impounding | (noun) placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law | Synonyms: impoundment, internment, poundage |
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impoundment | (noun) placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law | Synonyms: impounding, internment, poundage |
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infundibulum | (noun) any of various funnel-shaped parts of the body (but especially the hypophyseal stalk) | - |
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inundation | (noun) the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land | Synonyms: alluvion, deluge, flood |
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(noun) an overwhelming number or amount | Synonyms: deluge, flood, torrent |
iodocompound | (noun) a compound containing the covalent iodine radical | - |
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jaguarundi | (noun) long-bodied long-tailed tropical American wildcat | Synonyms: eyra, Felis yagouaroundi, jaguarondi, jaguarundi cat |
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jaundice | (noun) a rough and bitter manner | Synonyms: acerbity, acrimony, bitterness, tartness, thorniness |
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(noun) yellowing of the skin and the whites of the eyes caused by an accumulation of bile pigment (bilirubin) in the blood; can be a symptom of gallstones or liver infection or anemia | Synonyms: icterus |
jocundity | (noun) a feeling of facetious merriment | Synonyms: jocularity |
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launderette | (noun) a self-service laundry (service mark Laundromat) where coin-operated washing machines are available to individual customers | Synonyms: Laundromat |
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laundering | (noun) washing clothes and bed linens | - |
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laundress | (noun) a working woman who takes in washing | Synonyms: laundrywoman, washerwoman, washwoman |
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laundry | (noun) workplace where clothes are washed and ironed | - |
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(noun) garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering | Synonyms: wash, washables, washing |
laundryman | (noun) a man who operates an industrial washing machine | Synonyms: washerman |
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laundrywoman | (noun) a working woman who takes in washing | Synonyms: laundress, washerwoman, washwoman |
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maund | (noun) a unit of weight used in Asia; has different values in different countries | - |
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misunderstanding | (noun) an understanding of something that is not correct | Synonyms: misapprehension, mistake |
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(noun) putting the wrong interpretation on | Synonyms: misinterpretation, mistaking |
mound | (noun) the position on a baseball team of the player who throws the ball for a batter to try to hit | Synonyms: pitcher |
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(noun) structure consisting of an artificial heap or bank usually of earth or stones | Synonyms: hill |
(noun) (baseball) the slight elevation on which the pitcher stands | Synonyms: hill, pitcher's mound |
(noun) a collection of objects laid on top of each other | Synonyms: agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus, heap, pile |
(noun) a small natural hill | Synonyms: hammock, hillock, hummock, knoll |
mundaneness | (noun) the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment | Synonyms: mundanity, sophistication, worldliness |
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(noun) the quality of being commonplace and ordinary | Synonyms: mundanity, ordinariness |
mundanity | (noun) the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment | Synonyms: mundaneness, sophistication, worldliness |
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(noun) the quality of being commonplace and ordinary | Synonyms: mundaneness, ordinariness |
osmund | (noun) any fern of the genus Osmunda: large ferns with creeping rhizomes; naked sporangia are on modified fronds that resemble flower clusters | Synonyms: flowering fern |
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otterhound | (noun) hardy British hound having long pendulous ears and a thick coarse shaggy coat with an oily undercoat; bred for hunting otters | Synonyms: otter hound |
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overabundance | (noun) a quantity that is more than what is appropriate | Synonyms: overmuch, overmuchness, superabundance |
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(noun) the state of being more than full | Synonyms: excess, surfeit |
playground | (noun) yard consisting of an outdoor area for children's play | - |
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(noun) an area where many people go for recreation, holidays or other purposes | Synonyms: resort area, vacation spot |
plunder | (noun) goods or money obtained illegally | Synonyms: booty, dirty money, loot, pillage, prize, swag |
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plunderage | (noun) the act of plundering (especially the embezzlement of goods on shipboard) | - |
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plunderer | (noun) someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war) | Synonyms: despoiler, freebooter, looter, pillager, raider, spoiler |
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plundering | (noun) the act of stealing valuable things from a place | Synonyms: pillage, pillaging |
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pound | (noun) the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows) | Synonyms: hammer, hammering, pounding |
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(noun) a public enclosure for stray or unlicensed dogs | Synonyms: dog pound |
(noun) a symbol for a unit of currency (especially for the pound sterling in Great Britain) | Synonyms: pound sign |
(noun) a nontechnical unit of force equal to the mass of 1 pound with an acceleration of free fall equal to 32 feet/sec/sec | Synonyms: lbf. |
(noun) the basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; equal to 100 pence | Synonyms: British pound, British pound sterling, pound sterling, quid |
(noun) the basic unit of money in Cyprus; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: Cypriot pound |
(noun) the basic unit of money in Egypt; equal to 100 piasters | Synonyms: Egyptian pound |
(noun) formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland; equal to 100 pence | Synonyms: Irish pound, Irish punt, punt |
(noun) the basic unit of money in Lebanon; equal to 100 piasters | Synonyms: Lebanese pound |
(noun) the basic unit of money in the Sudan; equal to 100 piasters | Synonyms: Sudanese pound |
(noun) the basic unit of money in Syria; equal to 100 piasters | Synonyms: Syrian pound |
(noun) 16 ounces avoirdupois | Synonyms: lb |
(noun) a unit of apothecary weight equal to 12 ounces troy | - |
poundage | (noun) placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law | Synonyms: impounding, impoundment, internment |
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(noun) weight expressed in pounds | - |
(noun) a fee charged for the recovery of impounded animals | - |
(noun) a charge based on weight measured in pounds | - |
poundal | (noun) a unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 foot/sec/sec to a mass of 1 pound; equal to 0.1382 newtons | Synonyms: pdl |
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pounder | (noun) a heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone | Synonyms: muller, pestle |
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(noun) (used only in combination) something weighing a given number of pounds | - |
pounding | (noun) the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows) | Synonyms: hammer, hammering, pound |
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(noun) repeated heavy blows | Synonyms: buffeting |
(noun) an instance of rapid strong pulsation (of the heart) | Synonyms: throb, throbbing |
profoundness | (noun) the quality of being physically deep | Synonyms: deepness, profundity |
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(noun) intellectual depth, penetrating knowledge, keen insight, etc; "the depth of my feeling"; "the profoundness of the silence" | Synonyms: profundity |
(noun) the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas | Synonyms: astuteness, deepness, depth, profundity |
(noun) wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound | Synonyms: abstruseness, abstrusity, profundity, reconditeness |
(noun) extremeness of degree | - |
profundity | (noun) the quality of being physically deep | Synonyms: deepness, profoundness |
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(noun) intellectual depth, penetrating knowledge, keen insight, etc; "the depth of my feeling"; "the profoundness of the silence" | Synonyms: profoundness |
(noun) the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas | Synonyms: astuteness, deepness, depth, profoundness |
(noun) wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound | Synonyms: abstruseness, abstrusity, profoundness, reconditeness |
pundit | (noun) someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field | Synonyms: initiate, learned person, savant |
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rebound | (noun) the act of securing possession of the rebounding basketball after a missed shot | - |
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(noun) a reaction to a crisis or setback or frustration | - |
(noun) a movement back from an impact | Synonyms: backlash, recoil, repercussion |
redundance | (noun) the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded | Synonyms: redundancy |
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redundancy | (noun) repetition of an act needlessly | - |
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(noun) the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded | Synonyms: redundance |
(noun) (electronics) a system design that duplicates components to provide alternatives in case one component fails | - |
(noun) repetition of messages to reduce the probability of errors in transmission | - |
refund | (noun) the act of returning money received previously | Synonyms: repayment |
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(noun) money returned to a payer | - |
rotunda | (noun) a large circular room | - |
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(noun) a building having a circular plan and a dome | - |
rotundity | (noun) the roundness of a 3-dimensional object | Synonyms: globosity, globularness, rotundness, sphericalness, sphericity |
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(noun) the fullness of a tone of voice | Synonyms: roundness |
rotundness | (noun) the roundness of a 3-dimensional object | Synonyms: globosity, globularness, rotundity, sphericalness, sphericity |
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round | (noun) (often plural) a series of professional calls (usually in a set order) | - |
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(noun) the usual activities in your day | Synonyms: daily round |
(noun) the activity of playing 18 holes of golf | Synonyms: round of golf |
(noun) any circular or rotating mechanism | Synonyms: circle |
(noun) a charge of ammunition for a single shot | Synonyms: one shot, unit of ammunition |
(noun) a crosspiece between the legs of a chair | Synonyms: rung, stave |
(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: troll |
(noun) an outburst of applause | - |
(noun) a cut of beef between the rump and the lower leg | - |
(noun) a serving to each of a group (usually alcoholic) | Synonyms: round of drinks |
(noun) a regular route for a sentry or policeman | Synonyms: beat |
(noun) the course along which communications spread | - |
(noun) (sports) a division of a game during which one team is on the offensive | Synonyms: bout, turn |
(noun) an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs | Synonyms: cycle, rhythm |
roundabout | (noun) a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island | Synonyms: circle, rotary, traffic circle |
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(noun) a large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride on for amusement | Synonyms: carousel, carrousel, merry-go-round, whirligig |
roundedness | (noun) the property possessed by a rounded convexity | Synonyms: bulginess |
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roundel | (noun) round piece of armor plate that protects the armpit | - |
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(noun) (heraldry) a charge in the shape of a filled circle | - |
(noun) English form of rondeau having three triplets with a refrain after the first and third | - |
roundelay | (noun) a song in which a line or phrase is repeated as the refrain | - |
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rounder | (noun) a tool for rounding corners or edges | - |
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(noun) a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained | Synonyms: debauchee, libertine |
rounders | (noun) an English ball game similar to baseball | - |
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roundhead | (noun) a brachycephalic person | - |
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roundhouse | (noun) a hook delivered with an exaggerated swing | - |
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(noun) workplace consisting of a circular building for repairing locomotives | - |
rounding | (noun) (mathematics) a miscalculation that results from rounding off numbers to a convenient number of decimals | Synonyms: rounding error |
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roundness | (noun) the property possessed by a line or surface that is curved and not angular | - |
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(noun) the bodily property of being well rounded | Synonyms: embonpoint, plumpness |
(noun) the quality of being round numbers | - |
(noun) the fullness of a tone of voice | Synonyms: rotundity |
roundsman | (noun) a workman employed to make rounds (to deliver goods or make inspections or so on) | - |
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roundtable | (noun) a meeting of peers for discussion and exchange of views | Synonyms: round-table conference, round table |
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roundup | (noun) the systematic gathering up of suspects by the police | - |
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(noun) the activity of gathering livestock together so that they can be counted or branded or sold | - |
(noun) a summary list; as in e.g. "a news roundup" | - |
roundworm | (noun) unsegmented worms with elongated rounded body pointed at both ends; mostly free-living but some are parasitic | Synonyms: nematode, nematode worm |
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(noun) infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches | Synonyms: ringworm, tinea |
rundle | (noun) one of the crosspieces that form the steps of a ladder | Synonyms: rung, spoke |
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rundown | (noun) a concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court) | Synonyms: summation, summing up |
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salmagundi | (noun) cooked meats and eggs and vegetables usually arranged in rows around the plate and dressed with a salad dressing | - |
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(noun) a collection containing a variety of sorts of things | Synonyms: assortment, miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, motley, potpourri, smorgasbord, variety |
scoundrel | (noun) a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately | Synonyms: villain |
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secundigravida | (noun) a woman who is pregnant for the second time | Synonyms: gravida II |
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sleuthhound | (noun) a breed of large powerful hound of European origin having very acute smell and used in tracking | Synonyms: bloodhound |
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(noun) a detective who follows a trail | Synonyms: sleuth |
smoothhound | (noun) smooth dogfish of European coastal waters | Synonyms: Mustelus mustelus, smoothhound shark |
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sound | (noun) the particular auditory effect produced by a given cause | - |
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(noun) the subjective sensation of hearing something | Synonyms: auditory sensation |
(noun) the audible part of a transmitted signal | Synonyms: audio |
(noun) (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language | Synonyms: phone, speech sound |
(noun) the sudden occurrence of an audible event | - |
(noun) a large ocean inlet or deep bay | - |
(noun) a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water | Synonyms: strait |
(noun) mechanical vibrations transmitted by an elastic medium | - |
soundboard | (noun) (music) resonator consisting of a thin board whose vibrations reinforce the sound of the instrument | Synonyms: sounding board |
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soundbox | (noun) a resonating chamber in a musical instrument (as the body of a violin) | Synonyms: body |
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sounder | (noun) a device for making soundings | - |
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sounding | (noun) the act of measuring depth of water (usually with a sounding line) | - |
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(noun) a measure of the depth of water taken with a sounding line | - |
soundlessness | (noun) the property of making no sound | Synonyms: quietness |
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soundman | (noun) a technician in charge of amplifying sound or producing sound effects (as for a TV or radio broadcast) | - |
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soundness | (noun) the muscle tone of healthy tissue | Synonyms: firmness |
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(noun) the quality of being prudent and sensible | Synonyms: wisdom, wiseness |
(noun) a state or condition free from damage or decay | - |
soundtrack | (noun) sound recording on a narrow strip of a motion picture film | - |
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staghound | (noun) a large heavy hound formerly used in hunting stags and other large game; similar to but larger than a foxhound | - |
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sundae | (noun) ice cream served with a topping | Synonyms: ice-cream sundae |
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sundate | (noun) A date on a Sunday | - |
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sundew | (noun) any of various bog plants of the genus Drosera having leaves covered with sticky hairs that trap and digest insects; cosmopolitan in distribution | Synonyms: daily dew, sundew plant |
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sundial | (noun) timepiece that indicates the daylight hours by the shadow that the gnomon casts on a calibrated dial | - |
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sundog | (noun) a bright spot on the parhelic circle; caused by diffraction by ice crystals | Synonyms: mock sun, parhelion |
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sundown | (noun) the time in the evening at which the sun begins to fall below the horizon | Synonyms: sunset |
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sundowner | (noun) a drink taken at sundown | - |
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(noun) a tramp who habitually arrives at sundown | - |
sundress | (noun) a light loose sleeveless summer dress with a wide neckline and thin shoulder straps that expose the arms and shoulders | - |
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sundries | (noun) miscellaneous objects too numerous or too small to be specified | - |
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sundrops | (noun) a day-flowering biennial or perennial of the genus Oenothera | Synonyms: Oenothera fruticosa |
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superabundance | (noun) a quantity that is more than what is appropriate | Synonyms: overabundance, overmuch, overmuchness |
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superfecundation | (noun) fertilization of two or more ova released during the same menstrual cycle by sperm from separate acts of coitus (especially by different males) | - |
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surround | (noun) the area in which something exists or lives | Synonyms: environment, environs, surroundings |
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surroundings | (noun) the area in which something exists or lives | Synonyms: environment, environs, surround |
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(noun) the environmental condition | Synonyms: milieu |
tenpounder | (noun) game fish resembling the tarpon but smaller | Synonyms: Elops saurus, ladyfish |
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thunder | (noun) street names for heroin | Synonyms: big H, hell dust, nose drops, scag, skag, smack |
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(noun) a deep prolonged loud noise | Synonyms: boom, roar, roaring |
(noun) a booming or crashing noise caused by air expanding along the path of a bolt of lightning | - |
thunderbird | (noun) (mythology) the spirit of thunder and lightning believed by some Native Americans to take the shape of a great bird | - |
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thunderbolt | (noun) a shocking surprise | Synonyms: bombshell, thunderclap |
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(noun) a discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder | Synonyms: bolt, bolt of lightning |
thunderclap | (noun) a single sharp crash of thunder | - |
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(noun) a shocking surprise | Synonyms: bombshell, thunderbolt |
thundercloud | (noun) a dark cloud of great vertical extent charged with electricity; associated with thunderstorms | Synonyms: cumulonimbus, cumulonimbus cloud |
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thunderer | (noun) a noisemaker that makes a sound like thunder | - |
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thunderhead | (noun) a rounded projecting mass of a cumulus cloud with shining edges; often appears before a thunderstorm | - |
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thunderousness | (noun) The state or condition of being very loud, suggestive of thunder; booming loudness. | - |
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thundershower | (noun) a short rainstorm accompanied by thunder and lightning | - |
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thunderstorm | (noun) a storm resulting from strong rising air currents; heavy rain or hail along with thunder and lightning | Synonyms: electric storm, electrical storm |
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trundle | (noun) small wheel or roller | - |
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(noun) a low bed to be slid under a higher bed | Synonyms: truckle, truckle bed, trundle bed |