albatross | (noun) large web-footed birds of the Southern Hemisphere having long narrow wings; noted for powerful gliding flight | Synonyms: mollymawk |
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(noun) (figurative) something that hinders or handicaps | Synonyms: millstone |
androglossia | (noun) a woman's voice with male qualities | - |
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ankyloglossia | (noun) a congenital anomaly in which the mucous membrane under the tongue is too short limiting the mobility of the tongue | Synonyms: tongue tie |
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blossom | (noun) reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts | Synonyms: bloom, flower |
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(noun) the period of greatest prosperity or productivity | Synonyms: bloom, efflorescence, flower, flush, heyday, peak, prime |
blossoming | (noun) the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms | Synonyms: anthesis, efflorescence, florescence, flowering, inflorescence |
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boss | (noun) a circular rounded projection or protuberance | Synonyms: knob |
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(noun) a person responsible for hiring workers | Synonyms: hirer |
(noun) a person who exercises control over workers | Synonyms: chief, foreman, gaffer, honcho |
(noun) a leader in a political party who controls votes and dictates appointments | Synonyms: party boss, political boss |
(noun) a person who exercises control and makes decisions | - |
bossism | (noun) domination of a political organization by a party boss | - |
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bugloss | (noun) perennial or biennial herb cultivated for its delicate usually blue flowers | Synonyms: alkanet, Anchusa officinalis |
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(noun) widespread European weed with spiny tongue-shaped leaves and yellow flowers; naturalized in United States | Synonyms: bitterweed, bristly oxtongue, oxtongue, Picris echioides |
candyfloss | (noun) a candy made by spinning sugar that has been boiled to a high temperature | Synonyms: cotton candy, spun sugar |
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colossus | (noun) someone that is abnormally large and powerful | Synonyms: behemoth, giant, goliath, monster |
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(noun) a person of exceptional importance and reputation | Synonyms: behemoth, giant, heavyweight, titan |
coss | (noun) (in India) a unit of length having different values in different localities | Synonyms: kos |
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crisscross | (noun) a marking that consists of lines that cross each other | Synonyms: cross, mark |
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cross | (noun) (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids | Synonyms: crossbreeding, crossing, hybridisation, hybridization, hybridizing, interbreeding |
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(noun) (genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species | Synonyms: crossbreed, hybrid |
(noun) a wooden structure consisting of an upright post with a transverse piece | - |
(noun) a marking that consists of lines that cross each other | Synonyms: crisscross, mark |
(noun) any affliction that causes great suffering | Synonyms: crown of thorns |
crossbar | (noun) long thin horizontal crosspiece between two vertical posts | - |
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(noun) game equipment consisting of a horizontal bar to be jumped or vaulted over | - |
(noun) a horizontal bar that goes across something | - |
crossbeam | (noun) a horizontal beam that extends across something | Synonyms: crosspiece, trave, traverse |
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crossbench | (noun) any of the seats in the House of Commons used by members who do not vote regularly with either the government or the Opposition | - |
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crossbencher | (noun) a member of the House of Commons who does not vote regularly with either the government or the Opposition | - |
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crossbill | (noun) finch with a bill whose tips cross when closed | Synonyms: Loxia curvirostra |
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crossbones | (noun) two crossed bones (or a representation of two crossed bones) used as a symbol danger or death | - |
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crossbow | (noun) a bow fixed transversely on a wooden stock grooved to direct the arrow (quarrel) | - |
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crossbreed | (noun) (genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species | Synonyms: cross, hybrid |
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crossbreeding | (noun) (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids | Synonyms: cross, crossing, hybridisation, hybridization, hybridizing, interbreeding |
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(noun) reproduction by parents of different races (especially by white and non-white persons) | Synonyms: interbreeding, miscegenation |
crosscheck | (noun) an illegal check (chopping at an opponent's arms or stick) | - |
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(noun) an instance of confirming something by considering information from several sources | - |
crosscurrent | (noun) actions counter to the main group activity | Synonyms: countercurrent |
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(noun) a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current | Synonyms: countercurrent, rip, riptide, tide rip |
crosscut | (noun) a route shorter than the usual one | Synonyms: cutoff, shortcut |
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(noun) a diagonal path | - |
crosse | (noun) a long racket with a triangular frame; used in playing lacrosse | - |
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crossfire | (noun) fire from two or more points so that the lines of fire cross | - |
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(noun) a lively or heated interchange of ideas and opinions | - |
crosshairs | (noun) a center of interest | - |
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crosshatch | (noun) shading consisting of multiple crossing lines | Synonyms: hachure, hatch, hatching |
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crosshead | (noun) metal block that connects to a piston; it slides on parallel guides and moves a connecting rod back and forth | - |
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(noun) a heading of a subsection printed within the body of the text | Synonyms: crossheading |
crossheading | (noun) a heading of a subsection printed within the body of the text | Synonyms: crosshead |
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crossing | (noun) a voyage across a body of water (usually across the Atlantic Ocean) | - |
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(noun) traveling across | - |
(noun) (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids | Synonyms: cross, crossbreeding, hybridisation, hybridization, hybridizing, interbreeding |
(noun) a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other | Synonyms: crossover, crosswalk |
(noun) a junction where one street or road crosses another | Synonyms: carrefour, crossroad, crossway, intersection |
(noun) a point where two lines (paths or arcs etc.) intersect | - |
(noun) a shallow area in a stream that can be forded | Synonyms: ford |
crossjack | (noun) the lowermost sail on a mizzenmast | Synonyms: mizzen course |
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crossness | (noun) a disposition to be ill-tempered | Synonyms: crabbedness, crabbiness |
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(noun) an irritable petulant feeling | Synonyms: choler, fretfulness, fussiness, irritability, peevishness, petulance |
crossopterygian | (noun) any fish of the order Crossopterygii; most known only in fossil form | Synonyms: lobe-finned fish, lobefin |
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crossover | (noun) a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other | Synonyms: crossing, crosswalk |
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(noun) the appropriation of a new style (especially in popular music) by combining elements of different genres in order to appeal to a wider audience | - |
(noun) a voter who is registered as a member of one political party but who votes in the primary of another party | Synonyms: crossover voter |
(noun) the interchange of sections between pairing homologous chromosomes during the prophase of meiosis | Synonyms: crossing over |
crosspatch | (noun) a bad-tempered person | Synonyms: churl, crank, grouch, grump |
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crosspiece | (noun) a transverse brace | - |
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(noun) a horizontal beam that extends across something | Synonyms: crossbeam, trave, traverse |
crossroad | (noun) a junction where one street or road crosses another | Synonyms: carrefour, crossing, crossway, intersection |
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crossroads | (noun) a point where a choice must be made | - |
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(noun) a community of people smaller than a village | Synonyms: hamlet |
(noun) a crisis situation or point in time when a critical decision must be made | Synonyms: critical point, juncture |
crosstalk | (noun) the presence of an unwanted signal via an accidental coupling | Synonyms: XT |
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crosstie | (noun) one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track | Synonyms: railroad tie, sleeper, tie |
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crosswalk | (noun) a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other | Synonyms: crossing, crossover |
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crossway | (noun) a junction where one street or road crosses another | Synonyms: carrefour, crossing, crossroad, intersection |
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crosswind | (noun) wind blowing across the path of a ship or aircraft | - |
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crossword | (noun) a puzzle in which words corresponding to numbered clues are to be found and written in to squares in the puzzle | Synonyms: crossword puzzle |
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deossification | (noun) the loss of the mineral content of bone tissue | - |
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dispossession | (noun) the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law | Synonyms: eviction, legal ouster |
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(noun) freeing from evil spirits | Synonyms: exorcism |
ditchmoss | (noun) submerged freshwater perennials | Synonyms: Elodea, genus Elodea, pondweed |
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dossal | (noun) an ornamental hanging of rich fabric hung behind the altar of a church or at the sides of a chancel | Synonyms: dossel |
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dossel | (noun) an ornamental hanging of rich fabric hung behind the altar of a church or at the sides of a chancel | Synonyms: dossal |
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dosser | (noun) someone who sleeps in any convenient place | Synonyms: street person |
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dosshouse | (noun) a cheap lodging house | Synonyms: flophouse |
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dossier | (noun) a collection of papers containing detailed information about a particular person or subject (usually a person's record) | - |
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dross | (noun) the scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals | Synonyms: scoria, slag |
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(noun) worthless or dangerous material that should be removed | Synonyms: impurity |
embossment | (noun) sculpture consisting of shapes carved on a surface so as to stand out from the surrounding background | Synonyms: relief, relievo, rilievo, sculptural relief |
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(noun) an impression produced by pressure or printing | Synonyms: imprint |
engrossment | (noun) the quality of being intent and concentrated | Synonyms: intentness |
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(noun) the mental state of being preoccupied by something | Synonyms: absorption, preoccupancy, preoccupation |
(noun) complete attention; intense mental effort | Synonyms: absorption, concentration, immersion |
floss | (noun) a soft loosely twisted thread used in embroidery | - |
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(noun) a soft thread for cleaning the spaces between the teeth | Synonyms: dental floss |
fossa | (noun) largest carnivore of Madagascar; intermediate in some respects between cats and civets | Synonyms: Cryptoprocta ferox, fossa cat |
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(noun) a concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression) | Synonyms: pit |
fosse | (noun) ditch dug as a fortification and usually filled with water | Synonyms: moat |
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fossil | (noun) the remains (or an impression) of a plant or animal that existed in a past geological age and that has been excavated from the soil | - |
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(noun) someone whose style is out of fashion | Synonyms: dodo, fogey, fogy |
fossilisation | (noun) becoming inflexible or out of date | Synonyms: fossilization |
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(noun) the process of fossilizing a plant or animal that existed in some earlier age; the process of being turned to stone | Synonyms: fossilization |
fossilist | (noun) a specialist in paleontology | Synonyms: palaeontologist, paleontologist |
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fossilization | (noun) becoming inflexible or out of date | Synonyms: fossilisation |
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(noun) the process of fossilizing a plant or animal that existed in some earlier age; the process of being turned to stone | Synonyms: fossilisation |
fossilology | (noun) the earth science that studies fossil organisms and related remains | Synonyms: palaeontology, paleontology |
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gloss | (noun) the property of being smooth and shiny | Synonyms: burnish, glossiness, polish |
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(noun) an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading | Synonyms: color, colour, semblance |
(noun) an explanation or definition of an obscure word in a text | Synonyms: rubric |
(noun) an alphabetical list of technical terms in some specialized field of knowledge; usually published as an appendix to a text on that field | Synonyms: glossary |
glossa | (noun) a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity | Synonyms: clapper, lingua, tongue |
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glossalgia | (noun) pain in the tongue | Synonyms: glossodynia |
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glossarist | (noun) a scholiast who writes glosses or glossaries | - |
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glossary | (noun) an alphabetical list of technical terms in some specialized field of knowledge; usually published as an appendix to a text on that field | Synonyms: gloss |
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glossina | (noun) bloodsucking African fly; transmits sleeping sickness etc. | Synonyms: tsetse, tsetse fly, tzetze, tzetze fly |
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glossiness | (noun) the property of being smooth and shiny | Synonyms: burnish, gloss, polish |
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glossitis | (noun) inflammation of the tongue | - |
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glossodynia | (noun) pain in the tongue | Synonyms: glossalgia |
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glossolalia | (noun) repetitive nonmeaningful speech (especially that associated with a trance state or religious fervor) | - |
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glossoptosis | (noun) abnormal downward or back placement of the tongue | - |
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glossy | (noun) a photograph that is printed on smooth shiny paper | - |
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(noun) a magazine printed on good quality paper | Synonyms: slick, slick magazine |
gossamer | (noun) a gauze fabric with an extremely fine texture | - |
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(noun) filaments from a web that was spun by a spider | Synonyms: cobweb |
gossip | (noun) light informal conversation for social occasions | Synonyms: causerie, chin-wag, chin-wagging, chin wag, chin wagging, chit-chat, chit chat, chitchat, gab, gabfest, small talk, tittle-tattle |
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(noun) a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people | Synonyms: comment, scuttlebutt |
(noun) a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others | Synonyms: gossiper, gossipmonger, newsmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger |
gossiper | (noun) a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others | Synonyms: gossip, gossipmonger, newsmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger |
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gossiping | (noun) a conversation that spreads personal information about other people | Synonyms: gossipmongering |
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gossipmonger | (noun) a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others | Synonyms: gossip, gossiper, newsmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger |
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gossipmongering | (noun) a conversation that spreads personal information about other people | Synonyms: gossiping |
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gross | (noun) the entire amount of income before any deductions are made | Synonyms: receipts, revenue |
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(noun) twelve dozen | Synonyms: 144 |
grossbeak | (noun) any of various finches of Europe or America having a massive and powerful bill | Synonyms: grosbeak |
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grossness | (noun) the quality of lacking taste and refinement | Synonyms: coarseness, commonness, raunch, vulgarism, vulgarity |
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heterogloss | (noun) the locative boundary of a certain linguistic feature, such as the pronunciation of a vowel, the meaning of a word, or use of some syntactic feature. | Synonyms: isogloss |
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hypoglossal | (noun) supplies intrinsic muscles of the tongue and other tongue muscles | Synonyms: hypoglossal nerve, nervus hypoglosus, twelfth cranial nerve |
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impossibility | (noun) an alternative that is not available | Synonyms: impossible action |
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(noun) incapability of existing or occurring | Synonyms: impossibleness |
impossible | (noun) something that cannot be done | - |
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impossibleness | (noun) incapability of existing or occurring | Synonyms: impossibility |
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isogloss | (noun) the locative boundary of a certain linguistic feature, such as the pronunciation of a vowel, the meaning of a word, or use of some syntactic feature. | Synonyms: heterogloss |
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joss | (noun) a Chinese god worshipped in the form of an idol | - |
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lacrosse | (noun) a game invented by American Indians; now played by two teams who use long-handled rackets to catch and carry and throw the ball toward the opponents' goal | - |
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loss | (noun) the act of losing someone or something | - |
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(noun) the disadvantage that results from losing something | Synonyms: deprivation |
(noun) military personnel lost by death or capture | Synonyms: personnel casualty |
(noun) the experience of losing a loved one | - |
(noun) euphemistic expressions for death | Synonyms: departure, exit, expiration, going, passing, release |
(noun) the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue | Synonyms: red, red ink |
(noun) something that is lost | - |
(noun) gradual decline in amount or activity | - |
losses | (noun) something lost (especially money lost at gambling) | Synonyms: losings |
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macroglossia | (noun) a congenital disorder characterized by an abnormally large tongue; often seen in cases of Down's syndrome | - |
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microfossil | (noun) a fossil that must be studied microscopically | - |
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mishegoss | (noun) (Yiddish) craziness; senseless behavior or activity | Synonyms: meshugaas, mishegaas |
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moss | (noun) tiny leafy-stemmed flowerless plants | - |
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