English words for 'Befitting the underworld.'
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adj
- being of the underworld
- characteristic of or resembling Hell
- expletives used informally as intensifiers
- of or pertaining to or characteristic of a very uncontrolled and intense fire
- extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell
- (by extension) Of or relating to a fire or inferno.
- Stygian, gloomy.
- Of or relating to hell, or the world of the dead; hellish.
- Diabolical or fiendish.
- (as an expletive) Very annoying; damned.
noun
noun
- The grave, underworld or Hell.
- (medicine, slang) The emergency department of a hospital.
- An enclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals are brought to fight, or where dogs are trained to kill rats.
- (slang) A mosh pit.
- (American football) The center of the line.
- (archaeology) A hole or trench in the ground, excavated according to grid coordinates, so that the provenance of any feature observed and any specimen or artifact revealed may be established by precise measurement.
- (botany) In tracheary elements, a section of the cell wall where the secondary wall is missing, and the primary wall is present. Pits generally occur in pairs and link two cells.
- A mine.
- (trading) A trading pit.
- Formerly, that part of a theatre, on the floor of the house, below the level of the stage and behind the orchestra; now, in England, commonly the part behind the stalls; in the United States, the parquet; also, the occupants of such a part of a theatre.
- (colloquial) An armpit.
- (music) The section of a marching band containing mallet percussion instruments and other large percussion instruments too large to be marched, such as the tam-tam; the front ensemble. Can also refer to the area on the sidelines where these instruments are placed.
- (aviation) A luggage hold.
- (in the plural, with the, slang) Only used in the pits.
- (informal) A pit bull terrier.
- (Northern US) A seed inside a fruit; a stone or pip inside a fruit.
- (countable) A small surface hole or depression, a fossa.
- (informal) An undesirable location, especially an unclean one.
- Short for dish pit
- (Antarctica and UK, military, slang) A bed.
- A hole in the ground.
- (military) The core of an implosion nuclear weapon, consisting of the fissile material and any neutron reflector or tamper bonded to it.
- (gambling) Part of a casino which typically holds tables for blackjack, craps, roulette, and other games.
- (figurative) A bleak, depressing state of mind.
- The indented mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox.
- On a compact disc or similar recording medium, a tiny sunken area representing part of the encoded data.
- (motor racing) An area at a racetrack used for refueling and repairing the vehicles during a race.
- a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate
- an enclosure in which animals are made to fight
- (auto racing) an area at the side of a racetrack where the race cars are serviced and refueled
- lowered area in front of a stage where an orchestra accompanies the performers
- (commodity exchange) the part of the floor of a commodity exchange where trading in a particular commodity is carried on
- the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed
- (Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment
- a sizeable hole (usually in the ground)
- a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it
- a concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression)
- a trap in the form of a concealed hole
verb
- (transitive) To make pits in; to mark with little hollows.
- (transitive) To bring (something) into opposition with something else.
- To use the PIT maneuver, especially during a car chase.
- (intransitive, motor racing) To return to the pits during a race for refuelling, tyre changes, repairs etc.
- (transitive) To put (an animal) into a pit for fighting.
- (transitive) To remove the stone from a stone fruit or the shell from a drupe.
- remove the pits from
- mark with a scar
- set into opposition or rivalry
adj
adj
adj
noun
- An evil being resident in or working for Hell; a devil.
- Any of various hesperiid butterflies of the genera Notocrypta and Udaspes.
- (in the plural) A person's fears or anxieties.
- (now chiefly historical) A false god or idol; a Satanic divinity.
- (Greek mythology) A tutelary deity or spirit intermediate between the major Olympian gods and mankind, especially a deified hero or the entity which supposedly guided Socrates, telling him what not to do.
- (card games) A type of patience or solitaire (card game) played in the UK and/or US.
- A source (especially personified) of great evil or wickedness; a destructive feeling or character flaw.
- A hypothetical entity with special abilities postulated for the sake of a thought experiment in philosophy or physics.
- A person's inner spirit or genius; a guiding or creative impulse.
- A very wicked or malevolent person; also (in weakened sense) a mischievous person, especially a child.
- (computing) Alternative spelling of daemon.
- Someone with great strength, passion or skill for a particular activity, pursuit etc.; an enthusiast.
- A spirit not considered to be inherently evil; a (non-Christian) deity or supernatural being.
- (physics) Acronym of distinct electron motion particle: a quasiparticle, a type of massless neutral electron excitation associated with superconductivity.
- a cruel wicked and inhuman person
- someone extremely diligent or skillful
- an evil supernatural being
noun
- The Grim Reaper.
- (crime) A type of serial killer who is employed as a caregiver and kills people under their care.
- An angel which attends to death, collecting souls at death, ending life at the appointed time of death.
- Death, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
- (mycology) Synonym of destroying angel (“a type of mushroom”).
- Azrael.
- (translations, of Japanese) A shinigami.
noun
noun
name
noun
name
noun
- LaVeyan Satanism.
- A profession, philosophy, or ideological construct featuring a positive, admirable, or useful association to the figure, character or entity known as 'Satan'; or, featuring opposition to all morality and the procurement of what is wanted regardless of the consequences concerning others.
- A devilish disposition.
- Worship or reverence to Satan (usually synonymous with "the Devil").
- a belief in and reverence for devils (especially Satan)
noun
name
verb
- To make like a devil; to invest with the character of a devil.
- (intransitive) To work as a ‘devil’; to work for a lawyer or writer without fee or recognition.
- To ghostwrite; to author while working as a ‘devil’.
- To shred fabric into its fibres for recycling, as in the production of mungo or shoddy.
- To grill with cayenne pepper; to season highly in cooking, as with pepper.
- To finely grind cooked ham or other meat with spices and condiments.
- To annoy or bother.
- To prepare a sidedish of shelled halved boiled eggs to whose extracted yolks are added condiments and spices, which mixture then is placed into the halved whites to be served.
- cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
- coat or stuff with a spicy paste
name
noun
- (cycling, slang) An endurance event where riders who fall behind are periodically eliminated.
- A thing that is awkward or difficult to understand or do.
- (folklore) A fictional image of a man, usually red or orange in skin color; with a set of horns on his head, a pointed goatee and a long tail and carrying a pitchfork; that represents evil and portrayed to children in an effort to discourage bad behavior.
- A dust devil.
- (cooking) A dish, as a bone with the meat, broiled and excessively peppered; a grill with Cayenne pepper.
- (theology) An evil creature, the objectification of a hostile and destructive force.
- (nautical) Ellipsis of devil seam (“the seam between garboard strake and the keel, on wooden boats”).
- A Tasmanian devil.
- A person, especially a man; used to express a particular opinion of him, usually in the phrases poor devil and lucky devil.
- A printer's assistant.
- (euphemistic, with an article, as an intensifier) Hell.
- The bad part of the conscience; the opposite to the angel.
- A machine for tearing or cutting rags, cotton, etc., as used in the production of mungo or shoddy.
- (dialectal, in compounds) A barren, unproductive and unused area.
- (India) A poltergeist that haunts printing works.
- A wicked or naughty person, or one who harbors reckless, spirited energy, especially in a mischievous way; usually said of a young child.
- a cruel wicked and inhuman person
- a word used in exclamations of confusion
- an evil supernatural being
- a rowdy or mischievous person (usually a young man)
noun
- Specifically, a location of punishment in the afterlife; a hell.
- The locale of the spirit world or afterlife, whether deemed to be situated below the world of the living or not.
- (by extension) A hidden, shadowy, or sinister subculture, such as that of organized crime.
- The place to which one's spirit descends upon death, conceived as below the surface of the earth.
- (religion) the world of the dead
noun
prefix
noun
- Hell; the bottomless pit; primeval chaos; a confined subterranean ocean.
- (oceanography) The abyssal zone.
- (frequently figurative) A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable; any void space.
- (with article) An impending catastrophic happening.
- (heraldry) The center of an escutcheon; fess point.
- Anything infinite, immeasurable, or profound.
- Moral depravity; vast intellectual or moral depth.
- (figurative) A difference, especially a large difference, between groups.
- a bottomless gulf or pit; any unfathomable (or apparently unfathomable) cavity or chasm or void extending below (often used figuratively)
adv
noun
name
- (Greek mythology) The dark and gloomy cavern between the earth and Hades; the underworld.
- (Greek mythology) One of the Greek primordial deities who was the personification of darkness and shadow, brother-husband of Nyx and son of Chaos.
- Ellipsis of Mount Erebus, a volcano in Antarctica, named after HMS Erebus.
noun
- The grave, underworld or Hell.
- (medicine, slang) The emergency department of a hospital.
- An enclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals are brought to fight, or where dogs are trained to kill rats.
- (slang) A mosh pit.
- (American football) The center of the line.
- (archaeology) A hole or trench in the ground, excavated according to grid coordinates, so that the provenance of any feature observed and any specimen or artifact revealed may be established by precise measurement.
- (botany) In tracheary elements, a section of the cell wall where the secondary wall is missing, and the primary wall is present. Pits generally occur in pairs and link two cells.
- A mine.
- (trading) A trading pit.
- Formerly, that part of a theatre, on the floor of the house, below the level of the stage and behind the orchestra; now, in England, commonly the part behind the stalls; in the United States, the parquet; also, the occupants of such a part of a theatre.
- (colloquial) An armpit.
- (music) The section of a marching band containing mallet percussion instruments and other large percussion instruments too large to be marched, such as the tam-tam; the front ensemble. Can also refer to the area on the sidelines where these instruments are placed.
- (aviation) A luggage hold.
- (in the plural, with the, slang) Only used in the pits.
- (informal) A pit bull terrier.
- (Northern US) A seed inside a fruit; a stone or pip inside a fruit.
- (countable) A small surface hole or depression, a fossa.
- (informal) An undesirable location, especially an unclean one.
- Short for dish pit
- (Antarctica and UK, military, slang) A bed.
- A hole in the ground.
- (military) The core of an implosion nuclear weapon, consisting of the fissile material and any neutron reflector or tamper bonded to it.
- (gambling) Part of a casino which typically holds tables for blackjack, craps, roulette, and other games.
- (figurative) A bleak, depressing state of mind.
- The indented mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox.
- On a compact disc or similar recording medium, a tiny sunken area representing part of the encoded data.
- (motor racing) An area at a racetrack used for refueling and repairing the vehicles during a race.
- a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate
- an enclosure in which animals are made to fight
- (auto racing) an area at the side of a racetrack where the race cars are serviced and refueled
- lowered area in front of a stage where an orchestra accompanies the performers
- (commodity exchange) the part of the floor of a commodity exchange where trading in a particular commodity is carried on
- the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed
- (Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment
- a sizeable hole (usually in the ground)
- a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it
- a concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression)
- a trap in the form of a concealed hole
verb
- (transitive) To make pits in; to mark with little hollows.
- (transitive) To bring (something) into opposition with something else.
- To use the PIT maneuver, especially during a car chase.
- (intransitive, motor racing) To return to the pits during a race for refuelling, tyre changes, repairs etc.
- (transitive) To put (an animal) into a pit for fighting.
- (transitive) To remove the stone from a stone fruit or the shell from a drupe.
- remove the pits from
- mark with a scar
- set into opposition or rivalry
adj
- being of the underworld
- characteristic of or resembling Hell
- expletives used informally as intensifiers
- of or pertaining to or characteristic of a very uncontrolled and intense fire
- extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell
- (by extension) Of or relating to a fire or inferno.
- Stygian, gloomy.
- Of or relating to hell, or the world of the dead; hellish.
- Diabolical or fiendish.
- (as an expletive) Very annoying; damned.
noun
noun
- An evil being resident in or working for Hell; a devil.
- Any of various hesperiid butterflies of the genera Notocrypta and Udaspes.
- (in the plural) A person's fears or anxieties.
- (now chiefly historical) A false god or idol; a Satanic divinity.
- (Greek mythology) A tutelary deity or spirit intermediate between the major Olympian gods and mankind, especially a deified hero or the entity which supposedly guided Socrates, telling him what not to do.
- (card games) A type of patience or solitaire (card game) played in the UK and/or US.
- A source (especially personified) of great evil or wickedness; a destructive feeling or character flaw.
- A hypothetical entity with special abilities postulated for the sake of a thought experiment in philosophy or physics.
- A person's inner spirit or genius; a guiding or creative impulse.
- A very wicked or malevolent person; also (in weakened sense) a mischievous person, especially a child.
- (computing) Alternative spelling of daemon.
- Someone with great strength, passion or skill for a particular activity, pursuit etc.; an enthusiast.
- A spirit not considered to be inherently evil; a (non-Christian) deity or supernatural being.
- (physics) Acronym of distinct electron motion particle: a quasiparticle, a type of massless neutral electron excitation associated with superconductivity.
- a cruel wicked and inhuman person
- someone extremely diligent or skillful
- an evil supernatural being
noun
- The Grim Reaper.
- (crime) A type of serial killer who is employed as a caregiver and kills people under their care.
- An angel which attends to death, collecting souls at death, ending life at the appointed time of death.
- Death, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
- (mycology) Synonym of destroying angel (“a type of mushroom”).
- Azrael.
- (translations, of Japanese) A shinigami.
noun
noun
name
noun
name
noun
- LaVeyan Satanism.
- A profession, philosophy, or ideological construct featuring a positive, admirable, or useful association to the figure, character or entity known as 'Satan'; or, featuring opposition to all morality and the procurement of what is wanted regardless of the consequences concerning others.
- A devilish disposition.
- Worship or reverence to Satan (usually synonymous with "the Devil").
- a belief in and reverence for devils (especially Satan)
noun
noun
- Specifically, a location of punishment in the afterlife; a hell.
- The locale of the spirit world or afterlife, whether deemed to be situated below the world of the living or not.
- (by extension) A hidden, shadowy, or sinister subculture, such as that of organized crime.
- The place to which one's spirit descends upon death, conceived as below the surface of the earth.
- (religion) the world of the dead
noun
noun
- Hell; the bottomless pit; primeval chaos; a confined subterranean ocean.
- (oceanography) The abyssal zone.
- (frequently figurative) A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable; any void space.
- (with article) An impending catastrophic happening.
- (heraldry) The center of an escutcheon; fess point.
- Anything infinite, immeasurable, or profound.
- Moral depravity; vast intellectual or moral depth.
- (figurative) A difference, especially a large difference, between groups.
- a bottomless gulf or pit; any unfathomable (or apparently unfathomable) cavity or chasm or void extending below (often used figuratively)
noun
verb
- To make like a devil; to invest with the character of a devil.
- (intransitive) To work as a ‘devil’; to work for a lawyer or writer without fee or recognition.
- To ghostwrite; to author while working as a ‘devil’.
- To shred fabric into its fibres for recycling, as in the production of mungo or shoddy.
- To grill with cayenne pepper; to season highly in cooking, as with pepper.
- To finely grind cooked ham or other meat with spices and condiments.
- To annoy or bother.
- To prepare a sidedish of shelled halved boiled eggs to whose extracted yolks are added condiments and spices, which mixture then is placed into the halved whites to be served.
- cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
- coat or stuff with a spicy paste
name
noun
- (cycling, slang) An endurance event where riders who fall behind are periodically eliminated.
- A thing that is awkward or difficult to understand or do.
- (folklore) A fictional image of a man, usually red or orange in skin color; with a set of horns on his head, a pointed goatee and a long tail and carrying a pitchfork; that represents evil and portrayed to children in an effort to discourage bad behavior.
- A dust devil.
- (cooking) A dish, as a bone with the meat, broiled and excessively peppered; a grill with Cayenne pepper.
- (theology) An evil creature, the objectification of a hostile and destructive force.
- (nautical) Ellipsis of devil seam (“the seam between garboard strake and the keel, on wooden boats”).
- A Tasmanian devil.
- A person, especially a man; used to express a particular opinion of him, usually in the phrases poor devil and lucky devil.
- A printer's assistant.
- (euphemistic, with an article, as an intensifier) Hell.
- The bad part of the conscience; the opposite to the angel.
- A machine for tearing or cutting rags, cotton, etc., as used in the production of mungo or shoddy.
- (dialectal, in compounds) A barren, unproductive and unused area.
- (India) A poltergeist that haunts printing works.
- A wicked or naughty person, or one who harbors reckless, spirited energy, especially in a mischievous way; usually said of a young child.
- a cruel wicked and inhuman person
- a word used in exclamations of confusion
- an evil supernatural being
- a rowdy or mischievous person (usually a young man)
adv
adj
- being of the underworld
- characteristic of or resembling Hell
- expletives used informally as intensifiers
- of or pertaining to or characteristic of a very uncontrolled and intense fire
- extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell
- (by extension) Of or relating to a fire or inferno.
- Stygian, gloomy.
- Of or relating to hell, or the world of the dead; hellish.
- Diabolical or fiendish.
- (as an expletive) Very annoying; damned.