two-handed backhand | a backhand shot made holding the racquet in both hands |
heavy lifting | difficult work, the boss hoped the plan would succeed but he wasn't willing to do the heavy lifting |
artillery heavy weapon gun ordnance | large but transportable armament |
two-handed saw whipsaw two-man saw lumberman's saw | a saw with handles at both ends, intended for use by two people |
heavy | a serious (or tragic) role in a play |
heavy metal heavy metal music | loud and harsh sounding rock music with a strong beat, lyrics usually involve violent or fantastic imagery |
ground swell heavy swell | a broad and deep undulation of the ocean |
double creme heavy whipping cream | cream with a fat content of % or more |
heavy cream | contains more than % butterfat |
baryon heavy particle | any of the elementary particles having a mass equal to or greater than that of a proton and that participate in strong interactions, a hadron with a baryon number of |
heavy hitter | an influential person who works hard to promote the causes they are interested in |
heavy | an actor who plays villainous roles |
left-handed pitcher left-hander left hander lefthander lefty southpaw | a baseball pitcher who throws the ball with the left hand |
right-handed pitcher right-hander | (baseball) a pitcher who throws with the right hand |
heavy metal | a metal of relatively high density (specific gravity greater than about ) or of high relative atomic weight (especially one that is poisonous like mercury or lead) |
deuterium heavy hydrogen | an isotope of hydrogen which has one neutron (as opposed to zero neutrons in hydrogen) |
heavy spar barite barytes barium sulphate | a white or colorless mineral (BaSO), the main source of barium |
heavy water deuterium oxide | water containing a substantial proportion of deuterium atoms, used in nuclear reactors |
short-handed short-staffed undermanned understaffed | inadequate in number of workers or assistants etc., they're rather short-handed at the moment, overcrowded and understaffed hospitals |
bumbling bungling butterfingered ham-fisted ham-handed handless heavy-handed left-handed | lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands, a bumbling mechanic, a bungling performance, ham-handed governmental interference, could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature- Mary H. Vorse |
left-handed | ironically ambiguous, a left-handed compliment |
big(p) enceinte expectant gravid great(p) large(p) heavy(p) with child(p) | in an advanced stage of pregnancy, was big with child, was great with child |
dextrorotary dextrorotatory right-handed | rotating to the right |
levorotary levorotatory left-handed | rotating to the left |
heavy-coated | wearing a heavy coat, heavy-coated policemen astride noble horses |
heavy lowering sullen threatening | darkened by clouds, a heavy sky |
clayey cloggy heavy | (used of soil) compact and fine-grained, the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated |
handed-down tralatitious | having been passed along from generation to generation, among Biblical critics a tralatitious interpretation is one received by expositor from expositor |
heavy profound sound wakeles | (of sleep) deep and complete, a heavy sleep, fell into a profound sleep, a sound sleeper, deep wakeless sleep |
light-handed | having a metaphorically delicate touch, the translation is...light-handed...and generally unobtrusive- New Yorker |
single-handed | without help from others, a single-handed accomplishment |
cavalier high-handed | given to haughty disregard of others |
heavy-handed roughshod | unjustly domineering, incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic policies, a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition |
heavy leaden | lacking lightness or liveliness, heavy humor, a leaden conversation |
a arduous backbreaking grueling gruelling hard heavy laborious operose punishing toilsome | characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion, especially physical effort, worked their arduous way up the mining valley, a grueling campaign, hard labor, heavy work, heavy going, spent many laborious hours on the project, set a punishing pace |
heavy labored laboured | requiring or showing effort, heavy breathing, the subject made for labored reading |
burdened heavy-laden loaded down | bearing a physically heavy weight or load, tree limbs burdened with ice, a heavy-laden cart, loaded down with packages |
fleshy heavy overweight | usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it |
heavy weighed down | full of, bearing great weight, trees heavy with fruit, vines weighed down with grapes |
empty-handed | carrying nothing in the hands |
heavy | sharply inclined, a heavy grade |
heavy | dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal, a heavy pudding |
heavy | of comparatively great physical weight or density, a heavy load, lead is a heavy metal, heavy mahogany furniture |
heavy-duty | designed for heavy work, a heavy-duty detergent, heavy-duty gloves |
heavy | large and powerful, especially designed for heavy loads or rough work, a heavy truck, heavy machinery |
heavy | marked by great psychological weight, weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness, a heavy heart, a heavy schedule, heavy news, a heavy silence, heavy eyelids |
heavy | unusually great in degree or quantity or number, heavy taxes, a heavy fine, heavy casualties, heavy losses, heavy rain, heavy traffic |
heavy | (physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight, heavy hydrogen, heavy water |
heavy | of great intensity or power or force, a heavy blow, the fighting was heavy, heavy seas |
heavy-footed | (of movement) lacking ease or lightness, his tired heavy-footed walk |