| bubble bath | a bath in which you add something to foam and scent the bath water |
| bubble dance | a solo dance similar to a fan dance except large balloons are used instead of fans |
| bubble shell | marine gastropod mollusk having a very small thin shell |
blister pack
bubble pack | packaging in which a product is sealed between a cardboard backing and clear plastic cover |
| bubble | a dome-shaped covering made of transparent glass or plastic |
| bubble chamber | an instrument that records the tracks of ionizing particles |
bubble jet printer
bubble-jet printer
bubblejet | a kind of ink-jet printer |
column
pillar a | (architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure |
| column pillar | a vertical cylindrical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (such as a monument) |
| column chromatography column | a vertical glass tube used in column chromatography, a mixture is poured in the top and washed through a stationary substance where components of the mixture are adsorbed selectively to form colored bands |
b hookah
narghile
nargileh
sheesha
shisha
chicha
calean
kalian
water pipe
hubble-bubble
hubbly-bubbly | an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water, a bipolar world with the hookah and Turkish coffee versus hamburgers and Coca Cola |
lally
lally column | support column consisting of a steel cylinder filled with concrete |
| magnetic bubble memory | a nonvolatile storage device that holds information in the form of bubbles on a thin film of magnetic silicate, no longer used in most computers |
| support column | a column that supports a heavy weight |
| column | any tubular or pillar-like supporting structure in the body |
spinal column
vertebral column
spine
backbone
back rachis | the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord, the fall broke his back |
| bubble | an impracticable and illusory idea, he didn't want to burst the newcomer's bubble |
house of cards
bubble | a speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control, his proposal was nothing but a house of cards, a real estate bubble |
| column | a page or text that is vertically divided, the newspaper devoted several columns to the subject, the bookkeeper used pages that were divided into columns |
column
editorial
newspaper column | an article giving opinions or perspectives |
| agony column | a newspaper column devoted to personal problems |
| bubble gum | a kind of chewing gum that can be blown into bubbles |
| bubble and squeak | leftover cabbage fried with cooked potatoes and sometimes meat |
oil industry
refining industry
oil business | an industry that produces and delivers oil and oil products |
fifth column
Trojan horse | a subversive group that supports the enemy and engages in espionage or sabotage, an enemy in your midst |
| column | a line of units following one after another |
| column | a vertical array of numbers or other information, he added a column of numbers |
| air bubble | a bubble of air |
| bubble | a hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide) |
| soap bubble | a bubble formed by a thin soap film |
| column chromatography | chromatography that uses selective adsorption by a column of powders |
refining
refinement
purification | the process of removing impurities (as from oil or metals or sugar etc.) |
column inch
inch | a unit of measurement for advertising space |
column tower
pillar | anything that approximates the shape of a column or tower, the test tube held a column of white powder, a tower of dust rose above the horizon, a thin pillar of smoke betrayed their campsite |
| bubble gum dermatitis | an allergic contact dermatitis developed around the lips of children who chew bubble gum |
burp
bubble
belch
eruct | expel gas from the stomach, In China it is polite to burp at the table |
| bubble | form, produce, or emit bubbles, The soup was bubbling |
| bubble | cause to form bubbles, bubble gas through a liquid |
bubble over
overflow
spill over | overflow with a certain feeling, The children bubbled over with joy, My boss was bubbling over with anger |
| bubble | rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles, bubble to the surface |
bubble up
intumesce | move upwards in bubbles, as from the effect of heating, also used metaphorically, Gases bubbled up from the earth, Marx's ideas have bubbled up in many places in Latin America |
ripple
babble
guggle
burble
bubble
gurgle | flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise, babbling brooks |