a subatomic particle similar in most respects to the electron except that it is unstable, it may be positively charged, and its mass is approximately 207 times greater.

serving to alter, improve, or rectify; corrective.

warm, welcoming, and hospitable.

a very large, thin traditional Scandinavian cookie prepared by pouring batter into an appliance much like a waffle iron and then rolling the warm cookie around a cone form.

to pave by laying and compacting successive layers of broken stone, often with asphalt or hot tar.

the thunderbolt of Indra, the Hindu god of rain and thunder.

to change into or pronounce as one unsegmentable, gliding speech sound, as the oi sound of toy and boil.

an objectionable or undesirable animal, usually predatory, as a coyote or bobcat.

the doctrine that the world tends to become better or may be made better by human effort.