| abattis | (noun) a line of defense consisting of a barrier of felled or live trees with branches (sharpened or with barbed wire entwined) pointed toward the enemy | Synonyms: abatis |
|---|
| admittible | (adjective) deserving to be allowed to enter | Synonyms: admittable |
|---|
| attic | (noun) floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage | Synonyms: garret, loft |
|---|
| (noun) (architecture) a low wall at the top of the entablature; hides the roof | - |
| (noun) informal terms for a human head | Synonyms: bean, bonce, dome, noggin, noodle |
| attire | (noun) clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion | Synonyms: dress, garb |
|---|
| (verb) put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive | Synonyms: deck out, deck up, dress up, fancy up, fig out, fig up, get up, gussy up, overdress, prink, rig out, tog out, tog up, trick out, trick up |
| attired | (adjective) dressed or clothed especially in fine attire; often used in combination | Synonyms: appareled, dressed, garbed, garmented, habilimented, robed |
|---|
| attitude | (noun) a theatrical pose created for effect | - |
|---|
| (noun) the arrangement of the body and its limbs | Synonyms: position, posture |
| (noun) a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways | Synonyms: mental attitude |
| (noun) position of aircraft or spacecraft relative to a frame of reference (the horizon or direction of motion) | - |
| attitudinal | (adjective) of or relating to attitudes | - |
|---|
| attitudinise | (verb) assume certain affected attitudes | Synonyms: attitudinize |
|---|
| attitudinize | (verb) assume certain affected attitudes | Synonyms: attitudinise |
|---|
| babbitting | (noun) lining a surface or bearing with Babbitt metal | - |
|---|
| babysitting | (noun) the work of a baby sitter; caring for children when their parents are not home | Synonyms: baby sitting |
|---|
| batting | (noun) (baseball) the batter's attempt to get on base | - |
|---|
| (noun) stuffing made of rolls or sheets of cotton wool or synthetic fiber | Synonyms: batten |
| befitting | (adjective) appropriate to | - |
|---|
| befittingly | (adverb) in accordance with what is appropriate or suitable for the circumstances | Synonyms: appropriately, duly, fitly, fittingly, properly, suitably |
|---|
| betting | (adjective) preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance | Synonyms: card-playing, dissipated, gambling, sporting |
|---|
| bittie | (adjective) (used informally) little or tiny | Synonyms: bitty, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty, teensy-weensy, teensy, teentsy, teeny-weeny, teeny, wee, weensy, weeny |
|---|
| bloodletting | (noun) formerly used as a treatment to reduce excess blood (one of the four humors of medieval medicine) | - |
|---|
| (noun) indiscriminate slaughter | Synonyms: battue, bloodbath, bloodshed |
| brattice | (noun) a partition (often temporary) of planks or cloth that is used to control ventilation in a mine | - |
|---|
| (verb) supply with a brattice, to ventilate mines | - |
| brattiness | (noun) The state or condition of acting like a brat, being unruly and impolite. | - |
|---|
| brattish | (adjective) (used of an ill-mannered child) impolitely unruly | Synonyms: bratty |
|---|
| buttinsky | (noun) a meddler who tends to butt in | - |
|---|
| cappelletti | (noun) small circular or square cases of dough with savory fillings | Synonyms: ravioli |
|---|
| cattie | (noun) any of various units of weight used in southeastern Asia (especially a Chinese measure equal to 500 grams) | Synonyms: catty |
|---|
| cattiness | (noun) malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty | Synonyms: bitchiness, nastiness, spite, spitefulness |
|---|
| cattish | (adjective) marked by or arising from malice | Synonyms: bitchy, catty |
|---|
| chapatti | (noun) flat pancake-like bread cooked on a griddle | Synonyms: chapati |
|---|
| chattily | (adverb) in a chatty manner | Synonyms: volubly |
|---|
| chittimwood | (noun) deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico | Synonyms: black haw, Bumelia lanuginosa, chittamwood, false buckthorn, shittimwood |
|---|
| (noun) shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada | Synonyms: bearberry, bearwood, cascara buckthorn, chittamwood, Rhamnus purshianus |
| clarinettist | (noun) a musician who plays the clarinet | Synonyms: clarinetist |
|---|
| clotting | (noun) the process of forming semisolid lumps in a liquid | Synonyms: coagulation, curdling |
|---|
| confetti | (noun) small pieces or streamers of colored paper that are thrown around on festive occasions (as at a wedding) | - |
|---|
| copesettic | (adjective) completely satisfactory | Synonyms: copacetic, copasetic, copesetic |
|---|
| coquettish | (adjective) like a coquette | Synonyms: flirtatious |
|---|
| coquettishly | (adverb) in a flirtatious manner | Synonyms: flirtatiously |
|---|
| cottier | (noun) a medieval English villein | Synonyms: cotter |
|---|
| cutting | (adjective) unpleasantly cold and damp | Synonyms: bleak, raw |
|---|
| (adjective) painful as if caused by a sharp instrument | Synonyms: keen, knifelike, lancinate, lancinating, piercing, stabbing |
| (adjective) (of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character | Synonyms: edged, stinging |
| (noun) the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends | Synonyms: cut, cutting off |
| (noun) the act of cutting something into parts | Synonyms: cut |
| (noun) the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge | Synonyms: cut |
| (noun) the activity of selecting the scenes to be shown and putting them together to create a film | Synonyms: film editing |
| (noun) the act of diluting something | Synonyms: thinning |
| (noun) removing parts from hard material to create a desired pattern or shape | Synonyms: carving |
| (noun) the division of a deck of cards before dealing | Synonyms: cut |
| (noun) an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine | Synonyms: clipping, newspaper clipping, press clipping, press cutting |
| (noun) a piece cut off from the main part of something | - |
| (noun) a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting | Synonyms: slip |
| cuttingly | (adverb) in an intentionally unkind way | - |
|---|
| dottily | (adverb) in a mildly insane manner | Synonyms: balmily, daftly, nuttily, wackily |
|---|
| earsplitting | (adjective) loud enough to cause (temporary) hearing loss | Synonyms: deafening, thunderous, thundery |
|---|
| epiglottis | (noun) a flap of cartilage that covers the windpipe while swallowing | - |
|---|
| epiglottitis | (noun) inflammation of the epiglottis; characterized by fever and a severe sore throat and difficulty in swallowing | - |
|---|
| fattiness | (noun) having the property of containing fat | Synonyms: adiposeness, adiposity |
|---|
| fattish | (adjective) somewhat fat | - |
|---|
| fattism | (noun) discrimination against people who are overweight | Synonyms: fatism |
|---|
| fitting | (adjective) being precisely fitting and right | Synonyms: meet |
|---|
| (adjective) in harmony with the spirit of particular persons or occasion | Synonyms: decent |
| (noun) putting clothes on to see whether they fit | Synonyms: try-on, trying on |
| (noun) a small and often standardized accessory to a larger system | - |
| (noun) (usually in the plural) furnishings and equipment (especially for a ship or hotel) | Synonyms: appointment |
| (noun) making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances | Synonyms: accommodation, adjustment |
| fittingly | (adverb) in accordance with what is appropriate or suitable for the circumstances | Synonyms: appropriately, befittingly, duly, fitly, properly, suitably |
|---|
| fittingness | (noun) the quality of being suitable | Synonyms: fitness |
|---|
| formatting | (noun) the organization of information according to preset specifications (usually for computer processing) | Synonyms: data format, data formatting, format |
|---|
| getting | (noun) the act of acquiring something | Synonyms: acquiring |
|---|
| ghatti | (noun) an Indian gum from the dhawa tree; used as a substitute for gum arabic | Synonyms: ghatti gum |
|---|
| glottis | (noun) the vocal apparatus of the larynx; the true vocal folds and the space between them where the voice tone is generated | - |
|---|
| hairsplitting | (adjective) developed in excessively fine detail | Synonyms: finespun |
|---|
| (noun) making too fine distinctions of little importance | Synonyms: word-splitting |
| hitting | (noun) the act of contacting one thing with another | Synonyms: hit, striking |
|---|
| hottish | (adjective) somewhat hot | - |
|---|
| jetting | (adjective) propelled violently in a usually narrow stream | Synonyms: spouting, spurting, squirting |
|---|
| jettison | (verb) throw as from an airplane | - |
|---|
| (verb) throw away, of something encumbering | - |
| jotting | (noun) a brief (and hurriedly handwritten) note | Synonyms: jot |
|---|
| jutting | (adjective) extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary | Synonyms: projected, projecting, protruding, relieved, sticking, sticking out |
|---|
| (noun) the act of projecting out from something | Synonyms: jut, projection, protrusion |
| kittiwake | (noun) small pearl-grey gull of northern regions; nests on cliffs and has a rudimentary hind toe | - |
|---|
| knitting | (noun) creating knitted wear | - |
|---|
| (noun) needlework created by interlacing yarn in a series of connected loops using straight eyeless needles or by machine | Synonyms: knit, knitwork |
| knottiness | (noun) puzzling complexity | Synonyms: complicatedness, complication, tortuousness |
|---|
| lattice | (noun) framework consisting of an ornamental design made of strips of wood or metal | Synonyms: fretwork, latticework |
|---|
| (noun) small opening (like a window in a door) through which business can be transacted | Synonyms: grille, wicket |
| (noun) an arrangement of points or particles or objects in a regular periodic pattern in 2 or 3 dimensions | - |
| latticed | (adjective) having a pattern of fretwork or latticework | Synonyms: fretted, interlaced, latticelike |
|---|
| latticelike | (adjective) having a pattern of fretwork or latticework | Synonyms: fretted, interlaced, latticed |
|---|
| latticework | (noun) framework consisting of an ornamental design made of strips of wood or metal | Synonyms: fretwork, lattice |
|---|
| letting | (noun) property that is leased or rented out or let | Synonyms: lease, rental |
|---|
| librettist | (noun) author of words to be set to music in an opera or operetta | - |
|---|
| manicotti | (noun) large pasta tubes stuffed with chopped meat or mild cheese and baked in tomato sauce | - |
|---|
| matting | (noun) a covering of coarse fabric (usually of straw or hemp) | - |
|---|
| (noun) mounting consisting of a border or background for a picture | Synonyms: mat |
| millettia | (noun) any of several tropical trees or shrubs yielding showy streaked dark reddish or chocolate-colored wood | - |
|---|
| nattily | (adverb) in a natty manner; with smartness | - |
|---|
| nattiness | (noun) stylishness as evidenced by a smart appearance | Synonyms: dapperness, jauntiness, rakishness |
|---|
| netting | (noun) creating nets | - |
|---|
| (noun) a net of transparent fabric with a loose open weave | Synonyms: gauze, veiling |
| nighttime | (noun) the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside | Synonyms: dark, night |
|---|
| nuttily | (adverb) in a mildly insane manner | Synonyms: balmily, daftly, dottily, wackily |
|---|
| ofttimes | (adverb) many times at short intervals | Synonyms: frequently, oft, often, oftentimes |
|---|
| outfitting | (noun) the act of renovating and fitting out a ship | - |
|---|
| pargetting | (noun) ornamental plastering | Synonyms: pargeting |
|---|
| (noun) ornamental plasterwork | Synonyms: pargeting, pargetry |
| (noun) plaster used to coat outer walls and line chimneys | Synonyms: parget, pargeting |
| parttime | (adverb) for less than the standard number of hours | Synonyms: half-time, part-time |
|---|
| petticoat | (noun) undergarment worn under a skirt | Synonyms: half-slip, underskirt |
|---|
| petticoated | (adjective) wearing or furnished with a petticoat | - |
|---|
| pettifog | (verb) argue over petty things | Synonyms: bicker, brabble, niggle, quibble, squabble |
|---|
| pettifogger | (noun) a person (especially a lawyer or politician) who uses unscrupulous or unethical methods | Synonyms: shyster |
|---|
| (noun) a disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections | Synonyms: caviler, caviller, quibbler |
| pettifoggery | (noun) a quarrel about petty points | Synonyms: bicker, bickering, fuss, spat, squabble, tiff |
|---|
| pettily | (adverb) in a petty way | - |
|---|
| pettiness | (noun) the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous | Synonyms: puniness, slightness, triviality |
|---|
| (noun) lack of generosity in trifling matters | Synonyms: littleness, smallness |
| (noun) narrowness of mind or ideas or views | - |
| petting | (noun) affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs) | Synonyms: caressing, cuddling, fondling, hugging, kissing, necking, smooching, snuggling |
|---|
| pettish | (adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy |
|---|
| pettishly | (adverb) in a petulant manner | Synonyms: irritably, petulantly, testily |
|---|
| pettishness | (noun) a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger | Synonyms: biliousness, irritability, peevishness, snappishness, surliness, temper |
|---|
| pipefitting | (noun) fitting consisting of threaded pieces of pipe for joining pipes together | Synonyms: pipe fitting |
|---|
| pitting | (noun) the formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion | Synonyms: indentation, roughness |
|---|
| poinsettia | (noun) tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers | Synonyms: Christmas flower, Christmas star, Euphorbia pulcherrima, lobster plant, Mexican flameleaf, painted leaf |
|---|
| prettify | (verb) make more beautiful | Synonyms: beautify, embellish, fancify |
|---|
| prettily | (adverb) in a pretty manner | - |
|---|
| prettiness | (noun) the quality of being appealing in a delicate or graceful way (of a girl or young woman) | Synonyms: cuteness |
|---|
| putting | (noun) hitting a golf ball that is on the green using a putter | Synonyms: putt |
|---|
| ratting | (noun) to furnish incriminating evidence to an officer of the law (usually in return for favors) | Synonyms: informing |
|---|
| rotting | (noun) (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action | Synonyms: breakdown, decomposition, putrefaction, rot |
|---|
| ruttish | (adjective) feeling great sexual desire | Synonyms: aroused, horny, randy, steamy, turned on |
|---|