-
again
(definition)
adv 1: anew; "she tried again"; "they rehearsed the scene again"
[syn: again, once again, once more, over again]
-
amen
(definition)
n 1: a primeval Egyptian personification of air and breath;
worshipped especially at Thebes [syn: Amen, Amon,
Amun]
-
an
(name)
(definition)
n 1: an associate degree in nursing [syn: Associate in
Nursing, AN]
-
bun
(definition)
n 1: small rounded bread either plain or sweet [syn: bun,
roll]
-
cayenne
(place)
(definition)
n 1: plant bearing very hot and finely tapering long peppers;
usually red [syn: cayenne, cayenne pepper, chili
pepper, chilli pepper, long pepper, jalapeno,
Capsicum annuum longum]
2: ground pods and seeds of pungent red peppers of the genus
Capsicum [syn: cayenne, cayenne pepper, red pepper]
3: a long and often twisted hot red pepper [syn: cayenne,
cayenne pepper]
-
comedienne
(definition)
n 1: a female actor in a comedy
2: a female comedian
-
den
(definition)
n 1: the habitation of wild animals [syn: lair, den]
2: a hiding place; usually a remote place used by outlaws [syn:
hideout, hideaway, den]
3: a unit of 8 to 10 cub scouts
4: a room that is comfortable and secluded
-
done
(name)
(definition)
adj 1: having finished or arrived at completion; "certain to
make history before he's done"; "it's a done deed";
"after the treatment, the patient is through except for
follow-up"; "almost through with his studies" [syn:
done, through, through with(p)]
2: cooked until ready to serve
-
dun
(name)
(definition)
adj 1: of a dull greyish brown to brownish grey color; "the dun
and dreary prairie"
n 1: horse of a dull brownish grey color
2: a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color;
"she wore dun" [syn: dun, greyish brown, grayish brown,
fawn]
v 1: treat cruelly; "The children tormented the stuttering
teacher" [syn: torment, rag, bedevil, crucify,
dun, frustrate]
2: persistently ask for overdue payment; "The grocer dunned his
customers every day by telephone"
3: cure by salting; "dun codfish"
4: make a dun color
-
en
(definition)
n 1: half the width of an em [syn: en, nut]
-
fen
(definition)
n 1: 100 fen equal 1 yuan in China
2: low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a
transition zone between land and water; "thousands of acres
of marshland"; "the fens of eastern England" [syn: marsh,
marshland, fen, fenland]
-
fun
(definition)
n 1: activities that are enjoyable or amusing; "I do it for the
fun of it"; "he is fun to have around" [syn: fun,
merriment, playfulness]
2: verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to
be taken seriously); "he became a figure of fun"; "he said it
in sport" [syn: fun, play, sport]
3: violent and excited activity; "she asked for money and then
the fun began"; "they began to fight like fun"
4: a disposition to find (or make) causes for amusement; "her
playfulness surprised me"; "he was fun to be with" [syn:
playfulness, fun]
-
glen
(name)
(definition)
n 1: a narrow secluded valley (in the mountains)
-
gun
(name)
(definition)
n 1: a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity
(especially from a metal tube or barrel)
2: large but transportable armament [syn: artillery, heavy
weapon, gun, ordnance]
3: a person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability) [syn:
gunman, gun]
4: a professional killer who uses a gun [syn: gunman,
gunslinger, hired gun, gun, gun for hire,
triggerman, hit man, hitman, torpedo, shooter]
5: a hand-operated pump that resembles a revolver; forces grease
into parts of a machine [syn: grease-gun, gun]
6: a pedal that controls the throttle valve; "he stepped on the
gas" [syn: accelerator, accelerator pedal, gas pedal,
gas, throttle, gun]
7: the discharge of a firearm as signal or as a salute in
military ceremonies; "two runners started before the gun"; "a
twenty gun salute"
v 1: shoot with a gun
-
hen
(definition)
n 1: adult female chicken [syn: hen, biddy]
2: adult female bird
3: flesh of an older chicken suitable for stewing
4: female of certain aquatic animals e.g. octopus or lobster
-
ken
(name)
(definition)
n 1: range of what one can know or understand; "beyond my ken"
[syn: cognizance, ken]
2: the range of vision; "out of sight of land" [syn: sight,
ken]
-
men
(definition)
n 1: the force of workers available [syn: work force,
workforce, manpower, hands, men]
-
none
(place)
(definition)
adv 1: not at all or in no way; "seemed none too pleased with
his dinner"; "shirt looked none the worse for having been
slept in"; "none too prosperous"; "the passage is none
too clear"
adj 1: not any; "thou shalt have none other gods before me"
n 1: a canonical hour that is the ninth hour of the day counting
from sunrise
2: a service in the Roman Catholic Church formerly read or
chanted at 3 PM (the ninth hour counting from sunrise) but
now somewhat earlier
-
nun
(definition)
n 1: a woman religious
2: a buoy resembling a cone [syn: conical buoy, nun, nun
buoy]
3: the 14th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
-
one
(definition)
adj 1: used of a single unit or thing; not two or more; "`ane'
is Scottish" [syn: one, 1, i, ane]
2: having the indivisible character of a unit; "a unitary
action"; "spoke with one voice" [syn: one(a), unitary]
3: of the same kind or quality; "two animals of one species"
4: used informally as an intensifier; "that is one fine dog"
5: indefinite in time or position; "he will come one day"; "one
place or another"
6: being a single entity made by combining separate components;
"three chemicals combining into one solution"
7: eminent beyond or above comparison; "matchless beauty"; "the
team's nonpareil center fielder"; "she's one girl in a
million"; "the one and only Muhammad Ali"; "a peerless
scholar"; "infamy unmatched in the Western world"; "wrote
with unmatchable clarity"; "unrivaled mastery of her art"
[syn: matchless, nonpareil, one(a), one and only(a),
peerless, unmatched, unmatchable, unrivaled,
unrivalled]
n 1: the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this
number; "he has the one but will need a two and three to go
with it"; "they had lunch at one" [syn: one, 1, I,
ace, single, unity]
2: a single person or thing; "he is the best one"; "this is the
one I ordered"
-
outrun
(definition)
v 1: run faster than; "in this race, I managed to outran
everybody else"
-
overdone
(definition)
adj 1: represented as greater than is true or reasonable; "an
exaggerated opinion of oneself" [syn: exaggerated,
overdone, overstated]
2: cooked too long but still edible
-
pen
(place)
(definition)
n 1: a writing implement with a point from which ink flows
2: an enclosure for confining livestock
3: a portable enclosure in which babies may be left to play
[syn: playpen, pen]
4: a correctional institution for those convicted of major
crimes [syn: penitentiary, pen]
5: female swan
v 1: produce a literary work; "She composed a poem"; "He wrote
four novels" [syn: write, compose, pen, indite]
-
pun
(definition)
n 1: a humorous play on words; "I do it for the pun of it"; "his
constant punning irritated her" [syn: pun, punning,
wordplay, paronomasia]
v 1: make a play on words; "Japanese like to pun--their language
is well suited to punning"
-
rerun
(definition)
n 1: a program that is broadcast again; "she likes to watch `I
love Lucy' reruns"
v 1: broadcast again, as of a film [syn: rerun, rebroadcast]
2: rerun a performance of a play, for example
3: run again for office; "Bush wants to rerun in 1996"
4: cause to perform again; "We have to rerun the subjects--they
misunderstood the instructions"
-
run
(definition)
n 1: a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four
bases safely; "the Yankees scored 3 runs in the bottom of
the 9th"; "their first tally came in the 3rd inning" [syn:
run, tally]
2: the act of testing something; "in the experimental trials the
amount of carbon was measured separately"; "he called each
flip of the coin a new trial" [syn: test, trial, run]
3: a race run on foot; "she broke the record for the half-mile
run" [syn: footrace, foot race, run]
4: an unbroken series of events; "had a streak of bad luck";
"Nicklaus had a run of birdies" [syn: streak, run]
5: (American football) a play in which a player attempts to
carry the ball through or past the opposing team; "the
defensive line braced to stop the run"; "the coach put great
emphasis on running" [syn: run, running, running play,
running game]
6: a regular trip; "the ship made its run in record time"
7: the act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace; "he
broke into a run"; "his daily run keeps him fit" [syn: run,
running]
8: the continuous period of time during which something (a
machine or a factory) operates or continues in operation;
"the assembly line was on a 12-hour run"
9: unrestricted freedom to use; "he has the run of the house"
10: the production achieved during a continuous period of
operation (of a machine or factory etc.); "a daily run of
100,000 gallons of paint"
11: a small stream [syn: rivulet, rill, run, runnel,
streamlet]
12: a race between candidates for elective office; "I managed
his campaign for governor"; "he is raising money for a
Senate run" [syn: political campaign, campaign, run]
13: a row of unravelled stitches; "she got a run in her
stocking" [syn: run, ladder, ravel]
14: the pouring forth of a fluid [syn: discharge,
outpouring, run]
15: an unbroken chronological sequence; "the play had a long run
on Broadway"; "the team enjoyed a brief run of victories"
16: a short trip; "take a run into town"
v 1: move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground
at any given time; "Don't run--you'll be out of breath";
"The children ran to the store"
2: flee; take to one's heels; cut and run; "If you see this man,
run!"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed up"
[syn: scat, run, scarper, turn tail, lam, run
away, hightail it, bunk, head for the hills, take to
the woods, escape, fly the coop, break away]
3: stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or
extend between two points or beyond a certain point; "Service
runs all the way to Cranbury"; "His knowledge doesn't go very
far"; "My memory extends back to my fourth year of life";
"The facts extend beyond a consideration of her personal
assets" [syn: run, go, pass, lead, extend]
4: direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.; "She is
running a relief operation in the Sudan" [syn: operate,
run]
5: have a particular form; "the story or argument runs as
follows"; "as the saying goes..." [syn: run, go]
6: move along, of liquids; "Water flowed into the cave"; "the
Missouri feeds into the Mississippi" [syn: run, flow,
feed, course]
7: perform as expected when applied; "The washing machine won't
go unless it's plugged in"; "Does this old car still run
well?"; "This old radio doesn't work anymore" [syn:
function, work, operate, go, run] [ant:
malfunction, misfunction]
8: change or be different within limits; "Estimates for the
losses in the earthquake range as high as $2 billion";
"Interest rates run from 5 to 10 percent"; "The instruments
ranged from tuba to cymbals"; "My students range from very
bright to dull" [syn: range, run]
9: run, stand, or compete for an office or a position; "Who's
running for treasurer this year?" [syn: campaign, run]
10: cause to emit recorded audio or video; "They ran the tapes
over and over again"; "I'll play you my favorite record";
"He never tires of playing that video" [syn: play, run]
11: move about freely and without restraint, or act as if
running around in an uncontrolled way; "who are these people
running around in the building?"; "She runs around telling
everyone of her troubles"; "let the dogs run free"
12: have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be
inclined; "She tends to be nervous before her lectures";
"These dresses run small"; "He inclined to corpulence" [syn:
tend, be given, lean, incline, run]
13: be operating, running or functioning; "The car is still
running--turn it off!" [ant: idle, tick over]
14: change from one state to another; "run amok"; "run rogue";
"run riot"
15: cause to perform; "run a subject"; "run a process"
16: be affected by; be subjected to; "run a temperature"; "run a
risk"
17: continue to exist; "These stories die hard"; "The legend of
Elvis endures" [syn: prevail, persist, die hard,
run, endure]
18: occur persistently; "Musical talent runs in the family"
19: carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a
machine; "Run the dishwasher"; "run a new program on the
Mac"; "the computer executed the instruction" [syn: run,
execute]
20: include as the content; broadcast or publicize; "We ran the
ad three times"; "This paper carries a restaurant review";
"All major networks carried the press conference" [syn:
carry, run]
21: carry out; "run an errand"
22: pass over, across, or through; "He ran his eyes over her
body"; "She ran her fingers along the carved figurine"; "He
drew her hair through his fingers" [syn: guide, run,
draw, pass]
23: cause something to pass or lead somewhere; "Run the wire
behind the cabinet" [syn: run, lead]
24: make without a miss
25: deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor [syn: run,
black market]
26: cause an animal to move fast; "run the dogs"
27: be diffused; "These dyes and colors are guaranteed not to
run" [syn: run, bleed]
28: sail before the wind
29: cover by running; run a certain distance; "She ran 10 miles
that day"
30: extend or continue for a certain period of time; "The film
runs 5 hours" [syn: run, run for]
31: set animals loose to graze
32: keep company; "the heifers run with the bulls to produce
offspring" [syn: run, consort]
33: run with the ball; in such sports as football
34: travel rapidly, by any (unspecified) means; "Run to the
store!"; "She always runs to Italy, because she has a lover
there"
35: travel a route regularly; "Ships ply the waters near the
coast" [syn: ply, run]
36: pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals); "Goering
often hunted wild boars in Poland"; "The dogs are running
deer"; "The Duke hunted in these woods" [syn: hunt, run,
hunt down, track down]
37: compete in a race; "he is running the Marathon this year";
"let's race and see who gets there first" [syn: race,
run]
38: progress by being changed; "The speech has to go through
several more drafts"; "run through your presentation before
the meeting" [syn: move, go, run]
39: reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid
state, usually by heating; "melt butter"; "melt down gold";
"The wax melted in the sun" [syn: melt, run, melt
down]
40: come unraveled or undone as if by snagging; "Her nylons were
running" [syn: ladder, run]
41: become undone; "the sweater unraveled" [syn: run,
unravel]
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shun
(definition)
v 1: avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of [syn:
shun, eschew]
2: expel from a community or group [syn: banish, ban,
ostracize, ostracise, shun, cast out, blackball]
-
son
(name)
(place)
(definition)
n 1: a male human offspring; "their son became a famous judge";
"his boy is taller than he is" [syn: son, boy] [ant:
daughter, girl]
2: the divine word of God; the second person in the Trinity
(incarnate in Jesus) [syn: Son, Word, Logos]
-
stun
(definition)
v 1: make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow; "stun fish"
[syn: stun, stupefy]
2: hit something or somebody as if with a sandbag [syn:
sandbag, stun]
3: overcome as with astonishment or disbelief; "The news stunned
her" [syn: stun, bedaze, daze]
-
sun
(name)
(definition)
n 1: the star that is the source of light and heat for the
planets in the solar system; "the sun contains 99.85% of
the mass in the solar system"; "the Earth revolves around
the Sun" [syn: sun, Sun]
2: the rays of the sun; "the shingles were weathered by the sun
and wind" [syn: sunlight, sunshine, sun]
3: a person considered as a source of warmth or energy or glory
etc
4: any star around which a planetary system revolves
5: first day of the week; observed as a day of rest and worship
by most Christians [syn: Sunday, Lord's Day, Dominicus,
Sun]
v 1: expose one's body to the sun [syn: sun, sunbathe]
2: expose to the rays of the sun or affect by exposure to the
sun; "insolated paper may turn yellow and crumble"; "These
herbs suffer when sunned" [syn: sun, insolate,
solarize, solarise]
-
ten
(definition)
adj 1: being one more than nine [syn: ten, 10, x]
n 1: the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the
base of the decimal system [syn: ten, 10, X,
tenner, decade]
2: one of four playing cards in a deck with ten pips on the face
[syn: ten-spot, ten]
-
then
(definition)
adv 1: subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence
connectors); "then he left"; "go left first, then right";
"first came lightning, then thunder"; "we watched the
late movie and then went to bed"; "and so home and to
bed" [syn: then, so, and so, and then]
2: in that case or as a consequence; "if he didn't take it, then
who did?"; "keep it then if you want to"; "the case, then, is
closed"; "you've made up your mind then?"; "then you'll be
rich"
3: at that time; "I was young then"; "prices were lower back
then"; "science as it was then taught"
adj 1: at a specific prior time; "the then president"
n 1: that time; that moment; "we will arrive before then"; "we
were friends from then on"
-
ton
(place)
(definition)
n 1: a United States unit of weight equivalent to 2000 pounds
[syn: short ton, ton, net ton]
2: a British unit of weight equivalent to 2240 pounds [syn:
long ton, ton, gross ton]
-
tonne
(definition)
n 1: a unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms [syn: metric
ton, MT, tonne, t]
-
tragedienne
(definition)
n 1: an actress who specializes in tragic roles
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undone
(definition)
adj 1: not done; "the work could be done or undone and nobody
cared"
2: doomed to extinction [syn: done for(p), ruined, sunk,
undone, washed-up]
3: not fastened or tied or secured; "her blouse had come undone
at the neck"; "his shoelaces were undone"
4: thrown into a state of disorganization or incoherence; "price
programs became unstuck because little grain was available"
[syn: unstuck, undone]
-
won
(definition)
adj 1: not subject to defeat; "with that move it's a won game"
[ant: lost]
n 1: the basic unit of money in South Korea [syn: South Korean
won, won]
2: the basic unit of money in North Korea [syn: North Korean
won, won]
-
wren
(name)
(definition)
n 1: English architect who designed more than fifty London
churches (1632-1723) [syn: Wren, Sir Christopher Wren]
2: any of several small active brown birds of the northern
hemisphere with short upright tails; they feed on insects
[syn: wren, jenny wren]
-
yen
(name)
(definition)
n 1: a yearning for something or to do something [syn:
hankering, yen]
2: the basic unit of money in Japan; equal to 100 sen
v 1: have a desire for something or someone who is not present;
"She ached for a cigarette"; "I am pining for my lover"
[syn: ache, yearn, yen, pine, languish]
-
hun
(name)
(place)
(definition)
n 1: a member of a nomadic people who invaded Europe in the 4th
century
2: offensive term for a person of German descent [syn: Kraut,
Krauthead, Boche, Jerry, Hun]
-
ben
(name)
(definition)
n 1: a mountain or tall hill; "they were climbing the ben"
-
benne
(name)
(definition)
n 1: East Indian annual erect herb; source of sesame seed or
benniseed and sesame oil [syn: sesame, benne, benni,
benny, Sesamum indicum]
-
bren
(definition)
n 1: a submachine gun operated by gas pressure; used by the
British in World War II [syn: Bren, Bren gun]
-
chen
(definition)
n 1: wild goose having white adult plumage [syn: Chen,
subgenus Chen]
-
gen
(definition)
n 1: informal term for information; "give me the gen on your new
line of computers"
-
glenn
(name)
(definition)
n 1: made the first orbital rocket-powered flight by a United
States astronaut in 1962; later in United States Senate
(1921-) [syn: Glenn, John Glenn, John Herschel Glenn
Jr.]
-
n
(definition)
n 1: a common nonmetallic element that is normally a colorless
odorless tasteless inert diatomic gas; constitutes 78
percent of the atmosphere by volume; a constituent of all
living tissues [syn: nitrogen, N, atomic number 7]
2: the cardinal compass point that is at 0 or 360 degrees [syn:
north, due north, northward, N]
3: a unit of force equal to the force that imparts an
acceleration of 1 m/sec/sec to a mass of 1 kilogram; equal to
100,000 dynes [syn: newton, N]
4: (of a solution) concentration expressed in gram equivalents
of solute per liter [syn: normality, N]
5: the 14th letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: N, n]
-
penn
(name)
(definition)
n 1: Englishman and Quaker who founded the colony of
Pennsylvania (1644-1718) [syn: Penn, William Penn]
2: a university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [syn: University
of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, Penn]
-
penne
(place)
(definition)
n 1: pasta in short tubes with diagonally cut ends
-
sen
(definition)
n 1: a fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and
Cambodia; equal to one hundredth of a yen or rupiah or riel
-
wen
(name)
(definition)
n 1: a common cyst of the skin; filled with fatty matter (sebum)
that is secreted by a sebaceous gland that has been blocked
[syn: sebaceous cyst, pilar cyst, wen,
steatocystoma]
-
zen
(definition)
n 1: school of Mahayana Buddhism asserting that enlightenment
can come through meditation and intuition rather than
faith; China and Japan [syn: Zen, Zen Buddhism]
2: a Buddhist doctrine that enlightenment can be attained
through direct intuitive insight [syn: Zen, Zen Buddhism]
3: street name for lysergic acid diethylamide [syn: acid,
back breaker, battery-acid, dose, dot, Elvis,
loony toons, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, pane,
superman, window pane, Zen]
-
cheyenne
(name)
(place)
(definition)
n 1: the capital and largest city of Wyoming; located in the
southeastern corner of the state [syn: Cheyenne, capital
of Wyoming]
2: the Algonquian language spoken by the Cheyenne
3: a member of a North American Indian people living on the
western plains (now living in Oklahoma and Montana)
-
asean
(definition)
n 1: an association of nations dedicated to economic and
political cooperation in southeastern Asia and who joined
with the United States to fight against global terrorism
[syn: Association of Southeast Asian Nations, ASEAN]
-
lpn
(definition)
n 1: a nurse who has enough training to be licensed by a state
to provide routine care for the sick [syn: licensed
practical nurse, LPN, practical nurse]
-
brunn
(name)
(place)
(definition)
n 1: an industrial city in Moravia in Czech Republic to the
southeast of Prague [syn: Brno, Brunn]
-
donne
(name)
(definition)
n 1: English clergyman and metaphysical poet celebrated as a
preacher (1572-1631) [syn: Donne, John Donne]
-
doyenne
(definition)
n 1: a woman who is the senior member of a group
-
valenciennes
(place)
(definition)
n 1: a town in northeastern France long noted for its lace
industry
2: a type of bobbin lace with floral patterns [syn:
Valenciennes, Valenciennes lace]
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begun
(place)
-
councilmen
-
equestrienne
-
handymen
-
lawmen
-
oilmen
-
patrolmen
-
redone
-
spun
-
when
-
outdone
-
terrebonne
(place)
-
tenn
-
behn
(name)
-
behne
(name)
-
benn
(name)
-
brenn
-
chien
-
dehn
(name)
-
dehne
-
denn
-
denne
(name)
-
fehn
-
fenn
(name)
-
gren
-
gwen
(name)
-
hehn
-
henn
-
henne
-
hren
-
jen
(name)
-
jenn
-
jenne
(name)
(place)
-
kehn
-
kehne
-
kenn
(name)
(place)
-
kren
-
krenn
-
lehn
-
lehne
-
len
(name)