Favorite Words

a long brightly colored shawl; worn mainly by Mexican men

a sweet quick bread baked in a cup-shaped pan

a solid lump of a precious metal as found in the earth

a laborer who digs

large black-and-white herbivorous mammal of bamboo forests of China and Tibet; in some classifications considered a member of the bear family or of a separate family Ailuropodidae

robust hairy social bee of temperate regions

general term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate

pull hard

stricken with horror

a state in New England

an expression of greeting

thorny shrub of a small tree having white to scarlet flowers

potato that has been cooked by baking it in an oven

a ball game between two teams of nine players

press tightly together or cram

fruit-flavored dessert (trade mark Jell-O) made from a commercially prepared gelatin powder

an enthusiastic kiss

an arc of colored light in the sky caused by refraction of the sun's rays by rain

of or relating to or characteristic of Scotland or its people or culture or its English dialect or Gaelic language

of or relating to angels

make or emit a high sound

the noise produced by the sudden rush of a fluid

the most common medium of exchange

a tan discoloration of a woman's face that is associated with pregnancy or with the use of oral contraceptives

flavorful relish or dressing or topping served as an accompaniment to food

white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food

climber having dark red berries when fully ripe

a hospital for recuperation or for the treatment of chronic diseases

genus of North American and Asiatic perennial herbs having pinnatisect leaves small heads of drooping yellowish to purple flowers; sometimes includes species often placed in genus Nabalus

an informal term for a British policeman

show displeasure, as after a performance or speech

a port city on the Gulf of Finland that is the capital and largest city of Estonia

move or cause to move back and forth

short and plump

of textiles; having a rough surface

peninsula in northern Europe that forms the continental part of Denmark and a northern part of Germany

the latest possible moment

covered with or containing or consisting of ice

an abnormal wobble in a motor vehicle

an upholstered seat for more than one person

possessing or existing in bodily form

with eyes or mouth open in surprise

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short and plump

a word for chaos or fiasco borrowed from modern Hebrew

causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide

two (or more) slices of bread with a filling between them

a figure of a person made of packed snow

the syllable naming the seventh (subtonic) note of any musical scale in solmization

not held back by conventional ideas of behavior

failing to speak or communicate etc when expected to

a member of a people living in southern Benin and Togo and southeastern Ghana

a garment extending from the waist to the knee or ankle

having lived for a long time or attained a specific age

out of condition

English physician and scientist who described the circulation of the blood; he later proposed that all animals originate from an ovum produced by the female of the species (1578-1657)