Synonyms of the word

stock

• n. A store or supply.
• n. (finance) The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares. The total of shares held by an…
• n. The raw material from which things are made; feedstock.
• n. Stock theater, summer stock theater.
• n. The trunk and woody main stems of a tree. The base from which something grows or branches.
• n. Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola.
• n. A handle or stem to which the working part of an implement or weapon is attached.
• n. Part of a machine that supports items or holds them in place.
• n. A bar, stick or rod.
• n. A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle.
• n. (folklore) A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical…
• n. (uncountable, countable) Broth made from meat (originally bones) or vegetables, used as a basis for stew…
• n. A necktie or cravat, particularly a wide necktie popular in the eighteenth century, often seen today as…
• n. A piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar.
• n. (obsolete) A cover for the legs; a stocking.
• n. A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
• n. (by extension, obsolete) A person who is as dull and lifeless as a stock or post; one who has little sense.
• n. (Britain, historical) The part of a tally formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the…
• n. (shipbuilding, in the plural) The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.
• n. (Britain, in the plural) Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
• n. (biology) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
• n. The beater of a fulling mill.
• v. To have on hand for sale.
• v. To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.
• v. To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.
• v. To put in the stocks as punishment.
• v. (nautical) To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.
• v. (card games, dated) To arrange cards in a certain manner for cheating purposes; to stack the deck.
• adj. Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.
• adj. (racing, of a race car) Having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having…
• adj. Straightforward, ordinary, just another, very basic.
• n. A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.

accumulation

• n. The act of amassing or gathering, as into a pile.
• n. The process of growing into a heap or a large amount.
• n. A mass of something piled up or collected.
• n. (law) The concurrence of several titles to the same proof.
• n. (accounting) The continuous growth of capital by retention of interest or savings.
• n. (finance) The action of investors buying an asset from other investors when the price of the asset is…

acquire

• v. (transitive) To get.
• v. (transitive) To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
• v. (medicine) To contract.
• v. (computing) To sample signals and convert them into digital values.

ancestry

• n. Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent.
• n. A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent.

banal

• adj. Common in a boring way, to the point of being predictable; containing nothing new or fresh.

blood

• n. A vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen…
• n. A family relationship due to birth, such as that between siblings; contrasted with relationships due to…
• n. (historical) One of the four humours in the human body.
• n. (medicine, countable) A blood test or blood sample.
• n. The sap or juice which flows in or from plants.
• n. (obsolete) The juice of anything, especially if red.
• n. (obsolete) Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions.
• n. (obsolete) A lively, showy man; a rake.
• n. Alternative letter-case form of Blood (member of a certain gang).
• v. To cause something to be covered with blood; to bloody.
• v. (medicine, historical) To let blood (from); to bleed.
• v. To initiate into warfare or a blood sport.

bloodline

• n. The abstract link between a person and their ancestors.
• n. The pedigree of an animal.
• n. By extension, the predecessors of a particular item or product.

breed

• v. To produce offspring sexually; to bear young.
• v. (transitive) To give birth to; to be the native place of.
• v. Of animals, to mate.
• v. To keep animals and have them reproduce in a way that improves the next generation’s qualities.
• v. To arrange the mating of specific animals.
• v. To propagate or grow plants trying to give them certain qualities.
• v. To take care of in infancy and through childhood; to bring up.
• v. To yield or result in.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, like young before…
• v. To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; sometimes followed by up.
• v. To produce or obtain by any natural process.
• v. (intransitive) To have birth; to be produced or multiplied.
• n. All animals or plants of the same species or subspecies.
• n. A race or lineage.
• n. (informal) A group of people with shared characteristics.

broth

• n. (uncountable) Water in which food (meat or vegetable etc) has been boiled.
• n. (countable) A soup made from broth and other ingredients such as vegetables, herbs or diced meat.

capital

• n. (uncountable, economics) Already-produced durable goods available for use as a factor of production, such…
• n. (uncountable, business, finance) Money and wealth. The means to acquire goods and services, especially…
• n. (countable) A city designated as a legislative seat by the government or some other authority, often the…
• n. (countable) The most important city in the field specified.
• n. (countable) An uppercase letter.
• n. (countable, architecture) The uppermost part of a column.
• n. (uncountable) Knowledge; awareness; proficiency.
• adj. Of prime importance.
• adj. Chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation.
• adj. (comparable, Britain, dated) Excellent.
• adj. Involving punishment by death.
• adj. Uppercase.
• adj. Of or relating to the head.

carry

• v. (transitive) To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.
• v. To transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another.
• v. To convey by extension or continuance; to extend.
• v. (transitive, chiefly archaic) To move; to convey by force; to impel; to conduct; to lead or guide.
• v. (transitive) To stock or supply (something).
• v. (transitive) To adopt (something); take (something) over.
• v. (transitive) To adopt or resolve upon, especially in a deliberative assembly.
• v. (transitive, arithmetic) In an addition, to transfer the quantity in excess of what is countable in the…
• v. (transitive) To have or maintain (something).
• v. (intransitive) To be transmitted; to travel.
• v. (slang, transitive) To insult, to diss.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To capture a ship by coming alongside and boarding.
• v. (transitive, sports) To transport (the ball) whilst maintaining possession.
• v. (transitive) To have on one's person.
• v. To be pregnant (with).
• v. To have propulsive power; to propel.
• v. To hold the head; said of a horse.
• v. (hunting) To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare.
• v. To bear or uphold successfully through conflict, as a leader or principle; hence, to succeed in, as in…
• v. (obsolete) To get possession of by force; to capture.
• v. To contain; to comprise; to bear the aspect of; to show or exhibit; to imply.
• v. (reflexive) To bear (oneself); to behave or conduct.
• v. To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another.
• n. A manner of transporting or lifting something; the grip or position in which something is carried.
• n. A tract of land over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a portage.
• n. (computing) The bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation.

caudex

• n. (botany) An enlargement of the stem, branch or root of a woody plant, usually serving to store water.

certificate

• n. A document containing a certified statement.
• n. A document evidencing ownership or debt.
• n. A document serving as evidence as a person has completed an educational course, issued either by an institution…
• n. (computing theory) The information needed in order to verify a positive answer to a problem.
• v. To supply with a certificate, especially following certification.

commonplace

• adj. Ordinary; having no remarkable characteristics.
• n. A platitude or cliché.
• n. Something that is ordinary.
• n. A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or referred to.
• n. A commonplace book.
• v. To make a commonplace book.
• v. To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads.
• v. (obsolete) To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes.

cravat

• n. A wide fabric band worn as a necktie by men having long ends hanging in front.
• n. (historical) A decorative fabric band or scarf worn around the neck by women.
• n. (surgery) A bandage resembling a cravat, particularly a triangular bandage folded into a strip.
• v. (transitive, rare) To adorn with a cravat; to tie a cravat, or something resembling a cravat, around the…

descent

• n. An instance of descending.
• n. A way down.
• n. A sloping passage or incline.
• n. Lineage or hereditary derivation.
• n. A drop to a lower status or condition; decline.
• n. (topology) A particular extension of the idea of gluing. See Descent (mathematics).

develop

• v. (intransitive) To change with a specific direction, progress.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To progress through a sequence of stages.
• v. (transitive) To advance; to further; to promote the growth of.
• v. (transitive) To create.
• v. (transitive) To bring out images latent in photographic film.
• v. (transitive) To acquire something usually over a period of time.
• v. (chess, transitive) To place one's pieces actively.
• v. (snooker, pool) To cause a ball to become more open and available to be played on later. Usually by moving…
• v. (mathematics) To change the form of (an algebraic expression, etc.) by executing certain indicated operations…

equip

• v. (transitive) To furnish for service, or against a need or exigency; to fit out; to supply with whatever…
• v. (transitive) To dress up; to array; accouter.
• v. (transitive) To prepare (someone) with a skill.

eutherian

• adj. belonging or pertaining to the group Eutheria, comprising the mammals more closely related to animals…
• n. a eutherian animal.

fit

• adj. Suitable, proper.
• adj. Adapted to a purpose or environment.
• adj. In good shape; physically well.
• adj. (Britain, slang) Good looking, fanciable, attractive, beautiful.
• adj. Prepared; ready.
• v. (transitive) To be suitable for.
• v. (transitive) To conform to in size and shape.
• v. (intransitive) To be of the right size and shape.
• v. (transitive, with to) To make conform in size and shape.
• v. (transitive) To be in agreement with.
• v. (transitive) To adjust.
• v. (transitive) To attach, especially when requiring exact positioning or sizing.
• v. (transitive) To equip or supply.
• v. (transitive) To make ready.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To be seemly.
• v. To be proper or becoming.
• v. (intransitive) To be in harmony.
• n. The degree to which something fits.
• n. Conformity of elements one to another.
• n. The part of an object upon which anything fits tightly.
• n. (advertising) how well a particular commercial execution captures the character or values of a brand.
• n. (statistics) goodness of fit.
• n. (archaic) A section of a poem or ballad.
• n. A seizure or convulsion.
• n. (medicine) A sudden and vigorous appearance of a symptom over a short period of time.
• n. A sudden outburst of emotion.
• n. A sudden burst (of an activity).
• v. (intransitive, medicine) To suffer a fit.

flower

• n. A colorful, conspicuous structure associated with angiosperms, frequently scented and attracting various…
• n. (botany) A reproductive structure in angiosperms (flowering plants), often conspicuously colourful and…
• n. A plant that bears flowers, especially a plant that is small and lacks wood.
• n. (usually with in) Of plants, a state of bearing blooms.
• n. (euphemistic, hypocoristic) The vulva, especially the labia majora.
• n. (idiomatic) The best examples or representatives of a group.
• n. The best state of things; the prime.
• n. (obsolete) Flour.
• n. (in the plural, chemistry, obsolete) A substance in the form of a powder, especially when condensed from…
• n. A figure of speech; an ornament of style.
• n. (printing) Ornamental type used chiefly for borders around pages, cards, etc.
• n. (in the plural) Menstrual discharges.
• v. (intransitive) To put forth blooms.
• v. (intransitive) To reach a state of full development or achievement.
• v. (intransitive) To froth; to ferment gently, as new beer.
• v. (intransitive) To come off as flowers by sublimation.
• n. (rare) Something that flows, such as a river.

fund

• n. A sum or source of money.
• n. An organization managing such money.
• n. A money-management operation, such as a mutual fund.
• n. A large supply of something to be drawn upon.
• v. (transitive) To pay for.

furnish

• n. Material used to create an engineered product.
• v. (transitive) To provide a place with furniture, or other equipment.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To supply or give.

genealogy

• n. (countable) The descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or ancestors; lineage or pedigree.
• n. (countable) A record or table of such descent; a family tree.
• n. (uncountable) The study, and formal recording of such descents.

get

• v. (transitive) To obtain; to acquire.
• v. (transitive) To receive.
• v. (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.
• v. (copulative) To become.
• v. (transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
• v. (transitive) To fetch, bring, take.
• v. (transitive) To cause to do.
• v. (intransitive, with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses…
• v. (transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
• v. (transitive) To cause to come or go or move.
• v. (transitive) To cause to be in a certain status or position.
• v. (intransitive) To begin (doing something).
• v. (transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
• v. (transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
• v. (intransitive, followed by infinitive) To be able, permitted (to do something); to have the opportunity…
• v. (transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it).
• v. (transitive, informal) To be subjected to.
• v. (informal) To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.
• v. (transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
• v. (transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully.
• v. (transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.
• v. (transitive) To find as an answer.
• v. (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
• v. (transitive) To hear completely; catch.
• v. (transitive) To getter.
• v. (now rare) To beget (of a father).
• v. (archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
• v. (imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
• v. (imperative, informal) Go away; get lost.
• v. (euphemistic) To kill.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
• n. Offspring.
• n. Lineage.
• n. (sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
• n. Something gained.
• n. (Britain, regional) A git.
• n. (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.

gillyflower

• n. clove pink.
• n. Any clove-scented flower.
• n. Any of several species of wallflower.
• n. A variety of purplish-red apple with a roundish conical shape and a large core.
• n. (heraldry) A stylized representation of a carnation blossom, usually red, and shown with or without a…

grip

• v. (transitive) To take hold of, particularly with the hand.
• v. (transitive) To help or assist, particularly in an emotional sense.
• v. (intransitive) To do something with another that makes you happy/gives you relief.
• v. To trench; to drain.
• n. A hold or way of holding, particularly with the hand.
• n. A handle or other place to grip.
• n. (computing, graphical user interface) A visual component on a window etc. enabling it to be resized and/or…
• n. (film production) A person responsible for handling equipment on the set.
• n. A channel cut through a grass verge (especially for the purpose of draining water away from the highway).
• n. (chiefly Southern California slang) A lot of something.
• n. Archaic spelling of grippe: Influenza, flu.
• n. (archaic) A small travelling-bag or gripsack.
• n. An apparatus attached to a car for clutching a traction cable.
• n. Assistance; help or encouragement.
• n. A helpful, interesting, admirable, or inspiring person.
• n. (slang) As much as one can hold in a hand; a handful.
• n. (figuratively) A tenacious grasp; a holding fast.
• n. A device for grasping or holding fast to something.
• n. (dialectal) A small ditch or trench; a channel to carry off water or other liquid; a drain.
• n. (obsolete) The griffin.

grow

• v. (ergative) To become bigger.
• v. (intransitive) To appear or sprout.
• v. (transitive) To cause or allow something to become bigger, especially to cultivate plants.
• v. (copulative) To assume a condition or quality over time.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To become attached or fixed; to adhere.

gunstock

• n. The handle of a handgun.
• n. The rear part of a rifle or shotgun which is pressed into the shoulder.

hackneyed

• adj. Repeated too often.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of hackney.

handgrip

• n. A handle.
• n. A covering (often rubber or foam) on a handle, designed to allow the user a more comfortable or more secure…
• n. A handshake; a way of gripping hands with another person.
• n. The ability of a person (or other animal with hands) to grip something with a hand.

handle

• n. The part of an object which is (designed to be) held in the hand when used or moved.
• n. An instrument for effecting a purpose (either literally or figuratively); a tool.
• n. (gambling) The gross amount of wagering within a given period of time or for a given event at one of more…
• n. (textiles) The tactile qualities of a fabric, e.g., softness, firmness, elasticity, fineness, resilience,…
• n. (slang) A name, nickname or pseudonym.
• n. (computing) A reference to an object or structure that can be stored in a variable.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand) A 10 fl oz (285 ml) glass of beer in the Northern Territory. (See also pot and…
• n. (US) A half-gallon (1.75-liter) bottle of alcohol. (Called a sixty in Canada.).
• n. (geography, Newfoundland and Labrador, rare) A point, an extremity of land.
• n. (topology) A topological space homeomorphic to a ball but viewed as a product of two lower-dimensional…
• n. (algebraic geometry) The smooth, irreducible subcurve of a comb which connects to each of the other components…
• v. (transitive) To touch; to feel or hold with the hand(s).
• v. (transitive, rare) To accustom to the hand; to take care of with the hands.
• v. (transitive) To manage, use, or wield with the hands.
• v. (transitive) To manage, control, or direct.
• v. (transitive) To treat, to deal with (in a specified way).
• v. (transitive) To deal with (a subject, argument, topic, or theme) in speaking, in writing, or in art.
• v. (transitive) To receive and transfer; to have pass through one's hands; hence, to buy and sell.
• v. (transitive, rare) To be concerned with; to be an expert in.
• v. (transitive) To put up with; to endure (and continue to function).
• v. (intransitive) To use the hands.
• v. (intransitive) To behave in a particular way when handled (managed, controlled, directed).

have

• v. (transitive) To possess, own, hold.
• v. (transitive) To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship).
• v. (transitive) To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action.
• v. (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect.
• v. (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) must.
• v. (transitive) To give birth to.
• v. (transitive) To engage in sexual intercourse with.
• v. (transitive) To accept as a romantic partner.
• v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
• v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
• v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is…
• v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
• v. Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion,…
• v. (Britain, slang) To defeat in a fight; take.
• v. (Ireland) To be able to speak a language.
• v. To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
• v. To be afflicted with, to suffer from, to experience something negative.
• v. To trick, to deceive.
• v. (transitive, often with present participle) To allow.
• v. (transitive) To host someone.

hold

• adj. (obsolete) Gracious; friendly; faithful; true.
• v. (transitive) To grasp or grip.
• v. (transitive) To contain or store.
• v. (heading) To maintain or keep to a position or state.
• v. (heading) To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions.
• v. (tennis, transitive, intransitive) To win one's own service game.
• v. To take place, to occur.
• v. To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
• v. (archaic) To derive right or title.
• n. A grasp or grip.
• n. A place where animals are held for safety.
• n. An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
• n. Something reserved or kept.
• n. Power over someone or something.
• n. The ability to persist.
• n. The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
• n. (wrestling) A position or grip used to control the opponent.
• n. (exercise (sport)) An exercise involving holding a position for a set time.
• n. (gambling) The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
• n. (gambling) The wager amount, the total hold.
• n. (tennis) An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
• n. The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
• n. A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
• n. (video games, dated) A pause facility.
• n. The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when…
• n. (nautical, aviation) The cargo area of a ship or aircraft, (often cargo hold).

inventory

• n. (operations) The stock of an item on hand at a particular location or business.
• n. (operations) A detailed list of all of the items on hand.
• n. (operations) The process of producing or updating such a list.
• n. (role-playing games) A space containing the items available to a character for immediate use.
• v. (transitive, operations) To take stock of the resources or items on hand; to produce an inventory.

line

• n. A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen;…
• n. A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.
• n. A hose or pipe, of any size.
• n. Direction, path.
• n. The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points:…
• n. A letter, a written form of communication.
• n. A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement…
• n. (military) A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied…
• n. The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
• n. A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
• n. (obsolete) A measuring line or cord.
• n. That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place…
• n. A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
• n. Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
• n. A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often…
• n. (military) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry,…
• n. A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
• n. A small amount of text. Specifically.
• n. Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade,…
• n. The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political…
• n. The products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
• n. (stock exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
• n. A measure of length.
• n. (historical) A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
• n. (baseball, slang, 1800s, with "the") The batter’s box.
• n. (fencing, ‘line of engagement’) The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
• n. (engineering) Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with…
• n. A small portion or serving (of a powdery illegal drug).
• n. (obsolete) Instruction; doctrine.
• n. (genetics) Population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
• n. (perfusion line) a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock…
• n. (ice hockey) A group of forwards that play together.
• v. (transitive) To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
• v. (transitive) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding;…
• v. To form a line along.
• v. (transitive) To mark with a line or lines, to cover with lines.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.
• v. (transitive) To read or repeat line by line.
• v. (intransitive, ‘line up’) To form or enter into a line.
• v. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare…
• v. To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
• n. (obsolete) Flax; linen, particularly the longer fiber of flax.
• v. (transitive) To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
• v. To reinforce (the back of a book) with glue and glued scrap material such as fabric or paper.
• v. (transitive) To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.
• v. (transitive, now rare, of a dog) to copulate with, to impregnate.

lineage

• n. Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line…
• n. (advertising) A number of lines of text in a column.

livestock

• n. Farm animals; animals domesticated for cultivation.

lumber

• n. (Canada, US, uncountable) Wood intended as a building material.
• n. (Britain) Useless things that are stored away.
• n. (obsolete) A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.
• n. (baseball, slang) A baseball bat.
• v. (intransitive) To move clumsily and heavily.
• v. (transitive, with with) To load down with things, to fill, to encumber, to impose an unwanted burden on.
• v. To heap together in disorder.
• v. To fill or encumber with lumber.

merchandise

• n. (uncountable) Commodities offered for sale.
• n. (countable) A commodity offered for sale; an article of commerce; a kind of merchandise.
• n. (uncountable) The act or business of trading; trade; traffic.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To engage in trade; to carry on commerce.
• v. (intransitive) To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of goods, as by display and arrangement of…
• v. (transitive, archaic) To engage in the trade of.
• v. (transitive) To engage in in-store promotion of the sale of.
• v. (transitive) To promote as if for sale.

neckcloth

• n. (historical) An ornamental cravat, usually white.

old-hat

• adj. attributive form of old hat.

origin

• n. The beginning of something.
• n. The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
• n. (mathematics) The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.
• n. (anatomy) The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of…
• n. (cartography) An arbitrary point on Earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
• n. (in the plural) Ancestry.

outfit

• n. A set of clothing (with accessories).
• n. Gear consisting of a set of articles or tools for a specified purpose.
• n. Any cohesive group of people; a unit; such as a military company.
• n. (informal) A business or firm.
• n. (sports) A sports team.
• n. (statistics) An outlier-sensitive fit.
• v. (transitive) To provide with, usually for a specific purpose.

parentage

• n. The identity and nature of one's parents, and in particular, the legitimacy of one's birth.
• n. The social quality of one's class in society.
• n. origin; derivation.

pedigree

• n. A chart, list, or record of ancestors, to show breeding, especially distinguished breeding.
• n. A person's ancestral history; ancestry, lineage.
• n. (uncountable) Good breeding or ancestry.
• n. The history or provenance of an idea, custom etc.
• n. The ancestry of a domesticated animal, especially a dog or horse.
• adj. Having a pedigree.
• adj. Purebred.

placental

• adj. Of or pertaining to the placenta, or to the Placentalia.
• adj. Having a placenta.
• n. Any animal that is a member of the Placentalia.

produce

• v. (transitive) To yield, make or manufacture; to generate.
• v. (transitive) To make (a thing) available to a person, an authority, etc.; to provide for inspection.
• v. (transitive, media) To sponsor and present (a motion picture, etc) to an audience or to the public.
• v. (mathematics) To extend an area, or lengthen a line.
• v. (obsolete) To draw out; to extend; to lengthen or prolong.
• n. Items produced.
• n. Amount produced.
• n. Harvested agricultural goods collectively, especially vegetables and fruit, but possibly including eggs,…
• n. Offspring.
• n. (Australia) Livestock and pet food supplies.

product

• n. (countable, uncountable) A commodity offered for sale.
• n. (cosmetics, uncountable) Any preparation to be applied to the hair, skin, nails, etc.
• n. Anything that is produced; a result.
• n. (US, slang) Illegal drugs, especially cocaine, when viewed as a commodity.

provide

• v. To make a living; earn money for necessities.
• v. To act to prepare for something.
• v. To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate.
• v. To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.
• v. To furnish (with), cause to be present.
• v. To make possible or attainable.
• v. (obsolete, Latinism) To foresee.
• v. To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See provisor.

regular

• adj. (Christianity) Bound by religious rule; belonging to a monastic or religious order (often as opposed to…
• adj. Having a constant pattern; showing evenness of form or appearance.
• adj. (geometry, of a polygon) Having all sides of the same length, and all (corresponding) angles of the same…
• adj. (geometry, of a polyhedron) Whose faces are all congruent regular polygons, equally inclined to each other.
• adj. Demonstrating a consistent set of rules; showing order, evenness of operation or occurrence.
• adj. (now rare) Well-behaved, orderly; restrained (of a lifestyle etc.).
• adj. Happening at constant (especially short) intervals.
• adj. (grammar, of a verb, plural, etc) Following a set or common pattern; according to the normal rules of…
• adj. (chiefly US) Having the expected characteristics or appearances; normal, ordinary, standard.
• adj. (chiefly military) Permanently organised; being part of a set professional body of troops.
• adj. Having bowel movements or menstrual periods at constant intervals in the expected way.
• adj. (colloquial) Exemplary; excellent example of; utter, downright.
• adj. Belonging to a monastic order or community.
• adj. (botany, zoology) Having all the parts of the same kind alike in size and shape.
• adj. (crystallography) isometric.
• adj. (snowboarding) Riding with the left foot forward.
• adj. (analysis, not comparable, of a Borel measure) Such that every set in its domain is both outer regular…
• adv. (archaic, Britain, dialect) Regularly, on a regular basis.
• n. A member of the British Army (as opposed to a member of the Territorial Army or Reserve).
• n. A frequent, routine visitor to an establishment.
• n. A frequent customer, client or business partner.
• n. (Canada) A coffee with one cream and one sugar.
• n. Anything that is normal or standard.

render

• v. (transitive) To cause to become.
• v. (transitive) To interpret, give an interpretation or rendition of.
• v. (transitive) To translate into another language.
• v. (transitive) To pass down.
• v. (transitive) To make over as a return.
• v. (transitive) To give; to give back; to deliver.
• v. to give up; to yield; to surrender.
• v. (transitive, computer graphics) To transform (a model) into a display on the screen or other media.
• v. (transitive) To capture and turn over to another country secretly and extrajudicially.
• v. (transitive) To convert waste animal tissue into a usable byproduct.
• v. (intransitive, cooking) For fat to drip off meat from cooking.
• v. (construction) To cover a wall with a layer of plaster. To render with stucco.
• v. (nautical) To pass; to run; said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.
• v. (nautical) To yield or give way.
• v. (obsolete) To return; to pay back; to restore.
• v. (obsolete) To inflict, as a retribution; to requite.
• n. Stucco or plaster applied to walls (mostly to outside masonry walls).
• n. (computer graphics) A digital image produced by rendering a model.
• n. (obsolete) A surrender.
• n. (obsolete) A return; a payment of rent.
• n. (obsolete) An account given; a statement.
• n. One who rends.

reputation

• n. What somebody is known for.

repute

• n. Reputation, especially a good reputation.
• v. (transitive) To attribute or credit something to something; to impute.
• v. (transitive) To consider, think, esteem, reckon (a person or thing) to be, or as being, something.

security

• n. (uncountable) The condition of not being threatened, especially physically, psychologically, emotionally,…
• n. (countable) Something that secures.
• n. An organization or department responsible for providing security by enforcing laws, rules, and regulations…
• n. (law) Something that secures the fulfillment of an obligation or law.
• n. (law) Freedom from apprehension.
• n. (finance, often used in plural) A tradeable financial asset, such as a share of stock.^W.
• n. (finance) Proof of ownership of stocks, bonds or other investment instruments.
• n. (finance) Property etc. temporarily relinquished to guarantee repayment of a loan.
• n. A guarantee.
• n. (obsolete) Carelessness; negligence.

shopworn

• adj. Having been used, as a sample item in a retail store.
• adj. (figuratively) Not fresh; tired or cliché.
• adj. Faded.

soup

• v. Alternative form of sup.
• n. Alternative form of sup.
• n. Any of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock with other ingredients,…
• n. (figuratively) Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
• v. (uncommon) To feed: to provide with soup or a meal.
• v. (photography) To develop (film) in a (chemical) developing solution.
• v. (obsolete) To sup or swallow.
• v. (obsolete) To breathe out; to draw out.
• v. (obsolete) To sweep.

sprout

• n. A new growth on a plant, whether from seed or other parts.
• n. A child.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) A Brussels sprout.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) A bean sprout.
• n. An edible germinated seed.
• v. (horticulture) To grow from seed; to germinate.
• v. To cause to grow from a seed.
• v. To deprive of sprouts.
• v. To emerge from the ground as sprouts.
• v. (figuratively, intransitive) To emerge haphazardly from a surface.

stalk

• n. The stem or main axis of a plant, which supports the seed-carrying parts.
• n. The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle of a plant.
• n. Something resembling the stalk of a plant, such as the stem of a quill.
• n. (architecture) An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes…
• n. One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.
• n. (zoology).
• n. (metalworking) An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
• v. (transitive) To approach slowly and quietly in order not to be discovered when getting closer.
• v. (transitive) To (try to) follow or contact someone constantly, often resulting in harassment.^Wp.
• v. (intransitive) To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner.
• v. (intransitive) To walk behind something, such as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed…
• n. A particular episode of trying to follow or contact someone.
• n. A hunt (of a wild animal).
• v. (intransitive) To walk haughtily.

standard

• adj. Falling within an accepted range of size, amount, power, quality, etc.
• adj. (of a tree or shrub) Growing alone as a free-standing plant; not trained on a post etc.
• adj. Having recognized excellence or authority.
• adj. Of a usable or serviceable grade or quality.
• adj. (not comparable, of a motor vehicle) Having a manual transmission.
• adj. As normally supplied (not optional).
• n. A principle or example or measure used for comparison.
• n. A vertical pole with something at its apex.
• n. A manual transmission vehicle.
• n. (botany) The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla.
• n. (shipbuilding) An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch…
• n. A large drinking cup.

stem

• n. The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
• n. A branch of a family.
• n. An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
• n. (botany) The above-ground stalk (technically axis) of a vascular plant, and certain anatomically similar,…
• n. A slender supporting member of an individual part of a plant such as a flower or a leaf; also, by analogy,…
• n. A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.
• n. (linguistics) The main part of an uninflected word to which affixes may be added to form inflections of…
• n. (slang) A person's leg.
• n. (typography) A vertical stroke of a letter.
• n. (music) A vertical stroke marking the length of a note in written music.
• n. (nautical) The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of…
• n. Component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork.
• n. (anatomy) A part of an anatomic structure considered without its possible branches or ramifications.
• n. (slang) A crack pipe.
• v. To remove the stem from.
• v. To be caused or derived; to originate.
• v. To descend in a family line.
• v. To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.
• v. (obsolete) To hit with the stem of a ship; to ram.
• v. To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.
• v. To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).
• v. (skiing) To move the feet apart and point the tips of the skis inward in order to slow down the speed…
• n. Alternative form of steem.
• n. Alternative form of STEM.

stemma

• n. A family tree or recorded genealogy.
• n. In the study of stemmatics, a diagram showing the relationship of a text to its manuscripts.
• n. One of the types of simple eyes in arthropods.

stockpile

• n. A supply of something kept safe for future use.
• v. To accumulate a stockpile.

store

• n. A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.
• n. A supply held in storage.
• n. (mainly North American) A place where items may be purchased.
• n. (computing, dated) Memory.
• n. A large amount of information retained in one's memory.
• n. A great quantity or number.
• v. (transitive) To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose.
• v. (transitive, computing) To write (something) into memory or registers.
• v. (intransitive) To remain in good condition while stored.

strain

• n. (obsolete) Treasure.
• n. (obsolete) The blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg.
• n. (archaic) Race; lineage, pedigree.
• n. Hereditary character, quality, or disposition.
• n. A tendency or disposition.
• n. (literary) Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the…
• n. (biology) A particular breed or race of animal, microbe etc.
• n. (music) A portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete musical period or sentence; a movement,…
• n. (rare) A kind or sort (of person etc.).
• v. (obsolete) To beget, generate (of light), engender, copulate (both of animals and humans), lie with, be…
• v. (obsolete) To hold tightly, to clasp.
• v. To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.
• v. To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.
• v. To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
• v. To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what…
• v. To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.
• v. (transitive) To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander.
• v. (intransitive) To percolate; to be filtered.
• v. To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
• v. To urge with importunity; to press.
• n. The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
• n. A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.
• n. An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
• n. (uncountable, engineering) A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering…
• n. (obsolete) The track of a deer.

supply

• v. (transitive) To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.
• v. (transitive) To furnish or equip with.
• v. (transitive) To fill up, or keep full.
• v. (transitive) To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of.
• v. (transitive) To serve instead of; to take the place of.
• v. (intransitive) To act as a substitute.
• v. (transitive) To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office;…
• n. (uncountable) The act of supplying.
• n. (countable) An amount of something supplied.
• n. (in the plural) provisions.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) An amount of money provided, as by Parliament or Congress, to meet the annual…
• n. Somebody, such as a teacher or clergyman, who temporarily fills the place of another; a substitute.
• adv. Supplely: in a supple manner, with suppleness.

support

• n. Something which supports. Often used attributively, as a complement or supplement to.
• n. Financial or other help.
• n. Answers to questions and resolution of problems regarding something sold.
• n. (mathematics) in relation to a function, the set of points where the function is not zero, or the closure…
• n. (fuzzy set theory) A set whose elements are at least partially included in a given fuzzy set (i.e., whose…
• n. Evidence.
• n. (computing) Compatibility and functionality for a given product or feature.
• n. (gymnastics) Clipping of support position.
• v. (transitive) To keep from falling.
• v. (transitive) To answer questions and resolve problems regarding something sold.
• v. (transitive) To back a cause, party, etc., mentally or with concrete aid.
• v. (transitive) To help, particularly financially.
• v. To verify; to make good; to substantiate; to establish; to sustain.
• v. (transitive) To serve, as in a customer-oriented mindset; to give support to.
• v. (transitive) To be designed (said of machinery, electronics, or computers, or their parts, accessories,…
• v. (transitive) To be accountable for, or involved with, but not responsible for.
• v. (archaic) To endure without being overcome; bear; undergo; to tolerate.
• v. To assume and carry successfully, as the part of an actor; to represent or act; to sustain.

threadbare

• adj. (of cloth) shabby, frayed and worn to an extent that warp threads show.
• adj. damaged or shabby.
• adj. (of a person) wearing clothes of threadbare material.
• adj. (of speech) banal or clichéd; trite or hackneyed.

timber

• n. (uncountable) Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.
• n. (Britain, uncountable) Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.
• n. (countable) A heavy wooden beam, generally a whole log that has been squared off and used to provide heavy…
• n. (firearms, informal) The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.
• n. (archaic) A certain quantity of fur skins (as of martens, ermines, sables, etc.) packed between boards;…
• n. (music) A misspelling of timbre, the quality of a musical note or sound or tone, independent of its pitch…
• interj. Used by loggers to warn others that a tree being felled is falling.
• v. (transitive) To fit with timbers.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To construct, frame, build.
• v. (falconry, intransitive) To light or land on a tree.
• v. (obsolete) To make a nest.
• v. To surmount as a timber does.

timeworn

• adj. Showing the effects of wear due to long use.
• adj. Trite or banal; overused or hackneyed.

tired

• v. simple past tense and past participle of tire.
• adj. In need of some rest or sleep.
• adj. Fed up, annoyed, irritated, sick of.
• adj. Overused, cliché.
• adj. (slang, African American Vernacular) ineffectual; incompetent.

trite

• adj. Often in reference to a word or phrase: used so many times that it is commonplace, or no longer interesting…
• n. A denomination of coinage in ancient Greece equivalent to one third of a stater.
• n. Trite, a genus of spiders, found in Australia, New Zealand and Oceania, of the family Salticidae.

unoriginal

• adj. lacking originality.

variety

• n. The quality of being varied; diversity.
• n. A specific variation of something.
• n. A number of different things.
• n. A state of constant change.
• n. (taxonomy) A rank in a taxonomic classification, below species and subspecies.
• n. (cybernetics) The total number of distinct states of a system.
• n. (cybernetics) Logarithm of the base 2 of the total number of distinct states of a system.
• n. (linguistics) A term used for a specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is a dialect,…
• n. (algebra, esp. universal algebra) The class of all algebraic structures of a given signature satisfying…
• n. The kind of theatrical entertainment given in variety shows.
• n. The production of, or performance in, variety shows.

ware

• adj. (poetic) aware.
• n. (obsolete) The state of being aware; heed.
• n. (uncountable, usually in combination) Goods or a type of goods offered for sale or use.
• n. (in the plural) See wares.
• n. (uncountable) Pottery or metal goods.
• n. (countable, archaeology) A style or genre of artifact.
• n. (Ireland) Crockery.
• v. (obsolete or dialectal) To be ware or mindful of something.
• v. (obsolete) To protect or guard (especially oneself); to be on guard, be wary.
• adj. (obsolete) wary; cautious.
• n. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) seaweed.
• v. (nautical) To wear, or veer.

well-worn

• adj. showing signs of wear because of extensive use.
• adj. (by extension) trite or hackneyed; repeated too often.