aardvark | (noun) nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites; sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata | Synonyms: ant bear, anteater, Orycteropus afer |
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aback | (adverb) by surprise | - |
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(adverb) having the wind against the forward side of the sails | - |
abelmosk | (noun) bushy herb of tropical Asia grown for its yellow or pink to scarlet blooms that resemble the hibiscus | Synonyms: Abelmoschus moschatus, Hibiscus moschatus, musk mallow |
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afterdeck | (noun) a deck abaft of midships | - |
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aftershock | (noun) a tremor (or one of a series of tremors) occurring after the main shock of an earthquake | - |
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ahorseback | (adjective) traveling on horseback | Synonyms: ahorse |
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(adverb) on the back of a horse | Synonyms: ahorse, horseback |
airdock | (noun) a large structure at an airport where aircraft can be stored and maintained | Synonyms: hangar, repair shed |
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airlock | (noun) a chamber that provides access to space where air is under pressure | Synonyms: air lock |
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airsick | (adjective) experiencing motion sickness | Synonyms: air sick, carsick, seasick |
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alpenstock | (noun) a stout staff with a metal point; used by mountain climbers | - |
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amberjack | (noun) any of several amber to coppery fork-tailed warm-water carangid fishes | Synonyms: amberfish |
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amok | (adjective) wildly frenzied and out of control | Synonyms: amuck, berserk |
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(adverb) in a murderous frenzy | Synonyms: amuck, murderously |
(adverb) wildly; without self-control | Synonyms: amuck |
amuck | (adjective) wildly frenzied and out of control | Synonyms: amok, berserk |
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(adverb) in a murderous frenzy | Synonyms: amok, murderously |
(adverb) wildly; without self-control | Synonyms: amok |
anorak | (noun) a kind of heavy jacket | Synonyms: parka, windbreaker, windcheater |
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antiblack | (adjective) discriminatory especially on the basis of race or religion | Synonyms: anti-Semite, racist |
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antiknock | (adjective) suppressing or eliminating engine knock in combustion engines | Synonyms: antiknocking |
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(noun) any of various compounds that are added to gasoline to reduce engine knocking | - |
antiquark | (noun) the antiparticle of a quark | - |
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antitank | (adjective) designed for defense against armored vehicles | - |
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apparatchik | (noun) a communist who was a member of the administrative system of a communist party | - |
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(noun) a humorous but derogatory term for an official of a large organization (especially a political organization) | - |
applejack | (noun) distilled from hard cider | - |
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arak | (noun) any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses | Synonyms: arrack |
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ark | (noun) a boat built by Noah to save his family and animals from the flood | - |
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arrack | (noun) any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses | Synonyms: arak |
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artwork | (noun) photographs or other visual representations in a printed publication | Synonyms: art, graphics, nontextual matter |
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ask | (verb) make a request or demand for something to somebody | - |
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(verb) direct or put; seek an answer to | - |
(verb) address a question to and expect an answer from | Synonyms: enquire, inquire |
(verb) consider obligatory; request and expect | Synonyms: expect, require |
(verb) require or ask for as a price or condition | - |
(verb) make a date | Synonyms: ask out, invite out, take out |
(verb) require as useful, just, or proper | Synonyms: call for, demand, involve, necessitate, need, postulate, require, take |
asterisk | (noun) a star-shaped character * used in printing | Synonyms: star |
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(verb) mark with an asterisk | Synonyms: star |
attack | (noun) (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons) | Synonyms: onrush, onset, onslaught |
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(noun) a decisive manner of beginning a musical tone or phrase | Synonyms: tone-beginning |
(noun) the act of attacking | Synonyms: attempt |
(noun) ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation | Synonyms: approach, plan of attack |
(noun) an offensive move in a sport or game | - |
(noun) strong criticism | - |
(noun) intense adverse criticism | Synonyms: blast, fire, flack, flak |
(noun) the onset of a corrosive or destructive process (as by a chemical agent) | - |
(noun) a sudden occurrence of an uncontrollable condition | - |
(verb) begin to injure | - |
(verb) set to work upon; turn one's energies vigorously to a task | - |
(verb) attack in speech or writing | Synonyms: assail, assault, lash out, round, snipe |
(verb) launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with | Synonyms: assail |
(verb) take the initiative and go on the offensive | Synonyms: aggress |
(verb) attack someone physically or emotionally | Synonyms: assail, assault, set on |
auk | (noun) black-and-white short-necked web-footed diving bird of northern seas | - |
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awestruck | (adjective) having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread | Synonyms: awed, awestricken |
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babytalk | (noun) the developing speech of a young child | Synonyms: baby talk |
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(noun) an adult's imitation of the speech of a young child | Synonyms: baby talk, motherese |
back | (adjective) related to or located at the back | - |
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(adjective) of an earlier date | - |
(adjective) located at or near the back of an animal | Synonyms: hind, hinder |
(noun) (American football) the position of a player on a football team who is stationed behind the line of scrimmage | - |
(noun) the side that goes last or is not normally seen | Synonyms: rear |
(noun) a support that you can lean against while sitting | Synonyms: backrest |
(noun) the part of a garment that covers the back of your body | - |
(noun) the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book | Synonyms: binding, book binding, cover |
(noun) the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine | Synonyms: dorsum |
(noun) the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord | Synonyms: backbone, rachis, spinal column, spine, vertebral column |
(noun) the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer | Synonyms: rear |
(noun) (football) a person who plays in the backfield | - |
(adverb) at or to or toward the back or rear | Synonyms: backward, backwards, rearward, rearwards |
(adverb) in or to or toward a past time | Synonyms: backward |
(adverb) in repayment or retaliation | - |
(adverb) in or to or toward a former location | - |
(adverb) in or to or toward an original condition | - |
(adverb) in reply | - |
(verb) establish as valid or genuine | Synonyms: back up |
(verb) strengthen by providing with a back or backing | - |
(verb) shift to a counterclockwise direction | - |
(verb) place a bet on | Synonyms: bet on, gage, game, punt, stake |
(verb) travel backward | - |
(verb) cause to travel backward | - |
(verb) support financial backing for | - |
(verb) be behind; approve of | Synonyms: endorse, indorse, plump for, plunk for, support |
(verb) give support or one's approval to | Synonyms: endorse, indorse, second |
(verb) be in back of | - |
backpack | (noun) a bag carried by a strap on your back or shoulder | Synonyms: back pack, haversack, knapsack, packsack, rucksack |
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(verb) hike with a backpack | Synonyms: pack |
backtalk | (noun) an impudent or insolent rejoinder | Synonyms: back talk, lip, mouth, sass, sassing |
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backtrack | (verb) retrace one's course | Synonyms: double back, turn back |
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bailiwick | (noun) a branch of knowledge | Synonyms: discipline, field, field of study, study, subject, subject area, subject field |
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(noun) the area over which a bailiff has jurisdiction | - |
baldrick | (noun) a wide (ornamented) belt worn over the right shoulder to support a sword or bugle by the left hip | Synonyms: baldric |
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balk | (noun) an illegal pitching motion while runners are on base | - |
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(noun) one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof | Synonyms: baulk, rafter |
(noun) something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | Synonyms: baulk, check, deterrent, handicap, hinderance, hindrance, impediment |
(noun) the area on a billiard table behind the balkline | Synonyms: baulk |
(verb) refuse to comply | Synonyms: baulk, jib, resist |
ballcock | (noun) floating ball that controls level in a water tank | Synonyms: ball cock |
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ballock | (noun) one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens | Synonyms: ball, bollock, egg, nut, orchis, testicle, testis |
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ballpark | (noun) a facility in which ball games are played (especially baseball games) | Synonyms: park |
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(noun) near to the scope or range of something | Synonyms: approximate range |
bank | (noun) a flight maneuver; aircraft tips laterally about its longitudinal axis (especially in turning) | - |
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(noun) a building in which the business of banking is transacted | Synonyms: bank building |
(noun) a container (usually with a slot in the top) for keeping money at home | Synonyms: coin bank, money box, savings bank |
(noun) a financial institution that accepts deposits and channels the money into lending activities | Synonyms: banking company, banking concern, depository financial institution |
(noun) an arrangement of similar objects in a row or in tiers | - |
(noun) a long ridge or pile | - |
(noun) sloping land (especially the slope beside a body of water) | - |
(noun) a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force | Synonyms: camber, cant |
(noun) a supply or stock held in reserve for future use (especially in emergencies) | - |
(noun) the funds held by a gambling house or the dealer in some gambling games | - |
(verb) have faith or confidence in | Synonyms: bet, calculate, count, depend, look, reckon, rely, swear |
(verb) enclose with a bank | - |
(verb) cover with ashes so to control the rate of burning | - |
(verb) tip laterally | - |
(verb) put into a bank account | Synonyms: deposit |
(verb) be in the banking business | - |
(verb) do business with a bank or keep an account at a bank | - |
(verb) act as the banker in a game or in gambling | - |
bankbook | (noun) a record of deposits and withdrawals and interest held by depositors at certain banks | Synonyms: passbook |
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bannock | (noun) a flat bread made of oat or barley flour; common in New England and Scotland | - |
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bareback | (adjective) riding without a saddle | Synonyms: barebacked |
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(adverb) without a saddle | Synonyms: barebacked |
bark | (noun) a sailing ship with 3 (or more) masts | Synonyms: barque |
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(noun) the sound made by a dog | - |
(noun) a noise resembling the bark of a dog | - |
(noun) tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants | - |
(verb) tan (a skin) with bark tannins | - |
(verb) make barking sounds | - |
(verb) speak in an unfriendly tone | - |
(verb) remove the bark of a tree | Synonyms: skin |
(verb) cover with bark | - |
barmbrack | (noun) a rich currant cake or bun | - |
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barrack | (noun) a building or group of buildings used to house military personnel | - |
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(verb) laugh at with contempt and derision | Synonyms: flout, gibe, jeer, scoff |
(verb) spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts | Synonyms: cheer, exhort, inspire, pep up, root on, urge, urge on |
(verb) lodge in barracks | - |
basilisk | (noun) small crested arboreal lizard able to run on its hind legs; of tropical America | - |
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(noun) ancient brass cannon | - |
(noun) (classical mythology) a serpent (or lizard or dragon) able to kill with its breath or glance | - |
bask | (verb) be exposed | - |
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(verb) derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in | Synonyms: enjoy, relish, savor, savour |
bassarisk | (noun) raccoon-like omnivorous mammal of Mexico and the southwestern United States having a long bushy tail with black and white rings | Synonyms: Bassariscus astutus, cacomistle, cacomixle, civet cat, coon cat, miner's cat, raccoon fox, ring-tailed cat, ringtail |
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batik | (noun) a dyed fabric; a removable wax is used where the dye is not wanted | - |
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(verb) dye with wax | - |
baulk | (noun) one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof | Synonyms: balk, rafter |
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(noun) something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | Synonyms: balk, check, deterrent, handicap, hinderance, hindrance, impediment |
(noun) the area on a billiard table behind the balkline | Synonyms: balk |
(verb) refuse to comply | Synonyms: balk, jib, resist |
beadwork | (noun) a beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture | Synonyms: astragal, bead, beading |
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(noun) ornamentation with beads | Synonyms: beading |
beak | (noun) horny projecting mouth of a bird | Synonyms: bill, neb, nib, pecker |
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(noun) beaklike mouth of animals other than birds (e.g., turtles) | - |
(noun) informal terms for the nose | Synonyms: honker, hooter, nozzle, schnoz, schnozzle, snoot, snout |
(noun) a beaklike, tapering tip on certain plant structures | - |
(verb) hit lightly with a picking motion | Synonyms: peck, pick |
beanstalk | (noun) stem of a bean plant | - |
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beatnik | (noun) a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior | Synonyms: beat |
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beck | (noun) a beckoning gesture | - |
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bedeck | (verb) decorate | Synonyms: bedight, deck |
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bedrock | (noun) principles from which other truths can be derived | Synonyms: basic principle, basics, fundamental principle, fundamentals |
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(noun) solid unweathered rock lying beneath surface deposits of soil | - |
beefsteak | (noun) a beef steak usually cooked by broiling | - |
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bemock | (verb) treat with contempt | Synonyms: mock |
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benchmark | (noun) a standard by which something can be measured or judged | - |
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(noun) a surveyor's mark on a permanent object of predetermined position and elevation used as a reference point | Synonyms: bench mark |
benedick | (noun) a newly married man (especially one who has long been a bachelor) | Synonyms: benedict |
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berk | (noun) a stupid person who is easy to take advantage of | - |
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berserk | (adjective) wildly frenzied and out of control | Synonyms: amok, amuck |
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(noun) one of the ancient Norse warriors legendary for working themselves into a frenzy before a battle and fighting with reckless savagery and insane fury | Synonyms: berserker |
bespeak | (verb) express the need or desire for | Synonyms: ask for, call for, quest, request |
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(verb) be a signal for or a symptom of | Synonyms: betoken, indicate, point, signal |
bethink | (verb) consider or ponder something carefully | - |
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(verb) cause oneself to consider something | - |
bilk | (verb) escape, either physically or mentally | Synonyms: elude, evade |
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(verb) evade payment to | - |
(verb) cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money | - |
(verb) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of | Synonyms: baffle, cross, foil, frustrate, queer, scotch, spoil, thwart |
billhook | (noun) a cutting tool with a sharp edge | Synonyms: bill |
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billystick | (noun) a short stout club used primarily by policemen | Synonyms: baton, billy, billy club, nightstick, truncheon |
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bioattack | (noun) the use of bacteria or viruses or toxins to destroy men and animals or food | Synonyms: biologic attack, biological attack, biological warfare, BW |
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biofeedback | (noun) a training program in which a person is given information about physiological processes (heart rate or blood pressure) that is not normally available with the goal of gaining conscious control of them | - |
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birchbark | (noun) a canoe made with the bark of a birch tree | Synonyms: birch bark, birchbark canoe |
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birthmark | (noun) a blemish on the skin that is formed before birth | Synonyms: nevus |
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bismark | (noun) a raised doughnut filled with jelly or jam | Synonyms: Berlin doughnut, jelly doughnut |
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bispak | (noun) A sexually promiscuous Indonesian woman | - |
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bitok | (noun) a Russian dish made with patties of ground meat (mixed with onions and bread and milk) and served with a sauce of sour cream | - |
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bitstock | (noun) a carpenter's tool having a crank handle for turning and a socket to hold a bit for boring | Synonyms: brace |
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black | (adjective) being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light | - |
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(adjective) of or belonging to a racial group especially of sub-Saharan African origin | - |
(adjective) marked by anger or resentment or hostility | - |
(adjective) (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood | Synonyms: blackened |
(adjective) (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading | - |
(adjective) extremely dark | Synonyms: pitch-black, pitch-dark |
(adjective) soiled with dirt or soot | Synonyms: smutty |
(adjective) (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame | Synonyms: disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful |
(adjective) stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable | Synonyms: dark, sinister |
(adjective) offering little or no hope | Synonyms: bleak, dim |
(adjective) distributed or sold illicitly | Synonyms: black-market, bootleg, contraband, smuggled |
(adjective) harshly ironic or sinister | Synonyms: grim, mordant |
(adjective) (of coffee) without cream or sugar | - |
(adjective) (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin | Synonyms: calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful |
(noun) black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning) | - |
(noun) (board games) the darker pieces | - |
(noun) the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white) | Synonyms: blackness, inkiness |
(noun) total absence of light | Synonyms: blackness, lightlessness, pitch blackness, total darkness |
(verb) make or become black | Synonyms: blacken, melanise, melanize |
blackbuck | (noun) common Indian antelope with a dark back and spiral horns | Synonyms: Antilope cervicapra, black buck |
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blackcock | (noun) male black grouse | Synonyms: black cock |
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blackjack | (noun) a gambling game using cards; the object is to hold cards having a higher count than those dealt to the banker up to but not exceeding 21 | Synonyms: twenty-one, vingt-et-un |
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(noun) a piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle; used for hitting people | Synonyms: cosh, sap |
(noun) a flag usually bearing a white skull and crossbones on a black background; indicates a pirate ship | Synonyms: black flag, Jolly Roger, pirate flag |
(noun) a common scrubby deciduous tree of central and southeastern United States having dark bark and broad three-lobed (club-shaped) leaves; tends to form dense thickets | Synonyms: blackjack oak, jack oak, Quercus marilandica |
(verb) exert pressure on someone through threats | Synonyms: blackmail, pressure |
bladderwrack | (noun) a common rockweed used in preparing kelp and as manure | Synonyms: black rockweed, bladder fucus, Fucus vesiculosus, tang |
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(noun) similar to and found with black rockweed | Synonyms: Ascophyllum nodosum |
blank | (adjective) (of a surface) not written or printed on | Synonyms: clean, white |
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(adjective) not charged with a bullet | - |
(adjective) complete and absolute | Synonyms: utter |
(adjective) without comprehension | - |
(noun) a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet | Synonyms: blank shell, dummy |
(noun) a piece of material ready to be made into something | - |
(noun) a blank gap or missing part | Synonyms: lacuna |
(noun) a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing | Synonyms: space |
(verb) keep the opposing (baseball) team from winning | - |
bleak | (adjective) unpleasantly cold and damp | Synonyms: cutting, raw |
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(adjective) offering little or no hope | Synonyms: black, dim |
(adjective) providing no shelter or sustenance | Synonyms: bare, barren, desolate, stark |
blink | (noun) a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly | Synonyms: blinking, eye blink, nictation, nictitation, wink, winking |
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(verb) briefly shut the eyes | Synonyms: nictate, nictitate, wink |
(verb) keep back by blinking | Synonyms: blink away, wink |
(verb) gleam or glow intermittently | Synonyms: flash, twinkle, wink, winkle |
block | (noun) the act of obstructing or deflecting someone's movements | Synonyms: blocking |
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(noun) a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides) | - |
(noun) an obstruction in a pipe or tube | Synonyms: blockage, closure, occlusion, stop, stoppage |
(noun) a simple machine consisting of a wheel with a groove in which a rope can run to change the direction or point of application of a force applied to the rope | Synonyms: pulley-block, pulley, pulley block |
(noun) a metal casting containing the cylinders and cooling ducts of an engine | Synonyms: cylinder block, engine block |
(noun) a platform from which an auctioneer sells | Synonyms: auction block |
(noun) housing in a large building that is divided into separate units | - |
(noun) an inability to remember or think of something you normally can do; often caused by emotional tension | Synonyms: mental block |
(noun) a number or quantity of related things dealt with as a unit | - |
(noun) a rectangular area in a city surrounded by streets and usually containing several buildings | Synonyms: city block |
(noun) (computer science) a sector or group of sectors that function as the smallest data unit permitted | - |
(noun) a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides | Synonyms: cube |
(verb) shape into a block or blocks | - |
(verb) shape by using a block | - |
(verb) prohibit the conversion or use of (assets) | Synonyms: freeze, immobilise, immobilize |
(verb) be unable to remember | Synonyms: blank out, draw a blank, forget |
(verb) interfere with or prevent the reception of signals | Synonyms: jam |
(verb) impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball) | Synonyms: deflect, parry |
(verb) render unsuitable for passage | Synonyms: bar, barricade, block off, block up, blockade, stop |
(verb) obstruct | Synonyms: choke up, lug, stuff |
(verb) stamp or emboss a title or design on a book with a block | - |
(verb) support, secure, or raise with a block | - |
(verb) block passage through | Synonyms: close up, impede, jam, obstruct, obturate, occlude |
(verb) shut out from view or get in the way so as to hide from sight | Synonyms: obstruct |
(verb) interrupt the normal function of by means of anesthesia | - |
(verb) hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of | Synonyms: blockade, embarrass, hinder, obstruct, stymie, stymy |
(verb) stop from happening or developing | Synonyms: halt, kibosh, stop |
(verb) run on a block system | - |
bloodstock | (noun) thoroughbred horses (collectively) | - |
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blowback | (noun) Blowback is a system of operation for self-loading firearms that obtains energy from the motion of the cartridge case as it is pushed to the rear by expanding gases created by the ignition of the propellant charge. | - |
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(noun) misinformation resulting from the recirculation into the source country of disinformation previously planted abroad by that country's intelligence service | - |
(noun) the backward escape of gases and unburned gunpowder after a gun is fired | Synonyms: backfire |
bluetick | (noun) a very fast American hound; white mottled with bluish grey | - |
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boardwalk | (noun) a walkway made of wooden boards; usually at seaside | - |
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bobbysock | (noun) a sock that reaches just above the ankle | Synonyms: anklet, anklets, bobbysocks |
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bobolink | (noun) migratory American songbird | Synonyms: Dolichonyx oryzivorus, reedbird, ricebird |
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bock | (noun) a very strong lager traditionally brewed in the fall and aged through the winter for consumption in the spring | Synonyms: bock beer |
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bodywork | (noun) the work of making or repairing vehicle bodies | - |
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(noun) the exterior body of a motor vehicle | - |
bollock | (noun) a pulley-block at the head of a topmast | Synonyms: bullock block |
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(noun) one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens | Synonyms: ball, ballock, egg, nut, orchis, testicle, testis |
bonk | (verb) hit hard | Synonyms: bash, bop, sock, whap, whop |
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(verb) have sexual intercourse with | Synonyms: bang, be intimate, bed, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, jazz, know, lie with, love, make love, make out, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with |
book | (noun) physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together | Synonyms: volume |
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(noun) a number of sheets (ticket or stamps etc.) bound together on one edge | - |
(noun) a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together) | - |
(noun) a written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance | Synonyms: playscript, script |
(noun) a compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone | Synonyms: record, record book |
(noun) a major division of a long written composition | - |
(noun) a collection of rules or prescribed standards on the basis of which decisions are made | Synonyms: rule book |
(noun) a collection of playing cards satisfying the rules of a card game | - |
(noun) a record in which commercial accounts are recorded | Synonyms: account book, book of account, ledger, leger |
(verb) engage for a performance | - |
(verb) record a charge in a police register | - |
(verb) arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance | Synonyms: hold, reserve |
(verb) register in a hotel booker | - |
bookmark | (noun) a marker (a piece of paper or ribbon) placed between the pages of a book to mark the reader's place | Synonyms: bookmarker |
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bootblack | (noun) a person who polishes shoes and boots | Synonyms: shoeblack |
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