bandleader | (noun) the leader of a dance band | - |
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bandlet | (noun) molding in the form of a ring; at top of a column | Synonyms: annulet, bandelet, bandelette, square and rabbet |
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boundless | (adjective) seemingly boundless in amount, number, degree, or especially extent | Synonyms: limitless, unbounded |
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boundlessly | (adverb) without bounds | Synonyms: immeasurably, infinitely |
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boundlessness | (noun) the quality of being infinite; without bound or limit | Synonyms: infiniteness, infinitude, limitlessness, unboundedness |
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brindle | (adjective) having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats | Synonyms: brinded, brindled, tabby |
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brindled | (adjective) having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats | Synonyms: brinded, brindle, tabby |
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bundle | (noun) a package of several things tied together for carrying or storing | Synonyms: sheaf |
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(noun) a collection of things wrapped or boxed together | Synonyms: package, packet, parcel |
(noun) a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit) | Synonyms: big bucks, big money, megabucks, pile |
(verb) sleep fully clothed in the same bed with one's betrothed | Synonyms: practice bundling |
(verb) make into a bundle | Synonyms: bundle up, roll up |
(verb) compress into a wad | Synonyms: compact, pack, wad |
(verb) gather or cause to gather into a cluster | Synonyms: bunch, clump, cluster |
candle | (noun) stick of wax with a wick in the middle | Synonyms: taper, wax light |
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(noun) the basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; equal to 1/60 of the luminous intensity per square centimeter of a black body radiating at the temperature of 2,046 degrees Kelvin | Synonyms: candela, cd, standard candle |
(verb) examine eggs for freshness by holding them against a light | - |
candleberry | (noun) deciduous aromatic shrub of eastern North America with grey-green wax-coated berries | Synonyms: bayberry, Myrica pensylvanica, swamp candleberry, waxberry |
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candlelight | (noun) the light provided by a burning candle | Synonyms: candle flame |
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candlemaker | (noun) a person who makes or sells candles | - |
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candlenut | (noun) large tree native to southeastern Asia; the nuts yield oil used in varnishes; nut kernels strung together are used locally as candles | Synonyms: Aleurites moluccana, varnish tree |
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(noun) seed of candlenut tree; source of oil used in varnishes | - |
candlepin | (noun) a bowling pin that is thin by comparison with a tenpin | - |
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candlepins | (noun) a bowling game using slender bowling pins | Synonyms: candlepin bowling |
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candlepower | (noun) luminous intensity measured in candelas | Synonyms: light intensity |
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candlesnuffer | (noun) an implement with a small cup at the end of a handle; used to extinguish the flame of a candle | - |
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candlestick | (noun) a holder with sockets for candles | Synonyms: candle holder |
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candlewick | (noun) the wick of a candle | - |
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(noun) loops of soft yarn are cut to give a tufted pattern | - |
candlewood | (noun) any of several resinous trees or shrubs often burned for light | - |
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chandler | (noun) a maker (and seller) of candles and soap and oils and paints | - |
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(noun) a retail dealer in provisions and supplies | - |
chandlery | (noun) a storeroom where candles are kept | - |
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(noun) candles and other commodities sold by a chandler | - |
dandle | (verb) pet | - |
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(verb) move (a baby) up and down in one's arms or on one's knees | - |
doorhandle | (noun) a knob used to release the catch when opening a door (often called `doorhandle' in Great Britain) | Synonyms: doorknob |
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dwindle | (verb) become smaller or lose substance | Synonyms: dwindle away, dwindle down |
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endless | (adjective) having the ends united so as to form a continuous whole | - |
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(adjective) having no known beginning and presumably no end | Synonyms: dateless, sempiternal |
(adjective) tiresomely long; seemingly without end | Synonyms: eternal, interminable |
(adjective) infinitely great in number | - |
endlessly | (adverb) continuing forever without end | Synonyms: infinitely |
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(adverb) with unflagging resolve | Synonyms: ceaselessly, continuously, incessantly, unceasingly, unendingly |
(adverb) all the time; seemingly without stopping | Synonyms: interminably |
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds | - |
endlessness | (noun) the property of being (or seeming to be) without end | - |
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enkindle | (verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: arouse, elicit, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise |
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(verb) cause to start burning | Synonyms: conflagrate, inflame, kindle |
enkindled | (adjective) set afire | Synonyms: ignited, kindled |
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fondle | (verb) touch or stroke lightly in a loving or endearing manner | Synonyms: caress |
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fondler | (noun) a lover who gently fondles and caresses the loved one | Synonyms: petter |
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(noun) a molester who touches the intimate parts of the victim | - |
footcandle | (noun) a unit of illuminance on a surface that is everywhere 1 foot from a point source of 1 candle | - |
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friendless | (adjective) excluded from a society | Synonyms: outcast |
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friendlessness | (noun) being without friends | - |
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grindle | (noun) primitive long-bodied carnivorous freshwater fish with a very long dorsal fin; found in sluggish waters of North America | Synonyms: Amia calva, bowfin, dogfish |
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groundless | (adjective) without a basis in reason or fact | Synonyms: baseless, idle, unfounded, unwarranted, wild |
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groundlessness | (noun) the quality of lacking substance or value | Synonyms: idleness |
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handle | (noun) the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it | Synonyms: grip, handgrip, hold |
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(verb) act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression | Synonyms: address, cover, deal, plow, treat |
(verb) touch, lift, or hold with the hands | Synonyms: palm |
(verb) handle effectively | Synonyms: manage, wield |
(verb) show and train | - |
(verb) be in charge of, act on, or dispose of | Synonyms: care, deal, manage |
(verb) interact in a certain way | Synonyms: do by, treat |
handlebar | (noun) the shaped bar used to steer a bicycle | - |
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handled | (adjective) having a usually specified type of handle | - |
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handleless | (adjective) having no handle | - |
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handler | (noun) (sports) someone in charge of training an athlete or a team | Synonyms: coach, manager |
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(noun) one who trains or exhibits animals | Synonyms: animal trainer |
(noun) an agent who handles something or someone | - |
handless | (adjective) without a hand or hands | - |
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(adjective) lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands | Synonyms: bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, heavy-handed, left-handed |
kindle | (verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, provoke, raise |
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(verb) cause to start burning | Synonyms: conflagrate, enkindle, inflame |
(verb) catch fire | Synonyms: inflame |
kindled | (adjective) set afire | Synonyms: enkindled, ignited |
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landler | (noun) a moderately slow Austrian country dance in triple time; involves spinning and clapping | - |
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(noun) music in triple time for dancing the landler | - |
landless | (adjective) owning no land | - |
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manhandle | (verb) handle roughly | - |
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mindless | (adjective) not mindful or attentive | Synonyms: forgetful, unmindful |
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(adjective) devoid of intelligence or thought | Synonyms: vacant, vacuous |
(adjective) lacking the thinking capacity characteristic of a conscious being | - |
(adjective) requiring little mental effort | - |
(adjective) not marked by the use of reason | Synonyms: reasonless, senseless |
mindlessly | (adverb) in an unreasonably senseless manner | Synonyms: senselessly |
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(adverb) without intellectual involvement | - |
mindlessness | (noun) the trait of acting rashly and without prudence | Synonyms: heedlessness, rashness |
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(noun) total lack of meaning or ideas | Synonyms: inanity, pointlessness, senselessness, vacuity |
mishandle | (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
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(verb) manage badly or incompetently | Synonyms: misconduct, mismanage |
panhandle | (noun) the handle of a pan | - |
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(noun) a relatively narrow strip of land projecting from some larger area | - |
(verb) beg by accosting people in the street and asking for money | - |
panhandler | (noun) a beggar who approaches strangers asking for money | - |
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rekindle | (verb) arouse again | - |
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(verb) kindle anew, as of a fire | - |
rundle | (noun) one of the crosspieces that form the steps of a ladder | Synonyms: rung, spoke |
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soundless | (adjective) marked by absence of sound | Synonyms: silent, still |
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soundlessly | (adverb) without a sound | Synonyms: noiselessly |
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soundlessness | (noun) the property of making no sound | Synonyms: quietness |
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spindle | (noun) a stick or pin used to twist the yarn in spinning | - |
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(noun) any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts | Synonyms: arbor, mandrel, mandril |
(noun) a piece of wood that has been turned on a lathe; used as a baluster, chair leg, etc. | - |
(noun) any holding device consisting of a rigid, sharp-pointed object | Synonyms: spike |
(noun) (biology) tiny fibers that are seen in cell division; the fibers radiate from two poles and meet at the equator in the middle | - |
spindleberry | (noun) any shrubby trees or woody vines of the genus Euonymus having showy usually reddish berries | Synonyms: spindle tree, spindleberry tree |
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spindlelegs | (noun) long thin legs | Synonyms: spindleshanks |
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(noun) a thin person with long thin legs | Synonyms: spindleshanks |
spindleshanks | (noun) long thin legs | Synonyms: spindlelegs |
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(noun) a thin person with long thin legs | Synonyms: spindlelegs |
swindle | (noun) the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme | Synonyms: cheat, fraud, rig |
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(verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, victimize |
swindler | (noun) a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud | Synonyms: chiseler, chiseller, defrauder, gouger, grifter, scammer |
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trundle | (noun) small wheel or roller | - |
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(noun) a low bed to be slid under a higher bed | Synonyms: truckle, truckle bed, trundle bed |
(verb) move heavily | - |
unkindled | (adjective) not set afire | - |
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windless | (adjective) without or almost without wind | - |
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windlessness | (noun) calmness without winds | Synonyms: stillness |
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