cheek | (noun) impudent aggressiveness | Synonyms: boldness, brass, face, nerve |
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(noun) either side of the face below the eyes | - |
(noun) either of the two large fleshy masses of muscular tissue that form the human rump | Synonyms: buttock |
(noun) an impudent statement | Synonyms: impertinence, impudence |
(verb) speak impudently to | - |
creek | (noun) a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river) | Synonyms: brook |
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fartlek | (noun) a method of athletic training (especially for runners) in which strenuous effort and normal effort alternate in a continuous exercise | - |
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fenugreek | (noun) aromatic seeds used as seasoning especially in curry | Synonyms: fenugreek seed |
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(noun) annual herb or southern Europe and eastern Asia having off-white flowers and aromatic seeds used medicinally and in curry | Synonyms: Greek clover, Trigonella foenumgraecum |
geek | (noun) a person with an unusual or odd personality | Synonyms: eccentric, eccentric person, flake, oddball |
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(noun) a carnival performer who does disgusting acts | - |
(verb) to be intoxicated | - |
hacek | (noun) a diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as the letter c) to indicate pronunciation | Synonyms: wedge |
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kopek | (noun) 100 kopecks equal 1 ruble in Russia | Synonyms: copeck, kopeck |
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kweek | (noun) trailing grass native to Europe now cosmopolitan in warm regions; used for lawns and pastures especially in southern United States and India | Synonyms: Bahama grass, Bermuda grass, Cynodon dactylon, devil grass, doob, scutch grass, star grass |
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leek | (noun) related to onions; white cylindrical bulb and flat dark-green leaves | - |
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(noun) plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves; used in cooking; believed derived from the wild Allium ampeloprasum | Synonyms: Allium porrum, scallion |
lek | (noun) the basic unit of money in Albania | - |
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meek | (adjective) very docile | Synonyms: tame |
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(adjective) humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or even cowed submissiveness | Synonyms: mild, modest |
(adjective) evidencing little spirit or courage; overly submissive or compliant | Synonyms: spiritless |
midweek | (noun) the middle of a week | - |
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(adverb) in the middle of the week | - |
peek | (noun) a secret look | Synonyms: peep |
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(verb) throw a glance at; take a brief look at | Synonyms: glance, glint |
reek | (noun) a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant | Synonyms: fetor, foetor, malodor, malodour, mephitis, stench, stink |
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(verb) be wet with sweat or blood, as of one's face | Synonyms: fume |
(verb) smell badly and offensively | Synonyms: stink |
(verb) have an element suggestive (of something) | Synonyms: smack, smell |
(verb) give off smoke, fumes, warm vapour, steam, etc. | - |
seek | (noun) the movement of a read/write head to a specific data track on a disk | - |
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(verb) inquire for | - |
(verb) try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of | Synonyms: look for, search |
(verb) go to or towards | - |
(verb) try to get or reach | - |
(verb) make an effort or attempt | Synonyms: assay, attempt, essay, try |
shriek | (noun) sharp piercing cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screech, screeching, shrieking |
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(noun) a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screech, screeching, shrieking |
(verb) utter a shrill cry | Synonyms: pipe, pipe up, shrill |
sleek | (adjective) having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light; being of a smooth, soft and lustrous quality, resembling silk | Synonyms: satiny, silken, silklike, silky, slick |
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(adjective) well-groomed and neatly tailored; especially too well-groomed | - |
(adjective) designed or arranged to offer the least resistance to fluid flow | Synonyms: aerodynamic, flowing, streamlined |
(verb) make slick or smooth | Synonyms: slick |
snoek | (noun) a large marine food fish common on the coasts of Australia, New Zealand, and southern Africa | Synonyms: barracouta |
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trek | (noun) any long and difficult trip | - |
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(noun) a journey by ox wagon (especially an organized migration by a group of settlers) | - |
(verb) make a long and difficult journey | - |
(verb) journey on foot, especially in the mountains | - |
tupek | (noun) tent that is an Eskimo summer dwelling | Synonyms: sealskin tent, tupik |
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week | (noun) any period of seven consecutive days | Synonyms: hebdomad |
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(noun) hours or days of work in a calendar week | Synonyms: workweek |
(noun) a period of seven consecutive days (usually reckoned to be from Sunday to Saturday, or from Monday to Sunday) | Synonyms: calendar week |
workweek | (noun) hours or days of work in a calendar week | Synonyms: week |
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zamburek | (noun) a camel cavalry used in the early modern era by Arab, Afghan, Persian, and Indian armies | Synonyms: camel cavalry, zamboorak, zamburak, zumbooruck, zumbooruk |
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