afters | (noun) a dish served as the last course of a meal | Synonyms: dessert, sweet |
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balusters | (noun) a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling | Synonyms: balustrade, banister, bannister, handrail |
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bitters | (noun) alcoholic liquor flavored with bitter herbs and roots | - |
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headquarters | (noun) the military installation from which a commander performs the functions of command | Synonyms: HQ, military headquarters |
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(noun) (usually plural) the office that serves as the administrative center of an enterprise | Synonyms: central office, home base, home office, main office |
(noun) (plural) a military unit consisting of a commander and the headquarters staff | - |
hindquarters | (noun) the part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks | Synonyms: croup, croupe, rump |
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(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, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
hipsters | (noun) a youth subculture (mostly from the middle class) originating in San Francisco in the 1960s; advocated universal love and peace and communes and long hair and soft drugs; favored acid rock and progressive rock music | Synonyms: flower people, hippies |
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jitters | (noun) extreme nervousness | Synonyms: heebie-jeebies, screaming meemies |
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letters | (noun) the literary culture | - |
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(noun) scholarly attainment | - |
quarters | (noun) housing available for people to live in | Synonyms: living quarters |
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splinters | (noun) wood in small pieces or splinters | Synonyms: matchwood |
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summercaters | (noun) (Maine colloquial) temporary summer residents of coastal Maine | - |
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waters | (noun) the serous fluid in which the embryo is suspended inside the amnion | Synonyms: amnionic fluid, amniotic fluid |
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