abye | (verb) make amends for | Synonyms: aby, atone, expiate |
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allayer | (noun) a person who reduces the intensity (e.g., of fears) and calms and pacifies | Synonyms: comforter, reliever |
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alloyed | (adjective) (used of metals) blended to obtain a desired property | - |
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(adjective) (used of metals) debased by mixture with an inferior element | - |
annoyed | (adjective) aroused to impatience or anger | Synonyms: irritated, miffed, nettled, peeved, pissed, pissed off, riled, roiled, steamed, stung |
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(adjective) troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances | Synonyms: harassed, harried, pestered, vexed |
annoyer | (noun) someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity) | Synonyms: tease, teaser, vexer |
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arrayed | (adjective) in ceremonial attire and paraphernalia | Synonyms: panoplied |
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assayer | (noun) an analyst who assays (performs chemical tests on) metals | - |
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ballplayer | (noun) an athlete who plays baseball | Synonyms: baseball player |
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barye | (noun) the absolute unit of pressure equal to one dyne per square centimeter | Synonyms: bar absolute, microbar |
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betrayer | (noun) a person who says one thing and does another | Synonyms: double-crosser, double-dealer, traitor, two-timer |
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(noun) one who reveals confidential information to the police or other authority | Synonyms: blabber, informer, rat, squealer |
bigeye | (noun) red fishes of American coastal tropical waters having very large eyes and rough scales | - |
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biyearly | (adjective) occurring or payable twice each year | Synonyms: biannual, half-yearly, semiannual |
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(adjective) occurring every second year | Synonyms: biennial |
(adverb) every two years | Synonyms: biennially |
(adverb) twice a year | Synonyms: semiannually |
bricklayer | (noun) a craftsman skilled in building with bricks | - |
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buckeye | (noun) tree having palmate leaves and large clusters of white to red flowers followed by brown shiny inedible seeds | Synonyms: Aesculus hippocastanum, horse chestnut |
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(noun) the inedible nutlike seed of the horse chestnut | Synonyms: conker, horse chestnut |
buyer | (noun) a person who buys | Synonyms: emptor, purchaser, vendee |
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bye | (noun) a farewell remark | Synonyms: adieu, adios, arrivederci, au revoir, auf wiedersehen, bye-bye, cheerio, good-by, good-bye, good day, goodby, goodbye, sayonara, so long |
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(noun) an automatic advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent | Synonyms: pass |
cayenne | (noun) ground pods and seeds of pungent red peppers of the genus Capsicum | Synonyms: cayenne pepper, red pepper |
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(noun) a long and often twisted hot red pepper | Synonyms: cayenne pepper |
(noun) plant bearing very hot and finely tapering long peppers; usually red | Synonyms: Capsicum annuum longum, cayenne pepper, chili pepper, chilli pepper, jalapeno, long pepper |
clayey | (adjective) resembling or containing clay | Synonyms: argillaceous |
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(adjective) (used of soil) compact and fine-grained | Synonyms: cloggy, heavy |
clayeyness | (noun) The quality of resembling clay, ie in thickness or consistency. | Synonyms: clayiness, clayishness |
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(noun) The quality of being composed of clay. | Synonyms: clayiness, clayishness |
cockeyed | (adjective) turned or twisted toward one side | Synonyms: askew, awry, lopsided, skew-whiff, wonky |
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(adjective) so unreasonable as to invite derision | Synonyms: absurd, derisory, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous |
(adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet |
conveyer | (noun) a moving belt that transports objects (as in a factory) | Synonyms: conveyer belt, conveyor, conveyor belt, transporter |
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(noun) a person who conveys (carries or transmits) | Synonyms: conveyor |
copyedit | (verb) edit and correct (written or printed material) | Synonyms: copyread, subedit |
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cosplayer | (noun) Someone who wears a costume from a comic book or similar media | - |
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crayer | (noun) a two- or three-masted sailing vessel formerly used for transporting cargo in the Baltic Sea. | - |
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cryesthesia | (noun) hypersensitivity to cold | Synonyms: cryaesthesia |
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deadeye | (noun) (nautical) a round hardwood disk with holes and a grooved perimeter used to tighten a shroud | - |
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(noun) a dead shot | - |
decayed | (adjective) damaged by decay; hence unsound and useless | Synonyms: rotted, rotten |
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delayed | (adjective) not as far along as normal in development | - |
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delayer | (noun) a person who delays; to put off until later or cause to be late | - |
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demyelinate | (verb) destroy the myelin sheath of | - |
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demyelination | (noun) loss of the myelin covering of some nerve fibers resulting in their impaired function | - |
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deoxyephedrine | (noun) an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant | Synonyms: chalk, chicken feed, crank, glass, ice, meth, methamphetamine, methamphetamine hydrochloride, Methedrine, shabu, trash |
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destroyed | (adjective) spoiled or ruined or demolished | - |
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(adjective) destroyed physically or morally | Synonyms: ruined |
destroyer | (noun) a small fast lightly armored but heavily armed warship | Synonyms: guided missile destroyer |
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(noun) a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to | Synonyms: ruiner, undoer, uprooter, waster |
disarrayed | (adjective) in disarray | - |
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dismayed | (adjective) struck with fear, dread, or consternation | Synonyms: aghast, appalled, shocked |
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doyen | (noun) a man who is the senior member of a group | Synonyms: dean |
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doyenne | (noun) a woman who is the senior member of a group | - |
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dryer | (noun) an appliance that removes moisture | Synonyms: drier |
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dye | (noun) a usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair | Synonyms: dyestuff |
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(verb) color with dye | - |
(verb) color for microscopic study | Synonyms: stain |
dyed | (adjective) (used of color) artificially produced; not natural | Synonyms: bleached, colored, coloured |
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dyeing | (noun) the use of dye to change the color of something permanently | - |
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dyer | (noun) someone whose job is to dye cloth | - |
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dyestuff | (noun) a usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair | Synonyms: dye |
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dyeweed | (noun) small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as a weed in Britain and the United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental | Synonyms: dyer's-broom, dyer's greenweed, Genista tinctoria, greenweed, whin, woadwaxen, woodwaxen |
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dyewood | (noun) any wood from which dye is obtained | - |
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eccyesis | (noun) pregnancy resulting from gestation elsewhere than in the uterus | Synonyms: ectopic gestation, ectopic pregnancy, extrauterine gestation, extrauterine pregnancy, metacyesis |
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employed | (adjective) having your services engaged for; or having a job especially one that pays wages or a salary | - |
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(adjective) made useful | Synonyms: utilised, utilized |
employee | (noun) a worker who is hired to perform a job | - |
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employer | (noun) a person or firm that employs workers | - |
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empyema | (noun) a collection of pus in a body cavity (especially in the lung cavity) | - |
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encephalomyelitis | (noun) inflammation of the brain and spinal cord | - |
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enjoyer | (noun) a person who delights in having or using or experiencing something | - |
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essayer | (noun) one who tries | Synonyms: attempter, trier |
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ethoxyethane | (noun) a colorless volatile highly flammable liquid formerly used as an inhalation anesthetic | Synonyms: diethyl ether, divinyl ether, ether, ethyl ether, vinyl ether |
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eye | (noun) a small hole or loop (as in a needle) | - |
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(noun) the organ of sight | Synonyms: oculus, optic |
(noun) good discernment (either visually or as if visually) | - |
(noun) attention to what is seen | - |
(noun) an area that is approximately central within some larger region | Synonyms: center, centre, heart, middle |
(verb) look at | Synonyms: eyeball |
eyeball | (noun) the ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye | Synonyms: orb |
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(verb) look at | Synonyms: eye |
eyebath | (noun) a small vessel with a rim curved to fit the orbit of the eye; use to apply medicated or cleansing solution to the eyeball | Synonyms: eye cup, eyecup |
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eyebrow | (noun) the arch of hair above each eye | Synonyms: brow, supercilium |
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eyecup | (noun) (embryology) a two-walled cuplike depression that develops into the pigmented and sensory layers of the retina | Synonyms: optic cup |
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(noun) a small vessel with a rim curved to fit the orbit of the eye; use to apply medicated or cleansing solution to the eyeball | Synonyms: eye cup, eyebath |
eyed | (adjective) having an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified; often used in combination | - |
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eyedness | (noun) the property of favoring one eye over the other (as in taking aim) | - |
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eyedrop | (noun) a method of irrigating the eye used by ophthalmologists | Synonyms: eye-drop |
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(noun) a drop from an eye dropper | Synonyms: eye-drop |
eyeful | (noun) a full view; a good look | - |
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(noun) a strikingly beautiful woman | - |
eyeglass | (noun) lens for correcting defective vision in one eye; held in place by facial muscles | Synonyms: monocle |
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eyeglasses | (noun) (plural) optical instrument consisting of a frame that holds a pair of lenses for correcting defective vision | Synonyms: glasses, specs, spectacles |
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eyehole | (noun) a small hole (usually round and finished around the edges) in cloth or leather for the passage of a cord or hook or bar | Synonyms: eyelet |
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(noun) a hole (in a door or an oven etc) through which you can peep | Synonyms: peephole, spyhole |
eyelash | (noun) any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids | Synonyms: cilium, lash |
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eyeless | (adjective) lacking eyes or eyelike features | - |
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(adjective) lacking sight | Synonyms: sightless, unseeing |
eyelessness | (noun) blindness due to loss of the eyes | - |
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eyelet | (noun) a small hole (usually round and finished around the edges) in cloth or leather for the passage of a cord or hook or bar | Synonyms: eyehole |
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(noun) fastener consisting of a metal ring for lining a small hole to permit the attachment of cords or lines | Synonyms: cringle, grommet, grummet, loop |
(noun) fabric decorated with small holes with finely stitched edges that form an ornamental pattern. | - |
eyelid | (noun) either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye | Synonyms: lid, palpebra |
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eyelike | (adjective) suggesting an eye or eyes | - |
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eyeliner | (noun) makeup applied to emphasize the shape of the eyes | - |
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eyepatch | (noun) a protective cloth covering for an injured eye | Synonyms: patch |
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eyepiece | (noun) combination of lenses at the viewing end of optical instruments | Synonyms: ocular |
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eyes | (noun) opinion or judgment | - |
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eyeshade | (noun) a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes | Synonyms: bill, peak, visor, vizor |
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eyeshadow | (noun) makeup consisting of a cosmetic substance used to darken the eyes | - |
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eyeshot | (noun) the range of the eye | Synonyms: view |
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eyesight | (noun) normal use of the faculty of vision | Synonyms: seeing, sightedness |
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eyesore | (noun) something very ugly and offensive | - |
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eyespot | (noun) an eyelike marking (as on the wings of some butterflies); usually a spot of color inside a ring of another color | Synonyms: ocellus |
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eyestrain | (noun) a tiredness of the eyes caused by prolonged close work by a person with an uncorrected vision problem | Synonyms: asthenopia |
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eyetooth | (noun) one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars | Synonyms: canine, canine tooth, cuspid, dogtooth, eye tooth |
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eyewash | (noun) lotion consisting of a solution used as a cleanser for the eyes | Synonyms: collyrium, eye-lotion |
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eyewitness | (noun) a spectator who can describe what happened | - |
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(verb) be present at an event and see it with one's own eyes | - |
fedayeen | (noun) (plural) Arab guerrillas who operate mainly against Israel | - |
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fisheye | (adjective) of or relating to a fisheye lens | Synonyms: wide-angle |
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flyer | (noun) an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution | Synonyms: bill, broadsheet, broadside, circular, flier, handbill, throwaway |
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(noun) someone who travels by air | Synonyms: flier |
(noun) someone who operates an aircraft | Synonyms: aeronaut, aviator, flier |
foyer | (noun) a large entrance or reception room or area | Synonyms: antechamber, anteroom, entrance hall, hall, lobby, vestibule |
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frayed | (adjective) worn away or tattered along the edges | - |
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fryer | (noun) A kitchen appliance for deep frying; its size depends on intended use. | Synonyms: deep fat fryer, deep fryer, frier, fryolator |
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(noun) flesh of a medium-sized young chicken suitable for frying | Synonyms: frier, pullet |
goldeneye | (noun) large-headed swift-flying diving duck of Arctic regions | Synonyms: Bucephela clangula, whistler |
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(noun) a variety of green lacewing | Synonyms: golden-eyed fly |
goodbye | (noun) a farewell remark | Synonyms: adieu, adios, arrivederci, au revoir, auf wiedersehen, bye-bye, bye, cheerio, good-by, good-bye, good day, goodby, sayonara, so long |
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greeneye | (noun) bottom-dwellers having large eyes with metallic green luster | - |
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greyed | (adjective) deprived of color | Synonyms: dulled |
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hackneyed | (adjective) repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse | Synonyms: banal, commonplace, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn |
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highflyer | (noun) a person of great ability and ambition | Synonyms: highflier |
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honeyed | (adjective) pleasing to the ear | Synonyms: dulcet, mellifluous, mellisonant, sweet |
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(adjective) with honey added | Synonyms: honied, syrupy |