ambage | (noun) a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things | Synonyms: circumlocution, periphrasis |
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ambages | (noun) (archaic) roundabout or mysterious ways of action | - |
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ambagious | (adjective) roundabout and unnecessarily wordy | Synonyms: circumlocutious, circumlocutory, periphrastic |
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ambassador | (noun) a diplomat of the highest rank; accredited as representative from one country to another | Synonyms: embassador |
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(noun) an informal representative | - |
ambassadorial | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of ambassadors | - |
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ambassadorship | (noun) the post of ambassador | - |
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ambassadress | (noun) a woman ambassador | - |
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armband | (noun) a band worn around the upper arm | - |
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(noun) worn around arm as identification or to indicate mourning | - |
bombard | (noun) a large shawm; the bass member of the shawm family | Synonyms: bombardon |
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(verb) direct high energy particles or radiation against | - |
(verb) address with continuously or persistently, as if with a barrage | Synonyms: barrage |
(verb) throw bombs at or attack with bombs | Synonyms: bomb |
(verb) cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile | Synonyms: pelt |
bombardier | (noun) the member of a bomber crew responsible for using the bombsight and releasing the bombs on the target | - |
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(noun) a noncommissioned officer in the British artillery | - |
bombardment | (noun) the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target | Synonyms: barrage, barrage fire, battery, shelling |
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(noun) an attack by dropping bombs | Synonyms: bombing |
(noun) the act (or an instance) of subjecting a body or substance to the impact of high-energy particles (as electrons or alpha rays) | - |
(noun) the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written) | Synonyms: barrage, onslaught, outpouring |
bombardon | (noun) a large shawm; the bass member of the shawm family | Synonyms: bombard |
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(noun) a tuba that coils over the shoulder of the musician | Synonyms: helicon |
bombast | (noun) pompous or pretentious talk or writing | Synonyms: blah, claptrap, fustian, rant |
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bombastic | (adjective) ostentatiously lofty in style | Synonyms: declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid |
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bombastically | (adverb) in a grandiose manner | Synonyms: grandiosely |
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(adverb) in a turgid manner | Synonyms: turgidly |
bombazine | (noun) a twilled fabric used for dresses; the warp is silk and the weft is worsted | - |
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cembalo | (noun) a clavier with strings that are plucked by plectra mounted on pivots | Synonyms: harpsichord |
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clambake | (noun) a cookout at the seashore where clams and fish and other foods are cooked--usually on heated stones covered with seaweed | - |
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climbable | (adjective) capable of being surmounted | Synonyms: surmountable |
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(adjective) capable of being ascended | Synonyms: ascendable, ascendible |
columbarium | (noun) a sepulchral vault or other structure having recesses in the walls to receive cinerary urns | - |
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(noun) a niche for a funeral urn containing the ashes of the cremated dead | Synonyms: cinerarium |
(noun) a birdhouse for pigeons | Synonyms: columbary, dovecote |
columbary | (noun) a birdhouse for pigeons | Synonyms: columbarium, dovecote |
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combat | (noun) an engagement fought between two military forces | Synonyms: armed combat |
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(noun) the act of fighting; any contest or struggle | Synonyms: fight, fighting, scrap |
(verb) battle or contend against in or as if in a battle | Synonyms: battle |
combatant | (adjective) engaging in or ready for combat | - |
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(noun) someone who fights (or is fighting) | Synonyms: battler, belligerent, fighter, scrapper |
combative | (adjective) having or showing a ready disposition to fight | Synonyms: battleful, bellicose |
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(adjective) inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits | Synonyms: contentious, disputatious, disputative, litigious |
(adjective) striving to overcome in argument | Synonyms: agonistic, agonistical |
combatively | (adverb) in a bellicose contentious manner | Synonyms: scrappily |
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combativeness | (noun) a militant aggressiveness | Synonyms: militance, militancy |
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counterbombardment | (noun) bombardment intended to destroy or neutralize enemy weapons | - |
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cymbal | (noun) a percussion instrument consisting of a concave brass disk; makes a loud crashing sound when hit with a drumstick or when two are struck together | - |
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cymbalist | (noun) a performer on the cymbals | - |
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disembark | (verb) go ashore | Synonyms: debark, set down |
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disembarkation | (noun) the act of passengers and crew getting off of a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: debarkation, disembarkment |
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disembarkment | (noun) the act of passengers and crew getting off of a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: debarkation, disembarkation |
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disembarrass | (verb) relieve from | Synonyms: free, rid |
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disembarrassment | (noun) something that extricates you from embarrassment | - |
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dumbass | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
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embalm | (verb) preserve a dead body | - |
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embalmer | (noun) a mortician who treats corpses with preservatives | - |
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embalmment | (noun) preservation (of a dead body) by treating with balsams and drugs and other chemicals | - |
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embank | (verb) enclose with banks, as for support or protection | - |
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embankment | (noun) a long artificial mound of stone or earth; built to hold back water or to support a road or as protection | - |
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embargo | (noun) a government order imposing a trade barrier | Synonyms: trade embargo, trade stoppage |
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(verb) prevent commerce | - |
(verb) ban the publication of (documents), as for security or copyright reasons | - |
embark | (verb) set out on (an enterprise or subject of study) | Synonyms: enter |
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(verb) go on board | Synonyms: ship |
(verb) proceed somewhere despite the risk of possible dangers | Synonyms: venture |
embarkation | (noun) the act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: boarding, embarkment |
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embarkment | (noun) the act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: boarding, embarkation |
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embarrass | (verb) cause to be embarrassed; cause to feel self-conscious | Synonyms: abash |
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(verb) hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of | Synonyms: block, blockade, hinder, obstruct, stymie, stymy |
embarrassed | (adjective) made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride | Synonyms: humiliated, mortified |
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(adjective) feeling or caused to feel ill at ease or self-conscious or ashamed | Synonyms: abashed, chagrined |
embarrassing | (adjective) hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment | Synonyms: awkward, sticky, unenviable |
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(adjective) causing to feel shame or chagrin or vexation | Synonyms: mortifying |
embarrassingly | (adverb) causing embarrassment | - |
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embarrassment | (noun) extreme excess | Synonyms: overplus, plethora, superfluity |
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(noun) some event that causes someone to be embarrassed | - |
(noun) the shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public | - |
(noun) the state of being embarrassed (usually by some financial inadequacy) | - |
embassador | (noun) a diplomat of the highest rank; accredited as representative from one country to another | Synonyms: ambassador |
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embassy | (noun) a diplomatic building where ambassadors live or work | - |
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(noun) an ambassador and his entourage collectively | - |
embattle | (verb) prepare for battle or conflict | - |
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(verb) fortify by furnishing with battlements for defense | - |
embattled | (adjective) having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement | Synonyms: battlemented, castellated, castled, crenelated |
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(adjective) prepared for battle | - |
(adjective) (of a person) beset by difficulties or conflict | - |
embayment | (noun) an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf | Synonyms: bay |
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gamba | (noun) viol that is the bass member of the viol family with approximately the range of the cello | Synonyms: bass viol, viola da gamba |
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gimbal | (noun) an appliance that allows an object (such as a ship's compass) to remain horizontal even as its support tips | - |
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gimbaled | (adjective) supported on gimbals and remaining steady or level when the base tips | - |
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imbalance | (noun) lack of proportion; imbalance among the parts of something | Synonyms: disproportion, dissymmetry |
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(noun) a lack of balance or state of disequilibrium | Synonyms: instability, unbalance |
imbalanced | (adjective) being or thrown out of equilibrium | Synonyms: unbalanced |
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imbauba | (noun) tropical American tree with large peltate leaves and hollow stems | Synonyms: Cecropia peltata, snake wood, trumpet-wood, trumpet tree, trumpetwood |
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jambalaya | (noun) spicy Creole dish of rice and ham, sausage, chicken, or shellfish with tomatoes, peppers, onions, and celery | - |
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jumbal | (noun) small flat ring-shaped cake or cookie | Synonyms: jumble |
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lambast | (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
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(verb) beat with a cane | Synonyms: cane, flog, lambaste |
lambaste | (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
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(verb) beat with a cane | Synonyms: cane, flog, lambast |
liquidambar | (noun) any tree of the genus Liquidambar | - |
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(noun) aromatic exudate from the sweet gum tree | Synonyms: sweet gum |
lumbago | (noun) backache affecting the lumbar region or lower back; can be caused by muscle strain or arthritis or vascular insufficiency or a ruptured intervertebral disc | Synonyms: lumbar pain |
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lumbar | (adjective) of or relating to or near the part of the back between the ribs and the hipbones | - |
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macamba | (noun) tropical American feather palm having a swollen spiny trunk and edible nuts | Synonyms: Acrocomia aculeata, gri-gri, grugru, grugru palm |
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macumba | (noun) a Brazilian religious cult of African origin; combines voodoo elements with singing and chanting and dancing | - |
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(noun) popular dance music of Brazil; derived from the practices of the macumba religious cult | - |
(noun) (Brazil) followers of a religious cult of African origin | - |
mamba | (noun) arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal | - |
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marimba | (noun) a percussion instrument with wooden bars tuned to produce a chromatic scale and with resonators; played with small mallets | Synonyms: xylophone |
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noncombatant | (adjective) member of armed forces whose duties do not include fighting as e.g. a chaplain or surgeon | - |
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(adjective) used of civilians in time of war | - |
(noun) a member of the armed forces who does not participate in combat (e.g. a chaplain or surgeon) | - |
numbat | (noun) small Australian marsupial having long snout and strong claws for feeding on termites; nearly extinct | Synonyms: anteater, banded anteater, Myrmecobius fasciatus |
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plumbable | (adjective) (of depth) capable of being sounded or measured for depth | Synonyms: fathomable, soundable |
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plumbaginaceous | (adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Plumbaginaceae | - |
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plumbago | (noun) any plumbaginaceous plant of the genus Plumbago | - |
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(noun) used as a lubricant and as a moderator in nuclear reactors | Synonyms: black lead, graphite |
rhumba | (noun) a folk dance in duple time that originated in Cuba with Spanish and African elements; features complex footwork and violent movement | Synonyms: rumba |
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(noun) a ballroom dance based on the Cuban folk dance | Synonyms: rumba |
(noun) syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba | Synonyms: rumba |
(verb) dance the rhumba | Synonyms: rumba |
rumba | (noun) a folk dance in duple time that originated in Cuba with Spanish and African elements; features complex footwork and violent movement | Synonyms: rhumba |
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(noun) a ballroom dance based on the Cuban folk dance | Synonyms: rhumba |
(noun) syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba | Synonyms: rhumba |
(verb) dance the rhumba | Synonyms: rhumba |
samba | (noun) a lively dance from Brazil, with roots from Africa | - |
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(noun) a form of canasta using three decks of cards and six jokers | - |
(noun) music composed for dancing the samba | - |
(noun) large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds; yields soft white to pale yellow wood | Synonyms: arere, obeche, obechi, Triplochiton scleroxcylon |
(verb) dance the samba | - |
sambar | (noun) a deer of southern Asia with antlers that have three tines | Synonyms: Cervus unicolor, sambur |
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scumbag | (noun) a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible | Synonyms: bum, crumb, dirty dog, git, lowlife, puke, rat, rotter, scum bag, skunk, so-and-so, stinker, stinkpot |
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tambac | (noun) an alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding | Synonyms: tombac, tombak |
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tambala | (noun) 100 tambala equal 1 kwacha in Malawi | - |
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thrombasthenia | (noun) a rare autosomal recessive disease in which the platelets do not produce clots in the normal way and hemorrhage results | - |
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timbale | (noun) individual serving of minced e.g. meat or fish in a rich creamy sauce baked in a small pastry mold or timbale shell | - |
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(noun) small pastry shell for creamy mixtures of minced foods | Synonyms: timbale case |
tombac | (noun) an alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding | Synonyms: tambac, tombak |
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tombak | (noun) an alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding | Synonyms: tambac, tombac |
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unclimbable | (adjective) incapable of being ascended | Synonyms: unscalable |
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(adjective) incapable of being surmounted or climbed | Synonyms: unsurmountable |
uncombable | (adjective) not capable of being combed | - |
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unembarrassed | (adjective) not embarrassed | Synonyms: unabashed |
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wombat | (noun) burrowing herbivorous Australian marsupials about the size of a badger | - |
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