acquittal | (noun) a judgment of not guilty | - |
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acquittance | (noun) a legal document evidencing the discharge of a debt or obligation | Synonyms: release |
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acquitted | (adjective) declared not guilty of a specific offense or crime; legally blameless | Synonyms: not guilty |
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admittable | (adjective) deserving to be allowed to enter | Synonyms: admittible |
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admittance | (noun) the act of admitting someone to enter | Synonyms: admission |
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(noun) the right to enter | Synonyms: access, accession, admission, entree |
admittedly | (adverb) as acknowledged | Synonyms: avowedly, confessedly, true |
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admittible | (adjective) deserving to be allowed to enter | Synonyms: admittable |
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aglitter | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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babbitt | (noun) an alloy of tin with some copper and antimony; a lining for bearings that reduces friction | Synonyms: Babbitt metal |
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(verb) line with a Babbitt metal | - |
babbitting | (noun) lining a surface or bearing with Babbitt metal | - |
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babysitter | (noun) a person engaged to care for children when the parents are not home | Synonyms: baby-sitter, sitter |
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babysitting | (noun) the work of a baby sitter; caring for children when their parents are not home | Synonyms: baby sitting |
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bedsitter | (noun) a furnished sitting room with sleeping accommodations (and some plumbing) | Synonyms: bedsit, bedsitting room |
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befitting | (adjective) appropriate to | - |
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befittingly | (adverb) in accordance with what is appropriate or suitable for the circumstances | Synonyms: appropriately, duly, fitly, fittingly, properly, suitably |
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belittle | (verb) lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of | Synonyms: diminish |
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(verb) express a negative opinion of | Synonyms: disparage, pick at |
(verb) cause to seem less serious; play down | Synonyms: denigrate, derogate, minimize |
belittled | (adjective) made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth) | Synonyms: diminished, small |
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belittlement | (noun) the act of making a person or a thing seem little or unimportant. | - |
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belittling | (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting |
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(noun) the act of belittling | - |
(noun) a belittling comment | Synonyms: denigration |
bitt | (noun) a strong post (as on a wharf or quay or ship for attaching mooring lines) | Synonyms: bollard |
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(verb) secure with a bitt | - |
bitter | (adjective) proceeding from or exhibiting great hostility or animosity | - |
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(adjective) very difficult to accept or bear | - |
(adjective) causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold | Synonyms: biting |
(adjective) marked by strong resentment or cynicism | Synonyms: acrimonious |
(adjective) expressive of severe grief or regret | - |
(adjective) causing a sharp and acrid taste experience | - |
(adjective) harsh or corrosive in tone | Synonyms: acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic |
(noun) the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste | Synonyms: bitterness |
(noun) the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: bitterness |
(noun) English term for a dry sharp-tasting ale with strong flavor of hops (usually on draft) | - |
(adverb) extremely and sharply | Synonyms: bitingly, bitterly, piercingly |
(verb) make bitter | - |
bittercress | (noun) any of various herbs of the genus Cardamine, having usually pinnate leaves and racemes of white, pink or purple flowers; cosmopolitan except Antarctic | Synonyms: bitter cress |
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bitterish | (adjective) somewhat bitter | Synonyms: sharp-tasting |
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bitterly | (adverb) with bitterness; in a resentful manner | - |
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(adverb) indicating something hard to accept | - |
(adverb) extremely and sharply | Synonyms: bitingly, bitter, piercingly |
bittern | (noun) relatively small compact tawny-brown heron with nocturnal habits and a booming cry; found in marshes | - |
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bitterness | (noun) the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste | Synonyms: bitter |
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(noun) a rough and bitter manner | Synonyms: acerbity, acrimony, jaundice, tartness, thorniness |
(noun) the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: bitter |
(noun) a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will | Synonyms: gall, rancor, rancour, resentment |
bitternut | (noun) hickory of the eastern United States having a leaves with 7 or 9 leaflets and thin-shelled very bitter nuts | Synonyms: bitter hickory, bitter pignut, bitternut hickory, Carya cordiformis, swamp hickory |
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bitterroot | (noun) showy succulent ground-hugging plant of Rocky Mountains regions having deep to pale pink flowers and fleshy farinaceous roots; the Montana state flower | Synonyms: Lewisia rediviva |
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bitters | (noun) alcoholic liquor flavored with bitter herbs and roots | - |
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bittersweet | (adjective) tinged with sadness | - |
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(adjective) having a taste that is a mixture of bitterness and sweetness | Synonyms: semisweet |
(noun) twining shrub of North America having yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds | Synonyms: American bittersweet, Celastrus scandens, climbing bittersweet, false bittersweet, shrubby bittersweet, staff vine, waxwork |
(noun) poisonous perennial Old World vine having violet flowers and oval coral-red berries; widespread weed in North America | Synonyms: bittersweet nightshade, climbing nightshade, deadly nightshade, poisonous nightshade, Solanum dulcamara, woody nightshade |
bitterweed | (noun) any of numerous chiefly North American weedy plants constituting the genus Ambrosia that produce highly allergenic pollen responsible for much hay fever and asthma | Synonyms: ambrosia, ragweed |
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(noun) widespread European weed with spiny tongue-shaped leaves and yellow flowers; naturalized in United States | Synonyms: bristly oxtongue, bugloss, oxtongue, Picris echioides |
bitterwood | (noun) handsome South American shrub or small tree having bright scarlet flowers and yielding a valuable fine-grained yellowish wood; yields the bitter drug quassia from its wood and bark | Synonyms: quassia, Quassia amara |
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(noun) West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia | Synonyms: Jamaica quassia, Picrasma excelsa, Picrasma excelsum |
(noun) medium to large tree of tropical North and South America having odd-pinnate leaves and long panicles of small pale yellow flowers followed by scarlet fruits | Synonyms: paradise tree, Simarouba glauca |
bitthead | (noun) the upper end of a bitt | - |
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bittie | (adjective) (used informally) little or tiny | Synonyms: bitty, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty, teensy-weensy, teensy, teentsy, teeny-weeny, teeny, wee, weensy, weeny |
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bitty | (adjective) (used informally) little or tiny | Synonyms: bittie, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty, teensy-weensy, teensy, teentsy, teeny-weeny, teeny, wee, weensy, weeny |
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britt | (noun) the young of a herring or sprat or similar fish | Synonyms: brit |
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(noun) minute crustaceans forming food for right whales | Synonyms: brit |
brittle | (adjective) having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped | Synonyms: brickle, brickly |
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(adjective) lacking warmth and generosity of spirit | - |
(adjective) (of metal or glass) not annealed and consequently easily cracked or fractured | Synonyms: unannealed |
(noun) caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets | Synonyms: toffee, toffy |
brittlebush | (noun) fragrant rounded shrub of southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico having brittle stems and small crowded blue-green leaves and yellow flowers; produces a resin used in incense and varnish and in folk medicine | Synonyms: brittle bush, Encelia farinosa, incienso |
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brittleness | (noun) firm but easily broken | Synonyms: crispiness, crispness |
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chittamwood | (noun) deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico | Synonyms: black haw, Bumelia lanuginosa, chittimwood, false buckthorn, shittimwood |
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(noun) shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada | Synonyms: bearberry, bearwood, cascara buckthorn, chittimwood, Rhamnus purshianus |
(noun) shrubby tree of southern United States having large plumes of feathery flowers resembling puffs of smoke | Synonyms: American smokewood, Cotinus americanus, Cotinus obovatus |
chitter | (verb) make high-pitched sounds, as of birds | Synonyms: twitter |
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chitterlings | (noun) small intestines of hogs prepared as food | Synonyms: chitlings, chitlins |
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chittimwood | (noun) deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico | Synonyms: black haw, Bumelia lanuginosa, chittamwood, false buckthorn, shittimwood |
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(noun) shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada | Synonyms: bearberry, bearwood, cascara buckthorn, chittamwood, Rhamnus purshianus |
cittern | (noun) a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings | Synonyms: cither, cithern, citole, gittern |
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clitter | (verb) make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures | Synonyms: stridulate |
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committal | (noun) the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital) | Synonyms: commitment, consignment |
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(noun) the act of committing a crime | Synonyms: commission, perpetration |
committed | (adjective) bound or obligated, as under a pledge to a particular cause, action, or attitude | - |
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(adjective) associated in an exclusive sexual relationship | Synonyms: attached |
committedness | (noun) the trait of sincere and steadfast fixity of purpose | Synonyms: commitment |
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committee | (noun) a special group delegated to consider some matter | Synonyms: commission |
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(noun) a self-constituted organization to promote something | Synonyms: citizens committee |
committeeman | (noun) a man who is a member of committee | - |
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committeewoman | (noun) a woman who is a member of a committee | - |
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critter | (noun) a regional term for `creature' (especially for domestic animals) | - |
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dittany | (noun) Eurasian perennial herb with white flowers that emit flammable vapor in hot weather | Synonyms: burning bush, Dictamnus alba, fraxinella, gas plant |
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ditto | (noun) a mark used to indicate the word above it should be repeated | Synonyms: ditto mark |
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(verb) repeat an action or statement | - |
ditty | (noun) a short simple song (or the words of a poem intended to be sung) | - |
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earsplitting | (adjective) loud enough to cause (temporary) hearing loss | Synonyms: deafening, thunderous, thundery |
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embitter | (verb) cause to be bitter or resentful | Synonyms: acerbate, envenom |
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embitterment | (noun) the state of being embittered | - |
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embrittle | (verb) make brittle | - |
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emitter | (noun) the electrode in a transistor where electrons originate | - |
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fencesitter | (noun) a neutral or uncommitted person (especially in politics) | Synonyms: independent, mugwump |
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fitted | (adjective) being the right size and shape to fit as desired | - |
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fitter | (adjective) improved in health or physical condition | Synonyms: healthier |
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(noun) someone who fits a garment to a particular person | - |
fitting | (adjective) being precisely fitting and right | Synonyms: meet |
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(adjective) in harmony with the spirit of particular persons or occasion | Synonyms: decent |
(noun) putting clothes on to see whether they fit | Synonyms: try-on, trying on |
(noun) a small and often standardized accessory to a larger system | - |
(noun) (usually in the plural) furnishings and equipment (especially for a ship or hotel) | Synonyms: appointment |
(noun) making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances | Synonyms: accommodation, adjustment |
fittingly | (adverb) in accordance with what is appropriate or suitable for the circumstances | Synonyms: appropriately, befittingly, duly, fitly, properly, suitably |
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fittingness | (noun) the quality of being suitable | Synonyms: fitness |
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flitter | (verb) move back and forth very rapidly | Synonyms: flicker, flutter, quiver, waver |
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frittata | (noun) Italian omelet with diced vegetables and meats; cooked until bottom is set then inverted into another pan to cook the top | - |
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fritter | (noun) small quantity of fried batter containing fruit or meat or vegetables | - |
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(verb) spend frivolously and unwisely | Synonyms: dissipate, fool, fool away, fritter away, frivol away, shoot |
frostbitten | (adjective) injured by freezing or partial freezing | - |
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gittern | (noun) a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings | Synonyms: cither, cithern, citole, cittern |
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glitter | (noun) the quality of shining with a bright reflected light | Synonyms: glisten, glister, scintillation, sparkle |
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(noun) the occurrence of a small flash or spark | Synonyms: coruscation, sparkle |
(verb) be shiny, as if wet | Synonyms: gleam, glint, glisten, shine |
glittering | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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glittery | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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gritty | (adjective) willing to face danger | Synonyms: game, gamey, gamy, mettlesome, spirited, spunky |
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(adjective) composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency | Synonyms: coarse-grained, farinaceous, grainy, granular, granulose, mealy |
hairsplitter | (noun) a disputant who makes unreasonably fine distinctions | - |
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hairsplitting | (adjective) developed in excessively fine detail | Synonyms: finespun |
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(noun) making too fine distinctions of little importance | Synonyms: word-splitting |
handwritten | (adjective) written by hand | - |
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hitter | (noun) (baseball) a ballplayer who is batting | Synonyms: batsman, batter, slugger |
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(noun) someone who hits | Synonyms: striker |
hitting | (noun) the act of contacting one thing with another | Synonyms: hit, striking |
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intermittence | (noun) the quality of being intermittent; subject to interruption or periodic stopping | Synonyms: intermittency |
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intermittency | (noun) the quality of being intermittent; subject to interruption or periodic stopping | Synonyms: intermittence |
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intermittent | (adjective) stopping and starting at irregular intervals | - |
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intermittently | (adverb) in an intermittent manner | - |
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jitter | (noun) small rapid variations in a waveform resulting from fluctuations in the voltage supply or mechanical vibrations or other sources | - |
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(noun) a small irregular movement | - |
jitterbug | (noun) a jerky American dance that was popular in the 1940s | - |
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(verb) do the jitterbug | - |
jitteriness | (noun) the anxious feeling you have when you have the jitters | Synonyms: jumpiness, nervousness, restiveness |
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jittering | (adjective) undergoing small rapid variations | - |
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jitters | (noun) extreme nervousness | Synonyms: heebie-jeebies, screaming meemies |
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jittery | (adjective) characterized by jerky movements | - |
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(adjective) being in a tense state | Synonyms: edgy, high-strung, highly strung, jumpy, nervy, overstrung, restive, uptight |
kittee | (noun) a form of torture used by American Indians in which sensitive parts of the body were squeezed between two boards until the victim could bear no more | - |
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kitten | (noun) young domestic cat | Synonyms: kitty |
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(verb) give birth to kittens | - |
kittenish | (adjective) playful like a lively kitten | Synonyms: frisky |
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kittiwake | (noun) small pearl-grey gull of northern regions; nests on cliffs and has a rudimentary hind toe | - |
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kittul | (noun) fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula; sap yields a brown sugar (jaggery) and trunk pith yields sago | Synonyms: Caryota urens, jaggery palm, kitul, kitul tree, toddy palm, wine palm |
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kitty | (noun) informal terms referring to a domestic cat | Synonyms: kitty-cat, puss, pussy, pussycat |
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(noun) young domestic cat | Synonyms: kitten |
(noun) the combined stakes of the betters | Synonyms: pool |
(noun) the cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker) | Synonyms: jackpot, pot |
knitted | (adjective) made by intertwining threads in a series of connected loops rather than by weaving | - |
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knitter | (noun) someone who makes garments (or fabrics) by intertwining yarn or thread | - |
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knitting | (noun) creating knitted wear | - |
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(noun) needlework created by interlacing yarn in a series of connected loops using straight eyeless needles or by machine | Synonyms: knit, knitwork |
litter | (noun) material used to provide a bed for animals | Synonyms: bedding, bedding material |
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(noun) conveyance consisting of a chair or bed carried on two poles by bearers | - |
(noun) the offspring at one birth of a multiparous mammal | - |
(noun) rubbish carelessly dropped or left about (especially in public places) | - |
(verb) give birth to a litter of animals | - |
(verb) make a place messy by strewing garbage around | - |
(verb) strew | - |