antecubital | (adjective) of or relating to the region of the arm in front of the elbow | - |
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antisubmarine | (adjective) defensive against enemy submarines | - |
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auberge | (noun) a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers | Synonyms: hostel, hostelry, inn, lodge |
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aubergine | (noun) egg-shaped vegetable having a shiny skin typically dark purple but occasionally white or yellow | Synonyms: eggplant, mad apple |
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(noun) hairy upright herb native to southeastern Asia but widely cultivated for its large glossy edible fruit commonly used as a vegetable | Synonyms: brinjal, eggplant, eggplant bush, garden egg, mad apple, Solanum melongena |
auburn | (adjective) (of hair) colored a moderate reddish-brown | - |
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bathtub | (noun) a relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body | Synonyms: bathing tub, tub |
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bauble | (noun) cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing | Synonyms: bangle, fallal, gaud, gewgaw, novelty, trinket |
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(noun) a mock scepter carried by a court jester | - |
bedaub | (verb) spread or daub (a surface) | Synonyms: besmear |
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bedaubed | (adjective) ornamented in a vulgar or showy fashion | - |
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bestubbled | (adjective) having a short growth of beard | Synonyms: stubbled, stubbly |
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bilirubin | (noun) an orange-yellow pigment in the bile that forms as a product of hemoglobin; excess amounts in the blood produce the yellow appearance observed in jaundice | Synonyms: haematoidin, hematoidin |
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blowtube | (noun) a tube that directs air or gas into a flame to concentrate heat | Synonyms: blow tube, blowpipe |
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(noun) a tube through which darts can be shot by blowing | Synonyms: blow tube, blowgun, blowpipe |
blub | (verb) cry or whine with snuffling | Synonyms: blubber, sniffle, snivel, snuffle |
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blubber | (noun) excess bodily weight | Synonyms: avoirdupois, fat, fatness |
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(noun) an insulating layer of fat under the skin of whales and other large marine mammals; used as a source of oil | - |
(verb) cry or whine with snuffling | Synonyms: blub, sniffle, snivel, snuffle |
(verb) utter while crying | Synonyms: blubber out |
blubberer | (noun) someone who sniffles and weeps with loud sobs | - |
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blubbery | (adjective) swollen with fat | - |
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bookclub | (noun) a club that people join in order to buy selected books at reduced prices | - |
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brewpub | (noun) a combination brewery and restaurant; beer is brewed for consumption on the premises and served along with food | - |
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bubaline | (adjective) relating to or resembling a buffalo | - |
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bubble | (noun) a dome-shaped covering made of transparent glass or plastic | - |
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(noun) an impracticable and illusory idea | - |
(noun) a speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control | Synonyms: house of cards |
(noun) a hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide) | - |
(verb) expel gas from the stomach | Synonyms: belch, burp, eruct |
(verb) form, produce, or emit bubbles | - |
(verb) cause to form bubbles | - |
(verb) rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles | - |
(verb) flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise | Synonyms: babble, burble, guggle, gurgle, ripple |
bubblejet | (noun) a kind of ink-jet printer | Synonyms: bubble-jet printer, bubble jet printer |
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bubbler | (noun) a public fountain to provide a jet of drinking water | Synonyms: drinking fountain, water fountain |
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(noun) any of various devices in which air or some other gas is bubbled through a liquid | - |
bubbliness | (noun) the property of giving off bubbles | Synonyms: effervescence, frothiness |
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bubbling | (adjective) emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation | Synonyms: bubbly, effervescing, foaming, foamy, frothy, spumy |
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(adjective) marked by high spirits or excitement | Synonyms: effervescent, frothy, scintillating, sparkly |
bubbly | (adjective) emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation | Synonyms: bubbling, effervescing, foaming, foamy, frothy, spumy |
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(adjective) full of or showing high spirits | - |
(noun) a white sparkling wine either produced in Champagne or resembling that produced there | Synonyms: champagne |
bubo | (noun) a lymph node that is inflamed and swollen because of plague or gonorrhea or tuberculosis | - |
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bubonic | (adjective) of or evidencing buboes | - |
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carnauba | (noun) Brazilian fan palm having an edible root; source of a useful leaf fiber and a brittle yellowish wax | Synonyms: carnauba palm, Copernicia cerifera, Copernicia prunifera, wax palm |
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(noun) hard yellowish to brownish wax from leaves of the carnauba palm used especially in floor waxes and polishes | Synonyms: carnauba wax |
chasuble | (noun) a long sleeveless vestment worn by a priest when celebrating Mass | - |
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cherub | (noun) an angel of the second order whose gift is knowledge; usually portrayed as a winged child | - |
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(noun) a sweet innocent baby | - |
cherubic | (adjective) having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub | Synonyms: angelic, angelical, seraphic, sweet |
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chub | (noun) European freshwater game fish with a thick spindle-shaped body | Synonyms: Leuciscus cephalus |
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chubbiness | (noun) the property of having a plump and round body | Synonyms: pudginess, rolypoliness, tubbiness |
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chubby | (adjective) sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure | Synonyms: embonpoint, plump |
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club | (noun) stout stick that is larger at one end | - |
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(noun) golf equipment used by a golfer to hit a golf ball | Synonyms: golf-club, golf club, golfclub |
(noun) a building that is occupied by a social club | Synonyms: clubhouse |
(noun) a playing card in the minor suit that has one or more black trefoils on it | - |
(noun) a spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink | Synonyms: cabaret, night club, nightclub, nightspot |
(noun) a formal association of people with similar interests | Synonyms: gild, guild, lodge, order, social club, society |
(noun) a team of professional baseball players who play and travel together | Synonyms: ball club, baseball club, nine |
(verb) strike with a club or a bludgeon | Synonyms: bludgeon |
(verb) gather into a club-like mass | - |
(verb) gather and spend time together | - |
(verb) unite with a common purpose | - |
clubable | (adjective) inclined to club together | Synonyms: clubbable |
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clubbable | (adjective) inclined to club together | Synonyms: clubable |
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clubbing | (noun) a condition in which the ends of toes and fingers become wide and thick; a symptom of heart or lung disease | - |
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clubbish | (adjective) effusively sociable | Synonyms: clubby |
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clubby | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior | Synonyms: clannish, cliquish, snobbish, snobby |
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(adjective) effusively sociable | Synonyms: clubbish |
clubfoot | (noun) congenital deformity of the foot usually marked by a curled shape or twisted position of the ankle and heel and toes | Synonyms: talipes |
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clubfooted | (adjective) having a deformed foot | Synonyms: taliped |
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clubhead | (noun) (golf) the head of the club which strikes the ball | Synonyms: club-head, club head, golf-club head |
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clubhouse | (noun) a building that is occupied by a social club | Synonyms: club |
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clubroom | (noun) a room used for the activities of a club | - |
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colubrid | (noun) mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes | Synonyms: colubrid snake |
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concubinage | (noun) cohabitation without being legally married | - |
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concubine | (noun) a woman who cohabits with an important man | Synonyms: courtesan, doxy, paramour |
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connubial | (adjective) of or relating to marriage or to the relationship between a wife and husband | Synonyms: conjugal |
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(adverb) in a conjugal manner | Synonyms: conjugally |
consubstantial | (adjective) regarded as the same in substance or essence (as of the three persons of the Trinity) | - |
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consubstantiate | (verb) become united in substance | - |
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(verb) unite in one common substance | - |
consubstantiation | (noun) the doctrine of the High Anglican Church that after the consecration of the Eucharist the substance of the body and blood of Christ coexists with the substance of the consecrated bread and wine | - |
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countersubversion | (noun) the aspect of counterintelligence designed to detect and prevent subversive activities | - |
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cub | (noun) the young of certain carnivorous mammals such as the bear or wolf or lion | Synonyms: young carnivore |
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(noun) a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy) | Synonyms: lad, laddie, sonny, sonny boy |
(noun) an awkward and inexperienced youth | Synonyms: greenhorn, rookie |
(verb) give birth to cubs | - |
cubby | (noun) a small secluded room | Synonyms: cubbyhole, snug, snuggery |
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cubbyhole | (noun) a small compartment | Synonyms: pigeonhole |
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(noun) a small secluded room | Synonyms: cubby, snug, snuggery |
cube | (noun) a block in the (approximate) shape of a cube | Synonyms: square block |
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(noun) any of several tropical American woody plants of the genus Lonchocarpus whose roots are used locally as a fish poison and commercially as a source of rotenone | - |
(noun) the product of three equal terms | Synonyms: third power |
(noun) a hexahedron with six equal squares as faces | Synonyms: regular hexahedron |
(noun) a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides | Synonyms: block |
(verb) raise to the third power | - |
(verb) cut into cubes | Synonyms: dice |
cubeb | (noun) a cigarette containing cubeb | Synonyms: cubeb cigarette |
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(noun) tropical southeast Asian shrubby vine bearing spicy berrylike fruits | Synonyms: cubeb vine, Java pepper, Piper cubeba |
(noun) spicy fruit of the cubeb vine; when dried and crushed is used medicinally or in perfumery and sometimes smoked in cigarettes | - |
cubelike | (adjective) shaped like a cube | Synonyms: cube-shaped, cubical, cubiform, cuboid, cuboidal |
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cubic | (adjective) having the shape of a cube; having three dimensions | Synonyms: three-dimensional |
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(adjective) involving the cube and no higher power of a quantity or variable | - |
cubical | (adjective) shaped like a cube | Synonyms: cube-shaped, cubelike, cubiform, cuboid, cuboidal |
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cubicity | (noun) the property of resembling a cube | - |
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cubicle | (noun) small area set off by walls for special use | Synonyms: booth, kiosk, stall |
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(noun) small individual study area in a library | Synonyms: carrel, carrell, stall |
(noun) small room in which a monk or nun lives | Synonyms: cell |
cubiform | (adjective) shaped like a cube | Synonyms: cube-shaped, cubelike, cubical, cuboid, cuboidal |
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cubism | (noun) an artistic movement in France beginning in 1907 that featured surfaces of geometrical planes | - |
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cubist | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of cubism | Synonyms: cubistic |
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(noun) an artist who adheres to the principles of cubism | - |
cubistic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of cubism | Synonyms: cubist |
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cubit | (noun) an ancient unit of length based on the length of the forearm | - |
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cubital | (adjective) of or relating to the elbow | - |
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cubitiere | (noun) body armor that protects the elbow | - |
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cubitus | (noun) hinge joint between the forearm and upper arm and the corresponding joint in the forelimb of a quadruped | Synonyms: articulatio cubiti, cubital joint, elbow, elbow joint, human elbow |
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(noun) the arm from the elbow to the fingertips | - |
cuboid | (adjective) shaped like a cube | Synonyms: cube-shaped, cubelike, cubical, cubiform, cuboidal |
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(noun) a rectangular parallelepiped | - |
cuboidal | (adjective) shaped like a cube | Synonyms: cube-shaped, cubelike, cubical, cubiform, cuboid |
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daub | (noun) an unskillful painting | - |
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(noun) a blemish made by dirt | Synonyms: blot, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, spot |
(noun) material used to daub walls | - |
(verb) cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it | Synonyms: smear |
(verb) coat with plaster | Synonyms: plaster |
(verb) apply to a surface | - |
dauber | (noun) an unskilled painter | - |
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daubing | (noun) the application of plaster | Synonyms: plastering |
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decubitus | (noun) a reclining position (as in a bed) | - |
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dissolubility | (noun) the property of being dissoluble | Synonyms: solubleness |
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dissoluble | (adjective) capable of dissolving | Synonyms: dissolvable |
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double | (adjective) used of homologous chromosomes associated in pairs in synapsis | Synonyms: bivalent |
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(adjective) used of flowers having more than the usual number of petals in crowded or overlapping arrangements | - |
(adjective) having two meanings with intent to deceive | Synonyms: forked |
(adjective) large enough for two | - |
(adjective) twice as great or many | Synonyms: doubled, two-fold, twofold |
(adjective) consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs | Synonyms: dual, duple |
(adjective) having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities | Synonyms: dual, three-fold, threefold, treble, two-fold, twofold |
(noun) a base hit on which the batter stops safely at second base | Synonyms: two-bagger, two-base hit, two-baser |
(noun) raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2 | Synonyms: doubling |
(noun) a quantity that is twice as great as another | - |
(noun) someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor) | Synonyms: image, look-alike |
(noun) a stand-in for movie stars to perform dangerous stunts | - |
(adverb) to double the degree | Synonyms: doubly, twice |
(adverb) two together | - |
(adverb) downward and forward | - |
(verb) increase twofold | Synonyms: duplicate |
(verb) hit a two-base hit | - |
(verb) do double duty; serve two purposes or have two functions | - |
(verb) make or do or perform again | Synonyms: duplicate, reduplicate, repeat, replicate |
(verb) bend over or curl up, usually with laughter or pain | Synonyms: double over, double up |
(verb) make a demand for (a card or suit) | - |
doubled | (adjective) twice as great or many | Synonyms: double, two-fold, twofold |
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doubleheader | (noun) two games instead of one (especially in baseball when the same two teams play two games on the same day) | Synonyms: double feature, twin bill |
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doubler | (noun) an electronic device that doubles the voltage or the frequency of an input signal | - |
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doubles | (noun) tennis played with two players on each side | - |
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(noun) badminton played with two players on each side | - |
doublespeak | (noun) any language that pretends to communicate but actually does not | - |
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doublet | (noun) a man's close-fitting jacket; worn during the Renaissance | - |
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doublethink | (noun) believing two contradictory ideas at the same time | - |
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doubleton | (noun) (bridge) a pair of playing cards that are the only cards in their suit in the hand dealt to a player | - |
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doubletree | (noun) a crossbar on a wagon or carriage to which two whiffletrees are attached in order to harness two horses abreast | - |
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doubling | (noun) raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2 | Synonyms: double |
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(noun) increase by a factor of two | - |
doubloon | (noun) a former Spanish gold coin | - |
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doubly | (adverb) to double the degree | Synonyms: double, twice |
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(adverb) in a twofold manner | Synonyms: in two ways |
doubt | (noun) uncertainty about the truth or factuality or existence of something | Synonyms: doubtfulness, dubiousness, question |
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(noun) the state of being unsure of something | Synonyms: doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, incertitude, uncertainty |
(verb) consider unlikely | - |
(verb) lack confidence in | - |
doubter | (noun) someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs | Synonyms: sceptic, skeptic |
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(noun) someone who is doubtful or noncommittal about something | Synonyms: agnostic |
doubtful | (adjective) open to doubt or suspicion | Synonyms: dubious, dubitable, in question |
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(adjective) fraught with uncertainty or doubt | Synonyms: dubious |
(adjective) unsettled in mind or opinion | Synonyms: tentative |
doubtfully | (adverb) in a doubtful manner | Synonyms: dubiously |
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doubtfulness | (noun) uncertainty about the truth or factuality or existence of something | Synonyms: doubt, dubiousness, question |
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(noun) the state of being unsure of something | Synonyms: doubt, dubiety, dubiousness, incertitude, uncertainty |
doubting | (adjective) marked by or given to doubt | Synonyms: questioning, sceptical, skeptical |
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doubtless | (adverb) without doubt; certainly | Synonyms: doubtlessly, undoubtedly |
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doubtlessly | (adverb) without doubt; certainly | Synonyms: doubtless, undoubtedly |
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