airport | (noun) an airfield equipped with control tower and hangars as well as accommodations for passengers and cargo | Synonyms: aerodrome, airdrome, drome |
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apportioning | (noun) the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan | Synonyms: allocation, allotment, apportionment, assignation, parceling, parcelling |
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apportionment | (noun) the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan | Synonyms: allocation, allotment, apportioning, assignation, parceling, parcelling |
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carport | (noun) garage for one or two cars consisting of a flat roof supported on poles | Synonyms: car port |
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comportment | (noun) dignified manner or conduct | Synonyms: bearing, mien, presence |
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davenport | (noun) a large sofa usually convertible into a bed | - |
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(noun) a small decorative writing desk | - |
deportation | (noun) the act of expelling a person from their native land | Synonyms: exile, expatriation, transportation |
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(noun) the expulsion from a country of an undesirable alien | - |
deportee | (noun) a person who is expelled from home or country by authority | Synonyms: exile |
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deportment | (noun) (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people | Synonyms: behavior, behaviour, conduct, demeanor, demeanour |
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disproportion | (noun) lack of proportion; imbalance among the parts of something | Synonyms: dissymmetry, imbalance |
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esports | (noun) electronic sports | - |
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export | (noun) commodities (goods or services) sold to a foreign country | Synonyms: exportation |
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exportation | (noun) the commercial activity of selling and shipping goods to a foreign country | Synonyms: exporting |
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(noun) commodities (goods or services) sold to a foreign country | Synonyms: export |
exporter | (noun) a businessperson who transports goods abroad (for sale) | - |
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exporting | (noun) the commercial activity of selling and shipping goods to a foreign country | Synonyms: exportation |
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heliport | (noun) an airport for helicopters | - |
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import | (noun) commodities (goods or services) bought from a foreign country | Synonyms: importation |
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(noun) having important effects or influence | Synonyms: consequence, moment |
(noun) a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred | Synonyms: implication, significance |
(noun) the message that is intended or expressed or signified | Synonyms: meaning, significance, signification |
(noun) an imported person brought from a foreign country | Synonyms: importee |
importance | (noun) the quality of being important and worthy of note | - |
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(noun) a prominent status | Synonyms: grandness |
importation | (noun) the commercial activity of buying and bringing in goods from a foreign country | Synonyms: importing |
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(noun) commodities (goods or services) bought from a foreign country | Synonyms: import |
importee | (noun) an imported person brought from a foreign country | Synonyms: import |
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importer | (noun) someone whose business involves importing goods from outside (especially from a foreign country) | - |
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importing | (noun) the commercial activity of buying and bringing in goods from a foreign country | Synonyms: importation |
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importunateness | (noun) Quality of a person who is given to making importunate demands, being greedily or thoughtlessly demanding. | Synonyms: importunity |
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importunity | (noun) Quality of a person who is given to making importunate demands, being greedily or thoughtlessly demanding. | Synonyms: importunateness |
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(noun) insistent solicitation and entreaty | Synonyms: urgency, urging |
inopportuneness | (noun) the quality of occurring at an inconvenient time | Synonyms: untimeliness |
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opportuneness | (noun) timely convenience | Synonyms: patness, timeliness |
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opportunism | (noun) taking advantage of opportunities without regard for the consequences for others | Synonyms: expedience, self-interest, self-seeking |
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opportunist | (noun) a person who places expediency above principle | Synonyms: self-seeker |
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opportunity | (noun) a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances | Synonyms: chance |
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outport | (noun) a subsidiary port built in deeper water than the original port (but usually farther from the center of trade) | - |
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passport | (noun) any quality or characteristic that gains a person a favorable reception or acceptance or admission | Synonyms: recommendation |
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(noun) a document issued by a country to a citizen allowing that person to travel abroad and re-enter the home country | - |
(noun) any authorization to pass or go somewhere | Synonyms: pass |
port | (noun) an opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through | Synonyms: embrasure, porthole |
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(noun) (computer science) computer circuit consisting of the hardware and associated circuitry that links one device with another (especially a computer and a hard disk drive or other peripherals) | Synonyms: interface |
(noun) the left side of a ship or aircraft to someone who is aboard and facing the bow or nose | Synonyms: larboard |
(noun) sweet dark-red dessert wine originally from Portugal | Synonyms: port wine |
(noun) a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country | - |
porta | (noun) an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity | Synonyms: opening, orifice |
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portability | (noun) the quality of being light enough to be carried | - |
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portable | (noun) a small light typewriter; usually with a case in which it can be carried | - |
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portage | (noun) carrying boats and supplies overland | - |
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(noun) overland track between navigable waterways | - |
(noun) the cost of carrying or transporting | - |
portal | (noun) a grand and imposing entrance (often extended metaphorically) | - |
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(noun) a short vein that carries blood into the liver | Synonyms: hepatic portal vein, portal vein, vena portae |
(noun) a site that the owner positions as an entrance to other sites on the internet | Synonyms: portal site |
portcullis | (noun) gate consisting of an iron or wooden grating that hangs in the entry to a castle or fortified town; can be lowered to prevent passage | - |
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portent | (noun) a sign of something about to happen | Synonyms: omen, presage, prodigy, prognostic, prognostication |
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porter | (noun) a very dark sweet ale brewed from roasted unmalted barley | Synonyms: porter's beer |
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(noun) a person employed to carry luggage and supplies | - |
(noun) a railroad employee who assists passengers (especially on sleeping cars) | Synonyms: Pullman porter |
(noun) someone who guards an entrance | Synonyms: door guard, doorkeeper, doorman, gatekeeper, hall porter, ostiary |
porterage | (noun) the transportation of burdens by porters | - |
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(noun) the charge for carrying burdens by porters | - |
porterhouse | (noun) large steak from the thick end of the short loin containing a T-shaped bone and large piece of tenderloin | Synonyms: porterhouse steak |
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portfolio | (noun) the role of the head of a government department | - |
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(noun) a large, flat, thin case for carrying loose papers or drawings or maps; usually leather | - |
(noun) a list of the financial assets held by an individual or a bank or other financial institution | - |
(noun) a set of pieces of creative work collected to be shown to potential customers or employers | - |
porthole | (noun) a window in a ship or airplane | - |
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(noun) an opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through | Synonyms: embrasure, port |
portico | (noun) a porch or entrance to a building consisting of a covered and often columned area | - |
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portiere | (noun) a heavy curtain hung across a doorway | - |
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portion | (noun) the allotment of some amount by dividing something | Synonyms: parcel, share |
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(noun) something less than the whole of a human artifact | Synonyms: part |
(noun) an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal | Synonyms: helping, serving |
(noun) assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group | Synonyms: part, percentage, share |
(noun) money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage | Synonyms: dower, dowery, dowry |
(noun) something determined in relation to something that includes it | Synonyms: component, component part, constituent, part |
(noun) your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you) | Synonyms: circumstances, destiny, fate, fortune, lot, luck |
portmanteau | (noun) a large travelling bag made of stiff leather | Synonyms: Gladstone, Gladstone bag |
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(noun) a new word formed by joining two others and combining their meanings | Synonyms: blend, portmanteau word |
portrait | (noun) any likeness of a person, in any medium | Synonyms: portrayal |
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(noun) a word picture of a person's appearance and character | Synonyms: portraiture, portrayal |
portraitist | (noun) a painter or drawer of portraits | Synonyms: limner, portrait painter, portrayer |
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portraiture | (noun) the activity of making portraits | - |
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(noun) a word picture of a person's appearance and character | Synonyms: portrait, portrayal |
portrayal | (noun) representation by drawing or painting etc | Synonyms: delineation, depiction |
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(noun) acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture | Synonyms: characterization, enactment, personation |
(noun) any likeness of a person, in any medium | Synonyms: portrait |
(noun) a representation by picture or portraiture | Synonyms: depicting, depiction, portraying |
(noun) a word picture of a person's appearance and character | Synonyms: portrait, portraiture |
portrayer | (noun) a painter or drawer of portraits | Synonyms: limner, portrait painter, portraitist |
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portraying | (noun) a representation by picture or portraiture | Synonyms: depicting, depiction, portrayal |
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portulaca | (noun) a plant of the genus Portulaca having pink or red or purple or white ephemeral flowers | - |
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portwatcher | (noun) a watchman on a wharf | Synonyms: port watcher |
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proportion | (noun) magnitude or extent | Synonyms: dimension |
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(noun) harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design) | Synonyms: balance, proportionality |
(noun) the quotient obtained when the magnitude of a part is divided by the magnitude of the whole | - |
(noun) the relation between things (or parts of things) with respect to their comparative quantity, magnitude, or degree | Synonyms: ratio |
(noun) balance among the parts of something | Synonyms: symmetry |
proportional | (noun) one of the quantities in a mathematical proportion | - |
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proportionality | (noun) harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design) | Synonyms: balance, proportion |
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(noun) a ratio of two quantities that is constant | - |
proportionateness | (noun) the relation of corresponding in degree or size or amount | Synonyms: commensurateness, correspondence |
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purport | (noun) the pervading meaning or tenor | Synonyms: drift |
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(noun) the intended meaning of a communication | Synonyms: intent, spirit |
rapport | (noun) a relationship of mutual understanding or trust and agreement between people | Synonyms: resonance |
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rapporteur | (noun) a recorder appointed by a committee to prepare reports of the meetings | - |
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reapportionment | (noun) a new apportionment (especially a new apportionment of congressional seats in the United States on the basis of census results) | Synonyms: reallocation, reallotment |
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report | (noun) the general estimation that the public has for a person | Synonyms: reputation |
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(noun) a short account of the news | Synonyms: account, news report, story, write up |
(noun) the act of informing by verbal report | Synonyms: account |
(noun) an essay (especially one written as an assignment) | Synonyms: composition, paper, theme |
(noun) a written document describing the findings of some individual or group | Synonyms: study, written report |
(noun) a written evaluation of a student's scholarship and deportment | Synonyms: report card |
(noun) a sharp explosive sound (especially the sound of a gun firing) | - |
reportage | (noun) the news as presented by reporters for newspapers or radio or television | Synonyms: coverage, reporting |
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reporter | (noun) a person who investigates and reports or edits news stories | Synonyms: newsperson |
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reporting | (noun) the news as presented by reporters for newspapers or radio or television | Synonyms: coverage, reportage |
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seaport | (noun) a sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo | Synonyms: harbor, harbour, haven |
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spoilsport | (noun) someone who spoils the pleasure of others | Synonyms: killjoy, party pooper, wet blanket |
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sport | (noun) an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition | Synonyms: athletics |
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(noun) the occupation of athletes who compete for pay | - |
(noun) verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously) | Synonyms: fun, play |
(noun) someone who engages in sports | - |
(noun) (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration | Synonyms: mutant, mutation, variation |
(noun) a person known for the way she (or he) behaves when teased or defeated or subjected to trying circumstances | - |
(noun) (Maine colloquial) a temporary summer resident of Maine | Synonyms: summercater |
sportfishing | (noun) the act of someone who fishes as a diversion | Synonyms: fishing |
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sportiness | (noun) The characteristic appearance and behavior of people who partake in sports. | - |
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sportiveness | (noun) lively high-spirited playfulness | Synonyms: friskiness, frolicsomeness |
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sportsball | (noun) Sports of an unspecified kind, usually condescending | - |
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sportscast | (noun) a broadcast of sports news or commentary | - |
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sportscaster | (noun) an announcer who reads sports news or describes sporting events | Synonyms: sports announcer, sports commentator |
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sportsman | (noun) a male who engages in sports | - |
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sportsmanship | (noun) fairness in following the rules of the game | - |
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sportswear | (noun) attire worn for sport or for casual wear | Synonyms: activewear, athletic wear |
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sportswoman | (noun) a female who engages in sports | - |
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sportswriter | (noun) a journalist who writes about sports | Synonyms: sports writer |
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support | (noun) aiding the cause or policy or interests of | - |
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(noun) the act of bearing the weight of or strengthening | Synonyms: supporting |
(noun) documentary validation | Synonyms: documentation |
(noun) a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission | Synonyms: reenforcement, reinforcement |
(noun) the activity of providing for or maintaining by supplying with money or necessities | - |
(noun) any device that bears the weight of another thing | - |
(noun) supporting structure that holds up or provides a foundation | - |
(noun) something providing immaterial assistance to a person or cause or interest | - |
(noun) a musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts | Synonyms: accompaniment, backup, musical accompaniment |
(noun) the financial means whereby one lives | Synonyms: bread and butter, keep, livelihood, living, sustenance |
(noun) financial resources provided to make some project possible | Synonyms: backing, financial backing, financial support, funding |
supporter | (noun) a band (usually elastic) worn around the leg to hold up a stocking (or around the arm to hold up a sleeve) | Synonyms: garter |
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(noun) a support for the genitals worn by men engaging in strenuous exercise | Synonyms: athletic supporter, jock, jockstrap, suspensor |
(noun) a person who backs a politician or a team etc. | Synonyms: admirer, booster, champion, friend, protagonist |
(noun) a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose | Synonyms: assistant, help, helper |
(noun) someone who supports or champions something | Synonyms: patron, sponsor |
supporting | (noun) the act of bearing the weight of or strengthening | Synonyms: support |
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teleportation | (noun) a hypothetical mode of instantaneous transportation; matter is dematerialized at one place and recreated at another | - |
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transport | (noun) the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials | Synonyms: shipping, transportation |
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(noun) the act of moving something from one location to another | Synonyms: conveyance, transfer, transferral, transportation |
(noun) something that serves as a means of transportation | Synonyms: conveyance |
(noun) a mechanism that transports magnetic tape across the read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder | Synonyms: tape drive, tape transport |
(noun) an exchange of molecules (and their kinetic energy and momentum) across the boundary between adjacent layers of a fluid or across cell membranes | - |
(noun) a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion | Synonyms: ecstasy, exaltation, rapture, raptus |
transportation | (noun) the act of moving something from one location to another | Synonyms: conveyance, transfer, transferral, transport |
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(noun) the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials | Synonyms: shipping, transport |
(noun) the act of expelling a person from their native land | Synonyms: deportation, exile, expatriation |
(noun) a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods | Synonyms: transit, transportation system |
(noun) the sum charged for riding in a public conveyance | Synonyms: fare |
transporter | (noun) a moving belt that transports objects (as in a factory) | Synonyms: conveyer, conveyer belt, conveyor, conveyor belt |
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(noun) a crane for moving material with dispatch as in loading and unloading ships | - |
(noun) a long truck for carrying motor vehicles | Synonyms: car transporter |
unimportance | (noun) the quality of not being important or worthy of note | - |
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(noun) the state of being humble and unimportant | Synonyms: humbleness, lowliness, obscureness |