bedstraw | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Galium | - |
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brawl | (noun) a noisy fight in a crowd | Synonyms: free-for-all |
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(noun) an uproarious party | Synonyms: bash, do |
brawler | (noun) a fighter (especially one who participates in brawls) | - |
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brawn | (noun) possessing muscular strength | Synonyms: brawniness, heftiness, muscle, muscularity, sinew |
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brawniness | (noun) possessing muscular strength | Synonyms: brawn, heftiness, muscle, muscularity, sinew |
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burrawong | (noun) large attractive palmlike evergreen cycad of New South Wales | Synonyms: Macrozamia communis, Macrozamia spiralis |
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caraway | (noun) leaves used sparingly in soups and stews | - |
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(noun) a Eurasian plant with small white flowers yielding caraway seed | Synonyms: Carum carvi |
craw | (noun) a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food | Synonyms: crop |
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crawdad | (noun) small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster | Synonyms: crawdaddy, crawfish, crayfish |
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(noun) tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly | Synonyms: crawfish, crayfish, ecrevisse |
crawdaddy | (noun) small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster | Synonyms: crawdad, crawfish, crayfish |
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crawfish | (noun) large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters | Synonyms: crayfish, langouste, rock lobster, sea crawfish, spiny lobster |
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(noun) small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster | Synonyms: crawdad, crawdaddy, crayfish |
(noun) tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly | Synonyms: crawdad, crayfish, ecrevisse |
crawl | (noun) a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body | Synonyms: crawling, creep, creeping |
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(noun) a swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick | Synonyms: Australian crawl, front crawl |
(noun) a very slow movement | - |
crawler | (noun) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: angleworm, dew worm, earthworm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightcrawler, nightwalker, red worm, wiggler |
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(noun) a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage | Synonyms: ass-kisser, lackey, sycophant, toady |
(noun) a person who crawls or creeps along the ground | Synonyms: creeper |
crawling | (noun) a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body | Synonyms: crawl, creep, creeping |
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crawlspace | (noun) low space beneath a floor of a building; gives workers access to wiring or plumbing | Synonyms: crawl space |
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currawong | (noun) bluish black fruit-eating bird with a bell-like call | Synonyms: bell magpie |
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draw | (noun) the act of drawing or hauling something | Synonyms: haul, haulage |
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(noun) poker in which a player can discard cards and receive substitutes from the dealer | Synonyms: draw poker |
(noun) (American football) the quarterback moves back as if to pass and then hands the ball to the fullback who is running toward the line of scrimmage | Synonyms: draw play |
(noun) a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer | Synonyms: hook, hooking |
(noun) a playing card or cards dealt or taken from the pack | - |
(noun) anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random | Synonyms: lot |
(noun) the finish of a contest in which the score is tied and the winner is undecided | Synonyms: standoff, tie |
(noun) a gully that is shallower than a ravine | - |
(noun) an entertainer who attracts large audiences | Synonyms: attracter, attraction, attractor, drawing card |
drawback | (noun) the quality of being a hindrance | - |
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drawbar | (noun) a strong metal bar bearing a hook to attach something to be pulled | - |
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drawbridge | (noun) a bridge that can be raised to block passage or to allow boats or ships to pass beneath it | Synonyms: lift bridge |
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drawee | (noun) the person (or bank) who is expected to pay a check or draft when it is presented for payment | - |
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drawer | (noun) a boxlike container in a piece of furniture; made so as to slide in and out | - |
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(noun) an artist skilled at drawing | Synonyms: draftsman |
(noun) the person who writes a check or draft instructing the drawee to pay someone else | - |
drawers | (noun) (used in the plural) underpants worn by women | Synonyms: bloomers, knickers, pants |
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(noun) underpants worn by men | Synonyms: boxers, boxershorts, shorts, underdrawers |
drawing | (noun) the creation of artistic pictures or diagrams | Synonyms: drafting, draftsmanship |
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(noun) act of getting or draining something such as electricity or a liquid from a source | Synonyms: drawing off |
(noun) players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed by casting lots | Synonyms: lottery |
(noun) the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling | Synonyms: draft, draught |
(noun) a representation of forms or objects on a surface by means of lines | - |
(noun) an illustration that is drawn by hand and published in a book, magazine, or newspaper | - |
drawknife | (noun) a woodworker's knife to shave surfaces | Synonyms: drawshave |
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drawl | (noun) a slow speech pattern with prolonged vowels | - |
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drawler | (noun) someone who speaks with a drawl | - |
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drawnwork | (noun) ornamental needlework done by drawing threads to form lacelike patterns | - |
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drawshave | (noun) a woodworker's knife to shave surfaces | Synonyms: drawknife |
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drawstring | (noun) a tie consisting of a cord that goes through a seam around an opening | Synonyms: drawing string, string |
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farawayness | (noun) the property of being remote | Synonyms: farness, remoteness |
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jackstraw | (noun) a thin strip of wood used in playing the game of jackstraws | Synonyms: spillikin |
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jackstraws | (noun) a game in which players try to pick each jackstraw (or spillikin) off of a pile without moving any of the others | Synonyms: spillikins |
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nightcrawler | (noun) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: angleworm, crawler, dew worm, earthworm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightwalker, red worm, wiggler |
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prawn | (noun) shrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers; most are edible | - |
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(noun) any of various edible decapod crustaceans | Synonyms: shrimp |
raw | (noun) informal terms for nakedness | Synonyms: altogether, birthday suit |
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rawhide | (noun) untanned hide especially of cattle; cut in strips it is used for whips and ropes | - |
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rawness | (noun) lack of experience and the knowledge and understanding derived from experience | Synonyms: inexperience |
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(noun) the state of being crude and incomplete and imperfect | Synonyms: incompleteness |
(noun) a pain that is felt (as when the area is touched) | Synonyms: soreness, tenderness |
(noun) a chilly dampness | - |
scrawl | (noun) poor handwriting | Synonyms: cacography, scratch, scribble |
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scrawler | (noun) a writer whose handwriting is careless and hard to read | Synonyms: scribbler |
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scrawniness | (noun) the bodily property of lacking flesh | Synonyms: skinniness |
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(noun) the property of being stunted and inferior in size or quality | Synonyms: scrubbiness |
sprawl | (noun) an ungainly posture with arms and legs spread about | Synonyms: sprawling |
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(noun) an aggregation or continuous network of urban communities | Synonyms: conurbation, urban sprawl |
sprawler | (noun) a person who sprawls | - |
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sprawling | (noun) an ungainly posture with arms and legs spread about | Synonyms: sprawl |
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straw | (noun) a thin paper or plastic tube used to suck liquids into the mouth | Synonyms: drinking straw |
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(noun) a variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white | Synonyms: pale yellow, wheat |
(noun) plant fiber used e.g. for making baskets and hats or as fodder | - |
(noun) material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds | Synonyms: chaff, husk, shuck, stalk, stubble |
strawberry | (noun) a soft red birthmark | Synonyms: hemangioma simplex, strawberry mark |
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(noun) sweet fleshy red fruit | - |
(noun) any of various low perennial herbs with many runners and bearing white flowers followed by edible fruits having many small achenes scattered on the surface of an enlarged red pulpy berry | - |
strawboard | (noun) a coarse yellow cardboard made of straw pulp | - |
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strawflower | (noun) Australian plant naturalized in Spain having flowers of lemon yellow to deep gold; the frequent choice of those who love dried flowers | Synonyms: golden everlasting, Helichrysum bracteatum, yellow paper daisy |
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(noun) any of various plants of the genus Helipterum | - |
(noun) plant of southern and southeastern United States grown for its yellow flowers that can be dried | Synonyms: cornflower, Uvularia grandiflora |
strawman | (noun) an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds | Synonyms: bird-scarer, scarecrow, scarer, straw man |
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(noun) a weak or sham argument set up to be easily refuted | Synonyms: straw man |
(noun) a person used as a cover for some questionable activity | Synonyms: figurehead, front, front man, nominal head, straw man |
strawworm | (noun) larva of chalcid flies injurious to the straw of wheat and other grains | Synonyms: jointworm |
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(noun) larva of the caddis fly; constructs a case of silk covered with sand or plant debris | Synonyms: caddisworm |
tearaway | (noun) a reckless and impetuous person | - |
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trawl | (noun) a conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths | Synonyms: dragnet, trawl net |
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(noun) a long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys) | Synonyms: setline, spiller, trawl line, trotline |
trawler | (noun) a fishing boat that uses a trawl net or dragnet to catch fish | Synonyms: dragger |
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(noun) a fisherman who use a trawl net | - |
underdrawers | (noun) underpants worn by men | Synonyms: boxers, boxershorts, drawers, shorts |
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withdrawal | (noun) the act of withdrawing | - |
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(noun) formal separation from an alliance or federation | Synonyms: secession |
(noun) the termination of drug taking | Synonyms: drug withdrawal |
(noun) the act of taking out money or other capital | - |
(noun) a method of birth control in which coitus is initiated but the penis is deliberately withdrawn before ejaculation | Synonyms: coitus interruptus, onanism, pulling out, withdrawal method |
(noun) the act of withdrawing blood, tumors, etc. | - |
(noun) the act of ceasing to participate in an activity | - |
(noun) a retraction of a previously held position | Synonyms: backdown, climb-down |
(noun) avoiding emotional involvement | Synonyms: detachment |
withdrawer | (noun) a depositor who withdraws funds previously deposited | - |
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(noun) a student who withdraws from the educational institution in which he or she was enrolled | - |
(noun) a contestant who withdraws from competition | - |
(noun) a drug addict who is discontinuing the use of narcotics | - |
(noun) an individualist who withdraws from social interaction | - |
(noun) an authority who withdraws permission | - |
withdrawnness | (noun) a disposition to be distant and unsympathetic in manner | Synonyms: aloofness, remoteness, standoffishness |
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zebrawood | (noun) any of various trees or shrubs having mottled or striped wood | Synonyms: zebrawood tree |
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(noun) handsomely striped or mottled wood of the zebrawood tree; used especially for cabinetwork | - |