| aiguillette | (noun) ornamental tagged cord or braid on the shoulder of a uniform | Synonyms: aglet, aiglet |
|---|
| aquilege | (noun) a plant of the genus Aquilegia having irregular showy spurred flowers; north temperate regions especially mountains | Synonyms: aquilegia, columbine |
|---|
| aquilegia | (noun) a plant of the genus Aquilegia having irregular showy spurred flowers; north temperate regions especially mountains | Synonyms: aquilege, columbine |
|---|
| aquiline | (adjective) curved down like an eagle's beak | Synonyms: hooked |
|---|
| beguile | (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
|---|
| (verb) influence by slyness | Synonyms: hoodwink, juggle |
| beguiled | (adjective) filled with wonder and delight | Synonyms: captivated, charmed, delighted, enthralled, entranced |
|---|
| beguilement | (noun) an entertainment that provokes pleased interest and distracts you from worries and vexations | Synonyms: distraction |
|---|
| (noun) magnetic personal charm | Synonyms: animal magnetism, bewitchery |
| beguiler | (noun) a person who charms others (usually by personal attractiveness) | Synonyms: charmer |
|---|
| (noun) someone who leads you to believe something that is not true | Synonyms: cheat, cheater, deceiver, slicker, trickster |
| beguiling | (adjective) misleading by means of pleasant or alluring methods | - |
|---|
| (adjective) highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire | Synonyms: alluring, enticing, tempting |
| blanquillo | (noun) important marine food fishes | Synonyms: tilefish |
|---|
| bloodguilt | (noun) the state of being guilty of bloodshed and murder | - |
|---|
| bloodguilty | (adjective) guilty of murder or bloodshed | - |
|---|
| boatbuilder | (noun) a person who builds boats | - |
|---|
| bodybuilder | (noun) someone who does special exercises to develop a brawny musculature | Synonyms: muscle-builder, muscle builder, musclebuilder, muscleman |
|---|
| bodybuilding | (noun) exercise that builds muscles through tension | Synonyms: anaerobic exercise, muscle building, musclebuilding |
|---|
| bouillabaisse | (noun) highly seasoned Mediterranean soup or stew made of several kinds of fish and shellfish with tomatoes and onions or leeks and seasoned with saffron and garlic and herbs | - |
|---|
| bouillon | (noun) a clear seasoned broth | - |
|---|
| build | (noun) constitution of the human body | Synonyms: body-build, habitus, physique |
|---|
| (noun) alternative names for the body of a human being | Synonyms: anatomy, bod, chassis, figure, flesh, form, frame, human body, material body, physical body, physique, shape, soma |
| (verb) form or accumulate steadily | Synonyms: build up, progress, work up |
| (verb) improve the cleansing action of | - |
| (verb) bolster or strengthen | Synonyms: build up, ramp up, work up |
| (verb) develop and grow | - |
| (verb) found or ground | - |
| (verb) make by combining materials and parts | Synonyms: construct, make |
| (verb) give form to, according to a plan | - |
| (verb) build or establish something abstract | Synonyms: establish |
| (verb) be engaged in building | - |
| (verb) order, supervise, or finance the construction of | - |
| builder | (noun) someone who contracts for and supervises construction (as of a building) | Synonyms: constructor |
|---|
| (noun) a person who creates a business or who organizes and develops a country | - |
| (noun) a substance added to soaps or detergents to increase their cleansing action | Synonyms: detergent builder |
| building | (noun) the act of constructing something | Synonyms: construction |
|---|
| (noun) the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones | Synonyms: construction |
| (noun) a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place | Synonyms: edifice |
| (noun) the occupants of a building | - |
| buildup | (noun) the act of building up an accumulation | - |
|---|
| (noun) highly favorable publicity and praise | - |
| (noun) the result of the process of accumulation | - |
| built | (adjective) (used of soaps or cleaning agents) having a substance (an abrasive or filler) added to increase effectiveness | Synonyms: reinforced |
|---|
| coachbuilder | (noun) a craftsman who makes the bodies of motor vehicles | - |
|---|
| coquille | (noun) a dish in the form of a scallop shell | - |
|---|
| (noun) seafood served in a scallop shell | - |
| disequilibrium | (noun) loss of equilibrium attributable to an unstable situation in which some forces outweigh others | - |
|---|
| equilateral | (adjective) having all sides or faces equal | - |
|---|
| (noun) a figure whose sides are all equal | - |
| equilibrate | (verb) bring to a chemical stasis or equilibrium | - |
|---|
| (verb) bring into balance or equilibrium | Synonyms: balance, equilibrise, equilibrize |
| equilibration | (noun) stabilization by bringing into equilibrium | - |
|---|
| equilibrise | (verb) bring into balance or equilibrium | Synonyms: balance, equilibrate, equilibrize |
|---|
| equilibrium | (noun) a sensory system located in structures of the inner ear that registers the orientation of the head | Synonyms: labyrinthine sense, sense of balance, sense of equilibrium, vestibular sense |
|---|
| (noun) a chemical reaction and its reverse proceed at equal rates | Synonyms: chemical equilibrium |
| (noun) equality of distribution | Synonyms: balance, counterbalance, equipoise |
| (noun) a stable situation in which forces cancel one another | - |
| equilibrize | (verb) bring into balance or equilibrium | Synonyms: balance, equilibrate, equilibrise |
|---|
| fauteuil | (noun) an upholstered armchair | - |
|---|
| guild | (noun) a formal association of people with similar interests | Synonyms: club, gild, lodge, order, social club, society |
|---|
| guilder | (noun) formerly the basic unit of money in the Netherlands; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: Dutch florin, florin, gulden |
|---|
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Suriname; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: florin, gulden |
| guildhall | (noun) the hall of a guild or corporation | - |
|---|
| guile | (noun) the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) | Synonyms: chicane, chicanery, shenanigan, trickery, wile |
|---|
| (noun) the quality of being crafty | Synonyms: craftiness |
| (noun) shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception | Synonyms: craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness, slyness, wiliness |
| guileful | (adjective) marked by skill in deception | Synonyms: crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily |
|---|
| guileless | (adjective) free of deceit | Synonyms: transparent |
|---|
| guillemot | (noun) small black or brown speckled auks of northern seas | - |
|---|
| guilloche | (noun) an architectural decoration formed by two intersecting wavy bands | - |
|---|
| guillotine | (noun) instrument of execution that consists of a weighted blade between two vertical poles; used for beheading people | - |
|---|
| (noun) closure imposed on the debate of specific sections of a bill | Synonyms: closure by compartment |
| (verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine | - |
| guilt | (noun) remorse caused by feeling responsible for some offense | Synonyms: guilt feelings, guilt trip, guilty conscience |
|---|
| (noun) the state of having committed an offense | Synonyms: guiltiness |
| guiltily | (adverb) in the manner of someone who has committed an offense | - |
|---|
| guiltiness | (noun) the state of having committed an offense | Synonyms: guilt |
|---|
| guiltless | (adjective) free from evil or guilt | Synonyms: clean-handed, innocent |
|---|
| guiltlessness | (noun) a state of innocence | Synonyms: blamelessness, inculpability, inculpableness |
|---|
| guilty | (adjective) responsible for or chargeable with a reprehensible act | - |
|---|
| (adjective) showing a sense of guilt | Synonyms: hangdog, shamed, shamefaced |
| handbuild | (verb) make without a potter's wheel | Synonyms: coil, hand-build |
|---|
| homebuilder | (noun) someone who builds houses as a business | Synonyms: home-builder, house-builder, housebuilder |
|---|
| housebuilder | (noun) someone who builds houses as a business | Synonyms: home-builder, homebuilder, house-builder |
|---|
| inbuilt | (adjective) existing as an essential constituent or characteristic | Synonyms: built-in, constitutional, inherent, integral |
|---|
| jonquil | (noun) widely cultivated ornamental plant native to southern Europe but naturalized elsewhere having fragrant yellow or white clustered flowers | Synonyms: Narcissus jonquilla |
|---|
| (noun) often used colloquially for any yellow daffodil | - |
| maquiladora | (noun) an assembly plant in Mexico (near the United States border); parts are shipped into Mexico and the finished product is shipped back across the border | - |
|---|
| musclebuilder | (noun) someone who does special exercises to develop a brawny musculature | Synonyms: bodybuilder, muscle-builder, muscle builder, muscleman |
|---|
| musclebuilding | (noun) exercise that builds muscles through tension | Synonyms: anaerobic exercise, bodybuilding, muscle building |
|---|
| outbuilding | (noun) a building that is subordinate to and separate from a main building | - |
|---|
| plaguily | (adverb) in a pernicious or annoying manner | Synonyms: plaguey, plaguy |
|---|
| quill | (noun) a stiff hollow protective spine on a porcupine or hedgehog | - |
|---|
| (noun) the hollow spine of a feather | Synonyms: calamus, shaft |
| (noun) any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird | Synonyms: flight feather, pinion, quill feather |
| (noun) pen made from a bird's feather | Synonyms: quill pen |
| quillwort | (noun) any of several spore-bearing aquatic or marsh plants having short rhizomes and leaves resembling quills; worldwide except Polynesia | - |
|---|
| quilt | (noun) bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together | Synonyms: comfort, comforter, puff |
|---|
| (verb) create by stitching together | - |
| (verb) stitch or sew together | - |
| quilted | (adjective) made of layers of fabric held together by patterned stitching | - |
|---|
| quilting | (noun) a material used for making a quilt, or a quilted fabric | - |
|---|
| (noun) stitching through layers of fabric and a filling so as to create a design | - |
| ratatouille | (noun) a vegetable stew; usually made with tomatoes, eggplant, zucchini, peppers, onion, and seasonings | - |
|---|
| rebuild | (verb) build again | Synonyms: reconstruct |
|---|
| rebuilding | (noun) building again | - |
|---|
| shipbuilder | (noun) a business that builds and repairs ships | - |
|---|
| (noun) a person who builds ships as a business | Synonyms: ship builder |
| (noun) a carpenter who helps build and launch wooden vessels | Synonyms: ship builder, shipwright |
| shipbuilding | (noun) the construction of ships | Synonyms: ship building |
|---|
| squill | (noun) an Old World plant of the genus Scilla having narrow basal leaves and pink or blue or white racemose flowers | Synonyms: scilla |
|---|
| (noun) having dense spikes of small white flowers and yielding a bulb with medicinal properties | Synonyms: sea onion, sea squill, Urginea maritima |
| (noun) bulb of the sea squill, which is sliced, dried, and used as an expectorant | - |
| squilla | (noun) a kind of mantis shrimp | Synonyms: mantis prawn |
|---|
| tequila | (noun) Mexican liquor made from fermented juices of an agave plant | - |
|---|
| tranquil | (adjective) (of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves | Synonyms: placid, quiet, smooth, still, unruffled |
|---|
| (adjective) not agitated; without losing self-possession | Synonyms: calm, serene, unagitated |
| tranquilising | (adjective) tending to soothe or tranquilize | Synonyms: ataractic, ataraxic, sedative, tranquilizing, tranquillising, tranquillizing |
|---|
| tranquility | (noun) a disposition free from stress or emotion | Synonyms: placidity, quiet, repose, serenity, tranquillity |
|---|
| (noun) a state of peace and quiet | Synonyms: quietness, quietude, tranquillity |
| (noun) an untroubled state; free from disturbances | Synonyms: quiet, tranquillity |
| tranquilize | (verb) cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to | Synonyms: calm, sedate, tranquillise, tranquillize |
|---|
| (verb) make calm or still | Synonyms: calm, calm down, lull, quiet, quieten, still, tranquillise, tranquillize |
| tranquilizer | (noun) a drug used to reduce stress or tension without reducing mental clarity | Synonyms: antianxiety agent, ataractic, ataractic agent, ataractic drug, tranquilliser, tranquillizer |
|---|
| tranquilizing | (adjective) tending to soothe or tranquilize | Synonyms: ataractic, ataraxic, sedative, tranquilising, tranquillising, tranquillizing |
|---|
| tranquillise | (verb) cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to | Synonyms: calm, sedate, tranquilize, tranquillize |
|---|
| (verb) make calm or still | Synonyms: calm, calm down, lull, quiet, quieten, still, tranquilize, tranquillize |
| tranquilliser | (noun) a drug used to reduce stress or tension without reducing mental clarity | Synonyms: antianxiety agent, ataractic, ataractic agent, ataractic drug, tranquilizer, tranquillizer |
|---|
| tranquillising | (adjective) tending to soothe or tranquilize | Synonyms: ataractic, ataraxic, sedative, tranquilising, tranquilizing, tranquillizing |
|---|
| tranquillity | (noun) a disposition free from stress or emotion | Synonyms: placidity, quiet, repose, serenity, tranquility |
|---|
| (noun) a state of peace and quiet | Synonyms: quietness, quietude, tranquility |
| (noun) an untroubled state; free from disturbances | Synonyms: quiet, tranquility |
| tranquillize | (verb) cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to | Synonyms: calm, sedate, tranquilize, tranquillise |
|---|
| (verb) make calm or still | Synonyms: calm, calm down, lull, quiet, quieten, still, tranquilize, tranquillise |
| tranquillizer | (noun) a drug used to reduce stress or tension without reducing mental clarity | Synonyms: antianxiety agent, ataractic, ataractic agent, ataractic drug, tranquilizer, tranquilliser |
|---|
| tranquillizing | (adjective) tending to soothe or tranquilize | Synonyms: ataractic, ataraxic, sedative, tranquilising, tranquilizing, tranquillising |
|---|
| tranquilly | (adverb) without emotional agitation | - |
|---|
| tuille | (noun) armor plate that protects the hip and thigh | - |
|---|