brachydactylia | (noun) abnormal shortness of fingers and toes | Synonyms: brachydactyly |
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brachydactyly | (noun) abnormal shortness of fingers and toes | Synonyms: brachydactylia |
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brachyuran | (noun) typical crabs | - |
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brainchild | (noun) a product of your creative thinking and work | Synonyms: inspiration |
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branch | (noun) any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm | Synonyms: arm, limb |
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(noun) a division of some larger or more complex organization | Synonyms: arm, subdivision |
(noun) a stream or river connected to a larger one | - |
(noun) a natural consequence of development | Synonyms: offset, offshoot, outgrowth |
(noun) a division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant | - |
(noun) a part of a forked or branching shape | Synonyms: leg, ramification |
branchia | (noun) respiratory organ of aquatic animals that breathe oxygen dissolved in water | Synonyms: gill |
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branching | (noun) the act of branching out or dividing into branches | Synonyms: fork, forking, ramification |
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branchiopod | (noun) aquatic crustaceans typically having a carapace and many pairs of leaflike appendages used for swimming as well as respiration and feeding | Synonyms: branchiopod crustacean, branchiopodan |
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branchiopodan | (noun) aquatic crustaceans typically having a carapace and many pairs of leaflike appendages used for swimming as well as respiration and feeding | Synonyms: branchiopod, branchiopod crustacean |
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branchlet | (noun) a small branch or division of a branch (especially a terminal division); usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year | Synonyms: sprig, twig |
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breach | (noun) a failure to perform some promised act or obligation | - |
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(noun) a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions) | Synonyms: break, falling out, rift, rupture, severance |
(noun) an opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification) | - |
breech | (noun) opening in the rear of the barrel of a gun where bullets can be loaded | Synonyms: rear of barrel, rear of tube |
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breechblock | (noun) a metal block in breech-loading firearms that is withdrawn to insert a cartridge and replaced to close the breech before firing | Synonyms: breech closer |
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breechcloth | (noun) a garment that provides covering for the loins | Synonyms: breechclout, loincloth |
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breechclout | (noun) a garment that provides covering for the loins | Synonyms: breechcloth, loincloth |
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breeches | (noun) (used in the plural) trousers ending above the knee | Synonyms: knee breeches, knee pants, knickerbockers, knickers |
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breechloader | (noun) a gun that is loaded at the breech | - |
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brierpatch | (noun) tangled mass of prickly plants | Synonyms: brier, brier patch |
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brioche | (noun) a light roll rich with eggs and butter and somewhat sweet | - |
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britches | (noun) (used in the plural) informal term for breeches | - |
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broach | (noun) a decorative pin worn by women | Synonyms: breastpin, brooch |
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brochette | (noun) a small spit or skewer | - |
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brochure | (noun) a small book usually having a paper cover | Synonyms: booklet, folder, leaflet, pamphlet |
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bronchiole | (noun) any of the smallest bronchial ducts; ending in alveoli | - |
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bronchiolitis | (noun) inflammation of the membranes lining the bronchioles | - |
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bronchitis | (noun) inflammation of the membranes lining the bronchial tubes | - |
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broncho | (noun) an unbroken or imperfectly broken mustang | Synonyms: bronc, bronco |
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bronchodilator | (noun) a drug that relaxes and dilates the bronchial passageways and improves the passages of air into the lungs | - |
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bronchopneumonia | (noun) pneumonia characterized by acute inflammation of the walls of the bronchioles | Synonyms: bronchial pneumonia |
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bronchoscope | (noun) a slender tubular instrument used to examine the bronchial tubes | - |
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bronchospasm | (noun) a spasm of the bronchi that makes exhalation difficult and noisy; associated with asthma and bronchitis | - |
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bronchus | (noun) either of the two main branches of the trachea | Synonyms: bronchial tube |
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brooch | (noun) a decorative pin worn by women | Synonyms: breastpin, broach |
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brunch | (noun) combination of breakfast and lunch; usually served in late morning | - |
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bullfinch | (noun) common European finch mostly black and white with red throat and breast | Synonyms: Pyrrhula pyrrhula |
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bunch | (noun) a grouping of a number of similar things | Synonyms: clump, cluster, clustering |
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(noun) an informal body of friends | Synonyms: crew, crowd, gang |
(noun) any collection in its entirety | Synonyms: caboodle, lot |
bunchberry | (noun) creeping perennial herb distinguished by red berries and clustered leaf whorls at the tips of shoots; Greenland to Alaska | Synonyms: Cornus canadensis, crackerberry, dwarf cornel, pudding berry |
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bunchgrass | (noun) any of various grasses of many genera that grow in tufts or clumps rather than forming a sod or mat; chiefly of western United States | Synonyms: bunch grass |
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butch | (noun) a closely cropped haircut; usually for men or boys | Synonyms: crew cut, flattop |
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(noun) (slang) offensive term for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine | Synonyms: dike, dyke |
butcher | (noun) a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market | Synonyms: slaughterer |
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(noun) a brutal indiscriminate murderer | - |
(noun) a retailer of meat | Synonyms: meatman |
(noun) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | Synonyms: blunderer, botcher, bumbler, bungler, fuckup, fumbler, sad sack, stumbler |
butcherbird | (noun) shrikes that impale their prey on thorns | - |
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(noun) large carnivorous Australian bird with the shrike-like habit of impaling prey on thorns | - |
butchering | (noun) the business of a butcher | Synonyms: butchery |
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butchery | (noun) the business of a butcher | Synonyms: butchering |
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(noun) the savage and excessive killing of many people | Synonyms: carnage, mass murder, massacre, slaughter |
(noun) a building where animals are butchered | Synonyms: abattoir, shambles, slaughterhouse |
buttercrunch | (noun) lettuce with delicate and relatively crunchy leaves | - |
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butterscotch | (noun) a hard brittle candy made with butter and brown sugar | - |
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bycatch | (noun) unwanted marine creatures that are caught in the nets while fishing for another species | Synonyms: by-catch |
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cabochon | (noun) a highly polished gem that is cut convexly but without facets | - |
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cachalot | (noun) large whale with a large cavity in the head containing spermaceti and oil; also a source of ambergris | Synonyms: black whale, Physeter catodon, sperm whale |
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cache | (noun) a hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons) | - |
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(noun) (computer science) RAM memory that is set aside as a specialized buffer storage that is continually updated; used to optimize data transfers between system elements with different characteristics | Synonyms: memory cache |
(noun) a secret store of valuables or money | Synonyms: hoard, stash |
cachet | (noun) a seal on a letter | - |
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(noun) an indication of approved or superior status | Synonyms: seal, seal of approval |
(noun) a warrant formerly issued by a French king who could warrant imprisonment or death in a signed letter under his seal | Synonyms: lettre de cachet |
cachexia | (noun) any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease | Synonyms: cachexy, wasting |
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cachexy | (noun) any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease | Synonyms: cachexia, wasting |
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cachinnation | (noun) loud convulsive laughter | - |
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cachou | (noun) a scented lozenge used to sweeten the breath (e.g. to conceal the odor of tobacco) | - |
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caleche | (noun) the folding hood of a horse-drawn carriage | Synonyms: calash, calash top |
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(noun) a woman's large folded hooped hood; worn in the 18th century | Synonyms: calash |
caliche | (noun) nitrate-bearing rock or gravel of the sodium nitrate deposits of Chile and Peru | - |
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(noun) crust or layer of hard subsoil encrusted with calcium-carbonate occurring in arid or semiarid regions | Synonyms: hardpan |
camachile | (noun) common thorny tropical American tree having terminal racemes of yellow flowers followed by sickle-shaped or circinate edible pods and yielding good timber and a yellow dye and mucilaginous gum | Synonyms: huamachil, manila tamarind, Pithecellobium dulce, wild tamarind |
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campeachy | (noun) spiny shrub or small tree of Central America and West Indies having bipinnate leaves and racemes of small bright yellow flowers and yielding a hard brown or brownish-red heartwood used in preparing a black dye | Synonyms: bloodwood tree, Haematoxylum campechianum, logwood, logwood tree |
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caoutchouc | (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: gum elastic, India rubber, natural rubber, rubber |
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capuchin | (noun) monkey of Central America and South America having thick hair on the head that resembles a monk's cowl | Synonyms: Cebus capucinus, ringtail |
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(noun) a hooded cloak for women | - |
carancha | (noun) South American caracara | Synonyms: Polyborus plancus |
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caroche | (noun) a luxurious carriage suitable for nobility in the 16th and 17th century | - |
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cartouch | (noun) a cartridge (usually with paper casing) | Synonyms: cartouche |
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cartouche | (noun) a cartridge (usually with paper casing) | Synonyms: cartouch |
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catachresis | (noun) strained or paradoxical use of words either in error (as `blatant' to mean `flagrant') or deliberately (as in a mixed metaphor: `blind mouths') | - |
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catananche | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Catananche having long-stalked heads of blue or yellow flowers | - |
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catch | (noun) the act of catching an object with the hands | Synonyms: grab, snap, snatch |
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(noun) the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal) | Synonyms: apprehension, arrest, collar, pinch, taking into custody |
(noun) a cooperative game in which a ball is passed back and forth | - |
(noun) a fastener that fastens or locks a door or window | - |
(noun) a restraint that checks the motion of something | Synonyms: stop |
(noun) a drawback or difficulty that is not readily evident | Synonyms: gimmick |
(noun) a break or check in the voice (usually a sign of strong emotion) | - |
(noun) anything that is caught (especially if it is worth catching) | - |
(noun) a person regarded as a good matrimonial prospect | Synonyms: match |
(noun) the quantity that was caught | Synonyms: haul |
catchall | (noun) an enclosure or receptacle for odds and ends | - |
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catcher | (noun) the position on a baseball team of the player who is stationed behind home plate and who catches the balls that the pitcher throws | - |
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(noun) (baseball) the person who plays the position of catcher | Synonyms: backstop |
catchfly | (noun) mostly perennial herbs with sticky stems that catch insects; widespread in north temperate zone | Synonyms: lychnis |
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(noun) any plant of the genus Silene | Synonyms: campion, silene |
catching | (noun) (baseball) playing the position of catcher on a baseball team | - |
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(noun) the act of detecting something; catching sight of something | Synonyms: detection, espial, spotting, spying |
(noun) becoming infected | Synonyms: contracting |
catchment | (noun) a structure in which water is collected (especially a natural drainage area) | - |
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catchphrase | (noun) a phrase that has become a catchword | Synonyms: catch phrase |
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catchweed | (noun) annual having the stem beset with curved prickles; North America and Europe and Asia | Synonyms: cleavers, clivers, Galium aparine, goose grass, spring cleavers |
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catchword | (noun) a favorite saying of a group, organization or individual | Synonyms: motto, shibboleth, slogan |
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(noun) a word printed at the top of the page of a dictionary or other reference book to indicate the first or last item on that page | Synonyms: guide word, guideword |
catechesis | (noun) oral religious instruction (as before baptism or confirmation) | - |
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catechin | (noun) a tannic acid that is extracted from black catechu as a white crystalline substance | - |
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catechism | (noun) an elementary book summarizing the principles of a Christian religion; written as questions and answers | - |
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(noun) a series of questions put to an individual (such as a political candidate) to elicit their views | - |
catechist | (noun) one who instructs catechumens in preparation for baptism (especially one using a catechism) | - |
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catecholamine | (noun) any of a group of chemicals including epinephrine and norepinephrine that are produced in the medulla of the adrenal gland | - |
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catechu | (noun) East Indian spiny tree having twice-pinnate leaves and yellow flowers followed by flat pods; source of black catechu | Synonyms: Acacia catechu, Jerusalem thorn |
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(noun) extract of the heartwood of Acacia catechu used for dyeing and tanning and preserving fishnets and sails; formerly used medicinally | Synonyms: black catechu |
catechumen | (noun) a new convert being taught the principles of Christianity by a catechist | Synonyms: neophyte |
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centrarchid | (noun) small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies, black bass, bluegills, pumpkinseed | Synonyms: sunfish |
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cephalochordate | (noun) fish-like animals having a notochord rather than a true spinal column | - |
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cetchup | (noun) thick spicy sauce made from tomatoes | Synonyms: catsup, ketchup, tomato ketchup |
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chabasite | (noun) a group of minerals of the zeolite family consisting of a hydrous silicate of calcium and aluminum | Synonyms: chabazite |
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chabazite | (noun) a group of minerals of the zeolite family consisting of a hydrous silicate of calcium and aluminum | Synonyms: chabasite |
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chachalaca | (noun) slender arboreal guan resembling a wild turkey; native to Central America and Mexico; highly regarded as game birds | - |
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chachka | (noun) (Yiddish) an inexpensive showy trinket | Synonyms: tchotchke, tsatske, tshatshke |
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(noun) (Yiddish) an attractive, unconventional woman | Synonyms: tchotchke, tchotchkeleh, tsatske, tshatshke |
chacma | (noun) greyish baboon of southern and eastern Africa | Synonyms: chacma baboon, Papio ursinus |
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chad | (noun) a small piece of paper that is supposed to be removed when a hole is punched in a card or paper tape | - |
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chadar | (noun) a cloth used as a head covering (and veil and shawl) by Muslim and Hindu women | Synonyms: chaddar, chador, chuddar |
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chaddar | (noun) a cloth used as a head covering (and veil and shawl) by Muslim and Hindu women | Synonyms: chadar, chador, chuddar |
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chadlock | (noun) weedy Eurasian plant often a pest in grain fields | Synonyms: Brassica kaber, charlock, field mustard, Sinapis arvensis, wild mustard |
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chador | (noun) a cloth used as a head covering (and veil and shawl) by Muslim and Hindu women | Synonyms: chadar, chaddar, chuddar |
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chaenactis | (noun) any of several United States plants having long stalks of funnel-shaped white or yellow flowers | - |
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chaeta | (noun) a stiff chitinous seta or bristle especially of an annelid worm | - |
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chaetodon | (noun) any fish of the genus Chaetodon | - |
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chaetognath | (noun) any worm of the Chaetognatha; transparent marine worm with horizontal lateral and caudal fins and a row of movable curved spines at each side of the mouth | Synonyms: arrowworm |
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chafe | (noun) anger produced by some annoying irritation | Synonyms: annoyance, vexation |
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(noun) soreness and warmth caused by friction | - |