adorned | (adjective) provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction | Synonyms: decorated |
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afterburner | (noun) a device that injects fuel into a hot exhaust for extra thrust | - |
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airborne | (adjective) moved or conveyed by or through air | - |
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attorney | (noun) a professional person authorized to practice law; conducts lawsuits or gives legal advice | Synonyms: lawyer |
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attorneyship | (noun) the position of attorney | - |
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barnburner | (noun) an impressively successful event | - |
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(noun) someone who burns down a barn | - |
bicorne | (noun) a cocked hat with the brim turned up to form two points | Synonyms: bicorn |
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bicorned | (adjective) having two horns or horn-shaped parts | Synonyms: bicorn, bicornate, bicornuate, bicornuous |
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bitterness | (noun) the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste | Synonyms: bitter |
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(noun) a rough and bitter manner | Synonyms: acerbity, acrimony, jaundice, tartness, thorniness |
(noun) the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: bitter |
(noun) a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will | Synonyms: gall, rancor, rancour, resentment |
blarney | (noun) flattery designed to gain favor | Synonyms: coaxing, soft soap, sweet talk |
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(verb) influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering | Synonyms: cajole, coax, inveigle, palaver, sweet-talk, wheedle |
bourne | (noun) an archaic term for a goal or destination | Synonyms: bourn |
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(noun) an archaic term for a boundary | Synonyms: bourn |
burned | (adjective) ruined by overcooking | Synonyms: burnt |
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(adjective) destroyed or badly damaged by fire | Synonyms: burned-out, burned-over, burnt-out, burnt |
(adjective) treated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point | Synonyms: burnt |
burner | (noun) an apparatus for burning fuel (or refuse) | - |
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(noun) the heating elements of a stove or range on which pots and pans are placed for cooking | - |
cairned | (adjective) marked by cairns | - |
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carnelian | (noun) a translucent red or orange variety of chalcedony | Synonyms: cornelian |
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catacorner | (adjective) slanted across a polygon on a diagonal line | Synonyms: cata-cornered, cater-cornered, catercorner, catty-corner, catty-cornered, kitty-corner, kitty-cornered |
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catercorner | (adjective) slanted across a polygon on a diagonal line | Synonyms: cata-cornered, catacorner, cater-cornered, catty-corner, catty-cornered, kitty-corner, kitty-cornered |
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charnel | (adjective) gruesomely indicative of death or the dead | Synonyms: ghastly, sepulchral |
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(noun) a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited | Synonyms: charnel house |
clearness | (noun) free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression | Synonyms: clarity, limpidity, lucidity, lucidness, pellucidity |
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(noun) the quality of clear water | Synonyms: clarity, uncloudedness |
cleverness | (noun) the property of being ingenious | Synonyms: ingeniousness, ingenuity |
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(noun) intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty | Synonyms: brightness, smartness |
(noun) the power of creative imagination | Synonyms: ingeniousness, ingenuity, inventiveness |
concerned | (adjective) feeling or showing worry or solicitude | - |
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(adjective) involved in or affected by or having a claim to or share in | Synonyms: interested |
(adjective) culpably involved | Synonyms: implicated |
concernedly | (adverb) in a manner showing concern | - |
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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 | - |
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corneal | (adjective) of or related to the cornea | - |
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corned | (adjective) (used especially of meat) cured in brine | Synonyms: cured |
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cornel | (noun) a tree of shrub of the genus Cornus often having showy bracts resembling flowers | Synonyms: dogwood, dogwood tree |
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cornelian | (noun) a translucent red or orange variety of chalcedony | Synonyms: carnelian |
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corneous | (adjective) made of horn (or of a substance resembling horn) | Synonyms: hornlike, horny |
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corner | (noun) the intersection of two streets | Synonyms: street corner, turning point |
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(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 | - |
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cornered | (adjective) forced to turn and face attackers | Synonyms: at bay, trapped, treed |
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cornerstone | (noun) a stone at the outer corner of two intersecting masonry walls | - |
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(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 |
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cornetfish | (noun) slender tropical fish with a long tubular snout and bony plates instead of scales | - |
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cornetist | (noun) a musician who plays the trumpet or cornet | Synonyms: trumpeter |
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corneum | (noun) the outermost layer of the epidermis consisting of dead cells that slough off | Synonyms: horny layer, stratum corneum |
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cromorne | (noun) a Renaissance woodwind with a double reed and a curving tube (crooked horn) | Synonyms: crumhorn, krummhorn |
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cybernetic | (adjective) of or relating the principles of cybernetics | - |
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cybernetics | (noun) (biology) the field of science concerned with processes of communication and control (especially the comparison of these processes in biological and artificial systems) | - |
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dapperness | (noun) stylishness as evidenced by a smart appearance | Synonyms: jauntiness, nattiness, rakishness |
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darned | (adjective) expletives used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: blame, blamed, blasted, blessed, damn, damned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal |
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darnel | (noun) weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous | Synonyms: bearded darnel, cheat, Lolium temulentum, tare |
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darner | (noun) a person who mends by darning | - |
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dearness | (noun) the quality possessed by something with a great price or value | Synonyms: costliness, preciousness |
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eagerness | (noun) prompt willingness | Synonyms: forwardness, readiness, zeal |
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(noun) a positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something | Synonyms: avidity, avidness, keenness |
earned | (adjective) gained or acquired; especially through merit or as a result of effort or action | - |
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earner | (noun) someone who earn wages in return for their labor | Synonyms: wage earner |
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earnest | (adjective) not distracted by anything unrelated to the goal | Synonyms: businesslike |
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(adjective) characterized by a firm and humorless belief in the validity of your opinions | Synonyms: sincere, solemn |
(adjective) sincerely earnest | Synonyms: dear, devout, heartfelt |
(noun) something of value given by one person to another to bind a contract | - |
earnestly | (adverb) in a serious manner | Synonyms: in earnest, seriously |
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earnestness | (noun) the trait of being serious | Synonyms: serious-mindedness, seriousness, sincerity |
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(noun) an earnest and sincere feeling | Synonyms: seriousness, sincerity |
easterner | (noun) an inhabitant of an eastern area; especially of the U.S. | - |
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erne | (noun) bulky greyish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail; of Europe and Greenland | Synonyms: ern, European sea eagle, gray sea eagle, grey sea eagle, Haliatus albicilla, white-tailed sea eagle |
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ethernet | (noun) a type of network technology for local area networks; coaxial cable carries radio frequency signals between computers at a rate of 10 megabits per second | - |
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fairness | (noun) conformity with rules or standards | Synonyms: equity |
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(noun) the property of having a naturally light complexion | Synonyms: blondness, paleness |
(noun) the quality of being good looking and attractive | Synonyms: beauteousness, comeliness, loveliness |
(noun) ability to make judgments free from discrimination or dishonesty | Synonyms: candor, candour, fair-mindedness |
farness | (noun) the property of being remote | Synonyms: farawayness, remoteness |
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ferned | (adjective) abounding in or covered with ferns | Synonyms: ferny |
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garner | (noun) a storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed | Synonyms: granary |
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(verb) assemble or get together | Synonyms: collect, gather, pull together |
(verb) store grain | - |
(verb) acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions | Synonyms: earn, win |
garnet | (noun) any of a group of hard glassy minerals (silicates of various metals) used as gemstones and as an abrasive | - |
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globularness | (noun) the roundness of a 3-dimensional object | Synonyms: globosity, rotundity, rotundness, sphericalness, sphericity |
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governed | (noun) the body of people who are citizens of a particular government | - |
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governess | (noun) a woman entrusted with the care and supervision of a child (especially in a private home) | - |
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gurney | (noun) a metal stretcher with wheels | - |
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hairnet | (noun) a small net that some women wear over their hair to keep it in place | - |
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harness | (noun) stable gear consisting of an arrangement of leather straps fitted to a draft animal so that it can be attached to and pull a cart | - |
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(noun) a support consisting of an arrangement of straps for holding something to the body (especially one supporting a person suspended from a parachute) | - |
(verb) keep in check | Synonyms: rein, rule |
(verb) exploit the power of | - |
(verb) put a harness | Synonyms: tackle |
(verb) control and direct with or as if by reins | Synonyms: draw rein, rein, rein in |
harnessed | (adjective) brought under control and put to use | - |
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horned | (adjective) having a horn or horns or hornlike parts or horns of a particular kind | - |
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hornet | (noun) large stinging paper wasp | - |
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improperness | (noun) an improper demeanor | Synonyms: impropriety |
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interne | (noun) an advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience | Synonyms: houseman, intern, medical intern |
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internecine | (adjective) characterized by bloodshed and carnage for both sides | - |
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(adjective) (of conflict) within a group or organization | - |
internee | (noun) a person who is interned | - |
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internet | (noun) a computer network consisting of a worldwide network of computer networks that use the TCP/IP network protocols to facilitate data transmission and exchange | Synonyms: cyberspace, net |
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journey | (noun) the act of traveling from one place to another | Synonyms: journeying |
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(verb) undertake a journey or trip | Synonyms: travel |
(verb) travel upon or across | Synonyms: travel |
journeyer | (noun) a traveler going on a trip | Synonyms: wayfarer |
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journeying | (noun) the act of traveling from one place to another | Synonyms: journey |
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journeyman | (noun) a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft | Synonyms: artificer, artisan, craftsman |
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kernel | (noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | Synonyms: center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum |
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(noun) a single whole grain of a cereal | - |
(noun) the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone | Synonyms: meat |
kosherness | (noun) The property of being fit to eat under Jewish dietary laws. | - |
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learned | (adjective) established by conditioning or learning | Synonyms: conditioned |
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(adjective) highly educated; having extensive information or understanding | Synonyms: knowing, knowledgeable, lettered, well-educated, well-read |
(adjective) having or showing profound knowledge | Synonyms: erudite |
learnedly | (adverb) with erudition; in an erudite manner | Synonyms: eruditely |
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learnedness | (noun) profound scholarly knowledge | Synonyms: encyclopaedism, encyclopedism, eruditeness, erudition, learning, scholarship |
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learner | (noun) someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs | Synonyms: assimilator, scholar, student |
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(noun) works for an expert to learn a trade | Synonyms: apprentice, prentice |
leatherneck | (noun) a member of the United States Marine Corps | Synonyms: devil dog, Marine, shipboard soldier |
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lucerne | (noun) important European leguminous forage plant with trifoliate leaves and blue-violet flowers grown widely as a pasture and hay crop | Synonyms: alfalfa, Medicago sativa |
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meagerness | (noun) the quality of being meager | Synonyms: exiguity, leanness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness |
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moderne | (adjective) of or relating to a popularization of art deco that used bright colors and rectangular shapes | - |
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mourner | (noun) a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died) | Synonyms: griever, lamenter, sorrower |
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nearness | (noun) the spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance | Synonyms: closeness |
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nocturne | (noun) a pensive lyrical piece of music (especially for the piano) | Synonyms: notturno |
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orneriness | (noun) meanspirited disagreeable contrariness | Synonyms: cussedness |
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ornery | (adjective) having a difficult and contrary disposition | Synonyms: cantankerous, crotchety |
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otherness | (noun) the quality of being not alike; being distinct or different from that otherwise experienced or known | Synonyms: distinctness, separateness |
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overturned | (adjective) having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom | Synonyms: upset, upturned |
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patterned | (adjective) having patterns (especially colorful patterns) | - |
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pimpernel | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Anagallis | - |
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(noun) European garden herb with purple-tinged flowers and leaves that are sometimes used for salads | Synonyms: burnet bloodwort, Poterium sanguisorba, salad burnet |
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 |
properness | (noun) correct or appropriate behavior | Synonyms: correctitude, propriety |
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queerness | (noun) a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex | Synonyms: gayness, homoeroticism, homosexualism, homosexuality |
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(noun) a strange attitude or habit | Synonyms: crotchet, oddity, quirk, quirkiness |
rubberneck | (noun) a person who stares inquisitively | Synonyms: rubbernecker |
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(noun) a tourist who is visiting sights of interest | Synonyms: excursionist, sightseer, tripper |
(verb) strain to watch; stare curiously | - |
rubbernecker | (noun) a person who stares inquisitively | Synonyms: rubberneck |
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