misunderstood | (adjective) wrongly understood | - |
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moneylender | (noun) someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest | Synonyms: loan shark, shylock, usurer |
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neandertal | (adjective) ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance | Synonyms: boorish, loutish, neanderthal, oafish, swinish |
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neanderthal | (adjective) ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance | Synonyms: boorish, loutish, neandertal, oafish, swinish |
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netminder | (noun) the soccer or hockey player assigned to protect the goal | Synonyms: goalie, goalkeeper, goaltender, netkeeper |
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nonattender | (noun) someone who shirks duty | Synonyms: no-show, truant |
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offender | (noun) a person who transgresses moral or civil law | Synonyms: wrongdoer |
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oleander | (noun) an ornamental but poisonous flowering shrub having narrow evergreen leaves and clusters of fragrant white to pink or red flowers: native to East Indies but widely cultivated in warm regions | Synonyms: Nerium oleander, rose bay |
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outlander | (noun) a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country | Synonyms: alien, foreigner, noncitizen |
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pander | (noun) someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce) | Synonyms: fancy man, pandar, panderer, pimp, ponce, procurer |
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(verb) arrange for sexual partners for others | Synonyms: pimp, procure |
(verb) yield (to); give satisfaction to | Synonyms: gratify, indulge |
panderer | (noun) someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce) | Synonyms: fancy man, pandar, pander, pimp, ponce, procurer |
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(noun) a person who serves or caters to the vulgar passions or plans of others (especially in order to make money) | - |
pathfinder | (noun) someone who can find paths through unexplored territory | Synonyms: guide, scout |
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philander | (verb) talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions | Synonyms: butterfly, chat up, coquet, coquette, dally, flirt, mash, romance |
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(verb) have amorous affairs; of men | Synonyms: womanise, womanize |
philanderer | (noun) a man who likes many women and has short sexual relationships with them | Synonyms: womaniser, womanizer |
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plunder | (noun) goods or money obtained illegally | Synonyms: booty, dirty money, loot, pillage, prize, swag |
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(verb) destroy and strip of its possession | Synonyms: despoil, rape, spoil, violate |
(verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, foray, loot, pillage, ransack, reave, rifle, strip |
(verb) plunder (a town) after capture | Synonyms: sack |
(verb) take illegally; of intellectual property | Synonyms: loot |
plunderage | (noun) the act of plundering (especially the embezzlement of goods on shipboard) | - |
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plundered | (adjective) wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value | Synonyms: looted, pillaged, ransacked |
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plunderer | (noun) someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war) | Synonyms: despoiler, freebooter, looter, pillager, raider, spoiler |
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plundering | (adjective) given to taking by force what is desired | - |
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(noun) the act of stealing valuable things from a place | Synonyms: pillage, pillaging |
ponder | (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, contemplate, excogitate, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, reflect, ruminate, speculate, think over |
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ponderable | (adjective) capable of being weighed or considered | - |
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(adjective) capable of being thought about | Synonyms: cogitable |
ponderer | (noun) a reflective thinker characterized by quiet contemplation | Synonyms: muller, muser, ruminator |
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pondering | (adjective) deeply or seriously thoughtful | Synonyms: brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, reflective, ruminative |
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ponderosa | (noun) common and widely distributed tall timber pine of western North America having dark green needles in bunches of 2 to 5 and thick bark with dark brown plates when mature | Synonyms: bull pine, Pinus ponderosa, ponderosa pine, western yellow pine |
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ponderosity | (noun) the property of being large in mass | Synonyms: heft, heftiness, massiveness, ponderousness |
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ponderous | (adjective) slow and laborious because of weight | Synonyms: heavy, lumbering |
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(adjective) having great mass and weight and unwieldiness | - |
(adjective) labored and dull | - |
ponderously | (adverb) in a heavy ponderous manner | - |
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(adverb) in an uninterestingly ponderous manner | - |
ponderousness | (noun) the property of being large in mass | Synonyms: heft, heftiness, massiveness, ponderosity |
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(noun) an oppressive quality that is laborious and solemn and lacks grace or fluency | Synonyms: heaviness |
pounder | (noun) a heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone | Synonyms: muller, pestle |
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(noun) (used only in combination) something weighing a given number of pounds | - |
preponderance | (noun) a superiority in numbers or amount | Synonyms: prevalence |
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(noun) exceeding in heaviness; having greater weight | - |
(noun) superiority in power or influence | - |
preponderant | (adjective) having superior power and influence | Synonyms: overriding, paramount, predominant, predominate, preponderating |
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preponderantly | (adverb) much greater in number or influence | Synonyms: predominantly |
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preponderate | (verb) weigh more heavily | Synonyms: outbalance, outweigh, overbalance |
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preponderating | (adjective) having superior power and influence | Synonyms: overriding, paramount, predominant, predominate, preponderant |
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pretender | (noun) a person who makes deceitful pretenses | Synonyms: fake, faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer |
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(noun) a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives | Synonyms: dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite, phoney, phony |
provender | (noun) a stock or supply of foods | Synonyms: commissariat, provisions, viands, victuals |
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(noun) food for domestic livestock | Synonyms: feed |
rangefinder | (noun) a measuring instrument (acoustic or optical or electronic) for finding the distance of an object | Synonyms: range finder |
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rejoinder | (noun) a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one) | Synonyms: comeback, counter, replication, retort, return, riposte |
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(noun) (law) a pleading made by a defendant in response to the plaintiff's replication | - |
remainder | (noun) a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold | Synonyms: end, oddment, remnant |
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(noun) the number that remains after subtraction; the number that when added to the subtrahend gives the minuend | Synonyms: difference |
(noun) the part of the dividend that is left over when the dividend is not evenly divisible by the divisor | - |
(noun) something left after other parts have been taken away | Synonyms: balance, residual, residue, residuum, rest |
(verb) sell cheaply as remainders | - |
reminder | (noun) an experience that causes you to remember something | - |
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(noun) a message that helps you remember something | - |
(noun) someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided | Synonyms: admonisher, monitor |
render | (noun) a substance similar to stucco but exclusively applied to masonry walls | - |
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(verb) cause to become | - |
(verb) melt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities | Synonyms: try |
(verb) bestow | Synonyms: give |
(verb) pass down | Synonyms: deliver, return |
(verb) restate (words) from one language into another language | Synonyms: interpret, translate |
(verb) coat with plastic or cement | - |
(verb) give or supply | Synonyms: generate, give, return, yield |
(verb) give an interpretation or rendition of | Synonyms: interpret |
(verb) show in, or as in, a picture | Synonyms: depict, picture, show |
(verb) give back | Synonyms: return |
(verb) make over as a return | Synonyms: submit |
(verb) give something useful or necessary to | Synonyms: furnish, offer, provide, supply |
(verb) to surrender someone or something to another | Synonyms: deliver, fork out, fork over, fork up, hand over, turn in |
rendering | (noun) giving in acknowledgment of obligation | - |
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(noun) the act of interpreting something as expressed in an artistic performance | Synonyms: interpretation, rendition |
(noun) perspective drawing of an architect's design | - |
(noun) a coat of stucco applied to a masonry wall | - |
(noun) an explanation of something that is not immediately obvious | Synonyms: interpretation, interpreting, rendition |
(noun) a performance of a musical composition or a dramatic role etc. | Synonyms: rendition |
(noun) a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language | Synonyms: interlingual rendition, translation, version |
responder | (noun) someone who responds | Synonyms: answerer, respondent |
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righthander | (noun) a person who uses the right hand more skillfully than the left | Synonyms: right-hander, right hander |
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rinderpest | (noun) an acute infectious viral disease of cattle (usually fatal); characterized by fever and diarrhea and inflammation of mucous membranes | Synonyms: cattle plague |
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rounder | (noun) a tool for rounding corners or edges | - |
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(noun) a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained | Synonyms: debauchee, libertine |
rounders | (noun) an English ball game similar to baseball | - |
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salamander | (noun) any of various typically terrestrial amphibians that resemble lizards and that return to water only to breed | - |
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(noun) fire iron consisting of a metal rod with a handle; used to stir a fire | Synonyms: fire hook, poker, stove poker |
(noun) reptilian creature supposed to live in fire | - |
sander | (noun) a power tool used for sanding wood; an endless loop of sandpaper is moved at high speed by an electric motor | Synonyms: drum sander, electric sander, smoother |
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sanderling | (noun) small sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and migrates southward along sandy coasts in most of world | Synonyms: Crocethia alba |
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seconder | (noun) someone who endorses a motion or petition as a necessary preliminary to a discussion or vote | - |
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sender | (noun) set used to broadcast radio or tv signals | Synonyms: transmitter |
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(noun) someone who transmits a message | Synonyms: transmitter |
sidewinder | (noun) small pale-colored desert rattlesnake of southwestern United States; body moves in an s-shaped curve | Synonyms: Crotalus cerastes, horned rattlesnake |
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(noun) air-to-air missile with infrared homing device | - |
slander | (noun) an abusive attack on a person's character or good name | Synonyms: aspersion, calumny, defamation, denigration |
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(noun) words falsely spoken that damage the reputation of another | - |
(verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, besmirch, calumniate, defame, denigrate, smear, smirch, sully |
slanderer | (noun) one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel | Synonyms: backbiter, defamer, libeler, maligner, traducer, vilifier |
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slanderous | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous |
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slanderously | (adverb) in a false and slanderous and defamatory manner; with slander or calumny | Synonyms: calumniously |
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slanderousness | (noun) The property of being both untrue and harmful to a reputation. | - |
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slender | (adjective) very narrow | Synonyms: thin |
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(adjective) small in quantity | Synonyms: slim |
(adjective) having little width in proportion to the length or height | - |
(adjective) being of delicate or slender build | Synonyms: slight, slim, svelte |
slenderise | (verb) make slender or appear to be slender | Synonyms: slenderize |
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slenderize | (verb) take off weight | Synonyms: melt off, reduce, slim, slim down, thin |
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(verb) make slender or appear to be slender | Synonyms: slenderise |
slenderly | (adverb) in a slim or slender manner | Synonyms: slightly, slimly |
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(adverb) to a meager degree or in a meager manner | Synonyms: meagerly, meagrely, sparingly |
slenderness | (noun) the quality of being slight or inadequate | - |
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(noun) the property of an attractively thin person | Synonyms: slightness, slimness |
(noun) relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width | Synonyms: tenuity, thinness |
sounder | (noun) a device for making soundings | - |
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spellbinder | (noun) an orator who can hold his listeners spellbound | - |
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spender | (noun) someone who spends money to purchase goods or services | Synonyms: disburser, expender |
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(noun) someone who spends money prodigally | Synonyms: scattergood, spend-all, spendthrift |
squander | (verb) spend extravagantly | Synonyms: consume, ware, waste |
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(verb) spend thoughtlessly; throw away | Synonyms: blow, waste |
squandered | (adjective) not used to good advantage | Synonyms: wasted |
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squanderer | (noun) a recklessly extravagant consumer | Synonyms: prodigal, profligate |
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squandering | (noun) spending resources lavishly and wastefully | - |
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squandermania | (noun) prodigious squandering (usually by a government) | - |
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stander | (noun) an organism (person or animal) that stands | - |
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sunder | (verb) break apart or in two, using violence | - |
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surrejoinder | (noun) (law) a pleading by the plaintiff in reply to the defendant's rejoinder | - |
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surrender | (noun) the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions) | Synonyms: capitulation, fall |
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(noun) the delivery of a principal into lawful custody | - |
(noun) a verbal act of admitting defeat | Synonyms: giving up, yielding |
(noun) acceptance of despair | Synonyms: resignation |
(verb) give up or agree to forgo to the power or possession of another | Synonyms: give up |
(verb) relinquish possession or control over | Synonyms: cede, deliver, give up |
surrenderer | (noun) a person who yields or surrenders | Synonyms: yielder |
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suspender | (noun) elastic straps that hold trousers up | Synonyms: brace, gallus |
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tender | (adjective) easy to cut or chew | - |
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(adjective) physically untoughened | Synonyms: untoughened |
(adjective) given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality | - |
(adjective) (of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition | - |
(adjective) having or displaying warmth or affection | Synonyms: affectionate, fond, lovesome |
(adjective) hurting | Synonyms: raw, sensitive, sore |
(adjective) (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail | Synonyms: crank, cranky, tippy |
(adjective) young and immature | - |
(noun) ship that usually provides supplies to other ships | Synonyms: supply ship |
(noun) a boat for communication between ship and shore | Synonyms: cutter, pinnace, ship's boat |
(noun) car attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water | - |
(noun) a formal proposal to buy at a specified price | Synonyms: bid |
(noun) someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another | Synonyms: attendant, attender |
(noun) something that can be used as an official medium of payment | Synonyms: legal tender, stamp |
(verb) make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer | Synonyms: tenderise, tenderize |
(verb) make a tender of; in legal settlements | - |
(verb) offer or present for acceptance | - |
(verb) propose a payment | Synonyms: bid, offer |
tenderfoot | (noun) an inexperienced person (especially someone inexperienced in outdoor living) | - |
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tendergreen | (noun) Asiatic plant cultivated for its swollen root crown and edible foliage | Synonyms: Brassica perviridis, Brassica rapa perviridis, spinach mustard |
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tenderhearted | (adjective) easily moved by another's distress | - |
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(adjective) easily moved to love | - |
tenderheartedness | (noun) warm compassionate feelings | Synonyms: tenderness |
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tenderisation | (noun) the act of making meat tender by pounding or marinating it | Synonyms: tenderization |
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tenderise | (verb) make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer | Synonyms: tender, tenderize |
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tenderised | (adjective) made tender as by marinating or pounding | Synonyms: tenderized |
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tenderiser | (noun) a substance (as the plant enzyme papain) applied to meat to make it tender | Synonyms: tenderizer |
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tenderization | (noun) the act of making meat tender by pounding or marinating it | Synonyms: tenderisation |
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tenderize | (verb) make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer | Synonyms: tender, tenderise |
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tenderized | (adjective) made tender as by marinating or pounding | Synonyms: tenderised |
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tenderizer | (noun) a substance (as the plant enzyme papain) applied to meat to make it tender | Synonyms: tenderiser |
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tenderloin | (noun) the tender meat of the loin muscle on each side of the vertebral column | Synonyms: undercut |
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(noun) a city district known for its vice and high crime rate | Synonyms: combat zone |
tenderly | (adverb) with tenderness; in a tender manner | - |
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tenderness | (noun) a tendency to express warm and affectionate feeling | - |
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(noun) a feeling of concern for the welfare of someone (especially someone defenseless) | Synonyms: softheartedness |
(noun) a positive feeling of liking | Synonyms: affection, affectionateness, fondness, heart, philia, warmheartedness, warmness |
(noun) warm compassionate feelings | Synonyms: tenderheartedness |
(noun) a pain that is felt (as when the area is touched) | Synonyms: rawness, soreness |
tenpounder | (noun) game fish resembling the tarpon but smaller | Synonyms: Elops saurus, ladyfish |
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thunder | (noun) street names for heroin | Synonyms: big H, hell dust, nose drops, scag, skag, smack |
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(noun) a deep prolonged loud noise | Synonyms: boom, roar, roaring |
(noun) a booming or crashing noise caused by air expanding along the path of a bolt of lightning | - |
(verb) utter words loudly and forcefully | Synonyms: roar |
(verb) to make or produce a loud noise | - |
(verb) move fast, noisily, and heavily | - |
(verb) be the case that thunder is being heard | Synonyms: boom |
thunderbird | (noun) (mythology) the spirit of thunder and lightning believed by some Native Americans to take the shape of a great bird | - |
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thunderbolt | (noun) a shocking surprise | Synonyms: bombshell, thunderclap |
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(noun) a discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder | Synonyms: bolt, bolt of lightning |
thunderclap | (noun) a single sharp crash of thunder | - |
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(noun) a shocking surprise | Synonyms: bombshell, thunderbolt |
thundercloud | (noun) a dark cloud of great vertical extent charged with electricity; associated with thunderstorms | Synonyms: cumulonimbus, cumulonimbus cloud |
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thunderer | (noun) a noisemaker that makes a sound like thunder | - |
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