bell ringer
bull's eye mark home run | something that exactly succeeds in achieving its goal, the new advertising campaign was a bell ringer, scored a bull's eye, hit the mark, the president's speech was a home run |
homer
home run | a base hit on which the batter scores a run |
| home game | a game played at home |
| home invasion | burglary of a dwelling while the residents are at home |
| home study | a course of study carried out at home rather than in a classroom |
harvest harvesting
harvest home | the gathering of a ripened crop |
| home banking | banking in which transactions are conducted by means of electronic communication (via telephone or computer) |
bread-bin
breadbox | a container used to keep bread or cake in |
breadboard
bread board | a wooden or plastic board on which dough is kneaded or bread is sliced |
| bread knife | a knife used to cut bread |
camper
camping bus
motor home | a recreational vehicle equipped for camping out while traveling |
detention home
detention house
house of detention
detention camp | an institution where juvenile offenders can be held temporarily (usually under the supervision of a juvenile court) |
dwelling
home
domicile
abode
habitation
dwelling house | housing that someone is living in, he built a modest dwelling near the pond, they raise money to provide homes for the homeless |
funeral home
funeral parlor
funeral parlour
funeral chapel
funeral church
funeralesidence | a mortuary where those who knew the deceased can come to pay their last respects |
headquarters central office
main office
home office
home base | (usually plural) the office that serves as the administrative center of an enterprise, many companies have their headquarters in New York |
home nursing home
rest home | an institution where people are cared for, a home for the elderly |
home appliance
household appliance | an appliance that does a particular job in the home |
| home computer | a computer intended for use in the home |
| home court | (basketball) the court where the host team plays its home games |
| home-farm | a farm that supplies the needs of a large estate of establishment |
home plate
home base home plate | (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands, it must be touched by a base runner in order to score, he ruled that the runner failed to touch home |
home room
homeroom | a classroom in which all students in a particular grade (or in a division of a grade) meet at certain times under the supervision of a teacher who takes attendance and does other administrative business |
home theater
home theatre | television and video equipment designed to reproduce in the home the experience of being in a movie theater |
mental hospital
psychiatric hospital
mental institution
institution mental home
insane asylum
asylum | a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person |
mobile home
manufactured home | a large house trailer that can be connected to utilities and can be parked in one place and used as permanent housing |
soap scoop max
liquid ecstasy
grievous bodily harm
goop
Georgia home boy
easy lay | street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate |
| stately home | a mansion that is (or formerly was) occupied by an aristocratic family |
| vacation home | a dwelling (a second home) where you live while you are on vacation |
pocketbook issue
bread-and-butter issue | an issue whose settlement will affect financial resources |
| home truth | an important truth that is unpleasant to acknowledge (as about yourself) |
home economics
home ec
domestic science
household arts | theory and practice of homemaking |
home page
homepage | the opening page of a web site |
| home movie | a film made at home by an amateur photographer |
tonic key
home key | the basic key in which a piece of music is written |
| home stand | a series of successive games played at a team's home field or court |
carob
carob powder
Saint-John's-bread | powder from the ground seeds and pods of the carob tree, used as a chocolate substitute |
| baked Alaska | cake covered with ice cream and meringue browned quickly in an oven |
| baked goods | foods (like breads and cakes and pastries) that are cooked in an oven |
bread
breadstuff staff of life | food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked |
| anadama bread | a yeastaised bread made of white flour and cornmeal and molasses |
breadstick
bread-stick | a crisp stick-shaped roll, often served with soup |
| brown bread Boston brown bread | dark steamed bread made of cornmeal wheat and flour with molasses and soda and milk or water |
| tea bread | sweetened buns to be eaten with tea |
| caraway seed bread | bread containing caraway seeds |
| cinnamon bread | bread flavored with cinnamon often containing raisins |
| cracked-wheat bread | bread made with cracked wheat that has been ground fine |
dark bread
whole wheat bread
whole meal bread
brown bread | bread made with whole wheat flour |
| garlic bread | French or Italian bread sliced and spread with garlic butter then crisped in the oven |
| gluten bread | bread made with gluten flour |
| graham bread | bread made of graham (whole wheat) flour |