aposelene | (noun) apoapsis in orbit around the moon | Synonyms: apolune |
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baseline | (noun) the lines a baseball player must follow while running the bases | - |
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(noun) the back line bounding each end of a tennis or handball court; when serving the server must not step over this line | Synonyms: service line |
(noun) an imaginary line or standard by which things are measured or compared | - |
bestseller | (noun) a book that has had a large and rapid sale | Synonyms: best seller |
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bookseller | (noun) the proprietor of a bookstore | - |
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carousel | (noun) a large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride on for amusement | Synonyms: carrousel, merry-go-round, roundabout, whirligig |
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(noun) a conveyer belt that carries luggage to be claimed by air travelers | Synonyms: carrousel, luggage carousel, luggage carrousel |
carrousel | (noun) a large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride on for amusement | Synonyms: carousel, merry-go-round, roundabout, whirligig |
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(noun) a conveyer belt that carries luggage to be claimed by air travelers | Synonyms: carousel, luggage carousel, luggage carrousel |
ceaselessness | (noun) the quality of something that continues without end or interruption | Synonyms: continuousness, incessancy, incessantness |
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chisel | (noun) an edge tool with a flat steel blade with a cutting edge | - |
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chiseler | (noun) a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud | Synonyms: chiseller, defrauder, gouger, grifter, scammer, swindler |
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chiseller | (noun) a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud | Synonyms: chiseler, defrauder, gouger, grifter, scammer, swindler |
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corselet | (noun) a piece of body armor for the trunk; usually consists of a breastplate and back piece | Synonyms: corslet |
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counsel | (noun) something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action | Synonyms: counseling, counselling, direction, guidance |
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(noun) a lawyer who pleads cases in court | Synonyms: advocate, counsellor, counselor-at-law, counselor, pleader |
counseling | (noun) something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action | Synonyms: counsel, counselling, direction, guidance |
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counselling | (noun) something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action | Synonyms: counsel, counseling, direction, guidance |
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counsellor | (noun) a lawyer who pleads cases in court | Synonyms: advocate, counsel, counselor-at-law, counselor, pleader |
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(noun) someone who gives advice about problems | Synonyms: counselor |
(noun) someone who has supervisory duties at a summer camp | Synonyms: counselor |
counsellorship | (noun) the position of counselor | Synonyms: counselorship |
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counselor | (noun) a lawyer who pleads cases in court | Synonyms: advocate, counsel, counsellor, counselor-at-law, pleader |
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(noun) someone who gives advice about problems | Synonyms: counsellor |
(noun) someone who has supervisory duties at a summer camp | Synonyms: counsellor |
counselorship | (noun) the position of counselor | Synonyms: counsellorship |
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damoiselle | (noun) a young unmarried woman | Synonyms: damosel, damozel, damsel, demoiselle |
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damosel | (noun) a young unmarried woman | Synonyms: damoiselle, damozel, damsel, demoiselle |
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damsel | (noun) a young unmarried woman | Synonyms: damoiselle, damosel, damozel, demoiselle |
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damselfish | (noun) small brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes of coral reefs | Synonyms: demoiselle |
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damselfly | (noun) slender non-stinging insect similar to but smaller than the dragonfly but having wings folded when at rest | - |
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defenselessness | (noun) the property of being helpless in the face of attack | Synonyms: defencelessness, unprotectedness |
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demoiselle | (noun) small brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes of coral reefs | Synonyms: damselfish |
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(noun) a young unmarried woman | Synonyms: damoiselle, damosel, damozel, damsel |
diesel | (noun) an internal-combustion engine that burns heavy oil | Synonyms: diesel engine, diesel motor |
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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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easel | (noun) an upright tripod for displaying something (usually an artist's canvas) | - |
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filoselle | (noun) a soft silk embroidery thread. | - |
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fuselage | (noun) the central body of an airplane that is designed to accommodate the crew and passengers (or cargo) | - |
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groundsel | (noun) Eurasian weed with heads of small yellow flowers | Synonyms: Senecio vulgaris |
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horselaugh | (noun) a loud laugh that sounds like a horse neighing | Synonyms: ha-ha, haw-haw, hee-haw |
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horseleech | (noun) any of several large freshwater leeches | - |
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houselights | (noun) lights that illuminate the audience's part of a theater or other auditorium | - |
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kieselguhr | (noun) a light soil consisting of siliceous diatom remains and often used as a filtering material | Synonyms: diatomaceous earth, diatomite |
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mademoiselle | (noun) small silvery drumfish often mistaken for white perch; found along coasts of United States from New York to Mexico | Synonyms: Bairdiella chrysoura, silver perch |
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morsel | (noun) a small amount of solid food; a mouthful | Synonyms: bit, bite |
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(noun) a small quantity of anything | - |
mussel | (noun) marine or freshwater bivalve mollusk that lives attached to rocks etc. | - |
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(noun) black marine bivalves usually steamed in wine | - |
noiselessness | (noun) the property of making no noise | - |
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nurseling | (noun) an infant considered in relation to its nurse | Synonyms: nursling, suckling |
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ousel | (noun) common black European thrush | Synonyms: blackbird, European blackbird, merl, merle, ouzel, Turdus merula |
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passel | (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
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periselene | (noun) periapsis in orbit around the moon | Synonyms: perilune |
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proselyte | (noun) a new convert; especially a gentile converted to Judaism | - |
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proselytism | (noun) the state of being a proselyte; spiritual rebirth resulting from the zeal of crusading advocacy of the gospel | - |
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(noun) the practice of proselytizing | - |
purposelessness | (noun) the quality of lacking any definite purpose | Synonyms: aimlessness |
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rensselaerite | (noun) a kind of soft talc; sometimes used as wood filler | - |
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roselle | (noun) East Indian sparsely prickly annual herb or perennial subshrub widely cultivated for its fleshy calyxes used in tarts and jelly and for its bast fiber | Synonyms: Hibiscus sabdariffa, Jamaica sorrel, red sorrel, rozelle, sorrel |
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selachian | (noun) any of numerous fishes of the class Chondrichthyes characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton and placoid scales: sharks, rays, skates | Synonyms: elasmobranch |
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selection | (noun) the act of choosing or selecting | Synonyms: choice, option, pick |
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(noun) the person or thing chosen or selected | Synonyms: choice, pick |
(noun) a passage selected from a larger work | Synonyms: excerpt, excerption, extract |
(noun) an assortment of things from which a choice can be made | - |
(noun) a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment | Synonyms: natural selection, survival, survival of the fittest |
selectivity | (noun) the property of being selective | - |
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selectman | (noun) a male elected member of a board of officials who run New England towns | - |
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selector | (noun) a switch that is used to select among alternatives | Synonyms: selector switch |
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(noun) a person who chooses or selects out | Synonyms: chooser, picker |
selectwoman | (noun) a female elected member of a board of officials who run New England towns | - |
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selenator | (noun) A fan of Selena Gomez | - |
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selenite | (noun) a compound that contains a SeO32− anion. | - |
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selenium | (noun) a toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium; occurs in several allotropic forms; a stable grey metallike allotrope conducts electricity better in the light than in the dark and is used in photocells; occurs in sulfide ores (as pyrite) | Synonyms: atomic number 34, Se |
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selenolatry | (noun) the worship of the moon | Synonyms: moon-worship |
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selenology | (noun) the branch of astronomy that deals with the moon | - |
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self | (noun) your consciousness of your own identity | Synonyms: ego |
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(noun) a person considered as a unique individual | - |
selfishness | (noun) stinginess resulting from a concern for your own welfare and a disregard of others | - |
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selflessness | (noun) acting with less concern for yourself than for the success of the joint activity | Synonyms: self-sacrifice |
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(noun) the quality of unselfish concern for the welfare of others | Synonyms: altruism |
selfsameness | (noun) the quality of being identical with itself | - |
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sell | (noun) the activity of persuading someone to buy | - |
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seller | (noun) someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money | Synonyms: marketer, trafficker, vender, vendor |
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selling | (noun) the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money | Synonyms: marketing, merchandising |
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selloff | (noun) a sale of a relatively large number of assets (stocks or bonds or commodities) at a low price typically done to dispose of them rather than as normal trade | - |
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sellout | (noun) a betrayal of one's principles principles, country, cause, etc. | - |
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(noun) the selling of an entire stock of something | - |
(noun) an event for which all tickets are sold | - |
(noun) someone who has sold out | - |
selsyn | (noun) a system consisting of a generator and a motor so connected that the motor will assume the same relative position as the generator; the generator and the motor are synchronized | Synonyms: synchro |
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seltzer | (noun) naturally effervescent mineral water | - |
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(noun) effervescent beverage artificially charged with carbon dioxide | Synonyms: carbonated water, club soda, soda water, sparkling water |
selva | (noun) a rain forest in a tropical area | Synonyms: tropical rain forest |
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selvage | (noun) the edge of a fabric that is woven so that it will not ravel or fray | Synonyms: selvedge |
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(noun) border consisting of an ornamental fringe at either end of an oriental carpet | Synonyms: selvedge |
selvedge | (noun) the edge of a fabric that is woven so that it will not ravel or fray | Synonyms: selvage |
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(noun) border consisting of an ornamental fringe at either end of an oriental carpet | Synonyms: selvage |
senselessness | (noun) total lack of meaning or ideas | Synonyms: inanity, mindlessness, pointlessness, vacuity |
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slopseller | (noun) a dealer in cheap ready-made clothing | Synonyms: slop-seller |
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streusel | (noun) a crumbly topping for a pastry | - |
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(noun) pastry with a topping of streusel | - |
tassel | (noun) adornment consisting of a bunch of cords fastened at one end | - |
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teasel | (noun) any of several herbs of the genus Dipsacus native to the Old World having flower heads surrounded by spiny bracts | Synonyms: teasle, teazel |
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teleselling | (noun) the use of the telephone as an interactive medium for promotion and sales | Synonyms: telecommerce, telemarketing |
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tessella | (noun) a small tessera | - |
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tessellation | (noun) the act of adorning with mosaic | - |
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(noun) the careful juxtaposition of shapes in a pattern | - |
tinsel | (noun) a thread with glittering metal foil attached | - |
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(noun) a showy decoration that is basically valueless | - |
underseller | (noun) a seller that sells at a lower price than others do | - |
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unselfconsciousness | (noun) the quality of being not self-conscious; unawareness of yourself or of others' views of yourself | - |
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unselfishness | (noun) acting generously | Synonyms: generosity |
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(noun) the quality of not putting yourself first but being willing to give your time or money or effort etc. for others | - |
uselessness | (noun) the quality of having no practical use | Synonyms: inutility, unusefulness |
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vessel | (noun) a craft designed for water transportation | Synonyms: watercraft |
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(noun) an object used as a container (especially for liquids) | - |
(noun) a tube in which a body fluid circulates | Synonyms: vas |
weasel | (noun) small carnivorous mammal with short legs and elongated body and neck | - |
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(noun) a person who is regarded as treacherous or sneaky | - |