acknowledgement | (noun) a statement acknowledging something or someone | Synonyms: acknowledgment |
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(noun) the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged | Synonyms: acknowledgment, recognition |
acknowledgment | (noun) a statement acknowledging something or someone | Synonyms: acknowledgement |
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(noun) a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage | Synonyms: citation, cite, credit, mention, quotation, reference |
(noun) the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged | Synonyms: acknowledgement, recognition |
blowlamp | (noun) a burner that mixes air and gas to produce a very hot flame | Synonyms: blowtorch, torch |
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bowl | (noun) the act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling) | Synonyms: roll |
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(noun) a dish that is round and open at the top for serving foods | - |
(noun) a round vessel that is open at the top; used chiefly for holding grains or liquids | - |
(noun) a small round container that is open at the top for holding tobacco | Synonyms: pipe bowl |
(noun) a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments | Synonyms: arena, sports stadium, stadium |
(noun) a wooden ball (with flattened sides so that it rolls on a curved course) used in the game of lawn bowling | - |
(noun) a large ball with finger holes used in the sport of bowling | Synonyms: bowling ball |
(noun) the quantity contained in a bowl | Synonyms: bowlful |
(noun) a concave shape with an open top | Synonyms: trough |
bowlder | (noun) a large smooth mass of rock detached from its place of origin | Synonyms: boulder |
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bowleg | (noun) a leg bowed outward at the knee (or below the knee) | Synonyms: bandy leg, bandyleg, bow leg, genu varum, tibia vara |
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bowler | (noun) a felt hat that is round and hard with a narrow brim | Synonyms: bowler hat, derby, derby hat, plug hat |
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(noun) a player who rolls balls down an alley at pins | - |
(noun) a cricketer who delivers the ball to the batsman in cricket | - |
bowlful | (noun) the quantity contained in a bowl | Synonyms: bowl |
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bowline | (noun) a loop knot that neither slips nor jams | Synonyms: bowline knot |
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bowling | (noun) a game in which balls are rolled at an object or group of objects with the aim of knocking them over or moving them | - |
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(noun) the playing of a game of tenpins or duckpins etc | - |
(noun) (cricket) the act of delivering a cricket ball to the batsman | - |
bowls | (noun) a bowling game played on a level lawn with biased wooden balls that are rolled at a jack | Synonyms: lawn bowling |
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cowl | (noun) protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine | Synonyms: bonnet, cowling, hood |
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(noun) a loose hood or hooded robe (as worn by a monk) | - |
cowlick | (noun) a tuft of hair that grows in a different direction from the rest of the hair and usually will not lie flat | - |
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cowling | (noun) protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine | Synonyms: bonnet, cowl, hood |
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fishbowl | (noun) a transparent bowl in which small fish are kept | Synonyms: fish bowl, goldfish bowl |
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(noun) a state of affairs in which you have no privacy | Synonyms: fish bowl, goldfish bowl |
foreknowledge | (noun) knowledge of an event before it occurs | Synonyms: precognition |
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fowl | (noun) a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl | Synonyms: domestic fowl, poultry |
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(noun) the flesh of a bird or fowl (wild or domestic) used as food | Synonyms: bird |
fowler | (noun) someone who hunts wild birds for food | - |
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growl | (noun) the sound of growling (as made by animals) | Synonyms: growling |
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growler | (noun) a small iceberg or ice floe just large enough to be hazardous for shipping | - |
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(noun) a speaker whose voice sounds like a growl | - |
growling | (noun) a gruff or angry utterance (suggestive of the growling of an animal) | - |
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(noun) the sound of growling (as made by animals) | Synonyms: growl |
heathfowl | (noun) large northern European grouse that is black with a lyre-shaped tail | Synonyms: European black grouse, Lyrurus tetrix |
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howl | (noun) a long loud emotional utterance | Synonyms: howling, ululation |
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(noun) a loud sustained noise resembling the cry of a hound | - |
(noun) the long plaintive cry of a hound or a wolf | - |
howler | (noun) a glaring blunder | - |
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(noun) monkey of tropical South American forests having a loud howling cry | Synonyms: howler monkey |
(noun) a joke that seems extremely funny | Synonyms: belly laugh, riot, scream, sidesplitter, thigh-slapper, wow |
howling | (noun) a long loud emotional utterance | Synonyms: howl, ululation |
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jowl | (noun) the jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth | Synonyms: jawbone, lower jaw, lower jawbone, mandible, mandibula, mandibular bone, submaxilla |
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(noun) a fullness and looseness of the flesh of the lower cheek and jaw (characteristic of aging) | - |
knowledge | (noun) the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning | Synonyms: cognition, noesis |
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knowledgeability | (noun) wisdom as evidenced by the possession of knowledge | Synonyms: initiation, knowledgeableness |
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knowledgeableness | (noun) wisdom as evidenced by the possession of knowledge | Synonyms: initiation, knowledgeability |
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lowland | (noun) low level country | - |
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lowlife | (noun) a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible | Synonyms: bum, crumb, dirty dog, git, puke, rat, rotter, scum bag, scumbag, skunk, so-and-so, stinker, stinkpot |
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lowliness | (noun) a position of inferior status; low in station or rank or fortune or estimation | Synonyms: low status, lowness |
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(noun) the state of being humble and unimportant | Synonyms: humbleness, obscureness, unimportance |
meadowlark | (noun) North American songbirds having a yellow breast | Synonyms: lark |
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metaknowledge | (noun) knowledge about knowledge | - |
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moorfowl | (noun) reddish-brown grouse of upland moors of Great Britain | Synonyms: Lagopus scoticus, moor-bird, moorbird, moorgame, red grouse |
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owl | (noun) nocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyes | Synonyms: bird of Minerva, bird of night, hooter |
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owlclaws | (noun) stout perennial herb of western United States having flower heads with drooping orange-yellow rays; causes spewing sickness in sheep | Synonyms: Helenium hoopesii, orange sneezeweed |
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owlet | (noun) young owl | - |
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peafowl | (noun) very large terrestrial southeast Asian pheasant often raised as an ornamental bird | Synonyms: bird of Juno |
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plowland | (noun) arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops | Synonyms: cultivated land, farmland, ploughland, tillage, tilled land, tilth |
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prowl | (noun) the act of prowling (walking about in a stealthy manner) | - |
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prowler | (noun) someone who prowls or sneaks about; usually with unlawful intentions | Synonyms: sneak, stalker |
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rowlock | (noun) a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing | Synonyms: oarlock, peg, pin, thole, tholepin |
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scowl | (noun) a facial expression of dislike or displeasure | Synonyms: frown |
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seafowl | (noun) a bird that frequents coastal waters and the open ocean: gulls, pelicans, gannets, cormorants, albatrosses, petrels, etc. | Synonyms: sea bird, seabird |
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towline | (noun) (nautical) a rope used in towing | Synonyms: towing line, towing rope, towrope |
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washbowl | (noun) a basin for washing the hands | Synonyms: handbasin, lavabo, wash-hand basin, washbasin |
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(noun) a bathroom sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you can wash your hands and face | Synonyms: basin, lavatory, washbasin, washstand |
waterfowl | (noun) freshwater aquatic bird | Synonyms: water bird, waterbird |
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wildfowl | (noun) flesh of any of a number of wild game birds suitable for food | - |
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yellowlegs | (noun) either of two North American shorebird with yellow legs | - |
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yowl | (noun) a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal) | Synonyms: bellow, bellowing, holla, holler, hollering, hollo, holloa, roar, roaring |
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