amatungulu | (noun) very large closely branched South African shrub having forked bright green spines and shiny leaves | Synonyms: Carissa grandiflora, Carissa macrocarpa, natal plum |
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antifungal | (noun) any agent that destroys or prevents the growth of fungi | Synonyms: antifungal agent, antimycotic, antimycotic agent, fungicide |
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aqualung | (noun) a device (trade name Aqua-Lung) that lets divers breathe under water; scuba is an acronym for self-contained underwater breathing apparatus | Synonyms: Aqua-Lung, scuba |
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bung | (noun) a plug used to close a hole in a barrel or flask | Synonyms: spile |
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bungalow | (noun) a small house with a single story | Synonyms: cottage |
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bungee | (noun) an elasticized rope | Synonyms: bungee cord |
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bunghole | (noun) a hole in a barrel or cask; used to fill or empty it | - |
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(noun) vulgar slang for anus | Synonyms: arse, arsehole, asshole |
bungle | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall |
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bungler | (noun) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | Synonyms: blunderer, botcher, bumbler, butcher, fuckup, fumbler, sad sack, stumbler |
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chunga | (noun) Argentinian Cariama | Synonyms: Chunga burmeisteri, seriema |
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dung | (noun) fecal matter of animals | Synonyms: droppings, muck |
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dungaree | (noun) a coarse durable twill-weave cotton fabric | Synonyms: denim, jean |
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dungeon | (noun) the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress | Synonyms: donjon, keep |
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(noun) a dark cell (usually underground) where prisoners can be confined | - |
dunghill | (noun) a heap of dung or refuse | Synonyms: midden, muckheap, muckhill |
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(noun) a foul or degraded condition | - |
expunging | (noun) deletion by an act of expunging or erasing | Synonyms: erasure, expunction |
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fungibility | (noun) the quality of being capable of exchange or interchange | Synonyms: exchangeability, interchangeability, interchangeableness |
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fungible | (noun) a commodity that is freely interchangeable with another in satisfying an obligation | - |
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fungicide | (noun) any agent that destroys or prevents the growth of fungi | Synonyms: antifungal, antifungal agent, antimycotic, antimycotic agent |
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fungus | (noun) an organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter; ranging from unicellular or multicellular organisms to spore-bearing syncytia | - |
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geebung | (noun) any of numerous shrubs and small trees having hard narrow leaves and long-lasting yellow or white flowers followed by small edible but insipid fruits | - |
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grunge | (noun) anything regarded as making something unclean | Synonyms: dirt, filth, grease, grime, soil, stain |
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hunger | (noun) strong desire for something (not food or drink) | Synonyms: hungriness, thirst, thirstiness |
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(noun) a physiological need for food; the consequence of food deprivation | Synonyms: hungriness |
hungriness | (noun) strong desire for something (not food or drink) | Synonyms: hunger, thirst, thirstiness |
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(noun) prolonged unfulfilled desire or need | Synonyms: longing, yearning |
(noun) a physiological need for food; the consequence of food deprivation | Synonyms: hunger |
jungle | (noun) a place where hoboes camp | Synonyms: hobo camp |
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(noun) an impenetrable equatorial forest | - |
(noun) a location marked by an intense competition and struggle for survival | - |
lounge | (noun) a room (as in a hotel or airport) with seating where people can wait | Synonyms: waiting area, waiting room |
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(noun) an upholstered seat for more than one person | Synonyms: couch, sofa |
lounger | (noun) an armchair whose back can be lowered and foot can be raised to allow the sitter to recline in it | Synonyms: recliner, reclining chair |
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(noun) an article of clothing designed for comfort and leisure wear | - |
(noun) someone who wastes time | Synonyms: dallier, dilly-dallier, dillydallier, mope |
loungewear | (noun) clothing suitable for relaxation | - |
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lung | (noun) either of two saclike respiratory organs in the chest of vertebrates; serves to remove carbon dioxide and provide oxygen to the blood | - |
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lunge | (noun) the act of moving forward suddenly | Synonyms: lurch |
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(noun) (fencing) an attacking thrust made with one foot forward and the back leg straight and with the sword arm outstretched forward | Synonyms: passado, straight thrust |
lungen | (noun) tree of southeastern Asia to Australia grown primarily for its sweet edible fruit resembling litchi nuts; sometimes placed in genera Euphorbia or Nephelium | Synonyms: Dimocarpus longan, Euphorbia litchi, longan, longanberry, Nephelium longana |
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lunger | (noun) someone who moves forward suddenly (as in fencing) | - |
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(noun) a person with pulmonary tuberculosis | Synonyms: consumptive, tubercular |
lungfish | (noun) air-breathing fish having an elongated body and fleshy paired fins; certain species construct mucus-lined mud coverings in which to survive drought | - |
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lungi | (noun) a long piece of brightly colored cloth (cotton or silk) used as clothing (a skirt or loincloth or sash etc.) in India and Pakistan and Burma | Synonyms: longyi, lungyi |
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lungyi | (noun) a long piece of brightly colored cloth (cotton or silk) used as clothing (a skirt or loincloth or sash etc.) in India and Pakistan and Burma | Synonyms: longyi, lungi |
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mung | (noun) seed of the mung bean plant used for food; food from the seed of the mung bean plant | Synonyms: golden gram, green bean, green gram, green soy, mash bean, monggo, moong, mung bean, munggo |
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(noun) erect bushy annual widely cultivated in warm regions of India and Indonesia and United States for forage and especially its edible seeds; chief source of bean sprouts used in Chinese cookery; sometimes placed in genus Phaseolus | Synonyms: mung bean, mung bean plant, Phaseolus aureus, Vigna radiata |
(noun) seed of the mung bean plant; used for food; seed of the mung bean plant | Synonyms: golden gram, green bean, green gram, green soy, mash bean, monggo, moong, mung bean, munggo |
munggo | (noun) seed of the mung bean plant used for food; food from the seed of the mung bean plant | Synonyms: golden gram, green bean, green gram, green soy, mash bean, monggo, moong, mung, mung bean |
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(noun) seed of the mung bean plant; used for food; seed of the mung bean plant | Synonyms: golden gram, green bean, green gram, green soy, mash bean, monggo, moong, mung, mung bean |
muskellunge | (noun) large (60 to 80 pounds) sport fish of North America | Synonyms: Esox masquinongy |
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(noun) flesh of very large North American pike; a game fish | - |
plunge | (noun) a brief swim in water | Synonyms: dip |
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(noun) a steep and rapid fall | - |
plunger | (noun) mechanical device that has a plunging or thrusting motion | Synonyms: piston |
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(noun) hand tool consisting of a stick with a rubber suction cup at one end; used to clean clogged drains | Synonyms: plumber's helper |
(noun) someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains | Synonyms: speculator |
(noun) someone who dives (into water) | Synonyms: diver |
pung | (noun) a one-horse sleigh consisting of a box on runners | - |
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pungapung | (noun) putrid-smelling aroid of southeastern Asia (especially the Philippines) grown for its edible tuber | Synonyms: Amorphophallus campanulatus, Amorphophallus paeonifolius, elephant yam, telingo potato |
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pungency | (noun) a strong odor or taste property | Synonyms: bite, raciness, sharpness |
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(noun) wit having a sharp and caustic quality | Synonyms: bite |
quellung | (noun) the swelling of the capsule surrounding a microorganism after reaction with an antibody; the basis of certain tests for identifying microorganisms | Synonyms: quellung reaction |
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rung | (noun) one of the crosspieces that form the steps of a ladder | Synonyms: rundle, spoke |
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(noun) a crosspiece between the legs of a chair | Synonyms: round, stave |
scrounger | (noun) someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free) | Synonyms: cadger, mooch, moocher |
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shantung | (noun) a heavy silk fabric with a rough surface (or a cotton imitation) | - |
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sunglass | (noun) a convex lens that focuses the rays of the sun; used to start a fire | - |
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sunglasses | (noun) (plural) spectacles that are darkened or polarized to protect the eyes from the glare of the sun | Synonyms: dark glasses, shades |
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tudung | (noun) a scarf worn around the head by Muslim women in Malaysia; conceals the hair but not the face | - |
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tung | (noun) Chinese tree bearing seeds that yield tung oil | Synonyms: Aleurites fordii, tung-oil tree, tung tree |
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tungstate | (noun) a salt of tungstic acid | - |
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tungsten | (noun) a heavy grey-white metallic element; the pure form is used mainly in electrical applications; it is found in several ores including wolframite and scheelite | Synonyms: atomic number 74, W, wolfram |
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ungainliness | (noun) the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are extremely ungainly and inelegant | Synonyms: gawkiness |
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ungodliness | (noun) impiety by virtue of not being a godly person | Synonyms: godlessness |
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ungracefulness | (noun) an unpleasant lack of grace in carriage or form or movement or expression | Synonyms: gracelessness |
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ungraciousness | (noun) an offensive lack of good manners | - |
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ungrammaticality | (noun) The state or quality of not following rules of grammar. | - |
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ungratefulness | (noun) a lack of gratitude | Synonyms: ingratitude |
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unguent | (noun) semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation | Synonyms: balm, ointment, salve, unction |
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unguiculate | (noun) a mammal having nails or claws | Synonyms: unguiculate mammal |
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unguis | (noun) any rigid body structure composed primarily of keratin | Synonyms: horny structure |
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ungulate | (noun) any of a number of mammals with hooves that are superficially similar but not necessarily closely related taxonomically | Synonyms: hoofed mammal |
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young | (noun) any immature animal | Synonyms: offspring |
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(noun) young people collectively | Synonyms: youth |
youngness | (noun) the opposite of oldness | - |
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youngster | (noun) a young person of either sex | Synonyms: child, fry, kid, minor, nestling, nipper, shaver, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke |
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