Matching Words
171 ResultsBelow are the words that matched your query.
Shroud
- noun - (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind
- a line that suspends the harness from the canopy of a parachute
- burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped
- cover as if with a shroud; "The origins of this civilization are shrouded in mystery"
- form a cover like a shroud; "Mist shrouded the castle"
- wrap in a shroud; "shroud the corpses"
Sorbed
- verb - (of a substance) taken into and retained in another substance; "the sorbed oil mass"; "large volumes of occluded hydrogen in palladium"
- take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption
Sordid
- adjective - Dirty
- foul and run-down and repulsive; "a flyblown bar on the edge of town"; "a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town"; "squalid living conditions"; "sordid shantytowns"
- meanly avaricious and mercenary; "sordid avarice"; "sordid material interests"
- morally degraded; "a seedy district"; "the seamy side of life"; "sleazy characters hanging around casinos"; "sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls"- Seattle Weekly; "the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils"- James Joyce; "the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal"
- unethical or dishonest; "dirty police officers"; "a sordid political campaign"
Sorted
- verb - arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?"
- arranged according to size
- arranged into groups
- examine in order to test suitability; "screen these samples"; "screen the job applicants"
Spread
- adjective - a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures; "gap between income and outgo"; "the spread between lending and borrowing costs"
- a haphazard distribution in all directions
- a meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed; "a banquet for the graduating seniors"; "the Thanksgiving feast"; "they put out quite a spread"
- a tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers or used in preparing other dishes
- act of extending over a wider scope or expanse of space or time
- become distributed or widespread; "the infection spread"; "Optimism spread among the population"
- become widely known and passed on; "the rumor spread"; "the story went around in the office"
- cause to become widely known; "spread information"; "circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news"
- cover by spreading something over; "spread the bread with cheese"
- decorative cover for a bed
- distribute or disperse widely; "The invader
Spreed
- verb - engage without restraint in an activity and indulge, as when shopping
Strand
- noun -
- a necklace made by a stringing objects together; "a string of beads"; "a strand of pearls";
- a pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole; "he tried to pick up the strands of his former life"; "I could hear several melodic strands simultaneously"
- a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides)
- a street in west central London famous for its theaters and hotels
- a very slender natural or synthetic fiber
- bring to the ground; "the storm grounded the ship"
- drive (a vessel) ashore
- leaves without transport.
- line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable