| blurb | (noun) a promotional statement (as found on the dust jackets of books) | Synonyms: endorsement, indorsement |
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| bourbon | (noun) whiskey distilled from a mash of corn and malt and rye and aged in charred oak barrels | - |
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| burble | (verb) flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise | Synonyms: babble, bubble, guggle, gurgle, ripple |
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| burbling | (adjective) uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm | Synonyms: burbly, effusive, gushing |
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| burbly | (adjective) uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm | Synonyms: burbling, effusive, gushing |
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| burbot | (noun) elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth | Synonyms: cusk, eelpout, ling, Lota lota |
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| chaturbate | (verb) to masturbate while chatting online | - |
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| conurbation | (noun) an aggregation or continuous network of urban communities | Synonyms: sprawl, urban sprawl |
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| courbaril | (noun) West Indian locust tree having pinnate leaves and panicles of large white or purplish flowers; yields very hard tough wood | Synonyms: Hymenaea courbaril |
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| cucurbit | (noun) any plant of the family Cucurbitaceae | - |
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| cucurbitaceous | (adjective) of or relating to plants of the family Cucurbitaceae | - |
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| curb | (noun) the act of restraining power or action or limiting excess | Synonyms: bridle, check |
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| (noun) an edge between a sidewalk and a roadway consisting of a line of curbstones (usually forming part of a gutter) | Synonyms: curbing, kerb |
| (noun) a horse's bit with an attached chain or strap to check the horse | Synonyms: curb bit |
| (verb) place restrictions on | Synonyms: curtail, cut back, restrict |
| (verb) keep to the curb | - |
| (verb) lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits | Synonyms: check, contain, control, hold, hold in, moderate |
| curbing | (noun) an edge between a sidewalk and a roadway consisting of a line of curbstones (usually forming part of a gutter) | Synonyms: curb, kerb |
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| curbside | (noun) the side of a sidewalk that is bordered by a curb | - |
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| curbstone | (noun) a paving stone forming part of a curb | Synonyms: kerbstone |
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| disturb | (verb) destroy the peace or tranquility of | Synonyms: interrupt |
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| (verb) damage as if by shaking or jarring | - |
| (verb) tamper with | Synonyms: touch |
| (verb) change the arrangement or position of | Synonyms: agitate, commove, raise up, shake up, stir up, vex |
| (verb) move deeply | Synonyms: trouble, upset |
| disturbance | (noun) the act of disturbing something or someone; setting something in motion | - |
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| (noun) a noisy fight | Synonyms: affray, fray, ruffle |
| (noun) activity that is a malfunction, intrusion, or interruption | Synonyms: perturbation |
| (noun) electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication | Synonyms: interference, noise |
| (noun) a disorderly outburst or tumult | Synonyms: commotion, disruption, flutter, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, hurly burly, kerfuffle, to-do |
| (noun) (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness | Synonyms: folie, mental disorder, mental disturbance, psychological disorder |
| (noun) an unhappy and worried mental state | Synonyms: perturbation, upset |
| disturbed | (adjective) having the place or position changed | - |
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| (adjective) affected with madness or insanity | Synonyms: brainsick, crazy, demented, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged |
| (adjective) emotionally unstable and having difficulty coping with personal relationships | Synonyms: maladjusted |
| (adjective) afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief | Synonyms: disquieted, distressed, upset, worried |
| disturber | (noun) a troubler who interrupts or interferes with peace and quiet; someone who causes disorder and commotion | - |
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| disturbing | (adjective) causing distress or worry or anxiety | Synonyms: distressful, distressing, perturbing, troubling, worrisome, worrying |
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| disturbingly | (adverb) in a disturbing manner | - |
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| durbar | (noun) the room in the palace of a native prince of India in which audiences and receptions occur | - |
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| exurbia | (noun) a residential area outside of a city and beyond suburbia | - |
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| flurbiprofen | (noun) a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Ansaid) that is administered only orally | Synonyms: Ansaid |
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| furbelow | (noun) a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim | Synonyms: flounce, frill, ruffle |
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| furbish | (verb) polish and make shiny | Synonyms: buff, burnish |
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| imperturbability | (noun) calm and unruffled self-assurance | Synonyms: coolness, imperturbableness |
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| imperturbable | (adjective) not easily perturbed or excited or upset; marked by extreme calm and composure | Synonyms: unflappable |
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| imperturbableness | (noun) calm and unruffled self-assurance | Synonyms: coolness, imperturbability |
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| keurboom | (noun) tree with odd-pinnate leaves and racemes of fragrant pink to purple flowers | Synonyms: Virgilia capensis, Virgilia oroboides |
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| (noun) fast-growing roundheaded tree with fragrant white to deep rose flowers; planted as an ornamental | Synonyms: Virgilia divaricata |
| masturbate | (verb) get sexual gratification through self-stimulation | Synonyms: fuck off, jack off, jerk off, she-bop, wank |
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| (verb) stimulate sexually | - |
| masturbation | (noun) manual stimulation of the genital organs (of yourself or another) for sexual pleasure | Synonyms: onanism |
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| masturbator | (noun) a person who practices masturbation | Synonyms: onanist |
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| nonturbulent | (adjective) (of a liquid) not turbulent | - |
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| perturb | (verb) throw into great confusion or disorder | Synonyms: derange, throw out of kilter |
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| (verb) disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed | Synonyms: cark, disorder, disquiet, distract, trouble, unhinge |
| (verb) cause a celestial body to deviate from a theoretically regular orbital motion, especially as a result of interposed or extraordinary gravitational pull | - |
| (verb) disturb or interfere with the usual path of an electron or atom | - |
| perturbation | (noun) the act of causing disorder | Synonyms: disruption |
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| (noun) a disposition that is confused or nervous and upset | Synonyms: fluster |
| (noun) activity that is a malfunction, intrusion, or interruption | Synonyms: disturbance |
| (noun) (physics) a secondary influence on a system that causes it to deviate slightly | - |
| (noun) an unhappy and worried mental state | Synonyms: disturbance, upset |
| perturbed | (adjective) thrown into a state of agitated confusion; (`rattled' is an informal term) | Synonyms: flustered, hot and bothered, rattled |
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| perturbing | (adjective) causing distress or worry or anxiety | Synonyms: distressful, distressing, disturbing, troubling, worrisome, worrying |
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| pourboire | (noun) a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter) | Synonyms: backsheesh, baksheesh, bakshis, bakshish, gratuity, tip |
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| purblind | (adjective) having greatly reduced vision | Synonyms: dim-sighted, near-blind, sand-blind, visually challenged, visually impaired |
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| (adjective) lacking in insight or discernment | Synonyms: obtuse |
| refurbish | (verb) make brighter and prettier | Synonyms: freshen up, renovate |
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| refurbishment | (noun) the state of being restored to its former good condition | Synonyms: renovation, restoration |
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| sourball | (noun) round piece of tart hard candy | - |
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| suburb | (noun) a residential district located on the outskirts of a city | Synonyms: suburban area, suburbia |
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| suburban | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of or situated in suburbs | - |
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| suburbanise | (verb) make suburban in character | Synonyms: suburbanize |
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| (verb) take on suburban character | Synonyms: suburbanize |
| suburbanised | (adjective) surrounded by many suburbs | Synonyms: suburbanized |
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| suburbanite | (noun) a resident of a suburb | - |
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| suburbanize | (verb) make suburban in character | Synonyms: suburbanise |
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| (verb) take on suburban character | Synonyms: suburbanise |
| suburbanized | (adjective) surrounded by many suburbs | Synonyms: suburbanised |
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| suburbia | (noun) suburbanites considered as a cultural class or subculture | - |
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| (noun) a residential district located on the outskirts of a city | Synonyms: suburb, suburban area |
| surbase | (noun) the molding or border above the base of a structure (a pedestal or podium or wall) | - |
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| turban | (noun) a traditional Muslim headdress consisting of a long scarf wrapped around the head | - |
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| (noun) a small round woman's hat | Synonyms: pillbox, toque |
| turbaned | (adjective) wearing a turban | - |
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| turbid | (adjective) (of liquids) clouded as with sediment | Synonyms: cloudy, mirky, muddy, murky |
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| turbidity | (noun) muddiness created by stirring up sediment or having foreign particles suspended | Synonyms: turbidness |
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| turbidness | (noun) muddiness created by stirring up sediment or having foreign particles suspended | Synonyms: turbidity |
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| turbinal | (noun) any of the scrolled spongy bones of the nasal passages in man and other vertebrates | Synonyms: turbinate, turbinate bone |
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| turbinate | (adjective) of or relating to the scroll-shaped turbinate bones in the nasal passages | - |
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| (adjective) in the shape of a coil | Synonyms: coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, spiralling, volute, voluted, whorled |
| (noun) any of the scrolled spongy bones of the nasal passages in man and other vertebrates | Synonyms: turbinal, turbinate bone |
| turbine | (noun) rotary engine in which the kinetic energy of a moving fluid is converted into mechanical energy by causing a bladed rotor to rotate | - |
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| turbofan | (noun) a jet engine in which a fan driven by a turbine provides extra air to the burner and gives extra thrust | Synonyms: fan-jet, fanjet, fanjet engine, turbofan engine, turbojet, turbojet engine |
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| (noun) an airplane propelled by a fanjet engine | Synonyms: fan-jet, fanjet, turbojet |
| turbogenerator | (noun) generator consisting of a steam turbine coupled to an electric generator for the production of electric power | - |
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| turbojet | (noun) a jet engine in which a fan driven by a turbine provides extra air to the burner and gives extra thrust | Synonyms: fan-jet, fanjet, fanjet engine, turbofan, turbofan engine, turbojet engine |
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| (noun) an airplane propelled by a fanjet engine | Synonyms: fan-jet, fanjet, turbofan |
| turboprop | (noun) an airplane with an external propeller that is driven by a turbojet engine | Synonyms: propjet, turbo-propeller plane |
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| turbot | (noun) a large brownish European flatfish | Synonyms: Psetta maxima |
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| (noun) flesh of a large European flatfish | - |
| turbulence | (noun) unstable flow of a liquid or gas | Synonyms: turbulency |
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| (noun) a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally) | Synonyms: Sturm und Drang, upheaval |
| (noun) instability in the atmosphere | - |
| turbulency | (noun) unstable flow of a liquid or gas | Synonyms: turbulence |
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| turbulent | (adjective) (of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence | Synonyms: churning, roiled, roiling, roily |
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| (adjective) characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination | Synonyms: disruptive, riotous, troubled, tumultuous |
| turbulently | (adverb) in a turbulent manner; with turbulence | - |
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| (adverb) in a stormy or violent manner | Synonyms: passionately, stormily |
| uncurbed | (adjective) not restrained or controlled | Synonyms: unbridled, unchecked, ungoverned |
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| undisturbed | (adjective) untroubled by interference or disturbance | - |
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| unperturbed | (adjective) free from emotional agitation or nervous tension | Synonyms: unflurried, unflustered, unruffled |
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| urban | (adjective) located in or characteristic of a city or city life | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or concerned with a city or densely populated area | - |
| urbane | (adjective) showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience | Synonyms: polished, refined |
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| urbanely | (adverb) in an urbane manner | - |
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| urbanisation | (noun) the social process whereby cities grow and societies become more urban | Synonyms: urbanization |
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| (noun) the condition of being urbanized | Synonyms: urbanization |
| urbanise | (verb) make more industrial or city-like | Synonyms: urbanize |
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| (verb) impart urban habits, ways of life, or responsibilities upon | Synonyms: urbanize |
| urbanised | (adjective) made urban in nature; taking on urban characteristics | Synonyms: urbanized |
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| urbanity | (noun) polished courtesy; elegance of manner | - |
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| (noun) the quality or character of life in a city or town | - |
| urbanization | (noun) the social process whereby cities grow and societies become more urban | Synonyms: urbanisation |
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| (noun) the condition of being urbanized | Synonyms: urbanisation |
| urbanize | (verb) make more industrial or city-like | Synonyms: urbanise |
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| (verb) impart urban habits, ways of life, or responsibilities upon | Synonyms: urbanise |
| urbanized | (adjective) made urban in nature; taking on urban characteristics | Synonyms: urbanised |
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