abfarad | (noun) a capacitance unit equal to one billion farads | - |
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aborad | (adverb) away from the mouth or oral region | - |
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abroad | (adjective) in a foreign country | Synonyms: overseas |
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(adverb) to or in a foreign country | - |
(adverb) in a place across an ocean | Synonyms: overseas |
(adverb) far away from home or one's usual surroundings | Synonyms: afield |
ad | (noun) a public promotion of some product or service | Synonyms: advert, advertisement, advertising, advertizement, advertizing |
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addlehead | (noun) a person with confused ideas; incapable of serious thought | Synonyms: addle-head, birdbrain, loon |
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ahead | (adjective) having the leading position or higher score in a contest | Synonyms: in the lead, leading |
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(adverb) at or in the front | Synonyms: before, in front |
(adverb) ahead of time; in anticipation | Synonyms: beforehand, in advance |
(adverb) in a forward direction | Synonyms: forrader, forward, forwards, onward, onwards |
(adverb) leading or ahead in a competition | Synonyms: in the lead, out front |
(adverb) to a different or a more advanced time (meaning advanced either toward the present or toward the future) | - |
(adverb) to a more advanced or advantageous position | - |
(adverb) toward the future; forward in time | Synonyms: forward |
airhead | (noun) a bridgehead seized by airborne troops | - |
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(noun) a flighty scatterbrained simpleton | - |
alidad | (noun) surveying instrument used with a plane table for drawing lines of sight on a distant object and for measuring angles | Synonyms: alidade |
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(noun) surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments | Synonyms: alidade |
aoudad | (noun) wild sheep of northern Africa | Synonyms: Ammotragus lervia, arui, audad, Barbary sheep, maned sheep |
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arrowhead | (noun) the pointed head or striking tip of an arrow | - |
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asclepiad | (noun) any plant of the family Asclepiadaceae | - |
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audad | (noun) wild sheep of northern Africa | Synonyms: Ammotragus lervia, aoudad, arui, Barbary sheep, maned sheep |
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bad | (adjective) having undesirable or negative qualities | - |
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(adjective) feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone | Synonyms: regretful, sorry |
(adjective) reproduced fraudulently | Synonyms: forged |
(adjective) characterized by wickedness or immorality | - |
(adjective) capable of harming | - |
(adjective) below average in quality or performance | - |
(adjective) serious or severe | Synonyms: big |
(adjective) not capable of being collected | Synonyms: uncollectible |
(adjective) not working properly | Synonyms: defective |
(adjective) nonstandard | - |
(adjective) (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition | Synonyms: spoiled, spoilt |
(adjective) feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad') | Synonyms: tough |
(adjective) physically unsound or diseased | Synonyms: unfit, unsound |
(adjective) not financially safe or secure | Synonyms: high-risk, risky, speculative |
(noun) that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency | Synonyms: badness |
(adverb) very much; strongly | Synonyms: badly |
(adverb) with great intensity (`bad' is a nonstandard variant for `badly') | Synonyms: badly |
baldhead | (noun) a person whose head is bald or shaved | Synonyms: baldpate, baldy, skin, skinhead |
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ballad | (noun) a narrative poem of popular origin | Synonyms: lay |
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(noun) a narrative song with a recurrent refrain | Synonyms: lay |
beachhead | (noun) an initial accomplishment that opens the way for further developments | Synonyms: foothold |
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(noun) a bridgehead on the enemy's shoreline seized by an amphibious operation | - |
bead | (noun) a small ball with a hole through the middle | - |
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(noun) a beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture | Synonyms: astragal, beading, beadwork |
(noun) a shape that is spherical and small | Synonyms: drop, pearl |
(verb) string together like beads | - |
(verb) decorate by sewing beads onto | - |
(verb) form into beads, as of water or sweat, for example | - |
bedspread | (noun) decorative cover for a bed | Synonyms: bed cover, bed covering, bedcover, counterpane, spread |
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bedstead | (noun) the framework of a bed | Synonyms: bedframe |
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beebread | (noun) a mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae | Synonyms: ambrosia |
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behead | (verb) cut the head of | Synonyms: decapitate, decollate |
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bighead | (noun) any of various diseases of animals characterized by edema of the head and neck | - |
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bignoniad | (noun) any woody plant of the family Bignoniaceae | - |
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bitthead | (noun) the upper end of a bitt | - |
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blackhead | (noun) a black-tipped plug clogging a pore of the skin | Synonyms: comedo |
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blacklead | (verb) cover with graphite | - |
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blockhead | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
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bluehead | (noun) small Atlantic wrasse the male of which has a brilliant blue head | Synonyms: Thalassoma bifasciatum |
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boatload | (noun) the amount of cargo that can be held by a boat or ship or a freight car | Synonyms: carload, shipload |
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bonehead | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
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bonnethead | (noun) small harmless hammerhead having a spade-shaped head; abundant in bays and estuaries | Synonyms: bonnet shark, shovelhead, Sphyrna tiburo |
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bowhead | (noun) large-mouthed Arctic whale | Synonyms: Balaena mysticetus, bowhead whale, Greenland whale |
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brad | (noun) a small nail | - |
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(verb) fasten with brads | - |
bread | (noun) food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked | Synonyms: breadstuff, staff of life |
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(noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
(verb) cover with bread crumbs | - |
bridgehead | (noun) an area in hostile territory that has been captured and is held awaiting further troops and supplies | Synonyms: foothold |
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(noun) a defensive post at the end of a bridge nearest to the enemy | - |
broad | (adjective) having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other | Synonyms: wide |
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(adjective) showing or characterized by broad-mindedness | Synonyms: large-minded, liberal, tolerant |
(adjective) lacking subtlety; obvious | Synonyms: unsubtle |
(adjective) broad in scope or content | Synonyms: across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket, encompassing, extensive, panoptic, wide |
(adjective) not detailed or specific | Synonyms: unspecific |
(adjective) being at a peak or culminating point | Synonyms: full |
(adjective) very large in expanse or scope | Synonyms: spacious, wide |
(adjective) (of speech) heavily and noticeably regional | - |
(noun) slang term for a woman | - |
bufflehead | (noun) small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage | Synonyms: Bucephela albeola, butterball, dipper |
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bulkhead | (noun) a partition that divides a ship or plane into compartments | - |
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bullethead | (noun) a head shaped like a bullet | - |
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bullhead | (noun) freshwater sculpin with a large flattened bony-plated head with hornlike spines | - |
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(noun) any of several common freshwater catfishes of the United States | Synonyms: bullhead catfish |
busload | (noun) the quantity of cargo or the number of passengers that a bus can carry | - |
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byroad | (noun) a side road little traveled (as in the countryside) | Synonyms: bypath, byway |
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cad | (noun) someone who is morally reprehensible | Synonyms: blackguard, bounder, dog, heel, hound |
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carload | (noun) a gathering of passengers sufficient to fill an automobile | - |
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(noun) the amount of cargo that can be held by a boat or ship or a freight car | Synonyms: boatload, shipload |
cartload | (noun) the quantity that a cart holds | - |
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cartroad | (noun) any road or path affording passage especially a rough one | Synonyms: cart track, track |
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chad | (noun) a small piece of paper that is supposed to be removed when a hole is punched in a card or paper tape | - |
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cheerlead | (verb) act as a cheerleader in a sports event | - |
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chiliad | (noun) the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 | Synonyms: 1000, G, grand, K, M, one thousand, thou, thousand, yard |
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clad | (adjective) wearing or provided with clothing; sometimes used in combination | Synonyms: clothed |
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(adjective) having an outer covering especially of thin metal | - |
clubhead | (noun) (golf) the head of the club which strikes the ball | Synonyms: club-head, club head, golf-club head |
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copperhead | (noun) common coppery brown pit viper of upland eastern United States | Synonyms: Agkistrodon contortrix |
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(noun) venomous but sluggish reddish-brown snake of Australia | Synonyms: Denisonia superba |
copyread | (verb) edit and correct (written or printed material) | Synonyms: copyedit, subedit |
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cornbread | (noun) bread made primarily of cornmeal | - |
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crawdad | (noun) small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster | Synonyms: crawdaddy, crawfish, crayfish |
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(noun) tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly | Synonyms: crawfish, crayfish, ecrevisse |
crosshead | (noun) metal block that connects to a piston; it slides on parallel guides and moves a connecting rod back and forth | - |
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(noun) a heading of a subsection printed within the body of the text | Synonyms: crossheading |
crossroad | (noun) a junction where one street or road crosses another | Synonyms: carrefour, crossing, crossway, intersection |
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cryptomonad | (noun) common in fresh and salt water appearing along the shore as algal blooms | Synonyms: cryptophyte |
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cycad | (noun) any tropical gymnosperm of the order Cycadales; having unbranched stems with a crown of fernlike leaves | - |
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dad | (noun) an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk | Synonyms: dada, daddy, pa, papa, pappa, pop |
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dead | (adjective) no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life | - |
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(adjective) not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat | - |
(adjective) the complete stoppage of an action | - |
(adjective) not surviving in active use | - |
(adjective) physically inactive | - |
(adjective) devoid of activity | - |
(adjective) lacking resilience or bounce | - |
(adjective) out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown | - |
(adjective) devoid of physical sensation; numb | Synonyms: deadened |
(adjective) (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive | Synonyms: numb |
(adjective) no longer having force or relevance | - |
(adjective) unerringly accurate | - |
(adjective) not circulating or flowing | Synonyms: stagnant |
(adjective) very tired | Synonyms: all in, beat, bushed |
(adjective) drained of electric charge; discharged | Synonyms: drained |
(adjective) not yielding a return | Synonyms: idle |
(adjective) lacking acoustic resonance | - |
(noun) people who are no longer living | - |
(noun) a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense | - |
(adverb) completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: absolutely, perfectly, utterly |
(adverb) quickly and without warning; happening unexpectedly; on impulse; without premeditation | Synonyms: abruptly, all of a sudden, of a sudden, on the spur of the moment, short, suddenly |
deadhead | (noun) a train or bus or taxi traveling empty | - |
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(noun) a nonenterprising person who is not paying his way | - |
dickhead | (noun) insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous | Synonyms: asshole, bastard, cocksucker, mother fucker, motherfucker, prick, shit, SOB, son of a bitch, whoreson |
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dispread | (verb) spread abroad or out | - |
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doodad | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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download | (verb) transfer a file or program from a central computer to a smaller computer or to a computer at a remote location | - |
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dragonhead | (noun) American herb having sharply serrate lanceolate leaves and spikes of blue to violet flowers | Synonyms: Dracocephalum parviflorum, dragon's head |
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dread | (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible |
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(noun) fearful expectation or anticipation | Synonyms: apprehension, apprehensiveness |
(verb) be afraid or scared of; be frightened of | Synonyms: fear |
drumhead | (adjective) performed speedily and without formality | Synonyms: summary |
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(noun) a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum | Synonyms: head |
dryad | (noun) a deity or nymph of the woods | Synonyms: wood nymph |
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duad | (noun) two items of the same kind | Synonyms: brace, couple, couplet, distich, duet, duo, dyad, pair, span, twain, twosome, yoke |
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dunderhead | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
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dyad | (noun) two items of the same kind | Synonyms: brace, couple, couplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, pair, span, twain, twosome, yoke |
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egghead | (noun) an intellectual; a very studious and academic person | - |
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ennead | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one | Synonyms: 9, IX, Nina from Carolina, nine, niner |
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fad | (noun) an interest followed with exaggerated zeal | Synonyms: craze, cult, furor, furore, rage |
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fairlead | (noun) a pulley-block used to guide a rope forming part of a ship's rigging to avoid chafing | - |
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farad | (noun) the capacitance of a capacitor that has an equal and opposite charge of 1 coulomb on each plate and a voltage difference of 1 volt between the plates | Synonyms: F |
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farmstead | (noun) a farm together with its buildings | Synonyms: farm-place, farmplace |
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(noun) the buildings and adjacent grounds of a farm | - |
fathead | (noun) a man who is a stupid incompetent fool | Synonyms: bozo, cuckoo, goof, goofball, goose, jackass, twat, zany |
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fiddlehead | (noun) New World fern having woolly cinnamon-colored spore-bearing fronds in early spring later surrounded by green fronds; the early uncurling fronds are edible | Synonyms: cinnamon fern, fiddlehead fern, Osmunda cinnamonea |
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(noun) tall fern of northern temperate regions having graceful arched fronds and sporophylls resembling ostrich plumes | Synonyms: Matteuccia struthiopteris, Onoclea struthiopteris, ostrich fern, Pteretis struthiopteris, shuttlecock fern |
figurehead | (noun) figure on the bow of some sailing vessels | - |
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(noun) a person used as a cover for some questionable activity | Synonyms: front, front man, nominal head, straw man, strawman |
flatbread | (noun) any of various breads made from usually unleavened dough | - |
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flathead | (noun) food fish of the Indonesian region of the Pacific; resembles gurnards | - |
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(noun) pallid bottom-dwelling flat-headed fish with large eyes and a duck-like snout | - |
flinthead | (noun) an American stork that resembles the true ibises in having a downward-curved bill; inhabits wooded swamps of New World tropics | Synonyms: Mycteria americana, wood ibis, wood stork |
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floodhead | (noun) a wall of water rushing ahead of the flood | - |
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footpad | (noun) a highwayman who robs on foot | Synonyms: padder |
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forehead | (noun) the part of the face above the eyes | Synonyms: brow |
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(noun) the large cranial bone forming the front part of the cranium: includes the upper part of the orbits | Synonyms: frontal bone, os frontale |
forrad | (adverb) at or to or toward the front; forward | Synonyms: forrard, forward, forwards, frontward, frontwards |
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fountainhead | (noun) an abundant source | Synonyms: well, wellspring |
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(noun) the source of water from which a stream arises | Synonyms: head, headspring |
freeload | (verb) live off somebody's generosity | - |
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fuckhead | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
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gad | (noun) a sharp prod fixed to a rider's heel and used to urge a horse onward | Synonyms: spur |
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(verb) wander aimlessly in search of pleasure | Synonyms: gallivant, jazz around |
gesneriad | (noun) any of numerous tropical or subtropical small shrubs or treelets or epiphytic vines of the family Gesneriaceae: African violet; Cape primroses; gloxinia | - |
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gingerbread | (noun) cake flavored with ginger | - |
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glad | (adjective) showing or causing joy and pleasure; especially made happy | - |
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(adjective) cheerful and bright | Synonyms: beaming |
(adjective) feeling happy appreciation | - |
(adjective) eagerly disposed to act or to be of service | Synonyms: happy |
(noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Gladiolus native chiefly to tropical and South Africa having sword-shaped leaves and one-sided spikes of brightly colored funnel-shaped flowers; widely cultivated | Synonyms: gladiola, gladiolus, sword lily |
goad | (noun) a pointed instrument that is used to prod into a state of motion | Synonyms: prod |
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(noun) a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something | Synonyms: goading, prod, prodding, spur, spurring, urging |
(verb) annoy or provoke, as by constant criticism | Synonyms: needle |
(verb) urge with or as if with a goad | - |
(verb) stab or urge on as if with a pointed stick | Synonyms: prick |
(verb) give heart or courage to | Synonyms: spur |
goldthread | (noun) low-growing perennial of North America woodlands having trifoliate leaves and yellow rootstock and white flowers | Synonyms: Coptis groenlandica, Coptis trifolia groenlandica, golden thread |
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gonad | (noun) a gland in which gametes (sex cells) are produced | Synonyms: sex gland |
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grad | (noun) a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university) | Synonyms: alum, graduate |
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(noun) one-hundredth of a right angle | Synonyms: grade |