beach | (noun) an area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake | - |
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(verb) land on a beach | - |
beachball | (noun) large and light ball; for play at the seaside | Synonyms: beach ball |
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beachcomber | (noun) a vagrant living on a beach | - |
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beachfront | (noun) a strip of land running along a beach | - |
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beachhead | (noun) an initial accomplishment that opens the way for further developments | Synonyms: foothold |
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(noun) a bridgehead on the enemy's shoreline seized by an amphibious operation | - |
beachwear | (noun) clothing to be worn at a beach | - |
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bleach | (noun) the act of whitening something by bleaching it (exposing it to sunlight or using a chemical bleaching agent) | - |
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(noun) the whiteness that results from removing the color from something | - |
(noun) an agent that makes things white or colorless | Synonyms: blanching agent, bleaching agent, whitener |
(verb) make whiter or lighter | - |
(verb) cause to become white or lighter in color | Synonyms: bleach out, decolor, decolorise, decolorize, decolour, decolourise, decolourize, discolorise, discolorize, discolourise |
bleached | (adjective) (used of color) artificially produced; not natural | Synonyms: colored, coloured, dyed |
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(adjective) having lost freshness or brilliance of color | Synonyms: faded, washed-out, washy |
bleacher | (noun) a worker who bleaches (cloth or flour etc.) | - |
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bleachers | (noun) (used in the plural) an outdoor grandstand without a roof; patrons are exposed to the sun as linens are when they are bleached | - |
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breach | (noun) a failure to perform some promised act or obligation | - |
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(noun) a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions) | Synonyms: break, falling out, rift, rupture, severance |
(noun) an opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification) | - |
(verb) make an opening or gap in | Synonyms: gap |
(verb) act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises | Synonyms: break, go against, infract, offend, transgress, violate |
campeachy | (noun) spiny shrub or small tree of Central America and West Indies having bipinnate leaves and racemes of small bright yellow flowers and yielding a hard brown or brownish-red heartwood used in preparing a black dye | Synonyms: bloodwood tree, Haematoxylum campechianum, logwood, logwood tree |
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each | (adjective) (used of count nouns) every one considered individually; quantifier, singular, universal pronoun; quantifier, singular, universal | - |
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(adverb) to or from every one of two or more (considered individually) | Synonyms: apiece, for each one, from each one, to each one |
earreach | (noun) the range within which a voice can be heard | Synonyms: earshot, hearing |
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impeach | (verb) bring an accusation against; level a charge against | Synonyms: accuse, criminate, incriminate |
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(verb) charge (a public official) with an offense or misdemeanor committed while in office | - |
(verb) challenge the honesty or veracity of | - |
impeachability | (noun) the state of being liable to impeachment | Synonyms: indictability |
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impeachment | (noun) a formal document charging a public official with misconduct in office | - |
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leach | (noun) the process of leaching | Synonyms: leaching |
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(verb) remove substances from by a percolating liquid | Synonyms: strip |
(verb) permeate or penetrate gradually | Synonyms: percolate |
(verb) cause (a liquid) to leach or percolate | - |
leaching | (noun) the process of leaching | Synonyms: leach |
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outreach | (noun) the act of reaching out | - |
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overreach | (verb) beat through cleverness and wit | Synonyms: beat, circumvent, outfox, outsmart, outwit |
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(verb) fail by aiming too high or trying too hard | - |
overreaching | (adjective) revealing excessive self-confidence; reaching for the heights | Synonyms: vaulting |
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peach | (noun) a shade of pink tinged with yellow | Synonyms: apricot, salmon pink, yellowish pink |
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(noun) downy juicy fruit with sweet yellowish or whitish flesh | - |
(noun) a very attractive or seductive looking woman | Synonyms: beauty, dish, knockout, looker, lulu, mantrap, ravisher, smasher, stunner, sweetheart |
(noun) cultivated in temperate regions | Synonyms: peach tree, Prunus persica |
(verb) divulge confidential information or secrets | Synonyms: babble, babble out, blab, blab out, let the cat out of the bag, sing, spill the beans, talk, tattle |
peachick | (noun) a young peafowl | Synonyms: pea-chick |
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peachwood | (noun) tropical tree with prickly trunk; its heavy red wood yields a red dye and is used for cabinetry | Synonyms: brazilwood, Caesalpinia echinata, peach-wood, pernambuco wood |
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peachy | (adjective) of something resembling a peach in color | Synonyms: peachy-colored, peachy-coloured |
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(adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, slap-up, smashing, swell |
pleach | (verb) interlace the shoots of | Synonyms: plash |
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(verb) form or weave into a braid or braids | Synonyms: braid |
preach | (verb) speak, plead, or argue in favor of | Synonyms: advocate |
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(verb) deliver a sermon | Synonyms: prophesy |
preacher | (noun) someone whose occupation is preaching the gospel | Synonyms: preacher man, sermoniser, sermonizer |
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preachification | (noun) moralization delivered tediously in a preachy manner | - |
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preachify | (verb) speak as if delivering a sermon; express moral judgements | Synonyms: moralise, moralize, sermonise, sermonize |
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preaching | (noun) an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service) | Synonyms: discourse, sermon |
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(noun) a moralistic rebuke | Synonyms: sermon |
preachment | (noun) a sermon on a moral or religious topic | Synonyms: homily |
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preachy | (adjective) inclined to or marked by tedious moralization | - |
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reach | (noun) the act of physically reaching or thrusting out | Synonyms: reaching, stretch |
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(noun) an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: | Synonyms: ambit, compass, orbit, range, scope |
(noun) the limit of capability | Synonyms: compass, grasp, range |
(noun) the limits within which something can be effective | Synonyms: range |
(verb) be in or establish communication with | Synonyms: contact, get hold of, get through |
(verb) to exert much effort or energy | Synonyms: strain, strive |
(verb) move forward or upward in order to touch; also in a metaphorical sense | Synonyms: reach out |
(verb) reach a point in time, or a certain state or level | Synonyms: attain, hit |
(verb) reach a destination, either real or abstract | Synonyms: arrive at, attain, gain, hit, make |
(verb) reach a goal | Synonyms: get to, make, progress to |
(verb) place into the hands or custody of | Synonyms: give, hand, pass, pass on, turn over |
(verb) to gain with effort | Synonyms: accomplish, achieve, attain |
(verb) to extend as far as | Synonyms: extend to, touch |
reachable | (adjective) easily approached | Synonyms: approachable |
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reaching | (noun) accomplishment of an objective | Synonyms: arrival |
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(noun) the act of physically reaching or thrusting out | Synonyms: reach, stretch |
schoolteacher | (noun) a teacher in a school below the college level | Synonyms: school teacher |
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taoiseach | (noun) the prime minister of the Irish Republic | - |
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teach | (verb) accustom gradually to some action or attitude | - |
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(verb) impart skills or knowledge to | Synonyms: instruct, learn |
teachable | (adjective) ready and willing to be taught | Synonyms: docile |
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teacher | (noun) a personified abstraction that teaches | - |
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(noun) a person whose occupation is teaching | Synonyms: instructor |
teachership | (noun) the position of teacher | - |
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teaching | (noun) the profession of a teacher | Synonyms: instruction, pedagogy |
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(noun) the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill | Synonyms: didactics, education, educational activity, instruction, pedagogy |
(noun) a doctrine that is taught | Synonyms: commandment, precept |
treacherous | (adjective) dangerously unstable and unpredictable | Synonyms: unreliable |
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(adjective) tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans | Synonyms: perfidious, punic |
treacherously | (adverb) in a disloyal and faithless manner | Synonyms: faithlessly, false, traitorously, treasonably |
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treacherousness | (noun) The characteristic of providing insecure footing or support; of being marked by hidden dangers, hazards, or perils. | - |
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treachery | (noun) an act of deliberate betrayal | Synonyms: betrayal, perfidy, treason |
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(noun) betrayal of a trust | Synonyms: perfidiousness, perfidy |
unbleached | (adjective) not artificially colored or bleached | Synonyms: uncolored, undyed |
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unimpeachable | (adjective) completely acceptable; not open to exception or reproach | Synonyms: unexceptionable |
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(adjective) free of guilt; not subject to blame | Synonyms: blameless, inculpable, irreproachable |
(adjective) beyond doubt or reproach | - |
unimpeachably | (adverb) without question | Synonyms: unquestionably |
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unreachable | (adjective) inaccessibly located or situated | Synonyms: out of reach, unapproachable, unreached |
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unreached | (adjective) inaccessibly located or situated | Synonyms: out of reach, unapproachable, unreachable |
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unteach | (verb) cause to disbelieve; teach someone the contrary of what he or she had learned earlier | - |
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(verb) cause to unlearn | - |