answer | (noun) a nonverbal reaction | - |
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(noun) the speech act of replying to a question | - |
(noun) a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation | Synonyms: reply, response |
(noun) a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem | Synonyms: resolution, result, solution, solvent |
(noun) the principal pleading by the defendant in response to plaintiff's complaint; in criminal law it consists of the defendant's plea of `guilty' or `not guilty' (or nolo contendere); in civil law it must contain denials of all allegations in the plaintiff's complaint that the defendant hopes to controvert and it can contain affirmative defenses or counterclaims | - |
(verb) give the correct answer or solution to | - |
(verb) respond to a signal | - |
(verb) understand the meaning of | Synonyms: resolve |
(verb) react to a stimulus or command | - |
(verb) react verbally | Synonyms: reply, respond |
(verb) give a defence or refutation of (a charge) or in (an argument) | - |
(verb) be satisfactory for; meet the requirements of or serve the purpose of | - |
(verb) match or correspond | - |
(verb) be liable or accountable | - |
(verb) be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity | Synonyms: do, serve, suffice |
answerability | (noun) responsibility to someone or for some activity | Synonyms: accountability, answerableness |
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answerable | (adjective) morally or legally responsible to a higher authority | - |
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(adjective) capable of being answered | - |
(adjective) liable to account for one's actions | Synonyms: accountable |
answerableness | (noun) responsibility to someone or for some activity | Synonyms: accountability, answerability |
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answerer | (noun) someone who responds | Synonyms: respondent, responder |
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answering | (adjective) replying | Synonyms: respondent |
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backswept | (adjective) used of hair | Synonyms: sweptback |
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backswimmer | (noun) predaceous aquatic insect that swims on its back and may inflict painful bites | Synonyms: Notonecta undulata |
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backsword | (noun) a sword with only one cutting edge | - |
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(noun) a stick used instead of a sword for fencing | Synonyms: fencing stick, singlestick |
basswood | (noun) any of various deciduous trees of the genus Tilia with heart-shaped leaves and drooping cymose clusters of yellowish often fragrant flowers; several yield valuable timber | Synonyms: lime, lime tree, linden, linden tree |
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(noun) soft light-colored wood of any of various linden trees; used in making crates and boxes and in carving and millwork | Synonyms: linden |
beeswax | (noun) a yellow to brown wax secreted by honeybees to build honeycombs | - |
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(verb) cover with beeswax | - |
bittersweet | (adjective) tinged with sadness | - |
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(adjective) having a taste that is a mixture of bitterness and sweetness | Synonyms: semisweet |
(noun) twining shrub of North America having yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds | Synonyms: American bittersweet, Celastrus scandens, climbing bittersweet, false bittersweet, shrubby bittersweet, staff vine, waxwork |
(noun) poisonous perennial Old World vine having violet flowers and oval coral-red berries; widespread weed in North America | Synonyms: bittersweet nightshade, climbing nightshade, deadly nightshade, poisonous nightshade, Solanum dulcamara, woody nightshade |
boatswain | (noun) a petty officer on a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen | Synonyms: bo's'n, bo'sun, bos'n, bosun |
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bondswoman | (noun) a female slave | Synonyms: bondmaid, bondwoman |
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(noun) a female bound to serve without wages | Synonyms: bondmaid, bondwoman |
(noun) a female who signs a bond as surety for someone else | - |
broadsword | (noun) a sword with a broad blade and (usually) two cutting edges; used to cut rather than stab | - |
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businesswoman | (noun) a female businessperson | - |
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caddisworm | (noun) larva of the caddis fly; constructs a case of silk covered with sand or plant debris | Synonyms: strawworm |
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chimneysweep | (noun) someone who cleans soot from chimneys | Synonyms: chimneysweeper, sweep |
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chimneysweeper | (noun) someone who cleans soot from chimneys | Synonyms: chimneysweep, sweep |
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clanswoman | (noun) a female member of a clan | - |
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classwork | (noun) the part of a student's work that is done in the classroom | - |
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cocoswood | (noun) wood of the granadilla tree used for making musical instruments especially clarinets | Synonyms: cocuswood, granadilla wood |
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cocuswood | (noun) wood of the granadilla tree used for making musical instruments especially clarinets | Synonyms: cocoswood, granadilla wood |
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codswallop | (noun) nonsensical talk or writing | Synonyms: applesauce, folderol, rubbish, trash, tripe, trumpery, wish-wash |
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congresswoman | (noun) a female member of the United States House of Representatives | - |
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coxswain | (noun) the helmsman of a ship's boat or a racing crew | Synonyms: cox |
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crosswalk | (noun) a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other | Synonyms: crossing, crossover |
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crossway | (noun) a junction where one street or road crosses another | Synonyms: carrefour, crossing, crossroad, intersection |
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crossways | (adverb) transversely | Synonyms: across, crosswise |
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crosswind | (noun) wind blowing across the path of a ship or aircraft | - |
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crosswise | (adjective) lying or extending across the length of a thing or in a cross direction | - |
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(adjective) in the shape of (a horizontal piece on) a cross | - |
(adverb) transversely | Synonyms: across, crossways |
(adverb) not in the intended manner | - |
crossword | (noun) a puzzle in which words corresponding to numbered clues are to be found and written in to squares in the puzzle | Synonyms: crossword puzzle |
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cumswallow | (verb) to swallow ejaculate | - |
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downswing | (noun) a swing downward of a golf club | - |
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(noun) a worsening of business or economic activity | Synonyms: downturn |
expressway | (noun) a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic | Synonyms: freeway, motorway, pike, state highway, superhighway, throughway, thruway |
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flyswat | (noun) an implement with a flat part (of mesh or plastic) and a long handle; used to kill insects | Synonyms: flyswatter, swatter |
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flyswatter | (noun) an implement with a flat part (of mesh or plastic) and a long handle; used to kill insects | Synonyms: flyswat, swatter |
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foreswear | (verb) turn away from; give up | Synonyms: quit, relinquish, renounce |
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(verb) do without or cease to hold or adhere to | Synonyms: dispense with, forego, forgo, relinquish, waive |
forswear | (verb) formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure | Synonyms: abjure, recant, resile, retract |
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forswearing | (noun) the act of renouncing; sacrificing or giving up or surrendering (a possession or right or title or privilege etc.) | Synonyms: forgoing, renunciation |
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frontierswoman | (noun) a woman who lives on the frontier | - |
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gasworks | (noun) the workplace where coal gas is manufactured | - |
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glassware | (noun) an article of tableware made of glass | Synonyms: glasswork |
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glasswork | (noun) an article of tableware made of glass | Synonyms: glassware |
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glassworker | (noun) someone who cuts flat glass to size | Synonyms: glass-cutter, glass cutter, glazer, glazier |
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glassworks | (noun) a workplace where glass is made | - |
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glasswort | (noun) fleshy maritime plant having fleshy stems with rudimentary scalelike leaves and small spikes of minute flowers; formerly used in making glass | Synonyms: Salicornia europaea, samphire |
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(noun) bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash | Synonyms: barilla, kali, kelpwort, Salsola kali, Salsola soda, saltwort |
greensward | (noun) surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots | Synonyms: sod, sward, turf |
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guesswork | (noun) an estimate based on little or no information | Synonyms: dead reckoning, guess, guessing, shot |
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hornswoggle | (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize |
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kinswoman | (noun) a female relative | - |
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minesweeper | (noun) ship equipped to detect and then destroy or neutralize or remove marine mines | - |
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minesweeping | (noun) the activity of detecting and disposing of marine mines | - |
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newswoman | (noun) a female newsperson | - |
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newsworthiness | (noun) the quality of being sufficiently interesting to be reported in news bulletins | Synonyms: news |
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newsworthy | (adjective) sufficiently interesting to be reported in a newspaper | - |
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newswriter | (noun) a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media | Synonyms: correspondent |
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nonsweet | (adjective) not containing sugar | Synonyms: sugarless |
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oarswoman | (noun) a woman oarsman | - |
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outdoorswoman | (noun) a woman who spends time outdoors (e.g., hunting and fishing) | - |
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password | (noun) a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group | Synonyms: countersign, parole, watchword, word |
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pigswill | (noun) wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk | Synonyms: pigwash, slop, slops, swill |
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praisworthiness | (noun) the property of deserving praise | - |
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saleswoman | (noun) a woman salesperson | Synonyms: salesgirl, saleslady |
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semisweet | (adjective) having a taste that is a mixture of bitterness and sweetness | Synonyms: bittersweet |
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sideswipe | (noun) a glancing blow from or on the side of something (especially motor vehicles) | - |
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(verb) strike from the side | - |
silversword | (noun) low-growing plant found only in volcanic craters on Hawaii having rosettes of narrow pointed silver-green leaves and clusters of profuse red-purple flowers on a tall stem | Synonyms: Argyroxiphium sandwicense |
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spokeswoman | (noun) a female spokesperson | - |
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sportswear | (noun) attire worn for sport or for casual wear | Synonyms: activewear, athletic wear |
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sportswoman | (noun) a female who engages in sports | - |
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sportswriter | (noun) a journalist who writes about sports | Synonyms: sports writer |
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stateswoman | (noun) a woman statesman | - |
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swab | (noun) cleaning implement consisting of absorbent material fastened to a handle; for cleaning floors | Synonyms: mop, swob |
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(noun) implement consisting of a small piece of cotton that is used to apply medication or cleanse a wound or obtain a specimen of a secretion | - |
(verb) wash with a swab or a mop | Synonyms: swob |
(verb) apply (usually a liquid) to a surface | Synonyms: dab, swob |
swabbing | (noun) cleaning with a mop | Synonyms: mopping |
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swad | (noun) a bunch | - |
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swaddle | (verb) wrap in swaddling clothes | Synonyms: swathe |
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swag | (noun) a bundle containing the personal belongings of a swagman | - |
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(noun) goods or money obtained illegally | Synonyms: booty, dirty money, loot, pillage, plunder, prize |
(noun) valuable goods | - |
(verb) sway heavily or unsteadily | - |
(verb) walk as if unable to control one's movements | Synonyms: careen, keel, lurch, reel, stagger |
(verb) droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness | Synonyms: droop, flag, sag |
swage | (noun) a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging | Synonyms: upset |
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(verb) form metals with a swage | Synonyms: upset |
swagger | (adjective) (British informal) very chic | Synonyms: groovy |
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(noun) a proud stiff pompous gait | Synonyms: prance, strut |
(noun) an itinerant Australian laborer who carries his personal belongings in a bundle as he travels around in search of work | Synonyms: swaggie, swagman |
(verb) act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner | Synonyms: bluster, swash |
(verb) discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate | Synonyms: browbeat, bully |
(verb) to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others | Synonyms: cock, prance, ruffle, sashay, strut, tittup |
swaggerer | (noun) someone who walks in an arrogant manner | - |
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swaggering | (adjective) flamboyantly adventurous | Synonyms: swashbuckling |
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(adjective) having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy | Synonyms: disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious |
swaggie | (noun) an itinerant Australian laborer who carries his personal belongings in a bundle as he travels around in search of work | Synonyms: swagger, swagman |
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swagman | (noun) an itinerant Australian laborer who carries his personal belongings in a bundle as he travels around in search of work | Synonyms: swagger, swaggie |
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swain | (noun) a man who is the lover of a man or woman | Synonyms: beau, boyfriend, fellow |
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swale | (noun) a low area (especially a marshy area between ridges) | - |
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swallow | (noun) the act of swallowing | Synonyms: deglutition, drink |
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(noun) small long-winged songbird noted for swift graceful flight and the regularity of its migrations | - |
(noun) a small amount of liquid food | Synonyms: sup |
(verb) believe or accept without questioning or challenge | - |
(verb) keep from expressing | - |
(verb) tolerate or accommodate oneself to | Synonyms: accept, live with |
(verb) take back what one has said | Synonyms: take back, unsay, withdraw |
(verb) utter unclearly | - |
(verb) engulf and destroy | - |
(verb) pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking | Synonyms: get down |
(verb) enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing | Synonyms: bury, eat up, immerse, swallow up |
swallowtail | (noun) a man's full-dress jacket with two long tapering tails at the back | Synonyms: morning coat, swallow-tailed coat |
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swallowwort | (noun) perennial herb with branched woody stock and bright yellow flowers | Synonyms: celandine, Chelidonium majus, greater celandine, swallow wort |
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(noun) tropical herb having orange-red flowers followed by pods suggesting a swallow with outspread wings; a weed throughout the tropics | Synonyms: Asclepias curassavica, blood flower |
swami | (noun) a Hindu religious teacher; used as a title of respect | - |
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swamp | (noun) low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog | Synonyms: swampland |
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(noun) a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables | - |
(verb) fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid | Synonyms: deluge, flood, inundate |
(verb) drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged | Synonyms: drench |
swamphen | (noun) any of various small aquatic birds of the genus Gallinula distinguished from rails by a frontal shield and a resemblance to domestic hens | Synonyms: gallinule, marsh hen, water hen |
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swampland | (noun) low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog | Synonyms: swamp |
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swampy | (adjective) (of soil) soft and watery | Synonyms: boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, waterlogged |
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swan | (noun) stately heavy-bodied aquatic bird with very long neck and usually white plumage as adult | - |
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(verb) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true | Synonyms: affirm, assert, aver, avow, swear, verify |
(verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, tramp, vagabond, wander |
(verb) sweep majestically | - |
swanflower | (noun) any of several orchids of the genus Cycnoches having slender arching columns of flowers suggesting the neck of a swan | Synonyms: swan-flower, swan-neck, swan orchid, swanneck |
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swank | (adjective) imposingly fashionable and elegant | Synonyms: swanky |
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(noun) elegance by virtue of being fashionable | Synonyms: chic, chichi, chicness, last word, modishness, smartness, stylishness |
(verb) display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously | Synonyms: flash, flaunt, ostentate, show off |
swanky | (adjective) imposingly fashionable and elegant | Synonyms: swank |
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swanneck | (noun) any of several orchids of the genus Cycnoches having slender arching columns of flowers suggesting the neck of a swan | Synonyms: swan-flower, swan-neck, swan orchid, swanflower |
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swap | (noun) an equal exchange | Synonyms: barter, swop, trade |
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(verb) move (a piece of a program) into memory, in computer science | - |
(verb) exchange or give (something) in exchange for | Synonyms: switch, swop, trade |
sward | (noun) surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots | Synonyms: greensward, sod, turf |
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