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Synonyms of the word 
TAIL → APPENDAGE - ARSE - ASS - BACK - BACKSIDE - BEHIND - BOB - BOTTOM - BUM - BUNS - BUTT - BUTTOCKS - CAN - CHASE - CUT - DERRIERE - DOCK - DOG - EMPENNAGE - END - ENDING - FANNY - FOLLOW - FOLLOWER - FUNDAMENT - HINDQUARTERS - KEISTER - NATES - OUTGROWTH - PINCH - POOP - POSTERIOR - PRAT - PROCESS - PROJECTION - PURSUE - QUARTER - REAR - REVERSE - RUMP - SEAT - SHADOW - SHADOWER - SPY - STERN - TAG - TOP - TRACK - TRAIL - TUSH - VERSOtail- 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.
appendage- n. an external body part that projects from the body.
- n. a natural prolongation or projection from a part of any organism.
- n. a part that is joined to something larger.
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…
bob- v. (intransitive) To move gently and vertically, in either a single motion or repeatedly up and down, at…
- v. (transitive) To move (something) as though it were bobbing in water.
- v. To curtsy.
- v. To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.
- n. A bobbing motion.
- n. A bobber.
- n. A curtsy.
- n. A bob haircut.
- n. Any round object attached loosely to a flexible line, a rod, a body part etc., so that it may swing when…
- n. The dangling mass of a pendulum or plumb line.
- n. The docked tail of a horse.
- n. A short line ending a stanza of a poem.
- n. The short runner of a sled.
- n. A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.
- n. A working beam in a steam engine.
- n. A particular style of ringing changes on bells.
- n. A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.
- n. (obsolete) A knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig.
- n. (obsolete) The refrain of a song.
- n. (obsolete) A jeer; a sharp jest or taunt.
- v. (transitive) To cut (hair) into a bob haircut.
- v. (transitive) To shorten by cutting; to dock; to crop.
- v. Short form of bobsleigh.
- n. (Kenya, slang ; UK and Australia, historical, dated slang) A shilling.
- n. (Australia, dated slang) A 10-cent coin.
- n. (slang) An unspecified amount of money.
- n. Abbreviation of shishkabob.
- n. (computer graphics, demoscene) A graphical element, resembling a hardware sprite, that can be blitted…
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.
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.
chase- n. The act of one who chases another; a pursuit.
- n. A hunt.
- n. (uncountable) A children's game where one player chases another.
- n. (Britain) A large country estate where game may be shot or hunted.
- n. Anything being chased, especially a vessel in time of war.
- n. (nautical) Any of the guns that fire directly ahead or astern; either a bow chase or stern chase.
- n. (real tennis) The occurrence of a second bounce by the ball in certain areas of the court, giving the…
- n. (real tennis) A division of the floor of a gallery, marked by a figure or otherwise; the spot where a…
- n. (cycling) One or more riders who are ahead of the peloton and trying to join the race or stage leaders.
- v. (transitive) To pursue, to follow at speed.
- v. (transitive) To hunt.
- v. (intransitive) To give chase; to hunt.
- v. (transitive, nautical) To pursue a vessel in order to destroy, capture or interrogate her.
- v. (transitive) To dilute alcohol.
- v. (transitive, cricket) To attempt to win by scoring the required number of runs in the final innings.
- v. (transitive, baseball) To swing at a pitch outside of the strike zone, typically an outside pitch.
- v. (transitive, baseball) To produce enough offense to cause the pitcher to be removed.
- n. (printing) A rectangular steel or iron frame into which pages or columns of type are locked for printing…
- n. A groove cut in an object; a slot: the chase for the quarrel on a crossbow.
- n. (architecture) A trench or channel or other encasement structure for encasing (archaically spelled enchasing)…
- n. The part of a gun in front of the trunnions.
- n. The cavity of a mold.
- n. (shipbuilding) A kind of joint by which an overlap joint is changed to a flush joint by means of a gradually…
- v. (transitive) To groove; indent.
- v. (transitive) To place piping or wiring in a groove encased within a wall or floor, or in a hidden space…
- v. (transitive) To cut (the thread of a screw).
- v. (transitive) To decorate (metal) by engraving or embossing.
cut- adj. (participial adjective) Having been cut.
- adj. Reduced.
- adj. Omitted from a literary or musical work.
- adj. (of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw.
- adj. (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
- adj. (bodybuilding) Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among…
- adj. (informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
- adj. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Emotionally hurt.
- adj. Eliminated from consideration during a recruitment drive.
- adj. Removed from a team roster.
- adj. (New Zealand) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
- n. An opening resulting from cutting.
- n. The act of cutting.
- n. The result of cutting.
- n. A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
- n. (specifically) An artificial navigation as distingished from a navigable river.
- n. A share or portion.
- n. (cricket) A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
- n. (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the…
- n. (sports) In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also,…
- n. (golf) In a strokeplay competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained…
- n. (theater) A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play.
- n. (film) A particular version or edit of a film.
- n. The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
- n. The manner or style a garment etc. is fashioned in.
- n. A slab, especially of meat.
- n. (fencing) An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
- n. A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
- n. A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio…
- n. (archaeology) A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits…
- n. A haircut.
- n. (graph theory) The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
- n. A string of railway cars coupled together.
- n. An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
- n. (obsolete) A common workhorse; a gelding.
- n. (slang, dated) The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.
- n. A skein of yarn.
- v. (heading, transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
- v. (intransitive) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
- v. (transitive, heading, social) To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
- v. (intransitive, film, audio, usually as imperative) To cease recording activities.
- v. (transitive, film) To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
- v. (transitive, computing) To remove and place in memory for later use.
- v. (intransitive) To enter a queue in the wrong place.
- v. (intransitive) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
- v. (transitive, cricket) To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball…
- v. (transitive, cricket) To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
- v. (intransitive) To change direction suddenly.
- v. (transitive, intransitive) To divide a pack of playing cards into two.
- v. (transitive, slang) To write.
- v. (transitive, slang) To dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
- v. (transitive) To exhibit (a quality).
- v. (transitive) To stop or disengage.
- v. (sports) To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball,…
derriere- n. (humorous) bottom, bum.
dock- n. Any of the genus Rumex of coarse weedy plants with small green flowers related to buckwheat, especially…
- n. A burdock plant, or the leaves of that plant.
- n. The fleshy root of an animal's tail.
- n. The part of the tail which remains after the tail has been docked.
- n. (obsolete) The buttocks or anus.
- n. A leather case to cover the clipped or cut tail of a horse.
- v. (transitive) To cut off a section of an animal's tail.
- v. (transitive) To reduce (wages); to deduct from.
- v. (transitive) To cut off, bar, or destroy.
- n. A fixed structure attached to shore to which a vessel is secured when in port.
- n. The body of water between two piers.
- n. A structure attached to shore for loading and unloading vessels.
- n. A section of a hotel or restaurant.
- n. (electronics) A device designed as a base for holding a connected portable appliance such as a laptop…
- n. (computing, graphical user interface) A toolbar that provides the user with a way of launching applications,…
- n. An act of docking; joining two things together.
- v. (intransitive) To land at a harbour.
- v. To join two moving items.
- v. (transitive, computing) To drag a user interface element (such as a toolbar) to a position on screen where…
- n. Part of a courtroom where the accused sits.
- v. (cooking) To pierce with holes, as pricking pastry or dough with a fork to prevent excessive rising in…
dog- n. A mammal, Canis lupus familiaris, that has been domesticated for thousands of years, of highly variable…
- n. A male dog, wolf or fox, as opposed to a bitch (often attributive).
- n. (slang, derogatory) A dull, unattractive girl or woman.
- n. (slang) A man (derived from definition 2).
- n. (slang, derogatory) A coward.
- n. (derogatory) Someone who is morally reprehensible.
- n. (slang) A sexually aggressive man (cf. horny).
- n. Any of various mechanical devices for holding, gripping, or fastening something, particularly with a tooth-like…
- n. A click or pallet adapted to engage the teeth of a ratchet-wheel, to restrain the back action; a click…
- n. A metal support for logs in a fireplace.
- n. A hot dog.
- n. (poker slang) Underdog.
- n. (slang, almost always in the plural) Foot.
- v. (transitive) To pursue with the intent to catch.
- v. (transitive) To follow in an annoying or harassing way.
- v. (transitive, nautical) To fasten a hatch securely.
- v. (intransitive, emerging usage in Britain) To watch, or participate, in sexual activity in a public place.
- v. (intransitive, transitive) To intentionally restrict one's productivity as employee; to work at the slowest…
empennage- n. The tail assembly of an aircraft.
- n. The feathers of an arrow or the tail fins of a bomb or rocket used to stabilize the longitudinal axis…
end- n. The initial or (especially) the terminal point of something in space or time.
- n. The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
- n. Death, especially miserable.
- n. Result.
- n. A purpose, goal, or aim.
- n. (cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
- n. (American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a…
- n. (curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
- n. (mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex.
- n. That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.
- n. One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
- v. (ergative) To finish, terminate.
ending- v. present participle of end.
- n. A termination or conclusion.
- n. The last part of something.
- n. (grammar) The last morpheme of a word, added to some base to make an inflected form (such as -ing in "ending").
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.
follow- v. (transitive) To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction.
- v. (transitive) To go or come after in a sequence.
- v. (transitive) To carry out (orders, instructions, etc.).
- v. (transitive) To live one's life according to (religion, teachings, etc).
- v. (transitive) To understand, to pay attention to.
- v. (transitive) To watch, to keep track of (reports of) some event or person.
- v. (transitive) To be a logical consequence of.
- v. (transitive) To walk in, as a road or course; to attend upon closely, as a profession or calling.
- n. (sometimes attributive) In billiards and similar games, a stroke causing a ball to follow another ball…
- n. (Internet) The act of following another user's online activity.
follower- n. (literally) One who follows, comes after another.
- n. Something that comes after another thing.
- n. One who is a part of master's physical group, such as a servant or retainer.
- n. One who follows mentally, adherer to the opinions, ideas or teachings of another, a movement etc.
- n. An imitator, who follows another's example.
- n. A pursuer.
- n. A person or an account holding entity who's following someone or something (such as a company, a government…
- n. A machine part receiving motion from another.
- n. A man courting a maidservant.
- n. Young cattle.
- n. A metal piece placed at the top of a candle to keep the wax melting evenly.
- n. (Australian rules football) Any of the three players (the ruckman, ruck rover, and rover) who usually…
- n. (colloquial, dated) A debt collector.
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.
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.
outgrowth- n. Anything that grows out of something else.
pinch- v. To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
- v. To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.
- v. To squeeze between two objects.
- v. To steal, usually of something almost trivial or inconsequential.
- v. (slang) To arrest or capture.
- v. (horticulture) To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.
- v. (nautical) To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.
- v. (hunting) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
- v. (obsolete) To be niggardly or covetous.
- v. To seize; to grip; to bite; said of animals.
- v. (figuratively) To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.
- v. To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.
- v. (obsolete) To complain or find fault.
- n. The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
- n. A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.
- n. An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.
- n. An organic herbal smoke additive.
poop- n. The stern of a ship.
- v. (transitive) To break seawater with the poop of a vessel, especially the poop deck.
- v. (transitive) To embark a ship over the stern.
- v. (obsolete, intransitive) To make a short blast on a horn.
- v. (obsolete, intransitive) To break wind.
- v. (intransitive) To defecate.
- n. (often childish) Fecal matter, feces.
- n. The sound of a steam engine's whistle; typically low pitch.
- n. (US, dated) information, facts.
- interj. (childish, euphemistic) Expressing annoyed disappointment.
- n. A set of data or general information, written or spoken, usually concerning machinery or a process.
- v. (transitive) To tire, exhaust. Often used with out.
- n. A slothful person.
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.
process- n. A series of events which produce a result, especially as contrasted to product.
- n. (manufacturing) A set of procedures used to produce a product, most commonly in the food and chemical…
- n. A path of succession of states through which a system passes.
- n. (anatomy) Successive physiological responses to keep or restore health.
- n. (law) Documents issued by a court in the course of a lawsuit or action at law, such as a summons, mandate,…
- n. (biology) An outgrowth of tissue or cell.
- n. (anatomy) A structure that arises above a surface.
- n. (computing) A task or program that is or was executing.
- v. (transitive) To perform a particular process.
- v. (transitive) To think an information over, or a concept, in order to assimilate it, and perhaps accept…
- v. To retrieve, store, classify, manipulate, transmit etc. (data, signals, etc.), especially using computer…
- v. (chiefly Britain) To walk in a procession.
projection- n. Something which projects, protrudes, juts out, sticks out, or stands out.
- n. The action of projecting or throwing or propelling something.
- n. The display of an image by devices such as movie projector, video projector, overhead projector or slide…
- n. A forecast or prognosis obtained by extrapolation.
- n. (psychology) A belief or assumption that others have similar thoughts and experiences as oneself.
- n. (photography) The image that a translucent object casts onto another object.
- n. (cartography) Any of several systems of intersecting lines that allow the curved surface of the earth…
- n. (geometry) An image of an object on a surface of fewer dimensions.
- n. (linear algebra) An idempotent linear transformation which maps vectors from a vector space onto a subspace.
- n. (mathematics) A transformation which extracts a fragment of a mathematical object.
- n. (category theory) A morphism from a categorical product to one of its (two) components.
pursue- v. (obsolete, transitive) To follow with harmful intent; to try to harm, to persecute, torment.
- v. (transitive) To follow urgently, originally with intent to capture or harm; to chase.
- v. (transitive) To follow, travel down (a particular way, course of action etc.).
- v. (transitive) To aim for, go after (a specified objective, situation etc.).
- v. (transitive) To participate in (an activity, business etc.); to practise, follow (a profession).
quarter- adj. Pertaining to an aspect of a quarter.
- adj. (chiefly) Consisting of a fourth part, a quarter (1/4, 25%).
- adj. (chiefly) Related to a three-month term, a quarter of a year.
- n. Any fourth of something, particularly.
- n. Any substantial fraction of something less than half, particularly.
- v. (transitive) To divide into quarters.
- v. (transitive) To provide housing for military personnel or other equipment.
- v. (intransitive) To lodge; to have a temporary residence.
- v. (transitive) To quartersaw.
- v. (obsolete) To drive a carriage so as to prevent the wheels from going into the ruts, or so that a rut…
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).
reverse- adj. Opposite, contrary; going in the opposite direction.
- adj. Pertaining to engines, vehicle movement etc. moving in a direction opposite to the usual direction.
- adj. (rail transport, of points) To be in the non-default position; to be set for the lesser-used route.
- adj. Turned upside down; greatly disturbed.
- adj. (botany) Reversed.
- adj. (genetics) In which cDNA synthetization is obtained from an RNA template.
- adv. (now rare) In a reverse way or direction; upside-down.
- n. The opposite of something.
- n. The act of going backwards; a reversal.
- n. A piece of misfortune; a setback.
- n. The tails side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that is opposite the obverse.
- n. The side of something facing away from a viewer, or from what is considered the front; the other side.
- n. The gear setting of an automobile that makes it travel backwards.
- n. A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke.
- n. (surgery) A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed.
- v. (intransitive) To turn something around such that it faces in the opposite direction.
- v. (intransitive) To turn something inside out or upside down.
- v. (intransitive) To transpose the positions of two things.
- v. (transitive) To change totally; to alter to the opposite.
- v. (obsolete, intransitive) To return, come back.
- v. (obsolete, transitive) To turn away; to cause to depart.
- v. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to return; to recall.
- v. (law) To revoke a law, or to change a decision into its opposite.
- v. (ergative) To cause a mechanism or a vehicle to operate or move in the opposite direction to normal.
- v. (chemistry) To change the direction of a reaction such that the products become the reactants and vice-versa.
- v. (rail transport, transitive) To place a set of points in the reverse position.
- v. (rail transport, intransitive, of points) to move from the normal position to the reverse position.
- v. To overthrow; to subvert.
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.
shadow- n. A dark image projected onto a surface where light (or other radiation) is blocked by the shade of an object.
- n. Relative darkness, especially as caused by the interruption of light; gloom, obscurity.
- n. (obsolete) A reflected image, as in a mirror or in water.
- n. That which looms as though a shadow.
- n. A small degree; a shade.
- n. An imperfect and faint representation.
- n. (Britain, law enforcement) A trainee, assigned to work with an experienced officer.
- n. One who secretly or furtively follows another.
- n. A type of lettering form of word processors that makes a cubic effect.
- n. An influence, especially a pervasive or a negative one.
- n. A spirit; a ghost; a shade.
- n. (obsolete, Latinism) An uninvited guest accompanying one who was invited.
- n. (psychology) In Jungian psychology, an unconscious aspect of the personality.
- v. To block light or radio transmission.
- v. (espionage) To secretly or discreetly track or follow another, to keep under surveillance.
- v. To accompany a professional during the working day, so as to learn about an occupation one intends to…
- v. (programming) To make an identifier, usually a variable, inaccessible by declaring another of the same…
- v. (computing) To apply the shadowing process to (the contents of ROM).
- adj. Unofficial, informal, unauthorized, but acting as though it were.
- adj. Having power or influence, but not widely known or recognized.
- adj. (politics) Acting in a leadership role before being formally recognized.
shadowerspy- n. A person who secretly watches and examines the actions of other individuals or organizations and gathers…
- v. (intransitive) To act as a spy.
- v. (transitive) To spot; to catch sight of.
- v. (intransitive) To search narrowly; to scrutinize.
- v. (transitive) To explore; to see; to view; inspect and examine secretly, as a country.
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.
tag- n. A small label.
- n. A game played by two or more children in which one child (known as "it") attempts to catch one of the…
- n. A skin tag, an excrescence of skin.
- n. A type of cardboard.
- n. Graffiti in the form of a stylized signature particular to the artist.
- n. A dangling lock of sheep's wool, matted with dung; a dung tag.
- n. An attribution in narrated dialogue (eg, "he said").
- n. (chiefly US) a vehicle number plate; a medal bearing identification data (animals, soldiers).
- n. (baseball) An instance of touching the baserunner with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.
- n. (computing) A piece of markup representing an element in a markup language.
- n. (computing) A keyword, term, or phrase associated with or assigned to data, media, and/or information…
- n. Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely.
- n. A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.
- n. The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
- n. Something mean and paltry; the rabble.
- n. A sheep in its first year.
- n. (biochemistry) Any short peptide sequence artificially attached to proteins mostly in order to help purify,…
- n. (slang) A person's name.
- v. (transitive) To label (something).
- v. (transitive, graffiti) To mark (something) with one’s tag.
- v. (transitive) To remove dung tags from a sheep.
- v. (transitive, baseball, colloquial) To hit the ball hard.
- v. (transitive, baseball) To put a runner out by touching them with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.
- v. (transitive, computing) To mark with a tag (metadata for classification).
- v. To follow closely, accompany, tag along.
- v. (transitive) To catch and touch (a player in the game of tag).
- v. (transitive) To fit with, or as if with, a tag or tags.
- v. To fasten; to attach.
- n. A decoration drawn over some Hebrew letters in Jewish scrolls.
top- n. The highest part or component of an object.
- n. A child’s spinning toy; a spinning top.
- n. (heading) Someone who is eminent.
- n. (BDSM) A dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
- n. (LGBT, slang) A man penetrating or with a preference for penetrating during homosexual intercourse.
- n. (physics) A top quark.
- n. The utmost degree; the acme; the summit.
- n. (ropemaking) A plug, or conical block of wood, with longitudinal grooves on its surface, in which the…
- n. (sound) Highest pitch or loudest.
- n. (wool manufacture) A bundle or ball of slivers of combed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been…
- n. (obsolete, except in one sense of phrase on top of) Eve; verge; point.
- n. The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface.
- n. (in the plural, slang, dated) Topboots.
- n. (golf) A stroke on the top of the ball.
- n. (golf) A forward spin given to the ball by hitting it on or near the top.
- n. (in restaurants, preceded by a number) (A table at which there is, or which has enough seats for) a group…
- v. To cover on the top or with a top.
- v. To cut or remove the top (as of a tree).
- v. To excel, to surpass, to beat.
- v. To be in the lead, to be at number one position (of).
- v. (Britain, slang) To commit suicide, (rare) to murder.
- v. (BDSM) To be the dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
- v. (slang, gay sexuality) To be the partner who penetrates in anal sex.
- v. (archaic) To rise aloft; to be eminent; to tower.
- v. (archaic) To predominate.
- v. (archaic) To excel; to rise above others.
- v. (nautical) To raise one end of (a yard, etc.), making it higher than the other.
- v. (dyeing) To cover with another dye.
- v. To put a stiffening piece or back on (a saw blade).
- v. (slang, dated) To arrange (fruit, etc.) with the best on top.
- v. (of a horse) To strike the top of (an obstacle) with the hind feet while jumping, so as to gain new impetus.
- v. To improve (domestic animals, especially sheep) by crossing certain individuals or breeds with other superior…
- v. To cut, break, or otherwise take off the top of (a steel ingot) to remove unsound metal.
- v. (golf) To strike (the ball) above the centre; also, to make (a stroke, etc.) by hitting the ball in this…
- adj. Situated on the top of something.
- adj. (informal) Best; of the highest quality or rank.
- adj. (informal) Very good, of high quality.
- adv. Rated first.
track- n. A mark left by something that has passed along.
- n. A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or animal.
- n. The entire lower surface of the foot; said of birds, etc.
- n. A road or other similar beaten path.
- n. Physical course; way.
- n. A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc.
- n. The direction and progress of someone or something; path.
- n. (railways) The way or rails along which a train moves.
- n. A tract or area, such as of land.
- n. Awareness of something, especially when arising from close monitoring.
- n. (automotive) The distance between two opposite wheels on a same axletree (also track width).
- n. (automotive) Short for caterpillar track.
- n. (cricket) The pitch.
- n. Sound stored on a record.
- n. The physical track on a record.
- n. (music) A song or other relatively short piece of music, on a record, separated from others by a short…
- n. A circular (never-ending) data storage unit on a side of magnetic or optical disk, divided into sectors.
- n. (uncountable, sports) The racing events of track and field; track and field in general.
- n. A session talk on a conference.
- v. To continue observing over time.
- v. (transitive) To follow the tracks of.
- v. (transitive or intransitive) To create a musical recording (a track).
trail- v. (transitive) To follow behind (someone or something); to tail (someone or something).
- v. (transitive) To drag (something) behind on the ground.
- v. (transitive) To leave (a trail of).
- v. (transitive) To show a trailer of (a film, TV show etc.); to release or publish a preview of (a report…
- v. To be losing, to be behind in a competition.
- v. (military) To carry (a firearm) with the breech near the ground and the upper part inclined forward, the…
- v. To flatten (grass, etc.) by walking through it; to tread down.
- v. (dated) To take advantage of the ignorance of; to impose upon.
- n. The track or indication marking the route followed by something that has passed, such as the footprints…
- n. A route for travel over land, especially a narrow, unpaved pathway for use by hikers, horseback riders,…
- n. A trailer broadcast on television for a forthcoming film or programme.
- n. (graph theory) A walk in which all the edges are distinct.
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.
verso- n. The back side of a flat object which is to be examined visually, as for reading, such as a sheet or a…
- n. (printing) The left-hand page of a book of a script which reads from left to right, usually having an…
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