Words that rhyme with and

n 1: worn around arm as identification or to indicate mourning 2: a band worn around the upper arm

adj 1: aroused or activated; "an awakened interest in ballet" [ant: unawakened] 2: (somewhat formal) having been waked up; "the awakened baby began to cry"

adj 1: (of racket strokes) made across the body with back of hand facing direction of stroke [syn: backhand(a), backhanded] [ant: forehand(a), forehanded] 2: (of handwriting) having the letters slanting backward [syn: backhand, left-slanting] n 1: a return made with the back of the hand facing the direction of the stroke [syn: backhand, backhand stroke, backhand shot] v 1: hit a tennis ball backhand

n 1: an unofficial association of people or groups; "the smart set goes there"; "they were an angry lot" [syn: set, circle, band, lot] 2: instrumentalists not including string players 3: a stripe or stripes of contrasting color; "chromosomes exhibit characteristic bands"; "the black and yellow banding of bees and wasps" [syn: band, banding, stria, striation] 4: an adornment consisting of a strip of a contrasting color or material [syn: band, banding, stripe] 5: a group of musicians playing popular music for dancing [syn: dance band, band, dance orchestra] 6: a range of frequencies between two limits 7: a thin flat strip of flexible material that is worn around the body or one of the limbs (especially to decorate the body) 8: a cord-like tissue connecting two larger parts of an anatomical structure [syn: isthmus, band] 9: jewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal (often set with jewels) worn on the finger; "she had rings on every finger"; "he noted that she wore a wedding band" [syn: ring, band] 10: a driving belt in machinery 11: a thin flat strip or loop of flexible material that goes around or over something else, typically to hold it together or as a decoration 12: a strip of material attached to the leg of a bird to identify it (as in studies of bird migration) [syn: band, ring] 13: a restraint put around something to hold it together v 1: bind or tie together, as with a band 2: attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify; "ring birds"; "band the geese to observe their migratory patterns" [syn: ring, band]

n 1: a platform where a (brass) band can play in the open air [syn: bandstand, outdoor stage, stand]

adv 1: ahead of time; in anticipation; "when you pay ahead (or in advance) you receive a discount"; "We like to plan ahead"; "should have made reservations beforehand" [syn: ahead, in advance, beforehand] adj 1: being ahead of time or need; "gave advance warning"; "was beforehand with her report" [syn: advance(a), beforehand(p)]

n 1: an armed thief who is (usually) a member of a band [syn: bandit, brigand]

n 1: something existing solely in the imagination (but often mistaken for reality) [syn: fantasy world, phantasy world, fairyland] 2: the enchanted realm of fairies [syn: fairyland, faerie, faery]

adj 1: lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea" [syn: bland, flat, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, vapid] 2: lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting; "a bland little drama"; "a flat joke" [syn: bland, flat] 3: smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication; "he was too politic to quarrel with so important a personage"; "the manager pacified the customer with a smooth apology for the error" [syn: politic, smooth, suave, bland]

n 1: district consisting of the area on either side of a border or boundary of a country or an area; "the Welsh marches between England and Wales" [syn: borderland, border district, march, marchland]

n 1: a quantity upon which a mathematical operation is performed

adv 1: in debt; "he fell behind with his mortgage payments"; "a month behind in the rent"; "a company that has been run behindhand for years"; "in arrears with their utility bills" [syn: behind, behindhand, in arrears] adj 1: behind schedule; "was behindhand with the rent"

adj 1: forbidden by law [syn: banned, prohibited]

n 1: a cloth band that is worn around the waist (as on infants until the navel has healed) 2: a strap around the belly of a draft animal holding the shafts of a wagon

n 1: a name given to a product or service [syn: trade name, brand name, brand, marque] 2: a recognizable kind; "there's a new brand of hero in the movies now"; "what make of car is that?" [syn: brand, make] 3: identification mark on skin, made by burning 4: a piece of wood that has been burned or is burning [syn: brand, firebrand] 5: a symbol of disgrace or infamy; "And the Lord set a mark upon Cain"--Genesis [syn: mark, stigma, brand, stain] 6: a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard [syn: sword, blade, brand, steel] v 1: burn with a branding iron to indicate ownership; of animals 2: to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful; "He denounced the government action"; "She was stigmatized by society because she had a child out of wedlock" [syn: stigmatize, stigmatise, brand, denounce, mark] 3: mark with a brand or trademark; "when this product is not branded it sells for a lower price" [syn: brand, trademark, brandmark] 4: mark or expose as infamous; "She was branded a loose woman" [syn: post, brand]

n 1: a place where taxis park while awaiting customers; "in England the place where taxis wait to be hired is called a `taxi rank'" [syn: cabstand, taxistand, taxi rank]

adj 1: planned and made or fashioned artistically; "beautifully fashioned dresses"

adj 1: forsaken by owner or inhabitants ; "weed-grown yard of an abandoned farmhouse" [syn: abandoned, derelict, deserted] 2: free from constraint; "an abandoned sadness born of grief"- Liam O'Flaherty

n 1: egg-thickened veloute [syn: allemande, allemande sauce]

n 1: small bushy deciduous tree native to Asia and North Africa having pretty pink blossoms and highly prized edible nuts enclosed in a hard green hull; cultivated in southern Australia and California [syn: almond, sweet almond, Prunus dulcis, Prunus amygdalus, Amygdalus communis] 2: oval-shaped edible seed of the almond tree

n 1: a punctuation mark (&) used to represent conjunction (and)

adj 1: given out in portions [syn: apportioned, dealt out, doled out, meted out, parceled out]

adj 1: darkened by smoke; "blackened rafters" 2: (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood; "a face black with fury" [syn: black, blackened]

adj 1: of or relating to or being a communications network in which the bandwidth can be divided and shared by multiple simultaneous signals (as for voice or data or video) 2: responding to or operating at a wide band of frequencies; "a broadband antenna" [syn: broadband, wideband]

adj 1: bearing a heavy burden of work or difficulties or responsibilities; "she always felt burdened by the load of paper work" [ant: unburdened] 2: bearing a physically heavy weight or load; "tree limbs burdened with ice"; "a heavy-laden cart"; "loaded down with packages" [syn: burdened, heavy-laden, loaded down]

adj 1: furnished or closed with buttons or something buttonlike [syn: buttoned, fastened] [ant: unbuttoned, unfastened]

adj 1: recorded for broadcast; "a transcribed announcement"; "canned laughter" [syn: canned, transcribed] 2: sealed in a can or jar [syn: canned, tinned]

n 1: land in a coastal area

n 1: an authoritative direction or instruction to do something [syn: command, bid, bidding, dictation] 2: a military unit or region under the control of a single officer 3: the power or authority to command; "an admiral in command" 4: availability for use; "the materials at the command of the potters grew" 5: a position of highest authority; "the corporation has just undergone a change in command" 6: great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity; "a good command of French" [syn: command, control, mastery] 7: (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program [syn: instruction, command, statement, program line] v 1: be in command of; "The general commanded a huge army" 2: make someone do something [syn: command, require] 3: demand as one's due; "This speaker commands a high fee"; "The author commands a fair hearing from his readers" 4: look down on; "The villa dominates the town" [syn: dominate, command, overlook, overtop] 5: exercise authoritative control or power over; "control the budget"; "Command the military forces" [syn: control, command]

adj 1: (of military officers) holding by virtue of a commission a rank of second lieutenant or ensign or above [ant: noncommissioned] 2: given official approval to act; "an accredited college"; "commissioned broker"; "licensed pharmacist"; "authorized representative" [syn: accredited, commissioned, licensed, licenced]

adj 1: established by conditioning or learning; "a conditioned response" [syn: conditioned, learned] [ant: innate, unconditioned, unlearned] 2: physically fit; "exercised daily to keep herself in condition" [syn: conditioned, in condition(p)]

adj 1: distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no taxes" [syn: bootleg, black, black-market, contraband, smuggled] n 1: goods whose importation or exportation or possession is prohibited by law

n 1: a contrary command cancelling or reversing a previous command v 1: cancel officially; "He revoked the ban on smoking"; "lift an embargo"; "vacate a death sentence" [syn: revoke, annul, lift, countermand, reverse, repeal, overturn, rescind, vacate]

n 1: a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback [syn: cowboy, cowpuncher, puncher, cowman, cattleman, cowpoke, cowhand, cowherd]

n 1: a broad pleated sash worn as formal dress with a tuxedo

adj 1: softened by the addition of cushions or padding [syn: cushioned, cushiony, padded]

adj 1: (of fabrics and paper) grown dark in color over time; "the darkened margins of the paper" 2: become or made dark by lack of light; "a darkened house"; "the darkened theater"

n 1: a member of a ship's crew who performs manual labor [syn: deckhand, roustabout]

n 1: an urgent or peremptory request; "his demands for attention were unceasing" 2: the ability and desire to purchase goods and services; "the automobile reduced the demand for buggywhips"; "the demand exceeded the supply" [ant: supply] 3: required activity; "the requirements of his work affected his health"; "there were many demands on his time" [syn: requirement, demand] 4: the act of demanding; "the kidnapper's exorbitant demands for money" 5: a condition requiring relief; "she satisfied his need for affection"; "God has no need of men to accomplish His work"; "there is a demand for jobs" [syn: need, demand] v 1: request urgently and forcefully; "The victim's family is demanding compensation"; "The boss demanded that he be fired immediately"; "She demanded to see the manager" 2: require as useful, just, or proper; "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent" [syn: necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for, demand] [ant: eliminate, obviate, rid of] 3: claim as due or just; "The bank demanded payment of the loan" [syn: demand, exact] 4: lay legal claim to 5: summon to court 6: ask to be informed of; "I demand an explanation"

adj 1: characterized by great determination; "a struggle against a determined enemy" 2: having been learned or found or determined especially by investigation [ant: undetermined] 3: devoting full strength and concentrated attention to; "made continued and determined efforts to find and destroy enemy headquarters" 4: determined or decided upon as by an authority; "date and place are already determined"; "the dictated terms of surrender"; "the time set for the launching" [syn: determined, dictated, set] 5: strongly motivated to succeed [syn: compulsive, determined, driven]

n 1: a transparent piece of diamond that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem 2: very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem [syn: diamond, adamant] 3: a parallelogram with four equal sides; an oblique-angled equilateral parallelogram [syn: rhombus, rhomb, diamond] 4: a playing card in the minor suit that has one or more red rhombuses on it; "he led a small diamond"; "diamonds were trumps" 5: the area of a baseball field that is enclosed by 3 bases and home plate [syn: baseball diamond, diamond, infield] [ant: outfield] 6: the baseball playing field [syn: ball field, baseball field, diamond]

v 1: cause to break up or cease to function; "the principal disbanded the political student organization" 2: stop functioning or cohering as a unit; "The political wing of the party dissolved after much internal fighting" [syn: disband, dissolve]

adj 1: obeying the rules 2: trained mentally or physically by instruction or exercise; "the beautiful coordination of his disciplined muscles"; "a disciplined mind"

n 1: a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port [syn: stevedore, loader, longshoreman, docker, dockhand, dock worker, dockworker, dock-walloper, lumper]

n 1: a pleasing country existing only in dreams or imagination [syn: never-never land, dreamland, dreamworld]

n 1: either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes

adj 1: made bold or courageous

adj 1: having knowledge and spiritual insight [ant: unenlightened] 2: characterized by full comprehension of the problem involved; "an educated guess"; "an enlightened electorate" [syn: educated, enlightened] n 1: people who have been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity; "it is very familiar to the initiate" [syn: initiate, enlightened] [ant: uninitiate]

adj 1: made sprightly or cheerful [ant: unenlivened] 2: made lively or spirited; "a meal enlivened by the music"; "a spirited debate" [syn: enlivened, spirited]

adj 1: seen in the mind as a mental image; "the glory of his envisioned future"; "the snow-covered Alps pictured in her imagination"; "the visualized scene lacked the ugly details of real life" [syn: envisioned, pictured, visualized, visualised]

n 1: a short trip that is taken in the performance of a necessary task or mission

v 1: extend in one or more directions; "The dough expands" [syn: expand, spread out] [ant: contract, shrink] 2: become larger in size or volume or quantity; "his business expanded rapidly" 3: make bigger or wider in size, volume, or quantity; "expand the house by adding another wing" 4: grow vigorously; "The deer population in this town is thriving"; "business is booming" [syn: boom, thrive, flourish, expand] 5: exaggerate or make bigger; "The charges were inflated" [syn: inflate, blow up, expand, amplify] 6: add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing; "She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation" [syn: elaborate, lucubrate, expatiate, exposit, enlarge, flesh out, expand, expound, dilate] [ant: abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten] 7: expand the influence of; "The King extended his rule to the Eastern part of the continent" [syn: extend, expand]

adj 1: having fangs

adj 1: especially spread in a fan shape; "the peacock's fanned tail"; "the spread-out cards" [syn: fanned, spread- out(a)]

n 1: a hired hand on a farm [syn: farmhand, fieldhand, field hand, farm worker]

n 1: a rural area where farming is practiced [syn: farmland, farming area] 2: arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops [syn: cultivated land, farmland, plowland, ploughland, tilled land, tillage, tilth]

adj 1: firmly closed or secured; "found the gate fastened"; "a fastened seatbelt" [ant: unfastened] 2: furnished or closed with buttons or something buttonlike [syn: buttoned, fastened] [ant: unbuttoned, unfastened] 3: fastened with strings or cords; "a neatly tied bundle" [syn: tied, fastened] [ant: unfastened, untied]

n 1: the country where you were born [syn: fatherland, homeland, motherland, mother country, country of origin, native land]

adj 1: (of market animals) made ready for market

adj 1: capable of producing offspring or vegetation 2: intellectually productive; "a prolific writer"; "a fecund imagination" [syn: fecund, fertile, prolific]

n 1: a piece of wood that has been burned or is burning [syn: brand, firebrand] 2: someone who deliberately foments trouble; "she was the instigator of their quarrel" [syn: instigator, provoker, inciter, instigant, firebrand]

adv 1: from the original source; directly; "I heard this story firsthand" [syn: firsthand, at first hand] adj 1: received directly from a source; "firsthand information"

adj 1: having been flattened [syn: planate, flattened]

adj 1: (of racket strokes) made with palm facing direction of stroke [syn: forehand(a), forehanded] [ant: backhand(a), backhanded] n 1: (sports) a return made with the palm of the hand facing the direction of the stroke (as in tennis or badminton or squash) [syn: forehand, forehand stroke, forehand shot]

n 1: a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea) [syn: promontory, headland, head, foreland] 2: land forming the forward margin of something

adj 1: done by hand without mechanical aids or devices; "a freehand drawing" [syn: freehand, freehanded]

adj 1: made afraid; "the frightened child cowered in the corner"; "too shocked and scared to move" [syn: frightened, scared] 2: thrown into a state of intense fear or desperation; "became panicky as the snow deepened"; "felt panicked before each exam"; "trying to keep back the panic-stricken crowd"; "the terrified horse bolted" [syn: panicky, panicked, panic- stricken, panic-struck, terrified, frightened]

n 1: a reserve of money set aside for some purpose [syn: fund, monetary fund] 2: a supply of something available for future use; "he brought back a large store of Cuban cigars" [syn: store, stock, fund] 3: a financial institution that sells shares to individuals and invests in securities issued by other companies [syn: investment company, investment trust, investment firm, fund] v 1: convert (short-term floating debt) into long-term debt that bears fixed interest and is represented by bonds 2: place or store up in a fund for accumulation 3: provide a fund for the redemption of principal or payment of interest 4: invest money in government securities 5: accumulate a fund for the discharge of a recurrent liability; "fund a medical care plan" 6: furnish money for; "The government funds basic research in many areas"

n 1: underworld organizations [syn: organized crime, gangland, gangdom]

n 1: United States singer and film actress (1922-1969) [syn: Garland, Judy Garland] 2: a city in northeastern Texas (suburb of Dallas) 3: an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc. [syn: florilegium, garland, miscellany] 4: flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes [syn: wreath, garland, coronal, chaplet, lei] v 1: adorn with bands of flowers or leaves; "They garlanded the statue"

n 1: a noun formed from a verb (such as the `-ing' form of an English verb when used as a noun)

n 1: any of various organs that synthesize substances needed by the body and release it through ducts or directly into the bloodstream [syn: gland, secretory organ, secretor, secreter]

n 1: a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess [syn: glutton, gourmand, gourmandizer, trencherman]

adj 1: of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope; "an expansive lifestyle"; "in the grand manner"; "collecting on a grand scale"; "heroic undertakings" [syn: expansive, grand, heroic] 2: of or befitting a lord; "heir to a lordly fortune"; "of august lineage" [syn: august, grand, lordly] 3: rich and superior in quality; "a princely sum"; "gilded dining rooms" [syn: deluxe, gilded, grand, luxurious, opulent, princely, sumptuous] 4: extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as intensifiers; "a fantastic trip to the Orient"; "the film was fantastic!"; "a howling success"; "a marvelous collection of rare books"; "had a rattling conversation about politics"; "a tremendous achievement" [syn: fantastic, grand, howling(a), marvelous, marvellous, rattling(a), terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous] 5: of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style; "an exalted ideal"; "argue in terms of high-flown ideals"- Oliver Franks; "a noble and lofty concept"; "a grand purpose" [syn: exalted, elevated, sublime, grand, high-flown, high-minded, lofty, rarefied, rarified, idealistic, noble-minded] 6: large and impressive in physical size or extent; "the bridge is a grand structure" 7: the most important and magnificent in adornment; "grand ballroom"; "grand staircase" 8: used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person; "his distinguished bearing"; "the monarch's imposing presence"; "she reigned in magisterial beauty" [syn: distinguished, grand, imposing, magisterial] n 1: the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 [syn: thousand, one thousand, 1000, M, K, chiliad, G, grand, thou, yard] 2: a piano with the strings on a horizontal harp-shaped frame; usually supported by three legs [syn: grand piano, grand]

n 1: the audience at a stadium or racetrack 2: a stand at a racecourse or stadium consisting of tiers with rows of individual seats that are under a protective roof [syn: grandstand, covered stand] v 1: perform ostentatiously in order to impress the audience and with an eye to the applause; "She never misses a chance to grandstand"

n 1: land where grass or grasslike vegetation grows and is the dominant form of plant life

n 1: an olive-green sandstone containing glauconite

n 1: the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb; "he had the hands of a surgeon"; "he extended his mitt" [syn: hand, manus, mitt, paw] 2: a hired laborer on a farm or ranch; "the hired hand fixed the railing"; "a ranch hand" [syn: hired hand, hand, hired man] 3: something written by hand; "she recognized his handwriting"; "his hand was illegible" [syn: handwriting, hand, script] 4: ability; "he wanted to try his hand at singing" 5: a position given by its location to the side of an object; "objections were voiced on every hand" 6: the cards held in a card game by a given player at any given time; "I didn't hold a good hand all evening"; "he kept trying to see my hand" [syn: hand, deal] 7: one of two sides of an issue; "on the one hand..., but on the other hand..." 8: a rotating pointer on the face of a timepiece; "the big hand counts the minutes" 9: a unit of length equal to 4 inches; used in measuring horses; "the horse stood 20 hands" 10: a member of the crew of a ship; "all hands on deck" 11: a card player in a game of bridge; "we need a 4th hand for bridge" [syn: bridge player, hand] 12: a round of applause to signify approval; "give the little lady a great big hand" 13: terminal part of the forelimb in certain vertebrates (e.g. apes or kangaroos); "the kangaroo's forearms seem undeveloped but the powerful five-fingered hands are skilled at feinting and clouting"- Springfield (Mass.) Union 14: physical assistance; "give me a hand with the chores" [syn: hand, helping hand] v 1: place into the hands or custody of; "hand me the spoon, please"; "Turn the files over to me, please"; "He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers" [syn: pass, hand, reach, pass on, turn over, give] 2: guide or conduct or usher somewhere; "hand the elderly lady into the taxi"

n 1: the act of supporting yourself by your hands alone in an upside down position

adj 1: used of persons; emotionally hardened; "faced a case- hardened judge" [syn: case-hardened, hardened, hard- boiled] 2: made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment; "a sword of tempered steel"; "tempered glass" [syn: tempered, treated, hardened, toughened] [ant: unhardened, untempered] 3: protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons); "hardened missile silos" [ant: soft] 4: made tough by habitual exposure; "hardened fishermen"; "a peasant, dark, lean-faced, wind-inured"- Robert Lynd; "our successors...may be graver, more inured and equable men"- V.S.Pritchett [syn: enured, inured, hardened] 5: converted to solid form (as concrete) [syn: hardened, set]

n 1: a band around the crown of a hat just above the brim

n 1: a band worn around or over the head; "the earphones were held in place by a headband"

n 1: a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea) [syn: promontory, headland, head, foreland]

n 1: an acrobatic feat in which a person balances on the head (usually with the help of the hands)

n 1: the central region of a country or continent; especially a region that is important to a country or to a culture

adj 1: used of high or hilly country [syn: upland, highland(a)] [ant: lowland] n 1: elevated (e.g., mountainous) land [syn: highland, upland] [ant: lowland]

n 1: a remote and undeveloped area [syn: backwoods, back country, boondocks, hinterland]

n 1: the country where you were born [syn: fatherland, homeland, motherland, mother country, country of origin, native land]

n 1: a married man; a woman's partner in marriage [syn: husband, hubby, married man] [ant: married woman, wife] v 1: use cautiously and frugally; "I try to economize my spare time"; "conserve your energy for the ascent to the summit" [syn: conserve, husband, economize, economise] [ant: blow, squander, waste]

adj 1: characterized by intense emotion; "ardent love"; "an ardent lover"; "a fervent desire to change society"; "a fervent admirer"; "fiery oratory"; "an impassioned appeal"; "a torrid love affair" [syn: ardent, fervent, fervid, fiery, impassioned, perfervid, torrid]

adj 1: being in captivity [syn: captive, confined, imprisoned, jailed]

n 1: a small well holding writing ink into which a pen can be dipped [syn: inkwell, inkstand] 2: a tray or stand for writing implements and containers for ink

adv 1: towards or into the interior of a region; "the town is five miles inland" adj 1: situated away from an area's coast or border [ant: coastal]

n 1: a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water 2: a zone or area resembling an island

adj 1: full of or showing high-spirited merriment; "when hearts were young and gay"; "a poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company"- Wordsworth; "the jolly crowd at the reunion"; "jolly old Saint Nick"; "a jovial old gentleman"; "have a merry Christmas"; "peals of merry laughter"; "a mirthful laugh" [syn: gay, jocund, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful]

n 1: a swiveling metal rod attached to a bicycle or motorcycle or other two-wheeled vehicle; the rod lies horizontally when not in use but can be kicked into a vertical position as a support to hold the vehicle upright when it is not being ridden

n 1: the land on which real estate is located; "he built the house on land leased from the city" 2: material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use); "the land had never been plowed"; "good agricultural soil" [syn: land, ground, soil] 3: territory over which rule or control is exercised; "his domain extended into Europe"; "he made it the law of the land" [syn: domain, demesne, land] 4: the solid part of the earth's surface; "the plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land"; "the earth shook for several minutes"; "he dropped the logs on the ground" [syn: land, dry land, earth, ground, solid ground, terra firma] 5: the territory occupied by a nation; "he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries" [syn: country, state, land] 6: a domain in which something is dominant; "the untroubled kingdom of reason"; "a land of make-believe"; "the rise of the realm of cotton in the south" [syn: kingdom, land, realm] 7: extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use; "the family owned a large estate on Long Island" [syn: estate, land, landed estate, acres, demesne] 8: the people who live in a nation or country; "a statement that sums up the nation's mood"; "the news was announced to the nation"; "the whole country worshipped him" [syn: nation, land, country] 9: a politically organized body of people under a single government; "the state has elected a new president"; "African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized land" [syn: state, nation, country, land, commonwealth, res publica, body politic] 10: United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one step photographic process (1909-1991) [syn: Land, Din Land, Edwin Herbert Land] 11: agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life; "farming is a strenuous life"; "there's no work on the land any more" [syn: farming, land] v 1: reach or come to rest; "The bird landed on the highest branch"; "The plane landed in Istanbul" [syn: land, set down] 2: cause to come to the ground; "the pilot managed to land the airplane safely" [syn: land, put down, bring down] 3: bring into a different state; "this may land you in jail" [syn: bring, land] 4: bring ashore; "The drug smugglers landed the heroin on the beach of the island" 5: deliver (a blow); "He landed several blows on his opponent's head" 6: arrive on shore; "The ship landed in Pearl Harbor" [syn: land, set ashore, shore] 7: shoot at and force to come down; "the enemy landed several of our aircraft" [syn: down, shoot down, land]

adj 1: made light by aerating, as with yeast or baking powder; often used as a combining form; "leavened bread"; "well- leavened"; "yeast-leavened breads" [ant: unleavened, unraised]

n 1: a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events [syn: legend, fable] 2: brief description accompanying an illustration [syn: caption, legend]

adj 1: drawn out or made longer spatially; "Picasso's elongated Don Quixote"; "lengthened skirts are fashionable this year"; "the extended airport runways can accommodate larger planes"; "a prolonged black line across the page" [syn: elongated, extended, lengthened, prolonged]