abuzz | (adjective) noisy like the sound of a bee | Synonyms: buzzing |
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albizzia | (noun) any of numerous trees of the genus Albizia | Synonyms: albizia |
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bedazzle | (verb) to cause someone to lose clear vision, especially from intense light | Synonyms: daze, dazzle |
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bezzant | (noun) a gold coin of the Byzantine Empire; widely circulated in Europe in the Middle Ages | Synonyms: bezant, byzant, solidus |
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blizzard | (noun) a series of unexpected and unpleasant occurrences | Synonyms: rash |
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(noun) a storm with widespread snowfall accompanied by strong winds | Synonyms: snowstorm |
buzz | (noun) a confusion of activity and gossip | - |
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(noun) sound of rapid vibration | Synonyms: bombilation, bombination |
(verb) call with a buzzer | - |
(verb) fly low | - |
(verb) make a buzzing sound | Synonyms: bombilate, bombinate |
(verb) be noisy with activity | Synonyms: hum, seethe |
buzzard | (noun) a New World vulture that is common in South America and Central America and the southern United States | Synonyms: Cathartes aura, turkey buzzard, turkey vulture |
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(noun) the common European short-winged hawk | Synonyms: Buteo buteo |
buzzer | (noun) a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed | Synonyms: bell, doorbell |
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(noun) a signaling device that makes a buzzing sound | - |
buzzing | (adjective) noisy like the sound of a bee | Synonyms: abuzz |
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buzzword | (noun) stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition | Synonyms: cant |
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dazzle | (noun) brightness enough to blind partially and temporarily | - |
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(verb) amaze or bewilder, as with brilliant wit or intellect or skill | - |
(verb) to cause someone to lose clear vision, especially from intense light | Synonyms: bedazzle, daze |
dazzled | (adjective) having vision overcome temporarily by or as if by intense light | - |
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(adjective) stupefied or dizzied by something overpowering | - |
dazzling | (adjective) shining intensely | Synonyms: blazing, blinding, fulgent, glaring, glary |
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(adjective) amazingly impressive; suggestive of the flashing of lightning | Synonyms: eye-popping, fulgurant, fulgurous |
dazzlingly | (adverb) in a manner or to a degree that dazzles the beholder | - |
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dizzily | (adverb) in a giddy light-headed manner | Synonyms: giddily, light-headedly |
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dizziness | (noun) a reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall | Synonyms: giddiness, lightheadedness, vertigo |
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dizzy | (adjective) lacking seriousness; given to frivolity | Synonyms: airheaded, empty-headed, featherbrained, giddy, light-headed, lightheaded, silly |
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(adjective) having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling | Synonyms: giddy, vertiginous, woozy |
(verb) make dizzy or giddy | - |
drizzle | (noun) very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower | Synonyms: mizzle |
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(verb) moisten with fine drops | Synonyms: moisten |
(verb) rain lightly | Synonyms: mizzle |
drizzling | (adjective) (of rain) falling lightly in very small drops | - |
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drizzly | (adjective) wet with light rain | Synonyms: drippy |
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embezzle | (verb) appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use | Synonyms: defalcate, malversate, misappropriate, peculate |
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embezzled | (adjective) taken for your own use in violation of a trust | Synonyms: misappropriated |
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embezzlement | (noun) the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else | Synonyms: defalcation, misapplication, misappropriation, peculation |
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embezzler | (noun) someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use | Synonyms: defalcator, peculator |
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fizz | (noun) an effervescent beverage (usually alcoholic) | - |
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(verb) become bubbly or frothy or foaming | Synonyms: effervesce, foam, form bubbles, froth, sparkle |
fizzing | (adjective) hissing and bubbling | Synonyms: fizzy |
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fizzle | (noun) a complete failure | Synonyms: bust, flop |
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(noun) a fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval) | Synonyms: hiss, hissing, hushing, sibilation |
(verb) end weakly | Synonyms: fizzle out, peter out, taper off |
fizzy | (adjective) hissing and bubbling | Synonyms: fizzing |
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frazzle | (noun) a state of extreme exhaustion | - |
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(verb) exhaust physically or emotionally | - |
(verb) wear away by rubbing | Synonyms: fray |
frizz | (noun) the condition of being formed into small tight curls | - |
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(verb) curl tightly | Synonyms: crape, crimp, frizzle, kink, kink up |
frizzle | (verb) fry something until it curls and becomes crisp | - |
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(verb) curl tightly | Synonyms: crape, crimp, frizz, kink, kink up |
frizzly | (adjective) (of hair) in small tight curls | Synonyms: crisp, frizzy, kinky, nappy |
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frizzy | (adjective) (of hair) in small tight curls | Synonyms: crisp, frizzly, kinky, nappy |
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fuzz | (noun) the first beard of an adolescent boy | - |
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(noun) a hazy or indistinct representation | Synonyms: blur |
(noun) uncomplimentary terms for a policeman | Synonyms: bull, cop, copper, pig |
(noun) filamentous hairlike growth on a plant | Synonyms: hair, tomentum |
fuzzed | (adjective) covering with fine light hairs | Synonyms: fuzzy |
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fuzziness | (noun) the quality of being indistinct and without sharp outlines | Synonyms: blurriness, fogginess, indistinctness, softness |
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fuzzy | (adjective) covering with fine light hairs | Synonyms: fuzzed |
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(adjective) confused and not coherent; not clearly thought out | - |
(adjective) indistinct or hazy in outline | Synonyms: bleary, blurred, blurry, foggy, hazy, muzzy |
gizzard | (noun) thick-walled muscular pouch below the crop in many birds and reptiles for grinding food | Synonyms: gastric mill, ventriculus |
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grizzle | (noun) a grey wig | - |
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(verb) complain whiningly | Synonyms: whine, yammer, yawp |
(verb) be in a huff; be silent or sullen | Synonyms: brood, stew |
grizzled | (adjective) having dark hairs mixed with grey or white | - |
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grizzly | (adjective) showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair | Synonyms: gray-haired, gray-headed, gray, grey-haired, grey-headed, grey, hoar, hoary, white-haired |
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(noun) powerful brownish-yellow bear of the uplands of western North America | Synonyms: grizzly bear, silver-tip, silvertip, Ursus arctos horribilis, Ursus horribilis |
guzzle | (verb) drink greedily or as if with great thirst | - |
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guzzler | (noun) someone who drinks heavily (especially alcoholic beverages) | - |
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(noun) a drinker who swallows large amounts greedily | Synonyms: gulper |
guzzling | (noun) the drinking of large mouthfuls rapidly | Synonyms: gulping, swilling |
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intermezzo | (noun) a brief show (music or dance etc) inserted between the sections of a longer performance | Synonyms: entr'acte, interlude |
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(noun) a short piece of instrumental music composed for performance between acts of a drama or opera | - |
(noun) a short movement coming between the major sections of a symphony | - |
izzard | (noun) the 26th letter of the Roman alphabet | Synonyms: ezed, Z, z, zed, zee |
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jazz | (noun) a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles | - |
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(noun) a style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands | - |
(noun) empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk | Synonyms: idle words, malarkey, malarky, nothingness, wind |
(verb) have sexual intercourse with | Synonyms: bang, be intimate, bed, bonk, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, know, lie with, love, make love, make out, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with |
(verb) play something in the style of jazz | - |
jazzman | (noun) a musician who plays or composes jazz music | Synonyms: jazz musician |
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jazzy | (adjective) (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display | Synonyms: flashy, gaudy, showy, sporty |
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(adjective) resembling jazz (especially in its rhythm) | - |
mazzard | (noun) wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting | Synonyms: gean, mazzard cherry |
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mezzanine | (noun) intermediate floor just above the ground floor | Synonyms: entresol, mezzanine floor |
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(noun) first or lowest balcony | Synonyms: first balcony |
mezzo | (noun) the female singing voice between contralto and soprano | Synonyms: mezzo-soprano |
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(noun) a soprano with a voice between soprano and contralto | Synonyms: mezzo-soprano |
mezzotint | (noun) print produced by an engraving that has been scraped to represent light or shade | - |
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mizzen | (noun) third mast from the bow in a vessel having three or more masts; the after and shorter mast of a yawl, ketch, or dandy | Synonyms: mizen, mizenmast, mizzenmast |
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(noun) fore-and-aft sail set on the mizzenmast | Synonyms: mizen |
mizzenmast | (noun) third mast from the bow in a vessel having three or more masts; the after and shorter mast of a yawl, ketch, or dandy | Synonyms: mizen, mizenmast, mizzen |
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mizzle | (noun) very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower | Synonyms: drizzle |
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(verb) rain lightly | Synonyms: drizzle |
mozzarella | (noun) mild white Italian cheese | - |
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muazzin | (noun) the Muslim official of a mosque who summons the faithful to prayer from a minaret five times a day | Synonyms: muadhdhin, muezzin |
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muezzin | (noun) the Muslim official of a mosque who summons the faithful to prayer from a minaret five times a day | Synonyms: muadhdhin, muazzin |
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muzzle | (noun) forward projecting part of the head of certain animals; includes the jaws and nose | - |
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(noun) restraint put into a person's mouth to prevent speaking or shouting | Synonyms: gag |
(noun) the open circular discharging end of a gun | Synonyms: gun muzzle |
(noun) a leather or wire restraint that fits over an animal's snout (especially a dog's nose and jaws) and prevents it from eating or biting | - |
(verb) tie a gag around someone's mouth in order to silence them | Synonyms: gag |
(verb) prevent from speaking out | Synonyms: gag |
(verb) fit with a muzzle | - |
muzzler | (noun) someone who muzzles animals | - |
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muzzy | (adjective) confused and vague; used especially of thinking | Synonyms: addled, befuddled, muddled, woolly-headed, woolly, wooly-minded, wooly |
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(adjective) indistinct or hazy in outline | Synonyms: bleary, blurred, blurry, foggy, fuzzy, hazy |
nebuchadnezzar | (noun) a very large wine bottle holding the equivalent of 20 normal bottles of wine; used especially for display | - |
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nozzle | (noun) a projecting spout from which a fluid is discharged | Synonyms: nose |
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(noun) informal terms for the nose | Synonyms: beak, honker, hooter, schnoz, schnozzle, snoot, snout |
nuzzle | (verb) rub noses | Synonyms: nose |
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(verb) dig out with the snout | - |
(verb) move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position | Synonyms: cuddle, draw close, nest, nestle, snuggle |
paparazzo | (noun) a freelance photographer who pursues celebrities trying to take candid photographs of them to sell to newspapers or magazines | - |
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piazza | (noun) a public square with room for pedestrians | Synonyms: place, plaza |
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pizza | (noun) Italian open pie made of thin bread dough spread with a spiced mixture of e.g. tomato sauce and cheese | Synonyms: pizza pie |
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pizzaz | (noun) the activeness of an energetic personality | Synonyms: dynamism, oomph, pizzazz, zing |
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pizzazz | (noun) the activeness of an energetic personality | Synonyms: dynamism, oomph, pizzaz, zing |
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pizzeria | (noun) a shop where pizzas are made and sold | Synonyms: pizza parlor, pizza shop |
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pizzicato | (adjective) (of instruments in the violin family) to be plucked with the finger | - |
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(noun) a note or passage that is played pizzicato | - |
(adverb) with a light plucking staccato sound | - |
puzzle | (noun) a game that tests your ingenuity | - |
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(noun) a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution | Synonyms: mystifier, puzzler, teaser |
(verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, stick, stupefy, vex |
(verb) be uncertain about; think about without fully understanding or being able to decide | - |
puzzled | (adjective) filled with bewilderment | Synonyms: at a loss, nonplused, nonplussed |
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puzzlement | (noun) confusion resulting from failure to understand | Synonyms: bafflement, befuddlement, bemusement, bewilderment, mystification, obfuscation |
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puzzler | (noun) a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution | Synonyms: mystifier, puzzle, teaser |
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puzzling | (adjective) not clear to the understanding | Synonyms: enigmatic, enigmatical |
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(adjective) lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity | Synonyms: confusing, perplexing |
quizzer | (noun) someone who administers a test to determine your qualifications | Synonyms: examiner, tester |
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quizzical | (adjective) perplexed (as if being expected to know something that you do not know) | Synonyms: questioning |
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(adjective) playfully vexing (especially by ridicule) | Synonyms: mocking, teasing |
quizzically | (adverb) in a quizzical and questioning manner | Synonyms: questioningly |
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razz | (noun) a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt | Synonyms: bird, boo, Bronx cheer, hiss, hoot, raspberry, razzing, snort |
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(verb) harass with persistent criticism or carping | Synonyms: bait, cod, rag, rally, ride, tantalise, tantalize, taunt, tease, twit |
razzing | (noun) a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt | Synonyms: bird, boo, Bronx cheer, hiss, hoot, raspberry, razz, snort |
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razzle | (noun) any exciting and complex play intended to confuse (dazzle) the opponent | Synonyms: razmataz, razzle-dazzle, razzmatazz |
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razzmatazz | (noun) any exciting and complex play intended to confuse (dazzle) the opponent | Synonyms: razmataz, razzle-dazzle, razzle |
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schemozzle | (noun) (Yiddish) a confused situation or affair; a mess | Synonyms: shemozzle |
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schnozzle | (noun) informal terms for the nose | Synonyms: beak, honker, hooter, nozzle, schnoz, snoot, snout |
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shemozzle | (noun) (Yiddish) a confused situation or affair; a mess | Synonyms: schemozzle |
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sizz | (verb) make a sharp hissing sound, as if to show disapproval | Synonyms: hiss, sibilate, siss |
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(verb) express or utter with a hiss | Synonyms: hiss, sibilate, siss |
sizzle | (noun) a sizzling noise | - |
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(verb) burn or sear with a sizzling sound | - |
(verb) make a sound like frying fat | - |
(verb) seethe with deep anger or resentment | - |
sizzling | (adjective) hot enough to burn with or as if with a hissing sound | - |
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(adjective) characterized by intense emotion or interest or excitement | Synonyms: red-hot |
snazzy | (adjective) flashily stylish | - |
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sozzled | (adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet |
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swizzle | (noun) any of various tall frothy mixed drinks made usually of rum and lime juice and sugar shaken with ice | - |
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tizzy | (noun) an excited state of agitation | Synonyms: dither, flap, fuss, pother |
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unmuzzle | (verb) remove the muzzle from (a dog) | - |
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whizz | (noun) someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field | Synonyms: ace, adept, champion, genius, hotshot, maven, mavin, sensation, star, superstar, virtuoso, whiz, wiz, wizard |
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(verb) move along very quickly | Synonyms: whizz along, zoom, zoom along |
(verb) make a soft swishing sound | Synonyms: birr, purr, whir, whirr, whiz |
whizzbang | (noun) a firecracker that (like the whizbang shell) makes a whizzing sound followed by a loud explosion | Synonyms: whizbang |
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(noun) a small high-velocity shell; it makes a whizzing sound followed by a bang when it hits | Synonyms: whizbang, whizbang shell |
zizz | (noun) a nap | - |
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(noun) a buzzing or whizzing sound | - |