timing belt
valve train
throttle
throttle valve
accelerator
sparkplug wrench
hot tube
combustion engine
cambelt
distributor cap
carburetor
glow plug
silencer
air cell
valve-in-head engine
regulator
ignition system
ignition
internal combustion engined
overhead cam
electrical distributor
distributer
timing
distributor
choke
bell end
internal combustion engine
baffle
foot valve
rock shaft
Stirling engine
crankcase
intake manifold
head
starter
automobile engine
jetter
sump
diesel engine
cover
pancake engine
fuel pump
firebox
petticoat
overhead valve
motion
fire box
exhaust system
slide valve
mill
overhead engine
throttle body
hot bulb
feedline
exhaust
two-stroke
starting bar
V8
spark coil
camshaft
primer
reversing cylinder
cross-tail
straight-six
semidiesel
lubricating system
force-feed lubricating system
pressure-feed lubricating system
pressure feed
spark plug
force feed
reciprocating engine
steam-powered
flathead
booster
plug
boxer
sparking plug
lead
propjet
smoke arch
spark advance
cushion
combustor
intake system
valve rocker
rocker arm
first
chimney
mother
radial engine
rocket engine
rotary engine
second
rocket
internal combustion engined
steam-powered
timing belt
valve train
throttle
throttle valve
accelerator
sparkplug wrench
hot tube
combustion engine
cambelt
distributor cap
carburetor
glow plug
silencer
air cell
valve-in-head engine
regulator
ignition system
ignition
overhead cam
electrical distributor
distributer
timing
distributor
choke
bell end
internal combustion engine
baffle
foot valve
rock shaft
Stirling engine
crankcase
intake manifold
head
starter
automobile engine
jetter
sump
diesel engine
cover
pancake engine
fuel pump
firebox
petticoat
overhead valve
motion
fire box
exhaust system
slide valve
mill
overhead engine
throttle body
hot bulb
feedline
exhaust
two-stroke
starting bar
V8
spark coil
camshaft
primer
reversing cylinder
cross-tail
straight-six
semidiesel
lubricating system
force-feed lubricating system
pressure-feed lubricating system
pressure feed
spark plug
force feed
reciprocating engine
flathead
booster
plug
boxer
sparking plug
lead
propjet
smoke arch
spark advance
cushion
combustor
intake system
valve rocker
rocker arm
first
chimney
mother
radial engine
rocket engine
rotary engine
second
rocket
noun
- A prechamber in an indirect injection internal combustion engine.
- An electrochemical cell that uses air as a terminal, such as the metal-air electrochemical cell.
- Spaces that contain air in the bones of the skull.
- A terminal dilation of the bronchiole in lungs or similar organs where gas exchange occurs.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see air cell.
noun
- A device that controls the supply of steam to the cylinders of a steam locomotive.
- A bulldozer (member of intimidating group of white US Southerners).
- A person or group that sets standards of practice, especially those established by law.
- A device that controls or limits something.
- A gene involved in controlling the expression of one or more other genes.
- A very accurate clock, used by clockmakers to measure the timekeeping of each newly made clock.
noun
- The synchronization of the firing of the spark plugs in an internal combustion engine.
- The time when something happens.
- The regulation of the pace of e.g. an athletic race, the speed of an engine, the delivery of a joke, or the occurrence of a series of events.
- An instance of recording the time of something.
noun
- a valve that controls the flow of air into the carburetor of a gasoline engine
- a coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current
verb
- breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion
- be too tight; rub or press
- wring the neck of
- constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing
- struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
- fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation
- check or slow down the action or effect of
- become or cause to become obstructed
- impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of
- become stultified, suppressed, or stifled
- suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- reduce the air supply
- cause to retch or choke
noun
- A piston or a rotary heat engine directly powered by the products of intermittent combustion of a fuel.
- A heat engine in which intermittent or the continuous burning of a fuel takes place inside a combustion chamber; the resulting pressurized gas acts directly on the engine to do useful work, such as a piston engine, gas turbine, jet engine or rocket.
noun
- A lever for operating the throttle valve of a winding engine.
- An architectural feature designed to confuse enemies or make them vulnerable.
- A device used to dampen the effects of such things as sound, light, or fluid. Specifically, a baffle is a surface which is placed inside an open area to inhibit direct motion from one part to another, without preventing motion altogether.
verb
noun
- The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.
- A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
- The end of a hammer, axe, golf club, or similar implement used for striking other objects.
- The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.
- A headdress; a covering for the head.
- A milling head, a part of a milling machine that houses the spindle.
- The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor.
- The uppermost part of a valley.
- The antlers of a deer.
- Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.
- A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.
- The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.
- The headstock of a guitar.
- The leafy top part of a tree.
- The top edge of a sail.
- A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum.
- The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
- The toilet of a ship.
- An ear of wheat, barley, or other small cereal.
- A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.
- Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
- The end of a nail, screw, bolt, or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide.
- A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.
- Headway; progress.
- Mind; one's own thoughts.
- Topic; subject.
- The end of an abscess where pus collects.
- The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
- The glans penis.
- The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.
- Deposits near the top of a geological succession.
- The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it.
- The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.
- A headmaster or headmistress.
- Denouement; crisis.
- The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.
- A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.
- The end cap of a cask or other barrel.
- A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.
- Leader; chief; mastermind.
- Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
- An individual person.
- The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
- The bow of a vessel.
- A morpheme that determines the category of a compound or the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member.
- The sharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer.
- The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.
- The population of game.
- The principal melody or theme of a piece.
- A single animal.
- The place of honour, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front.
- A headland.
- More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.
verb
- To be in command of. (See also head up.)
- To come at the beginning or front of; to commence.
- To form a head.
- To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head.
- To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball
- To go in front of.
- To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.
- To move in a specified direction.
- To check or restrain.
- To remove the head from a fish.
- To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
- To cut off the top of; to lop off.
- To set on the head.
adj
noun
- An electric motor that starts an internal combustion engine.
- A player in the lineup of players that a team fields at the beginning of a game.
- A short length of rope formerly used for casual chastisement in the Navy.
- A railway signal controlling the starting of trains from a station or some other location, more fully called a starter signal or starting signal.
- A yeast culture used to start a fermentation process.
- A device that initiates the flow of high voltage electricity in a fluorescent lamp.
- The first course of a meal, consisting of a small, usually savoury, dish.
- A dog that rouses game.
- The person who starts a race by firing a gun or waving a flag.
- A starting pitcher.
- A person employed to take new players to the first tee at suitable intervals, and to provide them with caddies and equipment.
- Someone who starts, or who starts something.
- Something with which to begin; a first property, etc.
noun
- A vehicle or engine that works by jet propulsion.
- Any of a number of devices that eject a pressurized stream of liquid.
- An animal, such as a squid or jellyfish, that moves by jet propulsion. (Often used to distinguish it from similar animals with a different method of locomotion.)
- One who drives or rides in a jet-propelled vehicle.
- A place where there is a natural spout or eruption, such as a geyser or jet of lava.
- A jammer (player who attempts to score points by making their way past other players) on the televised version of the game.
noun
- The crankcase or oil reservoir of an internal combustion engine.
- The lowest part of a mineshaft into which water drains.
- A hollow or pit into which liquid drains, such as a cesspool, cesspit or sink.
- A completely flooded cave passage, sometimes passable by diving.
- The pit at the lowest point in a circulating or drainage system (FM 55-501).
- An intentional depression around a drain or scupper that promotes drainage.
verb
noun
- In a steam engine, the lap of a slide valve.
- The top sheet of a bed.
- A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative; cover story.
- The front and back of a book, magazine, CD package, etc.
- A cloth or similar material, often fitted, placed over an item such as a car or sofa or food to protect it from dust, rain, insects, etc. when not being used.
- A collection (or family) of subsets of a given set, whose union contains every element of said original set.
- Area or situation which screens a person or thing from view.
- An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc.
- A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire.
- The portion of a slate, tile, or shingle that is hidden by the overlap of the course above.
- An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract.
- A setting at a restaurant table or formal dinner.
- A new performance or rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.
- The distance between reinforcing steel and the exterior of concrete.
- A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square; a fielder in this position.
- A cover charge.
- A lid.
- In commercial law, a buyer’s purchase on the open market of goods similar or identical to the goods contracted for after a seller has breached a contract of sale by failure to deliver the goods contracted for.
verb
- To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist).
- To defend (mark) a particular player or area.
- To discuss thoroughly; to provide coverage of.
- To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
- To be upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
- To provide insurance coverage for.
- To traverse or put behind a certain distance.
- To act as a replacement.
- To deal with or include someone or something.
- To be enough money for.
- To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself).
- To have as an assignment or responsibility.
- To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or to protect using continuous, heaving fire at or in the direction of the enemy so as to force the enemy to remain in cover; or to threaten using an aimed firearm.
- To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
- To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
- To extend over a given period of time or range, to occupy, to stretch over a given area.
- To copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses).
- To protect or control (a piece or square).
adj
noun
- A bell-mouthed piece over the exhaust nozzles in the smokebox of a locomotive, strengthening and equalising the draught through the boiler-tubes.
- A light woman's undergarment worn under a dress or skirt, and hanging either from the shoulders or (now especially) from the waist; a kind of slip, worn to make the skirt fuller, or for extra warmth.
- A woman's undercoat, worn to be displayed beneath an open gown.
- A woman.
- A fisherman's loose canvas or oilcloth skirt.
- A type of ornamental skirt or underskirt, often displayed below a dress; chiefly in plural, designating a woman's skirts collectively.
- A tight, usually padded undercoat worn by men over a shirt and under the doublet.
verb
noun
- A piece of moving mechanism, such as on a steam locomotive.
- A change from one place to another.
- A movement of the bowels; the product of such movement.
- A state of progression from one place to another.
- from κίνησις (kinesis); any change. Traditionally of four types: generation and corruption, alteration, augmentation and diminution, and change of place.
- A formal request, oral or written, made to a judge or court of law to obtain an official court ruling or order for a legal action to be taken by, or on behalf of, the movant.
- A change of position with respect to time.
- A parliamentary action to propose something. A similar procedure in any official or business meeting.
- Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
- Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts. (Conjunct motion is that by single degrees of the scale. Contrary motion is when parts move in opposite directions. Disjunct motion is motion by skips. Oblique motion is when one part is stationary while another moves. Similar or direct motion is when parts move in the same direction.)
verb
noun
- An engine.
- A milling machine for machining of solid metal, wood, or plastic.
- An obsolete coin worth one thousandth of a US dollar, or one tenth of a cent.
- One thousandth part, particularly in millage rates of property tax.
- A line of three matching pieces in nine men's morris and related games.
- A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, etc.
- A prison treadmill.
- A strategy centered on depleting the opponent's deck.
- A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process.
- An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
- A milling cutter.
- A passage underground through which ore is shot.
- Discarding a card from one's deck.
- A boxing match, fistfight.
- An institution awarding educational certificates not officially recognised
- A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc.
- A building housing such a plant.
- A typewriter used to transcribe messages received.
- A machine for grinding and polishing.
- The building housing such a grinding apparatus.
- The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, such as a coin or screw.
- A hardened steel roller with a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, such as copper.
- An establishment that handles a certain type of situation or procedure routinely, or produces large quantities of an item without much regard to quality, such as a divorce mill, a puppy mill, etc.
verb
- To take part in a fistfight; to box.
- To move (a card) from a deck to the discard pile.
- To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
- To make (drinking chocolate) frothy, as by churning.
- To move about in an aimless fashion.
- To beat; to pound.
- To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine.
- To swim suddenly in a new direction.
- To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.
- To destroy (a card) due to having a full hand.
- To swim underwater.
- To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin).
- To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine.
- To undergo hulling.
- To roll (steel, etc.) into bars.
- To cause to mill, or circle around.
noun
- A device used to prime an internal combustion engine with gasoline, (especially) in airplanes.
- A layer of such a substance.
- A prayer or devotional book intended for laity, initially an abridgment of the breviary and manual including the hours of the Virgin Mary, 15 gradual and 7 penitential psalms, the litany, the placebo and dirige forming the office of the dead, and the commendations.
- An introductory text on any subject, particularly basic concepts.
- Any of various similar works issued in England for private prayer in accordance with the Book of Common Prayer.
- An elementary school class; an elementary school student. (No longer used.)
- A molecule which initiates the synthesis of an enzyme, (especially) a single-stranded nucleic acid molecule which initiates DNA replication.
- A pheromone which interacts first with the endocrine system.
- Any substance or device, such as priming wire or blasting cap, used to ignite gunpowder or other explosive.
- A children's book intended to teach literacy: how to read, write, and spell.
- A layer of makeup that goes beneath the foundation; undermakeup.
- A substance used to prime wood, metal, etc. in preparation for painting.
- A person who prunes trees.
noun
- A booster engine fitted to a steam locomotive.
- Something that boosts.
- A term that serves to amplify or strengthen an utterance, such as "really".
- Someone who promotes a town or business.
- A member of a booster club.
- A booster dose.
- A motor-generator set used for voltage regulation in direct current electrical power circuits.
- A thief.
- A small quantity of a sensitive explosive that is triggered by a detonator and provides the energy needed to detonate a larger quantity of a less-sensitive explosive.
- A package of cards or figurines designed to add to a player's collection.
- Someone who is a fan or supporter of something.
- A power-up item.
- The first stage of a multistage rocket that provides the thrust for liftoff and the initial flight.
verb
noun
- electrical device that fits into the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine and ignites the gas by means of an electric spark
- blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly
- a wad of something chewable as tobacco
- blatant or sensational promotion
- an electrical device with two or three pins that is inserted in a socket to make an electrical connection
- an upright hydrant for drawing water to use in fighting a fire
- an old or over-worked horse
verb
noun
- A type of internal combustion engine in which cylinders are arranged in two banks on either side of a single crankshaft.
- A letterboxer.
- A breed of stocky, medium-sized, short-haired dog with a square-jawed muzzle.
- A participant (fighter) in a boxing match.
- The person running a game of two-up.
- One who packs boxes.
noun
- the timing of ignition relative to the position of the piston in an internal-combustion engine
- an advantage held by a competitor in a race
- evidence pointing to a possible solution
- a position of being the initiator of something and an example that others will follow (especially in the phrase `take the lead')
- the angle between the direction a gun is aimed and the position of a moving target (correcting for the flight time of the missile)
- the introductory section of a story
- (sports) the score by which a team or individual is winning
- an actor who plays a principal role
- (baseball) the position taken by a base runner preparing to advance to the next base
- an indication of potential opportunity
- a news story of major importance
- restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal
- thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing
- a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire
- the playing of a card to start a trick in bridge
verb
- take somebody somewhere
- produce as a result or residue
- tend to or result in
- travel in front of; go in advance of others
- cause to undertake a certain action
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
- be in charge of
- be ahead of others; be the first
- be conducive to
- lead, as in the performance of a composition
- lead, extend, or afford access
- move ahead (of others) in time or space
- cause something to pass or lead somewhere
- preside over
noun
noun
- A mass of steam in the end of the cylinder of a steam engine to receive the impact of the piston.
- a sufficient quantity of an intangible object (like points or minutes) to allow for some of those points, for example, to be lost without hurting one's chances for successfully completing an objective.
- A soft mass of material stuffed into a cloth bag, used for comfort or support; for sitting on, kneeling on, resting one's head on etc.
- A pad on which gilders cut gold leaf.
- The lip around a table in cue sports which absorbs some of the impact of the billiard balls and bounces them back.
- An engraver's pad.
- Money kept in reserve.
- The pillow used in making bone lace.
- A pad supporting a woman's hair.
- The rubber of an electrical machine.
- The dancer in the cushion dance who currently holds the cushion, or the dance itself.
verb
noun
- The smokestack of a steam locomotive.
- A narrow cleft in a rock face; a narrow vertical cave passage.
- A black eye; a shiner.
- The glass flue surrounding the flame of an oil lamp.
- A vagina.
- A vertical tube or hollow column used to emit environmentally polluting gaseous and solid matter (including but not limited to by-products of burning carbon- or hydrocarbon-based fuels); a flue.
verb
noun
- A locomotive which provides electrical power for a slug.
- A female parent, sometimes especially a human; a female who parents a child (which she has given birth to, adopted, or fostered).
- A female who has given birth to a baby; this person in relation to her child or children.
- The principal piece of an astrolabe, into which the others are fixed.
- A striking example.
- Dregs, lees; a stringy, mucilaginous or film- or membrane-like substance (consisting of acetobacters) which develops in fermenting alcoholic liquids (such as wine, or cider), and turns the alcohol into acetic acid with the help of oxygen from the air.
- Motherfucker.
- The female superior or head of a religious house; an abbess, etc.
- A female who donates a fertilized egg or donates a body cell which has resulted in a clone.
- A pregnant female, possibly as a shortened form of mother-to-be; a female who gestates a baby.
- A source or origin.
- A disc produced from the electrotyped master, used in manufacturing phonograph records.
- Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind. (See mother of all.)
- A female ancestor.
- Any elderly woman, especially within a particular community.
- Any person or entity which performs mothering.
verb
noun
- The second gear of an engine.
- The agent of a party to an honour dispute whose role was to try to resolve the dispute or to make the necessary arrangements for a duel.
- An additional helping of food.
- Something that is number two in a series.
- A second-class honours degree.
- One-sixtieth of a minute; the SI unit of time, defined as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of caesium-133 in a ground state at a temperature of absolute zero and at rest.
- A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a minute of arc or one part in 3600 of a degree.
- The interval between two adjacent notes in a diatonic scale (either or both of them may be raised or lowered from the basic scale via any type of accidental).
- A manufactured item that, though still usable, fails to meet quality control standards.
- Second base.
- A short, indeterminate amount of time.
- Something that is next in rank, quality, precedence, position, status, or authority.
- One who supports or seconds a motion, or the act itself, as required in certain meetings to pass judgement etc.
- A chance or attempt to achieve what should have been done the first time, usually indicating success this time around. (See second-guess.)
- The place that is next below or after first in a race or contest.
- A Cub Scout appointed to assist the sixer.
- One who supports another in a contest or combat, such as a dueller's assistant.
verb
- To climb after a lead climber.
- To assist or support; to back.
- To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (See under [[#Etymology 3]] for translations.)
- To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (This may come from the English adjective above.)
- To accompany by singing as the second performer.
- To follow in the next place; to succeed.
- To transfer temporarily to alternative employment.
adv
adj
noun
- a jet engine containing its own propellant and driven by reaction propulsion
- any vehicle self-propelled by a rocket engine
- erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender
- propels bright light high in the sky, or used to propel a lifesaving line or harpoon
- sends a firework display high into the sky
verb
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