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- ADIPOSEContaining, composed of, or consisting of fat; fatty.
- ALIMONYA court-mandated allowance made to a former spouse by a divorced or legally separated person.
- AMPUTEEA person who has had one or more limbs removed.
- ATROCIOUSFrightful, evil, cruel, or monstrous.
- BAILSecurity, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.
- BORAXA white or gray/grey crystalline salt, found in nature as a mineral, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors/colours on por
- BRAILA small rope used to truss up sails.
- BROACHA series of chisel points mounted on one piece of steel. For example, the toothed stone chisel shown here.
- CADETA student at a military school who is training to be an officer.
- CARNAGEDeath and destruction.
- CLOISTERA covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that surround a quadrangle; especially: such an arcade in a monastery; such an arcade fitted
- COPULATETo engage in sexual intercourse.
- COUPA quick, brilliant, and highly successful act.
- CREATIVETending to create things, or having the ability to create; often, excellently, in a novel fashion, or any or all of these.
- CRUELTYAn indifference to suffering or pleasure in inflicting suffering.
- DELUSIONAn adamant belief in a falsehood despite incontestable evidence.
- DEMERITA quality of being inadequate; a disadvantage, a fault.
- DEPLORETo bewail; to weep bitterly over; to feel sorrow for.
- DESCRIPTIONA sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.
- DEVOURTo eat quickly, greedily, hungrily, or ravenously.
- DOCENTInstructive; that teaches.
- DOMICILEA home or residence.
- DORMANTInactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended.
- DOWRYPayment, such as property or money, paid by the bride's family to the groom or his family at the time of marriage.
- EJACULATIONThe act of ejecting or suddenly throwing fluid or some other substance from a duct or other body structure. A reflex in human beings and other mammals in response to sexual stimula
- EMANCIPATETo set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another; to liberate. To cause (a place) to be free from the colonization or rule of another entity.
- FEBRILEFeverish, or having a high temperature.
- FEMURA thighbone.
- FERMENTTo react, using fermentation; especially to produce alcohol by aging or by allowing yeast to act on sugars; to brew.
- FESTERA fistula.
- FETISHSomething which is believed to possess, contain, or cause spiritual or magical powers; an amulet or a talisman.
- FIATAn arbitrary or authoritative command or order to do something; an effectual decree.
- FIDUCIARYRelating to an entity that owes to another good faith, accountability and trust, often in the context of trusts and trustees.
- FIXATETo make something fixed and stable; to fix.
- FLAGRANTObvious and offensive; blatant; scandalous.
- FLUXThe act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream.
- FOLIAGEThe leaves of plants.
- FORNICATETo engage in fornication.
- FRIVOLOUSSilly, especially at an inappropriate time or in an inappropriate manner; lacking a good reason for being, or for doing what one does; due to or moved by a caprice or whim.
- FUMIGATETo disinfect, purify, or rid of vermin with the fumes of certain chemicals.
- FURNACEAn industrial heating device, such as for smelting metal or firing ceramics.
- FURYExtreme anger.
- FUTILEIncapable of producing results, useless; doomed not to be successful; not worth attempting.
- GLORIOUSExhibiting attributes, qualities, or acts that are worthy of or receive glory.
- GLUTENFibrin (formerly considered as one of the "animal humours").
- GNOMEAn elemental (spirit or corporeal creature associated with a classical element) associated with earth.
- GRADUATEA person who is recognized as having completed any of various levels of education.
- GRANDIOSELarge and impressive in size, scope or extent.
- GRANITEA group of igneous and plutonic rocks composed primarily of feldspar and quartz. Usually contains one or more dark minerals, which may be mica, pyroxene, or amphibole. Granite is q
- GRATEA horizontal metal grill through which liquid, ash, or small objects can fall, while larger objects cannot.
- GUSTOEnthusiasm; enjoyment, vigor.
- HEIRSomeone who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another.
- HEPARINA compound occurring in the liver and other tissues which inhibits blood coagulation. A sulfur-containing polysaccharide, it is used as an anticoagulant in the treatment of thrombo
- HISTRIONA stage actor.
- IMPETIGOA contagious bacterial skin disease forming pustules and yellow crusty sores, chiefly on the face and hands. It is common in children and infection is often through cuts or insect
- IMPURENot pure
- IMPURITYThe condition of being impure; because of contamination, pollution, adulteration or insufficient purification.
- IRATEExtremely angry; wrathful; enraged.
- JUNIPERAny shrub or tree of the genus Juniperus of the cypress family, which is characterized by pointed, needle-like leaves and aromatic berry-like cones.
- LABIAThe folds of tissue of the vulva, at either side of the vulval vestibule.
- LABORIOUSRequiring much physical effort; toilsome.
- LAMENTAn expression of grief, suffering, sadness or regret.
- LAMINATETo assemble from thin sheets glued together to make a thicker sheet.
- LARDFat from the abdomen of a pig, especially as prepared for use in cooking or pharmacy.
- LEAVENAny agent used to make dough rise or to have a similar effect on baked goods.
- LUMENIn the International System of Units, the derived unit of luminous flux; the light that is emitted in a solid angle of one steradian from a source of one candela. Symbol: lm.
- LUSTERThe ability or condition of shining with reflected light; sheen, gleam, gloss, sparkle, shine, etc.
- MAESTROA master in some art, especially a composer or conductor.
- MAGNIFYTo praise, glorify (someone or something, especially God).
- MALICEIntention to harm or deprive in an illegal or immoral way. Desire to take pleasure in another's misfortune.
- MAULA heavy long-handled hammer, used for splitting logs by driving a wedge into them, or in combat.
- MAUVEA rich purple synthetic dye, which faded easily, briefly popular c. 1859‒1873 and now called mauveine.
- MEDICINALHaving the properties of medicine, or pertaining to medicine; medical.
- MEDIOCRENot excellent or outstanding, usually disappointingly so.
- MEDIOCRITYThe condition of being mediocre; having only an average degree of quality, skills etc.; no better than standard.
- MENIALOf or relating to work normally performed by a servant.
- MENSAIn planetary geology, a large mesa-like area of raised land.
- MIGRATIONAn instance of moving to live in another place for a while.
- MOROSESullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour.
- MUNICIPALOf or pertaining to a municipality (a city or a corporation having the right of administering local government).
- MUTENot having the power of speech; dumb.
- NATURALExisting in nature. Existing in the nature of a person or thing; innate, not acquired or learned.
- NEXUSA form or state of connection.
- NITROUSPertaining to or composed of nitre; having the properties of nitre, bitter.
- NOTARYA lawyer of noncontentious private civil law who drafts, takes, and records legal instruments for private parties, and provides legal advice, but does not appear in court on his or
- NOVAAny sudden brightening of a previously inconspicuous star.
- NOVICEA beginner; one who is not very familiar or experienced in a particular subject.
- NUCLEARPertaining to the nucleus of an atom.
- NUCLEUSThe core, central part of something, around which other elements are assembled.
- OMNIVOREAn animal which is able to consume both plants (like a herbivore) and meat (like a carnivore).
- PARITYEquality; comparability of strength or intensity.
- PAVETo cover something with paving slabs.
- PERCOLATETo pass a liquid through a porous substance; to filter.
- PETROLEUMA flammable liquid ranging in color from clear to very dark brown and black, consisting mainly of hydrocarbons, occurring naturally in deposits under the Earth's surface.
- PICAA disorder characterized by appetite and craving for non-edible substances, such as chalk, clay, dirt, ice, or sand.
- PIGEONOne of several birds of the family Columbidae within the order Columbiformes.
- PIGMENTAny color in plant or animal cells.
- PIMENTOA red sweet pepper, a cultivar of Capsicum annuum, used to make relish, stuffed into olives, or used as spice.
- PLATONICNeither sexual nor romantic in nature; being or exhibiting platonic love.
- POTENCYPower, authority.