-
ahimsa
0
n 1: a Buddhist and Hindu and especially Jainist doctrine
holding that all forms of life are sacred and urging the
avoidance of violence
-
ala
0
n 1: a flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism;
"the alae of the nose"; "the alae of a maple seed"; "the
flat petals of a pea blossom are alae"
2: a wing of an insect
-
aloha
0
n 1: an acknowledgment that can be used to say hello or goodbye
(aloha is Hawaiian and ciao is Italian) [syn: aloha,
ciao]
-
awe
0
n 1: an overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration; "he stared
over the edge with a feeling of awe"
2: a feeling of profound respect for someone or something; "the
fear of God"; "the Chinese reverence for the dead"; "the
French treat food with gentle reverence"; "his respect for
the law bordered on veneration" [syn: fear, reverence,
awe, veneration]
v 1: inspire awe in; "The famous professor awed the
undergraduates"
-
baccarat
0
n 1: a card game played in casinos in which two or more punters
gamble against the banker; the player wins who holds 2 or 3
cards that total closest to nine [syn: baccarat, chemin
de fer]
-
backsaw
0
n 1: a handsaw that is stiffened by metal reinforcement along
the upper edge [syn: backsaw, back saw]
-
baklava
0
n 1: rich Middle Eastern cake made of thin layers of flaky
pastry filled with nuts and honey
-
blah
0
n 1: pompous or pretentious talk or writing [syn: bombast,
fustian, rant, claptrap, blah]
-
bodega
0
n 1: a small Hispanic shop selling wine and groceries
-
bourgeois
0
adj 1: (according to Marxist thought) being of the property-
owning class and exploitive of the working class
2: conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle
class; "a bourgeois mentality" [syn: bourgeois,
conservative, materialistic]
3: belonging to the middle class
n 1: a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial
enterprise [syn: businessperson, bourgeois]
2: a member of the middle class [syn: bourgeois, burgher]
-
bra
0
n 1: an undergarment worn by women to support their breasts
[syn: brassiere, bra, bandeau]
-
brouhaha
0
n 1: loud confused noise from many sources [syn: hubbub,
uproar, brouhaha, katzenjammer]
2: a confused disturbance far greater than its cause merits
-
bursa
0
n 1: a city in northwestern Turkey [syn: Bursa, Brusa]
2: a small fluid-filled sac located between movable parts of the
body especially at joints
-
cabana
0
n 1: a small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a
swimming pool
-
cadenza
0
n 1: a brilliant solo passage occurring near the end of a piece
of music
-
chutzpah
0
n 1: (Yiddish) unbelievable gall; insolence; audacity [syn:
chutzpa, chutzpah, hutzpah]
-
coleslaw
0
n 1: basically shredded cabbage [syn: coleslaw, slaw]
-
degas
0
n 1: French impressionist painter (1834-1917) [syn: Degas,
Edgar Degas, Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas]
v 1: remove gas from
-
diva
0
n 1: a distinguished female operatic singer; a female operatic
star [syn: prima donna, diva]
-
gaga
0
adj 1: mentally or physically infirm with age; "his mother was
doddering and frail" [syn: doddering, doddery,
gaga, senile]
2: intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with; "crazy
about cars and racing"; "he is potty about her" [syn:
crazy, wild, dotty, gaga]
-
grandma
0
n 1: the mother of your father or mother [syn: grandma,
grandmother, granny, grannie, gran, nan, nanna]
-
grandpa
0
n 1: the father of your father or mother [syn: grandfather,
gramps, granddad, grandad, granddaddy, grandpa]
-
grappa
0
n 1: Italian brandy made from residue of grapes after pressing
-
ha
0
n 1: (astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial point
measured westward along the celestial equator from the
zenith crossing; the right ascension for an observer at a
particular location and time of day [syn: hour angle,
HA]
-
hoopla
0
n 1: blatant or sensational promotion [syn: ballyhoo,
hoopla, hype, plug]
-
hurrah
0
n 1: a victory cheer; "let's give the team a big hurrah" [syn:
hurrah, hooray]
v 1: shout `hurrah!'
-
indaba
0
n 1: a council at which indigenous peoples of southern Africa
meet to discuss some important question
-
kea
0
n 1: large brownish-green New Zealand parrot [syn: kea,
Nestor notabilis]
-
kola
0
n 1: tree bearing large brown nuts containing e.g. caffeine;
source of cola extract [syn: kola, kola nut, kola nut
tree, goora nut, Cola acuminata]
2: a Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad [syn: Daba,
Kola, Musgoi]
-
la
0
n 1: a white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily;
occurs in rare earth minerals and is usually classified as
a rare earth [syn: lanthanum, La, atomic number 57]
2: a state in southern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one
of the Confederate states during the American Civil War [syn:
Louisiana, Pelican State, LA]
3: the syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or
minor scale in solmization [syn: la, lah]
-
law
0
n 1: the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization
presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for
jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order" [syn:
law, jurisprudence]
2: legal document setting forth rules governing a particular
kind of activity; "there is a law against kidnapping"
3: a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature
and essential to or binding upon human society [syn: law,
natural law]
4: a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in
nature; "the laws of thermodynamics" [syn: law, law of
nature]
5: the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the
principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
[syn: jurisprudence, law, legal philosophy]
6: the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in
a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system;
"he studied law at Yale" [syn: law, practice of law]
7: the force of policemen and officers; "the law came looking
for him" [syn: police, police force, constabulary,
law]
-
ma
0
n 1: informal terms for a mother [syn: ma, mama, mamma,
mom, momma, mommy, mammy, mum, mummy]
2: a master's degree in arts and sciences [syn: Master of
Arts, MA, Artium Magister, AM]
3: one thousandth of an ampere [syn: milliampere, mA]
4: a state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies [syn:
Massachusetts, Bay State, Old Colony, MA]
-
macaw
0
n 1: long-tailed brilliantly colored parrot of Central America
and South America; among the largest and showiest of
parrots
-
mamba
0
n 1: arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is
often fatal
-
mitzvah
0
n 1: (Judaism) a precept or commandment of the Jewish law [syn:
mitzvah, mitsvah]
2: (Judaism) a good deed performed out of religious duty [syn:
mitzvah, mitsvah]
-
nougat
0
n 1: nuts or fruit pieces in a sugar paste
-
novella
0
n 1: a short novel [syn: novelette, novella]
-
olla
0
n 1: leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India
for writing paper [syn: ola, olla]
-
overdraw
0
v 1: draw more money from than is available; "She overdrew her
account"
2: to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; "tended to romanticize
and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery" [syn:
overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize,
hyperbolise, magnify, amplify] [ant: downplay,
minimise, minimize, understate]
-
pa
0
n 1: an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby
talk [syn: dad, dada, daddy, pa, papa, pappa,
pop]
2: a short-lived radioactive metallic element formed from
uranium and disintegrating into actinium and then into lead
[syn: protactinium, protoactinium, Pa, atomic number
91]
3: a unit of pressure equal to one newton per square meter [syn:
pascal, Pa]
4: a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies [syn:
Pennsylvania, Keystone State, PA]
5: an electronic amplification system used as a communication
system in public areas [syn: public address system, P.A.
system, PA system, P.A., PA]
-
panama
0
n 1: a republic on the Isthmus of Panama; achieved independence
from Colombia in 1903 [syn: Panama, Republic of Panama]
2: a stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown [syn: boater,
leghorn, Panama, Panama hat, sailor, skimmer,
straw hat]
-
papa
0
n 1: an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby
talk [syn: dad, dada, daddy, pa, papa, pappa,
pop]
-
papaw
0
n 1: small tree native to the eastern United States having
oblong leaves and fleshy fruit [syn: pawpaw, papaw,
papaw tree, Asimina triloba]
2: fruit with yellow flesh; related to custard apples [syn:
papaw, pawpaw]
-
pas
0
n 1: (ballet) a step in dancing (especially in classical ballet)
-
pasha
0
n 1: a civil or military authority in Turkey or Egypt [syn:
pasha, pacha]
-
patois
0
n 1: a characteristic language of a particular group (as among
thieves); "they don't speak our lingo" [syn: slang,
cant, jargon, lingo, argot, patois, vernacular]
2: a regional dialect of a language (especially French); usually
considered substandard
-
pieta
0
n 1: a representation of the Virgin Mary mourning over the dead
body of Jesus
-
polio
0
n 1: an acute viral disease marked by inflammation of nerve
cells of the brain stem and spinal cord [syn:
poliomyelitis, polio, infantile paralysis, acute
anterior poliomyelitis]
-
raw
0
adj 1: (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or
manufactured using only simple or minimal processes;
"natural yogurt"; "natural produce"; "raw wool"; "raw
sugar"; "bales of rude cotton" [syn: natural, raw(a),
rude(a)]
2: having the surface exposed and painful; "a raw wound"
3: not treated with heat to prepare it for eating [ant:
cooked]
4: not processed or refined; "raw sewage"
5: devoid of elaboration or diminution or concealment; bare and
pure; "naked ambition"; "raw fury"; "you may kill someone
someday with your raw power" [syn: naked, raw]
6: brutally unfair or harsh; "received raw treatment from his
friends"; "a raw deal"
7: not processed or subjected to analysis; "raw data"; "the raw
cost of production"; "only the crude vital statistics" [syn:
crude, raw]
8: untempered and unrefined; "raw talent"; "raw beauty"
9: hurting; "the tender spot on his jaw" [syn: sensitive,
sore, raw, tender]
10: unpleasantly cold and damp; "bleak winds of the North
Atlantic" [syn: bleak, cutting, raw]
11: used of wood and furniture; "raw wood" [syn: raw(a),
unsanded]
12: lacking training or experience; "the new men were eager to
fight"; "raw recruits" [syn: raw, new]
13: (used informally) completely unclothed [syn: bare-assed,
bare-ass, in the altogether, in the buff, in the
raw, raw, peeled, naked as a jaybird, stark naked]
n 1: informal terms for nakedness; "in the raw"; "in the
altogether"; "in his birthday suit" [syn: raw,
altogether, birthday suit]
-
rickshaw
0
n 1: a small two-wheeled cart for one passenger; pulled by one
person [syn: jinrikisha, ricksha, rickshaw]
-
ripsaw
0
n 1: a handsaw for cutting with the grain of the wood [syn:
ripsaw, splitsaw]
-
sauna
0
n 1: a Finnish steam bath; steam is produced by pouring water
over heated rocks [syn: sauna, sweat room]
-
schwa
0
n 1: a neutral middle vowel; occurs in unstressed syllables
[syn: schwa, shwa]
-
scrimshaw
0
n 1: a carving (or engraving) on whalebone, whale ivory, walrus
tusk, etc., usually by American whalers
-
shah
0
n 1: title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran [syn:
Shah, Shah of Iran]
-
spa
0
n 1: a health resort near a spring or at the seaside [syn:
watering place, watering hole, spa]
2: a fashionable hotel usually in a resort area [syn: resort
hotel, spa]
3: a place of business with equipment and facilities for
exercising and improving physical fitness [syn: health spa,
spa, health club]
-
tempura
0
n 1: vegetables and seafood dipped in batter and deep-fried
-
vineyard
0
n 1: a farm of grapevines where wine grapes are produced [syn:
vineyard, vinery]
-
wallah
0
n 1: usually in combination: person in charge of or employed at
a particular thing; "a kitchen wallah"; "the book wallah"
-
dada
0
n 1: an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby
talk [syn: dad, dada, daddy, pa, papa, pappa,
pop]
2: a nihilistic art movement (especially in painting) that
flourished in Europe early in the 20th century; based on
irrationality and negation of the accepted laws of beauty
[syn: dada, dadaism]
-
zea
0
n 1: corn [syn: Zea, genus Zea]
-
bologna
0
n 1: the capital of Emilia-Romagna; located in northern Italy to
the east of the Apennines
2: large smooth-textured smoked sausage of beef and veal and
pork [syn: bologna, Bologna sausage]
-
cholla
0
n 1: arborescent cacti having very spiny cylindrical stem
segments; southwestern United States and Mexico [syn:
cholla, Opuntia cholla]
-
hezbollah
0
n 1: a Shiite terrorist organization with strong ties to Iran;
seeks to create an Iranian fundamentalist Islamic state in
Lebanon; car bombs are the signature weapon [syn:
Hizballah, Hezbollah, Hizbollah, Hizbullah,
Lebanese Hizballah, Party of God, Islamic Jihad,
Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine,
Revolutionary Justice Organization, Organization of the
Oppressed on Earth]
-
kampala
0
n 1: the capital and largest city of Uganda on the north shore
of Lake Victoria [syn: Kampala, capital of Uganda]
-
abkhazia
0
n 1: an autonomous province of Georgia on the Black Sea; a
strong independence movement has resulted in much
instability [syn: Abkhaz, Abkhazia]
-
ca
0
n 1: a white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light;
the fifth most abundant element in the earth's crust; an
important component of most plants and animals [syn:
calcium, Ca, atomic number 20]
2: a state in the western United States on the Pacific; the 3rd
largest state; known for earthquakes [syn: California,
Golden State, CA, Calif.]
-
da
0
n 1: an official prosecutor for a judicial district [syn:
district attorney, DA]
-
ga
0
n 1: the first known nerve agent, synthesized by German chemists
in 1936; a highly toxic combustible liquid that is soluble
in organic solvents and is used as a nerve gas in chemical
warfare [syn: tabun, GA]
2: a rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element; brittle
at low temperatures but liquid above room temperature; occurs
in trace amounts in bauxite and zinc ores [syn: gallium,
Ga, atomic number 31]
3: a state in southeastern United States; one of the Confederate
states during the American Civil War [syn: Georgia, Empire
State of the South, Peach State, GA]
-
ka
0
n 1: unknown god; an epithet of Prajapati and Brahma
-
na
0
n 1: a silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal
group; occurs abundantly in natural compounds (especially
in salt water); burns with a yellow flame and reacts
violently in water; occurs in sea water and in the mineral
halite (rock salt) [syn: sodium, Na, atomic number
11]
-
ra
0
n 1: an intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in
minute amounts in uranium ores [syn: radium, Ra,
atomic number 88]
2: ancient Egyptian sun god with the head of a hawk; a universal
creator; he merged with the god Amen as Amen-Ra to become the
king of the gods [syn: Ra, Re]
3: (astronomy) the equatorial coordinate specifying the angle,
measured eastward along the celestial equator, from the
vernal equinox to the intersection of the hour circle that
passes through an object in the sky; usually expressed in
hours and minutes and seconds; used with declination to
specify positions on the celestial sphere; "one hour of right
ascension equals fifteen degrees" [syn: right ascension,
RA, celestial longitude]
-
sa
0
n 1: Nazi militia created by Hitler in 1921 that helped him to
power but was eclipsed by the SS after 1943 [syn: SA,
Sturmabteilung, Storm Troops]
-
ta
0
n 1: a hard grey lustrous metallic element that is highly
resistant to corrosion; occurs in niobite and fergusonite
and tantalite [syn: tantalum, Ta, atomic number 73]
-
wa
0
n 1: a state in northwestern United States on the Pacific [syn:
Washington, Evergreen State, WA]
-
artois
0
n 1: a former province of northern France near the English
Channel (between Picardy and Flanders)
-
dumas
0
n 1: French writer remembered for his swashbuckling historical
tales (1802-1870) [syn: Dumas, Alexandre Dumas]
-
fatah
0
n 1: a Palestinian political and military organization founded
by Yasser Arafat in 1958 to work toward the creation of a
Palestinian state; during the 1960s and 1970s trained
terrorist and insurgent groups; "al-Fatah carried out
numerous acts of international terrorism in western Europe
and the Middle East in the 1970s" [syn: al-Fatah,
Fatah, al-Asifa]
-
hua
0
n 1: an Islamic fundamentalist group in Pakistan that fought the
Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s; now operates as a
terrorist organization primarily in Kashmir and seeks
Kashmir's accession by Pakistan [syn: Harkat-ul-
Mujahidin, HUM, Harkat ul-Ansar, HUA, Harkat ul-
Mujahedeen, Al Faran, Movement of Holy Warriors]
-
sanaa
0
n 1: the capital and largest city of Yemen; on the central
plateau [syn: Sana, Sanaa, Sana'a]
-
valois
0
n 1: French royal house from 1328 to 1589
-
bogota
0
n 1: capital and largest city of Colombia; located in central
Colombia on a high fertile plain [syn: Bogota, capital
of Colombia]
-
ba
0
n 1: a soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group;
found in barite [syn: barium, Ba, atomic number 56]
2: a bachelor's degree in arts and sciences [syn: Bachelor of
Arts, BA, Artium Baccalaurens, AB]
-
brahe
0
n 1: Danish astronomer whose observations of the planets
provided the basis for Kepler's laws of planetary motion
(1546-1601) [syn: Brahe, Tycho Brahe]
-
dah
0
n 1: the longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse
code [syn: dash, dah]
-
fa
0
n 1: the syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the
diatonic scale in solmization
-
kwa
0
n 1: a group of African language in the Niger-Congo group spoken
from the Ivory Coast east to Nigeria
-
ptah
0
n 1: a major Egyptian god; shaper of the world; father of gods
and men; worshipped especially at Memphis
-
pya
0
n 1: 100 pyas equal 1 kyat in Myanmar
-
shwa
0
n 1: a neutral middle vowel; occurs in unstressed syllables
[syn: schwa, shwa]
-
aba
0
n 1: a loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth; worn
by Arabs
2: a fabric woven from goat hair and camel hair
-
akka
0
n 1: a town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern
Mediterranean [syn: Acre, Akko, Akka, Accho]
-
dukas
0
n 1: French composer (1865-1935) [syn: Dukas, Paul Dukas]
-
eclat
0
n 1: enthusiastic approval; "the book met with modest acclaim";
"he acknowledged the plaudits of the crowd"; "they gave him
more eclat than he really deserved" [syn: acclaim,
acclamation, plaudits, plaudit, eclat]
2: ceremonial elegance and splendor; "entered with much eclat in
a coach drawn by eight white horses" [syn: pomp, eclat]
3: brilliant or conspicuous success or effect; "the eclat of a
great achievement"
-
jinja
0
n 1: a city in Uganda on the north shore of Lake Victoria
-
kechua
0
n 1: a member of a South American Indian people in Peru who were
formerly the ruling class of the Inca empire [syn:
Quechua, Kechua]
2: a community of South American Indians in Peru who were
formerly the ruling class of the Incan Empire [syn:
Quechua, Kechua]
3: the language of the Quechua which was spoken by the Incas
[syn: Quechua, Quechuan, Quechuan language, Kechua,
Kechuan]
-
kura
0
n 1: a river in western Asia; rises in northeast Turkey and
flows to the Caspian Sea [syn: Kura, Kura River]
-
mikvah
0
n 1: (Hebrew) a ritual purification and cleansing bath that
Orthodox Jews take on certain occasions (as before Sabbath
or after menstruation)
-
mitsvah
0
n 1: (Judaism) a precept or commandment of the Jewish law [syn:
mitzvah, mitsvah]
2: (Judaism) a good deed performed out of religious duty [syn:
mitzvah, mitsvah]
-
oka
0
n 1: a Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds
2: a Turkish liquid unit equal to 1.3 pints
3: South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers
[syn: oca, oka, Oxalis tuberosa, Oxalis crenata]