Bay salt () Salt which has been obtained from sea water, by evaporation in shallow pits or basins, by the heat of the sun |
Bell pepper () A species of Capsicum, or Guinea pepper (C. annuum). It is the red pepper of the gardens. |
Bird pepper () A species of capsicum (Capsicum baccatum), whose small, conical, coral-red fruit is among the most piquant of all red peppers. |
Cat-salt (n.) A sort of salt, finely granulated, formed out of the bittern or leach brine. |
Cellar (n.) A room or rooms under a building, and usually below the surface of the ground, where provisions and other stores are kept. |
salt () Sulphate of magnesia having cathartic qualities |
Glauber's salt () Alt. of Glauber's salts |
Hair-salt (n.) A variety of native Epsom salt occurring in silky fibers. |
Monsel's salt () A basic sulphate of iron |
Pepper (n.) A well-known, pungently aromatic condiment, the dried berry, either whole or powdered, of the Piper nigrum. |
Pepper (n.) The plant which yields pepper, an East Indian woody climber (Piper nigrum), with ovate leaves and apetalous flowers in spikes opposite the leaves. The berries are red when ripe. Also, by extension, any one of the several hundred species of the genus Piper, widely dispersed throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the earth. |
Pepper (n.) Any plant of the genus Capsicum, and its fruit |
Pepper (v. t.) To sprinkle or season with pepper. |
Pepper (v. t.) Figuratively: To shower shot or other missiles, or blows, upon |
Pepper (v. i.) To fire numerous shots (at). |
Pepper dulse () A variety of edible seaweed (Laurencia pinnatifida) distinguished for its pungency. |
Salt (n.) The chloride of sodium, a substance used for seasoning food, for the preservation of meat, etc. It is found native in the earth, and is also produced, by evaporation and crystallization, from sea water and other water impregnated with saline particles. |
Salt (n.) Hence, flavor |
Salt (n.) Hence, also, piquancy |
Salt (n.) A dish for salt at table |
Salt (n.) A sailor |
Salt (n.) The neutral compound formed by the union of an acid and a base |
Salt (n.) Fig.: That which preserves from corruption or error |
Salt (n.) Any mineral salt used as an aperient or cathartic, especially Epsom salts, Rochelle salt, or Glauber's salt. |
Salt (n.) Marshes flooded by the tide. |
Salt (n.) Of or relating to salt |
Salt (n.) Overflowed with, or growing in, salt water |
Salt (n.) Fig.: Bitter |
Salt (n.) Fig.: Salacious |
Salt (v. t.) To sprinkle, impregnate, or season with salt |
Salt (v. t.) To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber. |
Salt (v. i.) To deposit salt as a saline solution |
Salt (n.) The act of leaping or jumping |
Salt-green (a.) Sea-green in color. |
Salt rheum () A popular name, esp. in the United States, for various cutaneous eruptions, particularly for those of eczema. See Eczema. |
Sea salt () Common salt, obtained from sea water by evaporation. |
Water pepper () Smartweed. |
Water pepper () Waterwort. |
treadmill salt mine | a job involving drudgery and confinement |
basement cellar | the lowermost portion of a structure partly or wholly below ground level, often used for storage |
cellar wine cellar | storage space where wines are stored |
pepper-and-salt | a fabric woven with flecks of light and dark |
pepper mill pepper grinder | a mill for grinding pepper |
pepper shaker pepper box pepper pot | a shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling ground pepper |
pepper spray | a nonlethal aerosol spray made with the pepper derivative oleoresin capiscum, used to cause temporary blindness and incapacitate an attacker, also used as a bear deterrent |
root cellar cellar | an excavation where root vegetables are stored |
salt mine | a mine where salt is dug |
saltshaker salt shaker | a shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling salt |
storm cellar cyclone cellar tornado cellar | an underground shelter where you can go until a storm passes |
salt saltiness salinity | the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth |
SALT I | the first treaty between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics resulting from the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks |
SALT II | the second treaty between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics resulting from the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks |
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks SALT | negotiations between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics opened in in Helsinki designed to limit both countries' stock of nuclear weapons |
low-sodium diet low-salt diet salt-free diet | a diet that limits the intake of salt (sodium chloride), often used in treating hypertension or edema or certain other disorders |
pepper pot Philadelphia pepper pot | a soup made with vegetables and tripe and seasoned with peppercorns, often contains dumplings |
salt pork | fat from the back and sides and belly of a hog carcass cured with salt |
pepper | sweet and hot varieties of fruits of plants of the genus Capsicum |
sweet pepper | large mild crisp thick-walled capsicum peppers usually bell-shaped or somewhat oblong, commonly used in salads |
bell pepper | large bell-shaped sweet pepper in green or red or yellow or orange or black varieties |
green pepper | a sweet pepper that becomes red when ripe |
globe pepper | round sweet pepper |
hot pepper | any of various pungent capsicum fruits |
chili chili pepper chilli chilly chile | very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency |
jalapeno jalapeno pepper | hot green or red pepper of southwestern United States and Mexico |
cayenne cayenne pepper | a long and often twisted hot red pepper |
tabasco red pepper | very hot red peppers, usually long and thin, some very small |
salt cod | codfish preserved in salt, must be desalted and flaked by soaking in water and pounding, used in e.g. codfish cakes |
salt table salt common salt | white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food |
celery salt | ground celery seed and salt |
garlic salt | ground dried garlic and salt |
onion salt | ground dried onion and salt |
seasoned salt | combination of salt and vegetable extracts and spices and monosodium glutamate |
sour salt | crystals of citric acid used as seasoning |
pepper peppercorn | pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India, use whole or ground |
black pepper | pepper that is ground from whole peppercorns with husks on |
white pepper | pepper ground from husked peppercorns |
cayenne cayenne pepper red pepper | ground pods and seeds of pungent red peppers of the genus Capsicum |
pepper sauce Poivrade | for venison: brown sauce with sauteed vegetables and trimmings and marinade and plenty of pepper |
pepper steak | strips of steak sauteed with green peppers and onions |
steak au poivre peppered steak pepper steak | steak covered with crushed peppercorns pan-broiled and served with brandy-and-butter sauce |
Salt Lake City capital of Utah | the capital and largest city of Utah, located near the Great Salt Lake in north central Utah, world capital of the Mormon Church |
Dasht-e-Kavir Kavir Desert Great Salt Desert | a salt desert in north central Iran |
Great Salt Lake | a shallow body of salt water in northwestern Utah |
salt flat salt plain | a flat expanse of salt left by the evaporation of a body of salt water |
salt lick lick | a salt deposit that animals regularly lick |
salt marsh | low-lying wet land that is frequently flooded with saltwater |
mariner seaman tar Jack-tar Jack old salt seafarer gob sea dog | a man who serves as a sailor |
salter salt merchant | someone who makes or deals in salt |