Words containing brooding

brooding means: persistent morbid meditation on a problem

brooding means: sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body

brooding means: deeply or seriously thoughtful

antioch means: a town in southern Turkey; ancient commercial center and capital of Syria; an early center of Christianity

battle of ypres means: battle in World War I (1914); heavy but indecisive fighting as the Allies and the Germans both tried to break through the lines of the others

battle of ypres means: battle in World War I (1915); Germans wanted to try chlorine (a toxic yellow gas) as a weapon and succeeded in taking considerable territory from the Allied salient

battle of ypres means: battle in World War I (1917); an Allied offensive which eventually failed because tanks bogged down in the waterlogged soil of Flanders; Germans introduced mustard gas which interfered with the Allied artillery

bearer bond means: a bond issued with detachable coupons that must be presented to the issuer for interest payments

beatify means: declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood

beatify means: make blessedly happy

beatify means: fill with sublime emotion

diaphragmatic pleurisy means: an acute infectious disease occurring in epidemic form and featuring paroxysms of pain (usually in the chest)

family lepiotaceae means: a family of fungi having free gills and a cap that is cleanly separable from the stalk

feel out means: try to learn someone's opinions and intentions

ferdinand the catholic means: the king of Castile and Aragon who ruled jointly with his wife Isabella; his marriage to Isabella I in 1469 marked the beginning of the modern state of Spain and their capture of Granada from the Moors in 1492 united Spain as one country; they instituted the Spanish Inquisition in 1478 and supported the expedition of Christopher Columbus in 1492 (1452-1516)

fingerprint expert means: a specialist in identifying fingerprints

genus corchorus means: widely distributed genus of tropical herbs or subshrubs; especially Asia

genus fremontia means: flannelbush

henry oscar houghton means: United States publisher who founded a printing shop that became an important book publisher (1823-1895)

huji means: an extremist militant group in Pakistan occupied Kashmir that seeks an Islamic government and that has had close links and fought with the Taliban in Afghanistan

international scale means: a temperature scale that defines the freezing point of water as 0 degrees and the boiling point of water as 100 degrees

marble-wood means: large Asiatic tree having hard marbled zebrawood

marble-wood means: hard marbled wood