These are the meanings of the letters VERIFICATORY when you unscramble them.
- Artificer (n.)
A cunning or artful fellow.
- Artificer (n.)
A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory.
- Artificer (n.)
An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one whose occupation requires skill or knowledge of a particular kind, as a silversmith.
- Artificer (n.)
One who makes or contrives; a deviser, inventor, or framer.
- Fricative (a.)
Produced by the friction or rustling of the breath, intonated or unintonated, through a narrow opening between two of the mouth organs; uttered through a close approach, but not with a complete closure, of the organs of articulation, and hence capable of being continued or prolonged; -- said of certain consonantal sounds, as f, v, s, z, etc.
- Fricative (n.)
A fricative consonant letter or sound. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 197-206, etc.