amphitheater | (noun) an oval large stadium with tiers of seats; an arena in which contests and spectacles are held | Synonyms: amphitheatre, coliseum |
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(noun) a sloping gallery with seats for spectators (as in an operating room or theater) | Synonyms: amphitheatre |
amphitheatre | (noun) an oval large stadium with tiers of seats; an arena in which contests and spectacles are held | Synonyms: amphitheater, coliseum |
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(noun) a sloping gallery with seats for spectators (as in an operating room or theater) | Synonyms: amphitheater |
anorthite | (noun) rare plagioclastic feldspar occurring in many igneous rocks | - |
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architect | (noun) someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings) | Synonyms: designer |
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architectonics | (noun) the science of architecture | Synonyms: tectonics |
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architecture | (noun) the profession of designing buildings and environments with consideration for their esthetic effect | - |
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(noun) an architectural product or work | - |
(noun) (computer science) the structure and organization of a computer's hardware or system software | Synonyms: computer architecture |
(noun) the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings | - |
architeuthis | (noun) largest mollusk known about but never seen (to 60 feet long) | Synonyms: giant squid |
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architrave | (noun) the lowest part of an entablature; rests immediately on the capitals of the columns | - |
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(noun) the molding around a door or window | - |
balanoposthitis | (noun) inflammation of both the head of the penis and the foreskin | - |
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bobwhite | (noun) a popular North American game bird; named for its call | Synonyms: bobwhite quail, partridge |
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bronchitis | (noun) inflammation of the membranes lining the bronchial tubes | - |
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bullshit | (noun) Obscene word for unacceptable behavior | Synonyms: bull, crap, dogshit, horseshit, Irish bull, shit |
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chalcanthite | (noun) hydrated blue crystalline form of copper sulfate | Synonyms: blue copperas, blue stone, blue vitriol |
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chickenshit | (noun) a false statement that is considered to indicate timidity or fear | - |
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chit | (noun) the bill in a restaurant | Synonyms: check, tab |
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(noun) a dismissive term for a girl who is immature or who lacks respect | - |
chitchat | (noun) light informal conversation for social occasions | Synonyms: causerie, chin-wag, chin-wagging, chin wag, chin wagging, chit-chat, chit chat, gab, gabfest, gossip, small talk, tittle-tattle |
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chitin | (noun) a tough semitransparent horny substance; the principal component of the exoskeletons of arthropods and the cell walls of certain fungi | - |
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chitlings | (noun) small intestines of hogs prepared as food | Synonyms: chitlins, chitterlings |
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chitlins | (noun) small intestines of hogs prepared as food | Synonyms: chitlings, chitterlings |
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chiton | (noun) primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates | Synonyms: coat-of-mail shell, polyplacophore, sea cradle |
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(noun) a woolen tunic worn by men and women in ancient Greece | - |
chittamwood | (noun) deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico | Synonyms: black haw, Bumelia lanuginosa, chittimwood, false buckthorn, shittimwood |
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(noun) shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada | Synonyms: bearberry, bearwood, cascara buckthorn, chittimwood, Rhamnus purshianus |
(noun) shrubby tree of southern United States having large plumes of feathery flowers resembling puffs of smoke | Synonyms: American smokewood, Cotinus americanus, Cotinus obovatus |
chitterlings | (noun) small intestines of hogs prepared as food | Synonyms: chitlings, chitlins |
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chittimwood | (noun) deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico | Synonyms: black haw, Bumelia lanuginosa, chittamwood, false buckthorn, shittimwood |
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(noun) shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada | Synonyms: bearberry, bearwood, cascara buckthorn, chittamwood, Rhamnus purshianus |
cytoarchitectonics | (noun) the cellular composition of a bodily structure | Synonyms: cytoarchitecture |
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cytoarchitecture | (noun) the cellular composition of a bodily structure | Synonyms: cytoarchitectonics |
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diddlyshit | (noun) a small worthless amount | Synonyms: diddley, diddly-shit, diddly-squat, diddly, diddlysquat, doodly-squat, jack, shit, squat |
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dogshit | (noun) Obscene word for unacceptable behavior | Synonyms: bull, bullshit, crap, horseshit, Irish bull, shit |
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goethite | (noun) a red or yellow or brown mineral; an oxide of iron that is a common constituent of rust | Synonyms: gothite |
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gothite | (noun) a red or yellow or brown mineral; an oxide of iron that is a common constituent of rust | Synonyms: goethite |
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graphite | (noun) used as a lubricant and as a moderator in nuclear reactors | Synonyms: black lead, plumbago |
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hemimorphite | (noun) a white mineral; a common ore of zinc | Synonyms: calamine |
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hit | (noun) the act of contacting one thing with another | Synonyms: hitting, striking |
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(noun) a conspicuous success | Synonyms: bang, smash, smasher, strike |
(noun) (baseball) when a batter strikes a picthed ball into fair territory and arrives safely on base (without an error or a fielder's choice being made by the defense) | - |
(noun) a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate | - |
(noun) a connection made via the internet to another website | - |
(noun) a dose of a narcotic drug | - |
(noun) (physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together | Synonyms: collision |
hitch | (noun) the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg | Synonyms: hobble, limp |
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(noun) a knot that can be undone by pulling against the strain that holds it; a temporary knot | - |
(noun) a connection between a vehicle and the load that it pulls | - |
(noun) any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome | Synonyms: encumbrance, hinderance, hindrance, incumbrance, interference, preventative, preventive |
(noun) an unforeseen obstacle | Synonyms: hang-up, rub, snag |
(noun) the state of inactivity following an interruption | Synonyms: arrest, check, halt, stay, stop, stoppage |
(noun) a period of time spent in military service | Synonyms: duty tour, enlistment, term of enlistment, tour, tour of duty |
hitchhiker | (noun) a person who travels by getting free rides from passing vehicles | - |
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hitchrack | (noun) a fixed horizontal rail to which a horse can be hitched to prevent it from straying | Synonyms: hitching bar |
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hitman | (noun) a professional killer who uses a gun | Synonyms: gun, gun for hire, gunman, gunslinger, hired gun, hit man, shooter, torpedo, triggerman |
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hitter | (noun) (baseball) a ballplayer who is batting | Synonyms: batsman, batter, slugger |
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(noun) someone who hits | Synonyms: striker |
hitting | (noun) the act of contacting one thing with another | Synonyms: hit, striking |
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horseshit | (noun) Obscene word for unacceptable behavior | Synonyms: bull, bullshit, crap, dogshit, Irish bull, shit |
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labyrinthitis | (noun) inflammation of the inner ear; can cause vertigo and vomiting | Synonyms: otitis interna |
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laryngotracheobronchitis | (noun) inflammation of the larynx and trachea and bronchial passageways | - |
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lintwhite | (noun) small Old World finch whose male has a red breast and forehead | Synonyms: Carduelis cannabina, linnet |
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malachite | (noun) a green or blue mineral used as an ore of copper and for making ornamental objects | - |
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megahit | (noun) an unusually successful hit with widespread popularity and huge sales (especially a movie or play or recording or novel) | Synonyms: blockbuster, smash hit |
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mephitis | (noun) a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant | Synonyms: fetor, foetor, malodor, malodour, reek, stench, stink |
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(noun) a poisonous or foul smelling gas emitted from the earth | - |
orchitis | (noun) inflammation of one or both testes; characterized by pain and swelling | - |
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posthitis | (noun) inflammation of the foreskin of the penis; usually caused by bacterial infection | - |
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pyromorphite | (noun) a mineral consisting of lead chloride and phosphate; a minor source of lead | Synonyms: green lead ore |
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rachitis | (noun) childhood disease caused by deficiency of vitamin D and sunlight associated with impaired metabolism of calcium and phosphorus | Synonyms: rickets |
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(noun) inflammation of the vertebral column | - |
shit | (noun) something of little value | Synonyms: damn, darn, hoot, red cent, shucks, tinker's dam, tinker's damn |
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(noun) Obscene word for unacceptable behavior | Synonyms: bull, bullshit, crap, dogshit, horseshit, Irish bull |
(noun) insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous | Synonyms: asshole, bastard, cocksucker, dickhead, mother fucker, motherfucker, prick, SOB, son of a bitch, whoreson |
(noun) a coarse term for defecation | Synonyms: dump |
(noun) a small worthless amount | Synonyms: diddley, diddly-shit, diddly-squat, diddly, diddlyshit, diddlysquat, doodly-squat, jack, squat |
(noun) obscene terms for feces | Synonyms: crap, dirt, poop, shite, turd |
shite | (noun) obscene terms for feces | Synonyms: crap, dirt, poop, shit, turd |
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shithead | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull |
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shitlist | (noun) a list of people who are out of favor | Synonyms: black book, blacklist |
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shitpost | (noun) A poor quality and controversial Internet post | - |
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shitstorm | (noun) A considerable backlash or controversy | - |
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shittah | (noun) source of a wood mentioned frequently in the Bible; probably a species of genus Acacia | Synonyms: shittah tree |
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shitter | (noun) a person who defecates | Synonyms: defecator, voider |
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shittim | (noun) shrubby thorny deciduous tree of southeastern United States with white flowers and small black drupaceous fruit | Synonyms: Bumelia lycioides, mock orange, shittimwood, southern buckthorn |
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shittimwood | (noun) wood of the shittah tree used to make the ark of the Hebrew Tabernacle | - |
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(noun) deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico | Synonyms: black haw, Bumelia lanuginosa, chittamwood, chittimwood, false buckthorn |
(noun) shrubby thorny deciduous tree of southeastern United States with white flowers and small black drupaceous fruit | Synonyms: Bumelia lycioides, mock orange, shittim, southern buckthorn |
shittiness | (noun) (vulgar, colloquial) The state or condition of being very bad; unpleasant; miserable; insignificant. | - |
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shitting | (noun) the elimination of fecal waste through the anus | Synonyms: defecation, laxation |
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shitwork | (noun) trivial, unrewarding, tedious, dirty, and disagreeable chores | Synonyms: scut work |
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tracheobronchitis | (noun) common respiratory infection characterized by inflammation of the trachea and the bronchi | - |
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whit | (noun) a tiny or scarcely detectable amount | Synonyms: iota, scintilla, shred, smidge, smidgen, smidgeon, smidgin, tittle |
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white | (noun) (board games) the lighter pieces | - |
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(noun) (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth | Synonyms: flannel, gabardine, tweed |
(noun) the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black) | Synonyms: whiteness |
(noun) the white part of an egg; the nutritive and protective gelatinous substance surrounding the yolk consisting mainly of albumin dissolved in water | Synonyms: albumen, egg white, ovalbumin |
whitebait | (noun) the edible young of especially herrings and sprats and smelts | - |
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(noun) minnows or other small fresh- or saltwater fish (especially herring); usually cooked whole | - |
whitecap | (noun) a wave that is blown by the wind so its crest is broken and appears white | Synonyms: white horse |
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whitecup | (noun) prostrate woody South American herb with white tubular flowers often tinged with blue or rose | Synonyms: Nierembergia repens, Nierembergia rivularis |
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whiteface | (noun) hardy English breed of cattle raised extensively in United States | Synonyms: Hereford |
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(noun) a clown whose face is covered with white make-up | - |
whitefish | (noun) silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the Northern Hemisphere | - |
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(noun) flesh of salmon-like or trout-like cold-water fish of cold lakes of the Northern Hemisphere | - |
(noun) any market fish--edible saltwater fish or shellfish--except herring | - |
whitefly | (noun) minute insect that feeds on plant juices; related to scale insects | - |
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whitehead | (noun) a small whitish lump in the skin due to a clogged sebaceous gland | Synonyms: milium |
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whitelash | (noun) backlash by white racists against black civil rights advances | Synonyms: white backlash |
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whitener | (noun) an agent that makes things white or colorless | Synonyms: blanching agent, bleach, bleaching agent |
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whiteness | (noun) the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black) | Synonyms: white |
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(noun) lightness or fairness of complexion | - |
(noun) the state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil | Synonyms: innocence, pureness, purity, sinlessness |
whitening | (noun) changing to a lighter color | Synonyms: lightening |
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whiteout | (noun) an arctic atmospheric condition with clouds over snow produce a uniform whiteness and objects are difficult to see; occurs when the light reflected off the snow equals the light coming through the clouds | - |
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whitetail | (noun) common North American deer; tail has a white underside | Synonyms: Odocoileus Virginianus, Virginia deer, white-tailed deer, white tail, whitetail deer |
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whitethorn | (noun) thorny Eurasian shrub of small tree having dense clusters of white to scarlet flowers followed by deep red berries; established as an escape in eastern North America | Synonyms: Crataegus laevigata, Crataegus oxycantha, English hawthorn, may |
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whitethroat | (noun) common North American finch with a white patch on the throat and black-and-white striped crown | Synonyms: white-throated sparrow, Zonotrichia albicollis |
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(noun) greyish-brown Old World warbler with a white throat and underparts | Synonyms: greater whitethroat, Sylvia communis |
(noun) Old World warbler similar to the greater whitethroat but smaller | Synonyms: lesser whitethroat, Sylvia curruca |
whitewash | (noun) a specious or deceptive clearing that attempts to gloss over failings and defects | - |
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(noun) wash consisting of lime and size in water; used for whitening walls and other surfaces | - |
(noun) a defeat in which the losing person or team fails to score | - |
whitewater | (noun) frothy water as in rapids or waterfalls | Synonyms: white water |
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whitewood | (noun) light easily worked wood of a tulip tree; used for furniture and veneer | Synonyms: true tulipwood, tulipwood, white poplar, yellow poplar |
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whitey | (noun) (slang) offensive names for a White man | Synonyms: honkey, honkie, honky |
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whiting | (noun) a food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe resembling the cod; sometimes placed in genus Gadus | Synonyms: Gadus merlangus, Merlangus merlangus |
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(noun) any of several food fishes of North American coastal waters | - |
(noun) found off Atlantic coast of North America | Synonyms: Merluccius bilinearis, silver hake |
(noun) a small fish of the genus Sillago; excellent food fish | - |
(noun) flesh of any of a number of slender food fishes especially of Atlantic coasts of North America | - |
(noun) flesh of a cod-like fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe | - |
whitlavia | (noun) desert plant of southern California with blue or violet tubular flowers in terminal racemes | Synonyms: California bluebell, Phacelia minor, Phacelia whitlavia |
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whitlow | (noun) a purulent infection at the end of a finger or toe in the area surrounding the nail | Synonyms: felon |
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whitlowwort | (noun) any of various low-growing tufted plants of the genus Paronychia having tiny greenish flowers and usually whorled leaves; widespread throughout warm regions of both Old and New Worlds; formerly thought to cure whitlows (suppurative infections around a fingernail) | - |
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whittler | (noun) someone who whittles (usually as an idle pastime) | - |
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