English words for 'The quality of being a lizard.'
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adj
noun
- (figuratively) A lizardlike person.
- any of various reptiles of the suborder Sauria which includes lizards; in former classifications included also the crocodiles and dinosaurs
- (popularly, especially science fiction) Any large reptilian animal, including crocodiles and reptilian aliens.
- (properly) A reptile of the suborder Sauria.
prefix
noun
- A reptilian animal: a reptile.
- (science fiction) A reptilian alien, especially (ufology, often capitalized) of a shapeshifting race alleged to secretly control the world.
- (figuratively) A reptilian person, especially (ethnic slur) a Jew.
- any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and extinct forms
adj
noun
verb
- (transitive) To request (someone to do something).
- (transitive or ditransitive) To request or enquire of (a person).
- To request permission (to do something).
- To publish in church for marriage; said of both the banns and the persons.
- (transitive, intransitive) To request (information, or an answer to a question).
- To invite.
- (transitive usually with 'for' or intransitive) To request (an item or service) (see also ask for).
- (figuratively) To take (a person's situation) as an example.
- To put forward (a question) to be answered.
- To require, demand, claim, or expect, whether by way of remuneration or return, or as a matter of necessity.
- make a request or demand for something to somebody
- address a question to and expect an answer from
- consider obligatory; request and expect
- make a date
- require or ask for as a price or condition
- direct or put; seek an answer to
- require as useful, just, or proper
noun
- (chiefly in attributive use) Lizard skin, the skin of these reptiles.
- (colloquial) A coward.
- (rock paper scissors) A hand forming a "D" shape with the tips of the thumb and index finger touching (a handshape resembling a lizard), that beats paper and Spock and loses to rock and scissors in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
- Any reptile of the order Squamata that is not a snake or part of Mosasauria — typically characterised by a rounded torso, a short neck with an elevated head, four limbs and a long tail, although some species are legless.
- (colloquial) An unctuous person.
- (in compounds) A person who idly spends time in a specified place, especially a promiscuous female.
- a man who idles about in the lounges of hotels and bars in search of women who would support him
- relatively long-bodied reptile with usually two pairs of legs and a tapering tail
adj
noun
adj
noun
- Any creeping animal (such as a serpent), reptile.
- Strophitus undulatus, a freshwater mussel of the eastern United States.
- A person or a thing that crawls or creeps.
- A device which allows a small child to safely roam around a room from a seated or standing position.
- A spur-like device strapped to the boot to facilitate climbing.
- (derogatory, slang) A person who creeps people out; a creepy person.
- Any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping, especially a climbing plant of the genus Parthenocissus.
- (often in the plural) A one-piece garment for infants designed to facilitate access to the wearer's diaper.
- A low-profile wheeled platform whereupon one may lie on one's back and gain better access to the roof of a space with very low height (such as the underbody of a vehicle), or a low stool similarly wheeled.
- A treecreeper.
- Any device for causing material to move steadily from one part of a machine to another, such as an apron in a carding machine, or an inner spiral in a grain screen.
- A kind of shoe, usually with a suede upper and a thick crepe sole, associated with various 20th-century subcultures.
- The lowest gear of some tractors or trucks: one with so low a gear ratio that the vehicle creeps along at the speed of a human's slow walk.
- (nautical) A small four-hooked grapnel used to recover objects dropped onto the sea bed.
- An instrument with iron hooks or claws for dredging up items from a well or other water.
- A metal plate with spikes, designed to be worn with shoes to prevent slipping.
- (cricket) A ball that travels low, near ground level.
- (chiefly in the plural) A small low iron, or dog, between the andirons.
- any of various small insectivorous birds of the Northern Hemisphere that climb up a tree trunk supporting themselves on stiff tail feathers and their feet
- a person who crawls or creeps along the ground
- any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping
verb
noun
noun
- The changeable lizard (Calotes versicolor).
- (informal, derogatory) Any mosquito, gnat, midge, or other small bug which consumes human blood.
- A vampire.
- (by extension) Any parasite.
- (figurative, derogatory) One who attempts to take as much from others as possible; a leech.
- An animal that drinks the blood of others, especially by sucking blood through a puncture wound; a hemovore.
- carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end
adj
- Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of snakes.
- Having the form or shape of a snake.
- Of, or having attributes associated with, the serpent referred to in the book of Genesis in the Bible, such as craftiness or deceitfulness.
- Curving in alternate directions; sinuous.
- Pertaining to the serpentine subgroup of minerals.
- resembling a serpent in form
noun
- (equestrianism) In dressage, a winding walk across on the arena.
- (mineralogy) Any of several green/brown minerals consisting of magnesium and iron silicates that have similar layered crystal structure, whose appearance somewhat resembles a snake's skin.
- Any of several plants believed to cure snakebites.
- (historical) An early form of cannon, used in the 16th century.
- (mathematics) Any of several related cubic curves; anguinea
- (geology) An outcrop or region with soil and rock dominated by these minerals.
- A kind of firework.
- A coiled distillation tube.
verb
noun
- The skin shed by a snake or other reptile.
- A state of depression.
- A marshy or muddy area.
- (Northern US, Southern US) A type of swamp or shallow lake system, typically formed as or by the backwater of a larger waterway, similar to a bayou with trees.
- Dead skin on a sore or ulcer.
- (Western US) A secondary channel of a river delta, usually flushed by the tide.
- (Canadian Prairies) A small pond, often alkaline, many but not all formed by glacial potholes.
- necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass
- any outer covering that can be shed or cast off (such as the cast-off skin of a snake)
- a stagnant swamp (especially as part of a bayou)
- a hollow filled with mud
verb
noun
noun
- (countable, Australia) The blue-tongue lizard.
- (uncountable) A disease of ruminants, caused by Bluetongue virus of the genus Orbivirus, carried by mosquitos, midges etc.
- (countable, Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) Someone who is as sleepy as a lizard; a lazy person.
- a viral disease of sheep and cattle that is transmitted by biting midges
adj
noun
- (figuratively) A lizardlike person.
- any of various reptiles of the suborder Sauria which includes lizards; in former classifications included also the crocodiles and dinosaurs
- (popularly, especially science fiction) Any large reptilian animal, including crocodiles and reptilian aliens.
- (properly) A reptile of the suborder Sauria.
noun
- A reptilian animal: a reptile.
- (science fiction) A reptilian alien, especially (ufology, often capitalized) of a shapeshifting race alleged to secretly control the world.
- (figuratively) A reptilian person, especially (ethnic slur) a Jew.
- any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and extinct forms
adj
noun
verb
- (transitive) To request (someone to do something).
- (transitive or ditransitive) To request or enquire of (a person).
- To request permission (to do something).
- To publish in church for marriage; said of both the banns and the persons.
- (transitive, intransitive) To request (information, or an answer to a question).
- To invite.
- (transitive usually with 'for' or intransitive) To request (an item or service) (see also ask for).
- (figuratively) To take (a person's situation) as an example.
- To put forward (a question) to be answered.
- To require, demand, claim, or expect, whether by way of remuneration or return, or as a matter of necessity.
- make a request or demand for something to somebody
- address a question to and expect an answer from
- consider obligatory; request and expect
- make a date
- require or ask for as a price or condition
- direct or put; seek an answer to
- require as useful, just, or proper
noun
- (chiefly in attributive use) Lizard skin, the skin of these reptiles.
- (colloquial) A coward.
- (rock paper scissors) A hand forming a "D" shape with the tips of the thumb and index finger touching (a handshape resembling a lizard), that beats paper and Spock and loses to rock and scissors in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
- Any reptile of the order Squamata that is not a snake or part of Mosasauria — typically characterised by a rounded torso, a short neck with an elevated head, four limbs and a long tail, although some species are legless.
- (colloquial) An unctuous person.
- (in compounds) A person who idly spends time in a specified place, especially a promiscuous female.
- a man who idles about in the lounges of hotels and bars in search of women who would support him
- relatively long-bodied reptile with usually two pairs of legs and a tapering tail
noun
adj
noun
- Any creeping animal (such as a serpent), reptile.
- Strophitus undulatus, a freshwater mussel of the eastern United States.
- A person or a thing that crawls or creeps.
- A device which allows a small child to safely roam around a room from a seated or standing position.
- A spur-like device strapped to the boot to facilitate climbing.
- (derogatory, slang) A person who creeps people out; a creepy person.
- Any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping, especially a climbing plant of the genus Parthenocissus.
- (often in the plural) A one-piece garment for infants designed to facilitate access to the wearer's diaper.
- A low-profile wheeled platform whereupon one may lie on one's back and gain better access to the roof of a space with very low height (such as the underbody of a vehicle), or a low stool similarly wheeled.
- A treecreeper.
- Any device for causing material to move steadily from one part of a machine to another, such as an apron in a carding machine, or an inner spiral in a grain screen.
- A kind of shoe, usually with a suede upper and a thick crepe sole, associated with various 20th-century subcultures.
- The lowest gear of some tractors or trucks: one with so low a gear ratio that the vehicle creeps along at the speed of a human's slow walk.
- (nautical) A small four-hooked grapnel used to recover objects dropped onto the sea bed.
- An instrument with iron hooks or claws for dredging up items from a well or other water.
- A metal plate with spikes, designed to be worn with shoes to prevent slipping.
- (cricket) A ball that travels low, near ground level.
- (chiefly in the plural) A small low iron, or dog, between the andirons.
- any of various small insectivorous birds of the Northern Hemisphere that climb up a tree trunk supporting themselves on stiff tail feathers and their feet
- a person who crawls or creeps along the ground
- any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping
noun
- The changeable lizard (Calotes versicolor).
- (informal, derogatory) Any mosquito, gnat, midge, or other small bug which consumes human blood.
- A vampire.
- (by extension) Any parasite.
- (figurative, derogatory) One who attempts to take as much from others as possible; a leech.
- An animal that drinks the blood of others, especially by sucking blood through a puncture wound; a hemovore.
- carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end
noun
- The skin shed by a snake or other reptile.
- A state of depression.
- A marshy or muddy area.
- (Northern US, Southern US) A type of swamp or shallow lake system, typically formed as or by the backwater of a larger waterway, similar to a bayou with trees.
- Dead skin on a sore or ulcer.
- (Western US) A secondary channel of a river delta, usually flushed by the tide.
- (Canadian Prairies) A small pond, often alkaline, many but not all formed by glacial potholes.
- necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass
- any outer covering that can be shed or cast off (such as the cast-off skin of a snake)
- a stagnant swamp (especially as part of a bayou)
- a hollow filled with mud
verb
noun
noun
- (countable, Australia) The blue-tongue lizard.
- (uncountable) A disease of ruminants, caused by Bluetongue virus of the genus Orbivirus, carried by mosquitos, midges etc.
- (countable, Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) Someone who is as sleepy as a lizard; a lazy person.
- a viral disease of sheep and cattle that is transmitted by biting midges
verb
noun
adj
noun
- (figuratively) A lizardlike person.
- any of various reptiles of the suborder Sauria which includes lizards; in former classifications included also the crocodiles and dinosaurs
- (popularly, especially science fiction) Any large reptilian animal, including crocodiles and reptilian aliens.
- (properly) A reptile of the suborder Sauria.
noun
- A reptilian animal: a reptile.
- (science fiction) A reptilian alien, especially (ufology, often capitalized) of a shapeshifting race alleged to secretly control the world.
- (figuratively) A reptilian person, especially (ethnic slur) a Jew.
- any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and extinct forms
adj
adj
adj
- Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of snakes.
- Having the form or shape of a snake.
- Of, or having attributes associated with, the serpent referred to in the book of Genesis in the Bible, such as craftiness or deceitfulness.
- Curving in alternate directions; sinuous.
- Pertaining to the serpentine subgroup of minerals.
- resembling a serpent in form
noun
- (equestrianism) In dressage, a winding walk across on the arena.
- (mineralogy) Any of several green/brown minerals consisting of magnesium and iron silicates that have similar layered crystal structure, whose appearance somewhat resembles a snake's skin.
- Any of several plants believed to cure snakebites.
- (historical) An early form of cannon, used in the 16th century.
- (mathematics) Any of several related cubic curves; anguinea
- (geology) An outcrop or region with soil and rock dominated by these minerals.
- A kind of firework.
- A coiled distillation tube.