activewear | (noun) attire worn for sport or for casual wear | Synonyms: athletic wear, sportswear |
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appearance | (noun) the act of appearing in public view | - |
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(noun) formal attendance (in court or at a hearing) of a party in an action | Synonyms: appearing, coming into court |
(noun) pretending that something is the case in order to make a good impression | Synonyms: show |
(noun) outward or visible aspect of a person or thing | Synonyms: visual aspect |
(noun) a mental representation | - |
(noun) the event of coming into sight | - |
appearing | (noun) formal attendance (in court or at a hearing) of a party in an action | Synonyms: appearance, coming into court |
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arrears | (noun) an unpaid overdue debt | - |
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(noun) the state of being behind in payments | - |
beachwear | (noun) clothing to be worn at a beach | - |
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bear | (noun) massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws | - |
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(noun) an investor with a pessimistic market outlook; an investor who expects prices to fall and so sells now in order to buy later at a lower price | - |
bearberry | (noun) chiefly evergreen subshrubs of northern to Arctic areas | - |
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(noun) deciduous shrub of southeastern and central United States | Synonyms: Ilex decidua, possum haw, winterberry |
(noun) shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada | Synonyms: bearwood, cascara buckthorn, chittamwood, chittimwood, Rhamnus purshianus |
bearcat | (noun) arboreal civet of Asia having a long prehensile tail and shaggy black hair | Synonyms: Arctictis bintourong, binturong |
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beard | (noun) tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface | Synonyms: byssus |
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(noun) hairy growth on or near the face of certain mammals | - |
(noun) the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face | Synonyms: face fungus, whiskers |
(noun) a person who diverts suspicion from someone (especially a woman who accompanies a male homosexual in order to conceal his homosexuality) | - |
(noun) a tuft or growth of hairs or bristles on certain plants such as iris or grasses | - |
beardedness | (noun) The quality of having a beard. | - |
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bearer | (noun) a messenger who bears or presents | - |
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(noun) one of the mourners carrying the coffin at a funeral | Synonyms: pallbearer |
(noun) the person who is in possession of a check or note or bond or document of title that is endorsed to him or to whoever holds it | Synonyms: holder |
(noun) someone whose employment involves carrying something | Synonyms: carrier, toter |
bearing | (noun) a rotating support placed between moving parts to allow them to move easily | - |
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(noun) heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield | Synonyms: armorial bearing, charge, heraldic bearing |
(noun) dignified manner or conduct | Synonyms: comportment, mien, presence |
(noun) characteristic way of bearing one's body | Synonyms: carriage, posture |
(noun) the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies | Synonyms: aim, heading |
(noun) relevant relation or interconnection | - |
bearnaise | (noun) a sauce like hollandaise but made with white wine and tarragon and shallots instead of lemon juice | - |
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bearskin | (noun) tall hat; worn by some British soldiers on ceremonial occasions | Synonyms: busby, shako |
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(noun) the pelt of a bear | - |
bearwood | (noun) shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada | Synonyms: bearberry, cascara buckthorn, chittamwood, chittimwood, Rhamnus purshianus |
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bigheartedness | (noun) the quality of being kind and generous | - |
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blackheart | (noun) heart cherry with dark flesh and skin | Synonyms: blackheart cherry |
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(noun) any of various diseases in which the central tissues blacken | - |
brokenheartedness | (noun) intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death) | Synonyms: grief, heartache, heartbreak |
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bugbear | (noun) an object of dread or apprehension | Synonyms: hobgoblin |
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(noun) an imaginary monster used to frighten children | Synonyms: bogeyman, booger, boogeyman, bugaboo |
childbearing | (noun) the parturition process in human beings; having a baby; the process of giving birth to a child | Synonyms: accouchement, childbirth, vaginal birth |
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clear | (noun) a clear or unobstructed space or expanse of land or water | Synonyms: open |
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(noun) the state of being free of suspicion | - |
clearance | (noun) permission to proceed | - |
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(noun) the distance by which one thing clears another; the space between them | - |
(noun) vertical space available to allow easy passage under something | Synonyms: headroom, headway |
clearcutness | (noun) clarity as a consequence of precision | Synonyms: preciseness |
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clearing | (noun) the act of freeing from suspicion | - |
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(noun) the act of removing solid particles from a liquid | Synonyms: clarification |
(noun) a tract of land with few or no trees in the middle of a wooded area | Synonyms: glade |
clearness | (noun) free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression | Synonyms: clarity, limpidity, lucidity, lucidness, pellucidity |
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(noun) the quality of clear water | Synonyms: clarity, uncloudedness |
clearstory | (noun) part of an interior wall rising above the adjacent roof with windows admitting light | Synonyms: clerestory |
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clearway | (noun) a road on which you are not allowed to stop (unless you have a breakdown) | - |
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clearweed | (noun) a plants of the genus Pilea having drooping green flower clusters and smooth translucent stems and leaves | Synonyms: dead nettle, Pilea pumilla, richweed |
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coldheartedness | (noun) an absence of concern for the welfare of others | Synonyms: hardheartedness, heartlessness |
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crownbeard | (noun) any plant of the genus Verbesina having clustered white or yellow flower heads | Synonyms: crown-beard, crown beard |
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cudbear | (noun) a purplish dye obtained from orchil lichens | Synonyms: archil, orchil |
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cupbearer | (noun) the attendant (usually an officer of a nobleman's household) whose duty is to fill and serve cups of wine | - |
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cytosmear | (noun) a thin tissue or blood sample spread on a glass slide and stained for cytologic examination and diagnosis under a microscope | Synonyms: cytologic smear, smear |
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dear | (noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, beloved, darling, dearest, dearie, deary, honey, love, sweetheart, sweetie |
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(noun) a sweet innocent mild-mannered person (especially a child) | Synonyms: lamb |
dearest | (noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, beloved, darling, dear, dearie, deary, honey, love, sweetheart, sweetie |
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dearie | (noun) a special loved one | Synonyms: darling, deary, ducky, favorite, favourite, pet |
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(noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, beloved, darling, dear, dearest, deary, honey, love, sweetheart, sweetie |
dearness | (noun) the quality possessed by something with a great price or value | Synonyms: costliness, preciousness |
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dearth | (noun) an insufficient quantity or number | Synonyms: paucity |
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(noun) an acute insufficiency | Synonyms: famine, shortage |
deary | (noun) a special loved one | Synonyms: darling, dearie, ducky, favorite, favourite, pet |
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(noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, beloved, darling, dear, dearest, dearie, honey, love, sweetheart, sweetie |
disappearance | (noun) the act of leaving secretly or without explanation | Synonyms: disappearing |
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(noun) gradually ceasing to be visible | Synonyms: fade |
(noun) the event of passing out of sight | - |
(noun) ceasing to exist | - |
disappearing | (noun) the act of leaving secretly or without explanation | Synonyms: disappearance |
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disheartenment | (noun) a communication that leaves you disheartened or daunted | - |
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(noun) the feeling of despair in the face of obstacles | Synonyms: discouragement, dismay |
downheartedness | (noun) a feeling of low spirits | Synonyms: dejectedness, dispiritedness, low-spiritedness, lowness |
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dreariness | (noun) extreme dullness; lacking spirit or interest | Synonyms: boringness, insipidity, insipidness |
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ear | (noun) the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium | - |
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(noun) the externally visible cartilaginous structure of the external ear | Synonyms: auricle, pinna |
(noun) good hearing | - |
(noun) attention to what is said | - |
(noun) fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn | Synonyms: capitulum, spike |
earache | (noun) an ache localized in the middle or inner ear | Synonyms: otalgia |
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earcuff | (noun) a non-pierced earring of varying size (i.e. small wrap or hook big enough to hang over the whole ear and dangle) worn on the rim of the ear. | Synonyms: ear cuff, ear hook earring, ear wrap |
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eardrop | (noun) an earring with a pendant ornament | Synonyms: drop earring, pendant earring |
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eardrum | (noun) the membrane in the ear that vibrates to sound | Synonyms: myringa, tympanic membrane, tympanum |
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earflap | (noun) one of two flaps attached to a cap to keep the ears warm | Synonyms: earlap |
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earful | (noun) a severe scolding | Synonyms: bawling out, castigation, chewing out, dressing down, going-over, upbraiding |
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(noun) an outpouring of gossip | - |
earl | (noun) a British peer ranking below a marquess and above a viscount | - |
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earlap | (noun) one of two flaps attached to a cap to keep the ears warm | Synonyms: earflap |
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earldom | (noun) the domain controlled by an earl or count or countess | - |
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(noun) the dignity or rank or position of an earl or countess | - |
earliness | (noun) quality of coming early or earlier in time | - |
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earlobe | (noun) the fleshy pendulous part of the external human ear | Synonyms: ear lobe |
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earmark | (noun) a distinctive characteristic or attribute of someone or something | Synonyms: hallmark, stylemark, trademark |
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(noun) identification mark on the ear of a domestic animal | - |
earmuff | (noun) either of a pair of ear coverings (usually connected by a headband) that are worn to keep the ears warm in cold weather | - |
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earner | (noun) someone who earn wages in return for their labor | Synonyms: wage earner |
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earnest | (noun) something of value given by one person to another to bind a contract | - |
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earnestness | (noun) the trait of being serious | Synonyms: serious-mindedness, seriousness, sincerity |
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(noun) an earnest and sincere feeling | Synonyms: seriousness, sincerity |
earnings | (noun) something that remunerates | Synonyms: pay, remuneration, salary, wage |
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(noun) the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses) | Synonyms: lucre, net, net income, net profit, profit, profits |
earphone | (noun) electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear | Synonyms: earpiece, headphone, phone |
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earpiece | (noun) electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear | Synonyms: earphone, headphone, phone |
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earplug | (noun) a plug of cotton, wax, or rubber that is fitted into the ear canal for protection against the entry of water or loud noise | - |
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(noun) an earphone that is inserted into the ear canal | - |
earreach | (noun) the range within which a voice can be heard | Synonyms: earshot, hearing |
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earring | (noun) jewelry to ornament the ear; usually clipped to the earlobe or fastened through a hole in the lobe | - |
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earshot | (noun) the range within which a voice can be heard | Synonyms: earreach, hearing |
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earth | (noun) a connection between an electrical device and a large conducting body, such as the earth (which is taken to be at zero voltage) | Synonyms: ground |
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(noun) the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife | Synonyms: earthly concern, world, worldly concern |
(noun) the abode of mortals (as contrasted with Heaven or Hell) | Synonyms: Earth |
(noun) the solid part of the earth's surface | Synonyms: dry land, ground, land, solid ground, terra firma |
(noun) the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on | Synonyms: Earth, globe, world |
(noun) the loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface | Synonyms: ground |
(noun) once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles), associated with the humour black bile | - |
earthball | (noun) any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles | Synonyms: false truffle, hard-skinned puffball, puffball |
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earthenware | (noun) ceramic ware made of porous clay fired at low heat | - |
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earthing | (noun) fastening electrical equipment to earth | Synonyms: grounding |
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earthling | (noun) an inhabitant of the earth | Synonyms: earthman, tellurian, worldling |
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earthman | (noun) an inhabitant of the earth | Synonyms: earthling, tellurian, worldling |
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earthnut | (noun) edible subterranean fungus of the genus Tuber | Synonyms: truffle |
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(noun) pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms | Synonyms: goober, goober pea, groundnut, monkey nut, peanut |
(noun) a common European plant having edible tubers with the flavor of roasted chestnuts | Synonyms: Conopodium denudatum |
(noun) any of various highly prized edible subterranean fungi of the genus Tuber; grow naturally in southwestern Europe | Synonyms: earth-ball, truffle |
earthquake | (noun) shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane or from volcanic activity | Synonyms: quake, seism, temblor |
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(noun) a disturbance that is extremely disruptive | - |
earthstar | (noun) any fungus of the family Geastraceae; in form suggesting a puffball whose outer peridium splits into the shape of a star | - |
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earthtongue | (noun) any club-shaped fungus of the genus Geoglossum | Synonyms: earth-tongue |
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earthwork | (noun) an earthen rampart | - |
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earthworm | (noun) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: angleworm, crawler, dew worm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightcrawler, nightwalker, red worm, wiggler |
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earwax | (noun) a soft yellow wax secreted by glands in the ear canal | Synonyms: cerumen |
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earwig | (noun) any of numerous insects of the order Dermaptera having elongate bodies and slender many-jointed antennae and a pair of large pincers at the rear of the abdomen | - |
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endearment | (noun) the act of showing affection | - |
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eveningwear | (noun) attire to wear on formal occasions in the evening | Synonyms: evening clothes, evening dress, formalwear |
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faintheartedness | (noun) the trait of lacking boldness and courage | Synonyms: faintness |
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fear | (noun) an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight) | Synonyms: fearfulness, fright |
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(noun) an anxious feeling | Synonyms: care, concern |
(noun) a feeling of profound respect for someone or something | Synonyms: awe, reverence, veneration |
fearfulness | (noun) the trait of being afraid | - |
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(noun) an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight) | Synonyms: fear, fright |
fearlessness | (noun) the trait of feeling no fear | - |
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(noun) feeling no fear | Synonyms: bravery |
firearm | (noun) a portable gun | Synonyms: piece, small-arm |
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footgear | (noun) covering for a person's feet | Synonyms: footwear |
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footwear | (noun) covering for a person's feet | Synonyms: footgear |
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(noun) clothing worn on a person's feet | - |
forbear | (noun) a person from whom you are descended | Synonyms: forebear |
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forbearance | (noun) a delay in enforcing rights or claims or privileges; refraining from acting | - |
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(noun) good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence | Synonyms: longanimity, patience |
forearm | (noun) the part of the superior limb between the elbow and the wrist | - |
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forebear | (noun) a person from whom you are descended | Synonyms: forbear |
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formalwear | (noun) attire to wear on formal occasions in the evening | Synonyms: evening clothes, evening dress, eveningwear |
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forswearing | (noun) the act of renouncing; sacrificing or giving up or surrendering (a possession or right or title or privilege etc.) | Synonyms: forgoing, renunciation |
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gear | (noun) a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion | Synonyms: cogwheel, gear wheel, geared wheel |
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(noun) equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc. | Synonyms: appurtenance, paraphernalia |
(noun) wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed | Synonyms: gearing, geartrain, power train, train |
(noun) a mechanism for transmitting motion for some specific purpose (as the steering gear of a vehicle) | Synonyms: gear mechanism |
gearbox | (noun) the shell (metal casing) in which a train of gears is sealed | Synonyms: gear box, gear case |
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gearing | (noun) wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed | Synonyms: gear, geartrain, power train, train |
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