alongside | (adverb) side by side | Synonyms: aboard |
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angst | (noun) an acute but unspecific feeling of anxiety; usually reserved for philosophical anxiety about the world or about personal freedom | - |
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angstrom | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to one ten billionth of a meter (or 0.0001 micron); used to specify wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation | Synonyms: A, angstrom unit |
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belongings | (noun) something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone | Synonyms: holding, property |
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billingsgate | (noun) foul-mouthed or obscene abuse | Synonyms: scurrility |
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cgs | (noun) system of measurement based on centimeters and grams and seconds | Synonyms: cgs system |
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chitlings | (noun) small intestines of hogs prepared as food | Synonyms: chitlins, chitterlings |
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chitterlings | (noun) small intestines of hogs prepared as food | Synonyms: chitlings, chitlins |
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clingstone | (noun) fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit | Synonyms: cling |
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cracklings | (noun) the crisp residue left after lard has been rendered | - |
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cragsman | (noun) a climber of vertical rock faces | Synonyms: rock climber |
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cummings | (noun) United States writer noted for his typographically eccentric poetry (1894-1962) | Synonyms: e. e. cummings, Edward Estlin Cummings |
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dealings | (noun) the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities) | Synonyms: dealing, transaction |
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(noun) social or verbal interchange (usually followed by `with') | Synonyms: traffic |
(noun) mutual dealings or connections or communications among persons or groups | Synonyms: relations |
diggings | (noun) temporary living quarters | Synonyms: digs, domiciliation, lodgings, pad |
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(noun) an excavation for ore or precious stones or for archaeology | Synonyms: digs |
digs | (noun) temporary living quarters | Synonyms: diggings, domiciliation, lodgings, pad |
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(noun) an excavation for ore or precious stones or for archaeology | Synonyms: diggings |
dogsbody | (noun) a worker who has to do all the unpleasant or boring jobs that no one else wants to do | - |
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dogshit | (noun) Obscene word for unacceptable behavior | Synonyms: bull, bullshit, crap, horseshit, Irish bull, shit |
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dogsled | (noun) a sled pulled by dogs | Synonyms: dog sled, dog sleigh |
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(verb) travel with a dogsled | Synonyms: mush |
doings | (noun) manner of acting or controlling yourself | Synonyms: behavior, behaviour, conduct |
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dregs | (noun) sediment that has settled at the bottom of a liquid | Synonyms: settlings |
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drippings | (noun) fat that exudes from meat and drips off while it is being roasted or fried | - |
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droppings | (noun) fecal matter of animals | Synonyms: dung, muck |
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drugstore | (noun) a retail shop where medicine and other articles are sold | Synonyms: apothecary's shop, chemist's, chemist's shop, pharmacy |
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dumplings | (noun) small balls or strips of boiled or steamed dough | Synonyms: dumpling |
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earnings | (noun) something that remunerates | Synonyms: pay, remuneration, salary, wage |
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(noun) the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses) | Synonyms: lucre, net, net income, net profit, profit, profits |
eggs | (noun) oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food | Synonyms: egg |
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eggshake | (noun) a milkshake with egg in it | - |
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eggshell | (noun) the exterior covering of a bird's egg | Synonyms: shell |
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feelings | (noun) emotional or moral sensitivity (especially in relation to personal principles or dignity) | - |
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findings | (noun) a collection of tools and other articles used by an artisan to make jewelry or clothing or shoes | - |
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fixings | (noun) the accessories that normally accompany (something or some activity) | Synonyms: trimmings |
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(noun) food that is a component of a mixture in cooking | Synonyms: ingredient |
flagship | (noun) the ship that carries the commander of a fleet and flies his flag | - |
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(noun) the chief one of a related group | - |
flagstaff | (noun) a tall staff or pole on which a flag is raised | Synonyms: flagpole |
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flagstone | (noun) stratified stone that splits into pieces suitable as paving stones | Synonyms: flag |
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fogsignal | (noun) a loud low warning signal that can be heard by fogbound ships | Synonyms: foghorn |
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gagster | (noun) someone who writes comic material for public performers | Synonyms: gagman, gagwriter |
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gangsaw | (noun) a power saw that has several parallel blades making simultaneous cuts | - |
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gangsta | (noun) (Black English) a member of a youth gang | - |
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gangster | (noun) a criminal who is a member of gang | Synonyms: mobster |
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gaywings | (noun) common trailing perennial milkwort of eastern North America having leaves like wintergreen and usually rosy-purple flowers with winged sepals | Synonyms: bird-on-the-wing, flowering wintergreen, fringed polygala, Polygala paucifolia |
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heartstrings | (noun) your deepest feelings of love and compassion | - |
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hogshead | (noun) a large cask especially one holding 63 gals | - |
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(noun) a British unit of capacity for alcoholic beverages | - |
hustings | (noun) the activities involved in political campaigning (especially speech making) | - |
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innings | (noun) the batting turn of a cricket player or team | - |
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jigsaw | (noun) fine-toothed power saw with a narrow blade; used to cut curved outlines | Synonyms: fretsaw, scroll saw |
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(noun) a portable power saw with a reciprocating blade; can be used with a variety of blades depending on the application and kind of cut; generally have a plate that rides on the surface that is being cut | Synonyms: reciprocating saw, saber saw |
kingship | (noun) the dignity or rank or position of a king | - |
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kingsnake | (noun) any of numerous nonvenomous North American constrictors; feed on other snakes and small mammals | Synonyms: king snake |
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langsat | (noun) a small fruit with fleshy pulp; tastes like a combination of grape and grapefruit. | - |
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(noun) East Indian tree bearing an edible yellow berry | Synonyms: langset, lanseh tree, Lansium domesticum |
langset | (noun) East Indian tree bearing an edible yellow berry | Synonyms: langsat, lanseh tree, Lansium domesticum |
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langsyne | (noun) past times remembered with nostalgia | Synonyms: auld langsyne, good old days, lang syne, old times |
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(adverb) of the distant or comparatively distant past | Synonyms: lang syne, long ago, long since |
lashings | (noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: dozens, gobs, heaps, loads, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, stacks, tons, wads |
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laughingstock | (noun) a victim of ridicule or pranks | Synonyms: butt, goat, stooge |
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legs | (noun) staying power | - |
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lodgings | (noun) temporary living quarters | Synonyms: diggings, digs, domiciliation, pad |
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longlegs | (noun) long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons | Synonyms: Himantopus stilt, long-legs, stilt, stilt plover, stiltbird |
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longship | (noun) a type of ship invented and used by the Vikings for trade, commerce, exploration, and warfare during the Viking Age. | - |
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longshoreman | (noun) a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port | Synonyms: dock-walloper, dock worker, docker, dockhand, dockworker, loader, lumper, stevedore |
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longshot | (noun) a photograph taken from a distance | - |
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longsighted | (adjective) capable of seeing to a great distance | Synonyms: eagle-eyed, farseeing, keen-sighted |
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(adjective) planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, foresightful, long, prospicient |
longsightedness | (noun) abnormal condition in which vision for distant objects is better than for near objects | Synonyms: farsightedness, hypermetropia, hypermetropy, hyperopia |
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longstanding | (adjective) having existed for a long time | Synonyms: long-standing |
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losings | (noun) something lost (especially money lost at gambling) | Synonyms: losses |
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lugsail | (noun) a sail with four corners that is hoisted from a yard that is oblique to the mast | Synonyms: lug |
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marlingspike | (noun) a pointed iron hand tool that is used to separate strands of a rope or cable (as in splicing) | Synonyms: marlinespike, marlinspike |
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mugshot | (noun) a photograph of someone's face (especially one made for police records) | Synonyms: mug shot |
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nothings | (noun) inconsequential conversation | - |
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pickings | (noun) the act of someone who picks up or takes something | Synonyms: taking |
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pigskin | (noun) leather from the skin of swine | - |
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pigsticking | (noun) the sport of hunting wild boar with spears | - |
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pigsty | (noun) a pen for swine | Synonyms: pigpen, sty |
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pigswill | (noun) wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk | Synonyms: pigwash, slop, slops, swill |
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proceedings | (noun) (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked | Synonyms: legal proceeding, proceeding |
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(noun) a written account of what transpired at a meeting | Synonyms: minutes, transactions |
ragsorter | (noun) a worker who sorts rags and old clothing for new uses (as in papermaking) | - |
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rings | (noun) gymnastic apparatus consisting of a pair of heavy metal circles (usually covered with leather) suspended by ropes; used for gymnastic exercises | - |
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ringside | (noun) first row of seating; has an unobstructed view of a boxing or wrestling ring | Synonyms: ringside seat |
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savings | (noun) a fund of money put by as a reserve | Synonyms: nest egg |
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settlings | (noun) sediment that has settled at the bottom of a liquid | Synonyms: dregs |
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singsong | (adjective) uttered in a monotonous cadence or rhythm as in chanting | Synonyms: chantlike, intoned |
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(noun) informal group singing of popular songs | Synonyms: singalong |
(noun) a regular and monotonous rising and falling intonation | - |
(verb) speak, chant, or declaim in a singsong | - |
(verb) move as if accompanied by a singsong | - |
slingshot | (noun) a plaything consisting of a Y-shaped stick with elastic between the arms; used to propel small stones | Synonyms: catapult, sling |
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songster | (noun) any bird having a musical call | Synonyms: songbird |
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(noun) a person who sings with skill | - |
(noun) a composer of words or music for popular songs | Synonyms: ballad maker, songwriter |
songstress | (noun) a woman songster (especially of popular songs) | - |
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spindlelegs | (noun) long thin legs | Synonyms: spindleshanks |
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(noun) a thin person with long thin legs | Synonyms: spindleshanks |
stockholdings | (noun) a specific number of stocks or shares owned | Synonyms: stockholding |
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strings | (noun) (usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement | Synonyms: condition, term |
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(noun) the section of an orchestra that plays stringed instruments | Synonyms: string section |
surroundings | (noun) the area in which something exists or lives | Synonyms: environment, environs, surround |
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(noun) the environmental condition | Synonyms: milieu |
takings | (noun) the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property | Synonyms: issue, payoff, proceeds, return, take, yield |
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things | (noun) any movable possession (especially articles of clothing) | - |
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tidings | (noun) information about recent and important events | Synonyms: intelligence, news, word |
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togs | (noun) informal terms for clothing | Synonyms: duds, threads |
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tongs | (noun) any of various devices for taking hold of objects; usually have two hinged legs with handles above and pointed hooks below | Synonyms: pair of tongs |
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trappings | (noun) (usually plural) accessory wearing apparel | Synonyms: furnishing |
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trimmings | (noun) the accessories that normally accompany (something or some activity) | Synonyms: fixings |
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tungstate | (noun) a salt of tungstic acid | - |
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tungsten | (noun) a heavy grey-white metallic element; the pure form is used mainly in electrical applications; it is found in several ores including wolframite and scheelite | Synonyms: atomic number 74, W, wolfram |
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walkingstick | (noun) any of various mostly tropical insects having long twiglike bodies | Synonyms: stick insect, walking stick |
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wings | (noun) a means of flight or ascent | - |
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(noun) stylized bird wings worn as an insignia by qualified pilots or air crew members | - |
wingspan | (noun) linear distance between the extremities of an airfoil | Synonyms: wingspread |
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wingspread | (noun) distance between the tips of the wings (as of a bird or insect) when fully extended | - |
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(noun) linear distance between the extremities of an airfoil | Synonyms: wingspan |
wingstem | (noun) perennial herb with showy yellow flowers; the eastern United States | Synonyms: Actinomeris alternifolia, golden honey plant, golden ironweed, Verbesina alternifolia, yellow ironweed |
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winnings | (noun) something won (especially money) | Synonyms: profits, win |
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