Black wash (n.) Alt. of Blackwash |
By-wash (n.) The outlet from a dam or reservoir |
Caustic (a.) Alt. of Caustical |
Caustic (a.) Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action |
Caustic (a.) A caustic curve or caustic surface. |
Conning tower (n.) The shot-proof pilot house of a war vessel. |
Martello tower () A building of masonry, generally circular, usually erected on the seacoast, with a gun on the summit mounted on a traversing platform, so as to be fired in any direction. |
Tower (n.) A mass of building standing alone and insulated, usually higher than its diameter, but when of great size not always of that proportion. |
Tower (n.) A projection from a line of wall, as a fortification, for purposes of defense, as a flanker, either or the same height as the curtain wall or higher. |
Tower (n.) A structure appended to a larger edifice for a special purpose, as for a belfry, and then usually high in proportion to its width and to the height of the rest of the edifice |
Tower (n.) A citadel |
Tower (n.) A headdress of a high or towerlike form, fashionable about the end of the seventeenth century and until 1715 |
Tower (n.) High flight |
Tower (v. i.) To rise and overtop other objects |
Tower (v. t.) To soar into. |
Wash (v. t.) To cleanse by ablution, or dipping or rubbing in water |
Wash (v. t.) To cover with water or any liquid |
Wash (v. t.) To waste or abrade by the force of water in motion |
Wash (v. t.) To remove by washing to take away by, or as by, the action of water |
Wash (v. t.) To cover with a thin or watery coat of color |
Wash (v. t.) To overlay with a thin coat of metal |
Wash (v. i.) To perform the act of ablution. |
Wash (v. i.) To clean anything by rubbing or dipping it in water |
Wash (v. i.) To bear without injury the operation of being washed |
Wash (v. i.) To be wasted or worn away by the action of water, as by a running or overflowing stream, or by the dashing of the sea |
Wash (n.) The act of washing |
Wash (n.) A piece of ground washed by the action of a sea or river, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry |
Wash (n.) Substances collected and deposited by the action of water |
Wash (n.) Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs. |
Wash (n.) The fermented wort before the spirit is extracted. |
Wash (n.) A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation. |
Wash (n.) That with which anything is washed, or wetted, smeared, tinted, etc., upon the surface. |
Wash (n.) A liquid cosmetic for the complexion. |
Wash (n.) A liquid dentifrice. |
Wash (n.) A liquid preparation for the hair |
Wash (n.) A medical preparation in a liquid form for external application |
Wash (n.) A thin coat of color, esp. water color. |
Wash (n.) A thin coat of metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation. |
Wash (n.) The blade of an oar, or the thin part which enters the water. |
Wash (n.) The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc. |
Wash (n.) The flow, swash, or breaking of a body of water, as a wave |
Wash (n.) Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters. |
Wash (a.) Washy |
Wash (a.) Capable of being washed without injury |
Wash-off (a.) Capable of being washed off |
Water tower () A large metal pipe made to be extended vertically by sections, and used for discharging water upon burning buildings. |
Wish-wash (n.) Any weak, thin drink. |
Wood-wash (n.) Alt. of Wood-waxen |
wash washing lavation | the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water) |
wash | any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out, at the end of the year the accounting department showed that it was a wash |
bell tower | a tower that supports or shelters a bell |
church tower | the tower of a church |
clock tower | a tower with a large clock visible high up on an outside face |
CN Tower | a tower in Toronto, feet tall for broadcasting widely |
color wash colour wash | a wash of whitewash or other water-base paint tinted with a colored pigment |
conning tower | a raised bridge on a submarine, often used for entering and exiting |
conning tower | an armored pilothouse on a warship |
control tower | a tower with an elevated workspace enclosed in glass for the visual observation of aircraft around an airport |
cooling tower | a cooling system used in industry to cool hot water (by partial evaporation) before reusing it as a coolant |
Eiffel Tower | a wrought iron tower meters high that was constructed in Paris in , for many years it was the tallest man-made structure |
fire tower | a watchtower where a lookout is posted to watch for fires |
flatwork flat wash | ironing that can be done mechanically |
highise tower block | tower consisting of a multistoried building of offices or apartments, `tower block' is the British term for `highise' |
laundry wash washing washables | garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering |
Leaning Tower Leaning Tower of Pisa | a tall round marble campanile in Pisa that is not perpendicular, construction was begun in |
lookout observation tower lookout station observatory | a structure commanding a wide view of its surroundings |
martello tower | a circular masonry fort for coastal defence |
mooring tower mooring mast | a tower for mooring airships |
public toilet comfort station public convenience convenience public lavatory restroom toilet facility wash room | a toilet that is available to the public |
Sears Tower | a skyscraper built in Chicago in , feet tall |
shot tower | tower of a kind once used to make shot, molten lead was poured through a sieve and dropped into water |
signal box signal tower | a building from which signals are sent to control the movements of railway trains |
supporting tower | a tower that serves to support something |
tower | a structure taller than its diameter, can stand alone or be attached to a larger building |
Tower of Babel Babel | (Genesis :-) a tower built by Noah's descendants (probably in Babylon) who intended it to reach up to heaven, God foiled them by confusing their language so they could no longer understand one another |
Tower of London | a fortress in London on the Thames, used as a palace and a state prison and now as a museum containing the crown jewels |
Tower of Pharos | a great lighthouse ( feet high) built at Alexandria in BC |
tugboat tug towboat tower | a powerful small boat designed to pull or push larger ships |
wash wash drawing | a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other |
wash | a thin coat of water-base paint |
wash-and-wear | a fabric treated to be easily washable and to require no ironing |
washbasin handbasin washbowl lavabo wash-hand basin | a basin for washing the hands (`wash-hand basin' is a British expression) |
washstand wash-hand stand | furniture consisting of a table or stand to hold a basin and pitcher of water for washing: `wash-hand stand' is a British term |
water tower | a large reservoir for water |
ivory tower | a state of mind that is discussed as if it were a place, he lived in the ivory tower of speculation, they viewed universities as ivory towers |
folderol rubbish tripe trumpery trash wish-wash applesauce codswallop | nonsensical talk or writing |
sarcasm irony satire caustic remark | witty language used to convey insults or scorn, he used sarcasm to upset his opponent, irony is wasted on the stupid, Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own--Jonathan Swift |
wish-wash | any thin watery drink |
wash dry wash | the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon) |
tower of strength pillar of strength | a person who can be relied on to give a great deal of support and comfort |
slipstream airstream race backwash wash | the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller |
tower cress tower mustard Arabis turrita | European cress having stiff erect stems, sometimes placed in genus Turritis |
tower mustard tower cress Turritis glabra Arabis glabra | or genus Arabis: erect cress widely distributed throughout Europe |
rain-wash | the washing away of soil or other loose material by rain |
washout wash | the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway), from the house they watched the washout of their newly seeded lawn by the water |
column tower pillar | anything that approximates the shape of a column or tower, the test tube held a column of white powder, a tower of dust rose above the horizon, a thin pillar of smoke betrayed their campsite |
wash leather | piece of chamois used for cleaning and polishing |
calcium hydroxide lime slaked lime hydrated lime calcium hydrate caustic lime lime hydrate | a caustic substance produced by heating limestone |