aristocrat | (noun) a member of the aristocracy | Synonyms: blue blood, patrician |
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autocrat | (noun) a cruel and oppressive dictator | Synonyms: despot, tyrant |
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baccarat | (noun) a card game played in casinos in which two or more punters gamble against the banker; the player wins who holds 2 or 3 cards that total closest to nine | Synonyms: chemin de fer |
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brat | (noun) a very troublesome child | Synonyms: holy terror, little terror, terror |
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(noun) a small pork sausage | Synonyms: bratwurst |
bureaucrat | (noun) an official of a bureaucracy | Synonyms: administrative official |
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carat | (noun) a unit of weight for precious stones = 200 mg | - |
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(noun) the unit of measurement for the proportion of gold in an alloy; 18-karat gold is 75% gold; 24-karat gold is pure gold | Synonyms: karat, kt |
democrat | (noun) an advocate of democratic principles | - |
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firebrat | (noun) lives in warm moist areas e.g. around furnaces | Synonyms: Thermobia domestica |
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frat | (noun) a social club for male undergraduates | Synonyms: fraternity |
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karat | (noun) the unit of measurement for the proportion of gold in an alloy; 18-karat gold is 75% gold; 24-karat gold is pure gold | Synonyms: carat, kt |
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kurrat | (noun) coarse Old World perennial having a large bulb and tall stalk of greenish purple-tinged flowers; widely naturalized | Synonyms: Allium ampeloprasum, Levant garlic, wild leek |
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muskrat | (noun) beaver-like aquatic rodent of North America with dark glossy brown fur | Synonyms: musquash, Ondatra zibethica |
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(noun) the brown fur of a muskrat | Synonyms: muskrat fur |
packrat | (noun) any of several bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Neotoma of western North America; hoards food and other objects | Synonyms: bushytail woodrat, Neotoma cinerea, pack rat, trade rat |
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(noun) a collector of miscellaneous useless objects | - |
plutocrat | (noun) someone who exercises power by virtue of wealth | - |
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prat | (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, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
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rat | (noun) any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse | - |
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(noun) a pad (usually made of hair) worn as part of a woman's coiffure | - |
(noun) a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible | Synonyms: bum, crumb, dirty dog, git, lowlife, puke, rotter, scum bag, scumbag, skunk, so-and-so, stinker, stinkpot |
(noun) someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike | Synonyms: blackleg, scab, strikebreaker |
(noun) one who reveals confidential information to the police or other authority | Synonyms: betrayer, blabber, informer, squealer |
sprat | (noun) small herring processed like a sardine | Synonyms: brisling, Clupea sprattus |
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(noun) small fatty European fish; usually smoked or canned like sardines | Synonyms: brisling |
technocrat | (noun) an advocate of technocracy | - |
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(noun) an expert who is a member of a highly skilled elite group | - |
ziggurat | (noun) a rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians | Synonyms: zikkurat, zikurat |
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zikkurat | (noun) a rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians | Synonyms: ziggurat, zikurat |
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zikurat | (noun) a rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians | Synonyms: ziggurat, zikkurat |
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