grow | (verb) come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes) | Synonyms: acquire, develop, get, produce |
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(verb) become larger, greater, or bigger; expand or gain | - |
(verb) cause to grow or develop | - |
(verb) increase in size by natural process | - |
(verb) pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become | Synonyms: turn |
(verb) develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation | Synonyms: maturate, mature |
(verb) grow emotionally or mature | Synonyms: develop |
(verb) become attached by or as if by the process of growth | - |
(verb) cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques | Synonyms: farm, produce, raise |
(verb) come into existence; take on form or shape | Synonyms: arise, develop, originate, rise, spring up, uprise |
guffaw | (noun) a burst of deep loud hearty laughter | Synonyms: belly laugh |
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(verb) laugh boisterously | Synonyms: laugh loudly |
hacksaw | (noun) saw used with one hand for cutting metal | Synonyms: hack saw, metal saw |
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hallow | (verb) render holy by means of religious rites | Synonyms: bless, consecrate, sanctify |
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handbarrow | (noun) a rectangular frame with handles at both ends; carried by two people | - |
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handbow | (noun) a bow drawn by hand as distinguished from a crossbow | - |
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handsaw | (noun) a saw used with one hand for cutting wood | Synonyms: carpenter's saw, hand saw |
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harrow | (noun) a cultivator that pulverizes or smooths the soil | - |
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(verb) draw a harrow over (land) | Synonyms: disk |
haw | (noun) the nictitating membrane of a horse | - |
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(noun) a spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus | Synonyms: hawthorn |
(verb) utter `haw' | - |
hawkshaw | (noun) someone who is a detective | Synonyms: dick, gumshoe |
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haymow | (noun) a loft in a barn where hay is stored | Synonyms: hayloft, mow |
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(noun) a mass of hay piled up in a barn for preservation | - |
hedgerow | (noun) a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes | Synonyms: hedge |
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hew | (verb) strike with an axe; cut down, strike | - |
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(verb) make or shape as with an axe | Synonyms: hew out |
highbrow | (adjective) highly cultured or educated | Synonyms: highbrowed |
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(noun) a person of intellectual or erudite tastes | - |
hollow | (adjective) not solid; having a space or gap or cavity | - |
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(adjective) lacking in substance or character | - |
(adjective) devoid of significance or force | Synonyms: empty, vacuous |
(adjective) as if echoing in a hollow space | - |
(noun) a depression hollowed out of solid matter | Synonyms: hole |
(noun) a small valley between mountains | Synonyms: holler |
(noun) a cavity or space in something | - |
(verb) remove the interior of | Synonyms: core out, hollow out |
(verb) remove the inner part or the core of | Synonyms: dig, excavate |
homebrew | (noun) an alcoholic beverage (especially beer) made at home | Synonyms: home brew |
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honeydew | (noun) a sugar-rich sticky liquid, secreted by aphids and some scale insects as they feed on plant sap. | - |
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(noun) the fruit of a variety of winter melon vine; a large smooth greenish-white melon with pale green flesh | Synonyms: honeydew melon |
hoosegow | (noun) slang for a jail | Synonyms: hoosgow |
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hoosgow | (noun) slang for a jail | Synonyms: hoosegow |
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horseshow | (noun) a competitive exhibition of horses | - |
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inflow | (noun) the process of flowing in | Synonyms: influx |
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interview | (noun) a conference (usually with someone important) | Synonyms: audience, consultation |
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(noun) the questioning of a person (or a conversation in which information is elicited); often conducted by journalists | - |
(verb) conduct an interview in television, newspaper, and radio reporting | Synonyms: question |
(verb) discuss formally with (somebody) for the purpose of an evaluation | - |
(verb) go for an interview in the hope of being hired | - |
isaw | (noun) a street food from the Philippines, made from barbecued pig or chicken intestines | - |
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jackdaw | (noun) common black-and-grey Eurasian bird noted for thievery | Synonyms: Corvus monedula, daw |
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jackscrew | (noun) screw-operated jack | Synonyms: screw jack |
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jackstraw | (noun) a thin strip of wood used in playing the game of jackstraws | Synonyms: spillikin |
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jaw | (noun) holding device consisting of one or both of the opposing parts of a tool that close to hold an object | - |
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(noun) the part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth | - |
(noun) the bones of the skull that frame the mouth and serve to open it; the bones that hold the teeth | - |
(verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
(verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
(verb) talk incessantly and tiresomely | Synonyms: rattle on, yack, yack away, yap away |
(verb) chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth | Synonyms: chew, manducate, masticate |
jigsaw | (noun) fine-toothed power saw with a narrow blade; used to cut curved outlines | Synonyms: fretsaw, scroll saw |
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(noun) a portable power saw with a reciprocating blade; can be used with a variety of blades depending on the application and kind of cut; generally have a plate that rides on the surface that is being cut | Synonyms: reciprocating saw, saber saw |
kickshaw | (noun) something considered choice to eat | Synonyms: dainty, delicacy, goody, treat |
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know | (noun) the fact of being aware of information that is known to few people | - |
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(verb) be familiar or acquainted with a person or an object | - |
(verb) be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about | Synonyms: cognise, cognize |
(verb) know how to do or perform something | - |
(verb) have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations | Synonyms: experience, live |
(verb) accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority | Synonyms: acknowledge, recognise, recognize |
(verb) know the nature or character of | - |
(verb) be able to distinguish, recognize as being different | - |
(verb) perceive as familiar | - |
(verb) have fixed in the mind | - |
(verb) have sexual intercourse with | Synonyms: bang, be intimate, bed, bonk, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, jazz, lie with, love, make love, make out, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with |
kotow | (noun) a former Chinese custom of touching the ground with the forehead as a sign of respect or submission | Synonyms: kowtow |
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(verb) try to gain favor by cringing or flattering | Synonyms: bootlick, fawn, kowtow, suck up, toady, truckle |
kowtow | (noun) a former Chinese custom of touching the ground with the forehead as a sign of respect or submission | Synonyms: kotow |
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(verb) try to gain favor by cringing or flattering | Synonyms: bootlick, fawn, kotow, suck up, toady, truckle |
(verb) bend the knees and bow in a servile manner | Synonyms: genuflect, scrape |
law | (noun) the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system | Synonyms: practice of law |
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(noun) a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society | Synonyms: natural law |
(noun) a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature | Synonyms: law of nature |
(noun) the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do | Synonyms: jurisprudence, legal philosophy |
(noun) legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity | - |
(noun) the collection of rules imposed by authority | Synonyms: jurisprudence |
(noun) the force of policemen and officers | Synonyms: constabulary, police, police force |
lockjaw | (noun) an acute and serious infection of the central nervous system caused by bacterial infection of open wounds; spasms of the jaw and laryngeal muscles may occur during the late stages | Synonyms: tetanus |
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longbow | (noun) a powerful wooden bow drawn by hand; usually 5-6 feet long; used in medieval England | - |
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low | (adjective) being at or having a relatively small elevation or upward extension | - |
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(adjective) less than normal in degree or intensity or amount | - |
(adjective) used of sounds and voices; low in pitch or frequency | Synonyms: low-pitched |
(adjective) of the most contemptible kind | Synonyms: abject, low-down, miserable, scummy, scurvy |
(adjective) filled with melancholy and despondency | Synonyms: blue, depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, grim, low-spirited |
(adjective) subdued or brought low in condition or status | Synonyms: broken, crushed, humbled, humiliated |
(adjective) low or inferior in station or quality | Synonyms: humble, lowly, modest, small |
(adjective) no longer sufficient | Synonyms: depleted |
(adjective) very low in volume | Synonyms: low-toned |
(adjective) unrefined in character | - |
(noun) the lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle; used to start a car moving | Synonyms: first, first gear, low gear |
(noun) a low level or position or degree | - |
(noun) an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation | Synonyms: depression |
(adverb) in a low position; near the ground | - |
(verb) make a low noise, characteristic of bovines | Synonyms: moo |
lowbrow | (adjective) characteristic of a person who is not cultivated or does not have intellectual tastes | Synonyms: lowbrowed, uncultivated |
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(noun) a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits | Synonyms: anti-intellectual, philistine |
macaw | (noun) long-tailed brilliantly colored parrot of Central America and South America; among the largest and showiest of parrots | - |
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mackinaw | (noun) a heavy woolen cloth heavily napped and felted, often with a plaid design | - |
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(noun) a flat-bottomed boat used on upper Great Lakes | Synonyms: Mackinaw boat |
(noun) a thick plaid blanket formerly used in the northwestern United States | Synonyms: Mackinaw blanket |
(noun) a short plaid coat made of made of thick woolen material | Synonyms: Mackinaw coat |
mallow | (noun) any of various plants of the family Malvaceae | - |
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marrow | (noun) the fatty network of connective tissue that fills the cavities of bones | Synonyms: bone marrow |
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(noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | Synonyms: center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum |
(noun) large elongated squash with creamy to deep green skins | Synonyms: vegetable marrow |
(noun) very tender and very nutritious tissue from marrowbones | Synonyms: bone marrow |
(noun) any of various squash plants grown for their elongated fruit with smooth dark green skin and whitish flesh | Synonyms: marrow squash, vegetable marrow |
marshmallow | (noun) spongy confection made of gelatin and sugar and corn syrup and dusted with powdered sugar | - |
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maw | (noun) informal terms for the mouth | Synonyms: cakehole, gob, hole, trap, yap |
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mayhaw | (noun) hawthorn of southern United States bearing a juicy, acidic, scarlet fruit that is often used in jellies or preserves | Synonyms: Crataegus aestivalis, summer haw |
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meadow | (noun) a piece of land covered or mostly covered with grass; a field where grass or alfalfa are grown to be made into hay | Synonyms: hayfield |
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mellow | (adjective) slightly and pleasantly intoxicated from alcohol or a drug (especially marijuana) | Synonyms: high |
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(adjective) unhurried and relaxed | Synonyms: laid-back |
(adjective) having a full and pleasing flavor through proper aging | Synonyms: mellowed |
(adjective) softened through age or experience | Synonyms: mellowed |
(adverb) in a mellow manner | Synonyms: mellowly |
(verb) make or grow (more) mellow | - |
(verb) soften, make mellow | - |
(verb) become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial | Synonyms: mellow out, melt |
meow | (noun) the sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this) | Synonyms: mew, miaou, miaow, miaul |
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(verb) cry like a cat | Synonyms: mew |
mew | (noun) the common gull of Eurasia and northeastern North America | Synonyms: Larus canus, mew gull, sea mew |
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(noun) the sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this) | Synonyms: meow, miaou, miaow, miaul |
(verb) cry like a cat | Synonyms: meow |
(verb) utter a high-pitched cry, as of seagulls | - |
miaow | (noun) the sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this) | Synonyms: meow, mew, miaou, miaul |
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(verb) make a cat-like sound | Synonyms: miaou |
middlebrow | (noun) someone who is neither a highbrow nor a lowbrow | - |
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mildew | (noun) a fungus that produces a superficial (usually white) growth on organic matter | - |
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(noun) the process of becoming mildewed | Synonyms: mold, mould |
(verb) become moldy; spoil due to humidity | Synonyms: mold, mould |
minnow | (noun) very small European freshwater fish common in gravelly streams | Synonyms: Phoxinus phoxinus |
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morrow | (noun) the next day | - |
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mow | (noun) a loft in a barn where hay is stored | Synonyms: hayloft, haymow |
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(verb) make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip | Synonyms: mop, pout |
(verb) cut with a blade or mower | Synonyms: cut down |
narrow | (adjective) not wide | - |
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(adjective) very limited in degree | - |
(adjective) lacking tolerance or flexibility or breadth of view | Synonyms: narrow-minded |
(adjective) characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination | Synonyms: minute |
(adjective) limited in extent or scope | - |
(noun) a narrow strait connecting two bodies of water | - |
(verb) make or become more narrow or restricted | Synonyms: contract |
(verb) become tight or as if tight | Synonyms: constrict, constringe |
(verb) become more focused on an area of activity or field of study | Synonyms: narrow down, specialise, specialize |
(verb) define clearly | Synonyms: nail down, narrow down, peg down, pin down, specify |
nephew | (noun) a son of your brother or sister | - |
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new | (adjective) not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered | - |
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(adjective) unaffected by use or exposure | - |
(adjective) (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity | Synonyms: young |
(adjective) lacking training or experience | Synonyms: raw |
(adjective) original and of a kind not seen before | Synonyms: fresh, novel |
(adjective) other than the former one(s); different | - |
(adjective) (often followed by `to') unfamiliar | - |
(adjective) having no previous example or precedent or parallel | Synonyms: unexampled |
(adverb) very recently | Synonyms: fresh, freshly, newly |
nohow | (adverb) in no manner; in no way | - |
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now | (noun) the momentary present | - |
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(adverb) in these times | Synonyms: nowadays, today |
(adverb) without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening | Synonyms: at once, directly, forthwith, immediately, instantly, like a shot, right away, straight off, straightaway |
(adverb) used to preface a command or reproof or request | - |
(adverb) at the present moment | Synonyms: at present |
(adverb) in the historical present; at this point in the narration of a series of past events | - |
(adverb) in the immediate past | - |
(adverb) (prefatory or transitional) indicates a change of subject or activity | - |
outdraw | (verb) draw a gun faster, or best someone in a gunfight | - |
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outflow | (noun) the discharge of a fluid from some container | Synonyms: escape, leak, leakage |
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(noun) a natural flow of ground water | Synonyms: fountain, natural spring, outpouring, spring |
(noun) the process of flowing out | Synonyms: effluence, efflux |
outgrow | (verb) grow too large or too mature for | - |
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(verb) grow faster than | - |
outlaw | (adjective) contrary to or forbidden by law | Synonyms: illegitimate, illicit, outlawed, unlawful |
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(adjective) disobedient to or defiant of law | Synonyms: lawless |
(noun) someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime | Synonyms: criminal, crook, felon, malefactor |
(verb) declare illegal; outlaw | Synonyms: criminalise, criminalize, illegalise, illegalize |
overdraw | (verb) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth | Synonyms: amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, magnify, overstate |
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(verb) draw more money from than is available | - |
overflow | (noun) a large flow | Synonyms: flood, outpouring |
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(noun) the occurrence of surplus liquid (as water) exceeding the limit or capacity | Synonyms: overspill, runoff |
(verb) overflow with a certain feeling | Synonyms: bubble over, spill over |
(verb) flow or run over (a limit or brim) | Synonyms: brim over, overrun, run over, well over |
overgrow | (verb) grow beyond or across | Synonyms: grow over |
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(verb) become overgrown | - |
(verb) grow too large | - |
oversew | (verb) sew (two edges) with close stitches that pass over them both | - |
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overshadow | (verb) cast a shadow upon | - |
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(verb) be greater in significance than | Synonyms: dominate, eclipse |
(verb) make appear small by comparison | Synonyms: dwarf, shadow |
overthrow | (noun) the termination of a ruler or institution (especially by force) | - |
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(noun) the act of disturbing the mind or body | Synonyms: derangement, upset |
(verb) rule against | Synonyms: override, overrule, overturn, reverse |
(verb) cause the downfall of; of rulers | Synonyms: bring down, overturn, subvert |
overview | (noun) a general summary of a subject | - |
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oxbow | (noun) a wooden framework bent in the shape of a U; its upper ends are attached to the horizontal yoke and the loop goes around the neck of an ox | - |
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(noun) a U-shaped curve in a stream | - |
(noun) the land inside an oxbow bend in a river | - |
papaw | (noun) fruit with yellow flesh; related to custard apples | Synonyms: pawpaw |
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(noun) small tree native to the eastern United States having oblong leaves and fleshy fruit | Synonyms: Asimina triloba, papaw tree, pawpaw |
paw | (noun) a clawed foot of an animal especially a quadruped | - |
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(noun) the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb | Synonyms: hand, manus, mitt |
(verb) touch clumsily | - |
(verb) scrape with the paws | - |
pawpaw | (noun) fruit with yellow flesh; related to custard apples | Synonyms: papaw |
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(noun) small tree native to the eastern United States having oblong leaves and fleshy fruit | Synonyms: Asimina triloba, papaw, papaw tree |
(noun) tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit | Synonyms: Carica papaya, melon tree, papaia, papaya, papaya tree |
peepshow | (noun) a short pornographic film shown in a small coin-operated booth | - |
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(noun) an exhibition of pictures or objects viewed through a small hole or magnifying glass | Synonyms: raree-show |
pew | (noun) long bench with backs; used in church by the congregation | Synonyms: church bench |
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pilaw | (noun) rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes | Synonyms: pilaf, pilaff, pilau |
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pillow | (noun) a cushion to support the head of a sleeping person | - |
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(verb) rest on or as if on a pillow | Synonyms: rest |
pitsaw | (noun) a large two-handed saw formerly used to cut logs into planks; one man stood above the log and the other in a pit below | - |
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playfellow | (noun) a companion at play | Synonyms: playmate |
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plow | (noun) a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing | Synonyms: plough |
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(verb) act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression | Synonyms: address, cover, deal, handle, treat |
(verb) to break and turn over earth especially with a plow | Synonyms: plough, turn |
(verb) move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil | Synonyms: plough |
powwow | (noun) (informal) a quick private conference | Synonyms: huddle |
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(noun) a council of or with Native Americans | - |
(verb) hold a powwow, talk, conference or meeting | - |
preview | (noun) a screening for a select audience in advance of release for the general public | - |
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(noun) an advertisement consisting of short scenes from a motion picture that will appear in the near future | Synonyms: prevue, trailer |
(verb) watch (a movie or play) before it is released to the general public | - |
prow | (noun) front part of a vessel or aircraft | Synonyms: bow, fore, stem |
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purview | (noun) the range of interest or activity that can be anticipated | Synonyms: horizon, view |
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rainbow | (noun) an illusory hope | - |
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(noun) an arc of colored light in the sky caused by refraction of the sun's rays by rain | - |
raw | (adjective) not treated with heat to prepare it for eating | - |
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(adjective) unpleasantly cold and damp | Synonyms: bleak, cutting |
(adjective) lacking training or experience | Synonyms: new |
(adjective) having the surface exposed and painful | - |
(adjective) devoid of elaboration or diminution or concealment; bare and pure | Synonyms: naked |
(adjective) hurting | Synonyms: sensitive, sore, tender |
(adjective) not processed or subjected to analysis | Synonyms: crude |
(adjective) (used informally) completely unclothed | Synonyms: bare-ass, bare-assed, in the altogether, in the buff, in the raw, naked as a jaybird, peeled, stark naked |
(adjective) brutally unfair or harsh | - |
(adjective) used of wood and furniture | Synonyms: unsanded |
(adjective) untempered and unrefined | - |
(adjective) (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes | Synonyms: natural, rude |
(adjective) not processed or refined | - |
(noun) informal terms for nakedness | Synonyms: altogether, birthday suit |
regrow | (verb) grow anew or continue growth after an injury or interruption | - |
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renew | (verb) cause to appear in a new form | Synonyms: reincarnate |
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(verb) reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new | Synonyms: regenerate |
resew | (verb) sew again | - |
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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 |
review | (noun) a subsequent examination of a patient for the purpose of monitoring earlier treatment | Synonyms: follow-up, followup, reexamination |
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(noun) practice intended to polish performance or refresh the memory | Synonyms: brushup |
(noun) a formal or official examination | Synonyms: inspection |
(noun) (law) a judicial reexamination of the proceedings of a court (especially by an appellate court) | - |
(noun) a new appraisal or evaluation | Synonyms: reappraisal, reassessment, revaluation |
(noun) a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion | Synonyms: recap, recapitulation |
(noun) an essay or article that gives a critical evaluation (as of a book or play) | Synonyms: critical review, critique, review article |
(noun) a variety show with topical sketches and songs and dancing and comedians | Synonyms: revue |
(noun) a periodical that publishes critical essays on current affairs or literature or art | - |
(noun) (accounting) a service (less exhaustive than an audit) that provides some assurance to interested parties as to the reliability of financial data | Synonyms: limited review |
(verb) look at again; examine again | Synonyms: reexamine |
(verb) look back upon (a period of time, sequence of events); remember | Synonyms: look back, retrospect |
(verb) hold a review (of troops) | Synonyms: go over, survey |
(verb) refresh one's memory | Synonyms: brush up, refresh |
(verb) appraise critically | Synonyms: critique |
rickshaw | (noun) a small two-wheeled cart for one passenger; pulled by one person | Synonyms: jinrikisha, ricksha |
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ripsaw | (noun) a handsaw for cutting with the grain of the wood | Synonyms: splitsaw |
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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 | - |
saw | (noun) hand tool having a toothed blade for cutting | - |
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(noun) a power tool for cutting wood | Synonyms: power saw, sawing machine |
(noun) a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people | Synonyms: adage, byword, proverb |
(verb) cut with a saw | - |
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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