bequest | (noun) (law) a gift of personal property by will | Synonyms: legacy |
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bluestem | (noun) tall grass with smooth bluish leaf sheaths grown for hay in the United States | Synonyms: Andropogon furcatus, Andropogon gerardii, blue stem |
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bluestocking | (noun) a woman having literary or intellectual interests | Synonyms: bas bleu |
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bluestone | (noun) bluish-grey sandstone used for paving and building | - |
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conquest | (noun) success in mastering something difficult | - |
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(noun) the act of conquering | Synonyms: conquering, subjection, subjugation |
(noun) an act of winning the love or sexual favor of someone | Synonyms: seduction |
equestrian | (adjective) of or relating to or featuring horseback riding | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to or composed of knights | - |
(noun) a person skilled in equitation | Synonyms: horseback rider |
guest | (noun) (computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a computer network | Synonyms: client, node |
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(noun) a visitor to whom hospitality is extended | Synonyms: invitee |
(noun) a customer of a hotel or restaurant etc. | - |
guesthouse | (noun) a house separate from the main house; for housing guests | - |
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guestimate | (noun) an estimate that combines reasoning with guessing | Synonyms: guesstimate |
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guestroom | (noun) a bedroom that is kept for the use of guests | - |
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guestworker | (noun) a person with temporary permission to work in another country | Synonyms: guest worker |
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houseguest | (noun) a guest entertained in your house | Synonyms: house guest |
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inquest | (noun) an inquiry into the cause of an unexpected death | - |
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mapquest | (verb) search for a location and directions by means of the MapQuest program | - |
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quest | (noun) the act of searching for something | Synonyms: seeking |
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(noun) a search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria | Synonyms: pursuance, pursuit |
(verb) seek alms, as for religious purposes | - |
(verb) express the need or desire for | Synonyms: ask for, bespeak, call for, request |
(verb) bark with prolonged noises, of dogs | Synonyms: bay |
(verb) search the trail of (game) | - |
(verb) make a search (for) | - |
quester | (noun) someone making a search or inquiry | Synonyms: searcher, seeker |
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question | (noun) uncertainty about the truth or factuality or existence of something | Synonyms: doubt, doubtfulness, dubiousness |
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(noun) an instance of questioning | Synonyms: enquiry, inquiry, interrogation, query |
(noun) the subject matter at issue | Synonyms: head |
(noun) a formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote | Synonyms: motion |
(noun) a sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply | Synonyms: interrogation, interrogative, interrogative sentence |
(noun) an informal reference to a marriage proposal | - |
(verb) pose a question | Synonyms: query |
(verb) challenge the accuracy, probity, or propriety of | Synonyms: call into question, oppugn |
(verb) place in doubt or express doubtful speculation | Synonyms: wonder |
(verb) pose a series of questions to | Synonyms: interrogate |
(verb) conduct an interview in television, newspaper, and radio reporting | Synonyms: interview |
questionable | (adjective) subject to question | - |
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(adjective) able to be refuted | Synonyms: confutable, confutative, refutable |
questionably | (adverb) in a questionable and dubious manner | Synonyms: dubiously |
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questioner | (noun) someone who asks a question | Synonyms: asker, enquirer, inquirer, querier |
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questioning | (adjective) showing curiosity | Synonyms: inquisitive, speculative, wondering |
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(adjective) marked by or given to doubt | Synonyms: doubting, sceptical, skeptical |
(adjective) perplexed (as if being expected to know something that you do not know) | Synonyms: quizzical |
(noun) a request for information | Synonyms: inquiring |
questioningly | (adverb) in a curious and questioning manner | Synonyms: wonderingly |
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(adverb) in a quizzical and questioning manner | Synonyms: quizzically |
questionnaire | (noun) a form containing a set of questions; submitted to people to gain statistical information | - |
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request | (noun) the verbal act of requesting | Synonyms: asking |
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(noun) a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority | Synonyms: petition, postulation |
(verb) express the need or desire for | Synonyms: ask for, bespeak, call for, quest |
(verb) ask (a person) to do something | - |
(verb) inquire for (information) | - |
requested | (adjective) asked for | - |
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requester | (noun) one praying humbly for something | Synonyms: petitioner, suppliant, supplicant |
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sequester | (verb) keep away from others | Synonyms: seclude, sequestrate, withdraw |
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(verb) set apart from others | Synonyms: isolate, keep apart, sequestrate, set apart |
(verb) undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion | - |
(verb) take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority | Synonyms: attach, confiscate, impound, seize |
(verb) requisition forcibly, as of enemy property | - |
sequestered | (adjective) providing privacy or seclusion | Synonyms: cloistered, reclusive, secluded |
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(adjective) kept separate and secluded | - |
sequestrate | (verb) set apart from others | Synonyms: isolate, keep apart, sequester, set apart |
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(verb) keep away from others | Synonyms: seclude, sequester, withdraw |
sequestration | (noun) the act of segregating or sequestering | Synonyms: segregation |
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(noun) seizing property that belongs to someone else and holding it until profits pay the demand for which it was seized | Synonyms: requisition |
(noun) a writ that authorizes the seizure of property | - |
(noun) the action of forming a chelate or other stable compound with an ion or atom or molecule so that it is no longer available for reactions | - |
unquestionability | (noun) the quality of being beyond question or dispute or doubt | Synonyms: indisputability, indubitability, unquestionableness |
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unquestionable | (adjective) incapable of being questioned | - |
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(adjective) not counterfeit or copied | Synonyms: authentic, bona fide, veritable |
(adjective) not open to question | - |
unquestionableness | (noun) the quality of being beyond question or dispute or doubt | Synonyms: indisputability, indubitability, unquestionability |
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unquestionably | (adverb) without question | Synonyms: unimpeachably |
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(adverb) without question and beyond doubt | Synonyms: by all odds, decidedly, definitely, emphatically, in spades |
unquestioned | (adjective) generally agreed upon; not subject to dispute | Synonyms: unchallenged, undisputed |
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unquestioning | (adjective) being without doubt or reserve | Synonyms: implicit |
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(adjective) not inclined to ask questions | - |
unquestioningly | (adverb) in an unquestioning manner | - |
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unrequested | (adjective) not requested | - |
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