| mustache | (noun) an unshaved growth of hair on the upper lip | Synonyms: moustache |
|---|
| mustached | (adjective) having a moustache | Synonyms: mustachioed |
|---|
| mustachio | (noun) a large bushy moustache (with hair growing sometimes down the sides of the mouth) | Synonyms: handle-bars, moustachio |
|---|
| mustachioed | (adjective) having a moustache | Synonyms: mustached |
|---|
| nacho | (noun) a tortilla chip topped with cheese and chili-pepper and broiled | - |
|---|
| nanomachine | (noun) a machine of the size of close to one nanometre | - |
|---|
| naumachia | (noun) a naval spectacle; a mock sea battle put on by the ancient Romans | Synonyms: naumachy |
|---|
| naumachy | (noun) a naval spectacle; a mock sea battle put on by the ancient Romans | Synonyms: naumachia |
|---|
| nonachievement | (noun) an act that does not achieve its intended goal | Synonyms: nonaccomplishment |
|---|
| nonachiever | (noun) a student who does not perform as well as expected or as well as the IQ indicates | Synonyms: underachiever, underperformer |
|---|
| orach | (noun) any of various herbaceous plants of the genus Atriplex that thrive in deserts and salt marshes | Synonyms: orache |
|---|
| orache | (noun) any of various herbaceous plants of the genus Atriplex that thrive in deserts and salt marshes | Synonyms: orach |
|---|
| outreach | (noun) the act of reaching out | - |
|---|
| overachieve | (verb) perform better or achieve a greater degree of success than expected | - |
|---|
| overachievement | (noun) better than expected performance (better than might have been predicted from intelligence tests) | - |
|---|
| overachiever | (noun) a student who attains higher standards than the IQ indicated | - |
|---|
| overreach | (verb) beat through cleverness and wit | Synonyms: beat, circumvent, outfox, outsmart, outwit |
|---|
| (verb) fail by aiming too high or trying too hard | - |
| overreaching | (adjective) revealing excessive self-confidence; reaching for the heights | Synonyms: vaulting |
|---|
| pacha | (noun) a civil or military authority in Turkey or Egypt | Synonyms: pasha |
|---|
| pachinko | (noun) a Japanese pinball game played on a vertical board | - |
|---|
| pachisi | (noun) an ancient board game resembling backgammon; played on a cross-shaped board | Synonyms: parchesi, parchisi |
|---|
| pachouli | (noun) a heavy perfume made from the patchouli plant | Synonyms: patchouli, patchouly |
|---|
| (noun) small East Indian shrubby mint; fragrant oil from its leaves is used in perfumes | Synonyms: patchouli, patchouly, Pogostemon cablin |
| pachuco | (noun) a Mexican-American teenager who belongs to a neighborhood gang and who dresses in showy clothes | - |
|---|
| pachycephalosaur | (noun) bipedal herbivore having 10 inches of bone atop its head; largest boneheaded dinosaur ever found | Synonyms: pachycephalosaurus |
|---|
| pachycephalosaurus | (noun) bipedal herbivore having 10 inches of bone atop its head; largest boneheaded dinosaur ever found | Synonyms: pachycephalosaur |
|---|
| pachycheilia | (noun) an abnormal thickness of the lips | - |
|---|
| pachyderm | (noun) any of various nonruminant hoofed mammals having very thick skin: elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus | - |
|---|
| pachyderma | (noun) thickening of the skin (usually unilateral on an extremity) caused by congenital enlargement of lymph vessel and lymph vessel obstruction | Synonyms: nevoid elephantiasis |
|---|
| pachydermal | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of pachyderms | Synonyms: pachydermatous, pachydermic, pachydermous |
|---|
| pachydermatous | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of pachyderms | Synonyms: pachydermal, pachydermic, pachydermous |
|---|
| (adjective) emotionally hardened | Synonyms: callous, indurate |
| pachydermic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of pachyderms | Synonyms: pachydermal, pachydermatous, pachydermous |
|---|
| pachydermous | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of pachyderms | Synonyms: pachydermal, pachydermatous, pachydermic |
|---|
| pachysandra | (noun) any plant of the genus Pachysandra; low-growing evergreen herbs or subshrubs having dentate leaves and used as ground cover | - |
|---|
| pachytene | (noun) the third stage of the prophase of meiosis | - |
|---|
| panache | (noun) a feathered plume on a helmet | - |
|---|
| (noun) distinctive and stylish elegance | Synonyms: dash, elan, flair, style |
| parachute | (noun) rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall | Synonyms: chute |
|---|
| (verb) jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute | Synonyms: chute, jump |
| parachuter | (noun) a person who jumps from aircraft using a parachute | Synonyms: parachute jumper, parachutist |
|---|
| parachuting | (noun) descent with a parachute | Synonyms: jump |
|---|
| parachutist | (noun) a person who jumps from aircraft using a parachute | Synonyms: parachute jumper, parachuter |
|---|
| peach | (noun) a shade of pink tinged with yellow | Synonyms: apricot, salmon pink, yellowish pink |
|---|
| (noun) downy juicy fruit with sweet yellowish or whitish flesh | - |
| (noun) a very attractive or seductive looking woman | Synonyms: beauty, dish, knockout, looker, lulu, mantrap, ravisher, smasher, stunner, sweetheart |
| (noun) cultivated in temperate regions | Synonyms: peach tree, Prunus persica |
| (verb) divulge confidential information or secrets | Synonyms: babble, babble out, blab, blab out, let the cat out of the bag, sing, spill the beans, talk, tattle |
| peachick | (noun) a young peafowl | Synonyms: pea-chick |
|---|
| peachwood | (noun) tropical tree with prickly trunk; its heavy red wood yields a red dye and is used for cabinetry | Synonyms: brazilwood, Caesalpinia echinata, peach-wood, pernambuco wood |
|---|
| peachy | (adjective) of something resembling a peach in color | Synonyms: peachy-colored, peachy-coloured |
|---|
| (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, slap-up, smashing, swell |
| pistachio | (noun) nut of Mediterranean trees having an edible green kernel | Synonyms: pistachio nut |
|---|
| (noun) small tree of southern Europe and Asia Minor bearing small hard-shelled nuts | Synonyms: pistachio tree, Pistacia vera |
| pleach | (verb) interlace the shoots of | Synonyms: plash |
|---|
| (verb) form or weave into a braid or braids | Synonyms: braid |
| poach | (verb) cook in a simmering liquid | - |
|---|
| (verb) hunt illegally | - |
| poached | (adjective) cooked in hot water | Synonyms: boiled, stewed |
|---|
| poacher | (noun) small slender fish (to 8 inches) with body covered by bony plates; chiefly of deeper northern Pacific waters | Synonyms: sea poacher, sea poker |
|---|
| (noun) a cooking vessel designed to poach food (such as fish or eggs) | - |
| (noun) someone who hunts or fishes illegally on the property of another | - |
| poaching | (noun) cooking in simmering liquid | - |
|---|
| preach | (verb) speak, plead, or argue in favor of | Synonyms: advocate |
|---|
| (verb) deliver a sermon | Synonyms: prophesy |
| preacher | (noun) someone whose occupation is preaching the gospel | Synonyms: preacher man, sermoniser, sermonizer |
|---|
| preachification | (noun) moralization delivered tediously in a preachy manner | - |
|---|
| preachify | (verb) speak as if delivering a sermon; express moral judgements | Synonyms: moralise, moralize, sermonise, sermonize |
|---|
| preaching | (noun) an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service) | Synonyms: discourse, sermon |
|---|
| (noun) a moralistic rebuke | Synonyms: sermon |
| preachment | (noun) a sermon on a moral or religious topic | Synonyms: homily |
|---|
| preachy | (adjective) inclined to or marked by tedious moralization | - |
|---|
| psychomachy | (noun) a conflict of the soul (as with the body or between good and evil). | - |
|---|
| rachet | (noun) mechanical device consisting of a toothed wheel or rack engaged with a pawl that permits it to move in only one direction | Synonyms: ratch, ratchet |
|---|
| rachis | (noun) the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord | Synonyms: back, backbone, spinal column, spine, vertebral column |
|---|
| (noun) axis of a compound leaf or compound inflorescence | - |
| rachischisis | (noun) a not uncommon congenital defect in which a vertebra is malformed; unless several vertebrae are affected or there is myelomeningocele there are few symptoms; can be diagnosed by amniocentesis | Synonyms: schistorrhachis, spina bifida |
|---|
| rachitic | (adjective) affected with, suffering from, or characteristic of rickets | Synonyms: rickety |
|---|
| rachitis | (noun) childhood disease caused by deficiency of vitamin D and sunlight associated with impaired metabolism of calcium and phosphorus | Synonyms: rickets |
|---|
| (noun) inflammation of the vertebral column | - |
| reach | (noun) the act of physically reaching or thrusting out | Synonyms: reaching, stretch |
|---|
| (noun) an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: | Synonyms: ambit, compass, orbit, range, scope |
| (noun) the limit of capability | Synonyms: compass, grasp, range |
| (noun) the limits within which something can be effective | Synonyms: range |
| (verb) be in or establish communication with | Synonyms: contact, get hold of, get through |
| (verb) to exert much effort or energy | Synonyms: strain, strive |
| (verb) move forward or upward in order to touch; also in a metaphorical sense | Synonyms: reach out |
| (verb) reach a point in time, or a certain state or level | Synonyms: attain, hit |
| (verb) reach a destination, either real or abstract | Synonyms: arrive at, attain, gain, hit, make |
| (verb) reach a goal | Synonyms: get to, make, progress to |
| (verb) place into the hands or custody of | Synonyms: give, hand, pass, pass on, turn over |
| (verb) to gain with effort | Synonyms: accomplish, achieve, attain |
| (verb) to extend as far as | Synonyms: extend to, touch |
| reachable | (adjective) easily approached | Synonyms: approachable |
|---|
| reaching | (noun) accomplishment of an objective | Synonyms: arrival |
|---|
| (noun) the act of physically reaching or thrusting out | Synonyms: reach, stretch |
| reproach | (noun) a mild rebuke or criticism | - |
|---|
| (noun) disgrace or shame | - |
| (verb) express criticism towards | Synonyms: upbraid |
| reproacher | (noun) someone who finds fault or imputes blame | Synonyms: rebuker, reprover, upbraider |
|---|
| reproachful | (adjective) expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective | Synonyms: admonishing, admonitory, reproving |
|---|
| reproachfully | (adverb) in a reproving or reproachful manner | Synonyms: reprovingly |
|---|
| rhinotracheitis | (noun) a respiratory infection of the nose and throat in cattle | - |
|---|
| roach | (noun) any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic pests | Synonyms: cockroach |
|---|
| (noun) European freshwater food fish having a greenish back | Synonyms: Rutilus rutilus |
| (noun) the butt of a marijuana cigarette | - |
| (noun) street names for flunitrazepam | Synonyms: circle, forget me drug, Mexican valium, R-2, roofy, rope, rophy |
| (noun) a roll of hair brushed back from the forehead | - |
| (verb) cut the mane off (a horse) | - |
| (verb) comb (hair) into a roach | - |
| rugelach | (noun) pastry made with a cream cheese dough and different fillings (as raisins and walnuts and cinnamon or chocolate and walnut and apricot preserves) | Synonyms: ruggelach, rugulah |
|---|
| ruggelach | (noun) pastry made with a cream cheese dough and different fillings (as raisins and walnuts and cinnamon or chocolate and walnut and apricot preserves) | Synonyms: rugelach, rugulah |
|---|
| sachem | (noun) a chief of a North American tribe or confederation (especially an Algonquian chief) | Synonyms: sagamore |
|---|
| (noun) a political leader (especially of Tammany Hall) | - |
| sachet | (noun) a small soft bag containing perfumed powder; used to perfume items in a drawer or chest | - |
|---|
| sandarach | (noun) a brittle and faintly aromatic translucent resin used in varnishes | Synonyms: sandarac |
|---|
| schistorrhachis | (noun) a not uncommon congenital defect in which a vertebra is malformed; unless several vertebrae are affected or there is myelomeningocele there are few symptoms; can be diagnosed by amniocentesis | Synonyms: rachischisis, spina bifida |
|---|
| schoolteacher | (noun) a teacher in a school below the college level | Synonyms: school teacher |
|---|
| selachian | (noun) any of numerous fishes of the class Chondrichthyes characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton and placoid scales: sharks, rays, skates | Synonyms: elasmobranch |
|---|
| semidetached | (adjective) attached on one side only | - |
|---|
| slowcoach | (noun) someone who moves slowly | Synonyms: plodder, slowpoke, stick-in-the-mud |
|---|
| soutache | (noun) a narrow braid used as a decorative trimming | - |
|---|
| spinach | (noun) dark green leaves; eaten cooked or raw in salads | - |
|---|
| (noun) southwestern Asian plant widely cultivated for its succulent edible dark green leaves | Synonyms: prickly-seeded spinach, spinach plant, Spinacia oleracea |
| sprachgefuhl | (noun) an intuitive feeling for the natural idiom of a language | - |
|---|
| stachyose | (noun) a tetrasaccharide found in the tubers of the Chinese artichoke | - |
|---|
| stagecoach | (noun) a large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns | Synonyms: stage |
|---|
| stomach | (noun) an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion | Synonyms: breadbasket, tum, tummy |
|---|
| (noun) the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis | Synonyms: abdomen, belly, venter |
| (noun) an appetite for food | - |
| (noun) an inclination or liking for things involving conflict or difficulty or unpleasantness | - |
| (verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant | Synonyms: abide, bear, brook, digest, endure, put up, stand, stick out, suffer, support, tolerate |
| (verb) bear to eat | - |
| stomachache | (noun) an ache localized in the stomach or abdominal region | Synonyms: bellyache, gastralgia, stomach ache |
|---|
| stomachal | (adjective) relating to or involving the stomach | Synonyms: gastric, stomachic |
|---|
| stomacher | (noun) garment consisting of a V-shaped panel of stiff material worn over the chest and stomach in the 16th century | - |
|---|
| stomachic | (adjective) relating to or involving the stomach | Synonyms: gastric, stomachal |
|---|
| sumach | (noun) a shrub or tree of the genus Rhus (usually limited to the non-poisonous members of the genus) | Synonyms: shumac, sumac |
|---|
| symmachy | (noun) Fighting together or in an alliance with an ally (or allies) | - |
|---|
| tach | (noun) measuring instrument for indicating speed of rotation | Synonyms: tachometer |
|---|
| tacheometer | (noun) a theodolite designed for rapid measurements | Synonyms: tachymeter |
|---|
| tachistoscope | (noun) scientific instrument used by psychologists; presents visual stimuli for brief exposures | Synonyms: t-scope |
|---|
| tachogram | (noun) a graphical record of speed and distance produced by a tachograph | - |
|---|
| tachograph | (noun) a tachometer that produces a graphical record of its readings; used to record the speed and duration of trips in a motor vehicle | - |
|---|
| tachometer | (noun) measuring instrument for indicating speed of rotation | Synonyms: tach |
|---|
| tachycardia | (noun) abnormally rapid heartbeat (over 100 beats per minute) | - |
|---|