timecard | (noun) a card used with a time clock to record an employee's starting and quitting times each day | - |
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(noun) a card recording an employee's starting and quitting times each work day | - |
tropicbird | (noun) mostly white web-footed tropical seabird often found far from land | Synonyms: boatswain bird, tropic bird |
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turd | (noun) obscene terms for feces | Synonyms: crap, dirt, poop, shit, shite |
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unitard | (noun) a tight-fitting garment of stretchy material that covers the body from the shoulders to the thighs (and may have long sleeves or legs reaching down to the ankles); worn by ballet dancers and acrobats for practice or performance | Synonyms: body suit, cat suit, leotard |
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urochord | (noun) a notochord of a larval tunicate typically confined to the caudal region | - |
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(noun) primitive marine animal having a saclike unsegmented body and a urochord that is conspicuous in the larva | Synonyms: tunicate, urochordate |
vanguard | (noun) the position of greatest importance or advancement; the leading position in any movement or field | Synonyms: cutting edge, forefront |
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(noun) the leading units moving at the head of an army | Synonyms: van |
(noun) any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts) | Synonyms: avant-garde, new wave, van |
vineyard | (noun) a farm of grapevines where wine grapes are produced | Synonyms: vinery |
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wakeboard | (noun) a buoyant board (resembling a surfboard) that is used to ride over water while being pulled behind a motorboat | Synonyms: wake board |
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wallboard | (noun) a wide flat board used to cover walls or partitions; made from plaster or wood pulp or other materials and used primarily to form the interior walls of houses | Synonyms: dry wall, drywall |
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ward | (noun) block forming a division of a hospital (or a suite of rooms) shared by patients who need a similar kind of care | Synonyms: hospital ward |
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(noun) a division of a prison (usually consisting of several cells) | Synonyms: cellblock |
(noun) a district into which a city or town is divided for the purpose of administration and elections | - |
(noun) a person who is under the protection or in the custody of another | - |
warlord | (noun) supreme military leader exercising civil power in a region especially one accountable to nobody when the central government is weak | - |
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washboard | (noun) protective covering consisting of a broad plank along a gunwale to keep water from splashing over the side | Synonyms: splashboard |
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(noun) device consisting of a corrugated surface to scrub clothes on | - |
wasteyard | (noun) a piece of land where waste materials are dumped | Synonyms: dump, dumpsite, garbage dump, rubbish dump, trash dump, waste-yard |
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watchword | (noun) a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group | Synonyms: countersign, parole, password, word |
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(noun) a slogan used to rally support for a cause | Synonyms: battle cry, cry, rallying cry, war cry |
waterbird | (noun) freshwater aquatic bird | Synonyms: water bird, waterfowl |
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weatherboard | (noun) the side toward the wind | Synonyms: weather side, windward side |
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(noun) a long thin board with one edge thicker than the other; used as siding by lapping one board over the board below | Synonyms: clapboard, weatherboarding |
weaverbird | (noun) finch-like African and Asian colonial birds noted for their elaborately woven nests | Synonyms: weaver, weaver finch |
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westward | (noun) the cardinal compass point that is at 270 degrees | Synonyms: due west, W, west |
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whipcord | (noun) a strong worsted or cotton fabric with a diagonal rib | - |
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(noun) closely twisted hard cord used for the lashes of whips | - |
whirlybird | (noun) an aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the rotation of overhead blades | Synonyms: chopper, eggbeater, helicopter |
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windward | (noun) the side of something that is toward the wind | - |
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(noun) the direction from which the wind is coming | - |
wizard | (noun) one who practices magic or sorcery | Synonyms: magician, necromancer, sorcerer, thaumaturge, thaumaturgist |
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(noun) someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field | Synonyms: ace, adept, champion, genius, hotshot, maven, mavin, sensation, star, superstar, virtuoso, whiz, whizz, wiz |
word | (noun) a unit of language that native speakers can identify | - |
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(noun) a promise | Synonyms: parole, word of honor |
(noun) information about recent and important events | Synonyms: intelligence, news, tidings |
(noun) a brief statement | - |
(noun) an exchange of views on some topic | Synonyms: discussion, give-and-take |
(noun) a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group | Synonyms: countersign, parole, password, watchword |
(noun) a verbal command for action | - |
(noun) a string of bits stored in computer memory | - |
workboard | (noun) a horizontal board that provides a supported surface for manual work | Synonyms: work-board |
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yard | (noun) an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock) | - |
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(noun) a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen | - |
(noun) the enclosed land around a house or other building | Synonyms: curtilage, grounds |
(noun) an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines | Synonyms: railway yard, railyard |
(noun) a tract of land enclosed for particular activities (sometimes paved and usually associated with buildings) | - |
(noun) a tract of land where logs are accumulated | - |
(noun) a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride | Synonyms: pace |
(noun) a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel) | Synonyms: cubic yard |
(noun) the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 | Synonyms: 1000, chiliad, G, grand, K, M, one thousand, thou, thousand |
yardbird | (noun) a military recruit who is assigned menial tasks | Synonyms: yard bird |
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(noun) a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison | Synonyms: con, convict, inmate, yard bird |
yellowbird | (noun) American finch whose male has yellow body plumage in summer | Synonyms: goldfinch, New World goldfinch, Spinus tristis |
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(noun) yellow-throated American wood warbler | Synonyms: Dendroica petechia, golden warbler, yellow warbler |