affray | (noun) a noisy fight | Synonyms: disturbance, fray, ruffle |
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(noun) noisy quarrel | Synonyms: altercation, fracas |
airway | (noun) a commercial enterprise that provides scheduled flights for passengers | Synonyms: airline, airline business |
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(noun) a duct that provides ventilation (as in mines) | Synonyms: air duct, air passage |
(noun) the passages through which air enters and leaves the body | Synonyms: respiratory tract |
(noun) a designated route followed by airplanes in flying from one airport to another | Synonyms: air lane, flight path, skyway |
allay | (verb) satisfy (thirst) | Synonyms: assuage, quench, slake |
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(verb) lessen the intensity of or calm | Synonyms: ease, relieve, still |
alleyway | (noun) a narrow street with walls on both sides | Synonyms: alley, back street |
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anyway | (adverb) used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement | Synonyms: anyhow, anyways, at any rate, in any case, in any event |
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(adverb) in any way whatsoever | Synonyms: anyhow |
archway | (noun) a passageway under a curved masonry construction | Synonyms: arch |
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areaway | (noun) a passageway between buildings or giving access to a basement | - |
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array | (noun) an arrangement of aerials spaced to give desired directional characteristics | - |
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(noun) especially fine or decorative clothing | Synonyms: raiment, regalia |
(noun) an impressive display | - |
(noun) an orderly arrangement | - |
(verb) align oneself with a group or a way of thinking | Synonyms: align |
(verb) lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line | Synonyms: lay out, range, set out |
ashtray | (noun) a receptacle for the ash from smokers' cigars or cigarettes | - |
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assay | (noun) a quantitative or qualitative test of a substance (especially an ore or a drug) to determine its components; frequently used to test for the presence or concentration of infectious agents or antibodies etc. | - |
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(noun) an appraisal of the state of affairs | Synonyms: check |
(noun) a written report of the results of an analysis of the composition of some substance | - |
(noun) a substance that is undergoing an analysis of its components | - |
(verb) analyze (chemical substances) | - |
(verb) make an effort or attempt | Synonyms: attempt, essay, seek, try |
astray | (adverb) away from the right path or direction | - |
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(adverb) far from the intended target | Synonyms: wide |
away | (adjective) used of an opponent's ground | - |
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(adjective) not present; having left | - |
(adjective) (of a baseball pitch) on the far side of home plate from the batter | Synonyms: outside |
(adverb) from a particular thing or place or position (`forth' is obsolete) | Synonyms: forth, off |
(adverb) from one's possession | Synonyms: out |
(adverb) in reserve; not for immediate use | Synonyms: aside, by |
(adverb) out of the way (especially away from one's thoughts) | Synonyms: aside |
(adverb) out of existence | - |
(adverb) indicating continuing action; continuously or steadily | - |
(adverb) in a different direction | Synonyms: aside |
(adverb) in or into a proper place (especially for storage or safekeeping) | - |
(adverb) at a distance in space or time | Synonyms: off |
(adverb) so as to be removed or gotten rid of | - |
(adverb) freely or at will | - |
backstay | (noun) a stay that supports the back of something | - |
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bay | (adjective) (used of animals especially a horse) of a moderate reddish-brown color | - |
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(noun) a horse of a moderate reddish-brown color | - |
(noun) a small recess opening off a larger room | Synonyms: alcove |
(noun) a compartment in an aircraft used for some specific purpose | - |
(noun) a compartment on a ship between decks; often used as a hospital | - |
(noun) the sound of a hound on the scent | - |
(noun) an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf | Synonyms: embayment |
(noun) small Mediterranean evergreen tree with small blackish berries and glossy aromatic leaves used for flavoring in cooking; also used by ancient Greeks to crown victors | Synonyms: bay laurel, bay tree, Laurus nobilis, true laurel |
(verb) bark with prolonged noises, of dogs | Synonyms: quest |
(verb) utter in deep prolonged tones | - |
belay | (noun) something to which a mountain climber's rope can be secured | - |
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(verb) fasten a boat to a bitt, pin, or cleat | - |
(verb) turn a rope round an object or person in order to secure it or him | - |
beltway | (noun) a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center | Synonyms: bypass, ring road, ringway |
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benday | (verb) reproduce by the Benday process | - |
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betray | (verb) give away information about somebody | Synonyms: denounce, give away, grass, rat, shit, shop, snitch, stag, tell on |
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(verb) reveal unintentionally | Synonyms: bewray |
(verb) cause someone to believe an untruth | Synonyms: deceive, lead astray |
(verb) disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake | Synonyms: fail |
(verb) deliver to an enemy by treachery | Synonyms: sell |
(verb) be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage | Synonyms: cheat, cheat on, cuckold, wander |
bewray | (verb) reveal unintentionally | Synonyms: betray |
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bioassay | (noun) appraisal of the biological activity of a substance by testing its effect on an organism and comparing the result with some agreed standard | Synonyms: bio-assay |
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(verb) subject to a bio-assay | - |
birthday | (noun) an anniversary of the day on which a person was born (or the celebration of it) | - |
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(noun) the date on which a person was born | Synonyms: natal day |
bray | (noun) the cry of an ass | - |
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(verb) laugh loudly and harshly | - |
(verb) reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading | Synonyms: comminute, crunch, grind, mash |
(verb) braying characteristic of donkeys | Synonyms: hee-haw |
breakaway | (adjective) having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude | Synonyms: fissiparous, separatist |
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(noun) the act of breaking away or withdrawing from | Synonyms: breaking away |
byplay | (noun) incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect | Synonyms: business, stage business |
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byway | (noun) a side road little traveled (as in the countryside) | Synonyms: bypath, byroad |
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caranday | (noun) South American palm yielding a wax similar to carnauba wax | Synonyms: caranda, caranda palm, Copernicia alba, Copernicia australis, wax palm |
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caraway | (noun) leaves used sparingly in soups and stews | - |
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(noun) a Eurasian plant with small white flowers yielding caraway seed | Synonyms: Carum carvi |
carriageway | (noun) one of the two sides of a motorway where traffic travels in one direction only usually in two or three lanes | - |
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castaway | (noun) a shipwrecked person | Synonyms: shipwreck survivor |
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(noun) a person who is rejected (from society or home) | Synonyms: Ishmael, outcast, pariah |
causeway | (noun) a road that is raised above water or marshland or sand | - |
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(verb) pave a road with cobblestones or pebbles | - |
(verb) provide with a causeway | - |
cay | (noun) a coral reef off the southern coast of Florida | Synonyms: Florida key, key |
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chambray | (noun) a lightweight fabric woven with white threads across a colored warp | - |
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clay | (noun) the dead body of a human being | Synonyms: cadaver, corpse, remains, stiff |
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(noun) a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired | - |
(noun) water soaked soil; soft wet earth | Synonyms: mud |
clearway | (noun) a road on which you are not allowed to stop (unless you have a breakdown) | - |
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companionway | (noun) a stairway or ladder that leads from one deck to another on a ship | - |
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cosplay | (verb) wear a costume to resemble a character from some media especially anime | - |
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counterplay | (noun) (chess) an attack that is intended to counter the opponent's advantage in another part of the board | Synonyms: counterattack |
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crossway | (noun) a junction where one street or road crosses another | Synonyms: carrefour, crossing, crossroad, intersection |
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cutaway | (noun) a man's coat cut diagonally from the waist to the back of the knees | - |
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(noun) a representation (drawing or model) of something in which the outside is omitted to reveal the inner parts | Synonyms: cutaway drawing, cutaway model |
day | (noun) a period of opportunity | - |
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(noun) time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis | Synonyms: 24-hour interval, mean solar day, solar day, twenty-four hour period, twenty-four hours |
(noun) a day assigned to a particular purpose or observance | - |
(noun) the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside | Synonyms: daylight, daytime |
(noun) a point or period in time | - |
(noun) the recurring hours when you are not sleeping (especially those when you are working) | - |
(noun) an era of existence or influence | - |
(noun) the time for one complete rotation of the earth relative to a particular star, about 4 minutes shorter than a mean solar day | Synonyms: sidereal day |
(noun) the period of time taken by a particular planet (e.g. Mars) to make a complete rotation on its axis | - |
decay | (noun) the organic phenomenon of rotting | Synonyms: decomposition |
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(noun) a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current | Synonyms: decline |
(noun) the process of gradually becoming inferior | - |
(noun) the spontaneous disintegration of a radioactive substance along with the emission of ionizing radiation | Synonyms: disintegration, radioactive decay |
(noun) an inferior state resulting from the process of decaying | - |
(verb) fall into decay or ruin | Synonyms: crumble, dilapidate |
(verb) lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current | Synonyms: decompose, disintegrate |
(verb) undergo decay or decomposition | - |
defray | (verb) bear the expenses of | - |
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delay | (noun) the act of delaying; inactivity resulting in something being put off until a later time | Synonyms: holdup |
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(noun) time during which some action is awaited | Synonyms: hold, postponement, time lag, wait |
(verb) cause to be slowed down or delayed | Synonyms: detain, hold up |
(verb) stop or halt | Synonyms: detain, stay |
(verb) slow the growth or development of | Synonyms: check, retard |
(verb) act later than planned, scheduled, or required | - |
disarray | (noun) untidiness (especially of clothing and appearance) | Synonyms: disorderliness |
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(noun) a mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behavior | Synonyms: confusedness, confusion, mental confusion, muddiness |
(verb) bring disorder to | Synonyms: disorder |
dismay | (noun) fear resulting from the awareness of danger | Synonyms: alarm, consternation |
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(noun) the feeling of despair in the face of obstacles | Synonyms: discouragement, disheartenment |
(verb) fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised | Synonyms: alarm, appal, appall, horrify |
(verb) lower someone's spirits; make downhearted | Synonyms: cast down, deject, demoralise, demoralize, depress, dispirit, get down |
display | (noun) something shown to the public | Synonyms: exhibit, showing |
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(noun) a visual representation of something | Synonyms: presentation |
(noun) an electronic device that represents information in visual form | Synonyms: video display |
(noun) exhibiting openly in public view | - |
(noun) something intended to communicate a particular impression | Synonyms: show |
(noun) behavior that makes your feelings public | - |
(verb) to show, make visible or apparent | Synonyms: exhibit, expose |
(verb) attract attention by displaying some body part or posing; of animals | - |
doomsday | (noun) an unpleasant or disastrous destiny | Synonyms: day of reckoning, doom, end of the world |
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(noun) (New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives | Synonyms: crack of doom, Day of Judgement, Day of Judgment, day of reckoning, Doomsday, end of the world, eschaton, Judgement Day, Judgment Day, Last Day, Last Judgement, Last Judgment |
doorway | (noun) the entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close | Synonyms: door, room access, threshold |
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downplay | (verb) understate the importance or quality of | Synonyms: background, play down |
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(verb) represent as less significant or important | Synonyms: minimise, minimize, understate |
dray | (noun) a low heavy horse cart without sides; used for haulage | Synonyms: camion |
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driveway | (noun) a road leading up to a private house | Synonyms: drive, private road |
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entranceway | (noun) something that provides access (to get in or get out) | Synonyms: entrance, entree, entry, entryway |
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entryway | (noun) something that provides access (to get in or get out) | Synonyms: entrance, entranceway, entree, entry |
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essay | (noun) a tentative attempt | - |
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(noun) an analytic or interpretive literary composition | - |
(verb) make an effort or attempt | Synonyms: assay, attempt, seek, try |
(verb) put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to | Synonyms: examine, prove, test, try, try out |
everyday | (adjective) commonplace and ordinary | - |
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(adjective) appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions | Synonyms: casual, daily |
(adjective) found in the ordinary course of events | Synonyms: mundane, quotidian, routine, unremarkable, workaday |
expressway | (noun) a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic | Synonyms: freeway, motorway, pike, state highway, superhighway, throughway, thruway |
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fairway | (noun) the area between the tee and putting green where the grass is cut short | - |
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(noun) a tract of ground free of obstacles to movement | - |
(noun) the usual course taken by vessels through a harbor or coastal waters | - |
faraway | (adjective) far removed mentally | - |
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(adjective) very far away in space or time | Synonyms: far-off |
fay | (noun) a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers | Synonyms: faerie, faery, fairy, sprite |
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fireclay | (noun) a heat-resistant clay | - |
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flay | (verb) strip the skin off | - |
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flyaway | (adjective) guided by whim and fancy | Synonyms: flighty, head-in-the-clouds, scatterbrained |
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(adjective) (of hair or clothing) worn loose | - |
flyway | (noun) the geographic route along which birds customarily migrate | Synonyms: migration route |
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foldaway | (adjective) capable of being folded up and stored | Synonyms: foldable, folding |
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foray | (noun) a sudden short attack | Synonyms: maraud, raid |
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(noun) an initial attempt (especially outside your usual areas of competence) | - |
(verb) briefly enter enemy territory | - |
(verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle, strip |
foreplay | (noun) mutual sexual fondling prior to sexual intercourse | Synonyms: arousal, stimulation |
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forestay | (noun) an adjustable stay from the foremast to the deck or bowsprit; controls the bending of the mast | - |
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fray | (noun) a noisy fight | Synonyms: affray, disturbance, ruffle |
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(verb) wear away by rubbing | Synonyms: frazzle |
(verb) cause friction | Synonyms: chafe, fret, rub, scratch |
freeway | (noun) a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic | Synonyms: expressway, motorway, pike, state highway, superhighway, throughway, thruway |
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funday | (noun) Sunday as a day for relaxing and having fun | - |
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gainsay | (verb) take exception to | Synonyms: challenge, dispute |
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gangway | (noun) a temporary passageway of planks (as over mud on a building site) | - |
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(noun) a temporary bridge for getting on and off a vessel at dockside | Synonyms: gangboard, gangplank |
(noun) passageway between seating areas as in an auditorium or passenger vehicle or between areas of shelves of goods as in stores | Synonyms: aisle |
gateway | (noun) an entrance that can be closed by a gate | - |
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gay | (adjective) bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer | Synonyms: cheery, sunny |
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(adjective) brightly colored and showy | Synonyms: brave, braw |
(adjective) homosexual or arousing homosexual desires | Synonyms: homophile, queer |
(adjective) given to social pleasures often including dissipation | - |
(adjective) offering fun and gaiety | Synonyms: festal, festive, merry |
(adjective) full of or showing high-spirited merriment | Synonyms: jocund, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful |
(noun) someone who is sexually attracted to persons of the same sex | Synonyms: homo, homophile, homosexual |
getaway | (noun) a rapid escape (as by criminals) | Synonyms: lam |
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(noun) the attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration | Synonyms: pickup |
giveaway | (noun) an unintentional disclosure | - |
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(noun) a television or radio program in which contestants compete for awards | Synonyms: game show |
(noun) a gift of public land or resources for the private gain of a limited group | - |
gray | (adjective) of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black | Synonyms: grayish, grey, greyish |
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(adjective) intermediate in character or position | Synonyms: grey |
(adjective) showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair | Synonyms: gray-haired, gray-headed, grey-haired, grey-headed, grey, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired |
(adjective) used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms) | Synonyms: grey |
(noun) horse of a light gray or whitish color | Synonyms: grey |
(noun) clothing that is a grey color | Synonyms: grey |
(noun) a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black | Synonyms: grayness, grey, greyness |
(noun) any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey | Synonyms: grey |
(noun) the SI unit of energy absorbed from ionizing radiation; equal to the absorption of one joule of radiation energy by one kilogram of matter; one gray equals 100 rad | Synonyms: Gy |
(verb) turn grey | Synonyms: grey |
(verb) make grey | Synonyms: grey |
greenway | (noun) a belt of parks or rural land surrounding a town or city | Synonyms: greenbelt |
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gunplay | (noun) a fight involving shooting small arms with the intent to kill or frighten | Synonyms: gunfight, shootout |
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halfway | (adjective) equally distant from the extremes | Synonyms: center, centre, middle, midway |
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(adjective) including only half or a portion | - |
(adjective) at a point midway between two extremes | - |
(adverb) at half the distance; at the middle | Synonyms: midway |
hallway | (noun) an interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open | Synonyms: hall |
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hatchway | (noun) an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship | Synonyms: opening, scuttle |
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hay | (noun) grass mowed and cured for use as fodder | - |
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(verb) convert (plant material) into hay | - |
headstay | (noun) the farthest forward forestay that runs from the bow or bowsprit to the top of the mast. | - |
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headway | (noun) forward movement | Synonyms: head |
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(noun) vertical space available to allow easy passage under something | Synonyms: clearance, headroom |
hearsay | (adjective) heard through another rather than directly | - |
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(noun) gossip (usually a mixture of truth and untruth) passed around by word of mouth | Synonyms: rumor, rumour |
heyday | (noun) the period of greatest prosperity or productivity | Synonyms: bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flower, flush, peak, prime |
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hideaway | (noun) an area where you can be alone | Synonyms: retreat |
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(noun) a hiding place; usually a remote place used by outlaws | Synonyms: den, hideout |
highway | (noun) a major road for any form of motor transport | Synonyms: main road |
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holiday | (noun) leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure | Synonyms: vacation |
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(noun) a day on which work is suspended by law or custom | - |
(verb) spend or take a vacation | Synonyms: vacation |
hooray | (noun) a victory cheer | Synonyms: hurrah |
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horseplay | (noun) rowdy or boisterous play | - |
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icetray | (noun) a tray for making cubes of ice in a refrigerator | - |
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immunoassay | (noun) identification of a substance (especially a protein) by its action as an antigen | Synonyms: immunochemical assay |
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inlay | (noun) a decoration made by fitting pieces of wood into prepared slots in a surface | - |
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(noun) (dentistry) a filling consisting of a solid substance (as gold or porcelain) fitted to a cavity in a tooth and cemented into place | - |
(verb) decorate the surface of by inserting wood, stone, and metal | - |
instagay | (noun) A photo on the Instagram website, which is related to homosexuality | - |
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interplay | (noun) reciprocal action and reaction | - |
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islay | (noun) California evergreen wild plum with spiny leathery leaves and white flowers | Synonyms: evergreen cherry, holly-leaf cherry, holly-leaved cherry, Prunus ilicifolia |
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jay | (noun) crested largely blue bird | - |
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lay | (adjective) not of or from a profession | - |
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(adjective) characteristic of those who are not members of the clergy | Synonyms: laic, secular |
(noun) a narrative poem of popular origin | Synonyms: ballad |
(noun) a narrative song with a recurrent refrain | Synonyms: ballad |
(verb) put in a horizontal position | Synonyms: put down, repose |
(verb) put into a certain place or abstract location | Synonyms: place, pose, position, put, set |
(verb) lay eggs | - |
(verb) prepare or position for action or operation | - |
(verb) impose as a duty, burden, or punishment | - |