| abroach | (adjective) of a cask or barrel | Synonyms: broached |
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| abroad | (adjective) in a foreign country | Synonyms: overseas |
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| (adverb) to or in a foreign country | - |
| (adverb) in a place across an ocean | Synonyms: overseas |
| (adverb) far away from home or one's usual surroundings | Synonyms: afield |
| acroanaesthesia | (noun) loss of sensation in the extremities | Synonyms: acroanesthesia |
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| acroanesthesia | (noun) loss of sensation in the extremities | Synonyms: acroanaesthesia |
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| approach | (noun) the act of drawing spatially closer to something | Synonyms: approaching, coming |
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| (noun) a relatively short golf shot intended to put the ball onto the putting green | Synonyms: approach shot |
| (noun) ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation | Synonyms: attack, plan of attack |
| (noun) a way of entering or leaving | Synonyms: access |
| (noun) the temporal property of becoming nearer in time | Synonyms: approaching, coming |
| (noun) a close approximation | - |
| (noun) a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others | Synonyms: advance, feeler, overture |
| (noun) the event of one object coming closer to another | Synonyms: approaching |
| (noun) the final path followed by an aircraft as it is landing | Synonyms: approach path, glide path, glide slope |
| (verb) make advances to someone, usually with a proposal or suggestion | - |
| (verb) move towards | Synonyms: come near, come on, draw close, draw near, go up, near |
| (verb) come near in time | Synonyms: come near |
| (verb) begin to deal with | Synonyms: go about, set about |
| (verb) come near or verge on, resemble, come nearer in quality, or character | Synonyms: border on |
| approachability | (noun) the attribute of being easy to meet or deal with | Synonyms: accessibility |
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| approachable | (adjective) easy to meet or converse or do business with | - |
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| (adjective) easily approached | Synonyms: reachable |
| (adjective) capable of being read with comprehension | Synonyms: accessible |
| approaching | (adjective) of the relatively near future | Synonyms: coming, forthcoming, upcoming |
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| (noun) the act of drawing spatially closer to something | Synonyms: approach, coming |
| (noun) the temporal property of becoming nearer in time | Synonyms: approach, coming |
| (noun) the event of one object coming closer to another | Synonyms: approach |
| bluethroat | (noun) songbird of northern Europe and Asia | Synonyms: Erithacus svecicus |
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| broach | (noun) a decorative pin worn by women | Synonyms: breastpin, brooch |
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| (verb) bring up a topic for discussion | Synonyms: initiate |
| broached | (adjective) of a cask or barrel | Synonyms: abroach |
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| broad | (adjective) having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other | Synonyms: wide |
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| (adjective) showing or characterized by broad-mindedness | Synonyms: large-minded, liberal, tolerant |
| (adjective) lacking subtlety; obvious | Synonyms: unsubtle |
| (adjective) broad in scope or content | Synonyms: across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket, encompassing, extensive, panoptic, wide |
| (adjective) not detailed or specific | Synonyms: unspecific |
| (adjective) being at a peak or culminating point | Synonyms: full |
| (adjective) very large in expanse or scope | Synonyms: spacious, wide |
| (adjective) (of speech) heavily and noticeably regional | - |
| (noun) slang term for a woman | - |
| broadax | (noun) a large ax with a broad cutting blade | Synonyms: broadaxe |
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| broadaxe | (noun) a large ax with a broad cutting blade | Synonyms: broadax |
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| broadband | (adjective) responding to or operating at a wide band of frequencies | Synonyms: wideband |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or being a communications network in which the bandwidth can be divided and shared by multiple simultaneous signals (as for voice or data or video) | - |
| broadbill | (noun) small birds of the Old World tropics having bright plumage and short wide bills | - |
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| (noun) freshwater duck of the Northern Hemisphere having a broad flat bill | Synonyms: Anas clypeata, shoveler, shoveller |
| (noun) diving ducks of North America having a bluish-grey bill | Synonyms: bluebill, scaup, scaup duck |
| (noun) tropical American heron related to night herons | Synonyms: boat-billed heron, boatbill, Cochlearius cochlearius |
| broadcast | (noun) message that is transmitted by radio or television | - |
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| (noun) a radio or television show | Synonyms: program, programme |
| (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
| (verb) broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television | Synonyms: air, beam, send, transmit |
| (verb) sow over a wide area, especially by hand | - |
| broadcaster | (noun) a mechanical device for scattering something (seed or fertilizer or sand etc.) in all directions | Synonyms: spreader |
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| (noun) someone who broadcasts on radio or television | - |
| broadcasting | (noun) taking part in a radio or tv program | - |
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| (noun) a medium that disseminates via telecommunications | Synonyms: broadcast medium |
| broadcloth | (noun) a closely woven silk or synthetic fabric with a narrow crosswise rib | - |
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| (noun) a densely textured woolen fabric with a lustrous finish | - |
| broaden | (verb) become broader | - |
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| (verb) make broader | - |
| (verb) extend in scope or range or area | Synonyms: extend, widen |
| (verb) vary in order to spread risk or to expand | Synonyms: branch out, diversify |
| broadening | (noun) the action of making broader | - |
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| (noun) the act of making something wider | Synonyms: widening |
| (noun) an increase in width | Synonyms: widening |
| broadleaf | (adjective) having relatively broad rather than needlelike or scalelike leaves | Synonyms: broad-leafed, broad-leaved |
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| broadloom | (adjective) (of rugs or carpets) woven full width | - |
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| (noun) a carpet woven on a wide loom to obviate the need for seams | - |
| broadly | (adverb) without regard to specific details or exceptions | Synonyms: broadly speaking, generally, loosely |
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| (adverb) in a wide fashion | - |
| broadness | (noun) the property of being wide; having great width | Synonyms: wideness |
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| broadnosed | (adjective) of or related to New World monkeys having nostrils far apart or to people with broad noses | Synonyms: platyrhine, platyrhinian, platyrrhine, platyrrhinian, platyrrhinic |
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| broadsheet | (noun) an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution | Synonyms: bill, broadside, circular, flier, flyer, handbill, throwaway |
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| broadside | (adjective) toward a full side | - |
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| (noun) the simultaneous firing of all the armament on one side of a warship | - |
| (noun) the whole side of a vessel from stem to stern | - |
| (noun) all of the armament that is fired from one side of a warship | - |
| (noun) an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution | Synonyms: bill, broadsheet, circular, flier, flyer, handbill, throwaway |
| (noun) a speech of violent denunciation | Synonyms: philippic, tirade |
| (adverb) with a side facing an object | - |
| (verb) collide with the broad side of | - |
| broadsword | (noun) a sword with a broad blade and (usually) two cutting edges; used to cut rather than stab | - |
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| broadtail | (noun) hardy coarse-haired sheep of central Asia; lambs are valued for their soft curly black fur | Synonyms: caracul, karakul |
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| (noun) the fur of a very young karakul lamb | - |
| broadwise | (adverb) in the direction of the breadth | Synonyms: breadthways, breadthwise |
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| byroad | (noun) a side road little traveled (as in the countryside) | Synonyms: bypath, byway |
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| cartroad | (noun) any road or path affording passage especially a rough one | Synonyms: cart track, track |
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| chloroacetophenone | (noun) a tear gas that is weaker than CS gas but lasts longer | Synonyms: CN gas |
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| cockroach | (noun) any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic pests | Synonyms: roach |
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| croak | (noun) a harsh hoarse utterance (as of a frog) | Synonyms: croaking |
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| (verb) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life | Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
| (verb) make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath | Synonyms: gnarl, grumble, murmur, mutter |
| (verb) utter a hoarse sound, like a raven | Synonyms: cronk |
| croaker | (noun) any of several fishes that make a croaking noise | - |
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| (noun) the lean flesh of a saltwater fish caught along Atlantic coast of southern U.S. | - |
| croaking | (noun) a harsh hoarse utterance (as of a frog) | Synonyms: croak |
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| croaky | (adjective) like the sounds of frogs and crows | Synonyms: guttural |
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| crossroad | (noun) a junction where one street or road crosses another | Synonyms: carrefour, crossing, crossway, intersection |
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| crossroads | (noun) a point where a choice must be made | - |
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| (noun) a community of people smaller than a village | Synonyms: hamlet |
| (noun) a crisis situation or point in time when a critical decision must be made | Synonyms: critical point, juncture |
| cutthroat | (adjective) ruthless in competition | Synonyms: bowelless, fierce |
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| (noun) someone who murders by cutting the victim's throat | - |
| encroach | (verb) advance beyond the usual limit | Synonyms: impinge, infringe |
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| (verb) impinge or infringe upon | Synonyms: entrench, impinge, trench |
| encroacher | (noun) someone who enters by force in order to conquer | Synonyms: invader |
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| encroaching | (adjective) gradually intrusive without right or permission | Synonyms: invasive, trespassing |
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| encroachment | (noun) entry to another's property without right or permission | Synonyms: intrusion, trespass, usurpation, violation |
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| (noun) influencing strongly | Synonyms: impact, impingement |
| (noun) any entry into an area not previously occupied | Synonyms: intrusion, invasion |
| fibroadenoma | (noun) benign and movable and firm and not tender tumor of the breast; common in young women and caused by high levels of estrogen | - |
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| groak | (verb) look or stare at longingly | - |
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| groan | (noun) an utterance expressing pain or disapproval | Synonyms: moan |
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| (verb) indicate pain, discomfort, or displeasure | Synonyms: moan |
| groaner | (noun) a person who groans | - |
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| groat | (noun) a former English silver coin worth four pennies | Synonyms: fourpence |
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| groats | (noun) the hulled and crushed grain of various cereals | - |
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| highroad | (noun) a highway | Synonyms: trunk road |
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| inroad | (noun) an invasion or hostile attack | - |
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| (noun) an encroachment or intrusion | - |
| irreproachable | (adjective) free of guilt; not subject to blame | Synonyms: blameless, inculpable, unimpeachable |
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| irreproachably | (adverb) in an irreproachable and blameless manner | Synonyms: blamelessly |
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| nephroangiosclerosis | (noun) kidney disease that is usually associated with hypertension; sclerosis of the renal arterioles reduces blood flow that can lead to kidney failure and heart failure | Synonyms: nephrosclerosis |
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| neuroanatomic | (adjective) of or relating to neural tissue or the nervous system | Synonyms: neuroanatomical |
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| neuroanatomical | (adjective) of or relating to neural tissue or the nervous system | Synonyms: neuroanatomic |
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| neuroanatomy | (noun) the anatomy of the nervous system | - |
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| outroar | (verb) roar louder than | - |
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| proaccelerin | (noun) a coagulation factor | Synonyms: accelerator factor, factor V, prothrombin accelerator |
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| proactive | (adjective) descriptive of any event or stimulus or process that has an effect on events or stimuli or processes that occur subsequently | - |
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| (adjective) (of a policy or person or action) controlling a situation by causing something to happen rather than waiting to respond to it after it happens | - |
| railroad | (noun) line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freight | Synonyms: railroad line, railway, railway line, railway system |
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| (noun) a line of track providing a runway for wheels | Synonyms: railroad track, railway |
| (verb) transport by railroad | - |
| (verb) supply with railroad lines | - |
| (verb) compel by coercion, threats, or crude means | Synonyms: dragoon, sandbag |
| railroader | (noun) an employee of a railroad | Synonyms: railroad man, railway man, railwayman, trainman |
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| railroading | (noun) the activity of designing and constructing and operating railroads | Synonyms: rail technology |
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| rebroadcast | (noun) a broadcast that repeated at a later time | - |
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| (verb) broadcast again, as of a film | Synonyms: rerun |
| reproach | (noun) a mild rebuke or criticism | - |
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| (noun) disgrace or shame | - |
| (verb) express criticism towards | Synonyms: upbraid |
| reproacher | (noun) someone who finds fault or imputes blame | Synonyms: rebuker, reprover, upbraider |
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| reproachful | (adjective) expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective | Synonyms: admonishing, admonitory, reproving |
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| reproachfully | (adverb) in a reproving or reproachful manner | Synonyms: reprovingly |
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| retroactive | (adjective) descriptive of any event or stimulus or process that has an effect on the effects of events or stimuli or process that occurred previously | - |
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| (adjective) affecting things past | Synonyms: ex post facto, retro |
| retroactively | (adverb) after the fact | - |
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| roach | (noun) any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic pests | Synonyms: cockroach |
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| (noun) European freshwater food fish having a greenish back | Synonyms: Rutilus rutilus |
| (noun) the butt of a marijuana cigarette | - |
| (noun) street names for flunitrazepam | Synonyms: circle, forget me drug, Mexican valium, R-2, roofy, rope, rophy |
| (noun) a roll of hair brushed back from the forehead | - |
| (verb) cut the mane off (a horse) | - |
| (verb) comb (hair) into a roach | - |
| road | (noun) a way or means to achieve something | - |
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| (noun) an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation | Synonyms: route |
| roadbed | (noun) a bed supporting a road | - |
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| roadblock | (noun) a barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic etc. | Synonyms: barricade |
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| (noun) any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective | Synonyms: barrier |
| roadbook | (noun) a guidebook describing the roads of a country; contains maps and (sometimes) a gazetteer | - |
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| roadhog | (noun) a driver who obstructs others | Synonyms: road hog |
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| roadhouse | (noun) an inn (usually outside city limits on a main road) providing meals and liquor and dancing and (sometimes) gambling | - |
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| roadkill | (noun) the dead body of an animal that has been killed on a road by a vehicle | - |
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| roadless | (adjective) lacking pathways | Synonyms: pathless, trackless, untracked, untrod, untrodden |
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| roadman | (noun) a salesman who travels to call on customers | Synonyms: bagman, commercial traveler, commercial traveller, traveling salesman, travelling salesman |
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| (noun) a workman who is employed to repair roads | Synonyms: road mender |
| roadrunner | (noun) speedy largely terrestrial bird found from California and Mexico to Texas | Synonyms: chaparral cock, Geococcyx californianus |
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| roads | (noun) a partly sheltered anchorage | Synonyms: roadstead |
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| roadside | (noun) edge of a way or road or path | Synonyms: wayside |
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| roadstead | (noun) a partly sheltered anchorage | Synonyms: roads |
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| roadster | (noun) a small lightweight carriage; drawn by a single horse | Synonyms: buggy |
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| (noun) an open automobile having a front seat and a rumble seat | Synonyms: runabout, two-seater |
| roadway | (noun) a road (especially that part of a road) over which vehicles travel | - |
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| roadworthiness | (noun) (of motor vehicles) the quality of being fit to drive on the open road | - |
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| roam | (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roll, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander |
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| roamer | (noun) someone who leads a wandering unsettled life | Synonyms: bird of passage, rover, wanderer |
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| roan | (adjective) (used of especially horses) having a brownish coat thickly sprinkled with white or grey | - |
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| (noun) a horse having a brownish coat thickly sprinkled with white or gray | - |
| (noun) a soft sheepskin leather that is colored and finished to resemble morocco; used in bookbinding | - |
| roar | (noun) a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal) | Synonyms: bellow, bellowing, holla, holler, hollering, hollo, holloa, roaring, yowl |
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| (noun) a deep prolonged loud noise | Synonyms: boom, roaring, thunder |
| (noun) the sound made by a lion | - |
| (verb) laugh unrestrainedly and heartily | Synonyms: howl |
| (verb) make a loud noise, as of wind, water, or vehicles | Synonyms: howl |
| (verb) emit long loud cries | Synonyms: howl, ululate, wail, yaup, yawl |
| (verb) utter words loudly and forcefully | Synonyms: thunder |
| (verb) make a loud noise, as of animal | Synonyms: bellow |
| (verb) act or proceed in a riotous, turbulent, or disorderly way | - |
| roarer | (noun) someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice | Synonyms: bawler, bellower, screamer, screecher, shouter, yeller |
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| roaring | (adjective) very lively and profitable | Synonyms: booming, burgeoning, flourishing, palmy, prospering, prosperous, thriving |
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| (noun) a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal) | Synonyms: bellow, bellowing, holla, holler, hollering, hollo, holloa, roar, yowl |
| (noun) a deep prolonged loud noise | Synonyms: boom, roar, thunder |
| (adverb) extremely | - |
| roast | (adjective) (meat) cooked by dry heat in an oven | Synonyms: roasted |
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| (noun) negative criticism | Synonyms: knock |
| (noun) a piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion | Synonyms: joint |
| (verb) cook with dry heat, usually in an oven | - |
| (verb) subject to laughter or ridicule | Synonyms: blackguard, guy, jest at, laugh at, make fun, poke fun, rib, ridicule |
| roasted | (adjective) (meat) cooked by dry heat in an oven | Synonyms: roast |
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| roaster | (noun) a special cooking pan for roasting | - |
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| (noun) flesh of a large young chicken over 3 1/2 lb suitable for roasting | - |
| (noun) a cook who roasts food | - |
| (noun) a harsh or humorous critic (sometimes intended as a facetious compliment) | - |