affront |
to meet head-on; confront. [1/4 definitions] |
alligator flag |
any of a family of large, broad-leafed, tropical, aquatic plants that usually grow up to six feet tall and have heavy blooms of delicate blue and purple flowers. |
arrowhead |
an aquatic plant having arrowhead-shaped leaves and white blossoms. [1/3 definitions] |
atrabilious |
easily irritated or angered; bad-tempered; peevish. [1/2 definitions] |
barong |
a heavy, broad-bladed knife or cleaver that is used by the Moros of the Philippines. |
bitchy |
(slang) usu. of a woman, malicious or bad-tempered. |
buzzard |
any of several broad-winged European hawks. [1/2 definitions] |
cachet |
a waferlike outer covering used to envelop bad-tasting medicine. [1/4 definitions] |
canna |
any of various broad-leaved tropical plants with large colorful flowers. |
catboat |
a broad-beamed sailboat with a single large sail on a mast set well forward. |
catholicity |
the quality or state of being broad-minded or of having a wide range of ideas or tastes. [1/2 definitions] |
crabby |
somewhat irritable; bad-tempered. |
crosspatch |
(informal) an easily annoyed, bad-tempered person. |
cul-de-sac |
a passage whose only exit is the entrance, such as a dead-end street. [1/2 definitions] |
currish |
mean or bad-tempered; snarling. [1/3 definitions] |
fig |
any of several broad-leafed trees native to the Mediterranean that bear oblong or pear-shaped soft fruit having many small seeds, or the fruit itself. [1/3 definitions] |
galbanum |
a bad-smelling gum resin, obtained from various Asian plants of the umbel family. |
geometrid |
of, pertaining to, or belonging to a family of broad-winged moths, the larvae of which are called measuring worms. [1/2 definitions] |
goshawk |
any of a number of large broad-winged hawks, formerly used for falconry. |
grouch |
a bad-humored, resentful, or peevish person. [1/3 definitions] |
grouchy |
tending to be irritable and complaining; bad-tempered. |