aerogramme | (noun) a letter sent by air mail | Synonyms: aerogram, air letter, airmail letter |
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ammeter | (noun) a meter that measures the flow of electrical current in amperes | - |
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clawhammer | (noun) a hammer with a cleft at one end for pulling nails | Synonyms: carpenter's hammer, claw hammer |
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crammer | (noun) a textbook designed for cramming | - |
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(noun) a special school where students are crammed | - |
(noun) a student who crams | - |
(noun) a teacher who is paid to cram students for examinations | - |
gramme | (noun) a metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram | Synonyms: g, gm, gram |
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hammer | (noun) the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows) | Synonyms: hammering, pound, pounding |
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(noun) a hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle; used to deliver an impulsive force by striking | - |
(noun) a power tool for drilling rocks | Synonyms: power hammer |
(noun) a striker that is covered in felt and that causes the piano strings to vibrate | - |
(noun) a light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike such percussion instruments as chimes, kettledrums, marimbas, glockenspiels, etc. | Synonyms: mallet |
(noun) the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled | Synonyms: cock |
(noun) a heavy metal sphere attached to a flexible wire; used in the hammer throw | - |
(noun) the ossicle attached to the eardrum | Synonyms: malleus |
(verb) beat with or as if with a hammer | - |
(verb) create by hammering | Synonyms: forge |
hammered | (adjective) shaped or worked with a hammer and often showing hammer marks | - |
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hammerhead | (noun) medium-sized live-bearing shark with eyes at either end of a flattened hammer-shaped head; worldwide in warm waters; can be dangerous | Synonyms: hammerhead shark |
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(noun) the striking part of a hammer | - |
(noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
hammering | (noun) the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows) | Synonyms: hammer, pound, pounding |
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hammerlock | (noun) a wrestling hold in which the opponent's arm is twisted up behind his back | - |
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hammertoe | (noun) a deformed toe which is bent in a clawlike arch | - |
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jackhammer | (noun) a hammer driven by compressed air | Synonyms: air hammer, pneumatic hammer |
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jammed | (adjective) extremely crowed or filled to capacity | Synonyms: jam-packed, packed |
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jammer | (noun) a transmitter used to broadcast electronic jamming | - |
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katzenjammer | (noun) loud confused noise from many sources | Synonyms: brouhaha, hubbub, uproar |
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(noun) disagreeable aftereffects from the use of drugs (especially alcohol) | Synonyms: hangover |
lammergeier | (noun) the largest Eurasian bird of prey; having black feathers hanging around the bill | Synonyms: bearded vulture, Gypaetus barbatus, lammergeyer |
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lammergeyer | (noun) the largest Eurasian bird of prey; having black feathers hanging around the bill | Synonyms: bearded vulture, Gypaetus barbatus, lammergeier |
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mammee | (noun) globular or ovoid tropical fruit with thick russet leathery rind and juicy yellow or reddish flesh | Synonyms: mamey, mammee apple |
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(noun) brown oval fruit flesh makes excellent sherbet | Synonyms: marmalade plum, sapote |
(noun) tropical American tree having edible fruit with a leathery rind | Synonyms: mamey, Mammea americana, mammee apple, mammee tree |
(noun) tropical American tree having wood like mahogany and sweet edible egg-shaped fruit; in some classifications placed in the genus Calocarpum | Synonyms: Calocarpum zapota, marmalade tree, Pouteria zapota, sapote |
milliammeter | (noun) a sensitive ammeter graduated in milliamperes | - |
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oriflamme | (noun) a red or orange-red flag used as a standard by early French kings | - |
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(noun) an inspiring symbol or ideal that serves as a rallying point in a struggle | - |
programme | (noun) a performance (or series of performances) at a public presentation | Synonyms: program |
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(noun) a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished | Synonyms: plan, program |
(noun) a system of projects or services intended to meet a public need | Synonyms: program |
(noun) an announcement of the events that will occur as part of a theatrical or sporting event | Synonyms: program |
(noun) a radio or television show | Synonyms: broadcast, program |
(noun) (computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute | Synonyms: computer program, computer programme, program |
(noun) an integrated course of academic studies | Synonyms: course of study, curriculum, program, syllabus |
(verb) arrange a program of or for | Synonyms: program |
(verb) write a computer program | Synonyms: program |
programmer | (noun) a person who designs and writes and tests computer programs | Synonyms: coder, computer programmer, software engineer |
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rammer | (noun) a tool for driving something with force | - |
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scammer | (noun) a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud | Synonyms: chiseler, chiseller, defrauder, gouger, grifter, swindler |
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shammer | (noun) a person who makes deceitful pretenses | Synonyms: fake, faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham |
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(noun) someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity | Synonyms: malingerer, skulker |
slammer | (noun) a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence) | Synonyms: clink, gaol, jail, jailhouse, pokey, poky |
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(noun) a person who closes things violently | - |
sledgehammer | (noun) a heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges | Synonyms: maul, sledge |
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(verb) beat with a sledgehammer | Synonyms: sledge |
spammer | (noun) someone who sends unwanted email (often in bulk) | - |
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stammel | (noun) a coarse woolen cloth formerly used for undergarments and usually dyed bright red | - |
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stammer | (noun) a speech disorder involving hesitations and involuntary repetitions of certain sounds | Synonyms: stutter |
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(verb) speak haltingly | Synonyms: bumble, falter, stutter |
stammerer | (noun) someone who speaks with involuntary pauses and repetitions | Synonyms: stutterer |
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trammel | (noun) a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner) | Synonyms: bond, hamper, shackle |
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(noun) a restraint that is used to teach a horse to amble | - |
(noun) an adjustable pothook set in a fireplace | - |
(noun) a fishing net with three layers; the outer two are coarse mesh and the loose inner layer is fine mesh | Synonyms: trammel net |
(verb) place limits on (extent or amount or access) | Synonyms: bound, confine, limit, restrict, throttle |
(verb) catch in or as if in a trap | Synonyms: ensnare, entrap, snare, trap |
triphammer | (noun) a massive power hammer; raised by a cam until released to fall under gravity | - |
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untrammeled | (adjective) not confined or limited | Synonyms: untrammelled |
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untrammelled | (adjective) not confined or limited | Synonyms: untrammeled |
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windjammer | (noun) a large sailing ship | - |
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yammer | (verb) complain whiningly | Synonyms: grizzle, whine, yawp |
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(verb) cry loudly, as of animals | Synonyms: howl, wrawl, yowl |
yellowhammer | (noun) European bunting the male being bright yellow | Synonyms: Emberiza citrinella, yellow bunting |
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(noun) large flicker of eastern North America with a red neck and yellow undersurface to wings and tail | Synonyms: Colaptes auratus, yellow-shafted flicker |