Word Meanings - EFFECTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Creation; a doing. Sir M. Hale.
Related words: (words related to EFFECTION)
- DOWNWEED
Cudweed, a species of Gnaphalium. - DONATOR
One who makes a gift; a donor; a giver. - DOWNPOUR
A pouring or streaming downwards; esp., a heavy or continuous shower. - DOG-ROSE
A common European wild rose, with single pink or white flowers. - DOG'S-EAR
The corner of a leaf, in a book, turned down like the ear of a dog. Gray. -- Dog's"-eared`, a. Cowper. - DOMINATIVE
Governing; ruling; imperious. Sir E. Sandys. - DODECASYLLABIC
Having twelve syllables. - DOIT
1. A small Dutch coin, worth about half a farthing; also, a similar small coin once used in Scotland; hence, any small piece of money. Shak. 2. A thing of small value; as, I care not a doit. - DORMANCY
The state of being dormant; quiescence; abeyance. - DOVECOT; DOVECOTE
A small house or box, raised to a considerable height above the ground, and having compartments, in which domestic pigeons breed; a dove house. Like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli. Shak. - DOGMATIC
One of an ancient sect of physicians who went by general principles; -- opposed to the Empiric. - DOVELET
A young or small dove. Booth. - DOMITE
A grayish variety of trachyte; -- so called from the Puy-de- Dôme in Auvergne, France, where it is found. - DOQUET
A warrant. See Docket. - DODIPATE; DODIPOLL
A stupid person; a fool; a blockhead. Some will say, our curate is naught, an ass-head, a dodipoll. Latimer. - DOCTORATE
The degree, title, or rank, of a doctor. - CREATIONAL
Of or pertaining to creation. - DOMINATOR
A ruler or ruling power. "Sole dominator of Navarre." Shak. Jupiter and Mars are dominators for this northwest part of the world. Camden. - DOUBLEGANGER
An apparition or double of a living person; a doppelgänger. Either you are Hereward, or you are his doubleganger. C. Kingsley. - CREATION
1. The act of creating or causing to exist. Specifically, the act of bringing the universe or this world into existence. From the creation to the general doom. Shak. As when a new particle of matter dotn begin to exist, in rerum natura, which had - ADONAI
A Hebrew name for God, usually translated in the Old Testament by the word "Lord". The later Jews used its vowel points to fill out the tetragrammaton Yhvh, or Ihvh, "the incommunicable name," and in reading substituted "Adonai". - UNDERDOER
One who underdoes; a shirk. - FORESHADOW
To shadow or typi Dryden. - ADORABILITY
Adorableness. - PSEUDO-MONOCOTYLEDONOUS
Having two coalescent cotyledons, as the live oak and the horse-chestnut. - PAEDOGENESIS
Reproduction by young or larval animals. - PAEDOGENETIC
Producing young while in the immature or larval state; -- said of certain insects, etc. - HADDOCK
A marine food fish , allied to the cod, inhabiting the northern coasts of Europe and America. It has a dark lateral line and a black spot on each side of the body, just back of the gills. Galled also haddie, and dickie. Norway haddock, a marine - MICRODONT
Having small teeth. - CONDOLER
One who condoles. - ACCELERANDO
Gradually accelerating the movement. - TORPEDO
Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes belonging to Torpedo and allied genera. They are related to the rays, but have the power of giving electrical shocks. Called also crampfish, and numbfish. See Electrical fish, under Electrical. - GRENADO
See GRENADE - JURDON
Jordan. Chaucer.