incongruent | (adjective) not congruent | - |
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incongruity | (noun) the quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate | Synonyms: incongruousness |
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incongruous | (adjective) lacking in harmony or compatibility or appropriateness | - |
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incongruously | (adverb) in an incongruous manner | - |
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incongruousness | (noun) the quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate | Synonyms: incongruity |
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ironmonger | (noun) a store selling hardware | Synonyms: hardware store, ironmonger's shop |
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(noun) someone who sells hardware | Synonyms: hardwareman |
ironmongery | (noun) the merchandise that is sold in an ironmonger's shop | - |
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jongleur | (noun) a singer of folk songs | Synonyms: folk singer, minstrel, poet-singer, troubadour |
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kampong | (noun) a native malay village | Synonyms: campong |
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kurrajong | (noun) widely distributed tree of eastern Australia yielding a tough durable fiber and soft light attractively grained wood; foliage is an important emergency food for cattle | Synonyms: Brachychiton populneus, currajong |
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lemongrass | (noun) a tropical grass native to India and Sri Lanka | Synonyms: lemon grass |
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(noun) an aromatic oil that smells like lemon and is widely used in Asian cooking and in perfumes and medicines | Synonyms: lemon grass, lemongrass oil |
lifelong | (adjective) continuing through life | Synonyms: womb-to-tomb |
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livelong | (adjective) (of time) constituting the full extent or duration | - |
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(noun) perennial northern temperate plant with toothed leaves and heads of small purplish-white flowers | Synonyms: live-forever, orpin, orpine, Sedum telephium |
long | (adjective) good at remembering | Synonyms: recollective, retentive, tenacious |
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(adjective) primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified | - |
(adjective) primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified | - |
(adjective) (of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration | - |
(adjective) holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices | - |
(adjective) having or being more than normal or necessary | - |
(adjective) planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, foresightful, longsighted, prospicient |
(adjective) of relatively great height | - |
(adjective) involving substantial risk | - |
(adverb) for an extended time or at a distant time | - |
(adverb) for an extended distance | - |
(verb) desire strongly or persistently | Synonyms: hanker, yearn |
longan | (noun) tree of southeastern Asia to Australia grown primarily for its sweet edible fruit resembling litchi nuts; sometimes placed in genera Euphorbia or Nephelium | Synonyms: Dimocarpus longan, Euphorbia litchi, longanberry, lungen, Nephelium longana |
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longanberry | (noun) Asian fruit similar to litchi | Synonyms: dragon's eye |
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(noun) tree of southeastern Asia to Australia grown primarily for its sweet edible fruit resembling litchi nuts; sometimes placed in genera Euphorbia or Nephelium | Synonyms: Dimocarpus longan, Euphorbia litchi, longan, lungen, Nephelium longana |
longanimity | (noun) good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence | Synonyms: forbearance, patience |
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longanimous | (adjective) showing patient and unruffled self-control and restraint under adversity; slow to retaliate or express resentment | Synonyms: forbearing |
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longbeard | (noun) a stoneware drinking jug with a long neck; decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine (17th century) | Synonyms: bellarmine, greybeard, long-beard |
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longboat | (noun) the largest boat carried by a merchant sailing vessel | - |
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longbow | (noun) a powerful wooden bow drawn by hand; usually 5-6 feet long; used in medieval England | - |
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longbowman | (noun) a medieval English archer who used a longbow | - |
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longer | (noun) a person with a strong desire for something | Synonyms: thirster, yearner |
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(adverb) for more time | - |
longest | (adverb) for the most time | - |
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longevity | (noun) duration of service | Synonyms: length of service |
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(noun) the property of being long-lived | Synonyms: seniority |
longhand | (adjective) having words written out in full by hand | - |
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(noun) rapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and are cursively connected within words without lifting the writing implement from the paper | Synonyms: cursive, cursive script, running hand |
longhorn | (noun) long-horned beef cattle formerly common in southwestern United States | Synonyms: Texas longhorn |
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longicorn | (noun) long-bodied beetle having very long antennae | Synonyms: long-horned beetle, longicorn beetle |
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longing | (noun) prolonged unfulfilled desire or need | Synonyms: hungriness, yearning |
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longingly | (adverb) in a yearning manner | Synonyms: yearningly |
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longish | (adjective) somewhat long | - |
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longitude | (noun) the angular distance between a point on any meridian and the prime meridian at Greenwich | - |
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longitudinal | (adjective) of or relating to lines of longitude | - |
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(adjective) running lengthwise | - |
(adjective) over an extended time | - |
longitudinally | (adverb) with respect to longitude | - |
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(adverb) in the direction of the length | Synonyms: lengthways, lengthwise, longways, longwise |
(adverb) across time | - |
longlegs | (noun) long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons | Synonyms: Himantopus stilt, long-legs, stilt, stilt plover, stiltbird |
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longness | (noun) the property of being of long spatial extent | - |
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(noun) duration as an extension | - |
longroot | (noun) deep-rooted perennial of southeastern United States | Synonyms: Arenaria caroliniana, pine-barren sandwort |
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longship | (noun) a type of ship invented and used by the Vikings for trade, commerce, exploration, and warfare during the Viking Age. | - |
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longshoreman | (noun) a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port | Synonyms: dock-walloper, dock worker, docker, dockhand, dockworker, loader, lumper, stevedore |
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longshot | (noun) a photograph taken from a distance | - |
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longsighted | (adjective) capable of seeing to a great distance | Synonyms: eagle-eyed, farseeing, keen-sighted |
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(adjective) planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, foresightful, long, prospicient |
longsightedness | (noun) abnormal condition in which vision for distant objects is better than for near objects | Synonyms: farsightedness, hypermetropia, hypermetropy, hyperopia |
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longstanding | (adjective) having existed for a long time | Synonyms: long-standing |
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longtime | (adjective) having existed or persisted or continued in a particular role or state for a long time | Synonyms: long-time |
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longueur | (noun) a period of dullness or boredom (especially in a work of literature or performing art) | - |
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longways | (noun) country dancing performed with couples in two long lines facing each other | Synonyms: longways dance |
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(adverb) in the direction of the length | Synonyms: lengthways, lengthwise, longitudinally, longwise |
longwise | (adverb) in the direction of the length | Synonyms: lengthways, lengthwise, longitudinally, longways |
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longwool | (noun) a domestic long-wool sheep | - |
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longyi | (noun) a long piece of brightly colored cloth (cotton or silk) used as clothing (a skirt or loincloth or sash etc.) in India and Pakistan and Burma | Synonyms: lungi, lungyi |
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mahjong | (noun) Chinese game played by 4 people with 144 tiles | Synonyms: Mah-Jongg |
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monger | (noun) someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold | Synonyms: bargainer, dealer, trader |
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(verb) sell or offer for sale from place to place | Synonyms: hawk, huckster, peddle, pitch, vend |
monggo | (noun) seed of the mung bean plant used for food; food from the seed of the mung bean plant | Synonyms: golden gram, green bean, green gram, green soy, mash bean, moong, mung, mung bean, munggo |
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(noun) seed of the mung bean plant; used for food; seed of the mung bean plant | Synonyms: golden gram, green bean, green gram, green soy, mash bean, moong, mung, mung bean, munggo |
mongo | (noun) 100 mongo equal 1 tugrik in Mongolia | - |
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mongolianism | (noun) a congenital disorder caused by having an extra 21st chromosome; results in a flat face and short stature and mental retardation | Synonyms: Down's syndrome, Down syndrome, mongolism, trisomy 21 |
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mongolism | (noun) a congenital disorder caused by having an extra 21st chromosome; results in a flat face and short stature and mental retardation | Synonyms: Down's syndrome, Down syndrome, mongolianism, trisomy 21 |
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mongoloid | (adjective) (offensive) of or relating to or suffering from Down syndrome | - |
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(adjective) characteristic of or resembling a Mongol | - |
(noun) a person suffering from Down syndrome (no longer used technically in this sense, now considered offensive) | - |
mongoose | (noun) agile grizzled Old World viverrine; preys on snakes and rodents | - |
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mongrel | (noun) an inferior dog or one of mixed breed | Synonyms: cur, mutt |
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(noun) derogatory term for a variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin | Synonyms: bastard |
mongrelise | (verb) cause to become a mongrel | Synonyms: mongrelize |
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mongrelize | (verb) cause to become a mongrel | Synonyms: mongrelise |
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monthlong | (adjective) last through a month | - |
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moong | (noun) seed of the mung bean plant used for food; food from the seed of the mung bean plant | Synonyms: golden gram, green bean, green gram, green soy, mash bean, monggo, mung, mung bean, munggo |
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(noun) seed of the mung bean plant; used for food; seed of the mung bean plant | Synonyms: golden gram, green bean, green gram, green soy, mash bean, monggo, mung, mung bean, munggo |
newsmonger | (noun) a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others | Synonyms: gossip, gossiper, gossipmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger |
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nightlong | (adjective) lasting, open, or operating through the whole night | Synonyms: all-night, overnight |
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nonglutinous | (adjective) not resembling glue in texture | Synonyms: nonviscid |
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nongranular | (adjective) not having granules | - |
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nongregarious | (adjective) of plants and animals; not growing or living in groups or colonies | Synonyms: nonsocial, solitary |
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oblong | (adjective) deviating from a square or circle or sphere by being elongated in one direction | - |
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(adjective) (of a leaf shape) having a somewhat elongated form with approximately parallel sides | - |
(noun) a plane figure that deviates from a square or circle due to elongation | - |
oblongness | (noun) the property of being shaped like a rectangle | Synonyms: rectangularity |
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ongoing | (adjective) currently happening | Synonyms: on-going |
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oolong | (noun) Chinese tea leaves that have been partially fermented before being dried | - |
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oxtongue | (noun) widespread European weed with spiny tongue-shaped leaves and yellow flowers; naturalized in United States | Synonyms: bitterweed, bristly oxtongue, bugloss, Picris echioides |
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partsong | (noun) a song with two or more voice parts | - |
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plainsong | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) a liturgical chant consisting of a single, unaccompanied melodic line | Synonyms: plainchant |
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pong | (noun) an unpleasant smell | Synonyms: niff |
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pongee | (noun) a soft thin cloth woven from raw silk (or an imitation) | - |
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pongid | (noun) any of the large anthropoid apes of the family Pongidae | Synonyms: great ape |
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prolong | (verb) lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer | Synonyms: draw out, extend, protract |
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(verb) lengthen or extend in duration or space | Synonyms: keep up, sustain |
prolongation | (noun) the act of prolonging something | Synonyms: lengthening, perpetuation, protraction |
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(noun) amount or degree or range to which something extends | Synonyms: extension, lengthiness |
(noun) the consequence of being lengthened in duration | Synonyms: continuation, lengthiness, protraction |
prolonge | (noun) a rope fitted with a hook and used for towing a gun carriage | - |
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prolonged | (adjective) drawn out or made longer spatially | Synonyms: elongated, extended, lengthened |
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(adjective) relatively long in duration; tediously protracted | Synonyms: drawn-out, extended, lengthy, protracted |
prong | (noun) a pointed projection | - |
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prongbuck | (noun) fleet antelope-like ruminant of western North American plains with small branched horns | Synonyms: American antelope, Antilocapra americana, pronghorn, pronghorn antelope |
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pronged | (adjective) having prongs or tines; usually used in combination | Synonyms: tined |
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(adjective) resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches | Synonyms: bifurcate, biramous, branched, forficate, fork-like, forked, prongy |
pronghorn | (noun) fleet antelope-like ruminant of western North American plains with small branched horns | Synonyms: American antelope, Antilocapra americana, prongbuck, pronghorn antelope |
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prongy | (adjective) resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches | Synonyms: bifurcate, biramous, branched, forficate, fork-like, forked, pronged |
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quandong | (noun) red Australian fruit; used for dessert or in jam | Synonyms: native peach, quandang, quantong |
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(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit | Synonyms: blue fig, Brisbane quandong, Elaeocarpus grandis, quandong tree, silver quandong tree |
(noun) the fruit of the Brisbane quandong tree | Synonyms: blue fig |
(noun) Australian tree with edible flesh and edible nutlike seed | Synonyms: Eucarya acuminata, Fusanus acuminatus, quandang, quandong tree |
quantong | (noun) red Australian fruit; used for dessert or in jam | Synonyms: native peach, quandang, quandong |
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rumormonger | (noun) a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others | Synonyms: gossip, gossiper, gossipmonger, newsmonger, rumourmonger |
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rumourmonger | (noun) a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others | Synonyms: gossip, gossiper, gossipmonger, newsmonger, rumormonger |
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sarong | (noun) a loose skirt consisting of brightly colored fabric wrapped around the body; worn by both women and men in the South Pacific | - |
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scandalmonger | (noun) a person who spreads malicious gossip | - |
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scandalmongering | (adjective) typical of tabloids | Synonyms: sensationalistic, yellow |
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(noun) spreading malicious gossip | - |
scaremonger | (noun) a person who spreads frightening rumors and stirs up trouble | Synonyms: stirrer |
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scuppernong | (noun) amber-green muscadine grape of southeastern United States | - |
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sidelong | (adjective) inclining or directed to one side | - |
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(adjective) (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy | Synonyms: askance, askant, asquint, squint-eyed, squint, squinty |
(adjective) situated at or extending to the side | Synonyms: lateral |
(adverb) to, toward or at one side | Synonyms: obliquely, sideways |
(adverb) with the side toward someone or something | - |
(adverb) on the side | - |
singalong | (noun) informal group singing of popular songs | Synonyms: singsong |
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singsong | (adjective) uttered in a monotonous cadence or rhythm as in chanting | Synonyms: chantlike, intoned |
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(noun) informal group singing of popular songs | Synonyms: singalong |
(noun) a regular and monotonous rising and falling intonation | - |
(verb) speak, chant, or declaim in a singsong | - |
(verb) move as if accompanied by a singsong | - |
song | (noun) the act of singing | Synonyms: strain |
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(noun) a short musical composition with words | Synonyms: vocal |
(noun) the characteristic sound produced by a bird | Synonyms: birdcall, birdsong, call |
(noun) a distinctive or characteristic sound | - |
(noun) a very small sum | - |
songbird | (noun) any bird having a musical call | Synonyms: songster |
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