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 |
long-billed marsh wren Cistothorus palustris | American wren that inhabits tall reed beds |
sedge wren short-billed marsh wren Cistothorus platensis | small American wren inhabiting wet sedgy meadows |
smooth softshell Trionyx muticus | river turtle of Mississippi basin, prefers running water |
hadrosaur hadrosaurus duck-billed dinosaur | any of numerous large bipedal ornithischian dinosaurs having a horny duck-like bill and webbed feet, may have been partly aquatic |
smooth green snake Opheodrys vernalis | of western and central United States |
black-billed cuckoo Coccyzus erythropthalmus | North American cuckoo, builds a nest and rears its own young |
ivorybill ivory-billed woodpecker Campephilus principalis | large black-and-white woodpecker of southern United States and Cuba having an ivory bill, nearly extinct |
platypus duckbill duckbilled platypus duck-billed platypus Ornithorhynchus anatinus | small densely furred aquatic monotreme of Australia and Tasmania having a broad bill and tail and webbed feet, only species in the family Ornithorhynchidae |
boatbill boat-billed heron broadbill Cochlearius cochlearius | tropical American heron related to night herons |
razorbill razor-billed auk Alca torda | black-and-white northern Atlantic auk having a compressed sharp-edged bill |
thick-billed murre Uria lomvia | a variety of murre |
pied-billed grebe Podilymbus podiceps | American grebe having a black-banded whitish bill |
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 |
billed | having a beak or bill as specified, a thick-billed bird, a long-billed cap |
duckbill duck-billed | having a beak resembling that of a duck, a duck-billed dinosaur |
short-beaked short-billed | having a short beak |
stout-billed | having a strong beak |
straight-billed | having a straight beak |
thick-billed | having a thick beak |
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 |