Air chamber () A chamber or cavity filled with air, in an animal or plant. |
Air chamber () A cavity containing air to act as a spring for equalizing the flow of a liquid in a pump or other hydraulic machine. |
Chamber (n.) A retired room, esp. an upper room used for sleeping |
Chamber (n.) Apartments in a lodging house. |
Chamber (n.) A hall, as where a king gives audience, or a deliberative body or assembly meets |
Chamber (n.) A legislative or judicial body |
Chamber (n.) A compartment or cell |
Chamber (n.) A room or rooms where a lawyer transacts business |
Chamber (n.) A chamber pot. |
Chamber (n.) That part of the bore of a piece of ordnance which holds the charge, esp. when of different diameter from the rest of the bore |
Chamber (n.) A cavity in a mine, usually of a cubical form, to contain the powder. |
Chamber (n.) A short piece of ordnance or cannon, which stood on its breech, without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for rejoicings and theatrical cannonades. |
Chamber (v. i.) To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers. |
Chamber (v. i.) To be lascivious. |
Chamber (v. t.) To shut up, as in a chamber. |
Chamber (v. t.) To furnish with a chamber |
Combustion (n.) The state of burning. |
Combustion (n.) The combination of a combustible with a supporter of combustion, producing heat, and sometimes both light and heat. |
Combustion (n.) Violent agitation |
Front (n.) The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes |
Front (n.) The forehead, countenance, or personal presence, as expressive of character or temper, and especially, of boldness of disposition, sometimes of impudence |
Front (n.) The part or surface of anything which seems to look out, or to be directed forward |
Front (n.) A position directly before the face of a person, or before the foremost part of a thing |
Front (n.) The most conspicuous part. |
Front (n.) That which covers the foremost part of the head: a front piece of false hair worn by women. |
Front (n.) The beginning. |
Front (a.) Of or relating to the front or forward part |
Front (v. t.) To oppose face to face |
Front (v. t.) To appear before |
Front (v. t.) To face toward |
Front (v. t.) To stand opposed or opposite to, or over against as, his house fronts the church. |
Front (v. t.) To adorn in front |
Front (v. t.) To have or turn the face or front in any direction |
Sea wall () A wall, or embankment, to resist encroachments of the sea. |
Star-chamber (n.) An ancient high court exercising jurisdiction in certain cases, mainly criminal, which sat without the intervention of a jury. It consisted of the king's council, or of the privy council only with the addition of certain judges. It could proceed on mere rumor or examine witnesses |
Wall (n.) A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope |
Wall (n.) A work or structure of stone, brick, or other materials, raised to some height, and intended for defense or security, solid and permanent inclosing fence, as around a field, a park, a town, etc., also, one of the upright inclosing parts of a building or a room. |
Wall (n.) A defense |
Wall (n.) An inclosing part of a receptacle or vessel |
Wall (n.) The side of a level or drift. |
Wall (n.) The country rock bounding a vein laterally. |
Wall (v. t.) To inclose with a wall, or as with a wall. |
Wall (v. t.) To defend by walls, or as if by walls |
Wall (v. t.) To close or fill with a wall, as a doorway. |
Wall-eye (n.) An eye in which the iris is of a very light gray or whitish color |
Wall-eye (n.) An American fresh-water food fish (Stizostedion vitreum) having large and prominent eyes |
Wall-eye (n.) A California surf fish (Holconotus argenteus). |
Wall-eye (n.) The alewife |
Wall-eyed (a.) Having an eye of a very light gray or whitish color. |
Wall-plat (n.) The spotted flycatcher. It builds its nest on walls. |
burning combustion | the act of burning something, the burning of leaves was prohibited by a town ordinance |
crawl front crawl Australian crawl | a swimming stroke, arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick |
front-porch campaigning front-porch campaign | a campaign in which the candidate makes speeches but does not travel, William McKinley's dignified front-porch campaign won him the presidency in , her approach was the opposite of a passive front-porch campaign |
blue wall of silence blue wall wall of silence | the secrecy of police officers who lie or look the other way to protect other police officers, the blue wall cracked when some officers refused to take part in the cover-up |
wall creeper tichodrome Tichodroma muriaria | crimson-and-grey songbird that inhabits town walls and mountain cliffs of southern Eurasia and northern Africa |
anechoic chamber | a chamber having very little reverberation |
Antonine Wall | a fortification miles long across the narrowest part of southern Scotland (between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde), built into mark the frontier of the Roman province of Britain |
bearing wall | any wall supporting a floor or the roof of a building |
bedroom sleeping room sleeping accommodation chamber bedchamber | a room used primarily for sleeping |
boardroom council chamber | a room where a committee meets (such as the board of directors of a company) |
boron chamber | an ionization chamber lined with boron or filled with boron trifluoride gas for counting low velocity neutrons |
bracket wall bracket | a support projecting from a wall (as to hold a shelf) |
bubble chamber | an instrument that records the tracks of ionizing particles |
burial chamber sepulcher sepulchre sepulture | a chamber that is used as a grave |
cavity wall | a wall formed of two thicknesses of masonry with a space between them |
chamber | a natural or artificial enclosed space |
chamber | a room where a judge transacts business |
chanfron chamfron testiere frontstall front-stall | medieval plate armor to protect a horse's head |
Chinese Wall Great Wall Great Wall of China | a fortification , miles long built across northern China in the rd century BC, it averages meters in width |
cloud chamber Wilson cloud chamber | apparatus that detects the path of high-energy particles passing through a supersaturated vapor, each particle ionizes molecules along its path and small droplets condense on them to produce a visible track |
crematory crematorium cremation chamber | a furnace where a corpse can be burned and reduced to ashes |
cylinder piston chamber | a chamber within which piston moves |
dry wall dry-stone wall | a stone wall made with stones fitted together without mortar |
echo chamber | an enclosed space for producing reverberation of a sound |
firing chamber gun chamber | chamber that is the part of a gun that receives the charge |
fly fly front | an opening in a garment that is closed by a zipper or by buttons concealed under a fold of cloth |
front | the side that is seen or that goes first |
front bench | any of the front seats in the House of Commons that are reserved for ministers or former ministers |
front door front entrance | exterior door (at the entrance) at the front of a building |
front porch | a porch for the front door |
front projector | a projector for digital input |
front yard | the yard in front of a house, between the house and the street |
gable gable end gable wall | the vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof |
gas chamber death chamber | instrument of execution consisting of a sealed chamber into which poison gas is introduced, used to kill people or animals |
hanging wall hanging | decoration that is hung (as a tapestry) on a wall or over a window, the cold castle walls were covered with hangings |
hyperbaric chamber | a large chamber in which the oxygen pressure is above normal for the atmosphere, used in treating breathing disorders or carbon monoxide poisoning |
ionization chamber ionization tube | a measuring instrument that measures the amount of ionizing radiation |
living room livingoom sitting room front room parlor parlour | a room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax |
lock lock chamber | enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level, used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it |
mural wall painting | a painting that is applied to a wall surface |
party wall | a wall erected on the line between two properties and shared by both owners |
presence chamber | room in which a monarch or other great person receives guests, assemblies, etc. |
proscenium proscenium wall | the wall that separates the stage from the auditorium in a modern theater |
rampart bulwark wall | an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes, they stormed the ramparts of the city, they blew the trumpet and the walls came tumbling down |
resonator cavity resonator resonating chamber | a hollow chamber whose dimensions allow the resonant oscillation of electromagnetic or acoustic waves |
retaining wall | a wall that is built to resist lateral pressure (especially a wall built to prevent the advance of a mass of earth) |
spark chamber spark counter | an instrument that detects ionizing radiation from elementary particles |
stone wall | a fence built of rough stones, used to separate fields |
supply chamber | a mechanical device for holding something and supplying it as needed |
torture chamber | a room in which torture is inflicted |