achillea | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Achillea native to Europe and having small white flowers in flat-topped flower heads | - |
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anthill | (noun) a mound of earth made by ants as they dig their nest | Synonyms: formicary |
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chill | (noun) coldness due to a cold environment | Synonyms: gelidity, iciness |
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(noun) a sudden numbing dread | Synonyms: pall |
(noun) an almost pleasurable sensation of fright | Synonyms: frisson, quiver, shiver, shudder, thrill, tingle |
(noun) a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever | Synonyms: shivering |
chiller | (noun) excitation that makes your hair stand up or that chills your bones | Synonyms: hair-raiser |
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chilli | (noun) very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency | Synonyms: chile, chili, chili pepper, chilly |
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chilliness | (noun) the property of being moderately cold | Synonyms: coolness, nip |
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(noun) a lack of affection or enthusiasm | Synonyms: coldness, coolness, frigidity, frigidness, iciness |
chilling | (noun) the process of becoming cooler; a falling temperature | Synonyms: cooling, temperature reduction |
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chilly | (noun) very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency | Synonyms: chile, chili, chili pepper, chilli |
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chinchilla | (noun) small rodent with soft pearly grey fur; native to the Andes but bred in captivity for fur | Synonyms: Chinchilla laniger |
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(noun) a thick twilled fabric of wool and cotton | - |
(noun) the expensive silvery grey fur of the chinchilla | - |
chinchillon | (noun) gregarious burrowing rodent larger than the chinchillas | Synonyms: Lagostomus maximus, viscacha |
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downhill | (noun) a ski race down a trail | - |
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(noun) the downward slope of a hill | - |
dunghill | (noun) a heap of dung or refuse | Synonyms: midden, muckheap, muckhill |
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(noun) a foul or degraded condition | - |
foothill | (noun) a relatively low hill on the lower slope of a mountain | - |
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ghillie | (noun) a shoe without a tongue and with decorative lacing up the instep | Synonyms: gillie |
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hill | (noun) (baseball) the slight elevation on which the pitcher stands | Synonyms: mound, pitcher's mound |
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(noun) structure consisting of an artificial heap or bank usually of earth or stones | Synonyms: mound |
(noun) a local and well-defined elevation of the land | - |
hillbilly | (noun) a disparaging term for an unsophisticated person | Synonyms: bushwhacker |
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hilliness | (noun) the quality of being hilly | - |
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hillock | (noun) a small natural hill | Synonyms: hammock, hummock, knoll, mound |
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hillside | (noun) the side or slope of a hill | - |
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hilltop | (noun) the peak of a hill | Synonyms: brow |
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molehill | (noun) a mound of earth made by moles while burrowing | - |
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muckhill | (noun) a heap of dung or refuse | Synonyms: dunghill, midden, muckheap |
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phillipsite | (noun) a group of white or reddish crystalline minerals of the zeolite family consisting of a hydrous silicate of calcium and potassium and aluminum | - |
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schilling | (noun) formerly the basic unit of money in Austria | Synonyms: Austrian schilling |
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shill | (noun) a decoy who acts as an enthusiastic customer in order to stimulate the participation of others | - |
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shillalah | (noun) a cudgel made of hardwood (usually oak or blackthorn) | Synonyms: shillelagh |
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shillelagh | (noun) a cudgel made of hardwood (usually oak or blackthorn) | Synonyms: shillalah |
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shilling | (noun) an English coin worth one twentieth of a pound | - |
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(noun) a former monetary unit in Great Britain | Synonyms: bob, British shilling |
(noun) the basic unit of money in Kenya; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: Kenyan shilling |
(noun) the basic unit of money in Somalia; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: Somalian shilling |
(noun) the basic unit of money in Tanzania; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: Tanzanian shilling |
(noun) the basic unit of money in Uganda; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: Ugandan shilling |
shillyshally | (noun) the act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or deferring an action to a later time | Synonyms: cunctation, procrastination |
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thill | (noun) one of two shafts extending from the body of a cart or carriage on either side of the animal that pulls it | - |
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uphill | (noun) the upward slope of a hill | - |
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