amends | (noun) something done or paid in expiation of a wrong | Synonyms: reparation |
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(noun) a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury | Synonyms: damages, indemnification, indemnity, redress, restitution |
backwoods | (noun) a remote and undeveloped area | Synonyms: back country, boondocks, hinterland |
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badlands | (noun) deeply eroded barren land | - |
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beads | (noun) several beads threaded together on a string | Synonyms: string of beads |
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bends | (noun) pain resulting from rapid change in pressure | Synonyms: aeroembolism, air embolism, caisson disease, decompression sickness, gas embolism |
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billiards | (noun) any of several games played on rectangular cloth-covered table (with cushioned edges) in which long tapering cue sticks are used to propel ivory (or composition) balls | - |
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boards | (noun) (used in the plural) the boarding that surrounds an ice hockey rink | - |
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(noun) (used in the plural) the stage of a theater | - |
bounds | (noun) the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something | Synonyms: bound, boundary |
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cards | (noun) a game played with playing cards | Synonyms: card game |
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collards | (noun) kale that has smooth leaves | Synonyms: collard greens |
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cords | (noun) cotton trousers made of corduroy cloth | Synonyms: corduroys |
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crossroads | (noun) a point where a choice must be made | - |
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(noun) a community of people smaller than a village | Synonyms: hamlet |
(noun) a crisis situation or point in time when a critical decision must be made | Synonyms: critical point, juncture |
deeds | (noun) performance of moral or religious acts | Synonyms: works |
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drygoods | (noun) textiles or clothing and related merchandise | Synonyms: soft goods |
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duds | (noun) informal terms for clothing | Synonyms: threads, togs |
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fantods | (noun) an ill-defined state of irritability and distress | - |
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funds | (noun) assets in the form of money | Synonyms: cash in hand, finances, monetary resource, pecuniary resource |
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goldfields | (noun) small slender woolly annual with very narrow opposite leaves and branches bearing solitary golden-yellow flower heads; southwestern Oregon to Baja California and Arizona; often cultivated | Synonyms: Lasthenia chrysostoma |
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grounds | (noun) the enclosed land around a house or other building | Synonyms: curtilage, yard |
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(noun) your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief | Synonyms: evidence |
(noun) a justification for something existing or happening | Synonyms: cause, reason |
(noun) a tract of land cleared for some special purposes (recreation or burial etc.) | - |
(noun) dregs consisting of solid particles (especially of coffee) that form a residue | - |
hands | (noun) (with `in') guardianship over; in divorce cases it is the right to house and care for and discipline a child | Synonyms: custody |
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(noun) the force of workers available | Synonyms: manpower, men, work force, workforce |
hardheads | (noun) a weedy perennial with tough wiry stems and purple flowers; native to Europe but widely naturalized | Synonyms: black knapweed, Centaurea nigra, lesser knapweed |
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innards | (noun) internal organs collectively (especially those in the abdominal cavity) | Synonyms: entrails, insides, viscera |
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leotards | (noun) skintight knit hose covering the body from the waist to the feet worn by acrobats and dancers and as stockings by women and girls | Synonyms: tights |
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loads | (noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: dozens, gobs, heaps, lashings, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, stacks, tons, wads |
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mods | (noun) a youth subculture that began in London in the early 1960s; a working-class movement with highly stylized dress and short hair; listened to rhythm and blues music and travelled on motor scooters | - |
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odds | (noun) the likelihood of a thing occurring rather than not occurring | - |
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(noun) the ratio by which one better's wager is greater than that of another | Synonyms: betting odds |
proceeds | (noun) the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property | Synonyms: issue, payoff, return, take, takings, yield |
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redmaids | (noun) succulent carpet-forming plant having small brilliant reddish-pink flowers; southwestern United States | Synonyms: Calandrinia ciliata, red maids |
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roads | (noun) a partly sheltered anchorage | Synonyms: roadstead |
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sands | (noun) the region of the shore of a lake or sea or ocean | Synonyms: litoral, littoral, littoral zone |
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scablands | (noun) (geology) flat elevated land with poor soil and little vegetation that is scarred by dry channels of glacial origin (especially in eastern Washington) | - |
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scads | (noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: dozens, gobs, heaps, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scores, slews, stacks, tons, wads |
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skinheads | (noun) a youth subculture that appeared first in England in the late 1960s as a working-class reaction to the hippies; hair was cropped close to the scalp; wore work-shirts and short jeans (supported by suspenders) and heavy red boots; involved in attacks against Asians and football hooliganism | Synonyms: bootboys |
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soapsuds | (noun) the froth produced by soaps or detergents | Synonyms: lather, suds |
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suds | (noun) a dysphemism for beer (especially for lager that effervesces) | - |
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(noun) the froth produced by soaps or detergents | Synonyms: lather, soapsuds |
sweetbreads | (noun) edible glands of an animal | Synonyms: sweetbread |
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threads | (noun) informal terms for clothing | Synonyms: duds, togs |
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viands | (noun) a stock or supply of foods | Synonyms: commissariat, provender, provisions, victuals |
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wads | (noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: dozens, gobs, heaps, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, stacks, tons |
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weeds | (noun) a black garment (dress) worn by a widow as a sign of mourning | Synonyms: widow's weeds |
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woods | (noun) the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area | Synonyms: forest, wood |
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words | (noun) words making up the dialogue of a play | Synonyms: actor's line, speech |
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(noun) an angry dispute | Synonyms: dustup, quarrel, row, run-in, wrangle |
(noun) the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number | Synonyms: language, lyric |
(noun) the words that are spoken | - |
(noun) language that is spoken or written | - |