aah | (verb) express admiration and pleasure by uttering `ooh' or `aah' | Synonyms: ooh |
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abash | (verb) cause to be embarrassed; cause to feel self-conscious | Synonyms: embarrass |
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abolish | (verb) do away with | Synonyms: get rid of |
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abroach | (adjective) of a cask or barrel | Synonyms: broached |
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absinth | (noun) strong green liqueur flavored with wormwood and anise | Synonyms: absinthe |
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accomplish | (verb) put in effect | Synonyms: action, carry out, carry through, execute, fulfil, fulfill |
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(verb) to gain with effort | Synonyms: achieve, attain, reach |
admonish | (verb) take to task | Synonyms: reproof, reprove |
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(verb) warn strongly; put on guard | Synonyms: caution, monish |
(verb) advise or counsel in terms of someone's behavior | Synonyms: discourage, monish, warn |
afresh | (adverb) again but in a new or different way | Synonyms: anew |
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afterbirth | (noun) the placenta and fetal membranes that are expelled from the uterus after the baby is born | - |
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aftermath | (noun) the outcome of an event especially as relative to an individual | Synonyms: consequence |
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(noun) the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event) | Synonyms: backwash, wake |
aguish | (adjective) affected by ague | - |
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airbrush | (noun) an atomizer to spray paint by means of compressed air | - |
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(verb) paint with an airbrush | - |
aleph | (noun) the 1st letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
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alhamdulilah | (noun) An expression meaning 'praise God' in Arabic | - |
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aliyah | (noun) (Judaism) immigration of Jews to Israel | - |
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(noun) (Judaism) the honor of being called up to the reading desk in the synagogue to read from the Torah | - |
allelomorph | (noun) (genetics) either of a pair (or series) of alternative forms of a gene that can occupy the same locus on a particular chromosome and that control the same character | Synonyms: allele |
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alligatorfish | (noun) small very elongate sea poachers | Synonyms: Aspidophoroides monopterygius |
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allmouth | (noun) fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey | Synonyms: angler, angler fish, anglerfish, goosefish, Lophius Americanus, lotte, monkfish |
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allograph | (noun) a variant form of a grapheme, as `m' or `M' or a handwritten version of that grapheme | - |
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(noun) a signature written by one person for another | - |
allomorph | (noun) a variant phonological representation of a morpheme | - |
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(noun) any of several different crystalline forms of the same chemical compound | - |
altazimuth | (noun) an instrument that measures the altitude and azimuth of celestial bodies; used in navigation | - |
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amah | (noun) a female domestic | Synonyms: housemaid, maid, maidservant |
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(noun) a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else | Synonyms: wet-nurse, wet nurse, wetnurse |
amaranth | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Amaranthus having dense plumes of green or red flowers; often cultivated for food | - |
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(noun) seed of amaranth plants used as a native cereal in Central and South America | - |
amateurish | (adjective) lacking professional skill or expertise | Synonyms: amateur, inexpert, unskilled |
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amberfish | (noun) any of several amber to coppery fork-tailed warm-water carangid fishes | Synonyms: amberjack |
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ambush | (noun) the act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise | Synonyms: ambuscade, lying in wait, trap |
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(verb) wait in hiding to attack | Synonyms: ambuscade, bushwhack, lie in wait, lurk, scupper, waylay |
(verb) hunt (quarry) by stalking and ambushing | Synonyms: still-hunt |
amphibrach | (noun) a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed-unstressed syllables (e.g., `remember') | - |
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anaglyph | (noun) anything carved in low relief | - |
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(noun) moving or still pictures in contrasting colors that appear three-dimensional when superimposed | - |
anemograph | (noun) An instrument which records wind velocities. | - |
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angelfish | (noun) sharks with broad flat bodies and winglike pectoral fins but that swim the way sharks do | Synonyms: angel shark, monkfish, Squatina squatina |
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(noun) a butterfly fish of the genus Pomacanthus | - |
(noun) deep-bodied disk-shaped food fish of warmer western Atlantic coastal waters | Synonyms: Chaetodipterus faber, spadefish |
anglerfish | (noun) fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey | Synonyms: allmouth, angler, angler fish, goosefish, Lophius Americanus, lotte, monkfish |
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anguish | (noun) extreme mental distress | Synonyms: torment, torture |
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(noun) extreme distress of body or mind | - |
(verb) cause emotional anguish or make miserable | Synonyms: hurt, pain |
(verb) suffer great pains or distress | - |
apish | (adjective) being or given to servile imitation | Synonyms: apelike |
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approach | (noun) the act of drawing spatially closer to something | Synonyms: approaching, coming |
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(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 |
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(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 |
archerfish | (noun) any of several small freshwater fishes that catch insects by squirting water at them and knocking them into the water; found in Indonesia and Australia | Synonyms: Toxotes jaculatrix |
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arishth | (noun) large semi-evergreen tree of the East Indies; trunk exudes a tenacious gum; bitter bark used as a tonic; seeds yield an aromatic oil; sometimes placed in genus Melia | Synonyms: Azadirachta indica, margosa, Melia Azadirachta, neem, neem tree, nim tree |
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arrowsmith | (noun) a maker of arrows | - |
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ash | (noun) any of various deciduous pinnate-leaved ornamental or timber trees of the genus Fraxinus | Synonyms: ash tree |
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(noun) strong elastic wood of any of various ash trees; used for furniture and tool handles and sporting goods such as baseball bats | - |
(noun) the residue that remains when something is burned | - |
(verb) convert into ashes | - |
astonish | (verb) affect with wonder | Synonyms: amaze, astound |
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atmoradiograph | (noun) a device which measures the frequency of occurrence of atmospherics. | - |
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attach | (verb) become attached | - |
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(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 |
autograph | (noun) something written by one's own hand | - |
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(noun) a person's own signature | Synonyms: John Hancock |
(verb) mark with one's signature | Synonyms: inscribe |
autoradiograph | (noun) a radiogram produced by radiation emitted by the specimen being photographed | - |
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autotroph | (noun) plant capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances | Synonyms: autophyte, autophytic plant, autotrophic organism |
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avouch | (verb) admit openly and bluntly; make no bones about | Synonyms: avow |
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awash | (adjective) covered with water | Synonyms: afloat, flooded, inundated, overflowing |
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aweigh | (adjective) (of an anchor) just clear of the bottom | Synonyms: atrip |
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(adjective) (used of an anchor) hanging clear of the bottom | - |
ayah | (noun) (in India) a native nursemaid who looks after children | - |
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ayatollah | (noun) a high-ranking Shiite religious leader who is regarded as an authority on religious law and its interpretation and who has political power as well | - |
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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 |
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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 |
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azimuth | (noun) the azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian | Synonyms: AZ |
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baboonish | (adjective) resembling a baboon | - |
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babyish | (adjective) characteristic of a baby | - |
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bach | (verb) lead a bachelor's existence | Synonyms: bachelor |
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backbench | (noun) any of the seats occupied by backbenchers in the House of Commons | - |
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backcloth | (noun) scenery hung at back of stage | Synonyms: backdrop, background |
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backlash | (noun) an adverse reaction to some political or social occurrence | - |
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(noun) a movement back from an impact | Synonyms: rebound, recoil, repercussion |
(verb) come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect | Synonyms: backfire, recoil |
backsheesh | (noun) a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter) | Synonyms: baksheesh, bakshis, bakshish, gratuity, pourboire, tip |
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backstitch | (noun) an overlapping stitch made by starting the next stitch at the middle of the preceding one | - |
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(verb) do backstitches | - |
backwash | (noun) the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward | Synonyms: wake |
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(noun) the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller | Synonyms: airstream, race, slipstream, wash |
(noun) the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event) | Synonyms: aftermath, wake |
badmouth | (verb) speak unfavorably about | Synonyms: drag through the mud, malign, traduce |
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baksheesh | (noun) a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter) | Synonyms: backsheesh, bakshis, bakshish, gratuity, pourboire, tip |
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bakshish | (noun) a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter) | Synonyms: backsheesh, baksheesh, bakshis, gratuity, pourboire, tip |
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balderdash | (noun) trivial nonsense | Synonyms: fiddle-faddle, piffle |
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ballistocardiograph | (noun) a medical instrument that measures the mechanical force of cardiac contractions and the amount of blood passing through the heart during a specified period by measuring the recoil of the body as blood is pumped from the ventricles | Synonyms: cardiograph |
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balloonfish | (noun) similar to but smaller than porcupinefish | Synonyms: Diodon holocanthus |
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bandwidth | (noun) a data transmission rate; the maximum amount of information (bits/second) that can be transmitted along a channel | - |
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banish | (verb) drive away | - |
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(verb) expel, as if by official decree | Synonyms: bar, relegate |
(verb) expel from a community or group | Synonyms: ban, blackball, cast out, ostracise, ostracize, shun |
(verb) ban from a place of residence, as for punishment | Synonyms: ban |
barograph | (noun) a recording barometer; automatically records on paper the variations in atmospheric pressure | - |
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barrelfish | (noun) blackish fish of New England waters | Synonyms: black rudderfish, Hyperglyphe perciformis |
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bash | (noun) a vigorous blow | Synonyms: bang, belt, knock, smash |
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(noun) an uproarious party | Synonyms: brawl, do |
(verb) hit hard | Synonyms: bonk, bop, sock, whap, whop |
batch | (noun) a collection of things or persons to be handled together | Synonyms: clutch |
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(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 | - |
batfish | (noun) bottom-dweller of warm western Atlantic coastal waters having a flattened scaleless body that crawls about on fleshy pectoral and pelvic fins | - |
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bath | (noun) a soaking and washing in a bathtub | - |
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(noun) a vessel containing liquid in which something is immersed (as to process it or to maintain it at a constant temperature or to lubricate it) | - |
(noun) an ancient Hebrew liquid measure equal to about 10 gallons | - |
batholith | (noun) large mass of intrusive igneous rock believed to have solidified deep within the earth | Synonyms: batholite, pluton, plutonic rock |
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bathyscaph | (noun) navigable deep diving vessel for underwater exploration | Synonyms: bathyscape, bathyscaphe |
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beach | (noun) an area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake | - |
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(verb) land on a beach | - |
beamish | (adjective) smiling with happiness or optimism | Synonyms: smiling, twinkly |
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bearish | (adjective) expecting prices to fall | - |
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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 |
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(noun) wood of any of various beech trees; used for flooring and containers and plywood and tool handles | Synonyms: beechwood |
behemoth | (noun) someone that is abnormally large and powerful | Synonyms: colossus, giant, goliath, monster |
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(noun) a person of exceptional importance and reputation | Synonyms: colossus, giant, heavyweight, titan |
belch | (noun) a reflex that expels gas noisily from the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: belching, burp, burping, eructation |
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(verb) expel gas from the stomach | Synonyms: bubble, burp, eruct |
(verb) become active and spew forth lava and rocks | Synonyms: erupt, extravasate |
bellylaugh | (verb) laugh a deep, hearty laugh | - |
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bench | (noun) a long seat for more than one person | - |
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(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 | - |
beneath | (adverb) in or to a place that is lower | Synonyms: at a lower place, below, to a lower place |
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bequeath | (verb) leave or give by will after one's death | Synonyms: leave, will |
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berth | (noun) a job in an organization | Synonyms: office, place, position, post, situation |
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(noun) a bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers | Synonyms: built in bed, bunk |
(noun) a place where a craft can be made fast | Synonyms: moorage, mooring, slip |
(verb) secure in or as if in a berth or dock | Synonyms: moor, tie up |
(verb) come into or dock at a wharf | Synonyms: moor, wharf |
(verb) provide with a berth | - |
beseech | (verb) ask for or request earnestly | Synonyms: adjure, bid, conjure, entreat, press |
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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 |
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(verb) smear so as to make dirty or stained | Synonyms: smirch |
beth | (noun) the 2nd letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
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betroth | (verb) give to in marriage | Synonyms: affiance, engage, plight |
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bewitch | (verb) attract strongly, as if with a magnet | Synonyms: magnetise, magnetize, mesmerise, mesmerize, spellbind |
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(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 |
biggish | (adjective) somewhat large | Synonyms: largish |
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billfish | (noun) giant warm-water game fish having a prolonged and rounded toothless upper jaw | - |
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(noun) elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters | Synonyms: gar, needlefish |
(noun) primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth | Synonyms: gar, garfish, garpike, Lepisosteus osseus |
(noun) slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters | Synonyms: saury, Scomberesox saurus |
billionth | (adjective) the ordinal number of one billion in counting order | - |
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(noun) one part in a billion equal parts | Synonyms: one-billionth |
(noun) position 1,000,000,000 in a countable series of things | - |
billyoh | (noun) an unimaginably large amount | Synonyms: all get out, billy-ho, billyo |
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biotech | (noun) the branch of molecular biology that studies the use of microorganisms to perform specific industrial processes | Synonyms: biotechnology |
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birch | (adjective) consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree | Synonyms: birchen, birken |
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(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 | - |