-
adore
0
v 1: love intensely; "he just adored his wife"
-
commodore
0
n 1: a commissioned naval officer who ranks above a captain and
below a rear admiral; the lowest grade of admiral
-
conquistador
0
n 1: an adventurer (especially one who led the Spanish conquest
of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century)
-
corridor
0
n 1: an enclosed passageway; rooms usually open onto it
-
cuspidor
0
n 1: a receptacle for spit (usually in a public place) [syn:
spittoon, cuspidor]
-
foray
0
n 1: a sudden short attack [syn: foray, raid, maraud]
2: an initial attempt (especially outside your usual areas of
competence); "scientists' forays into politics"
v 1: steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people
looted the stores that were deserted by their owners" [syn:
plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle,
ransack, pillage, foray]
2: briefly enter enemy territory
-
matador
0
n 1: the principal bullfighter who is appointed to make the
final passes and kill the bull
-
moray
0
n 1: family of brightly colored voracious eels of warm coastal
waters; generally nonaggressive to humans but larger
species are dangerous if provoked [syn: moray, moray
eel]
-
picador
0
n 1: the horseman who pricks the bull with a lance early in the
bullfight to goad the bull and to make it keep its head low
-
pompadour
0
n 1: French noblewoman who was the lover of Louis XV, whose
policies she influenced (1721-1764) [syn: Pompadour,
Marquise de Pompadour, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson]
2: a hair style in which the front hair is swept up from the
forehead
v 1: style women's hair in a pompadour
-
stevedore
0
n 1: a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port [syn:
stevedore, loader, longshoreman, docker,
dockhand, dock worker, dockworker, dock-walloper,
lumper]
-
troubadour
0
n 1: a singer of folk songs [syn: folk singer, jongleur,
minstrel, poet-singer, troubadour]
-
moire
0
adj 1: (of silk fabric) having a wavelike pattern [syn: moire,
watered]
n 1: silk fabric with a wavy surface pattern [syn: moire,
watered-silk]
-
ecuador
0
n 1: a republic in northwestern South America; became
independent from Spain in 1822; the landscape is dominated
by the Andes [syn: Ecuador, Republic of Ecuador]
-
labrador
0
n 1: the mainland part of the province of Newfoundland and
Labrador in the eastern part of the large Labrador-Ungava
Peninsula in northeastern Canada
-
salvador
0
n 1: a republic on the Pacific coast of Central America [syn:
El Salvador, Republic of El Salvador, Salvador]
-
thermidor
0
n 1: eleventh month of the Revolutionary calendar (July and
August); the month of heat
-
signore
0
n 1: an Italian title of respect for a man; equivalent to the
English `sir'; used separately (not prefixed to his name)
-
aye
0
-
humidor
0
-
ador
0
-
ay
0
-
ae
0
-
dor
0
-
parador
0
-
theodore
0
-
mirador
0
-
madore
0
-
melchiorre
0
-
muratore
0
-
salvadore
0
-
lorei
0