accoucheur | (noun) a physician specializing in obstetrics | Synonyms: obstetrician |
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allosaur | (noun) late Jurassic carnivorous dinosaur; similar to but somewhat smaller than tyrannosaurus | Synonyms: allosaurus |
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amateur | (noun) someone who pursues a study or sport as a pastime | - |
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(noun) an athlete who does not play for pay | - |
amour | (noun) a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship | Synonyms: affair, affaire, intimacy, involvement, liaison |
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ankylosaur | (noun) having the back covered with thick bony plates; thought to have walked with a sprawling gait resembling a lizard's | Synonyms: ankylosaurus |
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apatosaur | (noun) huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur common in North America in the late Jurassic | Synonyms: apatosaurus, Apatosaurus excelsus, brontosaur, brontosaurus, thunder lizard |
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arbitrageur | (noun) someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential) | Synonyms: arb, arbitrager |
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arbour | (noun) a framework that supports climbing plants | Synonyms: arbor, bower, pergola |
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archosaur | (noun) extinct reptiles including: dinosaurs, plesiosaurs, pterosaurs, ichthyosaurs, thecodonts | Synonyms: archosaurian, archosaurian reptile |
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ardour | (noun) intense feeling of love | Synonyms: ardor |
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(noun) a feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause) | Synonyms: ardor, elan, zeal |
(noun) feelings of great warmth and intensity | Synonyms: ardor, fervency, fervidness, fervor, fervour, fire |
argentinosaur | (noun) huge herbivorous dinosaur of Cretaceous found in Argentina | - |
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armour | (noun) tough more-or-less rigid protective covering of an animal or plant | Synonyms: armor |
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(noun) protective covering made of metal and used in combat | Synonyms: armor |
(noun) a military unit consisting of armored fighting vehicles | Synonyms: armor |
augur | (noun) (ancient Rome) a religious official who interpreted omens to guide public policy | Synonyms: auspex |
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auteur | (noun) a filmmaker who has a personal style and keeps creative control over his or her works | - |
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barosaur | (noun) a dinosaur that could grow to be as tall as a building five stories tall | Synonyms: barosaurus |
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behaviour | (noun) manner of acting or controlling yourself | Synonyms: behavior, conduct, doings |
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(noun) (psychology) the aggregate of the responses or reactions or movements made by an organism in any situation | Synonyms: behavior |
(noun) (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people | Synonyms: behavior, conduct, demeanor, demeanour, deportment |
(noun) the action or reaction of something (as a machine or substance) under specified circumstances | Synonyms: behavior |
blur | (noun) a hazy or indistinct representation | Synonyms: fuzz |
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bonheur | (noun) (French) happiness and good humor | - |
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brontosaur | (noun) huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur common in North America in the late Jurassic | Synonyms: apatosaur, apatosaurus, Apatosaurus excelsus, brontosaurus, thunder lizard |
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bulghur | (noun) parched crushed wheat | Synonyms: bulgur, bulgur wheat |
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bulgur | (noun) parched crushed wheat | Synonyms: bulghur, bulgur wheat |
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bur | (noun) small bit used in dentistry or surgery | Synonyms: burr |
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(noun) seed vessel having hooks or prickles | Synonyms: burr |
butterbur | (noun) small Eurasian herb having broad leaves and lilac-pink rayless flowers; found in moist areas | Synonyms: bog rhubarb, Petasites hybridus, Petasites vulgaris |
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candour | (noun) the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech | Synonyms: candidness, candor, directness, forthrightness, frankness |
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(noun) ability to make judgments free from discrimination or dishonesty | Synonyms: candor, fair-mindedness, fairness |
carillonneur | (noun) a musician who plays a carillon | - |
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carnosaur | (noun) large carnivorous bipedal dinosaur having huge claws | - |
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carrefour | (noun) a junction where one street or road crosses another | Synonyms: crossing, crossroad, crossway, intersection |
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centaur | (noun) (classical mythology) a mythical being that is half man and half horse | - |
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ceratosaur | (noun) primitive medium-sized theropod; swift-running bipedal carnivorous dinosaur having grasping hands with sharp claws and a short horn between the nostrils; Jurassic in North America | Synonyms: ceratosaurus |
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chauffeur | (noun) a person paid to drive a privately owned car | - |
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clamour | (noun) loud and persistent outcry from many people | Synonyms: clamor, clamoring, clamouring, hue and cry |
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clangour | (noun) a loud resonant repeating noise | Synonyms: clang, clangor, clangoring, clank, clash, crash |
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clotbur | (noun) any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs | Synonyms: burdock |
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cocklebur | (noun) any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium having spiny burrs | Synonyms: cockle-bur, cockle-burr, cockleburr |
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(noun) burdock having heart-shaped leaves found in open woodland, hedgerows and rough grassland of Europe (except extreme N) and Asia Minor; sometimes cultivated for medicinal and culinary use | Synonyms: Arctium lappa, great burdock, greater burdock |
cockspur | (noun) small spiny West Indian tree | Synonyms: Pisonia aculeata |
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(noun) widely grown stout Old World hay and pasture grass | Synonyms: cocksfoot, Dactylis glomerata, orchard grass |
coiffeur | (noun) a man hairdresser | - |
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colour | (noun) a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect | Synonyms: color, coloring, colouring |
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(noun) the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation | Synonyms: color |
(noun) the timbre of a musical sound | Synonyms: color, coloration, colouration |
(noun) interest and variety and intensity | Synonyms: color, vividness |
(noun) an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading | Synonyms: color, gloss, semblance |
(noun) (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction | Synonyms: color |
(noun) any material used for its color | Synonyms: color, coloring material, colouring material |
connoisseur | (noun) an expert able to appreciate a field; especially in the fine arts | Synonyms: cognoscente |
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contour | (noun) any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline) | Synonyms: configuration, conformation, form, shape |
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(noun) a feature (or the order or arrangement of features) of anything having a complex structure | - |
(noun) a line drawn on a map connecting points of equal height | Synonyms: contour line |
cornflour | (noun) starch prepared from the grains of corn; used in cooking as a thickener | Synonyms: cornstarch |
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corythosaur | (noun) duck-billed dinosaur with nasal passages that expand into a crest like a hollow helmet | Synonyms: corythosaurus |
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cur | (noun) an inferior dog or one of mixed breed | Synonyms: mongrel, mutt |
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(noun) a cowardly or contemptible person | - |
danseur | (noun) a male ballet dancer who is the partner of a ballerina | Synonyms: danseur noble |
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demeanour | (noun) (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people | Synonyms: behavior, behaviour, conduct, demeanor, deportment |
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demur | (noun) (law) a formal objection to an opponent's pleadings | Synonyms: demurral, demurrer |
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detour | (noun) a roundabout road (especially one that is used temporarily while a main route is blocked) | Synonyms: roundabout way |
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dinosaur | (noun) any of numerous extinct terrestrial reptiles of the Mesozoic era | - |
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disfavour | (noun) an inclination to withhold approval from some person or group | Synonyms: disapproval, disfavor, dislike |
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(noun) the state of being out of favor | Synonyms: disfavor |
dishonour | (noun) lacking honor or integrity | Synonyms: dishonor |
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(noun) a state of shame or disgrace | Synonyms: dishonor |
dolour | (noun) (poetry) painful grief | Synonyms: dolor |
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downpour | (noun) a heavy rain | Synonyms: cloudburst, deluge, pelter, soaker, torrent, waterspout |
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dromaeosaur | (noun) a kind of maniraptor | - |
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endeavour | (noun) earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something | Synonyms: attempt, effort, endeavor, try |
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(noun) a purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness) | Synonyms: endeavor, enterprise |
entrepreneur | (noun) someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it | Synonyms: enterpriser |
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favour | (noun) an act of gracious kindness | Synonyms: favor |
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(noun) souvenir consisting of a small gift given to a guest at a party | Synonyms: favor, party favor, party favour |
(noun) an advantage to the benefit of someone or something | Synonyms: favor |
(noun) an inclination to approve | Synonyms: favor |
(noun) a feeling of favorable regard | Synonyms: favor |
femur | (noun) the longest and thickest bone of the human skeleton; extends from the pelvis to the knee | Synonyms: femoris, thighbone |
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fervour | (noun) feelings of great warmth and intensity | Synonyms: ardor, ardour, fervency, fervidness, fervor, fire |
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(noun) the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up | Synonyms: excitation, excitement, fervor, inflammation |
flavour | (noun) the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: flavor, nip, relish, sapidity, savor, savour, smack, tang |
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(noun) (physics) the six kinds of quarks | Synonyms: flavor |
(noun) the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people | Synonyms: feel, feeling, flavor, look, smell, spirit, tone |
flour | (noun) fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain | - |
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four | (noun) a playing card or domino or die whose upward face shows four pips | Synonyms: four-spot |
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(noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one | Synonyms: 4, foursome, IV, Little Joe, quadruplet, quartet, quatern, quaternary, quaternion, quaternity, tetrad |
frotteur | (noun) someone who masturbates by rubbing against another person (as in a crowd) | - |
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fur | (noun) dense coat of fine silky hairs on mammals (e.g., cat or seal or weasel) | - |
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(noun) a garment made of animal pelts or synthetic fur | - |
(noun) the dressed hairy coat of a mammal | Synonyms: pelt |
gaur | (noun) wild ox of mountainous areas of eastern India | Synonyms: Bibos gaurus |
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glamour | (noun) alluring beauty or charm (often with sex-appeal) | Synonyms: glamor |
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grandeur | (noun) the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand | Synonyms: brilliance, grandness, magnificence, splendor, splendour |
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(noun) the quality of elevation of mind and exaltation of character or ideals or conduct | Synonyms: magnanimousness, nobility, nobleness |
hadrosaur | (noun) any of numerous large bipedal ornithischian dinosaurs having a horny duck-like bill and webbed feet; may have been partly aquatic | Synonyms: duck-billed dinosaur, hadrosaurus |
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harbour | (noun) a place of refuge and comfort and security | Synonyms: harbor |
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(noun) a sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo | Synonyms: harbor, haven, seaport |
hauteur | (noun) overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors | Synonyms: arrogance, haughtiness, high-handedness, lordliness |
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herrerasaur | (noun) a kind of theropod dinosaur found in Argentina | Synonyms: herrerasaurus |
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honour | (noun) the quality of being honorable and having a good name | Synonyms: honor |
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(noun) a woman's virtue or chastity | Synonyms: honor, pureness, purity |
(noun) a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction | Synonyms: accolade, award, honor, laurels |
(noun) the state of being honored | Synonyms: honor, laurels |
hotspur | (noun) a rash or impetuous person | - |
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hour | (noun) distance measured by the time taken to cover it | Synonyms: minute |
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(noun) a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day | Synonyms: 60 minutes, hr |
(noun) clock time | Synonyms: time of day |
(noun) a special and memorable period | - |
humour | (noun) the quality of being funny | Synonyms: humor |
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(noun) the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous | Synonyms: humor, sense of humor, sense of humour |
(noun) the liquid parts of the body | Synonyms: bodily fluid, body fluid, humor, liquid body substance |
(noun) (Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state | Synonyms: humor |
(noun) a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter | Synonyms: humor, wit, witticism, wittiness |
(noun) a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling | Synonyms: humor, mood, temper |
ichthyosaur | (noun) any of several marine reptiles of the Mesozoic having a body like a porpoise with dorsal and tail fins and paddle-shaped limbs | - |
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ictodosaur | (noun) intermediate in form between the therapsids and most primitive true mammals | - |
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imprimatur | (noun) formal and explicit approval | Synonyms: countenance, endorsement, indorsement, sanction, warrant |
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inpour | (noun) an inflow | Synonyms: inpouring, inrush |
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jodhpur | (noun) a short riding boot that fastens with a buckle at the side | Synonyms: jodhpur boot, jodhpur shoe |
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jongleur | (noun) a singer of folk songs | Synonyms: folk singer, minstrel, poet-singer, troubadour |
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kencur | (noun) a dried rhizome or its powdered form of Kaempferia galanga, used in cooking in Indonesia. | - |
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labour | (noun) productive work (especially physical work done for wages) | Synonyms: labor, toil |
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(noun) any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted | Synonyms: labor, project, task, undertaking |
(noun) a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages | Synonyms: labor, proletariat, working class |
(noun) an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement | Synonyms: labor, labor movement, trade union movement |
(noun) concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child | Synonyms: childbed, confinement, labor, lying-in, parturiency, travail |
langur | (noun) slender long-tailed monkey of Asia | - |
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larkspur | (noun) any of numerous cultivated plants of the genus Delphinium | - |
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lemur | (noun) large-eyed arboreal prosimian having foxy faces and long furry tails | - |
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liqueur | (noun) strong highly flavored sweet liquor usually drunk after a meal | Synonyms: cordial |
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litterateur | (noun) a writer of literary works | Synonyms: essayist |
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longueur | (noun) a period of dullness or boredom (especially in a work of literature or performing art) | - |
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malodour | (noun) a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant | Synonyms: fetor, foetor, malodor, mephitis, reek, stench, stink |
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masseur | (noun) a male massager | - |
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megalosaur | (noun) gigantic carnivorous bipedal dinosaur of the Jurassic or early Cretaceous in Europe | Synonyms: megalosaurus |
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misbehaviour | (noun) improper or wicked or immoral behavior | Synonyms: misbehavior, misdeed |
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misdemeanour | (noun) a crime less serious than a felony | Synonyms: infraction, infringement, misdemeanor, violation |
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mompreneur | (noun) an entrepreneur and a mother | - |
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murmur | (noun) a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone | Synonyms: grumble, grumbling, murmuring, mutter, muttering |
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(noun) a schwa that is incidental to the pronunciation of a consonant | Synonyms: murmur vowel |
(noun) a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech | Synonyms: murmuration, murmuring, mussitation, mutter, muttering |
(noun) an abnormal sound of the heart; sometimes a sign of abnormal function of the heart valves | Synonyms: cardiac murmur, heart murmur |
neighbour | (noun) a nearby object of the same kind | Synonyms: neighbor |
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(noun) a person who lives (or is located) near another | Synonyms: neighbor |
nothosaur | (noun) extinct marine reptile with longer more slender limbs than plesiosaurs and less completely modified for swimming | - |
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odour | (noun) any property detected by the olfactory system | Synonyms: aroma, odor, olfactory property, scent, smell |
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(noun) the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form | Synonyms: odor, olfactory perception, olfactory sensation, smell |
pachycephalosaur | (noun) bipedal herbivore having 10 inches of bone atop its head; largest boneheaded dinosaur ever found | Synonyms: pachycephalosaurus |
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paramour | (noun) a woman who cohabits with an important man | Synonyms: concubine, courtesan, doxy |
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(noun) a woman's lover | Synonyms: fancy man |
parkour | (noun) An athletic discipline, in which practitioners traverse any environment in the most efficient way possible using their physical abilities, and which commonly involves running, jumping, vaulting, rolling, and other similar physical movements. | - |
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