Synonyms of the word

blackjack

• n. (card games) A common gambling card game in casinos, where the object is to get as close to 21 without…
• n. (card games) A hand in the game of blackjack consisting of a face card and an ace.
• n. The flag (i.e., a jack) traditionally flown by pirate ships; popularly thought to be a white skull and…
• n. A small, flat, blunt, usually leather-covered weapon loaded with heavy material such as lead or ball bearings,…
• n. Any of several species of weed of genus Bidens, such as Bidens pilosa, in the family Compositae.
• n. A blackjack oak.
• v. To strike with a blackjack or similar weapon.

blackmail

• n. (archaic) A certain rate of money, corn, cattle, or other thing, anciently paid, in the north of England…
• n. Payment of money exacted by means of intimidation; also, extortion of money from a person by threats of…
• n. (English law, historical) Black rent, or rent paid in corn, meat, or the lowest coin, as opposed to white…
• v. (transitive) To extort money or favors from (a person) by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm,…

bludgeon

• n. A short, heavy club, often of wood, which is thicker or loaded at one end.
• v. (transitive) To strike or hit with something hard, usually on the head; to club.
• v. (transitive) To coerce someone, as if with a bludgeon.

cards

• n. plural of card.
• n. card games.

cosh

• n. A weapon made of leather-covered metal similar to a blackjack.
• n. A blunt instrument such as a bludgeon or truncheon.
• v. (transitive) To strike with a weapon of this kind.
• symb. (trigonometry) The symbol of the hyperbolic function hyperbolic cosine.

flag

• n. A piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol.
• n. An exact representation of a flag (for example: a digital one used in websites).
• n. (nautical) A flag flown by a ship to show the presence on board of the admiral; the admiral himself, or…
• n. (nautical, often used attributively) A signal flag.
• n. (construction) Abbreviation of flagstone: a construction material used for paving, flooring, roofing or…
• n. The use of a flag, especially to indicate the start of a race or other event.
• n. (computer science) A variable or memory location that stores a true-or-false, yes-or-no value, typically…
• n. (computer science) In a command line interface, a command parameter requesting optional behavior or otherwise…
• n. (Britain) An abbreviation for capture the flag.
• n. (geometry) A sequence of faces of a given polytope, one of each dimension up to that of the polytope (formally,…
• n. (mathematics, linear algebra) A sequence of subspaces of a vector space, beginning with the null space…
• v. To furnish or deck out with flags.
• v. To mark with a flag, especially to indicate the importance of something.
• v. (often with down) To signal to, especially to stop a passing vehicle etc.
• v. To convey (a message) by means of flag signals.
• v. (often with up) To note, mark or point out for attention.
• v. (computing) To signal (an event).
• v. (computing) To set a program variable to true.
• v. To decoy (game) by waving a flag, handkerchief, etc. to arouse the animal's curiosity.
• v. (intransitive) To weaken, become feeble.
• v. To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.
• v. To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness.
• v. To enervate; to exhaust the vigour or elasticity of.
• n. Any of various plants with sword-shaped leaves, especially irises; specifically, Iris pseudacorus.
• n. (obsolete except in dialects) A slice of turf; a sod.
• n. A slab of stone; a flagstone, a flat piece of stone used for paving.
• n. (geology) Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.
• v. To lay down flagstones.
• n. A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc.
• n. A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.
• n. The bushy tail of a dog such as a setter.
• n. (music) A hook attached to the stem of a written note that assigns its rhythmic value.

influence

• n. The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development…
• n. An action exerted by a person or thing with such power on another to cause change.
• n. A person or thing exerting such power or action.
• n. (astrology) An element believed to determine someone's character or individual tendencies, caused by the…
• n. (obsolete) The action of flowing in; influx.
• n. (electricity) Electrostatic induction.
• v. (transitive) To have an affect on using gentle or subtle action; to exert an influence upon; to modify,…
• v. (intransitive) To exert, make use of one's influence.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to flow in or into; infuse; instill.

pressure

• n. A pressing; a force applied to a surface.
• n. A contrasting force or impulse of any kind.
• n. Distress.
• n. Urgency.
• n. (obsolete) Impression; stamp; character impressed.
• n. (physics) The amount of force that is applied over a given area divided by the size of this area.
• v. (transitive) To encourage or heavily exert force or influence.

sap

• n. (uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating…
• n. (uncountable) The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
• n. (slang, countable) A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop; a naive person.
• n. (countable, US, slang) A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
• v. (transitive, slang) To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
• n. (military) A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of…
• v. (transitive) To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
• v. (transitive, military) To pierce with saps.
• v. (transitive) To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
• v. (transitive) To gradually weaken.
• v. (intransitive) To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.

twenty-one

• num. The cardinal number occurring after twenty and before twenty-two, represented in Roman numerals as XXI…
• n. (card games) Blackjack.
• n. (sports) A basketball-based game in which players attempt to score exactly twenty-one points.

vingt-et-un

• n. The card game pontoon.

work

• n. (heading, uncountable) Employment.
• n. (heading, uncountable) Effort.
• n. Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.
• n. (heading) Product; the result of effort.
• n. (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
• n. (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
• v. (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
• v. (transitive) To effect by gradual degrees.
• v. (transitive) To embroider with thread.
• v. (transitive) To set into action.
• v. (transitive) To cause to ferment.
• v. (intransitive) To ferment.
• v. (transitive) To exhaust, by working.
• v. (transitive) To shape, form, or improve a material.
• v. (transitive) To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
• v. (transitive) To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
• v. (transitive) To provoke or excite; to influence.
• v. (transitive) To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
• v. (transitive) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
• v. (transitive) To cause to work.
• v. (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
• v. (intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
• v. (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
• v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled;.
• v. (transitive, with two objects, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something).
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To hurt; to ache.