arse | (noun) vulgar slang for anus | Synonyms: arsehole, asshole, bunghole |
---|
(noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
carthorse | (noun) draft horse kept for pulling carts | Synonyms: cart horse, drayhorse |
---|
clotheshorse | (noun) a framework on which to hang clothes (as for drying) | - |
---|
(noun) a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance | Synonyms: beau, dandy, dude, fashion plate, fop, gallant, sheik, swell |
cockhorse | (noun) anything used as a toy horse (such as a rocking horse or one knee of an adult) | - |
---|
concourse | (noun) a coming together of people | Synonyms: confluence |
---|
(noun) a wide hallway in a building where people can walk | - |
(noun) a large gathering of people | Synonyms: multitude, throng |
converse | (noun) a proposition obtained by conversion | - |
---|
course | (noun) a mode of action | Synonyms: course of action |
---|
(noun) education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings | Synonyms: class, course of instruction, course of study |
(noun) facility consisting of a circumscribed area of land or water laid out for a sport | - |
(noun) (construction) a layer of masonry | Synonyms: row |
(noun) part of a meal served at one time | - |
(noun) a connected series of events or actions or developments | Synonyms: line |
(noun) a body of students who are taught together | Synonyms: class, form, grade |
(noun) general line of orientation | Synonyms: trend |
(noun) a line or route along which something travels or moves | Synonyms: path, track |
curse | (noun) profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger | Synonyms: curse word, cuss, expletive, oath, swearing, swearword |
---|
(noun) an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group | Synonyms: condemnation, execration |
(noun) an evil spell | Synonyms: hex, jinx, whammy |
(noun) a severe affliction | Synonyms: torment |
(noun) something causing misery or death | Synonyms: bane, nemesis, scourge |
cutpurse | (noun) a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places | Synonyms: dip, pickpocket |
---|
discourse | (noun) an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic | Synonyms: discussion, treatment |
---|
(noun) extended verbal expression in speech or writing | - |
(noun) an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service) | Synonyms: preaching, sermon |
drayhorse | (noun) draft horse kept for pulling carts | Synonyms: cart horse, carthorse |
---|
gorse | (noun) very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe | Synonyms: furze, Irish gorse, Ulex europaeus, whin |
---|
hearse | (noun) a vehicle for carrying a coffin to a church or a cemetery; formerly drawn by horses but now usually a motor vehicle | - |
---|
hobbyhorse | (noun) a child's plaything consisting of an imitation horse mounted on rockers; the child straddles it and pretends to ride | Synonyms: hobby, rocking horse |
---|
(noun) a topic to which one constantly reverts | - |
horse | (noun) solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times | Synonyms: Equus caballus |
---|
(noun) a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa) | Synonyms: knight |
(noun) a framework for holding wood that is being sawed | Synonyms: buck, sawbuck, sawhorse |
(noun) a padded gymnastic apparatus on legs | Synonyms: gymnastic horse |
(noun) troops trained to fight on horseback | Synonyms: cavalry, horse cavalry |
intercourse | (noun) sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur | Synonyms: carnal knowledge, coition, coitus, copulation, relation, sex act, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relation |
---|
(noun) communication between individuals | Synonyms: social intercourse |
inverse | (noun) something inverted in sequence or character or effect | Synonyms: opposite |
---|
nurse | (noun) one skilled in caring for young children or the sick (usually under the supervision of a physician) | - |
---|
(noun) a woman who is the custodian of children | Synonyms: nanny, nursemaid |
obverse | (noun) the side of a coin or medal bearing the principal stamp or design | - |
---|
(noun) the more conspicuous of two alternatives or cases or sides | - |
outercourse | (noun) sexual stimulation without vaginal penetration | - |
---|
packhorse | (noun) a workhorse used as a pack animal | - |
---|
purse | (noun) a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women) | Synonyms: bag, handbag, pocketbook |
---|
(noun) a small bag for carrying money | - |
(noun) a sum of money offered as a prize | - |
(noun) a sum of money spoken of as the contents of a money purse | - |
racecourse | (noun) a course over which races are run | Synonyms: racetrack, raceway, track |
---|
racehorse | (noun) a horse bred for racing | Synonyms: bangtail, race horse |
---|
recourse | (noun) act of turning to for assistance | Synonyms: refuge, resort |
---|
(noun) something or someone turned to for assistance or security | Synonyms: refuge, resort |
redhorse | (noun) North American sucker with reddish fins | Synonyms: redhorse sucker |
---|
remorse | (noun) a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed) | Synonyms: compunction, self-reproach |
---|
reverse | (noun) (American football) a running play in which a back running in one direction hands the ball to a back running in the opposite direction | - |
---|
(noun) turning in the opposite direction | Synonyms: reversal, reversion, turnabout, turnaround |
(noun) the gears by which the motion of a machine can be reversed | Synonyms: reverse gear |
(noun) the side of a coin or medal that does not bear the principal design | Synonyms: verso |
(noun) an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating | Synonyms: black eye, blow, reversal, setback |
(noun) a relation of direct opposition | Synonyms: contrary, opposite |
sawhorse | (noun) a framework for holding wood that is being sawed | Synonyms: buck, horse, sawbuck |
---|
seahorse | (noun) small fish with horse-like heads bent sharply downward and curled tails; swim in upright position | Synonyms: sea horse |
---|
(noun) either of two large northern marine mammals having ivory tusks and tough hide over thick blubber | Synonyms: sea horse, walrus |
studhorse | (noun) adult male horse kept for breeding | Synonyms: stud |
---|
thyrse | (noun) a dense flower cluster (as of the lilac or horse chestnut) in which the main axis is racemose and the branches are cymose | Synonyms: thyrsus |
---|
traverse | (noun) taking a zigzag path on skis | Synonyms: traversal |
---|
(noun) travel across | Synonyms: traversal |
(noun) a horizontal crosspiece across a window or separating a door from a window over it | Synonyms: transom |
(noun) a horizontal beam that extends across something | Synonyms: crossbeam, crosspiece, trave |
twitterverse | (noun) the social sphere of the Twitter service | - |
---|
universe | (noun) everything stated or assumed in a given discussion | Synonyms: universe of discourse |
---|
(noun) (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn | Synonyms: population |
(noun) everything that exists anywhere | Synonyms: cosmos, creation, existence, macrocosm, world |
verse | (noun) a piece of poetry | Synonyms: rhyme |
---|
(noun) a line of metrical text | Synonyms: verse line |
(noun) literature in metrical form | Synonyms: poesy, poetry |
warhorse | (noun) horse used in war | - |
---|
(noun) a work of art (composition or drama) that is part of the standard repertory but has become hackneyed from much repetition | - |
(noun) an experienced person who has been through many battles; someone who has given long service | Synonyms: old-timer, old hand, old stager, oldtimer, stager, veteran |
watercourse | (noun) a conduit through which water flows | Synonyms: waterway |
---|
(noun) a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth | Synonyms: stream |
(noun) natural or artificial channel through which water flows | - |
wetnurse | (noun) a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else | Synonyms: amah, wet-nurse, wet nurse |
---|
workhorse | (noun) a horse used for plowing and hauling and other heavy labor | - |
---|
(noun) machine that performs dependably under heavy use | - |
worse | (noun) something inferior in quality or condition or effect | - |
---|