buckwheat | (noun) grain ground into flour | - |
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(noun) a member of the genus Fagopyrum; annual Asian plant with clusters of small pinkish white flowers and small edible triangular seeds which are used whole or ground into flour | Synonyms: Fagopyrum esculentum, Polygonum fagopyrum |
cheat | (noun) a deception for profit to yourself | Synonyms: cheating |
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(noun) the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme | Synonyms: fraud, rig, swindle |
(noun) someone who leads you to believe something that is not true | Synonyms: beguiler, cheater, deceiver, slicker, trickster |
(noun) weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous | Synonyms: bearded darnel, darnel, Lolium temulentum, tare |
(noun) weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat | Synonyms: Bromus secalinus, chess |
(verb) defeat someone through trickery or deceit | Synonyms: chicane, chouse, jockey, screw, shaft |
(verb) deprive somebody of something by deceit | Synonyms: chisel, rip off |
(verb) engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud | Synonyms: chisel |
(verb) be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage | Synonyms: betray, cheat on, cuckold, wander |
escheat | (noun) a reversion to the state (as the ultimate owner of property) in the absence of legal heirs | - |
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(noun) the property that reverts to the state | - |
heat | (noun) utility to warm a building | Synonyms: heating, heating plant, heating system |
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(noun) the presence of heat | Synonyms: high temperature, hotness |
(noun) the trait of being intensely emotional | Synonyms: passion, warmth |
(noun) the sensation caused by heat energy | Synonyms: warmth |
(noun) a preliminary race in which the winner advances to a more important race | - |
(noun) a form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature | Synonyms: heat energy |
(noun) applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity | Synonyms: estrus, oestrus, rut |
(verb) gain heat or get hot | Synonyms: heat up, hot up |
(verb) make hot or hotter | Synonyms: heat up |
(verb) arouse or excite feelings and passions | Synonyms: fire up, ignite, inflame, stir up, wake |
(verb) provide with heat | - |
overheat | (verb) get excessively and undesirably hot | - |
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(verb) make excessively or undesirably hot | - |
preheat | (verb) heat beforehand | - |
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reheat | (verb) heat again | - |
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wheat | (noun) a variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white | Synonyms: pale yellow, straw |
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(noun) grains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flour | Synonyms: wheat berry |
(noun) annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains | - |