cub | (noun) the young of certain carnivorous mammals such as the bear or wolf or lion | Synonyms: young carnivore |
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(noun) a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy) | Synonyms: lad, laddie, sonny, sonny boy |
(noun) an awkward and inexperienced youth | Synonyms: greenhorn, rookie |
(verb) give birth to cubs | - |
cubby | (noun) a small secluded room | Synonyms: cubbyhole, snug, snuggery |
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cubbyhole | (noun) a small compartment | Synonyms: pigeonhole |
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(noun) a small secluded room | Synonyms: cubby, snug, snuggery |
cube | (noun) a block in the (approximate) shape of a cube | Synonyms: square block |
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(noun) any of several tropical American woody plants of the genus Lonchocarpus whose roots are used locally as a fish poison and commercially as a source of rotenone | - |
(noun) the product of three equal terms | Synonyms: third power |
(noun) a hexahedron with six equal squares as faces | Synonyms: regular hexahedron |
(noun) a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides | Synonyms: block |
(verb) raise to the third power | - |
(verb) cut into cubes | Synonyms: dice |
cubeb | (noun) a cigarette containing cubeb | Synonyms: cubeb cigarette |
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(noun) tropical southeast Asian shrubby vine bearing spicy berrylike fruits | Synonyms: cubeb vine, Java pepper, Piper cubeba |
(noun) spicy fruit of the cubeb vine; when dried and crushed is used medicinally or in perfumery and sometimes smoked in cigarettes | - |
cubelike | (adjective) shaped like a cube | Synonyms: cube-shaped, cubical, cubiform, cuboid, cuboidal |
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cubic | (adjective) having the shape of a cube; having three dimensions | Synonyms: three-dimensional |
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(adjective) involving the cube and no higher power of a quantity or variable | - |
cubical | (adjective) shaped like a cube | Synonyms: cube-shaped, cubelike, cubiform, cuboid, cuboidal |
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cubicity | (noun) the property of resembling a cube | - |
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cubicle | (noun) small area set off by walls for special use | Synonyms: booth, kiosk, stall |
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(noun) small individual study area in a library | Synonyms: carrel, carrell, stall |
(noun) small room in which a monk or nun lives | Synonyms: cell |
cubiform | (adjective) shaped like a cube | Synonyms: cube-shaped, cubelike, cubical, cuboid, cuboidal |
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cubism | (noun) an artistic movement in France beginning in 1907 that featured surfaces of geometrical planes | - |
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cubist | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of cubism | Synonyms: cubistic |
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(noun) an artist who adheres to the principles of cubism | - |
cubistic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of cubism | Synonyms: cubist |
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cubit | (noun) an ancient unit of length based on the length of the forearm | - |
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cubital | (adjective) of or relating to the elbow | - |
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cubitiere | (noun) body armor that protects the elbow | - |
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cubitus | (noun) hinge joint between the forearm and upper arm and the corresponding joint in the forelimb of a quadruped | Synonyms: articulatio cubiti, cubital joint, elbow, elbow joint, human elbow |
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(noun) the arm from the elbow to the fingertips | - |
cuboid | (adjective) shaped like a cube | Synonyms: cube-shaped, cubelike, cubical, cubiform, cuboidal |
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(noun) a rectangular parallelepiped | - |
cuboidal | (adjective) shaped like a cube | Synonyms: cube-shaped, cubelike, cubical, cubiform, cuboid |
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