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Synonyms of the word 
REAR → APPEAR - ARSE - ASS - BACK - BACKSIDE - BEHIND - BOTTOM - BUILD - BUM - BUNS - BUTT - BUTTOCKS - CAN - CONSTRUCT - DERRIERE - ELEVATE - ERECT - FACE - FANNY - FORMATION - FUNDAMENT - HINDQUARTERS - KEISTER - LIFT - LOOK - MAKE - NATES - NURTURE - PARENT - PLACE - POSITION - POSTERIOR - PRAT - RAISE - REARWARD - RISE - RUMP - SEAT - SEEM - SIDE - STERN - STRAIGHTEN - TAIL - TUSHrear- 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).
appear- v. (intransitive) To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible.
- v. (intransitive) To come before the public.
- v. (intransitive) To stand in presence of some authority, tribunal, or superior person, to answer a charge,…
- v. (intransitive) To become visible to the apprehension of the mind; to be known as a subject of observation…
- v. (intransitive, copulative) To seem; to have a certain semblance; to look.
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.
back- adj. (not comparable) Near the rear.
- adj. (not comparable) Not current.
- adj. (not comparable) Far from the main area.
- adj. In arrear; overdue.
- adj. Moving or operating backward.
- adj. (comparable, phonetics) Produced in the back of the mouth.
- adv. (not comparable) To or in a previous condition or place.
- adv. Away from the front or from an edge.
- adv. In a manner that impedes.
- adv. In a reciprocal manner.
- n. The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest…
- n. That which is farthest away from the front.
- n. (figuratively) Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back.
- n. A support or resource in reserve.
- n. (nautical) The keel and keelson of a ship.
- n. (mining) The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
- n. (slang, uncountable) Effort, usually physical.
- n. A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
- n. Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
- v. (intransitive) To go in the reverse direction.
- v. (transitive) To support.
- v. (nautical, of the wind) To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise…
- v. (nautical, of a square sail) To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to…
- v. (nautical, of an anchor) To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
- v. (Britain, of a hunting dog) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
- v. (transitive) To push or force backwards.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To get upon the back of; to mount.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To place or seat upon the back.
- v. To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
- v. To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
- v. To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.
- v. (law, of a justice of the peace) To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend…
- v. To row backward with (oars).
- n. A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers,…
- n. A ferryboat.
backside- n. The back side of anything, the part opposite its front, particularly.
- n. (figuratively) The reverse or opposite of anything.
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.
build- v. (transitive) To form (something) by combining materials or parts.
- v. (transitive) To develop or give form to (something) according to a plan or process.
- v. (transitive) To increase or strengthen (something) by adding gradually to.
- v. (transitive) To establish a basis for (something).
- v. (intransitive) To form by combining materials or parts.
- v. (intransitive) To develop in magnitude or extent.
- v. (transitive, computing) To construct (software) by compiling its source code.
- v. (intransitive, computing, of software) To be constructed by compilation of source code, usually with minimal…
- n. (countable, uncountable) The physique of a human body; constitution or structure of a human body.
- n. (computing, countable) Any of various versions of a software product as it is being developed for release…
- n. (video games, slang, countable) Any structure, such as a building, statue, pool or forest, created by…
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.
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.
buttockscan- 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.
construct- n. Something constructed from parts.
- n. A concept or model.
- n. (genetics) A segment of nucleic acid, created artificially, for transplantation into a target cell or…
- v. (transitive) To build or form (something) by assembling parts.
- v. (transitive) To build (a sentence, an argument, etc.) by arranging words or ideas.
- v. (transitive, geometry) To draw (a geometric figure) by following precise specifications and using geometric…
derriere- n. (humorous) bottom, bum.
elevate- v. (transitive) To raise (something) to a higher position; to lift.
- v. (transitive) To promote (someone) to a higher rank.
- v. (transitive) To ennoble or honour/honor (someone).
- v. (transitive) To lift someone's spirits; to cheer up.
- v. (transitive) To increase the intensity of something, especially that of sound.
- v. (dated, colloquial, humorous) To intoxicate in a slight degree; to render tipsy.
- v. (obsolete, Latinism) To lessen; to detract from; to disparage.
- adj. (obsolete) Elevated; raised aloft.
erect- adj. Upright; vertical or reaching broadly upwards.
- adj. Rigid, firm; standing out perpendicularly.
- adj. (obsolete) Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed.
- adj. (obsolete) Directed upward; raised; uplifted.
- adj. Watchful; alert.
- adj. (heraldry) Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.
- v. (transitive) To put up by the fitting together of materials or parts.
- v. (transitive) To cause to stand up or out.
- v. To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise.
- v. To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.
- v. To animate; to encourage; to cheer.
- v. (astrology) To cast or draw up (a figure of the heavens, horoscope etc.).
- v. To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises, etc.
- v. To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute.
face- n. (anatomy) The front part of the head, featuring the eyes, nose, and mouth and the surrounding area.
- n. One's facial expression.
- n. The public image; outward appearance.
- n. The frontal aspect of something.
- n. (figuratively) Presence; sight; front.
- n. The directed force of something.
- n. Good reputation; standing in the eyes of others; dignity; prestige. (See lose face, save face).
- n. Shameless confidence; boldness; effrontery.
- n. The width of a pulley, or the length of a cog from end to end.
- n. (geometry) Any of the flat bounding surfaces of a polyhedron. More generally, any of the bounding pieces…
- n. Any surface; especially a front or outer one.
- n. The numbered dial of a clock or watch, the clock face.
- n. (slang) The mouth.
- n. (slang) Makeup; one's complete facial cosmetic application.
- n. (slang, professional wrestling) Short for baby face. A wrestler whose on-ring persona is embodying heroic…
- n. (cricket) The front surface of a bat.
- n. (golf) The part of a golf club that hits the ball.
- n. (card games) The side of the card that shows its value (as opposed to the back side, which looks the same…
- n. (heraldry) The head of a lion, shown face-on and cut off immediately behind the ears.
- n. (typography) A typeface.
- n. Mode of regard, whether favourable or unfavourable; favour or anger.
- n. (computing) An interface.
- n. The amount expressed on a bill, note, bond, etc., without any interest or discount; face value.
- v. (transitive, of a person or animal) To position oneself or itself so as to have one's face closest to…
- v. (transitive, of an object) To have its front closest to, or in the direction of (something else).
- v. (transitive) To cause (something) to turn or present a face or front, as in a particular direction.
- v. (transitive) To deal with (a difficult situation or person).
- v. (intransitive) To have the front in a certain direction.
- v. (transitive) To have as an opponent.
- v. (intransitive, cricket) To be the batsman on strike.
- v. (obsolete) To confront impudently; to bully.
- v. To cover in front, for ornament, protection, etc.; to put a facing upon.
- v. To line near the edge, especially with a different material.
- v. To cover with better, or better appearing, material than the mass consists of, for purpose of deception,…
- v. (engineering) To make the surface of (anything) flat or smooth; to dress the face of (a stone, a casting,…
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.
formation- n. Something possessing structure or form.
- n. The act of assembling a group or structure.
- n. (geology) A rock or face of a mountain.
- n. (military) A grouping of military units or smaller formations under a command, such as a brigade, division,…
- n. (military) An arrangement of moving troops, ships, or aircraft, such as a wedge, line abreast, or echelon…
- n. (sports) An arrangement of players designed to facilitate certain plays.
- n. The process of influencing or guiding a person to a deeper understanding of a particular vocation.
- n. The process during which something comes into being and gains its characteristics.
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.
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.
lift- n. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Air.
- n. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland) The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To raise or rise.
- v. (transitive, slang) To steal. (for this sense Cleasby suggests perhaps a relation to the root of Gothic…
- v. (transitive) To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).
- v. (transitive) To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.).
- v. (transitive) to cause to move upwards.
- v. (informal, intransitive) To lift weights; to weight-lift.
- v. To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
- v. To elevate or improve in rank, condition, etc.; often with up.
- v. (obsolete) To bear; to support.
- v. To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
- v. (computing, programming) To transform (a function) into a corresponding function in a different context.
- n. An act of lifting or raising.
- n. The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.
- n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between…
- n. An upward force, such as the force that keeps aircraft aloft.
- n. (measurement) the difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated…
- n. (historical slang) A thief.
- n. (dance) The lifting of a dance partner into the air.
- n. Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.
- n. an improvement in mood.
- n. The space or distance through which anything is lifted.
- n. A rise; a degree of elevation.
- n. A lift gate.
- n. (nautical) A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below, and used for raising or…
- n. (engineering) One of the steps of a cone pulley.
- n. (shoemaking) A layer of leather in the heel of a shoe.
- n. (horology) That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.
look- v. (intransitive, often with "at") To try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes.
- v. To appear, to seem.
- v. (copulative) To give an appearance of being.
- v. (intransitive, often with "for") To search for, to try to find.
- v. To face or present a view.
- v. To expect or anticipate.
- v. (transitive) To express or manifest by a look.
- v. (transitive, often with "to") To make sure of, to see to.
- v. (dated, sometimes figuratively) To show oneself in looking.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To look at; to turn the eyes toward.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To seek; to search for.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To expect.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To influence, overawe, or subdue by looks or presence.
- v. (baseball) To look at a pitch as a batter without swinging at it.
- interj. Pay attention.
- n. The action of looking, an attempt to see.
- n. (often plural) Physical appearance, visual impression.
- n. A facial expression.
make- v. (transitive, heading) To create.
- v. (intransitive, now mostly colloquial) To behave, to act.
- v. (intransitive) To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.
- v. To constitute.
- v. (intransitive, construed with of, typically interrogative) To interpret.
- v. (transitive, usually stressed) To bring into success.
- v. (transitive, second object is an adjective or participle) To cause to be.
- v. To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
- v. (transitive, second object is a verb) To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).
- v. (transitive, second object is a verb, can be stressed for emphasis or clarity) To force to do.
- v. (transitive, of a fact) To indicate or suggest to be.
- v. (transitive, of a bed) To cover neatly with bedclothes.
- v. (transitive, US slang) To recognise, identify.
- v. (transitive, colloquial) To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
- v. (intransitive, colloquial) To proceed (in a direction).
- v. (transitive) To cover (a given distance) by travelling.
- v. (transitive) To move at (a speed).
- v. To appoint; to name.
- v. (transitive, slang) To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
- v. (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) To defecate or urinate.
- v. (transitive) To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).
- v. (transitive) To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.
- v. (obsolete, intransitive) To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.
- v. To enact; to establish.
- v. To develop into; to prove to be.
- v. To form or formulate in the mind.
- v. (obsolete) To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; often in…
- v. (obsolete) To increase; to augment; to accrue.
- v. (obsolete) To be engaged or concerned in.
- v. (now archaic) To cause to be (in a specified place), used after a subjective what.
- v. (transitive, euphemistic) To take the virginity of.
- n. (often of a car) Brand or kind; often paired with model.
- n. How a thing is made; construction.
- n. Origin of a manufactured article; manufacture.
- n. (uncountable) Quantity produced, especially of materials.
- n. (dated) The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing.
- n. A person's character or disposition.
- n. (bridge) The declaration of the trump for a hand.
- n. (physics) The closing of an electrical circuit.
- n. (computing) A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of…
- n. (slang) Recognition or identification, especially from police records or evidence.
- n. (slang, usually in phrase "easy make") Past or future target of seduction (usually female).
- n. (slang, military) A promotion.
- n. A home-made project.
- n. (basketball) A made basket.
- n. (dialectal) Mate; a spouse or companion.
- n. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England, now rare) A halfpenny.
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.
nurture- n. The act of nourishing or nursing; tender care; education; training.
- n. That which nourishes; food; diet.
- n. The environmental influences that contribute to the development of an individual; see also nature.
- v. To nourish or nurse.
- v. (figuratively, by extension) To encourage, especially the growth or development of something.
parent- n. One of the two persons from whom one is immediately biologically descended; a mother or father.
- n. A surrogate mother.
- n. A third person who has provided DNA samples in a IVF procedure in order to alter faulty genetic material.
- n. A person who acts as a parent in rearing a child; a step-parent or adoptive parent.
- n. (obsolete) A relative.
- n. The source or origin of something.
- n. (biology) An organism from which a plant or animal is immediately biologically descended.
- n. (attributive) Sponsor, supporter, owner, protector.
- n. (computing) The object from which a child or derived object is descended; a node superior to another node.
- v. To act as parent, to raise or rear.
place- n. (physical) An area; somewhere within an area.
- n. A location or position in space.
- n. A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader.
- n. (obsolete) A passage or extract from a book or document.
- n. (obsolete, rhetoric) A topic.
- n. A frame of mind.
- n. (chess, obsolete) A chess position; a square of the chessboard.
- n. (social) A responsibility or position in an organization.
- n. (obsolete) A fortified position: a fortress, citadel, or walled town.
- n. Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
- n. Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
- n. Reception; effect; implying the making room for.
- v. (transitive) To put (an object or person) in a specific location.
- v. (intransitive) To earn a given spot in a competition.
- v. (transitive) To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
- v. (transitive, passive) To achieve (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.
- v. (transitive) To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
- v. (transitive) To arrange for or to make (a bet).
- v. (transitive) To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job.
- v. (sports, transitive) To place-kick (a goal).
position- n. A place or location.
- n. A post of employment; a job.
- n. A status or rank.
- n. An opinion, stand, or stance.
- n. A posture.
- n. (team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
- n. (finance) An amount of securities or commodities held by a person, firm, or institution.
- n. (arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and…
- n. (chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
- v. To put into place.
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.
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.
raise- v. (physical) To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
- v. (transitive) To create, increase or develop.
- v. (poker, intransitive) To respond to a bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.
- v. (arithmetic) To exponentiate, to involute.
- v. (linguistics, transitive, of a verb) To extract (a subject or other verb argument) out of an inner clause.
- v. (linguistics, transitive, of a vowel) To produce a vowel with the tongue positioned closer to the roof…
- v. To increase the nominal value of (a cheque, money order, etc.) by fraudulently changing the writing or…
- v. (computing) To throw (an exception).
- n. (US) An increase in wages or salary; a rise (UK).
- n. (weightlifting) A shoulder exercise in which the arms are elevated against resistance.
- n. (curling) A shot in which the delivered stone bumps another stone forward.
- n. (poker) A bet which increased the previous bet.
- n. A cairn or pile of stones.
rearward- n. The part that comes last or is situated in the rear; conclusion; wind-up.
- n. The last troop; the rear of an army; a rear guard.
- adj. Toward the back or rear of something.
- adv. Toward the back or rear of something.
rise- v. (intransitive) To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
- v. (intransitive) To increase in value or standing.
- v. To begin; to develop.
- v. (transitive) To go up; to ascend; to climb.
- v. (transitive) To cause to go up or ascend.
- v. (obsolete) To retire; to give up a siege.
- v. To come; to offer itself.
- v. (printing, dated) To be lifted, or capable of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any…
- n. The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.
- n. The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.
- n. (chiefly Britain) An increase (in a quantity, price, etc).
- n. The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.
- n. (Britain, Ireland, Australia) An increase in someone's pay rate; a raise (US).
- n. (Sussex) A small hill; used chiefly in place names.
- n. An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it;…
- n. (informal) An angry reaction.
- n. Alternative form of rice (“twig”).
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.
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.
seem- v. (copulative) To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as.
- v. (obsolete) To befit; to beseem.
side- n. A bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape.
- n. A flat surface of a three-dimensional object; a face.
- n. One half (left or right, top or bottom, front or back, etc.) of something or someone.
- n. A region in a specified position with respect to something.
- n. The portion of the human torso usually covered by the arms when they are not raised; the areas on the…
- n. One surface of a sheet of paper (used instead of "page", which can mean one or both surfaces.).
- n. One possible aspect of a concept, person or thing.
- n. One set of competitors in a game.
- n. (Britain, Australia, Ireland) A sports team.
- n. A group having a particular allegiance in a conflict or competition.
- n. (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) Sidespin; english.
- n. (Britain, Australia, Ireland, dated) A television channel, usually as opposed to the one currently being…
- n. (US, colloquial) A dish that accompanies the main course; a side dish.
- n. A line of descent traced through one parent as distinguished from that traced through another.
- n. (baseball) The batters faced in an inning by a particular pitcher.
- v. (intransitive) To ally oneself, be in an alliance, usually with "with" or rarely "in with".
- v. To lean on one side.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To be or stand at the side of; to be on the side toward.
- v. (transitive, obsolete) To suit; to pair; to match.
- v. (transitive, shipbuilding) To work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides.
- v. (transitive) To furnish with a siding.
- adj. Being on the left or right, or toward the left or right; lateral.
- adj. Indirect; oblique; incidental.
- adj. (Britain archaic, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Wide; large; long, pendulous, hanging low, trailing;…
- adj. (Scotland) Far; distant.
- adv. (Britain dialectal) Widely; wide; far.
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.
straighten- v. (transitive) To cause to become straight.
- v. (intransitive) To become straight.
- v. (transitive) To put in order; to sort; to tidy up.
- v. (transitive) To clarify a situation or concept to (an audience).
- v. (transitive, slang) To bribe or corrupt.
- v. (intransitive) To stand up, especially from a sitting position.
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.
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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