absinth | (noun) strong green liqueur flavored with wormwood and anise | Synonyms: absinthe |
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afterbirth | (noun) the placenta and fetal membranes that are expelled from the uterus after the baby is born | - |
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aftermath | (noun) the outcome of an event especially as relative to an individual | Synonyms: consequence |
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(noun) the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event) | Synonyms: backwash, wake |
allmouth | (noun) fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey | Synonyms: angler, angler fish, anglerfish, goosefish, Lophius Americanus, lotte, monkfish |
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altazimuth | (noun) an instrument that measures the altitude and azimuth of celestial bodies; used in navigation | - |
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amaranth | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Amaranthus having dense plumes of green or red flowers; often cultivated for food | - |
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(noun) seed of amaranth plants used as a native cereal in Central and South America | - |
arishth | (noun) large semi-evergreen tree of the East Indies; trunk exudes a tenacious gum; bitter bark used as a tonic; seeds yield an aromatic oil; sometimes placed in genus Melia | Synonyms: Azadirachta indica, margosa, Melia Azadirachta, neem, neem tree, nim tree |
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arrowsmith | (noun) a maker of arrows | - |
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azimuth | (noun) the azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian | Synonyms: AZ |
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backcloth | (noun) scenery hung at back of stage | Synonyms: backdrop, background |
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bandwidth | (noun) a data transmission rate; the maximum amount of information (bits/second) that can be transmitted along a channel | - |
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bath | (noun) a soaking and washing in a bathtub | - |
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(noun) a vessel containing liquid in which something is immersed (as to process it or to maintain it at a constant temperature or to lubricate it) | - |
(noun) an ancient Hebrew liquid measure equal to about 10 gallons | - |
batholith | (noun) large mass of intrusive igneous rock believed to have solidified deep within the earth | Synonyms: batholite, pluton, plutonic rock |
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behemoth | (noun) someone that is abnormally large and powerful | Synonyms: colossus, giant, goliath, monster |
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(noun) a person of exceptional importance and reputation | Synonyms: colossus, giant, heavyweight, titan |
berth | (noun) a job in an organization | Synonyms: office, place, position, post, situation |
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(noun) a bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers | Synonyms: built in bed, bunk |
(noun) a place where a craft can be made fast | Synonyms: moorage, mooring, slip |
beth | (noun) the 2nd letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
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billionth | (noun) one part in a billion equal parts | Synonyms: one-billionth |
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(noun) position 1,000,000,000 in a countable series of things | - |
birdbath | (noun) an ornamental basin (usually in a garden) for birds to bathe in | - |
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birth | (noun) the event of being born | Synonyms: nascence, nascency, nativity |
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(noun) a baby born; an offspring | - |
(noun) the process of giving birth | Synonyms: birthing, giving birth, parturition |
(noun) the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents | Synonyms: parentage |
(noun) the time when something begins (especially life) | - |
bismuth | (noun) a heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically); usually recovered as a by-product from ores of other metals | Synonyms: atomic number 83, Bi |
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blabbermouth | (noun) someone who gossips indiscreetly | Synonyms: talebearer, taleteller, tattler, tattletale, telltale |
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blacksmith | (noun) a smith who forges and shapes iron with a hammer and anvil | - |
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bloodbath | (noun) indiscriminate slaughter | Synonyms: battue, bloodletting, bloodshed |
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bookcloth | (noun) a woven fabric (usually cotton) used for book covers. | Synonyms: book cloth |
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booth | (noun) small area set off by walls for special use | Synonyms: cubicle, kiosk, stall |
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(noun) a small shop at a fair; for selling goods or entertainment | - |
(noun) a table (in a restaurant or bar) surrounded by two high-backed benches | - |
breadth | (noun) the extent of something from side to side | Synonyms: width |
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(noun) the capacity to understand a broad range of topics | Synonyms: comprehensiveness, largeness |
breath | (noun) the process of taking in and expelling air during breathing | - |
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(noun) an indirect suggestion | Synonyms: hint, intimation |
(noun) a slight movement of the air | - |
(noun) the air that is inhaled and exhaled in respiration | - |
(noun) a short respite | Synonyms: breather, breathing place, breathing space, breathing spell, breathing time |
breechcloth | (noun) a garment that provides covering for the loins | Synonyms: breechclout, loincloth |
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broadcloth | (noun) a closely woven silk or synthetic fabric with a narrow crosswise rib | - |
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(noun) a densely textured woolen fabric with a lustrous finish | - |
broth | (noun) a thin soup of meat or fish or vegetable stock | - |
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(noun) liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered; used as a basis for e.g. soups or sauces | Synonyms: stock |
bucktooth | (noun) a large projecting front tooth | - |
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bypath | (noun) a side road little traveled (as in the countryside) | Synonyms: byroad, byway |
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cerecloth | (noun) a waterproof waxed cloth once used as a shroud | - |
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chaetognath | (noun) any worm of the Chaetognatha; transparent marine worm with horizontal lateral and caudal fins and a row of movable curved spines at each side of the mouth | Synonyms: arrowworm |
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cheesecloth | (noun) a coarse loosely woven cotton gauze; originally used to wrap cheeses | - |
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childbirth | (noun) the parturition process in human beings; having a baby; the process of giving birth to a child | Synonyms: accouchement, childbearing, vaginal birth |
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clocksmith | (noun) someone whose occupation is making or repairing clocks and watches | Synonyms: clockmaker |
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cloth | (noun) artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers | Synonyms: fabric, material, textile |
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coelacanth | (noun) fish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous period but found in 1938 off the coast of Africa | Synonyms: Latimeria chalumnae |
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commonwealth | (noun) a politically organized body of people under a single government | Synonyms: body politic, country, land, nation, res publica, state |
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(noun) a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them | Synonyms: democracy, republic |
(noun) a world organization of autonomous states that are united in allegiance to a central power but are not subordinate to it or to one another | - |
(noun) the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico) | - |
coppersmith | (noun) someone who makes articles from copper | - |
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coprolith | (noun) a hard mass of fecal matter | Synonyms: faecalith, fecalith, stercolith |
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cottonmouth | (noun) venomous semiaquatic snake of swamps in southern United States | Synonyms: Agkistrodon piscivorus, cottonmouth moccasin, water moccasin |
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couth | (noun) (used facetiously) refinement | - |
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crith | (noun) the weight of a liter of hydrogen (at 0 centigrade and 760 millimeters pressure) | - |
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cystolith | (noun) a calculus formed in the bladder | Synonyms: bladder stone |
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daleth | (noun) the 4th letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
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dearth | (noun) an insufficient quantity or number | Synonyms: paucity |
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(noun) an acute insufficiency | Synonyms: famine, shortage |
death | (noun) the act of killing | - |
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(noun) the event of dying or departure from life | Synonyms: decease, expiry |
(noun) the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism | - |
(noun) the absence of life or state of being dead | - |
(noun) a final state | Synonyms: destruction, end |
(noun) the time when something ends | Synonyms: demise, dying |
(noun) the time at which life ends; continuing until dead | Synonyms: last |
depth | (noun) the extent downward or backward or inward | Synonyms: deepness |
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(noun) degree of psychological or intellectual profundity | - |
(noun) the attribute or quality of being deep, strong, or intense | - |
(noun) the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas | Synonyms: astuteness, deepness, profoundness, profundity |
(noun) (usually plural) a low moral state | - |
dishcloth | (noun) a cloth for washing dishes | Synonyms: dishrag |
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dogtooth | (noun) a carved pyramidal ornament; used in 13th century England | - |
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(noun) one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars | Synonyms: canine, canine tooth, cuspid, eye tooth, eyetooth |
(noun) perennial woodland spring-flowering plant; widely cultivated | Synonyms: dog's-tooth violet, dogtooth violet |
drouth | (noun) a shortage of rainfall | Synonyms: drought |
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(noun) a prolonged shortage | Synonyms: drought |
dustcloth | (noun) a piece of cloth used for dusting | Synonyms: duster, dustrag |
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earth | (noun) a connection between an electrical device and a large conducting body, such as the earth (which is taken to be at zero voltage) | Synonyms: ground |
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(noun) the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife | Synonyms: earthly concern, world, worldly concern |
(noun) the abode of mortals (as contrasted with Heaven or Hell) | Synonyms: Earth |
(noun) the solid part of the earth's surface | Synonyms: dry land, ground, land, solid ground, terra firma |
(noun) the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on | Synonyms: Earth, globe, world |
(noun) the loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface | Synonyms: ground |
(noun) once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles), associated with the humour black bile | - |
eighteenth | (noun) position 18 in a countable series of things | - |
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eighth | (noun) one part in eight equal parts | Synonyms: one-eighth |
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(noun) position eight in a countable series of things | - |
eightieth | (noun) position 80 in a countable series of things | - |
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eleventh | (noun) position 11 in a countable series of things | - |
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enterolith | (noun) a calculus occurring in the intestines | - |
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eolith | (noun) a crude stone artifact (as a chipped flint); possibly the earliest tools | - |
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epilith | (noun) A plant, fungus, or other organism that grows upon rock. | - |
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eyebath | (noun) a small vessel with a rim curved to fit the orbit of the eye; use to apply medicated or cleansing solution to the eyeball | Synonyms: eye cup, eyecup |
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eyetooth | (noun) one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars | Synonyms: canine, canine tooth, cuspid, dogtooth, eye tooth |
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faecalith | (noun) a hard mass of fecal matter | Synonyms: coprolith, fecalith, stercolith |
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faith | (noun) loyalty or allegiance to a cause or a person | - |
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(noun) a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny | Synonyms: religion, religious belief |
(noun) complete confidence in a person or plan etc | Synonyms: trust |
(noun) an institution to express belief in a divine power | Synonyms: organized religion, religion |
fecalith | (noun) a hard mass of fecal matter | Synonyms: coprolith, faecalith, stercolith |
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fifteenth | (noun) position 15 in a countable series of things | - |
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fifth | (noun) the musical interval between one note and another five notes away from it | - |
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(noun) one part in five equal parts | Synonyms: fifth part, one-fifth, twenty percent |
(noun) a quantity of liquor equal to one fifth of a United States gallon | - |
(noun) position five in a countable series of things | - |
fiftieth | (noun) position 50 in a countable series of things | - |
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filth | (noun) an offensive or indecent word or phrase | Synonyms: dirty word, obscenity, smut, vulgarism |
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(noun) a state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse | Synonyms: filthiness, foulness, nastiness |
(noun) anything regarded as making something unclean | Synonyms: dirt, grease, grime, grunge, soil, stain |
(noun) any substance considered disgustingly foul or unpleasant | Synonyms: crud, skank |
fingerbreadth | (noun) the length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure | Synonyms: digit, finger's breadth, finger |
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firth | (noun) a long narrow estuary (especially in Scotland) | - |
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footbath | (noun) a small bathtub for warming or washing or disinfecting the feet | - |
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footpath | (noun) a trodden path | Synonyms: pathway |
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fortieth | (noun) position 40 in a countable series of things | - |
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fourteenth | (noun) position 14 in a countable series of things | - |
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fourth | (noun) the musical interval between one note and another four notes away from it | - |
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(noun) one of four equal parts | Synonyms: fourth part, one-fourth, one-quarter, quarter, quartern, twenty-five percent |
(noun) following the third position; number four in a countable series | - |
frogmouth | (noun) insectivorous bird of Australia and southeastern Asia having a wide frog-like mouth | - |
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froth | (noun) a mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid | Synonyms: foam |
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girth | (noun) stable gear consisting of a band around a horse's belly that holds the saddle in place | Synonyms: cinch |
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(noun) the distance around a person's body | - |
goalmouth | (noun) (sports) the area immediately in front of the goal | - |
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goldsmith | (noun) an artisan who makes jewelry and other objects out of gold | Synonyms: gold-worker, goldworker |
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goliath | (noun) someone that is abnormally large and powerful | Synonyms: behemoth, colossus, giant, monster |
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growth | (noun) the gradual beginning or coming forth | Synonyms: emergence, outgrowth |
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(noun) vegetation that has grown | - |
(noun) something grown or growing | - |
(noun) (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level | Synonyms: development, growing, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny |
(noun) a progression from simpler to more complex forms | - |
(noun) a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important | Synonyms: increase, increment |
(noun) (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor) | - |
gunsmith | (noun) someone who makes or repairs guns | - |
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hadith | (noun) (Islam) the way of life prescribed as normative for Muslims on the basis of the teachings and practices of Muhammad and interpretations of the Koran | Synonyms: Sunna, Sunnah |
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haircloth | (noun) cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments | Synonyms: hair |
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hairsbreadth | (noun) a very small distance or space | Synonyms: hair's-breadth, hair, whisker |
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halfpennyworth | (noun) the amount that can be bought for a halfpenny | Synonyms: ha'p'orth |
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handbreadth | (noun) any unit of length based on the breadth of the human hand | Synonyms: handsbreadth |
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handsbreadth | (noun) any unit of length based on the breadth of the human hand | Synonyms: handbreadth |
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hawkmoth | (noun) any of various moths with long narrow forewings capable of powerful flight and hovering over flowers to feed | Synonyms: hawk moth, hummingbird moth, sphingid, sphinx moth |
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health | (noun) a healthy state of wellbeing free from disease | Synonyms: wellness |
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(noun) the general condition of body and mind | - |
hearth | (noun) home symbolized as a part of the fireplace | Synonyms: fireside |
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(noun) an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built | Synonyms: fireplace, open fireplace |
(noun) an area near a fireplace (usually paved and extending out into a room) | Synonyms: fireside |
heath | (noun) a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation | Synonyms: heathland |
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(noun) a low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae; has small bell-shaped pink or purple flowers | - |
helminth | (noun) worm that is parasitic on the intestines of vertebrates especially roundworms and tapeworms and flukes | Synonyms: parasitic worm |
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heth | (noun) the 8th letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
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homeopath | (noun) a practitioner of homeopathy | Synonyms: homoeopath |
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homoeopath | (noun) a practitioner of homeopathy | Synonyms: homeopath |
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