airlift | (noun) transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable) | Synonyms: lift |
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airline | (noun) a commercial enterprise that provides scheduled flights for passengers | Synonyms: airline business, airway |
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(noun) a hose that carries air under pressure | Synonyms: air hose |
airliner | (noun) a commercial airplane that carries passengers | - |
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airlock | (noun) a chamber that provides access to space where air is under pressure | Synonyms: air lock |
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birling | (noun) rotating a log rapidly in the water (as a competitive sport) | Synonyms: logrolling |
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camgirl | (noun) a female performer who performs sexual acts by camera on the internet | - |
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chairlift | (noun) a ski lift on which riders (skiers or sightseers) are seated and carried up or down a mountainside; seats are hung from an endless overhead cable | Synonyms: chair lift |
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cowgirl | (noun) a woman cowboy | - |
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daygirl | (noun) a day boarder who is a girl | - |
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fairlead | (noun) a pulley-block used to guide a rope forming part of a ship's rigging to avoid chafing | - |
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fangirl | (noun) A female fan who is obsessive about a particular subject (especially, someone or something in popular entertainment media) | - |
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girl | (noun) a young female | Synonyms: fille, miss, missy, young lady, young woman |
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(noun) a girl or young woman with whom a man is romantically involved | Synonyms: girlfriend, lady friend |
(noun) a youthful female person | Synonyms: female child, little girl |
(noun) a friendly informal reference to a grown woman | - |
(noun) a female human offspring | Synonyms: daughter |
girlfriend | (noun) a girl or young woman with whom a man is romantically involved | Synonyms: girl, lady friend |
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(noun) any female friend | - |
girlhood | (noun) the childhood of a girl | Synonyms: maidenhood, maidhood |
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girlishness | (noun) being characteristic of a girl | - |
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hairlessness | (noun) the quality of not having hair | - |
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(noun) the condition of being void of hair | Synonyms: depilation |
hairline | (noun) the natural margin formed by hair on the head | - |
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(noun) a very thin line | - |
heirloom | (noun) something that has been in a family for generations | - |
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(noun) (law) any property that is considered by law or custom as inseparable from an inheritance is inherited with that inheritance | - |
homegirl | (noun) a fellow female member of a youth gang | - |
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salesgirl | (noun) a woman salesperson | Synonyms: saleslady, saleswoman |
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schoolgirl | (noun) a girl attending school | - |
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showgirl | (noun) a woman who dances in a chorus line | Synonyms: chorine, chorus girl |
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sirloin | (noun) the portion of the loin (especially of beef) just in front of the rump | - |
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skirl | (noun) the sound of (the chanter of) a bagpipe | - |
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swirl | (noun) the shape of something rotating rapidly | Synonyms: convolution, vortex, whirl |
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twirl | (noun) the act of rotating rapidly | Synonyms: spin, twist, twisting, whirl |
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(noun) a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight | Synonyms: kink, twist |
twirler | (noun) (baseball) the person who does the pitching | Synonyms: hurler, pitcher |
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(noun) someone who twirls a baton | Synonyms: baton twirler |
whirl | (noun) a usually brief attempt | Synonyms: crack, fling, go, offer, pass |
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(noun) the act of rotating rapidly | Synonyms: spin, twirl, twist, twisting |
(noun) confused movement | Synonyms: commotion |
(noun) the shape of something rotating rapidly | Synonyms: convolution, swirl, vortex |
whirler | (noun) a revolving mechanism | - |
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(noun) a dervish whose actions include ecstatic dancing and whirling | Synonyms: whirling dervish |
whirligig | (noun) a large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride on for amusement | Synonyms: carousel, carrousel, merry-go-round, roundabout |
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(noun) a conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin | Synonyms: spinning top, teetotum, top |
whirling | (noun) the act of rotating in a circle or spiral | Synonyms: gyration |
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whirlpool | (noun) a powerful circular current of water (usually the result of conflicting tides) | Synonyms: maelstrom, vortex |
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whirlwind | (noun) a more or less vertical column of air whirling around itself as it moves over the surface of the Earth | - |
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whirlybird | (noun) an aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the rotation of overhead blades | Synonyms: chopper, eggbeater, helicopter |
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