialectal: in no way; not at all; frequency rank 58215 - mainstay — a person or thing on which something chiefly depends for support or stability; frequency rank 58294 - Ainu — a member of the Indigenous people native chiefly to Hokkaido and historically also to Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands; frequency rank 58314 - rathole — a burrow, entrance, or hole made or used by a rat; frequency rank 58519 - foist — to force an unwanted, inferior, or deceptive thing on someone; frequency rank 58834 - apoplexy — dated: sudden unconsciousness or paralysis caused by a stroke or cerebral hemorrhage; frequency rank 59081 - galoot — slang, mildly insulting or humorous: a fellow, especially one who is awkward, foolish, or uncouth; frequency rank 59260 - scribbler — historical textile work: a worker who coarsely cards or teases wool before spinning; frequency rank 59575 - negress — an old-fashioned and now offensive term formerly used for a Black woman or girl; frequency rank 59670 - aerodrome — chiefly British: an area from which aircraft operate, including its runways and associated buildings; an airfield; frequency rank 59694 - noddy — any of several stout-bodied tropical seabirds of the genus Anous, closely related to terns; frequency rank 59863 - hobnob — to associate or socialize familiarly, especially with important or high-status people; frequency rank 59874 - fascia — a sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue that surrounds, separates, or binds muscles and organs; frequency rank 60351 - deflower — dated: to have sexual intercourse with a person regarded as a virgin, framed as taking that person's virginity; frequency rank 61516 - croaker — dated: a habitual complainer or a person who gloomily predicts trouble; frequency rank 62067 - hearken — to listen attentively or give serious heed, especially in literary or archaic use; frequency rank 62096 - witchery — witchcraft or the supposed practice of magic; frequency rank 62365 - harelip — dated and sometimes offensive: a cleft lip, a congenital opening or split in the upper lip; frequency rank 62397 - togs — informal, plural: clothes, especially clothes for a particular activity or occasion; frequency rank 62528 - colloquial — Used in ordinary, informal conversation rather than formal speech or writing.; frequency rank 62534 - irk — to annoy, irritate, or weary someone; frequency rank 62600 - champaign — literary or archaic: an extensive area of level, open countryside; a plain; frequency rank 62649 - hypochondria — persistent, excessive anxiety that one has or may develop a serious illness; now a nontechnical or dated term; frequency rank 63185 - zither — a stringed instrument with many strings stretched across a flat, usually horizontal soundbox and played by plucking or strumming; frequency rank 63254 - patrimony — property or an estate inherited from one's father or other ancestor; frequency rank 63688 - handmaid — dated or historical: a female personal servant or attendant; frequency rank 63833 - shipboard — a ship considered as a place where people live, meet, or travel, chiefly in the phrase on shipboard; frequency rank 63898 - piddle — informal: to spend time ineffectually on trivial matters; to work in a small or desultory way; frequency rank 63920 - flathead — dated US slang, insulting: a stupid or foolish person; frequency rank 64271 - waddy — an Australian Aboriginal hardwood club used traditionally for hunting or fighting; frequency rank 64413 - obliteration — The total destruction of something.; frequency rank 64571 - pshaw — dated: used to express impatience, disbelief, contempt, or dismissal; frequency rank 64596 - phaeton — a light four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage, usually open and having one or two forward-facing seats; frequency rank 64686 - tailcoat — a formal coat cut short at the front and extending into one or two long tails at the back; frequency rank 65154 - tress — literary, often plural: a long lock, curl, or braid of hair; frequency rank 65318 - prussic — dated in chemistry: relating to hydrogen cyanide or hydrocyanic acid, especially in the term prussic acid; frequency rank 65322 - archival — Relating to an archive or to old records and documents kept for the future.; frequency rank 65402 - unmanly — dated, often disapproving: not showing qualities traditionally expected of a man, especially courage or self-control; frequency rank 66168 - largesse — A specific gift of money, etc., given in this way, specifically (historical) at harvest time; a donation, a gratuity.; frequency rank 66285 - diggings — an area where miners dig for gold or other valuable minerals; frequency rank 66592 - munition — usually plural: military weapons, ammunition, explosives, and other supplies used in war; frequency rank 67197 - marmoset — a small Central or South American monkey of the callitrichid group, typically with clawlike nails on most digits; frequency rank 67494 - seigneur — historical: a feudal lord or nobleman in France or another French-speaking territory; frequency rank 67919 - locum — chiefly British: a professional, especially a doctor, who temporarily performs another person's duties; frequency rank 67951 - newsboy — historical: a boy or young man who sells or delivers newspapers; frequency rank 68062 - ambergris — a waxy substance formed in the digestive tract of a sperm whale and historically prized as a perfume fixative; frequency rank 68278 - anachronism — a person, object, or detail placed in the wrong historical period; frequency rank 68386 - pachyderm — an elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, or other large thick-skinned mammal formerly grouped in the obsolete order Pachydermata; frequency rank 68779 - misbegotten — badly conceived, designed, or produced; frequency rank 68832 - sunstone — a gem variety of feldspar whose reflective inclusions often produce a glittering optical effect called aventurescence; frequency rank 68933 - requite — formal: to return or reciprocate a feeling, kindness, or service; frequency rank 69038 - cortege — a formal or ceremonial procession, especially at a funeral, wedding, or royal occasion; frequency rank 69193 - indiscernible — impossible or extremely difficult to perceive clearly; frequency rank 69257 - ducat — historical: a gold or silver coin formerly issued by many European states, especially the widely traded gold ducat; frequency rank 69317 - compos — of sound mind and in full control of one's mental faculties, chiefly in the phrase compos mentis; frequency rank 69552 - chine — the backbone of an animal, especially with the adjoining flesh, or a cut of meat or fish containing it; frequency rank 69652 - trope — a familiar theme, device, or convention that recurs in a type of story, art, or discussion; frequency rank 69929 - consumptive — affected by or characteristic of pulmonary tuberculosis; frequency rank 69996 - gibbet — historical: a gallows or similar framework used to hang a person or display an executed person's body; frequency rank 70258 - remoteness — The quality of being remote.; frequency rank 70339 - epistle — a formal or literary letter, especially a long one; frequency rank 70555 - dropsy — historical medicine: edema, or swelling caused by excess fluid in body tissues; frequency rank 70584 - pharos — historical or literary: a lighthouse or beacon, especially an ancient monumental one; frequency rank 70864 - pronouncement — a formal or authoritative statement, especially one made publicly; frequency rank 71711 - humorist — a person known for creating, writing, or performing humor, especially one who regularly tells amusing stories; frequency rank 72065 - dotage — a period or state of old age marked by declining mental ability or judgment; frequency rank 72099 - hist — an archaic call used quietly to attract attention or command silence; frequency rank 72100 - russet — reddish-brown or brown with an orange tint; frequency rank 72411 - blatter — dialectal: to talk rapidly, noisily, or foolishly; frequency rank 72650 - sepulcher — literary or historical: a tomb, grave, or chamber in which a dead person is buried; frequency rank 72774 - scullion — historical: a low-ranking kitchen servant who performed menial work such as cleaning pots and dishes; frequency rank 72890 - pinion — the smaller of two meshing gears, or a small gear that engages with a rack; frequency rank 72891 - scupper — an opening in a ship's side, or in a building wall, through which water drains from a deck, floor, or flat roof; frequency rank 73116 - tapir — An odd-toed ungulate of the genus Tapirus with a long prehensile upper lip.; frequency rank 73148 - queller — a person or thing that suppresses, subdues, or puts an end to resistance, disorder, or a strong feeling; frequency rank 73414 - majordomo — historical: the chief servant or steward in a wealthy or royal household; frequency rank 73660 - whereon — on which or on what; now chiefly formal, literary, or archaic; frequency rank 73740 - pianoforte — the full or historical name for a piano, a keyboard instrument whose hammers strike strings and whose volume varies with the player's touch; frequency rank 73800 - tinkler — British dialect, dated and sometimes offensive: an itinerant tinker, traveler, or member of a traveling community; frequency rank 74142 - morass — Anything that entraps or makes progress difficult.; frequency rank 74668 - cutaway — a drawing, photograph, or model with part of the exterior removed to reveal the internal structure; frequency rank 74760 - easement — law: a right to cross or use another person's land for a specified purpose without owning it; frequency rank 75042 - iniquitous — grossly unfair, unjust, or morally wrong; wicked (formal); frequency rank 75788 - withe — a slender, flexible twig or shoot, especially one used for binding; frequency rank 75899 - passel — US regional and informal: an indefinitely large group, number, or amount, usually followed by of; frequency rank 75923 - rapscallion — a dishonest, disreputable, or mischievous person; a rascal or scoundrel; frequency rank 76476 - Patagonian — relating to Patagonia, the southern region of Argentina and Chile, or its people and culture; frequency rank 76515 - seraph — an angel of the seraphim, traditionally represented with six wings and ranked in the highest order of Christian angelology; frequency rank 76551 - cubit — any of several ancient units of length based on the forearm from elbow to fingertip, commonly about 18 inches or 46 centimetres; frequency rank 76576 - howdy-do — dated, especially US: an awkward, surprising, or troublesome situation, often in the phrase a pretty howdy-do; frequency rank 76591 - dunghill — a heap of animal dung or refuse, especially one kept for use as manure; frequency rank 76718 - purgative — causing the bowels to empty, or more broadly cleansing something of unwanted matter or emotion; frequency rank 76840 - navvy — a laborer employed in heavy excavation or construction work, especially on canals, roads, or railways; chiefly British and historical; frequency rank 76864 - quintal — a metric unit of mass equal to 100 kilograms; frequency rank 77105 - gannet — a large mostly white seabird of the genus Morus that catches fish by plunging steeply into the sea; frequency rank 77795 - deviance — Actions or behaviors that violate formal and informal cultural norms such as laws and customs.; frequency rank 78220 - voiture — literary or historical, chiefly in French contexts: a carriage or other vehicle; frequency rank 78510 - Hottentot — a dated and derogatory colonial name for a Khoikhoi or Khoekhoe person of southern Africa; frequency rank 78805 - etymology — the study of the origins and historical development of words; frequency rank 78922 - clime — a region considered in relation to its climate, especially in literary use; frequency rank 78977 - barque — a sailing ship with three or more masts, square-rigged except on the rearmost mast; frequency rank 79127 - eventide — evening or the late part of the day around sunset; literary or poetic; frequency rank 79331 - quadrille — a four-player card game derived from ombre and especially popular in the eighteenth century; frequency rank 80039 - subnormal — below the usual, expected, or average level; frequency rank 80321 - pedagogue — a teacher, especially one who is strict, formal, or old-fashioned; frequency rank 80455 - drongo — an insect-eating Old World passerine bird of the family Dicruridae, typically glossy black with a forked or ornamented tail; frequency rank 80471 - cassowary — a large, powerful flightless bird of the genus Casuarius, native chiefly to New Guinea and northern Australia, with a horny casque on its head; frequency rank 80714 - transmigration — the passage of a soul after death into another body or form of life; frequency rank 80807 - wagonload — the amount of goods or material that a wagon carries or can hold; frequency rank 80888 - cowhide — strong leather made from the skin of a cow; frequency rank 82043 - trounce — to defeat someone thoroughly or by a very large margin; frequency rank 82380 - lorn — literary or archaic: abandoned, bereft, lonely, or forlorn; frequency rank 82518 - weal — welfare, prosperity, or the common good, now chiefly archaic or literary; frequency rank 82524 - philology — the scholarly study of historical texts through their language, transmission, literary context, and interpretation; frequency rank 82650 - charwoman — a woman hired, traditionally by the day or hour, to clean a house or other building; dated; frequency rank 82698 - gentlefolk — historical: people considered well-born, genteel, or of high social rank; frequency rank 82802 - spinney — chiefly British: a small wood or copse, especially one planted to shelter game birds; frequency rank 83284 - halfpenny — an English coin worth half a penny; frequency rank 83987 - Aristotelian — relating to Aristotle, his writings, or the philosophical and logical tradition based on them; frequency rank 84018 - coxcomb — dated: a vain, conceited man excessively concerned with his appearance; frequency rank 84169 - bezoar — a compact mass of swallowed hair, plant fibre, or other indigestible material formed in a human or animal digestive tract; frequency rank 84403 - bodkin — a blunt, large-eyed needle used to pull cord or ribbon through a hem or casing; frequency rank 84586 - cupbearer — historical: a trusted court official who poured and served wine or another drink to a ruler; frequency rank 84790 - coster — dated British: a street seller of fruit, vegetables, or other goods; a costermonger; frequency rank 84862 - obsequies — funeral rites or ceremonies, especially formal ones; frequency rank 85056 - ribald — coarsely vulgar or irreverently humorous, especially about sex; frequency rank 85114 - jilt — to suddenly reject or abandon a romantic partner, especially shortly before an expected marriage; frequency rank 85230 - erg — the centimeter-gram-second unit of work or energy, equal to one dyne-centimeter or 10^-7 joule; frequency rank 85368 - cabman — historical: a man who drove a horse-drawn cab for hire; frequency rank 85617 - wayfarer — literary: a person traveling from place to place, especially on foot; frequency rank 85619 - septicaemia — chiefly British: a serious infection involving pathogenic microorganisms in the bloodstream; blood poisoning; frequency rank 86185 - waterfowl — a duck, goose, swan, or other bird that lives or feeds chiefly on or near water; such birds collectively; frequency rank 86433 - turbit — a breed of fancy domestic pigeon with a short beak, a peaked or shell-shaped crest, and a frill of feathers on the breast; frequency rank 86586 - vernal — relating to, occurring in, or characteristic of spring; frequency rank 86643 - parti — the central concept or organizing scheme of an architectural design, often expressed in a simple diagram; frequency rank 87024 - headsman — historical: an executioner who puts condemned people to death by beheading; frequency rank 87159 - pottle — a small pot or food container, especially one used for fruit; chiefly British and Commonwealth English; frequency rank 87277 - shipload — the quantity of cargo or passengers carried by, or sufficient to fill, a ship; frequency rank 87312 - tromp — to walk, tread, or stamp heavily, often crushing what is underfoot; frequency rank 87579 - idiosyncrasy — An unusual habit or feature that is typical of one particular person.; frequency rank 87857 - electrochemical — of or involving electrochemistry; frequency rank 88125 - mutineer — a person who takes part in a mutiny, especially a sailor or soldier rebelling collectively against commanding officers; frequency rank 88289 - carapace — a hard protective shell covering all or part of the back of an animal such as a turtle, crab, or barnacle; frequency rank 88486 - genomic — Relating to a genome, the complete set of genes in an organism.; frequency rank 88783 - copybook — historical: a school exercise book containing models of handwriting for a pupil to copy; frequency rank 88856 - high-toned — dated, especially US: belonging to or characteristic of high social rank; aristocratic or refined; frequency rank 89050 - encyclical — an authoritative pastoral letter issued by the pope and circulated broadly within the Roman Catholic Church; frequency rank 89160 - catarrh — inflammation of a mucous membrane, especially in the nose or throat, accompanied by excessive mucus; now chiefly a dated medical term; frequency rank 89236 - subaltern — historical British military usage: a commissioned army officer below the rank of captain, such as a lieutenant; frequency rank 89483 - switchback — chiefly British, dated: a roller coaster or amusement ride with steep rises and descents; frequency rank 89630 - cinematograph — an early apparatus that recorded and projected motion pictures; frequency rank 89795 - phosphor — a substance that emits light after being excited by radiation or another form of energy, as in fluorescent lamps and display screens; frequency rank 90079 - specie — money in the form of coins, especially gold or silver coins with intrinsic value rather than paper currency; frequency rank 90171 - solus — literary or in stage directions: alone; unaccompanied; frequency rank 90176 - ultramarine — a vivid deep-blue pigment originally made by grinding lapis lazuli and now also produced synthetically; frequency rank 90184 - leprous — affected by or relating to leprosy; frequency rank 91491 - comitatus — historical: a band of warriors or nobles bound by loyalty to a ruler or military leader; frequency rank 91537 - noway — in no way or degree; not at all; now chiefly archaic or dialectal; frequency rank 91576 - interdict — To forbid (an action or thing) by formal or legal sanction.; frequency rank 92014 - ptomaine — any of several amines, such as putrescine or cadaverine, produced when bacteria decompose animal or plant matter; frequency rank 92280 - brakeman — historical: a railway worker responsible for operating a train's brakes and assisting with couplings and switching; frequency rank 92529 - rhythmical — rhythmic; frequency rank 92933 - deuced — old-fashioned informal: very or extremely, used for emphasis; frequency rank 94471 - knavish — dishonest, deceitful, or unscrupulous; frequency rank 94624 - vanadium — the chemical element with symbol V and atomic number 23, a silvery transition metal used chiefly to strengthen steel and in several industrial catalysts; frequency rank 94945 - promethean — daringly creative, inventive, or defiant of accepted limits; frequency rank 95917 - merk — a historical Scottish silver coin and unit of account worth thirteen shillings and fourpence Scots; frequency rank 95981 - grandsire — a grandfather, especially in old-fashioned or literary language; frequency rank 96454 - straightway — immediately or without delay, now chiefly literary or archaic; frequency rank 96740 - scrofula — dated: tuberculosis of the lymph nodes, especially those of the neck; cervical tuberculous lymphadenitis; frequency rank 96897 - slat — informal: a rib of the body, especially in the plural slats; frequency rank 97201 - enunciation — The act of enunciating, announcing, proclaiming, or making known; open attestation; declaration.; frequency rank 97352 - phrenology — historical: a discredited system that claimed a person's character and mental faculties could be read from the shape of the skull; frequency rank 97430 - puritanism — the religious beliefs, practices, and historical movement of the Protestant Puritans; frequency rank 97516 - lubber — dated or insulting: a large, clumsy, lazy, or foolish person; frequency rank 98609 - mesmerism — historical: a system developed by Franz Mesmer that claimed an invisible force could produce physical or hypnotic effects; frequency rank 98620 - baldhead — dated: a person with a bald head; frequency rank 98835 - buckler — historical: a small round shield held in the hand or worn on the arm for parrying blows; frequency rank 99348 - dyspepsia — pain, discomfort, bloating, nausea, or heartburn arising from the upper digestive tract; indigestion; frequency rank 99792 - odalisque — historical: an enslaved female attendant in an Ottoman palace or harem; in Western writing, often inaccurately treated as a concubine; frequency rank 99869 - wiseacre — old-fashioned or informal: a person who pretends to be knowledgeable or makes conceitedly clever remarks; frequency rank 101141 - colloquially — In informal, everyday language.; frequency rank 101243 - inst — dated, in correspondence: of the present month, used after a stated date; frequency rank 101245 - womanish — dated and derogatory, especially of a man: having traits stereotypically associated with women and judged weak or unsuitable; frequency rank 101582 - hoar — literary: greyish white with age; old and grey-haired or frost-whitened; frequency rank 102387 - presentment — an appearance, representation, or image presented to the mind; frequency rank 102840 - nobble — British informal: to bribe, persuade, intimidate, or otherwise secure improper influence over someone; frequency rank 103298 - pyrite — a common brass-yellow mineral consisting of iron disulfide, often mistaken for gold; frequency rank 104091 - swash — the surge or wash of water against a shore, or the sound it makes; frequency rank 104394 - de rigueur — required by custom, etiquette, convention, or current fashion; frequency rank 105386 - orang — dated: a shortened form of orangutan, the large arboreal ape native to Borneo and Sumatra; frequency rank 105504 - gree — dialectal or archaic: one step in a flight of stairs; frequency rank 105921 - philologist — a scholar who studies the historical development, structure, and relationships of languages, especially through written texts; frequency rank 105996 - felicitation — formal and usually plural: an expression of congratulation, pleasure, or good wishes offered for someone's success or good fortune; frequency rank 107169 - trivet — a small stand or heat-resistant mat placed under a hot dish or pan to protect a table or work surface; frequency rank 107406 - grizzle — chiefly British, informal and disapproving: to cry fretfully or complain continually; frequency rank 107411 - wherewith — with which; using the thing just mentioned; frequency rank 107608 - corpuscle — a blood cell, especially a red or white blood cell; now chiefly used in older or nontechnical language; frequency rank 108264 - millwright — historical: a craftsperson who designs, builds, or repairs mills and their machinery; frequency rank 108286 - epicure — a person with refined and discriminating tastes, especially in food and wine; frequency rank 108826 - oculist — dated: a specialist who diagnoses or treats eye disorders or tests vision; frequency rank 109034 - chanticleer — literary: a rooster, especially one personified in a fable or story; frequency rank 109445 - purloin — formal or humorous: to steal or wrongfully take something, often secretly or in breach of trust; frequency rank 110179 - bowstring — the cord stretched between the ends of an archer's bow and drawn back to shoot an arrow; frequency rank 110342 - blackamoor — historical and offensive: an obsolete racial label for a Black person, especially one perceived as African or North African; 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frequency rank 114297 - woad — a Eurasian plant, Isatis tinctoria, formerly cultivated as a source of blue dye; frequency rank 114438 - reticule — historical: a small woman's handbag, often closed with a drawstring; frequency rank 114485 - trireme — an ancient Mediterranean war galley propelled chiefly by oars arranged in three banks on each side; frequency rank 114637 - opine — To express an opinion; to state as an opinion; to suppose, consider (that).; frequency rank 115296 - unfix — to loosen, detach, or remove something from a fixed position; frequency rank 115412 - greatcoat — a long, heavy overcoat worn for warmth, especially as part of a historical military uniform; frequency rank 115578 - imperil — formal: to put a person, thing, or undertaking at serious risk of harm, loss, or destruction; frequency rank 116107 - promethium — the radioactive rare-earth chemical element with symbol Pm and atomic number 61, which has no stable isotopes; frequency rank 116757 - ratcatcher — a person employed to catch or destroy rats and other vermin; frequency rank 117032 - cutpurse — historical: a thief who steals purses or valuables from people in public, especially by cutting a purse from its fastening; frequency rank 117633 - glebe — land belonging to a parish church or ecclesiastical benefice and providing income for its clergy; frequency rank 118160 - firkin — a small wooden cask used especially for butter, ale, or other provisions; frequency rank 118749 - negroid — dated and offensive: relating to a discredited racial category formerly applied to people of sub-Saharan African ancestry on the basis of supposed physical traits; frequency rank 119226 - barouche — historical: a large four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with two facing passenger seats, a folding hood over the rear seat, and a raised driver's seat in front; frequency rank 119489 - arcanum — a secret, mystery, or piece of knowledge known only to initiates or specialists; frequency rank 119502 - moneybag — a bag or pouch used to hold or carry money; frequency rank 120098 - flatcar — chiefly North American, a railroad freight car with a flat open deck and no permanent sides or roof, used for containers, vehicles, machinery, and other bulky loads; frequency rank 120549 - bombast — pompous, inflated language with little real meaning; frequency rank 121114 - gabelle — historical: a tax, especially the compulsory salt tax imposed in pre-Revolutionary France; frequency rank 121518 - bushranger — historical Australian usage: an escaped convict or other outlaw who lived in the bush and survived by robbery; frequency rank 121599 - clew — an archaic or literary spelling of clue: a fact or sign that helps solve a problem or find something; frequency rank 121610 - twiddly — informal: winding, twisting, or intricately shaped; frequency rank 123630 - unmodified — not changed in form or character; frequency rank 124002 - screed — A piece of writing (such as an article, letter, or list) or a speech, especially if long.; frequency rank 124351 - pottage — a thick soup or stew made by slowly boiling vegetables, grains, and sometimes meat; frequency rank 124427 - blazon — to display, describe, or proclaim something conspicuously or publicly; frequency rank 124465 - rhodium — the rare, hard, silvery-white chemical element with symbol Rh and atomic number 45, belonging to the platinum group; frequency rank 124479 - gamecock — a rooster bred and trained for cockfighting; frequency rank 125729 - commissionaire — chiefly British, historical: a uniformed attendant or doorman at a hotel, theater, office, or other public building; frequency rank 126058 - extenuate — formal: to lessen or try to lessen the seriousness of a fault or offense by offering a partial excuse or mitigating circumstance; frequency rank 126203 - hackle — a long, narrow feather from a bird's neck or back, especially one used in an artificial fishing fly; frequency rank 126237 - cannoneer — An artillery soldier who maintains and operates (historical) a cannon, or (now) some other piece of heavy artillery.; frequency rank 126461 - seclude — formal: to keep oneself or another person apart from contact with other people; frequency rank 127305 - suttee — the historical practice among some Hindu communities in South Asia in which a widow died, or was killed, on her husband's funeral pyre, sometimes under coercion; frequency rank 127450 - pedantry — an ostentatious or ill-timed display of learning; frequency rank 128461 - starveling — literary: a person, animal, or plant made thin and weak by lack of food; frequency rank 128599 - committeeman — dated: a man who serves on a committee; frequency rank 129741 - solemnize — to perform the official or religious ceremony of a marriage; frequency rank 130121 - delf — historical and dialectal: Delftware or other glazed earthenware, especially plates, dishes, and tea things; frequency rank 130341 - alga — one of a diverse group of chiefly aquatic photosynthetic organisms, ranging from microscopic single cells to large seaweeds and lacking the organs of land plants; frequency rank 131019 - swart — dark in color or complexion; now chiefly archaic or literary and potentially offensive when applied to a person; frequency rank 131222 - clothier — a person or company that makes or sells clothes; frequency rank 131355 - whoso — archaic: whoever; whatever person; frequency rank 131665 - stoup — a small basin for holy water, especially one fixed near the entrance of a church; frequency rank 132721 - centrum — the thick central body of a vertebra, to which the vertebral arch and other processes attach; frequency rank 132992 - hogshead — a large barrel or cask, especially one used for alcoholic drink or other liquids; frequency rank 133102 - philter — a supposedly magical potion, especially one intended to arouse love; frequency rank 134264 - inamorata — literary or humorous: a woman with whom someone is in love; a female lover; frequency rank 134437 - snod — neat, trim, smooth, or orderly; chiefly Scottish and northern English; frequency rank 134682 - harlotry — dated and disparaging: prostitution, or the practice of engaging in sex for payment; frequency rank 135688 - disputation — formal argument or sustained verbal controversy about a question; frequency rank 137046 - puncheon — US historical: a split log or heavy slab smoothed on one face and used especially for flooring; frequency rank 137186 - catafalque — a raised, often decorated platform or framework on which a coffin rests during a funeral or lying in state; frequency rank 137513 - erst — archaic or literary: formerly; in the past; frequency rank 139653 - housebreaker — a person who illegally enters a house, usually by force, in order to steal or commit another crime; frequency rank 140707 - ontology — the branch of metaphysics concerned with being, existence, and the fundamental kinds of things that exist; frequency rank 142242 - yesternight — archaic: during the night immediately before today; last night; frequency rank 143055 - remonstrate — To protest or argue against something, expressing strong disapproval.; frequency rank 143431 - danseuse — dated: a female professional dancer, especially a ballet dancer; frequency rank 143489 - sixpenny — historical British: costing or worth sixpence; by extension, cheap or slight; frequency rank 144333 - snuffer — a small cone or bell on a handle used to extinguish a candle flame; frequency rank 144430 - bounden — archaic except in bounden duty: morally obligatory or binding; frequency rank 144581 - usufruct — the legal right to use another person's property and receive its benefits or profits without destroying or substantially damaging it; frequency rank 145549 - mummery — a ridiculous, showy, or insincere ceremony or performance; frequency rank 145606 - betake — to go or resort to a place or course of action, used chiefly in the reflexive phrase betake oneself; frequency rank 145612 - agriculturist — a specialist trained in the science, practice, or management of agriculture; frequency rank 145880 - cayuse — Western US, historical: a small, hardy range horse or pony; frequency rank 146233 - schema — an organized pattern, framework, or abstract form that can be applied to particular cases; frequency rank 146372 - parterre — a formal ornamental garden laid out in symmetrical flowerbeds divided by paths; frequency rank 146872 - footpad — historical: a robber who traveled and attacked people on foot rather than on horseback; frequency rank 147303 - durance — literary or archaic: imprisonment or forced confinement, especially for a long time; frequency rank 147402 - tomtit — chiefly British: a small tit, especially the blue tit; frequency rank 147994 - tenpence — the sum or value of ten pence, especially in historical British currency; frequency rank 148322 - wroth — archaic or literary: intensely angry; frequency rank 149224 - behove — formal: to be necessary, proper, or advantageous for someone; frequency rank 150688 - impasto — painting: the technique of applying paint thickly enough for brush or palette-knife marks to remain visibly raised; frequency rank 151635 - regularize — To make regular.; frequency rank 151983 - pederasty — sexual relations between an adult man and an adolescent boy; frequency rank 155114 - ebon — literary: deep black in color, like ebony; frequency rank 156256 - exculpate — formal: to clear a person from blame, guilt, or an accusation; frequency rank 157046 - corrector — a person, device, or process that identifies and corrects errors, faults, or improper behavior; frequency rank 158226 - empiricist — a philosopher or thinker who holds that knowledge comes chiefly from experience and observation; frequency rank 158238 - sumpter — historical: a horse, mule, or other pack animal used to carry loads; frequency rank 158663 - unexperienced — not encountered, undergone, or known through experience; frequency rank 158829 - citizeness — a woman who is a citizen; now rare except in historical contexts; frequency rank 158879 - nabob — dated, often disparaging: a very wealthy, powerful, or self-important person; frequency rank 159526 - blether — chiefly Scottish and Northern English: foolish, idle, or long-winded talk; frequency rank 161240 - phthisis — dated medicine: a progressive wasting disease, especially pulmonary tuberculosis; frequency rank 161528 - minim — a historical apothecaries' unit of liquid volume equal to one sixtieth of a fluid dram, roughly 0.06 milliliters; frequency rank 163067 - nosebag — a bag containing feed that is fastened over a horse's or similar working animal's muzzle; frequency rank 164101 - caddis — a caddisfly or its aquatic larva, which often builds a portable case from sand, twigs, or other debris; frequency rank 164734 - flapdoodle — informal, often dated: foolish, pretentious, or insincere talk; nonsense; frequency rank 165237 - strapper — dated or informal: an unusually large, strong, robust person; frequency rank 165935 - ribaldry — coarse, vulgar, or sexually indecent humor, language, or behavior; frequency rank 165983 - pleader — formal or historical: a lawyer or advocate who pleads cases in court; frequency rank 166147 - broadcloth — a dense, smooth woolen cloth, historically woven wider than ordinary cloth and used for fine garments; frequency rank 167581 - sylph — in the occult system of Paracelsus and later literature, an elemental spirit of the air, usually invisible and often represented as female; frequency rank 168143 - slavey — dated, informal, and often offensive: a female domestic servant who performs general or menial household work; frequency rank 168877 - tetter — archaic: any of various itching, scaly, blistering, or pustular skin eruptions, without the precision of a modern diagnosis; frequency rank 169397 - grammarian — a scholar or specialist who studies and describes grammar; frequency rank 169912 - pervious — able to be penetrated or passed through by water, air, or another substance; frequency rank 171050 - reave — archaic or literary: to rob, plunder, or carry something away by force; frequency rank 172364 - purgation — the act of cleansing someone or something of impurity, guilt, or defilement; frequency rank 173644 - neurasthenic — historical medicine: relating to or affected by neurasthenia, a diagnosis involving fatigue, weakness, and nervous symptoms; frequency rank 173737 - enfranchise — to give a person or group the legal right to vote; frequency rank 174945 - valediction — the act of saying farewell, or the words used when parting; frequency rank 176636 - pabulum — bland, simplistic, or intellectually undemanding material offered as if it were nourishing; frequency rank 176770 - ambassadress — dated: a female ambassador or a woman acting as an emissary; frequency rank 177438 - shamefaced — showing shame, guilt, or embarrassment, often through an awkward or subdued expression; frequency rank 177743 - dooryard — chiefly US or historical: the yard or open ground immediately outside a house door; frequency rank 178888 - casque — a hard helmet-like structure on the head or bill of certain birds and reptiles; frequency rank 179262 - perambulation — formal or humorous: a walk, stroll, or tour made on foot; frequency rank 179303 - courser — historical or literary: a swift, strong horse, especially one ridden in battle; frequency rank 179307 - outlawry — historical law: the formal placing of a person outside the law and its protection; frequency rank 179936 - manlike — resembling a human being or an adult man in form or appearance; frequency rank 181651 - toper — dated: a person who drinks alcohol heavily or habitually; frequency rank 181747 - capriccio — music: a lively, freely formed instrumental composition with a fanciful or improvisatory character; frequency rank 183084 - perambulate — formal or humorous: to walk about, stroll, or travel through a place; frequency rank 183338 - servitor — archaic or formal: a male servant or attendant; frequency rank 183607 - bondman — historical: an enslaved man held in personal bondage; frequency rank 183718 - piffling — (informal) small and of little importance; frequency rank 183959 - poesy — literary: poetry, especially considered as an art or body of writing; frequency rank 186659 - jings — dated or dialectal: an exclamation of surprise or emphasis; frequency rank 187514 - pipit — a small, slender, usually brown and streaked ground-feeding songbird, chiefly of the genus Anthus, found in open country; frequency rank 187579 - argal — archaic or humorous: therefore; thus; frequency rank 188029 - foppery — ostentatiously fashionable dress, affected manners, or behavior characteristic of a fop; frequency rank 188306 - etymological — relating to etymology or the historical origin and development of words; frequency rank 188949 - quaestor — an ancient Roman magistrate chiefly responsible for public revenue, accounts, and financial administration; frequency rank 189940 - declamation — the formal, forceful, or theatrical delivery of a speech; frequency rank 190080 - quare — strange, unusual, or remarkable; dated and dialectal, especially in Ireland; frequency rank 190950 - transcendentalism — a nineteenth-century American philosophical and literary movement that emphasized spiritual intuition, individual conscience, and the inherent goodness of people and nature; frequency rank 195234 - crants — obsolete: a garland or wreath, especially one carried before a maiden's bier and afterward hung over her grave; frequency rank 196275 - regimentals — the uniform and insignia of a soldier's regiment; a plural-only and often historical noun; frequency rank 197465 - euchre — a card game for two to four players, usually played with a reduced deck and a trump suit; frequency rank 198259 - abrogation — the formal repeal, abolition, or annulment of a law, agreement, right, or custom; frequency rank 198976 - ploughboy — historical: a boy employed to guide draught animals pulling a plough or to assist a ploughman; frequency rank 199064 - bandbox — a lightweight box, originally for neckbands and later especially for hats or other delicate clothing; frequency rank 201014 - manful — dated: showing courage, determination, or resolution; frequency rank 203901 - concordat — a formal agreement between the Holy See and a sovereign state regulating church affairs; frequency rank 204103 - plasm — biology, now rare: the living substance of a cell; protoplasm; frequency rank 204709 - orientalist — historical or academic: a scholar of languages, literatures, histories, or cultures once grouped in Western scholarship as the Orient; frequency rank 206294 - actuate — engineering: to cause a machine or mechanism to operate or move; frequency rank 207121 - trull — archaic and disparaging: a woman who sells sex, or a woman insultingly characterized as sexually immoral; frequency rank 207249 - condottiere — historical: the commander of a mercenary company in Italy or elsewhere in Europe, especially from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries; frequency rank 207381 - cere — the fleshy or waxy skin at the base of the upper beak in certain birds, containing the nostrils; frequency rank 208368 - bashaw — historical spelling of pasha: a man of high rank or authority in the Ottoman Empire; frequency rank 209339 - debenture — a long-term debt instrument issued by a company or government; in US usage it is usually unsecured, while in UK usage it may be secured on assets; frequency rank 209792 - sectary — a member or adherent of a particular religious sect, school of thought, or party; now rare; frequency rank 210140 - crupper — a strap or loop passing under a horse's tail to prevent a saddle or harness from sliding forward; frequency rank 210474 - surcoat — historical: a loose sleeveless garment worn over armour, often displaying heraldic colours or arms; frequency rank 210580 - libertinism — a way of life marked by self-indulgence, sexual freedom, and rejection of conventional moral restraints; frequency rank 211045 - leathern — made of leather; now chiefly archaic or literary; frequency rank 211292 - viand — an item or dish of food, especially a choice dish; now chiefly literary and often plural; frequency rank 212031 - purblind — lacking insight, understanding, or the ability to foresee consequences; frequency rank 213138 - monomania — an excessive or obsessive concentration on a single subject or idea; frequency rank 214472 - phylactery — either of two small leather cases containing Torah passages, traditionally worn during weekday morning prayer; a tefilla; frequency rank 217273 - whitecap — a wave whose crest has broken into white foam; frequency rank 217867 - ruction — informal: a noisy quarrel, fight, or angry disturbance; frequency rank 218176 - gnarl — to twist or deform something into a rough, knotted shape; frequency rank 219467 - cracksman — dated or literary: a burglar, especially one skilled at breaking open safes; frequency rank 220862 - countervail — to offset, compensate for, or neutralize the effect of something; frequency rank 221366 - raftsman — dated: a person who operates, travels on, or works aboard a raft; frequency rank 222221 - repine — literary: to feel or express discontent by complaining or fretting about an unwanted situation; frequency rank 223199 - swingeing — chiefly British: extremely severe, harsh, or damaging; frequency rank 223991 - annal — a record of an event or of the events of one year in a historical chronicle, now most often used in the plural annals; frequency rank 225949 - syndic — an official or agent appointed to manage the affairs of a corporation, university, municipality, or similar body; frequency rank 226253 - hermaphroditism — in biology, the condition of having both male and female reproductive organs, either simultaneously or at different life stages; frequency rank 227866 - panegyric — a formal speech or piece of writing that offers elaborate praise; frequency rank 230114 - conjuncture — a combination of events or circumstances, especially one creating a critical situation; frequency rank 231961 - typewrite — dated: to write or produce text with a typewriter; frequency rank 232790 - enow — archaic or dialect: soon; presently; frequency rank 232853 - dolichocephalic — having a head or skull that is relatively long from front to back compared with its width; frequency rank 232968 - tret — historical commerce: an allowance in weight made to a buyer for waste, dust, or deterioration after tare had been deducted; frequency rank 234653 - corvée — historical: unpaid labor that a feudal tenant was required to perform for a lord, often in place of rent or tax; frequency rank 236112 - Vulgate — the Latin version of the Bible chiefly prepared by Saint Jerome and adopted as the Catholic Church's standard Latin text; frequency rank 236782 - remembrancer — literary or historical: a person or thing that reminds, commemorates, or preserves a memory; frequency rank 237064 - surtout — historical: a man's close-fitting overcoat, often cut like a frock coat; frequency rank 239767 - dairymaid — historical: a woman or girl employed to milk cows and perform other dairy work; frequency rank 240376 - manikin — a small model or articulated figure representing the human body, especially for medical or artistic study; frequency rank 240676 - tuberosity — anatomy: a large, rough, rounded prominence on a bone, commonly serving as an attachment site for a muscle, tendon, or ligament; frequency rank 241457 - imbrue — literary: to stain or soak something deeply, especially with blood; frequency rank 242600 - comfit — a confection consisting of a nut, seed, spice, or piece of fruit coated with sugar; frequency rank 243168 - dey's — eye dialect: there is, there are, or they are; frequency rank 243421 - predication — the grammatical or logical act of asserting a property, action, or class membership of a subject; frequency rank 246034 - crossbill — any finch of the genus Loxia whose upper and lower bill tips cross, an adaptation for extracting seeds from conifer cones; frequency rank 246903 - rencontre — literary or archaic: a chance or unexpected meeting or encounter; frequency rank 248609 - whereat — at which place or thing; at what, in formal or archaic use; frequency rank 248682 - snuggery — chiefly British and dated: a small, private, comfortable room or retreat; frequency rank 248706 - impressment — historical: the forcible recruitment of people into military service, especially sailors into a navy; frequency rank 250025 - wherry — a light rowboat formerly used to carry passengers or goods on rivers and in harbors; frequency rank 250631 - runnel — a small stream or rivulet; frequency rank 251147 - fard — archaic or literary makeup or paint applied to the face; frequency rank 254649 - heartsease — the European wild pansy, Viola tricolor, a small flower with petals commonly marked in three colors; frequency rank 259086 - attaint — historical law: to condemn a person for treason or felony by attainder, extinguishing civil rights and often forfeiting property; frequency rank 260880 - lubra — dated and offensive Australian term for an Aboriginal Australian woman; frequency rank 261358 - ichthyosaurus — an extinct dolphin-shaped marine reptile of the genus Ichthyosaurus, known chiefly from Early Jurassic rocks of Europe; frequency rank 262701 - hartshorn — dated: a solution or preparation of ammonia formerly used as smelling salts; frequency rank 264515 - charnel house — historical: a building, chamber, or vault in which human bodies or bones are deposited; frequency rank 265885 - blowsy — dated and disparaging, especially of a woman: untidy, coarse, or excessively florid in appearance; frequency rank 266757 - nursling — literary: a young child or animal being nursed or cared for; frequency rank 267113 - lionize — to treat someone as a celebrity or person of exceptional importance and give them conspicuous social attention; frequency rank 270286 - couchant — heraldry: lying down with the body resting on the legs and the head raised; frequency rank 271761 - gorget — a distinctively colored patch of feathers or fur on an animal's throat or upper chest; frequency rank 272013 - sleave — archaic: to separate or spread into fine threads, strands, or filaments; frequency rank 272603 - appertain — formal or literary: to belong or relate to something as a natural or rightful part; frequency rank 274125 - macaco — a historical common name for the black lemur, Eulemur macaco, and formerly for several related lemurs; frequency rank 274949 - reduplication — a word-formation process in which all or part of a word, root, or syllable is repeated; frequency rank 276516 - métayer — historical: a sharecropper who cultivates a landlord's land for a portion, often half, of the harvest while the landlord supplies stock, seed, or tools; frequency rank 276605 - unship — to remove or unload people, animals, or cargo from a ship; frequency rank 276731 - denude — formal: to strip land or another surface of its natural covering; frequency rank 278411 - Guanche — a member of the Indigenous people who inhabited Tenerife before the Castilian conquest, or, in broader historical use, a pre-Hispanic inhabitant of the Canary Islands; frequency rank 278428 - bedew — literary: to wet or cover something with dew or with small drops resembling dew; frequency rank 279413 - religieuse — dated: a nun or other woman belonging to a religious order; frequency rank 280347 - sublunary — literary: belonging to this earthly world rather than to heaven or a spiritual realm; frequency rank 283612 - pelisse — historical: a long outer cloak or coat worn by women or children, often trimmed or lined with fur; frequency rank 286450 - dishabille — a state of being only partly or carelessly dressed; frequency rank 288652 - auscultation — medical examination by listening to sounds within the body, usually with a stethoscope; frequency rank 292258 - billycock — dated British: a stiff felt hat with a rounded crown, similar to a bowler hat; frequency rank 294482 - Guana — a member of the Guana or Guana-speaking Indigenous peoples of the Gran Chaco and neighboring parts of South America; frequency rank 295059 - indite — to write or compose a text, especially a formal or literary one; frequency rank 296605 - culverin — a long-barreled cannon used chiefly in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; frequency rank 298273 - beldame — archaic and often disparaging: an old woman, especially one imagined as ugly or witchlike; frequency rank 300186 - metrical — Relating to birth certificates.; frequency rank 301284 - vassalage — historical: the condition, obligations, or tenure of a vassal under a feudal lord; frequency rank 302718 - misdoubt — archaic: to suspect or doubt; to form a mistaken suspicion about; frequency rank 305104 - stook — chiefly British: a group of sheaves of grain set upright together in a field to dry; frequency rank 305289 - sequent — in proof theory, a formal expression showing that one or more conclusion formulas follow from a collection of premise formulas; frequency rank 306089 - scunner — a strong dislike, aversion, or feeling of disgust; chiefly Scottish and northern British; frequency rank 306173 - amatory — literary: relating to or expressive of romantic or sexual love; frequency rank 306782 - anthropocentric — regarding human beings as the central or most important element of existence, especially when interpreting nature or assigning value; frequency rank 307041 - nowise — in no way or manner; not at all, now chiefly archaic or literary; frequency rank 308830 - parlourmaid — historical: a domestic maid responsible for receiving visitors, serving meals, and caring for reception rooms; frequency rank 309103 - body snatcher — historical: a person who illegally removed recently buried corpses from graves, especially to sell them for anatomical dissection; frequency rank 309222 - asiento — historical: a contract granted by the Spanish Crown that gave a person or company a monopoly over a branch of colonial trade, especially the supply of enslaved Africans to Spanish America; frequency rank 310819 - disputant — formal: a person who takes part in a dispute, controversy, or debate; frequency rank 310839 - subserve — formal: to help to promote, advance, or achieve a purpose; frequency rank 311534 - inclemency — the condition of weather being severe, stormy, or unpleasant; frequency rank 313648 - fosterage — the practice or process of raising another person's child as one's own, especially as a historical social custom; frequency rank 315118 - rodomontade — formal or literary: vain, boastful, or pretentious talk or behavior; frequency rank 315460 - astraddle — dated or regional: with one leg on each side of something; astride; frequency rank 316905 - raillery — formal: good-humored teasing, banter, or lightly mocking talk; frequency rank 317977 - wizen — shrunken, withered, and wrinkled, especially through age, illness, or dryness; frequency rank 318326 - coign — archaic spelling of quoin: an external corner or projecting angle of a wall, especially one emphasized with contrasting masonry; frequency rank 318516 - baldric — a broad, often ornamented belt worn diagonally from one shoulder to the opposite hip to support a sword, bugle, or other equipment; frequency rank 321773 - beseem — to be suitable or appropriate for someone or something; to befit; frequency rank 323489 - coccus — a bacterium with a spherical or roughly spherical shape; frequency rank 326178 - palaestra — a school or exercise ground in ancient Greece or Rome where wrestling and other athletic training took place; frequency rank 326331 - doggery — historical US: a cheap, disreputable saloon or tavern; frequency rank 326597 - unclose — archaic or literary: to open, become open, or release from a closed position; frequency rank 327526 - mislike — an aversion to or dislike of someone or something; now archaic or dialectal; frequency rank 327557 - plethoric — excessively full, abundant, or richly supplied; frequency rank 327817 - stiver — a former Dutch coin worth one twentieth of a guilder; frequency rank 329333 - commonweal — the welfare, prosperity, or good shared by all members of a community; frequency rank 332657 - exogenous — originating outside an organism, system, or process; frequency rank 335120 - ordure — solid bodily waste; dung or excrement; literary or formal; frequency rank 335646 - jarvey — British and Irish, historical: the driver of a hackney coach or jaunting car; frequency rank 337096 - gaucherie — a socially awkward or tactless act; frequency rank 341258 - purveyance — historical British law: the Crown's right to requisition provisions, transport, or other goods and services for royal use at fixed prices; frequency rank 342211 - dandyism — the cultivated dress, manners, wit, and self-presentation characteristic of a dandy; frequency rank 343228 - tallage — historical: a tax or compulsory payment levied by a feudal lord or monarch on tenants, towns, or royal lands; frequency rank 347377 - traduce — to speak maliciously and falsely about someone; to defame; frequency rank 348169 - affiance — archaic: to promise someone in marriage; to betroth; frequency rank 351400 - pomander — historical: a ball of aromatic substances carried for fragrance or as a supposed protection against infection; frequency rank 353799 - postilion — historical: a rider mounted on the near horse of a carriage team in order to guide it, especially when there is no coachman; frequency rank 358297 - plastron — the lower, usually flatter part of a turtle's or tortoise's shell; frequency rank 360645 - fardel — archaic or literary: a bundle carried as a load; figuratively, a burden; frequency rank 363301 - piastre — historical: a coin or monetary unit of varying value, especially a Spanish piece of eight or an Ottoman currency unit; frequency rank 365437 - tendance — archaic: care, attendance, or the act of tending to someone or something; frequency rank 366899 - declamatory — delivered in the forceful, formal manner of a public speech or recitation; frequency rank 367886 - proselyte — a person newly converted to a religion, doctrine, or cause; frequency rank 368173 - regality — historical Scots law: territorial jurisdiction of a royal character granted by the Crown to a lord, or the territory subject to it; frequency rank 368577 - magniloquent — formal and usually disapproving: using lofty, grandiose, or pompous language; frequency rank 369472 - elogium — a formal expression of praise; an encomium or eulogy; frequency rank 370405 - disquisition — a long, formal, and methodical discussion or written analysis of a subject; frequency rank 372115 - hereupon — immediately after this; at this point; now chiefly formal or archaic; frequency rank 372336 - chrysolite — a yellow-green or golden-green gem variety of olivine, now generally called peridot; frequency rank 374819 - galluses — chiefly US dialect, usually plural: straps worn over the shoulders to hold up trousers; suspenders or braces; frequency rank 376118 - protozoon — dated: a single protozoan organism; one of the mostly microscopic unicellular organisms formerly grouped as Protozoa; frequency rank 380326 - tumbril — historical: a cart used to carry condemned prisoners to execution, especially to the guillotine during the French Revolution; frequency rank 383259 - charivari — historical: a noisy mock serenade made with pots, pans, and other instruments, traditionally directed at newlyweds or a disapproved couple; frequency rank 385041 - spiracle — zoology: an external respiratory opening in an insect or another air-breathing arthropod, connected to the tracheal system; frequency rank 386123 - conversazione — a formal social gathering devoted to discussion of literature, art, science, or another learned subject; frequency rank 386356 - behoof — advantage, benefit, or interest, chiefly in the formal phrase for someone's behoof; frequency rank 386419 - poniard — historical: a dagger with a slender blade, often of triangular or square cross section; frequency rank 386542 - peregrination — a long journey or period of wandering from place to place; frequency rank 388481 - corroboree — an Aboriginal Australian ceremonial gathering that may include dance, song, music, storytelling, or ritual, with its precise form varying among communities; frequency rank 392487 - clasp-knife — dated: a pocketknife whose blade folds into the handle; frequency rank 392687 - houri — in Islamic tradition, one of the beautiful companions of the blessed in Paradise; frequency rank 398838 - thornback — the thornback ray or skate, Raja clavata, a ray with rough skin and rows of thornlike spines along its back and tail; frequency rank 401525 - titman — dialectal or historical: the smallest or weakest animal in a litter; a runt; frequency rank 402600 - disoblige — to inconvenience or disappoint someone by refusing a request or failing to accommodate their wishes; frequency rank 404888 - regardful — carefully attentive or mindful of someone or something; frequency rank 406261 - vivify — to give life, vitality, or renewed energy to someone or something; frequency rank 410466 - adulterine — historical: illegal, unauthorized, or spurious; frequency rank 414157 - denudation — geology: the wearing away of rock and soil by erosion and weathering, leaving a surface exposed; frequency rank 415708 - sardius — historical or biblical: sard, a translucent brownish-red to deep orange-red variety of chalcedony used as a gemstone; frequency rank 416657 - stannary — historical, usually plural: one of the tin-mining districts of Cornwall and Devon, together with its mines, works, and special legal institutions; frequency rank 418274 - germen — historical botany: the ovary of a flower, containing the ovules and developing into the fruit after fertilization; frequency rank 421813 - assemblance — an assembling, gathered collection, or assemblage; obsolete; frequency rank 425511 - bandsman — a musician who plays in a band, especially a brass or military band; frequency rank 431031 - dalmatic — a long, loose, wide-sleeved liturgical vestment worn especially by a deacon at Mass or the Eucharist; frequency rank 431870 - breastpin — dated: an ornamental pin worn on clothing at the chest, especially in a cravat or shirtfront; frequency rank 433256 - expatiate — to speak or write at length and in detail about a subject, usually followed by on or upon; frequency rank 433773 - pannikin — chiefly British or Australian: a small metal cup or pan, especially one used outdoors; frequency rank 436876 - espousal — formal: the act of adopting, supporting, or becoming committed to a belief, cause, policy, or practice; frequency rank 440780 - victualler — a person who supplies food and provisions to an army, navy, ship, or other organized body; frequency rank 442626 - dropsical — dated medicine: affected by or relating to dropsy, an abnormal accumulation of fluid in body tissues or cavities; frequency rank 444304 - womenkind — women considered collectively; womankind; frequency rank 444386 - exogamy — marriage outside a defined kinship or social group, especially when required by custom or law; frequency rank 444737 - letterpress — printing in which an inked raised surface is pressed directly onto paper; frequency rank 448004 - underdo — to do less than is needed, expected, or possible; especially, to cook insufficiently; frequency rank 452989 - stomacher — historical: a stiff, often richly decorated triangular panel worn over the chest and stomach at the front of a woman's bodice; frequency rank 458321 - solecism — a grammatical error or nonstandard construction in speech or writing; frequency rank 462561 - gaiter — a protective covering worn over the ankle and lower leg, often extending over the top of a shoe; frequency rank 463247 - adjuration — an earnest appeal, solemn command, or urgent entreaty; frequency rank 464215 - harmattan — a dry, dusty northeasterly wind that blows from the Sahara across West Africa, chiefly during the cooler months; frequency rank 470868 - tumid — literary or technical: swollen, bulging, or enlarged; frequency rank 470908 - stipendiary — receiving a fixed stipend or salary, especially for clerical, judicial, or public service; frequency rank 475021 - borderer — a person who lives near a border between countries or districts; frequency rank 476368 - onding — chiefly Scottish and Northern English: a heavy, continuous fall of rain or snow; a downpour; frequency rank 479432 - expectorate — to cough up and expel phlegm or other material from the lungs or throat; frequency rank 481294 - blackcock — chiefly British: a male black grouse, distinguished by glossy dark plumage and a lyre-shaped tail; frequency rank 485027 - proportionable — dated: proportional or appropriately related in size, amount, or degree; frequency rank 485340 - conventicle — historical: a secret, unauthorized, or legally prohibited meeting for religious worship; frequency rank 491482 - freshet — a sudden rise or overflow of a stream caused by heavy rain or melting snow; frequency rank 496791 - concernment — a matter in which someone has an interest or involvement; a concern or affair, now archaic; frequency rank 516006 - intermeddle — formal or dated: to interfere officiously in matters that are not one's concern; frequency rank 520503 - sheepcote — chiefly British or historical: a pen or small shelter for sheep; frequency rank 530176 - ventriloquize — to practice ventriloquism, making one's voice seem to come from another source; frequency rank 535810 - surcingle — a broad strap or girth passed around a horse or other pack animal to secure a saddle, blanket, or load; frequency rank 539276 - plagiary — a plagiarist; a person who presents another's words or ideas as their own; frequency rank 547379 - outport — chiefly British or historical: a port other than a country's main port, especially a British port outside London; frequency rank 568799 - cosmopolite — literary: a person who is at home in many countries and regards the whole world as their community; frequency rank 570733 - multure — historical or chiefly Scottish: a fee paid to a mill owner for grinding grain or pulverizing ore, often taken in kind; frequency rank 571624 - exceptionable — open to objection or criticism; offensive, unacceptable, or otherwise liable to disapproval (formal); frequency rank 579418 - whaleman — historical: a man employed in whaling, especially a crew member aboard a whaling ship; loosely, any whaler; frequency rank 584801 - jacinth — a transparent reddish-orange or reddish-brown variety of zircon used as a gemstone; frequency rank 586671 - fruitage — the fruit produced by a plant, or the amount of fruit it yields; frequency rank 590385 - supernal — literary: belonging to heaven, the sky, or a spiritual realm; frequency rank 619792 - transfinite — A transfinite number.; frequency rank 629753 - pneumogastric — dated: relating to the vagus nerve; frequency rank 632420 - mineralize — to convert a substance into mineral or inorganic form, as in fossilization, bone formation, or carbon storage; frequency rank 632606 - tantivy — archaic: a rapid gallop, headlong ride, or swift rushing movement; frequency rank 632681 - exordium — the introductory part of a speech, essay, or other formal discourse; frequency rank 638582 - impend — to be imminent or about to happen, especially as a threat or danger; frequency rank 641921 - dedicatory — serving as or relating to a dedication; frequency rank 643997 - hymeneal — relating to marriage or a wedding; nuptial, chiefly in literary use; frequency rank 648236 - hautboy — archaic: an oboe or an early form of that treble double-reed woodwind instrument; frequency rank 654699 - harpooneer — historical whaling: a specialist who throws or fires the harpoon, typically stationed in the bow of a whaleboat; frequency rank 656470 - unhistorical — not based on, supported by, or consistent with historical evidence or fact; frequency rank 664219 - engraftment — medicine: the successful incorporation and growth of transplanted cells or tissue in a recipient; frequency rank 666806 - bulrush — any of several tall, rushlike wetland plants, especially a cattail or reedmace with a cylindrical flower spike; frequency rank 670243 - unreserve — absence of restraint or concealment in speech or behavior; complete frankness or openness (formal or literary); frequency rank 681182 - coachmaker — historical: a craftsperson or business that builds horse-drawn coaches and carriages; frequency rank 684077 - smouch — chiefly dialectal: to obtain something by stealing or trickery; frequency rank 703384 - polypus — dated medical: a polyp, especially a growth projecting from a mucous membrane; frequency rank 709397 - schoolman — historical: a medieval scholar or teacher, especially one associated with scholastic philosophy or theology; frequency rank 748788 - disembogue — of a river, stream, or channel: to flow out into the sea or another larger body of water; frequency rank 797299 - midmost — literary: situated in or nearest the exact middle; frequency rank 813480 - gemmule — a small asexual reproductive bud or resistant cluster of cells, especially one produced by a sponge or another simple organism; frequency rank 818645 - goatsucker — a dated name for a nightjar, a crepuscular or nocturnal bird of the family Caprimulgidae; frequency rank 832015 - frugivorous — feeding chiefly or entirely on fruit; frequency rank 832593 - palmate — shaped like an open hand, with lobes, leaflets, veins, or other parts radiating from a common point; frequency rank 835580 - agean — dialectal pronunciation spelling of again; frequency rank 880935 - sacque — historical: a woman's loose gown or jacket hanging from the shoulders, especially a fashionable eighteenth-century garment; frequency rank 883095 - lighterman — historical: a person who operates, owns, or works on a lighter, a flat-bottomed barge used to transfer cargo; frequency rank 906669 - brickfield — chiefly British, historical: a place where clay is dug and bricks are made or fired; a brickyard; frequency rank 920013 - unfrequent — rare or dated: not frequent, common, or often occurring; frequency rank 935738 - socage — historical law: land tenure in return for agricultural services fixed in amount and kind or for money rent, rather than military service; frequency rank 935815 - gynaeceum — botany: variant of gynoecium, the collective female reproductive parts of a flower; frequency rank 938962 - cursitor — historical English law: a clerk in the Court of Chancery who prepared original writs issued as a matter of routine; frequency rank 959532 - heliotype — historical: a photomechanical printing process using a gelatin relief plate; frequency rank 969834 - vicinage — archaic or literary: the surrounding district or neighborhood; frequency rank 970193 - orchidaceous — relating to orchids or the orchid family; frequency rank 971135 - superannuate — to retire someone from service, often with a pension, because of age or infirmity; frequency rank 981126 - spicery — spices considered collectively; archaic or literary; frequency rank 1004479 - habitude — formal or historical: a habitual disposition, customary mode of behaviour, or established way of acting; frequency rank 1041949 - embosom — literary: to enclose, surround, or shelter something closely; frequency rank 1061092 - sophister — dated or rare: a person who uses clever but fallacious or misleading arguments; a sophist; frequency rank 1074497 - buskin — a soft boot reaching to the calf or knee, often laced up the front; frequency rank 1075622 - gormandize — dated: to eat greedily or in excessive quantities; frequency rank 1078823 - fuegian — relating to Tierra del Fuego, the archipelago at the southern end of South America; frequency rank 1087737 - verjuice — a sharply acidic juice pressed from unripe grapes, crab apples, or other sour fruit and used in cooking; frequency rank 1097276 - flota — historical: a fleet of Spanish ships, especially the convoy that carried goods and treasure between Spain and its American colonies; frequency rank 1115003 - catapulta — historical: a Roman military engine for launching arrows, stones, or other projectiles; frequency rank 1123076 - nurserymaid — historical, chiefly British: a female domestic servant employed to care for young children, often as an assistant to a nurse or nanny; frequency rank 1169441 - optative — grammar: expressing a wish, hope, or possibility through a verb form or construction; frequency rank 1214105 - winebibber — dated or literary: a person who habitually or excessively drinks wine or other alcohol; frequency rank 1230473 - volatilize — to cause a substance to become vapor, or to pass off as vapor; frequency rank 1254069 - seriocomic — combining serious and comic elements, subjects, or moods; frequency rank 1292169 - seignior — historical: a feudal or manorial lord, especially in France or French colonial territories; frequency rank 1298411 - defalcation — law: intentional or reckless misuse of money or property entrusted to one's care; frequency rank 1318961 - vendible — capable of being sold or suitable for sale; marketable; frequency rank 1341951 - moreen — historical: a heavy woolen or wool-and-cotton furnishing fabric, often with a ribbed or watered finish; frequency rank 1355337 - alluvion — clay, silt, sand, or gravel deposited by flowing water; alluvium; frequency rank 1363889 - unremitted — continued without pause, relaxation, or reduction; unceasing; literary; frequency rank 1386950 - shopman — a man who owns, manages, or operates a shop; now chiefly historical; frequency rank 1408024 - self-regarding — chiefly concerned with oneself or with actions affecting oneself - conferva — an obsolete or historical botanical term for threadlike freshwater algae, formerly grouped in the genus Conferva - superadd — to add something over and above what has already been added or provided - timocracy — in Plato's political theory, a form of government ruled by people motivated chiefly by honor and military glory - atomist — an adherent of atomism, especially the doctrine that matter or reality consists of indivisible elementary particles - benzoline — a historical name for a volatile petroleum or coal-tar solvent, used especially for cleaning and removing grease - gaum — in obsolete or regional Northern English, to understand, comprehend, or take notice of - scytheman — a person who cuts grass or grain with a scythe; a mower - eugenist — historical: an advocate or practitioner of eugenics, the discredited program of attempting to control human reproduction according to supposed hereditary quality - arpent — historical: any of several French units of land area, varying by place and still encountered in records from Quebec and Louisiana - hackney coach — historical: a horse-drawn passenger coach kept for public hire, especially a four-wheeled carriage drawn by two horses - fire-worshiper — a person who worships or religiously venerates fire - insolency — dated: the quality of being arrogantly rude, disrespectful, or insubordinate; insolence - sanjak — historical: an administrative district of the Ottoman Empire, usually a subdivision of an eyalet or vilayet - arrowy — shaped, straight, swift, or moving like an arrow; literary - overweigh — to exceed in weight, force, importance, or influence; to outweigh; archaic - perfectionate — to make perfect, complete, or fully developed; archaic - unadept — a person who lacks skill or proficiency; rare - unfashioned — not made, shaped, or fully formed; unformed or incomplete; literary - ungazed — not looked at or regarded, usually followed by at or upon; literary - preux — literary or archaic: chivalrous, valiant, or gallant - scissors-grinder — historical: a person, often an itinerant craft worker, who sharpens scissors and other cutting tools on a grinding wheel - cobalt blue — a strong, vivid blue color, often with a slightly greenish cast - scientifiction — dated: science fiction, especially fiction that combines scientific facts or speculation with adventure and predictions about the future - swim bladder — a gas-filled internal sac present in many bony fishes, used chiefly to regulate buoyancy and maintain depth and, in some species, also involved in respiration, hearing, or sound production - palette knife — a blunt, flexible, flat-bladed artist's tool used to mix colors on a palette and sometimes to apply or remove paint - inspirit — literary: to give someone renewed courage, energy, or vigor - solemnization — the official or ceremonial performance of a marriage - ensigncy — historical: the rank, office, or commission of an ensign, especially a junior officer in an army regiment - amercement — historical law: a monetary penalty whose amount was set at the discretion of a court or lord - senega — historical: gum arabic obtained in or exported from the Senegal region, used especially in dyeing and manufacturing - alcavala — historical: a Spanish sales tax charged on transfers of movable or immovable property, often at each successive sale - assentation — rare: ready, servile, or insincere agreement offered to flatter or please someone - pneumatology — the study of spirits or spiritual beings; in older philosophy, the study of the soul and God - chaldron — historical: any of several British dry measures, especially a coal measure varying locally from about 32 to 72 imperial bushels - copperas — historical chemistry: iron(II) sulfate, a green crystalline compound used in dyes, inks, tanning, and other processes - wax vesta — a historical friction match with a wax-coated fiber stem and an ignitable tip - engrosser — historical commerce: a person who buys up a commodity in bulk in order to control its supply or raise its price - heptarchy — historical: the traditional collective name for the seven principal Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of early medieval England - louis — historical: any of several French gold or silver coins issued under kings named Louis, especially the louis d'or - encrimson — literary: to make, dye, or stain something crimson or deep red - querist — formal or archaic: a person who asks a question or makes an inquiry - shruff — historical metalworking: old or broken brass or copper, filings, dross, and similar metal refuse kept for remelting - stadtholdership — historical: the office, rank, or period in office of a stadtholder in the Netherlands - wastel — historical: a fine white bread or cake made from carefully sifted wheat flour - exuvia — a skin, shell, exoskeleton, or other outer covering shed by an animal during molting - embrute — rare or literary: to make someone brutal or brutish; to degrade someone to the level of a brute - prenomen — a variant spelling of praenomen: the first or personal name in an ancient Roman name, preceding the nomen and cognomen - cruzado — a former currency of Brazil, introduced in 1986 and divided into one hundred centavos - disfranchise — to deprive a person or group of the right to vote or of another civil right - tintinnabulum — a small tinkling bell, especially a historical bell used to summon members of a religious community - telegony — historical genetics: the discredited belief that a female's previous mate can influence offspring later conceived with another mate - philhellenic — admiring or supporting Greece, the Greeks, or Greek culture - romanize — to represent a language or text in the Latin alphabet by transcription or transliteration - provisor — historical church law: a person appointed by papal provision to a benefice, sometimes before the office became vacant - connexity — in logic and order theory, the property of a relation whereby any two distinct relevant terms are related in one direction or the other - deducibility — the property of being logically derivable from stated premises, axioms, or other accepted propositions - habergeon — historical: a short, sleeveless or short-sleeved coat of mail, lighter than a hauberk - upperworks — the structures and equipment above the hull or main deck of a ship, or above the main body of a vehicle or machine - arithmetization — the treatment of mathematics or another formal system by methods involving only the fundamental concepts and operations of arithmetic - roturier — historical: a commoner, especially a person who belonged to neither the nobility nor the clergy in pre-Revolutionary France - fossorial — adapted for digging or for living chiefly underground - erethism — an abnormally high degree of irritability or responsiveness to stimulation - repastination — obsolete: the act of digging or turning over soil again - succedaneous — rare: serving in place of something else; acting as a substitute - superinduce — formal: to bring about an additional condition or effect on top of one already existing - farmsteading — chiefly British or Scottish: a farmstead, especially the farmhouse and its surrounding farm buildings considered as a group - palpus — a segmented sensory appendage attached to a mouthpart of an arthropod and used chiefly for touch or taste - muriate — an obsolete chemical name for a chloride, a salt regarded as derived from muriatic acid - whinstone — chiefly British: hard, dark basaltic rock or traprock, often quarried for road stone - deliquescent — chemistry: absorbing enough moisture from the air to dissolve gradually and form a solution - infusorial — historical biology: relating to, containing, or formed from Infusoria, a former broad grouping of microscopic aquatic organisms - testaceous — zoology and botany: dull brick-red, orange-brown, or yellowish-brown in color - fucus — a brown seaweed of the genus Fucus, common on rocky seashores and including bladderwrack - dry goods — historical and chiefly US: textiles, clothing, and related merchandise sold by a shop - phonolite — a fine-grained volcanic rock composed chiefly of alkali feldspar and nepheline, some varieties of which ring when struck - interpellate — formal: to interrupt or address someone with a question or challenge - platyrrhine — a New World monkey of the primate group Platyrrhini, including capuchins, marmosets, howler monkeys, and their relatives - Santali — an Austroasiatic language spoken chiefly by Santal communities in eastern India, Bangladesh, and Nepal - mystagogue — historical religion: a person who guides an initiate into the rites and doctrines of a mystery cult - spiculum — biology: a small sharp needle-like structure, especially a skeletal element of a sponge or other invertebrate - incisure — anatomy: a notch or indentation in a bone, organ, or other bodily structure - metasternum — entomology: the ventral exoskeletal plate of an insect's metathorax - pectinate — biology: shaped or arranged like the teeth of a comb - baggageman — historical: a railway employee responsible for receiving, guarding, sorting, and delivering passengers' baggage, often in a baggage car - calcar — anatomy and zoology: a spur-shaped projection or process - ferial — relating to an ordinary weekday rather than a religious festival, especially in Christian liturgy - muniment — a legal deed, charter, or other document preserved as evidence of a right or title - commination — a formal denunciation or threat of punishment, especially divine punishment - sizar — historical: a Cambridge or Trinity College Dublin student receiving financial support, sometimes in return for duties - cretin — historical and offensive: a person with congenital hypothyroidism, formerly described using this term - gack — informal: a written representation of a sudden choking, coughing, or gagging sound - batshit — vulgar: the droppings of bats ### C2+ - colonel — A commissioned officer in an armed military organization, typically the highest rank before flag officer ranks (generals). It is generally found in armies, air forces or naval infantry (marines).; frequency rank 1077 - dialogue — A conversation or other form of discourse between two or more individuals.; frequency rank 5514 - Jove — Jupiter, the chief god in Roman mythology, especially in literary references; frequency rank 19074 - ta-ta — informal: goodbye; frequency rank 19390 - crikey — informal, chiefly British and Australian: used to express surprise, amazement, alarm, or emphasis; frequency rank 23583 - begone — archaic or literary: a forceful command to go away; frequency rank 24648 - Anglo-Saxon — a member of the Germanic-speaking peoples who settled in England from the fifth century and whose kingdoms preceded Norman rule; frequency rank 25234 - digit — one of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration; frequency rank 27780 - prithee — archaic: please; used to introduce or strengthen a request or question; frequency rank 33333 - cave-in — the sudden collapse of earth, rock, a roof, or another enclosing structure; frequency rank 36712 - egad — archaic: a mild exclamation expressing surprise, emphasis, outrage, or contempt; frequency rank 41687 - whereupon — immediately after which or as a consequence of which; frequency rank 42321 - qua — formal: in the capacity or character of; considered specifically as; frequency rank 43119 - goo-goo — informal: lovingly sentimental or amorous, especially in the phrase goo-goo eyes; frequency rank 46955 - storied — having an illustrious past; frequency rank 49663 - leastways — at least; frequency rank 62848 - urbane — Of a person (usually a man): having refined manners; courteous, polite, suave.; frequency rank 66958 - gormless — British informal: lacking intelligence, sense, or initiative; frequency rank 67490 - get-out — US informal, in like all get-out: to an extreme degree or with great speed or force; frequency rank 68230 - tête-à-tête — a private conversation or meeting between two people; frequency rank 71098 - rime — a white frost of ice crystals on a cold surface; frequency rank 75317 - leastwise — at least; in any case or if nothing else; informal or dialectal; frequency rank 81298 - spoony — dated: foolishly or excessively sentimental in love; frequency rank 86781 - jiggered — extremely tired; old-fashioned and informal in British English; frequency rank 88323 - chucklehead — informal, disparaging: a stupid, foolish, or clumsy person; frequency rank 91875 - spread-eagle — a representation of an eagle with its wings and legs extended; frequency rank 103403 - cornpone — chiefly Southern US: a simple cornbread, traditionally made without milk or eggs and baked or fried; frequency rank 118941 - peart — chiefly Southern and Midland US: lively, cheerful, or in good spirits; frequency rank 137135 - whithersoever — to whatever place; wherever, in an archaic or literary style; frequency rank 143505 - eightpence — the monetary sum of eight pence, especially in historical British currency; frequency rank 154864 - unloosen — to loosen or unfasten something that is tied, fixed, or held tightly; frequency rank 175406 - distain — archaic or literary: to stain, discolor, or tarnish something; frequency rank 191643 - spondulicks — dated slang: money or available funds; frequency rank 196590 - turnscrew — a screwdriver or similar device for turning screws; now chiefly dated; frequency rank 199457 - lollop — informal: to move with a clumsy, rolling, or bouncing motion, usually at an unhurried pace; frequency rank 201015 - stiff-arm — a push made with a fully extended arm, especially to fend off an opponent in sport; frequency rank 226546 - methink — archaic, poetic, or humorous, impersonal: it seems to me; now usually encountered in the forms methinks and methought; frequency rank 236393 - fluey — covered with, containing, or resembling loose fluff, lint, or down; obsolete; frequency rank 245014 - left-handedness — the tendency or preference to use the left hand rather than the right for skilled actions; frequency rank 245587 - nymphomaniacal — dated, offensive, and usually applied to a woman: supposedly having excessive or uncontrollable sexual desire; frequency rank 266403 - infatuate — to fill someone with an intense but unreasoning and often short-lived attraction or admiration, usually used in the passive; frequency rank 284693 - whinner — dialectal: to whine or cry in a weak, high-pitched manner; frequency rank 292359 - lambswool — soft wool or woolen fabric from the first shearing of young sheep; frequency rank 301697 - bobbish — in good health and spirits; hearty or cheerful; dated British slang; frequency rank 303788 - missish — dated and usually disapproving: affectedly prim, prudish, or overly proper in a way stereotypically associated with a young unmarried woman; frequency rank 370795 - mullet-headed — dated informal, disparaging: foolish, dull-witted, or slow to notice what is happening; frequency rank 406168 - afront — archaic or dialectal: in front or face to face; frequency rank 410043 - fecundate — formal: to make an organism, egg, or reproductive structure fertile; to fertilize or impregnate; frequency rank 410279 - chuckleheaded — informal and insulting: stupid, foolish, or slow-witted; frequency rank 412170 - belles-lettres — literature valued primarily for beauty, style, and imaginative expression rather than for practical information; frequency rank 458580 - watchguard — historical: a chain, cord, or ribbon securing a pocket watch to its wearer's clothing; frequency rank 463517 - inventress — dated: a woman who invents; a female inventor; frequency rank 472421 - pumpkin-headed — informal and insulting: stupid, foolish, or having a supposedly thick or empty head; frequency rank 478874 - linsey-woolsey — a coarse, sturdy fabric woven with a linen or cotton warp and a woolen weft; frequency rank 491021 - soi-disant — self-styled or self-proclaimed, often with the implication that the claim is doubtful or pretentious; frequency rank 495238 - besprinkle — literary: to scatter drops, grains, or small particles over something; to sprinkle all over; frequency rank 499797 - callipygous — rare: having shapely or attractively proportioned buttocks; frequency rank 521864 - shopboy — historical: a boy or young male assistant employed in a shop; frequency rank 537674 - serry — archaic or literary: to crowd or press people or things closely together, especially in ranks or rows; frequency rank 567724 - fantods — informal, usually in the fantods: a state of nervous agitation, uneasiness, irritability, or fidgeting; frequency rank 572863 - whichway — dialectal: where or in which direction; frequency rank 574286 - crimple — literary or archaic: to wrinkle, crinkle, curl, or crumple; to become wrinkled or curled; frequency rank 595043 - irid — archaic: the iris, or colored ring surrounding the pupil of the eye; frequency rank 603820 - posthouse — historical: an inn or relay station where post horses were exchanged and riders or travelers could lodge; frequency rank 610103 - ingurgitate — rare: to swallow food or drink greedily or in large quantities; frequency rank 610279 - pullulate — formal: to multiply, breed, or increase rapidly and abundantly; frequency rank 615960 - upheave — literary or dated: to lift or force something upward powerfully, or to rise in that way; frequency rank 616651 - mu-meson — dated, the former name for the muon, used when that particle was mistakenly classified as a meson rather than a lepton; frequency rank 672335 - unroof — to remove or tear the roof from a building or other covered structure; frequency rank 682380 - opium-eater — historical: a person who habitually consumes opium, especially for intoxication; an opium user or addict; frequency rank 692630 - transportal — the act or process of carrying something from one place to another; transport or conveyance; now rare; frequency rank 716196 - Kalmyk — a member of a traditionally Buddhist Oirat Mongol people living chiefly in Kalmykia near the northwestern Caspian Sea; frequency rank 799275 - discountenance — formal or dated: to disapprove of something and discourage, withhold support from, or refuse to tolerate it; frequency rank 991085 - blackavised — archaic: dark-complexioned or swarthy in appearance; frequency rank 1011386 - embay — to enclose, shelter, or surround as if within a bay; frequency rank 1098979 - threap — chiefly northern British or Scots: to scold, chide, argue with, or rebuke someone; frequency rank 1101955 - bolthead — the enlarged head of a bolt, shaped to be turned or to hold the bolt in place; frequency rank 1142082 - blackbeetle — chiefly British: the Oriental cockroach, a large dark-brown or blackish cockroach; frequency rank 1174492 - anigh — archaic or dialectal: near or close by; frequency rank 1176795 - cramble — British dialect: to move unsteadily, stiffly, or with difficulty; to hobble; frequency rank 1186206 - scrouge — chiefly dialectal: to crowd, press, or squeeze into a confined place; frequency rank 1230522 - anent — concerning or with regard to; used chiefly in Scots and formal or archaic writing; frequency rank 1261854 - attemper — archaic: to moderate, soften, or adjust something by blending it with another quality; frequency rank 1271780 - prepense — planned or considered beforehand; premeditated, chiefly in the legal phrase malice prepense; frequency rank 1292818 - ferine — literary: wild, untamed, or characteristic of a wild animal; frequency rank 1316960 - dissimilate — rare: to make two or more things unlike, or to become less similar; frequency rank 1333203 - censure — to express formal or severe disapproval of someone or something - crap — nonsense or worthless rubbish (vulgar) - dere — to harm or injure (archaic/dialectal); also dialectal for dear - ruth — compassion or pity for another's suffering (archaic) - bewray — to reveal or betray, especially unintentionally (archaic) - condemnation — the expression of strong disapproval or a formal sentence - afflict — to cause persistent pain or suffering to someone - bepraise — to praise greatly or lavishly (archaic) - bitch — a female dog; (vulgar) a spiteful person or to complain - antediluvial — belonging to the period before the biblical flood; extremely ancient - eulogize — to praise highly, especially in a formal speech or writing - archaic — belonging to an earlier period; old-fashioned or no longer in use - confab — an informal conversation or discussion; to chat - eld — old age or antiquity; former times (archaic) - wark — pain or ache; to ache (dialectal or archaic) - contentness — the state of being content; satisfaction (rare variant of contentedness) - hereamong — among these things or persons; in this company (archaic) - procure — to obtain something, especially with care or effort - undertaking — a task or project, especially a difficult one; a formal pledge - accordantly — in agreement or conformity; correspondingly (archaic) - barmy — crazy or foolish (chiefly British); frothy with yeast - becry — to bewail or lament; to cry over (archaic) - beingless — lacking being or existence; without substance (rare) - bowelless — lacking compassion or pity; without bowels of mercy (archaic) - bowels — the intestines; the deep interior of something; (archaic) seat of pity - cack — excrement; (verb, dialectal) to defecate - geason — rare, scarce, or extraordinary - awanting — (chiefly Scots/dialectal) missing, lacking, or absent - bally — (British dated slang) a mild euphemism for bloody, used to add emphasis - bastardly — (archaic) base, debased, or of illegitimate or spurious character - bloke — (British informal) a man; a fellow - bobbery — (dated, chiefly Anglo-Indian) a noisy disturbance or commotion - bushed — (informal) extremely tired; exhausted - chap — (British informal) a man or boy; a fellow - cheerly — (archaic) in a cheerful or hearty manner; briskly - decease — (formal/legal) death; to die - despiteful — (archaic) full of spite; malicious - dis — (slang) to disrespect or insult; an act of disrespect - dismayful — (archaic) full of or causing dismay; appalling - dispraise — (literary) to speak of with disapproval; censure - environ — (formal) to surround or encircle - ex — (informal) a former spouse or partner - fain — (archaic) gladly or willingly; eager - fitly — (formal/archaic) in a suitable or appropriate manner - forslow — (archaic) to delay, neglect, or be slow about - fremd — (archaic/dialectal) strange, foreign, or unrelated - vulgar — lacking refinement or good taste; coarse - adjudicate — to make a formal judgment on a dispute - butty — a sandwich (British, dialectal) - ching — an imitation of a ringing metallic sound; slang for money - da — father (dialectal or informal) - despect — contempt or disregard (archaic) - discernment — keen perception and good judgment - evermore — always; forever (literary) - forsooth — indeed; in truth (archaic, now often used ironically) - hield — to incline, bend, or slope (archaic/dialectal) - legit — legitimate, genuine, or allowed (informal) - locution — a particular word, phrase, or style of expression - momently — from moment to moment; momentarily (archaic/literary) - nobilitate — to make noble; to raise to the rank of nobility (archaic) - obsolete — no longer in use or out of date - sith — archaic word for since or seeing that - vale — a valley, especially in literary or poetic usage - vernacular — the everyday language of ordinary people in a region - whilom — archaic word for formerly or former - accouple — archaic word for to join or couple together - afeared — archaic or dialectal word for afraid - applesauce — a purée of stewed apples; slang for nonsense - attaintment — archaic word for the act of attainting or staining with dishonour - barking — making a dog's sharp cry; British slang for mad or crazy - bedirty — archaic word for to make dirty or soil thoroughly - befile — archaic word for to make foul or defile - benj — dialectal name for henbane or, in slang, marijuana used as an intoxicant - bonnie — chiefly Scottish, pretty, attractive, or fine-looking - boracic — of or containing boric acid; British rhyming slang for penniless - bugger — British vulgar term for a person or thing; to spoil or tire out - cag — British informal, a lightweight waterproof jacket; a cagoule - cede — to give up or surrender, typically by treaty or formal agreement - chappy — marked by cracks or chaps in the skin; British informal for a fellow - chiefly — mainly; for the most part - china — fine porcelain tableware; British rhyming slang for a close friend - constuprate — archaic, to ravish, violate, or defile - croak — to make a low harsh sound, as a frog; slang to die - curio — a rare or unusual object valued as a curiosity - dayspring — literary or archaic term for dawn or daybreak - defoul — to defile, pollute, or trample down; to befoul (archaic) - divertisement — an amusement or diversion; an entertainment (archaic) - dolesome — causing or expressing sorrow; dismal (archaic, literary) - drear — dreary, gloomy, or cheerless (chiefly poetic) - eremite — a religious recluse; a hermit (literary) - interrogatory — having the form of a question; also a formal written question in law - luncheon — a formal or ceremonious midday meal - outdated — no longer current or useful; obsolete - wast — archaic second-person singular past of 'be' (thou wast) - wert — archaic second-person singular past or subjunctive of 'be' (thou wert) - abear — dialectal or archaic: to endure or tolerate - algate — archaic: always, in any case, or nevertheless - anon — archaic: soon, shortly, or in a little while - anyways — informal or dialectal variant of anyway; in any case - apothecary — an archaic term for a pharmacist who prepared and sold medicines - arse — vulgar British term for the buttocks or a foolish person - bairn — a child (chiefly Scottish and northern English) - beest — the first milk of a cow after calving (colostrum); archaic 'art' - belive — quickly, promptly, or soon (archaic) - boozer — a heavy drinker; British slang for a pub - camelopard — an archaic name for the giraffe - dine — to eat dinner, especially a formal or substantial meal - drippy — tending to drip; (informal) weakly sentimental or feeble - eve — the day or evening before a notable event; (poetic) evening - fromward — away from; directed away (archaic) - froward — stubbornly contrary and disobedient (archaic) - fulth — fullness or abundance (archaic, dialectal) - geezer — an old man, often eccentric; (British slang) a man or fellow - griefful — full of grief; sorrowful (archaic) - groovy — fashionable and excellent (informal, dated) - groundly — thoroughly or fundamentally (archaic) - gustful — full of relish or zest; tasty (archaic) - hep — aware of or fashionable about the latest trends (dated slang) - howso — in whatever way; however (archaic) - hurty — causing or feeling pain (informal) - imbecile — a stupid person; (dated) someone of severely limited intelligence - incontinently — without restraint; (archaic) immediately or at once - infrequent — not occurring often; rare - justicer — (archaic) one who administers justice; a judge or magistrate - liss — (archaic/dialectal) relief or respite; to relieve or assuage - loneness — (literary) the state of being alone or solitary - longsome — (archaic) tediously long; wearisome - markworthy — (rare) worthy of notice or remark; noteworthy - mayhap — (archaic) perhaps; possibly - peradventure — perhaps or possibly; uncertainty or doubt (archaic) - rede — counsel or advice; an archaic word for guidance or a plan - rep — an informal term for a representative, reputation, or a repetition - richdom — an archaic word for the state of being rich; wealth or richness - ruthful — an archaic word meaning full of sorrow or compassion; pitiful - sawbones — a slang term for a surgeon or doctor - sithe — an archaic form of 'since'; also a dialectal variant of scythe - skinny — very thin or lean; also, inside information (slang) - solemn — formal, serious, and dignified; grave - spook — a ghost; also a slang term for a spy, or to frighten - suade — to urge or persuade; an archaic short form of persuade - tummy — the stomach or belly, especially in informal or childish speech - unsufficient — not enough or adequate; an archaic form of insufficient - wis — to know or suppose; an archaic verb meaning to be aware - academicism — rigid adherence to formal conventions in art or thought, often at the expense of originality - acquisitive — eager to gain and possess things, especially wealth or property - afore — before, in place or time (archaic or dialectal) - aforehand — beforehand; in advance (archaic) - afraidness — the state of being afraid; fearfulness (rare) - alco — (slang) an alcoholic or heavy drinker - amoret — a love token, a sweetheart, or a little cupid (archaic) - anyplace — in, at, or to any place; anywhere (informal) - anywise — in any way or respect; at all (archaic) - apologia — a formal written defence of one's opinions or conduct - argot — the specialized slang or jargon of a particular group - auld — old (chiefly Scots dialect) - bae — a romantic partner or sweetheart (slang) - barrister — a lawyer qualified to plead in the higher courts (chiefly British) - battercake — a thin cake fried from batter; a pancake (dialectal) - batty — crazy or eccentric (informal) - bechance — to happen or befall by chance (archaic) - beck — a gesture of command or summons; a small stream (dialectal) - beclasp — to embrace or clasp tightly (archaic) - becut — to cut or gash all over (archaic) - beforetime — formerly; in the past (archaic) - behear — to hear or listen to (archaic) - beleave — to leave remaining; to be left behind (archaic) - belight — to shine light upon; to illuminate (archaic) - bename — to name or call by a name (archaic) - bender — a bout of heavy drinking (informal); one who bends something - betwixt — between (archaic or literary) - bewrayer — one who betrays, reveals, or exposes a secret (archaic) - bhoy — a boy or lad (Irish dialectal spelling) - bint — a woman or girl (British slang, often derogatory) - blower — a device that produces a current of air; (British slang) a telephone - bluebottle — a large buzzing fly with a metallic-blue body; (British slang) a policeman - bod — (informal) a person; the human body - bonce — (British slang) the head - boner — (informal) a foolish and embarrassing mistake - bonk — (informal) to hit, or to suddenly run out of energy in endurance sport - bounder — (dated, British) a dishonorable or ill-bred man; a cad - brainpan — (informal) the skull, especially the part enclosing the brain - bridewell — (archaic) a prison or house of correction - bumbershoot — (US informal, dated) an umbrella - buss — (archaic or dialectal) a kiss; to kiss - buster — (informal) a man or boy, used as an address; something that breaks or stops - caliginous — (literary) misty, dim, or dark; obscure - canoodle — (informal) to kiss and cuddle amorously - cecity — (archaic) blindness, literal or figurative - ceremonious — marked by formal politeness or elaborate ritual - chow — food; a meal (informal) - civility — formal politeness and courtesy in behavior or speech - cogger — a cheat or flatterer, especially one who loads dice (archaic) - coistril — a knave or base fellow; a groom or knight's attendant (archaic) - colloquy — a formal conversation or dialogue - comfy — comfortable; cozy (informal) - congress — a formal assembly of representatives, or a coming together - conject — to conjecture or guess; to surmise (archaic) - contrarious — opposed, perverse, or inclined to oppose (archaic) - creed — a formal statement of religious belief or a set of guiding principles - dick — a detective (informal, dated slang) - dimpsy — dialectal term for twilight or the dim half-light of dusk - disadventurous — archaic term for unfortunate, unlucky, or marked by misadventure - discerp — archaic term meaning to tear apart, pluck off, or divide forcibly - discommendation — archaic term for blame, censure, or expression of disapproval - dismission — archaic term for dismissal or the act of sending away - dob — chiefly British to inform on or report someone for wrongdoing - doomsman — archaic term for a judge or one who pronounces sentence - draggy — informal for slow, dull, or tediously sluggish - edificator — archaic term for a builder, or one who edifies morally - fag — a tiring or tedious task; (British informal) a cigarette - fatherling — a little or dear father (an archaic affectionate term) - feeze — (dialectal) to drive or beat; a state of agitation or fluster - gat — a pistol or handgun (slang); also a channel between sandbanks - glaik — a trick or deception; a foolish or flighty person (dialectal) - gleek — a jest or gibe; to make a joke at someone's expense (archaic) - gob — a lump or mass; also slang for the mouth - goodwilly — well-disposed; full of goodwill (archaic) - grame — anger, sorrow, or vexation (archaic) - greedyguts — a greedy or gluttonous person (informal) - grippe — influenza; a feverish respiratory illness (dated) - grub — a larva of an insect; food (slang); to dig or search - howdy — an informal greeting; hello - hubby — an informal or affectionate term for a husband - impeachment — the formal charging of a public official with misconduct - insultation — the act of insulting; an affront (archaic) - irriguous — well-watered; supplying or marked by irrigation (archaic, literary) - java — coffee (informal); also a high-quality coffee from the island of Java - jock — an enthusiastic athlete, especially a male one (informal) - jones — a strong craving or addiction (slang); to crave intensely - lolly — a piece of candy, especially on a stick; (British slang) money - morn — morning (chiefly poetic or archaic) - nake — to make naked; to strip or lay bare (archaic) - necessar — necessary (archaic or truncated variant) - nimious — excessive; more than enough (rare) - nithing — a contemptible or cowardly person; a wretch (archaic) - nonentity — a person or thing of no importance; something that does not exist - noontide — the time of noon; midday (literary) - nuke — to attack with nuclear weapons; (informal) to heat in a microwave - oldster — an old person (informal) - ort — a scrap or morsel of food left after a meal (archaic, usually plural) - outwith — outside of or beyond (chiefly Scots usage) - outworn — worn out or no longer useful; obsolete - pact — a formal agreement or treaty between parties - pageant — an elaborate public spectacle, procession, or competition - perchance — perhaps; by chance (archaic or literary) - performant — operating efficiently and with high performance (chiefly technical) - phantasy — imagination or a product of it; fantasy (archaic spelling) - physic — a medicine, especially a purgative; the art of healing (archaic) - plenteous — existing in great abundance; plentiful (literary) - pong — a strong unpleasant smell (British informal) - prof — an informal term for a professor - renunciation — the formal giving up of a right or claim - repository — a place where things are stored or kept - rugger — an informal British term for the game of rugby - salutation — a greeting in words or gesture, especially at the start of a letter - sithence — archaic word meaning since, afterward, or because - somedeal — archaic word meaning to some extent; somewhat - stound — an archaic word for a moment, sharp pang, or time of trial - thoughty — dialectal term for thoughtful, attentive, or careful - thuswise — in this manner; thus (archaic or dialectal) - tractate — a treatise or formal written essay on a subject - twain — two; a pair (archaic) - uneath — with difficulty; scarcely (archaic) - unvaluable — beyond price; of inestimable worth (archaic for invaluable) - violoncello — the full formal name for the cello, a bowed string instrument - absolution — formal release from guilt, sin, or punishment - adzooks — an archaic exclamation of surprise or annoyance - alack — an archaic exclamation expressing sorrow or regret - amanuensis — a literary or artistic assistant who writes from dictation or copies manuscripts - antiquate — to make obsolete or old-fashioned - arbiter — a person with authority to settle a dispute or decide what is right - arraignment — the formal court proceeding in which an accused is read the charges and pleads - artefact — an object made by a human, especially one of historical interest - ballroom — a large room used for formal dancing - barbarious — barbarous; savage or uncivilized (archaic variant) - beambird — a dialectal name for the spotted flycatcher - beauteous — beautiful (literary or poetic) - bebay — to bark at; to assail with barking (archaic) - becall — to call names; to revile or abuse verbally (archaic) - bedamn — to damn or curse (archaic intensive) - bedwell — to dwell in or inhabit (archaic) - begem — to adorn with or as if with gems (literary) - begrave — to bury (archaic) - benchfellow — one who shares a bench; a companion or colleague (archaic) - bendsome — flexible or pliant; easily bent (dialectal) - beshade — to cover with shade; to overshadow (archaic) - bestead — to help or be of use to; also situated or circumstanced (archaic) - betide — to happen or befall (chiefly in 'woe betide') - betimes — in good time; early; on occasion (archaic) - betone — to give tone or sound to; to intone (rare) - bewrite — to write about or describe; to reveal in writing (archaic) - bim — dialectal or slang term for a woman, often derogatory; a bimbo - bingle — Australian slang for a minor crash or collision, especially of vehicles - bitesheep — dialectal name for a plant or condition causing sheep to bite or fret, or a rough pasture - biz — informal term for business or a particular trade or industry - blackcoat — archaic term for a clergyman, from the black clerical garb - blee — archaic word for complexion, color, or hue - blithen — archaic or dialectal to make or become blithe; to gladden - boodle — slang for money, especially counterfeit or bribe money; ill-gotten gains - botheration — informal annoyance or trouble; also used as a mild exclamation - bottler — a person or machine that bottles liquids; Australian slang for something excellent - bouk — Scots and dialectal word for the body, bulk, or trunk - bouser — dialectal a heavy drinker or carouser; one who bouses - bower — a leafy shelter or arbor; a poetic word for a lady's private chamber - bridechamber — archaic the bedroom of a newly married couple; the nuptial chamber - bub — an informal, often condescending term of address for a man or boy - caloric — relating to heat or calories; an obsolete supposed fluid of heat - carl — a peasant or common man; a churlish fellow (archaic) - carpent — to work as or like a carpenter; to construct in wood (rare) - cheerio — a chiefly British expression used as a farewell - choky — tending to choke or feel constricted; British slang for prison - cig — an informal shortening of cigarette - clobber — to hit hard or defeat decisively; British slang for clothing and gear - coll — to embrace about the neck; an embrace (chiefly dialectal or archaic) - comeling — a newcomer or stranger; an immigrant (archaic or dialectal) - commie — a communist (informal, usually derogatory) - completement — the act of completing or the state of being complete (archaic) - compulsatory — compelling or compulsory; tending to compel (archaic) - confrontal — a confrontation; characterized by confronting (rare) - constellation — a recognized pattern of stars, or any grouping of related things - conversational — relating to or resembling informal spoken conversation - cookout — an informal outdoor meal cooked and eaten in the open air - copter — an informal term for a helicopter - counterpoison — a substance that neutralizes a poison; an antidote - crimeful — full of crime; guilty or criminal (archaic) - crunk — a style of energetic Southern hip-hop; wildly excited or drunk (slang) - cuke — an informal shortening of cucumber - culver — an archaic or dialectal word for a wood pigeon or dove - dandiprat — an archaic term for an insignificant fellow or urchin - dareful — full of daring; bold (archaic) - debateful — full of contention or quarreling (archaic) - deceptious — tending to deceive; deceptive (archaic) - deemer — one who deems or judges (archaic) - defeature — defeat or undoing; disfigurement (archaic) - demiss — humble or submissive; downcast (archaic) - dictum — a formal pronouncement or an authoritative saying - discussant — a person who takes part in a formal discussion or panel - dispend — to spend or expend, especially money (archaic) - disremember — to fail to remember; forget (dialectal) - dissertation — a long formal treatise, especially one written for a doctoral degree - dissympathy — absence or opposite of sympathy; antipathy (rare) - divers — various; several (archaic or literary) - doddle — something accomplished very easily (British informal) - dodgy — dishonest, unreliable, or of doubtful quality (British informal) - dorter — a dormitory, especially in a monastery (archaic) - doss — to sleep rough or in cheap lodging; to idle (British slang) - dree — to endure or suffer (Scots and dialectal) - dunch — to nudge or push, especially with the elbow (dialectal) - duteous — dutiful and obedient (literary) - eatery — an informal restaurant or place to eat - eats — food, especially informal or casual fare - edificatory — tending to instruct or improve morally (rare) - edificial — of or relating to a building or edifice (rare) - eftsoons — soon afterward; presently (archaic) - elegancy — refinement, grace, or tasteful beauty (archaic for elegance) - elsewise — in another way; otherwise (archaic or dialectal) - emmet — an ant (archaic or dialectal) - empyreal — relating to the highest heaven; celestial (literary) - encoffin — to place in a coffin (rare or literary) - encumberment — the state of being burdened or hindered (rare) - enemyship — the state or relationship of being enemies (rare) - enstrengthen — to make strong or stronger (archaic or rare) - ensuingly — in a way that follows as a consequence or afterward (rare) - excommunication — the formal exclusion of a person from communion or membership of a church - ey — a dialectal or archaic word for an island, especially a small one - fam — informal term for one's family or close friends - familiarly — in an informal or intimately acquainted manner - fand — archaic or dialectal: to try, attempt, or strive - fauna — the animals of a particular region, period, or habitat - feague — archaic: to whip, beat, or liven up, especially a horse - fess — informal: to confess; also a horizontal band across a heraldic shield - fet — archaic or dialectal: to fetch or bring - flodge — dialectal: to splash through water or mud; to wade clumsily - footy — informal term for football (soccer or Australian rules) - formalness — the quality of being formal; stiff adherence to form - forthy — therefore; for that reason (archaic) - frore — frozen or frosty (archaic and poetic) - furthersome — tending to further or advance something; helpful (archaic) - gal — informal term for a girl or woman - gloss — a brief explanation of a word, or a shine on a surface - guaranty — a formal pledge to answer for another's debt or obligation - hanky — an informal term for a handkerchief - harnpan — the skull or cranium (dialectal and archaic) - hasteful — marked by haste; hurried or precipitate (archaic) - hehe — an informal written representation of soft or sly laughter - helly — hellish or infernal in character (rare and dialectal) - hereat — at this point or because of this (archaic) - herefrom — from this place or source (archaic) - hereto — to this document or matter (formal and legal) - hereunto — to this; unto this point or matter (archaic, formal) - hie — to go quickly; to hasten (archaic or literary) - hindermost — farthest to the rear; last (archaic) - holt — a small wood or copse; also an otter's den (archaic, dialectal) - homodox — holding the same opinion or doctrine as another (rare) - hon — an informal term of affection, short for honey - honestness — the quality of being honest; integrity (archaic) - horny — made of or resembling horn; also slang for sexually aroused - icebox — an insulated cabinet cooled by ice; an early or informal term for a refrigerator - improbably — in a way that is unlikely or hard to believe - inauguration — the formal ceremony marking the start of an office or undertaking - incorpse — to merge into one body; to incorporate (archaic) - incorrection — the state of being uncorrected or in error (rare) - inducive — tending to induce or bring about something (rare for inductive) - infortunate — unfortunate; unlucky (archaic) - ingrateful — unthankful; failing to show gratitude (archaic for ungrateful) - inofficial — not official; lacking formal authority (archaic for unofficial) - instable — not stable; liable to change or collapse (archaic for unstable) - insultant — insulting or insolent; one who insults (archaic/rare) - intelligencer — one who conveys news or secret information; an informer or spy (archaic) - investiture — the formal ceremony of conferring rank, office, or authority - jannock — honest, fair, and straightforward (dialectal); also a loaf of oaten bread - kitter — a young cat; a kitten (dialectal) - laddie — a young boy or lad (chiefly Scottish) - lassie — a young girl (chiefly Scottish, affectionate) - lidless — having no lid; (poetic) ever-watchful, never closing - lief — gladly or willingly; (archaic) dear, beloved - lifey — (informal) full of life; lively or vivid - lit — illuminated; (slang) exciting or excellent; past tense of light - lith — a stone or rock; a limb or joint (archaic) - loco — (informal) crazy; also a locomotive or a poisonous weed - loo — (British informal) a toilet - looker — (informal) a strikingly attractive person - lousily — (informal) in a very bad or poor manner - lushy — (dialect, informal) drunk or tipsy - ma — (informal) mother - mack — (informal) a raincoat (mackintosh); or to flirt aggressively - mag — (informal) a magazine; also a magneto or ammunition magazine - mah — (dialect/informal) variant of 'my' or 'ma' - maleficiate — (archaic) to bewitch or harm by sorcery - mam — a familiar or dialectal word for one's mother - manufactory — a factory; an archaic term for a place where goods are made - meed — a deserved reward or recompense; an archaic term for due praise - missive — a written message or letter, especially a formal one - mister — a form of address for a man; informal title or term of address - mon — a man or fellow, in dialectal or informal address - monition — a warning or admonition; a formal notice - mont — a mountain or hill, chiefly in place names - multipartisan — involving or supported by several political parties - mummy — a preserved embalmed body, or an informal word for mother - napper — a person who naps, or slang for the head - naw — a casual or dialectal form of 'no' - neb — a bird's beak, or the nose or mouth (dialectal) - necessitude — necessity or distress; a close bond of obligation (archaic) - negatory — expressing denial or negation; (informal) no - negatron — an electron, especially as opposed to a positron (dated) - nesh — sensitive to cold; soft or delicate (dialectal) - nick — a small cut or notch; (informal) to steal or arrest - niddering — a base coward; cowardly or contemptible (archaic) - nightie — a woman's or child's nightgown (informal) - nix — to reject or veto; (informal) nothing or no - noggin — (informal) the head; a small mug or measure of drink - nonextinction — the fact of not becoming extinct or not being extinguished - nope — (informal) no - numskull — (informal) a stupid person; a dolt - nuncle — uncle (archaic, especially as used by a fool to a master) - obtainer — a person who acquires or gets possession of something - oft — often; frequently (archaic or literary) - ofttimes — often; many times (archaic or literary) - ostentatious — characterized by vulgar or pretentious display; designed to impress - oversea — across or beyond the sea; overseas (archaic or literary form) - oxy — containing oxygen, used as a combining prefix or informal shortening - pard — an archaic word for a leopard or panther - pash — an infatuation or passionate kiss, chiefly British and Australian slang - pater — father, used as a dated or jocular British term - pedantical — marked by a tedious, narrow concern for formal correctness - periodical — a magazine or journal published at regular intervals - pismire — an ant (archaic or dialectal) - plasterwork — decorative or structural work made of plaster, especially on walls and ceilings - poetic — relating to or having the qualities of poetry - poetics — the study or theory of the principles and forms of poetry and literature - pol — a politician (informal) - powwow — a Native American gathering or ceremony; an informal meeting for discussion - practic — practical or active (archaic); practice or skill - pressive — tending to press; oppressive or weighing down (rare) - purveyor — a person or company that supplies goods or services - recherche — rare, exotic, or studiedly refined; sought out with care - recognizance — a formal bond binding a person to fulfill an obligation, as appearing in court - ref — a referee, or to act as one (informal) - repast — a meal, especially a substantial or formal one - reprimand — a formal expression of disapproval; to rebuke someone sharply - reremouse — an archaic or dialectal word for a bat (the flying mammal) - roy — an archaic or dialectal word for a king - sec — a second of time (informal); of wine, dry - seldomly — on rare occasions; not often (nonstandard variant of seldom) - selfishness — the quality of being concerned chiefly with one's own advantage - selly — strange, wondrous, or marvelous (archaic); a marvel - sennight — a period of seven nights; a week (archaic) - sevennight — a period of seven nights; a week (archaic) - shapen — to give form to, or formed into a particular shape (archaic) - shotty — of poor quality or unreliable (slang variant of shoddy) - sia — a dialectal or archaic spelling of "say" used in northern English speech - silential — pertaining to or marked by silence (rare) - silentious — habitually silent or taciturn (rare) - sis — an informal term for sister - slive — to slip or sneak about slyly (dialectal) - sluttish — slovenly or untidy; also promiscuous (archaic and derogatory) - slutty — sexually provocative or promiscuous (slang, derogatory) - snog — to kiss and caress amorously (British slang) - sooth — truth or reality (archaic) - sophisticant — one who sophisticates or adulterates; a quibbler (rare) - specs — informal term for spectacles or for technical specifications - spoilt — ruined, or excessively indulged so as to be selfish (chiefly British) - spud — an informal word for a potato - starken — to make or grow stark, stiff, or harsh (archaic/dialectal) - strategetic — relating to strategy; strategic (archaic variant) - strengthful — full of strength; powerful (archaic) - subitaneous — sudden or hasty; occurring abruptly (rare) - swink — to labour or toil hard; archaic word for hard work - swith — quickly or instantly; archaic and dialectal for swiftly - thee — archaic objective form of thou, meaning you (singular) - therewhile — archaic term meaning during that time or meanwhile - thou — archaic second-person singular pronoun meaning you - threescore — archaic term for sixty - tithing — the practice of paying a tithe; a historical group of ten households - toom — dialectal Scots and northern English term meaning empty - tosh — British informal term for nonsense or rubbish - traditionary — archaic term meaning handed down by tradition; traditional - tragical — archaic or literary form of tragic; deeply sorrowful - trank — slang for a tranquilizer or sedative drug - treacher — archaic term for a traitor or deceiver - treasurous — rare term meaning full of or rich in treasure; precious - trike — an informal name for a tricycle - tum — an informal or childish word for the stomach - twelvemonth — an archaic term for a period of one year - undern — an archaic term for the forenoon or, later, the afternoon meal-time - uneducated — lacking formal schooling or knowledge - unpossible — impossible (archaic or nonstandard form) - unproper — not proper; improper (archaic) - unsufferable — unbearable; intolerable (archaic form of insufferable) - unveiling — a formal public revelation or first showing of something - vibratiuncle — a small or faint vibration, especially in obsolete nerve-theory psychology - whiles — while; during the time that (archaic or dialectal) - wireless — operating without connecting wires, or (chiefly British) a radio - withal — in addition; as well; nevertheless (archaic) - withoutdoors — out of doors; outside (archaic) - ye — you (archaic plural or formal), or an old form of the - yee — an exclamation of excitement, or a dialectal form of you/ye - yesterevening — the evening of yesterday; last evening (archaic) - youngling — a young person, animal, or plant (archaic or literary) - yucky — disgusting, unpleasant, or distasteful (informal) - bizcacha — Rare form of viscacha. - ma'am — A form of address for a woman: contraction of madam. - infusorium — a microscopic aquatic organism, especially a protozoan or unicellular alga, formerly grouped with organisms found in infusions; historical biology - nuther — dialectal: either or neither, especially after a negative statement - lawsy — dialectal or dated: an exclamation of surprise, relief, dismay, or emphasis - ecstasiate — rare: to fill someone with ecstasy or cause someone to become ecstatic - recipice — historical finance: a transferable receipt issued for bullion deposited at the Bank of Amsterdam, entitling its holder to withdraw the bullion under stated conditions - traites — historical, plural: French customs duties and internal trade taxes, especially under the ancien regime - lameter — a dated Scottish and dialectal term for a person who has difficulty walking; now potentially offensive - pourparler — an informal or preliminary discussion held before formal negotiations - againwards — toward; in the direction facing a person or place, in archaic or northern dialect use - halflin — Scottish and northern English dialect: a half-grown or adolescent person, historically especially a boy employed on a farm - sweetstuff — sweet food collectively, especially sweets or confectionery; chiefly British and now somewhat dated - aesymnetes — historical: a supreme magistrate voluntarily appointed by an ancient Greek city-state during a crisis, often with powers comparable to those of a tyrant - syssitia — historical communal meals or dining groups for male citizens and youths in ancient Greece, especially in Sparta and Crete - zeugitai — historical: members of the third of the four property classes in Solonian Athens, below the hippeis and above the thetes - illsome — characterized by illness, harm, or evil; sickly, harmful, or baleful (rare) - miscredit — to give credit or attribution incorrectly - strewment — archaic and literary: something strewn or intended for strewing, especially flowers scattered over a bier or grave as part of a funeral rite - medico-jurist — dated: a physician or medical expert who applies medical knowledge to legal questions; a specialist in medical jurisprudence - cowardy-cat — informal, chiefly childish or dialectal: a timid or cowardly person, especially as a taunting form of address - young'un — a child or young person, in informal or regional speech - mammiferous — historical zoology: mammalian; belonging to the class of animals whose females have mammary glands - io — rare and archaic: an exclamation of joy, triumph, celebration, or ritual invocation - parmacety — obsolete: spermaceti, the white waxy substance obtained from the head of a sperm whale - hahnium — obsolete, a proposed name used during disputes over the naming of heavy synthetic elements, especially dubnium and hassium - reindue — rare or literary: to clothe or invest again; figuratively, to assume a form, character, or personality again - logico-mathematical — relating jointly to formal logic and mathematics, especially to work that expresses mathematical theories through logical systems - debarkment — historical: the act of going or putting people or goods ashore from a ship; disembarkation - quick-firer — historical: a gun designed to fire rounds in rapid succession, especially a late-nineteenth- or early-twentieth-century naval or field gun - clarin — historical: a very long, trumpetlike wind instrument of Indigenous Mexico; the acocotl type is sounded by drawing air inward through its mouthpiece - gold latten — historical: gold formed into thin plates or sheets - apir — historical, Chilean mining: a worker who carried broken ore from an underground mine to the surface in a leather pack on the back - capacho — historical, Andean mining: a broad leather basket or backpack used to carry ore from a mine, especially on the back of an apir - posta — historical, in Spanish America: a staging post or outpost on a travel or communication route, with a relay of horses and often a small staff or guard - disobligation — obsolete: an offence, discourtesy, or act that causes someone to feel disobliged - pithecanthropus — the former genus Pithecanthropus, especially the Javan fossil hominins now generally classified as Homo erectus - coleoptera — beetles collectively; insects of the order Coleoptera, characterized by hardened forewings that protect the flight wings - chaise cart — historical: a light horse-drawn cart or carriage suitable for driving, typically used for local travel - smock frock — historical: a long, loose outer garment worn especially by rural laborers and other workmen - neatherd — archaic: a person who tends cattle or oxen; a cowherd - winecup — a cup or goblet used for drinking wine, especially in historical or literary contexts - cloud-compeller — poetic: a cloud-gatherer; an epithet for Zeus or Jove - laetation — obsolete: manure or other material used to fertilize soil - ice cutter — historical: a worker who cuts and harvests blocks of natural ice from a frozen lake, pond, or river - forestaller — historical: a trader who bought or intercepted goods before they reached an open market, especially to resell them at a higher price - axite — historical: a proprietary smokeless powder used as a propellant in rifle cartridges - cadeau — a gift or present; a consciously French or literary term in English - upas tree — a tall tropical Asian tree (Antiaris toxicaria) whose poisonous latex has been used to prepare arrow poison - asmear — smeared or covered over with a greasy, dirty, or sticky substance; archaic and literary - peage — archaic: a toll or duty charged for passage along a road or across a bridge, river, or other route, often on transported goods - leaderette — chiefly British and dated: a short newspaper editorial or a brief paragraph within an editorial - encomiast — a person who composes or delivers an encomium or other formal expression of high praise - forisfamiliate — obsolete Scots law: to renounce a legal claim to any further share of one's father's estate after receiving a portion - redivivus — literary, used after a noun: brought back to life, revived, or appearing again in a new form - tacsonia — a chiefly Andean passionflower formerly placed in the genus Tacsonia and now classified within Passiflora, typically with a long floral tube - tirewoman — archaic: a lady's maid who helps her employer dress and arrange her clothes or hair - regrater — historical British law: a trader who bought food or other necessities at a market and resold them in or near the same market for a profit - undergirder — historical nautical: a heavy rope or cable used to brace and hold together the hull of an ancient ship, especially a trireme - dronage — rare: the state or condition of being a social drone, especially an idle or dependent person who lives on the work or resources of others - stohwasser — historical: a leather gaiter or legging for the lower leg, fastened by a strap wound around it - beknow — archaic or dialectal: to know about, recognize, or understand - deliquium — archaic: a sudden lapse, failure, or collapse of physical strength, consciousness, or mental powers - ebriosity — rare: drunkenness or intoxication, especially as a habitual condition - estivate — to spend a hot or dry period in a dormant or inactive state - coal-whipper — historical: a dock worker who unloaded coal from a ship's hold using a rope-and-counterweight hoisting system - dumbfounder — dated: to astonish or bewilder someone completely - halfpennyworth — historical British: the amount of something that could be bought for a halfpenny - thowel — historical or dialectal: a tholepin or rowlock against which an oar works in a boat - unwhole — rare: not whole, complete, or entire - weasand — archaic: the throat or gullet, especially the esophagus - manurance — the cultivation, occupation, or working of land; archaic - logicize — to make something logical or bring it within the domain of formal logic - corn chandler — British, historical: a retailer or merchant dealing in cereal grain, seeds, animal feed, and related agricultural goods - suent — dialectal: smooth, even, regular, or working steadily - anathematise — chiefly British: to condemn, denounce, or formally pronounce an anathema against someone or something - gasogene — historical: a Victorian device with two connected glass globes that generated carbon dioxide and dispensed carbonated water - undraw — archaic or literary: to draw aside, open, or pull back a curtain, bolt, or covering - uptear — literary: to tear up or wrench violently from the ground or from a fixed position - carbonic acid — a weak acid, H2CO3, formed when carbon dioxide dissolves in water - colloquize — rare: to hold a conversation or take part in a colloquy - debarrass — rare: to free someone from an impediment, burden, or unwanted interruption - elflock — archaic, usually plural: a tangled or matted lock of hair, once fancifully attributed to elves - enhalo — literary: to surround with a halo or with something resembling a halo - ash-hopper — historical: a large container in which water was passed through wood ashes to make lye - intervert — obsolete: to turn something aside to a different or improper course or use - shackly — chiefly dialectal: rickety, shaky, or poorly built - anear — chiefly dialectal: near or close to - bedquilt — dated or archaic: a quilted coverlet used as the top covering on a bed - forty-rod — historical US dialect: cheap, very strong whiskey - wassailer — a person who carouses or drinks and celebrates noisily - market-house — dated: a building, often municipally owned, in which a public market is held - melodeum — historical, music: a small keyboard reed organ; a rare form related to melodeon - outstart — rare: the beginning or outset - pungle — chiefly Western US, informal: to pay or contribute money, usually reluctantly and often with up - sockdolager — dated US informal: a decisive blow, overwhelming answer, or event that settles a matter - velarium — historical: a large retractable fabric awning spread over a Roman amphitheatre or theatre to shade spectators - can't — a contraction of cannot, used to express inability or impossibility - laws-a-mercy — dated or dialectal: an exclamation of surprise, alarm, or wonder; a minced form of Lord have mercy - there's — a contraction of there is - apurpose — archaic or dialectal: on purpose; deliberately - corn-dodger — historical US: a small cake or dumpling made from cornmeal, baked, fried, or cooked among hot ashes - orphrey — a richly embroidered ornamental band applied to a Christian ecclesiastical vestment, altar frontal, or similar textile - outgaze — to look at someone more steadily or persistently until they look away - balandra — historical: a small one-masted sailing vessel used especially in Spanish-speaking regions - dogiron — historical: an andiron, one of a pair of metal supports for logs in a fireplace - dwellinghouse — formal or legal: a building, or part of one, used as a private residence - here's — a contraction of here is - enchase — historical: to set a gemstone or another ornament into a mounting - edental — having no teeth, or having very few teeth - emancipist — historical Australian English: a transported convict who had completed the sentence or received a pardon - steatopygous — having steatopygia, a marked accumulation of adipose tissue around the buttocks and upper thighs; chiefly a historical anthropological term - theroid — beastlike or resembling a wild animal; historical and offensive when used to demean a person - constatation — rare and formal: the process of establishing, verifying, or formally recording a fact - gee whillikins — dated and informal, chiefly US: an exclamation of surprise, astonishment, or delight - old maid — dated and often derogatory: an older unmarried woman - war whoop — historical: a loud cry used as a signal or expression of aggression when entering battle - water moccasin — a venomous semiaquatic pit viper of the southeastern United States, also called the cottonmouth - astigmat — rare or technical: a person who has astigmatism - imberb — rare or literary: beardless; having no beard - genuflectory — rare: relating to, characterized by, or requiring genuflection or kneeling - bombinate — rare: to make a continuous buzzing, humming, or droning sound - nullipore — historical biology: a lime-secreting coralline alga, formerly classified among animals or treated as a distinct group of simple sea plants - cretinize — rare and offensive: to make a person intellectually dulled, degraded, or treated as though unintelligent - electrolier — historical: a decorative ceiling or wall fixture holding several electric lamps; an electric chandelier - labiate — biology: having lips or lip-like parts, especially a flower whose corolla is divided into two lips - sporule — rare or historical biology: a small spore, especially one produced by a cryptogam or microorganism - vintem — historical: a small Portuguese or Portuguese colonial coin worth twenty reis - polygenist — historical: an advocate of polygenism, the now-discredited doctrine that human populations or supposed races had separate origins and could constitute different species - monogenist — historical: an advocate of monogenism, the view that all human populations share a single origin and belong to one species - mica-slate — historical geology: a foliated metamorphic rock composed chiefly of mica and quartz, now usually called mica schist - entozoon — historical zoology: an animal parasite living inside another animal, especially an intestinal or tissue-dwelling worm - honeysucker — historical or regional: a sunbird, especially one of the nectar-feeding birds of Africa or southern Asia - nidify — formal or zoological: to build a nest or engage in nesting - straitwaistcoated — historical: confined in a strait-waistcoat, or figuratively subjected to severe intellectual or institutional restraint - house-parlourmaid — historical British: a female domestic servant who combined the cleaning duties of a housemaid with the table service and reception duties of a parlourmaid - palpitant — literary: trembling, throbbing, or seeming to pulse with life or feeling - unaccused — not charged with or blamed for an offense - coalheaver — historical: a laborer employed to unload, carry, or shovel coal - necropole — a cemetery, especially a large or ancient burial ground; a rare form of ‘necropolis’ - insomniast — a person who suffers from insomnia; a rare term for an insomniac