Exact Match:
- mayfly
- slender insect with delicate membranous wings having an aquatic larval stage and terrestrial adult stage usually lasting less than two days
Synonyms:
- no synonyms found
Related Words:
- flash in the pan
collapse - someone who enjoys transient success but then fails related words >
- abortion,
- abortive attempt,
- also-ran,
- bankrupt,
- best seller,
- big hit,
- blank cartridge,
- bogy,
- brilliant success,
- bubble,
- bugaboo,
- bugbear,
- castrato,
- cipher,
- cry of wolf,
- dud,
- dummy,
- ephemera,
- ephemeral,
- ephemerid,
- ephemerides,
- ephemeris,
- eunuch,
- fad,
- failure,
- false alarm,
- flop,
- gas,
- gasser,
- gelding,
- great success,
- hit,
- hollow man,
- impotent,
- incompetent,
- invalid,
- jackstraw,
- killing,
- lay figure,
- loser,
- man of straw,
- mayfly,
- merry chase,
- meteoric success,
- miscarriage,
- miscarrying,
- misfire,
- momentary success,
- nebbish,
- nobody,
- nonentity,
- nothing,
- nullity,
- puppet,
- pushover,
- resounding triumph,
- riot,
- roaring success,
- sensation,
- smash,
- smash hit,
- smoke,
- snows of yesteryear,
- thing of naught,
- trifle,
- triumph,
- vain attempt,
- washout,
- weakling,
- wet squib,
- wild-goose chase,
- wow,
- zero
- insect
collapse
- small air-breathing arthropod related words >
- Chilopoda,
- Chordata,
- Echiuroidea,
- Ectoprocta,
- Entoprocta,
- Lepisma,
- Monoplacophora,
- Nemertinea,
- Phoronidea,
- animal,
- ant,
- aphid,
- aphis,
- arachnid,
- arthropod,
- assassin bug,
- beast,
- bedbug,
- bee,
- beetle,
- bluebottle,
- borer,
- bug,
- butterfly,
- caddis fly,
- caterpillar,
- centipede,
- chafer,
- chigoe,
- chilopod,
- cicada,
- cicala,
- cockchafer,
- cockroach,
- crane fly,
- cricket,
- cucumber flea beetle,
- cur,
- curculio,
- daddy longlegs,
- damselfly,
- deer fly,
- diplopod,
- dobson fly,
- dog,
- dragonfly,
- drosophila,
- dung beetle,
- earwig,
- ephemerid,
- firefly,
- flea,
- fly,
- gadfly,
- glowworm,
- gnat,
- grain weevil,
- grasshopper,
- harvestman,
- hexapod,
- hornet,
- hound,
- hyena,
- jigger,
- katydid,
- kissing bug,
- lacewing,
- lady beetle,
- ladybird,
- ladybug,
- lantern fly,
- larva,
- locust,
- louse,
- maggot,
- mantis,
- mayfly,
- mealworm,
- midge,
- millepede,
- miller,
- millipede,
- mite,
- mole cricket,
- mongrel,
- mosquito,
- moth,
- nymph,
- pig,
- polecat,
- reptile,
- rice weevil,
- roach,
- scarab,
- scorpion,
- serpent,
- silverfish,
- skunk,
- snake,
- spider,
- springtail,
- squash bug,
- stag beetle,
- stinkbug,
- stone fly,
- swine,
- syrphus fly,
- tarantula,
- termite,
- tick,
- tiger moth,
- tsetse fly,
- tumblebug,
- varmint,
- vermin,
- viper,
- walkingstick,
- wasp,
- water bug,
- weevil,
- whelp,
- wood tick,
- worm,
- yellow jacket
- bubble
collapse
- a dome-shaped covering made of transparent glass or plastic
- an impracticable and illusory idea; "he didn't want to burst the newcomer's bubble"
- a hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide)
- form, produce, or emit bubbles; "The soup was bubbling" related words >
- air,
- air pocket,
- airy hope,
- airy nothing,
- apparition,
- autism,
- babble,
- ball,
- balloon,
- be enthusiastic,
- bilge,
- bladder,
- blain,
- bleb,
- blister,
- blob,
- blubber,
- boil,
- boil over,
- boll,
- bolus,
- boss,
- bow,
- brainchild,
- bubble over,
- bubble up,
- bubbles,
- bulb,
- bulbil,
- bulblet,
- bulge,
- bulla,
- bump,
- bunch,
- burble,
- burl,
- button,
- cahot,
- carbonation,
- carry on over,
- chaff,
- chimera,
- china,
- chine,
- chip,
- churn,
- clump,
- cobweb,
- condyle,
- convex,
- cork,
- daydream,
- deception,
- delirium,
- deluded belief,
- delusion,
- dereism,
- dowel,
- down,
- dream,
- dream vision,
- dreamland,
- dreamworld,
- droplet,
- dust,
- ear,
- effervesce,
- effervescence,
- eggshell,
- eidolon,
- ellipsoid,
- enthuse,
- ephemera,
- ephemeral,
- ephemerid,
- ephemerides,
- ephemeris,
- ether,
- fairy,
- false belief,
- fancy,
- fantasque,
- fantasy,
- feather,
- ferment,
- fiction,
- figment,
- fizz,
- fizzle,
- flange,
- flap,
- flue,
- fluff,
- foam,
- froth,
- fuzz,
- gall,
- geoid,
- glass,
- glass house,
- globe,
- globelet,
- globoid,
- globule,
- glomerulus,
- gnarl,
- go on over,
- gob,
- gobbet,
- golden dream,
- gossamer,
- guggle,
- gurgle,
- gush,
- gush over,
- hallucination,
- handle,
- hill,
- hiss,
- house of cards,
- hump,
- hunch,
- ice,
- idle fancy,
- ignis fatuus,
- illusion,
- imagery,
- imagination,
- imagining,
- insubstantial image,
- invention,
- jog,
- joggle,
- knob,
- knot,
- knur,
- knurl,
- lap,
- lather,
- lip,
- loop,
- lump,
- maggot,
- make much of,
- make-believe,
- matchwood,
- mayfly,
- misbelief,
- misconception,
- mist,
- moil,
- mole,
- mote,
- mountain,
- myth,
- nevus,
- nub,
- nubbin,
- nubble,
- oblate spheroid,
- old paper,
- orb,
- orbit,
- orblet,
- papilloma,
- parchment,
- peg,
- pellet,
- phantasm,
- phantom,
- piecrust,
- pipe,
- pipe dream,
- plash,
- plop,
- prolate spheroid,
- purl,
- quixotic ideal,
- rainbow,
- rave,
- rave about,
- rhapsodize,
- rib,
- ridge,
- ring,
- ripple,
- romance,
- rondure,
- seethe,
- self-deceit,
- self-deception,
- self-delusion,
- shadow,
- shoulder,
- sick fancy,
- simmer,
- slosh,
- smoke,
- smolder,
- snows of yesteryear,
- sparkle,
- sphere,
- spheroid,
- spherule,
- spine,
- spirit,
- splash,
- sponge,
- spume,
- stir,
- straw,
- stud,
- style,
- suds,
- swash,
- swish,
- tab,
- take on over,
- thick-coming fancies,
- thin air,
- thistledown,
- trick,
- trill,
- trip,
- tubercle,
- tubercule,
- unreal hope,
- utopia,
- vapor,
- verruca,
- vesicle,
- vision,
- wale,
- wart,
- wash,
- welt,
- whim,
- whimsy,
- wildest dreams,
- work,
- wrong impression
- smoke
collapse
- the act of smoking tobacco or other substances; "he went outside for a smoke"; "smoking stinks"
- something with no concrete substance; "his dreams all turned to smoke"; "it was just smoke and mirrors"
- an indication of some hidden activity; "with all that smoke there must be a fire somewhere"
- a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas
- a hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion; "the fire produced a tower of black smoke that could be seen for miles"
- inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes; "We never smoked marijuana"; "Do you smoke?" related words >
- aerate,
- aerify,
- afterdamp,
- air,
- air-dry,
- airy nothing,
- anhydrate,
- ash,
- ashes,
- atomize,
- attaint,
- bake,
- be livid,
- be pissed,
- becloud,
- bedarken,
- bedaub,
- befog,
- begrime,
- bemire,
- bemist,
- bemud,
- besmear,
- besmirch,
- besmoke,
- bestain,
- black,
- blackdamp,
- blacken,
- blackwash,
- blast-freeze,
- blot,
- blotch,
- blow,
- blur,
- bluster,
- boil,
- brand,
- breath,
- breathe out,
- brine,
- browned off,
- brush,
- bubble,
- bucket,
- bullet,
- burn,
- butt,
- calx,
- carbon,
- carbonate,
- carry on,
- chafe,
- chain-smoke,
- charcoal,
- chaw,
- chew,
- chewing,
- chlorinate,
- chokedamp,
- cinder,
- clabber up,
- clinker,
- cloud,
- cloud over,
- cloud up,
- coal,
- coke,
- coom,
- cork,
- corn,
- crow,
- cure,
- damp,
- darken,
- darken over,
- daub,
- dehumidify,
- dehydrate,
- denigrate,
- desiccate,
- dinge,
- dirt,
- dirty,
- dirty up,
- discolor,
- distill,
- drag,
- drain,
- draw,
- dross,
- dry,
- dry-cure,
- dry-salt,
- dust,
- ebon,
- ebonize,
- ebony,
- effluvium,
- embalm,
- emit,
- encloud,
- enmist,
- ephemera,
- ephemeral,
- ephemerid,
- ephemerides,
- ephemeris,
- ether,
- etherify,
- etherize,
- evacuate,
- evaporate,
- exhalation,
- exhale,
- exhaust,
- expire,
- exsiccate,
- fag,
- fetid air,
- fire,
- firedamp,
- flatus,
- fluid,
- fluidize,
- fly,
- fog,
- fractionate,
- freeze,
- freeze-dry,
- fret,
- fume,
- fumigate,
- gasify,
- give off,
- give out,
- give vent to,
- go on,
- grime,
- habitual smoking,
- hasten,
- have a conniption,
- haze,
- hydrogenate,
- illusion,
- inhale,
- inhale snuff,
- ink,
- insolate,
- irradiate,
- jerk,
- jet,
- kiln,
- kipper,
- lava,
- let out,
- malaria,
- marinade,
- marinate,
- mark,
- mayfly,
- melanize,
- mephitis,
- miasma,
- mire,
- mist,
- muck,
- muck up,
- muddy,
- mummify,
- murk,
- nicotine addiction,
- nicotinism,
- night,
- nigrify,
- nubilate,
- obnubilate,
- obscure,
- open the floodgates,
- open the sluices,
- overcast,
- overcloud,
- overshadow,
- oversmoke,
- oxygenate,
- parch,
- perfume,
- phantom,
- pickle,
- pissed off,
- pitch,
- preservatize,
- puff,
- puff of smoke,
- pull,
- quick-freeze,
- rage,
- raise Cain,
- raise hell,
- raise the devil,
- raise the roof,
- rant,
- rant and rave,
- rave,
- raven,
- reek,
- refrigerate,
- rub,
- run,
- rush,
- salt,
- scorch,
- scoria,
- sear,
- season,
- seethe,
- send out,
- shade,
- shadow,
- shrivel,
- simmer,
- singe,
- sizzle,
- slag,
- slime,
- sloe,
- slubber,
- slur,
- smear,
- smirch,
- smog,
- smoke-cure,
- smokes,
- smoking,
- smoking habit,
- smokings,
- smolder,
- smudge,
- smut,
- smutch,
- snows of yesteryear,
- soak up,
- soil,
- soot,
- speed,
- spirit,
- sponge,
- spray,
- stain,
- steam,
- stew,
- stigmatize,
- storm,
- stuff,
- sublimate,
- sublime,
- sullage,
- sun,
- sun-dry,
- swab,
- tabacism,
- tabacosis,
- tabagism,
- taint,
- take on,
- take snuff,
- tar,
- tarnish,
- thin air,
- throw a fit,
- throw off,
- tobaccoism,
- torrefy,
- towel,
- vapor,
- vaporize,
- volatile,
- volatilize,
- water vapor,
- weazen,
- whiz,
- wipe,
- wither,
- wizen,
- zip
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