abroach | (adjective) of a cask or barrel | Synonyms: broached |
---|
amphibrach | (noun) a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed-unstressed syllables (e.g., `remember') | - |
---|
approach | (noun) the act of drawing spatially closer to something | Synonyms: approaching, coming |
---|
(noun) a relatively short golf shot intended to put the ball onto the putting green | Synonyms: approach shot |
(noun) ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation | Synonyms: attack, plan of attack |
(noun) a way of entering or leaving | Synonyms: access |
(noun) the temporal property of becoming nearer in time | Synonyms: approaching, coming |
(noun) a close approximation | - |
(noun) a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others | Synonyms: advance, feeler, overture |
(noun) the event of one object coming closer to another | Synonyms: approaching |
(noun) the final path followed by an aircraft as it is landing | Synonyms: approach path, glide path, glide slope |
(verb) make advances to someone, usually with a proposal or suggestion | - |
(verb) move towards | Synonyms: come near, come on, draw close, draw near, go up, near |
(verb) come near in time | Synonyms: come near |
(verb) begin to deal with | Synonyms: go about, set about |
(verb) come near or verge on, resemble, come nearer in quality, or character | Synonyms: border on |
arch | (adjective) naughtily or annoyingly playful | Synonyms: impish, implike, mischievous, pixilated, prankish, puckish, wicked |
---|
(adjective) (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension | Synonyms: condescending, patronising, patronizing |
(noun) (architecture) a masonry construction (usually curved) for spanning an opening and supporting the weight above it | - |
(noun) a passageway under a curved masonry construction | Synonyms: archway |
(noun) a curved bony structure supporting or enclosing organs (especially the inner sides of the feet) | - |
(noun) a curved shape in the vertical plane that spans an opening | - |
(verb) form an arch or curve | Synonyms: arc, curve |
attach | (verb) become attached | - |
---|
(verb) cause to be attached | - |
(verb) be attached; be in contact with | - |
(verb) take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority | Synonyms: confiscate, impound, seize, sequester |
(verb) create social or emotional ties | Synonyms: bind, bond, tie |
avouch | (verb) admit openly and bluntly; make no bones about | Synonyms: avow |
---|
azedarach | (noun) tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree | Synonyms: azederach, China tree, chinaberry, chinaberry tree, Melia azedarach, Melia azederach, Persian lilac, pride-of-India |
---|
azederach | (noun) tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree | Synonyms: azedarach, China tree, chinaberry, chinaberry tree, Melia azedarach, Melia azederach, Persian lilac, pride-of-India |
---|
bach | (verb) lead a bachelor's existence | Synonyms: bachelor |
---|
backbench | (noun) any of the seats occupied by backbenchers in the House of Commons | - |
---|
backstitch | (noun) an overlapping stitch made by starting the next stitch at the middle of the preceding one | - |
---|
(verb) do backstitches | - |
batch | (noun) a collection of things or persons to be handled together | Synonyms: clutch |
---|
(noun) all the loaves of bread baked at the same time | - |
(noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
(verb) batch together; assemble or process as a batch | - |
beach | (noun) an area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake | - |
---|
(verb) land on a beach | - |
beech | (noun) any of several large deciduous trees with rounded spreading crowns and smooth grey bark and small sweet edible triangular nuts enclosed in burs; north temperate regions | Synonyms: beech tree |
---|
(noun) wood of any of various beech trees; used for flooring and containers and plywood and tool handles | Synonyms: beechwood |
belch | (noun) a reflex that expels gas noisily from the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: belching, burp, burping, eructation |
---|
(verb) expel gas from the stomach | Synonyms: bubble, burp, eruct |
(verb) become active and spew forth lava and rocks | Synonyms: erupt, extravasate |
bench | (noun) a long seat for more than one person | - |
---|
(noun) a strong worktable for a carpenter or mechanic | Synonyms: work bench, workbench |
(noun) (law) the seat for judges in a courtroom | - |
(noun) persons who administer justice | Synonyms: judiciary |
(noun) the reserve players on a team | - |
(noun) a level shelf of land interrupting a declivity (with steep slopes above and below) | Synonyms: terrace |
(verb) To lift a weight using a bench press | - |
(verb) To exercise using a bench press | - |
(verb) exhibit on a bench | - |
(verb) take out of a game; of players | - |
beseech | (verb) ask for or request earnestly | Synonyms: adjure, bid, conjure, entreat, press |
---|
besmirch | (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, calumniate, defame, denigrate, slander, smear, smirch, sully |
---|
(verb) smear so as to make dirty or stained | Synonyms: smirch |
bewitch | (verb) attract strongly, as if with a magnet | Synonyms: magnetise, magnetize, mesmerise, mesmerize, spellbind |
---|
(verb) cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something | Synonyms: enchant, glamour, hex, jinx, witch |
(verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
biotech | (noun) the branch of molecular biology that studies the use of microorganisms to perform specific industrial processes | Synonyms: biotechnology |
---|
birch | (adjective) consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree | Synonyms: birchen, birken |
---|
(noun) a switch consisting of a twig or a bundle of twigs from a birch tree; used to hit people as punishment | Synonyms: birch rod |
(noun) any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark | Synonyms: birch tree |
(noun) hard close-grained wood of any of various birch trees; used especially in furniture and interior finishes and plywood | - |
(verb) whip with a birch twig | - |
birdwatch | (verb) watch and study birds in their natural habitat | Synonyms: bird |
---|
bitch | (noun) female of any member of the dog family | - |
---|
(noun) informal terms for objecting | Synonyms: beef, gripe, kick, squawk |
(noun) a person (usually but not necessarily a woman) who is thoroughly disliked | Synonyms: cunt |
(noun) an unpleasant difficulty | - |
(verb) say mean things | Synonyms: backbite |
(verb) complain | Synonyms: beef, bellyache, crab, gripe, grouse, holler, squawk |
blanch | (verb) turn pale, as if in fear | Synonyms: blench, pale |
---|
(verb) cook (vegetables) briefly | Synonyms: parboil |
bleach | (noun) the act of whitening something by bleaching it (exposing it to sunlight or using a chemical bleaching agent) | - |
---|
(noun) the whiteness that results from removing the color from something | - |
(noun) an agent that makes things white or colorless | Synonyms: blanching agent, bleaching agent, whitener |
(verb) make whiter or lighter | - |
(verb) cause to become white or lighter in color | Synonyms: bleach out, decolor, decolorise, decolorize, decolour, decolourise, decolourize, discolorise, discolorize, discolourise |
blench | (verb) turn pale, as if in fear | Synonyms: blanch, pale |
---|
blotch | (noun) an irregularly shaped spot | Synonyms: splodge, splotch |
---|
(verb) mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained | Synonyms: mottle, streak |
blowtorch | (noun) a burner that mixes air and gas to produce a very hot flame | Synonyms: blowlamp, torch |
---|
borsch | (noun) a Russian or Polish soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation | Synonyms: borscht, borsh, borshch, borsht, bortsch |
---|
borshch | (noun) a Russian or Polish soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation | Synonyms: borsch, borscht, borsh, borsht, bortsch |
---|
bortsch | (noun) a Russian or Polish soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation | Synonyms: borsch, borscht, borsh, borshch, borsht |
---|
botch | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall |
---|
(verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
branch | (noun) any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm | Synonyms: arm, limb |
---|
(noun) a division of some larger or more complex organization | Synonyms: arm, subdivision |
(noun) a stream or river connected to a larger one | - |
(noun) a natural consequence of development | Synonyms: offset, offshoot, outgrowth |
(noun) a division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant | - |
(noun) a part of a forked or branching shape | Synonyms: leg, ramification |
(verb) divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork | Synonyms: fork, furcate, ramify, separate |
(verb) grow and send out branches or branch-like structures | Synonyms: ramify |
breach | (noun) a failure to perform some promised act or obligation | - |
---|
(noun) a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions) | Synonyms: break, falling out, rift, rupture, severance |
(noun) an opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification) | - |
(verb) make an opening or gap in | Synonyms: gap |
(verb) act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises | Synonyms: break, go against, infract, offend, transgress, violate |
breech | (noun) opening in the rear of the barrel of a gun where bullets can be loaded | Synonyms: rear of barrel, rear of tube |
---|
brierpatch | (noun) tangled mass of prickly plants | Synonyms: brier, brier patch |
---|
broach | (noun) a decorative pin worn by women | Synonyms: breastpin, brooch |
---|
(verb) bring up a topic for discussion | Synonyms: initiate |
brooch | (noun) a decorative pin worn by women | Synonyms: breastpin, broach |
---|
(verb) fasten with or as if with a brooch | Synonyms: clasp |
brunch | (noun) combination of breakfast and lunch; usually served in late morning | - |
---|
(verb) eat a meal in the late morning | - |
bullfinch | (noun) common European finch mostly black and white with red throat and breast | Synonyms: Pyrrhula pyrrhula |
---|
bunch | (noun) a grouping of a number of similar things | Synonyms: clump, cluster, clustering |
---|
(noun) an informal body of friends | Synonyms: crew, crowd, gang |
(noun) any collection in its entirety | Synonyms: caboodle, lot |
(verb) gather or cause to gather into a cluster | Synonyms: bundle, clump, cluster |
(verb) form into a bunch | Synonyms: bunch together, bunch up |
butch | (adjective) (of male or female homosexuals) characterized by stereotypically male traits or appearance | - |
---|
(adjective) used of men; markedly masculine in appearance or manner | Synonyms: macho |
(noun) a closely cropped haircut; usually for men or boys | Synonyms: crew cut, flattop |
(noun) (slang) offensive term for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine | Synonyms: dike, dyke |
buttercrunch | (noun) lettuce with delicate and relatively crunchy leaves | - |
---|
butterscotch | (noun) a hard brittle candy made with butter and brown sugar | - |
---|
bycatch | (noun) unwanted marine creatures that are caught in the nets while fishing for another species | Synonyms: by-catch |
---|
cartouch | (noun) a cartridge (usually with paper casing) | Synonyms: cartouche |
---|
catch | (noun) the act of catching an object with the hands | Synonyms: grab, snap, snatch |
---|
(noun) the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal) | Synonyms: apprehension, arrest, collar, pinch, taking into custody |
(noun) a cooperative game in which a ball is passed back and forth | - |
(noun) a fastener that fastens or locks a door or window | - |
(noun) a restraint that checks the motion of something | Synonyms: stop |
(noun) a drawback or difficulty that is not readily evident | Synonyms: gimmick |
(noun) a break or check in the voice (usually a sign of strong emotion) | - |
(noun) anything that is caught (especially if it is worth catching) | - |
(noun) a person regarded as a good matrimonial prospect | Synonyms: match |
(noun) the quantity that was caught | Synonyms: haul |
(verb) come down with | - |
(verb) be struck or affected by | - |
(verb) delay or hold up; prevent from proceeding on schedule or as planned | - |
(verb) detect a blunder or misstep | Synonyms: trip up |
(verb) discover or come upon accidentally, suddenly, or unexpectedly; catch somebody doing something or in a certain state | - |
(verb) grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of | Synonyms: get |
(verb) become aware of | - |
(verb) be the catcher | - |
(verb) catch up with and possibly overtake | Synonyms: catch up with, overtake |
(verb) take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of | Synonyms: grab |
(verb) succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase | Synonyms: capture, get |
(verb) capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping | Synonyms: capture |
(verb) to hook or entangle | Synonyms: hitch |
(verb) attract and fix | Synonyms: arrest, get |
(verb) cause to become accidentally or suddenly caught, ensnared, or entangled | - |
(verb) spread or be communicated | - |
(verb) take in and retain | - |
(verb) reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot | Synonyms: get |
(verb) apprehend and reproduce accurately | Synonyms: get |
(verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
(verb) reach in time | - |
(verb) hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers | Synonyms: overhear, take in |
(verb) perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily | Synonyms: pick up |
(verb) see or watch | Synonyms: see, take in, view, watch |
(verb) suffer from the receipt of | Synonyms: get |
(verb) perceive by hearing | Synonyms: get |
(verb) get or regain something necessary, usually quickly or briefly | - |
(verb) check oneself during an action | - |
(verb) start burning | - |
chaffinch | (noun) small European finch with a cheerful song | Synonyms: Fringilla coelebs |
---|
chinch | (noun) bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood | Synonyms: bed bug, bedbug, Cimex lectularius |
---|
church | (noun) a service conducted in a house of worship | Synonyms: church service |
---|
(noun) a place for public (especially Christian) worship | Synonyms: church building |
(noun) one of the groups of Christians who have their own beliefs and forms of worship | Synonyms: Christian church |
(noun) the body of people who attend or belong to a particular local church | - |
(verb) perform a special church rite or service for | - |
cinch | (noun) a form of all fours in which the players bid for the privilege of naming trumps | - |
---|
(noun) any undertaking that is easy to do | Synonyms: breeze, child's play, duck soup, picnic, piece of cake, pushover, snap, walkover |
(noun) stable gear consisting of a band around a horse's belly that holds the saddle in place | Synonyms: girth |
(verb) get a grip on; get mastery of | - |
(verb) make sure of | - |
(verb) tie a cinch around | Synonyms: girth |
clench | (noun) the act of grasping | Synonyms: clasp, clutch, clutches, grasp, grip, hold |
---|
(noun) a small slip noose made with seizing | Synonyms: clinch |
(verb) hold in a tight grasp | Synonyms: clinch |
(verb) squeeze together tightly | - |
clinch | (noun) (boxing) the act of one boxer holding onto the other to avoid being hit and to rest momentarily | - |
---|
(noun) a tight or amorous embrace | Synonyms: hug, squeeze |
(noun) the flattened part of a nail or bolt or rivet | - |
(noun) a small slip noose made with seizing | Synonyms: clench |
(noun) a device (generally used by carpenters) that holds things firmly together | Synonyms: clamp |
(verb) settle conclusively | - |
(verb) flatten the ends (of nails and rivets) | - |
(verb) secure or fasten by flattening the ends of nails or bolts | - |
(verb) hold in a tight grasp | Synonyms: clench |
(verb) embrace amorously | - |
(verb) hold a boxing opponent with one or both arms so as to prevent punches | - |
clunch | (noun) stiff clay | - |
---|
clutch | (noun) the act of grasping | Synonyms: clasp, clench, clutches, grasp, grip, hold |
---|
(noun) a coupling that connects or disconnects driving and driven parts of a driving mechanism | - |
(noun) a pedal or lever that engages or disengages a rotating shaft and a driving mechanism | Synonyms: clutch pedal |
(noun) a woman's strapless purse that is carried in the hand | Synonyms: clutch bag |
(noun) a collection of things or persons to be handled together | Synonyms: batch |
(noun) a number of birds hatched at the same time | - |
(noun) a tense critical situation | - |
(verb) affect | Synonyms: get hold of, seize |
(verb) take into your hands deliberately | Synonyms: prehend, seize, take hold, take hold of |
(verb) hold firmly, usually with one's hands | Synonyms: cling to, hold close, hold tight |
coach | (noun) a carriage pulled by four horses with one driver | Synonyms: coach-and-four, four-in-hand |
---|
(noun) a railcar where passengers ride | Synonyms: carriage, passenger car |
(noun) a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport | Synonyms: autobus, bus, charabanc, double-decker, jitney, motorbus, motorcoach, omnibus, passenger vehicle |
(noun) a person who gives private instruction (as in singing, acting, etc.) | Synonyms: private instructor, tutor |
(noun) (sports) someone in charge of training an athlete or a team | Synonyms: handler, manager |
(verb) teach and supervise (someone); act as a trainer or coach (to), as in sports | Synonyms: train |
(verb) drive or operate a coach or carriage | - |
cockroach | (noun) any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic pests | Synonyms: roach |
---|
conch | (noun) any of various edible tropical marine gastropods of the genus Strombus having a brightly-colored spiral shell with large outer lip | - |
---|
cornstarch | (noun) starch prepared from the grains of corn; used in cooking as a thickener | Synonyms: cornflour |
---|
coronach | (noun) a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person | Synonyms: dirge, lament, requiem, threnody |
---|
couch | (noun) an upholstered seat for more than one person | Synonyms: lounge, sofa |
---|
(noun) a narrow bed on which a patient lies during psychiatric or psychoanalytic treatment | - |
(noun) a flat coat of paint or varnish used by artists as a primer | - |
(verb) formulate in a particular style or language | Synonyms: cast, frame, put, redact |
countermarch | (noun) (military) a march in the reverse direction or back along the same route | - |
---|
(verb) change the order of soldiers during a march | - |
(verb) march back along the same way | - |
counterpunch | (noun) a return punch (especially by a boxer) | Synonyms: counter, parry |
---|
cranch | (verb) press or grind with a crushing noise | Synonyms: craunch, crunch, grind |
---|
craunch | (verb) press or grind with a crushing noise | Synonyms: cranch, crunch, grind |
---|
cromlech | (noun) a prehistoric megalithic tomb typically having two large upright stones and a capstone | Synonyms: dolmen, portal tomb |
---|
crossbench | (noun) any of the seats in the House of Commons used by members who do not vote regularly with either the government or the Opposition | - |
---|
crosshatch | (noun) shading consisting of multiple crossing lines | Synonyms: hachure, hatch, hatching |
---|
(verb) shade with multiple crossing lines | - |
crosspatch | (noun) a bad-tempered person | Synonyms: churl, crank, grouch, grump |
---|
crotch | (noun) the angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk | Synonyms: fork |
---|
(noun) external sex organ | Synonyms: genital organ, genitalia, genitals, private parts, privates |
(noun) the region of the angle formed by the junction of two branches | Synonyms: fork |
crouch | (noun) the act of bending low with the limbs close to the body | - |
---|
(verb) sit on one's heels | Synonyms: hunker, hunker down, scrunch, scrunch up, squat |
(verb) bend one's back forward from the waist on down | Synonyms: bend, bow, stoop |
crunch | (noun) the act of crushing | Synonyms: compaction, crush |
---|
(noun) the sound of something crunching | - |
(noun) a critical situation that arises because of a shortage (as a shortage of time or money or resources) | - |
(verb) reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading | Synonyms: bray, comminute, grind, mash |
(verb) make a crushing noise | Synonyms: crackle, scranch, scraunch |
(verb) crush with the teeth, making a grinding sound | Synonyms: munch |
(verb) press or grind with a crushing noise | Synonyms: cranch, craunch, grind |
crutch | (noun) anything that serves as an expedient | - |
---|
(noun) a wooden or metal staff that fits under the armpit and reaches to the ground; used by disabled person while walking | - |
cutch | (noun) tannin extract derived from any of several mangrove barks of Pacific areas | Synonyms: kutch |
---|
deathwatch | (noun) bores through wood making a ticking sound popularly thought to presage death | Synonyms: deathwatch beetle, Xestobium rufovillosum |
---|
(noun) minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and papers | Synonyms: book louse, booklouse, Liposcelis divinatorius |
debauch | (noun) a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchanalia, debauchery, drunken revelry, orgy, riot, saturnalia |
---|
(verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate |
debouch | (verb) pass out or emerge; especially of rivers | - |
---|
(verb) march out (as from a defile) into open ground | Synonyms: march out |
declutch | (verb) disengage the clutch of a car | - |
---|
despatch | (noun) the act of sending off something | Synonyms: dispatch, shipment |
---|
(noun) killing a person or animal | Synonyms: dispatch |
(noun) the property of being prompt and efficient | Synonyms: dispatch, expedition, expeditiousness |
(noun) an official report (usually sent in haste) | Synonyms: communique, dispatch |
(verb) send away towards a designated goal | Synonyms: dispatch, send off |
detach | (verb) come to be detached | Synonyms: come away, come off |
---|
(verb) cause to become detached or separated; take off | - |
(verb) separate (a small unit) from a larger, especially for a special assignment | - |
dibrach | (noun) a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed syllables | Synonyms: pyrrhic |
---|
dibranch | (noun) cephalopods having two gills | Synonyms: dibranchiate, dibranchiate mollusk |
---|
diptych | (noun) a painting or carving (especially an altarpiece) on two panels (usually hinged like a book) | - |
---|
dispatch | (noun) the act of sending off something | Synonyms: despatch, shipment |
---|
(noun) killing a person or animal | Synonyms: despatch |
(noun) the property of being prompt and efficient | Synonyms: despatch, expedition, expeditiousness |
(noun) an official report (usually sent in haste) | Synonyms: communique, despatch |
(verb) kill without delay | - |
(verb) send away towards a designated goal | Synonyms: despatch, send off |
(verb) complete or carry out | Synonyms: complete, discharge |
(verb) kill intentionally and with premeditation | Synonyms: bump off, hit, murder, off, polish off, remove, slay |
(verb) dispose of rapidly and without delay and efficiently | - |
distich | (noun) two items of the same kind | Synonyms: brace, couple, couplet, duad, duet, duo, dyad, pair, span, twain, twosome, yoke |
---|
ditch | (noun) a long narrow excavation in the earth | - |
---|
(noun) any small natural waterway | - |
(verb) crash or crash-land | - |
(verb) cut a trench in, as for drainage | Synonyms: trench |
(verb) make an emergency landing on water | - |
(verb) forsake | - |
(verb) throw away | Synonyms: chuck |
(verb) sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly | Synonyms: dump |
dogwatch | (noun) either of two short watches: from 4-6 pm or 6-8 pm | - |
---|
drench | (verb) cover with liquid; pour liquid onto | Synonyms: douse, dowse, soak, sop, souse |
---|
(verb) permeate or impregnate | Synonyms: imbrue |
(verb) force to drink | - |
(verb) drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged | Synonyms: swamp |
each | (adjective) (used of count nouns) every one considered individually; quantifier, singular, universal pronoun; quantifier, singular, universal | - |
---|
(adverb) to or from every one of two or more (considered individually) | Synonyms: apiece, for each one, from each one, to each one |
earreach | (noun) the range within which a voice can be heard | Synonyms: earshot, hearing |
---|
elasmobranch | (noun) any of numerous fishes of the class Chondrichthyes characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton and placoid scales: sharks, rays, skates | Synonyms: selachian |
---|
eldritch | (adjective) suggesting the operation of supernatural influences | Synonyms: uncanny, unearthly, weird |
---|
encroach | (verb) advance beyond the usual limit | Synonyms: impinge, infringe |
---|
(verb) impinge or infringe upon | Synonyms: entrench, impinge, trench |
enrich | (verb) make better or improve in quality | - |
---|
(verb) make wealthy or richer | - |
entrench | (verb) fix firmly or securely | Synonyms: intrench |
---|
(verb) occupy a trench or secured area | Synonyms: dig in |
(verb) impinge or infringe upon | Synonyms: encroach, impinge, trench |
eparch | (noun) the governor or prefect of an eparchy in ancient Greece | - |
---|
(noun) a bishop or metropolitan in charge of an eparchy in the Eastern Church | - |
epoch | (noun) a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event | Synonyms: era |
---|
(noun) a unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into ages | - |
(noun) (astronomy) an arbitrarily fixed date that is the point in time relative to which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is recorded | Synonyms: date of reference |
etch | (verb) selectively dissolve the surface of (a semiconductor or printed circuit) with a solvent, laser, or stream of electrons | - |
---|
(verb) carve or cut a design or letters into | Synonyms: engrave |
(verb) make an etching of | - |
(verb) carve or cut into a block used for printing or print from such a block | Synonyms: engrave |
(verb) cause to stand out or be clearly defined or visible | - |
ethnarch | (noun) the ruler of a province (as in the Roman Empire and Byzantine Empire) or certain religious rulers with secular authority | - |
---|
eunuch | (noun) a man who has been castrated and is incapable of reproduction | Synonyms: castrate |
---|