acetaldehyde | (noun) a colorless volatile water-soluble liquid aldehyde used chiefly in the manufacture of acetic acid and perfumes and drugs | Synonyms: ethanal |
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acetaldol | (noun) unsaturated aldol | - |
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acold | (adjective) of persons; feeling cold | - |
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afield | (adverb) off the subject; beyond the point at issue | - |
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(adverb) in or into a field (especially a field of battle) | - |
(adverb) far away from home or one's usual surroundings | Synonyms: abroad |
afterworld | (noun) the place where you are after you die | - |
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airfield | (noun) a place where planes take off and land | Synonyms: field, flying field, landing field |
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alcalde | (noun) a mayor or chief magistrate of a Spanish town | - |
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aldehyde | (noun) any of a class of highly reactive chemical compounds; used in making resins and dyes and organic acids | - |
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aldehydic | (adjective) of or related to or containing aldehydes | - |
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alder | (noun) north temperate shrubs or trees having toothed leaves and conelike fruit; bark is used in tanning and dyeing and the wood is rot-resistant | Synonyms: alder tree |
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(noun) wood of any of various alder trees; resistant to underwater rot; used for bridges etc | - |
alderfly | (noun) dark-colored insect having predaceous aquatic larvae | Synonyms: alder fly, Sialis lutaria |
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alderman | (noun) a member of a municipal legislative body (as a city council) | - |
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aldermanic | (adjective) of or relating to or like an alderman | Synonyms: aldermanly |
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aldermanly | (adjective) of or relating to or like an alderman | Synonyms: aldermanic |
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aldohexose | (noun) a monosaccharide sugar having six carbon atoms and an aldehyde group | - |
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aldol | (noun) an oily colorless liquid obtained by the condensation of two molecules of acetaldehyde; contains an alcohol group (-OH) and an aldehyde group (-CHO) | Synonyms: aldehyde-alcohol |
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aldose | (noun) a monosaccharide sugar that contains the aldehyde group or is hemiacetal | - |
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aldosterone | (noun) a corticosteroid hormone that is secreted by the cortex of the adrenal gland; regulates salt (sodium and potassium) and water balance | - |
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aldosteronism | (noun) a condition caused by overproduction of aldosterone | Synonyms: hyperaldosteronism |
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aldotetrose | (noun) A four-carbon aldose; for example, threose, erythrose. | - |
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aldotriose | (noun) Any aldose having three carbon atoms; in reality, just glyceraldehyde. | - |
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auld | (adjective) a Scottish word | - |
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backfield | (noun) the offensive football players who line up behind the linemen | - |
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bald | (adjective) without the natural or usual covering | Synonyms: denudate, denuded |
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(adjective) lacking hair on all or most of the scalp | Synonyms: bald-headed, bald-pated |
(adjective) with no effort to conceal | Synonyms: barefaced |
(verb) grow bald; lose hair on one's head | - |
baldachin | (noun) ornamented canopy supported by columns or suspended from a roof or projected from a wall (as over an altar) | - |
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balderdash | (noun) trivial nonsense | Synonyms: fiddle-faddle, piffle |
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baldhead | (noun) a person whose head is bald or shaved | Synonyms: baldpate, baldy, skin, skinhead |
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balding | (adjective) getting bald | - |
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baldly | (adverb) in a bald manner | - |
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baldness | (noun) the condition of having no hair on the top of the head | Synonyms: phalacrosis |
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baldpate | (noun) a widgeon the male of which has a white crown | Synonyms: American widgeon, Anas americana |
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(noun) a person whose head is bald or shaved | Synonyms: baldhead, baldy, skin, skinhead |
baldric | (noun) a wide (ornamented) belt worn over the right shoulder to support a sword or bugle by the left hip | Synonyms: baldrick |
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baldrick | (noun) a wide (ornamented) belt worn over the right shoulder to support a sword or bugle by the left hip | Synonyms: baldric |
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baldy | (noun) a person whose head is bald or shaved | Synonyms: baldhead, baldpate, skin, skinhead |
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balldress | (noun) a suit or dress for formal occasions | - |
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battlefield | (noun) a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought | Synonyms: battleground, field, field of battle, field of honor |
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begild | (verb) decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold | Synonyms: engild, gild |
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behold | (verb) see with attention | Synonyms: lay eyes on |
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beholden | (adjective) under a moral obligation to someone | - |
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beholder | (noun) a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses | Synonyms: observer, perceiver, percipient |
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beholding | (noun) perception by means of the eyes | Synonyms: seeing, visual perception |
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beldam | (noun) a woman of advanced age | Synonyms: beldame |
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(noun) an ugly evil-looking old woman | Synonyms: beldame, crone, hag, witch |
beldame | (noun) a woman of advanced age | Synonyms: beldam |
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(noun) an ugly evil-looking old woman | Synonyms: beldam, crone, hag, witch |
bewilder | (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
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(verb) cause to be confused emotionally | Synonyms: bemuse, discombobulate, throw |
bewildered | (adjective) perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment | Synonyms: at sea, baffled, befuddled, bemused, confounded, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up |
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bewilderedly | (adverb) in a bewildered manner | - |
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bewilderingly | (adverb) in a bewildering and confusing manner | Synonyms: confusingly |
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bewilderment | (noun) confusion resulting from failure to understand | Synonyms: bafflement, befuddlement, bemusement, mystification, obfuscation, puzzlement |
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billfold | (noun) a pocket-size case for holding papers and paper money | Synonyms: notecase, pocketbook, wallet |
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blindfold | (adjective) wearing a blindfold | Synonyms: blindfolded |
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(noun) a cloth used to cover the eyes | - |
(verb) cover the eyes of (someone) to prevent him from seeing | - |
blindfolded | (adjective) wearing a blindfold | Synonyms: blindfold |
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boatbuilder | (noun) a person who builds boats | - |
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bodybuilder | (noun) someone who does special exercises to develop a brawny musculature | Synonyms: muscle-builder, muscle builder, musclebuilder, muscleman |
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bodybuilding | (noun) exercise that builds muscles through tension | Synonyms: anaerobic exercise, muscle building, musclebuilding |
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bold | (adjective) fearless and daring | - |
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(adjective) clear and distinct | - |
(adjective) very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front | Synonyms: bluff, sheer |
(noun) a typeface with thick heavy lines | Synonyms: bold face, boldface |
boldface | (noun) a typeface with thick heavy lines | Synonyms: bold, bold face |
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(verb) print in boldface | - |
boldly | (adverb) with boldness, in a bold manner | - |
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boldness | (noun) the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger | Synonyms: daring, hardihood, hardiness |
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(noun) the quality of standing out strongly and distinctly | Synonyms: strikingness |
(noun) impudent aggressiveness | Synonyms: brass, cheek, face, nerve |
bondholder | (noun) a holder of bonds issued by a government or corporation | - |
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boulder | (noun) a large smooth mass of rock detached from its place of origin | Synonyms: bowlder |
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bouldered | (adjective) abounding in rocks or stones | Synonyms: bouldery, rocky, stony |
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bouldery | (adjective) abounding in rocks or stones | Synonyms: bouldered, rocky, stony |
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bowlder | (noun) a large smooth mass of rock detached from its place of origin | Synonyms: boulder |
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brainchild | (noun) a product of your creative thinking and work | Synonyms: inspiration |
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brickfield | (noun) a place where bricks are made and sold | Synonyms: brickyard |
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build | (noun) constitution of the human body | Synonyms: body-build, habitus, physique |
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(noun) alternative names for the body of a human being | Synonyms: anatomy, bod, chassis, figure, flesh, form, frame, human body, material body, physical body, physique, shape, soma |
(verb) form or accumulate steadily | Synonyms: build up, progress, work up |
(verb) improve the cleansing action of | - |
(verb) bolster or strengthen | Synonyms: build up, ramp up, work up |
(verb) develop and grow | - |
(verb) found or ground | - |
(verb) make by combining materials and parts | Synonyms: construct, make |
(verb) give form to, according to a plan | - |
(verb) build or establish something abstract | Synonyms: establish |
(verb) be engaged in building | - |
(verb) order, supervise, or finance the construction of | - |
builder | (noun) someone who contracts for and supervises construction (as of a building) | Synonyms: constructor |
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(noun) a person who creates a business or who organizes and develops a country | - |
(noun) a substance added to soaps or detergents to increase their cleansing action | Synonyms: detergent builder |
building | (noun) the act of constructing something | Synonyms: construction |
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(noun) the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones | Synonyms: construction |
(noun) a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place | Synonyms: edifice |
(noun) the occupants of a building | - |
buildup | (noun) the act of building up an accumulation | - |
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(noun) highly favorable publicity and praise | - |
(noun) the result of the process of accumulation | - |
bulldog | (noun) a sturdy thickset short-haired breed with a large head and strong undershot lower jaw; developed originally in England for bull baiting | Synonyms: English bulldog |
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(verb) attack viciously and ferociously | - |
(verb) throw a steer by seizing the horns and twisting the neck, as in a rodeo | - |
bulldoze | (verb) flatten with or as if with a bulldozer | - |
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bulldozer | (noun) large powerful tractor; a large blade in front flattens areas of ground | Synonyms: dozer |
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buttweld | (verb) join by a butt weld | Synonyms: butt-weld |
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caldera | (noun) a large crater caused by the violent explosion of a volcano that collapses into a depression | - |
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caldron | (noun) a very large pot that is used for boiling | Synonyms: cauldron |
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canfield | (noun) a form of solitaire that involves gambling | - |
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cardholder | (noun) a player who holds a card or cards in a card game | - |
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(noun) a person who holds a credit card or debit card | - |
cauldron | (noun) a very large pot that is used for boiling | Synonyms: caldron |
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centerfield | (noun) the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is expected to field balls in the central third of the outfield | Synonyms: center field |
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(noun) the piece of ground in the outfield directly ahead of the catcher | Synonyms: center, center field, centre |
centerfielder | (noun) the person who plays center field | Synonyms: center fielder |
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centerfold | (noun) a magazine center spread; especially a foldout of a large photograph or map or other feature | Synonyms: centrefold |
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centrefold | (noun) a magazine center spread; especially a foldout of a large photograph or map or other feature | Synonyms: centerfold |
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chaldron | (noun) a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 36 bushels | - |
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chesterfield | (noun) a fitted overcoat with a velvet collar | - |
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(noun) an overstuffed davenport with upright armrests | - |
child | (noun) a young person of either sex | Synonyms: fry, kid, minor, nestling, nipper, shaver, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, youngster |
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(noun) a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age | Synonyms: kid |
(noun) an immature childish person | Synonyms: baby |
(noun) a member of a clan or tribe | - |
childbearing | (adjective) relating to or suitable for childbirth | - |
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(noun) the parturition process in human beings; having a baby; the process of giving birth to a child | Synonyms: accouchement, childbirth, vaginal birth |
childbed | (noun) concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child | Synonyms: confinement, labor, labour, lying-in, parturiency, travail |
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childbirth | (noun) the parturition process in human beings; having a baby; the process of giving birth to a child | Synonyms: accouchement, childbearing, vaginal birth |
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childcare | (noun) a service involving care for other people's children | Synonyms: child care |
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childhood | (noun) the state of a child between infancy and adolescence | Synonyms: puerility |
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(noun) the time of person's life when they are a child | - |
childish | (adjective) indicating a lack of maturity | Synonyms: infantile |
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childishly | (adverb) in a childlike manner | - |
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childishness | (noun) a property characteristic of a child | Synonyms: puerility |
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childless | (adjective) without offspring | - |
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childlessness | (noun) the condition of being without offspring | - |
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childlike | (adjective) exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity | Synonyms: dewy-eyed, round-eyed, simple, wide-eyed |
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(adjective) befitting a young child | Synonyms: childly |
childly | (adjective) befitting a young child | Synonyms: childlike |
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childproof | (verb) make safe against children | Synonyms: child-proof |
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chokehold | (noun) a restraining hold; someone loops the arm around the neck of another person in a tight grip, usually from behind | Synonyms: choke hold |
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(noun) complete power over a person or situation | Synonyms: stranglehold, throttlehold |
coachbuilder | (noun) a craftsman who makes the bodies of motor vehicles | - |
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