aether | (noun) a medium that was once supposed to fill all space and to support the propagation of electromagnetic waves | Synonyms: ether |
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altogether | (noun) informal terms for nakedness | Synonyms: birthday suit, raw |
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anther | (noun) the part of the stamen that contains pollen; usually borne on a stalk | - |
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bather | (noun) a person who travels through the water by swimming | Synonyms: natator, swimmer |
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(noun) a person who takes a bath | - |
bellwether | (noun) sheep that leads the herd often wearing a bell | - |
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(noun) someone who assumes leadership of a movement or activity | - |
blather | (noun) foolish gibberish | Synonyms: blatherskite |
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blether | (noun) idle or foolish and irrelevant talk | Synonyms: chin music, idle talk, prate, prattle |
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bother | (noun) something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: annoyance, botheration, infliction, nuisance, pain, pain in the ass, pain in the neck |
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(noun) an angry disturbance | Synonyms: fuss, hassle, trouble |
breather | (noun) air passage provided by a retractable device containing intake and exhaust pipes; permits a submarine to stay submerged for extended periods of time | Synonyms: schnorchel, schnorkel, snorkel, snorkel breather |
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(noun) a short respite | Synonyms: breath, breathing place, breathing space, breathing spell, breathing time |
brother | (noun) a male with the same parents as someone else | Synonyms: blood brother |
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(noun) a male person who is a fellow member (of a fraternity or religion or other group) | - |
(noun) a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities | Synonyms: buddy, chum, crony, pal, sidekick |
(noun) used as a term of address for those male persons engaged in the same movement | Synonyms: comrade |
cither | (noun) a musical stringed instrument with strings stretched over a flat sounding board; it is laid flat and played with a plectrum and with fingers | Synonyms: zither, zithern |
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(noun) a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings | Synonyms: cithern, citole, cittern, gittern |
dither | (noun) an excited state of agitation | Synonyms: flap, fuss, pother, tizzy |
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ether | (noun) a colorless volatile highly flammable liquid formerly used as an inhalation anesthetic | Synonyms: diethyl ether, divinyl ether, ethoxyethane, ethyl ether, vinyl ether |
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(noun) a medium that was once supposed to fill all space and to support the propagation of electromagnetic waves | Synonyms: aether |
(noun) any of a class of organic compounds that have two hydrocarbon groups linked by an oxygen atom | - |
(noun) the fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water; was believed to be the substance composing all heavenly bodies | Synonyms: quintessence |
father | (noun) a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father) | Synonyms: begetter, male parent |
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(noun) the founder of a family | Synonyms: forefather, sire |
(noun) a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization | - |
(noun) a person who founds or establishes some institution | Synonyms: beginner, founder, founding father |
(noun) the head of an organized crime family | Synonyms: don |
feather | (noun) turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls | Synonyms: feathering |
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(noun) branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds | - |
forefather | (noun) the founder of a family | Synonyms: father, sire |
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(noun) person from an earlier time who contributed to the tradition shared by some group | - |
foremother | (noun) a female ancestor | - |
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gather | (noun) the act of gathering something | Synonyms: gathering |
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(noun) sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching | Synonyms: gathering |
gayfeather | (noun) any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads | Synonyms: blazing star, button snakeroot, gay-feather, snakeroot |
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godfather | (noun) any man who serves as a sponsor for a child at baptism | - |
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(noun) someone having a relation analogous to that of a male sponsor to his godchild | - |
godmother | (noun) any woman who serves as a sponsor for a child at baptism | - |
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grandfather | (noun) the father of your father or mother | Synonyms: gramps, grandad, granddad, granddaddy, grandpa |
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grandmother | (noun) the mother of your father or mother | Synonyms: gran, grandma, grannie, granny, nan, nanna |
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heather | (noun) interwoven yarns of mixed colors producing muted greyish shades with flecks of color | Synonyms: heather mixture |
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(noun) common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the Northern Hemisphere | Synonyms: broom, Calluna vulgaris, ling, Scots heather |
housefather | (noun) a man in charge of children in an institution | - |
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housemother | (noun) a woman employed as a chaperon in a residence for young people | - |
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lather | (noun) the froth produced by soaps or detergents | Synonyms: soapsuds, suds |
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(noun) the foam resulting from excessive sweating (as on a horse) | - |
(noun) a workman who puts up laths | - |
(noun) agitation resulting from active worry | Synonyms: fret, stew, sweat, swither |
leather | (noun) an animal skin made smooth and flexible by removing the hair and then tanning | - |
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loather | (noun) one who hates or loathes | Synonyms: abominator |
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mother | (noun) a condition that is the inspiration for an activity or situation | - |
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(noun) a woman who has given birth to a child (also used as a term of address to your mother) | Synonyms: female parent |
(noun) a term of address for a mother superior | - |
(noun) a term of address for an elderly woman | - |
(noun) a stringy slimy substance consisting of yeast cells and bacteria; forms during fermentation and is added to cider or wine to produce vinegar | - |
norther | (noun) a wind that blows from the north | Synonyms: boreas, north wind, northerly |
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panther | (noun) a leopard in the black color phase | - |
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(noun) a large spotted feline of tropical America similar to the leopard; in some classifications considered a member of the genus Felis | Synonyms: Felis onca, jaguar, Panthera onca |
(noun) large American feline resembling a lion | Synonyms: catamount, cougar, Felis concolor, mountain lion, painter, puma |
pother | (noun) an excited state of agitation | Synonyms: dither, flap, fuss, tizzy |
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smoother | (noun) a power tool used for sanding wood; an endless loop of sandpaper is moved at high speed by an electric motor | Synonyms: drum sander, electric sander, sander |
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smother | (noun) a stifling cloud of smoke | - |
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(noun) a confused multitude of things | Synonyms: clutter, fuddle, jumble, mare's nest, muddle, welter |
souther | (noun) a wind from the south | Synonyms: south wind, southerly |
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stepbrother | (noun) a brother who has only one parent in common with you | Synonyms: half-brother, half brother |
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stepfather | (noun) the husband of your mother by a subsequent marriage | - |
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stepmother | (noun) the wife of your father by a subsequent marriage | - |
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sunbather | (noun) someone who basks in the sunshine in order to get a suntan | - |
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swither | (noun) agitation resulting from active worry | Synonyms: fret, lather, stew, sweat |
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tether | (noun) restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal | Synonyms: lead, leash |
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tither | (noun) someone who pays tithes | - |
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weather | (noun) the atmospheric conditions that comprise the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation | Synonyms: atmospheric condition, conditions, weather condition |
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wether | (noun) male sheep especially a castrated one | - |
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zither | (noun) a musical stringed instrument with strings stretched over a flat sounding board; it is laid flat and played with a plectrum and with fingers | Synonyms: cither, zithern |
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