apache devil dance | a ritual dance of the Apache |
the devil | something difficult or awkward to do or deal with, it will be the devil to solve |
diabolatry demonolatry devil-worship | the acts or rites of worshiping devils |
devil ray Mobula hypostoma | small manta (to feet) that travels in schools |
mountain devil spiny lizard Moloch horridus | desert lizard that feeds on ants |
Tasmanian devil ursine dasyure Sarcophilus hariisi | small ferocious carnivorous marsupial having a mostly black coat and long tail |
dragonfly darning needle devil's darning needle sewing needle snake feeder snake doctor mosquito hawk skeeter hawk | slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest, adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc. |
amobarbital sodium blue blue angel blue devil Amytal | the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate, used as a sedative and a hypnotic |
secobarbital sodium secobarbital Seconal red devil | barbiturate that is a white odorless slightly bitter powder (trade name Seconal) used as a sodium salt for sedation and to treat convulsions |
devil deuce dickens | a word used in exclamations of confusion, what the devil, the deuce with it, the dickens you say |
devil's food devil's food cake | very dark chocolate cake |
devil fiend demon daemon daimon | an evil supernatural being |
Satan Old Nick Devil Lucifer Beelzebub the Tempter Prince of Darkness | (Judeo-Christian and Islamic religions) chief spirit of evil and adversary of God, tempter of mankind, master of Hell |
devil's advocate | someone who takes the worse side just for the sake of argument |
devil worshiper | someone who worships devils |
hellion heller devil | a rowdy or mischievous person (usually a young man), he chased the young hellions out of his yard |
Marine devil dog leatherneck shipboard soldier | a member of the United States Marine Corps |
monster fiend devil demon ogre | a cruel wicked and inhuman person |
poor devil wretch | someone you feel sorry for |
printer's devil | an apprentice in a printing establishment |
she-devil | a cruel woman |
dust devil | a miniature whirlwind strong enough to whip dust and leaves and litter into the air |
virgin's bower old man's beard devil's darning needle Clematis virginiana | common climber of eastern North America that sprawls over other plants and bears numerous panicles of small creamy white flowers |
dita dita bark devil tree Alstonia scholaris | evergreen tree of eastern Asia and Philippines having large leathery leaves and small green-white flowers in compact cymes, bark formerly used medicinally |
devil's tongue snake palm umbrella arum Amorphophallus rivieri | foul-smelling somewhat fleshy tropical plant of southeastern Asia cultivated for its edible corms or in the greenhouse for its large leaves and showy dark red spathe surrounding a large spadix |
American angelica tree devil's walking stick Hercules'lub Aralia spinosa | small deciduous clump-forming tree or shrub of eastern United States |
prickly poppy argemone white thistle devil's fig | any plant of the genus Argemone having large white or yellow flowers and prickly leaves and stems and pods, chiefly of tropical America |
king devil yellow hawkweed Hieracium praealtum | European hawkweed introduced into northeastern United States, locally troublesome weeds |
Bermuda grass devil grass Bahama grass kweek doob scutch grass star grass Cynodon dactylon | trailing grass native to Europe now cosmopolitan in warm regions, used for lawns and pastures especially in southern United States and India |
white bryony devil's turnip Bryonia alba | white-flowered vine having thick roots and bearing small black berries, Europe to Iran |
honeyflower honey-flower mountain devil Lambertia formosa | erect bushy shrub of eastern Australia having terminal clusters of red flowers yielding much nectar |
tiger lily devil lily kentan Lilium lancifolium | east Asian perennial having large reddish-orange black-spotted flowers with reflexed petals |
caltrop devil's weed Tribulus terestris | tropical annual procumbent poisonous subshrub having fruit that splits into five spiny nutlets, serious pasture weed |
blueweed blue devil blue thistle viper's bugloss Echium vulgare | a coarse prickly European weed with spikes of blue flowers, naturalized in United States |
common unicorn plant devil's claw common devil's claw elephant-tusk proboscis flower ram's horn Proboscidea louisianica | annual of southern United States to Mexico having large whitish or yellowish flowers mottled with purple and a long curving beak |
sand devil's claw Proboscidea arenaria Martynia arenaria | alternatively placed in genus Martynia |
toadflax butter-and-eggs wild snapdragon devil's flax Linaria vulgaris | common European perennial having showy yellow and orange flowers, a naturalized weed in North America |
mandrake devil's apples Mandragora officinarum | a plant of southern Europe and North Africa having purple flowers, yellow fruits and a forked root formerly thought to have magical powers |
sun spurge wartweed wartwort devil's milk Euphorbia helioscopia | not unattractive European weed whose flowers turn toward the sun |
petty spurge devil's milk Euphorbia peplus | an Old World spurge introduced as a weed in the eastern United States |
spurge nettle tread-softly devil nettle pica-pica Cnidoscolus urens Jatropha urens Jatropha stimulosus | a stinging herb of tropical America |
devil's cigar | a common name for a variety of Sarcosomataceae |
devil's urn | a common name for a variety of Sarcosomataceae |
speak of the devil | mention someone's name who just then appears |
devil | coat or stuff with a spicy paste, devilled eggs |
d annoy rag get to bother get at irritate rile nark nettle gravel vex chafe devil dddbbb | cause annoyance in, disturb, especially by minor irritations, Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me, It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves |
devil-may-care raffish rakish | marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness, a cocktail party given by some...raffish bachelors- Crary Moore |
carefree devil-may-care freewheeling happy-go-lucky harum-scarum slaphappy | cheerfully irresponsible, carefree with his money, freewheeling urban youths, had a harum-scarum youth |
like hell like mad like crazy like sin like thunder like the devil | with great speed or effort or intensity, drove like crazy, worked like hell to get the job done, ran like sin for the storm cellar, work like thunder, fought like the devil |