airman | (noun) a male who operates an aircraft | - |
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airmanship | (noun) the art of operating aircraft | Synonyms: aviation |
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alderman | (noun) a member of a municipal legislative body (as a city council) | - |
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aldermanic | (adjective) of or relating to or like an alderman | Synonyms: aldermanly |
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aldermanly | (adjective) of or relating to or like an alderman | Synonyms: aldermanic |
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anchorman | (noun) a television reporter who coordinates a broadcast to which several correspondents contribute | Synonyms: anchor, anchorperson |
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barman | (noun) a male employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar | - |
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beggarman | (noun) a man who is a beggar | - |
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chairman | (noun) the male officer who presides at the meetings of an organization | - |
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(verb) act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university | Synonyms: chair |
chairmanship | (noun) the position of chairman | - |
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charman | (noun) a human male employed to do housework | - |
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conformance | (noun) correspondence in form or appearance | Synonyms: conformity |
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counterman | (noun) a male who attends a counter (as in a diner) | - |
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countermand | (noun) a contrary command cancelling or reversing a previous command | - |
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(verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, lift, overturn, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, vacate |
doorman | (noun) someone who guards an entrance | Synonyms: door guard, doorkeeper, gatekeeper, hall porter, ostiary, porter |
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dormancy | (noun) quiet and inactive restfulness | Synonyms: quiescence, quiescency, sleeping |
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(noun) a state of quiet (but possibly temporary) inaction | Synonyms: quiescence, quiescency |
dormant | (adjective) (of e.g. volcanoes) not erupting and not extinct | Synonyms: inactive |
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(adjective) in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation | Synonyms: hibernating, torpid |
(adjective) inactive but capable of becoming active | Synonyms: abeyant |
(adjective) lying with head on paws as if sleeping | Synonyms: sleeping |
fisherman | (noun) someone whose occupation is catching fish | Synonyms: fisher |
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germander | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Teucrium | - |
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germane | (adjective) relevant and appropriate | - |
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germaneness | (noun) pertinence by virtue of a close relation to the matter at hand | - |
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germanite | (noun) a rare reddish-grey mineral consisting of a copper iron germanium sulfide | - |
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germanium | (noun) a brittle grey crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors; occurs in germanite and argyrodite | Synonyms: atomic number 32, Ge |
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gormandise | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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gormandize | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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gourmand | (noun) a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess | Synonyms: glutton, gourmandizer, trencherman |
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gourmandism | (noun) the disposition and habits of a gourmand | - |
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gourmandize | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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gourmandizer | (noun) a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess | Synonyms: glutton, gourmand, trencherman |
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impermanence | (noun) the property of not existing for indefinitely long durations | Synonyms: impermanency |
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impermanency | (noun) the property of not existing for indefinitely long durations | Synonyms: impermanence |
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impermanent | (adjective) not permanent; not lasting | Synonyms: temporary |
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(adjective) existing or enduring for a limited time only | - |
informant | (noun) a person who supplies information | Synonyms: source |
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(noun) someone who sees an event and reports what happened | Synonyms: witness, witnesser |
letterman | (noun) an athlete who has earned a letter in a school sport | - |
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lighterman | (noun) someone who operates a barge | Synonyms: bargee, bargeman |
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lobsterman | (noun) a person whose occupation is catching lobsters | - |
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lumberman | (noun) a person who fells trees | Synonyms: faller, feller, logger, lumberjack |
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merman | (noun) half man and half fish; lives in the sea | - |
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motorman | (noun) the operator of streetcar | - |
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newspaperman | (noun) a male journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media | Synonyms: pressman |
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nonconformance | (noun) failure to conform to accepted standards of behavior | Synonyms: nonconformity |
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(noun) a lack of orthodoxy in thoughts or beliefs | Synonyms: nonconformism, nonconformity |
nonperformance | (noun) failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances | Synonyms: carelessness, neglect, negligence |
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overmantel | (noun) a shelf over a mantelpiece | - |
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performance | (noun) the act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it | Synonyms: carrying into action, carrying out, execution |
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(noun) the act of presenting a play or a piece of music or other entertainment | - |
(noun) any recognized accomplishment | - |
(noun) a dramatic or musical entertainment | Synonyms: public presentation |
(noun) process or manner of functioning or operating | Synonyms: functioning, operation |
permanence | (noun) the property of being able to exist for an indefinite duration | Synonyms: permanency |
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permanency | (noun) the property of being able to exist for an indefinite duration | Synonyms: permanence |
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permanent | (adjective) continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place | Synonyms: lasting |
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(adjective) not capable of being reversed or returned to the original condition | - |
(noun) a series of waves in the hair made by applying heat and chemicals | Synonyms: perm, permanent wave |
permanently | (adverb) for a long time without essential change | Synonyms: for good |
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permanganate | (noun) a dark purple salt of permanganic acid; in water solution it is used as a disinfectant and antiseptic | - |
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repairman | (noun) a skilled worker whose job is to repair things | Synonyms: maintenance man, service man |
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semipermanent | (adjective) relating to or extending over a relatively long time | Synonyms: long-run, long-term |
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squandermania | (noun) prodigious squandering (usually by a government) | - |
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superman | (noun) street name for lysergic acid diethylamide | Synonyms: acid, back breaker, battery-acid, dose, dot, Elvis, loony toons, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, pane, window pane, Zen |
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(noun) a person with great powers and abilities | Synonyms: demigod, Ubermensch |
timberman | (noun) an owner or manager of a company that is engaged in lumbering | - |
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trencherman | (noun) a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess | Synonyms: glutton, gourmand, gourmandizer |
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triggerman | (noun) a professional killer who uses a gun | Synonyms: gun, gun for hire, gunman, gunslinger, hired gun, hit man, hitman, shooter, torpedo |
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undermanned | (adjective) inadequate in number of workers or assistants etc. | Synonyms: short-handed, short-staffed, understaffed |
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washerman | (noun) a man who operates an industrial washing machine | Synonyms: laundryman |
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waterman | (noun) someone who drives or rides in a boat | Synonyms: boater, boatman |
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weatherman | (noun) predicts the weather | Synonyms: weather forecaster |
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