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Synonyms of the word 
CAN → ARSE - ASS - BACKSIDE - BATHROOM - BEHIND - BOTTOM - BUM - BUNS - BUOY - BUTT - BUTTOCKS - CANFUL - COMMODE - CONTAINER - CONTAINERFUL - CRAPPER - DERRIERE - DISMISS - FANNY - FIRE - FUNDAMENT - HINDQUARTERS - JOHN - KEEP - KEISTER - LAV - LAVATORY - NATES - POSTERIOR - POT - POTTY - PRAT - PRESERVE - PRIVY - REAR - REMOVE - ROOM - RUMP - SACK - SEAT - STERN - STOOL - TAIL - TERMINATE - THRONE - TIN - TOILET - TUSHcan- v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To know how to; to be able to.
- v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective, informal) May; to be permitted or enabled to.
- v. (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To be possible, usually with be.
- v. (obsolete, transitive) To know.
- n. A more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids, usually of steel or aluminium.
- n. A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).
- n. A tin-plate canister, often cylindrical, for preserved foods such as fruit, meat, or fish.
- n. (archaic) A chamber pot, now (US, slang) a toilet.
- n. (US, slang) A place with a toilet: a lavatory.
- n. (US, slang) Buttocks.
- n. (slang) Jail or prison.
- n. (slang) Headphones.
- n. (obsolete) A drinking cup.
- n. (nautical) A cube-shaped buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark.
- v. To preserve, by heating and sealing in a can or jar.
- v. to discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).
- v. To shut up.
- v. (US, euphemistic) To fire or dismiss an employee.
arse- n. (dated in New England, current in Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, now slang) The buttocks or…
- n. (chiefly Britain, pejorative slang) A stupid, mean or despicable person.
- v. (slang, intransitive) To be silly, act stupid or mess around.
ass- n. Any of several species of horse-like animals, especially Equus asinus africanus, often domesticated and…
- n. (slang) A stupid person.
- n. (vulgar, slang) Buttocks.
- n. (vulgar, slang, uncountable) Sex.
- n. (vulgar, slang) Anus.
- n. (slang) Used in similes to express something bad or unpleasant.
- n. (slang) Used after an adjective to indicate extremes or excessiveness.
- n. (slang) One's self or person, chiefly their body.
backside- n. The back side of anything, the part opposite its front, particularly.
- n. (figuratively) The reverse or opposite of anything.
bathroom- n. A room containing a bathtub and (typically but not necessarily) a toilet.
- n. (chiefly US, euphemistic) A lavatory: a room containing a toilet and (typically but not necessarily) a…
behind- prep. At the back of; positioned with something else in front of.
- prep. To the back of.
- prep. After, time- or motion-wise.
- prep. responsible for.
- prep. In support of.
- prep. Left a distance by, in progress or improvement; inferior to.
- adv. At the back part; in the rear.
- adv. Toward the back part or rear; backward.
- adv. Overdue, in arrears.
- adv. Slow; of a watch or clock.
- adv. existing afterwards.
- adv. Backward in time or order of succession; past.
- adv. Behind the scenes in a theatre; backstage.
- adv. (archaic) Not yet brought forward, produced, or exhibited to view; out of sight; remaining.
- n. the rear, back-end.
- n. butt, the buttocks, bottom.
- n. (Australian rules football) A one-point score.
- n. (baseball, slang, 1800s) The catcher.
- n. In the Eton College field game, any of a group of players consisting of two "shorts" (who try to kick…
bottom- n. The lowest part from the uppermost part, in either of these senses.
- n. (uncountable, Britain, slang) Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.
- n. (Britain, US) A valley, often used in place names.
- n. The buttocks or anus.
- n. (nautical) A cargo vessel, a ship.
- n. (nautical) Certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always…
- n. (baseball) The second half of an inning, the home team's turn to bat.
- n. (BDSM) A submissive in sadomasochistic sexual activity.
- n. (LGBT, slang) A man penetrated or with a preference for being penetrated during homosexual intercourse.
- n. (physics) A bottom quark.
- n. (often figuratively) The lowest part of a container.
- n. A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
- n. The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, or sea.
- n. An abyss.
- n. (obsolete) Power of endurance.
- n. (obsolete) Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.
- v. To fall to the lowest point.
- v. To establish firmly; to found or justify on or upon something; to set on a firm footing; to set or rest…
- v. (intransitive) To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded.
- v. (intransitive) To reach or impinge against the bottom, so as to impede free action, as when the point…
- v. (obsolete, transitive) To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread.
- v. (transitive) To furnish with a bottom.
- v. To be the submissive in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
- v. To be anally penetrated in gay sex.
- adj. The lowest or last place or position.
bum- n. The buttocks.
- n. (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, informal, rare, Canada, US) The anus.
- n. (by metonymy, informal) A person.
- v. (Britain, transitive, colloquial) To sodomize; to engage in anal sex.
- interj. (Britain) An expression of annoyance.
- n. (Canada, US, colloquial) A homeless person, usually a man.
- n. (Canada, US, colloquial, derogatory) a hobo.
- n. (Canada, US, Australia, colloquial) A lazy, incompetent, or annoying person, usually a man.
- n. (Canada, US, Australia, colloquial, sports) A player or racer who often performs poorly.
- n. (colloquial) A drinking spree.
- v. (transitive, colloquial) To ask someone to give one (something) for free; to beg for something.
- v. (intransitive, colloquial, pejorative) To behave like a hobo or vagabond; to loiter.
- v. (transitive, slang, Britain) To wet the end of a marijuana cigarette (spliff).
- adj. Of poor quality or highly undesirable.
- adj. Unfair.
- adj. Injured and without the possibility of full repair, defective.
- adj. Unpleasant.
- v. To depress; to make unhappy.
- n. (dated) A humming noise.
- v. (intransitive) To make a murmuring or humming sound.
- n. (obsolete) A bumbailiff.
buns- n. plural of bun.
- n. (informal) buttocks.
buoy- n. (nautical) A float moored in water to mark a location, warn of danger, or indicate a navigational channel.
- n. A life-buoy.
- v. (transitive) To keep afloat or aloft; used with up.
- v. (transitive) To support or maintain at a high level.
- v. (transitive) To mark with a buoy.
- v. To maintain or enhance enthusiasm or confidence.
butt- n. (countable) The larger or thicker end of something; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp or narrow…
- n. (countable) The waste end of anything.
- n. (countable, generally) An end of something, often distinguished in some way from the other end.
- n. (countable) A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.
- v. To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.
- v. (transitive) To strike bluntly, particularly with the head.
- v. (intransitive) To strike bluntly with the head.
- n. A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head; a head butt.
- n. A thrust in fencing.
- n. (English units) An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons which is one-half…
- n. A wooden cask for storing wine, usually containing 126 gallons.
- n. (Northern England) Any of various flatfish such as sole, plaice or turbot.
- n. (dated, West Country and Ireland) A heavy two-wheeled cart.
- n. (dated, West Country and Ireland) A three-wheeled cart resembling a wheelbarrow.
buttockscanful- n. As much as a can will hold.
commode- n. A low chest of drawers on short legs.
- n. A stand for a washbowl and jug.
- n. (euphemistic) A chair containing a chamber pot.
- n. (euphemistic) A toilet.
- n. (historical) A kind of woman's headdress, raising the hair and fore part of the cap to a great height.
container- n. Someone who contains; something that contains.
- n. An item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported.
- n. A very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods (also cargo container).
- n. (by extension) someone who holds people in their seats or in a (reasonably) calm state.
- n. (computing) A file format that can hold various types of data.
- n. (object-oriented programming) An abstract data type whose instances are collections of other objects.
- n. (computing, graphical user interface) Any user interface component that can hold further (child) components.
containerful- n. As much as a container can hold.
crapper- n. (vulgar slang) A chamber pot or toilet, particularly (dated) a flush toilet by Thomas Crapper.
- n. (vulgar slang) A lavatory or outhouse.
- adj. comparative form of crap: more crap.
- n. A half-glass of whiskey.
derriere- n. (humorous) bottom, bum.
dismiss- v. (transitive) To discharge; to end the employment or service of.
- v. (transitive) To order to leave.
- v. (transitive) To dispel; to rid one's mind of.
- v. (transitive) To reject; to refuse to accept.
- v. To send or put away.
- v. (transitive, cricket) To get a batsman out.
- v. (transitive, soccer) To give someone a red card; to send off.
fanny- n. (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, vulgar) The female genitalia.
- n. (Canada, US, informal) The buttocks; arguably the most nearly polite of several euphemisms.
- n. (Britain, vulgar) Sexual intercourse with a woman.
- n. (Britain, vulgar) A woman, or women generally, as a sexual object(s).
- n. (Britain, naval slang) Mess kettle or cooking pot.
fire- n. (uncountable) A (usually self-sustaining) chemical reaction involving the bonding of oxygen with carbon…
- n. (countable) An instance of this chemical reaction, especially when intentionally created and maintained…
- n. (countable) The occurrence, often accidental, of fire in a certain place, causing damage and danger.
- n. (uncountable, alchemy, philosophy) The aforementioned chemical reaction of burning, considered a one of…
- n. (countable, Britain) A heater or stove used in place of a real fire (such as an electric fire).
- n. (countable) The elements necessary to start a fire.
- n. (uncountable) The bullets or other projectiles fired from a gun.
- n. Strength of passion, whether love or hate.
- n. Liveliness of imagination or fancy; intellectual and moral enthusiasm.
- n. Splendour; brilliancy; lustre; hence, a star.
- n. (countable) A button (on a joypad, joystick or similar device) usually used to make a video game character…
- v. (transitive) To set (something) on fire.
- v. (transitive) To heat without setting on fire, as ceramic, metal objects, etc.
- v. (transitive) To drive away by setting a fire.
- v. (transitive) To terminate the employment contract of (an employee), especially for cause (such as misconduct…
- v. (transitive) To shoot (a device that launches a projectile or a pulse or stream of something).
- v. (intransitive) To shoot a gun, a cannon or a similar weapon.
- v. (transitive, sports) To shoot; to attempt to score a goal.
- v. (intransitive, physiology) To cause an action potential in a cell.
- v. (transitive) To forcibly direct (something).
- v. (intransitive, computer sciences, software engineering) To initiate an event (by means of an event handler).
- v. To inflame; to irritate, as the passions.
- v. To animate; to give life or spirit to.
- v. To feed or serve the fire of.
- v. To light up as if by fire; to illuminate.
- v. (farriery) To cauterize.
- v. (intransitive, dated) To catch fire; to be kindled.
- v. (intransitive, dated) To be irritated or inflamed with passion.
- adj. (slang) Amazing.
- interj. A cry of distress indicating that something is on fire.
- interj. A signal to shoot.
fundament- n. Foundation.
- n. The bottom; the buttocks or anus.
- n. The underlying basis or principle for a theoretical or mathematical system.
hindquarters- n. plural of hindquarter.
john- n. (slang) A prostitute's client.
- n. (slang, US) A device or place to urinate and defecate: now usually a toilet or lavatory, but also (…
- n. (slang) A generic term for Western men while traveling in East Asia.
- n. A male mule.
keep- v. To continue in (a course or mode of action); not to intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.
- v. (heading, transitive) To hold the status of something.
- v. (heading, intransitive) To hold or be held in a state.
- v. (obsolete) To wait for, keep watch for.
- v. (intransitive, cricket) To act as wicket-keeper.
- v. (intransitive, obsolete) To take care; to be solicitous; to watch.
- v. (intransitive, obsolete) To be in session; to take place.
- v. (transitive) To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; not to swerve from or violate.
- v. (transitive, dated) To confine oneself to; not to quit; to remain in.
- v. (transitive, dated, by extension) To visit (a place) often; to frequent.
- n. (obsolete) Care, notice.
- n. (historical) The main tower of a castle or fortress, located within the castle walls. (According to, the…
- n. The food or money required to keep someone alive and healthy; one's support, maintenance.
- n. The act or office of keeping; custody; guard; care; heed; charge.
- n. The state of being kept; hence, the resulting condition; case.
- n. (obsolete) That which is kept in charge; a charge.
- n. (engineering) A cap for holding something, such as a journal box, in place.
keister- n. (slang) The anus or buttocks.
- n. (slang, dated) A safe, a strongbox.
- n. (slang) A suitcase; a satchel.
- v. (slang) To conceal something in one's rectum.
lav- n. (Britain, slang) Clipping of lavatory.
lavatory- n. A vessel or fixture for washing, particularly.
- n. Handwashing, particularly.
- n. (obsolete) A liquid used in washing; a lotion; a wash; a rinse.
- n. (dated) A washroom: a room used for washing the face and hands.
- n. (euphemistic) A room containing a toilet: a bathroom (US) or WC (UK).
- n. (Britain, New England) A plumbing fixture for urination and defecation: a toilet.
- n. (dated) A place to wash clothes: a laundry.
- n. (obsolete) A place where gold is panned.
- n. (obsolete) A paved room in a mortuary where corpses are kept under a shower of disinfecting fluid.
- adj. (dated) Washing, or cleansing by washing.
nates- n. (anatomy, medicine) The two anterior of the four lobes on the dorsal side of the midbrain of most mammals;…
- n. The buttocks.
- n. (zoology) The umbones of a bivalve shell.
posterior- adj. Located behind, or towards the rear of an object.
- adj. Following in order or in time.
- adj. (anatomy) Nearer the back end; nearer the caudal end of the body in quadrupeds or the dorsal end in bipeds.
- adj. (botany) Next to, or facing the main stem or axis.
- n. (euphemistic) The buttocks.
pot- n. A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food.
- n. Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly.
- n. (slang) Ruin or deterioration.
- n. (historical) An iron hat with a broad brim worn as a helmet.
- n. (rail transport) A pot-shaped non-conducting (usually ceramic) stand that supports an electrified rail…
- n. (gambling) The money available to be won in a hand of poker or a round of other games of chance; (figuratively)…
- n. (Britain, horse-racing, slang) A favorite: a heavily-backed horse.
- n. (sports) The act of causing a ball to fall into a pocket in cue sports such as billiards.
- n. (slang) Clipping of potbelly: a pot-shaped belly, a paunch.
- n. (slang) Clipping of potshot: a haphazard shot; an easy or cheap shot.
- n. (chiefly East Midlands, Yorkshire) A plaster cast.
- n. (historical) Alternative form of pott: a former size of paper, 12.5 × 15 inches.
- v. To put (something) into a pot.
- v. To preserve by bottling or canning.
- v. (cue sports) To cause a ball to fall into a pocket.
- v. (cue sports) To be capable of being potted.
- v. (transitive) To shoot with a firearm.
- v. (intransitive, dated) To take a pot shot, or haphazard shot, with a firearm.
- v. (transitive, colloquial) To secure; gain; win; bag.
- v. (Britain) To send someone to gaol, expeditiously.
- v. (obsolete, dialect, Britain) To tipple; to drink.
- v. (transitive) To drain.
- v. (transitive, Britain) To seat a person, usually a young child, onto a potty or toilet, typically during…
- v. (chiefly East Midlands) To apply a plaster cast to a broken limb.
- n. (slang, uncountable) Marijuana.
- n. (slang, electronics) A simple electromechanical device used to control resistance or voltage (often to…
- n. (role-playing games) Clipping of potion.
potty- n. (diminutive) A chamber pot, particularly (children) the pot used when toilet-training children.
- n. (diminutive) Any other device or place for urination or defecation: a toilet; a lavatory; a latrine; an…
- v. (intransitive, childish) Variant of go potty.
- adj. (informal) Insane.
- adj. (golf) Easy to pot the ball on.
prat- n. (now Scotland) A cunning or mischievous trick; a prank, a joke.
- adj. (obsolete) Cunning, astute.
- n. (slang) A buttock, or the buttocks; a person's bottom.
- n. (Britain, slang) A fool.
- n. (slang) The female genitals.
preserve- n. A sweet spread made of any of a variety of berries.
- n. A reservation, a nature preserve.
- n. An activity with restricted access.
- v. To protect; to keep from harm or injury.
- v. To save from decay by the use of some preservative substance, such as sugar or salt; to season and prepare…
- v. To maintain throughout; to keep intact.
privy- adj. (now chiefly historical) Private, exclusive; not public; one's own.
- adj. (now rare, archaic) Secret, hidden, concealed.
- adj. With knowledge of; party to; let in on.
- n. An outdoor facility for urination and defecation, whether open (latrine) or enclosed (outhouse).
- n. A lavatory: a room with a toilet.
- n. A toilet: a fixture used for urination and defecation.
- n. (law) A partaker; one having an interest in an action, contract, etc. to which he is not himself a party.
rear- v. (transitive) To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster. ("Raise" is more…
- v. (transitive, said of people towards animals) To breed and raise. (Less common than "raise" in American…
- v. (intransitive) To rise up on the hind legs.
- v. (intransitive, usually with "up") To get angry.
- v. (intransitive) To rise high above, tower above.
- v. (transitive, literary) To raise physically or metaphorically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate.
- v. (transitive, rare) To construct by building; to set up.
- v. (transitive, rare) To raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To lift and take up.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To rouse; to strip up.
- v. (transitive) To move; stir.
- v. (transitive, of geese) To carve.
- v. (regional, obsolete) To revive, bring to life, quicken. (only in the phrase, to rear to life).
- adj. (now chiefly dialectal) (of eggs) Underdone; nearly raw.
- adj. (chiefly US) (of meats) Rare.
- adj. Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost.
- adv. (Britain, dialect) early; soon.
- n. The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last on order; - opposed to front.
- n. (military) Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.
- n. (anatomy) The buttocks, a creature's bottom.
- v. To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
- v. (transitive, vulgar, Britain) To sodomize (perform anal sex).
remove- v. (transitive) To move something from one place to another, especially to take away.
- v. (transitive) To murder.
- v. (cricket, transitive) To dismiss a batsman.
- v. (transitive) To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
- v. (intransitive, now rare) To depart, leave.
- v. (intransitive) To change one's residence; to move.
- v. To dismiss or discharge from office.
- n. The act of removing something.
- n. (archaic) Removing a dish at a meal in order to replace it with the next course, a dish thus replaced,…
- n. (Britain) (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last.
- n. A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove").
- n. Distance in time or space; interval.
- n. (dated) The transfer of one's home or business to another place; a move.
- n. The act of resetting a horse's shoe.
room- adj. (dialectal or obsolete) Wide; spacious; roomy.
- adv. (dialectal or obsolete) Far; at a distance; wide in space or extent.
- adv. (nautical) Off from the wind.
- n. (now rare) Opportunity or scope (to do something).
- n. (uncountable) Space for something, or to carry out an activity.
- n. (archaic) A particular portion of space.
- n. (uncountable, figuratively) Sufficient space for or to do something.
- n. (nautical) A space between the timbers of a ship's frame.
- n. (obsolete) Place; stead.
- n. (countable) A separate part of a building, enclosed by walls, a floor and a ceiling.
- n. (countable) With possessive pronoun: one's bedroom.
- n. (in the plural) A set of rooms inhabited by someone; one's lodgings.
- n. (always in the singular) The people in a room.
- n. (mining) An area for working in a coal mine.
- n. (caving) A portion of a cave that is wider than a passage.
- n. (Internet, countable) A forum or chat room.
- n. Place or position in society; office; rank; post, sometimes when vacated by its former occupant.
- v. (intransitive) To reside, especially as a boarder or tenant.
- v. (transitive) To assign to a room; to allocate a room to.
rump- n. The hindquarters of an animal.
- n. A cut of meat from the rump of an animal.
- n. The buttocks.
- n. Remnant, as in rump parliament.
sack- n. A bag; especially a large bag of strong, coarse material for storage and handling of various commodities,…
- n. The amount a sack holds; also, an archaic or historical measure of varying capacity, depending on commodity…
- n. (uncountable) The plunder and pillaging of a captured town or city.
- n. (uncountable) Loot or booty obtained by pillage.
- n. (American football) A successful tackle of the quarterback. See verb sense4 below.
- n. (baseball) One of the square bases anchored at first base, second base, or third base.
- n. (informal) Dismissal from employment, or discharge from a position, usually as give (someone) the sack…
- n. (colloquial, US) Bed; usually as hit the sack or in the sack. See also sack out.
- n. (dated) (also sacque) A kind of loose-fitting gown or dress with sleeves which hangs from the shoulders,…
- n. (dated) A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam.
- n. (vulgar, slang) The scrotum.
- v. To put in a sack or sacks.
- v. To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.
- v. To plunder or pillage, especially after capture; to obtain spoils of war from.
- v. (American football) To tackle, usually to tackle the offensive quarterback behind the line of scrimmage…
- v. (informal) To discharge from a job or position; to fire.
- v. (colloquial) In the phrase sack out, to fall asleep. See also hit the sack.
- n. (dated) A variety of light-colored dry wine from Spain or the Canary Islands; also, any strong white wine…
- v. Alternative spelling of sac.
- n. Alternative spelling of sac.
seat- n. Something to be sat upon.
- n. A location or site.
- n. The starting point of a fire.
- n. Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.
- v. (transitive) To put an object into a place where it will rest; to fix; to set firm.
- v. (transitive) To provide with places to sit.
- v. (transitive) To request or direct one or more persons to sit.
- v. (transitive, legislature) To recognize the standing of a person or persons by providing them with one…
- v. (transitive) To assign the seats of.
- v. (transitive) To cause to occupy a post, site, or situation; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.
- v. (obsolete, intransitive) To rest; to lie down.
- v. To settle; to plant with inhabitants.
- v. To put a seat or bottom in.
stern- adj. Having a hardness and severity of nature or manner.
- adj. Grim and forbidding in appearance.
- n. (nautical) The rear part or after end of a ship or vessel.
- n. (figuratively) The post of management or direction.
- n. The hinder part of anything.
- n. The tail of an animal; now used only of the tail of a dog.
- n. A bird, the black tern.
stool- n. A seat for one person without a back or armrest, particularly.
- n. (chiefly medicine) Feces, excrement.
- n. (chiefly medicine) A production of feces or excrement, an act of defecation, stooling: a shit.
- n. (archaic) A decoy.
- n. (nautical) A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the deadeyes of the backstays.
- n. (US, dialect) Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.
- v. (chiefly medicine) To produce stool, to defecate.
- v. (horticulture) To cut down (a plant) until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to…
- n. A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.
- v. (agriculture) To ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.
tail- n. (anatomy) The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.
- n. The tail-end of an object, e.g. the rear of an aircraft's fuselage, containing the tailfin.
- n. An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.
- n. The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
- n. Specifically, the visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
- n. The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
- n. (statistics) The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as, a long tail.
- n. One who surreptitiously follows another.
- n. (cricket) The last four or five batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
- n. (typography) The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
- n. (chiefly in the plural) The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary…
- n. (mathematics) All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.
- n. (now colloquial, chiefly US) The buttocks or backside.
- n. (slang) The penis of a person or animal.
- n. (slang, uncountable) Sexual intercourse.
- n. (kayaking) The stern; the back of the kayak.
- n. The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
- n. A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
- n. (anatomy) The distal tendon of a muscle.
- n. A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
- n. (surgery) A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness…
- n. One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
- n. (nautical) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
- n. (music) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
- n. (mining) A tailing.
- n. (architecture) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
- n. (colloquial, dated) A tailcoat.
- v. (transitive) To follow and observe surreptitiously.
- v. (architecture) To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in…
- v. (nautical) To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.
- v. To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
- v. To pull or draw by the tail.
- adj. (law) Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed.
- n. (law) Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.
terminate- v. (transitive or intransitive, formal) To end, especially in an incomplete state.
- v. (transitive, euphemistic) To kill.
- v. (transitive, euphemistic) To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire, lay off.
- adj. Terminated; limited; bounded; ended.
- adj. Having a definite and clear limit or boundary; having a determinate size, shape or magnitude.
- adj. (mathematics) Expressible in a finite number of terms; (of a decimal) not recurring or infinite.
throne- n. An impressive seat used by a monarch, often on a raised dais in a throne room and reserved for formal…
- n. (humorous) Other seats, particularly.
- n. (figuratively) Leadership, particularly the position of a monarch.
- n. (Christianity) An order of angels ranked above dominions and below cherubim.
- v. (transitive, archaic) To place on a royal seat; to enthrone.
- v. (transitive, archaic) To place in an elevated position; to give sovereignty or dominion to; to exalt.
- v. (intransitive, archaic) To be in, or sit upon, a throne; to be placed as if upon a throne.
tin- n. (uncountable) A malleable, ductile, metallic element, resistant to corrosion, with atomic number 50 and…
- n. (New Zealand, Britain, countable) An airtight container, made of tin or another metal, used to preserve…
- n. (countable) A metal pan used for baking, roasting, etc.
- n. (countable, squash (sport)) The bottom part of the front wall, which is "out" if a player strikes it with…
- n. (slang, dated, uncountable) money.
- n. (slang, uncountable) Computer hardware.
- adj. Made of tin.
- adj. Made of galvanised iron or built of corrugated iron.
- v. (transitive) To place into a tin in order to preserve.
- v. (transitive) To cover with tin.
- v. (transitive) To coat with solder in preparation for soldering.
toilet- n. (archaic) Personal grooming, in other words washing, dressing, etc.
- n. (now rare) One's style of dressing: dress, outfit.
- n. (archaic) A dressing room.
- n. A room or enclosed area containing a toilet: a bathroom or water closet.
- n. (New Zealand) A small secondary lavatory having a toilet and sink but no bathtub or shower.
- n. (obsolete) A chamber pot.
- n. A fixture used for urination and defecation, particularly those with a large bowl and ring-shaped seat…
- n. (figuratively) A very shabby or dirty place.
- n. (obsolete) A covering of linen, silk, or tapestry, spread over a table in a chamber or dressing room.
- n. (obsolete) A dressing table.
- v. (dated) To dress and groom oneself.
- v. To use the toilet.
- v. To assist another (a child etc.) in using the toilet.
tush- n. (now dialectal) A tusk.
- n. A small tusk sometimes found on the female Indian elephant.
- n. (US, colloquial) The buttocks.
- interj. An exclamation of contempt or rebuke.
- n. (Britain, colloquial) Nonsense; tosh.
- v. (transitive) To pull or drag a heavy object such as a tree or log.
- n. (Britain, obsolete slang) Alternative form of tosheroon.
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