appurtenance | (noun) a supplementary component that improves capability | Synonyms: accessory, add-on, supplement |
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(noun) equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc. | Synonyms: gear, paraphernalia |
bourtree | (noun) a common shrub with black fruit or a small tree of Europe and Asia; fruit used for wines and jellies | Synonyms: black elder, common elder, elderberry, European elder, Sambucus nigra |
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burthen | (noun) a variant of `burden' | - |
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court | (noun) respectful deference | Synonyms: homage |
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(noun) an area wholly or partly surrounded by walls or buildings | Synonyms: courtyard |
(noun) a specially marked horizontal area within which a game is played | - |
(noun) a room in which a law court sits | Synonyms: courtroom |
(noun) a hotel for motorists; provides direct access from rooms to parking area | Synonyms: motor hotel, motor inn, motor lodge, tourist court |
(noun) the residence of a sovereign or nobleman | - |
(noun) an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business | Synonyms: judicature, tribunal |
(noun) the sovereign and his advisers who are the governing power of a state | Synonyms: royal court |
(noun) the family and retinue of a sovereign or prince | Synonyms: royal court |
courtesan | (noun) a woman who cohabits with an important man | Synonyms: concubine, doxy, paramour |
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courtesy | (noun) a courteous or respectful or considerate act | - |
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(noun) a courteous manner | Synonyms: good manners |
(noun) a courteous or respectful or considerate remark | - |
courthouse | (noun) a building that houses judicial courts | - |
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(noun) a government building that houses the offices of a county government | - |
courtier | (noun) an attendant at the court of a sovereign | - |
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courting | (noun) a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage) | Synonyms: courtship, suit, wooing |
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courtliness | (noun) elegance suggestive of a royal court | - |
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courtroom | (noun) a room in which a law court sits | Synonyms: court |
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courtship | (noun) a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage) | Synonyms: courting, suit, wooing |
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courtyard | (noun) an area wholly or partly surrounded by walls or buildings | Synonyms: court |
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curtailment | (noun) the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation | Synonyms: suppression |
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(noun) the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable | Synonyms: downsizing, retrenchment |
(noun) the temporal property of being cut short | - |
curtain | (noun) hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) | Synonyms: drape, drapery, mantle, pall |
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(noun) any barrier to communication or vision | - |
curtilage | (noun) the enclosed land around a house or other building | Synonyms: grounds, yard |
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curtness | (noun) an abrupt discourteous manner | Synonyms: abruptness, brusqueness, gruffness, shortness |
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curtsey | (noun) bending the knees; a gesture of respect made by women | Synonyms: curtsy |
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curtsy | (noun) bending the knees; a gesture of respect made by women | Synonyms: curtsey |
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discourtesy | (noun) a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings of others | Synonyms: offence, offense, offensive activity |
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(noun) a manner that is rude and insulting | Synonyms: rudeness |
(noun) an expression of lack of respect | Synonyms: disrespect |
forecourt | (noun) the outer or front court of a building or of a group of buildings | - |
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fourteen | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of thirteen and one | Synonyms: 14, XIV |
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fourteenth | (noun) position 14 in a countable series of things | - |
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fourth | (noun) the musical interval between one note and another four notes away from it | - |
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(noun) one of four equal parts | Synonyms: fourth part, one-fourth, one-quarter, quarter, quartern, twenty-five percent |
(noun) following the third position; number four in a countable series | - |
frankfurter | (noun) a smooth-textured sausage of minced beef or pork usually smoked; often served on a bread roll | Synonyms: dog, frank, hot dog, hotdog, weenie, wiener, wienerwurst |
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furtherance | (noun) the advancement of some enterprise | Synonyms: forwarding, promotion |
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(noun) encouragement of the progress or growth or acceptance of something | Synonyms: advancement, promotion |
furtiveness | (noun) a disposition to be sly and stealthy and to do things surreptitiously | Synonyms: sneakiness, stealthiness |
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hurt | (noun) the act of damaging something or someone | Synonyms: damage, harm, scathe |
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(noun) a damage or loss | Synonyms: detriment |
(noun) feelings of mental or physical pain | Synonyms: suffering |
(noun) psychological suffering | Synonyms: distress, suffering |
(noun) any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury | Synonyms: harm, injury, trauma |
hurting | (noun) a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder | Synonyms: pain |
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kurta | (noun) a loose collarless shirt worn by many people on the Indian subcontinent (usually with a salwar or churidars or pyjama) | - |
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lawcourt | (noun) a tribunal that is presided over by a magistrate or by one or more judges who administer justice according to the laws | Synonyms: court of justice, court of law, law court |
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nasturtium | (noun) flowers and seeds and leaves all used as flavorings | - |
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(noun) any tropical American plant of the genus Tropaeolum having pungent juice and long-spurred yellow to red flowers | - |
nurturance | (noun) physical and emotional care and nourishment | - |
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nurture | (noun) helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community | Synonyms: breeding, bringing up, fosterage, fostering, raising, rearing, upbringing |
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(noun) the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child | Synonyms: raising, rearing |
spurt | (noun) the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid) | Synonyms: jet, spirt, squirt |
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surtax | (noun) an additional tax on certain kinds of income that has already been taxed | Synonyms: supertax |
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surtitle | (noun) translation of the words of a foreign opera (or choral work) projected on a screen above the stage | Synonyms: supertitle |
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surtout | (noun) a man's overcoat in the style of a frock coat | - |
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tourtiere | (noun) a meat pie that is usually eaten at Christmas in Quebec | - |
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turtle | (noun) any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming | - |
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(noun) a sweater or jersey with a high close-fitting collar | Synonyms: polo-neck, turtleneck |
turtledove | (noun) any of several Old World wild doves | - |
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(noun) small Australian dove | Synonyms: Australian turtledove, Stictopelia cuneata |
turtlehead | (noun) showy perennial of marshlands of eastern and central North America having waxy lanceolate leaves and flower with lower part creamy white and upper parts pale pink to deep purple | Synonyms: Chelone glabra, shell-flower, shellflower, snake-head, snakehead |
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turtleneck | (noun) a sweater or jersey with a high close-fitting collar | Synonyms: polo-neck, turtle |
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turtler | (noun) someone whose occupation is hunting turtles | - |
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urticaria | (noun) an itchy skin eruption characterized by weals with pale interiors and well-defined red margins; usually the result of an allergic response to insect bites or food or drugs | Synonyms: hives, nettle rash, urtication |
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urtication | (noun) a sensation of having been stung by nettles | - |
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(noun) an itchy skin eruption characterized by weals with pale interiors and well-defined red margins; usually the result of an allergic response to insect bites or food or drugs | Synonyms: hives, nettle rash, urticaria |
wurtzite | (noun) a brownish-black mineral consisting of zinc sulfide | - |
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yoghourt | (noun) a custard-like food made from curdled milk | Synonyms: yoghurt, yogurt |
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yoghurt | (noun) a custard-like food made from curdled milk | Synonyms: yoghourt, yogurt |
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yogurt | (noun) a custard-like food made from curdled milk | Synonyms: yoghourt, yoghurt |
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yurt | (noun) a circular domed dwelling that is portable and self-supporting; originally used by nomadic Mongol and Turkic people of central Asia but now used as inexpensive alternative or temporary housing | - |
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