Specific
Words that have just one definition in WordNet and aren't considered a part of something else.
- braised
- cooked by browning in fat and then simmering in a closed container
- peruked
- wearing a wig popular for men in the 17th and 18th centuries
- rest mass
- (physics) the mass of a body as measured when the body is at rest relative to an observer, an inherent property of the body
- large civet
- common civet of India and southeast Asia
- boatyard
- a place where boats are built or maintained or stored
- demob
- retire from military service
- vase-shaped
- shaped in the form of a vase
- convertible security
- a corporate security (usually bonds or preferred stock) that can be exchanged for another form of security (usually common stock)
- soft option
- an easier alternative
- gag reflex
- normal reflex consisting of retching; may be produced by touching the soft palate in the back of the mouth
- haploidy
- the condition of being haploid
- gendarmerie
- French police force; a group of gendarmes or gendarmes collectively
- nonspherical
- not spherical
- resourceful
- having inner resources; adroit or imaginative
- bone fat
- fatty matter in bones extracted with solvents or by boiling or steaming; used chiefly in candles and cheap soaps and in lubricating greases
- abc's
- the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural)
- strenuously
- in a strenuous manner; strongly or vigorously
- pitch-dark
- extremely dark
- roger williams
- English clergyman and colonist who was expelled from Massachusetts for criticizing Puritanism; he founded Providence in 1636 and obtained a royal charter for Rhode Island in 1663 (1603-1683)
- flat bench
- a bench on which a weightlifter lies to do exercises