bittern | (noun) relatively small compact tawny-brown heron with nocturnal habits and a booming cry; found in marshes | - |
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casern | (noun) military barracks in a garrison town | - |
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cavern | (noun) a large cave or a large chamber in a cave | - |
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(noun) any large dark enclosed space | - |
cistern | (noun) an artificial reservoir for storing liquids; especially an underground tank for storing rainwater | - |
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(noun) a tank that holds the water used to flush a toilet | Synonyms: water tank |
(noun) a sac or cavity containing fluid especially lymph or cerebrospinal fluid | Synonyms: cisterna |
cithern | (noun) a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings | Synonyms: cither, citole, cittern, gittern |
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cittern | (noun) a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings | Synonyms: cither, cithern, citole, gittern |
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concern | (noun) something that interests you because it is important or affects you | - |
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(noun) something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: headache, vexation, worry |
(noun) a feeling of sympathy for someone or something | - |
(noun) an anxious feeling | Synonyms: care, fear |
(noun) a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it | Synonyms: business, business concern, business organisation, business organization |
ern | (noun) bulky greyish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail; of Europe and Greenland | Synonyms: erne, European sea eagle, gray sea eagle, grey sea eagle, Haliatus albicilla, white-tailed sea eagle |
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extern | (noun) a nonresident doctor or medical student; connected with a hospital but not living there | Synonyms: medical extern |
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fern | (noun) any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores | - |
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gittern | (noun) a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings | Synonyms: cither, cithern, citole, cittern |
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intern | (noun) an advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience | Synonyms: houseman, interne, medical intern |
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kern | (noun) the part of a metal type that projects beyond its body | - |
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klavern | (noun) a local unit of the Ku Klux Klan | - |
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lantern | (noun) light in a transparent protective case | - |
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lectern | (noun) desk or stand with a slanted top used to hold a text at the proper height for a lecturer | Synonyms: reading desk |
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lipfern | (noun) any of various terrestrial ferns of the genus Cheilanthes; cosmopolitan in arid and semiarid temperate or tropical regions | Synonyms: lip fern |
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modern | (noun) a typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes | Synonyms: Bodoni, Bodoni font, modern font |
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(noun) a contemporary person | - |
pastern | (noun) the part between the fetlock and the hoof | Synonyms: fetter bone |
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pattern | (noun) a customary way of operation or behavior | Synonyms: practice |
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(noun) a decorative or artistic work | Synonyms: design, figure |
(noun) a perceptual structure | Synonyms: form, shape |
(noun) a model considered worthy of imitation | - |
(noun) something intended as a guide for making something else | Synonyms: blueprint, design |
(noun) something regarded as a normative example | Synonyms: convention, formula, normal, rule |
(noun) graphical representation (in polar or Cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle | Synonyms: radiation diagram, radiation pattern |
(noun) the path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport | Synonyms: approach pattern, traffic pattern |
postern | (noun) a small gate in the rear of a fort or castle | - |
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quartern | (noun) one of four equal parts | Synonyms: fourth, fourth part, one-fourth, one-quarter, quarter, twenty-five percent |
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quatern | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one | Synonyms: 4, four, foursome, IV, Little Joe, quadruplet, quartet, quaternary, quaternion, quaternity, tetrad |
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quern | (noun) a primitive stone mill for grinding corn by hand | - |
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slattern | (noun) a dirty untidy woman | Synonyms: slovenly woman, slut, trollop |
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(noun) a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets | Synonyms: floozie, floozy, hooker, hustler, street girl, streetwalker |
stern | (noun) the rear part of a ship | Synonyms: after part, poop, quarter, tail |
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(noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
subaltern | (noun) a British commissioned army officer below the rank of captain | - |
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tavern | (noun) a building with a bar that is licensed to sell alcoholic drinks | Synonyms: tap house |
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tern | (noun) small slender gull having narrow wings and a forked tail | - |
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unconcern | (noun) the trait of remaining calm and seeming not to care; a casual lack of concern | Synonyms: indifference, nonchalance |
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(noun) a feeling of lack of concern | - |
western | (noun) a sandwich made from a western omelet | Synonyms: western sandwich |
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wivern | (noun) a fire-breathing dragon used in medieval heraldry; had the head of a dragon and the tail of a snake and a body with wings and two legs | Synonyms: wyvern |
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woodfern | (noun) any of various ferns of the genus Dryopteris | Synonyms: wood-fern, wood fern |
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wyvern | (noun) a fire-breathing dragon used in medieval heraldry; had the head of a dragon and the tail of a snake and a body with wings and two legs | Synonyms: wivern |
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zithern | (noun) a musical stringed instrument with strings stretched over a flat sounding board; it is laid flat and played with a plectrum and with fingers | Synonyms: cither, zither |
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