| aeroplane | (noun) an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets | Synonyms: airplane, plane |
|---|
| airplane | (noun) an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets | Synonyms: aeroplane, plane |
|---|
| alkane | (noun) a series of non-aromatic saturated hydrocarbons with the general formula CnH(2n+2) | Synonyms: alkane series, methane series, paraffin, paraffin series |
|---|
| aminoalkane | (noun) a compound derived from ammonia by replacing hydrogen atoms by univalent hydrocarbon radicals | Synonyms: amine |
|---|
| aminomethane | (noun) a methyl with the hydrogen atom replaced by an amino radical | - |
|---|
| aquaplane | (noun) a board that is pulled by a speedboat as a person stands on it and skims over the top of the water | - |
|---|
| balletomane | (noun) a ballet enthusiast | - |
|---|
| bane | (noun) something causing misery or death | Synonyms: curse, nemesis, scourge |
|---|
| biplane | (noun) old fashioned airplane; has two wings one above the other | - |
|---|
| bugbane | (noun) a plant of the genus Cimicifuga having flowers in long racemes or panicles reported to be distasteful to insects | - |
|---|
| (noun) North American plant having large leaves and yellowish green flowers growing in racemes; yields a toxic alkaloid used medicinally | Synonyms: American hellebore, Indian poke, Veratrum viride, white hellebore |
| butane | (noun) occurs in natural gas; used in the manufacture of rubber and fuels | - |
|---|
| cane | (noun) a stiff switch, used to hit (usually students) as punishment | - |
|---|
| (noun) a stick that people can lean on to help them walk | - |
| (noun) a strong slender often flexible stem as of bamboos, reeds, rattans, or sugar cane | - |
| cellophane | (noun) a transparent paperlike product that is impervious to moisture and used to wrap candy or cigarettes etc. | - |
|---|
| chicane | (noun) the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) | Synonyms: chicanery, guile, shenanigan, trickery, wile |
|---|
| (noun) a movable barrier used in motor racing; sometimes placed before a dangerous corner to reduce speed as cars pass in single file | - |
| (noun) a bridge hand that is void of trumps | - |
| counterpane | (noun) decorative cover for a bed | Synonyms: bed cover, bed covering, bedcover, bedspread, spread |
|---|
| crane | (noun) large long-necked wading bird of marshes and plains in many parts of the world | - |
|---|
| (noun) lifts and moves heavy objects; lifting tackle is suspended from a pivoted boom that rotates around a vertical axis | - |
| cyclopropane | (noun) a colorless flammable gas sometimes used as an inhalation anesthetic | - |
|---|
| cytomembrane | (noun) a thin membrane (a double layer of lipids) enclosing the cytoplasm of a cell; proteins in the membrane control passage of ions (like sodium or potassium or calcium) in and out of the cell | Synonyms: cell membrane, plasma membrane |
|---|
| dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane | (noun) an insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans; banned in the United States since 1972 | Synonyms: DDT |
|---|
| dichloromethane | (noun) a nonflammable liquid used as a solvent and paint remover and refrigerant | Synonyms: methylene chloride |
|---|
| dogbane | (noun) any of several poisonous perennial plants of the genus Apocynum having acrid milky juice and bell-shaped white or pink flowers and a very bitter root | - |
|---|
| elecampane | (noun) tall coarse Eurasian herb having daisylike yellow flowers with narrow petals whose rhizomatous roots are used medicinally | Synonyms: Inula helenium |
|---|
| enflurane | (noun) a nonflammable liquid (trade name Ethrane) used as an inhalation general anesthetic | Synonyms: Ethrane |
|---|
| ethane | (noun) a colorless odorless alkane gas used as fuel | Synonyms: C2H6 |
|---|
| ethoxyethane | (noun) a colorless volatile highly flammable liquid formerly used as an inhalation anesthetic | Synonyms: diethyl ether, divinyl ether, ether, ethyl ether, vinyl ether |
|---|
| fleabane | (noun) hairy perennial Eurasian herb with yellow daisylike flowers reputed to destroy or drive away fleas | Synonyms: feabane mullet, Pulicaria dysenterica |
|---|
| (noun) any of several North American plants of the genus Erigeron having daisylike flowers; formerly believed to repel fleas | - |
| (noun) common North American weed with linear leaves and small discoid heads of yellowish flowers; widely naturalized throughout temperate regions; sometimes placed in genus Erigeron | Synonyms: Canadian fleabane, Conyza canadensis, Erigeron canadensis, horseweed |
| floatplane | (noun) a seaplane equipped with pontoons for landing or taking off from water | Synonyms: pontoon plane |
|---|
| frangipane | (noun) pastry with a creamy almond-flavored filling | - |
|---|
| furane | (noun) a colorless toxic flammable liquid used in the synthesis of nylon | Synonyms: furan, furfuran |
|---|
| gyroplane | (noun) an aircraft that is supported in flight by unpowered rotating horizontal wings (or blades); forward propulsion is provided by a conventional propeller | Synonyms: autogiro, autogyro |
|---|
| haloalkane | (noun) organic compound in which halogen atoms have been substituted for hydrogen atoms in an alkane | Synonyms: alkyl halide |
|---|
| halothane | (noun) a nonflammable inhalation anesthetic that produces general anesthesia; used along with analgesics and muscle relaxants for many types of surgical procedures | - |
|---|
| henbane | (noun) poisonous fetid Old World herb having sticky hairy leaves and yellow-brown flowers; yields hyoscyamine and scopolamine | Synonyms: black henbane, Hyoscyamus niger, stinking nightshade |
|---|
| heptane | (noun) a colorless volatile highly flammable liquid obtained from petroleum and used as an anesthetic or a solvent or in determining octane ratings | - |
|---|
| hexane | (noun) a colorless flammable liquid alkane derived from petroleum and used as a solvent | - |
|---|
| hurricane | (noun) a severe tropical cyclone usually with heavy rains and winds moving at 63-136 knots (12 on the Beaufort scale) | - |
|---|
| hydroplane | (noun) an airplane that can land on or take off from water | Synonyms: seaplane |
|---|
| (noun) a speedboat that is equipped with winglike structures that lift it so that it skims the water at high speeds | Synonyms: hydrofoil |
| isoflurane | (noun) a widely used inhalation anesthetic | - |
|---|
| lane | (noun) a narrow way or road | - |
|---|
| (noun) a well-defined track or path; for e.g. swimmers or lines of traffic | - |
| leopardbane | (noun) any of several herbs of the genus Doronicum having alternate often clasping stem leaves cultivated for their long stalks of yellow flower heads | Synonyms: leopard's-bane |
|---|
| lepidomelane | (noun) a mica that is a biotite containing iron | - |
|---|
| lindane | (noun) a white crystalline powder used as an agricultural insecticide | - |
|---|
| mane | (noun) long coarse hair growing from the crest of the animal's neck | - |
|---|
| (noun) growth of hair covering the scalp of a human being | Synonyms: head of hair |
| marchpane | (noun) almond paste and egg whites | Synonyms: marzipan |
|---|
| membrane | (noun) a thin pliable sheet of material | - |
|---|
| (noun) a pliable sheet of tissue that covers or lines or connects the organs or cells of animals or plants | Synonyms: tissue layer |
| methane | (noun) a colorless odorless gas used as a fuel | - |
|---|
| midplane | (noun) the median plane of the body (or some part of the body) | Synonyms: midline |
|---|
| monoplane | (noun) an airplane with a single wing | - |
|---|
| nitrochloromethane | (noun) gaseous form of chloropicrin used as tear gas | - |
|---|
| octane | (noun) any isomeric saturated hydrocarbon found in petroleum and used as a fuel and solvent | - |
|---|
| pane | (noun) sheet glass cut in shapes for windows or doors | Synonyms: pane of glass, window glass |
|---|
| (noun) a panel or section of panels in a wall or door | Synonyms: paneling, panelling |
| (noun) street name for lysergic acid diethylamide | Synonyms: acid, back breaker, battery-acid, dose, dot, Elvis, loony toons, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, superman, window pane, Zen |
| pavane | (noun) a stately court dance of the 16th and 17th centuries | Synonyms: pavan |
|---|
| (noun) music composed for dancing the pavane | Synonyms: pavan |
| peneplane | (noun) a more or less level land surface representing an advanced stage of erosion undisturbed by crustal movements | Synonyms: peneplain |
|---|
| perchloromethane | (noun) a colorless nonflammable liquid used as a solvent for fats and oils; because of its toxicity its use as a cleaning fluid or fire extinguisher has declined | Synonyms: carbon tet, carbon tetrachloride, tetrachloromethane |
|---|
| plane | (noun) a carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood | Synonyms: carpenter's plane, woodworking plane |
|---|
| (noun) an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets | Synonyms: aeroplane, airplane |
| (noun) a power tool for smoothing or shaping wood | Synonyms: planer, planing machine |
| (noun) (mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape | Synonyms: sheet |
| (noun) a level of existence or development | - |
| polyurethane | (noun) any of various polymers containing the urethane radical; a wide variety of synthetic forms are made and used as adhesives or plastics or paints or rubber | Synonyms: polyurethan |
|---|
| propane | (noun) colorless gas found in natural gas and petroleum; used as a fuel | - |
|---|
| psilomelane | (noun) a mineral consisting of hydrated basic oxide of manganese and barium; a source of manganese | - |
|---|
| purslane | (noun) a plant of the family Portulacaceae having fleshy succulent obovate leaves often grown as a potherb or salad herb; a weed in some areas | - |
|---|
| ratsbane | (noun) a white powdered poisonous trioxide of arsenic; used in manufacturing glass and as a pesticide (rat poison) and weed killer | Synonyms: arsenic, arsenic trioxide, arsenous anhydride, arsenous oxide, white arsenic |
|---|
| sailplane | (noun) aircraft supported only by the dynamic action of air against its surfaces | Synonyms: glider |
|---|
| seaplane | (noun) an airplane that can land on or take off from water | Synonyms: hydroplane |
|---|
| shaggymane | (noun) common edible mushroom having an elongated shaggy white cap and black spores | Synonyms: Coprinus comatus, shaggy cap, shaggymane mushroom |
|---|
| siloxane | (noun) any of a large class of compounds that have alternate silicon and oxygen atoms | - |
|---|
| soutane | (noun) a long cassock with buttons down the front; worn by Roman Catholic priests | - |
|---|
| sowbane | (noun) herb considered fatal to swine | Synonyms: Chenopodium hybridum, red goosefoot |
|---|
| sugarcane | (noun) tall tropical southeast Asian grass having stout fibrous jointed stalks; sap is a chief source of sugar | Synonyms: Saccharum officinarum, sugar cane |
|---|
| (noun) juicy canes whose sap is a source of molasses and commercial sugar; fresh canes are sometimes chewed for the juice | Synonyms: sugar cane |
| tailplane | (noun) the horizontal airfoil of an aircraft's tail assembly that is fixed and to which the elevator is hinged | Synonyms: horizontal stabiliser, horizontal stabilizer |
|---|
| tetrachloromethane | (noun) a colorless nonflammable liquid used as a solvent for fats and oils; because of its toxicity its use as a cleaning fluid or fire extinguisher has declined | Synonyms: carbon tet, carbon tetrachloride, perchloromethane |
|---|
| thane | (noun) a man ranking above an ordinary freeman and below a noble in Anglo-Saxon England (especially one who gave military service in exchange for land) | - |
|---|
| (noun) a feudal lord or baron | - |
| tisane | (noun) infusion of e.g. dried or fresh flowers or leaves | - |
|---|
| tramontane | (noun) a cold dry wind that blows south out of the mountains into Italy and the western Mediterranean | Synonyms: tramontana |
|---|
| tribromomethane | (noun) colorless liquid haloform CHBr3 | Synonyms: bromoform |
|---|
| trichloroethane | (noun) a heavy colorless highly toxic liquid used as a solvent to clean electronic components and for dry cleaning and as a fumigant; causes cancer and liver and lung damage | Synonyms: TCE, trichloroethylene |
|---|
| trichloromethane | (noun) a volatile liquid haloform (CHCl3); formerly used as an anesthetic | Synonyms: chloroform |
|---|
| trifluoromethane | (noun) colorless gas haloform CHF3 (similar to chloroform) | Synonyms: fluoroform |
|---|
| triiodomethane | (noun) a yellowish crystalline solid with a penetrating odor; sometimes used as an antiseptic dressing | Synonyms: iodoform |
|---|
| tryptophane | (noun) an amino acid that occurs in proteins; is essential for growth and normal metabolism; a precursor of niacin | Synonyms: tryptophan |
|---|
| ultramontane | (noun) a Roman Catholic who advocates ultramontanism (supreme papal authority in matters of faith and discipline) | - |
|---|
| urethane | (noun) an ester of carbamic acid | - |
|---|
| vane | (noun) the flattened weblike part of a feather consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft | Synonyms: web |
|---|
| (noun) mechanical device attached to an elevated structure; rotates freely to show the direction of the wind | Synonyms: weather vane, weathervane, wind vane |
| (noun) flat surface that rotates and pushes against air or water | Synonyms: blade |
| (noun) a fin attached to the tail of an arrow, bomb or missile in order to stabilize or guide it | - |
| wane | (noun) a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number) | Synonyms: ebb, ebbing |
|---|
| warplane | (noun) an aircraft designed and used for combat | Synonyms: military plane |
|---|
| weathervane | (noun) mechanical device attached to an elevated structure; rotates freely to show the direction of the wind | Synonyms: vane, weather vane, wind vane |
|---|
| windowpane | (noun) very thin translucent flounder of the Atlantic coast of North America | Synonyms: Scophthalmus aquosus |
|---|
| (noun) a pane of glass in a window | Synonyms: window |
| wolfbane | (noun) poisonous Eurasian perennial herb with broad rounded leaves and yellow flowers and fibrous rootstock | Synonyms: Aconitum lycoctonum, wolf's bane, wolfsbane |
|---|
| wolfsbane | (noun) poisonous Eurasian perennial herb with broad rounded leaves and yellow flowers and fibrous rootstock | Synonyms: Aconitum lycoctonum, wolf's bane, wolfbane |
|---|