asleep | (adjective) in a state of sleep | - |
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(adjective) dead | Synonyms: at peace, at rest, deceased, departed, gone |
(adjective) lacking sensation | Synonyms: benumbed, numb |
(adverb) into a sleeping state | - |
(adverb) in the sleep of death | - |
barkeep | (noun) an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar | Synonyms: barkeeper, bartender, mixologist |
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barkeeper | (noun) an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar | Synonyms: barkeep, bartender, mixologist |
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beekeeper | (noun) a farmer who keeps bees for their honey | Synonyms: apiarist, apiculturist |
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beekeeping | (noun) the cultivation of bees on a commercial scale for the production of honey | Synonyms: apiculture |
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beep | (noun) a short high tone produced as a signal or warning | Synonyms: bleep |
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(verb) call, summon, or alert with a beeper | - |
(verb) make a strident noise | Synonyms: blare, claxon, honk, toot |
beeper | (noun) an electronic device that generates a series of beeps when the person carrying it is being paged | Synonyms: pager |
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bleep | (noun) a short high tone produced as a signal or warning | Synonyms: beep |
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(verb) emit a single short high-pitched signal | - |
bookkeeper | (noun) someone who records the transactions of a business | - |
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bookkeeping | (noun) the activity of recording business transactions | Synonyms: clerking |
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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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cassareep | (noun) a flavoring made by boiling down the juice of the bitter cassava; used in West Indian cooking | - |
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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 |
chimneysweep | (noun) someone who cleans soot from chimneys | Synonyms: chimneysweeper, sweep |
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chimneysweeper | (noun) someone who cleans soot from chimneys | Synonyms: chimneysweep, sweep |
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coffeepot | (noun) tall pot in which coffee is brewed | - |
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creep | (noun) a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body | Synonyms: crawl, crawling, creeping |
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(noun) a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot | - |
(noun) a slow longitudinal movement or deformation | - |
(noun) someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric | Synonyms: spook, weirdie, weirdo, weirdy |
(verb) move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground | Synonyms: crawl |
(verb) to go stealthily or furtively | Synonyms: mouse, pussyfoot, sneak |
(verb) grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface) | - |
(verb) show submission or fear | Synonyms: cower, crawl, cringe, fawn, grovel |
creeper | (noun) any of various small insectivorous birds of the Northern Hemisphere that climb up a tree trunk supporting themselves on stiff tail feathers and their feet | Synonyms: tree creeper |
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(noun) a person who crawls or creeps along the ground | Synonyms: crawler |
(noun) any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping | - |
creepiness | (noun) an uneasy sensation as of insects creeping on your skin | - |
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creeping | (noun) a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body | Synonyms: crawl, crawling, creep |
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creeps | (noun) a feeling of fear and revulsion | - |
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(noun) a disease of cattle and sheep attributed to a dietary deficiency; characterized by anemia and softening of the bones and a slow stiff gait | - |
creepy | (adjective) causing a sensation as of things crawling on your skin | Synonyms: creepy-crawly |
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(adjective) annoying and unpleasant | - |
deep | (adjective) having great spatial extension or penetration downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or laterally or outward from a center; sometimes used in combination | - |
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(adjective) relatively deep or strong; affecting one deeply | - |
(adjective) exhibiting great cunning usually with secrecy | - |
(adjective) strong; intense | Synonyms: rich |
(adjective) very distant in time or space | - |
(adjective) difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge | Synonyms: abstruse, recondite |
(adjective) of an obscure nature | Synonyms: cryptic, cryptical, inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying |
(adjective) intense or extreme | - |
(adjective) large in quantity or size | - |
(adjective) with head or back bent low | - |
(adjective) having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range | Synonyms: bass |
(adjective) marked by depth of thinking | - |
(adjective) relatively thick from top to bottom | - |
(adjective) extending relatively far inward | - |
(adjective) (of darkness) densely dark | Synonyms: thick |
(noun) a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor | Synonyms: oceanic abyss, trench |
(noun) literary term for an ocean | - |
(noun) the central and most intense or profound part | - |
(adverb) to a great depth; far down or in | Synonyms: deeply |
(adverb) to an advanced time | Synonyms: late |
(adverb) to a great distance | - |
deepen | (verb) become more intense | Synonyms: intensify |
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(verb) make more intense, stronger, or more marked | Synonyms: compound, heighten, intensify |
(verb) become deeper in tone | Synonyms: change |
(verb) make deeper | - |
deepening | (adjective) accumulating and becoming more intense | Synonyms: thickening |
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(noun) a process of becoming deeper and more profound | - |
deeply | (adverb) to a great depth psychologically or emotionally | Synonyms: intensely, profoundly |
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(adverb) to a great depth; far down or in | Synonyms: deep |
deepness | (noun) the quality of being physically deep | Synonyms: profoundness, profundity |
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(noun) the extent downward or backward or inward | Synonyms: depth |
(noun) a low pitch that is loud and voluminous | - |
(noun) the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas | Synonyms: astuteness, depth, profoundness, profundity |
doorkeeper | (noun) someone who guards an entrance | Synonyms: door guard, doorman, gatekeeper, hall porter, ostiary, porter |
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(noun) an official stationed at the entrance of a courtroom or legislative chamber | Synonyms: usher |
(noun) the lowest of the minor Holy Orders in the unreformed Western Church but now suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: ostiarius, ostiary |
electrosleep | (noun) unconsciousness brought about by the passage of a low voltage electric current through the brain | - |
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freeperson | (noun) a person who is not a serf or a slave | - |
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gamekeeper | (noun) a person employed to take care of game and wildlife | Synonyms: game warden |
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gatekeeper | (noun) someone who guards an entrance | Synonyms: door guard, doorkeeper, doorman, hall porter, ostiary, porter |
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(noun) someone who controls access to something | - |
goalkeeper | (noun) the defensive position on an ice hockey or soccer or lacrosse team who stands in front of the goal and tries to prevent opposing players from scoring | Synonyms: goalie, goaltender, netkeeper |
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(noun) the soccer or hockey player assigned to protect the goal | Synonyms: goalie, goaltender, netkeeper, netminder |
greenskeeper | (noun) someone responsible for the maintenance of a golf course | - |
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groundkeeper | (noun) someone who maintains the grounds (of an estate or park or athletic field) | Synonyms: groundskeeper, groundsman |
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groundskeeper | (noun) someone who maintains the grounds (of an estate or park or athletic field) | Synonyms: groundkeeper, groundsman |
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honeycreeper | (noun) small bright-colored tropical American songbird with a curved bill for sucking nectar | - |
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(noun) small to medium-sized finches of the Hawaiian islands | Synonyms: Hawaiian honeycreeper |
hotelkeeper | (noun) an owner or manager of hotels | Synonyms: hosteller, hotel manager, hotelier, hotelman |
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housekeep | (verb) maintain a household; take care of all business related to a household | - |
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housekeeper | (noun) a servant who is employed to perform domestic task in a household | - |
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housekeeping | (noun) the work of cleaning and running a house | Synonyms: housework |
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innkeeper | (noun) the owner or manager of an inn | Synonyms: boniface, host |
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jeep | (noun) a car suitable for traveling over rough terrain | Synonyms: landrover |
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keep | (noun) the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress | Synonyms: donjon, dungeon |
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(noun) a cell in a jail or prison | Synonyms: hold |
(noun) the financial means whereby one lives | Synonyms: bread and butter, livelihood, living, support, sustenance |
(verb) prevent (food) from rotting | Synonyms: preserve |
(verb) prevent the action or expression of | Synonyms: hold back, keep back, restrain |
(verb) stick to correctly or closely | Synonyms: maintain, observe |
(verb) maintain by writing regular records | Synonyms: maintain |
(verb) supply with necessities and support | Synonyms: maintain, sustain |
(verb) hold and prevent from leaving | - |
(verb) retain possession of | Synonyms: hold on |
(verb) look after; be the keeper of; have charge of | - |
(verb) retain rights to | Synonyms: hold open, keep open, save |
(verb) maintain for use and service | Synonyms: maintain |
(verb) have as a supply | - |
(verb) store or keep customarily | - |
(verb) stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state | Synonyms: prevent |
(verb) allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature | Synonyms: continue, keep on, retain |
(verb) conform one's action or practice to | Synonyms: observe |
(verb) behave as expected during of holidays or rites | Synonyms: celebrate, observe |
(verb) cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity | Synonyms: hold, maintain |
(verb) supply with room and board | - |
(verb) maintain in safety from injury, harm, or danger | Synonyms: preserve |
(verb) fail to spoil or rot | Synonyms: stay fresh |
(verb) continue a certain state, condition, or activity | Synonyms: continue, go along, go on, proceed |
(verb) to rear | - |
keeper | (noun) one having charge of buildings or grounds or animals | Synonyms: custodian, steward |
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(noun) someone in charge of other people | - |
keeping | (noun) the responsibility of a guardian or keeper | Synonyms: guardianship, safekeeping |
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(noun) conformity or harmony | - |
(noun) the act of retaining something | Synonyms: holding, retention |
keepsake | (noun) something of sentimental value | Synonyms: relic, souvenir, token |
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kneepan | (noun) a small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint | Synonyms: kneecap, patella |
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lockkeeper | (noun) a worker in charge of a lock (on a canal) | Synonyms: lockman, lockmaster |
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minesweeper | (noun) ship equipped to detect and then destroy or neutralize or remove marine mines | - |
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minesweeping | (noun) the activity of detecting and disposing of marine mines | - |
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netkeeper | (noun) the defensive position on an ice hockey or soccer or lacrosse team who stands in front of the goal and tries to prevent opposing players from scoring | Synonyms: goalie, goalkeeper, goaltender |
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(noun) the soccer or hockey player assigned to protect the goal | Synonyms: goalie, goalkeeper, goaltender, netminder |
oversleep | (verb) sleep longer than intended | - |
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peacekeeper | (noun) the pistol of a law officer in the old West | - |
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(noun) someone who keeps peace | - |
(noun) a member of a military force that is assigned (often with international sanction) to preserve peace in a trouble area | - |
peacekeeping | (adjective) of or relating to the preservation of peace between hostile groups by international military forces | - |
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(noun) the activity of keeping the peace by military forces (especially when international military forces enforce a truce between hostile groups or nations) | Synonyms: peacekeeping mission, peacekeeping operation |
peep | (noun) a secret look | Synonyms: peek |
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(noun) the short weak cry of a young bird | Synonyms: cheep |
(verb) appear as though from hiding | - |
(verb) make high-pitched sounds | Synonyms: cheep, chirp, chirrup |
(verb) speak in a hesitant and high-pitched tone of voice | - |
(verb) look furtively | - |
(verb) cause to come into view | - |
peeper | (noun) an animal that makes short high-pitched sounds | - |
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(noun) an informal term referring to the eye | - |
(noun) a viewer who enjoys seeing the sex acts or sex organs of others | Synonyms: Peeping Tom, voyeur |
peephole | (noun) a hole (in a door or an oven etc) through which you can peep | Synonyms: eyehole, spyhole |
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peepshow | (noun) a short pornographic film shown in a small coin-operated booth | - |
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(noun) an exhibition of pictures or objects viewed through a small hole or magnifying glass | Synonyms: raree-show |
peepul | (noun) fig tree of India noted for great size and longevity; lacks the prop roots of the banyan; regarded as sacred by Buddhists | Synonyms: bo tree, Ficus religiosa, pipal, pipal tree, pipul, sacred fig |
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safekeeping | (noun) the responsibility of a guardian or keeper | Synonyms: guardianship, keeping |
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scorekeeper | (noun) an official who records the score during the progress of a game | Synonyms: scorer |
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seep | (verb) pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings | Synonyms: ooze |
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seepage | (noun) the process of seeping | Synonyms: ooze, oozing |
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seeping | (adjective) leaking out slowly | Synonyms: oozing, oozy |
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sheep | (noun) woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat | - |
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(noun) a docile and vulnerable person who would rather follow than make an independent decision | - |
(noun) a timid defenseless simpleton who is readily preyed upon | - |
sheepcote | (noun) a pen for sheep | Synonyms: fold, sheep pen, sheepfold |
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sheepdog | (noun) any of various usually long-haired breeds of dog reared to herd and guard sheep | Synonyms: sheep dog, shepherd dog |
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sheepfold | (noun) a pen for sheep | Synonyms: fold, sheep pen, sheepcote |
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sheepherder | (noun) a herder of sheep (on an open range); someone who keeps the sheep together in a flock | Synonyms: sheepman, shepherd |
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sheepish | (adjective) showing a sense of shame | Synonyms: shamefaced |
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(adjective) like or suggestive of a sheep in docility or stupidity or meekness or timidity | Synonyms: sheeplike |
sheepishly | (adverb) in a sheepish manner | - |
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sheepishness | (noun) feeling embarrassed about yourself | Synonyms: shamefacedness |
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sheeplike | (adjective) like or suggestive of a sheep in docility or stupidity or meekness or timidity | Synonyms: sheepish |
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sheepman | (noun) a man who raises (or tends) sheep | - |
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(noun) a herder of sheep (on an open range); someone who keeps the sheep together in a flock | Synonyms: sheepherder, shepherd |
sheeprun | (noun) farm devoted to raising sheep | Synonyms: sheepwalk |
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sheepshank | (noun) a knot for shortening a line | - |
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sheepshead | (noun) large (up to 20 lbs) food fish of the eastern coast of the United States and Mexico | Synonyms: Archosargus probatocephalus |
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sheepshearing | (noun) act of shearing sheep | - |
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(noun) a festival held at the time sheep are normally sheared | - |
(noun) the time or season when sheep are sheared | - |
sheepskin | (noun) a document certifying the successful completion of a course of study | Synonyms: diploma |
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(noun) tanned skin of a sheep with the fleece left on; used for clothing | Synonyms: fleece |
(noun) skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on | Synonyms: lambskin, parchment |
sheepwalk | (noun) farm devoted to raising sheep | Synonyms: sheeprun |
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shopkeeper | (noun) a merchant who owns or manages a shop | Synonyms: market keeper, storekeeper, tradesman |
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sleep | (noun) a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended | Synonyms: slumber |
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(noun) euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb) | Synonyms: eternal rest, eternal sleep, quietus, rest |
(noun) a torpid state resembling deep sleep | Synonyms: sopor |
(noun) a period of time spent sleeping | Synonyms: nap |
(verb) be asleep | Synonyms: catch some Z's, kip, log Z's, slumber |
(verb) be able to accommodate for sleeping | - |
sleeper | (noun) an unexpected hit | - |
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(noun) tropical fish that resembles a goby and rests quietly on the bottom in shallow water | Synonyms: sleeper goby |
(noun) a passenger car that has berths for sleeping | Synonyms: sleeping car, wagon-lit |
(noun) one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track | Synonyms: crosstie, railroad tie, tie |
(noun) a piece of furniture that can be opened up into a bed | - |
(noun) pajamas with feet; worn by children | - |
(noun) a rester who is sleeping | Synonyms: slumberer |
(noun) an unexpected achiever of success | - |
(noun) a spy or saboteur or terrorist planted in an enemy country who lives there as a law-abiding citizen until activated by a prearranged signal | - |
sleepily | (adverb) in a sleepy manner | - |
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sleepiness | (noun) a very sleepy state | Synonyms: drowsiness, somnolence |
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sleeping | (adjective) lying with head on paws as if sleeping | Synonyms: dormant |
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(noun) the suspension of consciousness and decrease in metabolic rate | - |
(noun) quiet and inactive restfulness | Synonyms: dormancy, quiescence, quiescency |
(noun) the state of being asleep | - |
sleepless | (adjective) always watchful | Synonyms: lidless |
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(adjective) experiencing or accompanied by sleeplessness | Synonyms: insomniac, watchful |
sleeplessly | (adverb) without sleep; in a sleepless manner | - |
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sleeplessness | (noun) a temporary state in which you are unable (or unwilling) to sleep | Synonyms: wakefulness |
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sleepover | (noun) an occasion of spending a night away from home or having a guest spend the night in your home (especially as a party for children) | - |
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sleepwalk | (verb) walk in one's sleep | Synonyms: somnambulate |
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sleepwalker | (noun) someone who walks about in their sleep | Synonyms: noctambulist, somnambulist |
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sleepwalking | (noun) walking by a person who is asleep | Synonyms: noctambulation, noctambulism, somnambulation, somnambulism |
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sleepwear | (noun) garments designed to be worn in bed | Synonyms: nightclothes, nightwear |
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sleepy | (adjective) ready to fall asleep | Synonyms: sleepy-eyed, sleepyheaded |
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sleepyhead | (noun) a sleepy person | - |
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sleepyheaded | (adjective) ready to fall asleep | Synonyms: sleepy-eyed, sleepy |
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steep | (adjective) having a sharp inclination | - |
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(adjective) of a slope; set at a high angle | - |
(adjective) greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation | Synonyms: exorbitant, extortionate, outrageous, unconscionable, usurious |
(noun) a steep place (as on a hill) | - |
(verb) let sit in a liquid to extract a flavor or to cleanse | Synonyms: infuse |
(verb) devote (oneself) fully to | Synonyms: absorb, engross, engulf, immerse, plunge, soak up |
steepen | (verb) make steeper | - |
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(verb) become steeper | - |