Dictionaries & Thesauruses
epub |eng | 2006-06-02 | Author:Richard Bayan [Bayan, Richard]

MONEY-SAVING inexpensive affordable economical thrifty low-cost low-priced value-priced budget-priced discount-priced bargain-priced invitingly priced sale-priced priced to sell rock-bottom prices popular prices unheard-of low prices direct-to-you prices affordably priced surprisingly affordable ...
( Category: Word Lists June 12,2016 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Robert Hartwell Fiske [Fiske, Robert Hartwell]

* * * Again, in U.S. Senate and House Committee hearings, the FDA conceded that the packaging and recalled drug violations were minor and posed no immanent health hazard to ...
( Category: Word Lists June 9,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-14 | Author:Joseph T. Shipley [Shipley, Joseph T.]

lambitive. A medicine to be taken by licking, often given (in the 17th and 18th centuries) on the end of a licorice stick. Latin lambere, lambitus, to lick, whence lambent ...
( Category: English May 27,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:Norman W. Schur

not best pleased not too happy not by a long chalk, Inf. Inf. not by a long shot Britons waste their time playing various pool and billiard games, while Americans ...
( Category: English May 10,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2015-09-09 | Author:Unknown

NORDIC AND LOW COUNTRIES SWEDISH GINGERBREAD SPICE COOKIES Making these cookies is a holiday tradition in Sweden. They belong to the large family GINGERBREAD SPICE MIX of Northern European ginger ...
( Category: Drawing May 2,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Rhianna Jones [Jones, Rhianna]

Chapter 5 Fashion: La Mode “The Parisienne is not in fashion, she is fashion.” —ARSÈNE HOUSSAYE Fashion is a way of life in France. Period. With many of the earliest ...
( Category: Slang & Idioms April 27,2016 )
epub |eng, spa | | Author:Morry Sofer [Sofer, Morry]

XYZ x-coordinate coorinada x y-coordinate coorinada y year-end a fin de año, fin de ejercicio (Ch) cierre del año (Ven) cierre de ejercicio, cierre de año year-end dividend dividendo de ...
epub |eng | 2010-04-24 | Author:Sharon T. Herbst

Langres (AOC; PDO) [LAHN-gruh] Origin: France (Champagne-Ardenne; Lorraine; Burgundy) Milk: Unpasteurized and pasteurized cow’s Type: SEMISOFT; MOLDED UNCOOKED; WASHED RIND; ARTISAN and FARMSTEAD Appearance: Small drums with concave tops—small size ...
( Category: Cheese & Dairy April 25,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-16 | Author:Charles Boyce

Louis XIII chair Louis XIV chair LOUIS SEIZE IMPÉRATRICE See Louis XVI Revival style. LOUIS STYLE Nineteenth-century name for either Rococo Revival style or Louis XVI Revival style, more frequently ...
( Category: Furniture April 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-07 | Author:John Bassett Mccleary [McCleary, John Bassett]

meditation the process of simplifying thought patterns in order to reach a point of mental relaxation at which spiritual reflection and growth are possible. Many techniques of meditation are used ...
( Category: Popular Culture April 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-09 | Author:Lesley M. M. Blume

KERFUFFLE This flowery, old-fashioned word for a “commotion” or “disturbance” is particularly amusing when the kerfuffle in question is not particularly flowery. KETTLE OF FISH When you landed in this ...
( Category: Linguistics April 10,2016 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-08-27 | Author:Christopher J. Moore

WAGs (noun phrase) A frankly silly acronym and phrase coined by newspaper copy editors to describe the pampered wives and girlfriends of rich soccer players. On the subject of acronyms ...
( Category: Slang & Idioms April 7,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-04-04 | Author:Tony Thorne

jingle n 1. British cash, money, coins. A term used in raffish circles since the 1930s, if not earlier. It has also been recorded in Australian speech. I’m a bit ...
( Category: Linguistics April 5,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-24 | Author:David McAdams [McAdams, David]

interview /ˈɪnˌtər.vyu/ noun a formal meeting where the interviewer asks questions of the person being interviewed. verb to conduct an interview as the interviewer. interviewer error noun /ˈɪnˌtər.vyu.ər ˈɛr.ər/ a ...
( Category: Dictionaries March 22,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Stephanie Simons

hairvoyant How to describe a stylist with the ability to know exactly what you want without having to bring in pictures from magazines. hanger management A special course to help ...
( Category: Dictionaries March 19,2016 )