accoucheur | (noun) a physician specializing in obstetrics | Synonyms: obstetrician |
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allosaur | (noun) late Jurassic carnivorous dinosaur; similar to but somewhat smaller than tyrannosaurus | Synonyms: allosaurus |
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amateur | (adjective) engaged in as a pastime | Synonyms: recreational, unpaid |
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(adjective) lacking professional skill or expertise | Synonyms: amateurish, inexpert, unskilled |
(noun) someone who pursues a study or sport as a pastime | - |
(noun) an athlete who does not play for pay | - |
amour | (noun) a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship | Synonyms: affair, affaire, intimacy, involvement, liaison |
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ankylosaur | (noun) having the back covered with thick bony plates; thought to have walked with a sprawling gait resembling a lizard's | Synonyms: ankylosaurus |
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antitumour | (adjective) used in the treatment of cancer | Synonyms: anticancer, antineoplastic, antitumor |
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apatosaur | (noun) huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur common in North America in the late Jurassic | Synonyms: apatosaurus, Apatosaurus excelsus, brontosaur, brontosaurus, thunder lizard |
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arbitrageur | (noun) someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential) | Synonyms: arb, arbitrager |
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arbour | (noun) a framework that supports climbing plants | Synonyms: arbor, bower, pergola |
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archosaur | (noun) extinct reptiles including: dinosaurs, plesiosaurs, pterosaurs, ichthyosaurs, thecodonts | Synonyms: archosaurian, archosaurian reptile |
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ardour | (noun) intense feeling of love | Synonyms: ardor |
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(noun) a feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause) | Synonyms: ardor, elan, zeal |
(noun) feelings of great warmth and intensity | Synonyms: ardor, fervency, fervidness, fervor, fervour, fire |
argentinosaur | (noun) huge herbivorous dinosaur of Cretaceous found in Argentina | - |
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armour | (noun) tough more-or-less rigid protective covering of an animal or plant | Synonyms: armor |
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(noun) protective covering made of metal and used in combat | Synonyms: armor |
(noun) a military unit consisting of armored fighting vehicles | Synonyms: armor |
(verb) equip with armor | Synonyms: armor |
augur | (noun) (ancient Rome) a religious official who interpreted omens to guide public policy | Synonyms: auspex |
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(verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
(verb) predict from an omen | - |
auteur | (noun) a filmmaker who has a personal style and keeps creative control over his or her works | - |
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barosaur | (noun) a dinosaur that could grow to be as tall as a building five stories tall | Synonyms: barosaurus |
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behaviour | (noun) manner of acting or controlling yourself | Synonyms: behavior, conduct, doings |
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(noun) (psychology) the aggregate of the responses or reactions or movements made by an organism in any situation | Synonyms: behavior |
(noun) (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people | Synonyms: behavior, conduct, demeanor, demeanour, deportment |
(noun) the action or reaction of something (as a machine or substance) under specified circumstances | Synonyms: behavior |
belabour | (verb) attack verbally with harsh criticism | Synonyms: belabor |
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(verb) beat soundly | Synonyms: belabor |
(verb) to work at or to absurd length | Synonyms: belabor |
bicolour | (adjective) having two colors | Synonyms: bichrome, bicolor, bicolored, bicoloured, dichromatic |
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blur | (noun) a hazy or indistinct representation | Synonyms: fuzz |
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(verb) become vague or indistinct | Synonyms: dim, slur |
(verb) make dim or indistinct | Synonyms: blear |
(verb) make unclear, indistinct, or blurred | Synonyms: confuse, obnubilate, obscure |
(verb) make a smudge on; soil by smudging | Synonyms: smear, smudge, smutch |
(verb) to make less distinct or clear | - |
(verb) become glassy; lose clear vision | Synonyms: film over, glaze over |
bonheur | (noun) (French) happiness and good humor | - |
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brontosaur | (noun) huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur common in North America in the late Jurassic | Synonyms: apatosaur, apatosaurus, Apatosaurus excelsus, brontosaurus, thunder lizard |
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bulghur | (noun) parched crushed wheat | Synonyms: bulgur, bulgur wheat |
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bulgur | (noun) parched crushed wheat | Synonyms: bulghur, bulgur wheat |
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bur | (noun) small bit used in dentistry or surgery | Synonyms: burr |
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(noun) seed vessel having hooks or prickles | Synonyms: burr |
(verb) remove the burrs from | Synonyms: burr |
butterbur | (noun) small Eurasian herb having broad leaves and lilac-pink rayless flowers; found in moist areas | Synonyms: bog rhubarb, Petasites hybridus, Petasites vulgaris |
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candour | (noun) the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech | Synonyms: candidness, candor, directness, forthrightness, frankness |
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(noun) ability to make judgments free from discrimination or dishonesty | Synonyms: candor, fair-mindedness, fairness |
carillonneur | (noun) a musician who plays a carillon | - |
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carnosaur | (noun) large carnivorous bipedal dinosaur having huge claws | - |
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carrefour | (noun) a junction where one street or road crosses another | Synonyms: crossing, crossroad, crossway, intersection |
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centaur | (noun) (classical mythology) a mythical being that is half man and half horse | - |
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ceratosaur | (noun) primitive medium-sized theropod; swift-running bipedal carnivorous dinosaur having grasping hands with sharp claws and a short horn between the nostrils; Jurassic in North America | Synonyms: ceratosaurus |
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chauffeur | (noun) a person paid to drive a privately owned car | - |
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(verb) drive someone in a vehicle | Synonyms: drive around |
clamour | (noun) loud and persistent outcry from many people | Synonyms: clamor, clamoring, clamouring, hue and cry |
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(verb) utter or proclaim insistently and noisily | Synonyms: clamor |
(verb) make loud demands | Synonyms: clamor |
clangour | (noun) a loud resonant repeating noise | Synonyms: clang, clangor, clangoring, clank, clash, crash |
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(verb) make a loud resonant noise | Synonyms: clangor |
clotbur | (noun) any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs | Synonyms: burdock |
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cocklebur | (noun) any coarse weed of the genus Xanthium having spiny burrs | Synonyms: cockle-bur, cockle-burr, cockleburr |
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(noun) burdock having heart-shaped leaves found in open woodland, hedgerows and rough grassland of Europe (except extreme N) and Asia Minor; sometimes cultivated for medicinal and culinary use | Synonyms: Arctium lappa, great burdock, greater burdock |
cockspur | (noun) small spiny West Indian tree | Synonyms: Pisonia aculeata |
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(noun) widely grown stout Old World hay and pasture grass | Synonyms: cocksfoot, Dactylis glomerata, orchard grass |
coiffeur | (noun) a man hairdresser | - |
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colour | (adjective) having or capable of producing colors | Synonyms: color |
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(noun) a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect | Synonyms: color, coloring, colouring |
(noun) the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation | Synonyms: color |
(noun) the timbre of a musical sound | Synonyms: color, coloration, colouration |
(noun) interest and variety and intensity | Synonyms: color, vividness |
(noun) an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading | Synonyms: color, gloss, semblance |
(noun) (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction | Synonyms: color |
(noun) any material used for its color | Synonyms: color, coloring material, colouring material |
(verb) change color, often in an undesired manner | Synonyms: color, discolor, discolour |
(verb) add color to | Synonyms: color, color in, colorise, colorize, colour in, colourise, colourize |
(verb) affect as in thought or feeling | Synonyms: color, distort, tinge |
(verb) give a deceptive explanation or excuse for | Synonyms: color, gloss |
(verb) decorate with colors | Synonyms: color, emblazon |
(verb) modify or bias | Synonyms: color |
concur | (verb) happen simultaneously | Synonyms: coincide |
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(verb) be in accord; be in agreement | Synonyms: agree, concord, hold |
connoisseur | (noun) an expert able to appreciate a field; especially in the fine arts | Synonyms: cognoscente |
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contour | (noun) any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline) | Synonyms: configuration, conformation, form, shape |
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(noun) a feature (or the order or arrangement of features) of anything having a complex structure | - |
(noun) a line drawn on a map connecting points of equal height | Synonyms: contour line |
(verb) form the contours of | - |
cooccur | (verb) go with, fall together | Synonyms: co-occur, coincide |
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cornflour | (noun) starch prepared from the grains of corn; used in cooking as a thickener | Synonyms: cornstarch |
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corythosaur | (noun) duck-billed dinosaur with nasal passages that expand into a crest like a hollow helmet | Synonyms: corythosaurus |
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cur | (noun) an inferior dog or one of mixed breed | Synonyms: mongrel, mutt |
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(noun) a cowardly or contemptible person | - |
danseur | (noun) a male ballet dancer who is the partner of a ballerina | Synonyms: danseur noble |
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decolour | (verb) cause to become white or lighter in color | Synonyms: bleach, bleach out, decolor, decolorise, decolorize, decolourise, decolourize, discolorise, discolorize, discolourise |
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demeanour | (noun) (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people | Synonyms: behavior, behaviour, conduct, demeanor, deportment |
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demur | (noun) (law) a formal objection to an opponent's pleadings | Synonyms: demurral, demurrer |
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(verb) object to | Synonyms: except |
(verb) enter a demurrer | - |
detour | (noun) a roundabout road (especially one that is used temporarily while a main route is blocked) | Synonyms: roundabout way |
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(verb) travel via a detour | - |
devour | (verb) eat greedily | Synonyms: guttle, pig, raven |
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(verb) eat up completely, as with great appetite | Synonyms: consume, demolish, down, go through |
(verb) to consume | - |
(verb) enjoy avidly | - |
dinosaur | (noun) any of numerous extinct terrestrial reptiles of the Mesozoic era | - |
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discolour | (verb) change color, often in an undesired manner | Synonyms: color, colour, discolor |
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disfavour | (noun) an inclination to withhold approval from some person or group | Synonyms: disapproval, disfavor, dislike |
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(noun) the state of being out of favor | Synonyms: disfavor |
(verb) put at a disadvantage; hinder, harm | Synonyms: disadvantage, disfavor |
dishonour | (noun) lacking honor or integrity | Synonyms: dishonor |
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(noun) a state of shame or disgrace | Synonyms: dishonor |
(verb) refuse to accept | Synonyms: dishonor |
(verb) bring shame or dishonor upon | Synonyms: attaint, disgrace, dishonor, shame |
(verb) force (someone) to have sex against their will | Synonyms: assault, dishonor, outrage, rape, ravish, violate |
dolour | (noun) (poetry) painful grief | Synonyms: dolor |
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dour | (adjective) showing a brooding ill humor | Synonyms: dark, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen |
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(adjective) stubbornly unyielding | Synonyms: dogged, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding |
(adjective) harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance | Synonyms: forbidding, grim |
downpour | (noun) a heavy rain | Synonyms: cloudburst, deluge, pelter, soaker, torrent, waterspout |
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dromaeosaur | (noun) a kind of maniraptor | - |
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enamour | (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
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endeavour | (noun) earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something | Synonyms: attempt, effort, endeavor, try |
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(noun) a purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness) | Synonyms: endeavor, enterprise |
(verb) attempt by employing effort | Synonyms: endeavor, strive |
entrepreneur | (noun) someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it | Synonyms: enterpriser |
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favour | (noun) an act of gracious kindness | Synonyms: favor |
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(noun) souvenir consisting of a small gift given to a guest at a party | Synonyms: favor, party favor, party favour |
(noun) an advantage to the benefit of someone or something | Synonyms: favor |
(noun) an inclination to approve | Synonyms: favor |
(noun) a feeling of favorable regard | Synonyms: favor |
(verb) consider as the favorite | Synonyms: favor |
(verb) promote over another | Synonyms: favor, prefer |
(verb) treat gently or carefully | Synonyms: favor |
(verb) bestow a privilege upon | Synonyms: favor, privilege |
femur | (noun) the longest and thickest bone of the human skeleton; extends from the pelvis to the knee | Synonyms: femoris, thighbone |
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fervour | (noun) feelings of great warmth and intensity | Synonyms: ardor, ardour, fervency, fervidness, fervor, fire |
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(noun) the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up | Synonyms: excitation, excitement, fervor, inflammation |
flavour | (noun) the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: flavor, nip, relish, sapidity, savor, savour, smack, tang |
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(noun) (physics) the six kinds of quarks | Synonyms: flavor |
(noun) the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people | Synonyms: feel, feeling, flavor, look, smell, spirit, tone |
(verb) lend flavor to | Synonyms: flavor, season |
flour | (noun) fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain | - |
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(verb) convert grain into flour | - |
(verb) cover with flour | - |
four | (adjective) being one more than three | Synonyms: 4, iv |
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(noun) a playing card or domino or die whose upward face shows four pips | Synonyms: four-spot |
(noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one | Synonyms: 4, foursome, IV, Little Joe, quadruplet, quartet, quatern, quaternary, quaternion, quaternity, tetrad |
frotteur | (noun) someone who masturbates by rubbing against another person (as in a crowd) | - |
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fur | (noun) dense coat of fine silky hairs on mammals (e.g., cat or seal or weasel) | - |
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(noun) a garment made of animal pelts or synthetic fur | - |
(noun) the dressed hairy coat of a mammal | Synonyms: pelt |
gaur | (noun) wild ox of mountainous areas of eastern India | Synonyms: Bibos gaurus |
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glamour | (noun) alluring beauty or charm (often with sex-appeal) | Synonyms: glamor |
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(verb) cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something | Synonyms: bewitch, enchant, hex, jinx, witch |
grandeur | (noun) the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand | Synonyms: brilliance, grandness, magnificence, splendor, splendour |
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(noun) the quality of elevation of mind and exaltation of character or ideals or conduct | Synonyms: magnanimousness, nobility, nobleness |
hadrosaur | (noun) any of numerous large bipedal ornithischian dinosaurs having a horny duck-like bill and webbed feet; may have been partly aquatic | Synonyms: duck-billed dinosaur, hadrosaurus |
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handcolour | (verb) color by hand | Synonyms: handcolor |
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harbour | (noun) a place of refuge and comfort and security | Synonyms: harbor |
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(noun) a sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo | Synonyms: harbor, haven, seaport |
(verb) maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings) | Synonyms: bear, entertain, harbor, hold, nurse |
(verb) hold back a thought or feeling about | Synonyms: harbor, shield |
(verb) keep in one's possession; of animals | Synonyms: harbor |
(verb) secretly shelter (as of fugitives or criminals) | Synonyms: harbor |
hauteur | (noun) overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors | Synonyms: arrogance, haughtiness, high-handedness, lordliness |
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herrerasaur | (noun) a kind of theropod dinosaur found in Argentina | Synonyms: herrerasaurus |
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honour | (noun) the quality of being honorable and having a good name | Synonyms: honor |
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(noun) a woman's virtue or chastity | Synonyms: honor, pureness, purity |
(noun) a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction | Synonyms: accolade, award, honor, laurels |
(noun) the state of being honored | Synonyms: honor, laurels |
(verb) accept as pay | Synonyms: honor |
(verb) bestow honor or rewards upon | Synonyms: honor, reward |
(verb) show respect towards | Synonyms: abide by, honor, observe, respect |
hotspur | (noun) a rash or impetuous person | - |
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hour | (noun) distance measured by the time taken to cover it | Synonyms: minute |
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(noun) a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day | Synonyms: 60 minutes, hr |
(noun) clock time | Synonyms: time of day |
(noun) a special and memorable period | - |
humour | (noun) the quality of being funny | Synonyms: humor |
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(noun) the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous | Synonyms: humor, sense of humor, sense of humour |
(noun) the liquid parts of the body | Synonyms: bodily fluid, body fluid, humor, liquid body substance |
(noun) (Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state | Synonyms: humor |
(noun) a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter | Synonyms: humor, wit, witticism, wittiness |
(noun) a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling | Synonyms: humor, mood, temper |
(verb) put into a good mood | Synonyms: humor |
ichthyosaur | (noun) any of several marine reptiles of the Mesozoic having a body like a porpoise with dorsal and tail fins and paddle-shaped limbs | - |
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ictodosaur | (noun) intermediate in form between the therapsids and most primitive true mammals | - |
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imprimatur | (noun) formal and explicit approval | Synonyms: countenance, endorsement, indorsement, sanction, warrant |
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incur | (verb) receive a specified treatment (abstract) | Synonyms: find, get, obtain, receive |
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(verb) make oneself subject to; bring upon oneself; become liable to | - |
inpour | (noun) an inflow | Synonyms: inpouring, inrush |
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jodhpur | (noun) a short riding boot that fastens with a buckle at the side | Synonyms: jodhpur boot, jodhpur shoe |
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jongleur | (noun) a singer of folk songs | Synonyms: folk singer, minstrel, poet-singer, troubadour |
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kencur | (noun) a dried rhizome or its powdered form of Kaempferia galanga, used in cooking in Indonesia. | - |
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labour | (noun) productive work (especially physical work done for wages) | Synonyms: labor, toil |
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(noun) any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted | Synonyms: labor, project, task, undertaking |
(noun) a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages | Synonyms: labor, proletariat, working class |
(noun) an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement | Synonyms: labor, labor movement, trade union movement |
(noun) concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child | Synonyms: childbed, confinement, labor, lying-in, parturiency, travail |
(verb) undergo the efforts of childbirth | Synonyms: labor |
(verb) work hard | Synonyms: dig, drudge, fag, grind, labor, moil, toil, travail |
(verb) strive and make an effort to reach a goal | Synonyms: drive, labor, push, tug |
langur | (noun) slender long-tailed monkey of Asia | - |
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larkspur | (noun) any of numerous cultivated plants of the genus Delphinium | - |
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lemur | (noun) large-eyed arboreal prosimian having foxy faces and long furry tails | - |
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liqueur | (noun) strong highly flavored sweet liquor usually drunk after a meal | Synonyms: cordial |
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litterateur | (noun) a writer of literary works | Synonyms: essayist |
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longueur | (noun) a period of dullness or boredom (especially in a work of literature or performing art) | - |
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lour | (verb) look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval | Synonyms: frown, glower, lower |
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(verb) make lower or quieter | Synonyms: lower, turn down |
(verb) set lower | Synonyms: lower |