abutter | (noun) the owner of contiguous property | - |
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aflutter | (adjective) excited in anticipation | Synonyms: nervous |
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bellybutton | (noun) a scar where the umbilical cord was attached | Synonyms: belly button, navel, omphalos, omphalus, umbilicus |
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butt | (noun) thick end of the handle | Synonyms: butt end |
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(noun) the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking) | Synonyms: stub |
(noun) a large cask (especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 hogsheads or 126 gallons) | - |
(noun) sports equipment consisting of an object set up for a marksman or archer to aim at | Synonyms: target |
(noun) finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking | Synonyms: cigaret, cigarette, coffin nail, fag |
(noun) a joint made by fastening ends together without overlapping | Synonyms: butt joint |
(noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
(noun) a victim of ridicule or pranks | Synonyms: goat, laughingstock, stooge |
(noun) the part of a plant from which the roots spring or the part of a stalk or trunk nearest the roots | - |
(verb) to strike, thrust or shove against | Synonyms: bunt |
(verb) place end to end without overlapping | - |
(verb) lie adjacent to another or share a boundary | Synonyms: abut, adjoin, border, butt against, butt on, edge, march |
butte | (noun) a hill that rises abruptly from the surrounding region; has a flat top and sloping sides | - |
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butter | (noun) an edible emulsion of fat globules made by churning milk or cream; for cooking and table use | - |
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(noun) a fighter who strikes the opponent with his head | - |
(verb) spread butter on | - |
butterball | (noun) small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage | Synonyms: Bucephela albeola, bufflehead, dipper |
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(noun) a rotund individual | Synonyms: fat person, fatso, fatty, roly-poly |
butterbean | (noun) small flat green bean similar to lima beans | Synonyms: butter bean, civet bean, sieva bean |
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butterbur | (noun) small Eurasian herb having broad leaves and lilac-pink rayless flowers; found in moist areas | Synonyms: bog rhubarb, Petasites hybridus, Petasites vulgaris |
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buttercrunch | (noun) lettuce with delicate and relatively crunchy leaves | - |
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buttercup | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus | Synonyms: butter-flower, butterflower, crowfoot, goldcup, kingcup |
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butterfat | (noun) the fatty substance of milk from which butter is made | - |
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butterfingered | (adjective) lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands | Synonyms: bumbling, bungling, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed |
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butterfingers | (noun) someone who drops things (especially one who cannot catch a ball) | - |
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butterfish | (noun) small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines | Synonyms: stromateid, stromateid fish |
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(noun) slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters | Synonyms: Pholis gunnellus, rock gunnel |
(noun) any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin | - |
butterflower | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus | Synonyms: butter-flower, buttercup, crowfoot, goldcup, kingcup |
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butterfly | (noun) a swimming stroke in which the arms are thrown forward together out of the water while the feet kick up and down | Synonyms: butterfly stroke |
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(noun) diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings | - |
(verb) talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions | Synonyms: chat up, coquet, coquette, dally, flirt, mash, philander, romance |
(verb) cut and spread open, as in preparation for cooking | - |
(verb) flutter like a butterfly | - |
butterflyfish | (noun) tropical fish with huge fanlike pectoral fins for underwater gliding; unrelated to searobins | Synonyms: flying gurnard, flying robin |
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buttermilk | (noun) residue from making butter from sour raw milk; or pasteurized milk curdled by adding a culture | - |
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butternut | (noun) oily egg-shaped nut of an American tree of the walnut family | - |
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(noun) North American walnut tree having light-brown wood and edible nuts; source of a light-brown dye | Synonyms: butternut tree, Juglans cinerea, white walnut |
butterscotch | (noun) a hard brittle candy made with butter and brown sugar | - |
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butterweed | (noun) any of several yellow-flowered plants of the genus Packera; often placed in genus Senecio | - |
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(noun) American ragwort with yellow flowers | Synonyms: ragwort, Senecio glabellus |
butterwort | (noun) any of numerous carnivorous bog plants of the genus Pinguicula having showy purple or yellow or white flowers and a rosette of basal leaves coated with a sticky secretion to trap small insects | - |
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buttery | (adjective) resembling or containing or spread with butter | - |
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(adjective) unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech | Synonyms: fulsome, oily, oleaginous, smarmy, soapy, unctuous |
(noun) a teashop where students in British universities can purchase light meals | - |
(noun) a small storeroom for storing foods or wines | Synonyms: larder, pantry |
buttinsky | (noun) a meddler who tends to butt in | - |
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buttock | (noun) either of the two large fleshy masses of muscular tissue that form the human rump | Synonyms: cheek |
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buttocks | (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
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button | (noun) a round fastener sewn to shirts and coats etc to fit through buttonholes | - |
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(noun) an electrical switch operated by pressing | Synonyms: push, push button |
(noun) a device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism | Synonyms: release |
(noun) any artifact that resembles a button | - |
(noun) a specific area or icon in graphical user interface systems that is clicked or pressed in order to select a command or perform an action | - |
(noun) a female sexual organ homologous to the penis | Synonyms: clit, clitoris |
(noun) a round flat badge displaying information and suitable for pinning onto a garment | - |
(noun) any of various plant parts that resemble buttons | - |
(verb) fasten with buttons | - |
(verb) provide with buttons | - |
buttoned | (adjective) furnished or closed with buttons or something buttonlike | Synonyms: fastened |
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buttonhole | (noun) a hole through which buttons are pushed | Synonyms: button hole |
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(verb) detain in conversation by or as if by holding on to the outer garments of; as for political or economic favors | Synonyms: lobby |
buttonhook | (noun) a hook for pulling a button through a buttonhole | - |
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buttonlike | (adjective) small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button | Synonyms: beadlike, beady, buttony |
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buttonwood | (noun) very large spreading plane tree of eastern and central North America to Mexico | Synonyms: American plane, American sycamore, Platanus occidentalis |
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buttony | (adjective) ornamented with many buttons | - |
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(adjective) small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button | Synonyms: beadlike, beady, buttonlike |
buttress | (noun) a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building | Synonyms: buttressing |
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(verb) make stronger or defensible | - |
(verb) reinforce with a buttress | - |
buttressed | (adjective) held up by braces or buttresses | Synonyms: braced |
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buttressing | (noun) a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building | Synonyms: buttress |
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buttweld | (verb) join by a butt weld | Synonyms: butt-weld |
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butty | (noun) a sandwich | - |
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canecutter | (noun) a wood rabbit of southeastern United States swamps and lowlands | Synonyms: swamp hare, swamp rabbit, Sylvilagus aquaticus |
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clutter | (noun) unwanted echoes that interfere with the observation of signals on a radar screen | - |
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(noun) a confused multitude of things | Synonyms: fuddle, jumble, mare's nest, muddle, smother, welter |
(verb) fill a space in a disorderly way | Synonyms: clutter up |
cluttered | (adjective) filled or scattered with a disorderly accumulation of objects or rubbish | Synonyms: littered |
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cuttable | (adjective) able to be chewed or cut | Synonyms: chewable |
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cutter | (noun) a cutting implement; a tool for cutting | Synonyms: cutlery, cutting tool |
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(noun) a boat for communication between ship and shore | Synonyms: pinnace, ship's boat, tender |
(noun) a sailing vessel with a single mast set further back than the mast of a sloop | - |
(noun) someone whose work is cutting (as e.g. cutting cloth for garments) | - |
(noun) someone who carves the meat | Synonyms: carver |
(noun) someone who cuts or carves stone | Synonyms: stonecutter |
cutthroat | (adjective) ruthless in competition | Synonyms: bowelless, fierce |
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(noun) someone who murders by cutting the victim's throat | - |
cutting | (adjective) unpleasantly cold and damp | Synonyms: bleak, raw |
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(adjective) painful as if caused by a sharp instrument | Synonyms: keen, knifelike, lancinate, lancinating, piercing, stabbing |
(adjective) (of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character | Synonyms: edged, stinging |
(noun) the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends | Synonyms: cut, cutting off |
(noun) the act of cutting something into parts | Synonyms: cut |
(noun) the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge | Synonyms: cut |
(noun) the activity of selecting the scenes to be shown and putting them together to create a film | Synonyms: film editing |
(noun) the act of diluting something | Synonyms: thinning |
(noun) removing parts from hard material to create a desired pattern or shape | Synonyms: carving |
(noun) the division of a deck of cards before dealing | Synonyms: cut |
(noun) an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine | Synonyms: clipping, newspaper clipping, press clipping, press cutting |
(noun) a piece cut off from the main part of something | - |
(noun) a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting | Synonyms: slip |
cuttingly | (adverb) in an intentionally unkind way | - |
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cuttle | (noun) ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell | Synonyms: cuttlefish |
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cuttlefish | (noun) ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell | Synonyms: cuttle |
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flutter | (noun) the act of moving back and forth | Synonyms: flicker, waver |
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(noun) the motion made by flapping up and down | Synonyms: flap, flapping, fluttering |
(noun) abnormally rapid beating of the auricles of the heart (especially in a regular rhythm); can result in heart block | - |
(noun) a disorderly outburst or tumult | Synonyms: commotion, disruption, disturbance, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, hurly burly, kerfuffle, to-do |
(verb) wink briefly | Synonyms: bat |
(verb) beat rapidly | Synonyms: palpitate |
(verb) move back and forth very rapidly | Synonyms: flicker, flitter, quiver, waver |
(verb) move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart | Synonyms: dart, fleet, flit |
(verb) flap the wings rapidly or fly with flapping movements | - |
fluttering | (noun) the motion made by flapping up and down | Synonyms: flap, flapping, flutter |
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glutted | (adjective) exceeding demand | Synonyms: overfull |
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glutton | (noun) musteline mammal of northern Eurasia | Synonyms: Gulo gulo, wolverine |
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(noun) a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess | Synonyms: gourmand, gourmandizer, trencherman |
gluttonise | (verb) eat a lot and without restraint | Synonyms: fress, gluttonize |
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gluttonize | (verb) eat a lot and without restraint | Synonyms: fress, gluttonise |
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gluttonous | (adjective) given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink | - |
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gluttonously | (adverb) in a gluttonous manner | - |
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gluttony | (noun) eating to excess (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: gula, overeating |
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(noun) habitual eating to excess | - |
gutter | (noun) a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater | Synonyms: trough |
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(noun) a tool for gutting fish | - |
(noun) a worker who guts things (fish or buildings or cars etc.) | - |
(noun) misfortune resulting in lost effort or money | Synonyms: sewer, toilet |
(verb) provide with gutters | - |
(verb) wear or cut gutters into | - |
(verb) flow in small streams | - |
(verb) burn unsteadily, feebly, or low; flicker | - |
guttersnipe | (noun) a child who spends most of his time in the streets especially in slum areas | Synonyms: street urchin |
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guttle | (verb) eat greedily | Synonyms: devour, pig, raven |
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guttural | (adjective) relating to or articulated in the throat | - |
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(adjective) like the sounds of frogs and crows | Synonyms: croaky |
(noun) a consonant articulated in the back of the mouth or throat | Synonyms: guttural consonant, pharyngeal, pharyngeal consonant |
gutturally | (adverb) in a guttural manner | - |
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headbutt | (verb) butt with the head | - |
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jutting | (adjective) extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary | Synonyms: projected, projecting, protruding, relieved, sticking, sticking out |
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(noun) the act of projecting out from something | Synonyms: jut, projection, protrusion |
mutt | (noun) an inferior dog or one of mixed breed | Synonyms: cur, mongrel |
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mutter | (noun) a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone | Synonyms: grumble, grumbling, murmur, murmuring, muttering |
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(noun) a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech | Synonyms: murmur, murmuration, murmuring, mussitation, muttering |
(verb) make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath | Synonyms: croak, gnarl, grumble, murmur |
(verb) talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice | Synonyms: maunder, mumble, mussitate |
mutterer | (noun) a person who speaks softly and indistinctly | Synonyms: mumbler, murmurer |
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muttering | (noun) a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone | Synonyms: grumble, grumbling, murmur, murmuring, mutter |
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(noun) a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech | Synonyms: murmur, murmuration, murmuring, mussitation, mutter |
mutton | (noun) meat from a mature domestic sheep | Synonyms: mouton |
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muttonfish | (noun) similar to and often marketed as `red snapper' | Synonyms: Lutjanus analis, mutton snapper |
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muttonhead | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, numskull, shithead |
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nutter | (noun) a person who is regarded as eccentric or mad | Synonyms: wacko, whacko |
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nuttily | (adverb) in a mildly insane manner | Synonyms: balmily, daftly, dottily, wackily |
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nutty | (adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular | Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, round the bend, wacky, whacky |
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(adjective) having the flavor of nuts | Synonyms: nutlike |
outtake | (noun) a scene that is filmed but is not used in the final editing of the film | - |
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outthrust | (noun) an outcropping of rock that extends outward | - |
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outturn | (noun) what is produced in a given time period | Synonyms: output, turnout |
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prosciutto | (noun) Italian salt-cured ham usually sliced paper thin | - |
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putt | (noun) hitting a golf ball that is on the green using a putter | Synonyms: putting |
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(verb) strike (a golf ball) lightly, with a putter | - |
(verb) hit a putt | - |
puttee | (noun) a strip of cloth wound around the leg to form legging; used by soldiers in World War I | - |
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putter | (noun) the iron normally used on the putting green | Synonyms: putting iron |
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(noun) a golfer who is putting | - |
(verb) move around aimlessly | Synonyms: potter, potter around, putter around |
(verb) do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly | Synonyms: mess around, monkey, monkey around, muck about, muck around, potter, tinker |
(verb) work lightly | Synonyms: potter |
putterer | (noun) a person who putters about | Synonyms: potterer |
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putting | (noun) hitting a golf ball that is on the green using a putter | Synonyms: putt |
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putty | (noun) a dough-like mixture of whiting and boiled linseed oil; used especially to patch woodwork or secure panes of glass | - |
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(verb) apply putty in order to fix or fill | - |
puttyroot | (noun) North American orchid bearing a single leaf and yellowish-brown flowers | Synonyms: adam-and-eve, Aplectrum hyemale |
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rebuttal | (noun) the speech act of refuting by offering a contrary contention or argument | - |
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(noun) (law) a pleading by the defendant in reply to a plaintiff's surrejoinder | Synonyms: rebutter |
rebutter | (noun) (law) a pleading by the defendant in reply to a plaintiff's surrejoinder | Synonyms: rebuttal |
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(noun) a debater who refutes or disproves by offering contrary evidence or argument | Synonyms: confuter, disprover, refuter |
rutted | (adjective) full of ruts | Synonyms: rutty |
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ruttish | (adjective) feeling great sexual desire | Synonyms: aroused, horny, randy, steamy, turned on |
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rutty | (adjective) full of ruts | Synonyms: rutted |
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scuttle | (noun) container for coal; shaped to permit pouring the coal onto the fire | Synonyms: coal scuttle |
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(noun) an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship | Synonyms: hatchway, opening |
(verb) to move about or proceed hurriedly | Synonyms: scamper, scurry, skitter |
scuttlebutt | (noun) a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people | Synonyms: comment, gossip |
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shutter | (noun) a hinged blind for a window | - |
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(noun) a mechanical device on a camera that opens and closes to control the time of a photographic exposure | - |
(verb) close with shutters | - |
shutterbug | (noun) a photography enthusiast | - |
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shuttered | (adjective) provided with shutters or shutters as specified; often used in combination | - |
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shutting | (noun) the act of closing something | Synonyms: closing |
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shuttle | (noun) bobbin that passes the weft thread between the warp threads | - |
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(noun) public transport that consists of a bus or train or airplane that flies back and forth between two points | - |
(noun) badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers | Synonyms: bird, birdie, shuttlecock |
(verb) travel back and forth between two points | - |
shuttlecock | (noun) badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers | Synonyms: bird, birdie, shuttle |
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(verb) send or toss to and fro, like a shuttlecock | - |
sluttish | (adjective) casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior | Synonyms: easy, light, loose, promiscuous, wanton |
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(adjective) characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; used especially of women | Synonyms: blowsy, blowzy, slatternly |