befooling | (noun) derision of someone or something as foolish or absurd or inconsistent | Synonyms: stultification |
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campstool | (noun) a folding stool | - |
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cesspool | (noun) a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it | Synonyms: cesspit, sink, sump |
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cool | (noun) the quality of being at a refreshingly low temperature | - |
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(noun) great coolness and composure under strain | Synonyms: aplomb, assuredness, poise, sang-froid |
coolant | (noun) a fluid agent (gas or liquid) that produces cooling; especially one used to cool a system by transferring heat away from one part to another | - |
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cooler | (noun) a refrigerator for cooling liquids | Synonyms: ice chest |
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(noun) a cell for violent prisoners | Synonyms: tank |
(noun) an iced drink especially white wine and fruit juice | - |
coolie | (noun) (ethnic slur) an offensive name for an unskilled Asian laborer | Synonyms: cooly |
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cooling | (noun) a mechanism for keeping something cool | Synonyms: cooling system |
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(noun) the process of becoming cooler; a falling temperature | Synonyms: chilling, temperature reduction |
coolness | (noun) the property of being moderately cold | Synonyms: chilliness, nip |
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(noun) a lack of affection or enthusiasm | Synonyms: chilliness, coldness, frigidity, frigidness, iciness |
(noun) fearless self-possession in the face of danger | Synonyms: nervelessness |
(noun) calm and unruffled self-assurance | Synonyms: imperturbability, imperturbableness |
coolwart | (noun) stoloniferous white-flowered spring-blooming woodland plant | Synonyms: false miterwort, false mitrewort, foamflower, Tiarella cordifolia |
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cooly | (noun) (ethnic slur) an offensive name for an unskilled Asian laborer | Synonyms: coolie |
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cycloolefin | (noun) alkene hydrocarbon which contains a closed ring of carbon atoms, but has no aromatic character. | Synonyms: cycloalkene |
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drool | (noun) saliva spilling from the mouth | Synonyms: dribble, drivel, slobber |
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(noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle |
drooler | (noun) a person who dribbles | Synonyms: dribbler, driveller, slobberer |
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fool | (noun) a person who lacks good judgment | Synonyms: muggins, sap, saphead, tomfool |
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(noun) a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of | Synonyms: chump, fall guy, gull, mark, mug, patsy, soft touch, sucker |
(noun) a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages | Synonyms: jester, motley fool |
foolery | (noun) foolish or senseless behavior | Synonyms: craziness, folly, indulgence, lunacy, tomfoolery |
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foolhardiness | (noun) the trait of giving little thought to danger | Synonyms: rashness, recklessness |
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foolishness | (noun) a stupid mistake | Synonyms: betise, folly, imbecility, stupidity |
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(noun) the trait of acting stupidly or rashly | Synonyms: folly, unwiseness |
(noun) the quality of being rash and foolish | Synonyms: craziness, folly, madness |
foolscap | (noun) a size of paper used especially in Britain | - |
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footstool | (noun) a low seat or a stool to rest the feet of a seated person | Synonyms: footrest, ottoman, tuffet |
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highschool | (noun) a public secondary school usually including grades 9 through 12 | Synonyms: high, high school, senior high, senior high school |
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hooligan | (noun) a cruel and brutal fellow | Synonyms: bully, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, tough, yob, yobbo, yobo |
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hooliganism | (noun) willful wanton and malicious destruction of the property of others | Synonyms: malicious mischief, vandalism |
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linalool | (noun) a colorless fragrant liquid found in many essential oils | - |
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longwool | (noun) a domestic long-wool sheep | - |
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moolah | (noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
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oology | (noun) the branch of zoology that studies eggs (especially birds' eggs and their size, shape, coloration, and number) | - |
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oolong | (noun) Chinese tea leaves that have been partially fermented before being dried | - |
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palaeozoology | (noun) the study of fossil animals | Synonyms: paleozoology |
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paleozoology | (noun) the study of fossil animals | Synonyms: palaeozoology |
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playschool | (noun) a small informal nursery group meeting for half-day sessions | Synonyms: play group |
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pool | (noun) any of various games played on a pool table having 6 pockets | Synonyms: pocket billiards |
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(noun) an excavation that is (usually) filled with water | - |
(noun) an association of companies for some definite purpose | Synonyms: consortium, syndicate |
(noun) an organization of people or resources that can be shared | - |
(noun) something resembling a pool of liquid | Synonyms: puddle |
(noun) a small lake | Synonyms: pond |
(noun) a small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid | Synonyms: puddle |
(noun) any communal combination of funds | - |
(noun) the combined stakes of the betters | Synonyms: kitty |
pooler | (noun) someone who shares in and contributes to a general fund for use by all | - |
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poolroom | (noun) a room with pool tables where pool is played | - |
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preschool | (noun) an educational institution for children too young for elementary school | - |
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preschooler | (noun) a child who attends a preschool or kindergarten | Synonyms: kindergartener, kindergartner |
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protozoologist | (noun) a zoologist who studies protozoans | - |
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protozoology | (noun) the branch of zoology that studies protozoans | - |
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school | (noun) a building where young people receive education | Synonyms: schoolhouse |
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(noun) the process of being formally educated at a school | Synonyms: schooling |
(noun) an educational institution | - |
(noun) a large group of fish | Synonyms: shoal |
(noun) a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers | - |
(noun) an educational institution's faculty and students | - |
(noun) the period of instruction in a school; the time period when school is in session | Synonyms: school day, schooltime |
schoolbag | (noun) a bag for carrying school books and supplies | - |
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schoolbook | (noun) a book prepared for use in schools or colleges | Synonyms: school text, text, text edition, textbook |
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schoolboy | (noun) a boy attending school | - |
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schoolchild | (noun) a young person attending school (up through senior high school) | Synonyms: pupil, school-age child |
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schooldays | (noun) the time of life when you are going to school | Synonyms: schooltime |
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schoolfellow | (noun) an acquaintance that you go to school with | Synonyms: class fellow, classmate, schoolmate |
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schoolfriend | (noun) a friend who attends the same school | - |
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schoolgirl | (noun) a girl attending school | - |
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schoolhouse | (noun) a building where young people receive education | Synonyms: school |
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schooling | (noun) the act of teaching at school | - |
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(noun) the training of an animal (especially the training of a horse for dressage) | - |
(noun) the process of being formally educated at a school | Synonyms: school |
schoolman | (noun) a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation | Synonyms: academician |
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schoolmarm | (noun) a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict) | Synonyms: mistress, schoolma'am, schoolmistress |
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schoolmaster | (noun) food fish of warm Caribbean and Atlantic waters | Synonyms: Lutjanus apodus |
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(noun) presiding officer of a school | Synonyms: headmaster, master |
(noun) any person (or institution) who acts as an educator | - |
schoolmate | (noun) an acquaintance that you go to school with | Synonyms: class fellow, classmate, schoolfellow |
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schoolmistress | (noun) a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict) | Synonyms: mistress, schoolma'am, schoolmarm |
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schoolroom | (noun) a room in a school where lessons take place | Synonyms: classroom |
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schoolteacher | (noun) a teacher in a school below the college level | Synonyms: school teacher |
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schooltime | (noun) the period of instruction in a school; the time period when school is in session | Synonyms: school, school day |
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(noun) the time of life when you are going to school | Synonyms: schooldays |
schoolwork | (noun) work, such as schoolwork or piecework, that is done at home | Synonyms: homework, school assignment |
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schoolyard | (noun) the yard associated with a school | - |
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spool | (noun) a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound | Synonyms: bobbin, reel |
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stool | (noun) a simple seat without a back or arms | - |
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(noun) a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination | Synonyms: can, commode, crapper, pot, potty, throne, toilet |
(noun) (forestry) the stump of a tree that has been felled or headed for the production of saplings | - |
(noun) solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels | Synonyms: BM, dejection, faecal matter, faeces, fecal matter, feces, ordure |
stoolie | (noun) someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police | Synonyms: canary, fink, sneak, sneaker, snitch, snitcher, stool pigeon, stoolpigeon |
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stoolpigeon | (noun) someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police | Synonyms: canary, fink, sneak, sneaker, snitch, snitcher, stool pigeon, stoolie |
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tabooli | (noun) a finely chopped salad with tomatoes and parsley and mint and scallions and bulgur wheat | Synonyms: tabbouleh |
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toadstool | (noun) common name for an inedible or poisonous agaric (contrasting with the edible mushroom) | - |
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tomfool | (noun) a person who lacks good judgment | Synonyms: fool, muggins, sap, saphead |
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tomfoolery | (noun) foolish or senseless behavior | Synonyms: craziness, folly, foolery, indulgence, lunacy |
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tool | (noun) the means whereby some act is accomplished | Synonyms: instrument |
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(noun) an implement used in the practice of a vocation | - |
(noun) obscene terms for penis | Synonyms: cock, dick, pecker, prick, putz, shaft |
(noun) a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else | Synonyms: creature, puppet |
toolbox | (noun) a box or chest or cabinet for holding hand tools | Synonyms: tool cabinet, tool case, tool chest |
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toolhouse | (noun) a shed for storing tools | Synonyms: toolshed |
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toolmaker | (noun) someone skilled in making or repairing tools | - |
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toolshed | (noun) a shed for storing tools | Synonyms: toolhouse |
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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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wool | (noun) outer coat of especially sheep and yaks | Synonyms: fleece |
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(noun) a fabric made from the hair of sheep | Synonyms: woolen, woollen |
(noun) fiber sheared from animals (such as sheep) and twisted into yarn for weaving | - |
woolen | (noun) a fabric made from the hair of sheep | Synonyms: wool, woollen |
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woolgatherer | (noun) someone who indulges in idle or absentminded daydreaming | Synonyms: daydreamer |
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woolgathering | (noun) an idle indulgence in fantasy | - |
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woollen | (noun) a fabric made from the hair of sheep | Synonyms: wool, woolen |
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woolliness | (noun) The state of resembling wool, in texture or shape. | - |
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(noun) The state of being made of or bearing wool. | - |
woolsorter | (noun) a person who sorts wool into different grades | Synonyms: wool stapler |
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zoolatry | (noun) the worship of animals | Synonyms: animal-worship |
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zoologist | (noun) a specialist in the branch of biology dealing with animals | Synonyms: animal scientist |
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zoology | (noun) the branch of biology that studies animals | Synonyms: zoological science |
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(noun) all the animal life in a particular region or period | Synonyms: fauna |