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ILLUSTRATIONS
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
The American Heritage
®
Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.
2000.
Entry Index
a
1
to
abstracted
abstract expressionism
to
acinus
ack-ack
to
adipose
adipose tissue
to
Aesop
Aesopian
to
agonic line
agonist
to
Alaska cedar
Alaska Highway
to
allantoid
allantoin
to
alumina
aluminate
to
amour
amour-propre
to
Andrea del Sarto
Andreanof Islands
to
annulet
annuli
to
antique
antiquer
to
appellative
appellee
to
archdeaconry
archdiocese
to
arrange
arrangement
to
aspartic acid
aspartokinase
to
Atharva-Veda
atheism
to
auricle
auricula
to
aw-shucks
ax
1
to
bacteremia
bacteri–
to
Baltimore
Baltimore
to
barkentine
barker
1
to
bat.
Bataan
to
beatitude
beatnik
to
Belgian East Africa
Belgian endive
to
Bergson, Henri Louis
Bergsonism
to
bibliolatry
bibliomancy
to
binomial theorem
bint
to
bit stream
bitsy
to
blastomere
blastomycete
to
blue fox
bluegill
to
Bolingbrook
bolivar
to
boric acid
boride
to
boxing
1
boxing
2
to
brazilwood
Brazos
to
broadcast
Broad-Church
to
bubble pack
bubbler
to
bunkering
bunker mentality
to
butterfly valve
butterfly weed
to
café
café au lait
to
Camagüey
camaraderie
to
canter
Canterbury
to
carcass
Carcassonne
to
cartop
cartouche
to
cathode ray
cathode-ray tube
to
celluloid
cellulolytic
to
ch
Ch
to
Charles VII
Charles IX
to
chest pass
chest register
to
chiropractic
chiropteran
to
chromatophilic
chromatophore
to
circumcise
circumcision
to
clay
Clay, Cassius Marcellus
to
clover
cloverleaf
to
codices
codicil
to
collins
Collins, Michael
to
commit
commitment
to
computerized axial tomography
computerized tomography
to
Congo red
Congo River
to
contemplate
contemplation
to
cop
2
cop
3
to
corpora callosa
corporal
1
to
counterbalance
counterblow
to
cps
CPS
to
Creüsa
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
to
crucifer
crucifix
to
Cumberland River
cumbersome
to
cyanocobalamin
cyanogen
to
Daley, Richard Joseph
Dalhousie
to
dawn redwood
Dawson
to
decillion
decillionth
to
dehydration
dehydrator
to
denotation
denotative
to
despicable
Despina
to
diaconate
diacritic
to
dihedral group
dihybrid
to
disappoint
disappointed
to
disperse
disperse phase
to
dkl
dkm
to
donjon
Don Juan
to
downhill
down-home
to
drollery
–drome
to
dunderhead
dundrearies
to
earned run
earned run average
to
eddo
eddy
to
elaterid
elaterite
to
eluant
eluate
to
enchantress
enchase
to
enshrine
enshroud
to
epoch
epochal
to
espial
espionage
to
Eurydice
euryhaline
to
exercise
exercise bicycle
to
extraocular muscle
extraordinaire
to
falces
falchion
to
fat farm
fath
to
fer-de-lance
Ferdinand I
to
field theory
field trial
to
firewater
fireweed
to
flatbottom
flatbread
to
flow chart
flow-chart
to
folliculitis
follow
to
foretopsail
forever
to
fr.
Fr.
to
French West Indies
French window
to
fuckhead
fucking
to
FWD
FX
to
gametophore
gametophyte
to
Gatún Lake
gauche
to
Genseric
gent
1
to
Gibeon
giblets
to
glib
glide
to
goldbrick
gold brick
to
goy
Goya y Lucientes, Francisco José de
to
gravelly
graven
to
grigri
grill
to
Guelph
2
Guenevere
to
gyrocompass
gyro horizon
to
halidom
halier
to
harbinger
harbor
to
haven’t
Haverhill
to
heavy-handed
heavy-hearted
to
hemoglobin
hemoglobinuria
to
heterocyclic
heterocyst
to
hijiki
hijinks
to
hogan
Hogan, William Benjamin
to
homosporous
homostyled
to
host
3
hosta
to
huipil
huitlacoche
to
hydrogen
hydrogenase
to
hypothyroid
hypothyroidism
to
I formation
IFR
to
immunotherapy
immunotoxin
to
inch
2
incher
to
indigo bunting
indigo snake
to
informatory
informed
to
insignificance
insignificancy
to
interlude
interlunar
to
invocate
invocation
to
Ishikari Bay
Ishim
to
jackpot
jackrabbit
to
Jerusalem cherry
Jerusalem oak
to
Jordan almond
Jordan curve
to
JV
k
1
to
Kefauver, (Carey) Estes
kefir
to
kilderkin
kilim
to
knapsack
knapweed
to
Kundera, Milan
Kunene
to
laissez-passer
laity
to
lapwing
Lar
to
lawrencium
lawsuit
to
legato
legator
to
levanter
Levant morocco
to
lightning rod
light opera
to
lipotropin
Lippi, Filippino
to
loc.
local
to
loose scrum
loosestrife
to
Lualaba
Luanda
to
lymphatic
lymphatic system
to
Maeander
Maebashi
to
Makarios III
Makassar
to
mangrove
mangy
to
Marias
Maria Theresa
to
mass-energy equivalence
Massenet, Jules Émile Frédéric
to
mayweed
May wine
to
medullary sheath
medullated
to
menthol
mention
to
metathesize
metathorax
to
micromole
micron
to
Millikan, Robert Andrews
milliliter
to
misbelieve
misbrand
to
mobility
mobilize
to
moniliasis
moniliform
to
moosebird
Moosehead Lake
to
motto
mouch
to
Mull
mullah
to
Mussolini, Benito Amilcare Andrea
Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich
to
Nalchik
naled
to
navelwort
navicular
to
nephrotomy
ne plus ultra
to
new wave
New World
to
nitrochloroform
nitrofuran
to
nonpersistent
nonperson
to
noted
note of hand
to
nutshell
nutty
to
O’Connell, Daniel
O’Connor, Flannery
to
Lake Okeechobee
O’Keeffe, Georgia
to
one-time
one-to-one
to
Oran
orang
to
Osasco
OSB
to
outlast
outlaw
to
overrode
overruff
to
packinghouse
packman
to
pan
3
Pan
to
paramour
paramylum
to
partway
party
to
patulous
patzer
to
Pedro I
Pedro II
to
peperomia
pepino
to
perry
Perry, Antoinette
to
phanerogam
Phanerozoic
to
photo
photo–
to
picket line
Pickett, Bill
to
pingo
Ping-Pong
to
placer
placer mining
to
pleomorphism
pleonasm
to
pointless
point man
to
polypore
polyposis
to
porterhouse
portfolio
to
potter
2
Potter, (Helen) Beatrix
to
preconcert
precondition
to
press of sail
pressor
to
privatize
privet
to
proper noun
propertied
to
prunelle
pruning hook
to
pull date
pullet
to
pycnogonid
pycnometer
to
quantum teleportation
quantum theory
to
Rabbinic Hebrew
rabbinism
to
rale
Raleigh
to
Ravel, (Joseph) Maurice
raveling
to
re-collect
recollection
to
referee
reference
to
remake
reman
to
rescissory
rescript
to
retroflex
retrograde
to
rhythm
rhythm and blues
to
RIP
riparian
to
rodenticide
rodent ulcer
to
rosin
rosin oil
to
rudiment
rudimentary
to
Cape Sable
sable antelope
to
Saint Vincent
Cape Saint Vincent
to
sandbar
sandblast
to
sardonic
sardonyx
to
scamp
2
scamper
to
scintillate
scintillation
to
scuffle
1
scuffle
2
to
second blessing
second childhood
to
self-digestion
self-directed
to
senate
senator
to
service mark
serviceperson
to
Shamash
shamble
to
Shijiazhuang
shikari
to
shovel hat
shovelhead
to
signage
signal
to
singlewide
singly
to
skirt
skirt steak
to
slot machine
slot racing
to
snarf
snarky
to
sodium sulfate
sodium sulfide
to
songfest
songful
to
South River
southron
to
spectroheliograph
spectrohelioscope
to
spirea
spireme
to
springtail
springtide
to
stammer
stamp
to
steatopygia
steatorrhea
to
still
1
still
2
to
stowage
stowaway
to
strong gale
stronghold
to
submachine gun
submandibular
to
suint
suit
to
superior planet
superjacent
to
Sutter, John Augustus
Suttner, Bertha von
to
syllabary
syllabi
to
tabular
tabula rasa
to
tanbur
Tancred
to
taw
1
taw
2
to
teleology
teleost
to
termitary
termite
to
ThD
the
1
to
Thisbe
thistle
to
ti
2
Ti
1
to
tintinnabular
tintinnabulation
to
tomalley
toman
to
tostada
tot
1
to
tramp
trample
to
trehalose
treillage
to
tripletail
triple time
to
trypsin
trypsinogen
to
Turkish delight
Turkish Empire
to
typewriter
typewriting
to
unappealing
unappeasable
to
undergrown
undergrowth
to
unilocular
Unimak Island
to
unrestraint
unretire
to
upsweep
upswing
to
vac.
vacancy
to
variety store
variform
to
ventro–
ventrodorsal
to
vice admiral
vice-admiralty
to
viricide
virid
to
Vólos
volplane
to
Wales
Walesa, Lech
to
watap
watch
to
weather balloon
weather-beaten
to
Western Shoshone
western tanager
to
whitehead
Whitehead, Alfred North
to
wilful
Wilhelm
to
wiring
wirra
to
woody
woof
1
to
wrung
wry
to
ye
2
.ye
to
Zantac
Zanuck, Darryl Francis
to
Zuni
1
Zuni
2
to
zyzzyva
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®
Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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