regrow | (verb) grow anew or continue growth after an injury or interruption | - |
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restharrow | (noun) European woody plant having pink flowers and unifoliate leaves and long tough roots; spreads by underground runners | Synonyms: Ononis repens, rest-harrow |
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(noun) Eurasian plant having loose racemes of pink or purple flowers and spiny stems and tough roots | Synonyms: Ononis spinosa, rest-harrow |
row | (noun) the act of rowing as a sport | Synonyms: rowing |
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(noun) (construction) a layer of masonry | Synonyms: course |
(noun) a continuous chronological succession without an interruption | - |
(noun) an arrangement of objects or people side by side in a line | - |
(noun) a linear array of numbers, letters, or symbols side by side | - |
(noun) a long continuous strip (usually running horizontally) | - |
(noun) an angry dispute | Synonyms: dustup, quarrel, run-in, words, wrangle |
(verb) propel with oars | - |
saddlebow | (noun) handgrip formed by the raised front part of a saddle | Synonyms: pommel |
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sallow | (adjective) unhealthy looking | Synonyms: sickly |
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(noun) any of several Old World shrubby broad-leaved willows having large catkins; some are important sources for tanbark and charcoal | - |
(verb) cause to become sallow | - |
scarecrow | (noun) an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds | Synonyms: bird-scarer, scarer, straw man, strawman |
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schoolfellow | (noun) an acquaintance that you go to school with | Synonyms: class fellow, classmate, schoolmate |
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scow | (noun) a barge carrying bulk materials in an open hold | - |
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(noun) any of various flat-bottomed boats with sloping ends | - |
serow | (noun) short-horned dark-coated goat antelope of mountain areas of southern and southeastern Asia | - |
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shadblow | (noun) any of various North American trees or shrubs having showy white flowers and edible blue-black or purplish fruit | Synonyms: Juneberry, service tree, serviceberry, shadbush |
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shadow | (noun) refuge from danger or observation | - |
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(noun) something existing in perception only | Synonyms: apparition, fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, phantom |
(noun) an indication that something has been present | Synonyms: tincture, trace, vestige |
(noun) a premonition of something adverse | - |
(noun) an unilluminated area | Synonyms: dark, darkness |
(noun) a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements | Synonyms: shadower, tail |
(noun) an inseparable companion | - |
(noun) a dominating and pervasive presence | - |
(noun) shade within clear boundaries | - |
(verb) follow, usually without the person's knowledge | - |
(verb) make appear small by comparison | Synonyms: dwarf, overshadow |
(verb) cast a shadow over | Synonyms: shade, shade off |
shallow | (adjective) lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center | - |
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(adjective) not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply | - |
(adjective) lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious | - |
(noun) a stretch of shallow water | Synonyms: shoal |
(verb) become shallow | Synonyms: shoal |
(verb) make shallow | Synonyms: shoal |
shopwindow | (noun) a window of a store facing onto the street; used to display merchandise for sale in the store | Synonyms: display window, shop window, show window |
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show | (noun) an act or social event involving a public performance or entertainment | - |
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(noun) pretending that something is the case in order to make a good impression | Synonyms: appearance |
(noun) something intended to communicate a particular impression | Synonyms: display |
(verb) establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment | Synonyms: demonstrate, establish, prove, shew |
(verb) provide evidence for | Synonyms: bear witness, evidence, prove, testify |
(verb) indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively | Synonyms: designate, indicate, point |
(verb) give expression to | Synonyms: evince, express |
(verb) give evidence of, as of records | - |
(verb) indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments | Synonyms: read, record, register |
(verb) finish third or better in a horse or dog race | - |
(verb) show in, or as in, a picture | Synonyms: depict, picture, render |
(verb) take (someone) to their seats, as in theaters or auditoriums | Synonyms: usher |
(verb) make visible or noticeable | - |
(verb) be or become visible or noticeable | Synonyms: show up |
(verb) give an exhibition of to an interested audience | Synonyms: demo, demonstrate, exhibit, present |
sideshow | (noun) a minor show that is part of a larger one (as at the circus) | - |
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(noun) a subordinate incident of little importance relative to the main event | - |
slow | (adjective) not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time | - |
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(adjective) at a slow tempo | - |
(adjective) (used of timepieces) indicating a time earlier than the correct time | - |
(adjective) (of business) not active or brisk | Synonyms: dull, sluggish |
(adjective) slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity | Synonyms: dense, dim, dull, dumb, obtuse |
(adjective) so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness | Synonyms: boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, tedious, tiresome, wearisome |
(adverb) without speed (`slow' is sometimes used informally for `slowly') | Synonyms: easy, slowly, tardily |
(adverb) showing a time that is earlier than the actual time | Synonyms: behind |
(verb) lose velocity; move more slowly | Synonyms: decelerate, retard, slow down, slow up |
(verb) become slow or slower | Synonyms: slack, slacken, slow down, slow up |
(verb) cause to proceed more slowly | Synonyms: slow down, slow up |
snow | (noun) street names for cocaine | Synonyms: blow, C, coke, nose candy |
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(noun) precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals | Synonyms: snowfall |
(noun) a layer of snowflakes (white crystals of frozen water) covering the ground | - |
(verb) conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end | Synonyms: bamboozle, hoodwink, lead by the nose, play false, pull the wool over someone's eyes |
(verb) fall as snow | - |
snowplow | (noun) a vehicle used to push snow from roads | Synonyms: snowplough |
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somehow | (adverb) in some unspecified way or manner; or by some unspecified means | Synonyms: someway, someways |
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(adverb) for some unspecified reason | - |
sorrow | (noun) something that causes great unhappiness | Synonyms: grief |
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(noun) an emotion of great sadness associated with loss or bereavement | - |
(noun) sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment | Synonyms: regret, rue, ruefulness |
(noun) the state of being sad | Synonyms: sadness, sorrowfulness |
(verb) feel grief | Synonyms: grieve |
sow | (noun) an adult female hog | - |
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(verb) introduce into an environment | - |
(verb) place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth | Synonyms: seed |
(verb) place seeds in or on (the ground) | Synonyms: inseminate, sow in |
sparrow | (noun) any of several small dull-colored singing birds feeding on seeds or insects | Synonyms: true sparrow |
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(noun) small brownish European songbird | Synonyms: dunnock, hedge sparrow, Prunella modularis |
stow | (verb) fill by packing tightly | - |
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straightarrow | (adjective) conventionally moral and upright | - |
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swallow | (noun) the act of swallowing | Synonyms: deglutition, drink |
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(noun) small long-winged songbird noted for swift graceful flight and the regularity of its migrations | - |
(noun) a small amount of liquid food | Synonyms: sup |
(verb) believe or accept without questioning or challenge | - |
(verb) keep from expressing | - |
(verb) tolerate or accommodate oneself to | Synonyms: accept, live with |
(verb) take back what one has said | Synonyms: take back, unsay, withdraw |
(verb) utter unclearly | - |
(verb) engulf and destroy | - |
(verb) pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking | Synonyms: get down |
(verb) enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing | Synonyms: bury, eat up, immerse, swallow up |
tallow | (noun) obtained from suet and used in making soap, candles and lubricants | - |
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throw | (noun) the act of throwing (propelling something with a rapid movement of the arm and wrist) | - |
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(noun) casting an object in order to determine an outcome randomly | - |
(noun) bedclothes consisting of a lightweight cloth covering (an afghan or bedspread) that is casually thrown over something | - |
(noun) the maximum movement available to a pivoted or reciprocating piece by a cam | Synonyms: cam stroke, stroke |
(noun) a single chance or instance | - |
(verb) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly | Synonyms: bedevil, befuddle, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle |
(verb) convey or communicate; of a smile, a look, a physical gesture | Synonyms: give |
(verb) utter with force; utter vehemently | Synonyms: hurl |
(verb) propel through the air | - |
(verb) cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation | Synonyms: flip, switch |
(verb) place or put with great energy | Synonyms: thrust |
(verb) cause to fall off | - |
(verb) to remove | Synonyms: cast, cast off, drop, shake off, shed, throw away, throw off |
(verb) throw (a die) out onto a flat surface | - |
(verb) make on a potter's wheel | - |
(verb) put or send forth | Synonyms: cast, contrive, project |
(verb) organize or be responsible for | Synonyms: give, have, hold, make |
(verb) cause to be confused emotionally | Synonyms: bemuse, bewilder, discombobulate |
(verb) move violently, energetically, or carelessly | - |
(verb) to put into a state or activity hastily, suddenly, or carelessly | - |
tomorrow | (noun) the near future | - |
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(noun) the day after today | - |
(adverb) the next day, the day after, following the present day | - |
topminnow | (noun) small usually brightly-colored viviparous surface-feeding fishes of fresh or brackish warm waters; often used in mosquito control | Synonyms: live-bearer, poeciliid, poeciliid fish |
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(noun) freshwater fish of Central America having a long swordlike tail; popular aquarium fish | Synonyms: helleri, swordtail, Xyphophorus helleri |
tow | (noun) the act of hauling something (as a vehicle) by means of a hitch or rope | Synonyms: towage |
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(verb) drag behind | - |
undergrow | (verb) grow below something | - |
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undertow | (noun) the seaward undercurrent created after waves have broken on the shore | Synonyms: sea-poose, sea-purse, sea-puss, sea purse, sea puss |
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(noun) an inclination contrary to the strongest or prevailing feeling | - |
unfollow | (verb) to stop following a user on social media | - |
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unhallow | (verb) remove the consecration from a person or an object | Synonyms: deconsecrate, desecrate |
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upthrow | (noun) (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building) | Synonyms: upheaval, uplift, upthrust |
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vow | (noun) a solemn pledge (to oneself or to another or to a deity) to do something or to behave in a certain manner | - |
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(verb) make a vow; promise | - |
(verb) dedicate to a deity by a vow | Synonyms: consecrate |
wallow | (noun) an indolent or clumsy rolling about | - |
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(noun) a puddle where animals go to wallow | - |
(verb) delight greatly in | - |
(verb) devote oneself entirely to something; indulge in to an immoderate degree, usually with pleasure | - |
(verb) be ecstatic with joy | Synonyms: rejoice, triumph |
(verb) roll around | Synonyms: welter |
(verb) rise up as if in waves | Synonyms: billow |
waxmallow | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Malvaviscus having brilliant bell-shaped drooping flowers like incompletely opened hibiscus flowers | Synonyms: sleeping hibiscus, wax mallow |
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wheelbarrow | (noun) a cart for carrying small loads; has handles and one or more wheels | Synonyms: barrow, garden cart, lawn cart |
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(verb) transport in a wheelbarrow | - |
whitlow | (noun) a purulent infection at the end of a finger or toe in the area surrounding the nail | Synonyms: felon |
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widow | (noun) a woman whose husband is dead especially one who has not remarried | Synonyms: widow woman |
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(verb) cause to be without a spouse | - |
willow | (noun) a textile machine having a system of revolving spikes for opening and cleaning raw textile fibers | - |
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(noun) any of numerous deciduous trees and shrubs of the genus Salix | Synonyms: willow tree |
window | (noun) a framework of wood or metal that contains a glass windowpane and is built into a wall or roof to admit light or air | - |
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(noun) a transparent opening in a vehicle that allow vision out of the sides or back; usually is capable of being opened | - |
(noun) a transparent panel (as of an envelope) inserted in an otherwise opaque material | - |
(noun) (computer science) a rectangular part of a computer screen that contains a display different from the rest of the screen | - |
(noun) a pane of glass in a window | Synonyms: windowpane |
(noun) an opening in a wall or screen that admits light and air and through which customers can be served | - |
(noun) an opening that resembles a window in appearance or function | - |
(noun) the time period that is considered best for starting or finishing something | - |
winnow | (noun) the act of separating grain from chaff | Synonyms: sifting, winnowing |
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(verb) blow away or off with a current of air | Synonyms: fan |
(verb) select desirable parts from a group or list | Synonyms: cull out |
(verb) separate the chaff from grain by using air currents | - |
(verb) blow on | - |
workfellow | (noun) an associate that one works with | Synonyms: co-worker, colleague, fellow worker |
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workflow | (noun) progress (or rate of progress) in work being done | Synonyms: work flow |
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wow | (noun) a joke that seems extremely funny | Synonyms: belly laugh, howler, riot, scream, sidesplitter, thigh-slapper |
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(verb) impress greatly | - |
yarrow | (noun) ubiquitous strong-scented mat-forming Eurasian herb of wasteland, hedgerow or pasture having narrow serrate leaves and small usually white florets; widely naturalized in North America | Synonyms: Achillea millefolium, milfoil |
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yellow | (adjective) of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk | Synonyms: xanthous, yellowish |
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(adjective) easily frightened | Synonyms: chicken, chickenhearted, lily-livered, white-livered, yellow-bellied |
(adjective) cowardly or treacherous | - |
(adjective) changed to a yellowish color by age | Synonyms: yellowed |
(adjective) typical of tabloids | Synonyms: scandalmongering, sensationalistic |
(adjective) affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc | Synonyms: icteric, jaundiced |
(noun) yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons | Synonyms: yellowness |
(verb) turn yellow | - |