| absurd | (adjective) so unreasonable as to invite derision | Synonyms: cockeyed, derisory, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous |
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| (adjective) inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense | - |
| (noun) a situation in which life seems irrational and meaningless | Synonyms: the absurd |
| absurdity | (noun) a ludicrous folly | Synonyms: fatuity, fatuousness, silliness |
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| (noun) a message whose content is at variance with reason | Synonyms: absurdness, ridiculousness |
| absurdly | (adverb) in an absurd manner or to an absurd degree | - |
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| absurdness | (noun) a message whose content is at variance with reason | Synonyms: absurdity, ridiculousness |
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| bloodcurdling | (adjective) extremely alarming | Synonyms: hair-raising, nightmarish |
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| bourdon | (noun) a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone | Synonyms: drone, drone pipe |
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| burden | (noun) weight to be borne or conveyed | Synonyms: load, loading |
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| (noun) the central idea that is expanded in a document or discourse | - |
| (noun) an onerous or difficult concern | Synonyms: encumbrance, incumbrance, load, onus |
| (noun) the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work | Synonyms: core, effect, essence, gist |
| (verb) impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to | Synonyms: charge, saddle |
| (verb) weight down with a load | Synonyms: burthen, weight, weight down |
| burdened | (adjective) bearing a heavy burden of work or difficulties or responsibilities | - |
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| (adjective) bearing a physically heavy weight or load | Synonyms: heavy-laden, loaded down |
| burdenless | (adjective) not encumbered with a physical burden or load | Synonyms: unburdened |
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| burdensome | (adjective) not easily borne; wearing | Synonyms: onerous, taxing |
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| burdensomeness | (noun) unwelcome burdensome difficulty | Synonyms: heaviness, onerousness, oppressiveness |
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| burdock | (noun) any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs | Synonyms: clotbur |
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| curd | (noun) coagulated milk; used to make cheese | - |
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| (noun) a coagulated liquid resembling milk curd | - |
| curdle | (verb) turn into curds | Synonyms: clabber, clot |
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| (verb) turn from a liquid to a solid mass | - |
| (verb) go bad or sour | - |
| curdled | (adjective) transformed from a liquid into a soft semisolid or solid mass | Synonyms: coagulate, coagulated, grumose, grumous |
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| curdling | (noun) the process of forming semisolid lumps in a liquid | Synonyms: clotting, coagulation |
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| disburden | (verb) take the burden off; remove the burden from | Synonyms: unburden |
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| gourd | (noun) bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd | Synonyms: calabash |
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| (noun) any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds | Synonyms: gourd vine |
| (noun) any of numerous inedible fruits with hard rinds | - |
| gourde | (noun) the basic unit of money in Haiti | - |
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| hurdle | (noun) the act of jumping over an obstacle | Synonyms: vault |
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| (noun) a light movable barrier that competitors must leap over in certain races | - |
| (noun) an obstacle that you are expected to overcome | - |
| (verb) jump a hurdle | - |
| hurdler | (noun) an athlete who runs the hurdles | - |
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| hurdles | (noun) a footrace in which contestants must negotiate a series of hurdles | Synonyms: hurdle race, hurdling |
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| hurdling | (noun) a footrace in which contestants must negotiate a series of hurdles | Synonyms: hurdle race, hurdles |
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| murder | (noun) unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being | Synonyms: execution, slaying |
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| (verb) alter so as to make unrecognizable | Synonyms: mangle, mutilate |
| (verb) kill intentionally and with premeditation | Synonyms: bump off, dispatch, hit, off, polish off, remove, slay |
| murdered | (adjective) killed unlawfully | - |
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| murderee | (noun) a victim who is murdered | - |
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| murderer | (noun) a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being) | Synonyms: liquidator, manslayer |
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| murderess | (noun) a woman murderer | - |
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| murderous | (adjective) characteristic of or capable of or having a tendency toward killing another human being | Synonyms: homicidal |
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| murderously | (adverb) in a murderous frenzy | Synonyms: amok, amuck |
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| (adverb) as if bent on murder | - |
| murderousness | (noun) cruelty evidence by a capability to commit murder | - |
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| (noun) a bloodthirsty hatred arousing murderous impulses | - |
| overburden | (noun) an excessive burden | Synonyms: overload |
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| (noun) the surface soil that must be moved away to get at coal seams and mineral deposits | - |
| (verb) burden with too much work or responsibility | - |
| (verb) load with excessive weight | - |
| overburdened | (adjective) heavily burdened with work or cares | Synonyms: bowed down, loaded down, weighed down |
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| purdah | (noun) a screen used in India to separate women from men or strangers | - |
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| (noun) the traditional Hindu or Muslim system of keeping women secluded | Synonyms: sex segregation |
| (noun) a state of social isolation | Synonyms: solitude |
| sourdine | (noun) an organ stop resulting in a soft muted sound | - |
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| (noun) a mute for a violin | Synonyms: sordino |
| sourdough | (noun) a settler or prospector (especially in western United States or northwest Canada and Alaska) | - |
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| (noun) a leaven of dough in which fermentation is active; used by pioneers for making bread | - |
| sturdily | (adverb) in a sturdy manner | - |
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| sturdiness | (noun) the property of something that is strongly built | - |
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| (noun) resoluteness evidenced by strength of character | - |
| (noun) the state of being vigorous and robust | - |
| sturdy | (adjective) not making concessions | Synonyms: inflexible, uncompromising |
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| (adjective) having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships | Synonyms: hardy, stalwart, stout |
| (adjective) substantially made or constructed | Synonyms: tough |
| surd | (adjective) produced without vibration of the vocal cords | Synonyms: hard, unvoiced, voiceless |
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| (noun) a consonant produced without sound from the vocal cords | Synonyms: voiceless consonant |
| turd | (noun) obscene terms for feces | Synonyms: crap, dirt, poop, shit, shite |
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| unburden | (verb) take the burden off; remove the burden from | Synonyms: disburden |
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| (verb) free or relieve (someone) of a burden | - |
| unburdened | (adjective) not burdened with difficulties or responsibilities | - |
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| (adjective) not encumbered with a physical burden or load | Synonyms: burdenless |