straight-arm | (American football) the act of warding off a tackler by holding the arm fully extended with the hand against the opponent |
straight ticket | a ballot cast by a voter who votes for all the candidates of one party |
straight and narrow strait and narrow | the way of proper and honest behavior, he taught his children to keep strictly to the straight and narrow |
straight hang | a hang performed on the rings or parallel bars with the body erect and the arms at the sides |
dead-man's float prone float | a floating position with the face down and arms stretched forward |
straight poker | poker in which each player gets cards face down and bets are made without drawing any further cards |
dead reckoning | navigation without the aid of celestial observations |
Office of the Dead | an office read or sung before a burial mass in the Roman Catholic Church |
lunge straight thrust passado | (fencing) an attacking thrust made with one foot forward and the back leg straight and with the sword arm outstretched forward |
blind alley cul de sac dead-end street impasse | a street with only one way in or out |
cul cul de sac dead end | a passage with access only at one end |
dead-air space | an unventilated area where no air circulates |
dead axle | an axle that carries a wheel but without power to drive it |
dead load | a constant load on a structure (e.g. a bridge) due to the weight of the supported structure itself |
flat arch straight arch | an arch with mutually supporting voussoirs that has a straight horizontal extrados and intrados |
morgue mortuary dead room | a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation |
straightaway straight | a straight segment of a roadway or racecourse |
straight chair side chair | a straight-backed chair without arms |
straight flute straight-fluted drill | a rock drill with flutes that are straight |
straight pin | pin consisting of a short straight stiff piece of wire with a pointed end, used to fasten pieces of cloth or paper together |
straight razor | a razor with a straight cutting edge enclosed in a case that forms a handle when the razor is opened for use |
dead weight | a heavy motionless weight |
dead center dead centre | the position of a crank when it is in line with the connecting rod and not exerting torque |
dead hand dead hand of the past mortmain | the oppressive influence of past events or decisions |
body dead body | a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person, they found the body in the lake |
straight sinus tentorial sinus sinus rectus | an unpaired sinus of the dura mater |
guess guesswork guessing shot dead reckoning | an estimate based on little or no information |
dead weight | an oppressive encumbrance |
dead language | a language that is no longer learned as a native language |
Dead Sea scrolls | (Old Testament) a collection of written scrolls (containing nearly all of the Old Testament) found in a cave near the Dead Sea in the late s, the Dead Sea Scrolls provide information about Judaism and the Bible around the time of Jesus |
dead letter dead mail | mail that can neither be delivered nor returned |
straight face | a serious facial expression giving no evidence of interest or amusement |
funeral march dead march | a slow march to be played for funeral processions |
dead metaphor frozen metaphor | a metaphor that has occurred so often that it has become a new meaning of the expression (e.g., `he is a snake' may once have been a metaphor but after years of use it has died and become a new sense of the word `snake') |
dead heat | a tie in a race |
dead | people who are no longer living, they buried the dead |
straight flush | a poker hand with consecutive cards in the same suit |
straight | a poker hand with consecutive cards (regardless of suit) |
dead drop | a drop used for the clandestine exchange of intelligence information, a dead drop avoids the need for an intelligence officer and a spy to be present at the same time |
Dead Sea | a saltwater lake on the border between Israel and Jordan, its surface in feet below sea level |
straight chain | an open chain of atoms with no side chains |
dead person dead soul deceased person deceased decedent departed | someone who is no longer alive, I wonder what the dead person would have done |
heterosexual heterosexual person straight person straight | a heterosexual person, someone having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex |
ringer dead ringer clone | a person who is almost identical to another |
square shooter straight shooter straight arrow | a frank and honest person |
straight man second banana | a performer who acts as stooge to a comedian |
zombi zombie living dead | a dead body that has been brought back to life by a supernatural force |
richweed clearweed dead nettle Pilea pumilla | a plants of the genus Pilea having drooping green flower clusters and smooth translucent stems and leaves |
hemp nettle dead nettle Galeopsis tetrahit | coarse bristly Eurasian plant with white or reddish flowers and foliage resembling that of a nettle, common as a weed in United States |
dead nettle | any of various plants of the genus Lamium having clusters of small usually purplish flowers with two lips |