ahorse | (adjective) traveling on horseback | Synonyms: ahorseback |
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(adverb) on the back of a horse | Synonyms: ahorseback, horseback |
ahorseback | (adjective) traveling on horseback | Synonyms: ahorse |
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(adverb) on the back of a horse | Synonyms: ahorse, horseback |
ambassadorship | (noun) the post of ambassador | - |
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antrorse | (adjective) bent or curved forward or upward | - |
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authorship | (noun) the act of creating written works | Synonyms: composition, penning, writing |
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(noun) the act of initiating a new idea or theory or writing | Synonyms: paternity |
borsch | (noun) a Russian or Polish soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation | Synonyms: borscht, borsh, borshch, borsht, bortsch |
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borscht | (noun) a Russian or Polish soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation | Synonyms: borsch, borsh, borshch, borsht, bortsch |
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borsh | (noun) a Russian or Polish soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation | Synonyms: borsch, borscht, borshch, borsht, bortsch |
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borshch | (noun) a Russian or Polish soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation | Synonyms: borsch, borscht, borsh, borsht, bortsch |
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borsht | (noun) a Russian or Polish soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation | Synonyms: borsch, borscht, borsh, borshch, bortsch |
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borstal | (noun) formerly a British reform school for youths considered too young to send to prison | - |
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carthorse | (noun) draft horse kept for pulling carts | Synonyms: cart horse, drayhorse |
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censorship | (noun) deleting parts of publications or correspondence or theatrical performances | Synonyms: censoring |
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(noun) counterintelligence achieved by banning or deleting any information of value to the enemy | Synonyms: censoring, security review |
chancellorship | (noun) the office of chancellor | - |
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clotheshorse | (noun) a framework on which to hang clothes (as for drying) | - |
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(noun) a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance | Synonyms: beau, dandy, dude, fashion plate, fop, gallant, sheik, swell |
cockhorse | (noun) anything used as a toy horse (such as a rocking horse or one knee of an adult) | - |
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colors | (noun) a flag that shows its nationality | Synonyms: colours |
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(noun) a distinguishing emblem | Synonyms: colours |
corsage | (noun) an arrangement of flowers that is usually given as a present | Synonyms: bouquet, nosegay, posy |
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corsair | (noun) a swift pirate ship (often operating with official sanction) | - |
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(noun) a pirate along the Barbary Coast | Synonyms: Barbary pirate |
corselet | (noun) a piece of body armor for the trunk; usually consists of a breastplate and back piece | Synonyms: corslet |
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corset | (noun) a woman's close-fitting foundation garment | Synonyms: girdle, stays |
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(verb) dress with a corset | - |
corslet | (noun) a piece of body armor for the trunk; usually consists of a breastplate and back piece | Synonyms: corselet |
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councillorship | (noun) the position of council member | Synonyms: councilorship |
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councilorship | (noun) the position of council member | Synonyms: councillorship |
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counsellorship | (noun) the position of counselor | Synonyms: counselorship |
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counselorship | (noun) the position of counselor | Synonyms: counsellorship |
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curatorship | (noun) the position of curator | - |
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definitors | (noun) council in a religious order who provide counsel and assistance to the superiors general and provincial superior of their order. | - |
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dextrorsal | (adjective) spiraling upward from left to right | Synonyms: dextrorse |
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dextrorse | (adjective) spiraling upward from left to right | Synonyms: dextrorsal |
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dictatorship | (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny |
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directorship | (noun) the position of a director of a business concern | - |
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doctorspeak | (noun) medical jargon | - |
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doorsill | (noun) the sill of a door; a horizontal piece of wood or stone that forms the bottom of a doorway and offers support when passing through a doorway | Synonyms: doorstep, threshold |
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doorstep | (noun) the sill of a door; a horizontal piece of wood or stone that forms the bottom of a doorway and offers support when passing through a doorway | Synonyms: doorsill, threshold |
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doorstop | (noun) a stop that keeps open doors from moving | Synonyms: doorstopper |
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doorstopper | (noun) a stop that keeps open doors from moving | Synonyms: doorstop |
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dorsal | (adjective) belonging to or on or near the back or upper surface of an animal or organ or part | - |
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(adjective) facing away from the axis of an organ or organism | Synonyms: abaxial |
dorsally | (adverb) in a dorsal location or direction | - |
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dorsiflexion | (noun) the act of bending backward (of the body or a body part) | - |
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dorsoventral | (adjective) extending from the back to the belly | - |
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dorsoventrally | (adverb) in a dorsoventral direction | - |
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dorsum | (noun) the back of the body of a vertebrate or any analogous surface (as the upper or outer surface of an organ or appendage or part) | - |
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(noun) the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine | Synonyms: back |
drayhorse | (noun) draft horse kept for pulling carts | Synonyms: cart horse, carthorse |
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editorship | (noun) the position of editor | - |
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endorse | (verb) sign as evidence of legal transfer | Synonyms: indorse |
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(verb) be behind; approve of | Synonyms: back, indorse, plump for, plunk for, support |
(verb) guarantee as meeting a certain standard | Synonyms: certify, indorse |
(verb) give support or one's approval to | Synonyms: back, indorse, second |
endorsement | (noun) the act of endorsing | Synonyms: indorsement |
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(noun) formal and explicit approval | Synonyms: countenance, imprimatur, indorsement, sanction, warrant |
(noun) a promotional statement (as found on the dust jackets of books) | Synonyms: blurb, indorsement |
(noun) a speech seconding a motion | Synonyms: indorsement, second, secondment |
(noun) a signature that validates something | Synonyms: indorsement |
endorser | (noun) someone who expresses strong approval | Synonyms: indorser, ratifier, subscriber |
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(noun) a person who transfers his ownership interest in something by signing a check or negotiable security | Synonyms: indorser |
flavorsome | (adjective) full of flavor | Synonyms: flavorful, flavorous, flavourful, flavourous, flavoursome, sapid, saporous |
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flavorsomeness | (noun) having an appetizing flavor | Synonyms: flavoursomeness, savoriness |
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floorshow | (noun) a series of acts at a night club | Synonyms: cabaret, floor show |
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fluorspar | (noun) a soft mineral (calcium fluoride) that is fluorescent in ultraviolet light; chief source of fluorine | Synonyms: fluor, fluorite |
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forsake | (verb) leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch | Synonyms: abandon, desert, desolate |
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forsaking | (noun) the act of giving something up | Synonyms: abandonment, desertion |
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(noun) the act of forsaking | Synonyms: giving up |
forsooth | (adverb) an archaic word originally meaning `in truth' but now usually used to express disbelief | - |
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forswear | (verb) formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure | Synonyms: abjure, recant, resile, retract |
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forswearing | (noun) the act of renouncing; sacrificing or giving up or surrendering (a possession or right or title or privilege etc.) | Synonyms: forgoing, renunciation |
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forsythia | (noun) any of various early blooming oleaceous shrubs of the genus Forsythia; native to eastern Asia and southern Europe but widely cultivated for their branches of bright yellow bell-shaped flowers | - |
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godforsaken | (adjective) located in a dismal or remote area; desolate | Synonyms: waste, wild |
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gorse | (noun) very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe | Synonyms: furze, Irish gorse, Ulex europaeus, whin |
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governorship | (noun) the office of governor | - |
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hobbyhorse | (noun) a child's plaything consisting of an imitation horse mounted on rockers; the child straddles it and pretends to ride | Synonyms: hobby, rocking horse |
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(noun) a topic to which one constantly reverts | - |
horse | (noun) solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times | Synonyms: Equus caballus |
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(noun) a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa) | Synonyms: knight |
(noun) a framework for holding wood that is being sawed | Synonyms: buck, sawbuck, sawhorse |
(noun) a padded gymnastic apparatus on legs | Synonyms: gymnastic horse |
(noun) troops trained to fight on horseback | Synonyms: cavalry, horse cavalry |
(verb) provide with a horse or horses | - |
horseback | (noun) the back of a horse | - |
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(noun) a narrow ridge of hills | Synonyms: hogback |
(adverb) on the back of a horse | Synonyms: ahorse, ahorseback |
horsebean | (noun) large shrub or shrubby tree having sharp spines and pinnate leaves with small deciduous leaflets and sweet-scented racemose yellow-orange flowers; grown as ornamentals or hedging or emergency food for livestock; tropical America but naturalized in southern United States | Synonyms: Jerusalem thorn, Parkinsonia aculeata |
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(noun) seed of the broad-bean plant | Synonyms: broad bean, fava bean |
horsebox | (noun) a conveyance (railroad car or trailer) for transporting racehorses | - |
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horsecar | (noun) an early form of streetcar that was drawn by horses | - |
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horsecloth | (noun) a cloth for the trapping of a horse | - |
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horsefish | (noun) any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies | Synonyms: Atlantic moonfish, dollarfish, horse-head, horsehead, moonfish, Selene setapinnis |
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horseflesh | (noun) the flesh of horses as food | Synonyms: horsemeat |
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horsefly | (noun) large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals | Synonyms: cleg, clegg, horse fly |
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(noun) winged fly parasitic on horses | Synonyms: Hippobosca equina, horse tick |
horsehair | (noun) a fabric made from fibers taken from the mane or tail of horses; used for upholstery | - |
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(noun) hair taken from the mane or tail of a horse | - |
horsehead | (noun) any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies | Synonyms: Atlantic moonfish, dollarfish, horse-head, horsefish, moonfish, Selene setapinnis |
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horsehide | (noun) leather from the hide of a horse | - |
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horselaugh | (noun) a loud laugh that sounds like a horse neighing | Synonyms: ha-ha, haw-haw, hee-haw |
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horseleech | (noun) any of several large freshwater leeches | - |
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horseman | (noun) a person who breeds and cares for horses | Synonyms: horse fancier |
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(noun) a man skilled in equitation | - |
horsemanship | (noun) skill in handling and riding horses | - |
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horsemeat | (noun) the flesh of horses as food | Synonyms: horseflesh |
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horsemint | (noun) a coarse Old World wild water mint having long leaves and spikelike clusters of flowers; naturalized in the eastern United States | Synonyms: Mentha longifolia |
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(noun) tall erect perennial or annual having lanceolate leaves and heads of purple-spotted creamy flowers; many subspecies grown from eastern to southwestern United States and in Mexico | Synonyms: Monarda punctata |
(noun) an annual horsemint of central and western United States and northern Mexico | Synonyms: lemon mint, Monarda citriodora |
horseplay | (noun) rowdy or boisterous play | - |
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horsepond | (noun) a pond for watering horses | - |
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horsepower | (noun) a unit of power equal to 746 watts | Synonyms: H.P., HP |
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horseradish | (noun) grated horseradish root | - |
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(noun) coarse Eurasian plant cultivated for its thick white pungent root | Synonyms: Armoracia rusticana, horse radish, red cole |
(noun) the root of the horseradish plant; it is grated or ground and used for seasoning | Synonyms: horseradish root |
horseshit | (noun) Obscene word for unacceptable behavior | Synonyms: bull, bullshit, crap, dogshit, Irish bull, shit |
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horseshoe | (noun) U-shaped plate nailed to underside of horse's hoof | Synonyms: shoe |
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(noun) game equipment consisting of an open ring of iron used in playing horseshoes | - |
(verb) equip (a horse) with a horseshoe or horseshoes | - |
horseshoer | (noun) a person who shoes horses | Synonyms: farrier |
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horseshoes | (noun) a game in which iron rings (or open iron rings) are thrown at a stake in the ground in the hope of encircling it | Synonyms: quoits |
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horseshow | (noun) a competitive exhibition of horses | - |
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horsetail | (noun) perennial rushlike flowerless herbs with jointed hollow stems and narrow toothlike leaves that spread by creeping rhizomes; tend to become weedy; common in Northern Hemisphere; some in Africa and South America | - |
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horseweed | (noun) common North American weed with linear leaves and small discoid heads of yellowish flowers; widely naturalized throughout temperate regions; sometimes placed in genus Erigeron | Synonyms: Canadian fleabane, Conyza canadensis, Erigeron canadensis, fleabane |
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(noun) erect perennial strong-scented with serrate pointed leaves and a loose panicle of yellowish flowers; the eastern United States | Synonyms: Collinsonia canadensis, horse balm, richweed, stone-root, stone root, stoneroot |
horsewhip | (noun) a whip for controlling horses | - |
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(verb) whip with a whip intended for horses | - |
horsewhipping | (noun) the act of whipping with a horsewhip | - |
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horsewoman | (noun) a woman horseman | - |
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horst | (noun) a ridge of the earth's crust that has been forced upward between two faults and so is higher than the surrounding land | - |
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indoors | (adverb) within a building | Synonyms: inside |
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indorse | (verb) sign as evidence of legal transfer | Synonyms: endorse |
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(verb) be behind; approve of | Synonyms: back, endorse, plump for, plunk for, support |
(verb) guarantee as meeting a certain standard | Synonyms: certify, endorse |
(verb) give support or one's approval to | Synonyms: back, endorse, second |
indorsement | (noun) the act of endorsing | Synonyms: endorsement |
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(noun) formal and explicit approval | Synonyms: countenance, endorsement, imprimatur, sanction, warrant |
(noun) a promotional statement (as found on the dust jackets of books) | Synonyms: blurb, endorsement |
(noun) a speech seconding a motion | Synonyms: endorsement, second, secondment |
(noun) a signature that validates something | Synonyms: endorsement |
indorser | (noun) someone who expresses strong approval | Synonyms: endorser, ratifier, subscriber |
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(noun) a person who transfers his ownership interest in something by signing a check or negotiable security | Synonyms: endorser |
inspectorship | (noun) the office of inspector | - |
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