Word Meanings - WAVELET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A little wave; a ripple.

Related words: (words related to WAVELET)

• LITTLENESS
  The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness.
• RIPPLE-MARKED
  HAving ripple marks.
• LITTLE-EASE
  An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison. Latimer.
• RIPPLE
  An implement, with teeth like those of a comb, for removing the seeds and seed vessels from flax, broom corn, etc.
• RIPPLET
  A small ripple.
• LITTLE
  place being supplied by less, or, rarely, lesser. See Lesser. For the superlative least is used, the regular form, littlest, occurring very rarely, except in some of the English provinces, and occasionally in colloquial language. " Where love is
• GRIPPLE
  A grasp; a gripe. Spenser.
• DO-LITTLE
  One who performs little though professing much. Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson.
• CRIPPLENESS
  Lameness. Johnson.
• CRIPPLER
  A wooden tool used in graining leather. Knight.
• GRIPPLENESS
  The quality of being gripple.
• CRIPPLE
  One who creeps, halts, or limps; one who has lost, or never had, the use of a limb or limbs; a lame person; hence, one who is partially disabled. I am a cripple in my limbs; but what decays are in my mind, the reader must determine. Dryden. (more
• DRIPPLE
  Weak or rare.
• BECRIPPLE
  To make a cripple of; to cripple; to lame. Dr. H. More.
• CRIPPLED
  Lamed; lame; disabled; impeded. "The crippled crone." Longfellow.
• BELITTLE
  To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a depreciatory or contemptuous way. T. Jefferson.