embarrass | (verb) cause to be embarrassed; cause to feel self-conscious | Synonyms: abash |
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(verb) hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of | Synonyms: block, blockade, hinder, obstruct, stymie, stymy |
embarrassed | (adjective) made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride | Synonyms: humiliated, mortified |
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(adjective) feeling or caused to feel ill at ease or self-conscious or ashamed | Synonyms: abashed, chagrined |
embarrassing | (adjective) hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment | Synonyms: awkward, sticky, unenviable |
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(adjective) causing to feel shame or chagrin or vexation | Synonyms: mortifying |
embarrassingly | (adverb) causing embarrassment | - |
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embarrassment | (noun) extreme excess | Synonyms: overplus, plethora, superfluity |
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(noun) some event that causes someone to be embarrassed | - |
(noun) the shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public | - |
(noun) the state of being embarrassed (usually by some financial inadequacy) | - |
gabardine | (noun) a firm durable fabric with a twill weave | - |
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(noun) a loose coverall (coat or frock) reaching down to the ankles | Synonyms: dust coat, duster, gaberdine, smock |
(noun) (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth | Synonyms: flannel, tweed, white |
handbarrow | (noun) a rectangular frame with handles at both ends; carried by two people | - |
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handlebar | (noun) the shaped bar used to steer a bicycle | - |
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herbarium | (noun) a collection of dried plants that are mounted and systematically classified for study | - |
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isobar | (noun) (meteorology)an isogram connecting points having equal barometric pressure at a given time | - |
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lacebark | (noun) small tree or shrub of New Zealand having a profusion of axillary clusters of honey-scented paper-white flowers and whose bark is used for cordage | Synonyms: Hoheria populnea, houhere, ribbonwood |
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liquidambar | (noun) any tree of the genus Liquidambar | - |
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(noun) aromatic exudate from the sweet gum tree | Synonyms: sweet gum |
lobar | (adjective) of or relating to or affecting a lobe | - |
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lumbar | (adjective) of or relating to or near the part of the back between the ribs and the hipbones | - |
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mephobarbital | (noun) a long-acting crystalline barbiturate (trade name Mebaral) used as a sedative and as an anticonvulsant in the treatment of epilepsy | Synonyms: Mebaral |
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microbar | (noun) the absolute unit of pressure equal to one dyne per square centimeter | Synonyms: bar absolute, barye |
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millibar | (noun) a unit of atmospheric pressure equal to one thousandth of a bar | - |
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minibar | (noun) sideboard with compartments for holding bottles | Synonyms: cellaret |
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neobaroque | (noun) art or architecture based on study of 17th century baroque. | Synonyms: neo-baroque |
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pentobarbital | (noun) a barbiturate (trade name Nembutal) used as a sedative and hypnotic and antispasmodic | Synonyms: Nembutal, pentobarbital sodium, yellow jacket |
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phenobarbital | (noun) a long-acting barbiturate used as a sedative | Synonyms: Luminal, phenobarbitone, purple heart, sodium thiopental |
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phenobarbitone | (noun) a long-acting barbiturate used as a sedative | Synonyms: Luminal, phenobarbital, purple heart, sodium thiopental |
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rebarbative | (adjective) serving or tending to repel | Synonyms: repellant, repellent |
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rhubarb | (noun) long pinkish sour leafstalks usually eaten cooked and sweetened | Synonyms: pieplant |
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(noun) plants having long green or reddish acidic leafstalks growing in basal clumps; stems (and only the stems) are edible when cooked; leaves are poisonous | Synonyms: rhubarb plant |
ropebark | (noun) deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers | Synonyms: Dirca palustris, leatherwood, moose-wood, moosewood, wicopy |
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sambar | (noun) a deer of southern Asia with antlers that have three tines | Synonyms: Cervus unicolor, sambur |
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sandbar | (noun) a bar of sand | Synonyms: sand bar |
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scabbard | (noun) a sheath for a sword or dagger or bayonet | - |
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secobarbital | (noun) barbiturate that is a white odorless slightly bitter powder (trade name Seconal) used as a sodium salt for sedation and to treat convulsions | Synonyms: red devil, secobarbital sodium, Seconal |
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shagbark | (noun) North American hickory having loose grey shaggy bark and edible nuts | Synonyms: Carya ovata, shagbark hickory, shellbark, shellbark hickory |
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shellbark | (noun) North American hickory having loose grey shaggy bark and edible nuts | Synonyms: Carya ovata, shagbark, shagbark hickory, shellbark hickory |
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sidebar | (noun) (law) a courtroom conference between the lawyers and the judge that is held out of the jury's hearing | - |
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(noun) a short news story presenting sidelights on a major story | - |
smoothbark | (noun) any of several Australian eucalypts having the bark smooth except at or near the base of the trunk | - |
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solebar | (noun) one of the longitudinal beams running along either side of a railway vehicle, onto which the bodywork is mounted, in passenger-carrying vehicles usually forming the side or the base of the floor. | Synonyms: side sill |
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spinnbar | (adjective) capable of being spun into fibres | Synonyms: spinnable |
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spinnbarkeit | (noun) the capacity of a viscous liquid (especially the cervical mucus) to be drawn out into a strand or blown up into a bubble | - |
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stringybark | (noun) any of several Australian eucalypts having fibrous inner bark | - |
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subarctic | (adjective) of or relating to latitudes just south of the Arctic Circle | - |
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subartesian | (adjective) (of water) rising naturally in a well to a height appreciably above that of the surrounding water table but not flowing out of the well | - |
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sybarite | (noun) a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses | Synonyms: voluptuary |
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sybaritic | (adjective) displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses | Synonyms: epicurean, luxuriant, luxurious, voluptuary, voluptuous |
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syllabary | (noun) a writing system whose characters represent syllables | Synonyms: syllabic script |
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tabard | (noun) a short sleeveless outer tunic emblazoned with a coat of arms; worn by a knight over his armor or by a herald | - |
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tanbark | (noun) bark rich in tannin; bruised and cut in pieces to use for tanning; spent tanbark used as a ground covering | - |
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threadbare | (adjective) repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse | Synonyms: banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn |
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(adjective) having the nap worn away so that the threads show through | - |
tollbar | (noun) a gate or bar across a toll bridge or toll road which is lifted when the toll is paid | Synonyms: tollgate |
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unbar | (verb) remove a bar from (a door) | - |
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unbarred | (adjective) not firmly fastened or secured | Synonyms: unbolted, unlatched, unlocked, unsecured |
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unbarreled | (adjective) not in a barrel | Synonyms: unbarrelled |
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unbarrelled | (adjective) not in a barrel | Synonyms: unbarreled |
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unembarrassed | (adjective) not embarrassed | Synonyms: unabashed |
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wheelbarrow | (noun) a cart for carrying small loads; has handles and one or more wheels | Synonyms: barrow, garden cart, lawn cart |
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(verb) transport in a wheelbarrow | - |