baronetcy | (noun) the title of a baron | - |
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(noun) the rank or dignity or position of a baronet or baroness | Synonyms: barony |
cetchup | (noun) thick spicy sauce made from tomatoes | Synonyms: catsup, ketchup, tomato ketchup |
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etcetera | (noun) additional unspecified odds and ends; more of the same; entity, other pronoun; pronoun, entity; quantifier: other | - |
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(adverb) continuing in the same way | Synonyms: and so forth, and so on, etc. |
etch | (verb) selectively dissolve the surface of (a semiconductor or printed circuit) with a solvent, laser, or stream of electrons | - |
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(verb) carve or cut a design or letters into | Synonyms: engrave |
(verb) make an etching of | - |
(verb) carve or cut into a block used for printing or print from such a block | Synonyms: engrave |
(verb) cause to stand out or be clearly defined or visible | - |
etched | (adjective) cut or impressed into a surface | Synonyms: engraved, graven, incised, inscribed |
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etcher | (noun) someone who etches | - |
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etching | (noun) making engraved or etched plates and printing designs from them | Synonyms: engraving |
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(noun) an etched plate made with the use of acid | - |
(noun) an impression made from an etched plate | - |
farfetched | (adjective) (of an idea or story) so exaggerated or ludicrous as to be improbable | Synonyms: far-fetched |
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(adjective) (of a theory or explanation) highly imaginative but unlikely and unconvincing | Synonyms: far-fetched |
fetch | (noun) the action of fetching | - |
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(verb) go or come after and bring or take back | Synonyms: bring, convey, get |
(verb) remove | - |
(verb) be sold for a certain price | Synonyms: bring, bring in |
fetching | (adjective) very attractive; capturing interest | Synonyms: taking, winning |
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homestretch | (noun) the straight stretch of a racetrack leading to the finish line | - |
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(noun) the end of an enterprise | - |
ketch | (noun) a sailing vessel with two masts; the mizzen is forward of the rudderpost | - |
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ketchup | (noun) thick spicy sauce made from tomatoes | Synonyms: catsup, cetchup, tomato ketchup |
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kvetch | (noun) (Yiddish) a nagging complaint | - |
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(noun) (Yiddish) a constant complainer | - |
(verb) express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness | Synonyms: complain, kick, plain, quetch, sound off |
letch | (noun) man with strong sexual desires | Synonyms: lech, lecher, satyr |
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outstretched | (adjective) fully extended especially in length | - |
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overstretch | (verb) strain abnormally | Synonyms: pull |
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petchary | (noun) a kingbird that breeds in the southeastern United States and winters in tropical America; similar to but larger than the eastern kingbird | Synonyms: gray kingbird, grey kingbird, Tyrannus domenicensis domenicensis |
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petcock | (noun) regulator consisting of a small cock or faucet or valve for letting out air or releasing compression or draining | - |
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pocketcomb | (noun) a small comb suitable for carrying in a pocket | Synonyms: pocket comb |
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quetch | (verb) express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness | Synonyms: complain, kick, kvetch, plain, sound off |
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retch | (noun) an involuntary spasm of ineffectual vomiting | Synonyms: heave |
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(verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
(verb) make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit | Synonyms: gag, heave |
sketch | (noun) preliminary drawing for later elaboration | Synonyms: study |
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(noun) short descriptive summary (of events) | Synonyms: resume, survey |
(noun) a humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or magazine | Synonyms: cartoon |
(noun) a brief literary description | Synonyms: vignette |
(verb) describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of | Synonyms: adumbrate, outline |
(verb) make a sketch of | Synonyms: chalk out |
sketchbook | (noun) a book containing sheets of paper on which sketches can be drawn | Synonyms: sketch block, sketch pad |
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sketcher | (noun) an implement for sketching | - |
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(noun) someone who draws sketches | - |
sketchily | (adverb) in a sketchy incomplete manner | - |
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sketchiness | (noun) incompleteness of details | - |
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sketchy | (adjective) giving only major points; lacking completeness | Synonyms: unelaborated |
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streetcar | (noun) a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity | Synonyms: tram, tramcar, trolley, trolley car |
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stretch | (adjective) easily stretched | - |
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(adjective) having an elongated seating area | - |
(noun) exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent | Synonyms: stretching |
(noun) the act of physically reaching or thrusting out | Synonyms: reach, reaching |
(noun) extension to or beyond the ordinary limit | - |
(noun) a straightaway section of a racetrack | - |
(noun) the capacity for being stretched | Synonyms: stretchability, stretchiness |
(noun) a large and unbroken expanse or distance | - |
(noun) an unbroken period of time during which you do something | Synonyms: stint |
(verb) extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body | Synonyms: extend |
(verb) extend one's body or limbs | Synonyms: stretch out |
(verb) become longer by being stretched and pulled | - |
(verb) make long or longer by pulling and stretching | Synonyms: elongate |
(verb) extend the scope or meaning of; often unduly | - |
(verb) increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance | Synonyms: extend |
(verb) corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones | Synonyms: adulterate, debase, dilute, load |
(verb) pull in opposite directions | - |
(verb) extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length | Synonyms: extend, stretch out, unfold |
(verb) lie down comfortably | Synonyms: stretch out |
(verb) occupy a large, elongated area | Synonyms: stretch along |
stretchability | (noun) the capacity for being stretched | Synonyms: stretch, stretchiness |
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stretchable | (adjective) capable of being easily stretched and resuming former size or shape | Synonyms: stretchy |
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stretched | (adjective) (of muscles) relieved of stiffness by stretching | - |
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(adjective) extended or spread over a wide area or distance | - |
stretcher | (noun) a litter for transporting people who are ill or wounded or dead; usually consists of a sheet of canvas stretched between two poles | - |
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(noun) a stone that forms the top of wall or building | Synonyms: capstone, copestone, coping stone |
(noun) a mechanical device used to make something larger (as shoes or gloves) by stretching it | - |
(noun) a wooden framework on which canvas is stretched and fixed for oil painting | - |
stretchiness | (noun) the capacity for being stretched | Synonyms: stretch, stretchability |
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stretching | (noun) exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent | Synonyms: stretch |
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(noun) act of expanding by lengthening or widening | - |
stretchy | (adjective) capable of being easily stretched and resuming former size or shape | Synonyms: stretchable |
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tetchily | (adverb) in an ill-natured and tetchy manner | - |
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tetchiness | (noun) feeling easily irritated | Synonyms: testiness, touchiness |
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tetchy | (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy |
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vetch | (noun) any of various climbing plants of the genus Vicia having pinnately compound leaves that terminate in tendrils and small variously colored flowers; includes valuable forage and soil-building plants | - |
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vetchling | (noun) any of various small plants of the genus Lathyrus; climb usually by means of tendrils | - |
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vetchworm | (noun) larva of a noctuid moth; highly destructive to especially corn and cotton and tomato crops | Synonyms: corn earworm, cotton bollworm, Heliothis zia, tobacco budworm, tomato fruitworm |
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wretch | (noun) someone you feel sorry for | Synonyms: poor devil |
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(noun) performs some wicked deed | - |
wretched | (adjective) morally reprehensible | Synonyms: despicable, slimy, ugly, unworthy, vile, worthless |
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(adjective) of very poor quality or condition | Synonyms: deplorable, execrable, miserable, woeful |
(adjective) characterized by physical misery | Synonyms: miserable |
(adjective) deserving or inciting pity | Synonyms: hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor |
(adjective) very unhappy; full of misery | Synonyms: miserable, suffering |
wretchedly | (adverb) in a wretched manner | - |
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wretchedness | (noun) the quality of being poor and inferior and sorry | - |
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(noun) a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune | Synonyms: miserableness, misery |
(noun) the character of being uncomfortable and unpleasant | - |