bobsleigh | (noun) a long racing sled (for 2 or more people) with a steering mechanism | Synonyms: bob, bobsled |
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(noun) formerly two short sleds coupled together | Synonyms: bobsled |
borough | (noun) one of the administrative divisions of a large city | - |
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(noun) an English town that forms the constituency of a member of parliament | - |
bough | (noun) any of the larger branches of a tree | - |
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breakthrough | (noun) a penetration of a barrier such as an enemy's defense | - |
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(noun) making an important discovery | - |
(noun) a productive insight | Synonyms: discovery, find |
burgh | (noun) a borough in Scotland | - |
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chough | (noun) a European corvine bird of small or medium size with red legs and glossy black plumage | - |
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cough | (noun) a sudden noisy expulsion of air from the lungs that clears the air passages; a common symptom of upper respiratory infection or bronchitis or pneumonia or tuberculosis | Synonyms: coughing |
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dough | (noun) a flour mixture stiff enough to knead or roll | - |
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(noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
enough | (noun) an adequate quantity; a quantity that is large enough to achieve a purpose | Synonyms: sufficiency |
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furlough | (noun) a temporary leave of absence from military duty | - |
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hiccough | (noun) (usually plural) the state of having reflex spasms of the diaphragm accompanied by a rapid closure of the glottis producing an audible sound; sometimes a symptom of indigestion | Synonyms: hiccup, singultus |
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high | (noun) a forward gear with a gear ratio that gives the greatest vehicle velocity for a given engine speed | Synonyms: high gear |
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(noun) a lofty level or position or degree | - |
(noun) a public secondary school usually including grades 9 through 12 | Synonyms: high school, highschool, senior high, senior high school |
(noun) a high place | Synonyms: heights |
(noun) an air mass of higher than normal pressure | - |
(noun) a state of altered consciousness induced by alcohol or narcotics | - |
(noun) a state of sustained elation | - |
horselaugh | (noun) a loud laugh that sounds like a horse neighing | Synonyms: ha-ha, haw-haw, hee-haw |
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laugh | (noun) the sound of laughing | Synonyms: laughter |
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(noun) a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter | Synonyms: gag, jape, jest, joke |
(noun) a facial expression characteristic of a person laughing | - |
lough | (noun) Irish word for a lake | - |
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(noun) a long narrow (nearly landlocked) cove in Ireland | - |
neigh | (noun) the characteristic sounds made by a horse | Synonyms: nicker, whicker, whinny |
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plough | (noun) a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing | Synonyms: plow |
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rough | (noun) the part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short | - |
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schnittlaugh | (noun) perennial having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoning | Synonyms: Allium schoenoprasum, chive, chives, cive |
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shillelagh | (noun) a cudgel made of hardwood (usually oak or blackthorn) | Synonyms: shillalah |
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sigh | (noun) an utterance made by exhaling audibly | Synonyms: suspiration |
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(noun) a sound like a person sighing | - |
sleigh | (noun) a vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs; for transportation over snow | Synonyms: sled, sledge |
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slough | (noun) any outer covering that can be shed or cast off (such as the cast-off skin of a snake) | - |
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(noun) necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass | Synonyms: gangrene, sphacelus |
(noun) a stagnant swamp (especially as part of a bayou) | - |
(noun) a hollow filled with mud | - |
snowplough | (noun) a vehicle used to push snow from roads | Synonyms: snowplow |
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sourdough | (noun) a settler or prospector (especially in western United States or northwest Canada and Alaska) | - |
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(noun) a leaven of dough in which fermentation is active; used by pioneers for making bread | - |
thigh | (noun) the part of the leg between the hip and the knee | - |
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(noun) the upper joint of the leg of a fowl | Synonyms: second joint |
tough | (noun) an aggressive and violent young criminal | Synonyms: goon, hood, hoodlum, punk, strong-armer, thug, toughie |
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(noun) a cruel and brutal fellow | Synonyms: bully, hooligan, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, yob, yobbo, yobo |
(noun) someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing | Synonyms: street fighter |
trough | (noun) a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater | Synonyms: gutter |
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(noun) a container (usually in a barn or stable) from which cattle or horses feed | Synonyms: manger |
(noun) a long narrow shallow receptacle | - |
(noun) a narrow depression (as in the earth or between ocean waves or in the ocean bed) | - |
(noun) a treasury for government funds | Synonyms: public treasury, till |
(noun) a concave shape with an open top | Synonyms: bowl |