Words Containing: N,I,P,P,E,R,S

• a student who fails to attend classes

• an officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship

• the naval officer in command of a military ship

• work as the skipper on a vessel

• an inclination to do something

• a natural inclination

• a disposition to behave in a certain way

• drain that allows water on the deck of a vessel to flow overboard

• wait in hiding to attack

• put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position

• made of or resembling sapphire

• a rare light blue or green mineral; consists of aluminum and magnesium silicate and occurs as small grains in some metamorphic rocks

• meat patties rolled in rice and simmered in a tomato sauce

• a basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct

• a rule or standard especially of good behavior

• a basic truth or law or assumption

• a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system

• rule of personal conduct

• (law) an explanation of the fundamental reasons (especially an explanation of the working of some device in terms of laws of nature)