addressee | (noun) one to whom something is addressed | - |
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advisee | (noun) someone who receives advice | - |
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aniseed | (noun) liquorice-flavored seeds, used medicinally and in cooking and liquors | Synonyms: anise, anise seed |
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assessee | (noun) a person (or property) that is assessed | - |
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axseed | (noun) European herb resembling vetch; naturalized in the eastern United States; having umbels of pink-and-white flowers and sharp-angled pods | Synonyms: Coronilla varia, crown vetch |
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benniseed | (noun) small oval seeds of the sesame plant | Synonyms: sesame seed |
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beseech | (verb) ask for or request earnestly | Synonyms: adjure, bid, conjure, entreat, press |
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beseeching | (adjective) begging | Synonyms: imploring, pleading |
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beseechingly | (adverb) in a beseeching manner | Synonyms: entreatingly, imploringly, importunately, pleadingly |
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beseechingness | (noun) The state or quality of one who begs or implores. | - |
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beseem | (verb) accord or comport with | Synonyms: befit, suit |
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birdseed | (noun) food given to birds; usually mixed seeds | Synonyms: bird feed, bird food |
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blackseed | (noun) grass native to West Indies but common in southern United States having tufted wiry stems often infested with a dark fungus | Synonyms: carpet grass, smut grass, Sporobolus poiretii |
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cottonseed | (noun) seed of cotton plants; source of cottonseed oil | - |
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devisee | (noun) someone to whom property (especially realty) is devised by will | - |
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dropseed | (noun) a grass of the genus Sporobolus | Synonyms: drop-seed |
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farseeing | (adjective) capable of seeing to a great distance | Synonyms: eagle-eyed, keen-sighted, longsighted |
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(adjective) planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: farsighted, foresighted, foresightful, long, longsighted, prospicient |
flaxseed | (noun) the seed of flax used as a source of oil | Synonyms: linseed |
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foresee | (verb) realize beforehand | Synonyms: anticipate, foreknow, previse |
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(verb) picture to oneself; imagine possible | Synonyms: envision |
(verb) act in advance of; deal with ahead of time | Synonyms: anticipate, counter, forestall |
foreseeable | (adjective) capable of being anticipated | - |
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fricassee | (noun) pieces of chicken or other meat stewed in gravy with e.g. carrots and onions and served with noodles or dumplings | - |
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(verb) make a fricassee of by cooking | - |
fusee | (noun) any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant | Synonyms: fuse, fuze, fuzee, primer, priming |
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(noun) a friction match with a large head that will stay alight in the wind | Synonyms: fuzee |
(noun) a colored flare used as a warning signal by trucks and trains | Synonyms: fuzee |
(noun) a spirally grooved spindle in a clock that counteracts the diminishing power of the uncoiling mainspring | Synonyms: fusee drive |
hayseed | (noun) a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture | Synonyms: bumpkin, chawbacon, hick, rube, yahoo, yokel |
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heartseed | (noun) herbaceous vine of tropical America and Africa | Synonyms: Cardiospermum grandiflorum |
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lessee | (noun) a tenant who holds a lease | Synonyms: leaseholder |
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licensee | (noun) someone to whom a license is granted | - |
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linseed | (noun) the seed of flax used as a source of oil | Synonyms: flaxseed |
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moonseed | (noun) plant of the family Menispermaceae having red or black fruit with crescent- or ring-shaped seeds | - |
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oilseed | (noun) any of several seeds that yield oil | Synonyms: oil-rich seed |
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oversee | (verb) watch and direct | Synonyms: manage, superintend, supervise |
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overseer | (noun) a person who directs and manages an organization | Synonyms: superintendent |
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passee | (adjective) out of fashion | Synonyms: antique, demode, ex, old-fashioned, old-hat, outmoded, passe |
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pharisee | (noun) a self-righteous or sanctimonious person | - |
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placeseeker | (noun) a disparaging term for an appointee | Synonyms: placeman |
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promisee | (noun) a person to whom a promise is made | - |
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pumpkinseed | (noun) small brilliantly colored North American sunfish | Synonyms: Lepomis gibbosus |
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rapeseed | (noun) seed of rape plants; source of an edible oil | - |
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reseed | (verb) maintain by seeding without human intervention | - |
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(verb) seed again or anew | - |
see | (noun) the seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located | - |
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(verb) deem to be | Synonyms: consider, reckon, regard, view |
(verb) perceive (an idea or situation) mentally | Synonyms: realise, realize, understand |
(verb) get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally | Synonyms: discover, find out, get a line, get wind, get word, hear, learn, pick up |
(verb) be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something | Synonyms: ascertain, assure, check, control, ensure, insure, see to it |
(verb) deliberate or decide | - |
(verb) make sense of; assign a meaning to | Synonyms: construe, interpret |
(verb) find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort | Synonyms: ascertain, check, determine, find out, learn, watch |
(verb) match or meet | - |
(verb) receive as a specified guest | - |
(verb) imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind | Synonyms: envision, fancy, figure, image, picture, project, visualise, visualize |
(verb) come together | Synonyms: come across, encounter, meet, run across, run into |
(verb) conduct someone someplace | Synonyms: escort |
(verb) perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight | - |
(verb) perceive or be contemporaneous with | Synonyms: find, witness |
(verb) see or watch | Synonyms: catch, take in, view, watch |
(verb) see and understand, have a good eye | - |
(verb) observe as if with an eye | - |
(verb) undergo or live through a difficult experience | Synonyms: experience, go through |
(verb) observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect | Synonyms: examine |
(verb) date regularly; have a steady relationship with | Synonyms: date, go out, go steady |
(verb) go to see a place, as for entertainment | Synonyms: visit |
(verb) go to see for professional or business reasons | - |
(verb) go to see for a social visit | - |
(verb) take charge of or deal with | Synonyms: attend, look, take care |
seeable | (adjective) capable of being seen; or open to easy view | Synonyms: visible |
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seed | (noun) the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract | Synonyms: come, cum, ejaculate, semen, seminal fluid |
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(noun) anything that provides inspiration for later work | Synonyms: germ, source |
(noun) one of the outstanding players in a tournament | Synonyms: seeded player |
(noun) a small hard fruit | - |
(noun) a mature fertilized plant ovule consisting of an embryo and its food source and having a protective coat or testa | - |
(verb) inoculate with microorganisms | - |
(verb) remove the seeds from | - |
(verb) sprinkle with silver iodide particles to disperse and cause rain | - |
(verb) distribute (players or teams) so that outstanding teams or players will not meet in the early rounds | - |
(verb) go to seed; shed seeds | - |
(verb) place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth | Synonyms: sow |
(verb) bear seeds | - |
(verb) help (an enterprise) in its early stages of development by providing seed money | - |
seedbed | (noun) a bed where seedlings are grown before transplanting | - |
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seedcake | (noun) a sweet cake flavored with sesame or caraway seeds and lemon | Synonyms: seed cake |
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seedcase | (noun) the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves) | Synonyms: cod, pod |
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seeded | (adjective) (of the more skilled contestants) selectively arranged in the draw for position in a tournament so that they meet each other in later rounds | - |
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(adjective) sprinkled with seed | Synonyms: sown |
(adjective) having or supplied with seeds | - |
(adjective) having seeds as specified | - |
(adjective) having the seeds extracted | - |
seeder | (noun) a kitchen utensil that removes seeds from fruit | - |
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(noun) a mechanical device that sows grass seed or grain evenly over the ground | - |
(noun) a person who seeds clouds | Synonyms: cloud seeder |
seediness | (noun) a lack of elegance as a consequence of wearing threadbare or dirty clothing | Synonyms: manginess, shabbiness, sleaziness |
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seedless | (adjective) lacking seeds | - |
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seedling | (noun) young plant or tree grown from a seed | - |
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seedman | (noun) a dealer in seeds | Synonyms: seedsman |
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seedpod | (noun) a several-seeded dehiscent fruit as e.g. of a leguminous plant | Synonyms: pod |
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seedsman | (noun) a dealer in seeds | Synonyms: seedman |
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seedtime | (noun) the time during which seeds should be planted | - |
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(noun) any time of new development | - |
seedy | (adjective) full of seeds | - |
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(adjective) morally degraded | Synonyms: seamy, sleazy, sordid, squalid |
(adjective) somewhat ill or prone to illness | Synonyms: ailing, indisposed, peaked, poorly, sickly, under the weather, unwell |
(adjective) shabby and untidy | Synonyms: scruffy |
seeing | (adjective) having vision, not blind | - |
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(noun) normal use of the faculty of vision | Synonyms: eyesight, sightedness |
(noun) perception by means of the eyes | Synonyms: beholding, visual perception |
seek | (noun) the movement of a read/write head to a specific data track on a disk | - |
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(verb) inquire for | - |
(verb) try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of | Synonyms: look for, search |
(verb) go to or towards | - |
(verb) try to get or reach | - |
(verb) make an effort or attempt | Synonyms: assay, attempt, essay, try |
seeker | (noun) a missile equipped with a device that is attracted toward some kind of emission (heat or light or sound or radio waves) | - |
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(noun) someone making a search or inquiry | Synonyms: quester, searcher |
seeking | (noun) the act of searching for something | Synonyms: quest |
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(noun) an attempt to acquire or gain something | - |
seel | (verb) sew up the eyelids of hawks and falcons | - |
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seem | (verb) give a certain impression of being something or having a certain aspect | Synonyms: appear, look |
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(verb) (of a proposition) seem to be true, probable, or apparent | Synonyms: appear |
seeming | (adjective) appearing as such but not necessarily so | Synonyms: apparent, ostensible |
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seemingly | (adverb) from appearances alone | Synonyms: apparently, on the face of it, ostensibly |
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seemliness | (noun) a sense of propriety and consideration for others | Synonyms: grace |
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seemly | (adjective) according with custom or propriety | Synonyms: becoming, comely, comme il faut, decorous |
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seep | (verb) pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings | Synonyms: ooze |
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seepage | (noun) the process of seeping | Synonyms: ooze, oozing |
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seeping | (adjective) leaking out slowly | Synonyms: oozing, oozy |
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seer | (noun) a person with unusual powers of foresight | Synonyms: illusionist, visionary |
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(noun) an authoritative person who divines the future | Synonyms: oracle, prophesier, prophet, vaticinator |
(noun) an observer who perceives visually | - |
seersucker | (noun) a light puckered fabric (usually striped) | - |
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seesaw | (noun) a plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end | Synonyms: dandle board, teeter-totter, teeter, teeterboard, teetertotter, tilting board |
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(verb) move up and down as if on a seesaw | - |
(verb) ride on a plank | Synonyms: teeter-totter, teetertotter |
(verb) move unsteadily, with a rocking motion | Synonyms: teeter, totter |
seethe | (verb) boil vigorously | Synonyms: roll |
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(verb) foam as if boiling | - |
(verb) be in an agitated emotional state | Synonyms: boil |
(verb) be noisy with activity | Synonyms: buzz, hum |
seething | (adjective) in constant agitation | - |
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sightsee | (verb) visit famous or interesting sights | - |
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sightseeing | (noun) going about to look at places of interest | Synonyms: rubber-necking |
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sightseer | (noun) a tourist who is visiting sights of interest | Synonyms: excursionist, rubberneck, tripper |
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tickseed | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Coreopsis having a profusion of showy usually yellow daisylike flowers over long periods; North and South America | Synonyms: coreopsis, tick-weed, tickweed |
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unforeseeable | (adjective) incapable of being anticipated | - |
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unforeseen | (adjective) not anticipated | Synonyms: out of the blue, unanticipated, unlooked-for, unseen |
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unsee | (verb) to forget an image | - |
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unseeable | (adjective) impossible or nearly impossible to see; imperceptible by the eye | Synonyms: invisible |
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unseeded | (adjective) not seeded; used of players of lesser skill | - |
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(adjective) (of a piece of ground) not have a crop sown on it | Synonyms: unsown |
unseeing | (adjective) lacking sight | Synonyms: eyeless, sightless |
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(adjective) not consciously observing | Synonyms: unobservant |
unseemliness | (noun) a lack of consideration for others | - |
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unseemly | (adjective) not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society | Synonyms: indecent, indecorous, unbecoming, uncomely, untoward |
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unseen | (adjective) not seen or perceived | - |
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(adjective) not anticipated | Synonyms: out of the blue, unanticipated, unforeseen, unlooked-for |
(adjective) unnoticed | Synonyms: unobserved |
(noun) a belief that there is a realm controlled by a divine spirit | Synonyms: spiritual domain, spiritual world |
wormseed | (noun) rank-smelling tropical American pigweed | Synonyms: American wormseed, Chenopodium ambrosioides, Mexican tea, Spanish tea |
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