bookkeeping | (noun) the activity of recording business transactions | Synonyms: clerking |
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bootee | (noun) a slipper that is soft and wool (for babies) | Synonyms: bootie |
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bopeep | (noun) a game played with young children; you hide your face and suddenly reveal it as you say boo! | Synonyms: peekaboo |
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botonee | (adjective) (of a heraldic cross) having a cluster of three buttons or knobs at the end of each arm | Synonyms: botonnee |
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botonnee | (adjective) (of a heraldic cross) having a cluster of three buttons or knobs at the end of each arm | Synonyms: botonee |
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bottlefeed | (verb) feed (infants) with a bottle | - |
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bouchee | (noun) shell of puff paste | Synonyms: patty shell |
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bourtree | (noun) a common shrub with black fruit or a small tree of Europe and Asia; fruit used for wines and jellies | Synonyms: black elder, common elder, elderberry, European elder, Sambucus nigra |
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breastfeed | (verb) give suck to | Synonyms: give suck, lactate, nurse, suck, suckle, wet-nurse |
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breech | (noun) opening in the rear of the barrel of a gun where bullets can be loaded | Synonyms: rear of barrel, rear of tube |
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breechblock | (noun) a metal block in breech-loading firearms that is withdrawn to insert a cartridge and replaced to close the breech before firing | Synonyms: breech closer |
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breechcloth | (noun) a garment that provides covering for the loins | Synonyms: breechclout, loincloth |
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breechclout | (noun) a garment that provides covering for the loins | Synonyms: breechcloth, loincloth |
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breeched | (adjective) dressed in trousers | Synonyms: pantalooned, trousered |
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breeches | (noun) (used in the plural) trousers ending above the knee | Synonyms: knee breeches, knee pants, knickerbockers, knickers |
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breechloader | (noun) a gun that is loaded at the breech | - |
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breed | (noun) a special type | - |
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(noun) a special variety of domesticated animals within a species | Synonyms: stock, strain |
(verb) have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms) | Synonyms: multiply |
(verb) copulate with a female, used especially of horses | Synonyms: cover |
(verb) cause to procreate (animals) | - |
(verb) call forth | Synonyms: engender, spawn |
breeder | (noun) a person who breeds animals | Synonyms: stock breeder |
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breeding | (adjective) producing offspring or set aside especially for producing offspring | - |
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(noun) the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring | Synonyms: facts of life, procreation, reproduction |
(noun) helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community | Synonyms: bringing up, fosterage, fostering, nurture, raising, rearing, upbringing |
(noun) the production of animals or plants by inbreeding or hybridization | - |
(noun) the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior) | Synonyms: education, training |
(noun) elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression | Synonyms: genteelness, gentility |
breeze | (noun) any undertaking that is easy to do | Synonyms: child's play, cinch, duck soup, picnic, piece of cake, pushover, snap, walkover |
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(noun) a slight wind (usually refreshing) | Synonyms: air, gentle wind, zephyr |
(verb) to proceed quickly and easily | - |
(verb) blow gently and lightly | - |
breezily | (adverb) in a breezy manner | - |
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breeziness | (noun) a breezy liveliness | Synonyms: jauntiness |
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(noun) a mildly windy state of the air | Synonyms: windiness |
breezy | (adjective) fresh and animated | - |
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(adjective) abounding in or exposed to the wind or breezes | Synonyms: blowy, windy |
broadsheet | (noun) an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution | Synonyms: bill, broadside, circular, flier, flyer, handbill, throwaway |
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brookweed | (noun) water pimpernel of Europe to China | Synonyms: Samolus valerandii |
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(noun) American water pimpernel | Synonyms: Samolus floribundus, Samolus parviflorus |
broomweed | (noun) annual of southwestern United States having rigid woody branches with sticky foliage and yellow flowers | Synonyms: broom-weed, Gutierrezia texana |
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buccaneer | (noun) someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation | Synonyms: pirate, sea robber, sea rover |
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(verb) live like a buccaneer | - |
buccaneering | (noun) hijacking on the high seas or in similar contexts; taking a ship or plane away from the control of those who are legally entitled to it | Synonyms: piracy |
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buckshee | (adjective) free of charge | - |
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budgereegah | (noun) small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors | Synonyms: budgerigar, budgerygah, budgie, grass parakeet, lovebird, Melopsittacus undulatus, shell parakeet |
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bugleweed | (noun) any of various low-growing annual or perennial evergreen herbs native to Eurasia; used for ground cover | Synonyms: bugle |
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(noun) a mildly narcotic and astringent aromatic herb having small whitish flowers; eastern United States | Synonyms: Lycopus virginicus |
bumblebee | (noun) robust hairy social bee of temperate regions | Synonyms: humblebee |
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bungee | (noun) an elasticized rope | Synonyms: bungee cord |
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butterweed | (noun) any of several yellow-flowered plants of the genus Packera; often placed in genus Senecio | - |
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(noun) American ragwort with yellow flowers | Synonyms: ragwort, Senecio glabellus |
camphorweed | (noun) aromatic plant of western United States | Synonyms: Trichostema lanceolatum, turpentine camphor weed, vinegarweed |
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cancerweed | (noun) sage of eastern United States | Synonyms: cancer weed, Salvia lyrata |
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candyweed | (noun) bog plant of pine barrens of southeastern United States having spikes of irregular yellow-orange flowers | Synonyms: orange milkwort, Polygala lutea, yellow bachelor's button, yellow milkwort |
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cankerweed | (noun) herb of northeastern North America having drooping clusters of yellowish-white flowers; sometimes placed in genus Prenanthes | Synonyms: Nabalus alba, Prenanthes alba, white lettuce |
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cannoneer | (noun) a serviceman in the artillery | Synonyms: artilleryman, gunner, machine gunner |
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canteen | (noun) a flask for carrying water; used by soldiers or travelers | - |
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(noun) restaurant in a factory; where workers can eat | - |
(noun) a recreation room in an institution | - |
(noun) a restaurant outside; often for soldiers or policemen | Synonyms: mobile canteen |
(noun) sells food and personal items to personnel at an institution or school or camp etc. | - |
capeweed | (noun) European weed widely naturalized in North America having yellow flower heads and leaves resembling a cat's ears | Synonyms: California dandelion, cat's-ear, gosmore, Hypochaeris radicata |
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carabineer | (noun) a soldier (historically a mounted soldier) who is armed with a carbine | Synonyms: carabinier, carbineer |
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carageen | (noun) dark purple edible seaweed of the Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America | Synonyms: carrageen, carragheen, Chondrus crispus, Irish moss |
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carbineer | (noun) a soldier (historically a mounted soldier) who is armed with a carbine | Synonyms: carabineer, carabinier |
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careen | (noun) pitching dangerously to one side | Synonyms: rock, sway, tilt |
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(verb) move sideways or in an unsteady way | Synonyms: shift, tilt, wobble |
(verb) walk as if unable to control one's movements | Synonyms: keel, lurch, reel, stagger, swag |
career | (noun) the particular occupation for which you are trained | Synonyms: calling, vocation |
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(noun) the general progression of your working or professional life | Synonyms: life history |
(verb) move headlong at high speed | - |
careerism | (noun) the practice of advancing your career at the expense of your personal integrity | - |
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careerist | (noun) a professional who is intent on furthering his or her career by any possible means and often at the expense of their own integrity | - |
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carefree | (adjective) cheerfully irresponsible | Synonyms: devil-may-care, freewheeling, happy-go-lucky, harum-scarum, slaphappy |
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(adjective) free of trouble and worry and care | Synonyms: unworried |
carefreeness | (noun) the trait of being without worry or responsibility | - |
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(noun) the cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you | Synonyms: insouciance, lightheartedness, lightsomeness |
carpetweed | (noun) annual prostrate mat-forming weed having whorled leaves and small greenish-white flowers; widespread throughout North America | Synonyms: Indian chickweed, Molluga verticillata |
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carrageen | (noun) dark purple edible seaweed of the Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America | Synonyms: carageen, carragheen, Chondrus crispus, Irish moss |
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carrageenan | (noun) a colloidal extract from carrageen seaweed and other red algae | Synonyms: carrageenin |
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carrageenin | (noun) a colloidal extract from carrageen seaweed and other red algae | Synonyms: carrageenan |
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carragheen | (noun) dark purple edible seaweed of the Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America | Synonyms: carageen, carrageen, Chondrus crispus, Irish moss |
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cartwheel | (noun) acrobatic revolutions with the body turned sideways and the arms and legs outstretched like the spokes of a wheel | - |
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(noun) a wheel that has wooden spokes and a metal rim | - |
(noun) a dollar made of silver | Synonyms: silver dollar |
(verb) do cartwheels: perform an acrobatic movement using both hands and feet | - |
cassareep | (noun) a flavoring made by boiling down the juice of the bitter cassava; used in West Indian cooking | - |
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catchweed | (noun) annual having the stem beset with curved prickles; North America and Europe and Asia | Synonyms: cleavers, clivers, Galium aparine, goose grass, spring cleavers |
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chafeweed | (noun) weedy perennial of north temperate regions having woolly foliage and dirty white flowers in a leafy spike | Synonyms: Gnaphalium sylvaticum, wood cudweed |
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chaffweed | (noun) weedy plant having short dry chafflike leaves | Synonyms: bastard pimpernel, false pimpernel |
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charioteer | (noun) the driver of a chariot | - |
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cheek | (noun) impudent aggressiveness | Synonyms: boldness, brass, face, nerve |
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(noun) either side of the face below the eyes | - |
(noun) either of the two large fleshy masses of muscular tissue that form the human rump | Synonyms: buttock |
(noun) an impudent statement | Synonyms: impertinence, impudence |
(verb) speak impudently to | - |
cheekbone | (noun) the arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek | Synonyms: jugal bone, malar, malar bone, os zygomaticum, zygomatic, zygomatic bone |
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cheekily | (adverb) in a brash cheeky manner | Synonyms: brashly, nervily |
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cheekiness | (noun) the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties | Synonyms: crust, freshness, gall, impertinence, impudence, insolence |
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cheekpiece | (noun) either of two straps of a bridle that connect the bit to the headpiece | - |
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cheeky | (adjective) offensively bold | Synonyms: brash, nervy |
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cheep | (noun) the short weak cry of a young bird | Synonyms: peep |
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(verb) make high-pitched sounds | Synonyms: chirp, chirrup, peep |
cheer | (noun) the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom | Synonyms: cheerfulness, sunniness, sunshine |
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(noun) a cry or shout of approval | - |
(verb) become cheerful | Synonyms: cheer up, chirk up |
(verb) spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts | Synonyms: barrack, exhort, inspire, pep up, root on, urge, urge on |
(verb) show approval or good wishes by shouting | - |
(verb) cause (somebody) to feel happier or more cheerful | Synonyms: cheer up, jolly along, jolly up |
(verb) give encouragement to | Synonyms: embolden, hearten, recreate |
cheerer | (noun) a spectator who shouts encouragement | - |
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cheerful | (adjective) being full of or promoting cheer; having or showing good spirits | - |
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(adjective) pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic | Synonyms: pollyannaish, upbeat |
cheerfully | (adverb) in a cheerful manner | - |
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cheerfulness | (noun) the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom | Synonyms: cheer, sunniness, sunshine |
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(noun) a feeling of spontaneous good spirits | Synonyms: blitheness |
cheerily | (adverb) in a good-humoured manner | Synonyms: pleasantly, sunnily |
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cheering | (adjective) providing freedom from worry | Synonyms: comforting, satisfying |
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(noun) encouragement in the form of cheers from spectators | Synonyms: shouting |
cheerio | (noun) a farewell remark | Synonyms: adieu, adios, arrivederci, au revoir, auf wiedersehen, bye-bye, bye, good-by, good-bye, good day, goodby, goodbye, sayonara, so long |
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cheerlead | (verb) act as a cheerleader in a sports event | - |
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cheerleader | (noun) someone who leads the cheers by spectators at a sporting event | - |
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(noun) an enthusiastic and vocal supporter | - |
cheerless | (adjective) causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy | Synonyms: depressing, uncheerful |
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cheerlessly | (adverb) in an unhappy manner | - |
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cheerlessness | (noun) a feeling of dreary or pessimistic sadness | Synonyms: uncheerfulness |
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cheery | (adjective) bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer | Synonyms: gay, sunny |
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cheese | (noun) a solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk | - |
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(noun) erect or decumbent Old World perennial with axillary clusters of rosy-purple flowers; introduced in United States | Synonyms: cheeseflower, high mallow, Malva sylvestris, tall mallow |
(verb) wind onto a cheese | - |
(verb) used in the imperative (get away, or stop it) | - |
cheeseboard | (noun) tray on which cheeses are served | Synonyms: cheese tray |
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cheeseburger | (noun) a hamburger with melted cheese on it | - |
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cheesecake | (noun) a photograph of an attractive woman in minimal attire | - |
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(noun) made with sweetened cream cheese and eggs and cream baked in a crumb crust | - |
cheesecloth | (noun) a coarse loosely woven cotton gauze; originally used to wrap cheeses | - |
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cheeseflower | (noun) erect or decumbent Old World perennial with axillary clusters of rosy-purple flowers; introduced in United States | Synonyms: cheese, high mallow, Malva sylvestris, tall mallow |
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cheeselike | (adjective) having the consistency of cheese | - |
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cheesemonger | (noun) someone who sells cheese | - |
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cheeseparing | (adjective) giving or spending with reluctance | Synonyms: close, near, penny-pinching, skinny |
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cheesing | (noun) To play a game or sport in a manner that is effective but requires little skill | - |
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cheesy | (adjective) of very poor quality; flimsy | Synonyms: bum, cheap, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny |
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cheetah | (noun) long-legged spotted cat of Africa and southwestern Asia having nonretractile claws; the swiftest mammal; can be trained to run down game | Synonyms: Acinonyx jubatus, chetah |
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cheewink | (noun) common towhee of eastern North America | Synonyms: chewink, Pipilo erythrophthalmus |
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chickadee | (noun) any of various small grey-and-black songbirds of North America | - |
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chickenfeed | (noun) a trifling sum of money | Synonyms: chump change, small change |
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chickeree | (noun) far western United States counterpart of the red squirrel | Synonyms: Douglas squirrel, Tamiasciurus douglasi |
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chickweed | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Stellaria | - |
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(noun) any of various plants related to the common chickweed | Synonyms: clammy chickweed, mouse-ear chickweed, mouse ear, mouse eared chickweed |
chimneysweep | (noun) someone who cleans soot from chimneys | Synonyms: chimneysweeper, sweep |
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