Vocabulary Browser

to spin (e.g. ramie, hemp, etc.)

to dampen

sin tax (excise, etc. on certain goods deemed harmful to society and individuals)

operating under reduced business hours

to become domesticated

laminar flow

military spending

to stare in wonder

trade below the public offering price during a float

party name

leveling

literary fragment

being one or more laps behind (in a race)

photoperiodism

introductory clause of a law, patent, etc.

An Lushan Rebellion (in China; 755-763 CE)

to go easy on someone

overthrust structure

(something) mixed with snow

greensand

penguin wing oyster (Pteria penguin)

choking

creeping lettuce (Ixeris stolonifera)

kakina (green leafy vegetable of the genus Brassica)

blackboard

of the same age

to pour oil on (something)

area remote from the city

central control room

reprocessing plant