beadle | (noun) a minor parish official who serves a ceremonial function | - |
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boodle | (noun) a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card | Synonyms: Chicago, Michigan, Newmarket, stops |
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(noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
bridle | (noun) the act of restraining power or action or limiting excess | Synonyms: check, curb |
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(noun) headgear for a horse; includes a headstall and bit and reins to give the rider or driver control | - |
bundle | (noun) a package of several things tied together for carrying or storing | Synonyms: sheaf |
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(noun) a collection of things wrapped or boxed together | Synonyms: package, packet, parcel |
(noun) a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit) | Synonyms: big bucks, big money, megabucks, pile |
caboodle | (noun) any collection in its entirety | Synonyms: bunch, lot |
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candle | (noun) stick of wax with a wick in the middle | Synonyms: taper, wax light |
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(noun) the basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; equal to 1/60 of the luminous intensity per square centimeter of a black body radiating at the temperature of 2,046 degrees Kelvin | Synonyms: candela, cd, standard candle |
cradle | (noun) a baby bed with sides and rockers | - |
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(noun) a trough that can be rocked back and forth; used by gold miners to shake auriferous earth in water in order to separate the gold | Synonyms: rocker |
(noun) where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence | Synonyms: birthplace, place of origin, provenance, provenience |
(noun) birth of a person | - |
cuddle | (noun) a close and affectionate (and often prolonged) embrace | Synonyms: nestle, snuggle |
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doddle | (noun) an easy task | - |
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doodle | (noun) an aimless drawing | Synonyms: scrabble, scribble |
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doorhandle | (noun) a knob used to release the catch when opening a door (often called `doorhandle' in Great Britain) | Synonyms: doorknob |
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fiddle | (noun) bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow | Synonyms: violin |
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footcandle | (noun) a unit of illuminance on a surface that is everywhere 1 foot from a point source of 1 candle | - |
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fuddle | (noun) a confused multitude of things | Synonyms: clutter, jumble, mare's nest, muddle, smother, welter |
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girdle | (noun) a woman's close-fitting foundation garment | Synonyms: corset, stays |
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(noun) a band of material around the waist that strengthens a skirt or trousers | Synonyms: cincture, sash, waistband, waistcloth |
(noun) an encircling or ringlike structure | - |
griddle | (noun) cooking utensil consisting of a flat heated surface (as on top of a stove) on which food is cooked | - |
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grindle | (noun) primitive long-bodied carnivorous freshwater fish with a very long dorsal fin; found in sluggish waters of North America | Synonyms: Amia calva, bowfin, dogfish |
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handle | (noun) the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it | Synonyms: grip, handgrip, hold |
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huddle | (noun) (informal) a quick private conference | Synonyms: powwow |
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(noun) a disorganized and densely packed crowd | - |
hurdle | (noun) the act of jumping over an obstacle | Synonyms: vault |
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(noun) a light movable barrier that competitors must leap over in certain races | - |
(noun) an obstacle that you are expected to overcome | - |
idle | (noun) the state of an engine or other mechanism that is idling | - |
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ladle | (noun) a spoon-shaped vessel with a long handle; frequently used to transfer liquids from one container to another | - |
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middle | (noun) the middle area of the human torso (usually in front) | Synonyms: midriff, midsection |
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(noun) an intermediate part or section | - |
(noun) an area that is approximately central within some larger region | Synonyms: center, centre, eye, heart |
(noun) the point between the beginning and the end of a temporal period or process | - |
mollycoddle | (noun) a pampered darling; an effeminate man | - |
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muddle | (noun) a confused multitude of things | Synonyms: clutter, fuddle, jumble, mare's nest, smother, welter |
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(noun) informal terms for a difficult situation | Synonyms: fix, hole, jam, kettle of fish, mess, pickle |
needle | (noun) a sharp pointed implement (usually steel) | - |
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(noun) a slender pointer for indicating the reading on the scale of a measuring instrument | - |
(noun) a stylus that formerly made sound by following a groove in a phonograph record | Synonyms: phonograph needle |
(noun) the leaf of a conifer | Synonyms: acerate leaf |
noddle | (noun) an informal British expression for head or mind | - |
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noodle | (noun) informal terms for a human head | Synonyms: attic, bean, bonce, dome, noggin |
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(noun) a ribbonlike strip of pasta | - |
packsaddle | (noun) a saddle for pack animals to which loads can be attached | - |
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paddle | (noun) a short light oar used without an oarlock to propel a canoe or small boat | Synonyms: boat paddle |
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(noun) an instrument of punishment consisting of a flat board | - |
(noun) a blade of a paddle wheel or water wheel | - |
(noun) small wooden bat with a flat surface; used for hitting balls in various games | - |
panhandle | (noun) the handle of a pan | - |
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(noun) a relatively narrow strip of land projecting from some larger area | - |
paradiddle | (noun) the sound of a drum (especially a snare drum) beaten rapidly and continuously | Synonyms: drum roll, roll |
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piddle | (noun) liquid excretory product | Synonyms: pee, piss, urine, water, weewee |
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poodle | (noun) an intelligent dog with a heavy curly solid-colored coat that is usually clipped; an old breed sometimes trained as sporting dogs or as performing dogs | Synonyms: poodle dog |
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puddle | (noun) something resembling a pool of liquid | Synonyms: pool |
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(noun) a small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid | Synonyms: pool |
(noun) a mixture of wet clay and sand that can be used to line a pond and that is impervious to water when dry | - |
raddle | (noun) a red iron ore used in dyeing and marking | Synonyms: reddle, ruddle |
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reddle | (noun) a red iron ore used in dyeing and marking | Synonyms: raddle, ruddle |
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riddle | (noun) a coarse sieve (as for gravel) | - |
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(noun) a difficult problem | Synonyms: brain-teaser, conundrum, enigma |
ruddle | (noun) a red iron ore used in dyeing and marking | Synonyms: raddle, reddle |
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rundle | (noun) one of the crosspieces that form the steps of a ladder | Synonyms: rung, spoke |
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saddle | (noun) posterior part of the back of a domestic fowl | - |
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(noun) a seat for the rider of a horse or other animal | - |
(noun) a seat for the rider of a bicycle | Synonyms: bicycle seat |
(noun) a piece of leather across the instep of a shoe | - |
(noun) cut of meat (especially mutton or lamb) consisting of part of the backbone and both loins | - |
(noun) a pass or ridge that slopes gently between two peaks (is shaped like a saddle) | Synonyms: saddleback |
sidesaddle | (noun) a saddle for a woman; rider sits with both feet on the same side of the horse | - |
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skedaddle | (noun) a hasty flight | - |
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spindle | (noun) a stick or pin used to twist the yarn in spinning | - |
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(noun) any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts | Synonyms: arbor, mandrel, mandril |
(noun) a piece of wood that has been turned on a lathe; used as a baluster, chair leg, etc. | - |
(noun) any holding device consisting of a rigid, sharp-pointed object | Synonyms: spike |
(noun) (biology) tiny fibers that are seen in cell division; the fibers radiate from two poles and meet at the equator in the middle | - |
staddle | (noun) a base or platform on which hay or corn is stacked | - |
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straddle | (noun) the act of sitting or standing astride | Synonyms: span |
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(noun) the option to buy or sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date; consists of an equal number of put and call options | - |
(noun) a gymnastic exercise performed with a leg on either side of the parallel bars | - |
(noun) a noncommittal or equivocal position | - |
swindle | (noun) the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme | Synonyms: cheat, fraud, rig |
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taradiddle | (noun) a trivial lie | Synonyms: fib, story, tale, tarradiddle |
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(noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle |
tarradiddle | (noun) a trivial lie | Synonyms: fib, story, tale, taradiddle |
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(noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle |
treadle | (noun) a lever that is operated with the foot | Synonyms: foot lever, foot pedal, pedal |
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trundle | (noun) small wheel or roller | - |
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(noun) a low bed to be slid under a higher bed | Synonyms: truckle, truckle bed, trundle bed |
twaddle | (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh |
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twiddle | (noun) a series of small (usually idle) twists or turns | - |
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waddle | (noun) walking with short steps and the weight tilting from one foot to the other | - |
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