abort | (noun) the act of terminating a project or procedure before it is completed | - |
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advert | (noun) a public promotion of some product or service | Synonyms: ad, advertisement, advertising, advertizement, advertizing |
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airport | (noun) an airfield equipped with control tower and hangars as well as accommodations for passengers and cargo | Synonyms: aerodrome, airdrome, drome |
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alert | (noun) a warning serves to make you more alert to danger | Synonyms: alerting |
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(noun) an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger | Synonyms: alarm, alarum, warning signal |
(noun) condition of heightened watchfulness or preparation for action | Synonyms: qui vive |
applecart | (noun) a handcart from which apples and other fruit are sold in the street | - |
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(noun) the planning that is disrupted when someone `upsets the applecart' | - |
art | (noun) the creation of beautiful or significant things | Synonyms: artistic creation, artistic production |
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(noun) the products of human creativity; works of art collectively | Synonyms: fine art |
(noun) a superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation | Synonyms: artistry, prowess |
(noun) photographs or other visual representations in a printed publication | Synonyms: artwork, graphics, nontextual matter |
awlwort | (noun) small aquatic plant having tufted awl-shaped leaves in a basal rosette and minute white flowers; circumboreal | Synonyms: Subularia aquatica |
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barrenwort | (noun) slow-growing creeping plant with semi-evergreen leaves on erect wiry stems; used as ground cover | Synonyms: bishop's hat, Epimedium grandiflorum |
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bellwort | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Uvularia having yellowish drooping bell-shaped flowers | Synonyms: merry bells, wild oats |
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birthwort | (noun) creeping plant having curving flowers thought to resemble fetuses; native to Europe; naturalized Great Britain and eastern North America | Synonyms: Aristolochia clematitis |
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blackheart | (noun) heart cherry with dark flesh and skin | Synonyms: blackheart cherry |
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(noun) any of various diseases in which the central tissues blacken | - |
bladderwort | (noun) any of numerous aquatic carnivorous plants of the genus Utricularia some of whose leaves are modified as small urn-shaped bladders that trap minute aquatic animals | - |
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bloodwort | (noun) any of various plants of the family Haemodoraceae; roots contain a deep red coloring matter | - |
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braggart | (noun) a very boastful and talkative person | Synonyms: blowhard, boaster, bragger, line-shooter, vaunter |
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butterwort | (noun) any of numerous carnivorous bog plants of the genus Pinguicula having showy purple or yellow or white flowers and a rosette of basal leaves coated with a sticky secretion to trap small insects | - |
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carport | (noun) garage for one or two cars consisting of a flat roof supported on poles | Synonyms: car port |
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cart | (noun) a heavy open wagon usually having two wheels and drawn by an animal | - |
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(noun) wheeled vehicle that can be pushed by a person; may have one or two or four wheels | Synonyms: go-cart, handcart, pushcart |
cert | (noun) an absolute certainty | - |
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chart | (noun) a map designed to assist navigation by air or sea | - |
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(noun) a visual display of information | Synonyms: graph |
(noun) (usually plural) a listing of best-selling recorded music | - |
chert | (noun) variety of silica containing microcrystalline quartz | - |
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cohort | (noun) a band of warriors (originally a unit of a Roman Legion) | - |
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(noun) a company of companions or supporters | - |
(noun) a group of people having approximately the same age | Synonyms: age bracket, age group |
colewort | (noun) a hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head | Synonyms: borecole, Brassica oleracea acephala, cole, kail, kale |
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comfort | (noun) the act of consoling; giving relief in affliction | Synonyms: consolation, solace |
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(noun) assistance, such as that provided to an enemy or to a known criminal | - |
(noun) bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together | Synonyms: comforter, puff, quilt |
(noun) a feeling of freedom from worry or disappointment | - |
(noun) a state of being relaxed and feeling no pain | Synonyms: comfortableness |
(noun) a freedom from financial difficulty that promotes a comfortable state | Synonyms: ease |
(noun) satisfaction or physical well-being provided by a person or thing | - |
concert | (noun) a performance of music by players or singers not involving theatrical staging | - |
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consort | (noun) a family of similar musical instrument playing together | Synonyms: choir |
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(noun) the husband or wife of a reigning monarch | - |
convert | (noun) a person who has been converted to another religious or political belief | - |
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coolwart | (noun) stoloniferous white-flowered spring-blooming woodland plant | Synonyms: false miterwort, false mitrewort, foamflower, Tiarella cordifolia |
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coralwort | (noun) European bittercress having a knotted white rootstock | Synonyms: Cardamine bulbifera, coral-root bittercress, coralroot, Dentaria bulbifera |
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counterpart | (noun) a duplicate copy | Synonyms: similitude, twin |
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(noun) a person or thing having the same function or characteristics as another | Synonyms: opposite number, vis-a-vis |
court | (noun) respectful deference | Synonyms: homage |
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(noun) an area wholly or partly surrounded by walls or buildings | Synonyms: courtyard |
(noun) a specially marked horizontal area within which a game is played | - |
(noun) a room in which a law court sits | Synonyms: courtroom |
(noun) a hotel for motorists; provides direct access from rooms to parking area | Synonyms: motor hotel, motor inn, motor lodge, tourist court |
(noun) the residence of a sovereign or nobleman | - |
(noun) an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business | Synonyms: judicature, tribunal |
(noun) the sovereign and his advisers who are the governing power of a state | Synonyms: royal court |
(noun) the family and retinue of a sovereign or prince | Synonyms: royal court |
covert | (noun) a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something | Synonyms: concealment, cover, screen |
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(noun) a flock of coots | - |
culvert | (noun) a transverse and totally enclosed drain under a road or railway | - |
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cyberart | (noun) art that is produced with the help of computer hardware and software | - |
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danewort | (noun) dwarf herbaceous elder of Europe having pink flowers and a nauseous odor | Synonyms: dwarf elder, Sambucus ebulus |
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dart | (noun) a sudden quick movement | Synonyms: flit |
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(noun) a tapered tuck made in dressmaking | - |
(noun) a small narrow pointed missile that is thrown or shot | - |
davenport | (noun) a large sofa usually convertible into a bed | - |
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(noun) a small decorative writing desk | - |
desert | (noun) arid land with little or no vegetation | - |
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(noun) (usually plural) a person's deservingness of or entitlement to reward or punishment | - |
dessert | (noun) a dish served as the last course of a meal | Synonyms: afters, sweet |
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dirt | (noun) disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people | Synonyms: malicious gossip, scandal |
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(noun) anything regarded as making something unclean | Synonyms: filth, grease, grime, grunge, soil, stain |
(noun) the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock | Synonyms: soil |
(noun) obscene terms for feces | Synonyms: crap, poop, shit, shite, turd |
discomfort | (noun) an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress | Synonyms: irritation, soreness |
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(noun) the state of being tense and feeling pain | Synonyms: uncomfortableness |
dogcart | (noun) a cart drawn by a dog | - |
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dumpcart | (noun) a cart that can be tilted to empty contents without handling | - |
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dustcart | (noun) a truck for collecting domestic refuse | Synonyms: garbage truck |
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effort | (noun) earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something | Synonyms: attempt, endeavor, endeavour, try |
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(noun) use of physical or mental energy; hard work | Synonyms: elbow grease, exertion, sweat, travail |
(noun) a notable achievement | Synonyms: exploit, feat |
(noun) a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end | Synonyms: campaign, cause, crusade, drive, movement |
escort | (noun) the act of accompanying someone or something in order to protect them | Synonyms: accompaniment |
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(noun) a participant in a date | Synonyms: date |
(noun) someone who escorts and protects a prominent person | Synonyms: bodyguard |
(noun) an attendant who is employed to accompany someone | - |
expert | (noun) a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully | - |
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export | (noun) commodities (goods or services) sold to a foreign country | Synonyms: exportation |
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extravert | (noun) (psychology) a person concerned more with practical realities than with inner thoughts and feelings | Synonyms: extrovert |
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extrovert | (noun) (psychology) a person concerned more with practical realities than with inner thoughts and feelings | Synonyms: extravert |
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fanwort | (noun) common aquatic plant of eastern North America having floating and submerged leaves and white yellow-spotted flowers | Synonyms: Cabomba caroliniana, water-shield |
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fart | (noun) a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus | Synonyms: breaking wind, farting, flatus, wind |
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felwort | (noun) gentian of Europe and China having creamy white flowers with fringed corollas | Synonyms: gentianella amarella |
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figwort | (noun) any of numerous tall coarse woodland plants of the genus Scrophularia | - |
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filbert | (noun) nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus | Synonyms: cob, cobnut, hazelnut |
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(noun) small nut-bearing tree much grown in Europe | Synonyms: cobnut, Corylus avellana, Corylus avellana grandis |
fleawort | (noun) plantain of Mediterranean regions whose seeds swell and become gelatinous when moist and are used as a mild laxative | Synonyms: Plantago psyllium, psyllium, Spanish psyllium |
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flirt | (noun) playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest | Synonyms: coquetry, dalliance, flirtation, flirting, toying |
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(noun) a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men | Synonyms: coquette, minx, prickteaser, tease, vamp, vamper |
flowchart | (noun) a diagram of the sequence of operations in a computer program or an accounting system | Synonyms: flow chart, flow diagram, flow sheet |
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forecourt | (noun) the outer or front court of a building or of a group of buildings | - |
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forepart | (noun) the side that is forward or prominent | Synonyms: front, front end |
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fort | (noun) a fortified defensive structure | Synonyms: fortress |
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(noun) a fortified military post where troops are stationed | Synonyms: garrison |
foulmart | (noun) dark brown mustelid of woodlands of Eurasia that gives off an unpleasant odor when threatened | Synonyms: fitch, foumart, Mustela putorius, polecat |
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foumart | (noun) dark brown mustelid of woodlands of Eurasia that gives off an unpleasant odor when threatened | Synonyms: fitch, foulmart, Mustela putorius, polecat |
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frostwort | (noun) perennial of the eastern United States having early solitary yellow flowers followed by late petalless flowers; so-called because ice crystals form on it during first frosts | Synonyms: Crocanthemum canadense, frost-weed, frostweed, Helianthemum canadense |
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fumewort | (noun) delicate European herb with greyish leaves and spikes of purplish flowers; formerly used medicinally | Synonyms: Fumaria officinalis, fumeroot, fumitory |
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(noun) herb of northern Europe and Asia having erect racemes of red flowers | Synonyms: Corydalis solida, fumeroot |
gilbert | (noun) a unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns | Synonyms: Gb, Gi |
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gipsywort | (noun) hairy Eurasian herb with two-lipped white flowers | Synonyms: gypsywort, Lycopus europaeus |
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glasswort | (noun) fleshy maritime plant having fleshy stems with rudimentary scalelike leaves and small spikes of minute flowers; formerly used in making glass | Synonyms: Salicornia europaea, samphire |
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(noun) bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash | Synonyms: barilla, kali, kelpwort, Salsola kali, Salsola soda, saltwort |
golfcart | (noun) a small motor vehicle in which golfers can ride between shots | Synonyms: golf cart |
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gypsywort | (noun) hairy Eurasian herb with two-lipped white flowers | Synonyms: gipsywort, Lycopus europaeus |
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handcart | (noun) wheeled vehicle that can be pushed by a person; may have one or two or four wheels | Synonyms: cart, go-cart, pushcart |
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hart | (noun) a male deer, especially an adult male red deer | Synonyms: stag |
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heart | (noun) a playing card in the major suit that has one or more red hearts on it | - |
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(noun) the courage to carry on | Synonyms: mettle, nerve, spunk |
(noun) an inclination or tendency of a certain kind | Synonyms: spirit |
(noun) the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body | Synonyms: pump, ticker |
(noun) the locus of feelings and intuitions | Synonyms: bosom |
(noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | Synonyms: center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum |
(noun) a positive feeling of liking | Synonyms: affection, affectionateness, fondness, philia, tenderness, warmheartedness, warmness |
(noun) a firm rather dry variety meat (usually beef or veal) | - |
(noun) an area that is approximately central within some larger region | Synonyms: center, centre, eye, middle |
(noun) a plane figure with rounded sides curving inward at the top and intersecting at the bottom; conventionally used on playing cards and valentines | - |
heliport | (noun) an airport for helicopters | - |
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hoopskirt | (noun) a skirt stiffened with hoops | Synonyms: crinoline |
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hornwort | (noun) liverworts with slender hornlike capsules | - |
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(noun) any aquatic plant of the genus Ceratophyllum; forms submerged masses in ponds and slow-flowing streams | - |
hurt | (noun) the act of damaging something or someone | Synonyms: damage, harm, scathe |
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(noun) a damage or loss | Synonyms: detriment |
(noun) feelings of mental or physical pain | Synonyms: suffering |
(noun) psychological suffering | Synonyms: distress, suffering |
(noun) any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury | Synonyms: harm, injury, trauma |
import | (noun) commodities (goods or services) bought from a foreign country | Synonyms: importation |
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(noun) having important effects or influence | Synonyms: consequence, moment |
(noun) a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred | Synonyms: implication, significance |
(noun) the message that is intended or expressed or signified | Synonyms: meaning, significance, signification |
(noun) an imported person brought from a foreign country | Synonyms: importee |
insert | (noun) (film) a still picture that is introduced and that interrupts the action of a film | Synonyms: cut-in |
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(noun) (broadcasting) a local announcement inserted into a network program | Synonyms: cut-in |
(noun) an artifact that is inserted or is to be inserted | Synonyms: inset |
(noun) a folded section placed between the leaves of another publication | - |
introvert | (noun) (psychology) a person who tends to shrink from social contacts and to become preoccupied with their own thoughts | - |
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jumpstart | (noun) starting an automobile engine that has a weak battery by means of jumper cables to another car | Synonyms: jump-start |
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kelpwort | (noun) bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash | Synonyms: barilla, glasswort, kali, Salsola kali, Salsola soda, saltwort |
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lambert | (noun) a cgs unit of illumination equal to the brightness of a perfectly diffusing surface that emits or reflects one lumen per square centimeter | Synonyms: L |
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lawcourt | (noun) a tribunal that is presided over by a magistrate or by one or more judges who administer justice according to the laws | Synonyms: court of justice, court of law, law court |
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leadwort | (noun) a plant of the genus Plumbago with blue flowers | Synonyms: Plumbago europaea |
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liverwort | (noun) any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mosses | Synonyms: hepatic |
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madderwort | (noun) any of numerous trees or shrubs or vines of the family Rubiaceae | Synonyms: rubiaceous plant |
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madwort | (noun) any garden plant of the genus Alyssum having clusters of small yellow or white flowers | Synonyms: alyssum |
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mart | (noun) an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up | Synonyms: market, market place, marketplace |
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masterwort | (noun) any plant of the genus Astrantia | Synonyms: astrantia |
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milkwort | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Polygala | - |
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miniskirt | (noun) a very short skirt | Synonyms: mini |
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miterwort | (noun) any of various rhizomatous perennial herbs of the genus Mitella having a capsule resembling a bishop's miter | Synonyms: bishop's cap, mitrewort |
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mitrewort | (noun) any of various rhizomatous perennial herbs of the genus Mitella having a capsule resembling a bishop's miter | Synonyms: bishop's cap, miterwort |
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moneywort | (noun) a loosestrife vine | Synonyms: creeping Charlie, creeping Jenny, Lysimachia nummularia |
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moonwort | (noun) of America and Eurasia and Australia | Synonyms: Botrychium lunaria, common moonwort |
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moorwort | (noun) wiry evergreen shrub having pendent clusters of white or pink flowers; of wet acidic areas in Arctic and Canada to northeastern United States | Synonyms: Andromeda glaucophylla, bog rosemary |
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motherwort | (noun) bitter Old World herb of hedgerows and woodland margins having toothed leaves and white or pale pink flowers | Synonyms: Leonurus cardiaca |
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mouthpart | (noun) any part of the mouth of an insect or other arthropod especially one adapted to a specific way of feeding | - |
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mugwort | (noun) any of several weedy composite plants of the genus Artemisia | - |
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nightshirt | (noun) nightclothes worn by men | - |
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