bankbook | (noun) a record of deposits and withdrawals and interest held by depositors at certain banks | Synonyms: passbook |
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bazooka | (noun) a portable rocket launcher used by infantrymen as an antitank weapon | - |
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billhook | (noun) a cutting tool with a sharp edge | Synonyms: bill |
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book | (noun) physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together | Synonyms: volume |
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(noun) a number of sheets (ticket or stamps etc.) bound together on one edge | - |
(noun) a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together) | - |
(noun) a written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance | Synonyms: playscript, script |
(noun) a compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone | Synonyms: record, record book |
(noun) a major division of a long written composition | - |
(noun) a collection of rules or prescribed standards on the basis of which decisions are made | Synonyms: rule book |
(noun) a collection of playing cards satisfying the rules of a card game | - |
(noun) a record in which commercial accounts are recorded | Synonyms: account book, book of account, ledger, leger |
bookbinder | (noun) a worker whose trade is binding books | - |
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bookbindery | (noun) a bookbinder's workshop; a place for binding books | - |
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bookbinding | (noun) the craft of binding books | - |
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bookcase | (noun) a piece of furniture with shelves for storing books | - |
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bookcloth | (noun) a woven fabric (usually cotton) used for book covers. | Synonyms: book cloth |
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bookclub | (noun) a club that people join in order to buy selected books at reduced prices | - |
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bookdealer | (noun) a dealer in books; a merchant who sells books | Synonyms: book seller |
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bookend | (noun) a support placed at the end of a row of books to keep them upright (on a shelf or table) | - |
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booker | (noun) someone who engages a person or company for performances | Synonyms: booking agent |
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bookfair | (noun) bazaar at which books are sold or auctioned off in order to raise funds for a worthy cause | Synonyms: book fair |
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(noun) fair organized by publishers or booksellers to promote the sale of books | Synonyms: book fair |
bookie | (noun) a gambler who accepts and pays off bets (especially on horse races) | Synonyms: bookmaker |
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booking | (noun) the act of reserving (a place or passage) or engaging the services of (a person or group) | Synonyms: reservation |
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(noun) employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time | Synonyms: engagement |
bookishness | (noun) exaggerated studiousness | - |
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bookkeeper | (noun) someone who records the transactions of a business | - |
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bookkeeping | (noun) the activity of recording business transactions | Synonyms: clerking |
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booklet | (noun) a small book usually having a paper cover | Synonyms: brochure, folder, leaflet, pamphlet |
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booklouse | (noun) minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and papers | Synonyms: book louse, deathwatch, Liposcelis divinatorius |
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booklover | (noun) someone who loves (and usually collects) books | Synonyms: bibliophile, book lover |
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bookmaker | (noun) a gambler who accepts and pays off bets (especially on horse races) | Synonyms: bookie |
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(noun) a maker of books; someone who edits or publishes or binds books | - |
bookman | (noun) a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines | Synonyms: scholar, scholarly person |
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bookmark | (noun) a marker (a piece of paper or ribbon) placed between the pages of a book to mark the reader's place | Synonyms: bookmarker |
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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 |
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bookmobile | (noun) a van with shelves of books; serves as a mobile library or bookstore | - |
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bookplate | (noun) a label identifying the owner of a book in which it is pasted | Synonyms: ex libris |
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bookseller | (noun) the proprietor of a bookstore | - |
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bookshelf | (noun) a shelf on which to keep books | - |
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bookshop | (noun) a shop where books are sold | Synonyms: bookstall, bookstore |
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bookstall | (noun) a shop where books are sold | Synonyms: bookshop, bookstore |
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bookstore | (noun) a shop where books are sold | Synonyms: bookshop, bookstall |
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bookworm | (noun) someone who spends a great deal of time reading | - |
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(noun) a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit | Synonyms: pedant, scholastic |
brook | (noun) a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river) | Synonyms: creek |
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brooklet | (noun) a small brook | - |
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brooklime | (noun) plant of western North America and northeastern Asia having prostrate stems with dense racemes of pale violet to lilac flowers | Synonyms: American brooklime, Veronica americana |
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(noun) European plant having low-lying stems with blue flowers; sparsely naturalized in North America | Synonyms: European brooklime, Veronica beccabunga |
brookweed | (noun) water pimpernel of Europe to China | Synonyms: Samolus valerandii |
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(noun) American water pimpernel | Synonyms: Samolus floribundus, Samolus parviflorus |
buttonhook | (noun) a hook for pulling a button through a buttonhole | - |
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casebook | (noun) a book in which detailed written records of a case are kept and which are a source of information for subsequent work | - |
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checkbook | (noun) a book issued to holders of checking accounts | Synonyms: chequebook |
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chequebook | (noun) a book issued to holders of checking accounts | Synonyms: checkbook |
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chinook | (noun) large Pacific salmon valued as food; adults die after spawning | Synonyms: chinook salmon, king salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, quinnat salmon |
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(noun) pink or white flesh of large Pacific salmon | Synonyms: chinook salmon, king salmon |
(noun) a warm dry wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rockies | Synonyms: chinook wind, snow eater |
cook | (noun) someone who cooks food | - |
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cookbook | (noun) a book of recipes and cooking directions | Synonyms: cookery book |
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cooker | (noun) a utensil for cooking | - |
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cookery | (noun) the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat | Synonyms: cooking, preparation |
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cookfire | (noun) a fire for cooking | - |
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cookhouse | (noun) the area for food preparation on a ship | Synonyms: caboose, galley, ship's galley |
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(noun) a detached or outdoor shelter for cooking | - |
cookie | (noun) a short line of text that a web site puts on your computer's hard drive when you access the web site | - |
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(noun) any of various small flat sweet cakes | Synonyms: biscuit, cooky |
(noun) the cook on a ranch or at a camp | Synonyms: cooky |
cooking | (noun) the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat | Synonyms: cookery, preparation |
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cookout | (noun) an informal meal cooked and eaten outdoors | - |
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cookstove | (noun) a stove for cooking (especially a wood- or coal-burning kitchen stove) | - |
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cookware | (noun) a kitchen utensil made of material that does not melt easily; used for cooking | Synonyms: cooking utensil |
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cooky | (noun) any of various small flat sweet cakes | Synonyms: biscuit, cookie |
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(noun) the cook on a ranch or at a camp | Synonyms: cookie |
copybook | (noun) a book containing models of good penmanship; used in teaching penmanship | - |
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crook | (noun) a long staff with one end being hook shaped | Synonyms: shepherd's crook |
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(noun) someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime | Synonyms: criminal, felon, malefactor, outlaw |
(noun) a circular segment of a curve | Synonyms: bend, turn, twist |
crookback | (noun) a person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature of the upper spine | Synonyms: humpback, hunchback |
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crookedness | (noun) having or distinguished by crooks or curves or bends or angles | - |
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(noun) the quality of being deceitful and underhanded | Synonyms: deviousness |
(noun) a tortuous and twisted shape or position | Synonyms: contortion, torsion, tortuosity, tortuousness |
crookneck | (noun) yellow squash with a thin curved neck and somewhat warty skin | Synonyms: crookneck squash, summer crookneck |
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daybook | (noun) an accounting journal as a physical object | Synonyms: ledger |
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(noun) a ledger in which transactions have been recorded as they occurred | Synonyms: journal |
fishhook | (noun) a sharp barbed hook for catching fish | - |
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gobbledygook | (noun) incomprehensible or pompous jargon of specialists | - |
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gook | (noun) any thick, viscous matter | Synonyms: goo, goop, guck, gunk, muck, ooze, slime, sludge |
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guidebook | (noun) something that offers basic information or instruction | Synonyms: guide |
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handbook | (noun) a concise reference book providing specific information about a subject or location | Synonyms: enchiridion, vade mecum |
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hook | (noun) a short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent | - |
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(noun) a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer | Synonyms: draw, hooking |
(noun) a basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket | Synonyms: hook shot |
(noun) a curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling something | - |
(noun) a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something | Synonyms: claw |
(noun) a catch for locking a door | - |
(noun) anything that serves as an enticement | Synonyms: bait, come-on, lure, sweetener |
(noun) a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook | Synonyms: crotchet |
hookah | (noun) an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water | Synonyms: calean, chicha, hubble-bubble, hubbly-bubbly, kalian, narghile, nargileh, sheesha, shisha, water pipe |
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hooker | (noun) a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets | Synonyms: floozie, floozy, hustler, slattern, street girl, streetwalker |
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(noun) (rugby) the player in the middle of the front row of the scrum who tries to capture the ball with the foot | - |
(noun) a golfer whose shots typically curve left (for right-handed golfers) | - |
hooking | (noun) a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer | Synonyms: draw, hook |
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hooknose | (noun) a nose with a prominent slightly aquiline bridge | Synonyms: Roman nose |
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hooks | (noun) large strong hand (as of a fighter) | Synonyms: maulers, meat hooks |
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hookup | (noun) a system of components assembled together for a particular purpose | Synonyms: assemblage |
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(noun) a device providing a connection between a power source and a user | - |
hookworm | (noun) parasitic bloodsucking roundworms having hooked mouth parts to fasten to the intestinal wall of human and other hosts | - |
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(noun) infestation of the intestines by hookworms which enter the body (usually) through the skin | Synonyms: hookworm disease |
hooky | (noun) failure to attend (especially school) | Synonyms: truancy |
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hornbook | (noun) a primer that provides instruction in the rudiments or basic skills of a branch of knowledge | - |
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hymnbook | (noun) a songbook containing a collection of hymns | Synonyms: hymnal, hymnary |
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inglenook | (noun) a corner by a fireplace | Synonyms: chimney corner |
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jook | (noun) a small roadside establishment in the southeastern United States where you can eat and drink and dance to music provided by a jukebox | Synonyms: jook house, jook joint, juke, juke house, juke joint |
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(noun) a Chinese rice gruel eaten for breakfast | Synonyms: congee |
kook | (noun) someone regarded as eccentric or crazy and standing out from a group | Synonyms: odd fellow, odd fish, odd man out, queer bird, queer duck |
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kookaburra | (noun) Australian kingfisher having a loud cackling cry | Synonyms: Dacelo gigas, laughing jackass |
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logbook | (noun) a book in which the log is written | - |
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look | (noun) the act of directing the eyes toward something and perceiving it visually; look | Synonyms: looking, looking at |
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(noun) physical appearance | - |
(noun) the feelings expressed on a person's face | Synonyms: aspect, expression, face, facial expression |
(noun) the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people | Synonyms: feel, feeling, flavor, flavour, smell, spirit, tone |
lookdown | (noun) similar to moonfish but with eyes high on the truncated forehead | Synonyms: lookdown fish, Selene vomer |
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looker | (noun) a very attractive or seductive looking woman | Synonyms: beauty, dish, knockout, lulu, mantrap, peach, ravisher, smasher, stunner, sweetheart |
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(noun) a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind) | Synonyms: spectator, viewer, watcher, witness |
looking | (noun) the act of searching visually | Synonyms: looking for |
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(noun) the act of directing the eyes toward something and perceiving it visually; look | Synonyms: look, looking at |
lookout | (noun) the act of looking out | Synonyms: outlook |
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(noun) a structure commanding a wide view of its surroundings | Synonyms: lookout station, observation tower, observatory |
(noun) an elevated post affording a wide view | Synonyms: observation post |
(noun) a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event | Synonyms: lookout man, picket, scout, sentinel, sentry, spotter, watch |
lookup | (noun) an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property | Synonyms: search |
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matchbook | (noun) a small folder of paper safety matches | - |
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nainsook | (noun) a soft lightweight muslin used especially for babies | - |
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nook | (noun) an interior angle formed by two meeting walls | Synonyms: corner |
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(noun) a sheltered and secluded place | - |
nookie | (noun) slang for sexual intercourse | Synonyms: ass, fuck, fucking, nooky, piece of ass, piece of tail, roll in the hay, screw, screwing, shag, shtup |
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nooky | (noun) slang for sexual intercourse | Synonyms: ass, fuck, fucking, nookie, piece of ass, piece of tail, roll in the hay, screw, screwing, shag, shtup |
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notebook | (noun) a small compact portable computer | Synonyms: notebook computer |
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(noun) a book with blank pages for recording notes or memoranda | - |
onlooker | (noun) someone who looks on | Synonyms: looker-on |
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outlook | (noun) the act of looking out | Synonyms: lookout |
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(noun) belief about (or mental picture of) the future | Synonyms: expectation, prospect |
(noun) a habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determines how you will interpret and respond to situations | Synonyms: mentality, mind-set, mindset |
overlook | (noun) a high place affording a good view | - |
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palooka | (noun) a second-rate prize fighter | Synonyms: stumblebum |
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passbook | (noun) a record of deposits and withdrawals and interest held by depositors at certain banks | Synonyms: bankbook |
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phonebook | (noun) a directory containing an alphabetical list of telephone subscribers and their telephone numbers | Synonyms: phone book, telephone book, telephone directory |
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