antifreeze | (noun) a liquid added to the water in a cooling system to lower its freezing point | - |
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bezant | (noun) a gold coin of the Byzantine Empire; widely circulated in Europe in the Middle Ages | Synonyms: bezzant, byzant, solidus |
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bezel | (noun) a sloping edge on a cutting tool | - |
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bezique | (noun) a card game played with a pack of forty-eight cards (two of each suit for high cards); play resembles whist | Synonyms: penuchle, pinochle, pinocle |
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bezzant | (noun) a gold coin of the Byzantine Empire; widely circulated in Europe in the Middle Ages | Synonyms: bezant, byzant, solidus |
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breeze | (noun) any undertaking that is easy to do | Synonyms: child's play, cinch, duck soup, picnic, piece of cake, pushover, snap, walkover |
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(noun) a slight wind (usually refreshing) | Synonyms: air, gentle wind, zephyr |
breeziness | (noun) a breezy liveliness | Synonyms: jauntiness |
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(noun) a mildly windy state of the air | Synonyms: windiness |
dyschezia | (noun) difficulty in defecating (usually as a consequence of long continued voluntary suppression of the urge to defecate) | - |
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embezzlement | (noun) the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else | Synonyms: defalcation, misapplication, misappropriation, peculation |
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embezzler | (noun) someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use | Synonyms: defalcator, peculator |
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ezed | (noun) the 26th letter of the Roman alphabet | Synonyms: izzard, Z, z, zed, zee |
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fez | (noun) a felt cap (usually red) for a man; shaped like a flat-topped cone with a tassel that hangs from the crown | Synonyms: tarboosh |
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freeze | (noun) an interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement | Synonyms: halt |
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(noun) fixing (of prices or wages etc) at a particular level | - |
(noun) weather cold enough to cause freezing | Synonyms: frost |
(noun) the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid | Synonyms: freezing |
freezer | (noun) electric refrigerator (trade name Deepfreeze) in which food is frozen and stored for long periods of time | Synonyms: deep-freeze, deep freezer, Deepfreeze |
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freezing | (noun) the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid | Synonyms: freeze |
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frieze | (noun) a heavy woolen fabric with a long nap | - |
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(noun) an architectural ornament consisting of a horizontal sculptured band between the architrave and the cornice | - |
geezer | (noun) a man who is (usually) old and/or eccentric | - |
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geezerhood | (noun) a late time of life | Synonyms: age, eld, old age, years |
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guereza | (noun) a colobus monkey with a reddish brown coat and white silky fringes down both sides of the body | Synonyms: Colobus guereza |
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haematochezia | (noun) passage of stools containing blood (as from diverticulosis or colon cancer or peptic ulcer) | Synonyms: hematochezia |
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hematochezia | (noun) passage of stools containing blood (as from diverticulosis or colon cancer or peptic ulcer) | Synonyms: haematochezia |
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hydroisopieze | (noun) a line on a map connecting points of identical pressures in the water bearing stratum. | - |
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intermezzo | (noun) a brief show (music or dance etc) inserted between the sections of a longer performance | Synonyms: entr'acte, interlude |
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(noun) a short piece of instrumental music composed for performance between acts of a drama or opera | - |
(noun) a short movement coming between the major sections of a symphony | - |
isopieze | (noun) a line on a map connecting places with equal ground water pressure. | Synonyms: isopiestic line |
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jezebel | (noun) a shameless impudent scheming woman | - |
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kameez | (noun) a long tunic worn by many people from the Indian subcontinent (usually with a salwar or churidars) | - |
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lespedeza | (noun) shrubby or herbaceous plants widely used for forage, soil improvement, and especially hay in southern United States | Synonyms: bush clover |
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mezcal | (noun) a small spineless globe-shaped cactus; source of mescal buttons | Synonyms: Lophophora williamsii, mescal, peyote |
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mezereon | (noun) small European deciduous shrub with fragrant lilac-colored flowers followed by red berries on highly toxic twigs | Synonyms: Daphne mezereum, February daphne |
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mezereum | (noun) the dried bark of the shrub mezereon | - |
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mezuza | (noun) religious texts from Deuteronomy inscribed on parchment and rolled up in a case that is attached to the doorframe of many Jewish households in accordance with Jewish law | Synonyms: mezuzah |
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mezuzah | (noun) religious texts from Deuteronomy inscribed on parchment and rolled up in a case that is attached to the doorframe of many Jewish households in accordance with Jewish law | Synonyms: mezuza |
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mezzanine | (noun) intermediate floor just above the ground floor | Synonyms: entresol, mezzanine floor |
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(noun) first or lowest balcony | Synonyms: first balcony |
mezzo | (noun) the female singing voice between contralto and soprano | Synonyms: mezzo-soprano |
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(noun) a soprano with a voice between soprano and contralto | Synonyms: mezzo-soprano |
mezzotint | (noun) print produced by an engraving that has been scraped to represent light or shade | - |
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muezzin | (noun) the Muslim official of a mosque who summons the faithful to prayer from a minaret five times a day | Synonyms: muadhdhin, muazzin |
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nebuchadnezzar | (noun) a very large wine bottle holding the equivalent of 20 normal bottles of wine; used especially for display | - |
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piezoelectricity | (noun) electricity produced by mechanical pressure on certain crystals (notably quartz or Rochelle salt); alternatively, electrostatic stress produces a change in the linear dimensions of the crystal | Synonyms: piezo effect, piezoelectric effect |
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piezometer | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring high pressures | - |
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rendezvous | (noun) a meeting planned at a certain time and place | - |
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(noun) a date; usually with a member of the opposite sex | Synonyms: tryst |
(noun) a place where people meet | - |
sezession | (noun) an Austrian school of art and architecture parallel to the French art nouveau in the 1890s | Synonyms: secession |
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sneeze | (noun) a symptom consisting of the involuntary expulsion of air from the nose | Synonyms: sneezing, sternutation |
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sneezer | (noun) a person who sneezes | - |
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sneezeweed | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Helenium characteristically causing sneezing | - |
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sneezewort | (noun) Eurasian herb having loose heads of button-shaped white flowers and long grey-green leaves that cause sneezing when powdered | Synonyms: Achillea ptarmica, sneezeweed yarrow |
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sneezing | (noun) a symptom consisting of the involuntary expulsion of air from the nose | Synonyms: sneeze, sternutation |
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squeezability | (noun) the property of being able to occupy less space | Synonyms: compressibility, sponginess |
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squeeze | (noun) the act of gripping and pressing firmly | Synonyms: squeezing |
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(noun) an aggressive attempt to compel acquiescence by the concentration or manipulation of power | Synonyms: power play, squeeze play |
(noun) a tight or amorous embrace | Synonyms: clinch, hug |
(noun) the act of forcing yourself (or being forced) into or through a restricted space | - |
(noun) a twisting squeeze | Synonyms: wring |
(noun) (slang) a person's girlfriend or boyfriend | - |
(noun) a situation in which increased costs cannot be passed on to the customer | - |
(noun) a state in which there is a short supply of cash to lend to businesses and consumers and interest rates are high | Synonyms: credit crunch, liquidity crisis |
squeezer | (noun) a kitchen utensil for squeezing juice from fruit | - |
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squeezing | (noun) the act of gripping and pressing firmly | Synonyms: squeeze |
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sulfamezathine | (noun) a sulfa drug used like sulfadiazine and also in veterinary medicine | Synonyms: sulfamethazine |
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synezesis | (noun) the contraction of chromatin towards one side of the nucleus during the prophase of meiosis | Synonyms: synizesis |
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trapeze | (noun) a swing used by circus acrobats | - |
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trapezium | (noun) the wrist bone on the thumb side of the hand that articulates with the 1st and 2nd metacarpals | Synonyms: os trapezium, trapezium bone |
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(noun) a quadrilateral with no parallel sides | - |
trapezius | (noun) either of two flat triangular muscles of the shoulder and upper back that are involved in moving the shoulders and arms | Synonyms: cowl muscle, musculus trapezius, trapezius muscle |
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trapezohedron | (noun) a polyhedron whose faces are trapeziums | - |
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trapezoid | (noun) the wrist bone between the trapezium and the capitate bones | Synonyms: os trapezoideum, trapezoid bone |
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(noun) a quadrilateral with two parallel sides | - |
trichobezoar | (noun) a compact mass of hair that forms in the alimentary canal (especially in the stomach of animals as a result of licking fur) | Synonyms: hair ball, hairball |
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tweezer | (noun) a hand tool for holding consisting of a compound lever for grasping | Synonyms: pair of pincers, pair of tweezers, pincer |
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urochezia | (noun) passage of urine from the anus | Synonyms: urochesia |
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wheeze | (noun) breathing with a husky or whistling sound | - |
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(noun) (Briticism) a clever or amusing scheme or trick | - |
wheeziness | (noun) presence of abnormal high-pitched sound heard with a stethoscope when an airway is blocked (as in asthma or chronic bronchitis) | - |
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