Related Words:
- glaucoma
collapse - increased pressure in the eyeball due to obstruction of the outflow of aqueous humor; damages the optic disc and impairs vision (sometimes progressing to blindness) related words >
- ablepsia,
- amaurosis,
- benightedness,
- blepharitis,
- blind side,
- blind spot,
- blindfolding,
- blinding,
- blindness,
- blurring the eyes,
- cataract,
- cecity,
- choroiditis,
- conjunctivitis,
- cross-eye,
- darkness,
- defective vision,
- depriving of sight,
- detached retina,
- dim-sightedness,
- drop serene,
- economic blindness,
- esotropia,
- ever-during dark,
- excecation,
- eye defect,
- eyelessness,
- gutta serena,
- hoodwinking,
- iritis,
- keratitis,
- lack of vision,
- making blind,
- niphablepsia,
- optic neuritis,
- partial blindness,
- pink eye,
- psychic blindness,
- reduced sight,
- retinoblastoma,
- sightless eyes,
- sightlessness,
- snow blindness,
- soul-blindness,
- spiritual blindness,
- stone-blindness,
- sty,
- total blindness,
- trachoma,
- unenlightenment,
- unseeingness,
- uveitis,
- walleye
- April showers,
- Proteus,
- aerological instrument,
- anemograph,
- anemometer,
- anemometrograph,
- anemoscope,
- aneroid barometer,
- aneroidograph,
- barograph,
- barometer,
- barometrograph,
- chameleon,
- cloud shapes,
- cock,
- feeler,
- glass,
- hurricane-hunter aircraft,
- hygrometer,
- kaleidoscope,
- mercury,
- moon,
- pilot balloon,
- probe,
- quicksilver,
- radiosonde,
- random sample,
- recording barometer,
- rolling stone,
- sample,
- shifting sands,
- sound,
- sounder,
- straw vote,
- the weather,
- trial balloon,
- vacuometer,
- vane,
- water,
- weather balloon,
- weather instrument,
- weather satellite,
- weathercock,
- weatherglass,
- wheel of fortune,
- whirligig,
- wind cone,
- wind indicator,
- wind sock,
- wind vane,
- wind-speed indicator
- Philistinism,
- analgesia,
- anesthesia,
- armor,
- callosity,
- callus,
- coldbloodedness,
- coldheartedness,
- coldness,
- deadness,
- density,
- dullness,
- durity,
- electronarcosis,
- flintiness,
- formidable defenses,
- hard heart,
- hard shell,
- hardenedness,
- hardheartedness,
- hardness,
- hardness of heart,
- heart of stone,
- heartlessness,
- impassibility,
- impenetrability,
- impenitence,
- impenitentness,
- imperception,
- imperceptiveness,
- imperceptivity,
- impercipience,
- imperviousness,
- inconsiderateness,
- induration,
- insensibility,
- insensibleness,
- insensitiveness,
- insensitivity,
- insentience,
- insolence,
- inuredness,
- irrepentance,
- narcosis,
- narcotization,
- nonrepentance,
- numbness,
- obduracy,
- obdurateness,
- obtuseness,
- pins and needles,
- pitilessness,
- resistance,
- restiveness,
- rhinoceros hide,
- seared conscience,
- solidity,
- steeliness,
- stoniness,
- thick skin,
- toughness,
- unabjectness,
- uncontriteness,
- unfeeling,
- unfeelingness,
- unmercifulness,
- unnaturalness,
- unperceptiveness,
- unresponsiveness
- itinerant
collapse
- a laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by employment; "itinerant traders"
- working for a short time in different places; "itinerant laborers"; "a road show"; "traveling salesman"; "touring company"
- traveling from place to place to work; "itinerant labor"; "an itinerant judge" related words >
- Ahasuerus,
- Ancient Mariner,
- Argonaut,
- Flying Dutchman,
- Goliard,
- Odysseus,
- Oisin,
- Ossian,
- Ulysses,
- ambulant,
- ambulative,
- ambulatory,
- bird of passage,
- circuit-riding,
- drifter,
- expeditionary,
- floater,
- gad,
- gadabout,
- globe-girdling,
- globe-trotting,
- go-about,
- going,
- itinerary,
- journeying,
- locomotive,
- mover,
- moving,
- mundivagant,
- nomadic,
- on tour,
- passing,
- pedestrian,
- perambulating,
- perambulatory,
- peregrinative,
- peregrinator,
- peregrine,
- peripatetic,
- pilgrimlike,
- progressing,
- rambler,
- rambling,
- ranging,
- roamer,
- roaming,
- rolling stone,
- rover,
- roving,
- runabout,
- shifting,
- straggler,
- stroller,
- strolling,
- strolling player,
- touring,
- touristic,
- touristy,
- traveling,
- trekking,
- troubadour,
- vagabond,
- vagrant,
- visitant,
- walking,
- wanderer,
- wandering,
- wandering minstrel,
- wandering scholar,
- wayfaring
- adamant
collapse
- impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason; "he is adamant in his refusal to change his mind"; "Cynthia was inexorable; she would have none of him"- W.Churchill; "an intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendency" related words >
- adamantine,
- at a standstill,
- cast-iron,
- dour,
- firm,
- flintlike,
- flinty,
- frozen,
- granitelike,
- granitic,
- grim,
- hard,
- hard-core,
- immobile,
- immotile,
- immotive,
- immovable,
- immutable,
- implacable,
- impliable,
- inductile,
- inelastic,
- inexorable,
- inextensible,
- inextensile,
- inextensional,
- inflexible,
- intractable,
- intractile,
- intransigent,
- iron,
- irreconcilable,
- irremovable,
- irresilient,
- lithic,
- marblelike,
- nonelastic,
- nonstretchable,
- obdurate,
- pat,
- petrified,
- petrogenic,
- relentless,
- rigid,
- rigorous,
- rock,
- rock-ribbed,
- slaty,
- standpat,
- stationary,
- steely,
- stern,
- stiff,
- stone,
- stubborn,
- unaffected,
- unalterable,
- unbending,
- unchangeable,
- uncompromising,
- unextendible,
- unextensible,
- unflexible,
- ungiving,
- unlimber,
- unmalleable,
- unmovable,
- unmoved,
- unmoving,
- unpliable,
- unpliant,
- unrelenting,
- unswayable,
- untractable,
- unyielding
- console
collapse
- an ornamental scroll-shaped bracket (especially one used to support a wall fixture); "the bust of Napoleon stood on a console"
- a scientific instrument consisting of displays and an input device that an operator can use to monitor and control a system (especially a computer system) related words >
- animate,
- assuage,
- assure,
- bear up,
- buck up,
- cabinet,
- calm,
- chassis,
- cheer,
- cheer up,
- choir,
- claviature,
- comfort,
- commiserate,
- condole with,
- control desk,
- control panel,
- ease,
- echo,
- eighty-eight,
- encourage,
- express sympathy for,
- feel with,
- fingerboard,
- give comfort,
- graphic panel,
- great,
- grieve for,
- grieve with,
- hearten,
- housing,
- inspirit,
- ivories,
- jack field,
- keyboard,
- keys,
- manual,
- master control desk,
- mixer,
- organ manual,
- panelboard,
- pedals,
- piano keys,
- put at ease,
- radio,
- radio receiver,
- radio set,
- radio telescope,
- reassure,
- receiver,
- receiving set,
- relieve,
- set,
- set at ease,
- solace,
- solo,
- soothe,
- sorrow with,
- speak soothing words,
- swell,
- sympathize with,
- tranquilize,
- upraise,
- weep for,
- weep with,
- wireless,
- wireless set
- footstep
collapse
- the act of taking a step in walking
- the distance covered by a step; "he stepped off ten paces from the old tree and began to dig" related words >
- boss,
- bump,
- clop,
- colophon,
- concavity,
- convexity,
- dactylogram,
- dactylograph,
- dent,
- dint,
- doorstep,
- embossment,
- example,
- excrescence,
- fingerprint,
- footfall,
- footmark,
- footprint,
- footprints,
- footrest,
- footsteps,
- fossil footprint,
- hippety-hop,
- hoofbeat,
- hop,
- ichnite,
- ichnolite,
- impress,
- impression,
- imprint,
- indent,
- indentation,
- indention,
- jump,
- lump,
- pace,
- pad,
- paw print,
- pawmark,
- pimple,
- print,
- pug,
- pugmark,
- rest,
- riser,
- round,
- rundle,
- rung,
- scale,
- seal,
- sigil,
- signet,
- skip,
- spoke,
- spoor,
- stair,
- stamp,
- stave,
- step,
- step stool,
- stepping-stone,
- stride,
- string,
- stud,
- thumbmark,
- thumbprint,
- trace,
- track,
- tract,
- tradition,
- trail,
- tread,
- vestige,
- way of life
- undiscerning
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- lacking discernment related words >
- ableptical,
- amaurotic,
- benighted,
- bereft of light,
- blind,
- blindfold,
- blindfolded,
- color-blind,
- dark,
- dim-sighted,
- eyeless,
- hemeralopic,
- ill-advised,
- ill-considered,
- ill-contrived,
- ill-devised,
- ill-gauged,
- ill-judged,
- imperceptive,
- impercipient,
- impolitic,
- imprudent,
- in darkness,
- inadvisable,
- inconsiderate,
- indiscreet,
- inexpedient,
- injudicious,
- insensate,
- insensible,
- irrational,
- mind-blind,
- mindless,
- misadvised,
- misguided,
- myopic,
- nearsighted,
- nonunderstanding,
- nyctalopic,
- purblind,
- rayless,
- reasonless,
- reckless,
- senseless,
- shortsighted,
- sightless,
- spiritually blind,
- stark blind,
- stone-blind,
- thoughtless,
- unadvised,
- unapprehending,
- uncomprehending,
- unconsidered,
- unenlightened,
- unforeseeing,
- unobserving,
- unperceiving,
- unperceptive,
- unreasonable,
- unreflecting,
- unreflective,
- unseeing,
- unsensible,
- unsound,
- unthinking,
- unthoughtful,
- unwise,
- visionless,
- witless
- nippy
collapse
- a sharp biting taste; "a nippy cheese" related words >
- Siberian,
- algid,
- arctic,
- below zero,
- biting,
- bitter,
- bitterly cold,
- bleak,
- boreal,
- brisk,
- brumal,
- burning,
- chill,
- chilly,
- cold,
- cold as charity,
- cold as death,
- cold as ice,
- cold as marble,
- cool,
- crisp,
- curried,
- cutting,
- freezing,
- freezing cold,
- frigid,
- frosty,
- gelid,
- glacial,
- hibernal,
- hiemal,
- high-seasoned,
- hot,
- hot as pepper,
- hyperborean,
- ice-cold,
- ice-encrusted,
- icelike,
- icy,
- inclement,
- keen,
- lively,
- nipping,
- numbing,
- penetrating,
- peppery,
- piercing,
- pinching,
- racy,
- raw,
- rigorous,
- seasoned,
- severe,
- sharp,
- shivery,
- sleety,
- slushy,
- snappy,
- spiced,
- spicy,
- stone-cold,
- subzero,
- supercooled,
- tangy,
- winterbound,
- winterlike,
- wintery,
- wintry,
- with a kick,
- zestful,
- zesty,
- zippy
- abrasive
collapse
- a substance that abrades or wears down
- causing abrasion related words >
- ablation,
- ablative,
- abradant,
- abrasion,
- aluminum oxide,
- attrition,
- attritive,
- auto polish,
- buffing,
- burnish,
- burnishing,
- chafe,
- chafing,
- colcothar,
- corundum,
- crocus,
- detrition,
- dressing,
- emery,
- emery board,
- emery paper,
- erasure,
- erosion,
- erosive,
- file,
- filing,
- fretting,
- galling,
- garnet,
- gnawing,
- grazing,
- grinding,
- lawn-roller,
- limation,
- nail file,
- polish,
- polishes,
- polishing,
- pumice,
- pumice stone,
- rasp,
- rasping,
- roller,
- rottenstone,
- rouge,
- rubbing away,
- sandblasting,
- sanding,
- sandpaper,
- scouring,
- scrape,
- scraping,
- scratch,
- scratching,
- scrub,
- scrubbing,
- scuff,
- shining,
- shoe polish,
- silicon carbide,
- silver polish,
- sleeker,
- slicker,
- smooth,
- smoother,
- smoothing,
- wax,
- wear,
- wearing away
- rover
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- an adult member of the Boy Scouts movement related words >
- Ahasuerus,
- Ancient Mariner,
- Argonaut,
- Blackbeard,
- Captain Hook,
- Captain Kidd,
- Flying Dutchman,
- Goliard,
- Henry Morgan,
- Jean Lafitte,
- Odysseus,
- Oisin,
- Ossian,
- Ulysses,
- air pirate,
- airplane hijacker,
- bird of passage,
- buccaneer,
- bum,
- corsair,
- drifter,
- floater,
- freebooter,
- gad,
- gadabout,
- go-about,
- gypsy,
- hobo,
- itinerant,
- mover,
- nomad,
- peregrinator,
- peregrine,
- peripatetic,
- picaroon,
- pirate,
- privateer,
- rambler,
- roamer,
- rolling stone,
- runabout,
- sea dog,
- sea king,
- sea robber,
- sea rover,
- sea wolf,
- skyjacker,
- sojourner,
- straggler,
- stroller,
- strolling player,
- tourist,
- tramp,
- traveller,
- troubadour,
- vagabond,
- vagrant,
- viking,
- visitant,
- wanderer,
- wandering minstrel,
- wandering scholar,
- wayfarer
- pendulum
collapse
- an apparatus consisting of an object mounted so that it swings freely under the influence of gravity related words >
- Indian file,
- array,
- articulation,
- bank,
- buzz,
- catena,
- catenation,
- chain,
- chain reaction,
- chaining,
- concatenation,
- connection,
- consecution,
- continuum,
- course,
- cycle,
- descent,
- drone,
- endless belt,
- endless round,
- file,
- filiation,
- gamut,
- gradation,
- hum,
- line,
- lineage,
- metronome,
- monotone,
- nexus,
- oscillator,
- periodicity,
- plenum,
- powder train,
- progression,
- queue,
- range,
- rank,
- recurrence,
- reticulation,
- rocker,
- rocking chair,
- rocking stone,
- rotation,
- round,
- routine,
- row,
- run,
- scale,
- seesaw,
- sequence,
- series,
- shuttle,
- shuttlecock,
- single file,
- spectrum,
- string,
- succession,
- swath,
- swing,
- teeter,
- teeter-totter,
- teeterboard,
- teetery-bender,
- thread,
- tier,
- train,
- vibrator,
- windrow
- beam,
- billet,
- board,
- boarding,
- brick,
- clapboard,
- cord,
- cordwood,
- deal,
- driftwood,
- face,
- firewood,
- glass,
- glaze,
- hardwood,
- lath,
- lathing,
- lathwork,
- log,
- lumber,
- panelboard,
- paneling,
- panelwork,
- paper,
- plank,
- planking,
- plyboard,
- plywood,
- pole,
- post,
- puncheon,
- revet,
- shake,
- sheathe,
- sheathing,
- sheathing board,
- sheeting,
- shingle,
- sideboard,
- siding,
- slab,
- slat,
- slate,
- softwood,
- splat,
- stave,
- stick,
- stick of wood,
- stone,
- stovewood,
- thatch,
- three-by-four,
- tile,
- timber,
- timbering,
- timberwork,
- two-by-four,
- veneer,
- wall in,
- wall up,
- wallpaper,
- weather,
- weather deck,
- weather helm,
- weather sheet,
- weather side,
- weather tack,
- weather wheel,
- windward,
- windward ebb,
- windward flood,
- wood
- brain
collapse
- that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord
- mental ability; "he's got plenty of brains but no common sense"
- the brain of certain animals used as meat
- kill by smashing someone's skull
- hit on the head related words >
- Vernunft,
- abdomen,
- acumen,
- afferent neuron,
- anus,
- appendix,
- autonomic nervous system,
- axon,
- bean,
- blind gut,
- blow to pieces,
- blow up,
- bowels,
- brains,
- bring down,
- burn to death,
- capacity,
- cecum,
- central nervous system,
- cerebral cortex,
- cognition,
- colon,
- conception,
- consciousness,
- craniosacral nervous system,
- cut down,
- cut to pieces,
- deal a deathblow,
- dendrite,
- discernment,
- discourse of reason,
- discursive reason,
- disintegrate,
- drop,
- duodenum,
- effector organ,
- efferent neuron,
- encephalon,
- endocardium,
- entrails,
- esprit,
- fell,
- foregut,
- frag,
- ganglion,
- genius,
- giblets,
- give the quietus,
- gizzard,
- gray matter,
- gun down,
- guts,
- head,
- headpiece,
- heart,
- hindgut,
- imagination,
- incinerate,
- innards,
- inner mechanism,
- insides,
- intellect,
- intellection,
- intellectual,
- intellectual faculty,
- intelligence,
- internals,
- internuncial neuron,
- intestine,
- inwards,
- jejunum,
- jugulate,
- kidney,
- kishkes,
- knowledge,
- lapidate,
- large intestine,
- lay low,
- leader,
- liver,
- liver and lights,
- lung,
- mastermind,
- medullary sheath,
- mens,
- mental capacity,
- mentality,
- midgut,
- mind,
- mother wit,
- nerve,
- nerve trunk,
- nervous system,
- neuron,
- noddle,
- noggin,
- noodle,
- nous,
- organ of thought,
- pate,
- perception,
- perceptiveness,
- percipience,
- perineum,
- peripheral nervous system,
- perspicacity,
- pistol,
- planner,
- plexus,
- poleax,
- power of reason,
- psyche,
- pump,
- pylorus,
- ratio,
- rationality,
- reason,
- reasoning,
- reasoning faculty,
- rectum,
- riddle,
- sagacity,
- sconce,
- seat of thought,
- sensation,
- sense,
- sensorium,
- sensory,
- sensory area,
- sensory cell,
- shoot,
- shoot down,
- shoot to death,
- shotgun,
- silence,
- small intestine,
- smarts,
- solar plexus,
- spinal cord,
- spleen,
- stab to death,
- stomach,
- stone,
- stone to death,
- strike dead,
- synapse,
- thoracolumbar nervous system,
- thought,
- ticker,
- tripes,
- understanding,
- vaporize,
- vermiform appendix,
- viscera,
- vitals,
- white matter,
- wisdom,
- wise man,
- wit,
- works
- curb
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- an edge between a sidewalk and a roadway consisting of a line of curbstones (usually forming part of a gutter)
- a horse's bit with an attached chain or strap to check the horse
- keep to the curb; "curb your dogs" related words >
- American Stock Exchange,
- Amex,
- Tarmac,
- Tarvia,
- Wall Street,
- abstain,
- arrest,
- arrestation,
- asphalt,
- back band,
- backpedal,
- backstrap,
- backwater,
- bearing rein,
- bellyband,
- bit,
- bitumen,
- bituminous macadam,
- blacktop,
- blinders,
- blinds,
- board,
- border stone,
- bottle up,
- bourse,
- brake,
- breeching,
- brick,
- bridle,
- caparison,
- cavesson,
- cement,
- chain,
- check,
- checkrein,
- cheekpiece,
- chinband,
- chock,
- cinch,
- clip the wings,
- clog,
- cobble,
- cobblestone,
- collar,
- commodity exchange,
- concrete,
- constrain,
- constraint,
- contain,
- control,
- cool,
- cool off,
- cooling,
- cooling down,
- cooling off,
- corn pit,
- countercheck,
- crownband,
- crupper,
- curb bit,
- curb exchange,
- curb market,
- curbing,
- curbstone,
- curtail,
- curtailment,
- dam up,
- damp,
- dampen,
- damper,
- decelerate,
- deceleration,
- delay,
- detain,
- dompt,
- doorstop,
- drag,
- drag sail,
- draw rein,
- drift anchor,
- drift sail,
- drogue,
- ease off,
- ease up,
- edgestone,
- enjoin,
- entrammel,
- exchange,
- exchange floor,
- fetter,
- flag,
- flagging,
- flagstone,
- gag swivel,
- girth,
- govern,
- gravel,
- guard,
- hackamore,
- halter,
- hames,
- hametugs,
- hamper,
- harness,
- headgear,
- headstall,
- hinder,
- hindrance,
- hip straps,
- hobble,
- hog-tie,
- hold,
- hold at bay,
- hold back,
- hold down,
- hold fast,
- hold in,
- hold in check,
- hold in leash,
- hold up,
- holdback,
- impede,
- inhibit,
- inhibition,
- injunction,
- intercept,
- interdict,
- interfere,
- intermeddle,
- interrupt,
- intervene,
- jaquima,
- jerk line,
- keep,
- keep back,
- keep from,
- keep in,
- keep in check,
- keep under control,
- kerb,
- kerbstone,
- lay under restraint,
- leash,
- legal restraint,
- let down,
- let up,
- lines,
- lose ground,
- lose momentum,
- lose speed,
- macadam,
- manacle,
- martingale,
- meddle,
- moderate,
- monopoly,
- noseband,
- obstruct,
- oppose,
- outside market,
- over-the-counter market,
- pavement,
- pavestone,
- paving,
- paving stone,
- pelham,
- pit,
- pole strap,
- prohibit,
- prohibition,
- protection,
- protectionism,
- protective tariff,
- pull,
- pull in,
- quotation board,
- rationing,
- reef,
- refrain,
- rein,
- rein in,
- reins,
- relax,
- remora,
- repress,
- resist,
- restrain,
- restraint,
- restraint of trade,
- retard,
- retardation,
- retrench,
- retrenchment,
- ribbons,
- road metal,
- saddle,
- scotch,
- sea anchor,
- self-control,
- set back,
- shackle,
- shaft tug,
- side check,
- slack off,
- slack up,
- slacken,
- slow,
- slow down,
- slow up,
- slowing down,
- snaffle,
- snub,
- spoke,
- stay,
- stock exchange,
- stock market,
- stock ticker,
- stone,
- stop,
- straiten,
- subdue,
- suppress,
- surcingle,
- tack,
- tackle,
- take in sail,
- tariff wall,
- tarmacadam,
- telephone market,
- the Big Board,
- the Exchange,
- third market,
- thought control,
- throttle down,
- ticker,
- ticker tape,
- tie,
- tie up,
- tile,
- trammel,
- trappings,
- tug,
- washboard,
- wheat pit,
- winker braces,
- withhold,
- yoke
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