affright | (noun) an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety | Synonyms: panic, terror |
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afterthought | (noun) an addition that was not included in the original plan | - |
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(noun) thinking again about a choice previously made | Synonyms: reconsideration, rethink, second thought |
aught | (noun) a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential | Synonyms: cipher, cypher, goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo |
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backlighting | (noun) lighting from behind | - |
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bantamweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the flyweight division and lighter than those in the featherweight division. | - |
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(noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 119 pounds | - |
(noun) weighs 115-126 pounds | - |
battlesight | (noun) an arrangement of sights that makes possible the rapid aiming of a firearm at short ranges | Synonyms: battle sight |
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bight | (noun) the middle part of a slack rope (as distinguished from its ends) | - |
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(noun) a broad bay formed by an indentation in the shoreline | - |
(noun) a bend or curve (especially in a coastline) | - |
(noun) a loop in a rope | - |
birthright | (noun) a right or privilege that you are entitled to at birth | - |
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(noun) an inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture) | Synonyms: patrimony |
blight | (noun) a state or condition being blighted | - |
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(noun) any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting | - |
blighter | (noun) a persistently annoying person | Synonyms: cuss, gadfly, pest, pesterer |
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(noun) a boy or man | Synonyms: bloke, chap, cuss, fella, feller, fellow, gent, lad |
bombsight | (noun) a sighting device in an aircraft for aiming bombs | - |
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brightness | (noun) the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white | - |
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(noun) the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light | Synonyms: brightness level, light, luminance, luminosity, luminousness |
(noun) intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty | Synonyms: cleverness, smartness |
bullfight | (noun) a Spanish or Portuguese or Latin American spectacle; a matador baits and (usually) kills a bull in an arena before many spectators | Synonyms: corrida |
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bullfighter | (noun) someone who fights bulls | Synonyms: toreador |
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bullfighting | (noun) the activity at a bullfight | Synonyms: tauromachy |
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bunfight | (noun) (Briticism) a grand formal party on an important occasion | Synonyms: bun-fight |
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candlelight | (noun) the light provided by a burning candle | Synonyms: candle flame |
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cartwright | (noun) a workman who makes and repairs carts and wagons | - |
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cockfight | (noun) a match in a cockpit between two fighting cocks heeled with metal gaffs | - |
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cockfighting | (noun) participation in the sport of matching gamecocks in a cockfight | - |
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copyright | (noun) a document granting exclusive right to publish and sell literary or musical or artistic work | Synonyms: right of first publication |
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counterweight | (noun) a weight that balances another weight | Synonyms: balance, counterbalance, counterpoise, equaliser, equalizer |
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cruiserweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the middleweight division and lighter than those in the super heavyweight division. | Synonyms: light heavyweight |
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(noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 169 and 175 pounds | Synonyms: light heavyweight |
daughter | (noun) a female human offspring | Synonyms: girl |
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daylight | (noun) light during the daytime | - |
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(noun) the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside | Synonyms: day, daytime |
deadlight | (noun) a strong shutter over a ship's porthole that is closed in stormy weather | - |
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delight | (noun) something or someone that provides a source of happiness | Synonyms: joy, pleasure |
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(noun) a feeling of extreme pleasure or satisfaction | Synonyms: delectation |
dogfight | (noun) a violent fight between dogs (sometimes organized illegally for entertainment and gambling) | - |
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(noun) an aerial engagement between fighter planes | - |
(noun) disorderly fighting | Synonyms: hassle, rough-and-tumble, scuffle, tussle |
(noun) a fiercely disputed contest | - |
dogfighter | (noun) a fighter pilot who engages in an aerial dogfights | - |
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downrightness | (noun) the quality of being direct and straightforward | Synonyms: straightforwardness |
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draught | (noun) the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling | Synonyms: draft, drawing |
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(noun) a large and hurried swallow | Synonyms: draft, gulp, swig |
(noun) a dose of liquid medicine | Synonyms: draft |
(noun) the depth of a vessel's keel below the surface (especially when loaded) | Synonyms: draft |
(noun) a serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg | Synonyms: draft, potation, tipple |
(noun) a current of air (usually coming into a chimney or room or vehicle) | Synonyms: draft |
draughts | (noun) a checkerboard game for two players who each have 12 pieces; the object is to jump over and so capture the opponent's pieces | Synonyms: checkers |
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draughtsman | (noun) a skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines | Synonyms: draftsman, draftsperson |
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dreadnaught | (noun) battleship that has big guns all of the same caliber | Synonyms: dreadnought |
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dreadnought | (noun) battleship that has big guns all of the same caliber | Synonyms: dreadnaught |
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drought | (noun) a shortage of rainfall | Synonyms: drouth |
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(noun) a prolonged shortage | Synonyms: drouth |
eight | (noun) one of four playing cards in a deck with eight pips on the face | Synonyms: eight-spot |
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(noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one | Synonyms: 8, eighter, eighter from Decatur, octad, octet, octonary, ogdoad, VIII |
eighteen | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of seventeen and one | Synonyms: 18, XVIII |
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eighteenth | (noun) position 18 in a countable series of things | - |
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eighter | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one | Synonyms: 8, eight, eighter from Decatur, octad, octet, octonary, ogdoad, VIII |
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eighth | (noun) one part in eight equal parts | Synonyms: one-eighth |
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(noun) position eight in a countable series of things | - |
eighties | (noun) the time of life between 80 and 90 | Synonyms: mid-eighties |
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(noun) the decade from 1980 to 1989 | Synonyms: 1980s |
(noun) the decade from 1880 to 1889 | Synonyms: 1880s |
eightieth | (noun) position 80 in a countable series of things | - |
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eightpence | (noun) a coin worth eight pennies | - |
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eightsome | (noun) a Scottish reel for eight dancers | - |
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(noun) eight people considered as a unit | Synonyms: octet, octette |
eightvo | (noun) the size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet of paper three times to form eight leaves | Synonyms: 8vo, octavo |
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eighty | (noun) the cardinal number that is the product of ten and eight | Synonyms: 80, fourscore, LXXX |
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enlightened | (noun) people who have been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity | Synonyms: initiate |
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enlightenment | (noun) education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge | - |
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(noun) (Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness | Synonyms: nirvana |
eyesight | (noun) normal use of the faculty of vision | Synonyms: seeing, sightedness |
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fanlight | (noun) a semicircular window over a door or window; usually has sash bars like the ribs of a fan | - |
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(noun) a window above a door that is usually hinged to a horizontal crosspiece over the door | Synonyms: transom, transom window |
(noun) a window in a roof to admit daylight | Synonyms: skylight |
farsightedness | (noun) seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing | Synonyms: foresight, prevision, prospicience |
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(noun) abnormal condition in which vision for distant objects is better than for near objects | Synonyms: hypermetropia, hypermetropy, hyperopia, longsightedness |
(noun) a reduced ability to focus on near objects caused by loss of elasticity of the crystalline lens after age 45 | Synonyms: presbyopia |
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 | - |
fight | (noun) a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war | Synonyms: battle, conflict, engagement |
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(noun) the act of fighting; any contest or struggle | Synonyms: combat, fighting, scrap |
(noun) a boxing or wrestling match | - |
(noun) an aggressive willingness to compete | Synonyms: competitiveness |
(noun) an intense verbal dispute | - |
fighter | (noun) a high-speed military or naval airplane designed to destroy enemy aircraft in the air | Synonyms: attack aircraft, fighter aircraft |
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(noun) someone who fights (or is fighting) | Synonyms: battler, belligerent, combatant, scrapper |
(noun) someone who fights for a cause | Synonyms: champion, hero, paladin |
fighting | (noun) the act of fighting; any contest or struggle | Synonyms: combat, fight, scrap |
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firefighter | (noun) a member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires | Synonyms: fire-eater, fire fighter, fireman |
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firelight | (noun) the light of a fire (especially in a fireplace) | - |
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firelighter | (noun) (a piece of) a substance that burns easily and can be used to start a coal or coke fire | - |
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fistfight | (noun) a fight with bare fists | Synonyms: fisticuffs, slugfest |
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flashlight | (noun) a small portable battery-powered electric lamp | Synonyms: torch |
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flight | (noun) an instance of traveling by air | Synonyms: flying |
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(noun) the act of escaping physically | Synonyms: escape |
(noun) a scheduled trip by plane between designated airports | - |
(noun) a stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and the next | Synonyms: flight of stairs, flight of steps |
(noun) passing above and beyond ordinary bounds | - |
(noun) an air force unit smaller than a squadron | - |
(noun) a formation of aircraft in flight | - |
(noun) a flock of flying birds | - |
(noun) the path followed by an object moving through space | Synonyms: trajectory |
flightiness | (noun) the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment | Synonyms: arbitrariness, capriciousness, whimsey, whimsicality, whimsy |
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flightlessness | (noun) The condition of being unable to fly, usually used with birds such as the penguin, ostrich, and emu. | - |
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floodlight | (noun) light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography | Synonyms: flood, flood lamp, photoflood |
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flyweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, often the lightest. | - |
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(noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 112 pounds | - |
(noun) weighs no more than 115 pounds | - |
footlights | (noun) theater light at the front of a stage that illuminate the set and actors | - |
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foresight | (noun) providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: foresightedness, foresightfulness |
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(noun) seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing | Synonyms: farsightedness, prevision, prospicience |
foresightedness | (noun) providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: foresight, foresightfulness |
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foresightfulness | (noun) providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: foresight, foresightedness |
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forethought | (noun) judiciousness in avoiding harm or danger | Synonyms: care, caution, precaution |
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(noun) planning or plotting in advance of acting | Synonyms: premeditation |
forthrightness | (noun) the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech | Synonyms: candidness, candor, candour, directness, frankness |
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fortnight | (noun) a period of fourteen consecutive days | Synonyms: two weeks |
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freight | (noun) transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates | Synonyms: freightage |
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(noun) goods carried by a large vehicle | Synonyms: cargo, consignment, lading, load, loading, payload, shipment |
(noun) the charge for transporting something by common carrier | Synonyms: freight rate, freightage |
freightage | (noun) transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates | Synonyms: freight |
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(noun) the charge for transporting something by common carrier | Synonyms: freight, freight rate |
freighter | (noun) a cargo ship | Synonyms: bottom, merchant ship, merchantman |
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fright | (noun) an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight) | Synonyms: fear, fearfulness |
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frightening | (noun) the act of inspiring with fear | Synonyms: terrorisation, terrorization |
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frightfulness | (noun) the quality of being frightful | - |
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gaslight | (noun) light yielded by the combustion of illuminating gas | - |
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goddaughter | (noun) a female godchild | - |
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granddaughter | (noun) a female grandchild | - |
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gunfight | (noun) a fight involving shooting small arms with the intent to kill or frighten | Synonyms: gunplay, shootout |
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gunsight | (noun) a sight used for aiming a gun | Synonyms: gun-sight |
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haughtiness | (noun) overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors | Synonyms: arrogance, hauteur, high-handedness, lordliness |
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headlight | (noun) a powerful light with reflector; attached to the front of an automobile or locomotive | Synonyms: headlamp |
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heavyweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, often the heaviest. | Synonyms: super heavyweight |
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(noun) a person of exceptional importance and reputation | Synonyms: behemoth, colossus, giant, titan |
(noun) a professional boxer who weighs more than 190 pounds | - |
(noun) a wrestler who weighs more than 214 pounds | - |
(noun) a very large person; impressive in size or qualities | Synonyms: giant, hulk, whale |
(noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 201 pounds | - |
height | (noun) the vertical dimension of extension; distance from the base of something to the top | Synonyms: tallness |
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(noun) (of a standing person) the distance from head to foot | Synonyms: stature |
(noun) elevation especially above sea level or above the earth's surface | Synonyms: altitude |
(noun) the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development | Synonyms: acme, elevation, meridian, peak, pinnacle, summit, superlative, tiptop, top |
heights | (noun) a high place | Synonyms: high |
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highlight | (noun) an area of lightness in a picture | Synonyms: highlighting |
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(noun) the most interesting or memorable part | Synonyms: high spot |
highlighter | (noun) a fluorescent marker used to mark important passages in a text | - |
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(noun) a cosmetic used to highlight the eyes or cheekbones | - |
highlighting | (noun) an area of lightness in a picture | Synonyms: highlight |
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hindsight | (noun) understanding the nature of an event after it has happened | - |
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houselights | (noun) lights that illuminate the audience's part of a theater or other auditorium | - |
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hundredweight | (noun) a British unit of weight equivalent to 112 pounds | Synonyms: cwt, long hundredweight |
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(noun) a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds | Synonyms: cental, centner, cwt, quintal, short hundredweight |
(noun) a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms in the metric system | Synonyms: centner, doppelzentner, metric hundredweight |
infighting | (noun) boxing at close quarters | - |
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(noun) conflict between members of the same organization (usually concealed from outsiders) | - |
insight | (noun) grasping the inner nature of things intuitively | Synonyms: sixth sense |
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(noun) the clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation | Synonyms: brainstorm, brainwave |
(noun) clear or deep perception of a situation | Synonyms: penetration |
(noun) a feeling of understanding | Synonyms: perceptiveness, perceptivity |
insightfulness | (noun) shrewdness shown by keen insight | Synonyms: acumen |
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jacklight | (noun) a light used as a lure in hunting or fishing at night | - |
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knight | (noun) a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa) | Synonyms: horse |
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(noun) originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry; today in Great Britain a person honored by the sovereign for personal merit | - |