admass | (noun) the segment of the public that is easily influenced by mass media (chiefly British) | - |
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amass | (verb) increase in amount by collecting or gathering | Synonyms: accumulate, conglomerate, cumulate, gather, pile up |
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(verb) get or gather together | Synonyms: accumulate, collect, compile, hoard, pile up, roll up |
ass | (noun) slang for sexual intercourse | Synonyms: fuck, fucking, nookie, nooky, piece of ass, piece of tail, roll in the hay, screw, screwing, shag, shtup |
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(noun) hardy and sure-footed animal smaller and with longer ears than the horse | - |
(noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, 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 pompous fool | - |
badass | (adjective) being impressive due to extreme attitude or style | - |
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(noun) A mean or belligerent person | - |
(noun) A person considered impressive due to extreme attitudes, behavior or appearance | - |
bass | (adjective) having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range | Synonyms: deep |
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(noun) the member with the lowest range of a family of musical instruments | - |
(noun) the lowest part of the musical range | - |
(noun) the lowest adult male singing voice | Synonyms: bass voice, basso |
(noun) the lowest part in polyphonic music | Synonyms: bass part |
(noun) an adult male singer with the lowest voice | Synonyms: basso |
(noun) nontechnical name for any of numerous edible marine and freshwater spiny-finned fishes | - |
(noun) any of various North American freshwater fish with lean flesh (especially of the genus Micropterus) | Synonyms: freshwater bass |
(noun) the lean flesh of a saltwater fish of the family Serranidae | Synonyms: sea bass |
biomass | (noun) the total mass of living matter in a given unit area | - |
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(noun) plant materials and animal waste used as fuel | - |
bluegrass | (noun) a type of country music played at a rapid tempo on banjos and guitars | - |
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(noun) any of various grasses of the genus Poa | Synonyms: blue grass |
brass | (noun) a wind instrument that consists of a brass tube (usually of variable length) that is blown by means of a cup-shaped or funnel-shaped mouthpiece | Synonyms: brass instrument |
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(noun) a memorial made of brass | Synonyms: memorial tablet, plaque |
(noun) an ornament or utensil made of brass | - |
(noun) impudent aggressiveness | Synonyms: boldness, cheek, face, nerve |
(noun) the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something | Synonyms: administration, establishment, governance, governing body, organisation, organization |
(noun) the section of a band or orchestra that plays brass instruments | Synonyms: brass section |
(noun) an alloy of copper and zinc | - |
bristlegrass | (noun) grasses of grasslands and woodlands having large gracefully arching spikes with long bristles beneath each spikelet | Synonyms: bristle grass |
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bromegrass | (noun) any of various woodland and meadow grasses of the genus Bromus; native to temperate regions | Synonyms: brome |
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bunchgrass | (noun) any of various grasses of many genera that grow in tufts or clumps rather than forming a sod or mat; chiefly of western United States | Synonyms: bunch grass |
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burgrass | (noun) a grass of the genus Cenchrus | Synonyms: bur grass |
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bypass | (noun) a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center | Synonyms: beltway, ring road, ringway |
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(noun) a conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current | Synonyms: electrical shunt, shunt |
(noun) a surgically created shunt (usually around a damaged part) | - |
(verb) avoid something unpleasant or laborious | Synonyms: get around, go around, short-circuit |
camass | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Camassia; North and South America | Synonyms: camas, camash, camosh, quamash |
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canvass | (noun) a heavy, closely woven fabric | Synonyms: canvas |
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(noun) the mat that forms the floor of the ring in which boxers or professional wrestlers compete | Synonyms: canvas |
(noun) a tent made of canvas fabric | Synonyms: canvas, canvas tent |
(noun) a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel | Synonyms: canvas, sail, sheet |
(noun) an oil painting on canvas fabric | Synonyms: canvas |
(noun) an inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people | Synonyms: opinion poll, poll, public opinion poll |
(noun) the setting for a narrative or fictional or dramatic account | Synonyms: canvas |
(verb) consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning | Synonyms: analyse, analyze, examine, study |
(verb) solicit votes from potential voters in an electoral campaign | - |
(verb) get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions | Synonyms: poll |
carcass | (noun) the dead body of an animal especially one slaughtered and dressed for food | Synonyms: carcase |
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cheatgrass | (noun) annual or winter annual grass with softly hairy leaves of the Mediterranean | Synonyms: Bromus tectorum, downy brome, downy bromegrass, downy cheat, downy chess, drooping brome |
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class | (noun) education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings | Synonyms: course, course of instruction, course of study |
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(noun) elegance in dress or behavior | - |
(noun) a collection of things sharing a common attribute | Synonyms: category, family |
(noun) people having the same social, economic, or educational status | Synonyms: social class, socio-economic class, stratum |
(noun) (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders | - |
(noun) a body of students who are taught together | Synonyms: course, form, grade |
(noun) a body of students who graduate together | Synonyms: year |
(noun) a league ranked by quality | Synonyms: division |
(verb) arrange or order by classes or categories | Synonyms: assort, classify, separate, sort, sort out |
compass | (noun) navigational instrument for finding directions | - |
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(noun) drafting instrument used for drawing circles | - |
(noun) an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: | Synonyms: ambit, orbit, range, reach, scope |
(noun) the limit of capability | Synonyms: grasp, range, reach |
(verb) get the meaning of something | Synonyms: apprehend, comprehend, dig, get the picture, grasp, grok, savvy |
(verb) travel around, either by plane or ship | Synonyms: circumnavigate |
(verb) bring about; accomplish | - |
contrabass | (adjective) pitched an octave below normal bass instrumental or vocal range | Synonyms: double-bass |
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(noun) largest and lowest member of the violin family | Synonyms: bass fiddle, bass viol, bull fiddle, double bass, string bass |
cordgrass | (noun) any of several perennial grasses of the genus Spartina; some important as coastal soil binders | Synonyms: cord grass |
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crabgrass | (noun) grasses with creeping stems that root freely; a pest in lawns | Synonyms: crab grass, finger grass |
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crass | (adjective) (of persons) so unrefined as to be lacking in discrimination and sensibility | - |
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cuirass | (noun) medieval body armor that covers the chest and back | - |
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cutlass | (noun) a short heavy curved sword with one edge; formerly used by sailors | Synonyms: cutlas |
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dallisgrass | (noun) tall tufted perennial tropical American grass naturalized as pasture and forage grass in southern United States | Synonyms: dallis grass, paspalum, Paspalum dilatatum |
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disembarrass | (verb) relieve from | Synonyms: free, rid |
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dumbass | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
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eelgrass | (noun) submerged marine plant with very long narrow leaves found in abundance along North Atlantic coasts | Synonyms: grass wrack, sea wrack, Zostera marina |
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(noun) submerged aquatic plant with ribbonlike leaves; Old World and Australia | Synonyms: tape grass, Vallisneria spiralis, wild celery |
embarrass | (verb) cause to be embarrassed; cause to feel self-conscious | Synonyms: abash |
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(verb) hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of | Synonyms: block, blockade, hinder, obstruct, stymie, stymy |
encompass | (verb) include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory | Synonyms: comprehend, cover, embrace |
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eyeglass | (noun) lens for correcting defective vision in one eye; held in place by facial muscles | Synonyms: monocle |
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fiberglass | (noun) a covering material made of glass fibers in resins | Synonyms: fibreglass |
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fibreglass | (noun) a covering material made of glass fibers in resins | Synonyms: fiberglass |
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glass | (noun) a container made of glass for holding liquids while drinking | Synonyms: drinking glass |
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(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, deoxyephedrine, ice, meth, methamphetamine, methamphetamine hydrochloride, Methedrine, shabu, trash |
(noun) a mirror; usually a ladies' dressing mirror | Synonyms: looking glass |
(noun) a small refracting telescope | Synonyms: field glass, spyglass |
(noun) glassware collectively | - |
(noun) the quantity a glass will hold | Synonyms: glassful |
(noun) a brittle transparent solid with irregular atomic structure | - |
(verb) become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance | Synonyms: glass over, glaze, glaze over |
(verb) put in a glass container | - |
(verb) enclose with glass | Synonyms: glass in |
(verb) scan (game in the forest) with binoculars | - |
(verb) furnish with glass | Synonyms: glaze |
grass | (noun) street names for marijuana | Synonyms: dope, gage, green goddess, locoweed, Mary Jane, pot, sens, sess, skunk, smoke, weed |
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(noun) bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle | Synonyms: eatage, forage, pasturage, pasture |
(noun) a police informer who implicates many people | Synonyms: supergrass |
(noun) narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay | - |
(verb) give away information about somebody | Synonyms: betray, denounce, give away, rat, shit, shop, snitch, stag, tell on |
(verb) shoot down, of birds | - |
(verb) feed with grass | - |
(verb) cover with grass | Synonyms: grass over |
(verb) spread out clothes on the grass to let it dry and bleach | - |
groundmass | (noun) (geology) the matrix of fine-grained crystalline material in which larger crystals are embedded | - |
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gyrocompass | (noun) a compass that does not depend on magnetism but uses a gyroscope instead | - |
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harass | (verb) exhaust by attacking repeatedly | - |
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(verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harry, hassle, molest, plague, provoke |
hardinggrass | (noun) perennial grass of Australia and South Africa; introduced in North America as forage grass | Synonyms: Harding grass, Phalaris aquatica, Phalaris tuberosa, toowomba canary grass |
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hourglass | (noun) a sandglass that runs for sixty minutes | - |
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isinglass | (noun) any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves; used as dielectrics because of their resistance to electricity | Synonyms: mica |
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jackass | (noun) male donkey | Synonyms: jack |
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(noun) a man who is a stupid incompetent fool | Synonyms: bozo, cuckoo, fathead, goof, goofball, goose, twat, zany |
knotgrass | (noun) low-growing weedy grass with spikelets along the leaf stems | Synonyms: Paspalum distichum |
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kvass | (noun) fermented beverage resembling beer but made from rye or barley | - |
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landmass | (noun) a large continuous extent of land | Synonyms: land mass |
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lass | (noun) a girl or young woman who is unmarried | Synonyms: jeune fille, lassie, young girl |
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lemongrass | (noun) a tropical grass native to India and Sri Lanka | Synonyms: lemon grass |
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(noun) an aromatic oil that smells like lemon and is widely used in Asian cooking and in perfumes and medicines | Synonyms: lemon grass, lemongrass oil |
mass | (adjective) formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole | Synonyms: aggregate, aggregated, aggregative |
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(noun) the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field | - |
(noun) the property of something that is great in magnitude | Synonyms: bulk, volume |
(noun) the common people generally | Synonyms: hoi polloi, masses, multitude, people, the great unwashed |
(noun) an ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people) | - |
(noun) a body of matter without definite shape | - |
(noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
(verb) join together into a mass or collect or form a mass | - |
meadowgrass | (noun) any of various grasses that thrive in the presence of abundant moisture | Synonyms: meadow grass |
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midgrass | (noun) any of various grasses of moderate height which covered the undisturbed prairie in the United States; includes most of the forage grasses of the temperate zone | - |
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morass | (noun) a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot | Synonyms: mire, quag, quagmire, slack |
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nutgrass | (noun) a widely distributed perennial sedge having small edible nutlike tubers | Synonyms: Cyperus rotundus, nut grass, nut sedge, nutsedge |
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outclass | (verb) cause to appear in a lower class | - |
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overpass | (noun) bridge formed by the upper level of a crossing of two highways at different levels | Synonyms: flyover |
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pass | (adjective) of advancing the ball by throwing it | Synonyms: passing |
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(noun) (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team | Synonyms: flip, toss |
(noun) a usually brief attempt | Synonyms: crack, fling, go, offer, whirl |
(noun) (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate | Synonyms: passing, passing game, passing play |
(noun) (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls | Synonyms: base on balls, walk |
(noun) success in satisfying a test or requirement | Synonyms: passing, qualifying |
(noun) a flight or run by an aircraft over a target | - |
(noun) a permit to enter or leave a military installation | Synonyms: liberty chit |
(noun) any authorization to pass or go somewhere | Synonyms: passport |
(noun) an automatic advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent | Synonyms: bye |
(noun) a document indicating permission to do something without restrictions | Synonyms: laissez passer |
(noun) a complimentary ticket | - |
(noun) a difficult juncture | Synonyms: head, straits |
(noun) one complete cycle of operations (as by a computer) | - |
(noun) the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks | Synonyms: mountain pass, notch |
(noun) a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs | Synonyms: strait, straits |
(noun) (military) a written leave of absence | - |
(verb) eliminate from the body | Synonyms: egest, eliminate, excrete |
(verb) come to pass | Synonyms: come about, fall out, go on, hap, happen, occur, pass off, take place |
(verb) disappear gradually | Synonyms: blow over, evanesce, fade, fleet, pass off |
(verb) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life | Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
(verb) grant authorization or clearance for | Synonyms: authorise, authorize, clear |
(verb) transmit information | Synonyms: communicate, pass along, pass on, put across |
(verb) pass over, across, or through | Synonyms: draw, guide, run |
(verb) go across or through | - |
(verb) travel past | Synonyms: overhaul, overtake |
(verb) pass into a specified state or condition; sink into | Synonyms: lapse, sink |
(verb) for time to move forward | Synonyms: elapse, glide by, go along, go by, lapse, slide by, slip away, slip by |
(verb) cause to pass | Synonyms: make pass |
(verb) move past | Synonyms: go by, go past, pass by, surpass, travel by |
(verb) place into the hands or custody of | Synonyms: give, hand, pass on, reach, turn over |
(verb) throw (a ball) to another player | - |
(verb) transfer to another; of rights or property | - |
(verb) be inherited by | Synonyms: devolve, fall, return |
(verb) make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation | Synonyms: legislate |
(verb) go unchallenged; be approved | Synonyms: clear |
(verb) accept or judge as acceptable | - |
(verb) go successfully through a test or a selection process | Synonyms: make it |
(verb) allow to go without comment or censure | - |
(verb) use up a period of time in a specific way | Synonyms: spend |
(verb) be superior or better than some standard | Synonyms: exceed, go past, overstep, top, transcend |
(verb) stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point | Synonyms: extend, go, lead, run |
plexiglass | (noun) a light transparent weather resistant thermoplastic | Synonyms: Plexiglas |
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quackgrass | (noun) European grass spreading rapidly by creeping rhizomes; naturalized in North America as a weed | Synonyms: Agropyron repens, couch grass, dog grass, quack grass, quick grass, witch grass, witchgrass |
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ribgrass | (noun) an Old World plantain with long narrow ribbed leaves widely established in temperate regions | Synonyms: buckthorn, English plantain, narrow-leaved plantain, Plantago lanceolata, ribwort, ripple-grass |
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ricegrass | (noun) any grass of the genus Oryzopsis | Synonyms: rice grass |
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ryegrass | (noun) any of several annual or perennial Eurasian grasses | Synonyms: rye grass |
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sandglass | (noun) timepiece in which the passage of time is indicated by the flow of sand from one transparent container to another through a narrow passage | - |
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sass | (noun) an impudent or insolent rejoinder | Synonyms: back talk, backtalk, lip, mouth, sassing |
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(verb) answer back in an impudent or insolent manner | - |
seagrass | (noun) any of various seaweeds that grow underwater in shallow beds | - |
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shortgrass | (noun) any of various grasses that are short and can tolerate drought conditions; common on the dry upland plains just east of the Rocky Mountains | Synonyms: short-grass |
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silkgrass | (noun) valuable forage grass of dry upland areas and plains of western North America to northern Mexico | Synonyms: Indian millet, mountain rice, Oryzopsis hymenoides, silk grass |
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spyglass | (noun) a small refracting telescope | Synonyms: field glass, glass |
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subclass | (noun) (biology) a taxonomic category below a class and above an order | - |
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sunglass | (noun) a convex lens that focuses the rays of the sun; used to start a fire | - |
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superclass | (noun) (biology) a taxonomic class below a phylum and above a class | - |
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supergrass | (noun) a police informer who implicates many people | Synonyms: grass |
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surpass | (verb) be or do something to a greater degree | Synonyms: exceed, outdo, outgo, outmatch, outperform, outstrip, surmount |
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(verb) move past | Synonyms: go by, go past, pass, pass by, travel by |
(verb) distinguish oneself | Synonyms: excel, stand out |
(verb) be greater in scope or size than some standard | Synonyms: exceed, transcend |
tallgrass | (noun) any of various grasses that are tall and that flourish with abundant moisture | Synonyms: tall-grass |
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trespass | (noun) entry to another's property without right or permission | Synonyms: encroachment, intrusion, usurpation, violation |
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(noun) a wrongful interference with the possession of property (personal property as well as realty), or the action instituted to recover damages | - |
(verb) pass beyond (limits or boundaries) | Synonyms: overstep, transgress |
(verb) break the law | - |
(verb) enter unlawfully on someone's property | Synonyms: intrude |
(verb) commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law | Synonyms: sin, transgress |
(verb) make excessive use of | Synonyms: take advantage |
underclass | (adjective) belonging to the lowest and least privileged social stratum | - |
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(noun) the social class lowest in the social hierarchy | Synonyms: lower class |
underpass | (noun) an underground tunnel or passage enabling pedestrians to cross a road or railway | Synonyms: subway |
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weatherglass | (noun) a simple barometer for indicating changes in atmospheric pressure | - |
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wheatgrass | (noun) a grass of the genus Agropyron | Synonyms: wheat-grass |
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windlass | (noun) lifting device consisting of a horizontal cylinder turned by a crank on which a cable or rope winds | Synonyms: winch |
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wineglass | (noun) a glass that has a stem and in which wine is served | - |
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witchgrass | (noun) North American grass with slender brushy panicles; often a weed on cultivated land | Synonyms: old witch grass, old witchgrass, Panicum capillare, tumble grass, witch grass |
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(noun) European grass spreading rapidly by creeping rhizomes; naturalized in North America as a weed | Synonyms: Agropyron repens, couch grass, dog grass, quack grass, quackgrass, quick grass, witch grass |
yardgrass | (noun) coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers; native to Old World tropics; a naturalized weed elsewhere | Synonyms: Eleusine indica, goose grass, wire grass, yard grass |
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