| screech owl Otus asio | small North American owl having hornlike tufts of feathers whose call sounds like a quavering whistle |
| screech owl | any owl that has a screeching cry |
| bare bone | bone stripped of flesh |
| bare bones | (plural) the most basic facts or elements, he told us only the bare bones of the story |
scream
screaming
shriek
shrieking
screech
screeching | sharp piercing cry, her screaming attracted the neighbors |
screech
screeching
shriek
shrieking
scream
screaming | a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry, he ducked at the screechings of shells, he heard the scream of the brakes |
denude
bare
denudate
strip | lay bare, denude a forest |
publicize
publicise
air
bare | make public, She aired her opinions on welfare |
squawk screak
skreak
skreigh
screech | utter a harsh abrupt scream |
| bare | lay bare, bare your breasts, bare your feelings |
whine
squeak
screech
creak
screak
skreak | make a high-pitched, screeching noise, The door creaked when I opened it slowly, My car engine makes a whining noise |
plain
bare
spare
unembellished
unornamented | lacking embellishment or ornamentation, a plain hair style, unembellished white walls, functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete |
bare(a)
scanty
spare | lacking in amplitude or quantity, a bare livelihood, a scanty harvest, a spare diet |
bare
au naturel(p)
naked
nude | completely unclothed, bare bodies, naked from the waist up, a nude model |
bare-assed
bare-ass
in the altogether
in the buff
in the raw
raw
peeled
naked as a jaybird
stark naked | (used informally) completely unclothed |
bare-breasted
braless
toples | having the breasts uncovered or featuring such nudity, topless waitresses, a topless cabaret |
spindle-legged
spindle-shanked | having long slender legs |
bare
stripped | having everything extraneous removed including contents, the bare walls, the cupboard was bare |
bare
barren
bleak
desolate
stark | providing no shelter or sustenance, bare rocky hills, barren lands, the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes, the desolate surface of the moon, a stark landscape |
rough-and-tumble
bare-knuckle
bare-knuckled | characterized by disorderly action and disregard for rules, a rough-and-tumble fight, rough-and-tumble politics, undisguised bare-knuckle capitalism |
| bare | lacking its natural or customary covering, a bare hill, bare feet |
bare
unfinished | lacking a surface finish such as paint, bare wood, unfinished furniture |
bare(a)
mere(a)
simple(a) | apart from anything else, without additions or modifications, only the bare facts, shocked by the mere idea, the simple passage of time was enough, the simple truth |
unsheathed
bare | not having a protective covering, unsheathed cables, a bare blade |
leggy long-legged
long-shanked | having long legs |
bare(a)
marginal | just barely adequate or within a lower limit, a bare majority, a marginal victory |