barkeep | (noun) an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar | Synonyms: barkeeper, bartender, mixologist |
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barkeeper | (noun) an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar | Synonyms: barkeep, bartender, mixologist |
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beekeeper | (noun) a farmer who keeps bees for their honey | Synonyms: apiarist, apiculturist |
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beekeeping | (noun) the cultivation of bees on a commercial scale for the production of honey | Synonyms: apiculture |
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beep | (noun) a short high tone produced as a signal or warning | Synonyms: bleep |
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beeper | (noun) an electronic device that generates a series of beeps when the person carrying it is being paged | Synonyms: pager |
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bleep | (noun) a short high tone produced as a signal or warning | Synonyms: beep |
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bookkeeper | (noun) someone who records the transactions of a business | - |
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bookkeeping | (noun) the activity of recording business transactions | Synonyms: clerking |
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bopeep | (noun) a game played with young children; you hide your face and suddenly reveal it as you say boo! | Synonyms: peekaboo |
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cassareep | (noun) a flavoring made by boiling down the juice of the bitter cassava; used in West Indian cooking | - |
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cheep | (noun) the short weak cry of a young bird | Synonyms: peep |
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chimneysweep | (noun) someone who cleans soot from chimneys | Synonyms: chimneysweeper, sweep |
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chimneysweeper | (noun) someone who cleans soot from chimneys | Synonyms: chimneysweep, sweep |
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coffeepot | (noun) tall pot in which coffee is brewed | - |
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creep | (noun) a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body | Synonyms: crawl, crawling, creeping |
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(noun) a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot | - |
(noun) a slow longitudinal movement or deformation | - |
(noun) someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric | Synonyms: spook, weirdie, weirdo, weirdy |
creeper | (noun) any of various small insectivorous birds of the Northern Hemisphere that climb up a tree trunk supporting themselves on stiff tail feathers and their feet | Synonyms: tree creeper |
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(noun) a person who crawls or creeps along the ground | Synonyms: crawler |
(noun) any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping | - |
creepiness | (noun) an uneasy sensation as of insects creeping on your skin | - |
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creeping | (noun) a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body | Synonyms: crawl, crawling, creep |
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creeps | (noun) a feeling of fear and revulsion | - |
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(noun) a disease of cattle and sheep attributed to a dietary deficiency; characterized by anemia and softening of the bones and a slow stiff gait | - |
deep | (noun) a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor | Synonyms: oceanic abyss, trench |
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(noun) literary term for an ocean | - |
(noun) the central and most intense or profound part | - |
deepening | (noun) a process of becoming deeper and more profound | - |
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deepness | (noun) the quality of being physically deep | Synonyms: profoundness, profundity |
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(noun) the extent downward or backward or inward | Synonyms: depth |
(noun) a low pitch that is loud and voluminous | - |
(noun) the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas | Synonyms: astuteness, depth, profoundness, profundity |
doorkeeper | (noun) someone who guards an entrance | Synonyms: door guard, doorman, gatekeeper, hall porter, ostiary, porter |
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(noun) an official stationed at the entrance of a courtroom or legislative chamber | Synonyms: usher |
(noun) the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: ostiarius, ostiary |
electrosleep | (noun) unconsciousness brought about by the passage of a low voltage electric current through the brain | - |
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freeperson | (noun) a person who is not a serf or a slave | - |
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gamekeeper | (noun) a person employed to take care of game and wildlife | Synonyms: game warden |
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gatekeeper | (noun) someone who guards an entrance | Synonyms: door guard, doorkeeper, doorman, hall porter, ostiary, porter |
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(noun) someone who controls access to something | - |
goalkeeper | (noun) the defensive position on an ice hockey or soccer or lacrosse team who stands in front of the goal and tries to prevent opposing players from scoring | Synonyms: goalie, goaltender, netkeeper |
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(noun) the soccer or hockey player assigned to protect the goal | Synonyms: goalie, goaltender, netkeeper, netminder |
greenskeeper | (noun) someone responsible for the maintenance of a golf course | - |
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groundkeeper | (noun) someone who maintains the grounds (of an estate or park or athletic field) | Synonyms: groundskeeper, groundsman |
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groundskeeper | (noun) someone who maintains the grounds (of an estate or park or athletic field) | Synonyms: groundkeeper, groundsman |
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honeycreeper | (noun) small bright-colored tropical American songbird with a curved bill for sucking nectar | - |
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(noun) small to medium-sized finches of the Hawaiian islands | Synonyms: Hawaiian honeycreeper |
hotelkeeper | (noun) an owner or manager of hotels | Synonyms: hosteller, hotel manager, hotelier, hotelman |
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housekeeper | (noun) a servant who is employed to perform domestic task in a household | - |
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housekeeping | (noun) the work of cleaning and running a house | Synonyms: housework |
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innkeeper | (noun) the owner or manager of an inn | Synonyms: boniface, host |
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jeep | (noun) a car suitable for traveling over rough terrain | Synonyms: landrover |
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keep | (noun) the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress | Synonyms: donjon, dungeon |
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(noun) a cell in a jail or prison | Synonyms: hold |
(noun) the financial means whereby one lives | Synonyms: bread and butter, livelihood, living, support, sustenance |
keeper | (noun) one having charge of buildings or grounds or animals | Synonyms: custodian, steward |
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(noun) someone in charge of other people | - |
keeping | (noun) the responsibility of a guardian or keeper | Synonyms: guardianship, safekeeping |
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(noun) conformity or harmony | - |
(noun) the act of retaining something | Synonyms: holding, retention |
keepsake | (noun) something of sentimental value | Synonyms: relic, souvenir, token |
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kneepan | (noun) a small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint | Synonyms: kneecap, patella |
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lockkeeper | (noun) a worker in charge of a lock (on a canal) | Synonyms: lockman, lockmaster |
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minesweeper | (noun) ship equipped to detect and then destroy or neutralize or remove marine mines | - |
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minesweeping | (noun) the activity of detecting and disposing of marine mines | - |
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netkeeper | (noun) the defensive position on an ice hockey or soccer or lacrosse team who stands in front of the goal and tries to prevent opposing players from scoring | Synonyms: goalie, goalkeeper, goaltender |
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(noun) the soccer or hockey player assigned to protect the goal | Synonyms: goalie, goalkeeper, goaltender, netminder |
peacekeeper | (noun) the pistol of a law officer in the old West | - |
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(noun) someone who keeps peace | - |
(noun) a member of a military force that is assigned (often with international sanction) to preserve peace in a trouble area | - |
peacekeeping | (noun) the activity of keeping the peace by military forces (especially when international military forces enforce a truce between hostile groups or nations) | Synonyms: peacekeeping mission, peacekeeping operation |
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peep | (noun) a secret look | Synonyms: peek |
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(noun) the short weak cry of a young bird | Synonyms: cheep |
peeper | (noun) an animal that makes short high-pitched sounds | - |
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(noun) an informal term referring to the eye | - |
(noun) a viewer who enjoys seeing the sex acts or sex organs of others | Synonyms: Peeping Tom, voyeur |
peephole | (noun) a hole (in a door or an oven etc) through which you can peep | Synonyms: eyehole, spyhole |
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peepshow | (noun) a short pornographic film shown in a small coin-operated booth | - |
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(noun) an exhibition of pictures or objects viewed through a small hole or magnifying glass | Synonyms: raree-show |
peepul | (noun) fig tree of India noted for great size and longevity; lacks the prop roots of the banyan; regarded as sacred by Buddhists | Synonyms: bo tree, Ficus religiosa, pipal, pipal tree, pipul, sacred fig |
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safekeeping | (noun) the responsibility of a guardian or keeper | Synonyms: guardianship, keeping |
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scorekeeper | (noun) an official who records the score during the progress of a game | Synonyms: scorer |
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seepage | (noun) the process of seeping | Synonyms: ooze, oozing |
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sheep | (noun) woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat | - |
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(noun) a docile and vulnerable person who would rather follow than make an independent decision | - |
(noun) a timid defenseless simpleton who is readily preyed upon | - |
sheepcote | (noun) a pen for sheep | Synonyms: fold, sheep pen, sheepfold |
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sheepdog | (noun) any of various usually long-haired breeds of dog reared to herd and guard sheep | Synonyms: sheep dog, shepherd dog |
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sheepfold | (noun) a pen for sheep | Synonyms: fold, sheep pen, sheepcote |
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sheepherder | (noun) a herder of sheep (on an open range); someone who keeps the sheep together in a flock | Synonyms: sheepman, shepherd |
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sheepishness | (noun) feeling embarrassed about yourself | Synonyms: shamefacedness |
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sheepman | (noun) a man who raises (or tends) sheep | - |
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(noun) a herder of sheep (on an open range); someone who keeps the sheep together in a flock | Synonyms: sheepherder, shepherd |
sheeprun | (noun) farm devoted to raising sheep | Synonyms: sheepwalk |
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sheepshank | (noun) a knot for shortening a line | - |
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sheepshead | (noun) large (up to 20 lbs) food fish of the eastern coast of the United States and Mexico | Synonyms: Archosargus probatocephalus |
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sheepshearing | (noun) act of shearing sheep | - |
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(noun) a festival held at the time sheep are normally sheared | - |
(noun) the time or season when sheep are sheared | - |
sheepskin | (noun) a document certifying the successful completion of a course of study | Synonyms: diploma |
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(noun) tanned skin of a sheep with the fleece left on; used for clothing | Synonyms: fleece |
(noun) skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on | Synonyms: lambskin, parchment |
sheepwalk | (noun) farm devoted to raising sheep | Synonyms: sheeprun |
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shopkeeper | (noun) a merchant who owns or manages a shop | Synonyms: market keeper, storekeeper, tradesman |
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sleep | (noun) a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended | Synonyms: slumber |
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(noun) euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb) | Synonyms: eternal rest, eternal sleep, quietus, rest |
(noun) a torpid state resembling deep sleep | Synonyms: sopor |
(noun) a period of time spent sleeping | Synonyms: nap |
sleeper | (noun) an unexpected hit | - |
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(noun) tropical fish that resembles a goby and rests quietly on the bottom in shallow water | Synonyms: sleeper goby |
(noun) a passenger car that has berths for sleeping | Synonyms: sleeping car, wagon-lit |
(noun) one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track | Synonyms: crosstie, railroad tie, tie |
(noun) a piece of furniture that can be opened up into a bed | - |
(noun) pajamas with feet; worn by children | - |
(noun) a rester who is sleeping | Synonyms: slumberer |
(noun) an unexpected achiever of success | - |
(noun) a spy or saboteur or terrorist planted in an enemy country who lives there as a law-abiding citizen until activated by a prearranged signal | - |
sleepiness | (noun) a very sleepy state | Synonyms: drowsiness, somnolence |
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sleeping | (noun) the suspension of consciousness and decrease in metabolic rate | - |
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(noun) quiet and inactive restfulness | Synonyms: dormancy, quiescence, quiescency |
(noun) the state of being asleep | - |
sleeplessness | (noun) a temporary state in which you are unable (or unwilling) to sleep | Synonyms: wakefulness |
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sleepover | (noun) an occasion of spending a night away from home or having a guest spend the night in your home (especially as a party for children) | - |
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sleepwalker | (noun) someone who walks about in their sleep | Synonyms: noctambulist, somnambulist |
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sleepwalking | (noun) walking by a person who is asleep | Synonyms: noctambulation, noctambulism, somnambulation, somnambulism |
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sleepwear | (noun) garments designed to be worn in bed | Synonyms: nightclothes, nightwear |
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sleepyhead | (noun) a sleepy person | - |
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steep | (noun) a steep place (as on a hill) | - |
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steeper | (noun) a vessel (usually a pot or vat) used for steeping | - |
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steeple | (noun) a tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (usually a church or temple) and that tapers to a point at the top | Synonyms: spire |
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steeplechase | (noun) a horse race over an obstructed course | - |
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(noun) a footrace of usually 3000 meters over a closed track with hurdles and a water jump | - |
steeplechaser | (noun) a horse trained to run in steeplechases | - |
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steeplejack | (noun) someone who builds or maintains very tall structures | - |
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steepness | (noun) the property possessed by a slope that is very steep | Synonyms: abruptness, precipitousness |
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storekeeper | (noun) a merchant who owns or manages a shop | Synonyms: market keeper, shopkeeper, tradesman |
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sweep | (noun) (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running around the end of the line | Synonyms: end run |
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(noun) a movement in an arc | - |
(noun) a long oar used in an open boat | Synonyms: sweep oar |
(noun) a wide scope | Synonyms: expanse |
(noun) winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge | Synonyms: slam |
(noun) someone who cleans soot from chimneys | Synonyms: chimneysweep, chimneysweeper |
sweeper | (noun) little-known nocturnal fish of warm shallow seas with an oblong compressed body | - |
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(noun) a cleaning implement with revolving brushes that pick up dirt as the implement is pushed over a carpet | Synonyms: carpet sweeper |
(noun) an employee who sweeps (floors or streets etc.) | - |
sweeping | (noun) the act of cleaning with a broom | - |
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sweepstakes | (noun) a lottery in which the prize consists of the money paid by the participants | - |
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teepee | (noun) a Native American tent; usually of conical shape | Synonyms: tepee, tipi |
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threepence | (noun) former cupronickel coin of the United Kingdom equal to three pennies | - |
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timekeeper | (noun) a measuring instrument or device for keeping time | Synonyms: horologe, timepiece |
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(noun) a clerk who keeps track of the hours worked by employees | - |
(noun) (sports) an official who keeps track of the time elapsed | Synonyms: timer |
timekeeping | (noun) the act or process of determining the time | - |
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tollkeeper | (noun) someone employed to collect tolls | Synonyms: toll agent, toll collector, toll taker, toller, tollgatherer, tollman |
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tweep | (noun) A person using Twitter | - |
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upkeep | (noun) activity involved in maintaining something in good working order | Synonyms: care, maintenance |
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(noun) the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence | Synonyms: maintenance, sustainment, sustenance, sustentation |