chondrule | (noun) small granule (of e.g. chrysolite) found in some meteoric rocks | - |
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conundrum | (noun) a difficult problem | Synonyms: brain-teaser, enigma, riddle |
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dandruff | (noun) loose scales shed from the scalp | - |
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(noun) a condition in which white scales of dead skin are shed by the scalp | - |
doldrums | (noun) a belt of calms and light winds between the northern and southern trade winds of the Atlantic and Pacific | - |
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(noun) a state of inactivity (in business or art etc) | Synonyms: stagnancy, stagnation |
drub | (verb) beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight | Synonyms: bat, clobber, cream, lick, thrash |
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drubbing | (noun) the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows | Synonyms: beating, lacing, licking, thrashing, trouncing, whacking |
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(noun) a sound defeat | Synonyms: debacle, slaughter, thrashing, trouncing, walloping, whipping |
drudge | (noun) a laborer who is obliged to do menial work | Synonyms: galley slave, navvy, peon |
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(noun) one who works hard at boring tasks | Synonyms: hack, hacker |
(verb) work hard | Synonyms: dig, fag, grind, labor, labour, moil, toil, travail |
drudgery | (noun) hard monotonous routine work | Synonyms: donkeywork, grind, plodding |
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drudging | (adjective) doing arduous or unpleasant work | Synonyms: laboring, labouring, toiling |
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drug | (noun) a substance that is used as a medicine or narcotic | - |
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(verb) administer a drug to | Synonyms: dose |
(verb) use recreational drugs | Synonyms: do drugs |
drugged | (adjective) under the influence of narcotics | Synonyms: doped, narcotised, narcotized |
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drugget | (noun) a rug made of a coarse fabric having a cotton warp and a wool filling | - |
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drugging | (noun) the administration of a sedative agent or drug | Synonyms: sedation |
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druggist | (noun) a health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs | Synonyms: apothecary, chemist, pharmacist, pill pusher, pill roller |
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drugless | (adjective) without the use of drugs | - |
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drugstore | (noun) a retail shop where medicine and other articles are sold | Synonyms: apothecary's shop, chemist's, chemist's shop, pharmacy |
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druidism | (noun) the system of religion and philosophy taught by the Druids and their rites and ceremonies | - |
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drum | (noun) small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise | Synonyms: drumfish |
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(noun) a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end | Synonyms: membranophone, tympan |
(noun) a cylindrical metal container, commonly used for shipping or storage of liquids | Synonyms: metal drum |
(noun) a hollow cast iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes | Synonyms: brake drum |
(noun) the sound of a drum | - |
(noun) a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends | Synonyms: barrel |
(verb) study intensively, as before an exam | Synonyms: bone, bone up, cram, get up, grind away, mug up, swot, swot up |
(verb) play a percussion instrument | - |
(verb) make a rhythmic sound | Synonyms: beat, thrum |
drumbeat | (noun) a vehement and vociferous advocacy of a cause | - |
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(noun) (military) the beating of a drum as a signal for lowering the flag at sundown | - |
(noun) the sound made by beating a drum | Synonyms: rataplan, rub-a-dub |
drumbeater | (noun) a fervent and even militant proponent of something | Synonyms: partisan, zealot |
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drumfire | (noun) intense and continuous artillery fire | Synonyms: cannonade |
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drumfish | (noun) small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise | Synonyms: drum |
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drumhead | (adjective) performed speedily and without formality | Synonyms: summary |
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(noun) a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum | Synonyms: head |
drumlin | (noun) a mound of glacial drift | - |
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drummer | (noun) someone who plays a drum | - |
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drumming | (noun) the act of playing drums | - |
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drumstick | (noun) a stick used for playing a drum | - |
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(noun) the lower joint of the leg of a fowl | - |
drunk | (adjective) stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol) | Synonyms: gone, inebriated, intoxicated, ripped |
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(adjective) as if under the influence of alcohol | Synonyms: intoxicated |
(noun) a chronic drinker | Synonyms: drunkard, inebriate, rummy, sot, wino |
(noun) someone who is intoxicated | - |
drunkard | (noun) a chronic drinker | Synonyms: drunk, inebriate, rummy, sot, wino |
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drunken | (adjective) given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: bibulous, boozy, sottish |
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drunkenly | (adverb) showing effects of much strong drink | - |
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drunkenness | (noun) the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: boozing, crapulence, drink, drinking |
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(noun) a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: inebriation, inebriety, insobriety, intoxication, tipsiness |
(noun) habitual intoxication; prolonged and excessive intake of alcoholic drinks leading to a breakdown in health and an addiction to alcohol such that abrupt deprivation leads to severe withdrawal symptoms | Synonyms: alcohol addiction, alcoholism, inebriation |
drupaceous | (adjective) of or related to a drupe | - |
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drupe | (noun) fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond, peach, plum, cherry, elderberry, olive, jujube | Synonyms: stone fruit |
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drupelet | (noun) a small part of an aggregate fruit that resembles a drupe | - |
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drusen | (noun) (plural) an eye disease resulting from small accumulations of hyaline bodies underneath the retina | - |
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druthers | (noun) the right or chance to choose | Synonyms: preference |
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eardrum | (noun) the membrane in the ear that vibrates to sound | Synonyms: myringa, tympanic membrane, tympanum |
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humdrum | (adjective) tediously repetitious or lacking in variety | Synonyms: monotonous |
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(adjective) not challenging; dull and lacking excitement | Synonyms: commonplace, prosaic, unglamorous, unglamourous |
(noun) the quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety | Synonyms: monotony, sameness |
kettledrum | (noun) a large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it | Synonyms: kettle, timpani, tympani, tympanum |
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panjandrum | (noun) an important or influential (and often overbearing) person | Synonyms: dignitary, high-up, high muckamuck, very important person, VIP |
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quadrumvirate | (noun) a group of four men | - |
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quadruped | (adjective) having four feet | Synonyms: four-footed, quadrupedal |
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(noun) an animal especially a mammal having four limbs specialized for walking | - |
quadrupedal | (adjective) having four feet | Synonyms: four-footed, quadruped |
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quadruple | (adjective) four times as great or many | Synonyms: four-fold, fourfold |
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(adjective) having four units or components | Synonyms: four-fold, fourfold, quadruplex, quadruplicate |
(noun) a quantity that is four times as great as another | - |
(noun) a set of four similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: quadruplet, quartet, quartette |
(verb) increase fourfold | - |
quadruplet | (noun) a set of four similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: quadruple, quartet, quartette |
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(noun) one of four children born at the same time from the same pregnancy | Synonyms: quad |
(noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one | Synonyms: 4, four, foursome, IV, Little Joe, quartet, quatern, quaternary, quaternion, quaternity, tetrad |
quadruplex | (adjective) having four units or components | Synonyms: four-fold, fourfold, quadruple, quadruplicate |
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quadruplicate | (adjective) having four units or components | Synonyms: four-fold, fourfold, quadruple, quadruplex |
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(noun) any four copies; any of four things that correspond to one another exactly | - |
(verb) reproduce fourfold | - |
quadrupling | (noun) increase by a factor of four | - |
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roadrunner | (noun) speedy largely terrestrial bird found from California and Mexico to Texas | Synonyms: chaparral cock, Geococcyx californianus |
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woodruff | (noun) any plant of the genus Asperula | - |
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(noun) Old World fragrant stoloniferous perennial having small white flowers and narrow leaves used as flavoring and in sachets; widely cultivated as a ground cover; in some classifications placed in genus Asperula | Synonyms: Asperula odorata, fragrant bedstraw, Galium odoratum, sweet woodruff, waldmeister |