preponderance | (noun) a superiority in numbers or amount | Synonyms: prevalence |
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(noun) exceeding in heaviness; having greater weight | - |
(noun) superiority in power or influence | - |
pretender | (noun) a person who makes deceitful pretenses | Synonyms: fake, faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer |
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(noun) a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives | Synonyms: dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite, phoney, phony |
provender | (noun) a stock or supply of foods | Synonyms: commissariat, provisions, viands, victuals |
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(noun) food for domestic livestock | Synonyms: feed |
rangefinder | (noun) a measuring instrument (acoustic or optical or electronic) for finding the distance of an object | Synonyms: range finder |
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rejoinder | (noun) a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one) | Synonyms: comeback, counter, replication, retort, return, riposte |
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(noun) (law) a pleading made by a defendant in response to the plaintiff's replication | - |
remainder | (noun) a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold | Synonyms: end, oddment, remnant |
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(noun) the number that remains after subtraction; the number that when added to the subtrahend gives the minuend | Synonyms: difference |
(noun) the part of the dividend that is left over when the dividend is not evenly divisible by the divisor | - |
(noun) something left after other parts have been taken away | Synonyms: balance, residual, residue, residuum, rest |
reminder | (noun) an experience that causes you to remember something | - |
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(noun) a message that helps you remember something | - |
(noun) someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided | Synonyms: admonisher, monitor |
render | (noun) a substance similar to stucco but exclusively applied to masonry walls | - |
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rendering | (noun) giving in acknowledgment of obligation | - |
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(noun) the act of interpreting something as expressed in an artistic performance | Synonyms: interpretation, rendition |
(noun) perspective drawing of an architect's design | - |
(noun) a coat of stucco applied to a masonry wall | - |
(noun) an explanation of something that is not immediately obvious | Synonyms: interpretation, interpreting, rendition |
(noun) a performance of a musical composition or a dramatic role etc. | Synonyms: rendition |
(noun) a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language | Synonyms: interlingual rendition, translation, version |
responder | (noun) someone who responds | Synonyms: answerer, respondent |
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righthander | (noun) a person who uses the right hand more skillfully than the left | Synonyms: right-hander, right hander |
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rinderpest | (noun) an acute infectious viral disease of cattle (usually fatal); characterized by fever and diarrhea and inflammation of mucous membranes | Synonyms: cattle plague |
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rounder | (noun) a tool for rounding corners or edges | - |
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(noun) a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained | Synonyms: debauchee, libertine |
rounders | (noun) an English ball game similar to baseball | - |
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salamander | (noun) any of various typically terrestrial amphibians that resemble lizards and that return to water only to breed | - |
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(noun) fire iron consisting of a metal rod with a handle; used to stir a fire | Synonyms: fire hook, poker, stove poker |
(noun) reptilian creature supposed to live in fire | - |
sander | (noun) a power tool used for sanding wood; an endless loop of sandpaper is moved at high speed by an electric motor | Synonyms: drum sander, electric sander, smoother |
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sanderling | (noun) small sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and migrates southward along sandy coasts in most of world | Synonyms: Crocethia alba |
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seconder | (noun) someone who endorses a motion or petition as a necessary preliminary to a discussion or vote | - |
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sender | (noun) set used to broadcast radio or tv signals | Synonyms: transmitter |
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(noun) someone who transmits a message | Synonyms: transmitter |
sidewinder | (noun) small pale-colored desert rattlesnake of southwestern United States; body moves in an s-shaped curve | Synonyms: Crotalus cerastes, horned rattlesnake |
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(noun) air-to-air missile with infrared homing device | - |
slander | (noun) an abusive attack on a person's character or good name | Synonyms: aspersion, calumny, defamation, denigration |
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(noun) words falsely spoken that damage the reputation of another | - |
slanderer | (noun) one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel | Synonyms: backbiter, defamer, libeler, maligner, traducer, vilifier |
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slanderousness | (noun) The property of being both untrue and harmful to a reputation. | - |
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slenderness | (noun) the quality of being slight or inadequate | - |
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(noun) the property of an attractively thin person | Synonyms: slightness, slimness |
(noun) relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width | Synonyms: tenuity, thinness |
sounder | (noun) a device for making soundings | - |
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spellbinder | (noun) an orator who can hold his listeners spellbound | - |
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spender | (noun) someone who spends money to purchase goods or services | Synonyms: disburser, expender |
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(noun) someone who spends money prodigally | Synonyms: scattergood, spend-all, spendthrift |
squanderer | (noun) a recklessly extravagant consumer | Synonyms: prodigal, profligate |
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squandering | (noun) spending resources lavishly and wastefully | - |
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squandermania | (noun) prodigious squandering (usually by a government) | - |
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stander | (noun) an organism (person or animal) that stands | - |
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surrejoinder | (noun) (law) a pleading by the plaintiff in reply to the defendant's rejoinder | - |
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surrender | (noun) the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions) | Synonyms: capitulation, fall |
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(noun) the delivery of a principal into lawful custody | - |
(noun) a verbal act of admitting defeat | Synonyms: giving up, yielding |
(noun) acceptance of despair | Synonyms: resignation |
surrenderer | (noun) a person who yields or surrenders | Synonyms: yielder |
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suspender | (noun) elastic straps that hold trousers up | Synonyms: brace, gallus |
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tender | (noun) ship that usually provides supplies to other ships | Synonyms: supply ship |
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(noun) a boat for communication between ship and shore | Synonyms: cutter, pinnace, ship's boat |
(noun) car attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water | - |
(noun) a formal proposal to buy at a specified price | Synonyms: bid |
(noun) someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another | Synonyms: attendant, attender |
(noun) something that can be used as an official medium of payment | Synonyms: legal tender, stamp |
tenderfoot | (noun) an inexperienced person (especially someone inexperienced in outdoor living) | - |
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tendergreen | (noun) Asiatic plant cultivated for its swollen root crown and edible foliage | Synonyms: Brassica perviridis, Brassica rapa perviridis, spinach mustard |
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tenderheartedness | (noun) warm compassionate feelings | Synonyms: tenderness |
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tenderisation | (noun) the act of making meat tender by pounding or marinating it | Synonyms: tenderization |
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tenderiser | (noun) a substance (as the plant enzyme papain) applied to meat to make it tender | Synonyms: tenderizer |
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tenderization | (noun) the act of making meat tender by pounding or marinating it | Synonyms: tenderisation |
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tenderizer | (noun) a substance (as the plant enzyme papain) applied to meat to make it tender | Synonyms: tenderiser |
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tenderloin | (noun) the tender meat of the loin muscle on each side of the vertebral column | Synonyms: undercut |
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(noun) a city district known for its vice and high crime rate | Synonyms: combat zone |
tenderness | (noun) a tendency to express warm and affectionate feeling | - |
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(noun) a feeling of concern for the welfare of someone (especially someone defenseless) | Synonyms: softheartedness |
(noun) a positive feeling of liking | Synonyms: affection, affectionateness, fondness, heart, philia, warmheartedness, warmness |
(noun) warm compassionate feelings | Synonyms: tenderheartedness |
(noun) a pain that is felt (as when the area is touched) | Synonyms: rawness, soreness |
tenpounder | (noun) game fish resembling the tarpon but smaller | Synonyms: Elops saurus, ladyfish |
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thunder | (noun) street names for heroin | Synonyms: big H, hell dust, nose drops, scag, skag, smack |
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(noun) a deep prolonged loud noise | Synonyms: boom, roar, roaring |
(noun) a booming or crashing noise caused by air expanding along the path of a bolt of lightning | - |
thunderbird | (noun) (mythology) the spirit of thunder and lightning believed by some Native Americans to take the shape of a great bird | - |
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thunderbolt | (noun) a shocking surprise | Synonyms: bombshell, thunderclap |
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(noun) a discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder | Synonyms: bolt, bolt of lightning |
thunderclap | (noun) a single sharp crash of thunder | - |
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(noun) a shocking surprise | Synonyms: bombshell, thunderbolt |
thundercloud | (noun) a dark cloud of great vertical extent charged with electricity; associated with thunderstorms | Synonyms: cumulonimbus, cumulonimbus cloud |
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thunderer | (noun) a noisemaker that makes a sound like thunder | - |
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thunderhead | (noun) a rounded projecting mass of a cumulus cloud with shining edges; often appears before a thunderstorm | - |
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thunderousness | (noun) The state or condition of being very loud, suggestive of thunder; booming loudness. | - |
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thundershower | (noun) a short rainstorm accompanied by thunder and lightning | - |
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thunderstorm | (noun) a storm resulting from strong rising air currents; heavy rain or hail along with thunder and lightning | Synonyms: electric storm, electrical storm |
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tinder | (noun) material for starting a fire | Synonyms: kindling, punk, spunk, touchwood |
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tinderbox | (noun) a box for holding tinder | - |
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(noun) a dangerous state of affairs; a situation that is a potential source of violence | - |
transgendered | (noun) a person who has undergone a sex change operation | Synonyms: transexual, transsexual |
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transponder | (noun) electrical device designed to receive a specific signal and automatically transmit a specific reply | - |
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tsundere | (noun) a person who is initially cold and even hostile towards another person before gradually showing a warmer side over time. | - |
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(noun) a character development process that describes a person who is initially cold and even hostile towards another person before gradually showing a warmer side over time. | - |
underachievement | (noun) poorer than expected performance (poorer than might have been predicted from intelligence tests) | - |
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underachiever | (noun) a student who does not perform as well as expected or as well as the IQ indicates | Synonyms: nonachiever, underperformer |
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underbelly | (noun) the quality of being weak or unprotected | - |
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(noun) the soft belly or underside of an animal's body | Synonyms: underbody |
(noun) lower side | - |
underbodice | (noun) a short sleeveless undergarment for women | Synonyms: camisole |
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underbody | (noun) the soft belly or underside of an animal's body | Synonyms: underbelly |
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underboss | (noun) an assistant or second-in-command to a chief (especially in a crime syndicate) | - |
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underbrush | (noun) the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest | Synonyms: undergrowth, underwood |
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undercarriage | (noun) framework that serves as a support for the body of a vehicle | - |
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undercharge | (noun) an insufficient charge | - |
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(noun) a price that is too low | - |
underclass | (noun) the social class lowest in the social hierarchy | Synonyms: lower class |
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underclassman | (noun) an undergraduate who is not yet a senior | Synonyms: lowerclassman |
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underclothes | (noun) undergarment worn next to the skin and under the outer garments | Synonyms: underclothing, underwear |
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underclothing | (noun) undergarment worn next to the skin and under the outer garments | Synonyms: underclothes, underwear |
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undercoat | (noun) thick soft fur lying beneath the longer and coarser guard hair | Synonyms: underfur |
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(noun) the first or preliminary coat of paint or size applied to a surface | Synonyms: flat coat, ground, primer, primer coat, priming, priming coat |
(noun) seal consisting of a coating of a tar or rubberlike material on the underside of a motor vehicle to retard corrosion | Synonyms: underseal |
undercurrent | (noun) a subdued emotional quality underlying an utterance; implicit meaning | Synonyms: undertone |
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(noun) a current below the surface of a fluid | Synonyms: undertide |
undercut | (noun) (sports) a stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball | Synonyms: cut |
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(noun) a cut made underneath to remove material | - |
(noun) a notch cut in the trunk of tree in order to determine the direction of its fall | - |
(noun) the tender meat of the loin muscle on each side of the vertebral column | Synonyms: tenderloin |
(noun) the material removed by a cut made underneath | - |
underdevelopment | (noun) (photography) inadequate processing of film resulting in inadequate contrast | - |
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(noun) state of inadequate development | - |
underdog | (noun) one at a disadvantage and expected to lose | - |
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underdrawers | (noun) underpants worn by men | Synonyms: boxers, boxershorts, drawers, shorts |
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underestimate | (noun) an estimation that is too low; an estimate that is less than the true or actual value | Synonyms: underestimation, underrating, underreckoning |
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underestimation | (noun) an estimation that is too low; an estimate that is less than the true or actual value | Synonyms: underestimate, underrating, underreckoning |
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underevaluation | (noun) an appraisal that underestimates the value of something | - |
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underexposure | (noun) the act of exposing film to too little light or for too short a time | - |
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(noun) inadequate publicity | - |
underfelt | (noun) a carpet pad of thick felt | - |
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underframe | (noun) the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape | Synonyms: frame, skeletal frame, skeleton |
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underfur | (noun) thick soft fur lying beneath the longer and coarser guard hair | Synonyms: undercoat |
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undergarment | (noun) a garment worn under other garments | Synonyms: unmentionable |
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undergrad | (noun) a university student who has not yet received a first degree | Synonyms: undergraduate |
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undergraduate | (noun) a university student who has not yet received a first degree | Synonyms: undergrad |
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underground | (noun) an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city) | Synonyms: metro, subway, subway system, tube |
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(noun) a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force | Synonyms: resistance |
undergrowth | (noun) the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest | Synonyms: underbrush, underwood |
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underlay | (noun) a pad placed under a carpet | Synonyms: carpet pad, rug pad, underlayment |
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underlayment | (noun) a pad placed under a carpet | Synonyms: carpet pad, rug pad, underlay |
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underline | (noun) a line drawn underneath (especially under written matter) | Synonyms: underscore |
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underling | (noun) an assistant subject to the authority or control of another | Synonyms: foot soldier, subordinate, subsidiary |
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underlip | (noun) the lower lip | - |
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undernourishment | (noun) not having enough food to develop or function normally | Synonyms: malnourishment |
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underpants | (noun) an undergarment that covers the body from the waist no further than to the thighs; usually worn next to the skin | - |
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underpart | (noun) a part lying on the lower side or underneath an animal's body | - |
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