acorn | (noun) fruit of the oak tree: a smooth thin-walled nut in a woody cup-shaped base | - |
---|
adorn | (verb) make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc. | Synonyms: beautify, decorate, embellish, grace, ornament |
---|
(verb) furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors | Synonyms: clothe, invest |
(verb) be beautiful to look at | Synonyms: beautify, deck, decorate, embellish, grace |
adorned | (adjective) provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction | Synonyms: decorated |
---|
adornment | (noun) the action of decorating yourself with something colorful and interesting | - |
---|
(noun) a decoration of color or interest that is added to relieve plainness | - |
aepyornis | (noun) huge (to 9 ft.) extinct flightless bird of Madagascar | Synonyms: elephant bird |
---|
airborne | (adjective) moved or conveyed by or through air | - |
---|
archaeornis | (noun) extinct primitive toothed bird with a long feathered tail and three free clawed digits on each wing | - |
---|
attorn | (verb) acknowledge a new land owner as one's landlord | - |
---|
attorney | (noun) a professional person authorized to practice law; conducts lawsuits or gives legal advice | Synonyms: lawyer |
---|
attorneyship | (noun) the position of attorney | - |
---|
barleycorn | (noun) a grain of barley | Synonyms: barley |
---|
(noun) a grain of barley | - |
baseborn | (adjective) illegitimate | Synonyms: base |
---|
(adjective) of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense) | Synonyms: base, humble, lowly |
bicorn | (adjective) having two horns or horn-shaped parts | Synonyms: bicornate, bicorned, bicornuate, bicornuous |
---|
(noun) a cocked hat with the brim turned up to form two points | Synonyms: bicorne |
bicornate | (adjective) having two horns or horn-shaped parts | Synonyms: bicorn, bicorned, bicornuate, bicornuous |
---|
bicorne | (noun) a cocked hat with the brim turned up to form two points | Synonyms: bicorn |
---|
bicorned | (adjective) having two horns or horn-shaped parts | Synonyms: bicorn, bicornate, bicornuate, bicornuous |
---|
bicornuate | (adjective) having two horns or horn-shaped parts | Synonyms: bicorn, bicornate, bicorned, bicornuous |
---|
bicornuous | (adjective) having two horns or horn-shaped parts | Synonyms: bicorn, bicornate, bicorned, bicornuate |
---|
bighorn | (noun) wild sheep of mountainous regions of western North America having massive curled horns | Synonyms: bighorn sheep, cimarron, Ovis canadensis, Rocky Mountain bighorn, Rocky Mountain sheep |
---|
blackthorn | (noun) erect and almost thornless American hawthorn with somewhat pear-shaped berries | Synonyms: Crataegus calpodendron, Crataegus tomentosa, pear haw, pear hawthorn |
---|
(noun) a thorny Eurasian bush with plumlike fruits | Synonyms: Prunus spinosa, sloe |
born | (adjective) brought into existence | - |
---|
(adjective) being talented through inherited qualities | Synonyms: innate, natural |
bornite | (noun) a mineral consisting of sulfides of copper and iron that is found in copper deposits | Synonyms: peacock ore |
---|
boxthorn | (noun) any of various shrubs or vines of the genus Lycium with showy flowers and bright berries | Synonyms: matrimony vine |
---|
broomcorn | (noun) tall grasses grown for the elongated stiff-branched panicle used for brooms and brushes | Synonyms: Sorghum vulgare technicum |
---|
buckthorn | (noun) any shrub or small tree of the genus Bumelia | - |
---|
(noun) a shrub or shrubby tree of the genus Rhamnus; fruits are source of yellow dyes or pigments | - |
(noun) an Old World plantain with long narrow ribbed leaves widely established in temperate regions | Synonyms: English plantain, narrow-leaved plantain, Plantago lanceolata, ribgrass, ribwort, ripple-grass |
bullhorn | (noun) a portable loudspeaker with built-in microphone and amplifier | Synonyms: loud-hailer, loud hailer |
---|
californium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic element; discovered by bombarding curium with alpha particles | Synonyms: atomic number 98, Cf |
---|
careworn | (adjective) showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering | Synonyms: drawn, haggard, raddled, worn |
---|
catacorner | (adjective) slanted across a polygon on a diagonal line | Synonyms: cata-cornered, cater-cornered, catercorner, catty-corner, catty-cornered, kitty-corner, kitty-cornered |
---|
catercorner | (adjective) slanted across a polygon on a diagonal line | Synonyms: cata-cornered, catacorner, cater-cornered, catty-corner, catty-cornered, kitty-corner, kitty-cornered |
---|
corn | (noun) something sentimental or trite | - |
---|
(noun) ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food | Synonyms: edible corn |
(noun) whiskey distilled from a mash of not less than 80 percent corn | Synonyms: corn whiskey, corn whisky |
(noun) tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times | Synonyms: Indian corn, maize, Zea mays |
(noun) (Great Britain) any of various cereal plants (especially the dominant crop of the region--wheat in Great Britain or oats in Scotland and Ireland) | - |
(noun) the dried grains or kernels or corn used as animal feed or ground for meal | - |
(noun) a hard thickening of the skin (especially on the top or sides of the toes) caused by the pressure of ill-fitting shoes | Synonyms: clavus |
(verb) preserve with large-grained rock salt | - |
(verb) feed (cattle) with corn | - |
cornbread | (noun) bread made primarily of cornmeal | - |
---|
corncob | (noun) the hard cylindrical core that bears the kernels of an ear of corn | Synonyms: corn cob |
---|
corncrake | (noun) common Eurasian rail that frequents grain fields | Synonyms: Crex crex, land rail |
---|
corncrib | (noun) a crib for storing and drying ears of corn | - |
---|
cornea | (noun) the transparent dome-shaped anterior portion of the outer covering of the eye; it covers the iris and pupil and is continuous with the sclera | - |
---|
corneal | (adjective) of or related to the cornea | - |
---|
corned | (adjective) (used especially of meat) cured in brine | Synonyms: cured |
---|
cornel | (noun) a tree of shrub of the genus Cornus often having showy bracts resembling flowers | Synonyms: dogwood, dogwood tree |
---|
cornelian | (noun) a translucent red or orange variety of chalcedony | Synonyms: carnelian |
---|
corneous | (adjective) made of horn (or of a substance resembling horn) | Synonyms: hornlike, horny |
---|
corner | (noun) the intersection of two streets | Synonyms: street corner, turning point |
---|
(noun) (architecture) solid exterior angle of a building; especially one formed by a cornerstone | Synonyms: quoin |
(noun) an interior angle formed by two meeting walls | Synonyms: nook |
(noun) the point where two lines meet or intersect | - |
(noun) the point where three areas or surfaces meet or intersect | - |
(noun) a place off to the side of an area | - |
(noun) a remote area | - |
(noun) a projecting part where two sides or edges meet | - |
(noun) a small concavity | Synonyms: niche, recess, recession |
(noun) a temporary monopoly on a kind of commercial trade | - |
(noun) a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible | Synonyms: box |
(verb) turn a corner | - |
(verb) force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape | Synonyms: tree |
(verb) gain control over | - |
cornerback | (noun) a defensive football player stationed outside the linebackers | - |
---|
cornered | (adjective) forced to turn and face attackers | Synonyms: at bay, trapped, treed |
---|
cornerstone | (noun) a stone at the outer corner of two intersecting masonry walls | - |
---|
(noun) a stone in the exterior of a large and important building; usually carved with a date and laid with appropriate ceremonies | - |
(noun) the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained | Synonyms: base, basis, foundation, fundament, groundwork |
cornet | (noun) a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves | Synonyms: horn, trump, trumpet |
---|
cornetfish | (noun) slender tropical fish with a long tubular snout and bony plates instead of scales | - |
---|
cornetist | (noun) a musician who plays the trumpet or cornet | Synonyms: trumpeter |
---|
corneum | (noun) the outermost layer of the epidermis consisting of dead cells that slough off | Synonyms: horny layer, stratum corneum |
---|
cornfield | (noun) a field planted with corn | Synonyms: corn field |
---|
cornflour | (noun) starch prepared from the grains of corn; used in cooking as a thickener | Synonyms: cornstarch |
---|
cornflower | (noun) an annual Eurasian plant cultivated in North America having showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers | Synonyms: bachelor's button, bluebottle, Centaurea cyanus |
---|
(noun) plant of southern and southeastern United States grown for its yellow flowers that can be dried | Synonyms: strawflower, Uvularia grandiflora |
cornhusk | (noun) the husk of an ear of corn | - |
---|
cornhusker | (noun) a worker who husks corn | - |
---|
cornhusking | (noun) the act of removing the husks from ears of corn | - |
---|
(noun) a social gathering for the purpose of husking corn | Synonyms: husking bee |
cornice | (noun) the topmost projecting part of an entablature | - |
---|
(noun) a molding at the corner between the ceiling and the top of a wall | - |
(noun) a decorative framework to conceal curtain fixtures at the top of a window casing | Synonyms: pelmet, valance, valance board |
(verb) furnish with a cornice | - |
cornmeal | (noun) coarsely ground corn | Synonyms: Indian meal |
---|
cornpone | (noun) cornbread often made without milk or eggs and baked or fried (southern) | Synonyms: pone |
---|
cornsilk | (noun) each of the long filamentous styles that grow as a silky tuft at the tip of an ear of Indian corn | Synonyms: corn silk |
---|
cornsmut | (noun) a smut fungus attacking Indian corn | Synonyms: corn smut |
---|
cornstalk | (noun) the stalk of a corn plant | Synonyms: corn stalk |
---|
cornstarch | (noun) starch prepared from the grains of corn; used in cooking as a thickener | Synonyms: cornflour |
---|
cornu | (noun) (anatomy) any structure that resembles a horn in shape | - |
---|
cornucopia | (noun) the property of being extremely abundant | Synonyms: profuseness, profusion, richness |
---|
(noun) a goat's horn filled with grain and flowers and fruit symbolizing prosperity | Synonyms: horn of plenty |
corny | (adjective) dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality | Synonyms: bromidic, platitudinal, platitudinous |
---|
cromorne | (noun) a Renaissance woodwind with a double reed and a curving tube (crooked horn) | Synonyms: crumhorn, krummhorn |
---|
crumhorn | (noun) a Renaissance woodwind with a double reed and a curving tube (crooked horn) | Synonyms: cromorne, krummhorn |
---|
czworniak | (noun) a Polish mead, made using three units of water for each unit of honey. | - |
---|
dehorn | (verb) take the horns off (an animal) | - |
---|
(verb) prevent the growth of horns of certain animals | - |
doornail | (noun) a nail with a large head; formerly used to decorate doors | - |
---|
earthborn | (adjective) connected with earthly life; of earthly origin | - |
---|
(adjective) springing from or born on the earth | - |
(adjective) of earthly origin (as mortals are) | - |
firethorn | (noun) any of various thorny shrubs of the genus Pyracantha bearing small white flowers followed by hard red or orange-red berries | Synonyms: fire thorn, pyracanth, Pyracantha |
---|
firstborn | (adjective) first in order of birth | Synonyms: eldest |
---|
(noun) the offspring who came first in the order of birth | Synonyms: eldest |
fluegelhorn | (noun) a brass instrument resembling a cornet but with a wider bore | Synonyms: flugelhorn |
---|
flugelhorn | (noun) a brass instrument resembling a cornet but with a wider bore | Synonyms: fluegelhorn |
---|
foghorn | (noun) a warning device consisting of a horn that generates a loud low tone | - |
---|
(noun) a loud low warning signal that can be heard by fogbound ships | Synonyms: fogsignal |
forlorn | (adjective) marked by or showing hopelessness | - |
---|
forlornly | (adverb) in a forlorn manner | - |
---|
forlornness | (noun) sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned | Synonyms: desolation, loneliness |
---|
fornicate | (verb) have sex without being married | - |
---|
fornication | (noun) voluntary sexual intercourse between persons not married to each other | - |
---|
(noun) extramarital sex that willfully and maliciously interferes with marriage relations | Synonyms: adultery, criminal conversation |
fornicator | (noun) someone who commits adultery or fornication | Synonyms: adulterer |
---|
fornicatress | (noun) a woman adulterer | Synonyms: adulteress, hussy, jade, loose woman, slut, strumpet, trollop |
---|
fornix | (noun) an arched bundle of white fibers at the base of the brain by which the hippocampus of each hemisphere projects to the contralateral hippocampus and to the thalamus and mamillary bodies | Synonyms: trigonum cerebrale |
---|
(noun) generally any arch shaped structure (but often it refers to the arched roof of an anatomical space) | - |
freeborn | (adjective) born free of free parents | - |
---|
greenhorn | (noun) an awkward and inexperienced youth | Synonyms: cub, rookie |
---|
hawthorn | (noun) a spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus | Synonyms: haw |
---|
highborn | (adjective) belonging to the peerage | Synonyms: coroneted, titled |
---|
horn | (noun) one of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates | - |
---|
(noun) any hard protuberance from the head of an organism that is similar to or suggestive of a horn | - |
(noun) a brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves | Synonyms: French horn |
(noun) a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves | Synonyms: cornet, trump, trumpet |
(noun) an alarm device that makes a loud warning sound | - |
(noun) a high pommel of a Western saddle (usually metal covered with leather) | Synonyms: saddle horn |
(noun) a device on an automobile for making a warning noise | Synonyms: automobile horn, car horn, hooter, motor horn |
(noun) a noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it | - |
(noun) a device having the shape of a horn | - |
(noun) a noise made by the driver of an automobile to give warning | - |
(noun) the material (mostly keratin) that covers the horns of ungulates and forms hooves and claws and nails | - |
(verb) stab or pierce with a horn or tusk | Synonyms: tusk |
hornbeam | (noun) any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Carpinus | - |
---|
hornbill | (noun) bird of tropical Africa and Asia having a very large bill surmounted by a bony protuberance; related to kingfishers | - |
---|
hornblende | (noun) a green to black mineral of the amphibole group; consists of silicates of calcium and sodium and magnesium and iron | - |
---|
hornbook | (noun) a primer that provides instruction in the rudiments or basic skills of a branch of knowledge | - |
---|
horned | (adjective) having a horn or horns or hornlike parts or horns of a particular kind | - |
---|
hornet | (noun) large stinging paper wasp | - |
---|
hornfels | (noun) a fine-grained metamorphic rock formed by the action of heat on clay rocks | Synonyms: hornstone |
---|
horniness | (noun) a state of sexual arousal | Synonyms: hot pants, hotness |
---|
hornist | (noun) a musician who plays a horn (especially a French horn) | - |
---|
hornless | (adjective) having no horns | - |
---|
hornlike | (adjective) made of horn (or of a substance resembling horn) | Synonyms: corneous, horny |
---|