Awkward
(a.) Wanting dexterity in the use of the hands, or of instruments |
Awkward
(a.) Not easily managed or effected |
Awkward
(a.) Perverse |
Difficulties
(pl. ) of Difficulty |
Land
(n.) Urine. See Lant. |
Land
(n.) The solid part of the surface of the earth |
Land
(n.) Any portion, large or small, of the surface of the earth, considered by itself, or as belonging to an individual or a people, as a country, estate, farm, or tract. |
Land
(n.) Ground, in respect to its nature or quality |
Land
(n.) The inhabitants of a nation or people. |
Land
(n.) The mainland, in distinction from islands. |
Land
(n.) The ground or floor. |
Land
(n.) The ground left unplowed between furrows |
Land
(n.) Any ground, soil, or earth whatsoever, as meadows, pastures, woods, etc., and everything annexed to it, whether by nature, as trees, water, etc., or by the hand of man, as buildings, fences, etc. |
Land
(n.) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat |
Land
(n.) In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, as the level part of a millstone between the furrows, or the surface of the bore of a rifled gun between the grooves. |
Land
(v. t.) To set or put on shore from a ship or other water craft |
Land
(v. t.) To catch and bring to shore |
Land
(v. t.) To set down after conveying |
Land
(v. i.) To go on shore from a ship or boat |
Land-poor
(a.) Pecuniarily embarrassed through owning much unprofitable land. |
Make
(n.) A companion |
Make
(v. t.) To cause to exist |
Make
(v. t.) To form of materials |
Make
(v. t.) To produce, as something artificial, unnatural, or false |
Make
(v. t.) To bring about |
Make
(v. t.) To execute with the requisite formalities |
Make
(v. t.) To gain, as the result of one's efforts |
Make
(v. t.) To find, as the result of calculation or computation |
Make
(v. t.) To put a desired or desirable condition |
Make
(v. t.) To cause to be or become |
Make
(v. t.) To cause to appear to be |
Make
(v. t.) To require |
Make
(v. t.) To become |
Make
(v. t.) To compose, as parts, ingredients, or materials |
Make
(v. t.) To be engaged or concerned in. |
Make
(v. t.) To reach |
Make
(v. i.) To act in a certain manner |
Make
(v. i.) To proceed |
Make
(v. i.) To tend |
Make
(v. i.) To increase |
Make
(v. i.) To compose verses |
Make
(n.) Structure, texture, constitution of parts |
Make-belief
(n.) A feigning to believe |
Make-believe
(n.) A feigning to believe, as in the play of children |
Make-believe
(a.) Feigned |
Make-game
(n.) An object of ridicule |
Make-peace
(n.) A peacemaker. |
Make-up
(n.) The way in which the parts of anything are put together |
No-man's land
() A space amidships used to keep blocks, ropes, etc. |
No-man's land
() Fig.: An unclaimed space or time. |
lift
raise
heave | the act of raising something, he responded with a lift of his eyebrow, fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up |
makeshift
stopgap
make-do | something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency |
| land reform | a redistribution of agricultural land (especially by government action) |
shuffle
shuffling
make | the act of mixing cards haphazardly |
| farming land | agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life, farming is a strenuous life, there's no work on the land any more |
royal tennis
real tennis
court tennis | an ancient form of tennis played in a four-walled court |
busywork
make-work | active work of little value, while he was waiting he filled the days with busywork |
| trouble difficulty | an effort that is inconvenient, I went to a lot of trouble, he won without any trouble, had difficulty walking, finished the test only with great difficulty |
make-believe
pretend | the enactment of a pretense, it was just pretend |
| raise | increasing the size of a bet (as in poker), I'll see your raise and double it |
| land development | making an area of land more useful |
| land-office business | very large and profitable volume of commercial activity |
| real-estate business | the business of selling real estate |
corncrake
land rail
Crex crex | common Eurasian rail that frequents grain fields |
land line
landline | a telephone line that travels over terrestrial circuits, a land line can be wire or fiber optics or microwave |
land mine
ground-emplaced mine
booby trap | an explosive mine hidden underground, explodes when stepped on or driven over |
| land office | a government office where business relating to public lands is transacted |
makeup
make-up
war paint | cosmetics applied to the face to improve or change your appearance |
Polaroid camera
Polaroid Land camera | a camera that develops and produces a positive print within seconds |
| real storage | the main memory in a virtual memory system |
real McCoy
real thing
real stuff | informal usage attributing authenticity |
twilight zone
no man's land | the ambiguous region between two categories or states or conditions (usually containing some features of both), but there is still a twilight zone, the tantalizing occurrences that are probably noise but might possibly be a signal, in the twilight zone between humor and vulgarity, in that no man's land between negotiation and aggression |
constitution
composition physical composition
makeup
make-up | the way in which someone or something is composed |
raise
rise wage hike
hike
wage increase
salary increase | the amount a salary is increased, he got a % raise, he got a wage hike |
acreage
land area | an area of ground used for some particular purpose (such as building or farming), he wanted some acreage to build on |
| clouduckoo-land | an imaginary place where you say people are when they seem optimistically out of touch with reality |
| Promised Land | the goal towards which Christians strive |
never-never land
dreamland
dreamworld | a pleasing country existing only in dreams or imagination |
trouble
problem | a source of difficulty, one trouble after another delayed the job, what's the problem? |
pretense pretence
make-believe | imaginative intellectual play |
real world
real life | the practical world as opposed to the academic world, a good consultant must have a lot of experience in the real world |
brand
make | a recognizable kind, there's a new brand of hero in the movies now, what make of car is that? |
| real presence | (Christianity) the Christian doctrine that the body of Christ is actually present in the Eucharist |
| trouble | an event causing distress or pain, what is the trouble?, heart trouble |
makeup
make-up | an event that is substituted for a previously cancelled event, he missed the test and had to take a makeup, the two teams played a makeup one week later |
fuss
trouble bother
hassle | an angry disturbance, he didn't want to make a fuss, they had labor trouble, a spot of bother |
worry
trouble | a strong feeling of anxiety, his worry over the prospect of being fired, it is not work but worry that kills, he wanted to die and end his troubles |
Real IRA
Real Irish Republican Army
RIRA
Dissident Irish Republican Army | a radical terrorist group that broke away in when the mainstream Provisional IRA proposed a cease-fire, has continued terrorist activities in opposition to any peace agreement |
Real Estate Investment Trust
REIT | an investment trust that owns and manages a pool of commercial properties and mortgages and other real estate assets, shares can be bought and sold in the stock market |
| nation land country | the people who live in a nation or country, a statement that sums up the nation's mood, the news was announced to the nation, the whole country worshipped him |
state
nation
country
land
commonwealth
res publica
body politic | a politically organized body of people under a single government, the state has elected a new president, African nations, students who had come to the nation's capitol, the country's largest manufacturer, an industrialized land |
| real matrix | a matrix whose elements are all real numbers |
| law of the land | a phrase used in the Magna Carta to refer to the then established law of the kingdom (as distinct from Roman or civil law), today it refers to fundamental principles of justice commensurate with due process, the United States Constitution declares itself to be `the supreme law of the land' |
Adelie Land
Terre Adelie
Adelie Coast | a costal region of Antarctica to the south of Australia, noted for its large colonies of penguins |
fatherland
homeland
motherland
mother country
country of origin
native land | the country where you were born |
| Coats Land | a region of western Antarctica along the southeastern shore of the Weddell Sea |
| commons common land | a pasture subject to common use |
country
state
land | the territory occupied by a nation, he returned to the land of his birth, he visited several European countries |
domain
demesne
land | territory over which rule or control is exercised, his domain extended into Europe, he made it the law of the land |
Eden
paradise nirvana
heaven promised land Shangri-la | any place of complete bliss and delight and peace |