promise 7 2 verb, noun v, n noun • a verbal commitment by one person to another agreeing to do (or not to do) something in the future
• grounds for feeling hopeful about the future
verb • make a promise or commitment
• promise to undertake or give
• make a prediction about; tell in advance
• give grounds for expectations
rise 4 1 verb v noun • a growth in strength or number or importance
• the act of changing location in an upward direction
• an upward slope or grade (as in a road)
• a movement upward; rise above the ground
• the amount a salary is increased
• the property possessed by a slope or surface that rises
• a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground
• (theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost
• an increase in cost
• increase in price or value
verb • move upward
• increase in value or to a higher point
• rise to one's feet
• rise up
• come to the surface
• come into existence; take on form or shape
• move to a better position in life or to a better job
• go up or advance
• become more extreme
• get up and out of bed
• rise in rank or status
• become heartened or elated
• exert oneself to meet a challenge
• take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance
• increase in volume
• come up, of celestial bodies
• return from the dead
likewise 8 2 adverb adv adverb • in like or similar manner
• in addition
• equally
practise 8 2 verb, noun v, n verb • engage in a rehearsal (of)
• carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions
• learn by repetition
prise 5 1 verb, noun v, n verb • to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open
• make an uninvited or presumptuous inquiry
• regard highly; think much of
sidewise 8 2 adverb, adjective adv, adj adverb • in a lateral direction
• with one side forward or to the front
• from the side; obliquely
vise 4 1 verb, noun v, n noun • a holding device attached to a workbench; has two jaws to hold workpiece firmly in place
mise 4 1 noun n
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homes 5 1 noun n adjective • used of your own ground
• relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots are
noun • where you live at a particular time
• housing that someone is living in
• the country or state or city where you live
• (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score
• the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end
• place where something began and flourished
• an environment offering affection and security
• a social unit living together
• an institution where people are cared for
adverb • at or to or in the direction of one's home or family
• on or to the point aimed at
• to the fullest extent; to the heart
adjective satellite • inside the country
verb • provide with, or send to, a home
• return home accurately from a long distance
camise 6 2 noun n noun • a loose shirt or tunic; originally worn in the Middle Ages
chamise 7 2 noun n noun • An evergreen shrub native to California, Adenostoma fasciculatum in the botanical family Rosaceae
highrise 8 2 noun n noun • A tall building, one of many stories.
weftwise 8 2 adverb adv
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widthwise 9 2 adverb, adjective adv, adj adjective • Directed across the width of an object or place.
adverb • Across the width of an object or place.
canonise 8 3 verb v verb • treat as a sacred person
• declare (a dead person) to be a saint
bureaucratise 13 4 verb v verb • To bring under the control of a bureaucracy; to make bureaucratic.
cartelise 9 3 verb v verb • To have an industry become controlled by a cartel.
conveyorise 11 4 verb v
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cornerwise 10 3 adverb adv creolise 8 3 verb v verb • To cause a pidgin language rapidly expanding in vocabulary and grammatical rules to become ultimately a creole.
• To render an imported object 'localised'; to produce variations which give an object a regional flavour.
beachcombs 10 2 verb, noun v, n
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biomes 6 2 noun n noun • a major biotic community characterized by the dominant forms of plant life and the prevailing climate
bromes 6 1 noun n noun • any of various woodland and meadow grasses of the genus Bromus; native to temperate regions
broughams 9 2 noun n noun • light carriage; pulled by a single horse
• a sedan that has no roof over the driver's seat
domes 5 1 noun n noun • a concave shape whose distinguishing characteristic is that the concavity faces downward
• informal terms for a human head
• a stadium that has a roof
• a hemispherical roof
genomes 7 2 noun n noun • the ordering of genes in a haploid set of chromosomes of a particular organism; the full DNA sequence of an organism
gnomes 6 1 noun n noun • a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure
• a short pithy saying expressing a general truth
heaumes 7 1 noun n noun • a large medieval helmet supported on the shoulders
holms 5 1 noun n noun • (obsolete outside dialectal) The holly.
• A common evergreen oak of Europe, Quercus ilex; the holm oak.
• An island in a lake, river or estuary; an eyot.
• (chiefly West Yorkshire) Any small island, but especially one near a larger island or the mainland, sometimes with holly bushes; an islet. Often the word is used in Norse-influenced place-names. See also holme.
• Rich flat land near a river, prone to being completely flooded; a river-meadow; bottomland.
intombs 7 2 verb v
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loams 5 1 noun n noun • a rich soil consisting of a mixture of sand and clay and decaying organic materials
megohms 7 2 noun, adjective n, adj noun • a unit of resistance equal to one million ohms
momes 5 1 noun n
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ohms 4 1 noun n noun • German physicist who formulated Ohm's law (1787-1854)
• a unit of electrical resistance equal to the resistance between two points on a conductor when a potential difference of one volt between them produces a current of one ampere
phyllomes 9 2 noun n
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poems 5 1 noun n noun • a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines
pomes 5 1 noun, adjective n, adj noun • a fleshy fruit (apple or pear or related fruits) having seed chambers and an outer fleshy part
radomes 7 2 noun n noun • a housing for a radar antenna; transparent to radio waves
rhizomes 8 2 noun n noun • a horizontal plant stem with shoots above and roots below serving as a reproductive structure
roams 5 1 verb v verb • move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
seadromes 9 2 noun n
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syndromes 9 2 noun n noun • a complex of concurrent things
• a pattern of symptoms indicative of some disease
teraohms 8 2 noun n
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tombs 5 1 noun n noun • a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone)
tomes 5 1 noun n noun • a (usually) large and scholarly book
townhomes 9 2 noun n noun • A townhouse or row house.
trichomes 9 2 noun n noun • A hair- or scale-like extension of the epidermis of a plant.
• Hairlike structures found in some microscopic organisms and algae.
• A row of cells formed by successive cell divisions.
acrosomes 9 3 noun n noun • a process at the anterior end of a sperm cell that produces enzymes to facilitate penetration of the egg
adrenochromes 13 4 noun n
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antinomes 9 3 noun n
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