atoll | (noun) an island consisting of a circular coral reef surrounding a lagoon | - |
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bankroll | (noun) a roll of currency notes (often taken as the resources of a person or business etc.) | Synonyms: roll |
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(verb) provide with sufficient funds; finance | - |
bedroll | (noun) bedding rolled up for carrying | - |
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blackpoll | (noun) North American warbler having a black-and-white head | Synonyms: Dendroica striate |
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boll | (noun) the rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant | - |
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doll | (noun) a small replica of a person; used as a toy | Synonyms: dolly |
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(noun) informal terms for a (young) woman | Synonyms: bird, chick, dame, skirt, wench |
droll | (adjective) comical in an odd or whimsical manner | - |
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enroll | (verb) register formally as a participant or member | Synonyms: enrol, enter, inscribe, raise, recruit |
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jellyroll | (noun) thin sheet of sponge cake spread with jelly and then rolled up to make a cylindrical cake | Synonyms: Swiss roll |
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knoll | (noun) a small natural hill | Synonyms: hammock, hillock, hummock, mound |
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logroll | (verb) work toward the passage of some legislation by exchanging political favors such as trading votes | - |
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loll | (verb) be lazy or idle | Synonyms: arse about, arse around, bum, bum about, bum around, frig around, fuck off, loaf, loll around, lounge about, lounge around, waste one's time |
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(verb) hang loosely or laxly | Synonyms: droop |
moll | (noun) the girlfriend of a gangster | Synonyms: gangster's moll, gun moll |
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payroll | (noun) the department that determines the amounts of wage or salary due to each employee | Synonyms: payroll department |
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(noun) a list of employees and their salaries | Synonyms: paysheet |
(noun) the total amount of money paid in wages | Synonyms: paysheet |
plimsoll | (noun) a light gym shoe with a rubber sole and a canvas top | - |
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poll | (noun) the counting of votes (as in an election) | - |
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(noun) the top of the head | Synonyms: crown, pate |
(noun) the part of the head between the ears | - |
(noun) an inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people | Synonyms: canvass, opinion poll, public opinion poll |
(noun) a tame parrot | Synonyms: poll parrot |
(verb) convert into a pollard | Synonyms: pollard |
(verb) get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions | Synonyms: canvass |
(verb) vote in an election at a polling station | - |
(verb) get the votes of | - |
redpoll | (noun) small siskin-like finch with a red crown and a rosy breast and rump | Synonyms: Carduelis flammea |
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(noun) small siskin-like finch with a red crown | Synonyms: Carduelis hornemanni |
roll | (noun) a flight maneuver; aircraft rotates about its longitudinal axis without changing direction or losing altitude | - |
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(noun) the act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling) | Synonyms: bowl |
(noun) the act of throwing dice | Synonyms: cast |
(noun) walking with a swaying gait | - |
(noun) anything rolled up in cylindrical form | - |
(noun) photographic film rolled up inside a container to protect it from light | - |
(noun) a list of names | Synonyms: roster |
(noun) a document that can be rolled up (as for storage) | Synonyms: scroll |
(noun) a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells) | Synonyms: peal, pealing, rolling |
(noun) a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore | Synonyms: roller, rolling wave |
(noun) rotary motion of an object around its own axis | Synonyms: axial motion, axial rotation |
(noun) the sound of a drum (especially a snare drum) beaten rapidly and continuously | Synonyms: drum roll, paradiddle |
(noun) small rounded bread either plain or sweet | Synonyms: bun |
(noun) a roll of currency notes (often taken as the resources of a person or business etc.) | Synonyms: bankroll |
(noun) a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals) | Synonyms: coil, curl, curlicue, gyre, ringlet, scroll, whorl |
(verb) execute a roll, in tumbling | - |
(verb) take the shape of a roll or cylinder | - |
(verb) show certain properties when being rolled | Synonyms: roll up |
(verb) boil vigorously | Synonyms: seethe |
(verb) shape by rolling | - |
(verb) pronounce with a roll, of the phoneme /r/ | - |
(verb) arrange or coil around | Synonyms: twine, wind, wrap |
(verb) begin operating or running | - |
(verb) flatten or spread with a roller | Synonyms: roll out |
(verb) move by turning over or rotating | Synonyms: turn over |
(verb) move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle | Synonyms: wheel |
(verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander |
(verb) move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion | Synonyms: flap, undulate, wave |
(verb) cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis | Synonyms: revolve |
(verb) move, rock, or sway from side to side | - |
(verb) emit, produce, or utter with a deep prolonged reverberating sound | - |
(verb) sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity | Synonyms: hustle, pluck |
(verb) occur in soft rounded shapes | Synonyms: undulate |
scroll | (noun) a document that can be rolled up (as for storage) | Synonyms: roll |
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(noun) a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals) | Synonyms: coil, curl, curlicue, gyre, ringlet, roll, whorl |
(verb) move through text or graphics in order to display parts that do not fit on the screen | - |
steamroll | (verb) make level or flat with a steamroller | Synonyms: steamroller |
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(verb) overwhelm by using great force | Synonyms: steamroller |
(verb) proceed with great force | Synonyms: steamroller |
(verb) bring to a specified state by overwhelming force or pressure | Synonyms: steamroller |
stroll | (noun) a leisurely walk (usually in some public place) | Synonyms: amble, perambulation, promenade, saunter |
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(verb) walk leisurely and with no apparent aim | Synonyms: saunter |
toll | (noun) value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something | Synonyms: cost, price |
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(noun) the sound of a bell being struck | Synonyms: bell |
(noun) a fee levied for the use of roads or bridges | - |
(verb) ring slowly | - |
(verb) charge a fee for using | - |
troll | (noun) angling by drawing a baited line through the water | Synonyms: trolling |
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(noun) a fisherman's lure that is used in trolling | - |
(noun) a partsong in which voices follow each other; one voice starts and others join in one after another until all are singing different parts of the song at the same time | Synonyms: round |
(noun) (Scandinavian folklore) a supernatural creature (either a dwarf or a giant) that is supposed to live in caves or in the mountains | - |
(verb) sing loudly and without inhibition | - |
(verb) praise or celebrate in song | - |
(verb) speak or recite rapidly or in a rolling voice | - |
(verb) angle with a hook and line drawn through the water | - |
(verb) sing the parts of (a round) in succession | - |
(verb) cause to move round and round | - |
(verb) circulate, move around | - |
unroll | (verb) unroll, unfold, or spread out or be unrolled, unfolded, or spread out from a furled state | Synonyms: unfurl |
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(verb) reverse the winding or twisting of | Synonyms: unwind, wind off |