allude | (verb) make a more or less disguised reference to | Synonyms: advert, touch |
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allure | (noun) the power to entice or attract through personal charm | Synonyms: allurement, temptingness |
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(verb) dispose or incline or entice to | Synonyms: tempt |
allurement | (noun) the act of enticing a person to do something wrong (as an offer of sex in return for money) | Synonyms: solicitation |
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(noun) the power to entice or attract through personal charm | Synonyms: allure, temptingness |
(noun) attractiveness | - |
alluring | (adjective) highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire | Synonyms: beguiling, enticing, tempting |
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allusion | (noun) passing reference or indirect mention | - |
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allusive | (adjective) characterized by indirect references | - |
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allusiveness | (noun) a quality characterized by indirect reference | - |
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alluvial | (adjective) of or relating to alluvium | - |
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alluviation | (noun) the phenomenon of sediment or gravel accumulating | Synonyms: deposit, sedimentation |
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alluvion | (noun) clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down | Synonyms: alluvial deposit, alluvial sediment, alluvium |
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(noun) the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land | Synonyms: deluge, flood, inundation |
(noun) gradual formation of new land, by recession of the sea or deposit of sediment | - |
alluvium | (noun) clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down | Synonyms: alluvial deposit, alluvial sediment, alluvion |
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