affright | (noun) an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety | Synonyms: panic, terror |
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(verb) cause fear in | Synonyms: fright, frighten, scare |
aforethought | (adjective) with planning and intention | Synonyms: planned, plotted |
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afterthought | (noun) an addition that was not included in the original plan | - |
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(noun) thinking again about a choice previously made | Synonyms: reconsideration, rethink, second thought |
airfreight | (verb) transport (cargo) by air | Synonyms: air-freight, air-ship |
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airtight | (adjective) having no weak points | Synonyms: air-tight |
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(adjective) not allowing air or gas to pass in or out | Synonyms: air-tight, gas-tight |
alight | (adjective) lighted up by or as by fire or flame | Synonyms: ablaze, afire, aflame, aflare, on fire |
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(verb) come down | Synonyms: climb down |
(verb) to come to rest, settle | Synonyms: light, perch |
allochthonous | (adjective) of rocks, deposits, etc.; found in a place other than where they and their constituents were formed | - |
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almighty | (adjective) having unlimited power | Synonyms: all-powerful, omnipotent |
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alright | (adjective) nonstandard usage | - |
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(adverb) an expression of agreement normally occurring at the beginning of a sentence | Synonyms: all right, fine, OK, very well |
(adverb) without doubt (used to reinforce an assertion) | Synonyms: all right |
(adverb) in a satisfactory or adequate manner | Synonyms: all right, O.K., okay |
apophthegm | (noun) a short pithy instructive saying | Synonyms: aphorism, apothegm |
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aright | (adverb) in an accurate manner | Synonyms: correctly, right |
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arishth | (noun) large semi-evergreen tree of the East Indies; trunk exudes a tenacious gum; bitter bark used as a tonic; seeds yield an aromatic oil; sometimes placed in genus Melia | Synonyms: Azadirachta indica, margosa, Melia Azadirachta, neem, neem tree, nim tree |
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ashtray | (noun) a receptacle for the ash from smokers' cigars or cigarettes | - |
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aught | (noun) a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential | Synonyms: cipher, cypher, goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo |
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autochthon | (noun) the earliest known inhabitants of a region | - |
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autochthonal | (adjective) originating where it is found | Synonyms: autochthonic, autochthonous, endemic, indigenous |
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autochthonic | (adjective) originating where it is found | Synonyms: autochthonal, autochthonous, endemic, indigenous |
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autochthonous | (adjective) of rocks, deposits, etc.; found where they and their constituents were formed | - |
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(adjective) originating where it is found | Synonyms: autochthonal, autochthonic, endemic, indigenous |
autochthony | (noun) nativeness by virtue of originating or occurring naturally (as in a particular place) | Synonyms: endemism, indigenousness |
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axerophthol | (noun) any of several fat-soluble vitamins essential for normal vision; prevents night blindness or inflammation or dryness of the eyes | Synonyms: A, antiophthalmic factor, vitamin A |
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azadirachtin | (noun) insecticide | - |
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backlighting | (noun) lighting from behind | - |
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baht | (noun) the basic unit of money in Thailand | Synonyms: tical |
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bantamweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the flyweight division and lighter than those in the featherweight division. | - |
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(noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 119 pounds | - |
(noun) weighs 115-126 pounds | - |
bathtub | (noun) a relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body | Synonyms: bathing tub, tub |
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battlesight | (noun) an arrangement of sights that makes possible the rapid aiming of a firearm at short ranges | Synonyms: battle sight |
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bedight | (verb) decorate | Synonyms: bedeck, deck |
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benight | (verb) make darker and difficult to perceive by sight | Synonyms: bedim |
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(verb) envelop with social, intellectual, or moral darkness | - |
(verb) overtake with darkness or night | - |
benighted | (adjective) lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture | Synonyms: dark |
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(adjective) overtaken by night or darkness | Synonyms: nighted |
bight | (noun) the middle part of a slack rope (as distinguished from its ends) | - |
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(noun) a broad bay formed by an indentation in the shoreline | - |
(noun) a bend or curve (especially in a coastline) | - |
(noun) a loop in a rope | - |
(verb) fasten with a bight | - |
birthright | (noun) a right or privilege that you are entitled to at birth | - |
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(noun) an inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture) | Synonyms: patrimony |
blight | (noun) a state or condition being blighted | - |
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(noun) any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting | - |
(verb) cause to suffer a blight | Synonyms: plague |
blighted | (adjective) affected by blight; anything that mars or prevents growth or prosperity | Synonyms: spoilt |
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blighter | (noun) a persistently annoying person | Synonyms: cuss, gadfly, pest, pesterer |
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(noun) a boy or man | Synonyms: bloke, chap, cuss, fella, feller, fellow, gent, lad |
bombsight | (noun) a sighting device in an aircraft for aiming bombs | - |
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borscht | (noun) a Russian or Polish soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation | Synonyms: borsch, borsh, borshch, borsht, bortsch |
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borsht | (noun) a Russian or Polish soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation | Synonyms: borsch, borscht, borsh, borshch, bortsch |
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boughten | (adjective) purchased; not homemade | Synonyms: store-bought |
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breathtaking | (adjective) tending to cause suspension of regular breathing | Synonyms: breathless |
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bright | (adjective) emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts | - |
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(adjective) not made dim or less bright | Synonyms: undimmed |
(adjective) likely to turn out well in the future | Synonyms: hopeful, promising |
(adjective) having strong or striking color | Synonyms: brilliant, vivid |
(adjective) splendid | - |
(adjective) characterized by happiness or gladness | - |
(adjective) characterized by quickness and ease in learning | Synonyms: smart |
(adjective) having lots of light either natural or artificial | - |
(adjective) made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow | Synonyms: burnished, lustrous, shining, shiny |
(adjective) clear and sharp and ringing | Synonyms: brilliant |
(adverb) with brightness | Synonyms: brightly, brilliantly |
brighten | (verb) make more cheerful through the use of color | Synonyms: lighten, lighten up |
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(verb) become clear | Synonyms: clear, clear up, light up |
brightly | (adverb) with brightness | Synonyms: bright, brilliantly |
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brightness | (noun) the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white | - |
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(noun) the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light | Synonyms: brightness level, light, luminance, luminosity, luminousness |
(noun) intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty | Synonyms: cleverness, smartness |
bullfight | (noun) a Spanish or Portuguese or Latin American spectacle; a matador baits and (usually) kills a bull in an arena before many spectators | Synonyms: corrida |
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bullfighter | (noun) someone who fights bulls | Synonyms: toreador |
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bullfighting | (noun) the activity at a bullfight | Synonyms: tauromachy |
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bunfight | (noun) (Briticism) a grand formal party on an important occasion | Synonyms: bun-fight |
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bushtit | (noun) active grey titmice of western North America | Synonyms: bush tit |
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candlelight | (noun) the light provided by a burning candle | Synonyms: candle flame |
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cartwright | (noun) a workman who makes and repairs carts and wagons | - |
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chickenfight | (verb) fight while sitting on somebody's shoulders | Synonyms: chicken-fight |
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chondrichthian | (noun) fishes in which the skeleton may be calcified but not ossified | Synonyms: cartilaginous fish |
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chthonian | (adjective) dwelling beneath the surface of the earth | Synonyms: chthonic, nether |
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chthonic | (adjective) dwelling beneath the surface of the earth | Synonyms: chthonian, nether |
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cockfight | (noun) a match in a cockpit between two fighting cocks heeled with metal gaffs | - |
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cockfighting | (noun) participation in the sport of matching gamecocks in a cockfight | - |
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copyright | (noun) a document granting exclusive right to publish and sell literary or musical or artistic work | Synonyms: right of first publication |
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(verb) secure a copyright on a written work | - |
copyrighted | (adjective) (of literary or musical or dramatic or artistic work) protected by copyright | - |
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counterweight | (noun) a weight that balances another weight | Synonyms: balance, counterbalance, counterpoise, equaliser, equalizer |
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(verb) constitute a counterweight or counterbalance to | Synonyms: counterpoise, counterpose |
cruiserweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the middleweight division and lighter than those in the super heavyweight division. | Synonyms: light heavyweight |
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(noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 169 and 175 pounds | Synonyms: light heavyweight |
daughter | (noun) a female human offspring | Synonyms: girl |
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daughterly | (adjective) befitting a daughter | - |
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daylight | (noun) light during the daytime | - |
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(noun) the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside | Synonyms: day, daytime |
deadlight | (noun) a strong shutter over a ship's porthole that is closed in stormy weather | - |
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deathtrap | (noun) any structure that is very unsafe; where people are likely to be killed | - |
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delight | (noun) something or someone that provides a source of happiness | Synonyms: joy, pleasure |
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(noun) a feeling of extreme pleasure or satisfaction | Synonyms: delectation |
(verb) take delight in | Synonyms: enjoy, revel |
(verb) give pleasure to or be pleasing to | Synonyms: please |
(verb) hold spellbound | Synonyms: enchant, enrapture, enthral, enthrall, ravish, transport |
delighted | (adjective) filled with wonder and delight | Synonyms: beguiled, captivated, charmed, enthralled, entranced |
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(adjective) greatly pleased | - |
delightedly | (adverb) with delight | - |
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delightful | (adjective) greatly pleasing or entertaining | Synonyms: delicious |
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delightfully | (adverb) in a delightful manner | - |
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dighted | (adjective) dressed or adorned (as for battle) | - |
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diphtheria | (noun) acute contagious infection caused by the bacterium Corynebacterium diphtheriae; marked by the formation of a false membrane in the throat and other air passages causing difficulty in breathing | - |
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diphthong | (noun) a vowel sound that starts near the articulatory position for one vowel and moves toward the position for another | - |
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diphthongise | (verb) change from a simple vowel to a diphthong | Synonyms: diphthongize |
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diphthongize | (verb) change from a simple vowel to a diphthong | Synonyms: diphthongise |
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dishtowel | (noun) a towel for drying dishes | Synonyms: dish towel, tea towel |
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distraught | (adjective) deeply agitated especially from emotion | Synonyms: overwrought |
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dogfight | (noun) a violent fight between dogs (sometimes organized illegally for entertainment and gambling) | - |
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(noun) an aerial engagement between fighter planes | - |
(noun) disorderly fighting | Synonyms: hassle, rough-and-tumble, scuffle, tussle |
(noun) a fiercely disputed contest | - |
(verb) engage in an aerial battle with another fighter plane | - |
(verb) arrange for an illegal dogfight | - |
dogfighter | (noun) a fighter pilot who engages in an aerial dogfights | - |
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downright | (adjective) complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: absolute, out-and-out, rank, right-down, sheer |
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(adjective) characterized by plain blunt honesty | - |
(adverb) thoroughgoing | Synonyms: outright |
downrightness | (noun) the quality of being direct and straightforward | Synonyms: straightforwardness |
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draught | (noun) the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling | Synonyms: draft, drawing |
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(noun) a large and hurried swallow | Synonyms: draft, gulp, swig |
(noun) a dose of liquid medicine | Synonyms: draft |
(noun) the depth of a vessel's keel below the surface (especially when loaded) | Synonyms: draft |
(noun) a serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg | Synonyms: draft, potation, tipple |
(noun) a current of air (usually coming into a chimney or room or vehicle) | Synonyms: draft |
(verb) make a blueprint of | Synonyms: blueprint, draft |
draughts | (noun) a checkerboard game for two players who each have 12 pieces; the object is to jump over and so capture the opponent's pieces | Synonyms: checkers |
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draughtsman | (noun) a skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines | Synonyms: draftsman, draftsperson |
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draughty | (adjective) not airtight | Synonyms: drafty |
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dreadnaught | (noun) battleship that has big guns all of the same caliber | Synonyms: dreadnought |
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dreadnought | (noun) battleship that has big guns all of the same caliber | Synonyms: dreadnaught |
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drought | (noun) a shortage of rainfall | Synonyms: drouth |
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(noun) a prolonged shortage | Synonyms: drouth |
earthtongue | (noun) any club-shaped fungus of the genus Geoglossum | Synonyms: earth-tongue |
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echt | (adjective) not fake or counterfeit | Synonyms: genuine |
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eight | (adjective) being one more than seven | Synonyms: 8, viii |
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(noun) one of four playing cards in a deck with eight pips on the face | Synonyms: eight-spot |
(noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one | Synonyms: 8, eighter, eighter from Decatur, octad, octet, octonary, ogdoad, VIII |
eighteen | (adjective) being one more than seventeen | Synonyms: 18, xviii |
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(noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of seventeen and one | Synonyms: 18, XVIII |
eighteenth | (adjective) coming next after the seventeenth in position | Synonyms: 18th |
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(noun) position 18 in a countable series of things | - |
eighter | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one | Synonyms: 8, eight, eighter from Decatur, octad, octet, octonary, ogdoad, VIII |
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eightfold | (adjective) having eight units or components | Synonyms: eight-fold, octuple |
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eighth | (adjective) coming next after the seventh and just before the ninth in position | Synonyms: 8th |
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(noun) one part in eight equal parts | Synonyms: one-eighth |
(noun) position eight in a countable series of things | - |
eighties | (noun) the time of life between 80 and 90 | Synonyms: mid-eighties |
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(noun) the decade from 1980 to 1989 | Synonyms: 1980s |
(noun) the decade from 1880 to 1889 | Synonyms: 1880s |
eightieth | (adjective) the ordinal number of eighty in counting order | Synonyms: 80th |
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(noun) position 80 in a countable series of things | - |
eightpence | (noun) a coin worth eight pennies | - |
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eightpenny | (adjective) used of nail size; 2 1/2 in or 6.4 cm long | - |
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