Words Containing: A,E,C,R,I,S,T,A

• the molding around a door or window

• the lowest part of an entablature; rests immediately on the capitals of the columns

• of an abstracting nature or having the power of abstracting

• strained or paradoxical use of words either in error (as `blatant' to mean `flagrant') or deliberately (as in a mixed metaphor: `blind mouths')

• a composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a fricative articulated at the same point (as `ch' in `chair' and `j' in `joy')

• recognize with gratitude; be grateful for

• be fully aware of; realize fully

• hold dear

• gain in value

• increase the value of

• having widely spreading paired branches

• having arms or armlike appendages

• swing from one hold to the next

• put together out of artificial or natural components or parts

• concoct something artificial or untrue

• Spanish fly Lytta vesicatoria (syn. Cantharis vesicatoria).

• Spanish fly; a vesicant extracted from the beetle, popularly held to have aphrodisiac properties.