turncap
abat-vent
chimneyhead
hench
side entrance
chimneyscape
femerell
chimneystack
cheese cutter
landaulet
landaulette
foreshot
windward
gambrel
hearth
hern
skew
curb roof
open fireplace
fireplace
louver
enfilade
lum
lunette
garret window
backwing
gable end
chimney stalk
thack
turriform
juxtaluminal
split-level
turrical
gambrel-roofed
rooftop
spire
swinglebar
centre
center
cant
towerwise
bobet
curtain
chimney stack
lookout station
observation tower
round to
apron flashing
chalet
smoke sail
lookout
spar
observatory
flèche
land wind
porch
bell tower
close to the wind
stack
rising lark
airiness
windpuff
forward
draft
spirewise
mansard
windwise
draught
terrace
eaving
windway
wind
parapet
courtyard
supporting tower
in the eye of the wind
cresting
gatepier
slate
storm stay
nock
chimneylike
dreamhole
saddleback
barbican
punch
list
windfall
rondel
corb
skyhook
eggcrate
atrium
tunnel
westwardly
libecchio
upwind
frontal
turriform
juxtaluminal
turrical
gambrel-roofed
forward
spirewise
windwise
chimneylike
westwardly
towerwise
close to the wind
spirewise
windwise
upwind
turncap
abat-vent
chimneyhead
hench
side entrance
chimneyscape
femerell
chimneystack
cheese cutter
landaulet
landaulette
foreshot
windward
gambrel
hearth
hern
skew
curb roof
open fireplace
fireplace
louver
enfilade
lum
lunette
garret window
backwing
gable end
chimney stalk
split-level
rooftop
swinglebar
centre
center
cant
bobet
curtain
chimney stack
lookout station
observation tower
apron flashing
chalet
smoke sail
lookout
spar
observatory
flèche
land wind
porch
bell tower
stack
rising lark
airiness
windpuff
draft
mansard
draught
eaving
windway
parapet
courtyard
supporting tower
cresting
gatepier
slate
storm stay
nock
dreamhole
saddleback
barbican
punch
list
windfall
rondel
corb
skyhook
eggcrate
atrium
tunnel
libecchio
frontal
thack
spire
round to
terrace
wind
noun
noun
- A portion of a building that protrudes out.
- The spirits that first come over when an alcoholic liquid is distilled
- A measurement of the azimuth when sighting to the next point along a path that is being measured with a compass.
- A shot that sends something forewards, such as a shot that sends the ball ahead the player making it.
- The foreground of a photographic image.
noun
- A kind of wooden vane or cowl in a chimney which revolves according to the direction of the wind and prevents smoking.
- A squint or sidelong glance.
- A state of asymmetry in a distribution; skewness.
- The coping of a gable.
- A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computers) in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times.
- Something that has an oblique or slanted position.
- An oblique or sideways movement.
- A piece of rock lying in a slanting position and tapering upwards which overhangs a working-place in a mine and is liable to fall.
- A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, etc., cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place; a skew-corbel.
- A bias or distortion in a particular direction.
verb
- To look at obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
- To cause (a distribution) to be asymmetrical.
- To bias or distort in a particular direction.
- To move obliquely; to move sideways, to sidle; to lie obliquely.
- To jump back or sideways in fear or surprise; to shy, as a horse.
- To hurl or throw.
- To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
adv
adj
noun
noun
- A small opening in a vaulted roof of a circular or crescent shape.
- A luna: a crescent-shaped receptacle, often glass, for holding the (consecrated) host (the bread of communion) upright when exposed in the monstrance.
- A field work consisting of two projecting faces forming a wedge each of which extends from one of two parallel flanks.
- A type of flattened glass used in watch-making.
- A half horseshoe, lacking the sponge.
- See lunettes.
- A piece of felt to cover the eye of a vicious horse.
- A type of crescent-shaped dune blown up along a lake basin, especially in dry areas of Australia.
- An iron shoe at the end of the stock of a gun carriage.
- The circular hole in the guillotine in which the victim's neck is placed.
- A crescent-shaped recess or void in the space above a window or door.
noun
verb
- To furnish with a spire.
- to sprout, to send forth the early shoots of growth; to germinate.
- To grow upwards rather than develop horizontally.
noun
- A tapering structure built on a roof or tower, especially as one of the central architectural features of a church or cathedral roof.
- One of the sinuous foldings of a serpent or other reptile; a coil.
- A young shoot of a plant; a spear.
- A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the charge in blasting.
- A spiral.
- The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.
- The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole.
- Any of various tall grasses, rushes, or sedges, such as the marram, the reed canary-grass, etc.
- A sharp or tapering point.
noun
noun
- a building dedicated to a particular activity
- an area that is approximately central within some larger region
- a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure
- a place where some particular activity is concentrated
- the sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is enclosed in chocolate or some other covering
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
- the object upon which interest and attention focuses
- a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process
verb
noun
- a building dedicated to a particular activity
- an area that is approximately central within some larger region
- the piece of ground in the outfield directly ahead of the catcher
- a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
- the object upon which interest and attention focuses
- a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process
- the middle of a military or naval formation
- (basketball) the person who plays center on a basketball team
- (football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback
- a place where some particular activity is concentrated
- politically moderate persons; centrists
- (ice hockey) the person who plays center on a hockey team
- the sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is enclosed in chocolate or some other covering
- mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers; usually includes restaurants and a convenient parking area; a modern version of the traditional marketplace
- the position on a hockey team of the player who participates in the face off at the beginning of the game
- (American football) the position of the player on the line of scrimmage who puts the ball in play
- a position on a basketball team of the player who participates in the jump that starts the game
adj
verb
adj
noun
- A corner (of a building).
- An outer or external angle.
- A blazon of a coat of arms that makes a pun upon the name (or, less often, some attribute or function) of the bearer, canting arms.
- Slope, the angle at which something is set.
- A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask.
- Whining speech, such as that used by beggars.
- A movement or throw that overturns something.
- A parcel, a division.
- A private or secret language used by a religious sect, gang, or other group.
- A language spoken by some Irish Travellers; Shelta.
- An argot, the jargon of a particular class or subgroup.
- Empty, hypocritical talk.
- An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a tilt.
- A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a bias or change of direction; also, the bias or turn so given.
- A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads.
- An unfinished log after preliminary cutting.
- A segment of the rim of a wooden cogwheel.
adj
verb
- To give a sudden turn or new direction to.
- To talk, beg, or preach in a singsong or whining fashion, especially in a false or empty manner.
- To speak with the jargon of a class or subgroup.
- To speak in set phrases.
- To set (something) at an angle.
- To bevel an edge or corner.
- Of a blazon, to make a pun that references the bearer of a coat of arms.
- To overturn so that the contents are emptied.
noun
- That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.
- Death.
- A piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc. to offer privacy and keep out light.
- A similar piece of cloth that separates the audience and the stage in a theater.
- The beginning of a show; the moment the curtain rises.
- The flat area of wall which connects two bastions or towers; the main area of a fortified wall.
verb
noun
- A rafter of a roof.
- Any crystal with readily discernible faces.
- A thick pole or piece of wood.
- A beam-like structural member that supports ribs in an aircraft wing or other airfoil.
- A sparring session; a preliminary fight, as in boxing or cock-fighting.
- Any of various microcrystalline minerals, of light, translucent, or transparent appearance, which are easily cleft.
- Any linear object used as a mast, sprit, yard, boom, pole or gaff.
verb
noun
- A spire or steeple, especially of Gothic style; an object emerging from the ridge of a roof.
- Any of the twenty-four points on a backgammon board.
- An earthwork consisting of two berms forming an angle with an open gorge.
- A method of attack with a sword (foil or épée) in which the attacker's back leg crosses in front of the front leg in the offensive move.
verb
noun
- A number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof.
- A combination of interdependent, yet individually replaceable, software components or technologies used together on a system.
- A fall or crash, a prang.
- A holding pattern, with aircraft circling one above the other as they wait to land.
- A blend of various dietary supplements or anabolic steroids with supposed synergistic benefits.
- A large amount of an object.
- An implementation of a protocol suite (set of protocols forming a layered architecture).
- A coastal landform, consisting of a large vertical column of rock in the sea.
- A vertical drainpipe.
- Compactly spaced bookshelves used to house large collections of books.
- A pile of similar objects, each directly on top of the last.
- An extensive collection
- The amount of money a player has on the table.
- The quantity of a given item which fills up an inventory slot or bag.
- A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet. (~3 m³)
- A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch.
- A smokestack.
- A generalization of schemes in algebraic geometry and of sheaves.
- A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity.
- A stack data structure stored in main memory that is manipulated during machine language procedure call related instructions.
- A pile of rifles or muskets in a cone shape.
- A linear data structure in which items inserted are removed in reverse order (the last item inserted is the first one to be removed).
verb
- To deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.).
- To place (aircraft) into a holding pattern.
- To collect precious metal in the form of various small objects such as coins and bars.
- To operate cumulatively.
- To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner.
- To crash; to fall.
- To take all the money another player currently has on the table.
- To have excessive ink transfer.
- To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack.
noun
noun
adj
- Situated toward or at the front of something.
- Acting in or pertaining to the direction of travel or movement.
- Situated toward or near the enemy lines.
- Without customary restraint or modesty; bold, cheeky, pert, presumptuous or pushy.
- Expected or scheduled to take place in the future.
- Advanced beyond the usual degree; advanced for the season; precocious.
- Moving in the desired direction of progress.
- Acting in or pertaining to the direction in which someone or something is facing.
- Having the usual order or sequence.
adv
- To an earlier point in time. See also bring forward.
- In the direction in which someone or something is facing.
- In the usual order or sequence.
- At, near or towards the front of something.
- Into the future.
- At, near, or towards the bow of a vessel (with the frame of reference within the vessel).
- In the desired or usual direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively; onwards.
- So that front and back are in the usual orientation.
noun
- One of the eight players (comprising two props, one hooker, two locks, two flankers and one number eight, collectively known as the pack) whose primary task is to gain and maintain possession of the ball (compare back).
- A player on a team in football (soccer) in the row nearest to the opposing team's goal, who are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals.
- The small forward or power forward position; two frontcourt positions that are taller than guards but shorter than centers.
- An umbrella term for a centre or winger in ice hockey.
- The front part of a vessel.
- An e-mail message that is forwarded to another recipient or recipients; an electronic chain letter.
- A direct agreement between two parties to buy or sell an asset at a specific point in the future; distinguished from a futures contract in that the latter is standardized and traded on an exchange.
verb
noun
- a current of air (usually coming into a chimney or room or vehicle)
- a document ordering the payment of money; drawn by one person or bank on another
- a preliminary sketch of a design or picture
- a serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg
- any of the various versions in the development of a written work
- the depth of a vessel's keel below the surface (especially when loaded)
- a regulator for controlling the flow of air in a fireplace
- a dose of liquid medicine
- compulsory military service
- a large and hurried swallow
- the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling
verb
noun
- a current of air (usually coming into a chimney or room or vehicle)
- a serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg
- a large and hurried swallow
- the depth of a vessel's keel below the surface (especially when loaded)
- a dose of liquid medicine
- the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling
verb
verb
noun
- A step-like landform; (sometimes) remnants of floodplains.
- A single house in such a group.
- The roof of a building, especially if accessible to the residents. Often used for drying laundry, sun-drying foodstuffs, exercise, or sleeping outdoors in hot weather.
- A platform that extends outwards from a building.
- A raised, flat-topped bank of earth with sloping sides, especially one of a series for farming or leisure; a similar natural area of ground, often next to a river.
- The standing area of a sports stadium.
- A flat open area on the topmost floor of a building or apartment
- A row of residential houses with no gaps between them; a group of row houses.
noun
verb
- To turn a windmill so that its sails face into the wind.
- To rest (a horse, etc.) in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
- To perceive or follow by scent.
- To turn a boat or ship around, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side.
- To entwist; to enfold; to encircle.
- To cause a baby to bring up wind by patting its back after being fed.
- To cause to move by exerting a winding force; to haul or hoist, as by a winch.
- To turn coils of (a cord or something similar) around something.
- To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to govern.
- To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
- To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.
- To tighten the spring of a clockwork mechanism such as that of a clock.
- To travel in a way that is not straight.
- To cover or surround with something coiled about.
- To turn (a ship) around, end for end.
- To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
- To cause (someone) to become breathless, as by a blow to the abdomen, or by physical exertion, running, etc.
noun
- Flatus.
- Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.
- News of an event, especially by hearsay or gossip. (Used with catch, often in the past tense.)
- The region of the solar plexus, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary loss of breath or other injury.
- The ability to breathe easily.
- Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure.
- The woodwind section of an orchestra. Occasionally also used to include the brass section.
- A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points, which are often called the "four winds".
- The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist.
- One of the five basic elements in Indian and Japanese models of the Classical elements.
- Types of playing-tile in the game of mah-jongg, named after the four winds.
- Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
- Air artificially put in motion by any force or action.
- A bird, the dotterel.
- A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.
prep_phrase
noun
- A roofing-tile made of slate.
- An artificial material resembling slate and used for the same purposes.
- A list of affiliated candidates for an election.
- A record of money owed.
- A tablet computer.
- A thin plate of any material; a flake.
- A fine-grained homogeneous sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash which has been metamorphosed so that it cleaves easily into thin layers.
- The bluish-grey colour of most slate.
- A chalkboard, sheet of slate for writing on with chalk or with a thin rod of slate (a slate pencil) formerly commonly used by both students and teachers in schools.
adj
verb
noun
- A roof in the same shape, having a gable at each end.
- A breed of pig which is black with a pink saddle-shaped marking.
- An anticline.
- A coping that is thicker in the middle than at the edges.
- The bird Philesturnus carunculatis.
- The harp seal.
- The great black-backed gull.
- The larva of the bombycid moth.
- A raccoon oyster.
- A variety of domestic goose.
- A saddle-shaped ridge forming a shallow pass between two peaks.
- Any of various creatures having a saddle-shaped marking on the back.
adv
adj
verb
noun
- A prop, as for the roof of a mine.
- A mechanism for punching holes in paper or other thin material.
- A hole or opening created with a punch.
- Impact.
- Any of various riodinid butterflies of the genus Dodona of Asia.
- An extension piece applied to the top of a pile; a dolly.
- Power, strength, energy.
- A device, generally slender and round, used for creating holes in thin material, for driving an object through a hole in a containing object, or to stamp or emboss a mark or design on a surface.
- A hit or strike with one's fist.
- A blow from something other than the fist.
- A beverage, generally containing a mixture of fruit juice and some other beverage, often alcoholic.
verb
- To employ a punch to create a hole in or stamp or emboss a mark on something.
- To strike with one's fist.
- To thrust against; to poke.
- To enter (information) on a device or system.
- To herd.
- To mark a ticket.
- To make holes in something (rail ticket, leather belt, etc)
- To operate (a device or system) by depressing a button, key, bar, or pedal, or by similar means.
- In winemaking, to perform pigeage: to stamp down grape skins that float to the surface during fermentation.
- To hit (a ball or similar object) with less than full force.
noun
- A tilt to a building.
- Material used for cloth selvage.
- A narrow strip of wood, especially sapwood, cut from the edge of a board or plank.
- A careening or tilting to one side, usually not intentionally or under a vessel's own power.
- A little square moulding; a fillet or listel.
- The first thin coating of tin; a wire-like rim of tin left on an edge of the plate after it is coated.
- The barriers or palisades used to fence off a space for jousting or tilting tournaments.
- The scene of a military contest; the ground or field of combat; an enclosed space that serves as a battlefield; the site of a pitched battle.
- A register or roll of paper consisting of a compilation or enumeration of a set of possible items; the compilation or enumeration itself.
- A piece of woollen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a worker.
- A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth.
- A codified representation of a list used to store data or in processing; especially, in the Lisp programming language, a data structure consisting of a sequence of zero or more items.
verb
- To enclose (a field, etc.) for combat.
- To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colours, or to form a border.
- To give a building of architectural or historical interest listed status; see also the adjective listed.
- To create or recite a list.
- To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of.
- To plough and plant with a lister.
- To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; to stripe as if with list.
- To place in listings.
- To listen to.
- To listen.
- To prepare (land) for a cotton crop by making alternating beds and alleys with a hoe.
- To cause (something) to tilt to one side.
- To tilt to one side.
noun
- A small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion.
- A long thin medieval dagger with a circular guard and a circular pommel (hence the name).
- A metric form of verse using two rhymes, usually fourteen 8- to 10-syllable lines in three stanzas, with the first lines of the first stanza returning as refrain of the next two.
- A rondelle, (small) circular object.
- The verse form rondeau.
noun
- An overhead winch.
- A CB radio antenna.
- A helicopter that lifts and transports heavy objects suspended by a heavy cable.
- A device covering the rider's boot and sometimes screwed to the board, to facilitate jumping and enhance stability.
- A hook imagined to be suspended in midair.
- A small hook for gripping small and slippery protrusions.
- A proposed momentum-exchange tether for launching payloads into low Earth orbit by hooking them to the end of a cable that reaches down from an orbiting station into the upper atmosphere.
- A form of the overhead smash in which the eastern grip is used to hit the ball farther behind the body than usually possible.
noun
- The opening of a chimney for the passage of smoke; a flue.
- An underground or underwater passage.
- A passage through or under some obstacle.
- A hole in the ground made by an animal, a burrow.
- A level passage driven across the measures, or at right angles to veins which it is desired to reach; distinguished from the drift, or gangway, which is led along the vein when reached by the tunnel.
- A wrapper for a protocol that cannot otherwise be used because it is unsupported, blocked, or insecure.
- Anything that resembles a tunnel.
- A vessel with a broad mouth at one end, a pipe or tube at the other, for conveying liquor, fluids, etc., into casks, bottles, or other vessels; a funnel.
verb
- To make a tunnel through or under something; to burrow.
- To transmit something through a tunnel (wrapper for insecure or unsupported protocol).
- To insert a catheter into a vein to allow long-term use.
- To undergo the quantum-mechanical phenomenon where a particle penetrates through a barrier that it classically cannot surmount.
- To dig a tunnel.
noun
noun
adj
- Of or relating to a weather front.
- Parallel to the main axis of the body and at right angles to the sagittal plane.
- Any of the scales of a reptile that lie in the general region of the forehead, more specifically between the eyes and to the anterior of this area.
- Of, relating to, directed toward, or situated at the front.
- Directed against the front or at the main point or issue.
- Of or relating to the forehead or frontal bone.
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