| angel
|
(noun) spiritual being attendant upon God |
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| (noun) person of exceptional holiness |
Synonyms:
holy man,
holy person,
saint |
| (noun) someone who provides financial support for some venture |
Synonyms:
backer |
| antiparallel
|
(adjective) (especially of vectors) parallel but oppositely directed |
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| antipersonnel
|
(adjective) designed to inflict death or personal injury rather than material destruction |
- |
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| apparel
|
(noun) clothing in general |
Synonyms:
dress,
wearing apparel,
clothes |
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| (verb) provide with clothes or put clothes on |
Synonyms:
dress,
fit out,
clothe,
habilitate,
raiment,
garb,
garment,
enclothe,
tog |
| archangel
|
(noun) an angel ranked above the highest rank in the celestial hierarchy |
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| (noun) a biennial cultivated herb; its stems are candied and eaten and its roots are used medicinally |
Synonyms:
garden angelica,
Angelica Archangelica |
| asphodel
|
(noun) any of various chiefly Mediterranean plants of the genera Asphodeline and Asphodelus having linear leaves and racemes of white or pink or yellow flowers |
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| awheel
|
(adjective) traveling by wheeled vehicle such as bicycle or automobile e.g. |
- |
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| babel
|
(noun) a confusion of voices and other sounds |
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| bagel
|
(noun) (Yiddish) glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust |
Synonyms:
beigel |
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| barbel
|
(noun) slender tactile process on the jaws of a fish |
Synonyms:
feeler |
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| barrel
|
(noun) a tube through which a bullet travels when a gun is fired |
Synonyms:
gun barrel |
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| (noun) a cylindrical container that holds liquids |
Synonyms:
cask |
| (noun) a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends |
Synonyms:
drum |
| (noun) the quantity that a barrel (of any size) will hold |
Synonyms:
barrelful |
| (noun) any of various units of capacity |
Synonyms:
bbl |
| (verb) put in barrels |
- |
| bechamel
|
(noun) milk thickened with a butter and flour roux |
Synonyms:
white sauce,
bechamel sauce |
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| beigel
|
(noun) (Yiddish) glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust |
Synonyms:
bagel |
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| bejewel
|
(verb) adorn or decorate with precious stones |
Synonyms:
jewel |
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| betel
|
(noun) a leaf of a vine from the betel pepper |
Synonyms:
betel leaf |
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| (noun) Asian pepper plant whose leaves are chewed with betel nut (seed of the betel palm) by southeast Asians |
Synonyms:
Piper betel,
betel pepper |
| bethel
|
(noun) a house of worship (especially one for sailors) |
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| bevel
|
(noun) two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degrees |
Synonyms:
cant,
chamfer |
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| (noun) a hand tool consisting of two rules that are hinged together so you can draw or measure angles of any size |
Synonyms:
bevel square |
| (verb) cut a bevel on; shape to a bevel |
Synonyms:
chamfer |
| bezel
|
(noun) a sloping edge on a cutting tool |
- |
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| blastocoel
|
(noun) the fluid-filled cavity inside a blastula |
Synonyms:
segmentation cavity,
cleavage cavity,
blastocele,
blastocoele |
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| bowel
|
(noun) the part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus |
Synonyms:
gut,
intestine |
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| brothel
|
(noun) a building where prostitutes are available |
Synonyms:
house of ill repute,
house of prostitution,
whorehouse,
sporting house,
cathouse,
bagnio,
bawdyhouse,
bordello |
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| bushel
|
(verb) restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken |
Synonyms:
repair,
fix,
restore,
mend,
doctor,
furbish up,
touch on |
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| (noun) a United States dry measure equal to 4 pecks or 2152.42 cubic inches |
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| (noun) a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 pecks |
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| cackel
|
(verb) make a cackling sound |
- |
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| calomel
|
(noun) a tasteless colorless powder used medicinally as a cathartic |
Synonyms:
mercurous chloride |
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| camel
|
(noun) cud-chewing mammal used as a draft or saddle animal in desert regions |
- |
|---|
| cancel
|
(verb) postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled |
Synonyms:
call off,
scratch,
scrub |
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| (verb) make up for |
Synonyms:
set off,
offset |
| (verb) declare null and void; make ineffective |
Synonyms:
strike down |
| (verb) remove or make invisible |
Synonyms:
delete |
| (verb) make invalid for use |
Synonyms:
invalidate |
| (noun) a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat |
Synonyms:
natural |
| canistel
|
(noun) tropical tree of Florida and West Indies yielding edible fruit |
Synonyms:
Pouteria campechiana nervosa,
canistel tree |
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| (noun) ovoid orange-yellow mealy sweet fruit of Florida and West Indies |
Synonyms:
eggfruit |
| caramel
|
(noun) firm chewy candy made from caramelized sugar and butter and milk |
- |
|---|
| (noun) burnt sugar; used to color and flavor food |
Synonyms:
caramelized sugar |
| (noun) a medium to dark tan color |
Synonyms:
raw sienna,
buff,
caramel brown,
yellowish brown |
| (adjective) having the color of caramel; of a moderate yellow-brown |
Synonyms:
caramel brown |
| carousel
|
(noun) a conveyer belt that carries luggage to be claimed by air travelers |
Synonyms:
carrousel,
luggage carousel,
luggage carrousel |
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| (noun) a large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride on for amusement |
Synonyms:
roundabout,
merry-go-round,
whirligig,
carrousel |
| carpel
|
(noun) a simple pistil or one element of a compound pistil |
- |
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| carrel
|
(noun) small individual study area in a library |
Synonyms:
stall,
carrell,
cubicle |
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| carrousel
|
(noun) a conveyer belt that carries luggage to be claimed by air travelers |
Synonyms:
carousel,
luggage carousel,
luggage carrousel |
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| (noun) a large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride on for amusement |
Synonyms:
roundabout,
merry-go-round,
whirligig,
carousel |
| cartel
|
(noun) a consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service |
Synonyms:
trust,
combine,
corporate trust |
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| cartwheel
|
(verb) do cartwheels: perform an acrobatic movement using both hands and feet |
- |
|---|
| (noun) a wheel that has wooden spokes and a metal rim |
- |
| (noun) acrobatic revolutions with the body turned sideways and the arms and legs outstretched like the spokes of a wheel |
- |
| (noun) a dollar made of silver |
Synonyms:
silver dollar |
| cascabel
|
(noun) a bell attached to a sleigh, or to the harness of a horse that is pulling a sleigh |
Synonyms:
sleigh bell |
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| casquetel
|
(noun) a light open casque without a visor or beaver |
Synonyms:
casquet |
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| chancel
|
(noun) area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir; often enclosed by a lattice or railing |
Synonyms:
sanctuary,
bema |
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| channel
|
(verb) transmit or serve as the medium for transmission |
Synonyms:
carry,
impart,
conduct,
convey,
transmit |
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| (verb) direct the flow of |
- |
| (verb) send from one person or place to another |
Synonyms:
channelise,
channelize,
transfer,
transmit,
transport |
| (noun) a path over which electrical signals can pass |
Synonyms:
transmission channel |
| (noun) a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through |
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| (noun) a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record) |
Synonyms:
groove |
| (noun) a deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels |
- |
| (noun) (often plural) a means of communication or access |
Synonyms:
line,
communication channel |
| (noun) a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance |
Synonyms:
duct,
canal,
epithelial duct |
| (noun) a television station and its programs |
Synonyms:
TV channel,
television channel |
| (noun) a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors |
Synonyms:
distribution channel |
| chapel
|
(noun) a place of worship that has its own altar |
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|---|
| (noun) a service conducted in a place of worship that has its own altar |
Synonyms:
chapel service |
| charnel
|
(noun) a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited |
Synonyms:
charnel house |
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| (adjective) gruesomely indicative of death or the dead |
Synonyms:
ghastly,
sepulchral |
| chattel
|
(noun) personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc) |
Synonyms:
movable,
personal chattel |
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| chisel
|
(verb) engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud |
Synonyms:
cheat |
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| (verb) deprive somebody of something by deceit |
Synonyms:
cheat,
rip off |
| (verb) carve with a chisel |
- |
| (noun) an edge tool with a flat steel blade with a cutting edge |
- |
| chunnel
|
(noun) the railroad tunnel between France and England under the English Channel |
Synonyms:
Channel Tunnel |
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| citadel
|
(noun) a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle |
Synonyms:
bastion |
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| cockateel
|
(noun) small grey Australian parrot with a yellow crested head |
Synonyms:
Nymphicus hollandicus,
cockatiel,
cockatoo parrot |
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| cockatiel
|
(noun) small grey Australian parrot with a yellow crested head |
Synonyms:
Nymphicus hollandicus,
cockateel,
cockatoo parrot |
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| cockerel
|
(noun) a young domestic cock; not older than one year |
- |
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| cogwheel
|
(noun) a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion |
Synonyms:
gear,
gear wheel,
geared wheel |
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| colonel
|
(noun) a commissioned military officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines who ranks above a lieutenant colonel and below a brigadier general |
- |
|---|
| compel
|
(verb) force somebody to do something |
Synonyms:
obligate,
oblige |
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| (verb) necessitate or exact |
- |
| corbel
|
(verb) furnish with a corbel |
- |
|---|
| (noun) (architecture) a triangular bracket of brick or stone (usually of slight extent) |
Synonyms:
truss |
| cornel
|
(noun) a tree of shrub of the genus Cornus often having showy bracts resembling flowers |
Synonyms:
dogwood,
dogwood tree |
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| counsel
|
(verb) give advice to |
Synonyms:
rede,
advise |
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| (noun) a lawyer who pleads cases in court |
Synonyms:
pleader,
counsellor,
counselor,
counselor-at-law,
advocate |
| (noun) something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action |
Synonyms:
direction,
guidance,
counseling,
counselling |
| creel
|
(noun) a wicker basket used by anglers to hold fish |
- |
|---|
| crenel
|
(verb) supply with battlements |
Synonyms:
crenelate,
crenellate |
|---|
| (noun) one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.) |
Synonyms:
crenelle,
scallop,
crenation,
crenature |
| (noun) a notch or open space between two merlons in a crenelated battlement |
Synonyms:
crenelle |
| cruel
|
(adjective) (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering |
Synonyms:
roughshod,
savage,
vicious,
barbarous,
brutal,
fell |
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| cudgel
|
(noun) a club that is used as a weapon |
- |
|---|
| (verb) strike with a cudgel |
Synonyms:
fustigate |
| cupel
|
(noun) a small porous bowl made of bone ash used in assaying to separate precious metals from e.g. lead |
Synonyms:
refractory pot,
bone-ash cup |
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| cupronickel
|
(noun) a 60/40 alloy of copper and nickel |
- |
|---|
| damosel
|
(noun) a young unmarried woman |
Synonyms:
demoiselle,
damoiselle,
damozel,
damsel |
|---|
| damozel
|
(noun) a young unmarried woman |
Synonyms:
demoiselle,
damoiselle,
damosel,
damsel |
|---|
| damsel
|
(noun) a young unmarried woman |
Synonyms:
demoiselle,
damoiselle,
damosel,
damozel |
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| darnel
|
(noun) weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous |
Synonyms:
cheat,
tare,
bearded darnel,
Lolium temulentum |
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| decibel
|
(noun) a logarithmic unit of sound intensity; 10 times the logarithm of the ratio of the sound intensity to some reference intensity |
Synonyms:
dB |
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| diesel
|
(noun) an internal-combustion engine that burns heavy oil |
Synonyms:
diesel engine,
diesel motor |
|---|
| disembowel
|
(verb) remove the entrails of |
Synonyms:
draw,
eviscerate |
|---|
| dishevel
|
(verb) disarrange or rumple; dishevel |
Synonyms:
tangle,
tousle |
|---|
| dishtowel
|
(noun) a towel for drying dishes |
Synonyms:
dish towel,
tea towel |
|---|
| dispel
|
(verb) force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings |
Synonyms:
run off,
drive away,
drive off,
drive out,
chase away,
turn back |
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| (verb) to cause to separate and go in different directions |
Synonyms:
disperse,
dissipate,
scatter,
break up |
| doggerel
|
(noun) a comic verse of irregular measure |
Synonyms:
jingle,
doggerel verse |
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| dossel
|
(noun) an ornamental hanging of rich fabric hung behind the altar of a church or at the sides of a chancel |
Synonyms:
dossal |
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| dotrel
|
(noun) rare plover of upland areas of Eurasia |
Synonyms:
dotterel,
Eudromias morinellus,
Charadrius morinellus |
|---|
| dotterel
|
(noun) rare plover of upland areas of Eurasia |
Synonyms:
dotrel,
Eudromias morinellus,
Charadrius morinellus |
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| dowel
|
(noun) a fastener that is inserted into holes in two adjacent pieces and holds them together |
Synonyms:
joggle,
dowel pin |
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| drivel
|
(noun) a worthless message |
Synonyms:
garbage |
|---|
| (noun) saliva spilling from the mouth |
Synonyms:
dribble,
drool,
slobber |
| (verb) let saliva drivel from the mouth |
Synonyms:
dribble,
drool,
slabber,
slaver,
slobber |
| duel
|
(verb) fight a duel, as over one's honor or a woman |
- |
|---|
| (noun) a prearranged fight with deadly weapons by two people (accompanied by seconds) in order to settle a quarrel over a point of honor |
Synonyms:
affaire d'honneur |
| (noun) any struggle between two skillful opponents (individuals or groups) |
- |
| duffel
|
(noun) a large cylindrical bag of heavy cloth; for carrying personal belongings |
Synonyms:
duffel bag,
duffle,
duffle bag |
|---|
| (noun) a coarse heavy woolen fabric |
Synonyms:
duffle |
| easel
|
(noun) an upright tripod for displaying something (usually an artist's canvas) |
- |
|---|
| eel
|
(noun) the fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in Europe and America; large eels are usually smoked or pickled |
- |
|---|
| (noun) voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins |
- |
| el
|
(noun) a railway that is powered by electricity and that runs on a track that is raised above the street level |
Synonyms:
overhead railway,
elevated,
elevated railroad,
elevated railway |
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| empanel
|
(verb) enter into a list of prospective jurors |
Synonyms:
impanel |
|---|
| (verb) select from a list |
Synonyms:
impanel,
panel |
| enamel
|
(noun) hard white substance covering the crown of a tooth |
Synonyms:
tooth enamel |
|---|
| (noun) a colored glassy compound (opaque or partially opaque) that is fused to the surface of metal or glass or pottery for decoration or protection |
- |
| (noun) a paint that dries to a hard glossy finish |
- |
| (noun) any smooth glossy coating that resembles ceramic glaze |
- |
| (verb) coat, inlay, or surface with enamel |
- |
| estoppel
|
(noun) a rule of evidence whereby a person is barred from denying the truth of a fact that has already been settled |
- |
|---|
| evangel
|
(noun) the four books in the New Testament (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) that tell the story of Christ's life and teachings |
Synonyms:
Gospel,
Gospels |
|---|
| excel
|
(verb) distinguish oneself |
Synonyms:
stand out,
surpass |
|---|
| expel
|
(verb) force to leave or move out |
Synonyms:
throw out,
kick out |
|---|
| (verb) remove from a position or office |
Synonyms:
throw out,
drum out,
kick out,
oust,
boot out |
| (verb) cause to flee |
Synonyms:
rout out,
rout |
| (verb) eliminate (a substance) |
Synonyms:
eject,
discharge,
release,
exhaust |
| falafel
|
(noun) small croquette of mashed chick peas or fava beans seasoned with sesame seeds |
Synonyms:
felafel |
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| fardel
|
(noun) a burden (figuratively in the form of a bundle) |
- |
|---|
| feel
|
(verb) undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind |
Synonyms:
experience |
|---|
| (verb) come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds |
Synonyms:
find |
| (verb) perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles |
Synonyms:
sense |
| (verb) be conscious of a physical, mental, or emotional state |
- |
| (verb) have a feeling or perception about oneself in reaction to someone's behavior or attitude |
- |
| (verb) undergo passive experience of |
- |
| (verb) be felt or perceived in a certain way |
- |
| (verb) grope or feel in search of something |
- |
| (verb) examine by touch |
Synonyms:
finger |
| (verb) examine (a body part) by palpation |
Synonyms:
palpate |
| (verb) find by testing or cautious exploration |
- |
| (verb) produce a certain impression |
- |
| (verb) pass one's hands over the sexual organs of |
- |
| (noun) an intuitive awareness |
- |
| (noun) the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people |
Synonyms:
smell,
look,
feeling,
flavor,
flavour,
tone,
spirit |
| (noun) a property perceived by touch |
Synonyms:
tactile property |
| (noun) manual stimulation of the genital area for sexual pleasure |
- |
| felafel
|
(noun) small croquette of mashed chick peas or fava beans seasoned with sesame seeds |
Synonyms:
falafel |
|---|
| fennel
|
(noun) any of several aromatic herbs having edible seeds and leaves and stems |
- |
|---|
| (noun) aromatic bulbous stem base eaten cooked or raw in salads |
Synonyms:
Florence fennel,
finocchio |
| (noun) leaves used for seasoning |
Synonyms:
common fennel |
| (noun) fennel seeds are ground and used as a spice or as an ingredient of a spice mixture |
- |
| flannel
|
(noun) a soft light woolen fabric; used for clothing |
- |
|---|
| (noun) bath linen consisting of a piece of cloth used to wash the face and body |
Synonyms:
washcloth,
washrag,
face cloth |
| (noun) (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth |
Synonyms:
gabardine,
white,
tweed |
| flywheel
|
(noun) regulator consisting of a heavy wheel that stores kinetic energy and smooths the operation of a reciprocating engine |
- |
|---|
| fontanel
|
(noun) any membranous gap between the bones of the cranium in an infant or fetus |
Synonyms:
soft spot,
fontanelle |
|---|
| freewheel
|
(verb) live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely |
Synonyms:
drift |
|---|
| (verb) coast in a vehicle using the freewheel |
- |
| (noun) a clutch (as on the rear wheel of a bicycle) that allows wheels to turn freely (as in coasting) |
- |
| fuel
|
(verb) provide with a combustible substance that provides energy |
- |
|---|
| (verb) provide with fuel |
Synonyms:
fire |
| (verb) take in fuel, as of a ship |
- |
| (verb) stimulate |
- |
| (noun) a substance that can be consumed to produce energy |
- |
| funnel
|
(noun) a conical shape with a wider and a narrower opening at the two ends |
Synonyms:
funnel shape |
|---|
| (noun) a conically shaped utensil having a narrow tube at the small end; used to channel the flow of substances into a container with a small mouth |
- |
| (noun) (nautical) smokestack consisting of a shaft for ventilation or the passage of smoke (especially the smokestack of a ship) |
- |
| (verb) move or pour through a funnel |
- |
| gambrel
|
(noun) a gable roof with two slopes on each side and the lower slope being steeper |
Synonyms:
gambrel roof |
|---|
| gavel
|
(noun) a small mallet used by a presiding officer or a judge |
- |
|---|
| gel
|
(noun) a colloid in a more solid form than a sol |
Synonyms:
colloidal gel |
|---|
| (noun) jellylike substance used in hair styling |
Synonyms:
hair gel |
| (noun) a thin translucent membrane used over stage lights for color effects |
Synonyms:
gelatin |
| (verb) become a gel |
- |
| (verb) apply a styling gel to |
Synonyms:
mousse |