amphitheater | (noun) an oval large stadium with tiers of seats; an arena in which contests and spectacles are held | Synonyms: amphitheatre, coliseum |
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(noun) a sloping gallery with seats for spectators (as in an operating room or theater) | Synonyms: amphitheatre |
amphitheatre | (noun) an oval large stadium with tiers of seats; an arena in which contests and spectacles are held | Synonyms: amphitheater, coliseum |
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(noun) a sloping gallery with seats for spectators (as in an operating room or theater) | Synonyms: amphitheater |
anteater | (noun) any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites | Synonyms: New World anteater |
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(noun) nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata | Synonyms: aardvark, ant bear, Orycteropus afer |
(noun) a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to Australia | Synonyms: echidna, spiny anteater |
(noun) a burrowing monotreme mammal covered with spines and having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites; native to New Guinea | Synonyms: echidna, spiny anteater |
(noun) toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body covered with horny scales and a long snout for feeding on ants and termites | Synonyms: pangolin, scaly anteater |
(noun) small Australian marsupial having long snout and strong claws for feeding on termites; nearly extinct | Synonyms: banded anteater, Myrmecobius fasciatus, numbat |
baccalaureate | (noun) an academic degree conferred on someone who has successfully completed undergraduate studies | Synonyms: bachelor's degree |
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(noun) a farewell sermon to a graduating class at their commencement ceremonies | - |
backbeat | (noun) a loud steady beat | - |
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backseat | (noun) a seat at the back of a vehicle (especially the seat at the back of an automobile) | - |
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(noun) a secondary or inferior position or status | - |
beat | (noun) the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing | - |
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(noun) a stroke or blow | - |
(noun) a regular rate of repetition | - |
(noun) the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music | Synonyms: musical rhythm, rhythm |
(noun) (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse | Synonyms: cadence, measure, meter, metre |
(noun) the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart | Synonyms: heartbeat, pulsation, pulse |
(noun) the sound of stroke or blow | - |
(noun) a regular route for a sentry or policeman | Synonyms: round |
(noun) a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior | Synonyms: beatnik |
(noun) a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations | - |
beater | (noun) an implement for beating | - |
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(noun) a worker who rouses wild game from under cover for a hunter | - |
beatification | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) an act of the Pope who declares that a deceased person lived a holy life and is worthy of public veneration; a first step toward canonization | - |
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(noun) the action of rendering supremely blessed and extremely happy | - |
(noun) a state of supreme happiness | Synonyms: beatitude, blessedness |
beating | (noun) the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows | Synonyms: drubbing, lacing, licking, thrashing, trouncing, whacking |
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(noun) the act of overcoming or outdoing | Synonyms: whipping |
beatitude | (noun) a state of supreme happiness | Synonyms: beatification, blessedness |
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beatnik | (noun) a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior | Synonyms: beat |
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beatniks | (noun) a United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop) | Synonyms: beat generation, beats |
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beats | (noun) a United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop) | Synonyms: beat generation, beatniks |
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beefeater | (noun) officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch | Synonyms: yeoman, yeoman of the guard |
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bleat | (noun) the sound of sheep or goats (or any sound resembling this) | - |
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breath | (noun) the process of taking in and expelling air during breathing | - |
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(noun) an indirect suggestion | Synonyms: hint, intimation |
(noun) a slight movement of the air | - |
(noun) the air that is inhaled and exhaled in respiration | - |
(noun) a short respite | Synonyms: breather, breathing place, breathing space, breathing spell, breathing time |
breathalyser | (noun) a device that measures chemicals (especially the alcohol content) in a person's expired breath | Synonyms: breathalyzer |
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breathalyzer | (noun) a device that measures chemicals (especially the alcohol content) in a person's expired breath | Synonyms: breathalyser |
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breather | (noun) air passage provided by a retractable device containing intake and exhaust pipes; permits a submarine to stay submerged for extended periods of time | Synonyms: schnorchel, schnorkel, snorkel, snorkel breather |
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(noun) a short respite | Synonyms: breath, breathing place, breathing space, breathing spell, breathing time |
breathing | (noun) the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation | Synonyms: external respiration, respiration, ventilation |
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breathlessness | (noun) a dyspneic condition | Synonyms: shortness of breath, SOB |
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buckwheat | (noun) grain ground into flour | - |
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(noun) a member of the genus Fagopyrum; annual Asian plant with clusters of small pinkish white flowers and small edible triangular seeds which are used whole or ground into flour | Synonyms: Fagopyrum esculentum, Polygonum fagopyrum |
caveat | (noun) a warning against certain acts | Synonyms: caution |
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(noun) (law) a formal notice filed with a court or officer to suspend a proceeding until filer is given a hearing | - |
cheat | (noun) a deception for profit to yourself | Synonyms: cheating |
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(noun) the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme | Synonyms: fraud, rig, swindle |
(noun) someone who leads you to believe something that is not true | Synonyms: beguiler, cheater, deceiver, slicker, trickster |
(noun) weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous | Synonyms: bearded darnel, darnel, Lolium temulentum, tare |
(noun) weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat | Synonyms: Bromus secalinus, chess |
cheater | (noun) someone who leads you to believe something that is not true | Synonyms: beguiler, cheat, deceiver, slicker, trickster |
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cheatgrass | (noun) annual or winter annual grass with softly hairy leaves of the Mediterranean | Synonyms: Bromus tectorum, downy brome, downy bromegrass, downy cheat, downy chess, drooping brome |
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cheating | (noun) a deception for profit to yourself | Synonyms: cheat |
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cleat | (noun) a strip of wood or metal used to strengthen the surface to which it is attached | - |
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(noun) a fastener (usually with two projecting horns) around which a rope can be secured | - |
(noun) a metal or leather projection (as from the sole of a shoe); prevents slipping | - |
cleats | (noun) shoes with leather or metal projections on the soles | - |
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countryseat | (noun) an estate in the country | - |
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crabmeat | (noun) the edible flesh of any of various crabs | Synonyms: crab |
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creatin | (noun) an amino acid that does not occur in proteins but is found in the muscle tissue of vertebrates both in the free form and as phosphocreatine; supplies energy for muscle contraction | Synonyms: creatine |
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creatine | (noun) an amino acid that does not occur in proteins but is found in the muscle tissue of vertebrates both in the free form and as phosphocreatine; supplies energy for muscle contraction | Synonyms: creatin |
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creation | (noun) the human act of creating | Synonyms: creative activity |
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(noun) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | Synonyms: foundation, founding, initiation, innovation, instauration, institution, introduction, origination |
(noun) an artifact that has been brought into existence by someone | - |
(noun) the event that occurred at the beginning of something | Synonyms: conception |
(noun) everything that exists anywhere | Synonyms: cosmos, existence, macrocosm, universe, world |
creationism | (noun) the literal belief in the account of Creation given in the Book of Genesis | - |
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creativeness | (noun) the ability to create | Synonyms: creative thinking, creativity |
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creativity | (noun) the ability to create | Synonyms: creative thinking, creativeness |
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creator | (noun) a person who grows or makes or invents things | - |
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creature | (noun) a living organism characterized by voluntary movement | Synonyms: animal, animate being, beast, brute, fauna |
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(noun) a living being | Synonyms: wight |
(noun) a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else | Synonyms: puppet, tool |
deadbeat | (noun) someone who fails to meet a financial obligation | Synonyms: defaulter |
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death | (noun) the act of killing | - |
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(noun) the event of dying or departure from life | Synonyms: decease, expiry |
(noun) the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism | - |
(noun) the absence of life or state of being dead | - |
(noun) a final state | Synonyms: destruction, end |
(noun) the time when something ends | Synonyms: demise, dying |
(noun) the time at which life ends; continuing until dead | Synonyms: last |
deathbed | (noun) the bed on which a person dies | - |
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(noun) the last few hours before death | - |
deathblow | (noun) the blow that kills (usually mercifully) | Synonyms: coup de grace |
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deathrate | (noun) the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year | Synonyms: death rate, fatality rate, mortality, mortality rate |
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deathtrap | (noun) any structure that is very unsafe; where people are likely to be killed | - |
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deathwatch | (noun) bores through wood making a ticking sound popularly thought to presage death | Synonyms: deathwatch beetle, Xestobium rufovillosum |
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(noun) minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and papers | Synonyms: book louse, booklouse, Liposcelis divinatorius |
defeat | (noun) an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest | Synonyms: licking |
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(noun) the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals | Synonyms: frustration |
defeated | (noun) people who are defeated | Synonyms: discomfited |
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defeatism | (noun) acceptance of the inevitability of defeat | - |
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defeatist | (noun) someone who is resigned to defeat without offering positive suggestions | Synonyms: negativist |
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delineation | (noun) representation by drawing or painting etc | Synonyms: depiction, portrayal |
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(noun) a drawing of the outlines of forms or objects | Synonyms: depiction, limning, line drawing |
(noun) a graphic or vivid verbal description | Synonyms: characterisation, characterization, depiction, picture, word-painting, word picture |
downbeat | (noun) the first beat of a musical measure (as the conductor's arm moves downward) | - |
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drumbeat | (noun) a vehement and vociferous advocacy of a cause | - |
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(noun) (military) the beating of a drum as a signal for lowering the flag at sundown | - |
(noun) the sound made by beating a drum | Synonyms: rataplan, rub-a-dub |
drumbeater | (noun) a fervent and even militant proponent of something | Synonyms: partisan, zealot |
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eatable | (noun) any substance that can be used as food | Synonyms: comestible, edible, pabulum, victual, victuals |
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eatage | (noun) bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle | Synonyms: forage, grass, pasturage, pasture |
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eater | (noun) any green goods that are good to eat | - |
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(noun) someone who consumes food for nourishment | Synonyms: feeder |
eatery | (noun) a building where people go to eat | Synonyms: eating house, eating place, restaurant |
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eating | (noun) the act of consuming food | Synonyms: feeding |
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eats | (noun) informal terms for a meal | Synonyms: chow, chuck, grub |
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eggbeater | (noun) a mixer for beating eggs or whipping cream | Synonyms: eggwhisk |
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(noun) an aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the rotation of overhead blades | Synonyms: chopper, helicopter, whirlybird |
entreaty | (noun) earnest or urgent request | Synonyms: appeal, prayer |
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enucleation | (noun) surgical removal of something without cutting into it | - |
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escheat | (noun) a reversion to the state (as the ultimate owner of property) in the absence of legal heirs | - |
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(noun) the property that reverts to the state | - |
feat | (noun) a notable achievement | Synonyms: effort, exploit |
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feather | (noun) turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls | Synonyms: feathering |
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(noun) branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds | - |
featherbed | (noun) a mattress stuffed with feathers | Synonyms: feather bed |
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featherbedding | (noun) the practice (usually by a labor union) of requiring an employer to hire more workers than are required | - |
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featheredge | (noun) a thin tapering edge | - |
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featherfoil | (noun) a plant of the genus Hottonia | Synonyms: feather-foil |
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featheriness | (noun) a light softness | Synonyms: downiness, fluffiness |
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feathering | (noun) turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls | Synonyms: feather |
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feathertop | (noun) northeastern tropical African plant having feathery panicles | Synonyms: feathertop grass, Pennistum villosum |
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(noun) a variety of reed grass | Synonyms: Calamagrostis acutiflora, feather reed grass |
featherweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the bantamweight division and lighter than those in the lightweight division. | - |
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(noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 123 and 126 pounds | - |
(noun) weighs 126-139 pounds | - |
(noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 126 pounds | - |
feature | (noun) an article of merchandise that is displayed or advertised more than other articles | - |
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(noun) the characteristic parts of a person's face: eyes and nose and mouth and chin | Synonyms: lineament |
(noun) a prominent attribute or aspect of something | Synonyms: characteristic |
(noun) (linguistics) a distinctive characteristic of a linguistic unit that serves to distinguish it from other units of the same kind | Synonyms: feature of speech |
(noun) the principal (full-length) film in a program at a movie theater | Synonyms: feature film |
(noun) a special or prominent article in a newspaper or magazine | Synonyms: feature article |
featurelessness | (noun) The state or condition of being without distinguishing features. | - |
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figeater | (noun) large greenish June beetle of southern United States | Synonyms: green June beetle |
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forcemeat | (noun) mixture of ground raw chicken and mushrooms with pistachios and truffles and onions and parsley and lots of butter and bound with eggs | Synonyms: farce |
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gayfeather | (noun) any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads | Synonyms: blazing star, button snakeroot, gay-feather, snakeroot |
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goldbeater | (noun) an artisan who beats gold into gold leaf | Synonyms: gold-beater |
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great | (noun) a person who has achieved distinction and honor in some field | - |
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greatcoat | (noun) a heavy coat worn over clothes in winter | Synonyms: overcoat, topcoat |
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greatness | (noun) the property possessed by something or someone of outstanding importance or eminence | Synonyms: illustriousness |
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(noun) unusual largeness in size or extent or number | Synonyms: enormousness, grandness, immenseness, immensity, sizeableness, vastness, wideness |
heartbeat | (noun) an animating or vital unifying force | - |
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(noun) the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart | Synonyms: beat, pulsation, pulse |
(noun) a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat) | Synonyms: blink of an eye, flash, instant, jiffy, New York minute, split second, trice, twinkling, wink |
heat | (noun) utility to warm a building | Synonyms: heating, heating plant, heating system |
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(noun) the presence of heat | Synonyms: high temperature, hotness |
(noun) the trait of being intensely emotional | Synonyms: passion, warmth |
(noun) the sensation caused by heat energy | Synonyms: warmth |
(noun) a preliminary race in which the winner advances to a more important race | - |
(noun) a form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature | Synonyms: heat energy |
(noun) applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity | Synonyms: estrus, oestrus, rut |
heater | (noun) (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity | Synonyms: bullet, fastball, hummer, smoke |
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(noun) device that heats water or supplies warmth to a room | Synonyms: warmer |
heath | (noun) a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation | Synonyms: heathland |
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(noun) a low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae; has small bell-shaped pink or purple flowers | - |
heathen | (noun) a person who does not acknowledge your god | Synonyms: gentile, infidel, pagan |
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heathenism | (noun) any of various religions other than Christianity or Judaism or Islamism | Synonyms: pagan religion, paganism |
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heather | (noun) interwoven yarns of mixed colors producing muted greyish shades with flecks of color | Synonyms: heather mixture |
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(noun) common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the Northern Hemisphere | Synonyms: broom, Calluna vulgaris, ling, Scots heather |
heathfowl | (noun) large northern European grouse that is black with a lyre-shaped tail | Synonyms: European black grouse, Lyrurus tetrix |
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heathland | (noun) a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation | Synonyms: heath |
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heating | (noun) utility to warm a building | Synonyms: heat, heating plant, heating system |
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(noun) the process of becoming warmer; a rising temperature | Synonyms: warming |
heatstroke | (noun) collapse caused by exposure to excessive heat | Synonyms: heat hyperpyrexia |
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horsemeat | (noun) the flesh of horses as food | Synonyms: horseflesh |
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ideation | (noun) the process of forming and relating ideas | - |
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laureate | (noun) someone honored for great achievements; figuratively someone crowned with a laurel wreath | - |
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leather | (noun) an animal skin made smooth and flexible by removing the hair and then tanning | - |
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leatherback | (noun) wide-ranging marine turtle with flexible leathery carapace; largest living turtle | Synonyms: Dermochelys coriacea, leatherback turtle, leathery turtle |
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