Word Meanings - FORCEFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Full of or processing force; exerting force; mighty. -- Force"ful*ly, adv. Against the steed he threw His forceful spear. Dryden.

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• STEATOPYGOUS
  Having fat buttocks. Specimens of the steatopygous Abyssinian breed. Burton.
• FORCE
  To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.
• STEREOGRAPHIC; STEREOGRAPHICAL
  Made or done according to the rules of stereography; delineated on a plane; as, a stereographic chart of the earth. Stereographic projection , a method of representing the sphere in which the center of projection is taken in the surface of the
• STEELING
  The process of pointing, edging, or overlaying with steel; specifically, acierage. See Steel, v.
• STERNFOREMOST
  With the stern, instead of the bow, in advance; hence, figuratively, in an awkward, blundering manner. A fatal genius for going sternforemost. Lowell.
• STERNUTATORY
  Sternutative. -- n.
• STEVEDORE
  One whose occupation is to load and unload vessels in port; one who stows a cargo in a hold. (more info) to pack, to stow, L. stipare to press, compress, probably akin to E.
• STEREOTYPER
  One who stereotypes; one who makes stereotype plates, or works in a stereotype foundry.
• STEREOCHROMIC
  Pertaining to the art of stereochromy; produced by stereochromy. -- Ste`re*o*chro"mic*al*ly, adv.
• STEREOTYPOGRAPHY
  The act or art of printing from stereotype plates.
• STEER
  A young male of the ox kind; especially, a common ox; a castrated taurine male from two to four years old. See the Note under Ox. (more info) OHG. stior, Icel. stjorr, , Sw. tjur, Dan. tyr, Goth. stiur, Russ. tur', Pol. tur, Ir. & Gael. tarbh,
• STEELHEAD
  A North Pacific salmon found from Northern California to Siberia; -- called also hardhead, and preesil.
• STEREOGRAPHICALLY
  In a stereographical manner; by delineation on a plane.
• STEELINESS
  The quality of being steely.
• EXERT
  out; ex out + serere to join or bind together. See Series, and cf. 1. To thrust forth; to emit; to push out. So from the seas exerts his radiant head The star by whom the lights of heaven are led. Dryden. 2. To put force, ability, or anything of
• STEAD
  OS. stad, stedi, OHG. stat, G. statt, stätte, Icel. staedhr, Dan. sted, Sw. stad, Goth. sta, and E. stand. *163. See Stand, and cf. 1. Place, or spot, in general. Chaucer. Fly, therefore, fly this fearful stead anon. Spenser. 2. Place or room
• STEENBOK
  See STEINBOCK
• STERNOHYOID
  Of or pertaining to the sternum and the hyoid bone or cartilage.
• STEGANOPHTHALMATA
  The Discophora, or Phanerocarpæ. Called also Steganophthalmia.
• STEREOPLASM
  The solid or insoluble portion of the cell protoplasm. See Hygroplasm.
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• CREMASTERIC
  Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery.
• PHILISTER
  A Philistine; -- a cant name given to townsmen by students in German universities.
• HYSTERIA
  A nervous affection, occurring almost exclusively in women, in which the emotional and reflex excitability is exaggerated, and the will power correspondingly diminished, so that the patient loses control over the emotions, becomes the victim of
• MESOGASTER
  The fold of peritoneum connecting the stomach with the dorsal wall of the abdominal cavity; the mesogastrium.
• CARBON STEEL
  Steel deriving its qualities from carbon chiefly, without the presence of other alloying elements; --opposed to alloy steel.
• UNSTEEL
  To disarm; to soften. Richardson.
• CHICKEN-BREASTED
  Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column.
• FROSTED
  Covered with hoarfrost or anything resembling hoarfrost; ornamented with frosting; also, frost-bitten; as, a frosted cake; frosted glass. Frosted work is introduced as a foil or contrast to burnished work. Knight.
• APOSTEMATOUS
  Pertaining to, or partaking of the nature of, an aposteme.
• GASTEROMYCETES
  An order of fungi, in which the spores are borne inside a sac called the peridium, as in the puffballs.
• OSTEOGRAPHER
  An osteologist.
• BAGGAGE MASTER
  One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel.
• POSTEXIST
  To exist after; to live subsequently.
• SOUTHWESTERLY
  To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind.