| abbot
|
(noun) the superior of an abbey of monks |
Synonyms:
archimandrite |
|---|
| afoot
|
(adverb) on foot; walking |
- |
|---|
| (adjective) traveling by foot |
- |
| (adjective) currently in progress |
Synonyms:
underway |
| aliquot
|
(adjective) signifying an exact divisor or factor of a quantity |
- |
|---|
| (noun) an integer that is an exact divisor of some quantity |
Synonyms:
aliquot part |
| allot
|
(verb) give out |
Synonyms:
assign,
portion |
|---|
| (verb) allow to have |
Synonyms:
grant,
accord |
| (verb) administer or bestow, as in small portions |
Synonyms:
deal,
distribute,
mete out,
deal out,
dish out,
dispense,
dole out,
parcel out,
shell out,
administer,
lot |
| alumroot
|
(noun) any of several herbs of the genus Heuchera |
Synonyms:
alumbloom |
|---|
| apricot
|
(noun) Asian tree having clusters of usually white blossoms and edible fruit resembling the peach |
Synonyms:
apricot tree |
|---|
| (noun) downy yellow to rosy-colored fruit resembling a small peach |
- |
| (noun) a shade of pink tinged with yellow |
Synonyms:
peach,
salmon pink,
yellowish pink |
| argot
|
(noun) a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves) |
Synonyms:
jargon,
cant,
patois,
slang,
vernacular,
lingo |
|---|
| arrowroot
|
(noun) a nutritive starch obtained from the root of the arrowroot plant |
- |
|---|
| (noun) white-flowered West Indian plant whose root yields arrowroot starch |
Synonyms:
Maranta arundinaceae,
obedience plant,
American arrowroot |
| (noun) canna grown especially for its edible rootstock from which arrowroot starch is obtained |
Synonyms:
indian shot,
Canna edulis,
Canna indica,
achira |
| ascot
|
(noun) a cravat with wide square ends; secured with an ornamental pin |
- |
|---|
| autopilot
|
(noun) a cognitive state in which you act without self-awareness |
Synonyms:
automatic pilot |
|---|
| (noun) a navigational device that automatically keeps ships or planes or spacecraft on a steady course |
Synonyms:
automatic pilot,
robot pilot |
| ballot
|
(noun) a document listing the alternatives that is used in voting |
- |
|---|
| (noun) a choice that is made by counting the number of people in favor of each alternative |
Synonyms:
vote,
voting,
balloting |
| (verb) vote by ballot |
- |
| balsamroot
|
(noun) a plant of the genus Balsamorhiza having downy leaves in a basal rosette and yellow flowers and long balsam-scented taproots |
- |
|---|
| bandicoot
|
(noun) any of various agile ratlike terrestrial marsupials of Australia and adjacent islands; insectivorous and herbivorous |
- |
|---|
| barefoot
|
(adverb) without shoes on |
Synonyms:
barefooted |
|---|
| (adjective) without shoes |
Synonyms:
shoeless,
barefooted |
| beetroot
|
(noun) beet having a massively swollen red root; widely grown for human consumption |
Synonyms:
Beta vulgaris rubra |
|---|
| (noun) round red root vegetable |
Synonyms:
beet |
| bergamot
|
(noun) small tree with pear-shaped fruit whose oil is used in perfumery; Italy |
Synonyms:
Citrus bergamia,
bergamot orange |
|---|
| besot
|
(verb) make dull or stupid or muddle with drunkenness or infatuation |
Synonyms:
stupefy |
|---|
| bespot
|
(verb) mark with, or as if with, spots |
- |
|---|
| bigot
|
(noun) a prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from his own |
- |
|---|
| birthroot
|
(noun) trillium of eastern North America having malodorous pink to purple flowers and an astringent root used in folk medicine especially to ease childbirth |
Synonyms:
red trillium,
purple trillium,
Trillium erectum |
|---|
| bitterroot
|
(noun) showy succulent ground-hugging plant of Rocky Mountains regions having deep to pale pink flowers and fleshy farinaceous roots; the Montana state flower |
Synonyms:
Lewisia rediviva |
|---|
| bloodroot
|
(noun) perennial woodland native of North America having a red root and red sap and bearing a solitary lobed leaf and white flower in early spring and having acrid emetic properties; rootstock used as a stimulant and expectorant |
Synonyms:
redroot,
puccoon,
Sanguinaria canadensis,
tetterwort |
|---|
| bloodshot
|
(adjective) (of an eye) reddened as a result of locally congested blood vessels; inflamed |
- |
|---|
| blot
|
(noun) a blemish made by dirt |
Synonyms:
spot,
smear,
smirch,
daub,
smudge,
slur |
|---|
| (noun) an act that brings discredit to the person who does it |
Synonyms:
spot,
smear,
smirch,
stain |
| (verb) dry (ink) with blotting paper |
- |
| (verb) make a spot or mark onto |
Synonyms:
spot,
blob,
fleck |
| boot
|
(noun) footwear that covers the whole foot and lower leg |
- |
|---|
| (noun) compartment in an automobile that carries luggage or shopping or tools |
Synonyms:
automobile trunk,
trunk,
luggage compartment |
| (noun) the swift release of a store of affective force |
Synonyms:
charge,
rush,
kick,
bang,
flush,
thrill |
| (noun) protective casing for something that resembles a leg |
- |
| (noun) an instrument of torture that is used to heat or crush the foot and leg |
Synonyms:
iron boot,
iron heel,
the boot |
| (noun) a form of foot torture in which the feet are encased in iron and slowly crushed |
- |
| (noun) the act of delivering a blow with the foot |
Synonyms:
kick,
kicking |
| (verb) kick; give a boot to |
- |
| (verb) cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes |
Synonyms:
bring up,
reboot |
| bot
|
(noun) botfly larva; typically develops inside the body of a horse or sheep or human |
- |
|---|
| bowknot
|
(noun) a knot with two loops and loose ends; used to tie shoelaces |
Synonyms:
bow |
|---|
| breadroot
|
(noun) densely hairy perennial of central North America having edible tuberous roots |
Synonyms:
Indian breadroot,
Psoralea esculenta,
pomme blanche,
pomme de prairie |
|---|
| briarroot
|
(noun) hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea |
- |
|---|
| buckshot
|
(noun) small lead shot for shotgun shells |
Synonyms:
duck shot,
bird shot |
|---|
| bullshot
|
(noun) a cocktail made with vodka and beef bouillon or consomme |
- |
|---|
| burbot
|
(noun) elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth |
Synonyms:
cusk,
ling,
eelpout,
Lota lota |
|---|
| cachalot
|
(noun) large whale with a large cavity in the head containing spermaceti and oil; also a source of ambergris |
Synonyms:
Physeter catodon,
sperm whale,
black whale |
|---|
| cahoot
|
(noun) collusion |
- |
|---|
| carrot
|
(noun) deep orange edible root of the cultivated carrot plant |
- |
|---|
| (noun) perennial plant widely cultivated as an annual in many varieties for its long conical orange edible roots; temperate and tropical regions |
Synonyms:
Daucus carota sativa,
cultivated carrot |
| (noun) orange root; important source of carotene |
- |
| (noun) promise of reward as in "carrot and stick" |
- |
| carrycot
|
(noun) box-shaped baby bed with handles (for a baby to sleep in while being carried) |
- |
|---|
| chamberpot
|
(noun) a receptacle for urination or defecation in the bedroom |
Synonyms:
potty,
thunder mug |
|---|
| chariot
|
(verb) transport in a chariot |
- |
|---|
| (verb) ride in a chariot |
- |
| (noun) a light four-wheel horse-drawn ceremonial carriage |
- |
| (noun) a two-wheeled horse-drawn battle vehicle; used in war and races in ancient Egypt and Greece and Rome |
- |
| cheroot
|
(noun) a cigar with both ends cut flat |
- |
|---|
| chicot
|
(noun) handsome tree of central and eastern North America having large bipinnate leaves and green-white flowers followed by large woody brown pods whose seeds are used as a coffee substitute |
Synonyms:
Kentucky coffee tree,
Gymnocladus dioica,
bonduc |
|---|
| chimneypot
|
(noun) a short earthenware pipe on the top of a chimney to increase the draft |
- |
|---|
| clawfoot
|
(noun) a deformity of the foot characterized by an abnormally high arch and hyperextension of the toes which gives the foot the appearance of a claw |
Synonyms:
pes cavus |
|---|
| clot
|
(verb) change from a liquid to a thickened or solid state |
Synonyms:
coagulate |
|---|
| (verb) cause to change from a liquid to a solid or thickened state |
Synonyms:
coagulate |
| (verb) turn into curds |
Synonyms:
clabber,
curdle |
| (verb) coalesce or unite in a mass |
Synonyms:
clog |
| (noun) a lump of material formed from the content of a liquid |
Synonyms:
coagulum |
| cloveroot
|
(noun) hairy Eurasian plant with small yellow flowers and an astringent root formerly used medicinally |
Synonyms:
herb bennet,
Geum urbanum,
wood avens,
clover-root |
|---|
| clubfoot
|
(noun) congenital deformity of the foot usually marked by a curled shape or twisted position of the ankle and heel and toes |
Synonyms:
talipes |
|---|
| cocksfoot
|
(noun) widely grown stout Old World hay and pasture grass |
Synonyms:
Dactylis glomerata,
orchard grass,
cockspur |
|---|
| coffeepot
|
(noun) tall pot in which coffee is brewed |
- |
|---|
| colicroot
|
(noun) any of several perennials of the genus Aletris having grasslike leaves and bitter roots reputed to cure colic |
Synonyms:
unicorn root,
star grass,
colic root,
crow corn |
|---|
| coltsfoot
|
(noun) tufted evergreen perennial herb having spikes of tiny white flowers and glossy green round to heart-shaped leaves that become coppery to maroon or purplish in fall |
Synonyms:
galaxy,
Galax urceolata,
galax,
wandflower,
beetleweed |
|---|
| (noun) perennial herb with large rounded leaves resembling a colt's foot and yellow flowers appearing before the leaves do; native to Europe but now nearly cosmopolitan; used medicinally especially formerly |
Synonyms:
Tussilago farfara |
| compatriot
|
(noun) a person from your own country |
- |
|---|
| complot
|
(verb) engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together |
Synonyms:
machinate,
cabal,
conjure,
conspire |
|---|
| coot
|
(noun) slate-black slow-flying birds somewhat resembling ducks |
- |
|---|
| copilot
|
(noun) a relief pilot on an airplane |
Synonyms:
co-pilot |
|---|
| coralroot
|
(noun) European bittercress having a knotted white rootstock |
Synonyms:
Dentaria bulbifera,
Cardamine bulbifera,
coral-root bittercress,
coralwort |
|---|
| costusroot
|
(noun) annual herb of the eastern Himalayas (Kashmir) having purple florets and a fragrant root that yields a volatile oil used in perfumery and for preserving furs |
Synonyms:
Saussurea costus,
Saussurea lappa |
|---|
| cot
|
(noun) a sheath worn to protect a finger |
Synonyms:
fingerstall |
|---|
| (noun) baby bed with high sides made of slats |
Synonyms:
crib |
| (noun) a small bed that folds up for storage or transport |
Synonyms:
camp bed |
| counterplot
|
(verb) make a plot in response to another plot |
- |
|---|
| (noun) a plot intended to subvert another plot |
Synonyms:
counterplan |
| countershot
|
(noun) a return shot; a retaliatory shot |
- |
|---|
| crackpot
|
(noun) a whimsically eccentric person |
Synonyms:
screwball,
nut,
crank,
fruitcake,
nut case |
|---|
| crapshoot
|
(noun) a risky and uncertain venture |
- |
|---|
| (noun) playing craps |
Synonyms:
crap game,
crap shooting |
| crinkleroot
|
(noun) North American herb with pungent scaly or toothed roots |
Synonyms:
Dentaria diphylla,
pepper root,
Cardamine diphylla,
crinkle root,
crinkle-root,
toothwort |
|---|
| crowfoot
|
(noun) any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus |
Synonyms:
kingcup,
goldcup,
butter-flower,
buttercup,
butterflower |
|---|
| depot
|
(noun) station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods |
Synonyms:
terminal,
terminus |
|---|
| (noun) a depository for goods |
Synonyms:
entrepot,
storage,
store,
storehouse |
| despot
|
(noun) a cruel and oppressive dictator |
Synonyms:
autocrat,
tyrant |
|---|
| dicot
|
(noun) flowering plant with two cotyledons; the stem grows by deposit on its outside |
Synonyms:
magnoliopsid,
dicotyledon,
exogen |
|---|
| divot
|
(noun) (golf) the cavity left when a piece of turf is cut from the ground by the club head in making a stroke |
- |
|---|
| (noun) a piece of turf dug out of a lawn or fairway (by an animals hooves or a golf club) |
- |
| dogtrot
|
(noun) a steady trot like that of a dog |
- |
|---|
| dot
|
(verb) scatter or intersperse like dots or studs |
Synonyms:
constellate,
stud |
|---|
| (verb) distribute loosely |
Synonyms:
disperse,
scatter,
sprinkle,
dust |
| (verb) make a dot or dots |
- |
| (verb) mark with a dot |
- |
| (noun) a very small circular shape |
Synonyms:
point |
| (noun) the shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code |
Synonyms:
dit |
| (noun) street name for lysergic acid diethylamide |
Synonyms:
Zen,
acid,
dose,
pane,
Elvis,
window pane,
superman,
back breaker,
battery-acid,
Lucy in the sky with diamonds,
loony toons |
| earshot
|
(noun) the range within which a voice can be heard |
Synonyms:
hearing,
earreach |
|---|
| entrepot
|
(noun) a port where merchandise can be imported and then exported without paying import duties |
Synonyms:
transshipment center |
|---|
| (noun) a depository for goods |
Synonyms:
storage,
depot,
store,
storehouse |
| ergot
|
(noun) a plant disease caused by the ergot fungus |
- |
|---|
| (noun) a fungus that infects various cereal plants forming compact black masses of branching filaments that replace many grains of the plant; source of medicinally important alkaloids and of lysergic acid |
Synonyms:
Claviceps purpurea |
| escargot
|
(noun) edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic |
Synonyms:
snail |
|---|
| eschalot
|
(noun) type of onion plant producing small clustered mild-flavored bulbs used as seasoning |
Synonyms:
shallot,
multiplier onion,
Allium ascalonicum,
Allium cepa aggregatum |
|---|
| eyeshot
|
(noun) the range of the eye |
Synonyms:
view |
|---|
| eyespot
|
(noun) an eyelike marking (as on the wings of some butterflies); usually a spot of color inside a ring of another color |
Synonyms:
ocellus |
|---|
| faggot
|
(noun) offensive term for a homosexual man |
Synonyms:
pouf,
queen,
fag,
fagot,
pansy,
nance,
poof,
poove,
queer,
fairy |
|---|
| (noun) a bundle of sticks and branches bound together |
Synonyms:
fagot |
| (verb) ornament or join (fabric) by faggot stitch |
Synonyms:
fagot |
| (verb) fasten together rods of iron in order to heat or weld them |
Synonyms:
fagot |
| (verb) bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot |
Synonyms:
faggot up,
fagot |
| fagot
|
(noun) offensive term for a homosexual man |
Synonyms:
pouf,
queen,
fag,
faggot,
pansy,
nance,
poof,
poove,
queer,
fairy |
|---|
| (noun) a bundle of sticks and branches bound together |
Synonyms:
faggot |
| (verb) ornament or join (fabric) by faggot stitch |
Synonyms:
faggot |
| (verb) fasten together rods of iron in order to heat or weld them |
Synonyms:
faggot |
| (verb) bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot |
Synonyms:
faggot,
faggot up |
| feedlot
|
(noun) a building where livestock are fattened for market |
- |
|---|
| feverroot
|
(noun) coarse weedy American perennial herb with large usually perfoliate leaves and purple or dull red flowers |
Synonyms:
horse gentian,
wild coffee,
Triostium perfoliatum,
tinker's root |
|---|
| fingerroot
|
(noun) tall leafy European biennial or perennial having spectacular clusters of large tubular pink-purple flowers; leaves yield drug digitalis and are poisonous to livestock |
Synonyms:
Digitalis purpurea,
common foxglove,
fairy bell,
finger-flower,
finger-root,
fingerflower |
|---|
| flagroot
|
(noun) perennial marsh plant having swordlike leaves and aromatic roots |
Synonyms:
myrtle flag,
sweet calamus,
sweet flag,
calamus,
Acorus calamus |
|---|
| flatfoot
|
(noun) a policeman who patrols a given region |
Synonyms:
patrolman |
|---|
| (noun) a foot afflicted with a fallen arch; abnormally flattened and spread out |
Synonyms:
pes planus,
splayfoot |
| flowerpot
|
(noun) a container in which plants are cultivated |
Synonyms:
pot |
|---|
| foot
|
(noun) the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint |
Synonyms:
human foot,
pes |
|---|
| (noun) a linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard |
Synonyms:
ft |
| (noun) the lower part of anything |
- |
| (noun) the pedal extremity of vertebrates other than human beings |
Synonyms:
animal foot |
| (noun) lowest support of a structure |
Synonyms:
base,
groundwork,
foundation,
fundament,
understructure,
substructure |
| (noun) any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates |
Synonyms:
invertebrate foot |
| (noun) travel by walking |
- |
| (noun) a member of a surveillance team who works on foot or rides as a passenger |
- |
| (noun) an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot |
Synonyms:
infantry |
| (noun) (prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm |
Synonyms:
metrical foot,
metrical unit |
| (noun) a support resembling a pedal extremity |
- |
| (verb) pay for something |
Synonyms:
pick |
| (verb) walk |
Synonyms:
hoof,
hoof it,
leg it |
| (verb) add a column of numbers |
Synonyms:
foot up |
| forefoot
|
(noun) a front foot of a quadruped |
- |
|---|
| foxtrot
|
(verb) dance the foxtrot |
- |
|---|
| (noun) a ballroom dance in quadruple time; combines short and long and fast and slow steps fixed sequences |
Synonyms:
fox-trot |
| fumeroot
|
(noun) delicate European herb with greyish leaves and spikes of purplish flowers; formerly used medicinally |
Synonyms:
Fumaria officinalis,
fumewort,
fumitory |
|---|
| (noun) herb of northern Europe and Asia having erect racemes of red flowers |
Synonyms:
Corydalis solida,
fumewort |
| fusspot
|
(noun) thinks about unfortunate things that might happen |
Synonyms:
worrier,
worrywart,
fuss-budget |
|---|
| galoot
|
(noun) a disreputable or clumsy man |
- |
|---|
| gigot
|
(noun) lamb leg suitable for roasting |
Synonyms:
leg of lamb |
|---|
| gingerroot
|
(noun) pungent rhizome of the common ginger plant; used fresh as a seasoning especially in Asian cookery |
Synonyms:
ginger |
|---|
| goatsfoot
|
(noun) short-stemmed South African plant with bluish flowers |
Synonyms:
Oxalis caprina,
goat's foot |
|---|
| goosefoot
|
(noun) any of various weeds of the genus Chenopodium having small greenish flowers |
- |
|---|
| grapeshot
|
(noun) a cluster of small projectiles fired together from a cannon to produce a hail of shot |
Synonyms:
grape |
|---|
| griot
|
(noun) a storyteller in West Africa; perpetuates the oral traditions of a family or village |
- |
|---|
| grot
|
(noun) a small cave (usually with attractive features) |
Synonyms:
grotto |
|---|
| guillemot
|
(noun) small black or brown speckled auks of northern seas |
- |
|---|
| gunshot
|
(noun) the act of shooting a gun |
Synonyms:
gunfire |
|---|
| guyot
|
(noun) a seamount of volcanic origin (especially in the Pacific Ocean) |
- |
|---|
| haricot
|
(noun) a French variety of green bean plant bearing light-colored beans |
- |
|---|
| (noun) a French bean variety with light-colored seeds; usually dried |
Synonyms:
flageolet |