barf | (noun) the matter ejected in vomiting | Synonyms: puke, vomit, vomitus |
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(verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
boarfish | (noun) fish with a projecting snout | Synonyms: Capros aper |
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(noun) fish with large eyes and long snouts | - |
carfare | (noun) the fare charged for riding a bus or streetcar | Synonyms: bus fare |
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carful | (noun) the quantity that a car will hold | - |
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cigarfish | (noun) small fusiform fish of western Atlantic | Synonyms: Decapterus punctatus, quiaquia, round scad |
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dollarfish | (noun) small food fish of Atlantic coast | Synonyms: Poronotus triacanthus |
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(noun) any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies | Synonyms: Atlantic moonfish, horse-head, horsefish, horsehead, moonfish, Selene setapinnis |
dwarf | (noun) a plant or animal that is atypically small | - |
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(noun) a person who is markedly small | Synonyms: midget, nanus |
(noun) a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure | Synonyms: gnome |
(verb) check the growth of | - |
(verb) make appear small by comparison | Synonyms: overshadow, shadow |
dwarfish | (adjective) atypically small | - |
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dwarfishness | (noun) the quality of being built like a dwarf | - |
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dwarfism | (noun) a genetic abnormality resulting in short stature | Synonyms: nanism |
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earflap | (noun) one of two flaps attached to a cap to keep the ears warm | Synonyms: earlap |
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earful | (noun) a severe scolding | Synonyms: bawling out, castigation, chewing out, dressing down, going-over, upbraiding |
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(noun) an outpouring of gossip | - |
farfalle | (noun) pasta shaped with scalloped edges and pinched in the middle, suggestive of a bow tie | Synonyms: bowtie pasta |
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farfetched | (adjective) (of an idea or story) so exaggerated or ludicrous as to be improbable | Synonyms: far-fetched |
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(adjective) (of a theory or explanation) highly imaginative but unlikely and unconvincing | Synonyms: far-fetched |
fearful | (adjective) lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted | Synonyms: cowardly |
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(adjective) experiencing or showing fear | - |
(adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible |
(adjective) extremely distressing | Synonyms: frightful |
(adjective) timid by nature or revealing timidity | Synonyms: timorous, trepid |
fearfully | (adverb) in fear | - |
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(adverb) in an alarming manner | - |
fearfulness | (noun) the trait of being afraid | - |
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(noun) an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight) | Synonyms: fear, fright |
garfish | (noun) primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth | Synonyms: billfish, gar, garpike, Lepisosteus osseus |
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guitarfish | (noun) primitive tropical bottom-dwelling ray with a guitar-shaped body | - |
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headscarf | (noun) a kerchief worn over the head and tied under the chin | - |
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hoarfrost | (noun) ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside) | Synonyms: frost, hoar, rime |
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jarful | (noun) the quantity contained in a jar | Synonyms: jar |
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oarfish | (noun) thin deep-water tropical fish 20 to 30 feet long having a red dorsal fin | Synonyms: king of the herring, Regalecus glesne, ribbonfish |
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parfait | (noun) layers of ice cream and syrup and whipped cream | - |
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scarf | (noun) a garment worn around the head or neck or shoulders for warmth or decoration | - |
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(noun) a joint made by notching the ends of two pieces of timber or metal so that they will lock together end-to-end | Synonyms: scarf joint |
(verb) wrap in or adorn with a scarf | - |
(verb) masturbate while strangling oneself | - |
(verb) unite by a scarf joint | - |
scarfpin | (noun) a pin used to hold the tie in place | Synonyms: tie tack, tiepin |
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snarf | (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, sneak, swipe |
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spearfish | (noun) any of several large vigorous pelagic fishes resembling sailfishes but with first dorsal fin much reduced; worldwide but rare | - |
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starfish | (noun) echinoderms characterized by five arms extending from a central disk | Synonyms: sea star |
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starflower | (noun) common Old World herb having grasslike leaves and clusters of star-shaped white flowers with green stripes; naturalized in the eastern United States | Synonyms: Ornithogalum umbellatum, sleepy dick, summer snowflake |
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tearful | (adjective) filled with or marked by tears | - |
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(adjective) showing sorrow | Synonyms: dolorous, dolourous, lachrymose, weeping |
tearfully | (adverb) with tears; in a tearful manner | - |
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tearfulness | (noun) sadness expressed by weeping | Synonyms: weepiness |
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warfare | (noun) the waging of armed conflict against an enemy | Synonyms: war |
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(noun) an active struggle between competing entities | Synonyms: war |
warfarin | (noun) an anticoagulant (trade name Coumadin) use to prevent and treat a thrombus or embolus | Synonyms: Coumadin |
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wharf | (noun) a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats | Synonyms: dock, pier, wharfage |
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(verb) moor at a wharf | - |
(verb) discharge at a wharf | - |
(verb) come into or dock at a wharf | Synonyms: berth, moor |
(verb) store on a wharf | - |
(verb) provide with a wharf | - |
wharfage | (noun) a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats | Synonyms: dock, pier, wharf |
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(noun) a fee charged for the use of a wharf or quay | Synonyms: quayage |
zarf | (noun) an ornamental metal cup-shaped holder for a hot coffee cup | - |
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