| smooth | the act of smoothing, he gave his hair a quick smooth |
| smooth dogfish | small bottom-dwelling shark found along both Atlantic coasts |
American smooth dogfish
Mustelus canis | found along the Atlantic coast of the Americas |
smooth hammerhead
Sphyrna zygaena | fished for the hides and vitaminich liver |
smooth softshell
Trionyx muticus | river turtle of Mississippi basin, prefers running water |
smooth green snake
Opheodrys vernalis | of western and central United States |
| smooth-haired fox terrier | a fox terrier with smooth hair |
smooth plane
smoothing plane | a small plane for finish work |
| smooth muscle | muscle tissue that does not appear striated under the microscope, has the form of thin layers or sheets |
smooth muscle
involuntary muscle | a muscle that contracts without conscious control and found in walls of internal organs such as stomach and intestine and bladder and blood vessels (excluding the heart) |
| smooth muscle cell | cells of the smooth muscles |
dundathu pine
queensland kauri
smooth bark kauri
Agathis robusta | Australian timber tree resembling the kauri but having wood much lighter in weight and softer |
smooth darling pea
Swainsona galegifolia | erect or trailing perennial of eastern Australia having axillary racemes of blue to purple or red flowers |
| smooth aster | a variety of aster |
smooth crabgrass
Digitaria ischaemum | a weed |
smooth alder
hazel alder
Alnus serrulata | common shrub of the eastern United States with smooth bark |
smooth-leaved elm
European field elm
Ulmus carpinifolia | European elm with lustrous smooth leaves used as an ornamental |
| smooth winterberry holly | a holly shrub |
smooth sumac
scarlet sumac
vinegar tree
Rhus glabra | common nonpoisonous shrub of eastern North America with waxy compound leaves and green paniculate flowers followed by red berries |
Scleroderma bovista
smooth earthball | an earthball with a peridium that is firm dry and smooth when young but developing cracks when mature, pale orange-yellow when young and reddish brown at maturity |
smooth woodsia
Woodsia glabella | rock-inhabiting fern of Arctic and subarctic Europe to eastern Asia |
smooth lip fern
Alabama lip fern
Cheilanthes alabamensis | southeastern United States to northern Mexico and Jamaica |
polish
smooth smoothen shine | make (a surface) shine, shine the silver, please, polish my shoes |
smooth
smoothen | make smooth or smoother, as if by rubbing, smooth the surface of the wood |
smooth
smooth out | free from obstructions, smooth the way towards peace negotiations |
gloss over
skate over
smooth over
slur over
skimp over | treat hurriedly or avoid dealing with properly |
eloquent
facile
fluent
silver
silver-tongued
smooth-spoken | expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively, able to dazzle with his facile tongue, silver speech |
| tongued | having a manner of speaking as specified, often used in combination, golden-tongued, sharp-tongued |
beardless
smooth-faced | lacking hair on the face, a smooth-faced boy of years |
| smooth-haired | having hair that feels smooth |
placid
quiet
still
tranquil
smooth
unruffled | (of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves, a ribbon of sand between the angry sea and the placid bay, the quiet waters of a lagoon, a lake of tranquil blue water reflecting a tranquil blue sky, a smooth channel crossing, scarcely a ripple on the still water, unruffled water |
| smooth-bodied | having a smooth body |
| smooth | lacking obstructions or difficulties, the bill's path through the legislature was smooth and orderly |
politic
smooth
suave
bland | smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication, he was too politic to quarrel with so important a personage, the manager pacified the customer with a smooth apology for the error |
fluent fluid
liquid
smooth | smooth and unconstrained in movement, a long, smooth stride, the fluid motion of a cat, the liquid grace of a ballerina |
ambidextrous
deceitful double-dealing
duplicitous
Janus-faced
two-faced
double-faced
double-tongued | marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another, she was a deceitful scheming little thing- Israel Zangwill, a double-dealing double agent, a double-faced infernal traitor and schemer- W.M.Thackeray |
glib
glib-tongued
smooth-tongued | artfully persuasive in speech, a glib tongue, a smooth-tongued hypocrite |
clean-shaven
smooth-shaven
well-shaven | closely shaved recently |
| smooth | having a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges or irregularities, smooth skin, a smooth tabletop, smooth fabric, a smooth road, water as smooth as a mirror |
fine-textured
smooth-textured | having a smooth, fine-grained structure |
| smooth | of motion that runs or flows or proceeds without jolts or turbulence, a smooth ride |
| smooth | of the margin of a leaf shape, not broken up into teeth |
legato
smooth | (music) without breaks between notes, smooth and connected, a legato passage |
| tongued | provided with or resembling a tongue, often used in combination, tongued shoes, tongued boards, toungued lightning, long-tongued |
| smooth-shelled | having a smooth shell |
| smooth-skinned | having smooth skin |