airdock | (noun) a large structure at an airport where aircraft can be stored and maintained | Synonyms: hangar, repair shed |
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ardor | (noun) intense feeling of love | Synonyms: ardour |
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(noun) a feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause) | Synonyms: ardour, elan, zeal |
(noun) feelings of great warmth and intensity | Synonyms: ardour, fervency, fervidness, fervor, fervour, fire |
ardour | (noun) intense feeling of love | Synonyms: ardor |
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(noun) a feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause) | Synonyms: ardor, elan, zeal |
(noun) feelings of great warmth and intensity | Synonyms: ardor, fervency, fervidness, fervor, fervour, fire |
bardolatry | (noun) the idolization of William Shakespeare | - |
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beardown | (adjective) with full strength | - |
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bombardon | (noun) a large shawm; the bass member of the shawm family | Synonyms: bombard |
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(noun) a tuba that coils over the shoulder of the musician | Synonyms: helicon |
bourdon | (noun) a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone | Synonyms: drone, drone pipe |
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burdock | (noun) any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs | Synonyms: clotbur |
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cardoon | (noun) only parts eaten are roots and especially stalks (blanched and used as celery); related to artichokes | - |
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(noun) southern European plant having spiny leaves and purple flowers cultivated for its edible leafstalks and roots | Synonyms: Cynara cardunculus |
chordomesoderm | (noun) the area of mesoderm that forms the notochord | Synonyms: chordamesoderm |
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chordophone | (noun) a stringed instrument of the group including harps, lutes, lyres, and zithers | - |
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cordoba | (noun) the basic unit of money in Nicaragua; equal to 100 centavos | - |
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cordon | (noun) adornment consisting of an ornamental ribbon or cord | - |
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(noun) cord or ribbon worn as an insignia of honor or rank | - |
(noun) a series of sentinels or of military posts enclosing or guarding some place or thing | - |
cordovan | (noun) a fine leather originally made in Cordoba, Spain | - |
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eiderdown | (noun) down of the eider duck | - |
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(noun) a soft quilt usually filled with the down of the eider | Synonyms: continental quilt, duvet |
guerdon | (noun) a reward or payment | - |
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hairdo | (noun) the arrangement of the hair (especially a woman's hair) | Synonyms: coif, coiffure, hair style, hairstyle |
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hazardous | (adjective) involving risk or danger | Synonyms: risky, wild |
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hazardously | (adverb) in a dangerous manner | Synonyms: dangerously, perilously |
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hazardousness | (noun) the state of being dangerous | Synonyms: perilousness |
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lordolatry | (noun) the worship of a lord because of his rank or title | - |
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lordosis | (noun) an abnormal inward (forward) curvature of the vertebral column | Synonyms: hollow-back |
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lordotic | (adjective) having abnormal sagging of the spine (especially in horses) | Synonyms: dipped, swayback, swaybacked |
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martyrdom | (noun) death that is imposed because of the person's adherence of a religious faith or cause | - |
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(noun) any experience that causes intense suffering | Synonyms: calvary |
nardo | (noun) Australian clover fern | Synonyms: common nardoo, Marsilea drummondii, nardoo |
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nardoo | (noun) Australian clover fern | Synonyms: common nardoo, Marsilea drummondii, nardo |
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overdo | (verb) do something to an excessive degree | Synonyms: exaggerate |
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overdone | (adjective) cooked too long but still edible | - |
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(adjective) represented as greater than is true or reasonable | Synonyms: exaggerated, overstated |
overdose | (verb) dose too heavily | Synonyms: o.d. |
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pardon | (noun) the act of excusing a mistake or offense | Synonyms: forgiveness |
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(noun) the formal act of liberating someone | Synonyms: amnesty, free pardon |
(noun) a warrant granting release from punishment for an offense | Synonyms: amnesty |
(verb) grant a pardon to | - |
(verb) accept an excuse for | Synonyms: excuse |
pardonable | (adjective) admitting of being pardoned | - |
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pardonably | (adverb) in an excusable manner or to an excusable degree | Synonyms: excusably, forgivably |
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pardoner | (noun) a medieval cleric who raised money for the church by selling papal indulgences | - |
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(noun) a person who pardons or forgives or excuses a fault or offense | Synonyms: excuser, forgiver |
sacerdotal | (adjective) associated with the priesthood or priests | Synonyms: hieratic, hieratical, priestly |
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(adjective) of or relating to a belief in sacerdotalism | - |
sacerdotalism | (noun) a belief that priests can act as mediators between human beings and God | - |
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sardonic | (adjective) disdainfully or ironically humorous; scornful and mocking | Synonyms: snarky |
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sardonically | (adverb) in a sarcastic manner | Synonyms: sarcastically |
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sardonyx | (noun) an onyx characterized by parallel layers of sard and a different colored mineral | - |
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sourdough | (noun) a settler or prospector (especially in western United States or northwest Canada and Alaska) | - |
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(noun) a leaven of dough in which fermentation is active; used by pioneers for making bread | - |
spatterdock | (noun) common water lily of eastern and central North America, having broad leaves and globe-shaped yellow flowers; in sluggish fresh or slightly brackish water | Synonyms: cow lily, Nuphar advena, yellow pond lily |
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stardom | (noun) the status of being acknowledged as a star | - |
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underdog | (noun) one at a disadvantage and expected to lose | - |
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underdone | (adjective) insufficiently cooked | Synonyms: half-baked |
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unhazardous | (adjective) thought to be devoid of risk | Synonyms: risk-free, riskless |
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unpardonable | (adjective) not admitting of pardon | - |
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unpardonably | (adverb) in an unpardonable manner or to an unpardonable degree | Synonyms: inexcusably, unforgivably |
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verdolagas | (noun) weedy trailing mat-forming herb with bright yellow flowers cultivated for its edible mildly acid leaves eaten raw or cooked especially in Indian and Greek and Middle Eastern cuisine; cosmopolitan | Synonyms: common purslane, Portulaca oleracea, pussley, pussly |
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waterdog | (noun) any of several large aquatic salamanders | - |
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weirdo | (noun) someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric | Synonyms: creep, spook, weirdie, weirdy |
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(noun) someone deranged and possibly dangerous | Synonyms: crazy, looney, loony, nutcase |