ackee | (noun) red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds; flesh is poisonous when unripe or overripe | Synonyms: akee |
---|
airbrake | (noun) a vehicular brake that operates by compressed air; especially for heavy vehicles | - |
---|
(noun) a small parachute or articulated flap to reduce the speed of an aircraft | Synonyms: dive brake |
akee | (noun) red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds; flesh is poisonous when unripe or overripe | Synonyms: ackee |
---|
(noun) widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits; introduced in Jamaica by William Bligh | Synonyms: akee tree, Blighia sapida |
alikeness | (noun) similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things | Synonyms: likeness, similitude |
---|
alkene | (noun) any unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon | Synonyms: olefin, olefine |
---|
archduke | (noun) a sovereign prince of the former ruling house of Austria | - |
---|
artichoke | (noun) a thistlelike flower head with edible fleshy leaves and heart | Synonyms: globe artichoke |
---|
(noun) Mediterranean thistlelike plant widely cultivated for its large edible flower head | Synonyms: artichoke plant, Cynara scolymus, globe artichoke |
ashcake | (noun) corn bread wrapped in cabbage leaves and baked in hot ashes (southern) | Synonyms: ash cake, corn tash |
---|
asker | (noun) someone who asks a question | Synonyms: enquirer, inquirer, querier, questioner |
---|
attacker | (noun) someone who attacks | Synonyms: aggressor, assailant, assaulter |
---|
automaker | (noun) a business engaged in the manufacture of automobiles | Synonyms: auto maker, auto manufacturer, car maker, car manufacturer, carmaker |
---|
awakening | (noun) the act of waking | Synonyms: wakening, waking up |
---|
backer | (noun) someone who provides financial support for some venture | Synonyms: angel |
---|
backpacker | (noun) a hiker who wears a backpack | Synonyms: packer |
---|
backstroke | (noun) a swimming stroke that resembles the crawl except the swimmer lies on his or her back | - |
---|
backstroker | (noun) someone who swims the backstroke | - |
---|
baedeker | (noun) any of a series of travel guidebooks published by the German firm founded by Karl Baedeker | - |
---|
bakeapple | (noun) creeping raspberry of north temperate regions with yellow or orange berries | Synonyms: baked-apple berry, cloudberry, dwarf mulberry, Rubus chamaemorus, salmonberry |
---|
bakehouse | (noun) a workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold | Synonyms: bakery, bakeshop |
---|
baker | (noun) someone who bakes bread or cake | Synonyms: bread maker |
---|
(noun) someone who bakes commercially | - |
bakery | (noun) a workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold | Synonyms: bakehouse, bakeshop |
---|
bakeshop | (noun) a workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold | Synonyms: bakehouse, bakery |
---|
balker | (noun) a person who refuses to comply | Synonyms: baulker, noncompliant |
---|
banker | (noun) a financier who owns or is an executive in a bank | - |
---|
(noun) the person in charge of the bank in a gambling game | - |
barkeep | (noun) an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar | Synonyms: barkeeper, bartender, mixologist |
---|
barkeeper | (noun) an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar | Synonyms: barkeep, bartender, mixologist |
---|
barker | (noun) informal terms for dogs | Synonyms: bow-wow, doggie, doggy, pooch |
---|
(noun) someone who stands in front of a show (as at a carnival) and gives a loud colorful sales talk to potential customers | - |
basket | (noun) a score in basketball made by throwing the ball through the hoop | Synonyms: field goal |
---|
(noun) a container that is usually woven and has handles | Synonyms: handbasket |
(noun) horizontal circular metal hoop supporting a net through which players try to throw the basketball | Synonyms: basketball hoop, hoop |
(noun) the quantity contained in a basket | Synonyms: basketful |
basketball | (noun) a game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the ball through an elevated horizontal hoop | Synonyms: basketball game, hoops |
---|
(noun) an inflated ball used in playing basketball | - |
basketeer | (noun) an athlete who plays basketball | Synonyms: basketball player, cager |
---|
basketful | (noun) the quantity contained in a basket | Synonyms: basket |
---|
basketmaker | (noun) someone skilled in weaving baskets | Synonyms: basketweaver |
---|
basketry | (noun) the craft of basket making | - |
---|
basketweaver | (noun) someone skilled in weaving baskets | Synonyms: basketmaker |
---|
battercake | (noun) a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle | Synonyms: flannel-cake, flannel cake, flapcake, flapjack, griddlecake, hot cake, hotcake, pancake |
---|
baulker | (noun) a person who refuses to comply | Synonyms: balker, noncompliant |
---|
beaker | (noun) a cup (usually without a handle) | - |
---|
(noun) a flatbottomed jar made of glass or plastic; used for chemistry | - |
becket | (noun) (nautical) a short line with an eye at one end and a knot at the other; used to secure loose items on a ship | - |
---|
beefcake | (noun) a photograph of a muscular man in minimal attire | - |
---|
beekeeper | (noun) a farmer who keeps bees for their honey | Synonyms: apiarist, apiculturist |
---|
beekeeping | (noun) the cultivation of bees on a commercial scale for the production of honey | Synonyms: apiculture |
---|
berkelium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic element; discovered by bombarding americium with helium | Synonyms: atomic number 97, Bk |
---|
berserker | (noun) one of the ancient Norse warriors legendary for working themselves into a frenzy before a battle and fighting with reckless savagery and insane fury | Synonyms: berserk |
---|
bialystoker | (noun) flat crusty-bottomed onion roll | Synonyms: bialy |
---|
bicker | (noun) a quarrel about petty points | Synonyms: bickering, fuss, pettifoggery, spat, squabble, tiff |
---|
bickering | (noun) a quarrel about petty points | Synonyms: bicker, fuss, pettifoggery, spat, squabble, tiff |
---|
bike | (noun) a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals | Synonyms: bicycle, cycle, wheel |
---|
(noun) a motor vehicle with two wheels and a strong frame | Synonyms: motorcycle |
biker | (noun) a person who rides a bicycle | Synonyms: bicycler, bicyclist, cyclist, wheeler |
---|
bikers | (noun) originally a British youth subculture that evolved out of the teddy boys in the 1960s; wore black leather jackets and jeans and boots; had greased hair and rode motorcycles and listened to rock'n'roll; were largely unskilled manual laborers | Synonyms: rockers |
---|
blackening | (noun) changing to a darker color | Synonyms: darkening |
---|
blacksnake | (noun) blackish racer of the eastern United States that grows to six feet | Synonyms: black racer, Coluber constrictor |
---|
(noun) large harmless shiny black North American snake | Synonyms: black rat snake, Elaphe obsoleta, mountain blacksnake, pilot blacksnake |
blanket | (noun) bedding that keeps a person warm in bed | Synonyms: cover |
---|
(noun) a layer of lead surrounding the highly reactive core of a nuclear reactor | - |
(noun) anything that covers | Synonyms: mantle |
blinker | (noun) a light that flashes on and off; used as a signal or to send messages | Synonyms: flasher |
---|
(noun) blind consisting of a leather eyepatch sewn to the side of the halter that prevents a horse from seeing something on either side | Synonyms: blinder, winker |
(noun) a blinking light on a motor vehicle that indicates the direction in which the vehicle is about to turn | Synonyms: trafficator, turn indicator, turn signal |
blocker | (noun) a class of drugs that inhibit (block) some biological process | Synonyms: blocking agent |
---|
(noun) a football player whose responsibility is to block players attempting to stop an offensive play | - |
bloke | (noun) a boy or man | Synonyms: blighter, chap, cuss, fella, feller, fellow, gent, lad |
---|
bloodsucker | (noun) carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end | Synonyms: hirudinean, leech |
---|
bluejacket | (noun) a serviceman in the navy | Synonyms: navy man, sailor, sailor boy |
---|
boneshaker | (noun) any wheeled vehicle that is dilapidated and uncomfortable | - |
---|
bookend | (noun) a support placed at the end of a row of books to keep them upright (on a shelf or table) | - |
---|
booker | (noun) someone who engages a person or company for performances | Synonyms: booking agent |
---|
bookkeeper | (noun) someone who records the transactions of a business | - |
---|
bookkeeping | (noun) the activity of recording business transactions | Synonyms: clerking |
---|
bookmaker | (noun) a gambler who accepts and pays off bets (especially on horse races) | Synonyms: bookie |
---|
(noun) a maker of books; someone who edits or publishes or binds books | - |
bookmarker | (noun) a marker (a piece of paper or ribbon) placed between the pages of a book to mark the reader's place | Synonyms: bookmark |
---|
bootlicker | (noun) someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who behaves as if he had no self-respect | Synonyms: apple polisher, fawner, groveler, groveller, truckler |
---|
bootmaker | (noun) a maker of boots | Synonyms: boot maker |
---|
bracken | (noun) large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan | Synonyms: brake, pasture brake, Pteridium aquilinum |
---|
(noun) fern of southeastern Asia; not hardy in cold temperate regions | Synonyms: Pteridium esculentum |
bracket | (noun) a support projecting from a wall (as to hold a shelf) | Synonyms: wall bracket |
---|
(noun) either of two punctuation marks ([ or ]) used to enclose textual material | Synonyms: square bracket |
(noun) either of two punctuation marks (`<' or `>') used in computer programming and sometimes used to enclose textual material | Synonyms: angle bracket |
(noun) a category falling within certain defined limits | - |
brainworker | (noun) someone whose profession involves using his head to solve problems | Synonyms: brain-worker |
---|
brake | (noun) a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle | - |
---|
(noun) anything that slows or hinders a process | - |
(noun) an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant | - |
(noun) large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan | Synonyms: bracken, pasture brake, Pteridium aquilinum |
(noun) any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants | - |
brakeman | (noun) a railroad employee responsible for a train's brakes | - |
---|
brakes | (noun) a braking device consisting of a combination of interacting parts that work to slow a motor vehicle | Synonyms: brake system |
---|
breadbasket | (noun) a basket for serving bread | - |
---|
(noun) an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion | Synonyms: stomach, tum, tummy |
(noun) a geographic region serving as the principal source of grain | - |
breaker | (noun) a device that trips like a switch and opens the circuit when overloaded | Synonyms: circuit breaker |
---|
(noun) waves breaking on the shore | Synonyms: breakers, surf |
(noun) a quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone | Synonyms: ledgeman |
breakers | (noun) waves breaking on the shore | Synonyms: breaker, surf |
---|
breaststroke | (noun) a swimming stroke; the arms are extended together in front of the head and swept back on either side accompanied by a frog kick | - |
---|
breaststroker | (noun) someone who swims the breaststroke | - |
---|
bridecake | (noun) a rich cake with two or more tiers and covered with frosting and decorations; served at a wedding reception | Synonyms: wedding cake |
---|
brisket | (noun) a cut of meat from the breast or lower chest especially of beef | - |
---|
brocket | (noun) small South American deer with unbranched antlers | - |
---|
(noun) male red deer in its second year | - |
brokenheartedness | (noun) intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death) | Synonyms: grief, heartache, heartbreak |
---|
broker | (noun) a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission | Synonyms: agent, factor |
---|
brokerage | (noun) place where a broker conducts his business | Synonyms: brokerage house |
---|
(noun) a stock broker's business; charges a fee to act as intermediary between buyer and seller | Synonyms: brokerage firm, securities firm |
(noun) the business of a broker; charges a fee to arrange a contract between two parties | - |
buckeroo | (noun) local names for a cowboy (`vaquero' is used especially in southwestern and central Texas and `buckaroo' is used especially in California) | Synonyms: buckaroo, vaquero |
---|
bucket | (noun) a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top | Synonyms: pail |
---|
(noun) the quantity contained in a bucket | Synonyms: bucketful |
bucketful | (noun) the quantity contained in a bucket | Synonyms: bucket |
---|
buckeye | (noun) tree having palmate leaves and large clusters of white to red flowers followed by brown shiny inedible seeds | Synonyms: Aesculus hippocastanum, horse chestnut |
---|
(noun) the inedible nutlike seed of the horse chestnut | Synonyms: conker, horse chestnut |
bunker | (noun) a hazard on a golf course | Synonyms: sand trap, trap |
---|
(noun) a fortification of earth; mostly or entirely below ground | Synonyms: dugout |
(noun) a large container for storing fuel | - |
bushwhacker | (noun) a disparaging term for an unsophisticated person | Synonyms: hillbilly |
---|
(noun) a Confederate guerrilla during the American Civil War | - |
busker | (noun) a person who entertains people for money in public places (as by singing or dancing), usually while asking for money | - |
---|
cabinetmaker | (noun) a woodworker who specializes in making furniture | Synonyms: furniture maker |
---|
cake | (noun) a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax) | Synonyms: bar |
---|
(noun) baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat | - |
(noun) small flat mass of chopped or ground food | Synonyms: patty |
cakehole | (noun) informal terms for the mouth | Synonyms: gob, hole, maw, trap, yap |
---|
cakewalk | (noun) a strutting dance based on a march; was performed in minstrel shows; originated as a competition among Black dancers to win a cake | - |
---|
(noun) an easy accomplishment | - |
candlemaker | (noun) a person who makes or sells candles | - |
---|
candymaker | (noun) someone who makes candies and other sweets | Synonyms: confectioner |
---|
canebrake | (noun) a dense growth of cane (especially giant cane) | - |
---|
canker | (noun) a pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of | Synonyms: pestilence |
---|
(noun) an ulceration (especially of the lips or lining of the mouth) | Synonyms: canker sore |
(noun) a fungal disease of woody plants that causes localized damage to the bark | - |
cankerweed | (noun) herb of northeastern North America having drooping clusters of yellowish-white flowers; sometimes placed in genus Prenanthes | Synonyms: Nabalus alba, Prenanthes alba, white lettuce |
---|
cankerworm | (noun) green caterpillar of a geometrid moth; pest of various fruit and shade trees | - |
---|