nonmember | (noun) a person who is not a member | - |
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number | (noun) an item of clothing | - |
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(noun) the property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individuals | Synonyms: figure |
(noun) a clothing measurement | - |
(noun) one of a series published periodically | Synonyms: issue |
(noun) a symbol used to represent a number | Synonyms: numeral |
(noun) a numeral or string of numerals that is used for identification and may be attached to accounts, memberships, etc. | - |
(noun) the number is used in calling a particular telephone | Synonyms: phone number, telephone number |
(noun) a short performance that is part of a longer program | Synonyms: act, bit, routine, turn |
(noun) the grammatical category for the forms of nouns and pronouns and verbs that are used depending on the number of entities involved (singular or dual or plural) | - |
(noun) a numbered item in a series | - |
(noun) a select company of people | - |
(noun) a concept of quantity involving zero and units | - |
numbering | (noun) a numbered list | Synonyms: enumeration |
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numberplate | (noun) a plate mounted on the front and back of car and bearing the car's registration number | Synonyms: license plate |
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numbers | (noun) an illegal daily lottery | Synonyms: numbers game, numbers pool, numbers racket |
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partridgeberry | (noun) creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries | Synonyms: boxberry, Mitchella repens, twinberry |
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plumber | (noun) a craftsman who installs and repairs pipes and fixtures and appliances | Synonyms: pipe fitter |
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plumbery | (noun) the occupation of a plumber (installing and repairing pipes and fixtures for water or gas or sewage in a building) | Synonyms: plumbing |
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poisonberry | (noun) Eurasian herb naturalized in America having white flowers and poisonous hairy foliage and bearing black berries that are sometimes poisonous but sometimes edible | Synonyms: black nightshade, common nightshade, poison-berry, Solanum nigrum |
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prepuberty | (noun) a period of two years immediately prior to the onset of puberty when growth and changes leading to sexual maturity occur | - |
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protuberance | (noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, swelling |
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(noun) the condition of being protuberant; the condition of bulging out | - |
puberty | (noun) the time of life when sex glands become functional | Synonyms: pubescence |
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raspberry | (noun) a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt | Synonyms: bird, boo, Bronx cheer, hiss, hoot, razz, razzing, snort |
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(noun) red or black edible aggregate berries usually smaller than the related blackberries | - |
(noun) woody brambles bearing usually red but sometimes black or yellow fruits that separate from the receptacle when ripe and are rounder and smaller than blackberries | Synonyms: raspberry bush |
redberry | (noun) small spiny evergreen shrub of western United States and Mexico with minute flowers and bright red berries | Synonyms: red-berry, Rhamnus croceus |
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(noun) North American perennial herb with alternately compound leaves and racemes of small white flowers followed by bright red oval poisonous berries | Synonyms: Actaea rubra, red-berry, red baneberry, snakeberry |
remembering | (noun) the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered | Synonyms: memory |
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reverberance | (noun) having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant | Synonyms: plangency, resonance, ringing, sonority, sonorousness, vibrancy |
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reverberation | (noun) the repetition of a sound resulting from reflection of the sound waves | Synonyms: echo, replication, sound reflection |
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(noun) a remote or indirect consequence of some action | Synonyms: repercussion |
robber | (noun) a thief who steals from someone by threatening violence | - |
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robbery | (noun) larceny by threat of violence | - |
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(noun) plundering during riots or in wartime | Synonyms: looting |
rougeberry | (noun) bushy houseplant having white to pale pink flowers followed by racemes of scarlet berries; tropical Americas | Synonyms: blood berry, bloodberry, Rivina humilis, rouge plant |
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rowanberry | (noun) decorative red berrylike fruit of a rowan tree | - |
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rubber | (noun) a waterproof overshoe that protects shoes from water or snow | Synonyms: arctic, galosh, golosh, gumshoe |
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(noun) contraceptive device consisting of a sheath of thin rubber or latex that is worn over the penis during intercourse | Synonyms: condom, prophylactic, safe, safety |
(noun) an eraser made of rubber (or of a synthetic material with properties similar to rubber); commonly mounted at one end of a pencil | Synonyms: pencil eraser, rubber eraser |
(noun) a contest consisting of a series of successive matches between the same sides | - |
(noun) an elastic material obtained from the latex sap of trees (especially trees of the genera Hevea and Ficus) that can be vulcanized and finished into a variety of products | Synonyms: caoutchouc, gum elastic, India rubber, natural rubber |
(noun) any of various synthetic elastic materials whose properties resemble natural rubber | Synonyms: synthetic rubber |
rubberneck | (noun) a person who stares inquisitively | Synonyms: rubbernecker |
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(noun) a tourist who is visiting sights of interest | Synonyms: excursionist, sightseer, tripper |
rubbernecker | (noun) a person who stares inquisitively | Synonyms: rubberneck |
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rydberg | (noun) a wave number characteristic of the wave spectrum of each element | Synonyms: rydberg constant, rydberg unit |
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saber | (noun) a stout sword with a curved blade and thick back | Synonyms: cavalry sword, sabre |
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(noun) a fencing sword with a v-shaped blade and a slightly curved handle | Synonyms: sabre |
sabertooth | (noun) any of many extinct cats of the Old and New Worlds having long swordlike upper canine teeth; from the Oligocene through the Pleistocene | Synonyms: saber-toothed tiger |
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salmonberry | (noun) large erect red-flowered raspberry of western North America having large pinkish-orange berries | Synonyms: Rubus spectabilis |
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(noun) white-flowered raspberry of western North America and northern Mexico with thimble-shaped orange berries | Synonyms: Rubus parviflorus, salmon berry, thimbleberry |
(noun) creeping raspberry of north temperate regions with yellow or orange berries | Synonyms: bakeapple, baked-apple berry, cloudberry, dwarf mulberry, Rubus chamaemorus |
sandberry | (noun) evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries; leaves turn red in autumn | Synonyms: Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, bear's grape, common bearberry, creashak, hog cranberry, mealberry, mountain box, red bearberry, sand berry, wild cranberry |
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scriber | (noun) a sharp-pointed awl for marking wood or metal to be cut | Synonyms: scratch awl, scribe |
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scrubber | (noun) a purifier that removes impurities from a gas | - |
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(noun) a brush with short stiff bristles for heavy cleaning | Synonyms: scrub brush, scrubbing brush |
(noun) a worker who uses a scrub brush to clean a surface (usually a floor or deck) | - |
serviceberry | (noun) edible purple or red berries | Synonyms: juneberry, saskatoon, shadberry |
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(noun) any of various North American trees or shrubs having showy white flowers and edible blue-black or purplish fruit | Synonyms: Juneberry, service tree, shadblow, shadbush |
shadberry | (noun) edible purple or red berries | Synonyms: juneberry, saskatoon, serviceberry |
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sherbert | (noun) a frozen dessert made primarily of fruit juice and sugar, but also containing milk or egg-white or gelatin | Synonyms: sherbet |
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shrubbery | (noun) a collection of shrubs growing together | - |
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(noun) an area where a number of shrubs are planted | - |
silverberry | (noun) deciduous unarmed North American shrub with silvery leaves and fruits | Synonyms: Elaeagnus commutata, silver-bush, silver berry, silverbush |
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slobber | (noun) saliva spilling from the mouth | Synonyms: dribble, drivel, drool |
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slobberer | (noun) a person who dribbles | Synonyms: dribbler, driveller, drooler |
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slumber | (noun) a dormant or quiescent state | - |
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(noun) a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended | Synonyms: sleep |
slumberer | (noun) a rester who is sleeping | Synonyms: sleeper |
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snakeberry | (noun) North American perennial herb with alternately compound leaves and racemes of small white flowers followed by bright red oval poisonous berries | Synonyms: Actaea rubra, red-berry, red baneberry, redberry |
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snobbery | (noun) the trait of condescending to those of lower social status | Synonyms: snobbishness, snobbism |
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snowberry | (noun) deciduous shrub of western North America having spikes of pink flowers followed by round white berries | Synonyms: common snowberry, Symphoricarpos alba, waxberry |
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soapberry | (noun) a tree of the genus Sapindus whose fruit is rich in saponin | Synonyms: soapberry tree |
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soberness | (noun) a manner that is serious and solemn | Synonyms: graveness, gravity, sobriety, somberness, sombreness |
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(noun) the state of being sober and not intoxicated by alcohol | Synonyms: sobriety |
sobersides | (noun) a serious and sedate individual | - |
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somberness | (noun) a manner that is serious and solemn | Synonyms: graveness, gravity, soberness, sobriety, sombreness |
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(noun) a feeling of melancholy apprehension | Synonyms: gloom, gloominess, sombreness |
(noun) a state of partial or total darkness | Synonyms: gloom, sombreness |
sparkleberry | (noun) shrub or small tree of eastern United States having black inedible berries | Synonyms: farkleberry, Vaccinium arboreum |
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spiceberry | (noun) spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil | Synonyms: boxberry, checkerberry, teaberry, wintergreen |
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(noun) shrub with coral-red berries; Japan to northern India | Synonyms: Ardisia crenata, coralberry |
spindleberry | (noun) any shrubby trees or woody vines of the genus Euonymus having showy usually reddish berries | Synonyms: spindle tree, spindleberry tree |
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stabber | (noun) someone who stabs another person | - |
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stockjobber | (noun) one who deals only with brokers or other jobbers | - |
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strawberry | (noun) a soft red birthmark | Synonyms: hemangioma simplex, strawberry mark |
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(noun) sweet fleshy red fruit | - |
(noun) any of various low perennial herbs with many runners and bearing white flowers followed by edible fruits having many small achenes scattered on the surface of an enlarged red pulpy berry | - |
subscriber | (noun) someone who contributes (or promises to contribute) a sum of money | Synonyms: contributor |
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(noun) someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication | Synonyms: reader |
(noun) someone who expresses strong approval | Synonyms: endorser, indorser, ratifier |
sugarberry | (noun) small edible dark purple to black berry with large pits; southern United States | Synonyms: hackberry |
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(noun) deciduous shade tree with small black berries; southern United States; yields soft yellowish wood | Synonyms: Celtis laevigata |
sunberry | (noun) improved garden variety of black nightshade having small edible orange or black berries | Synonyms: garden huckleberry, Solanum burbankii, Solanum melanocerasum, Solanum nigrum guineese, wonderberry |
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tabernacle | (noun) (Judaism) the place of worship for a Jewish congregation | Synonyms: synagogue, temple |
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teaberry | (noun) spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil | Synonyms: boxberry, checkerberry, spiceberry, wintergreen |
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(noun) creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil | Synonyms: checkerberry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, ground-berry, groundberry, mountain tea, wintergreen |
thimbleberry | (noun) raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit | Synonyms: black raspberry, blackcap, blackcap raspberry, Rubus occidentalis |
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(noun) white-flowered raspberry of western North America and northern Mexico with thimble-shaped orange berries | Synonyms: Rubus parviflorus, salmon berry, salmonberry |
(noun) shrubby raspberry of eastern North America having showy rose to purplish flowers and red or orange thimble-shaped fruit | Synonyms: flowering raspberry, purple-flowering raspberry, Rubus odoratus |
timber | (noun) a beam made of wood | - |
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(noun) a post made of wood | - |
(noun) (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound) | Synonyms: quality, timbre, tone |
(noun) land that is covered with trees and shrubs | Synonyms: forest, timberland, woodland |
(noun) the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material | Synonyms: lumber |
timberland | (noun) land that is covered with trees and shrubs | Synonyms: forest, timber, woodland |
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timberline | (noun) line marking the upper limit of tree growth in mountains or northern latitudes | Synonyms: timber line, tree line |
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timberman | (noun) an owner or manager of a company that is engaged in lumbering | - |
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transcriber | (noun) someone who makes a written version of spoken material | - |
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(noun) someone who represents the sounds of speech in phonetic notation | - |
(noun) a musician who adapts a composition for particular voices or instruments or for another style of performance | Synonyms: adapter, arranger |
(noun) a person who translates written messages from one language to another | Synonyms: translator |
(noun) someone who rewrites in a different script | - |
tuber | (noun) a fleshy underground stem or root serving for reproductive and food storage | - |
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tubercle | (noun) a protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament | Synonyms: eminence, tuberosity |
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(noun) small rounded wartlike protuberance on a plant | Synonyms: nodule |
(noun) a swelling that is the characteristic lesion of tuberculosis | - |
tubercular | (noun) a person with pulmonary tuberculosis | Synonyms: consumptive, lunger |
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tuberculin | (noun) a sterile liquid containing a purified protein derivative of the tuberculosis bacterium; used in the diagnosis of tuberculosis | - |
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tuberculosis | (noun) infection transmitted by inhalation or ingestion of tubercle bacilli and manifested in fever and small lesions (usually in the lungs but in various other parts of the body in acute stages) | Synonyms: T.B., TB |
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tuberose | (noun) a tuberous Mexican herb having grasslike leaves and cultivated for its spikes of highly fragrant lily-like waxy white flowers | Synonyms: Polianthes tuberosa |
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tuberosity | (noun) a protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament | Synonyms: eminence, tubercle |
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twinberry | (noun) shrubby honeysuckle with purple flowers; western North America | Synonyms: Lonicera involucrata |
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(noun) creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries | Synonyms: boxberry, Mitchella repens, partridgeberry |
umber | (noun) a medium brown to dark-brown color | Synonyms: burnt umber, chocolate, coffee, deep brown |
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(noun) an earth pigment | - |
waxberry | (noun) deciduous aromatic shrub of eastern North America with grey-green wax-coated berries | Synonyms: bayberry, candleberry, Myrica pensylvanica, swamp candleberry |
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(noun) deciduous shrub of western North America having spikes of pink flowers followed by round white berries | Synonyms: common snowberry, snowberry, Symphoricarpos alba |
weber | (noun) a unit of magnetic flux equal to 100,000,000 maxwells | Synonyms: Wb |
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whinberry | (noun) erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries | Synonyms: bilberry, blaeberry, Viccinium myrtillus, whortleberry |
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whortleberry | (noun) blue-black berries similar to American blueberries | Synonyms: bilberry, European blueberry |
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(noun) erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries | Synonyms: bilberry, blaeberry, Viccinium myrtillus, whinberry |
wineberry | (noun) raspberry of China and Japan having pale pink flowers grown for ornament and for the small red acid fruits | Synonyms: Rubus phoenicolasius |
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(noun) graceful deciduous shrub or small tree having attractive foliage and small red berries that turn black at maturity and are used for making wine | Synonyms: Aristotelia racemosa, Aristotelia serrata, makomako, New Zealand wine berry |
winterberry | (noun) deciduous shrub of southeastern and central United States | Synonyms: bearberry, Ilex decidua, possum haw |
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wonderberry | (noun) improved garden variety of black nightshade having small edible orange or black berries | Synonyms: garden huckleberry, Solanum burbankii, Solanum melanocerasum, Solanum nigrum guineese, sunberry |
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