booster | (noun) an additional dose that makes sure the first dose was effective | Synonyms: booster dose, booster shot, recall dose |
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(noun) the first stage of a multistage rocket | Synonyms: booster rocket, booster unit, takeoff booster, takeoff rocket |
(noun) an amplifier for restoring the strength of a transmitted signal | Synonyms: booster amplifier, booster station, relay link, relay station, relay transmitter |
(noun) a thief who steals goods that are in a store | Synonyms: lifter, shoplifter |
(noun) someone who is an active supporter and advocate | Synonyms: plugger, promoter |
(noun) a person who backs a politician or a team etc. | Synonyms: admirer, champion, friend, protagonist, supporter |
bootstrap | (noun) a strap that is looped and sewn to the top of a boot for pulling it on | - |
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(verb) help oneself, often through improvised means | - |
borstal | (noun) formerly a British reform school for youths considered too young to send to prison | - |
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botanist | (noun) a biologist specializing in the study of plants | Synonyms: phytologist, plant scientist |
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bottommost | (adjective) farthest down | Synonyms: lowermost, nethermost |
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boustrophedon | (noun) an ancient writing system: having alternate lines written in opposite directions; literally `as the ox ploughs' | - |
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boustrophedonic | (adjective) of or relating to writing alternate lines in opposite directions | - |
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bowstring | (noun) the string of an archer's bow | - |
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brachistochrone | (noun) a curve between two points along which a body can move under gravity in a shorter time than for any other curve. | - |
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brainstem | (noun) the part of the brain continuous with the spinal cord and comprising the medulla oblongata and pons and midbrain and parts of the hypothalamus | Synonyms: brain-stem, brain stem |
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brainstorm | (noun) the clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation | Synonyms: brainwave, insight |
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(verb) try to solve a problem by thinking intensely about it | - |
brainstorming | (noun) a group problem-solving technique in which members spontaneously share ideas and solutions | - |
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bratwurst | (noun) a small pork sausage | Synonyms: brat |
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breadstick | (noun) a crisp stick-shaped roll; often served with soup | Synonyms: bread-stick |
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breadstuff | (noun) food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked | Synonyms: bread, staff of life |
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(noun) flour or meal or grain used in baking bread | - |
breakfast | (noun) the first meal of the day (usually in the morning) | - |
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(verb) eat an early morning meal | - |
(verb) provide breakfast for | - |
breakstone | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Saxifraga | Synonyms: rockfoil, saxifrage |
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breast | (noun) the part of an animal's body that corresponds to a person's chest | - |
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(noun) either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman | Synonyms: boob, bosom, knocker, tit, titty |
(noun) the front of the trunk from the neck to the abdomen | Synonyms: chest |
(noun) meat carved from the breast of a fowl | Synonyms: white meat |
(verb) confront bodily | Synonyms: front |
(verb) reach the summit (of a mountain) | Synonyms: summit |
(verb) meet at breast level | - |
breastbone | (noun) the flat bone that articulates with the clavicles and the first seven pairs of ribs | Synonyms: sternum |
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breasted | (adjective) having a breast or breasts; or breasts as specified; used chiefly in compounds | - |
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breastfeed | (verb) give suck to | Synonyms: give suck, lactate, nurse, suck, suckle, wet-nurse |
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breastless | (adjective) without a breast | - |
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breastpin | (noun) a decorative pin worn by women | Synonyms: broach, brooch |
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breastplate | (noun) armor plate that protects the chest; the front part of a cuirass | Synonyms: aegis, egis |
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breaststroke | (noun) a swimming stroke; the arms are extended together in front of the head and swept back on either side accompanied by a frog kick | - |
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(verb) swim with the face down and extend the arms forward and outward while kicking with the leg | - |
breaststroker | (noun) someone who swims the breaststroke | - |
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breastwork | (noun) fortification consisting of a low wall | Synonyms: parapet |
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brimstone | (noun) an old name for sulfur | Synonyms: native sulfur, native sulphur |
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bristle | (noun) a stiff hair | - |
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(noun) a stiff fiber (coarse hair or filament); natural or synthetic | - |
(verb) react in an offended or angry manner | - |
(verb) rise up as in fear | Synonyms: stand up, uprise |
(verb) be in a state of movement or action | Synonyms: abound, burst |
(verb) have or be thickly covered with or as if with bristles | - |
bristled | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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bristlegrass | (noun) grasses of grasslands and woodlands having large gracefully arching spikes with long bristles beneath each spikelet | Synonyms: bristle grass |
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bristlelike | (adjective) resembling a bristle | - |
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bristletail | (noun) small wingless insect with a long bristlelike tail | - |
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bristliness | (noun) the quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines | Synonyms: prickliness, spininess, thorniness |
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bristly | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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(adjective) very irritable | Synonyms: prickly, splenetic, waspish |
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 |
broncobuster | (noun) a person who breaks horses | Synonyms: bronco buster, buster |
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broomstick | (noun) the handle of a broom | Synonyms: broom handle |
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brownstone | (noun) a row house built of brownstone; reddish brown in color | - |
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(noun) a reddish brown sandstone; used in buildings | - |
buckminsterfullerene | (noun) a spheroidal fullerene; the first known example of a fullerene | Synonyms: buckyball |
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bugologist | (noun) a zoologist who studies insects | Synonyms: bug-hunter, entomologist |
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burgomaster | (noun) a mayor of a municipality in Germany or Holland or Flanders or Austria | - |
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burst | (noun) the act of exploding or bursting | Synonyms: explosion |
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(noun) rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms | Synonyms: fusillade, salvo, volley |
(noun) a sudden flurry of activity (often for no obvious reason) | Synonyms: fit |
(noun) a sudden intense happening | Synonyms: flare-up, outburst |
(verb) come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure | Synonyms: break open, split |
(verb) break open or apart suddenly and forcefully | Synonyms: bust |
(verb) emerge suddenly | - |
(verb) burst outward, usually with noise | Synonyms: explode |
(verb) force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up | Synonyms: break, erupt |
(verb) move suddenly, energetically, or violently | - |
(verb) cause to burst | Synonyms: collapse |
(verb) be in a state of movement or action | Synonyms: abound, bristle |
burster | (noun) a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time | Synonyms: bursting charge, charge, explosive charge |
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bust | (adjective) lacking funds | Synonyms: broke, skint, stone-broke, stony-broke |
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(noun) an occasion for excessive eating or drinking | Synonyms: binge, bout, tear |
(noun) a sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person | - |
(noun) the chest of a woman | Synonyms: female chest |
(noun) a complete failure | Synonyms: fizzle, flop |
(verb) break open or apart suddenly and forcefully | Synonyms: burst |
(verb) go to pieces | Synonyms: break, fall apart, wear, wear out |
(verb) ruin completely | Synonyms: break |
(verb) separate or cause to separate abruptly | Synonyms: rupture, snap, tear |
(verb) search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on | Synonyms: raid |
bustard | (noun) large heavy-bodied chiefly terrestrial game bird capable of powerful swift flight; classified with wading birds but frequents grassy steppes | - |
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busted | (adjective) out of working order (`busted' is an informal substitute for `broken') | Synonyms: broken |
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buster | (noun) a person (or thing) that breaks up or overpowers something | - |
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(noun) a person who breaks horses | Synonyms: bronco buster, broncobuster |
(noun) a robust child | - |
(noun) an informal form of address for a man | Synonyms: dude, fellow |
(noun) a person born in the generation following the baby boom when the birth rate fell dramatically | Synonyms: baby buster |
bustier | (noun) a close-fitting and strapless top without sleeves that is worn by women either as lingerie or for evening dress | - |
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bustle | (noun) a rapid active commotion | Synonyms: ado, flurry, fuss, hustle, stir |
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(noun) a framework worn at the back below the waist for giving fullness to a woman's skirt | - |
(verb) move or cause to move energetically or busily | Synonyms: bustle about, hustle |
bustling | (adjective) full of energetic and noisy activity | - |
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busty | (adjective) (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves | Synonyms: bosomy, buxom, curvaceous, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, stacked, voluptuous, well-endowed |
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bypast | (adjective) well in the past; former | Synonyms: bygone, departed, foregone, gone |
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bystander | (noun) a nonparticipant spectator | - |
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cabalist | (noun) an expert who is highly skilled in obscure or difficult or esoteric matters | Synonyms: kabbalist |
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(noun) a member of a cabal | - |
cabalistic | (adjective) having a secret or hidden meaning | Synonyms: cryptic, cryptical, kabbalistic, qabalistic, sibylline |
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cabstand | (noun) a place where taxis park while awaiting customers | Synonyms: taxi rank, taxistand |
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cacomistle | (noun) raccoon-like omnivorous mammal of Mexico and the southwestern United States having a long bushy tail with black and white rings | Synonyms: Bassariscus astutus, bassarisk, cacomixle, civet cat, coon cat, miner's cat, raccoon fox, ring-tailed cat, ringtail |
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cadaster | (noun) a public register showing the details of ownership and value of land; made for the purpose of taxation | Synonyms: cadastre |
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cadastral | (adjective) of or relating to the records of a cadastre | - |
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cadastre | (noun) a public register showing the details of ownership and value of land; made for the purpose of taxation | Synonyms: cadaster |
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calisthenic | (adjective) of or relating to calisthenics | - |
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calisthenics | (noun) the practice of calisthenic exercises | Synonyms: callisthenics |
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(noun) light exercises designed to promote general fitness | Synonyms: callisthenics |
calligraphist | (noun) someone skilled in penmanship | Synonyms: calligrapher |
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callisthenics | (noun) the practice of calisthenic exercises | Synonyms: calisthenics |
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(noun) light exercises designed to promote general fitness | Synonyms: calisthenics |
campestral | (adjective) of fields or open country | - |
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campstool | (noun) a folding stool | - |
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canafistola | (noun) deciduous or semi-evergreen tree having scented sepia to yellow flowers in drooping racemes and pods whose pulp is used medicinally; tropical Asia and Central and South America and Australia | Synonyms: canafistula, Cassia fistula, drumstick tree, golden shower tree, pudding pipe tree, purging cassia |
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canafistula | (noun) deciduous or semi-evergreen tree having scented sepia to yellow flowers in drooping racemes and pods whose pulp is used medicinally; tropical Asia and Central and South America and Australia | Synonyms: canafistola, Cassia fistula, drumstick tree, golden shower tree, pudding pipe tree, purging cassia |
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canasta | (noun) a form of rummy using two decks of cards and four jokers; jokers and deuces are wild; the object is to form groups of the same rank | Synonyms: basket rummy, meld |
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candlestick | (noun) a holder with sockets for candles | Synonyms: candle holder |
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canistel | (noun) ovoid orange-yellow mealy sweet fruit of Florida and West Indies | Synonyms: eggfruit |
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(noun) tropical tree of Florida and West Indies yielding edible fruit | Synonyms: canistel tree, Pouteria campechiana nervosa |
canister | (noun) metal container for storing dry foods such as tea or flour | Synonyms: cannister, tin |
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(noun) a metallic cylinder packed with shot and used as ammunition in a firearm | Synonyms: canister shot, case shot |
cannibalistic | (adjective) characteristic of cannibals or exhibiting cannibalism | - |
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cannister | (noun) metal container for storing dry foods such as tea or flour | Synonyms: canister, tin |
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canoeist | (noun) someone paddling a canoe | Synonyms: paddler |
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canonist | (adjective) pertaining to or characteristic of a body of rules and principles accepted as axiomatic; e.g. "canonist communism" | - |
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(noun) a specialist in canon law | - |
capitalist | (adjective) favoring or practicing capitalism | Synonyms: capitalistic |
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(adjective) of or relating to capitalism or capitalists | Synonyms: capitalistic |
(noun) a person who invests capital in a business (especially a large business) | - |
(noun) a conservative advocate of capitalism | - |
capitalistic | (adjective) favoring or practicing capitalism | Synonyms: capitalist |
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(adjective) of or relating to capitalism or capitalists | Synonyms: capitalist |
capstan | (noun) a windlass rotated in a horizontal plane around a vertical axis; used on ships for weighing anchor or raising heavy sails | - |
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capstone | (noun) a stone that forms the top of wall or building | Synonyms: copestone, coping stone, stretcher |
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(noun) a final touch; a crowning achievement; a culmination | Synonyms: copestone, finishing touch |
cardcastle | (noun) an unstable construction with playing cards | Synonyms: card-house, cardhouse, house of cards |
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cardiologist | (noun) a specialist in cardiology; a specialist in the structure and function and disorders of the heart | Synonyms: heart specialist, heart surgeon |
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careerist | (noun) a professional who is intent on furthering his or her career by any possible means and often at the expense of their own integrity | - |
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caricaturist | (noun) someone who parodies in an exaggerated manner | - |
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cartoonist | (noun) a person who draws cartoons | - |
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cast | (noun) the act of throwing dice | Synonyms: roll |
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(noun) the act of throwing a fishing line out over the water by means of a rod and reel | Synonyms: casting |
(noun) a violent throw | Synonyms: hurl |
(noun) object formed by a mold | Synonyms: casting |
(noun) bandage consisting of a firm covering (often made of plaster of Paris) that immobilizes broken bones while they heal | Synonyms: plaster bandage, plaster cast |
(noun) container into which liquid is poured to create a given shape when it hardens | Synonyms: mold, mould |
(noun) the visual appearance of something or someone | Synonyms: form, shape |
(noun) the actors in a play | Synonyms: cast of characters, dramatis personae |
(noun) the distinctive form in which a thing is made | Synonyms: mold, mould, stamp |
(verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
(verb) formulate in a particular style or language | Synonyms: couch, frame, put, redact |
(verb) choose at random | Synonyms: draw |
(verb) throw forcefully | Synonyms: hurl, hurtle |
(verb) to remove | Synonyms: cast off, drop, shake off, shed, throw, throw away, throw off |
(verb) form by pouring (e.g., wax or hot metal) into a cast or mold | Synonyms: mold, mould |
(verb) select to play,sing, or dance a part in a play, movie, musical, opera, or ballet | - |
(verb) put or send forth | Synonyms: contrive, project, throw |
(verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander |
(verb) deposit | - |
(verb) assign the roles of (a movie or a play) to actors | - |
castanets | (noun) (used in the plural) a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance | Synonyms: bones, clappers, finger cymbals |
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castaway | (noun) a shipwrecked person | Synonyms: shipwreck survivor |
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(noun) a person who is rejected (from society or home) | Synonyms: Ishmael, outcast, pariah |
caste | (noun) in some social insects (such as ants) a physically distinct individual or group of individuals specialized to perform certain functions in the colony | - |
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(noun) a social class separated from others by distinctions of hereditary rank or profession or wealth | - |
(noun) (Hinduism) a hereditary social class among Hindus; stratified according to ritual purity | - |
(noun) social status or position conferred by a system based on class | - |
casteless | (adjective) not belonging to or having been expelled from a caste and thus having no place or status in society | Synonyms: outcaste |
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castellated | (adjective) having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement | Synonyms: battlemented, castled, crenelated, embattled |
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caster | (noun) a pivoting roller attached to the bottom of furniture or trucks or portable machines to make them movable | Synonyms: castor |
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(noun) a shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling powdered sugar | Synonyms: castor |
(noun) a worker who casts molten metal into finished products | - |
castigate | (verb) censure severely | Synonyms: chasten, chastise, correct, objurgate |
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(verb) inflict severe punishment on | - |
castigation | (noun) verbal punishment | Synonyms: chastisement |
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(noun) a severe scolding | Synonyms: bawling out, chewing out, dressing down, earful, going-over, upbraiding |
casting | (noun) the act of creating something by casting it in a mold | Synonyms: molding |
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(noun) the act of throwing a fishing line out over the water by means of a rod and reel | Synonyms: cast |
(noun) the choice of actors to play particular roles in a play or movie | - |
(noun) object formed by a mold | Synonyms: cast |
castle | (noun) interchanging the positions of the king and a rook | Synonyms: castling |
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(noun) a large building formerly occupied by a ruler and fortified against attack | - |
(noun) (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard | Synonyms: rook |
(noun) a large and stately mansion | Synonyms: palace |
(verb) move the king two squares toward a rook and in the same move the rook to the square next past the king | - |
castled | (adjective) having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement | Synonyms: battlemented, castellated, crenelated, embattled |
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