amadavat | (noun) red Asian weaverbirds often kept as cage birds | Synonyms: avadavat |
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animadversion | (noun) harsh criticism or disapproval | Synonyms: censure |
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animadvert | (verb) express one's opinion openly and without fear or hesitation | Synonyms: opine, sound off, speak out, speak up |
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(verb) express blame or censure or make a harshly critical remark | - |
armada | (noun) a large fleet | - |
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armadillo | (noun) burrowing chiefly nocturnal mammal with body covered with strong horny plates | - |
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hamadryad | (noun) large cobra of southeastern Asia and the East Indies; the largest venomous snake; sometimes placed in genus Naja | Synonyms: king cobra, Naja hannah, Ophiophagus hannah |
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(noun) the nymph or spirit of a particular tree | - |
handmade | (adjective) made by hand or a hand process | Synonyms: hand-crafted |
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hebdomad | (noun) any period of seven consecutive days | Synonyms: week |
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hebdomadal | (adjective) of or occurring every seven days | Synonyms: hebdomadary, weekly |
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hebdomadally | (adverb) without missing a week | Synonyms: each week, every week, weekly |
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hebdomadary | (adjective) of or occurring every seven days | Synonyms: hebdomadal, weekly |
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homemade | (adjective) made or produced in the home or by yourself | - |
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mad | (adjective) roused to anger | Synonyms: huffy, sore |
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(adjective) very foolish | Synonyms: harebrained, insane |
(adjective) affected with madness or insanity | Synonyms: brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, sick, unbalanced, unhinged |
(adjective) marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion | Synonyms: delirious, excited, frantic, unrestrained |
madake | (noun) large bamboo having thick-walled culms; native of China and perhaps Japan; widely grown elsewhere | Synonyms: giant timber bamboo, ku-chiku, Phyllostachys bambusoides |
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madam | (noun) a woman of refinement | Synonyms: dame, gentlewoman, lady, ma'am |
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(noun) a woman who runs a house of prostitution | Synonyms: brothel keeper |
madame | (noun) title used for a married Frenchwoman | - |
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madcap | (adjective) characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation | Synonyms: brainish, hotheaded, impetuous, impulsive, tearaway |
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(noun) a reckless impetuous irresponsible person | Synonyms: daredevil, harum-scarum, hothead, lunatic, swashbuckler |
madden | (verb) make mad | - |
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(verb) drive up the wall; go on someone's nerves | - |
(verb) cause to go crazy; cause to lose one's mind | Synonyms: craze |
maddened | (adjective) marked by extreme anger | Synonyms: angered, enraged, furious, infuriated |
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maddening | (adjective) extremely annoying or displeasing | Synonyms: exasperating, infuriating, vexing |
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madder | (noun) Eurasian herb having small yellow flowers and red roots formerly an important source of the dye alizarin | Synonyms: Rubia tinctorum |
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(verb) color a moderate to strong red | - |
madderwort | (noun) any of numerous trees or shrubs or vines of the family Rubiaceae | Synonyms: rubiaceous plant |
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made | (adjective) (of a bed) having the sheets and blankets set in order | - |
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(adjective) produced by a manufacturing process | - |
(adjective) successful or assured of success | - |
mademoiselle | (noun) small silvery drumfish often mistaken for white perch; found along coasts of United States from New York to Mexico | Synonyms: Bairdiella chrysoura, silver perch |
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madhouse | (noun) pejorative terms for an insane asylum | Synonyms: Bedlam, booby hatch, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny farm, funny house, loony bin, nut house, nuthouse, sanatorium, snake pit |
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madly | (adverb) (used as intensives) excessively | Synonyms: deadly, deucedly, devilishly, insanely |
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(adverb) in an insane manner | Synonyms: crazily, dementedly, insanely |
(adverb) in an ungovernable manner | Synonyms: frantically |
madman | (noun) a male insane person | - |
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madnep | (noun) biennial weed in Europe and America having large pinnate leaves and yellow flowers and a bitter and somewhat poisonous root; the ancestor of cultivated parsnip | Synonyms: wild parsnip |
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madness | (noun) unrestrained excitement or enthusiasm | Synonyms: rabidity, rabidness |
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(noun) the quality of being rash and foolish | Synonyms: craziness, folly, foolishness |
(noun) a feeling of intense anger | Synonyms: fury, rage |
(noun) obsolete terms for legal insanity | Synonyms: insaneness, lunacy |
(noun) an acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal); rabies is fatal if the virus reaches the brain | Synonyms: hydrophobia, lyssa, rabies |
madras | (noun) a light patterned cotton cloth | - |
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madrasa | (noun) Muslim schools in Bangladesh and Pakistan | Synonyms: madrasah |
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madrasah | (noun) Muslim schools in Bangladesh and Pakistan | Synonyms: madrasa |
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madrepore | (noun) corals having calcareous skeletons aggregations of which form reefs and islands | Synonyms: madriporian coral, stony coral |
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madrigal | (noun) an unaccompanied partsong for 2 or 3 voices; follows a strict poetic form | - |
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(verb) sing madrigals | - |
madrigalist | (noun) a singer of madrigals | - |
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madrilene | (noun) a tomato-flavored consomme; often served chilled | - |
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madrona | (noun) evergreen tree of the Pacific coast of North America having glossy leathery leaves and orange-red edible berries; wood used for furniture and bark for tanning | Synonyms: Arbutus menziesii, madrono, manzanita |
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madrono | (noun) evergreen tree of the Pacific coast of North America having glossy leathery leaves and orange-red edible berries; wood used for furniture and bark for tanning | Synonyms: Arbutus menziesii, madrona, manzanita |
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madwoman | (noun) a woman lunatic | - |
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madwort | (noun) any garden plant of the genus Alyssum having clusters of small yellow or white flowers | Synonyms: alyssum |
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nammad | (noun) an embroidered rug made from a coarse Indian felt | Synonyms: numdah, numdah rug |
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nomad | (noun) a member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons | - |
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nomadic | (adjective) migratory | Synonyms: mobile, peregrine, roving, wandering |
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nomadism | (noun) The way of life of people who, having no fixed home, move around seasonally in search of food, water and grazing etc. | - |
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nonnomadic | (adjective) not nomadic or wandering | - |
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pomade | (noun) hairdressing consisting of a perfumed oil or ointment | Synonyms: pomatum |
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(verb) apply pomade to (hair) | - |
pomaded | (adjective) (of hair) groomed with pomade | - |
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unmade | (adjective) (of a bed) not having the sheets and blankets set in order | - |
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