adultery | (noun) extramarital sex that willfully and maliciously interferes with marriage relations | Synonyms: criminal conversation, fornication |
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aery | (noun) any habitation at a high altitude | Synonyms: aerie, eyrie, eyry |
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(noun) the lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle) | Synonyms: aerie, eyrie, eyry |
apery | (noun) the act of mimicking; imitative behavior | Synonyms: mimicry |
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archery | (noun) the sport of shooting arrows with a bow | - |
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artery | (noun) a major thoroughfare that bears important traffic | - |
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(noun) a blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body | Synonyms: arteria, arterial blood vessel |
artillery | (noun) large but transportable armament | Synonyms: gun, heavy weapon, ordnance |
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(noun) a means of persuading or arguing | Synonyms: weapon |
(noun) an army unit that uses big guns | Synonyms: artillery unit |
bakery | (noun) a workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold | Synonyms: bakehouse, bakeshop |
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baptistery | (noun) bowl for baptismal water | Synonyms: baptismal font, baptistry, font |
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battery | (noun) an assault in which the assailant makes physical contact | Synonyms: assault and battery |
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(noun) the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target | Synonyms: barrage, barrage fire, bombardment, shelling |
(noun) a device that produces electricity; may have several primary or secondary cells arranged in parallel or series | Synonyms: electric battery |
(noun) a series of stamps operated in one mortar for crushing ores | Synonyms: stamp battery |
(noun) a collection of related things intended for use together | - |
(noun) group of guns or missile launchers operated together at one place | - |
(noun) a unit composed of the pitcher and catcher | - |
bewitchery | (noun) magnetic personal charm | Synonyms: animal magnetism, beguilement |
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bindery | (noun) a workshop where books are bound | - |
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bitchery | (noun) aggressive remarks and behavior like that of a spiteful malicious woman | - |
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bookbindery | (noun) a bookbinder's workshop; a place for binding books | - |
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bravery | (noun) a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear | Synonyms: braveness, courage, courageousness |
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(noun) feeling no fear | Synonyms: fearlessness |
brewery | (noun) a plant where beer is brewed by fermentation | - |
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bribery | (noun) the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage | Synonyms: graft |
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buffoonery | (noun) acting like a clown or buffoon | Synonyms: clowning, frivolity, harlequinade, japery, prank |
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buggery | (noun) intercourse via the anus, committed by a man with a man or woman | Synonyms: anal intercourse, anal sex, sodomy |
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butchery | (noun) the business of a butcher | Synonyms: butchering |
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(noun) the savage and excessive killing of many people | Synonyms: carnage, mass murder, massacre, slaughter |
(noun) a building where animals are butchered | Synonyms: abattoir, shambles, slaughterhouse |
buttery | (noun) a teashop where students in British universities can purchase light meals | - |
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(noun) a small storeroom for storing foods or wines | Synonyms: larder, pantry |
cajolery | (noun) flattery intended to persuade | Synonyms: blandishment, palaver |
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cannery | (noun) a factory where food is canned | - |
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cautery | (noun) the act of coagulating blood and destroying tissue with a hot iron or caustic agent or by freezing | Synonyms: cauterisation, cauterization |
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(noun) an instrument or substance used to destroy tissue for medical reasons (e.g., removal of a wart) by burning it with a hot iron or an electric current or a caustic or by freezing it | Synonyms: cauterant |
celery | (noun) stalks eaten raw or cooked or used as seasoning | - |
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(noun) widely cultivated herb with aromatic leaf stalks that are eaten raw or cooked | Synonyms: Apium graveolens dulce, cultivated celery |
cemetery | (noun) a tract of land used for burials | Synonyms: burial ground, burial site, burying ground, graveyard, memorial park, necropolis |
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chancellery | (noun) a government building housing the office of a chancellor | - |
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chancery | (noun) an office of archives for public or ecclesiastic records; a court of public records | - |
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(noun) a court with jurisdiction in equity | Synonyms: court of chancery |
chandlery | (noun) a storeroom where candles are kept | - |
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(noun) candles and other commodities sold by a chandler | - |
chemosurgery | (noun) use of chemical to destroy diseased or malignant tissue; used in treatment of skin cancer | - |
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chicanery | (noun) the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) | Synonyms: chicane, guile, shenanigan, trickery, wile |
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colliery | (noun) a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it | Synonyms: pit |
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commandery | (noun) the position or office of commander | Synonyms: commandership |
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comradery | (noun) the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability | Synonyms: camaraderie, chumminess, comradeliness, comradeship |
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confectionery | (noun) the occupation and skills of a confectioner | - |
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(noun) a confectioner's shop | Synonyms: candy store, confectionary |
(noun) candy and other sweets considered collectively | - |
cookery | (noun) the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat | Synonyms: cooking, preparation |
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creamery | (noun) a workplace where dairy products (butter and cheese etc.) are produced or sold | - |
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crockery | (noun) tableware (eating and serving dishes) collectively | Synonyms: dishware |
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cryocautery | (noun) application of a substance that destroys tissue by freezing it | - |
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(noun) an instrument for destroying tissue by freezing it | - |
cryosurgery | (noun) the use of extreme cold (usually liquid nitrogen) to destroy unwanted tissue (warts or cataracts or skin cancers) | - |
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cutlery | (noun) tableware implements for cutting and eating food | Synonyms: eating utensil |
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(noun) a cutting implement; a tool for cutting | Synonyms: cutter, cutting tool |
deanery | (noun) the position or office of a dean | Synonyms: deanship |
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(noun) the official residence of a dean | - |
debauchery | (noun) a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchanalia, debauch, drunken revelry, orgy, riot, saturnalia |
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delivery | (noun) recovery or preservation from loss or danger | Synonyms: deliverance, rescue, saving |
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(noun) the voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another | Synonyms: legal transfer, livery |
(noun) the act of delivering a child | Synonyms: obstetrical delivery |
(noun) the act of throwing a baseball or softball by the pitcher towards home plate, which initiates play by giving the batter a chance to hit it | Synonyms: pitch |
(noun) the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail) | Synonyms: bringing |
(noun) your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally | Synonyms: manner of speaking, speech |
(noun) the event of giving birth | - |
demagoguery | (noun) impassioned appeals to the prejudices and emotions of the populace | Synonyms: demagogy |
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discovery | (noun) the act of discovering something | Synonyms: find, uncovering |
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(noun) a productive insight | Synonyms: breakthrough, find |
(noun) something that is discovered | - |
(noun) (law) compulsory pretrial disclosure of documents relevant to a case; enables one side in a litigation to elicit information from the other side concerning the facts in the case | - |
distillery | (noun) a plant and works where alcoholic drinks are made by distillation | Synonyms: still |
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dowery | (noun) money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage | Synonyms: dower, dowry, portion |
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drapery | (noun) hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) | Synonyms: curtain, drape, mantle, pall |
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(noun) cloth gracefully draped and arranged in loose folds | - |
drollery | (noun) a quaint and amusing jest | Synonyms: waggery |
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(noun) a comic incident or series of incidents | Synonyms: clowning, comedy, funniness |
drudgery | (noun) hard monotonous routine work | Synonyms: donkeywork, grind, plodding |
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dupery | (noun) something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage | Synonyms: fraud, fraudulence, hoax, humbug, put-on |
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dysentery | (noun) an infection of the intestines marked by severe diarrhea | - |
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eatery | (noun) a building where people go to eat | Synonyms: eating house, eating place, restaurant |
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effrontery | (noun) audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to | Synonyms: assumption, presumption, presumptuousness |
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electrocautery | (noun) application of a needle heated by an electric current to destroy tissue (as to remove warts) | - |
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electrosurgery | (noun) surgery performed with electrical devices (as in electrocautery) | - |
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embroidery | (noun) decorative needlework | Synonyms: fancywork |
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(noun) elaboration of an interpretation by the use of decorative (sometimes fictitious) detail | Synonyms: embellishment |
emery | (noun) a hard grey-black mineral consisting of corundum and either hematite or magnetite; used as an abrasive (especially as a coating on paper) | - |
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enginery | (noun) machinery consisting of engines collectively | - |
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faery | (noun) the enchanted realm of fairies | Synonyms: faerie, fairyland |
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(noun) a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers | Synonyms: faerie, fairy, fay, sprite |
fakery | (noun) the act of faking (or the product of faking) | - |
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festoonery | (noun) flower chains suspended in curves between points as a decoration | Synonyms: festoon |
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finery | (noun) elaborate or showy attire and accessories | - |
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fishery | (noun) a workplace where fish are caught and processed and sold | Synonyms: piscary |
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flattery | (noun) excessive or insincere praise | - |
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flummery | (noun) meaningless ceremonies and flattery | Synonyms: mummery |
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(noun) a bland custard or pudding especially of oatmeal | - |
foolery | (noun) foolish or senseless behavior | Synonyms: craziness, folly, indulgence, lunacy, tomfoolery |
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forgery | (noun) criminal falsification by making or altering an instrument with intent to defraud | - |
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(noun) a copy that is represented as the original | Synonyms: counterfeit |
frippery | (noun) something of little value or significance | Synonyms: bagatelle, fluff, frivolity |
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gallery | (noun) narrow recessed balcony area along an upper floor on the interior of a building; usually marked by a colonnade | - |
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(noun) a covered corridor (especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported with arches or columns) | - |
(noun) a long usually narrow room used for some specific purpose | - |
(noun) a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited | Synonyms: art gallery, picture gallery |
(noun) a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed) | Synonyms: veranda, verandah |
(noun) a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine | Synonyms: drift, heading |
(noun) spectators at a golf or tennis match | - |
gaudery | (noun) cheap or pretentious or vain display | Synonyms: pomp |
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gendarmery | (noun) French police force; a group of gendarmes or gendarmes collectively | Synonyms: gendarmerie |
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gimcrackery | (noun) ornamental objects of no great value | Synonyms: falderol, folderal, frill, gimcrack, nonsense, trumpery |
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goldsmithery | (noun) the work, art, or trade of a one who makes or deals in articles of gold. | - |
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greenery | (noun) green foliage | Synonyms: verdure |
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greengrocery | (noun) a greengrocer's grocery store | - |
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(noun) groceries sold by a greengrocer | - |
grocery | (noun) a marketplace where groceries are sold | Synonyms: food market, grocery store, market |
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(noun) (usually plural) consumer goods sold by a grocer | Synonyms: foodstuff |
grotesquery | (noun) ludicrous or incongruous unnaturalness or distortion | Synonyms: grotesqueness, grotesquerie |
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gunnery | (noun) guns collectively | - |
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haberdashery | (noun) the drygoods sold by a haberdasher | Synonyms: men's furnishings |
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(noun) a store where men's clothes are sold | Synonyms: clothing store, haberdashery store, mens store |
hatchery | (noun) a place where eggs are hatched under artificial conditions (especially fish eggs) | - |
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hosiery | (noun) socks and stockings and tights collectively (the British include underwear) | Synonyms: hose |
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housewifery | (noun) the work of a housewife | - |
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imagery | (noun) the ability to form mental images of things or events | Synonyms: imagination, imaging, mental imagery |
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ironmongery | (noun) the merchandise that is sold in an ironmonger's shop | - |
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jaggery | (noun) unrefined brown sugar made from palm sap | Synonyms: jaggary, jagghery |
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jagghery | (noun) unrefined brown sugar made from palm sap | Synonyms: jaggary, jaggery |
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japery | (noun) acting like a clown or buffoon | Synonyms: buffoonery, clowning, frivolity, harlequinade, prank |
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jewellery | (noun) an adornment (as a bracelet or ring or necklace) made of precious metals and set with gems (or imitation gems) | Synonyms: jewelry |
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jobbery | (noun) corruptness among public officials | - |
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joinery | (noun) the craft of a joiner | Synonyms: cabinetmaking |
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(noun) fine woodwork done by a joiner | - |
jugglery | (noun) the performance of a juggler | - |
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(noun) artful trickery designed to achieve an end | - |
knavery | (noun) lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing | Synonyms: dishonesty |
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knickknackery | (noun) miscellaneous curios | Synonyms: bric-a-brac, knickknack, nicknack, whatnot |
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lamasery | (noun) a monastery for lamas | - |
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lechery | (noun) unrestrained indulgence in sexual activity | - |
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lepidoptery | (noun) the branch of entomology dealing with Lepidoptera | Synonyms: lepidopterology |
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livery | (noun) the voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another | Synonyms: delivery, legal transfer |
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(noun) the care (feeding and stabling) of horses for pay | - |
(noun) uniform worn by some menservants and chauffeurs | - |
lottery | (noun) players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed by casting lots | Synonyms: drawing |
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(noun) something that is regarded as a chance event | - |
machinery | (noun) machines or machine systems collectively | - |
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(noun) a system of means and activities whereby a social institution functions | - |