| finger-painting | painting by using the fingers to spread the paint |
| steering steerage | the act of steering a ship |
steering
guidance
direction | the act of setting and holding a course, a new council was installed under the direction of the king |
| guidance steering | the act of guiding or showing the way |
bones
castanets
clappers
finger cymbals | a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance |
| finger | one of the parts of a glove that provides covering for a finger or thumb |
| finger bowl | small bowl for rinsing the fingers at table |
| finger hole | a hole for inserting a finger |
| finger hole | one of a series of holes in a woodwind instrument, pitch changes when a finger covers it |
finger paint
fingerpaint | paint that has the consistency of jelly |
| finger-painting | a painting produced by spreading paint with the fingers |
finger plate
escutcheon scutcheon | a flat protective covering (on a door or wall etc) to prevent soiling by dirty fingers |
power steering
power-assisted steering | automotive steering where engineer power amplifies the torque applied to the steering wheel |
| steering gear | a gear that couples the steering wheel to the steering linkage of a motor vehicle |
| steering linkage | mechanism consisting of a system of rods and levers connected to the front wheels of a motor vehicle, the steering gear pushes it left or right which swivels the front wheels, causing the vehicle to turn |
steering system
steering mechanism | a mechanism by which something is steered (especially a motor vehicle) |
steering wheel
wheel | a handwheel that is used for steering |
| finger wave | a wave made with the fingers |
| finger | any of the terminal members of the hand (sometimes excepting the thumb), her fingers were long and thin |
index
index finger
forefinger | the finger next to the thumb |
ring finger
annualry | the third finger (especially of the left hand) |
| middle finger | the second finger, between the index finger and the ring finger |
little finger
pinkie
pinky | the finger farthest from the thumb |
manual alphabet
finger alphabet | an alphabet used by the deaf, letters are represented by finger positions |
finger scan
finger scanning | biometric identification by automatically scanning a person's fingerprints electronically |
finger spelling
fingerspelling | an alphabet of manual signs |
finger-pointing
fingerpointing | the imputation of blame, they want all the finger-pointing about intelligence failures to stop |
| finger food | food to be eaten with the fingers |
fish stick
fish finger | a long fillet of fish breaded and fried |
| steering committee | a committee to arrange the order of business for some larger (legislative) body |
| Finger Lakes | a geographical area in central New York State that is named for a series of narrow glacial lakes that lie parallel in a north-south direction |
| finger grass | any grass of the genus Chloris, occurs in short grassland especially on waste ground or poor soils |
crabgrass
crab grass
finger grass | grasses with creeping stems that root freely, a pest in lawns |
large crabgrass
hairy finger grass
Digitaria sanguinalis | a European forage grass grown for hay, a naturalized weed in United States |
finger millet
ragi
ragee
African millet
coracan
corakan
kurakkan
Eleusine coracana | East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient |
okra
gumbo
okra plant
lady's-finger
Abelmoschus esculentus
Hibiscus esculentus | tall coarse annual of Old World tropics widely cultivated in southern United States and West Indies for its long mucilaginous green pods used as basis for soups and stews, sometimes placed in genus Hibiscus |
cinquefoil
five-finger | any of a numerous plants grown for their five-petaled flowers, abundant in temperate regions, alleged to have medicinal properties |
common foxglove
fairy bell
fingerflower
finger-flower
fingerroot
fingeroot
Digitalis purpurea | tall leafy European biennial or perennial having spectacular clusters of large tubular pink-purple flowers, leaves yield drug digitalis and are poisonous to livestock |
finger fingerbreadth
finger's breadth
digit | the length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure |
fingerspell
finger-spell | communicate by means of specific gestures, as an alternative to sign language, The Deaf often fingerspell |
| finger | indicate the fingering for the playing of musical scores for keyboard instruments |
feel
finger | examine by touch, Feel this soft cloth!, The customer fingered the sweater |
finger
thumb | feel or handle with the fingers, finger the binding of the book |
| finger | search for on the computer, I fingered my boss and found that he is not logged on in the afternoons |
| finger-paint | apply colors with one's fingers |