grandstand | (noun) a stand at a racecourse or stadium consisting of tiers with rows of individual seats that are under a protective roof | Synonyms: covered stand |
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(noun) the audience at a stadium or racetrack | - |
grandstander | (noun) someone who performs with an eye to the applause from spectators in the grandstand | - |
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granduncle | (noun) an uncle of your father or mother | Synonyms: great-uncle |
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grange | (noun) an outlying farm | - |
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granger | (noun) a person who operates a farm | Synonyms: farmer, husbandman, sodbuster |
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granite | (noun) something having the quality of granite (unyielding firmness) | - |
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(noun) plutonic igneous rock having visibly crystalline texture; generally composed of feldspar and mica and quartz | - |
graniteware | (noun) a kind of stone-grey enamelware | - |
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grannie | (noun) the mother of your father or mother | Synonyms: gran, grandma, grandmother, granny, nan, nanna |
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granny | (noun) a reef knot crossed the wrong way and therefore insecure | Synonyms: granny knot |
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(noun) the mother of your father or mother | Synonyms: gran, grandma, grandmother, grannie, nan, nanna |
(noun) an old woman | - |
granola | (noun) cereal made of especially rolled oats with dried fruits and nuts and honey or brown sugar | - |
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grant | (noun) the act of providing a subsidy | Synonyms: subsidisation, subsidization |
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(noun) a right or privilege that has been granted | - |
(noun) a contract granting the right to operate a subsidiary business | Synonyms: concession |
(noun) any monetary aid | - |
(noun) (law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance | Synonyms: assignment |
grantee | (noun) a recipient of a grant | - |
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(noun) someone to whom the title of property is transferred | Synonyms: alienee |
granter | (noun) a person who grants or gives something | - |
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grantor | (noun) a person who makes a grant in legal form | - |
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granularity | (noun) the quality of being composed of relatively large particles | Synonyms: coarseness, graininess |
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granulation | (noun) the act of forming something into granules or grains | - |
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(noun) new connective tissue and tiny blood vessels that form on the surfaces of a wound during the healing process | Synonyms: granulation tissue |
granulator | (noun) a machine that forms material (such as plastics, bottles, organics, etc.) into granules. | Synonyms: granulator machine |
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granule | (noun) a tiny grain | - |
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granulocyte | (noun) a leukocyte that has granules in its cytoplasm | - |
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granulocytopenia | (noun) an acute blood disorder (often caused by radiation or drug therapy) characterized by severe reduction in granulocytes | Synonyms: agranulocytosis, agranulosis |
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granuloma | (noun) a tumor composed of granulation tissue resulting from injury or inflammation or infection | - |
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grape | (noun) a cluster of small projectiles fired together from a cannon to produce a hail of shot | Synonyms: grapeshot |
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(noun) any of various juicy fruit of the genus Vitis with green or purple skins; grow in clusters | - |
(noun) any of numerous woody vines of genus Vitis bearing clusters of edible berries | Synonyms: grape vine, grapevine |
grapefruit | (noun) large yellow fruit with somewhat acid juicy pulp; usual serving consists of a half | - |
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(noun) citrus tree bearing large round edible fruit having a thick yellow rind and juicy somewhat acid pulp | Synonyms: Citrus paradisi |
grapeshot | (noun) a cluster of small projectiles fired together from a cannon to produce a hail of shot | Synonyms: grape |
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grapevine | (noun) gossip spread by spoken communication | Synonyms: pipeline, word of mouth |
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(noun) any of numerous woody vines of genus Vitis bearing clusters of edible berries | Synonyms: grape, grape vine |
graph | (noun) a visual representation of the relations between certain quantities, represented as points, plotted with reference to a set of axes | Synonyms: graphical record, graphical recording |
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(noun) a visual display of information | Synonyms: chart |
(noun) a written symbol that is used to represent speech | Synonyms: character, grapheme, graphic symbol |
grapheme | (noun) a written symbol that is used to represent speech | Synonyms: character, graph, graphic symbol |
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graphic | (noun) an image that is generated by a computer | Synonyms: computer graphic |
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graphics | (noun) the drawings and photographs in the layout of a book | - |
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(noun) photographs or other visual representations in a printed publication | Synonyms: art, artwork, nontextual matter |
graphite | (noun) used as a lubricant and as a moderator in nuclear reactors | Synonyms: black lead, plumbago |
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graphologist | (noun) a specialist in inferring character from handwriting | Synonyms: handwriting expert |
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graphology | (noun) the study of handwriting (especially as an indicator of the writer's character or disposition) | - |
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graphospasm | (noun) muscular spasms of thumb and forefinger while writing with a pen or pencil | Synonyms: writer's cramp |
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grapnel | (noun) a light anchor for small boats | Synonyms: grapnel anchor |
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(noun) a tool consisting of several hooks for grasping and holding; often thrown with a rope | Synonyms: grapple, grappler, grappling hook, grappling iron |
grappa | (noun) Italian brandy made from residue of grapes after pressing | - |
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grapple | (noun) the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat | Synonyms: grappling, hand-to-hand struggle, wrestle, wrestling |
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(noun) a tool consisting of several hooks for grasping and holding; often thrown with a rope | Synonyms: grapnel, grappler, grappling hook, grappling iron |
(noun) a dredging bucket with hinges like the shell of a clam | Synonyms: clamshell |
grappler | (noun) a tool consisting of several hooks for grasping and holding; often thrown with a rope | Synonyms: grapnel, grapple, grappling hook, grappling iron |
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(noun) combatant who tries to throw opponent to the ground | Synonyms: matman, wrestler |
grappling | (noun) the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat | Synonyms: grapple, hand-to-hand struggle, wrestle, wrestling |
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(noun) the sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down | Synonyms: rassling, wrestling |
grasp | (noun) the act of grasping | Synonyms: clasp, clench, clutch, clutches, grip, hold |
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(noun) an intellectual hold or understanding | Synonyms: grip |
(noun) understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something | Synonyms: appreciation, hold |
(noun) the limit of capability | Synonyms: compass, range, reach |
graspability | (noun) The quality of being able to be understood or comprehended; understandability. | - |
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grasping | (noun) the act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles) | Synonyms: prehension, seizing, taking hold |
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(noun) understanding with difficulty | - |
grass | (noun) street names for marijuana | Synonyms: dope, gage, green goddess, locoweed, Mary Jane, pot, sens, sess, skunk, smoke, weed |
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(noun) bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle | Synonyms: eatage, forage, pasturage, pasture |
(noun) a police informer who implicates many people | Synonyms: supergrass |
(noun) narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay | - |
grassfinch | (noun) usually brightly-colored Australian weaverbirds; often kept as cage birds | Synonyms: grass finch |
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grassfire | (noun) an uncontrolled fire in a grassy area | Synonyms: prairie fire |
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grasshopper | (noun) terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping | Synonyms: hopper |
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(noun) a cocktail made of creme de menthe and cream (sometimes with creme de cacao) | - |
grassland | (noun) land where grass or grasslike vegetation grows and is the dominant form of plant life | - |
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grate | (noun) a frame of iron bars to hold a fire | Synonyms: grating |
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(noun) a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air | Synonyms: grating |
(noun) a harsh rasping sound made by scraping something | - |
gratefulness | (noun) warm friendly feelings of gratitude | Synonyms: appreciativeness, thankfulness |
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grater | (noun) utensil with sharp perforations for shredding foods (as vegetables or cheese) | - |
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graticule | (noun) a network of fine lines, dots, cross hairs, or wires in the focal plane of the eyepiece of an optical instrument | Synonyms: reticle, reticule |
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gratification | (noun) the act or an instance of satisfying | - |
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(noun) state of being gratified or satisfied | Synonyms: satisfaction |
grating | (noun) a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air | Synonyms: grate |
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(noun) a frame of iron bars to hold a fire | Synonyms: grate |
(noun) optical device consisting of a surface with many parallel grooves in it; disperses a beam of light (or other electromagnetic radiation) into its wavelengths to produce its spectrum | Synonyms: diffraction grating |
gratitude | (noun) a feeling of thankfulness and appreciation | - |
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gratuity | (noun) a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter) | Synonyms: backsheesh, baksheesh, bakshis, bakshish, pourboire, tip |
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(noun) an award (as for meritorious service) given without claim or obligation | - |
grave | (noun) a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone) | Synonyms: tomb |
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(noun) a mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation | Synonyms: grave accent |
(noun) death of a person | - |
gravedigger | (noun) a person who earns a living by digging graves | - |
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gravel | (noun) rock fragments and pebbles | Synonyms: crushed rock |
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gravelweed | (noun) perennial herb with yellow flowers; southern and south central United States | Synonyms: Verbesina helianthoides |
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graveness | (noun) a manner that is serious and solemn | Synonyms: gravity, soberness, sobriety, somberness, sombreness |
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graver | (noun) a tool used by an engraver | Synonyms: graving tool, pointel, pointrel |
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graverobber | (noun) someone who takes bodies from graves and sells them for anatomical dissection | Synonyms: body snatcher, ghoul |
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(noun) someone who steals valuables from graves or crypts | - |
gravestone | (noun) a stone that is used to mark a grave | Synonyms: headstone, tombstone |
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graveyard | (noun) a tract of land used for burials | Synonyms: burial ground, burial site, burying ground, cemetery, memorial park, necropolis |
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gravida | (noun) a pregnant woman | - |
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(noun) the number of the pregnancy that a woman is in | - |
gravidation | (noun) technical terms for pregnancy | Synonyms: gravidity, gravidness |
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gravidity | (noun) technical terms for pregnancy | Synonyms: gravidation, gravidness |
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gravidness | (noun) technical terms for pregnancy | Synonyms: gravidation, gravidity |
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gravimeter | (noun) a measuring instrument for determining the specific gravity of a liquid or solid | Synonyms: hydrometer |
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(noun) a measuring instrument for measuring variations in the gravitational field of the earth | Synonyms: gravity meter |
gravimetry | (noun) the measurement of specific gravity | Synonyms: hydrometry |
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gravitas | (noun) formality in bearing and appearance | Synonyms: dignity, lordliness |
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gravitation | (noun) a figurative movement toward some attraction | - |
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(noun) movement downward resulting from gravitational attraction | - |
(noun) (physics) the force of attraction between all masses in the universe; especially the attraction of the earth's mass for bodies near its surface | Synonyms: gravitational attraction, gravitational force, gravity |
graviton | (noun) a gauge boson that mediates the (extremely weak) gravitational interactions between particles | - |
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gravity | (noun) a manner that is serious and solemn | Synonyms: graveness, soberness, sobriety, somberness, sombreness |
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(noun) a solemn and dignified feeling | Synonyms: solemnity |
(noun) (physics) the force of attraction between all masses in the universe; especially the attraction of the earth's mass for bodies near its surface | Synonyms: gravitation, gravitational attraction, gravitational force |
gravure | (noun) the act of intaglio printing | - |
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(noun) an intaglio print produced by gravure | Synonyms: heliogravure, photogravure |
(noun) a printing plate used in the process of gravure | - |
(noun) a printing process that uses an etched or engraved plate; the plate is smeared with ink and wiped clean, then the ink left in the recesses makes the print | Synonyms: intaglio, intaglio printing |
gravy | (noun) a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money) | Synonyms: bonanza, boom, bunce, godsend, gold rush, manna from heaven, windfall |
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(noun) the seasoned but not thickened juices that drip from cooking meats; often a little water is added | Synonyms: pan gravy |
(noun) a sauce made by adding stock, flour, or other ingredients to the juice and fat that drips from cooking meats | - |
gray | (noun) horse of a light gray or whitish color | Synonyms: grey |
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(noun) clothing that is a grey color | Synonyms: grey |
(noun) a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black | Synonyms: grayness, grey, greyness |
(noun) any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey | Synonyms: grey |
(noun) the SI unit of energy absorbed from ionizing radiation; equal to the absorption of one joule of radiation energy by one kilogram of matter; one gray equals 100 rad | Synonyms: Gy |
grayback | (noun) a dowitcher with a grey back | Synonyms: greyback, Limnodromus griseus |
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(noun) a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the Southern Hemisphere | Synonyms: Calidris canutus, greyback, knot |
graybeard | (noun) a man who is very old | Synonyms: greybeard, Methuselah, old man |
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grayhen | (noun) female black grouse | Synonyms: gray hen, grey hen, greyhen, heath hen |
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graylag | (noun) common grey wild goose of Europe; ancestor of many domestic breeds | Synonyms: Anser anser, graylag goose, greylag, greylag goose |
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grayness | (noun) a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black | Synonyms: gray, grey, greyness |
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graze | (noun) the act of grazing | Synonyms: grazing |
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(noun) a superficial abrasion | - |
grazier | (noun) a rancher who grazes cattle or sheep for market | - |
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grazing | (noun) the act of brushing against while passing | Synonyms: shaving, skimming |
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(noun) the act of grazing | Synonyms: graze |
grease | (noun) anything regarded as making something unclean | Synonyms: dirt, filth, grime, grunge, soil, stain |
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(noun) a thick fatty oil (especially one used to lubricate machinery) | Synonyms: lubricating oil |
greaseball | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Italian descent | Synonyms: dago, ginzo, Guinea, wop |
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greasepaint | (noun) a greasy substance used as makeup by actors | - |
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greaser | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Mexican descent | Synonyms: taco, wetback |
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greasewood | (noun) low hardy much-branched spiny shrub common in alkaline soils of western America | Synonyms: black greasewood, Sarcobatus vermiculatus |
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greasiness | (noun) consisting of or covered with oil | Synonyms: oiliness, oleaginousness |
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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 |
greave | (noun) armor plate that protects legs below the knee | Synonyms: jambeau |
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greaves | (noun) the residue that remains after animal fat has been rendered | Synonyms: crackling |
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grebe | (noun) small compact-bodied almost completely aquatic bird that builds floating nests; similar to loons but smaller and with lobate rather than webbed feet | - |
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greed | (noun) reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: avarice, avaritia, covetousness, rapacity |
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(noun) excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves | - |
greediness | (noun) an excessive desire for wealth (usually in large amounts) | Synonyms: rapaciousness, voraciousness |
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(noun) an excessive desire for food | Synonyms: hoggishness, piggishness |
greegree | (noun) an African amulet | Synonyms: gres-gris, grigri |
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green | (noun) street names for ketamine | Synonyms: cat valium, honey oil, jet, K, special K, super acid, super C |
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(noun) green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass | Synonyms: greenness, viridity |
(noun) any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables | Synonyms: greens, leafy vegetable |
(noun) an area of closely cropped grass surrounding the hole on a golf course | Synonyms: putting green, putting surface |
(noun) a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area | Synonyms: common, commons, park |