albizzia | (noun) any of numerous trees of the genus Albizia | Synonyms: albizia |
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blizzard | (noun) a series of unexpected and unpleasant occurrences | Synonyms: rash |
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(noun) a storm with widespread snowfall accompanied by strong winds | Synonyms: snowstorm |
dizzily | (adverb) in a giddy light-headed manner | Synonyms: giddily, light-headedly |
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dizziness | (noun) a reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall | Synonyms: giddiness, lightheadedness, vertigo |
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dizzy | (adjective) lacking seriousness; given to frivolity | Synonyms: airheaded, empty-headed, featherbrained, giddy, light-headed, lightheaded, silly |
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(adjective) having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling | Synonyms: giddy, vertiginous, woozy |
(verb) make dizzy or giddy | - |
drizzle | (noun) very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower | Synonyms: mizzle |
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(verb) moisten with fine drops | Synonyms: moisten |
(verb) rain lightly | Synonyms: mizzle |
drizzling | (adjective) (of rain) falling lightly in very small drops | - |
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drizzly | (adjective) wet with light rain | Synonyms: drippy |
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fizz | (noun) an effervescent beverage (usually alcoholic) | - |
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(verb) become bubbly or frothy or foaming | Synonyms: effervesce, foam, form bubbles, froth, sparkle |
fizzing | (adjective) hissing and bubbling | Synonyms: fizzy |
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fizzle | (noun) a complete failure | Synonyms: bust, flop |
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(noun) a fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval) | Synonyms: hiss, hissing, hushing, sibilation |
(verb) end weakly | Synonyms: fizzle out, peter out, taper off |
fizzy | (adjective) hissing and bubbling | Synonyms: fizzing |
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frizz | (noun) the condition of being formed into small tight curls | - |
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(verb) curl tightly | Synonyms: crape, crimp, frizzle, kink, kink up |
frizzle | (verb) fry something until it curls and becomes crisp | - |
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(verb) curl tightly | Synonyms: crape, crimp, frizz, kink, kink up |
frizzly | (adjective) (of hair) in small tight curls | Synonyms: crisp, frizzy, kinky, nappy |
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frizzy | (adjective) (of hair) in small tight curls | Synonyms: crisp, frizzly, kinky, nappy |
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gizzard | (noun) thick-walled muscular pouch below the crop in many birds and reptiles for grinding food | Synonyms: gastric mill, ventriculus |
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grizzle | (noun) a grey wig | - |
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(verb) complain whiningly | Synonyms: whine, yammer, yawp |
(verb) be in a huff; be silent or sullen | Synonyms: brood, stew |
grizzled | (adjective) having dark hairs mixed with grey or white | - |
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grizzly | (adjective) showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair | Synonyms: gray-haired, gray-headed, gray, grey-haired, grey-headed, grey, hoar, hoary, white-haired |
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(noun) powerful brownish-yellow bear of the uplands of western North America | Synonyms: grizzly bear, silver-tip, silvertip, Ursus arctos horribilis, Ursus horribilis |
izzard | (noun) the 26th letter of the Roman alphabet | Synonyms: ezed, Z, z, zed, zee |
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mizzen | (noun) third mast from the bow in a vessel having three or more masts; the after and shorter mast of a yawl, ketch, or dandy | Synonyms: mizen, mizenmast, mizzenmast |
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(noun) fore-and-aft sail set on the mizzenmast | Synonyms: mizen |
mizzenmast | (noun) third mast from the bow in a vessel having three or more masts; the after and shorter mast of a yawl, ketch, or dandy | Synonyms: mizen, mizenmast, mizzen |
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mizzle | (noun) very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower | Synonyms: drizzle |
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(verb) rain lightly | Synonyms: drizzle |
pizza | (noun) Italian open pie made of thin bread dough spread with a spiced mixture of e.g. tomato sauce and cheese | Synonyms: pizza pie |
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pizzaz | (noun) the activeness of an energetic personality | Synonyms: dynamism, oomph, pizzazz, zing |
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pizzazz | (noun) the activeness of an energetic personality | Synonyms: dynamism, oomph, pizzaz, zing |
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pizzeria | (noun) a shop where pizzas are made and sold | Synonyms: pizza parlor, pizza shop |
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pizzicato | (adjective) (of instruments in the violin family) to be plucked with the finger | - |
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(noun) a note or passage that is played pizzicato | - |
(adverb) with a light plucking staccato sound | - |
quizzer | (noun) someone who administers a test to determine your qualifications | Synonyms: examiner, tester |
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quizzical | (adjective) perplexed (as if being expected to know something that you do not know) | Synonyms: questioning |
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(adjective) playfully vexing (especially by ridicule) | Synonyms: mocking, teasing |
quizzically | (adverb) in a quizzical and questioning manner | Synonyms: questioningly |
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sizz | (verb) make a sharp hissing sound, as if to show disapproval | Synonyms: hiss, sibilate, siss |
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(verb) express or utter with a hiss | Synonyms: hiss, sibilate, siss |
sizzle | (noun) a sizzling noise | - |
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(verb) burn or sear with a sizzling sound | - |
(verb) make a sound like frying fat | - |
(verb) seethe with deep anger or resentment | - |
sizzling | (adjective) hot enough to burn with or as if with a hissing sound | - |
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(adjective) characterized by intense emotion or interest or excitement | Synonyms: red-hot |
swizzle | (noun) any of various tall frothy mixed drinks made usually of rum and lime juice and sugar shaken with ice | - |
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tizzy | (noun) an excited state of agitation | Synonyms: dither, flap, fuss, pother |
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whizz | (noun) someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field | Synonyms: ace, adept, champion, genius, hotshot, maven, mavin, sensation, star, superstar, virtuoso, whiz, wiz, wizard |
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(verb) move along very quickly | Synonyms: whizz along, zoom, zoom along |
(verb) make a soft swishing sound | Synonyms: birr, purr, whir, whirr, whiz |
whizzbang | (noun) a firecracker that (like the whizbang shell) makes a whizzing sound followed by a loud explosion | Synonyms: whizbang |
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(noun) a small high-velocity shell; it makes a whizzing sound followed by a bang when it hits | Synonyms: whizbang, whizbang shell |
zizz | (noun) a nap | - |
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(noun) a buzzing or whizzing sound | - |