accruement | (noun) the act of accumulating | Synonyms: accrual, accumulation |
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affluence | (noun) abundant wealth | Synonyms: richness |
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affluent | (noun) a branch that flows into the main stream | Synonyms: confluent, feeder, tributary |
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(noun) an affluent person; a person who is financially well off | - |
affluenza | (noun) an inability to understand the consequences of one's actions because of financial privilege | - |
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ague | (noun) a mark placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation | Synonyms: acute, acute accent |
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(noun) a fit of shivering or shaking | - |
(noun) successive stages of chills and fever that is a symptom of malaria | Synonyms: chills and fever |
agueweed | (noun) gentian of eastern North America having clusters of bristly blue flowers | Synonyms: ague weed, five-flowered gentian, Gentiana quinquefolia, Gentianella quinquefolia, stiff gentian |
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(noun) perennial herb of southeastern United States having white-rayed flower heads; formerly used as in folk medicine | Synonyms: boneset, Eupatorium perfoliatum, thoroughwort |
amanuensis | (noun) someone skilled in the transcription of speech (especially dictation) | Synonyms: shorthand typist, stenographer |
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analogue | (noun) something having the property of being analogous to something else | Synonyms: analog, parallel |
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angelique | (noun) any of various tall and stout herbs of the genus Angelica having pinnately compound leaves and small white or greenish flowers in compound umbels | Synonyms: angelica |
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antique | (noun) any piece of furniture or decorative object or the like produced in a former period and valuable because of its beauty or rarity | - |
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(noun) an elderly man | Synonyms: gaffer, old-timer, old geezer, oldtimer |
antiqueness | (noun) the quality or state of being in the style or fashion of former times. | - |
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apologue | (noun) a short moral story (often with animal characters) | Synonyms: allegory, fable, parable |
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applique | (noun) a decorative design made of one material sewn over another | - |
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aqueduct | (noun) a conduit that resembles a bridge but carries water over a valley | - |
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arabesque | (noun) an ornament that interlaces simulated foliage in an intricate design | - |
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(noun) position in which the dancer has one leg raised behind and arms outstretched in a conventional pose | - |
arguer | (noun) someone who engages in debate | Synonyms: debater |
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arquebus | (noun) an obsolete firearm with a long barrel | Synonyms: hackbut, hagbut, harquebus |
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autocue | (noun) a device that displays words for people to read | Synonyms: prompter |
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avenue | (noun) a line of approach | - |
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(noun) a wide street or thoroughfare | Synonyms: boulevard |
baguet | (noun) narrow French stick loaf | Synonyms: baguette |
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baguette | (noun) narrow French stick loaf | Synonyms: baguet |
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banquet | (noun) a meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed | Synonyms: feast, spread |
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(noun) a ceremonial dinner party for many people | Synonyms: feast |
banqueting | (noun) eating an elaborate meal (often accompanied by entertainment) | Synonyms: feasting |
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banquette | (noun) an upholstered bench | - |
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barbecue | (noun) a rack to hold meat for cooking over hot charcoal usually out of doors | Synonyms: barbeque |
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(noun) a cookout in which food is cooked over an open fire; especially a whole animal carcass roasted on a spit | Synonyms: barbeque |
(noun) meat that has been barbecued or grilled in a highly seasoned sauce | Synonyms: barbeque |
barbeque | (noun) a rack to hold meat for cooking over hot charcoal usually out of doors | Synonyms: barbecue |
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(noun) a cookout in which food is cooked over an open fire; especially a whole animal carcass roasted on a spit | Synonyms: barbecue |
(noun) meat that has been barbecued or grilled in a highly seasoned sauce | Synonyms: barbecue |
baroque | (noun) elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century | Synonyms: baroqueness |
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baroqueness | (noun) elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century | Synonyms: baroque |
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barque | (noun) a sailing ship with 3 (or more) masts | Synonyms: bark |
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battue | (noun) a hunt in which beaters force the game to flee in the direction of the hunter | - |
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(noun) indiscriminate slaughter | Synonyms: bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed |
beleaguering | (noun) the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack | Synonyms: besieging, military blockade, siege |
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bequest | (noun) (law) a gift of personal property by will | Synonyms: legacy |
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bezique | (noun) a card game played with a pack of forty-eight cards (two of each suit for high cards); play resembles whist | Synonyms: penuchle, pinochle, pinocle |
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bisque | (noun) a thick cream soup made from shellfish | - |
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blue | (noun) any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae | - |
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(noun) the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic | Synonyms: amobarbital sodium, Amytal, blue angel, blue devil |
(noun) blue clothing | - |
(noun) blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime | Synonyms: blueness |
(noun) any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue | - |
(noun) the sky as viewed during daylight | Synonyms: blue air, blue sky, wild blue yonder |
(noun) used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge | Synonyms: blueing, bluing |
bluebell | (noun) one of the most handsome prairie wildflowers having large erect bell-shaped bluish flowers; of moist places in prairies and fields from eastern Colorado and Nebraska south to New Mexico and Texas | Synonyms: Eustoma grandiflorum, prairie gentian, tulip gentian |
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(noun) perennial of Northern Hemisphere with slender stems and bell-shaped blue flowers | Synonyms: Campanula rotundifolia, harebell |
(noun) sometimes placed in genus Scilla | Synonyms: harebell, Hyacinthoides nonscripta, Scilla nonscripta, wild hyacinth, wood hyacinth |
blueberry | (noun) sweet edible dark-blue berries of either low-growing or high-growing blueberry plants | - |
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(noun) any of numerous shrubs of the genus Vaccinium bearing blueberries | Synonyms: blueberry bush |
bluebill | (noun) diving ducks of North America having a bluish-grey bill | Synonyms: broadbill, scaup, scaup duck |
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bluebird | (noun) blue North American songbird | - |
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(noun) fruit-eating mostly brilliant blue songbird of the East Indies | Synonyms: fairy bluebird |
bluebonnet | (noun) a brimless dark blue Scottish cap with a flat top and a plume on one side | Synonyms: Balmoral |
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(noun) low-growing annual herb of southwestern United States (Texas) having silky foliage and blue flowers; a leading cause of livestock poisoning in the southwestern United States | Synonyms: buffalo clover, Lupinus subcarnosus, Texas bluebonnet |
bluebottle | (noun) blowfly with iridescent blue body; makes a loud buzzing noise in flight | Synonyms: Calliphora vicina |
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(noun) an annual Eurasian plant cultivated in North America having showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers | Synonyms: bachelor's button, Centaurea cyanus, cornflower |
bluecoat | (noun) a person dressed all in blue (as a soldier or sailor) | - |
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bluefin | (noun) largest tuna; to 1500 pounds; of mostly temperate seas: feed in polar regions but breed in tropics | Synonyms: bluefin tuna, horse mackerel, Thunnus thynnus |
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(noun) flesh of very large tuna | Synonyms: bluefin tuna |
bluefish | (noun) bluish warm-water marine food and game fish that follow schools of small fishes into shallow waters | Synonyms: Pomatomus saltatrix |
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(noun) fatty bluish flesh of bluefish | - |
bluegill | (noun) important edible sunfish of eastern and central United States | Synonyms: Lepomis macrochirus |
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bluegrass | (noun) a type of country music played at a rapid tempo on banjos and guitars | - |
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(noun) any of various grasses of the genus Poa | Synonyms: blue grass |
bluehead | (noun) small Atlantic wrasse the male of which has a brilliant blue head | Synonyms: Thalassoma bifasciatum |
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blueing | (noun) a process that makes something blue (or bluish) | Synonyms: bluing |
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(noun) used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge | Synonyms: blue, bluing |
bluejacket | (noun) a serviceman in the navy | Synonyms: navy man, sailor, sailor boy |
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blueness | (noun) blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime | Synonyms: blue |
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bluenose | (noun) a native or inhabitant of Nova Scotia | Synonyms: Nova Scotian |
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bluepoint | (noun) small edible oyster typically from the southern shore of Long Island | Synonyms: blue point |
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(noun) oysters originally from Long Island Sound but now from anywhere along the northeastern seacoast; usually eaten raw | Synonyms: blue point |
blueprint | (noun) photographic print of plans or technical drawings etc. | - |
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(noun) something intended as a guide for making something else | Synonyms: design, pattern |
blues | (noun) a type of folksong that originated among Black Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholy sound from repeated use of blue notes | - |
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(noun) a state of depression | Synonyms: blue devils, megrims, vapors, vapours |
bluestem | (noun) tall grass with smooth bluish leaf sheaths grown for hay in the United States | Synonyms: Andropogon furcatus, Andropogon gerardii, blue stem |
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bluestocking | (noun) a woman having literary or intellectual interests | Synonyms: bas bleu |
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bluestone | (noun) bluish-grey sandstone used for paving and building | - |
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bluethroat | (noun) songbird of northern Europe and Asia | Synonyms: Erithacus svecicus |
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bluetick | (noun) a very fast American hound; white mottled with bluish grey | - |
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bluetongue | (noun) a viral disease of sheep and cattle that is transmitted by biting midges | - |
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blueweed | (noun) a coarse prickly European weed with spikes of blue flowers; naturalized in United States | Synonyms: blue devil, blue thistle, Echium vulgare, viper's bugloss |
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bluewing | (noun) American teal | Synonyms: Anas discors, blue-winged teal |
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bouquet | (noun) an arrangement of flowers that is usually given as a present | Synonyms: corsage, nosegay, posy |
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(noun) a pleasingly sweet olfactory property | Synonyms: fragrance, fragrancy, redolence, sweetness |
boutique | (noun) a shop that sells women's clothes and jewelry | Synonyms: dress shop |
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briquet | (noun) a block made from charcoal or coal dust and burned as fuel | Synonyms: briquette |
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briquette | (noun) a block made from charcoal or coal dust and burned as fuel | Synonyms: briquet |
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brogue | (noun) a thick and heavy shoe | Synonyms: brogan, clodhopper, work shoe |
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brusqueness | (noun) an abrupt discourteous manner | Synonyms: abruptness, curtness, gruffness, shortness |
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burlesque | (noun) a theatrical entertainment of broad and earthy humor; consists of comic skits and short turns (and sometimes striptease) | - |
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(noun) a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way | Synonyms: lampoon, mockery, parody, pasquinade, put-on, send-up, sendup, spoof, takeoff, travesty |
cacique | (noun) black-and-red or black-and-yellow orioles of the American tropics | Synonyms: cazique |
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calque | (noun) an expression introduced into one language by translating it from another language | Synonyms: calque formation, loan translation |
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cangue | (noun) an instrument of punishment formerly used in China for petty criminals; consists of a heavy wooden collar enclosing the neck and arms | - |
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casque | (noun) (15-16th century) any armor for the head; usually ornate without a visor | - |
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casquet | (noun) a light open casque without a visor or beaver | Synonyms: casquetel |
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casquetel | (noun) a light open casque without a visor or beaver | Synonyms: casquet |
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catafalque | (noun) a decorated bier on which a coffin rests in state during a funeral | - |
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catalogue | (noun) a book or pamphlet containing an enumeration of things | Synonyms: catalog |
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(noun) a complete list of things; usually arranged systematically | Synonyms: catalog |
cataloguer | (noun) a librarian who classifies publications according to a categorial system | Synonyms: cataloger |
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cazique | (noun) black-and-red or black-and-yellow orioles of the American tropics | Synonyms: cacique |
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cheque | (noun) a written order directing a bank to pay money | Synonyms: bank check, check |
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chequebook | (noun) a book issued to holders of checking accounts | Synonyms: checkbook |
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chequer | (noun) one of the flat round pieces used in playing the game of checkers | Synonyms: checker |
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chequerboard | (noun) a board having 64 squares of two alternating colors | Synonyms: checker board, checkerboard |
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cinque | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one | Synonyms: 5, fin, five, fivesome, Little Phoebe, pentad, Phoebe, quint, quintet, quintuplet, V |
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cinquefoil | (noun) an ornamental carving consisting of five arcs arranged in a circle | - |
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(noun) any of a numerous plants grown for their five-petaled flowers; abundant in temperate regions; alleged to have medicinal properties | Synonyms: five-finger |
cirque | (noun) a steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain; may contain a lake | Synonyms: corrie, cwm |
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claque | (noun) a group of followers hired to applaud at a performance | - |
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clique | (noun) an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose | Synonyms: camp, coterie, ingroup, inner circle, pack |
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clue | (noun) a slight indication | Synonyms: hint |
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(noun) evidence that helps to solve a problem | Synonyms: clew, cue |
colleague | (noun) an associate that one works with | Synonyms: co-worker, fellow worker, workfellow |
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(noun) a person who is member of one's class or profession | Synonyms: confrere, fellow |
communique | (noun) an official report (usually sent in haste) | Synonyms: despatch, dispatch |
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confluence | (noun) a flowing together | Synonyms: conflux, merging |
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(noun) a coming together of people | Synonyms: concourse |
(noun) a place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers) | Synonyms: meeting |
confluent | (noun) a branch that flows into the main stream | Synonyms: affluent, feeder, tributary |
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congruence | (noun) the quality of agreeing; being suitable and appropriate | Synonyms: congruity, congruousness |
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conquering | (noun) the act of conquering | Synonyms: conquest, subjection, subjugation |
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conqueror | (noun) someone who is victorious by force of arms | Synonyms: vanquisher |
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conquest | (noun) success in mastering something difficult | - |
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(noun) the act of conquering | Synonyms: conquering, subjection, subjugation |
(noun) an act of winning the love or sexual favor of someone | Synonyms: seduction |
consequence | (noun) having important effects or influence | Synonyms: import, moment |
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(noun) the outcome of an event especially as relative to an individual | Synonyms: aftermath |
(noun) a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon | Synonyms: effect, event, issue, outcome, result, upshot |
constituency | (noun) the body of voters who elect a representative for their area | - |
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constituent | (noun) an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system | Synonyms: component, element |
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(noun) an abstract part of something | Synonyms: component, element, factor, ingredient |
(noun) (grammar) a word or phrase or clause forming part of a larger grammatical construction | Synonyms: grammatical constituent |
(noun) a member of a constituency; a citizen who is represented in a government by officials for whom he or she votes | - |
(noun) something determined in relation to something that includes it | Synonyms: component, component part, part, portion |