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little

Usage

  • manacle

    A manacle is a circular, usually metallic device used to chain someone's wrists and/or ankles together.

  • chronicle

    A chronicle is a record of historical events that arranges those events in the correct order in which they happened.

  • article

    bind by a contract

  • canticle

    a hymn derived from the Bible

  • corpuscle

    (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything

  • cubicle

    small room in which a monk or nun lives

  • cuticle

    the dead skin at the base of a fingernail or toenail

  • follicle

    any small spherical group of cells containing a cavity

  • icicle

    ice resembling a pendent spear, formed by the freezing of dripping water

  • miracle

    any amazing or wonderful occurrence

  • monocle

    lens for correcting defective vision in one eye

  • muscle

    make one's way by force

  • particle

    (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything

  • tabernacle

    the Mormon temple

  • testicle

    one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens

  • tubercle

    a swelling that is the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis

  • ventricle

    one of four connected cavities in the brain

  • vesicle

    a small anatomically normal sac or bladderlike structure (especially one containing fluid)

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