Specific
Words that have just one definition in WordNet and aren't considered a part of something else.
- horizontality
- the quality of being parallel to the horizon
- neutralist
- an advocate of neutrality in international affairs
- wet lung
- acute lung injury characterized by coughing and rales; inflammation of the lungs which become stiff and fibrous and cannot exchange oxygen; occurs among persons exposed to irritants such as corrosive chemical vapors or ammonia or chlorine etc.
- quoter
- a communicator (speaker or writer) who uses quotations
- bedford cord
- a heavy corded fabric similar to corduroy; used for clothing
- tall-growing
- (of plants) having tall spindly stems
- shadow cabinet
- a group of senior members of the political party that is out of power; these members would probably assume corresponding positions as ministers in the British Cabinet if their party was elected
- bahasa melayu
- the Malay language spoken in Malaysia
- lobed
- having deeply indented margins but with lobes not entirely separate from each other
- bokkos
- a Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria
- concluding
- occurring at or forming an end or termination
- wedding ring
- a ring (usually plain gold) given to the bride (and sometimes one is also given to the groom) at the wedding
- push forward
- push one's way
- pyramid scheme
- a fraudulent scheme in which people are recruited to make payments to the person who recruited them while expecting to receive payments from the persons they recruit; when the number of new recruits fails to sustain the hierarchical payment structure the scheme collapses with most of the participants losing the money they put in
- winless
- having no wins
- noah
- the Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain; the story of Noah and the flood is told in the Book of Genesis
- weatherliness
- (of a sailing vessel) the quality of being able to sail close to the wind with little drift to the leeward (even in a stiff wind)
- clockwork
- any mechanism of geared wheels that is driven by a coiled spring; resembles the works of a mechanical clock
- allegorically
- in an allegorical manner
- lipreading
- perceiving what a person is saying by observing the movements of the lips