baguet | (noun) narrow French stick loaf | Synonyms: baguette |
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baguette | (noun) narrow French stick loaf | Synonyms: baguet |
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banquet | (noun) a meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed | Synonyms: feast, spread |
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(noun) a ceremonial dinner party for many people | Synonyms: feast |
(verb) partake in a feast or banquet | Synonyms: feast, junket |
(verb) provide a feast or banquet for | Synonyms: feast, junket |
banqueting | (noun) eating an elaborate meal (often accompanied by entertainment) | Synonyms: feasting |
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banquette | (noun) an upholstered bench | - |
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bluethroat | (noun) songbird of northern Europe and Asia | Synonyms: Erithacus svecicus |
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bluetick | (noun) a very fast American hound; white mottled with bluish grey | - |
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bluetongue | (noun) a viral disease of sheep and cattle that is transmitted by biting midges | - |
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bouquet | (noun) an arrangement of flowers that is usually given as a present | Synonyms: corsage, nosegay, posy |
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(noun) a pleasingly sweet olfactory property | Synonyms: fragrance, fragrancy, redolence, sweetness |
briquet | (noun) a block made from charcoal or coal dust and burned as fuel | Synonyms: briquette |
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briquette | (noun) a block made from charcoal or coal dust and burned as fuel | Synonyms: briquet |
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casquet | (noun) a light open casque without a visor or beaver | Synonyms: casquetel |
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casquetel | (noun) a light open casque without a visor or beaver | Synonyms: casquet |
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consuetude | (noun) a custom or usage that has acquired the force of law | - |
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consuetudinal | (noun) a manual describing the customs of a particular group (especially the ceremonial practices of a monastic order) | Synonyms: consuetudinary |
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consuetudinary | (noun) a manual describing the customs of a particular group (especially the ceremonial practices of a monastic order) | Synonyms: consuetudinal |
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coquet | (noun) a seductive man who uses his sex appeal to exploit women | - |
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(verb) talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions | Synonyms: butterfly, chat up, coquette, dally, flirt, mash, philander, romance |
coquetry | (noun) playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest | Synonyms: dalliance, flirt, flirtation, flirting, toying |
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coquette | (noun) a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men | Synonyms: flirt, minx, prickteaser, tease, vamp, vamper |
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(verb) talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions | Synonyms: butterfly, chat up, coquet, dally, flirt, mash, philander, romance |
coquettish | (adjective) like a coquette | Synonyms: flirtatious |
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coquettishly | (adverb) in a flirtatious manner | Synonyms: flirtatiously |
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croquet | (noun) a game in which players hit a wooden ball through a series of hoops; the winner is the first to traverse all the hoops and hit a peg | - |
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(verb) play a game in which players hit a wooden ball through a series of hoops | - |
(verb) drive away by hitting with one's ball | - |
croquette | (noun) minced cooked meats (or vegetables) in thick white sauce; breaded and deep-fried | - |
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cruet | (noun) bottle that holds wine or oil or vinegar for the table | Synonyms: crewet |
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desuetude | (noun) a state of inactivity or disuse | - |
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duet | (noun) (ballet) a dance for two people (usually a ballerina and a danseur noble) | Synonyms: pas de deux |
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(noun) a musical composition for two performers | Synonyms: duette, duo |
(noun) a pair who associate with one another | Synonyms: couple, duo, twosome |
(noun) two performers or singers who perform together | Synonyms: duette, duo |
(noun) two items of the same kind | Synonyms: brace, couple, couplet, distich, duad, duo, dyad, pair, span, twain, twosome, yoke |
duette | (noun) a musical composition for two performers | Synonyms: duet, duo |
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(noun) two performers or singers who perform together | Synonyms: duet, duo |
etiquette | (noun) rules governing socially acceptable behavior | - |
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marqueterie | (noun) inlaid veneers are fitted together to form a design or picture that is then used to ornament furniture | Synonyms: marquetry |
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marquetry | (noun) inlaid veneers are fitted together to form a design or picture that is then used to ornament furniture | Synonyms: marqueterie |
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minuet | (noun) a stately court dance in the 17th century | - |
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(noun) a stately piece of music composed for dancing the minuet; often incorporated into a sonata or suite | - |
moquette | (noun) a thick velvety synthetic fabric used for carpets and soft upholstery | - |
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netiquette | (noun) Etiquette practiced or advocated in electronic communication over a computer network. | - |
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paraquet | (noun) any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots | Synonyms: parakeet, paroquet, parrakeet, parroket, parroquet |
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paroquet | (noun) any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots | Synonyms: parakeet, paraquet, parrakeet, parroket, parroquet |
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parquet | (noun) seating on the main floor between the orchestra and the parquet circle | - |
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(noun) a floor made of parquetry | Synonyms: parquet floor |
parqueterie | (noun) a patterned wood inlay used to cover a floor | Synonyms: parquetry |
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parquetry | (noun) a patterned wood inlay used to cover a floor | Synonyms: parqueterie |
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parroquet | (noun) any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots | Synonyms: parakeet, paraquet, paroquet, parrakeet, parroket |
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piquet | (noun) a card game for two players using a reduced pack of 32 cards | - |
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(noun) a form of military punishment used by the British in the late 17th century in which a soldier was forced to stand on one foot on a pointed stake | Synonyms: picket |
pirouette | (noun) (ballet) a rapid spin of the body (especially on the toes as in ballet) | - |
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(verb) do a pirouette, usually as part of a dance | - |
quetch | (verb) express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness | Synonyms: complain, kick, kvetch, plain, sound off |
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quetzal | (noun) large trogon of Central America and South America having golden-green and scarlet plumage | Synonyms: quetzal bird |
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(noun) the basic unit of money in Guatemala; equal to 100 centavos | - |
racquet | (noun) a sports implement (usually consisting of a handle and an oval frame with a tightly interlaced network of strings) used to strike a ball (or shuttlecock) in various games | Synonyms: racket |
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racquetball | (noun) a game played on a handball court with short-handled rackets | - |
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(noun) the ball used in playing the game of racquetball | - |
roquette | (noun) erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender | Synonyms: arugula, Eruca sativa, Eruca vesicaria sativa, garden rocket, rocket, rocket salad |
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silhouette | (noun) a drawing of the outline of an object; filled in with some uniform color | - |
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(noun) an outline of a solid object (as cast by its shadow) | - |
(verb) represent by a silhouette | - |
(verb) project on a background, such as a screen, like a silhouette | - |
sobriquet | (noun) a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name) | Synonyms: byname, cognomen, moniker, nickname, soubriquet |
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soubriquet | (noun) a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name) | Synonyms: byname, cognomen, moniker, nickname, sobriquet |
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statuette | (noun) a small carved or molded figure | Synonyms: figurine |
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suet | (noun) hard fat around the kidneys and loins in beef and sheep | - |
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suety | (adjective) like or full of suet | - |
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tourniquet | (noun) bandage that stops the flow of blood from an artery by applying pressure | Synonyms: compression bandage |
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triquetral | (noun) a wrist bone that articulates with the pisiform and hamate and lunate bones | Synonyms: cuneiform bone, os triquetrum, pyramidal bone, triquetral bone |
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