Word Meanings - ALLITERATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To employ or place so as to make alliteration. Skeat.

Related words: (words related to ALLITERATE)

• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• PLACER
  One who places or sets. Spenser.
• PLACE
  Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude. Place of arms , a place calculated for the rendezvous of men in arms, etc., as a fort which affords a safe
• EMPLOYER
  One who employs another; as, an employer of workmen.
• PLACENTA
  The vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with the afterbirth. Note: In most mammals the placenta is principally developed from the allantois and chorion, and tufts of vascular villi
• PLACEMAN
  One who holds or occupies a place; one who has office under government. Sir W. Scott.
• PLACENTIOUS
  Pleasing; amiable. "A placentious person." Fuller.
• PLACEBO
  The first antiphon of the vespers for the dead.
• PLACENTIFEROUS
  Having or producing a placenta.
• PLACENTATION
  The mode of formation of the placenta in different animals; as, the placentation of mammals.
• EMPLOYMENT
  1. The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed. 2. That which engages or occupies; that which consumes time or attention; office or post of business; service; as, agricultural employments; mechanical employments;
• EMPLOYEE
  One employed by another.
• PLACE-PROUD
  Proud of rank or office. Beau. & Fl.
• PLACEFUL
  In the appointed place.
• PLACENTAL
  Of or pertaining to the Placentalia. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to the placenta; having, or characterized by having, a placenta; as, a placental mammal.
• PLACENTIFORM
  Having the shape of a placenta, or circular thickened disk somewhat thinner about the middle.
• EMPLOYE
  One employed by another; a clerk or workman in the service of an employer.
• PLACET
  1. A vote of assent, as of the governing body of a university, of an ecclesiastical council, etc. 2. The assent of the civil power to the promulgation of an ecclesiastical ordinance. Shipley. The king . . . annulled the royal placet. J. P. Peters.
• UNEMPLOYMENT
  Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• COMPLACENCE; COMPLACENCY
  1. Calm contentment; satisfaction; gratification. The inward complacence we find in acting reasonably and virtuously. Atterbury. Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like
• UNEMPLOYED
  1. Nor employed in manual or other labor; having no regular work. 2. Not invested or used; as, unemployed capital.
• APLACENTAL
  Belonging to the Aplacentata; without placenta.
• PREEMPLOY
  To employ beforehand. "Preëmployed by him." Shak.
• DISPLACER
  The funnel part of the apparatus for solution by displacement. (more info) 1. One that displaces.
• DISEMPLOYMENT
  The state of being disemployed, or deprived of employment. This glut of leisure and disemployment. Jer. Taylor.
• BY-PLACE
  A retired or private place.
• SELF-COMPLACENCY
  The quality of being self-complacent. J. Foster.
• MISPLACE
  To put in a wrong place; to set or place on an improper or unworthy object; as, he misplaced his confidence.
• EMPLACEMENT
  A putting in, or assigning to, a definite place; localization; as, the emplacement of a structure.
• DISPLACEABLE
  Capable of being displaced.