amphibrach | (noun) a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed-unstressed syllables (e.g., `remember') | - |
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approach | (noun) the act of drawing spatially closer to something | Synonyms: approaching, coming |
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(noun) a relatively short golf shot intended to put the ball onto the putting green | Synonyms: approach shot |
(noun) ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation | Synonyms: attack, plan of attack |
(noun) a way of entering or leaving | Synonyms: access |
(noun) the temporal property of becoming nearer in time | Synonyms: approaching, coming |
(noun) a close approximation | - |
(noun) a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others | Synonyms: advance, feeler, overture |
(noun) the event of one object coming closer to another | Synonyms: approaching |
(noun) the final path followed by an aircraft as it is landing | Synonyms: approach path, glide path, glide slope |
azedarach | (noun) tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree | Synonyms: azederach, China tree, chinaberry, chinaberry tree, Melia azedarach, Melia azederach, Persian lilac, pride-of-India |
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azederach | (noun) tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree | Synonyms: azedarach, China tree, chinaberry, chinaberry tree, Melia azedarach, Melia azederach, Persian lilac, pride-of-India |
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beach | (noun) an area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake | - |
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bleach | (noun) the act of whitening something by bleaching it (exposing it to sunlight or using a chemical bleaching agent) | - |
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(noun) the whiteness that results from removing the color from something | - |
(noun) an agent that makes things white or colorless | Synonyms: blanching agent, bleaching agent, whitener |
breach | (noun) a failure to perform some promised act or obligation | - |
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(noun) a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions) | Synonyms: break, falling out, rift, rupture, severance |
(noun) an opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification) | - |
broach | (noun) a decorative pin worn by women | Synonyms: breastpin, brooch |
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coach | (noun) a carriage pulled by four horses with one driver | Synonyms: coach-and-four, four-in-hand |
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(noun) a railcar where passengers ride | Synonyms: carriage, passenger car |
(noun) a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport | Synonyms: autobus, bus, charabanc, double-decker, jitney, motorbus, motorcoach, omnibus, passenger vehicle |
(noun) a person who gives private instruction (as in singing, acting, etc.) | Synonyms: private instructor, tutor |
(noun) (sports) someone in charge of training an athlete or a team | Synonyms: handler, manager |
cockroach | (noun) any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic pests | Synonyms: roach |
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coronach | (noun) a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person | Synonyms: dirge, lament, requiem, threnody |
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dibrach | (noun) a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed syllables | Synonyms: pyrrhic |
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earreach | (noun) the range within which a voice can be heard | Synonyms: earshot, hearing |
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isotach | (noun) a line joining points with constant wind speed. | - |
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leach | (noun) the process of leaching | Synonyms: leaching |
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loach | (noun) slender freshwater fishes of Eurasia and Africa resembling catfishes | - |
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logomach | (noun) someone given to disputes over words | Synonyms: logomachist |
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motorcoach | (noun) a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport | Synonyms: autobus, bus, charabanc, coach, double-decker, jitney, motorbus, omnibus, passenger vehicle |
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orach | (noun) any of various herbaceous plants of the genus Atriplex that thrive in deserts and salt marshes | Synonyms: orache |
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outreach | (noun) the act of reaching out | - |
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peach | (noun) a shade of pink tinged with yellow | Synonyms: apricot, salmon pink, yellowish pink |
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(noun) downy juicy fruit with sweet yellowish or whitish flesh | - |
(noun) a very attractive or seductive looking woman | Synonyms: beauty, dish, knockout, looker, lulu, mantrap, ravisher, smasher, stunner, sweetheart |
(noun) cultivated in temperate regions | Synonyms: peach tree, Prunus persica |
reach | (noun) the act of physically reaching or thrusting out | Synonyms: reaching, stretch |
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(noun) an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: | Synonyms: ambit, compass, orbit, range, scope |
(noun) the limit of capability | Synonyms: compass, grasp, range |
(noun) the limits within which something can be effective | Synonyms: range |
reproach | (noun) a mild rebuke or criticism | - |
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(noun) disgrace or shame | - |
roach | (noun) any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic pests | Synonyms: cockroach |
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(noun) European freshwater food fish having a greenish back | Synonyms: Rutilus rutilus |
(noun) the butt of a marijuana cigarette | - |
(noun) street names for flunitrazepam | Synonyms: circle, forget me drug, Mexican valium, R-2, roofy, rope, rophy |
(noun) a roll of hair brushed back from the forehead | - |
rugelach | (noun) pastry made with a cream cheese dough and different fillings (as raisins and walnuts and cinnamon or chocolate and walnut and apricot preserves) | Synonyms: ruggelach, rugulah |
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ruggelach | (noun) pastry made with a cream cheese dough and different fillings (as raisins and walnuts and cinnamon or chocolate and walnut and apricot preserves) | Synonyms: rugelach, rugulah |
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sandarach | (noun) a brittle and faintly aromatic translucent resin used in varnishes | Synonyms: sandarac |
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slowcoach | (noun) someone who moves slowly | Synonyms: plodder, slowpoke, stick-in-the-mud |
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spinach | (noun) dark green leaves; eaten cooked or raw in salads | - |
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(noun) southwestern Asian plant widely cultivated for its succulent edible dark green leaves | Synonyms: prickly-seeded spinach, spinach plant, Spinacia oleracea |
stagecoach | (noun) a large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns | Synonyms: stage |
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stomach | (noun) an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion | Synonyms: breadbasket, tum, tummy |
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(noun) the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis | Synonyms: abdomen, belly, venter |
(noun) an appetite for food | - |
(noun) an inclination or liking for things involving conflict or difficulty or unpleasantness | - |
sumach | (noun) a shrub or tree of the genus Rhus (usually limited to the non-poisonous members of the genus) | Synonyms: shumac, sumac |
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tach | (noun) measuring instrument for indicating speed of rotation | Synonyms: tachometer |
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taoiseach | (noun) the prime minister of the Irish Republic | - |
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