amphitheater | (noun) an oval large stadium with tiers of seats; an arena in which contests and spectacles are held | Synonyms: amphitheatre, coliseum |
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(noun) a sloping gallery with seats for spectators (as in an operating room or theater) | Synonyms: amphitheatre |
amphitheatre | (noun) an oval large stadium with tiers of seats; an arena in which contests and spectacles are held | Synonyms: amphitheater, coliseum |
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(noun) a sloping gallery with seats for spectators (as in an operating room or theater) | Synonyms: amphitheater |
amphitheatric | (adjective) of or related to an amphitheater | Synonyms: amphitheatrical |
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amphitheatrical | (adjective) of or related to an amphitheater | Synonyms: amphitheatric |
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buckwheat | (noun) grain ground into flour | - |
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(noun) a member of the genus Fagopyrum; annual Asian plant with clusters of small pinkish white flowers and small edible triangular seeds which are used whole or ground into flour | Synonyms: Fagopyrum esculentum, Polygonum fagopyrum |
cheat | (noun) a deception for profit to yourself | Synonyms: cheating |
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(noun) the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme | Synonyms: fraud, rig, swindle |
(noun) someone who leads you to believe something that is not true | Synonyms: beguiler, cheater, deceiver, slicker, trickster |
(noun) weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous | Synonyms: bearded darnel, darnel, Lolium temulentum, tare |
(noun) weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat | Synonyms: Bromus secalinus, chess |
(verb) defeat someone through trickery or deceit | Synonyms: chicane, chouse, jockey, screw, shaft |
(verb) deprive somebody of something by deceit | Synonyms: chisel, rip off |
(verb) engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud | Synonyms: chisel |
(verb) be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage | Synonyms: betray, cheat on, cuckold, wander |
cheater | (noun) someone who leads you to believe something that is not true | Synonyms: beguiler, cheat, deceiver, slicker, trickster |
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cheatgrass | (noun) annual or winter annual grass with softly hairy leaves of the Mediterranean | Synonyms: Bromus tectorum, downy brome, downy bromegrass, downy cheat, downy chess, drooping brome |
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cheating | (adjective) violating accepted standards or rules | Synonyms: dirty, foul, unsporting, unsportsmanlike |
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(adjective) not faithful to a spouse or lover | Synonyms: adulterous, two-timing |
(noun) a deception for profit to yourself | Synonyms: cheat |
escheat | (noun) a reversion to the state (as the ultimate owner of property) in the absence of legal heirs | - |
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(noun) the property that reverts to the state | - |
heat | (noun) utility to warm a building | Synonyms: heating, heating plant, heating system |
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(noun) the presence of heat | Synonyms: high temperature, hotness |
(noun) the trait of being intensely emotional | Synonyms: passion, warmth |
(noun) the sensation caused by heat energy | Synonyms: warmth |
(noun) a preliminary race in which the winner advances to a more important race | - |
(noun) a form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature | Synonyms: heat energy |
(noun) applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity | Synonyms: estrus, oestrus, rut |
(verb) gain heat or get hot | Synonyms: heat up, hot up |
(verb) make hot or hotter | Synonyms: heat up |
(verb) arouse or excite feelings and passions | Synonyms: fire up, ignite, inflame, stir up, wake |
(verb) provide with heat | - |
heatable | (adjective) capable of becoming hot | - |
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heated | (adjective) made warm or hot (`het' is a dialectal variant of `heated') | Synonyms: heated up, het, het up |
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(adjective) marked by emotional heat; vehement | - |
heatedly | (adverb) in a heated manner | Synonyms: hotly |
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heater | (noun) (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity | Synonyms: bullet, fastball, hummer, smoke |
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(noun) device that heats water or supplies warmth to a room | Synonyms: warmer |
heath | (noun) a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation | Synonyms: heathland |
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(noun) a low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae; has small bell-shaped pink or purple flowers | - |
heathen | (adjective) not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam | Synonyms: ethnic, heathenish, pagan |
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(noun) a person who does not acknowledge your god | Synonyms: gentile, infidel, pagan |
heathenish | (adjective) not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam | Synonyms: ethnic, heathen, pagan |
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heathenism | (noun) any of various religions other than Christianity or Judaism or Islamism | Synonyms: pagan religion, paganism |
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heather | (noun) interwoven yarns of mixed colors producing muted greyish shades with flecks of color | Synonyms: heather mixture |
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(noun) common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the Northern Hemisphere | Synonyms: broom, Calluna vulgaris, ling, Scots heather |
heathfowl | (noun) large northern European grouse that is black with a lyre-shaped tail | Synonyms: European black grouse, Lyrurus tetrix |
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heathland | (noun) a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation | Synonyms: heath |
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heathlike | (adjective) resembling heath | - |
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heating | (noun) utility to warm a building | Synonyms: heat, heating plant, heating system |
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(noun) the process of becoming warmer; a rising temperature | Synonyms: warming |
heatless | (adjective) without generating heat | - |
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heatstroke | (noun) collapse caused by exposure to excessive heat | Synonyms: heat hyperpyrexia |
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overheat | (verb) get excessively and undesirably hot | - |
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(verb) make excessively or undesirably hot | - |
overheated | (adjective) heated beyond a safe or desirable point | - |
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overheating | (noun) excessive heating | - |
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preheat | (verb) heat beforehand | - |
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reheat | (verb) heat again | - |
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sheatfish | (noun) large elongated catfish of central and eastern Europe | Synonyms: European catfish, Silurus glanis |
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sheath | (noun) a protective covering (as for a knife or sword) | - |
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(noun) a dress suitable for formal occasions | Synonyms: cocktail dress |
(noun) an enveloping structure or covering enclosing an animal or plant organ or part | Synonyms: case |
sheathe | (verb) enclose with a sheath | - |
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(verb) cover with a protective sheathing | - |
(verb) plunge or bury (a knife or sword) in flesh | - |
sheathed | (adjective) enclosed in a protective covering; sometimes used in combination | - |
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sheathing | (noun) protective covering consisting, for example, of a layer of boards applied to the studs and joists of a building to strengthen it and serve as a foundation for a weatherproof exterior | Synonyms: overlay, overlayer |
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theater | (noun) a building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented | Synonyms: house, theatre |
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(noun) the art of writing and producing plays | Synonyms: dramatic art, dramatics, dramaturgy, theatre |
(noun) a region in which active military operations are in progress | Synonyms: field, field of operations, theater of operations, theatre, theatre of operations |
theatergoer | (noun) someone who attends the theater | Synonyms: playgoer, theatregoer |
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theatre | (noun) a building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented | Synonyms: house, theater |
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(noun) the art of writing and producing plays | Synonyms: dramatic art, dramatics, dramaturgy, theater |
(noun) a region in which active military operations are in progress | Synonyms: field, field of operations, theater, theater of operations, theatre of operations |
theatregoer | (noun) someone who attends the theater | Synonyms: playgoer, theatergoer |
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theatrical | (adjective) suited to or characteristic of the stage or theater | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to the theater | - |
(noun) a performance of a play | Synonyms: histrionics, representation, theatrical performance |
theatricality | (noun) an artificial and mannered quality | Synonyms: staginess |
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theatrically | (adverb) in a stagy and theatrical manner | Synonyms: stagily |
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(adverb) in a theatrical manner | - |
theatrology | (noun) the study of theatrical performance in relation to its literary, physical, psycho-biological, sociological, and historical contexts. | Synonyms: theatre studies |
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unheated | (adjective) not having been heated or warmed | Synonyms: unwarmed |
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unsheathe | (verb) draw from a sheath or scabbard | - |
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unsheathed | (adjective) not having a protective covering | Synonyms: bare |
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untheatrical | (adjective) not suited to or characteristic of the stage or theater | - |
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wheat | (noun) a variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white | Synonyms: pale yellow, straw |
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(noun) grains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flour | Synonyms: wheat berry |
(noun) annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains | - |
wheatear | (noun) small songbird of northern America and Eurasia having a distinctive white rump | - |
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wheaten | (adjective) of or relating to or derived from wheat | Synonyms: whole-wheat, wholemeal |
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wheatfield | (noun) a field planted with wheat | Synonyms: wheat field |
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wheatflake | (noun) crisp flake made from wheat | - |
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wheatgrass | (noun) a grass of the genus Agropyron | Synonyms: wheat-grass |
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wheatworm | (noun) small roundworm parasitic on wheat | Synonyms: Tylenchus tritici, wheat eel, wheat eelworm |
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windcheater | (noun) a kind of heavy jacket | Synonyms: anorak, parka, windbreaker |
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