anorak | (noun) a kind of heavy jacket | Synonyms: parka, windbreaker, windcheater |
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arak | (noun) any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses | Synonyms: arrack |
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beak | (noun) horny projecting mouth of a bird | Synonyms: bill, neb, nib, pecker |
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(noun) beaklike mouth of animals other than birds (e.g., turtles) | - |
(noun) informal terms for the nose | Synonyms: honker, hooter, nozzle, schnoz, schnozzle, snoot, snout |
(noun) a beaklike, tapering tip on certain plant structures | - |
beefsteak | (noun) a beef steak usually cooked by broiling | - |
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bispak | (noun) A sexually promiscuous Indonesian woman | - |
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break | (noun) the act of breaking something | Synonyms: breakage, breaking |
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(noun) an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity | Synonyms: disruption, gap, interruption |
(noun) a sudden dash | - |
(noun) the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool | - |
(noun) an escape from jail | Synonyms: breakout, gaolbreak, jailbreak, prison-breaking, prisonbreak |
(noun) a pause from doing something (as work) | Synonyms: recess, respite, time out |
(noun) any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare | Synonyms: open frame |
(noun) (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving | Synonyms: break of serve |
(noun) some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity | Synonyms: interruption |
(noun) an unexpected piece of good luck | Synonyms: good luck, happy chance |
(noun) the occurrence of breaking | - |
(noun) a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions) | Synonyms: breach, falling out, rift, rupture, severance |
(noun) an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion) | - |
(noun) (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other | Synonyms: fault, faulting, fracture, geological fault, shift |
(noun) breaking of hard tissue such as bone | Synonyms: fracture |
(noun) a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something | Synonyms: intermission, interruption, pause, suspension |
chopsteak | (noun) a patty of ground cooked beef | Synonyms: beef patty, chop steak, chopped steak, hamburger steak |
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cloak | (noun) a loose outer garment | - |
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(noun) anything that covers or conceals | - |
creak | (noun) a squeaking sound | Synonyms: creaking |
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creashak | (noun) evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries; leaves turn red in autumn | Synonyms: Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, bear's grape, common bearberry, hog cranberry, mealberry, mountain box, red bearberry, sand berry, sandberry, wild cranberry |
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croak | (noun) a harsh hoarse utterance (as of a frog) | Synonyms: croaking |
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czworniak | (noun) a Polish mead, made using three units of water for each unit of honey. | - |
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dak | (noun) East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye | Synonyms: Butea frondosa, Butea monosperma, dhak, palas |
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daybreak | (noun) the first light of day | Synonyms: aurora, break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, dawn, dawning, dayspring, first light, morning, sunrise, sunup |
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dhak | (noun) East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye | Synonyms: Butea frondosa, Butea monosperma, dak, palas |
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doctorspeak | (noun) medical jargon | - |
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doublespeak | (noun) any language that pretends to communicate but actually does not | - |
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dwojniak | (noun) a Polish mead, made using equal amounts of water and honey. | - |
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firebreak | (noun) a narrow field that has been cleared to check the spread of a prairie fire or forest fire | Synonyms: fireguard |
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flak | (noun) artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes | Synonyms: ack-ack, ack-ack gun, antiaircraft, antiaircraft gun, flack, pom-pom |
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(noun) intense adverse criticism | Synonyms: attack, blast, fire, flack |
(noun) a slick spokesperson who can turn any criticism to the advantage of their employer | Synonyms: flack, flack catcher, flak catcher |
freak | (noun) a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed | Synonyms: lusus naturae, monster, monstrosity |
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(noun) someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction | Synonyms: addict, junkie, junky, nut |
gaolbreak | (noun) an escape from jail | Synonyms: break, breakout, jailbreak, prison-breaking, prisonbreak |
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grosbeak | (noun) any of various finches of Europe or America having a massive and powerful bill | Synonyms: grossbeak |
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grossbeak | (noun) any of various finches of Europe or America having a massive and powerful bill | Synonyms: grosbeak |
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hairstreak | (noun) small butterflies having striped markings under the wings | Synonyms: hairstreak butterfly |
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halfbeak | (noun) tropical and subtropical marine and freshwater fishes having an elongated body and long protruding lower jaw | - |
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heartbreak | (noun) intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death) | Synonyms: brokenheartedness, grief, heartache |
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jailbreak | (noun) an escape from jail | Synonyms: break, breakout, gaolbreak, prison-breaking, prisonbreak |
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(noun) the removal of security locks from an electronic device | - |
jak | (noun) immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit; it contains an edible pulp and nutritious seeds that are commonly roasted | Synonyms: jack, jackfruit |
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kayak | (noun) a small canoe consisting of a light frame made watertight with animal skins; used by Eskimos | - |
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leak | (noun) unauthorized (especially deliberate) disclosure of confidential information | Synonyms: news leak |
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(noun) the discharge of a fluid from some container | Synonyms: escape, leakage, outflow |
(noun) an accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape | - |
(noun) a euphemism for urination | Synonyms: making water, passing water, wetting |
(noun) soft watery rot in fruits and vegetables caused by fungi | - |
newsbreak | (noun) a short news announcement concerning some on-going news story | Synonyms: flash, news bulletin, newsflash |
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newspeak | (noun) deliberately ambiguous and contradictory language used to mislead and manipulate the public | - |
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oak | (noun) a deciduous tree of the genus Quercus; has acorns and lobed leaves | Synonyms: oak tree |
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(noun) the hard durable wood of any oak; used especially for furniture and flooring | - |
outbreak | (noun) a sudden violent spontaneous occurrence (usually of some undesirable condition) | Synonyms: eruption, irruption |
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peak | (noun) a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes | Synonyms: bill, eyeshade, visor, vizor |
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(noun) the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill) | Synonyms: crest, crown, summit, tip, top |
(noun) the highest point (of something) | Synonyms: acme, apex, vertex |
(noun) the most extreme possible amount or value | Synonyms: extremum |
(noun) a V shape | Synonyms: point, tip |
(noun) the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development | Synonyms: acme, elevation, height, meridian, pinnacle, summit, superlative, tiptop, top |
(noun) the period of greatest prosperity or productivity | Synonyms: bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flower, flush, heyday, prime |
prisonbreak | (noun) an escape from jail | Synonyms: break, breakout, gaolbreak, jailbreak, prison-breaking |
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sneak | (noun) someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police | Synonyms: canary, fink, sneaker, snitch, snitcher, stool pigeon, stoolie, stoolpigeon |
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(noun) someone who prowls or sneaks about; usually with unlawful intentions | Synonyms: prowler, stalker |
(noun) a person who is regarded as underhanded and furtive and contemptible | - |
soak | (noun) washing something by allowing it to soak | Synonyms: soaking |
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(noun) the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid) | Synonyms: soakage, soaking |
squeak | (noun) something achieved (or escaped) by a narrow margin | Synonyms: close call, close shave, narrow escape, squeaker |
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(noun) a short high-pitched noise | - |
steak | (noun) a slice of meat cut from the fleshy part of an animal or large fish | - |
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streak | (noun) a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background | Synonyms: bar, stripe |
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(noun) a distinctive characteristic | - |
(noun) a sudden flash (as of lightning) | - |
(noun) an unbroken series of events | Synonyms: run |
teak | (noun) tall East Indian timber tree now planted in western Africa and tropical America for its hard durable wood | Synonyms: Tectona grandis |
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(noun) hard strong durable yellowish-brown wood of teak trees; resistant to insects and to warping; used for furniture and in shipbuilding | Synonyms: teakwood |
tokamak | (noun) a doughnut-shaped chamber used in fusion research; a plasma is heated and confined in a magnetic bottle | - |
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tombak | (noun) an alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding | Synonyms: tambac, tombac |
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trojniak | (noun) a Polish mead, made using two units of water for each unit of honey. | - |
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tweak | (noun) a squeeze with the fingers | Synonyms: pinch |
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windbreak | (noun) hedge or fence of trees designed to lessen the force of the wind and reduce erosion | Synonyms: shelterbelt |
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yak | (noun) large long-haired wild ox of Tibet often domesticated | Synonyms: Bos grunniens |
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(noun) noisy talk | Synonyms: cackle, chatter, yack, yakety-yak |
yashmak | (noun) the face veil worn by Muslim women | Synonyms: yashmac |
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zamboorak | (noun) a camel cavalry used in the early modern era by Arab, Afghan, Persian, and Indian armies | Synonyms: camel cavalry, zamburak, zamburek, zumbooruck, zumbooruk |
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zamburak | (noun) a camel cavalry used in the early modern era by Arab, Afghan, Persian, and Indian armies | Synonyms: camel cavalry, zamboorak, zamburek, zumbooruck, zumbooruk |
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