cesspool | (noun) a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it | Synonyms: cesspit, sink, sump |
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crampoon | (noun) an iron spike attached to the shoe to prevent slipping on ice when walking or climbing | Synonyms: climber, climbing iron, crampon |
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(noun) a hinged pair of curved iron bars; used to raise heavy objects | Synonyms: crampon |
dessertspoon | (noun) as much as a dessert spoon will hold | Synonyms: dessertspoonful |
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dessertspoonful | (noun) as much as a dessert spoon will hold | Synonyms: dessertspoon |
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harpoon | (noun) a spear with a shaft and barbed point for throwing; used for catching large fish or whales; a strong line is attached to it | - |
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(verb) spear with a harpoon | - |
harpooneer | (noun) someone who launches harpoons | Synonyms: harpooner |
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harpooner | (noun) someone who launches harpoons | Synonyms: harpooneer |
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hoopoo | (noun) any of several crested Old World birds with a slender downward-curved bill | Synonyms: hoopoe |
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lampoon | (noun) a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way | Synonyms: burlesque, mockery, parody, pasquinade, put-on, send-up, sendup, spoof, takeoff, travesty |
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(verb) ridicule with satire | Synonyms: satirise, satirize |
lampooner | (noun) mimics literary or musical style for comic effect | Synonyms: parodist |
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nincompoop | (noun) a stupid foolish person | Synonyms: ninny, poop |
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papoose | (noun) an American Indian infant | Synonyms: pappoose |
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papooseroot | (noun) tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally | Synonyms: blue cohosh, blueberry root, Caulophyllum thalictrioides, Caulophyllum thalictroides, papoose root, squaw root, squawroot |
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pappoose | (noun) an American Indian infant | Synonyms: papoose |
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pooch | (noun) informal terms for dogs | Synonyms: barker, bow-wow, doggie, doggy |
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(verb) round one's lips as if intending to kiss | Synonyms: pooch out |
pood | (noun) a Russian unit of weight equal to approximately 36 pounds | - |
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poodle | (noun) an intelligent dog with a heavy curly solid-colored coat that is usually clipped; an old breed sometimes trained as sporting dogs or as performing dogs | Synonyms: poodle dog |
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poof | (noun) offensive term for a homosexual man | Synonyms: fag, faggot, fagot, fairy, nance, pansy, poove, pouf, queen, queer |
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pool | (noun) any of various games played on a pool table having 6 pockets | Synonyms: pocket billiards |
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(noun) an excavation that is (usually) filled with water | - |
(noun) an association of companies for some definite purpose | Synonyms: consortium, syndicate |
(noun) an organization of people or resources that can be shared | - |
(noun) something resembling a pool of liquid | Synonyms: puddle |
(noun) a small lake | Synonyms: pond |
(noun) a small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid | Synonyms: puddle |
(noun) any communal combination of funds | - |
(noun) the combined stakes of the betters | Synonyms: kitty |
(verb) join or form a pool of people | - |
(verb) combine into a common fund | - |
pooler | (noun) someone who shares in and contributes to a general fund for use by all | - |
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poolroom | (noun) a room with pool tables where pool is played | - |
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poon | (noun) any of several East Indian trees of the genus Calophyllum having shiny leathery leaves and lightweight hard wood | - |
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(noun) wood of any poon tree; used for masts and spars | - |
poop | (noun) the rear part of a ship | Synonyms: after part, quarter, stern, tail |
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(noun) slang terms for inside information | Synonyms: dope, low-down, the skinny |
(noun) a stupid foolish person | Synonyms: nincompoop, ninny |
(noun) obscene terms for feces | Synonyms: crap, dirt, shit, shite, turd |
poor | (adjective) having little money or few possessions | - |
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(adjective) lacking in quality or substances | - |
(adjective) characterized by or indicating poverty | - |
(adjective) of insufficient quantity to meet a need | Synonyms: inadequate, jejune, short |
(adjective) deserving or inciting pity | Synonyms: hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, wretched |
(noun) people without possessions or wealth (considered as a group) | Synonyms: poor people |
poorhouse | (noun) an establishment maintained at public expense in order to provide housing for the poor and homeless | - |
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poorly | (adjective) somewhat ill or prone to illness | Synonyms: ailing, indisposed, peaked, seedy, sickly, under the weather, unwell |
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(adverb) (`ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well | Synonyms: badly, ill |
poorness | (noun) the quality of being poorly made or maintained | - |
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(noun) less than adequate | - |
(noun) the quality of being meager | Synonyms: exiguity, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, scantiness, scantness |
(noun) the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions | Synonyms: impoverishment, poverty |
poorwill | (noun) goatsucker of western North America | Synonyms: Phalaenoptilus nuttallii |
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poove | (noun) offensive term for a homosexual man | Synonyms: fag, faggot, fagot, fairy, nance, pansy, poof, pouf, queen, queer |
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shampoo | (noun) the act of washing your hair with shampoo | - |
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(noun) cleansing agent consisting of soaps or detergents used for washing the hair | - |
(verb) use shampoo on (hair) | - |
soupspoon | (noun) a spoon with a rounded bowl for eating soup | Synonyms: soup spoon |
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spoof | (noun) a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way | Synonyms: burlesque, lampoon, mockery, parody, pasquinade, put-on, send-up, sendup, takeoff, travesty |
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(verb) make a parody of | Synonyms: burlesque, parody |
spook | (noun) a mental representation of some haunting experience | Synonyms: ghost, shade, specter, spectre, wraith |
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(noun) someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric | Synonyms: creep, weirdie, weirdo, weirdy |
(verb) frighten or scare, and often provoke into a violent action | - |
spookily | (adverb) in an unnatural eery manner | Synonyms: eerily |
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spooky | (adjective) unpredictably excitable (especially of horses) | Synonyms: flighty, nervous, skittish |
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spool | (noun) a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound | Synonyms: bobbin, reel |
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(verb) wind onto a spool or a reel | - |
(verb) transfer data intended for a peripheral device (usually a printer) into temporary storage | - |
spoon | (noun) a piece of cutlery with a shallow bowl-shaped container and a handle; used to stir or serve or take up food | - |
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(noun) formerly a golfing wood with an elevated face | - |
(noun) as much as a spoon will hold | Synonyms: spoonful |
(verb) scoop up or take up with a spoon | - |
(verb) snuggle and lie in a position where one person faces the back of the others | Synonyms: smooch |
spoonbill | (noun) wading birds having a long flat bill with a tip like a spoon | - |
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spoondrift | (noun) spray blown up from the surface of the sea | Synonyms: spindrift |
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spoonerism | (noun) transposition of initial consonants in a pair of words | - |
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spoonfeed | (verb) teach without challenging the students | - |
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(verb) feed with a spoon | - |
spoonfeeding | (noun) feeding someone (as a baby) from a spoon | - |
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(noun) teaching in an overly simplified way that discourages independent thought | - |
spoonflower | (noun) tropical American aroid having edible tubers that are cooked and eaten like yams or potatoes | Synonyms: malanga, tannia, Xanthosoma atrovirens, Xanthosoma sagittifolium, yautia |
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spoonful | (noun) as much as a spoon will hold | Synonyms: spoon |
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spoonie | (noun) someone with a chronic illness | - |
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spoopy | (adjective) funny and spooky at the same time | - |
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spoor | (noun) the trail left by a person or an animal; what the hunter follows in pursuing game | - |
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tablespoon | (noun) a spoon larger than a dessert spoon; used for serving | - |
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(noun) as much as a tablespoon will hold | Synonyms: tablespoonful |
tablespoonful | (noun) as much as a tablespoon will hold | Synonyms: tablespoon |
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teaspoon | (noun) a small spoon used for stirring tea or coffee; holds about one fluid dram | - |
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(noun) as much as a teaspoon will hold | Synonyms: teaspoonful |
teaspoonful | (noun) as much as a teaspoon will hold | Synonyms: teaspoon |
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whippoorwill | (noun) American nocturnal goatsucker with grey-and-white plumage | Synonyms: Caprimulgus vociferus |
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whirlpool | (noun) a powerful circular current of water (usually the result of conflicting tides) | Synonyms: maelstrom, vortex |
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(verb) flow in a circular current, of liquids | Synonyms: eddy, purl, swirl, whirl |