Black wash (n.) Alt. of Blackwash |
By-wash (n.) The outlet from a dam or reservoir |
Dead (a.) Deprived of life |
Dead (a.) Destitute of life |
Dead (a.) Resembling death in appearance or quality |
Dead (a.) Still as death |
Dead (a.) So constructed as not to transmit sound |
Dead (a.) Unproductive |
Dead (a.) Lacking spirit |
Dead (a.) Monotonous or unvaried |
Dead (a.) Sure as death |
Dead (a.) Bringing death |
Dead (a.) Wanting in religious spirit and vitality |
Dead (a.) Flat |
Dead (a.) Not brilliant |
Dead (a.) Cut off from the rights of a citizen |
Dead (a.) Not imparting motion or power |
Dead (adv.) To a degree resembling death |
Dead (n.) The most quiet or deathlike time |
Dead (n.) One who is dead |
Dead (v. t.) To make dead |
Dead (v. i.) To die |
Dead beat () See Beat, n., 7. |
Dead-eye (n.) A round, flattish, wooden block, encircled by a rope, or an iron band, and pierced with three holes to receive the lanyard |
Dead-hearted (a.) Having a dull, faint heart |
Dead-pay (n.) Pay drawn for soldiers, or others, really dead, whose names are kept on the rolls. |
Dead-reckoning (n.) See under Dead, a. |
Dead-stroke (a.) Making a stroke without recoil |
Incompetent (a.) Not competent |
Incompetent (a.) Wanting the legal or constitutional qualifications |
Incompetent (a.) Not lying within one's competency, capacity, or authorized power |
Loss (v. t.) The act of losing |
Loss (v. t.) The state of losing or having lost |
Loss (v. t.) That which is lost or from which one has parted |
Loss (v. t.) The state of being lost or destroyed |
Loss (v. t.) Failure to gain or win |
Loss (v. t.) Failure to use advantageously |
Loss (v. t.) Killed, wounded, and captured persons, or captured property. |
Loss (v. t.) Destruction or diminution of value, if brought about in a manner provided for in the insurance contract (as destruction by fire or wreck, damage by water or smoke), or the death or injury of an insured person |
Stone-dead (a.) As dead as a stone. |
Wash (v. t.) To cleanse by ablution, or dipping or rubbing in water |
Wash (v. t.) To cover with water or any liquid |
Wash (v. t.) To waste or abrade by the force of water in motion |
Wash (v. t.) To remove by washing to take away by, or as by, the action of water |
Wash (v. t.) To cover with a thin or watery coat of color |
Wash (v. t.) To overlay with a thin coat of metal |
Wash (v. i.) To perform the act of ablution. |
Wash (v. i.) To clean anything by rubbing or dipping it in water |
Wash (v. i.) To bear without injury the operation of being washed |
Wash (v. i.) To be wasted or worn away by the action of water, as by a running or overflowing stream, or by the dashing of the sea |
loss | the act of losing someone or something, everyone expected him to win so his loss was a shock |
wash washing lavation | the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water) |
dead-man's float prone float | a floating position with the face down and arms stretched forward |
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 |
wash | any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out, at the end of the year the accounting department showed that it was a wash |
blind alley cul de sac dead-end street impasse | a street with only one way in or out |
color wash colour wash | a wash of whitewash or other water-base paint tinted with a colored pigment |
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 |
drawing card loss leader leader | a featured article of merchandise sold at a loss in order to draw customers |
flatwork flat wash | ironing that can be done mechanically |
laundry wash washing washables | garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering |
morgue mortuary dead room | a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation |
public toilet comfort station public convenience convenience public lavatory restroom toilet facility wash room | a toilet that is available to the public |
wash wash drawing | a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other |
wash | a thin coat of water-base paint |
wash-and-wear | a fabric treated to be easily washable and to require no ironing |
washbasin handbasin washbowl lavabo wash-hand basin | a basin for washing the hands (`wash-hand basin' is a British expression) |
washstand wash-hand stand | furniture consisting of a table or stand to hold a basin and pitcher of water for washing: `wash-hand stand' is a British term |
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 |
loss deprivation | the disadvantage that results from losing something, his loss of credibility led to his resignation, losing him is no great deprivation |
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 |
incompetent cervix | (obstetrics) uterine cervix that becomes dilated before term and without labor often resulting in miscarriage or premature birth |
amnesia memory loss blackout | partial or total loss of memory, he has a total blackout for events of the evening |
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 |
stop order stop-loss order | an order to a broker to sell (buy) when the price of a security falls (rises) to a designated level |
folderol rubbish tripe trumpery trash wish-wash applesauce codswallop | nonsensical talk or writing |
dead letter dead mail | mail that can neither be delivered nor returned |
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') |
loss | the experience of losing a loved one, he sympathized on the loss of their grandfather |
passing loss departure exit expiration going release | euphemistic expressions for death, thousands mourned his passing |
personnel casualty loss | military personnel lost by death or capture |
dead heat | a tie in a race |
loss of consciousness | the occurrence of a loss of the ability to perceive and respond |
wish-wash | any thin watery drink |
dead | people who are no longer living, they buried the dead |
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 |
wash dry wash | the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon) |
dead person dead soul deceased person deceased decedent departed | someone who is no longer alive, I wonder what the dead person would have done |
incompetent incompetent person | someone who is not competent to take effective action |