Nouns denoting man-made objects
- shorts
- (used in the plural) trousers that end at or above the knee
- bandoneon
- a type of concertina popular in South America
- signaling device
- a device used to send signals
- free-reed
- a reed that does not fit closely over the aperture
- armrest
- a support for the arm
- FET
- a transistor in which most current flows in a channel whose effective resistance can be controlled by a transverse electric field
- French telephone
- telephone set with the mouthpiece and earpiece mounted on a single handle
- skene arch
- an arch whose height is less than half its width
- cusp
- point formed by two intersecting arcs (as from the intrados of a Gothic arch)
- muzzle loader
- an obsolete firearm that was loaded through the muzzle
- coat button
- a button on a coat
- manhole
- a hole (usually with a flush cover) through which a person can gain access to an underground structure
- superstructure
- structure consisting of the part of a ship above the main deck
- propeller plane
- an airplane that is driven by a propeller
- thoroughfare
- a public road from one place to another
- oriel window
- a projecting bay window corbeled or cantilevered out from a wall
- areaway
- a passageway between buildings or giving access to a basement
- mouthpiece
- the aperture of a wind instrument into which the player blows directly
- tupek
- tent that is an Eskimo summer dwelling
- messuage
- (law) a dwelling house and its adjacent buildings and the adjacent land used by the household
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