addle | (verb) become rotten | - |
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(verb) mix up or confuse | Synonyms: muddle, puddle |
addlebrained | (adjective) stupid and confused | Synonyms: addlepated, muddleheaded, puddingheaded |
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addled | (adjective) confused and vague; used especially of thinking | Synonyms: befuddled, muddled, muzzy, woolly-headed, woolly, wooly-minded, wooly |
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(adjective) (of eggs) no longer edible | - |
addlehead | (noun) a person with confused ideas; incapable of serious thought | Synonyms: addle-head, birdbrain, loon |
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addlepated | (adjective) stupid and confused | Synonyms: addlebrained, muddleheaded, puddingheaded |
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astraddle | (adverb) with one leg on each side | Synonyms: astride |
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bandleader | (noun) the leader of a dance band | - |
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bandlet | (noun) molding in the form of a ring; at top of a column | Synonyms: annulet, bandelet, bandelette, square and rabbet |
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beadle | (noun) a minor parish official who serves a ceremonial function | - |
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beardless | (adjective) lacking hair on the face | Synonyms: smooth-faced |
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(adjective) having no beard | Synonyms: whiskerless |
bedless | (adjective) without a bed | - |
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befuddle | (verb) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly | Synonyms: bedevil, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw |
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(verb) make stupid with alcohol | Synonyms: fuddle |
befuddled | (adjective) perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment | Synonyms: at sea, baffled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up |
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(adjective) confused and vague; used especially of thinking | Synonyms: addled, muddled, muzzy, woolly-headed, woolly, wooly-minded, wooly |
(adjective) stupefied by alcoholic drink | Synonyms: befogged |
befuddlement | (noun) confusion resulting from failure to understand | Synonyms: bafflement, bemusement, bewilderment, mystification, obfuscation, puzzlement |
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bloodleaf | (noun) any plant of the genus Iresine having colored foliage | - |
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bloodless | (adjective) free from blood or bloodshed | - |
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(adjective) anemic looking from illness or emotion | Synonyms: ashen, blanched, livid, white |
(adjective) destitute of blood or apparently so | Synonyms: exsanguine, exsanguinous |
(adjective) devoid of human emotion or feeling | - |
(adjective) without vigor or zest or energy | - |
bloodlessly | (adverb) without bloodshed; in a bloodless manner; without shedding blood | - |
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bloodletting | (noun) formerly used as a treatment to reduce excess blood (one of the four humors of medieval medicine) | - |
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(noun) indiscriminate slaughter | Synonyms: battue, bloodbath, bloodshed |
boodle | (noun) a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card | Synonyms: Chicago, Michigan, Newmarket, stops |
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(noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
boundless | (adjective) seemingly boundless in amount, number, degree, or especially extent | Synonyms: limitless, unbounded |
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boundlessly | (adverb) without bounds | Synonyms: immeasurably, infinitely |
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boundlessness | (noun) the quality of being infinite; without bound or limit | Synonyms: infiniteness, infinitude, limitlessness, unboundedness |
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bowdlerisation | (noun) the act of deleting or modifying all passages considered to be indecent | Synonyms: bowdlerization |
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(noun) written material that has been bowdlerized | Synonyms: bowdlerization |
bowdlerise | (verb) edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | Synonyms: bowdlerize, castrate, expurgate, shorten |
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bowdleriser | (noun) a person who edits a text by removing obscene or offensive words or passages | Synonyms: bowdlerizer, expurgator |
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bowdlerization | (noun) the act of deleting or modifying all passages considered to be indecent | Synonyms: bowdlerisation |
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(noun) written material that has been bowdlerized | Synonyms: bowdlerisation |
bowdlerize | (verb) edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | Synonyms: bowdlerise, castrate, expurgate, shorten |
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bowdlerizer | (noun) a person who edits a text by removing obscene or offensive words or passages | Synonyms: bowdleriser, expurgator |
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bridle | (noun) the act of restraining power or action or limiting excess | Synonyms: check, curb |
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(noun) headgear for a horse; includes a headstall and bit and reins to give the rider or driver control | - |
(verb) respond to the reins, as of horses | - |
(verb) put a bridle on | - |
(verb) anger or take offense | - |
brindle | (adjective) having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats | Synonyms: brinded, brindled, tabby |
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brindled | (adjective) having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats | Synonyms: brinded, brindle, tabby |
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broadleaf | (adjective) having relatively broad rather than needlelike or scalelike leaves | Synonyms: broad-leafed, broad-leaved |
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buddleia | (noun) tropical shrub having clusters of white or violet or yellow flowers | Synonyms: butterfly bush |
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bundle | (noun) a package of several things tied together for carrying or storing | Synonyms: sheaf |
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(noun) a collection of things wrapped or boxed together | Synonyms: package, packet, parcel |
(noun) a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit) | Synonyms: big bucks, big money, megabucks, pile |
(verb) sleep fully clothed in the same bed with one's betrothed | Synonyms: practice bundling |
(verb) make into a bundle | Synonyms: bundle up, roll up |
(verb) compress into a wad | Synonyms: compact, pack, wad |
(verb) gather or cause to gather into a cluster | Synonyms: bunch, clump, cluster |
caboodle | (noun) any collection in its entirety | Synonyms: bunch, lot |
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candle | (noun) stick of wax with a wick in the middle | Synonyms: taper, wax light |
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(noun) the basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; equal to 1/60 of the luminous intensity per square centimeter of a black body radiating at the temperature of 2,046 degrees Kelvin | Synonyms: candela, cd, standard candle |
(verb) examine eggs for freshness by holding them against a light | - |
candleberry | (noun) deciduous aromatic shrub of eastern North America with grey-green wax-coated berries | Synonyms: bayberry, Myrica pensylvanica, swamp candleberry, waxberry |
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candlelight | (noun) the light provided by a burning candle | Synonyms: candle flame |
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candlemaker | (noun) a person who makes or sells candles | - |
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candlenut | (noun) large tree native to southeastern Asia; the nuts yield oil used in varnishes; nut kernels strung together are used locally as candles | Synonyms: Aleurites moluccana, varnish tree |
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(noun) seed of candlenut tree; source of oil used in varnishes | - |
candlepin | (noun) a bowling pin that is thin by comparison with a tenpin | - |
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candlepins | (noun) a bowling game using slender bowling pins | Synonyms: candlepin bowling |
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candlepower | (noun) luminous intensity measured in candelas | Synonyms: light intensity |
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candlesnuffer | (noun) an implement with a small cup at the end of a handle; used to extinguish the flame of a candle | - |
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candlestick | (noun) a holder with sockets for candles | Synonyms: candle holder |
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candlewick | (noun) the wick of a candle | - |
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(noun) loops of soft yarn are cut to give a tufted pattern | - |
candlewood | (noun) any of several resinous trees or shrubs often burned for light | - |
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canoodle | (verb) fondle or pet affectionately | - |
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chandler | (noun) a maker (and seller) of candles and soap and oils and paints | - |
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(noun) a retail dealer in provisions and supplies | - |
chandlery | (noun) a storeroom where candles are kept | - |
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(noun) candles and other commodities sold by a chandler | - |
childless | (adjective) without offspring | - |
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childlessness | (noun) the condition of being without offspring | - |
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cloudless | (adjective) free from clouds | Synonyms: unclouded |
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cloudlessness | (noun) the lightness of a sunny day when there are no clouds in the sky | - |
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coddle | (verb) cook in nearly boiling water | - |
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(verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: baby, cocker, cosset, featherbed, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper, spoil |
coddler | (noun) someone who pampers or spoils by excessive indulgence | Synonyms: mollycoddler, pamperer, spoiler |
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cordless | (adjective) not having a cord | - |
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cradle | (noun) a baby bed with sides and rockers | - |
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(noun) a trough that can be rocked back and forth; used by gold miners to shake auriferous earth in water in order to separate the gold | Synonyms: rocker |
(noun) where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence | Synonyms: birthplace, place of origin, provenance, provenience |
(noun) birth of a person | - |
(verb) run with the stick | - |
(verb) hold gently and carefully | - |
(verb) wash in a cradle | - |
(verb) cut grain with a cradle scythe | - |
(verb) hold or place in or as if in a cradle | - |
(verb) bring up from infancy | - |
cradlesong | (noun) the act of singing a quiet song to lull a child to sleep | Synonyms: lullaby |
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(noun) a quiet song intended to lull a child to sleep | Synonyms: berceuse, lullaby |
cuddle | (noun) a close and affectionate (and often prolonged) embrace | Synonyms: nestle, snuggle |
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(verb) move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position | Synonyms: draw close, nest, nestle, nuzzle, snuggle |
(verb) hold (a person or thing) close, as for affection, comfort, or warmth | - |
cuddlesome | (adjective) inviting cuddling or hugging | Synonyms: cuddly |
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curdle | (verb) turn into curds | Synonyms: clabber, clot |
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(verb) turn from a liquid to a solid mass | - |
(verb) go bad or sour | - |
curdled | (adjective) transformed from a liquid into a soft semisolid or solid mass | Synonyms: coagulate, coagulated, grumose, grumous |
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dandle | (verb) pet | - |
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(verb) move (a baby) up and down in one's arms or on one's knees | - |
dawdle | (verb) take one's time; proceed slowly | Synonyms: linger |
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(verb) hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc. | Synonyms: fall back, fall behind, lag |
(verb) waste time | Synonyms: dally |
dawdler | (noun) someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind | Synonyms: drone, laggard, lagger, poke, trailer |
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diddle | (verb) manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination | Synonyms: fiddle, play, toy |
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(verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize |
diddley | (noun) a small worthless amount | Synonyms: diddly-shit, diddly-squat, diddly, diddlyshit, diddlysquat, doodly-squat, jack, shit, squat |
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disregardless | (adverb) in spite of everything; without regard to drawbacks | Synonyms: disregarding, irrespective, no matter, regardless |
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doddle | (noun) an easy task | - |
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doodle | (noun) an aimless drawing | Synonyms: scrabble, scribble |
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(verb) make a doodle; draw aimlessly | - |
doodlebug | (noun) the larva of any of several insects | Synonyms: ant lion, antlion |
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(noun) a small jet-propelled winged missile that carries a bomb | Synonyms: buzz bomb, flying bomb, robot bomb, V-1 |
(noun) a small motor vehicle | - |
doorhandle | (noun) a knob used to release the catch when opening a door (often called `doorhandle' in Great Britain) | Synonyms: doorknob |
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dwindle | (verb) become smaller or lose substance | Synonyms: dwindle away, dwindle down |
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endless | (adjective) having the ends united so as to form a continuous whole | - |
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(adjective) having no known beginning and presumably no end | Synonyms: dateless, sempiternal |
(adjective) tiresomely long; seemingly without end | Synonyms: eternal, interminable |
(adjective) infinitely great in number | - |
endlessly | (adverb) continuing forever without end | Synonyms: infinitely |
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(adverb) with unflagging resolve | Synonyms: ceaselessly, continuously, incessantly, unceasingly, unendingly |
(adverb) all the time; seemingly without stopping | Synonyms: interminably |
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds | - |
endlessness | (noun) the property of being (or seeming to be) without end | - |
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enkindle | (verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: arouse, elicit, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise |
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(verb) cause to start burning | Synonyms: conflagrate, inflame, kindle |
enkindled | (adjective) set afire | Synonyms: ignited, kindled |
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fiddle | (noun) bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow | Synonyms: violin |
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(verb) try to fix or mend | Synonyms: tinker |
(verb) manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination | Synonyms: diddle, play, toy |
(verb) play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly | Synonyms: monkey, tamper |
(verb) play the violin or fiddle | - |
(verb) play on a violin | - |
(verb) commit fraud and steal from one's employer | - |
(verb) avoid (one's assigned duties) | Synonyms: goldbrick, shirk, shrink from |
fiddlehead | (noun) New World fern having woolly cinnamon-colored spore-bearing fronds in early spring later surrounded by green fronds; the early uncurling fronds are edible | Synonyms: cinnamon fern, fiddlehead fern, Osmunda cinnamonea |
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(noun) tall fern of northern temperate regions having graceful arched fronds and sporophylls resembling ostrich plumes | Synonyms: Matteuccia struthiopteris, Onoclea struthiopteris, ostrich fern, Pteretis struthiopteris, shuttlecock fern |
fiddleneck | (noun) hairy annual of California to Mexico with crowded cymes of small blue to lilac or mauve flowers | Synonyms: Phacelia tanacetifolia |
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fiddler | (noun) a musician who plays the violin | Synonyms: violinist |
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(noun) an unskilled person who tries to fix or mend | Synonyms: tinkerer |
(noun) someone who manipulates in a nervous or unconscious manner | Synonyms: twiddler |
fiddlestick | (noun) a bow used in playing the violin | Synonyms: violin bow |
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fondle | (verb) touch or stroke lightly in a loving or endearing manner | Synonyms: caress |
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fondler | (noun) a lover who gently fondles and caresses the loved one | Synonyms: petter |
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(noun) a molester who touches the intimate parts of the victim | - |
foodless | (adjective) being without food | - |
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footcandle | (noun) a unit of illuminance on a surface that is everywhere 1 foot from a point source of 1 candle | - |
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friendless | (adjective) excluded from a society | Synonyms: outcast |
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friendlessness | (noun) being without friends | - |
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fuddle | (noun) a confused multitude of things | Synonyms: clutter, jumble, mare's nest, muddle, smother, welter |
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(verb) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly | Synonyms: bedevil, befuddle, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, throw |
(verb) consume alcohol | Synonyms: booze, drink, hit the bottle |
(verb) make stupid with alcohol | Synonyms: befuddle |
fuddled | (adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet |
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girdle | (noun) a woman's close-fitting foundation garment | Synonyms: corset, stays |
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(noun) a band of material around the waist that strengthens a skirt or trousers | Synonyms: cincture, sash, waistband, waistcloth |
(noun) an encircling or ringlike structure | - |
(verb) put a girdle on or around | Synonyms: gird |
(verb) cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients | Synonyms: deaden |
godless | (adjective) not revering god | Synonyms: irreverent |
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godlessness | (noun) impiety by virtue of not being a godly person | Synonyms: ungodliness |
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griddle | (noun) cooking utensil consisting of a flat heated surface (as on top of a stove) on which food is cooked | - |
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(verb) cook on a griddle | - |
griddlecake | (noun) a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle | Synonyms: battercake, flannel-cake, flannel cake, flapcake, flapjack, hot cake, hotcake, pancake |
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(noun) a scone made by dropping a spoonful of batter on a griddle | Synonyms: drop scone, Scotch pancake |
grindle | (noun) primitive long-bodied carnivorous freshwater fish with a very long dorsal fin; found in sluggish waters of North America | Synonyms: Amia calva, bowfin, dogfish |
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groundless | (adjective) without a basis in reason or fact | Synonyms: baseless, idle, unfounded, unwarranted, wild |
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groundlessness | (noun) the quality of lacking substance or value | Synonyms: idleness |
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