ampersand | (noun) a punctuation mark (&) used to represent conjunction (and) | - |
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analysand | (noun) a person undergoing psychoanalysis | - |
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armband | (noun) a band worn around the upper arm | - |
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(noun) worn around arm as identification or to indicate mourning | - |
backband | (noun) a broad band that passes over the back of a horse and supports the shafts of a vehicle | - |
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backhand | (adjective) (of racket strokes) made across the body with back of hand facing direction of stroke | Synonyms: backhanded |
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(adjective) (of handwriting) having the letters slanting backward | Synonyms: left-slanting |
(noun) a return made with the back of the hand facing the direction of the stroke | Synonyms: backhand shot, backhand stroke |
(verb) hit a tennis ball backhand | - |
band | (noun) a thin flat strip of flexible material that is worn around the body or one of the limbs (especially to decorate the body) | - |
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(noun) an adornment consisting of a strip of a contrasting color or material | Synonyms: banding, stripe |
(noun) a restraint put around something to hold it together | - |
(noun) jewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal (often set with jewels) worn on the finger | Synonyms: ring |
(noun) a strip of material attached to the leg of a bird to identify it (as in studies of bird migration) | Synonyms: ring |
(noun) a thin flat strip or loop of flexible material that goes around or over something else, typically to hold it together or as a decoration | - |
(noun) a driving belt in machinery | - |
(noun) a stripe or stripes of contrasting color | Synonyms: banding, stria, striation |
(noun) a cord-like tissue connecting two larger parts of an anatomical structure | Synonyms: isthmus |
(noun) a range of frequencies between two limits | - |
(noun) instrumentalists not including string players | - |
(noun) an unofficial association of people or groups | Synonyms: circle, lot, set |
(noun) a group of musicians playing popular music for dancing | Synonyms: dance band, dance orchestra |
(verb) bind or tie together, as with a band | - |
(verb) attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify | Synonyms: ring |
bandstand | (noun) a platform where a (brass) band can play in the open air | Synonyms: outdoor stage, stand |
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beforehand | (adjective) being ahead of time or need | Synonyms: advance |
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(adverb) ahead of time; in anticipation | Synonyms: ahead, in advance |
behindhand | (adjective) behind schedule | - |
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(adverb) in debt | Synonyms: behind, in arrears |
bellyband | (noun) a strap around the belly of a draft animal holding the shafts of a wagon | - |
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(noun) a cloth band that is worn around the waist (as on infants until the navel has healed) | - |
bland | (adjective) smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication | Synonyms: politic, smooth, suave |
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(adjective) lacking taste or flavor or tang | Synonyms: flat, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, vapid |
(adjective) lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting | Synonyms: flat |
borderland | (noun) district consisting of the area on either side of a border or boundary of a country or an area | Synonyms: border district, march, marchland |
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bottomland | (noun) low-lying alluvial land near a river | Synonyms: bottom |
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brand | (noun) a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard | Synonyms: blade, steel, sword |
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(noun) a recognizable kind | Synonyms: make |
(noun) a name given to a product or service | Synonyms: brand name, marque, trade name |
(noun) a symbol of disgrace or infamy | Synonyms: mark, stain, stigma |
(noun) identification mark on skin, made by burning | - |
(noun) a piece of wood that has been burned or is burning | Synonyms: firebrand |
(verb) mark or expose as infamous | Synonyms: post |
(verb) mark with a brand or trademark | Synonyms: brandmark, trademark |
(verb) to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful | Synonyms: denounce, mark, stigmatise, stigmatize |
(verb) burn with a branding iron to indicate ownership; of animals | - |
brigand | (noun) an armed thief who is (usually) a member of a band | Synonyms: bandit |
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broadband | (adjective) responding to or operating at a wide band of frequencies | Synonyms: wideband |
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(adjective) of or relating to or being a communications network in which the bandwidth can be divided and shared by multiple simultaneous signals (as for voice or data or video) | - |
cabstand | (noun) a place where taxis park while awaiting customers | Synonyms: taxi rank, taxistand |
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coastland | (noun) land in a coastal area | - |
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command | (noun) the power or authority to command | - |
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(noun) availability for use | - |
(noun) great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity | Synonyms: control, mastery |
(noun) an authoritative direction or instruction to do something | Synonyms: bid, bidding, dictation |
(noun) (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program | Synonyms: instruction, program line, statement |
(noun) a military unit or region under the control of a single officer | - |
(noun) a position of highest authority | - |
(verb) make someone do something | Synonyms: require |
(verb) be in command of | - |
(verb) demand as one's due | - |
(verb) exercise authoritative control or power over | Synonyms: control |
(verb) look down on | Synonyms: dominate, overlook, overtop |
contraband | (adjective) distributed or sold illicitly | Synonyms: black-market, black, bootleg, smuggled |
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(noun) goods whose importation or exportation or possession is prohibited by law | - |
countermand | (noun) a contrary command cancelling or reversing a previous command | - |
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(verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, lift, overturn, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, vacate |
cowhand | (noun) a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback | Synonyms: cowherd, cowpoke, cowpuncher, puncher |
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deckhand | (noun) a member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor | Synonyms: roustabout |
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demand | (noun) the act of demanding | - |
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(noun) required activity | Synonyms: requirement |
(noun) an urgent or peremptory request | - |
(noun) the ability and desire to purchase goods and services | - |
(noun) a condition requiring relief | Synonyms: need |
(verb) request urgently and forcefully | - |
(verb) claim as due or just | Synonyms: exact |
(verb) summon to court | - |
(verb) ask to be informed of | - |
(verb) lay legal claim to | - |
(verb) require as useful, just, or proper | Synonyms: ask, call for, involve, necessitate, need, postulate, require, take |
disband | (verb) stop functioning or cohering as a unit | Synonyms: dissolve |
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(verb) cause to break up or cease to function | - |
dockhand | (noun) a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port | Synonyms: dock-walloper, dock worker, docker, dockworker, loader, longshoreman, lumper, stevedore |
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dreamland | (noun) a pleasing country existing only in dreams or imagination | Synonyms: dreamworld, never-never land |
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eland | (noun) either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes | - |
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ellwand | (noun) a rod an ell long, used for official measurement. | Synonyms: ell-wand |
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endband | (noun) a part of a book, most often found with hardcover bindings, that consists of a small cord or strip of material affixed near the spine to provide structural reinforcement and sometimes decorative effect. | - |
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errand | (noun) a short trip that is taken in the performance of a necessary task or mission | - |
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expand | (verb) grow vigorously | Synonyms: boom, flourish, thrive |
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(verb) exaggerate or make bigger | Synonyms: amplify, blow up, inflate |
(verb) become larger in size or volume or quantity | - |
(verb) expand the influence of | Synonyms: extend |
(verb) make bigger or wider in size, volume, or quantity | - |
(verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing | Synonyms: dilate, elaborate, enlarge, expatiate, exposit, expound, flesh out, lucubrate |
(verb) extend in one or more directions | Synonyms: spread out |
fairyland | (noun) something existing solely in the imagination (but often mistaken for reality) | Synonyms: fantasy world, phantasy world |
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(noun) the enchanted realm of fairies | Synonyms: faerie, faery |
farmhand | (noun) a hired hand on a farm | Synonyms: farm worker, field hand, fieldhand |
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farmland | (noun) a rural area where farming is practiced | Synonyms: farming area |
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(noun) arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops | Synonyms: cultivated land, ploughland, plowland, tillage, tilled land, tilth |
fatherland | (noun) the country where you were born | Synonyms: country of origin, homeland, mother country, motherland, native land |
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fenland | (noun) low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water | Synonyms: fen, marsh, marshland |
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fieldhand | (noun) a hired hand on a farm | Synonyms: farm worker, farmhand, field hand |
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firebrand | (noun) someone who deliberately foments trouble | Synonyms: inciter, instigant, instigator, provoker |
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(noun) a piece of wood that has been burned or is burning | Synonyms: brand |
firsthand | (adjective) received directly from a source | - |
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(adverb) from the original source; directly | Synonyms: at first hand |
forehand | (adjective) (of racket strokes) made with palm facing direction of stroke | Synonyms: forehanded |
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(noun) (sports) a return made with the palm of the hand facing the direction of the stroke (as in tennis or badminton or squash) | Synonyms: forehand shot, forehand stroke |
foreland | (noun) a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea) | Synonyms: head, headland, promontory |
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(noun) land forming the forward margin of something | - |
freehand | (adjective) done by hand without mechanical aids or devices | Synonyms: freehanded |
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gangland | (noun) underworld organizations | Synonyms: gangdom, organized crime |
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garland | (noun) flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes | Synonyms: chaplet, coronal, lei, wreath |
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(noun) an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc. | Synonyms: florilegium, miscellany |
(verb) adorn with bands of flowers or leaves | - |
gland | (noun) any of various organs that synthesize substances needed by the body and release it through ducts or directly into the bloodstream | Synonyms: secreter, secretor, secretory organ |
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gourmand | (noun) a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess | Synonyms: glutton, gourmandizer, trencherman |
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grand | (adjective) used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person | Synonyms: distinguished, imposing, magisterial |
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(adjective) extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers | Synonyms: fantastic, howling, marvellous, marvelous, phenomenal, rattling, terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous |
(adjective) the most important and magnificent in adornment | - |
(adjective) of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope | Synonyms: expansive, heroic |
(adjective) large and impressive in physical size or extent | - |
(adjective) of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style | Synonyms: elevated, exalted, high-flown, high-minded, idealistic, lofty, noble-minded, rarefied, rarified, sublime |
(adjective) of or befitting a lord | Synonyms: august, lordly |
(adjective) ostentatiously rich and superior in quality | Synonyms: deluxe, gilded, lush, luxurious, opulent, princely, sumptuous |
(noun) a piano with the strings on a horizontal harp-shaped frame; usually supported by three legs | Synonyms: grand piano |
(noun) the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 | Synonyms: 1000, chiliad, G, K, M, one thousand, thou, thousand, yard |
grandstand | (noun) a stand at a racecourse or stadium consisting of tiers with rows of individual seats that are under a protective roof | Synonyms: covered stand |
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(noun) the audience at a stadium or racetrack | - |
(verb) perform ostentatiously in order to impress the audience and with an eye to the applause | - |
grassland | (noun) land where grass or grasslike vegetation grows and is the dominant form of plant life | - |
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greensand | (noun) an olive-green sandstone containing glauconite | - |
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hallstand | (noun) a piece of furniture where coats and hats and umbrellas can be hung; usually has a mirror | - |
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hand | (noun) physical assistance | Synonyms: helping hand |
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(noun) terminal part of the forelimb in certain vertebrates (e.g. apes or kangaroos) | - |
(noun) a rotating pointer on the face of a timepiece | - |
(noun) the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb | Synonyms: manus, mitt, paw |
(noun) ability | - |
(noun) one of two sides of an issue | - |
(noun) something written by hand | Synonyms: handwriting, script |
(noun) a round of applause to signify approval | - |
(noun) the cards held in a card game by a given player at any given time | Synonyms: deal |
(noun) a position given by its location to the side of an object | - |
(noun) a hired laborer on a farm or ranch | Synonyms: hired hand, hired man |
(noun) a card player in a game of bridge | Synonyms: bridge player |
(noun) a member of the crew of a ship | - |
(noun) a unit of length equal to 4 inches; used in measuring horses | - |
(verb) guide or conduct or usher somewhere | - |
(verb) place into the hands or custody of | Synonyms: give, pass, pass on, reach, turn over |
handstand | (noun) the act of supporting yourself by your hands alone in an upside down position | - |
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hatband | (noun) a band around the crown of a hat just above the brim | - |
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headband | (noun) a band worn around or over the head | - |
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headland | (noun) a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea) | Synonyms: foreland, head, promontory |
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headstand | (noun) an acrobatic feat in which a person balances on the head (usually with the help of the hands) | - |
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heartland | (noun) the central region of a country or continent; especially a region that is important to a country or to a culture | - |
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heathland | (noun) a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation | Synonyms: heath |
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highland | (adjective) used of high or hilly country | Synonyms: upland |
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(noun) elevated (e.g., mountainous) land | Synonyms: upland |
hinterland | (noun) a remote and undeveloped area | Synonyms: back country, backwoods, boondocks |
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homeland | (noun) the country where you were born | Synonyms: country of origin, fatherland, mother country, motherland, native land |
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househusband | (noun) a husband who keeps house while his wife earns the family income | Synonyms: house husband |
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husband | (noun) a married man; a woman's partner in marriage | Synonyms: hubby, married man |
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(verb) use cautiously and frugally | Synonyms: conserve, economise, economize |
inkstand | (noun) a tray or stand for writing implements and containers for ink | - |
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(noun) a small well holding writing ink into which a pen can be dipped | Synonyms: inkwell |
inland | (adjective) situated away from an area's coast or border | - |
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(adverb) towards or into the interior of a region | - |
island | (noun) a zone or area resembling an island | - |
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(noun) a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water | - |
kickstand | (noun) a swiveling metal rod attached to a bicycle or motorcycle or other two-wheeled vehicle; the rod lies horizontally when not in use but can be kicked into a vertical position as a support to hold the vehicle upright when it is not being ridden | - |
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land | (noun) agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life | Synonyms: farming |
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(noun) a politically organized body of people under a single government | Synonyms: body politic, commonwealth, country, nation, res publica, state |
(noun) the people who live in a nation or country | Synonyms: country, nation |
(noun) territory over which rule or control is exercised | Synonyms: demesne, domain |
(noun) the territory occupied by a nation | Synonyms: country, state |
(noun) the solid part of the earth's surface | Synonyms: dry land, earth, ground, solid ground, terra firma |
(noun) material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use) | Synonyms: ground, soil |
(noun) extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use | Synonyms: acres, demesne, estate, landed estate |
(noun) the land on which real estate is located | - |
(noun) a domain in which something is dominant | Synonyms: kingdom, realm |
(verb) bring into a different state | Synonyms: bring |
(verb) reach or come to rest | Synonyms: set down |
(verb) cause to come to the ground | Synonyms: bring down, put down |
(verb) arrive on shore | Synonyms: set ashore, shore |
(verb) bring ashore | - |
(verb) shoot at and force to come down | Synonyms: down, shoot down |
(verb) deliver (a blow) | - |
ligand | (noun) a substance (an atom or molecule or radical or ion) that forms a complex around a central atom | - |
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longhand | (adjective) having words written out in full by hand | - |
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(noun) rapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and are cursively connected within words without lifting the writing implement from the paper | Synonyms: cursive, cursive script, running hand |
lotusland | (noun) an idyllic realm of contentment and self-indulgence | Synonyms: lotus land |
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lowland | (adjective) of relatively low or level country | - |
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(noun) low level country | - |
mainland | (noun) the main land mass of a country or continent; as distinguished from an island or peninsula | - |
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marchland | (noun) district consisting of the area on either side of a border or boundary of a country or an area | Synonyms: border district, borderland, march |
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marshland | (noun) low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water | Synonyms: fen, fenland, marsh |
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midland | (adjective) of or coming from the middle of a region or country | Synonyms: interior, upcountry |
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(noun) the interior part of a country | - |
misunderstand | (verb) interpret in the wrong way | Synonyms: be amiss, misapprehend, misconceive, misconstrue, misinterpret |
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moorland | (noun) open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss | Synonyms: moor |
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motherland | (noun) the country where you were born | Synonyms: country of origin, fatherland, homeland, mother country, native land |
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multiplicand | (noun) the number that is multiplied by the multiplier | - |
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neckband | (noun) a band that fits around the neck and is usually folded over | Synonyms: collar |
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(noun) necklace that fits tightly around a woman's neck | Synonyms: choker, collar, dog collar |
(noun) a band around the collar of a garment | - |
newsstand | (noun) a stall where newspapers and other periodicals are sold | - |
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northland | (noun) any region lying in or toward the north | - |
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noseband | (noun) a strap that is the part of a bridle that goes over the animal's nose | Synonyms: nosepiece |
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offhand | (adjective) casually thoughtless or inconsiderate | Synonyms: offhanded |
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(adjective) with little or no preparation or forethought | Synonyms: ad-lib, extemporaneous, extemporary, extempore, impromptu, off-the-cuff, offhanded, unrehearsed |
(adverb) in a casually inconsiderate manner | Synonyms: offhanded, offhandedly |
(adverb) without previous thought or preparation | Synonyms: offhanded, offhandedly |
operand | (noun) a quantity upon which a mathematical operation is performed | - |
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ordinand | (noun) a person being ordained | - |
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overhand | (adjective) with hand brought forward and down from above shoulder level | Synonyms: overarm, overhanded |
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(adjective) sewn together with overhand stitches (close vertical stitches that pass over and draw the two edges together) | Synonyms: oversewn |
overland | (adjective) traveling or passing over land | - |
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parkland | (noun) a large area of land preserved in its natural state as public property | Synonyms: park |
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pastureland | (noun) a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock | Synonyms: grazing land, lea, ley, pasture, pasture land |
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ploughland | (noun) arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops | Synonyms: cultivated land, farmland, plowland, tillage, tilled land, tilth |
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plowland | (noun) arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops | Synonyms: cultivated land, farmland, ploughland, tillage, tilled land, tilth |
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quicksand | (noun) a pit filled with loose wet sand into which objects are sucked down | - |
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(noun) a treacherous situation that tends to entrap and destroy | - |
rand | (noun) the basic unit of money in South Africa; equal to 100 cents | - |
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rangeland | (noun) land suitable for grazing livestock | - |
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remand | (noun) the act of sending an accused person back into custody to await trial (or the continuation of the trial) | - |
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(verb) refer (a matter or legal case) to another committee or authority or court for decision | Synonyms: remit, send back |
(verb) lock up or confine, in or as in a jail | Synonyms: gaol, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jail, jug, lag, put away, put behind bars |
repand | (adjective) having a slightly undulating margin | - |
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