bankroll | (noun) a roll of currency notes (often taken as the resources of a person or business etc.) | Synonyms: roll |
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barcarolle | (noun) a boating song sung by Venetian gondoliers | Synonyms: barcarole |
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bedroll | (noun) bedding rolled up for carrying | - |
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brolly | (noun) colloquial terms for an umbrella | Synonyms: gamp |
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caroller | (noun) a singer of carols | Synonyms: caroler |
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comptroller | (noun) someone who maintains and audits business accounts | Synonyms: accountant, controller |
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comptrollership | (noun) the position of comptroller | - |
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controller | (noun) a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine | Synonyms: control |
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(noun) someone who maintains and audits business accounts | Synonyms: accountant, comptroller |
(noun) a person who directs and restrains | Synonyms: restrainer |
controllership | (noun) the position of controller | - |
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corolla | (noun) (botany) the whorl of petals of a flower that collectively form an inner floral envelope or layer of the perianth | - |
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corollary | (noun) (logic) an inference that follows directly from the proof of another proposition | - |
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(noun) a practical consequence that follows naturally | - |
drollery | (noun) a quaint and amusing jest | Synonyms: waggery |
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(noun) a comic incident or series of incidents | Synonyms: clowning, comedy, funniness |
enrollee | (noun) a person who enrolls in (or is enrolled in) a class or course of study | - |
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enrollment | (noun) the act of enrolling | Synonyms: enrolment, registration |
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(noun) the body of people (such as students) who register or enroll at the same time | Synonyms: registration |
jellyroll | (noun) thin sheet of sponge cake spread with jelly and then rolled up to make a cylindrical cake | Synonyms: Swiss roll |
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logrolling | (noun) rotating a log rapidly in the water (as a competitive sport) | Synonyms: birling |
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(noun) act of exchanging favors for mutual gain; especially trading of influence or votes among legislators to gain passage of certain projects | - |
patroller | (noun) someone on patrol duty; an individual or a member of a group that patrols an area | - |
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payroll | (noun) the department that determines the amounts of wage or salary due to each employee | Synonyms: payroll department |
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(noun) a list of employees and their salaries | Synonyms: paysheet |
(noun) the total amount of money paid in wages | Synonyms: paysheet |
roll | (noun) a flight maneuver; aircraft rotates about its longitudinal axis without changing direction or losing altitude | - |
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(noun) the act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling) | Synonyms: bowl |
(noun) the act of throwing dice | Synonyms: cast |
(noun) walking with a swaying gait | - |
(noun) anything rolled up in cylindrical form | - |
(noun) photographic film rolled up inside a container to protect it from light | - |
(noun) a list of names | Synonyms: roster |
(noun) a document that can be rolled up (as for storage) | Synonyms: scroll |
(noun) a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells) | Synonyms: peal, pealing, rolling |
(noun) a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore | Synonyms: roller, rolling wave |
(noun) rotary motion of an object around its own axis | Synonyms: axial motion, axial rotation |
(noun) the sound of a drum (especially a snare drum) beaten rapidly and continuously | Synonyms: drum roll, paradiddle |
(noun) small rounded bread either plain or sweet | Synonyms: bun |
(noun) a roll of currency notes (often taken as the resources of a person or business etc.) | Synonyms: bankroll |
(noun) a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals) | Synonyms: coil, curl, curlicue, gyre, ringlet, scroll, whorl |
rollback | (noun) the act of forcing the enemy to withdraw | Synonyms: push back |
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(noun) reducing prices back to some earlier level | - |
roller | (noun) a grounder that rolls along the infield | - |
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(noun) Old World bird that tumbles or rolls in flight; related to kingfishers | - |
(noun) pigeon that executes backward somersaults in flight or on the ground | Synonyms: tumbler, tumbler pigeon |
(noun) a cylinder that revolves | - |
(noun) a mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it | Synonyms: crimper, curler, hair curler |
(noun) a small wheel without spokes (as on a roller skate) | - |
(noun) a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore | Synonyms: roll, rolling wave |
rollerblader | (noun) a skater who uses Rollerblades | - |
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rollerblading | (noun) skating using Rollerblades | - |
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rolling | (noun) propelling something on wheels | Synonyms: wheeling |
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(noun) the act of robbing a helpless person | - |
(noun) a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells) | Synonyms: peal, pealing, roll |
rollmops | (noun) a pickled herring filet that has been rolled or wrapped around a pickle | - |
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rollover | (noun) the act of changing the institution that invests your pension plan without incurring a tax penalty | - |
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scroll | (noun) a document that can be rolled up (as for storage) | Synonyms: roll |
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(noun) a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals) | Synonyms: coil, curl, curlicue, gyre, ringlet, roll, whorl |
steamroller | (noun) vehicle equipped with heavy wide smooth rollers for compacting roads and pavements | Synonyms: road roller |
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(noun) a massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its way | Synonyms: juggernaut |
stroll | (noun) a leisurely walk (usually in some public place) | Synonyms: amble, perambulation, promenade, saunter |
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stroller | (noun) a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around | Synonyms: baby buggy, baby carriage, carriage, go-cart, perambulator, pram, pushchair, pusher |
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(noun) someone who walks at a leisurely pace | Synonyms: ambler, saunterer |
troll | (noun) angling by drawing a baited line through the water | Synonyms: trolling |
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(noun) a fisherman's lure that is used in trolling | - |
(noun) a partsong in which voices follow each other; one voice starts and others join in one after another until all are singing different parts of the song at the same time | Synonyms: round |
(noun) (Scandinavian folklore) a supernatural creature (either a dwarf or a giant) that is supposed to live in caves or in the mountains | - |
troller | (noun) a fisherman who uses a hook and line | Synonyms: angler |
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trolley | (noun) a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity | Synonyms: streetcar, tram, tramcar, trolley car |
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trolleybus | (noun) a passenger bus with an electric motor that draws power from overhead wires | Synonyms: trackless trolley, trolley coach |
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trolling | (noun) angling by drawing a baited line through the water | Synonyms: troll |
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trollop | (noun) a woman adulterer | Synonyms: adulteress, fornicatress, hussy, jade, loose woman, slut, strumpet |
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(noun) a dirty untidy woman | Synonyms: slattern, slovenly woman, slut |
(noun) A sexually loose woman | Synonyms: ho, hoe, hussy, slut |