Synonyms of the word

bay

• n. (obsolete) A berry.
• n. Laurus nobilis, a tree or shrub of the family Lauraceae, having dark green leaves and berries.
• n. The leaf of this or certain other species of tree or shrub, used as a herb.
• n. (in the plural, now rare) The leaves of this shrub, woven into a garland used to reward a champion or…
• n. (US, dialect) A tract covered with bay trees.
• n. A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeche in Mexico.
• n. (geography) A body of water (especially the sea) more or less three-quarters surrounded by land.
• n. A bank or dam to keep back water.
• n. An opening in a wall, especially between two columns.
• n. An internal recess; a compartment or area surrounded on three sides.
• n. The distance between two supports in a vault or building with a pitched roof.
• n. (nautical) Each of the spaces, port and starboard, between decks, forward of the bitts, in sailing warships.
• n. (rail transport) A bay platform.
• n. A bay window.
• n. The excited howling of dogs when hunting or being attacked.
• n. (by extension) The climactic confrontation between hunting-dogs and their prey.
• n. (figuratively) A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become…
• v. (intransitive) To howl.
• v. (transitive) To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or drive to bay.
• v. (transitive) To pursue noisily, like a pack of hounds.
• adj. Of a reddish-brown colour (especially of horses).
• n. A brown colour/color of the coat of some horses.
• n. A horse of this color.

alcove

• n. A small recessed area set off from a larger room.

bark

• v. (intransitive) To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs (said of animals, especially…
• v. (intransitive) To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries.
• v. (transitive) To speak sharply.
• n. The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog.
• n. A similar sound made by some other animals.
• n. (figuratively) An abrupt loud vocal utterance.
• n. (countable, uncountable) The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree.
• n. (medicine) Peruvian bark or Jesuit's bark, the bark of the cinchona from which quinine is produced.
• n. Hard candy made in flat sheets, for instance out of chocolate, peanut butter, toffee or peppermint.
• n. The crust formed on barbecued meat that has had a rub applied to it.
• v. To strip the bark from; to peel.
• v. To abrade or rub off any outer covering from.
• v. To girdle.
• v. To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark.
• n. (obsolete) A small sailing vessel, e.g. a pinnace or a fishing smack; a rowing boat or barge.
• n. (poetic) a sailing vessel or boat of any kind.
• n. (nautical) A three-masted vessel, having her foremast and mainmast square-rigged, and her mizzenmast schooner-rigged.

colored

• adj. Having a color.
• adj. Having a particular color or kind of color.
• adj. Having prominent colors; colorful.
• adj. Influenced pervasively but subtly.
• adj. (US, now dated and potentially offensive) Of skin color other than the white; in particular: black.
• adj. (South Africa, potentially offensive) Of neither black nor white skin color.
• adj. (chiefly historical) Designated for use by colored people (in either the US or South African sense).
• n. (US, now dated and offensive) A colored person.
• n. (laundry) A colored article of clothing.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of color.

colorful

• adj. Possessing prominent and varied colors.
• adj. Interesting, multifaceted, energetic, distinctive.
• adj. (euphemistic) Profane, obscene, offensive (usually in the phrase colourful language).

coloured

• adj. British spelling standard spelling of colored.
• n. British spelling standard spelling of colored.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of colour.

compartment

• n. A room, or section, or chamber.
• n. One of the parts into which an area is subdivided.
• n. (biochemistry) Part of a protein that serves a specific function.
• n. (heraldry) A mound (often of grass) beneath the shield in a coat of arms on which the supporters stand.
• n. (anatomy) A region in the body, delimited by a biological membrane.
• v. (transitive) To arrange in separate compartments.

cry

• v. (intransitive) To shed tears; to weep.
• v. (transitive) To utter loudly; to call out; to declare publicly.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To shout, scream, yell.
• v. (intransitive) To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals do.
• v. (transitive) To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping.
• v. To make oral and public proclamation of; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found,…
• v. Hence, to publish the banns of, as for marriage.
• n. A shedding of tears; the act of crying.
• n. A shout or scream.
• n. Words shouted or screamed.
• n. (collectively) A group of hounds.
• n. (obsolete, derogatory) A pack or company of people.
• n. (of an animal) A typical sound made by the species in question.
• n. A desperate or urgent request.
• n. (obsolete) Common report; gossip.

embayment

• n. A bay. (the water).
• n. The shoreline of a bay, an indentation in a shoreline. (the land, not the water).
• n. A topographical feature that used to be a bay, like the Mississippi embayment.
• n. The process by which a bay is formed.

horse

• n. Any of several animals related to Equus ferus caballus.
• n. Equipment with legs.
• n. (nautical) Type of equipment.
• n. (mining) A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course…
• n. (slang) The sedative, antidepressant, and anxiolytic drug morphine, chiefly when used illicitly.
• n. (US) An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss…
• n. (dated, slang, among students) A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination.
• n. (dated, slang, among students) horseplay; tomfoolery.
• v. (intransitive) To frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around".).
• v. (transitive) To provide with a horse.
• v. (obsolete) To get on horseback.
• v. To sit astride of; to bestride.
• v. (of a male horse) To copulate with (a mare).
• v. To take or carry on the back.
• v. To place on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such…
• n. (uncountable, slang, dated) Heroin (drug).

laurel

• n. An evergreen shrub, of the genus Laurus, having aromatic leaves of a lanceolate shape, with clusters of…
• n. A crown of laurel.
• n. (figuratively, chiefly in the plural) Honor, distinction, fame.
• n. (historical) An English gold coin made in 1619, and so called because the king's head on it was crowned…

mouth

• n. (anatomy) The opening of a creature through which food is ingested.
• n. The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water.
• n. An outlet, aperture or orifice.
• n. (slang) A loud or overly talkative person.
• n. (saddlery) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.
• n. (obsolete) A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece.
• n. (obsolete) Cry; voice.
• n. (obsolete) Speech; language; testimony.
• n. (obsolete) A wry face; a grimace; a mow.
• v. (transitive) To speak; to utter.
• v. (transitive) To make the actions of speech, without producing sound.
• v. (transitive) To pick up or handle with the lips or mouth, but not chew or swallow.
• v. (obsolete) To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.
• v. (obsolete) To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear licks her cub.
• v. (obsolete) To make mouths at.

niche

• n. (architecture) A cavity, hollow, or recess, generally within the thickness of a wall, for a statue, bust,…
• n. (ecology) A function within an ecological system to which an organism is especially suited.
• n. (by extension) Any position of opportunity for which one is well-suited, such as a particular market in…
• n. An arrow woven into a Muslim prayer rug pointing in the direction of Mecca.
• v. (transitive, marketing) To specialize in a niche, or particular narrow section of the market.
• adj. Pertaining to or intended for a market niche; having specific appeal.

quest

• n. A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission.
• n. The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit.
• n. (obsolete) Request; desire; solicitation.
• n. (obsolete) A group of people making search or inquiry.
• n. (obsolete) Inquest; jury of inquest.
• v. To seek or pursue a goal; to undertake a mission or job.
• v. To search for; to examine.
• v. (entomology, of a tick) To locate and attach to a host animal.

recess

• n. (countable or uncountable) A break, pause or vacation.
• n. An inset, hole, space or opening.
• n. (US) A time of play, usually, on a playground.
• n. A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.
• n. (archaic) A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat.
• n. (archaic) The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.
• n. (archaic) A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.
• n. A secret or abstruse part.
• n. (botany, zoology) A sinus.
• v. To inset into something, or to recede.
• v. (intransitive) To take or declare a break.
• v. (transitive, informal) To appoint, with a recess appointment.
• v. To make a recess in.
• adj. (obsolete, rare) Remote, distant (in time or place).

speak

• v. (intransitive) To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.
• v. (intransitive) To have a conversation.
• v. (by extension) To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions.
• v. (intransitive) To deliver a message to a group; to deliver a speech.
• v. (transitive) To be able to communicate in a language.
• v. (transitive) To utter.
• v. (transitive) To communicate (some fact or feeling); to bespeak, to indicate.
• v. (informal, transitive, sometimes humorous) To understand (as though it were a language).
• v. (intransitive) To produce a sound; to sound.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To address; to accost; to speak to.
• n. language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group.
• n. Speach, conversation.
• n. (dated) a low class bar, a speakeasy.

talk

• n. A conversation or discussion; usually serious, but informal.
• n. A lecture.
• n. (preceded by the; often qualified by a following of) A major topic of social discussion.
• n. (preceded by the) A customary conversation by parent(s) or guardian(s) with their (often teenaged) child…
• n. (uncountable, not preceded by an article) Empty boasting, promises or claims.
• n. Meeting to discuss a particular matter.
• v. (transitive) To communicate, usually by means of speech.
• v. (transitive, informal) To discuss.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To confess, especially implicating others.
• v. (intransitive) To criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself.
• v. (intransitive) To gossip; to create scandal.

utter

• adj. (now poetic, literary) Outer; furthest out, most remote.
• adj. (obsolete) Outward.
• adj. Absolute, unconditional, total, complete.
• v. (transitive) To say.
• v. (transitive) To use the voice.
• v. (transitive) To make speech sounds which may or may not have an actual language involved.
• v. (transitive) To make (a noise).
• v. (law, transitive) To put counterfeit money, etc., into circulation.
• adv. (obsolete) Further out; further away, outside.

verbalise

• v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of verbalize.

verbalize

• v. To speak or to use words to express.
• v. (grammar) To adapt a word of another part of speech as a verb.

water

• n. (uncountable) A substance (of molecular formula H₂O) found at room temperature and pressure as a clear…
• n. (alchemy, philosophy) The aforementioned liquid, considered one of the Classical elements or basic elements…
• n. (often in the plural) Any body of water, or a specific part of it.
• n. A combination of water and other substance(s).
• n. (figuratively, in the plural or in the singular) A state of affairs; conditions; usually with an adjective…
• n. (colloquial, figuratively) A person's intuition.
• n. (uncountable, dated, finance) Excess valuation of securities.
• n. The limpidity and lustre of a precious stone, especially a diamond.
• n. A wavy, lustrous pattern or decoration such as is imparted to linen, silk, metals, etc.
• v. (transitive) To pour water into the soil surrounding (plants).
• v. (transitive) To wet or supply with water; to moisten; to overflow with water; to irrigate.
• v. (transitive) To provide (animals) with water for drinking.
• v. (intransitive) To get or take in water.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To urinate onto.
• v. (transitive) To dilute.
• v. (transitive, dated, finance) To overvalue (securities), especially through deceptive accounting.
• v. (intransitive) To fill with or secrete water.
• v. (transitive) To wet and calender, as cloth, so as to impart to it a lustrous appearance in wavy lines;…