Words Containing NE
Explore a range of words that include the letter NE, showcasing the diversity and richness of the English language. Enhance your vocabulary with interesting and unique terms featuring NE.
2 letter words
Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
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ne | 2 | the compass point midway between north and east; at 45 degrees | - |
3 letter words
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one | 3 | (informal) very; used informally as an intensifier | that is one fine dog |
new | 6 | original and of a kind not seen before | - |
net | 3 | the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses) | - |
ned | 4 | - | - |
nee | 3 | (meaning literally `born') used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman | Hillary Clinton nee Rodham |
neg | 4 | - | - |
neb | 5 | horny projecting mouth of a bird | - |
ane | 3 | used of a single unit or thing; not two or more | `ane' is Scottish |
nef | 6 | - | - |
ene | 3 | the compass point midway between northeast and east | - |
nep | 5 | - | - |
nek | 7 | - | - |
4 letter words
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need | 5 | have need of | - |
fine | 7 | money extracted as a penalty | - |
done | 5 | having finished or arrived at completion | certain to make history before he's done |
next | 11 | immediately following in time or order | next in line |
knew | 11 | - | - |
gone | 5 | drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted | - |
mine | 6 | excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted | - |
line | 4 | a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning | I can't follow your line of reasoning |
news | 7 | information about recent and important events | they awaited news of the outcome |
none | 4 | a canonical hour that is the ninth hour of the day counting from sunrise | - |
near | 4 | with or in a close or intimate relationship | my sisters and brothers are near and dear |
wine | 7 | a red as dark as red wine | - |
nine | 4 | the cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one | - |
neck | 10 | kiss, embrace, or fondle with sexual passion | The couple were necking in the back seat of the car |
jane | 11 | - | - |
bone | 6 | remove the bones from | bone the turkey before roasting it |
zone | 13 | regulate housing in; of certain areas of towns | - |
tone | 4 | a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color | - |
tune | 4 | adjust the pitches of (musical instruments) | My piano needs to be tuned |
knee | 8 | joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped; corresponds to the human knee | - |
lane | 4 | a narrow way or road | - |
nest | 4 | move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position | - |
gene | 5 | (genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity | genes were formerly called factors |
neat | 4 | free from clumsiness; precisely or deftly executed | the neat exactness of the surgeon's knife |
kane | 8 | - | - |
cane | 6 | beat with a cane | - |
pine | 6 | have a desire for something or someone who is not present | - |
nerd | 5 | an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious | - |
dine | 5 | give dinner to; host for dinner | - |
lone | 4 | lacking companions or companionship | he was alone when we met him |
sane | 4 | marked by sound judgment | sane nuclear policy |
cone | 6 | a shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a point | - |
neal | 4 | - | - |
vine | 7 | a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface | - |
ness | 4 | a strip of land projecting into a body of water | - |
anew | 7 | again but in a new or different way | wanted to write the story anew |
neon | 4 | a colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube; one of the six inert gasses; occurs in the air in small amounts | - |
sone | 4 | a unit of perceived loudness equal to the loudness of a 1000-hertz tone at 40 dB above threshold | - |
newt | 7 | small usually bright-colored semiaquatic salamanders of North America and Europe and northern Asia | - |
mane | 6 | growth of hair covering the scalp of a human being | - |
acne | 6 | an inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin; characterized by papules or pustules or comedones | - |
fane | 7 | - | - |
pane | 6 | street name for lysergic acid diethylamide | - |
bene | 6 | - | - |
dune | 5 | a ridge of sand created by the wind; found in deserts or near lakes and oceans | - |
nene | 4 | - | - |
hone | 7 | make perfect or complete | - |
vane | 7 | mechanical device attached to an elevated structure; rotates freely to show the direction of the wind | - |
bane | 6 | something causing misery or death | the bane of my life |
tine | 4 | prong on a fork or pitchfork or antler | - |
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5 letter words
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never | 8 | not ever; at no time in the past or future | I have never been to China |
money | 10 | the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender | we tried to collect the money he owed us |
alone | 5 | without anybody else or anything else | the child stayed home alone |
phone | 10 | (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language | - |
honey | 11 | a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | - |
needs | 6 | in such a manner as could not be otherwise | we must needs by objective |
scene | 7 | the context and environment in which something is set | - |
plane | 7 | a power tool for smoothing or shaping wood | - |
enemy | 10 | an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force) | - |
stone | 5 | United States architect (1902-1978) | - |
lines | 5 | - | - |
owner | 8 | a person who owns something | they are searching for the owner of the car |
bones | 7 | (used in the plural) a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance | - |
shine | 8 | be bright by reflecting or casting light | - |
jones | 12 | United States golfer (1902-1971) | - |
crane | 7 | United States poet (1899-1932) | - |
nerve | 8 | any bundle of nerve fibers running to various organs and tissues of the body | - |
inner | 5 | confined to an exclusive group | privy to inner knowledge |
sneak | 9 | someone who prowls or sneaks about; usually with unlawful intentions | - |
owned | 9 | having an owner; often used in combination | state-owned railways |
diane | 6 | - | - |
kneel | 9 | supporting yourself on your knees | - |
diner | 6 | a passenger car where food is served in transit | - |
spine | 7 | a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf | - |
negro | 6 | a person with African ancestry, | - |
lined | 6 | (used especially of skin) marked by lines or seams | their lined faces were immeasurably sad |
urine | 5 | liquid excretory product | there was blood in his urine |
newly | 11 | very recently | they are newly married |
swine | 8 | stout-bodied short-legged omnivorous animals | - |
clone | 7 | a person who is almost identical to another | - |
panel | 7 | select from a list | empanel prospective jurors |
needy | 9 | poor enough to need help from others | - |
boner | 7 | an embarrassing mistake | - |
linen | 5 | a high-quality paper made of linen fibers or with a linen finish | - |
whine | 11 | make a high-pitched, screeching noise | - |
thine | 8 | - | - |
renew | 8 | cause to appear in a new form | - |
ozone | 14 | a colorless gas (O3) soluble in alkalis and cold water; a strong oxidizing agent; can be produced by electric discharge in oxygen or by the action of ultraviolet radiation on oxygen in the stratosphere (where it acts as a screen for ultraviolet radiation) | - |
nelly | 8 | - | - |
borne | 7 | - | - |
loner | 5 | a person who avoids the company or assistance of others | - |
miner | 7 | laborer who works in a mine | - |
prone | 7 | lying face downward | - |
shone | 8 | - | - |
finer | 8 | (comparative of `fine') greater in quality or excellence | a finer wine |
drone | 6 | someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind | - |
goner | 6 | a person in desperate straits; someone doomed | I'm a goner if this plan doesn't work |
prune | 7 | weed out unwanted or unnecessary things | - |
aline | 5 | place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight | - |
liner | 5 | a piece of cloth that is used as the inside surface of a garment | - |
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6 letter words
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anyone | 9 | One taken at random rather than by selection; anybody. | - |
dinner | 7 | a party of people assembled to have dinner together | guests should never be late to a dinner party |
turned | 7 | in an unpalatable state | - |
needed | 8 | necessary for relief or supply | - |
honest | 9 | not disposed to cheat or defraud; not deceptive or fraudulent | honest lawyers |
energy | 10 | (physics) a thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the capacity of a physical system to do work; the units of energy are joules or ergs | energy can take a wide variety of forms |
planet | 8 | (astronomy) any of the nine large celestial bodies in the solar system that revolve around the sun and shine by reflected light; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto in order of their proximity to the sun; viewed from the constellation Hercules, all the planets rotate around the sun in a counterclockwise direction | - |
corner | 8 | an interior angle formed by two meeting walls | a piano was in one corner of the room |
opened | 9 | not sealed or having been unsealed | the opened package lay on the table |
lonely | 9 | lacking companions or companionship | a lonely fisherman stood on a tuft of gravel |
nearly | 9 | in a close manner | the person most nearly concerned |
insane | 6 | very foolish | took insane risks behind the wheel |
engine | 7 | a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks | - |
ruined | 7 | doomed to extinction | - |
signed | 8 | used of the language of the deaf | - |
sooner | 6 | comparatives of `soon' or `early' | Come a little sooner, if you can |
damned | 10 | in danger of the eternal punishment of Hell | poor damned souls |
winner | 9 | a person with a record of successes | only winners need apply |
burned | 9 | ruined by overcooking | - |
joined | 14 | of or relating to two people who are married to each other | - |
nephew | 14 | a son of your brother or sister | - |
nearby | 11 | close at hand | the nearby towns |
stones | 6 | - | - |
cinema | 10 | a theater where films are shown | - |
earned | 7 | gained or acquired; especially through merit or as a result of effort or action | a well-earned reputation for honesty |
tunnel | 6 | move through by or as by digging | - |
nerves | 9 | an uneasy psychological state | he suffered an attack of nerves |
divine | 10 | emanating from God | divine judgment |
online | 6 | on a regular route of a railroad or bus or airline system | - |
marine | 8 | a member of the United States Marine Corps | - |
manner | 8 | a way of acting or behaving | - |
needle | 7 | the leaf of a conifer | - |
finest | 9 | - | - |
throne | 9 | a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination | - |
nelson | 6 | English admiral who defeated the French fleets of Napoleon but was mortally wounded at Trafalgar (1758-1805) | - |
turner | 6 | United States historian who stressed the role of the western frontier in American history (1861-1951) | - |
kidney | 14 | either of two bean-shaped excretory organs that filter wastes (especially urea) from the blood and excrete them and water in urine | urine passes out of the kidney through ureters to the bladder |
runner | 6 | (football) the player who is carrying (and trying to advance) the ball on an offensive play | - |
stoned | 7 | under the influence of narcotics | - |
ninety | 9 | being ten more than eighty | - |
rodney | 10 | - | - |
define | 10 | show the form or outline of | The tree was clearly defined by the light |
banned | 9 | forbidden by law | - |
barney | 11 | - | - |
guinea | 7 | a west African bird having dark plumage mottled with white; native to Africa but raised for food in many parts of the world | - |
daphne | 12 | any of several ornamental shrubs with shiny mostly evergreen leaves and clusters of small bell-shaped flowers | - |
shrine | 9 | enclose in a shrine | the saint's bones were enshrined in the cathedral |
lionel | 6 | - | - |
newton | 9 | a unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 m/sec/sec to a mass of 1 kilogram; equal to 100,000 dynes | - |
warner | 9 | United States filmmaker who with his brothers founded the movie studio that produced the first talking picture (1881-1958) | - |
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7 letter words
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someone | 9 | a human being | - |
imagine | 10 | form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case | - |
general | 8 | a general officer of the highest rank | - |
neither | 10 | not either; not one or the other | - |
machine | 14 | a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine | - |
nervous | 10 | unpredictably excitable (especially of horses) | - |
partner | 9 | a person's partner in marriage | - |
chinese | 12 | of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on Taiwan or its residents or their language | - |
learned | 8 | having or showing profound knowledge | a learned jurist |
funeral | 10 | a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated | hundreds of people attended his funeral |
colonel | 9 | a commissioned military officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines who ranks above a lieutenant colonel and below a brigadier general | - |
witness | 10 | (law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature | - |
journey | 17 | the act of traveling from one place to another | - |
fortune | 10 | an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome | it was as if fortune guided his hand |
planned | 10 | with planning and intention | - |
channel | 12 | transmit or serve as the medium for transmission | - |
trained | 8 | shaped or conditioned or disciplined by training; often used as a combining form | a trained mind |
network | 14 | an open fabric of string or rope or wire woven together at regular intervals | - |
routine | 7 | a short performance that is part of a longer program | she had a catchy little routine |
benefit | 12 | be beneficial for | - |
madness | 10 | an acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal); rabies is fatal if the virus reaches the brain | - |
beneath | 12 | in or to a place that is lower | - |
illness | 7 | impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism | - |
manners | 9 | social deportment | he has the manners of a pig |
connect | 11 | make a logical or causal connection | I cannot connect these two pieces of evidence in my mind |
cocaine | 11 | a narcotic (alkaloid) extracted from coca leaves; used as a surface anesthetic or taken for pleasure; can become powerfully addictive | - |
cleaner | 9 | a preparation used in cleaning something | - |
vanessa | 10 | painted beauty and red admiral | - |
sadness | 8 | the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness | - |
genuine | 8 | being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something | a genuine dilemma |
genetic | 10 | of or relating to the science of genetics | genetic research |
examine | 16 | put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to | - |
honesty | 13 | the quality of being honest | - |
cabinet | 11 | a storage compartment for clothes and valuables; usually it has a lock | - |
nearest | 7 | (superlative of `near' or `close') within the shortest distance | that was the time he came nearest to death |
jasmine | 16 | any of several shrubs and vines of the genus Jasminum chiefly native to Asia | - |
heroine | 10 | a woman possessing heroic qualities or a woman who has performed heroic deeds | - |
trainer | 7 | simulator consisting of a machine on the ground that simulates the conditions of flying a plane | - |
oneself | 10 | A reflexive form of the indefinite pronoun one. Commonly writen as two words, one's self. | - |
marines | 9 | an amphibious division of the United States Navy | - |
needles | 8 | - | - |
coroner | 9 | a public official who investigates by inquest any death not due to natural causes | - |
neutral | 7 | having no personal preference | a neutral observer |
airline | 7 | a hose that carries air under pressure | - |
combine | 13 | gather in a mass, sum, or whole | - |
decline | 10 | grow worse | - |
mineral | 9 | composed of matter other than plant or animal | the inorganic mineral world |
scenery | 12 | the painted structures of a stage set that are intended to suggest a particular locale | they worked all night painting the scenery |
defined | 12 | showing clearly the outline or profile or boundary | hills defined against the evening sky |
chimney | 17 | a glass flue surrounding the wick of an oil lamp | - |
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8 letter words
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everyone | 14 | Everybody; commonly separated, every one. | - |
business | 10 | a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it | he bought his brother's business |
medicine | 13 | treat medicinally, treat with medicine | - |
whenever | 17 | - | - |
honestly | 14 | in an honest manner | in he can't get it honestly, he is willing to steal it |
goodness | 10 | that which is pleasing or valuable or useful | - |
magazine | 20 | a business firm that publishes magazines | he works for a magazine |
internet | 8 | a computer network consisting of a worldwide network of computer networks that use the TCP/IP network protocols to facilitate data transmission and exchange | - |
darkness | 13 | absence of light or illumination | - |
neighbor | 14 | live or be located as a neighbor | the neighboring house |
negative | 12 | designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions | negative criticism |
attorney | 11 | a professional person authorized to practice law; conducts lawsuits or gives legal advice | - |
prisoner | 10 | a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war | - |
partners | 10 | - | - |
designed | 11 | done or made or performed with purpose and intent | style...is more than the deliberate and designed creation |
highness | 15 | the quality of being high or lofty | - |
imagined | 12 | - | - |
generous | 9 | more than is usual or necessary | a generous portion |
sunshine | 11 | the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom | - |
engineer | 9 | plan and direct (a complex undertaking) | - |
airplane | 10 | an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets | the flight was delayed due to trouble with the airplane |
necklace | 16 | jewelry consisting of a cord or chain (often bearing gems) worn about the neck as an ornament (especially by women) | - |
designer | 10 | someone who specializes in graphic design | - |
weakness | 15 | a flaw or weak point | - |
kindness | 13 | tendency to be kind and forgiving | - |
opponent | 12 | characterized by active hostility | opponent (or opposing) armies |
assigned | 10 | appointed to a post or duty | assigned personnel |
sickness | 14 | impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism | - |
destined | 10 | (usually followed by `to') governed by fate | an old house destined to be demolished |
deadline | 10 | the point in time at which something must be completed | - |
magnetic | 13 | possessing an extraordinary ability to attract | a magnetic personality |
sneaking | 13 | not openly expressed | a sneaking suspicion |
combined | 15 | made or joined or united into one | - |
channels | 13 | official routes of communication | you have to go through channels |
gasoline | 9 | a volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum; used mainly as a fuel in internal-combustion engines | - |
morphine | 15 | an alkaloid narcotic drug extracted from opium; a powerful, habit-forming narcotic used to relieve pain | - |
feminine | 13 | befitting or characteristic of a woman especially a mature woman | - |
gardener | 10 | someone who takes care of a garden | - |
examined | 18 | - | - |
sneakers | 12 | - | - |
nineteen | 8 | being one more than eighteen | - |
resigned | 10 | - | - |
postpone | 12 | hold back to a later time | let's postpone the exam |
cleaners | 10 | shop where dry cleaning is done | - |
airborne | 10 | moved or conveyed by or through air | - |
johannes | 18 | - | - |
headline | 12 | the heading or caption of a newspaper article | - |
benedict | 13 | a newly married man (especially one who has long been a bachelor) | - |
airlines | 8 | - | - |
brunette | 10 | marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes | a brunette beauty |
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9 letter words
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necessary | 14 | anything indispensable | - |
happiness | 16 | state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy | - |
concerned | 14 | involved in or affected by or having a claim to or share in | a memorandum to those concerned |
telephone | 14 | electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds | I talked to him on the telephone |
newspaper | 16 | the physical object that is the product of a newspaper publisher | when it began to rain he covered his head with a newspaper |
champagne | 19 | a region of northeastern France | - |
abandoned | 13 | forsaken by owner or inhabitants | weed-grown yard of an abandoned farmhouse |
connected | 14 | being joined in close association | - |
honeymoon | 17 | a holiday taken by a newly married couple | - |
permanent | 13 | a series of waves in the hair made by applying heat and chemicals | - |
neighbour | 15 | live or be located as a neighbor | - |
fashioned | 16 | planned and made or fashioned artistically | beautifully fashioned dresses |
generally | 13 | usually; as a rule | - |
personnel | 11 | group of people willing to obey orders | - |
negotiate | 10 | succeed in passing through, around, or over | - |
determine | 12 | decide upon or fix definitely | - |
valentine | 12 | a card sent or given (as to a sweetheart) on Saint Valentine's Day | - |
foreigner | 13 | someone who is excluded from or is not a member of a group | - |
continent | 11 | abstaining from sexual intercourse | - |
hurricane | 14 | a severe tropical cyclone usually with heavy rains and winds moving at 63-136 knots (12 on the Beaufort scale) | - |
cellphone | 16 | a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver | - |
generator | 10 | someone who originates or causes or initiates something | he was the generator of several complaints |
contained | 12 | gotten under control | the oil spill is contained |
submarine | 13 | a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States | - |
container | 11 | any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another) | - |
sustained | 10 | (of an electric arc) continuous | - |
madeleine | 12 | - | - |
machinery | 19 | a system of means and activities whereby a social institution functions | the complex machinery of negotiation |
greatness | 10 | unusual largeness in size or extent or number | - |
goddamned | 15 | extremely | - |
penetrate | 11 | enter a group or organization in order to spy on the members | - |
sweetness | 12 | a pleasingly sweet olfactory property | - |
awareness | 12 | having knowledge of | he had no awareness of his mistakes |
pineapple | 15 | a tropical American plant bearing a large fleshy edible fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated in the tropics | - |
pneumonia | 13 | respiratory disease characterized by inflammation of the lung parenchyma (excluding the bronchi) with congestion caused by viruses or bacteria or irritants | - |
necessity | 14 | anything indispensable | - |
masculine | 13 | a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to males or to objects classified as male | - |
neglected | 13 | lacking a caretaker | a neglected child |
prominent | 13 | conspicuous in position or importance | a prominent citizen |
concubine | 15 | a woman who cohabits with an important man | - |
ownership | 17 | the act of having and controlling property | - |
intervene | 12 | get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force | Why did the U.S. not intervene earlier in WW II? |
component | 15 | an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system | spare components for cars |
emptiness | 13 | an empty area or space | the emptiness of outer space |
genuinely | 13 | genuinely; with authority | - |
generated | 11 | - | - |
dishonest | 13 | capable of being corrupted | dishonest politicians |
energetic | 12 | working hard to promote an enterprise | - |
postponed | 14 | - | - |
nervously | 15 | in an anxiously nervous manner | we watched the stock market nervously |
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10 letter words
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connection | 14 | the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination | - |
generation | 11 | a coming into being | - |
frightened | 18 | made afraid | the frightened child cowered in the corner |
threatened | 14 | (of flora or fauna) likely in the near future to become endangered | the spotted owl is a threatened species, not yet an endangered one |
underneath | 14 | - | - |
determined | 14 | determined or decided upon as by an authority | date and place are already determined |
discipline | 15 | a branch of knowledge | in what discipline is his doctorate? |
unexpected | 22 | not expected or anticipated | unexpected guests |
vulnerable | 15 | capable of being wounded or hurt | vulnerable parts of the body |
loneliness | 10 | sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned | - |
unemployed | 18 | people who are involuntarily out of work (considered as a group) | the long-term unemployed need assistance |
inevitable | 15 | an unavoidable event | don't argue with the inevitable |
misfortune | 15 | an unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes | - |
microphone | 19 | device for converting sound waves into electrical energy | - |
imprisoned | 15 | being in captivity | - |
wilderness | 14 | a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition | it was a wilderness preserved for the hawks and mountaineers |
adrenaline | 11 | a catecholamine secreted by the adrenal medulla in response to stress (trade name Adrenalin); stimulates autonomic nerve action | - |
generosity | 14 | acting generously | - |
maintained | 13 | continued in your keeping or use or memory | - |
tenderness | 11 | a feeling of concern for the welfare of someone (especially someone defenseless) | - |
quarantine | 19 | enforced isolation of patients suffering from a contagious disease in order to prevent the spread of disease | - |
disconnect | 15 | an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding) | there is a vast disconnect between public opinion and federal policy |
eyewitness | 16 | a spectator who can describe what happened | - |
headphones | 19 | - | - |
degenerate | 12 | grow worse | Conditions in the slums degenerated |
abstinence | 14 | the trait of abstaining (especially from alcohol) | - |
bitterness | 12 | the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth | - |
inevitably | 18 | by necessity | - |
anesthesia | 13 | loss of bodily sensation with or without loss of consciousness | - |
beneficial | 17 | promoting or enhancing well-being | an arms limitation agreement beneficial to all countries |
negotiable | 13 | able to be negotiated or arranged by compromise | negotiable demands |
guillotine | 11 | closure imposed on the debate of specific sections of a bill | - |
anesthetic | 15 | characterized by insensibility | the young girls are in a state of possession--blind and deaf and anesthetic |
negotiator | 11 | someone who negotiates (confers with others in order to reach a settlement) | - |
benefactor | 17 | a person who helps people or institutions (especially with financial help) | - |
dinnertime | 13 | the customary or habitual hour for the evening meal | - |
generating | 12 | - | - |
benevolent | 15 | generous in assistance to the poor | a benevolent contributor |
negligence | 14 | failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances | - |
borderline | 13 | of questionable or minimal quality | borderline grades |
overturned | 14 | having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom | an overturned car |
uneducated | 14 | not having a good education | - |
neutralize | 19 | make chemically neutral | She neutralized the solution |
politeness | 12 | a courteous manner that respects accepted social usage | - |
brightness | 16 | the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light | - |
restrained | 11 | prudent | - |
intervened | 14 | - | - |
wickedness | 20 | estrangement from god | - |
telephoned | 16 | - | - |
newscaster | 15 | someone who broadcasts the news | - |
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