bund
counterslope
rig
brink
slade
crest
circumvallate
ghyll
gill
khud
bank
incline
brew
slopeside
ridgeside
broogh
mesetiform
steep
chine
precipitousness
revetement
stone facing
steepness
hillcrest
knap
revetment
abruptness
buckling
hillside
lochside
sandbelt
shelving
steepish
descent
hillslope
hield
acclivity
ascent
climb
katabatic
offset
hogback
horseback
rise
divide
cove
postslope
upgrade
scaur
raise
cant
bergh
bult
breakaway
headwall
Jack and Jill
barrow
shute
dean
brae
steep-sided
abri
protective embankment
knob
original
shelfbreak
eminence
precipice
ridge
intake
escarp
prolate
escarpment
height
scarp
versant
ridgel
palisade
bench
counterscarp
downhill
terrace
Law
steepled
plongée
heugh
rampway
double-dip
talus
cliffline
upslope
scree
circumvallate
ridgeside
mesetiform
shelving
steepish
katabatic
postslope
steep
steep-sided
prolate
downhill
steepled
bund
counterslope
rig
brink
slade
crest
ghyll
gill
khud
bank
incline
brew
slopeside
broogh
steep
chine
precipitousness
revetement
stone facing
steepness
hillcrest
knap
revetment
abruptness
buckling
hillside
lochside
ridgeside
sandbelt
descent
hillslope
hield
acclivity
ascent
climb
offset
hogback
horseback
rise
divide
cove
upgrade
scaur
raise
cant
bergh
bult
breakaway
headwall
Jack and Jill
barrow
shute
dean
brae
abri
protective embankment
knob
original
shelfbreak
eminence
precipice
ridge
intake
escarp
escarpment
height
scarp
versant
ridgel
palisade
bench
counterscarp
downhill
terrace
plongée
heugh
rampway
double-dip
talus
cliffline
upslope
scree
incline
noun
- An embankment.
- A league or confederacy; especially the confederation of German states.
- A group of foreign sympathesizers of Nazi Germany, most notoriously before and during World War II.
- A perennial ("wet") or seasonal ("dry") pond constructed in a depression and in which fish are stored, typically for breeding.
- A secondary enclosure, typically consisting of a wall or berm, which surrounds a tank or fluid-handling mechanism, intended to contain any spills or leaks.
verb
noun
- A ridge.
- Special equipment or gear used for a particular purpose.
- An imperfectly castrated horse, sheep etc.
- A model outfitted with parameterized controls for animation.
- Radio equipment, especially a citizen's band transceiver.
- A costume or an outfit.
- A promiscuous woman.
- An algebraic structure similar to a ring, but without the requirement that every element have an additive inverse.
- The special apparatus used for drilling wells.
- The rigging of a sailing ship or other such craft.
- A large truck such as a semi-trailer truck.
- A personal computer, typically one modified for looks.
verb
- To move (a heavy object) with the help of slings, hoists, block and tackle, levers, or similar equipment.
- To dress or clothe in some costume.
- To make or construct something in haste or in a makeshift manner.
- To manipulate something dishonestly for personal gain or discriminatory purposes.
- To equip and fit (a ship) with sails, shrouds, and yards.
- To outfit a model with controls for animation.
noun
- The top line of a slope or embankment.
- The summit of a hill or mountain ridge.
- The plume of feathers, or other decoration, worn on or displayed on a helmet; the distinctive ornament of a helmet.
- The upper curve of a horse's neck.
- The ridge or top of a wave.
- A tuft, or other natural ornament, growing on an animal's head, for example the comb of a cockerel, the swelling on the head of a snake, the lengthened feathers of the crown or nape of bird, etc.
- The ornamental finishing which surmounts the ridge of a roof, canopy, etc.
- A ridge along the surface of a bone.
- A design or logo, especially one of an institution, sports club, association or high-class family.
- Any of several birds in the family Regulidae, including the goldcrests and firecrests.
- The helm or head, as typical of a high spirit; pride; courage.
- A bearing worn, not upon the shield, but usually on a helmet above it, sometimes (as for clerics) separately above the shield or separately as a mark for plate, in letterheads, and the like.
verb
noun
noun
- ravine
- A gill slit or gill cover.
- One of the combs of closely ranged steel pins which divide the ribbons of flax fiber or wool into fewer parallel filaments.
- The fleshy flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl; a wattle.
- One of the radial folds on the underside of the cap of a mushroom, the surface of which bears the spore-producing organs.
- A breathing organ of fish and other aquatic animals.
- a two-wheeled frame for transporting timber
- rivulet
- a female ferret
- The flesh under or about the chin; a wattle.
- A drink measure for spirits and wine, approximately a quarter of a pint, but varying regionally.
verb
noun
- An incline, a hill.
- A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
- An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
- The ground at the top of a shaft.
- A contiguous block of memory that is of fixed, hardware-dependent size, but often larger than a page and partitioning the memory such that two distinct banks do not overlap.
- Money; profit.
- An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
- The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
- The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius, or a court held for jury trials. See banc
- A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
- A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
- The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
- A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
- A branch office of such an institution.
- A device used to store coins or currency.
- An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth (for example, a sandbank or mudbank).
- A mass noun for a quantity of clouds.
- The face of the coal at which miners are working.
- An underwriter or controller of a card game.
- A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.
- A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
- A bench or seat for judges in court.
- A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
- In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
- A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
- A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
verb
- To put into a bank.
- To arrange or order in a row.
- To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
- To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive.
- To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.
- To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.
- To cause (an aircraft) to bank.
- To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
- To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.
- To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
noun
- An overhanging hill or cliff.
- A serving of beer.
- A cup of tea.
- The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as tea or beer.
verb
- To heat wine, infusing it with spices; to mull.
- To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water.
- To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.
- To make a hot soup by combining ingredients and boiling them in water.
- To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering.
- To make beer by steeping a starch source in water and fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with yeast.
- To foment or prepare, as by brewing
noun
- The top of a ridge.
- The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.
- A steep-sided ravine leading from the top of a cliff down to the sea.
- The spine of an animal.
- A hollowed or bevelled channel in the waterway of a ship's deck.
- The back of the blade on a scythe.
- A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.
- A longitudinal line of sharp change in the cross-section profile of the fuselage or similar body.
- A sharp angle in the cross section of a hull.
verb
noun
noun
verb
noun
adj
noun
noun
- A terrace on a hillside.
- A short prostrate shoot that takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc.
- A horizontal ledge on the face of a wall, formed by a diminution of its thickness, or by the weathering or upper surface of a part built out from it; a set-off.
- A spur from a range of hills or mountains.
- away from or off from the general locations and area where a movie’s, a film‘s, or a video’s scenery is arranged to be filmed or from those places for actors, assorted crew, director, producers which are typically not filmed.
- A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary, or to some object.
- The displacement between the base level of a measurement and the signal's real base level.
- A form of countertrade arrangement, in which the seller agrees to purchase within a set time frame products of a certain value from the buying country. This kind of agreement may be used in large international public sector contracts such as arms sales.
- The offset printing process, in which ink is carried from a metal plate to a rubber blanket and from there to the printing surface.
- Anything that acts as counterbalance; a compensating equivalent.
- The difference between a target memory address and a base address.
- The distance by which one thing is out of alignment with another.
- An abrupt bend in an object, such as a rod, by which one part is turned aside out of line, but nearly parallel, with the rest; the part thus bent aside.
verb
noun
- an upward slope or grade (as in a road)
- a growth in strength or number or importance
- the act of changing location in an upward direction
- a movement upward; rise above the ground
- the amount a salary is increased
- the property possessed by a slope or surface that rises
- a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground
- (theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost
- an increase in cost
- increase in price or value
verb
- move upward
- increase in value or to a higher point
- rise to one's feet
- rise up
- come to the surface
- come into existence; take on form or shape
- move to a better position in life or to a better job
- go up or advance
- become more extreme
- get up and out of bed
- rise in rank or status
- become heartened or elated
- exert oneself to meet a challenge
- take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance
- increase in volume
- come up, of celestial bodies
- return from the dead
noun
- A large chasm, gorge, or ravine between two areas of land.
- An act of dividing.
- A distancing between two people or things.
- The topographical boundary dividing two adjacent catchment basins, such as a ridge or a crest.
- A thing that divides.
verb
- To vote, as in the British parliament and other legislatures, by the members separating themselves into two parties (as on opposite sides of the hall or in opposite lobbies), that is, the ayes dividing from the noes.
- To share (something) by dividing it.
- To separate into two or more parts.
- To mark divisions on; to graduate.
- To calculate the number (the quotient) by which you must multiply one given number (the divisor) to produce a second given number (the dividend).
- To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.
- To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.
- To be a divisor of.
- To split or separate (something) into two or more parts.
- Of a cell, to reproduce by dividing.
noun
- A recess or sheltered area on the slopes of a mountain.
- A concave vault or archway, especially the arch of a ceiling.
- A thin line, sometimes gilded, along a yacht's strake below deck level.
- A hollow in a rock; a cave or cavern.
- The wooden roof of the stern gallery of an old sailing warship.
- A strip of prairie extending into woodland.
- A small coastal inlet, especially one having high cliffs protecting vessels from prevailing winds.
- A friend; a mate.
verb
noun
- an upward slope or grade (as in a road)
- software that provides better performance than an earlier version did
- a reservation that is improved
- the property possessed by a slope or surface that rises
- hardware that provides better performance than an earlier version did
- the act of improving something (especially machinery) by raising it to a higher grade (as by adding or replacing components)
verb
noun
- an upward slope or grade (as in a road)
- the amount a salary is increased
- increasing the size of a bet (as in poker)
- the act of raising something
verb
- raise the level or amount of something
- raise from a lower to a higher position
- cause to be heard or known; express or utter
- collect funds for a specific purpose
- cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques
- look after a child until it is an adult
- summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
- move upwards
- construct, build, or erect
- call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
- create a disturbance, especially by making a great noise
- raise in rank or condition
- increase the level of
- give a promotion to or assign to a higher position
- cause to puff up with a leaven
- bid (one's partner's suit) at a higher level
- bet more than the previous player
- cause to assemble or enlist in the military
- put forward for consideration or discussion
- pronounce (vowels) by bringing the tongue closer to the roof of the mouth
- activate or stir up
- establish radio communications with
- multiply (a number) by itself a specified number of times: 8 is 2 raised to the power 3
- bring (a surface or a design) into relief and cause to project
- invigorate or heighten
- put an end to
- cause to become alive again
noun
- Slope, the angle at which something is set.
- 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.
- A corner (of a building).
- 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
noun
- An eroding steep slope on the edge of a plateau; an escarpment.
- A channel of floodwater that has burst from its usual course; or the track or channel eroded by the water.
- A swing dance in which the leader occasionally swings the follower out into an open position.
- An item of scenery designed to be broken or destroyed during the performance.
- A stampede of animals.
- A group of riders which has gone ahead of the peloton.
- An animal that breaks away from a herd.
- A particular yo-yo trick http://yoyo.wikia.com/wiki/Breakaway.
- A situation in the game where one or more players of a team attack towards the goal of the other team without having any defenders in front of them.
- The act of breaking away from something.
- The act of getting away from one's opponent; the separation of the boxers after a spell of infighting.
adj
noun
- A hill.
- A senior official in a college or university, who may be in charge of a division or faculty (for example, the dean of science) or have some other advisory or disciplinary function (for example, the dean of students).
- A dignitary or presiding officer in certain church bodies, especially an ecclesiastical dignitary, subordinate to a bishop, in charge of a chapter of canons.
- The senior member of some group of people.
verb
noun
noun
- A prominent rounded hill.
- A prominent, rounded bump along a mountain ridge.
- A ball-shaped part of a handle, lever, etc., designed to be grabbed by the hand.
- The head of the penis; the glans.
- A rounded protuberance, especially one arising from a flat surface; a fleshy lump or caruncle.
- A woman's breast.
- A contemptible person; dick.
- A freshman at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina.
- The clitoris.
- A rounded control switch that can be turned on its axis, designed to be operated by the fingers.
- A dollop, an amount just larger than a spoonful (usually referring to butter).
- A chunky branch-like piece, especially of a ginger rhizome.
- A bulb of the garlic plant consisting of multiple cloves.
- A rounded ornament on the hilt of an edged weapon; a pommel.
verb
noun
- A chain of hills.
- A chain of mountains.
- The back of any animal; especially the upper or projecting part of the back of a quadruped.
- Any extended protuberance; a projecting line or strip.
- The line along which two sloping surfaces meet which diverge towards the ground.
- A long narrow elevation on an ocean bottom.
- The highest portion of the glacis proceeding from the salient angle of the covered way.
- An elongated region of high atmospheric pressure.
- The highest point on a roof, represented by a horizontal line where two roof areas intersect, running the length of the area.
verb
noun
- A tract of land enclosed.
- The beginning of a contraction or narrowing in a tube or cylinder.
- The place where water, air or other fluid is taken into a pipe or conduit; opposed to outlet.
- The people taken into an organisation or establishment at a particular time.
- The process of screening a juvenile offender to decide upon release or referral.
- The quantity taken in.
- An act or instance of taking in.
- Any kind of cheat or imposition; the act of taking someone in.
verb
noun
- An area of land at the top of a cliff.
- The vertical distance from the ground to the highest part of a standing person or animal (withers in the case of a horse).
- The highest point or maximum degree.
- The distance of something above the ground or some other chosen level.
- A quality of vowels, indicating the vertical position of the tongue relative to the roof of the mouth; in practice, the first formant, associated with the height of the tongue.
- A mountain, especially a very high one.
- The amplitude of a sine function
- The distance from the base of something to the top.
- A high point.
noun
name
- a conical hill
- the commandments in the Books of Moses, seen as transcended by Christ
- A village in South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland, United Kingdom (OS grid ref NS8252).
- A surname originating as a patronymic.
- the five Books of Moses, particularly the commandments in it, as well as their specification in the Mishnah and their further interpretation in later religious literature
- A male given name Diminutive of Lawrence.
- A topographic surname from Old English, perhaps originally meaning someone who lives near a burial mound.
- the commandments and moral principles that are binding for Christians, such as the Decalogue, the teachings of the New Testament, the Church Fathers, etc.
noun
- A hill that levels off for a while about halfway down.
- The drawing of a government pension or benefit for one job while also working in the government at another job, or of two pensions at the same time as a result of reaching the retirement criteria twice for the same entity.
- An ice cream cone with two scoops of ice cream.
verb
- To enroll in a single class which will fulfill two different requirements of a course of study.
- To dip a piece of food (e.g. a chip) into a communal sauce container after already having taken a bite of the food.
- To use a single debt instrument to obtain interest tax expense (and therefore a lower tax base) in two or more tax jurisdictions.
- To defeat a team twice in the finals.
- To be illegitimately compensated a second time for the same activity.
- To re-release a movie or TV series, sometimes as a compilation or with additional features.
- To buy the same game twice, especially on different platforms.
- To draw a government pension or benefit for one job while also working in the government at another job, or to draw two pensions at the same time as a result of reaching the retirement criteria twice for the same entity.
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