beech | (noun) any of several large deciduous trees with rounded spreading crowns and smooth grey bark and small sweet edible triangular nuts enclosed in burs; north temperate regions | Synonyms: beech tree |
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(noun) wood of any of various beech trees; used for flooring and containers and plywood and tool handles | Synonyms: beechwood |
beechen | (adjective) consisting of or made of wood of the beech tree | - |
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beechnut | (noun) small sweet triangular nut of any of various beech trees | - |
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beechwood | (noun) wood of any of various beech trees; used for flooring and containers and plywood and tool handles | Synonyms: beech |
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beseech | (verb) ask for or request earnestly | Synonyms: adjure, bid, conjure, entreat, press |
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beseeching | (adjective) begging | Synonyms: imploring, pleading |
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beseechingly | (adverb) in a beseeching manner | Synonyms: entreatingly, imploringly, importunately, pleadingly |
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beseechingness | (noun) The state or quality of one who begs or implores. | - |
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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breechblock | (noun) a metal block in breech-loading firearms that is withdrawn to insert a cartridge and replaced to close the breech before firing | Synonyms: breech closer |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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horseleech | (noun) any of several large freshwater leeches | - |
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leech | (noun) carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end | Synonyms: bloodsucker, hirudinean |
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(noun) a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage | Synonyms: parasite, sponge, sponger |
(verb) draw blood | Synonyms: bleed, phlebotomise, phlebotomize |
leechee | (noun) Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed; often dried | Synonyms: lichee, lichi, litchee, litchi, litchi nut, lychee |
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leechlike | (adjective) of plants or persons; having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another | Synonyms: bloodsucking, parasitic, parasitical |
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reecho | (verb) repeat back like an echo | - |
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(verb) repeat or return an echo again or repeatedly; send (an echo) back | - |
(verb) echo repeatedly, echo again and again | - |
reechoing | (adjective) (of sounds) repeating by reflection | Synonyms: echoing |
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screech | (noun) sharp piercing cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screeching, shriek, shrieking |
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(noun) a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screeching, shriek, shrieking |
(verb) utter a harsh abrupt scream | Synonyms: screak, skreak, skreigh, squawk |
(verb) make a high-pitched, screeching noise | Synonyms: creak, screak, skreak, squeak, whine |
screecher | (noun) someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice | Synonyms: bawler, bellower, roarer, screamer, shouter, yeller |
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screeching | (noun) sharp piercing cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screech, shriek, shrieking |
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(noun) a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screech, shriek, shrieking |
screechy | (adjective) having or making a high-pitched sound such as that made by a mouse or a rusty hinge | Synonyms: screaky, squeaking, squeaky, squealing |
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speech | (noun) the mental faculty or power of vocal communication | Synonyms: language |
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(noun) (language) communication by word of mouth | Synonyms: language, oral communication, speech communication, spoken communication, spoken language, voice communication |
(noun) the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience | Synonyms: address |
(noun) words making up the dialogue of a play | Synonyms: actor's line, words |
(noun) a lengthy rebuke | Synonyms: lecture, talking to |
(noun) the exchange of spoken words | - |
(noun) your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally | Synonyms: delivery, manner of speaking |
(noun) something spoken | - |
speechifier | (noun) a person who delivers a speech or oration | Synonyms: orator, public speaker, rhetorician, speechmaker |
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speechify | (verb) make speeches; hold forth, or harangue with a certain degree of formality | - |
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speechless | (adjective) temporarily incapable of speaking | Synonyms: dumb |
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speechlessly | (adverb) in a manner indicating that one is deprived of speech by physical weakness or emotion | - |
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speechlessness | (noun) the property of being speechless | - |
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speechmaker | (noun) a person who delivers a speech or oration | Synonyms: orator, public speaker, rhetorician, speechifier |
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speechmaking | (noun) delivering an address to a public audience | Synonyms: oral presentation, public speaking, speaking |
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speechwriter | (noun) a writer who composes speeches for others to deliver | - |
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