sextette | (noun) a musical composition written for six performers | Synonyms: sestet, sextet |
---|
(noun) six people considered as a unit | Synonyms: sextet, sixsome |
(noun) a set of six similar things considered as a unit | Synonyms: sestet, sextet |
(noun) six performers or singers who perform together | Synonyms: sestet, sextet |
silhouette | (noun) a drawing of the outline of an object; filled in with some uniform color | - |
---|
(noun) an outline of a solid object (as cast by its shadow) | - |
(verb) represent by a silhouette | - |
(verb) project on a background, such as a screen, like a silhouette | - |
soubrette | (noun) a minor female role as a pert flirtatious lady's maid in a comedy | - |
---|
(noun) a pert or flirtatious young girl | - |
statuette | (noun) a small carved or molded figure | Synonyms: figurine |
---|
stockinette | (noun) knit used especially for infants' wear and undergarments | Synonyms: stockinet |
---|
suffragette | (noun) a woman advocate of women's right to vote (especially a militant advocate in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 20th century) | - |
---|
sulfurette | (verb) combine with sulfur | Synonyms: sulphurette |
---|
sulfuretted | (adjective) treated or impregnated with sulfur | Synonyms: sulfurized, sulphuretted |
---|
sulphurette | (verb) combine with sulfur | Synonyms: sulfurette |
---|
sulphuretted | (adjective) treated or impregnated with sulfur | Synonyms: sulfuretted, sulfurized |
---|
tetterwort | (noun) perennial woodland native of North America having a red root and red sap and bearing a solitary lobed leaf and white flower in early spring and having acrid emetic properties; rootstock used as a stimulant and expectorant | Synonyms: bloodroot, puccoon, redroot, Sanguinaria canadensis |
---|
toilette | (noun) the act of dressing and preparing yourself | Synonyms: toilet |
---|
typesetter | (noun) one who sets written material into type | Synonyms: compositor, setter, typographer |
---|
unfettered | (adjective) not bound by shackles and chains | Synonyms: unchained, unshackled, untied |
---|
unfretted | (adjective) without frets | - |
---|
unlettered | (adjective) having little acquaintance with writing | Synonyms: analphabetic |
---|
(adjective) uneducated in general; lacking knowledge or sophistication | Synonyms: ignorant, nescient, unlearned |
upsetter | (noun) an unexpected winner; someone who defeats the favorite competitor | - |
---|
usherette | (noun) a female usher | - |
---|
videocassette | (noun) a cassette for videotape | - |
---|
vignette | (noun) a small illustrative sketch (as sometimes placed at the beginning of chapters in books) | - |
---|
(noun) a photograph whose edges shade off gradually | - |
(noun) a brief literary description | Synonyms: sketch |
vinaigrette | (noun) oil and vinegar with mustard and garlic | Synonyms: French dressing, sauce vinaigrette |
---|
wetter | (noun) a workman who wets the work in a manufacturing process | - |
---|
(noun) someone suffering from enuresis; someone who urinates while asleep in bed | Synonyms: bed wetter, bedwetter |
(noun) a chemical agent capable of reducing the surface tension of a liquid in which it is dissolved | Synonyms: surface-active agent, surfactant, wetting agent |
winceyette | (noun) cotton flannelette with a nap on both sides | - |
---|