academicianship | (noun) the position of member of an honorary academy | - |
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accountantship | (noun) the position of accountant | - |
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acquaintanceship | (noun) a relationship less intimate than friendship | Synonyms: acquaintance |
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airmanship | (noun) the art of operating aircraft | Synonyms: aviation |
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airship | (noun) a steerable self-propelled aircraft | Synonyms: dirigible |
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airstrip | (noun) an airfield without normal airport facilities | Synonyms: flight strip, landing strip, strip |
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ambassadorship | (noun) the post of ambassador | - |
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amidship | (adjective) located in the middle part of a ship or aircraft | - |
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(adverb) at or near or toward the center of a ship | Synonyms: amidships, midships |
(adverb) at or near or toward the middle | - |
apostleship | (noun) the position of apostle | - |
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apprenticeship | (noun) the position of apprentice | - |
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associateship | (noun) the position of associate (as in an office or academy) | - |
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atrip | (adjective) (of an anchor) just clear of the bottom | Synonyms: aweigh |
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attorneyship | (noun) the position of attorney | - |
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authorship | (noun) the act of creating written works | Synonyms: composition, penning, writing |
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(noun) the act of initiating a new idea or theory or writing | Synonyms: paternity |
bailiffship | (noun) the office of bailiff | - |
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battleship | (noun) large and heavily armoured warship | Synonyms: battlewagon |
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biochip | (noun) a microchip that uses tiny strands of DNA to latch onto and quickly recognize thousands of genes at a time; intended for use in a biological environment | - |
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blip | (noun) a radar echo displayed so as to show the position of a reflecting surface | Synonyms: pip, radar target |
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(noun) a sudden minor shock or meaningless interruption | - |
boatmanship | (noun) skill in handling boats | - |
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brinkmanship | (noun) the policy of pushing a dangerous situation to the brink of disaster (to the limits of safety) | - |
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cadetship | (noun) the position of cadet | - |
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captainship | (noun) the post of captain | Synonyms: captaincy |
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cardinalship | (noun) the office of cardinal | Synonyms: cardinalate |
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catnip | (noun) hairy aromatic perennial herb having whorls of small white purple-spotted flowers in a terminal spike; used in the past as a domestic remedy; strongly attractive to cats | Synonyms: catmint, Nepeta cataria |
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cattleship | (noun) a cargo ship for the transport of livestock | Synonyms: cattle boat |
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censorship | (noun) deleting parts of publications or correspondence or theatrical performances | Synonyms: censoring |
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(noun) counterintelligence achieved by banning or deleting any information of value to the enemy | Synonyms: censoring, security review |
chairmanship | (noun) the position of chairman | - |
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championship | (noun) the act of providing approval and support | Synonyms: backing, backup, patronage |
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(noun) a competition at which a champion is chosen | - |
(noun) the status of being a champion | Synonyms: title |
chancellorship | (noun) the office of chancellor | - |
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chaplainship | (noun) the position of chaplain | Synonyms: chaplaincy |
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chieftainship | (noun) the position of chieftain | Synonyms: chieftaincy |
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chip | (noun) the act of chipping something | Synonyms: chipping, splintering |
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(noun) (golf) a low running approach shot | Synonyms: chip shot |
(noun) electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a number of electronic functions in an integrated circuit | Synonyms: micro chip, microchip, microprocessor chip, silicon chip |
(noun) a small disk-shaped counter used to represent money when gambling | Synonyms: poker chip |
(noun) a triangular wooden float attached to the end of a log line | - |
(noun) a mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something | Synonyms: check |
(noun) a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat | Synonyms: crisp, potato chip, Saratoga chip |
(noun) a small fragment of something broken off from the whole | Synonyms: bit, flake, fleck, scrap |
(noun) a piece of dried bovine dung | Synonyms: buffalo chip, cow chip, cow dung |
(verb) break a small piece off from | Synonyms: break off, cut off, knap |
(verb) break off (a piece from a whole) | Synonyms: break away, break off, chip off, come off |
(verb) form by chipping | - |
(verb) cut a nick into | Synonyms: nick |
(verb) play a chip shot | - |
citizenship | (noun) conduct as a citizen | - |
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(noun) the status of a citizen with rights and duties | - |
clerkship | (noun) the job of clerk | - |
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clip | (noun) the act of clipping or snipping | Synonyms: clipping, snip |
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(noun) a sharp slanting blow | - |
(noun) a metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun | Synonyms: cartridge clip, cartridge holder, magazine |
(noun) any of various small fasteners used to hold loose articles together | - |
(noun) an article of jewelry that can be clipped onto a hat or dress | - |
(noun) an instance or single occasion for some event | Synonyms: time |
(verb) terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent | Synonyms: curtail, cut short |
(verb) attach with a clip | - |
(verb) sever or remove by pinching or snipping | Synonyms: nip, nip off, snip, snip off |
(verb) cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of | Synonyms: crop, cut back, dress, lop, prune, snip, trim |
(verb) run at a moderately swift pace | Synonyms: jog, trot |
coachwhip | (noun) a whipsnake of southern United States and Mexico; tail resembles a braided whip | Synonyms: coachwhip snake, Masticophis flagellum |
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(noun) desert shrub of southwestern United States and Mexico having slender naked spiny branches that after the rainy season put forth foliage and clusters of red flowers | Synonyms: Fouquieria splendens, Jacob's staff, ocotillo, vine cactus |
commandership | (noun) the position or office of commander | Synonyms: commandery |
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companionship | (noun) the state of being with someone | Synonyms: company, fellowship, society |
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comptrollership | (noun) the position of comptroller | - |
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comradeship | (noun) the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability | Synonyms: camaraderie, chumminess, comradeliness, comradery |
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connoisseurship | (noun) love of or taste for fine objects of art | Synonyms: vertu, virtu |
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consulship | (noun) the post of consul | - |
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containership | (noun) a cargo ship designed to hold containerized cargoes | Synonyms: container ship, container vessel |
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controllership | (noun) the position of controller | - |
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copartnership | (noun) a partnership in which employees get a share of the profits in addition to their wages | - |
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councillorship | (noun) the position of council member | Synonyms: councilorship |
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councilorship | (noun) the position of council member | Synonyms: councillorship |
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counsellorship | (noun) the position of counselor | Synonyms: counselorship |
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counselorship | (noun) the position of counselor | Synonyms: counsellorship |
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courtship | (noun) a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage) | Synonyms: courting, suit, wooing |
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cowslip | (noun) early spring flower common in British isles having fragrant yellow or sometimes purple flowers | Synonyms: paigle, Primula veris |
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(noun) swamp plant of Europe and North America having bright yellow flowers resembling buttercups | Synonyms: Caltha palustris, kingcup, marsh marigold, May blob, meadow bright, water dragon |
craftsmanship | (noun) skill in an occupation or trade | Synonyms: craft, workmanship |
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curatorship | (noun) the position of curator | - |
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custodianship | (noun) the position of custodian | - |
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dealership | (noun) a business established or operated under an authorization to sell or distribute a company's goods or services in a particular area | Synonyms: franchise |
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deanship | (noun) the position or office of a dean | Synonyms: deanery |
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dictatorship | (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny |
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dip | (noun) a brief swim in water | Synonyms: plunge |
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(noun) a gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the body is lowered and raised by bending and straightening the arms | - |
(noun) a candle that is made by repeated dipping in a pool of wax or tallow | - |
(noun) a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity | Synonyms: drop, fall, free fall |
(noun) a brief immersion | - |
(noun) tasty mixture or liquid into which bite-sized foods are dipped | - |
(noun) a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places | Synonyms: cutpurse, pickpocket |
(noun) (physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon | Synonyms: angle of dip, inclination, magnetic dip, magnetic inclination |
(noun) a depression in an otherwise level surface | - |
(verb) stain an object by immersing it in a liquid | - |
(verb) go down momentarily | - |
(verb) dip into a liquid while eating | Synonyms: dunk |
(verb) immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate | Synonyms: douse, dunk, plunge, souse |
(verb) plunge (one's hand or a receptacle) into a container | - |
(verb) immerse in a disinfectant solution | - |
(verb) scoop up by plunging one's hand or a ladle below the surface | - |
(verb) place (candle wicks) into hot, liquid wax | - |
(verb) dip into a liquid | Synonyms: douse, duck |
(verb) appear to move downward | Synonyms: sink |
(verb) slope downwards | - |
(verb) lower briefly | - |
(verb) switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam | Synonyms: dim |
(verb) take a small amount from | - |
directorship | (noun) the position of a director of a business concern | - |
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discipleship | (noun) the position of disciple | - |
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draftsmanship | (noun) the creation of artistic pictures or diagrams | Synonyms: drafting, drawing |
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drip | (noun) (architecture) a projection from a cornice or sill designed to protect the area below from rainwater (as over a window or doorway) | Synonyms: drip mold, drip mould |
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(noun) flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid | Synonyms: dribble, trickle |
(noun) the sound of a liquid falling drop by drop | Synonyms: dripping |
(verb) let or cause to fall in drops | Synonyms: dribble, drop |
(verb) fall in drops | - |
editorship | (noun) the position of editor | - |
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egotrip | (verb) act in a way that attracts attention | - |
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eldership | (noun) the office of elder | - |
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equip | (verb) provide with abilities or understanding | - |
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(verb) provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose | Synonyms: fit, fit out, outfit |
fellowship | (noun) an association of people who share common beliefs or activities | Synonyms: family |
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(noun) money granted (by a university or foundation or other agency) for advanced study or research | - |
(noun) the state of being with someone | Synonyms: companionship, company, society |
fillip | (noun) anything that tends to arouse | Synonyms: bonus |
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fingertip | (noun) the end (tip) of a finger | - |
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flagship | (noun) the ship that carries the commander of a fleet and flies his flag | - |
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(noun) the chief one of a related group | - |
flip | (adjective) marked by casual disrespect | Synonyms: impudent, insolent, snotty-nosed |
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(noun) (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team | Synonyms: pass, toss |
(noun) the act of flipping a coin | Synonyms: toss |
(noun) a dive in which the diver somersaults before entering the water | - |
(noun) an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return | Synonyms: somersault, somersaulting, somerset, summersault, summerset |
(noun) a sudden, quick movement | - |
(noun) hot or cold alcoholic mixed drink containing a beaten egg | - |
(verb) reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) | Synonyms: alternate, flip-flop, interchange, switch, tack |
(verb) go mad, go crazy | Synonyms: flip out |
(verb) react in an excited, delighted, or surprised way | Synonyms: flip out |
(verb) throw or toss with a light motion | Synonyms: pitch, sky, toss |
(verb) cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation | Synonyms: switch, throw |
(verb) turn upside down, or throw so as to reverse | Synonyms: flip over, turn over |
(verb) move with a flick or light motion | - |
(verb) lightly throw to see which side comes up | Synonyms: toss |
(verb) cause to move with a flick | Synonyms: flick |
(verb) toss with a sharp movement so as to cause to turn over in the air | Synonyms: twitch |
(verb) look through a book or other written material | Synonyms: flick, leaf, riff, riffle, thumb |
foremanship | (noun) the position of foreman | - |
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friendship | (noun) the state of being friends (or friendly) | Synonyms: friendly relationship |
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gamesmanship | (noun) the use of dubious (although not technically illegal) methods to win a game | - |
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generalship | (noun) the office and authority of a general | Synonyms: generalcy |
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(noun) the leadership ability of a military general | - |
genip | (noun) round one-inch Caribbean fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp; eaten like grapes | Synonyms: Spanish lime |
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(noun) tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp | Synonyms: ginep, honey berry, mamoncillo, Melicocca bijuga, Melicocca bijugatus, Spanish lime, Spanish lime tree |
gip | (noun) (sometimes offensive) an act of swindling or cheating | Synonyms: gyp |
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(verb) (sometimes offensive) to cheat or swindle | Synonyms: gyp |
gossip | (noun) light informal conversation for social occasions | Synonyms: causerie, chin-wag, chin-wagging, chin wag, chin wagging, chit-chat, chit chat, chitchat, gab, gabfest, small talk, tittle-tattle |
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(noun) a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people | Synonyms: comment, scuttlebutt |
(noun) a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others | Synonyms: gossiper, gossipmonger, newsmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger |
(verb) wag one's tongue; speak about others and reveal secrets or intimacies | Synonyms: dish the dirt |
(verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
governorship | (noun) the office of governor | - |
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grip | (noun) the act of grasping | Synonyms: clasp, clench, clutch, clutches, grasp, hold |
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(noun) a portable rectangular container for carrying clothes | Synonyms: bag, suitcase, traveling bag, travelling bag |
(noun) the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it | Synonyms: handgrip, handle, hold |
(noun) a flat wire hairpin whose prongs press tightly together; used to hold bobbed hair in place | Synonyms: bobby pin, hairgrip |
(noun) an intellectual hold or understanding | Synonyms: grasp |
(noun) worker who moves the camera around while a film or television show is being made | - |
(noun) the friction between a body and the surface on which it moves (as between an automobile tire and the road) | Synonyms: adhesive friction, traction |
(verb) hold fast or firmly | - |
(verb) to grip or seize, as in a wrestling match | Synonyms: grapple |
(verb) to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe | Synonyms: fascinate, spellbind, transfix |
guardianship | (noun) the responsibility of a guardian or keeper | Synonyms: keeping, safekeeping |
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(noun) attention and management implying responsibility for safety | Synonyms: care, charge, tutelage |
gymslip | (noun) a sleeveless tunic worn by English girls as part of a school uniform | - |
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hairgrip | (noun) a flat wire hairpin whose prongs press tightly together; used to hold bobbed hair in place | Synonyms: bobby pin, grip |
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handgrip | (noun) the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it | Synonyms: grip, handle, hold |
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hardship | (noun) something hard to endure | Synonyms: asperity, grimness, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity |
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(noun) something that causes or entails suffering | - |
(noun) a state of misfortune or affliction | Synonyms: adversity, hard knocks |
harelip | (noun) a congenital cleft in the middle of the upper lip | Synonyms: cheiloschisis, cleft lip |
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headmastership | (noun) the position of headmaster | - |
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headmistressship | (noun) the position of headmistress | - |
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headship | (noun) the position of head | - |
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(noun) the position of headmaster or headmistress | - |
heeltip | (noun) The bottom end of a heel, usually made of plastic or metal. | Synonyms: heel tip |
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hip | (adjective) informed about the latest trends | Synonyms: hep, hip to |
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(noun) either side of the body below the waist and above the thigh | - |
(noun) the structure of the vertebrate skeleton supporting the lower limbs in humans and the hind limbs or corresponding parts in other vertebrates | Synonyms: pelvic arch, pelvic girdle, pelvis |
(noun) the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum | Synonyms: articulatio coxae, coxa, hip joint |
(noun) the fruit of a rose plant | Synonyms: rose hip, rosehip |
(noun) (architecture) the exterior angle formed by the junction of a sloping side and a sloping end of a roof | - |
horsemanship | (noun) skill in handling and riding horses | - |
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horsewhip | (noun) a whip for controlling horses | - |
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(verb) whip with a whip intended for horses | - |
inspectorship | (noun) the office of inspector | - |
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instructorship | (noun) the position of instructor | - |
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internship | (noun) the position of a medical intern | - |
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interrelationship | (noun) mutual or reciprocal relation or relatedness | Synonyms: interrelatedness, interrelation |
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judgeship | (noun) the position of judge | Synonyms: judicature |
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kingship | (noun) the dignity or rank or position of a king | - |
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kinship | (noun) (anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption | Synonyms: family relationship, relationship |
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(noun) a close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character | Synonyms: affinity |