Words Containing: E,S,S,I,E

• a tax that is measured by the amount of business done (not on property or income from real estate)

• remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line

• levy an excise tax on

• remove by cutting

• a kidnapper who drugs men and takes them for compulsory service aboard a ship

• take hold of; grab

• take or capture by force

• take possession of by force, as after an invasion

• take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority

• seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession

• hook by a pull on the line

• affect

• capture the attention or imagination of

• marked by or tending to arouse sexual desire or interest

• stimulating sexual desire

• a wave on the surface of a lake or landlocked bay; caused by atmospheric or seismic disturbances

• (biology) taxonomic group whose members can interbreed

• a specific kind of something

• the imitative representation of nature and human behavior in art and literature

• any disease that shows symptoms characteristic of another disease

• the representation of another person's words in a speech