Word Meanings - DICEBOX - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A box from which dice are thrown in gaming. Thackeray.

Related words: (words related to DICEBOX)

• GAMING
  The act or practice of playing games for stakes or wagers; gambling.
• GAMOGENETIC
  Relating to gamogenesis. -- Gam`o*ge*net"ic*al*ly, adv.
• GAMOMORPHISM
  That stage of growth or development in an organism, in which the reproductive elements are generated and matured in preparation for propagating the species.
• GAMIC
  Pertaining to, or resulting from, sexual connection; formed by the union of the male and female elements.
• GAMBET
  Any bird of the genuis Totanus. See Tattler.
• GAMBA
  A viola da gamba.
• GAMMADION
  A cross formed of four capital gammas, formerly used as a mysterious ornament on ecclesiastical vestments, etc. See Fylfot.
• GAMMER
  An old wife; an old woman; -- correlative of gaffer, an old man.
• GAMELESS
  Destitute of game.
• GAMA GRASS
  A species of grass tall, stout, and exceedingly productive; cultivated in the West Indies, Mexico, and the Southern States of North America as a forage grass; -- called also sesame grass.
• GAMBESON
  See GAMBISON
• GAMBISON
  A defensive garment formerly in use for the body, made of cloth stuffed and quilted. (more info) of German origin: cf. MHG. wambeis, G. wams doublet, fr. OHG. wamba,
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• GAMEFUL
  Full of game or games.
• GAMBROON
  A kind of twilled linen cloth for lining. Simmonds.
• GAMESOME
  Gay; sportive; playful; frolicsome; merry. Shak. Gladness of the gamesome crowd. Byron. -- Game"some*ly, adv. -- Game"some*ness, n.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• GAMBIT
  A mode of opening the game, in which a pawn is sacrificed to gain an attacking position.
• GAMP
  A large umbrella; --said to allude to Mrs. Gamp's umbrella, in Dickens's "Martin Chuzzlewit."
• GAM
  A herd, or school, of whales. A visit between whalers at sea; a holding of social intercourse between those on different vessels at sea, or between persons ashore.
• MISOGAMIST
  A hater of marriage.
• MEGAMPERE
  A million ampères.
• DEUTEROGAMIST
  One who marries the second time.
• AUTOGAMOUS
  Characterized by autogamy; self-fertilized.
• AMALGAM
  A native compound of mercury and silver. (more info) 1. An alloy of mercury with another metal or metals; as, an amalgam of tin, bismuth, etc. Note: Medalists apply the term to soft alloys generally. 2. A mixture or compound of different things.
• VANTAGE GAME
  The first game after the set is deuce. See Set, n., 9.
• PHAENOGAMIAN; PHAENOGAMIC
  See PHæNOGAMOUS
• DIGAMMA
  A letter ( Note: This form identifies it with the Latin F, though in sound it is said to have been nearer V. It was pronounced, probably, much like the English W. (more info) Gram.)
• HETEROGAMY
  The process of fertilization in plants by an indirect or circuitous method; -- opposed to orthogamy.
• PHAENOGAMIA
  The class of flowering plants including all which have true flowers with distinct floral organs; phanerogamia.
• HOMOGAMY
  The condition of being homogamous.
• AMALGAMA
  See BURKE
• POGAMOGGAN
  An aboriginal weapon consisting of a stone or piece of antler fastened to the end of a slender wooden handle, used by American Indians from the Great Plains to the Mackenzie River.
• RAGAMUFFIN
  The long-tailed titmouse. (more info) 1. A paltry or disreputable fellow; a mean which. Dryden. 2. A person who wears ragged clothing.
• AGAMOGENESIS
  Reproduction without the union of parents of distinct sexes: asexual reproduction.