plaguey | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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(adjective) likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease | Synonyms: pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential |
(adverb) in a pernicious or annoying manner | Synonyms: plaguily, plaguy |
plaguily | (adverb) in a pernicious or annoying manner | Synonyms: plaguey, plaguy |
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plaguy | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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(adverb) in a pernicious or annoying manner | Synonyms: plaguey, plaguily |
scalage | (noun) the act of scaling in weight or quantity or dimension | - |
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(noun) estimation of the amount of lumber in a log | - |
shillelagh | (noun) a cudgel made of hardwood (usually oak or blackthorn) | Synonyms: shillalah |
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silage | (noun) fodder harvested while green and kept succulent by partial fermentation as in a silo | Synonyms: ensilage |
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slag | (noun) the scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals | Synonyms: dross, scoria |
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(verb) convert into slag | - |
slagheap | (noun) pile of waste matter from coal mining etc | - |
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spillage | (noun) the act of allowing a fluid to escape | Synonyms: release, spill |
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(noun) the amount that has spilled | - |
spoilage | (noun) the act of spoiling something by causing damage to it | Synonyms: spoil, spoiling |
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(noun) the process of becoming spoiled | Synonyms: spoiling |
(noun) the amount that has spoiled | - |
stalagmite | (noun) a cylinder of calcium carbonate projecting upward from the floor of a limestone cave | - |
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stalagmometer | (noun) a device for investigating surface tension using the stalagmometric method. | Synonyms: stactometer, stalogometer |
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tillage | (noun) the cultivation of soil for raising crops | - |
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(noun) arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops | Synonyms: cultivated land, farmland, ploughland, plowland, tilled land, tilth |
treillage | (noun) latticework used to support climbing plants | Synonyms: trellis |
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tutelage | (noun) teaching pupils individually (usually by a tutor hired privately) | Synonyms: tuition, tutorship |
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(noun) attention and management implying responsibility for safety | Synonyms: care, charge, guardianship |
ullage | (noun) the amount that a container (as a wine bottle or tank) lacks of being full | - |
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unflagging | (adjective) tireless | Synonyms: unfailing |
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(adjective) showing sustained enthusiastic action with unflagging vitality | Synonyms: indefatigable, tireless, unwearying |
vassalage | (noun) the state of a serf | Synonyms: serfdom, serfhood |
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verdolagas | (noun) weedy trailing mat-forming herb with bright yellow flowers cultivated for its edible mildly acid leaves eaten raw or cooked especially in Indian and Greek and Middle Eastern cuisine; cosmopolitan | Synonyms: common purslane, Portulaca oleracea, pussley, pussly |
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village | (noun) a community of people smaller than a town | Synonyms: settlement, small town |
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(noun) a settlement smaller than a town | Synonyms: hamlet |
villager | (noun) one who has lived in a village most of their life | - |
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zooflagellate | (noun) flagellate protozoan lacking photosynthesis and other plant-like characteristics | Synonyms: zoomastigote |
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