acorn | (noun) fruit of the oak tree: a smooth thin-walled nut in a woody cup-shaped base | - |
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adjourn | (verb) close at the end of a session | Synonyms: break up, recess |
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(verb) break from a meeting or gathering | Synonyms: retire, withdraw |
adorn | (verb) make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc. | Synonyms: beautify, decorate, embellish, grace, ornament |
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(verb) furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors | Synonyms: clothe, invest |
(verb) be beautiful to look at | Synonyms: beautify, deck, decorate, embellish, grace |
astern | (adverb) (of a ship or an airplane) behind | - |
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(adverb) at or near or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an airplane | Synonyms: abaft, aft |
(adverb) stern foremost or backward | - |
attorn | (verb) acknowledge a new land owner as one's landlord | - |
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auburn | (adjective) (of hair) colored a moderate reddish-brown | - |
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bairn | (noun) a child: son or daughter | - |
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barleycorn | (noun) a grain of barley | Synonyms: barley |
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(noun) a grain of barley | - |
barn | (noun) an outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals | - |
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(noun) (physics) a unit of nuclear cross section; the effective circular area that one particle presents to another as a target for an encounter | Synonyms: b |
baseborn | (adjective) illegitimate | Synonyms: base |
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(adjective) of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense) | Synonyms: base, humble, lowly |
bicorn | (adjective) having two horns or horn-shaped parts | Synonyms: bicornate, bicorned, bicornuate, bicornuous |
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(noun) a cocked hat with the brim turned up to form two points | Synonyms: bicorne |
bighorn | (noun) wild sheep of mountainous regions of western North America having massive curled horns | Synonyms: bighorn sheep, cimarron, Ovis canadensis, Rocky Mountain bighorn, Rocky Mountain sheep |
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bittern | (noun) relatively small compact tawny-brown heron with nocturnal habits and a booming cry; found in marshes | - |
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blackthorn | (noun) erect and almost thornless American hawthorn with somewhat pear-shaped berries | Synonyms: Crataegus calpodendron, Crataegus tomentosa, pear haw, pear hawthorn |
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(noun) a thorny Eurasian bush with plumlike fruits | Synonyms: Prunus spinosa, sloe |
born | (adjective) brought into existence | - |
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(adjective) being talented through inherited qualities | Synonyms: innate, natural |
bourn | (noun) an archaic term for a goal or destination | Synonyms: bourne |
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(noun) an archaic term for a boundary | Synonyms: bourne |
boxthorn | (noun) any of various shrubs or vines of the genus Lycium with showy flowers and bright berries | Synonyms: matrimony vine |
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broomcorn | (noun) tall grasses grown for the elongated stiff-branched panicle used for brooms and brushes | Synonyms: Sorghum vulgare technicum |
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buckthorn | (noun) any shrub or small tree of the genus Bumelia | - |
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(noun) a shrub or shrubby tree of the genus Rhamnus; fruits are source of yellow dyes or pigments | - |
(noun) an Old World plantain with long narrow ribbed leaves widely established in temperate regions | Synonyms: English plantain, narrow-leaved plantain, Plantago lanceolata, ribgrass, ribwort, ripple-grass |
bullhorn | (noun) a portable loudspeaker with built-in microphone and amplifier | Synonyms: loud-hailer, loud hailer |
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burn | (noun) damage inflicted by fire | - |
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(noun) a place or area that has been burned (especially on a person's body) | Synonyms: burn mark |
(noun) pain that feels hot as if it were on fire | Synonyms: burning |
(noun) an injury caused by exposure to heat or chemicals or radiation | - |
(verb) get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun | Synonyms: sunburn |
(verb) undergo combustion | Synonyms: combust |
(verb) cause to undergo combustion | Synonyms: incinerate |
(verb) destroy by fire | Synonyms: burn down, fire |
(verb) damage by burning with heat, fire, or radiation | - |
(verb) burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent | Synonyms: cauterise, cauterize |
(verb) use up (energy) | Synonyms: burn off, burn up |
(verb) create by duplicating data | Synonyms: cut |
(verb) feel strong emotion, especially anger or passion | - |
(verb) cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort | Synonyms: bite, sting |
(verb) feel hot or painful | - |
(verb) spend (significant amounts of money) | - |
(verb) execute by tying to a stake and setting alight | - |
(verb) shine intensely, as if with heat | Synonyms: glow |
(verb) cause to burn or combust | Synonyms: combust |
cairn | (noun) small rough-haired breed of terrier from Scotland | Synonyms: cairn terrier |
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(noun) a mound of stones piled up as a memorial or to mark a boundary or path | - |
careworn | (adjective) showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering | Synonyms: drawn, haggard, raddled, worn |
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casern | (noun) military barracks in a garrison town | - |
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cavern | (noun) a large cave or a large chamber in a cave | - |
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(noun) any large dark enclosed space | - |
(verb) hollow out as if making a cavern | Synonyms: cavern out |
cedarn | (adjective) consisting of or made of cedar | - |
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churn | (noun) a vessel in which cream is agitated to separate butterfat from buttermilk | Synonyms: butter churn |
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(verb) stir (cream) vigorously in order to make butter | - |
(verb) be agitated | Synonyms: boil, moil, roil |
cistern | (noun) an artificial reservoir for storing liquids; especially an underground tank for storing rainwater | - |
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(noun) a tank that holds the water used to flush a toilet | Synonyms: water tank |
(noun) a sac or cavity containing fluid especially lymph or cerebrospinal fluid | Synonyms: cisterna |
cithern | (noun) a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings | Synonyms: cither, citole, cittern, gittern |
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cittern | (noun) a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings | Synonyms: cither, cithern, citole, gittern |
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concern | (noun) something that interests you because it is important or affects you | - |
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(noun) something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: headache, vexation, worry |
(noun) a feeling of sympathy for someone or something | - |
(noun) an anxious feeling | Synonyms: care, fear |
(noun) a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it | Synonyms: business, business concern, business organisation, business organization |
(verb) be relevant to | Synonyms: bear on, come to, have to do with, pertain, refer, relate, touch, touch on |
(verb) be on the mind of | Synonyms: interest, occupy, worry |
corn | (noun) something sentimental or trite | - |
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(noun) ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food | Synonyms: edible corn |
(noun) whiskey distilled from a mash of not less than 80 percent corn | Synonyms: corn whiskey, corn whisky |
(noun) tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times | Synonyms: Indian corn, maize, Zea mays |
(noun) (Great Britain) any of various cereal plants (especially the dominant crop of the region--wheat in Great Britain or oats in Scotland and Ireland) | - |
(noun) the dried grains or kernels or corn used as animal feed or ground for meal | - |
(noun) a hard thickening of the skin (especially on the top or sides of the toes) caused by the pressure of ill-fitting shoes | Synonyms: clavus |
(verb) preserve with large-grained rock salt | - |
(verb) feed (cattle) with corn | - |
cowbarn | (noun) a barn for cows | Synonyms: byre, cow barn, cowhouse, cowshed |
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crumhorn | (noun) a Renaissance woodwind with a double reed and a curving tube (crooked horn) | Synonyms: cromorne, krummhorn |
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darn | (noun) sewing that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a garment) | Synonyms: mend, patch |
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(noun) something of little value | Synonyms: damn, hoot, red cent, shit, shucks, tinker's dam, tinker's damn |
(verb) repair by sewing | - |
dehorn | (verb) take the horns off (an animal) | - |
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(verb) prevent the growth of horns of certain animals | - |
discern | (verb) detect with the senses | Synonyms: distinguish, make out, pick out, recognise, recognize, spot, tell apart |
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downturn | (noun) a worsening of business or economic activity | Synonyms: downswing |
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earn | (verb) earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages | Synonyms: bring in, clear, gain, make, pull in, realise, realize, take in |
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(verb) acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions | Synonyms: garner, win |
earthborn | (adjective) connected with earthly life; of earthly origin | - |
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(adjective) springing from or born on the earth | - |
(adjective) of earthly origin (as mortals are) | - |
eastern | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of regions of eastern parts of the world | - |
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(adjective) of or characteristic of eastern regions of the United States | - |
(adjective) lying toward or situated in the east | - |
(adjective) from the east; used especially of winds | Synonyms: easterly |
(adjective) lying in or toward the east | Synonyms: easterly |
ern | (noun) bulky greyish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail; of Europe and Greenland | Synonyms: erne, European sea eagle, gray sea eagle, grey sea eagle, Haliatus albicilla, white-tailed sea eagle |
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extern | (noun) a nonresident doctor or medical student; connected with a hospital but not living there | Synonyms: medical extern |
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fern | (noun) any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores | - |
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firethorn | (noun) any of various thorny shrubs of the genus Pyracantha bearing small white flowers followed by hard red or orange-red berries | Synonyms: fire thorn, pyracanth, Pyracantha |
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firstborn | (adjective) first in order of birth | Synonyms: eldest |
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(noun) the offspring who came first in the order of birth | Synonyms: eldest |
fluegelhorn | (noun) a brass instrument resembling a cornet but with a wider bore | Synonyms: flugelhorn |
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flugelhorn | (noun) a brass instrument resembling a cornet but with a wider bore | Synonyms: fluegelhorn |
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foghorn | (noun) a warning device consisting of a horn that generates a loud low tone | - |
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(noun) a loud low warning signal that can be heard by fogbound ships | Synonyms: fogsignal |
forewarn | (verb) warn in advance or beforehand; give an early warning | Synonyms: previse |
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forlorn | (adjective) marked by or showing hopelessness | - |
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freeborn | (adjective) born free of free parents | - |
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gittern | (noun) a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings | Synonyms: cither, cithern, citole, cittern |
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govern | (verb) exercise authority over; as of nations | Synonyms: rule |
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(verb) direct or strongly influence the behavior of | - |
(verb) bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations | Synonyms: order, regularise, regularize, regulate |
(verb) require to be in a certain grammatical case, voice, or mood | - |
greenhorn | (noun) an awkward and inexperienced youth | Synonyms: cub, rookie |
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hawthorn | (noun) a spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus | Synonyms: haw |
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heartburn | (noun) a painful burning sensation in the chest caused by gastroesophageal reflux (backflow from the stomach irritating the esophagus); symptomatic of an ulcer or a diaphragmatic hernia or other disorder | Synonyms: pyrosis |
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highborn | (adjective) belonging to the peerage | Synonyms: coroneted, titled |
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horn | (noun) one of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates | - |
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(noun) any hard protuberance from the head of an organism that is similar to or suggestive of a horn | - |
(noun) a brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves | Synonyms: French horn |
(noun) a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves | Synonyms: cornet, trump, trumpet |
(noun) an alarm device that makes a loud warning sound | - |
(noun) a high pommel of a Western saddle (usually metal covered with leather) | Synonyms: saddle horn |
(noun) a device on an automobile for making a warning noise | Synonyms: automobile horn, car horn, hooter, motor horn |
(noun) a noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it | - |
(noun) a device having the shape of a horn | - |
(noun) a noise made by the driver of an automobile to give warning | - |
(noun) the material (mostly keratin) that covers the horns of ungulates and forms hooves and claws and nails | - |
(verb) stab or pierce with a horn or tusk | Synonyms: tusk |
inborn | (adjective) normally existing at birth | Synonyms: connatural, inbred |
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(adjective) present at birth but not necessarily hereditary; acquired during fetal development | Synonyms: congenital, innate |
intern | (noun) an advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience | Synonyms: houseman, interne, medical intern |
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(verb) deprive of freedom | - |
(verb) work as an intern | - |
japorn | (noun) Japanese pornography | - |
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kern | (noun) the part of a metal type that projects beyond its body | - |
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(verb) remove a portion of space between (adjacent letters) | - |
(verb) furnish with a kern | - |
klavern | (noun) a local unit of the Ku Klux Klan | - |
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krummhorn | (noun) a Renaissance woodwind with a double reed and a curving tube (crooked horn) | Synonyms: cromorne, crumhorn |
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lantern | (noun) light in a transparent protective case | - |
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larn | (verb) gain knowledge or skills | Synonyms: acquire, learn |
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learn | (verb) gain knowledge or skills | Synonyms: acquire, larn |
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(verb) get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally | Synonyms: discover, find out, get a line, get wind, get word, hear, pick up, see |
(verb) be a student of a certain subject | Synonyms: read, study, take |
(verb) commit to memory; learn by heart | Synonyms: con, memorise, memorize |
(verb) impart skills or knowledge to | Synonyms: instruct, teach |
(verb) find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort | Synonyms: ascertain, check, determine, find out, see, watch |
lectern | (noun) desk or stand with a slanted top used to hold a text at the proper height for a lecturer | Synonyms: reading desk |
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leghorn | (noun) a stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown | Synonyms: boater, Panama, Panama hat, sailor, skimmer, straw hat |
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lipfern | (noun) any of various terrestrial ferns of the genus Cheilanthes; cosmopolitan in arid and semiarid temperate or tropical regions | Synonyms: lip fern |
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liveborn | (adjective) (of newborn infant) showing signs of life after birth; not stillborn | - |
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longhorn | (noun) long-horned beef cattle formerly common in southwestern United States | Synonyms: Texas longhorn |
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longicorn | (noun) long-bodied beetle having very long antennae | Synonyms: long-horned beetle, longicorn beetle |
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lovelorn | (adjective) unhappy in love; suffering from unrequited love | Synonyms: bereft, unbeloved |
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lowborn | (adjective) of humble birth or origins | - |
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midwestern | (adjective) of a region of the United States generally including Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, and sometimes Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota | - |
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misgovern | (verb) govern badly | - |
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modern | (adjective) belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages | - |
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(adjective) relating to a recently developed fashion or style | Synonyms: mod, modernistic |
(adjective) characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture | - |
(adjective) ahead of the times | Synonyms: advanced, forward-looking, innovative |
(noun) a typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes | Synonyms: Bodoni, Bodoni font, modern font |
(noun) a contemporary person | - |
morn | (noun) the time period between dawn and noon | Synonyms: forenoon, morning, morning time |
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mourn | (verb) feel sadness | - |
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(verb) observe the customs of mourning after the death of a loved one | - |
newborn | (adjective) having just or recently arisen or come into existence | Synonyms: new-sprung |
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(adjective) recently born | - |
(noun) a baby from birth to four weeks | Synonyms: neonate |
nonmodern | (adjective) not modern; of or characteristic of an earlier time | - |
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northeastern | (adjective) of a region of the United States generally including the New England states, New York, and sometimes New Jersey and Pennsylvania | - |
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(adjective) situated in or oriented toward the northeast | Synonyms: northeast, northeasterly |
northern | (adjective) situated in regions of the north | - |
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(adjective) in or characteristic of a region of the United States north of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line | - |
(adjective) coming from the north; used especially of wind | Synonyms: northerly |
(adjective) oriented toward the north | Synonyms: northerly |
northwestern | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the northwest | Synonyms: northwest, northwesterly |
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(adjective) of a region of the United States generally including Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and sometimes Montana, Wyoming | - |
outturn | (noun) what is produced in a given time period | Synonyms: output, turnout |
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overturn | (noun) the act of upsetting something | Synonyms: turnover, upset |
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(noun) an improbable and unexpected victory | Synonyms: upset |
(verb) change radically | Synonyms: revolutionise, revolutionize |
(verb) rule against | Synonyms: override, overrule, overthrow, reverse |
(verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, countermand, lift, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, vacate |
(verb) turn from an upright or normal position | Synonyms: tip over, tump over, turn over |
(verb) cause to overturn from an upright or normal position | Synonyms: bowl over, knock over, tip over, tump over, turn over, upset |
(verb) cause the downfall of; of rulers | Synonyms: bring down, overthrow, subvert |
pastern | (noun) the part between the fetlock and the hoof | Synonyms: fetter bone |
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pattern | (noun) a customary way of operation or behavior | Synonyms: practice |
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(noun) a decorative or artistic work | Synonyms: design, figure |
(noun) a perceptual structure | Synonyms: form, shape |
(noun) a model considered worthy of imitation | - |
(noun) something intended as a guide for making something else | Synonyms: blueprint, design |
(noun) something regarded as a normative example | Synonyms: convention, formula, normal, rule |
(noun) graphical representation (in polar or Cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle | Synonyms: radiation diagram, radiation pattern |
(noun) the path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport | Synonyms: approach pattern, traffic pattern |
(verb) plan or create according to a model or models | Synonyms: model |
(verb) form a pattern | - |
peppercorn | (noun) pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or ground | Synonyms: pepper |
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pibgorn | (noun) an ancient (now obsolete) single-reed woodwind; usually made of bone | Synonyms: hornpipe, stockhorn |
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popcorn | (noun) small kernels of corn exploded by heat | - |
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(noun) corn having small ears and kernels that burst when exposed to dry heat | Synonyms: Zea mays everta |
porn | (noun) creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire | Synonyms: erotica, porno, pornography, smut |
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postern | (noun) a small gate in the rear of a fort or castle | - |
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postmodern | (adjective) of or relating to postmodernism | Synonyms: postmodernist |
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pronghorn | (noun) fleet antelope-like ruminant of western North American plains with small branched horns | Synonyms: American antelope, Antilocapra americana, prongbuck, pronghorn antelope |
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quartern | (noun) one of four equal parts | Synonyms: fourth, fourth part, one-fourth, one-quarter, quarter, twenty-five percent |
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quatern | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one | Synonyms: 4, four, foursome, IV, Little Joe, quadruplet, quartet, quaternary, quaternion, quaternity, tetrad |
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quern | (noun) a primitive stone mill for grinding corn by hand | - |
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