Glossary of food terms

AAA - an aneurysm of the abdominal aorta associated with old age and hypertension
ABB - an urban hit squad and guerrilla group of the Communist Party in the Philippines; formed in the 1980s
Abalone - any of various large edible marine gastropods of the genus Haliotis having an ear-shaped shell with pearly interior
Acadian - an early French settler in the Maritimes
Acetic acid - a colorless pungent liquid widely used in manufacturing plastics and pharmaceuticals
Acidic - being or containing an acid; of a solution having an excess of hydrogen atoms (having a pH of less than 7); being sour to the taste
Acorn squash - small dark green or yellow ribbed squash with yellow to orange flesh; squash plant bearing small acorn-shaped fruits having yellow flesh and dark green or yellow rind with longitudinal ridges
Acorn - fruit of the oak tree: a smooth thin-walled nut in a woody cup-shaped base
Ada - an enzyme found in mammals that can catalyze the deamination of adenosine into inosine and ammonia
Africa - the second largest continent; located south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean
African - of or relating to the nations of Africa or their peoples; a native or inhabitant of Africa
Agriculture - the class of people engaged in growing food; the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock; a large-scale farming enterprise; the federal department that administers programs that provide services to farmers (including research and soil conservation and efforts to stabilize the farming economy); created in 1862
Alanine - a crystalline amino acid that occurs in many proteins
Albanian - of or relating to Albania or its people or language or culture; the Indo-European language spoken by the people of Albania; a native or inhabitant of Albania
Aleppo - a city in northwestern Syria
Alexander - king of Macedon; conqueror of Greece and Egypt and Persia; founder of Alexandria (356-323 BC); European herb somewhat resembling celery widely naturalized in Britain coastal regions and often cultivated as a potherb
Algae - primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves
Algerian - of or relating to or characteristic of Algeria or its inhabitants; a native or inhabitant of Algeria
Allergy - hypersensitivity reaction to a particular allergen; symptoms can vary greatly in intensity
Alligator - either of two amphibious reptiles related to crocodiles but with shorter broader snouts; leather made from alligator's hide; verb crack and acquire the appearance of alligator hide, as from weathering or improper application; of paint and varnishes
Allium - large genus of perennial and biennial pungent bulbous plants: garlic; leek; onion; chive; sometimes placed in family Alliaceae as the type genus
Almond oil - pale yellow fatty oil expressed from sweet or bitter almonds
Almond - oval-shaped edible seed of the almond tree; small bushy deciduous tree native to Asia and North Africa having pretty pink blossoms and highly prized edible nuts enclosed in a hard green hull; cultivated in southern Australia and California
Alpaca - domesticated llama with long silky fleece; believed to be a domesticated variety of the guanaco; a thin glossy fabric made of the wool of the Lama pacos, or made of a rayon or cotton imitation of that wool; wool of the alpaca
Amaranth - any of various plants of the genus Amaranthus having dense plumes of green or red flowers; often cultivated for food; seed of amaranth plants used as a native cereal in Central and South America
Amaranthaceae - cosmopolitan family of herbs and shrubs
Amarelle - pale red sour cherry with colorless or nearly colorless juice; any of several cultivated sour cherry trees bearing pale red fruit with colorless juice
American beech - North American forest tree with light green leaves and edible nuts
American bison - large shaggy-haired brown bison of North American plains
American hazel - nut-bearing shrub of eastern North America
American lobster - lobster of Atlantic coast of America; flesh of cold-water lobsters having large tender claws; caught from Maine to the Carolinas
American - of or relating to or characteristic of the continents and islands of the Americas; of or relating to the United States of America or its people or language or culture; a native or inhabitant of a North American or Central American or South American country; a native or inhabitant of the United States; the English language as used in the United States
Anaheim - a city in southern California (southeast of Los Angeles); site of Disneyland
Ananas comosus - a tropical American plant bearing a large fleshy edible fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated in the tropics
Ananas - a genus of tropical American plants have sword-shaped leaves and a fleshy compound fruits composed of the fruits of several flowers (such as pineapples); large sweet fleshy tropical fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated
Anchor - a mechanical device that prevents a vessel from moving; a central cohesive source of support and stability; a television reporter who coordinates a broadcast to which several correspondents contribute; verb secure a vessel with an anchor; fix firmly and stably
Anchovy - small herring-like plankton-eating fishes often canned whole or as paste; abundant in tropical waters worldwide; tiny fishes usually canned or salted; used for hors d'oeuvres or as seasoning in sauces
Ancient Greek - the Greek language prior to the Roman Empire
Andalusian - in or relating to Andalusia
Anglo-Indian - relating to British India or the English in India; a person of English citizenship born or living in India
Angolan - of or relating to or characteristic of Angola or its people; a native or inhabitant of Angola
Anise - liquorice-flavored seeds or oil used in cookies or cakes or pickles; native to Egypt but cultivated widely for its aromatic seeds and the oil from them used medicinally and as a flavoring in cookery
Anna - a former copper coin of Pakistan
Antipasto - a course of appetizers in an Italian meal
Ape - any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all; person who resembles a nonhuman primate; someone who copies the words or behavior of another; verb imitate uncritically and in every aspect; represent in or produce a caricature of
Apple butter - thick dark spicy puree of apples
Apple dumpling - apples wrapped in pastry and baked
Apple juice - the juice of apples
Apple pie - pie (with a top crust) containing sliced apples and sugar
Apple sauce - puree of stewed apples usually sweetened and spiced
Apple - fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh; native Eurasian tree widely cultivated in many varieties for its firm rounded edible fruits
Applejack - distilled from hard cider
Applesauce - puree of stewed apples usually sweetened and spiced; nonsensical talk or writing
Aquarius - the eleventh sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about January 20 to February 18; a zodiacal constellation in the southern hemisphere; between Capricornus and Pisces; (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Aquarius
Arab - a member of a Semitic people originally from the Arabian peninsula and surrounding territories who speaks Arabic and who inhabits much of the Middle East and northern Africa; a spirited graceful and intelligent riding horse native to Arabia
Arak - any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses
Araucaria - any of several tall South American or Australian trees with large cones and edible seeds
Argentine - of or relating to or characteristic of Argentina or its people; any of various small silver-scaled salmon-like marine fishes
Arginine - a bitter tasting amino acid found in proteins and necessary for nutrition; its absence from the diet leads to a reduced production of spermatozoa
Armenian - of or pertaining to Armenia or the people or culture of Armenia; a writing system having an alphabet of 38 letters in which the Armenian language is written; the Indo-European language spoken predominantly in Armenia; an ethnic group speaking Armenian and living in Armenia and Azerbaijan; a native or inhabitant of Armenia
Arrack - any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses
Arroz con pollo - rice and chicken cooked together Spanish style; highly seasoned especially with saffron
Artificial - artificially formal; contrived by art rather than nature; not arising from natural growth or characterized by vital processes
Ashkenazi - a Jew of eastern European or German descent
Asia - the nations of the Asian continent collectively; the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations
Asian - denoting or characteristic of the biogeographic region including southern Asia and the Malay Archipelago as far as the Philippines and Borneo and Java; of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture; a native or inhabitant of Asia
Asparagine - a crystalline amino acid found in proteins and in many plants (e.g., asparagus)
Aspartame - an artificial sweetener made from aspartic acid; used as a calorie-free sweetener
Aspartic acid - a crystalline amino acid found in proteins and occurring naturally in sugar beets and sugar cane
Assamese - of or relating to or characteristic of Assam or its people or culture; the Magadhan language spoken by the Assamese people; closely related to Bengali; native or inhabitant of the state of Assam in northeastern India
Assyrian - an extinct language of the Assyrians regarded as a dialect of Akkadian; an inhabitant of ancient Assyria
Atlantic cod - one of the world's most important commercial fishes
Atlantic - relating to or bordering the Atlantic Ocean; the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east
Atole - eaten as mush or as a thin gruel
Attalea - unarmed feather palms of central and northern South America
Australia - a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony; the smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean
Australian - of or relating to or characteristic of Australia or its inhabitants; the Austronesian languages spoken by Australian aborigines; a native or inhabitant of Australia
Austrian - of or relating to Austria or its people or culture; a native or inhabitant of Austria
Autolysis - lysis of plant or animal tissue by an internal process
Avocado - of the dull yellowish green of the meat of an avocado; a pear-shaped tropical fruit with green or blackish skin and rich yellowish pulp enclosing a single large seed; tropical American tree bearing large pulpy green fruits
Azerbaijani - of or pertaining to Azerbaijan or the people or culture of Azerbaijan; the Turkic language spoken by the Azerbaijani; a native or inhabitant of Azerbaijan
Aztec - a member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes in 1519
BLT - sandwich filled with slices of bacon and tomato with lettuce
Babka - a coffee cake flavored with orange rind and raisins and almonds
Baby - a project of personal concern to someone; a very young mammal; (slang) sometimes used as a term of address for attractive young women; the youngest member of a group (not necessarily young); a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk; an immature childish person; verb treat with excessive indulgence
Bagasse - the dry dusty pulp that remains after juice is extracted from sugar cane or similar plants
Bagel - (Yiddish) glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust
Bahraini - of or relating to or characteristic of Bahrain or its people or language; a native or inhabitant of Bahrain
Bain-marie - a large pan that is filled with hot water; smaller pans containing food can be set in the larger pan to keep food warm or to cook food slowly
Baked Alaska - cake covered with ice cream and meringue browned quickly in an oven
Baked - (bread and pastries) cooked by dry heat (as in an oven); hardened by subjecting to intense heat; dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight
Baker's yeast - used as a leaven in baking and brewing
Baking - as hot as if in an oven; cooking by dry heat in an oven; making bread or cake or pastry etc.
Baklava - rich Middle Eastern cake made of thin layers of flaky pastry filled with nuts and honey
Balaton - a large shallow lake in western Hungary
Baldwin - an American eating apple with red or yellow and red skin; English statesman; member of the Conservative Party (1867-1947); United States author who was an outspoken critic of racism (1924-1987)
Balinese - the Indonesian language of the people of Bali
Balochi - an Iranian language spoken in Pakistan and Iran and Afghanistan and Russia and the Persian gulf
Bamboo shoot - edible young shoots of bamboo
Bamboo - woody tropical grass having hollow woody stems; mature canes used for construction and furniture; the hard woody stems of bamboo plants; used in construction and crafts and fishing poles
Banana boat - a ship designed to transport bananas
Banana bread - moist bread containing banana pulp
Banana peel - the skin of a banana (especially when it is stripped off and discarded)
Banana split - a banana split lengthwise and topped with scoops of ice cream and sauces and nuts and whipped cream
Banded - identified with a band especially around a leg; characterized by a band of especially white around the body; marked with bands or strips of contrasting color or texture
Bangladeshi - of or relating to or characteristic of Bangladesh or its people or language; a native or inhabitant of Bangladesh
Bannock - a flat bread made of oat or barley flour; common in New England and Scotland
Bannock - a flat bread made of oat or barley flour; common in New England and Scotland
Banquet - a meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed; a ceremonial dinner party for many people; verb partake in a feast or banquet; provide a feast or banquet for
Bap - a small loaf or roll of soft bread
Barbadian - of or relating to or characteristic of Barbados or its inhabitants; a native or inhabitant of Barbados
Barbecue sauce - spicy sweet and sour sauce usually based on catsup or chili sauce
Barbecue - a rack to hold meat for cooking over hot charcoal usually out of doors; a cookout in which food is cooked over an open fire; especially a whole animal carcass roasted on a spit; meat that has been barbecued or grilled in a highly seasoned sauce; verb cook outdoors on a barbecue grill
Barbecued - cooked over an outdoor grill
Barbecuing - roasting a large piece of meat on a revolving spit out of doors over an open fire
Barcelona - a city in northeastern Spain on the Mediterranean; 2nd largest Spanish city and the largest port and commercial center; has been a center for radical political beliefs
Barley-sugar - a brittle transparent candy made by melting and cooling cane sugar
Barley - a grain of barley; cultivated since prehistoric times; grown for forage and grain
Barm - a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey
Barramundi - large edible Australian lungfish having paddle-shaped fins
Bartender - an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar
Basque - the language of the Basque people; of no known relation to any other language; a member of a people of unknown origin living in the western Pyrenees in France and Spain
Battered - exhibiting symptoms resulting from repeated physical and emotional injury; damaged by blows or hard usage; damaged especially by hard usage
Beacon - a tower with a light that gives warning of shoals to passing ships; a fire (usually on a hill or tower) that can be seen from a distance; a radio station that broadcasts a directional signal for navigational purposes; verb guide with a beacon; shine like a beacon
Bean dip - a dip made of cooked beans
Beanfeast - an annual dinner party given by an employer for the employees
Bear claw - claw of a bear; often used in jewelry; an incised design resembling the claw of a bear; used in Native American pottery; almond-flavored yeast-raised pastry shaped in an irregular semicircle resembling a bear's claw
Beech - any of several large deciduous trees with rounded spreading crowns and smooth grey bark and small sweet edible triangular nuts enclosed in burs; north temperate regions; wood of any of various beech trees; used for flooring and containers and plywood and tool handles
Beef Stroganoff - sauteed strips of beef and mushrooms in sour cream sauce served with noodles
Beef Wellington - rare-roasted beef tenderloin coated with mushroom paste in puff pastry
Beef cattle - cattle that are reared for their meat
Beef - cattle that are reared for their meat; meat from an adult domestic bovine; informal terms for objecting; verb complain
Beefalo - hardy breed of cattle resulting from crossing domestic cattle with the American buffalo; yields leaner beef than conventional breeds
Beefsteak - a slice of beef usually cooked by broiling
Beer - a general name for alcoholic beverages made by fermenting a cereal (or mixture of cereals) flavored with hops
Beignet - a square, very rich drop friedcake dusted with confectioners' sugar
Beijing - capital of the People's Republic of China in the Hebei province in northeastern China; 2nd largest Chinese city
Belarusian - of or pertaining to Belarus or to the people or culture of Belarus; the Slavic language spoken in Belarus
Belgian waffle - thick sweet waffle often eaten with ice cream or fruit sauce
Belgian - of or relating to or characteristic of Belgium or the Belgian people; a native or inhabitant of Belgium
Bell pepper - large bell-shaped sweet pepper in green or red or yellow or orange or black varieties; plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits; the principal salad peppers
Bellflower - any of various plants of the genus Campanula having blue or white bell-shaped flowers
Beluga - valuable source of caviar and isinglass; found in Black and Caspian seas; small northern whale that is white when adult
Bengali - of or relating to or characteristic of Bengal or its people; a Magadhan language spoken by the Bengali people; the official language of Bangladesh and Bengal; an ethnic group speaking Bengali and living in Bangladesh and eastern India; (Hinduism) a member of a people living in Bangladesh and West Bengal (mainly Hindus)
Beninese - of or relating to or characteristic of Benin or its people; a native or inhabitant of Benin
Berber - a cluster of related dialects that were once the major language of northern Africa west of Egypt; now spoken mostly in Morocco; an ethnic minority descended from Berbers and Arabs and living in northern Africa; a member of a Caucasian Muslim people of northern Africa
Bergamot orange - small tree with pear-shaped fruit whose oil is used in perfumery; Italy
Berliner - an inhabitant of Berlin
Beta - preliminary or testing stage of a software or hardware product; second in order of importance; the 2nd letter of the Greek alphabet; beets
Betel nut - seed of betel palm; chewed with leaves of the betel pepper and lime as a digestive stimulant and narcotic in southeastern Asia
Beurre noisette - clarified butter browned slowly and seasoned with vinegar or lemon juice and capers
Bhutanese - of or pertaining to or characteristic of Bhutan or its people or culture or language; a native or inhabitant of Bhutan
Bialy - flat crusty-bottomed onion roll
Big blue - a reliable and deadly 15,000-pound fragmentation bomb that explodes just above ground with a large radius; the largest conventional bomb in existence; used in Afghanistan
Bihari - the Indic language spoken in Bihar (and by some people in Pakistan and Bangladesh)
Bilberry - blue-black berries similar to American blueberries; erect blueberry of western United States having solitary flowers and somewhat sour berries; erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries
Billfish - giant warm-water game fish having a prolonged and rounded toothless upper jaw; elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters; slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters; primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth
Biltong - meat that is salted and cut into strips and dried in the sun
Bird's eye - Old World plant with axillary racemes of blue-and-white flowers
Biryani - an Indian dish made with highly seasoned rice and meat or fish or vegetables
Biscuit - small round bread leavened with baking-powder or soda; any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British term)
Bismarck - capital of the state of North Dakota; located in south central North Dakota overlooking the Missouri river; German statesman under whose leadership Germany was united (1815-1898)
Bison - any of several large humped bovids having shaggy manes and large heads and short horns
Bisque - a thick cream soup made from shellfish
Bitter orange - highly acidic orange used especially in marmalade; any of various common orange trees yielding sour or bitter fruit; used as grafting stock
Bittern - relatively small compact tawny-brown heron with nocturnal habits and a booming cry; found in marshes
Bittersweet - tinged with sadness; having a taste that is a mixture of bitterness and sweetness; twining shrub of North America having yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds; poisonous perennial Old World vine having violet flowers and oval coral-red berries; widespread weed in North America
Black pudding - a black sausage containing pig's blood and other ingredients
Black spot - any of several fungous diseases of plants that produce small black spots on the plant
Black walnut - American walnut having a very hard and thick woody shell; North American walnut tree with hard dark wood and edible nut
Blackening - changing to a darker color
Blancmange - sweet almond-flavored milk pudding thickened with gelatin or cornstarch; usually molded
Blini - Russian pancake of buckwheat flour and yeast; usually served with caviar and sour cream
Blintz - (Judaism) thin pancake folded around a filling and fried or baked
Blood sausage - a black sausage containing pig's blood and other ingredients
Blood - temperament or disposition; the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped by the heart; people viewed as members of a group; the descendants of one individual; a dissolute man in fashionable society; verb smear with blood, as in a hunting initiation rite, where the face of a person is smeared with the blood of the kill
Bloomer - a flower that blooms in a particular way; an embarrassing mistake
Blooming - (used of persons) informal intensifiers; the organic process of bearing flowers
Blubber - an insulating layer of fat under the skin of whales and other large marine mammals; used as a source of oil; excess bodily weight; verb utter while crying; cry or whine with snuffling
Blue Whale - largest mammal ever known; bluish-grey migratory whalebone whale mostly of southern hemisphere
Blue cheese - cheese containing a blue mold
Blueberry pie - pie containing blueberries and sugar
Blueberry - sweet edible dark-blue berries of either low-growing or high-growing blueberry plants; any of numerous shrubs of the genus Vaccinium bearing blueberries
Boiling - adv. extremely; cooking in a liquid that has been brought to a boil; the application of heat to change something from a liquid to a gas
Bolivian - of or relating to or characteristic of Bolivia or its people; a native or inhabitant of Bolivia
Bolo - long heavy knife with a single edge; of Philippine origin; a cord fastened around the neck with an ornamental clasp and worn as a necktie
Bologna - large smooth-textured smoked sausage of beef and veal and pork; the capital of Emilia-Romagna; located in northern Italy east of the Apennines
Bombay - a city in western India just off the coast of the Arabian Sea; India's 2nd largest city (after Calcutta); has the only natural deep-water harbor in western India
Boost - the act of giving hope or support to someone; the act of giving a push; an increase in cost; verb give a boost to; be beneficial to; increase or raise; push or shove upward, as if from below or behind; increase; contribute to the progress or growth of
Borscht - a Russian soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation
Boss - exceptionally good; a person responsible for hiring workers; a person who exercises control and makes decisions; a circular rounded projection or protuberance; a person who exercises control over workers; a leader in a political party who controls votes and dictates appointments; verb raise in a relief
Botswana - a landlocked republic in south-central Africa that became independent from British control in the 1960s
Bourbon - whiskey distilled from a mash of corn and malt and rye and aged in charred oak barrels; a European royal line that ruled in France (from 1589-1793) and Spain and Naples and Sicily; a member of the European royal family that ruled France; a reactionary politician in the United States (usually from the South)
Braised - cooked by browning in fat and then simmering in a closed container
Braising - cooking slowly in fat in a closed pot with little moisture
Brand name - a name given to a product or service
Bratwurst - a small pork sausage
Brazil nut - three-sided tropical American nut with white oily meat and hard brown shell; tall South American tree bearing brazil nuts
Brazil - the largest Latin American country and the largest Portuguese speaking country in the world; located in the central and northeastern part of South America; world's leading coffee exporter; three-sided tropical American nut with white oily meat and hard brown shell
Brazilian - of or relating to or characteristic of Brazil or the people of Brazil; a native or inhabitant of Brazil
Bread - food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked; informal terms for money; verb cover with bread crumbs
Breadfruit - a large round seedless or seeded fruit with a texture like bread; eaten boiled or baked or roasted or ground into flour; the roasted seeds resemble chestnuts; native to Pacific islands and having edible fruit with a texture like bread
Breakfast - the first meal of the day (usually in the morning); verb eat an early morning meal; provide breakfast for
Brest - a port city in northwestern France (in Brittany); the chief naval station of France
Brisket - a cut of meat from the breast or lower chest especially of beef
British Columbia - a province in western Canada
British - of or relating to or characteristic of Great Britain or its people or culture; the people of Great Britain
Brochette - a small spit or skewer
Brooks - United States literary critic and historian (1886-1963)
Brown Betty - baked pudding of apples and breadcrumbs
Brown bread - dark steamed bread made of cornmeal wheat and flour with molasses and soda and milk or water; bread made with whole wheat flour
Brown rice - unpolished rice retaining the yellowish-brown outer layer
Brunch - combination breakfast and lunch; usually served in late morning; verb eat a meal in the late morning
Bruneian - of or relating to or characteristic of Brunei or its people; a native or inhabitant of Brunei
Bubble and squeak - leftover cabbage and potatoes and meat fried together
Bubble gum - a kind of chewing gum that can be blown into bubbles
Buckwheat - grain ground into flour; a member of the genus Fagopyrum; annual Asian plant with clusters of small pinkish white flowers and small edible triangular seeds which are used whole or ground into flour
Buddhist - of or relating to or supporting Buddhism; one who follows the teachings of Buddha
Buffalo - meat from an American bison; a city on Lake Erie in western New York (near Niagara Falls); any of several Old World animals resembling oxen including, e.g., water buffalo; Cape buffalo; large shaggy-haired brown bison of North American plains; verb intimidate or overawe
Buffet - a piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers; a meal set out on a buffet at which guests help themselves; usually inexpensive bar; verb strike, beat repeatedly; strike against forcefully
Bulgarian - of or relating to or characteristic of Bulgaria or its people; a Slavic language spoken in Bulgaria; a native or inhabitant of Bulgaria
Bulgur - parched crushed wheat
Buns - the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
Burdock - any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs
Burger - United States jurist appointed chief justice of the United States Supreme Court by Richard Nixon (1907-1995); a sandwich consisting of a fried cake of minced beef served on a bun, often with other ingredients
Burmese - of or relating to or characteristic of Myanmar or its people; the official language of Burma; a native or inhabitant of Myanmar
Burundian - of or relating to or characteristic of Burundi or its people; a native or inhabitant of Burundi
Butcher - a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market; a brutal indiscriminate murderer; a retailer of meat; someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence; verb kill (animals) usually for food consumption
Butte - a town in southwestern Montana; center for mining copper; a hill that rises abruptly from the surrounding region; has a flat top and sloping sides
Butter churn - a vessel in which cream is agitated to separate butterfat from buttermilk
Butter knife - a small knife with a dull blade; for cutting or spreading butter
Butter - an edible emulsion of fat globules made by churning milk or cream; for cooking and table use; a fighter who strikes the opponent with his head; verb spread butter on
Butterfat - the fatty substance of milk from which butter is made
Buttermilk - residue from making butter from sour raw milk; or pasteurized milk curdled by adding a culture
Butternut squash - buff-colored squash with a long usually straight neck and sweet orange flesh; plant bearing buff-colored squash having somewhat bottle-shaped fruit with fine-textured edible flesh and a smooth thin rind
Butternut - oily egg-shaped nut of an American tree of the walnut family; North American walnut tree having light-brown wood and edible nuts; source of a light-brown dye
Butterscotch - a hard brittle candy made with butter and brown sugar
Byzantine - characterized by elaborate scheming and intrigue; devious; highly complex or intricate; of or relating to or characteristic of the Byzantine Empire or the ancient city of Byzantium; of or relating to the Eastern Orthodox Church or the rites performed in it; a native or inhabitant of Byzantium or of the Byzantine Empire
Caesar salad - typically having fried croutons and dressing made with a raw egg
Caesar - conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC); United States comedian who pioneered comedy television shows (born 1922)
Caff - informal British term for a cafe
Cajun - a Louisianian descended from Acadian immigrants from Nova Scotia (`Cajun' comes from `Acadian')
Calamari - (Italian cuisine) squid prepared as food
Calcium chloride - a deliquescent salt; used in de-icing and as a drying agent
Calcium - a white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light; the fifth most abundant element in the earth's crust; an important component of most plants and animals
California - a state in the western United States on the Pacific; the 3rd largest state; known for earthquakes
Callinectes sapidus - bluish edible crab of Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of North America
Calvados - dry apple brandy made in Normandy
Cambodian - of or relating to or characteristic of Cambodia or its people or language; a native or inhabitant of Cambodia
Cambridge - a city in eastern England on the River Cam; site of Cambridge University; a city in Massachusetts just north of Boston; site of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; a university in England
Camel - cud-chewing mammal used as a draft or saddle animal in desert regions
Cameo - engraving or carving in low relief on a stone (as in a brooch or ring)
Cameroonian - of or relating to or characteristic of Cameroon or its people; a native or inhabitant of Cameroon
Canada - a nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada
Canadian - of or relating to Canada or its people; a river rising in northeastern New Mexico and flowing eastward across the Texas panhandle to become a tributary of the Arkansas River in Oklahoma; a native or inhabitant of Canada
Canary - having the color of a canary; of a light to moderate yellow; any of several small Old World finches; a female singer; a moderate yellow with a greenish tinge; someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police
Cancer irroratus - crab of eastern coast of North America
Candlenut - seed of candlenut tree; source of soil used in varnishes; large tree native to southeastern Asia; the nuts yield oil used in varnishes; nut kernels strung together are used locally as candles
Candy apple - an apple that is covered with a candy-like substance (usually caramelized sugar)
Candy - a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts; verb coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze
Canker - an ulceration (especially of the lips or lining of the mouth); a fungal disease of woody plants that causes localized damage to the bark; a pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of; verb infect with a canker; become infected with a canker
Canna - any plant of the genus Canna having large sheathing leaves and clusters of large showy flowers
Cannibalism - the practice of eating the flesh of your own kind
Canola oil - vegetable oil made from rapeseed
Cantaloupe - a variety of muskmelon vine having fruit with a tan rind and orange flesh; the fruit of a cantaloup vine; small to medium-sized melon with yellowish flesh
Cantonese - the dialect of Chinese spoken in Canton and neighboring provinces and in Hong Kong and elsewhere outside China
Capsicum - any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers; chiefly tropical perennial shrubby plants having many-seeded fruits: sweet and hot peppers
Carabao - water buffalo of the Philippines
Caramel apple - an apple that is covered with a candy-like substance (usually caramelized sugar)
Caramel - having the color of caramel; of a moderate yellow-brown; burnt sugar; used to color and flavor food; firm chewy candy made from caramelized sugar and butter and milk; a medium to dark tan color
Carbonated - having carbonation (especially artificially carbonated)
Cardamom - aromatic seeds used as seasoning like cinnamon and cloves especially in pickles and barbecue sauces; rhizomatous herb of India having aromatic seeds used as seasoning
Caribbean - region including the Caribbean islands; an arm of the Atlantic Ocean between North and South America; the origin of the Gulf stream
Caribou - arctic deer with large antlers in both sexes; called `reindeer' in Eurasia and `caribou' in North America
Carnation - pink or pinkish; a pink or reddish-pink color; Eurasian plant with pink to purple-red spice-scented usually double flowers; widely cultivated in many varieties and many colors
Carp - any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae; the lean flesh of a fish that is often farmed; can be baked or braised; verb raise trivial objections
Carrot pudding - pudding made with grated carrots
Cascabel - bell attached to a sleigh, or to harness of horse pulling a sleigh
Cascade - a succession of stages or operations or processes or units; a small waterfall or series of small waterfalls; a sudden downpour (as of tears or sparks etc) likened to a rain shower; verb arrange (open windows) on a computer desktop so that they overlap each other, with the title bars visible; rush down in big quantities, like a cascade
Cashew - kidney-shaped nut edible only when roasted; tropical American evergreen tree bearing kidney-shaped nuts that are edible only when roasted
Cassowary - large black flightless bird of Australia and New Guinea having a horny head crest
Castile soap - a good hard soap made from olive oil and sodium hydroxide
Castor oil - a purgative extracted from the seed of the castor plant; used in paint and varnish as well as medically
Catalan - relating to or characteristic of the Catalan language; relating to or denoting or characteristic of Catalonia or its inhabitants; the Romance language spoken in Catalonia in eastern Spain (related to Spanish and Occitan); a native or inhabitant of Catalonia
Catawba - the Siouan language spoken by the Catawba; slipskin grape; a reddish American table grape; a member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Carolinas
Category - a general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a conceptual scheme; a collection of things sharing a common attribute
Catering - providing food and services
Catfish - any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth; flesh of scaleless food fish of the southern United States; often farmed; large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins
Caucasian - of or relating to Caucasian people; of or relating to the geographical region of Caucasia; a number of languages spoken in the Caucasus that have no known affiliations to languages spoken elsewhere; a member of the Caucasoid race
Cavendish - British chemist and physicist who established that water is a compound of hydrogen and oxygen and who calculated the density of the earth (1731-1810)
Caviar - salted roe of sturgeon or other large fish; usually served as an hors d'oeuvre
Cayenne - a long and often twisted hot red pepper; ground pods and seeds of pungent red peppers of the genus Capsicum; plant bearing very hot and finely tapering long peppers; usually red
Celery - stalks eaten raw or cooked or used as seasoning; widely cultivated herb with aromatic leaf stalks that are eaten raw or cooked
Celosia - annual or perennial herbs or vines of tropical and subtropical America and Asia and Africa
Central - in or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area; centrally located and easy to reach; used in the description of a place that in the middle of another place; serving as an essential component; a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication
Chadian - of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language; a native or inhabitant of Chad
Challah - (Judaism) a loaf of white bread containing eggs and leavened with yeast; often formed into braided loaves and glazed with eggs before baking
Champion - holding first place in a contest; someone who fights for a cause; someone who has won first place in a competition; someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field; a person who backs a politician or a team etc.; verb protect or fight for as a champion
Chancellor - the honorary or titular head of a university; the person who is head of state (in several countries)
Chapati - flat pancake-like bread cooked on a griddle
Charcuterie - a delicatessen that specializes in meats
Charity - an activity or gift that benefits the public at large; a kindly and lenient attitude toward people; an institution set up to provide help to the needy; a foundation created to promote the public good (not for assistance to any particular individuals); pinnate-leaved European perennial having bright blue or white flowers
Chateaubriand - a very thick center cut of beef tenderloin; French statesman and writer; considered a precursor of the romantic movement in France (1768-1848)
Chechen - of or relating to Chechnya or its people or culture; a northern Caucasian language spoken by the Chechen; a native or inhabitant of Chechnya
Cheese - a solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk; erect or decumbent Old World perennial with axillary clusters of rosy-purple flowers; introduced in United States; verb wind onto a cheese; used in the imperative (get away, or stop it)
Cheeseburger - a hamburger with melted cheese on it
Cheesecake - a photograph of an attractive woman in minimal attire; made with sweetened cream cheese and eggs and cream baked in a crumb crust
Chef - a professional cook
Chemical - relating to or used in chemistry; of or made from or using substances produced by or used in reactions involving atomic or molecular changes; produced by or used in a reaction involving changes in atoms or molecules
Chemistry - the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions; the way two individuals relate to each other
Chewing gum - a preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing; a gum prepared for chewing; sweetened and flavored
Chicha - an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water
Chichi - affectedly trendy and fashionable; someone who dresses in a trendy fashionable way; elegance by virtue of being fashionable
Chicken salad - salad composed primarily of chopped chicken meat
Chicken - easily frightened; a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl; a foolhardy competition; a dangerous activity that is continued until one competitor becomes afraid and stops; the flesh of a chicken used for food; a person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy
Chicken - easily frightened; a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl; a foolhardy competition; a dangerous activity that is continued until one competitor becomes afraid and stops; the flesh of a chicken used for food; a person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy
Chilean - of or relating to or characteristic of Chile or its people; a native or inhabitant of Chile
Chili dog - a hotdog with chili con carne on it
China - high quality porcelain originally made only in China; a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world; dishware made of high quality porcelain; a government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the communists led by Mao Zedong
Chipolata - a small thin sausage
Chives - cylindrical leaves used fresh as a mild onion-flavored seasoning; perennial having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoning
Chlorine - a common nonmetallic element belonging to the halogens; best known as a heavy yellow irritating toxic gas; used to purify water and as a bleaching agent and disinfectant; occurs naturally only as a salt (as in sea water)
Chocolate bar - a bar of chocolate candy
Chocolate cake - cake containing chocolate
Chocolate chip cookie - cookies containing chocolate chips
Chocolate ice cream - ice cream flavored with chocolate
Chocolate liquor - the liquid or paste that is produced when cocoa beans are roasted and ground; the basis of all chocolate
Chocolate milk - milk flavored with chocolate syrup
Chocolate pudding - sweet chocolate flavored custard-like pudding usually thickened with flour rather than eggs
Chocolate syrup - sauce made with unsweetened chocolate or cocoa and sugar and water
Chocolate truffle - creamy chocolate candy
Chocolate - a medium brown to dark-brown color; a food made from roasted ground cacao beans; a beverage made from cocoa powder and milk and sugar; usually drunk hot
Cholera - an acute intestinal infection caused by ingestion of contaminated water or food
Chorizo - a spicy Spanish pork sausage
Chow mein - chop suey served with fried noodles
Chowder - a thick soup or stew made with milk and bacon and onions and potatoes
Christian - following the teachings or manifesting the qualities or spirit of Jesus Christ; relating to or characteristic of Christianity; a religious person who believes Jesus is the Christ and who is a member of a Christian denomination
Christmas pudding - a rich steamed or boiled pudding that resembles cake
Chromium - a hard brittle multivalent metallic element; resistant to corrosion and tarnishing
Churning - (of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence; moving with or producing or produced by vigorous agitation
Chutney - chopped fruits or green tomatoes cooked in vinegar and sugar with ginger and spices
Cicada - stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings; male has drum-like organs for producing a high-pitched drone
Cider - a beverage made from juice pressed from apples
Cilantro - parsley-like herb used as seasoning or garnish; Old World herb with aromatic leaves and seed resembling parsley
Cinnamon roll - rolled dough spread with cinnamon and sugar (and raisins) then sliced before baking
Cinnamon - spice from the dried aromatic bark of the Ceylon cinnamon tree; used as rolled strips or ground; tropical Asian tree with aromatic yellowish-brown bark; source of the spice cinnamon; aromatic bark used as a spice
Circassian - a northern Caucasian language spoken by the Circassian; a member of a Caucasian people living in the Caucasus but not speaking an Indo-European language
Citrange - more aromatic and acid tasting than oranges; used in beverages and marmalade; more aromatic and acidic than oranges
Citric acid - a weak water-soluble acid found in many fruits (especially citrus fruits); used as a flavoring agent
Citron - large lemonlike fruit with thick aromatic rind; usually preserved; thorny evergreen small tree or shrub of India widely cultivated for its large lemonlike fruits that have thick warty rind
Citrullus - a dicot genus of the family Cucurbitaceae including watermelons
Citrus - any of numerous fruits of the genus Citrus having thick rind and juicy pulp; grown in warm regions; any of numerous tropical usually thorny evergreen trees of the genus Citrus having leathery evergreen leaves and widely cultivated for their juicy edible fruits having leathery aromatic rinds
Clams - informal terms for money
Clarified butter - butter made clear by heating and removing the sediment of milk solids
Clementine - a mandarin orange of a deep reddish orange color and few seeds; a variety of mandarin orange that is grown around the Mediterranean and in South Africa
Clinton - a town in east central Iowa; United States politician who as governor of New York supported the project to build the Erie Canal (1769-1828); 42nd President of the United States (1946-); wife of President Clinton and later a woman member of the United States Senate (1947-)
Clostridium botulinum - anaerobic bacterium producing botulin the toxin that causes botulism
Cloudberry - creeping raspberry of north temperate regions with yellow or orange berries
Cob - adult male swan; stocky short-legged harness horse; white gull having a black back and wings; nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus
Cobalt - a hard ferromagnetic silver-white bivalent or trivalent metallic element; a trace element in plant and animal nutrition
Cobbler - tall sweetened iced drink of wine or liquor with fruit; a person who makes or repairs shoes; made of fruit with rich biscuit dough usually only on top of the fruit
Coca Cola - Coca Cola is a trademarked cola
Coca - dried leaves of the coca plant (and related plants that also contain cocaine); chewed by Andean people for their simulating effect; United States comedienne who starred in early television shows with Sid Caesar (1908-2001); a South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes; a source of cocaine
Cockscomb - a cap worn by court jesters; adorned with a strip of red; garden annual with featherlike spikes of red or yellow flowers; the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds; a conceited dandy who is overly impressed by his own accomplishments
Cocktail - an appetizer served as a first course at a meal; a short mixed drink
Cocoa bean - seed of the cacao tree; ground roasted beans are source of chocolate
Cocoa butter - the vegetable fat from the cacao that is extracted from chocolate liquor; the basis for white chocolate; a yellow-white fat from cocoa beans
Coconut Cream - white liquid obtained from compressing fresh coconut meat
Coconut oil - oil from coconuts
Coconut - large hard-shelled oval nut with a fibrous husk containing thick white meat surrounding a central cavity filled (when fresh) with fluid or milk; the edible white meat a coconut; often shredded for use in e.g. cakes and curries; tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics
Cod liver oil - an oil obtained from the livers of cod and similar fishes; taken orally as a source of vitamins A and D
Cod - payable by the recipient on delivery; adv. collecting the charges upon delivery; major food fish of arctic and cold-temperate waters; lean white flesh of important North Atlantic food fish; usually baked or poached; the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves); verb harass with persistent criticism or carping; fool or hoax
Coddle - verb cook in nearly boiling water; treat with excessive indulgence
Coffee break - a snack taken during a break in the work day
Coffee cake - a cake or sweet bread usually served with coffee
Coffee - a beverage consisting of an infusion of ground coffee beans; any of several small trees and shrubs native to the tropical Old World yielding coffee beans; a medium brown to dark-brown color; a seed of the coffee tree; ground to make coffee
Coir - stiff coarse fiber from the outer husk of a coconut
Col - a pass between mountain peaks
Coleslaw - basically shredded cabbage
Colombia - a republic in northwestern South America with a coastline on the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea; achieved independence from Spain in 1821 under the leadership of Simon Bolivar; Spanish is the official language
Colombian - of or relating to or characteristic of Colombia or its people; a native or inhabitant of Colombia
Coloring - the act or process of changing the color of something; a digestible substance used to give color to food; a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect
Colostrum - milky fluid secreted for the first day or two after parturition
Colza oil - edible light yellow to brown oil from rapeseed used also as a lubricant or illuminant
Commerce - transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services); social exchange, especially of opinions, attitudes, etc.; the United States federal department that promotes and administers domestic and foreign trade (including management of the census and the patent office); created in 1913
Commons - a pasture subject to common use; class composed of persons lacking noble or knightly or gentle rank; a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area
Conch - any of various edible tropical marine gastropods of the genus Strombus having a brightly-colored spiral shell with large outer lip
Condom - contraceptive device consisting of a sheath of thin rubber or latex that is worn over the penis during intercourse
Conduction - the transmission of heat or electricity or sound
Confectionery - the occupation and skills of a confectioner; a confectioner's shop; candy and other sweets considered collectively
Confit - a piece of meat (especially a duck) cooked slowly in its own fat
Congee - a Chinese rice gruel eaten for breakfast; verb perform a ceremonious bow; depart after obtaining formal permission
Congolese - of or relating to or characteristic of the Congo region or its people; a native or inhabitant of the Republic of the Congo
Convection - the transfer of heat through a fluid (liquid or gas) caused by molecular motion; (meteorology) the vertical movement of heat or other properties by massive motion within the atmosphere
Convenience food - any packaged dish or food that can be prepared quickly and easily as by thawing or heating
Cook - someone who cooks food; English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779); verb transform and make suitable for consumption by heating; transform by heating; prepare for eating by applying heat; prepare a hot meal; fake or falsify
Cookbook - a book of recipes and cooking directions
Cookie - a short line of text that a web site puts on your computer's hard drive when you access the web site; any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British term); the cook on a ranch or at a camp
Cooking oil - any of numerous vegetable oils used in cooking
Cooking - the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat
Copra - the dried meat of the coconut from which oil is extracted
Cordon bleu - a chef famous for his great skill; an honor or award gained for excellence
Corn fritter - fritter containing corn or corn kernels
Corn oil - oil from the germs of corn grains
Corn syrup - syrup prepared from corn
Cornbread - bread made primarily of cornmeal
Corned beef - beef cured or pickled in brine
Corned - (used especially of meat) cured in brine
Cornish pasty - meat pie with filling of meat and vegetables
Cornish - of or related to Cornwall or its people or the Cornish language; English breed of compact domestic fowl; raised primarily to crossbreed to produce roasters; a Celtic language spoken in Cornwall
Cornmeal - coarsely ground corn
Cortland - large apple with a red skin
Cottage cheese - mild white cheese made from curds of soured skim milk
Cottage pie - a dish of minced meat topped with mashed potatoes
Cotton ball - a fungus disease of cranberries
Cottonseed oil - edible oil pressed from cottonseeds
Couscous - a pasta made in northern Africa of crushed and steamed semolina; a spicy dish that originated in northern Africa; consists of pasta steamed with a meat and vegetable stew
Couverture - chocolate that contains at least 32 percent cocoa butter
Cow - mature female of mammals of which the male is called `bull'; female of domestic cattle: "`moo-cow' is a child's term"; a large unpleasant woman; verb subdue, restrain, or overcome by affecting with a feeling of awe; frighten (as with threats)
Cox's Orange Pippin - a yellow Pippin with distinctive flavor
Crabs - infestation of the pubic hair by crab lice
Crappie - small sunfishes of central United States rivers; small sunfishes of the genus Pomoxis of central United States rivers
Crassostrea - Virginia oysters
Cream cheese - soft unripened cheese made of sweet milk and cream
Croatian - of or relating to or characteristic of Croatia or its people or language; a member of the Slavic people living in Croatia
Crocodile - large voracious aquatic reptile having a long snout with massive jaws and sharp teeth and a body covered with bony plates; of sluggish tropical waters
Croissant - very rich flaky crescent-shaped roll
Crookneck squash - yellow squash with a thin curved neck and somewhat warty skin
Croquette - minced cooked meats (or vegetables) in thick white sauce; breaded and deep-fried
Crouton - a small piece of toasted or fried bread; served in soup or salads
Cruller - small friedcake formed into twisted strips and fried; richer than doughnuts
Crumb cake - cake or coffeecake topped with a mixture of sugar and butter and flour
Crumble - verb break or fall apart into fragments; fall apart; fall into decay or ruin
Crumpet - raised muffin cooked on a griddle
Crust - the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties; the outer layer of the Earth; a hard outer layer that covers something; verb form a crust or form into a crust
Cuba - the largest island in the West Indies; a communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba
Cuban - of or relating to or characteristic of Cuba or the people of Cuba; a native or inhabitant of Cuba
Cubit - an ancient unit of length based on the length of the forearm
Cucumber - cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh eaten as a vegetable; related to melons; a melon vine of the genus Cucumis; cultivated from earliest times for its cylindrical green fruit
Cucumis - cucumbers; muskmelons
Cucurbita - type genus of the Cucurbitaceae
Cuisine - the practice or manner of preparing food or the food so prepared
Cumberland - a river that rises in southeastern Kentucky and flows westward through northern Tennessee to become a tributary of the Ohio River in southwestern Kentucky; English general; son of George II; fought unsuccessfully in the battle of Fontenoy (1721-1765)
Curd - coagulated milk; used to made cheese; a coagulated liquid resembling milk curd
Curing - the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization
Curry - (East Indian cookery) a pungent dish of vegetables or meats flavored with curry powder and usually eaten with rice; verb treat by incorporating fat; season with a mixture of spices; typical of Indian cooking; give a neat appearance to
Custard - sweetened mixture of milk and eggs baked or boiled or frozen
Cutlet - thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled
Cuttlefish - ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell
Cycad - any tropical gymnosperm of the order Cycadales; having unbranched stems with a crown of fernlike leaves
Cyclic - recurring in cycles; of a compound having atoms arranged in a ring structure; botany; forming a whorl or having parts arranged in a whorl; marked by repeated cycles; conforming to the Carnot cycle
Cypriot - of or relating to Cyprus or its people or culture; a native or inhabitant of Cyprus
Cysteine - an amino acid containing sulfur that is found in most proteins; oxidizes on exposure to air to form cystine
Czech - of or relating to Czechoslovakia or its people or their language; the Slavic language of Czechs; a native of inhabitant of the Czech Republic; a native or inhabitant of the former republic of Czechoslovakia
Daikon - radish of Japan with a long hard durable root eaten raw or cooked
Dairy - a farm where dairy products are produced
Dal - a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters
Danish pastry - light sweet yeast-raised roll usually filled with fruits or cheese
Danish - of or relating to or characteristic of Denmark or the Danes; a Scandinavian language that is the official language of Denmark; light sweet yeast-raised roll usually filled with fruits or cheese
De - a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies
Decoction - (pharmacology) the extraction by boiling of water-soluble drug substances
Decoration - the act of decorating something (in the hope of making it more attractive); something used to beautify; an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event
Deforestation - the removal of trees; the state of being clear of trees
Defunct - having ceased to exist or live; no longer in force or use; inactive
Degustation - taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality
Dent - an impression in a surface (as made by a blow); an appreciable consequence (especially a lessening); a depression scratched or carved into a surface; verb make a depression into
Denver - the state capital and largest city of Colorado; located in central Colorado on the South Platte river
Dessert - a dish served as the last course of a meal
Detoxification - treatment for poisoning by neutralizing the toxic properties (normally a function of the liver); a treatment for addiction to drugs or alcohol intended to remove the physiological effects of the addictive substances
Dewberry - blackberry-like fruits of any of several trailing blackberry bushes; any of several trailing blackberry brambles especially of North America
Diabetic diet - a diet designed to help control the symptoms of diabetes
Dickinson - United States poet noted for her mystical and unrhymed poems (1830-1886)
Diet - the act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods); the usual food and drink consumed by an organism (person or animal); a prescribed selection of foods; a legislative assembly in certain countries (e.g., Japan); verb eat sparingly, for health reasons or to lose weight; follow a regimen or a diet, as for health reasons
Dieting - the act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods)
Dietitian - a specialist in the study of nutrition
Dim sum - traditional Chinese cuisine; a variety of foods (including several kinds of steamed or fried dumplings) are served successively in small portions
Ding-Dong - the noise made by a bell
Dining-room - a room used for dining
Dining - the act of eating dinner
Dinner - the main meal of the day served in the evening or at midday; a party of people assembled to have dinner together
Disaccharide - any of a variety of carbohydrates that yield two monosaccharide molecules on complete hydrolysis
Discovery - the act of discovering something; a productive insight; something that is discovered; (law) compulsory pretrial disclosure of documents relevant to a case; enables one side in a litigation to elicit information from the other side concerning the facts in the case
Dishwasher - a machine for washing dishes; someone who washes dishes
Djiboutian - of or relating to Djibouti or its people or culture; a native or inhabitant of Djibouti
Dolphin - any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout; larger than porpoises; large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii)
Domestication - accommodation to domestic life; adaptation to intimate association with human beings; the attribute of having been domesticated
Dominican Republic - a republic in the West Indies; located on the eastern two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola
Dominican - of or relating to Saint Dominic or the Dominican order; of or relating to or characteristic of the Dominican Republic or its people; a Roman Catholic friar wearing the black mantle of the Dominican order
Donkey - the symbol of the Democratic Party; introduced in cartoons by Thomas Nast in 1874; domestic beast of burden descended from the African wild ass; patient but stubborn
Dot - the shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code; street name for lysergic acid diethylamide; the United States federal department that institutes and coordinates national transportation programs; created in 1966; a very small circular shape; verb mark with a dot; make a dot or dots; scatter or intersperse like dots or studs; distribute loosely
Doubles - tennis played with two players on each side; badminton played with two players on each side
Doughnut - a small ring-shaped friedcake; a toroidal shape
Dredge - a power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed; verb remove with a power shovel, usually from a bottom of a body of water; search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost; cover before cooking
Dried fruit - fruit preserved by drying
Dried - preserved by removing natural moisture; not still wet
Drink - the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess; a single serving of a beverage; any large deep body of water; the act of swallowing; any liquid suitable for drinking; verb take in liquids; consume alcohol; drink excessive amounts of alcohol; be an alcoholic; be fascinated or spell-bound by; pay close attention to; propose a toast to
Dripping - having liquid falling in drops; wet with secreted or exuded moisture such as sweat or tears; adv. extremely wet; a liquid (as water) that flows in drops (as from the eaves of house); the sound of a liquid falling drop by drop
Drying oil - an oil that hardens in air due to oxidation and is often used as a paint or varnish base
Dulse - coarse edible red seaweed
Dumplings - small balls or strips of boiled or steamed dough
Duncan - United States dancer and pioneer of modern dance (1878-1927)
Dungeness crab - small edible crab of Pacific coast of North America; small Pacific coast crab
Durian - huge fruit native to southeastern Asia `smelling like Hell and tasting like Heaven'; seeds are roasted and eaten like nuts; tree of southeastern Asia having edible oval fruit with a hard spiny rind
Durum - wheat with hard dark-colored kernels high in gluten and used for bread and pasta; grown especially in southern Russia, North Africa, and northern central North America
Dutch - of or relating to the Netherlands or its people or culture; the West Germanic language of the Netherlands; the people of the Netherlands
Eastern - lying toward or situated in the east; relating to or characteristic of regions of eastern parts of the world; of or characteristic of eastern regions of the United States; from the east; used especially of winds; lying in or toward the east
Eating - the act of consuming food
Eccles cake - a flat round cake of sweetened pastry filled with dried fruit
Ecuadorian - of or relating to or characteristic of Ecuador or its people; a native or inhabitant of Ecuador
Edelweiss - alpine perennial plant native to Europe having leaves covered with whitish down and small flower heads held in stars of glistening whitish bracts
Eel - voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins; the fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in Europe and America; large eels are usually smoked or pickled
Egg cream - made of milk and flavored syrup with soda water
Egg roll - minced vegetables and meat wrapped in a pancake and fried
Eggs - oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food
Egyptian - of or relating to or characteristic of Egypt or its people or their language; the ancient and now extinct language of Egypt under the Pharaohs; written records date back to 3000 BC; a native or inhabitant of Egypt
Elaeis - oil palms
Elegant - refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style; displaying effortless beauty and simplicity in movement or execution; suggesting taste, ease, and wealth
Elephant - five-toed pachyderm; the symbol of the Republican Party; introduced in cartoons by Thomas Nast in 1874
Emerald - the green color of an emerald; a transparent piece of emerald that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem; a green transparent form of beryl; highly valued as a gemstone
Emmer - hard red wheat grown especially in Russia and Germany; in United States as stock feed
Emu - large Australian flightless bird similar to the ostrich but smaller; any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism
Engineering - a room (as on a ship) in which the engine is located; the discipline dealing with the art or science of applying scientific knowledge to practical problems; the practical application of science to commerce or industry
English walnut - nut with a wrinkled two-lobed seed and hard but relatively thin shell; widely used in cooking; Eurasian walnut valued for its large edible nut and its hard richly figured wood; widely cultivated
Enkephalin - an endorphin having opiate qualities that occurs in the brain and spinal cord and elsewhere
Ensis - razor clams
Enterovirus - any of a group of picornaviruses that infect the gastrointestinal tract and can spread to other areas (especially the nervous system)
Enterprise - a purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness); readiness to embark on bold new ventures; an organization created for business ventures
Envy - spite and resentment at seeing the success of another (personified as one of the deadly sins); a feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something that is possessed by another; verb be envious of; set one's heart on; feel envious towards; admire enviously
Equipment - an instrumentality needed for an undertaking or to perform a service
Eritrean - of or relating to or characteristic of Eritrea or its people; a native or inhabitant of Eritrea
Escargot - edible terrestrial snail usually served in the shell with a sauce of melted butter and garlic
Escherichia coli - a species of bacterium normally present in intestinal tract of humans and other animals; sometimes pathogenic; can be a threat to food safety
Essential oil - an oil having the odor or flavor of the plant from which it comes; used in perfume and flavorings
Estonian - of or pertaining to Estonia or the people or culture of Estonia; the official language of Estonia; belongs to the Baltic-Finnic family of languages
Ethiopian - of or relating to or characteristic of Ethiopia or its people or languages; a native or inhabitant of Ethiopia
Eurasian - relating to, or coming from, Europe and Asia; a person of mixed European and Asian descent
Europe - the nations of the European continent collectively; the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles; an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members
European beech - large European beech with minutely-toothed leaves; widely planted as an ornamental in North America
European raspberry - the common European raspberry; fruit red or orange
European - of or relating to or characteristic of Europe or the people of Europe; a native or inhabitant of Europe
Evans - British archaeologist who excavated the palace of Knossos in Crete to find what he called Minoan civilization (1851-1941); United States anatomist who identified four pituitary hormones and discovered vitamin E (1882-1971)
Evaporated - drawn off in the form of vapor
Fair trade - trade that is conducted legally
Falafel - small croquette of mashed chick peas or fava beans seasoned with sesame seeds
Famine - a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death; an acute insufficiency
Farmer's cheese - mild white cheese made from curds of soured skim milk
Faroese - a Scandinavian language (closely related to Icelandic) that is spoken on the Faroe Islands
Fast food - inexpensive food (hamburgers or chicken or milkshakes) prepared and served quickly
Fasting - abstaining from food
Fatback - salt pork from the back of a hog carcass
Feather - turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls; the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds; verb turn the oar, while rowing; turn the paddle; in canoeing; cover or fit with feathers; join tongue and groove, in carpentry; grow feathers
Fed Up - having a strong distaste from surfeit
Fermentation - a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol; a state of agitation or turbulent change or development
Fermenting - a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol
Fertile Crescent - a geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates
Fiddlehead fern - New World fern having woolly cinnamon-colored spore-bearing fronds in early spring later surrounded by green fronds; the early uncurling fronds are edible
Fiesta - an elaborate party (often outdoors)
Fiji - an independent state within the British Commonwealth located on the Fiji Islands
Fijian - of or relating to Fiji or its people or language or culture; the Oceanic language spoken on Fiji; a native or inhabitant of Fiji
Filbert - nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus; small nut-bearing tree much grown in Europe
Filet mignon - small steak cut from the thick end of a beef tenderloin
Filipino - of or relating to or characteristic of the Philippines or its people or customs; a native or inhabitant of the Philippines; official language of the Philippines; based on Tagalog; draws its lexicon from other Philippine languages
Filled - (usually followed by `with' or used as a combining form) generously supplied with; (of time) taken up; of purchase orders that have been filled
Fillet - fastener consisting of a narrow strip of welded metal used to join steel members; a longitudinal slice or boned side of a fish; a boneless steak cut from the tenderloin of beef; a narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband; a bundle of sensory nerve fibers going to the thalamus; verb cut into filets; decorate with a lace of geometric designs
Financier - a person skilled in large scale financial transactions; verb conduct financial operations, often in an unethical manner
Finger food - food to be eaten with the fingers
Finnish - of or relating to or characteristic of Finland or the people of Finland; the official language of Finland; belongs to the Baltic Finnic family of languages
Fish and chips - fried fish and french-fried potatoes
Fish fillet - a longitudinal slice or boned side of a fish
Fish finger - a long fillet of fish breaded and fried
Fish oil - a fatty oil obtained from the livers of various fish
Fish steak - cross-section slice of a large fish
Fish - any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills; the flesh of fish used as food; the twelfth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about February 19 to March 20; (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Pisces; verb catch or try to catch fish or shellfish; seek indirectly
Flake - a small fragment of something broken off from the whole; a person with an unusual or odd personality; a crystal of snow; verb cover with flakes or as if with flakes; form into flakes; come off in flakes or thin small pieces
Flamenco - a style of dancing characteristic of the Andalusian Gypsies; vigorous and rhythmic with clapping and stamping of feet; guitar music composed for dancing the flamenco
Flank steak - a cut of beef from the flank of the animal
Flank - the side between ribs and hipbone; a cut from the fleshy part of an animal's side between the ribs and the leg; the side of military or naval formation; a subfigure consisting of a side of something; verb be located at the sides of something or somebody
Flatbread - any of various breads made from usually unleavened dough
Flatfish - any of several families of fishes having flattened bodies that swim along the sea floor on one side of the body with both eyes on the upper side; sweet lean whitish flesh of any of numerous thin-bodied fish; usually served as thin fillets
Flint - a city in southeast central Michigan near Detroit; automobile manufacturing; a river in western Georgia that flows generally south to join the Chattahoochee River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River; a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony
Flora - a living organism lacking the power of locomotion; all the plant life in a particular region or period
Flounder - any of various European and non-European marine flatfish; flesh of any of various American and European flatfish; verb behave awkwardly; have difficulties; walk with great difficulty
Flour - fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain; verb convert grain into flour; cover with flour
Flummery - a bland custard or pudding especially of oatmeal; meaningless ceremonies and flattery
Food pyramid - (ecology) a hierarchy of food chains with the principal predator at the top; each level preys on the level below
Food stamp - government-issued stamps used in exchange for food
Fortification - the addition of an ingredient for the purpose of enrichment (as the addition of alcohol to wine or the addition of vitamins to food); defensive structure consisting of walls or mounds built around a stronghold to strengthen it; the art or science of strengthening defenses
Fractionation - separation into portions; a process that uses heat to separate a substance into its components
Free lunch - something acquired without effort or payment or obligation
Freeze-drying - a method of drying food or blood plasma or pharmaceuticals or tissue without destroying their physical structure; material is frozen and then warmed in a vacuum so that the ice sublimes
Freezing - the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid
French fries - strips of potato fried in deep fat
French toast - bread slice dipped in egg and milk and fried; topped with sugar or fruit or syrup
French - of or pertaining to France or the people of France; the Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France; the people of France; United States sculptor who created the seated marble figure of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. (1850-1931); verb snap (bean) lengthwise in preparation for cooking
Freshwater - water that is not salty
Fricassee - pieces of chicken or other meat stewed in gravy with e.g. carrots and onions and served with noodles or dumplings; verb make a fricassee of by cooking
Fried - cooked by frying in fat
Frittata - Italian omelet with diced vegetables and meats; cooked until bottom is set then inverted into another pan to cook the top
Fritter - small quantity of fried batter containing fruit or meat or vegetables; verb spend frivolously and unwisely
Frog - any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species; a decorative loop of braid or cord; a person of French descent; verb hunt frogs for food
Frond - compound leaf of a fern or palm or cycad
Fructose - a simple sugar found in honey and in many ripe fruits
Frumenty - sweet spiced porridge made from hulled wheat
Frying - cooking in fat or oil in a pan or griddle
Fudge - soft creamy candy; verb fake or falsify; avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
Fugu - a blowfish highly prized as a delicacy in Japan but highly dangerous because the skin and organs are poisonous
Fuji - an extinct volcano in south central Honshu that is the highest peak in Japan; last erupted in 1707; famous for its symmetrical snow-capped peak; a sacred mountain and site for pilgrimages; shrubby Japanese cherry tree having pale pink blossoms
Fun - providing enjoyment; pleasantly entertaining; activities that are enjoyable or amusing; violent and excited activity; verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously); a disposition to find (or make) causes for amusement
Gabonese - of or relating to Gabon or its inhabitants; a native or inhabitant of Gabon
Gala - a gay festivity
Galactose - a simple sugar found in lactose
Galician - a language spoken in Galicia in northwestern Spain; it is between Portuguese and Spanish but closer to Portuguese; sometimes considered a Portuguese or Spanish dialect
Gambian - of or relating to or characteristic of Gambia or its inhabitants; a native or inhabitant of Gambia
Gammon - hind portion of a side of bacon; meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked)
Gari - cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca
Gari - cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca
Garlic bread - French or Italian bread sliced and spread with garlic butter then crisped in the oven
Garlic press - a press for extracting juice from garlic
Garlic - aromatic bulb used as seasoning; bulbous herb of southern Europe widely naturalized; bulb breaks up into separate strong-flavored cloves
Garnish - any decoration added as a trimming or adornment; something (such as parsley) added to a dish for flavor or decoration; verb decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods; take a debtor's wages on legal orders, such as for child support
Gary - a city in northwest Indiana on Lake Michigan; steel production
Gefilte fish - well-seasoned balls of ground fish and eggs and crushed crumbs simmered in fish stock
Genetic engineering - the technology of preparing recombinant DNA in vitro by cutting up DNA molecules and splicing together fragments from more than one organism
Geoduck - a large edible clam found burrowing deeply in sandy mud along the Pacific coast of North America; weighs up to six pounds; has siphons that can extend to several feet and cannot be withdrawn into the shell
Georgia - a republic in Asia Minor on the Black Sea separated from Russia by the Caucasus mountains; formerly an Asian soviet but became independent in 1991; a state in southeastern United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War; one of the British colonies that formed the United States
German - of or pertaining to or characteristic of Germany or its people or language; of a more or less German nature; somewhat German; the standard German language; developed historically from West Germanic; a person of German nationality
Ghanaian - of or relating to or characteristic of Ghana or its people or language
Ghee - clarified butter used in Indian cookery
Giardia - a suspected cause of diarrhea in humans
Gingerbread - cake flavored with ginger
Glenn - made the first orbital rocket-powered flight by a United States astronaut in 1962; later in United States Senate (1921-)
Global - involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope; having the shape of a sphere or ball
Glucose - a monosaccharide sugar that has several forms; an important source of physiological energy
Glutamic acid - an amino acid occurring in proteins; important in the nitrogen metabolism of plants; used in monosodium glutamate to enhance the flavor of meats
Glutamine - a crystalline amino acid occurring in proteins; important in protein metabolism
Glutinous - having the sticky properties of an adhesive
Glycine max - erect bushy hairy annual herb having trifoliate leaves and purple to pink flowers; extensively cultivated for food and forage and soil improvement but especially for its nutritious oil-rich seeds; native to Asia
Glycine - genus of Asiatic erect or sprawling herbs: soya bean; the simplest amino acid found in proteins and the principal amino acid in sugar cane
Gnocchi - (Italian) a small dumpling made of potato or flour or semolina that is boiled or baked and is usually served with a sauce or with grated cheese
Goat - any of numerous agile ruminants related to sheep but having a beard and straight horns; the tenth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about December 22 to January 19; (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Capricorn; a victim of ridicule or pranks
Goethe - German poet and novelist and dramatist who lived in Weimar (1749-1832)
Golden Delicious - a sweet eating apple with yellow skin
Golden syrup - a pale cane syrup
Gondi - a Dravidian language spoken by the Gond in south central India
Goody - something considered choice to eat
Goose barnacle - stalked barnacle that attaches to ship bottoms or floating timbers
Goose - web-footed long-necked typically gregarious migratory aquatic birds usually larger and less aquatic than ducks; flesh of a goose (domestic or wild); a man who is a stupid incompetent fool; verb give a spurt of fuel to; prod into action; pinch in the buttocks
Goujon - large catfish of central United States having a flattened head and projecting jaw
Governmental - dealing with the affairs or structure of government or politics or the state; of or relating to the governing authorities
Graham - United States dancer and choreographer whose work was noted for its austerity and technical rigor (1893-1991); United States evangelical preacher famous as a mass evangelist (born in 1918); flour made by grinding the entire wheat berry including the bran; (`whole meal flour' is British usage)
Granny Smith - apple with a green skin and hard tart flesh
Grape juice - the juice of grapes
Grape - any of various juicy fruit of the genus Vitis with green or purple skins; grow in clusters; any of numerous woody vines of genus Vitis bearing clusters of edible berries
Grape - any of various juicy fruit of the genus Vitis with green or purple skins; grow in clusters; any of numerous woody vines of genus Vitis bearing clusters of edible berries
Grapefruit juice - the juice of grapefruits
Grapefruit - large yellow fruit with somewhat acid juicy pulp; usual serving consists of a half; citrus tree bearing large round edible fruit having a thick yellow rind and juicy somewhat acid pulp
Grazing - the act of brushing against while passing; the act of grazing
Great - of major significance or importance; relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind; remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; in an advanced stage of pregnancy; marked by active interest and enthusiasm; very good; uppercase; a person who has achieved distinction and honor in some field
Greek - of or relating to or characteristic of Greece or the Greeks; the Hellenic branch of the Indo-European family of languages; a native or inhabitant of Greece
Green Revolution - the introduction of pesticides and high-yield grains and better management during the 1960s and 1970s which greatly increased agricultural productivity
Green goddess - street names for marijuana
Green olive - olives picked green and pickled in brine; infrequently stuffed with e.g. pimento
Greening - turning green; leafing out; the phenomenon of vitality and freshness being restored
Grenadier - deep-sea fish with a large head and body and long tapering tail; an infantryman equipped with grenades
Gridiron - the playing field on which football is played; a cooking utensil of parallel metal bars; used to grill fish or meat
Grilling - cooking by direct exposure to radiant heat (as over a fire or under a grill)
Grilling - cooking by direct exposure to radiant heat (as over a fire or under a grill)
Grits - coarsely ground hulled corn boiled as a breakfast dish in the southern United States
Grouper - usually solitary bottom sea basses of warm seas; flesh of a saltwater fish similar to sea bass
Grouse - popular game bird having a plump body and feathered legs and feet; flesh of any of various grouse of the family Tetraonidae; usually roasted; flesh too dry to broil; verb hunt grouse; complain
Guangzhou - a city on the Zhu Jiang delta in southern China; the capital of Guangdong province and a major deep-water port
Guatemalan - of or relating to or characteristic of Guatemala or its residents; a native or inhabitant of Guatemala
Guinea pig - stout-bodied nearly tailless domesticated cavy; often kept as a pet and widely used in research; a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation
Guinean - of or relating to or characteristic of Guinea or its inhabitants; a native or inhabitant of Guinea
Gujarati - the Indic language spoken by the people of India who live in Gujarat in western India; a member of the people of Gujarat
Gyro - a Greek sandwich: sliced roast lamb with onion and tomato stuffed into pita bread; rotating mechanism in the form of a universally mounted spinning wheel that offers resistance to turns in any direction
Haddock - important food fish on both sides of the Atlantic; related to cod but usually smaller; lean white flesh of fish similar to but smaller than cod; usually baked or poached or as fillets sauteed or fried
Haggis - made of sheep's or calf's viscera minced with oatmeal and suet and onions and boiled in the animal's stomach
Haitian - of or relating to or characteristic of the republic of Haiti or its people; a native or inhabitant of Haiti
Halibut - marine food fish of the northern Atlantic or northern Pacific; the largest flatfish and one of the largest teleost fishes; lean flesh of very large flatfish of Atlantic or Pacific
Ham sandwich - a sandwich made with a filling of sliced ham
Ham - meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked); an unskilled actor who overacts; a licensed amateur radio operator; (Old Testament) son of Noah; verb exaggerate one's acting
Hamburger - a sandwich consisting of a fried cake of minced beef served on a bun, often with other ingredients; beef that has been ground
Happy hour - the time of day when a bar sells alcoholic drinks at a reduced price
Hard candy - candy that is brittle
Hard clam - an edible American clam; the heavy shells were used as money by some American Indians
Hare - swift timid long-eared mammal larger than a rabbit having a divided upper lip and long hind legs; young born furred and with open eyes; flesh of any of various rabbits or hares (wild or domesticated) eaten as food; verb run quickly, like a hare
Harp seal - common arctic seal; the young are all white
Hasty pudding - cornmeal mush served with sweetening (maple syrup or brown sugar); sweetened porridge made of tapioca or flour or oatmeal cooked quickly in milk or water
Hawaii - a state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands; the largest and southernmost of the Hawaii islands; has several volcanic peaks
Hawaiian - of or relating to or characteristic of the state or island of Hawaii or to the people or culture or language; the Oceanic languages spoken on Hawaii; a native or resident of Hawaii
Hazelnut - nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus; any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk
Health - the general condition of body and mind; a healthy state of wellbeing free from disease
Heirloom - something that has been in a family for generations; (law) any property that is considered by law or custom as inseparable from an inheritance is inherited with that inheritance
Helix pomatia - one of the chief edible snails
Hemp - a plant fiber; a rope that is used by a hangman to execute persons who have been condemned to death by hanging; any plant of the genus Cannabis; a coarse bushy annual with palmate leaves and clusters of small green flowers; yields tough fibers and narcotic drugs
Hepatitis A - an acute but benign form of viral hepatitis caused by an RNA virus that does not persist in the blood serum and is usually transmitted by ingesting food or drink that is contaminated with fecal matter
Herbert - United States musician and composer and conductor noted for his comic operas (1859-1924)
Herring - commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific; valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific; usually salted or pickled
Hibachi - a portable brazier that burns charcoal and has a grill for cooking; verb cook over a hibachi grill
Hibernal - characteristic of or relating to winter
Hickory - American hardwood tree bearing edible nuts; valuable tough heavy hardwood from various hickory trees
Himalayan - of or relating to the Himalayas
Hindu - of or relating to or supporting Hinduism; a person who adheres to Hinduism; a native or inhabitant of Hindustan or India
Histidine - an essential amino acid found in proteins that is important for the growth and repair of tissue
History - the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings; all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge; a record or narrative description of past events; the aggregate of past events; the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future
Home Guard - a volunteer unit formed to defend the homeland while the regular army is fighting elsewhere
Hominy - hulled corn with the bran and germ removed
Honduran - of or relating to or characteristic of Honduras or its people; a native or inhabitant of Honduras
Honey cake - a spicy cake partially sweetened with honey
Honey - of something having the color of honey; a sweet yellow liquid produced by bees; a beloved person; used as terms of endearment; verb sweeten with honey
Honeydew - the fruit of a variety of winter melon vine; a large smooth greenish-white melon with pale green flesh
Hong Kong - formerly a Crown Colony on the coast of southern China in Guangdong province; leased by China to Britain in 1842 and returned in 1997; one of the world's leading commercial centers
Honor - a woman's virtue or chastity; the quality of being honorable and having a good name; the state of being honored; a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction; verb accept as pay; bestow honor or rewards upon; show respect towards
Hors d'oeuvre - a dish served as an appetizer before the main meal
Horse - solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times; a padded gymnastic apparatus on legs; a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa); a framework for holding wood that is being sawed; troops trained to fight on horseback; verb provide with a horse or horses
Horseradish - grated horseradish root; coarse Eurasian plant cultivated for its thick white pungent root; the root of the horseradish plant; it is grated or ground and used for seasoning
Horseshoe - U-shaped plate nailed to underside of horse's hoof; game equipment consisting of an open ring of iron used in playing horseshoes; verb equip (a horse) with a horseshoe or horseshoes
Hostess - a woman innkeeper; a woman host; a woman steward on an airplane
Hot chocolate - a beverage made from cocoa powder and milk and sugar; usually drunk hot
Hot pepper - any of various pungent capsicum fruits; plant bearing very hot medium-sized oblong red peppers; grown principally in the Gulf Coast states for production of hot sauce
Hot-dog - verb perform intricate maneuvers while skiing
Hudson - a New York river; flows southward into New York Bay; explored by Henry Hudson early in the 17th century; English navigator who discovered the Hudson River; in 1610 he attempted to winter in Hudson Bay but his crew mutinied and set him adrift to die (1565-1611); English naturalist (born in Argentina) (1841-1922)
Human - having human form or attributes as opposed to those of animals or divine beings; characteristic of humanity; relating to a person; any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage
Humboldt - German naturalist who explored Central and South America and provided a comprehensive description of the physical universe (1769-1859); German philologist noted for his studies of the relation between language and culture (1767-1835)
Hummus - a thick spread made from mashed chickpeas, tahini, lemon juice and garlic; used especially as a dip for pita; originated in the Middle East
Hungarian - relating to or characteristic of Hungary; the official language of Hungary (also spoken in Rumania); belongs to the Ugric family of languages; a native or inhabitant of Hungary
Hungary - a republic in central Europe
Hunger - strong desire for something (not food or drink); a physiological need for food; the consequence of food deprivation; verb feel the need to eat; be hungry; go without food; have a craving, appetite, or great desire for
Hybrid - produced by crossbreeding; an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species; a composite of mixed origin; a word that is composed of parts from different languages (e.g., `monolingual' has a Greek prefix and a Latin root)
Hydrolysis - a chemical reaction in which water reacts with a compound to produce other compounds; involves the splitting of a bond and the addition of the hydrogen cation and the hydroxide anion from the water
Ice Cream - frozen dessert containing cream and sugar and flavoring
Ice Cream - frozen dessert containing cream and sugar and flavoring
Ice milk - similar to ice cream but made of milk
Iceland - a volcanic island in the North Atlantic near the Arctic Circle; an island republic on the island of Iceland; became independent of Denmark in 1944
Icelandic - of or relating to Iceland or its people or culture and language; a Scandinavian language that is the official language of Iceland
Inc - a heterogeneous collection of groups united in their opposition to Saddam Hussein's government of Iraq; formed in 1992 it is comprised of Sunni and Shiite Arabs and Kurds who hope to build a new government
Inca - a member of the small group of Quechuan people living in the Cuzco valley in Peru who established hegemony over their neighbors to create the great Inca empire that lasted from about 1100 until the Spanish conquest in the early 1530s; a ruler of the Incas (or a member of his family)
India - a republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia; second most populous country in the world; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947
Indian - of or pertaining to American Indians or their culture or languages; of or relating to or characteristic of India or the East Indies or their peoples or languages or cultures; a member of the race of people living in America when Europeans arrived; a native or inhabitant of India; any of the languages spoken by Amerindians
Indonesia - a republic in southeastern Asia on an archipelago including more than 13,000 islands; achieved independence from the Netherlands in 1945; the principal oil producer in the Far East and Pacific regions
Indonesian - of or relating to or characteristic of Indonesia or its people or languages; the dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia; a native or inhabitant of Indonesia
Industry - the organized action of making of goods and services for sale; the people or companies engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise; persevering determination to perform a task
Instant - in or of the present month; demanding attention; occurring with no delay; a particular point in time; a very short time (as the time it takes the eye blink or the heart to beat)
Inuit - a member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia); the Algonquians called them Eskimo (`eaters of raw flesh') but they call themselves the Inuit (`the people')
Iodine - a nonmetallic element belonging to the halogens; used especially in medicine and photography and in dyes; occurs naturally only in combination in small quantities (as in sea water or rocks); a tincture consisting of a solution of iodine in ethyl alcohol; applied topically to wounds as an antiseptic
Iodised - treated with iodine
Iranian - of or relating to Iran or its people or language or culture; the modern Persian language spoken in Iran; a native or inhabitant of Iran
Iraqi - of or relating to Iraq or its people or culture; a native or inhabitant of Iraq
Ireland - an island comprising the republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland; a republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of Ireland; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1921
Irish - of or relating to or characteristic of Ireland or its people; the Celtic language of Ireland; whiskey made in Ireland chiefly from barley; people of Ireland or of Irish extraction
Irvingia gabonensis - African tree with edible yellow fruit resembling mangos; valued for its oil-rich seed and hardy green wood that resists termites
Islamic - of or relating to or supporting Islamism
Isoleucine - an essential amino acid found in proteins; isomeric with leucine
Israel - an ancient kingdom of the Hebrew tribes at the southeastern end of the Mediterranean Sea; founded by Saul around 1025 BC and destroyed by the Assyrians in 721 BC; Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean; formerly part of Palestine
Israeli - of or relating to or characteristic of Israel or its people; a native or inhabitant of Israel
Italian - of or pertaining to or characteristic of Italy or its people or culture or language; the Romance language spoken in Italy; a native or inhabitant of Italy
Ivory - a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses; a shade of white the color of bleached bones
Jaeger - rapacious seabird that pursues weaker birds to make them drop their prey
Jaffa orange - sweet almost seedless orange of Israel
Jaggery - unrefined brown sugar made from palm sap
Jain - relating to or characteristic of Jainism
Jakarta - capital and largest city of Indonesia; located on the island of Java; founded by the Dutch in 17th century
Jamaican - of or relating to Jamaica (the island or the country) or to its inhabitants; a native or inhabitant of Jamaica
Jamming - deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems
Japanese - of or relating to or characteristic of Japan or its people or their culture or language; the language (usually considered to be Altaic) spoken by the Japanese; a native or inhabitant of Japan
Jasmine - any of several shrubs and vines of the genus Jasminum chiefly native to Asia
Javanese - of or relating to or characteristic of Java or its inhabitants; the Indonesian language spoken on Java; a native or inhabitant of Java
Jazz - a style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands; a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles; empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk; verb play something in the style of jazz; have sexual intercourse with
Jelly doughnut - a raised doughnut filled with jelly or jam
Jellyfish - any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans; large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles
Jerky - having or revealing stupidity; marked by abrupt transitions; not having a steady rhythm; meat (especially beef) cut in strips and dried in the sun
Jewelry - an adornment (as a bracelet or ring or necklace) made of precious metals and set with gems (or imitation gems)
Jewish - of or relating to Jews or their culture or religion
Job's tears - hard pearly seeds of an Asiatic grass; often used as beads
Johnny Appleseed - United States pioneer who planted apple trees as he traveled (1774-1845)
Johnnycake - cornbread usually cooked pancake-style on a griddle (chiefly New England)
Jonah crab - large red deep-water crab of the eastern coast of North America
Jonathan - red late-ripening apple; primarily eaten raw
Jordanian - of or relating to or characteristic of Jordan or its people; a native or inhabitant of Jordan
Jubilee - a special anniversary (or the celebration of it)
Jug - a large bottle with a narrow mouth; the quantity contained in a jug; verb stew in an earthenware jug; lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
Junk food - food that tastes good but is high in calories having little nutritional value
Junket - a trip taken by an official at public expense; dessert made of sweetened milk coagulated with rennet; a journey taken for pleasure; verb partake in a feast or banquet; provide a feast or banquet for; go on a pleasure trip
Jupiter - the largest planet and the 5th from the sun; has many satellites and is one of the brightest objects in the night sky; (Roman mythology) supreme god of Romans; counterpart of Greek Zeus
Kangaroo - any of several herbivorous leaping marsupials of Australia and New Guinea having large powerful hind legs and a long thick tail
Kansas City - a city of northeast Kansas on the Missouri River adjacent to Kansas City, Missouri; a city in western Missouri situated at the confluence of the Kansas River and the Missouri River; adjacent to Kansas City, Kansas
Karat - the unit of measurement for the proportion of gold in an alloy; 18-karat gold is 75% gold; 24-karat gold is pure gold
Karnataka - state in southern India; formerly Mysore
Kasha - boiled or baked buckwheat
Kashmiri - of or relating to or characteristic of Kashmir or its people or culture; the official state language of Kashmir; a member of the people of Kashmir
Kazakh - the Turkic language spoken by the Kazak; a landlocked republic south of Russia and northeast of the Caspian Sea; the original Turkic-speaking inhabitants were overrun by Mongols in the 13th century; an Asian soviet from 1936 to 1991; a Muslim who is a member of a Turkic people of western Asia (especially in Kazakstan)
Kebab - cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables
Kent - a county in southeastern England on the English Channel; formerly an Anglo-Saxon kingdom, it was the first to be colonized by the Romans; United States painter noted for his woodcuts (1882-1971)
Kenya - a republic in eastern Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1963; major archeological discoveries have been made in the Great Rift Valley in Kenya
Kenyan - of or relating to or characteristic of Kenya or its people; a native or inhabitant of Kenya
Kernel - the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; a single whole grain of a cereal; the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone
Ketchup - thick spicy sauce made from tomatoes
Key lime - small yellow-green limes of southern Florida
King crab - large edible crab of northern Pacific waters especially along the coasts of Alaska and Japan; large marine arthropod of the Atlantic coast of North America having a domed carapace that is shaped like a horseshoe and a stiff pointed tail; a living fossil related to the wood louse; a large spider crab of Europe; meat of large cold-water crab; mainly leg meat
Kipper - salted and smoked herring
Kitchen - a room equipped for preparing meals
Knackwurst - short thick highly seasoned sausage
Knish - (Yiddish) baked or fried turnover filled with potato or meat or cheese; often eaten as a snack
Knobbed - used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots
Kola nut - bitter brown seed containing caffein; source of cola extract; tree bearing large brown nuts containing e.g. caffeine; source of cola extract
Kolam - a member of a formerly tribal people now living in south central India
Komi - the Finnic language spoken by the Komi; a member of a Finnish people living in the northwestern Urals in Russia
Korean - of or relating to or characteristic of Korea or its people or language; the Altaic language spoken by Koreans; a native or inhabitant of Korea who speaks the Korean language
Kosher - conforming to dietary laws; proper or legitimate; food that fulfills the requirements of Jewish dietary law
Krill - shrimp-like planktonic crustaceans; major source of food for e.g. baleen whales
Kumis - an alcoholic beverage made from fermented mare's milk; made originally by nomads of central Asia
Kumquat - small oval citrus fruit with thin sweet rind and very acid pulp; any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Fortunella bearing small orange-colored edible fruits with thick sweet-flavored skin and sour pulp
Kurdish - of or relating to Kurdistan or the Kurds or their language and culture; an Iranian language spoken in Turkey and Iran and Iraq and Syria and Russia
Kurrajong - widely distributed tree of eastern Australia yielding a tough durable fiber and soft light attractively grained wood; foliage is an important emergency food for cattle
Kuwaiti - of or relating to the capital of Kuwait or its residents; of or relating to the kingdom of Kuwait or its people; a native or inhabitant of Kuwait
La Crosse - a town in western Wisconsin on the Mississippi River
Lac - resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects; used in e.g. varnishes and sealing wax
Lactation - the production and secretion of milk by the mammary glands; the period following birth during which milk is secreted; feeding an infant by giving suck at the breast
Lactose - a sugar comprising one glucose molecule linked to a galactose molecule; occurs only in milk
Ladyfinger - small finger-shaped sponge cake
Lagos - chief port and economic center of Nigeria; located in southwestern Nigeria on the Gulf of Guinea; former capital of Nigeria
Lambert - English composer and conductor (1905-1951); a cgs unit of illumination equal to the brightness of a perfectly diffusing surface that emits or reflects one lumen per square centimeter
Lame - disabled in the feet or legs; pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness; a fabric interwoven with threads of metal; someone who doesn't understand what is going on; verb deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg
Lamiaceae - the mints: aromatic herbs and shrubs having flowers resembling the lips of a mouth and four-lobed ovaries yielding four one-seeded nutlets and including thyme; sage; rosemary
Lao - of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand; the Tai language of a Buddhist people living in the area of the Mekong River in Thailand and Laos; a member of a Buddhist people inhabiting the area of the Mekong River in Laos and Thailand and speaking the Lao language; related to the Thais
Lard - soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog; verb prepare or cook with lard; add details to
Lat - a broad flat muscle on either side of the back
Latin America - the parts of North America and South America south of the United States where Romance languages are spoken
Latin-American - of or relating to the countries of Latin America or their people
Latke - made of grated potato and egg with a little flour
Lattice - framework consisting of an ornamental design made of strips of wood or metal; an arrangement of points or particles or objects in a regular periodic pattern in 2 or 3 dimensions; small opening (like a window in a door) through which business can be transacted
Latvian - of or relating to or characteristic of Latvia or its people or language; the official language of Latvia; belongs to the Baltic branch of Indo-European; a native or inhabitant of Latvia
Leavening - an influence that works subtly to lighten or modify something; a substance used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid
Lebanese - of or relating to or characteristic of Lebanon or its people; a native or inhabitant of Lebanon
Leek - related to onions; white cylindrical bulb and flat dark-green leaves; plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves; used in cooking; believed derived from the wild Allium ampeloprasum
Lemon drop - a hard candy with lemon flavor and a yellow color and (usually) the shape of a lemon
Lemon juice - usually freshly squeezed juice of lemons
Lemon - an artifact (especially an automobile) that is defective or unsatisfactory; a distinctive tart flavor characteristic of lemons; yellow oval fruit with juicy acidic flesh; a small evergreen tree that originated in Asia but is widely cultivated for its fruit; a strong yellow color
Lemonade - sweetened beverage of diluted lemon juice
Lentil soup - made of stock and lentils with onions carrots and celery
Lesotho - a landlocked constitutional monarchy in southern Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1966
Lettuce - leaves of any of various plants of Lactuca sativa; any of various plants of the genus Lactuca; informal terms for money
Leucine - a white crystalline amino acid occurring in proteins that is essential for nutrition; obtained by the hydrolysis of most dietary proteins
Levantine - of or relating to the Levant or its inhabitants; (formerly) a native or inhabitant of the Levant
Liberian - of or relating to Liberia or its people; a native or inhabitant of Liberia
Liberty - freedom of choice; personal freedom from servitude or confinement or oppression; an act of undue intimacy; immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence; leave granted to a sailor or naval officer
Libyan - of or relating to Libya or its people; a native or inhabitant of Libya
Licorice root - root of licorice used in flavoring e.g. candy and liqueurs and medicines
Licorice - a black candy flavored with the dried root of the licorice plant; deep-rooted coarse-textured plant native to the Mediterranean region having blue flowers and pinnately compound leaves; widely cultivated in Europe for its long thick sweet roots
Liechtensteiner - of or relating to Liechtenstein or its inhabitants; a native or inhabitant of Liechtenstein
Lightning - the flash of light that accompanies an electric discharge in the atmosphere (or something resembling such a flash); can scintillate for a second or more; abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission of light
Limburger - a soft white cheese with a very strong pungent odor and flavor
Lime juice - usually freshly squeezed juice of limes
Limeade - sweetened beverage of lime juice and water
Limonene - a liquid terpene with a lemon odor; found in lemons and oranges and other essential oils
Lincolnshire - an agricultural county of eastern England on the North Sea
Linseed oil - a drying oil extracted from flax seed and used in making such things as oil paints
Listeria - any species of the genus Listeria
Lithuanian - of or relating to or characteristic of Lithuania or its people or language; the official language of Lithuania; belongs to the Baltic branch of Indo-European; a native or inhabitant of Lithuania
Liverwurst - sausage containing ground liver
Livestock - not used technically; any animals kept for use or profit
Livonian - the Finnic language spoken by the people of Livonia in Estonia and Latvia; a member of the Livonian-speaking people of Latvia
Llama - wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump
Lobster - any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae; flesh of a lobster
Locust - migratory grasshoppers of warm regions having short antennae; hardwood from any of various locust trees; any of various hardwood trees of the family Leguminosae
Logan - a mountain peak in the St. Elias Range in the southwestern Yukon Territory in Canada (19,850 feet high)
Lombard - a member of a Germanic people who invaded northern Italy in the 6th century
London - the capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center; United States writer of novels based on experiences in the Klondike gold rush (1876-1916)
Los Angeles - a city in southern California; motion picture capital of the world; most populous city of California and second largest in the United States
Lotus - white Egyptian lotus: water lily of Egypt to southeastern Africa; held sacred by the Egyptians; native to eastern Asia; widely cultivated for its large pink or white flowers; annual or perennial herbs or subshrubs
Louis - United States prizefighter who was world heavyweight campion for 12 years (1914-1981)
Lower - the lower of two berths; verb set lower; cause to drop or sink; move something or somebody to a lower position; look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval; make lower or quieter
Lox - brine-cured salmon that is lightly smoked; a bluish translucent magnetic liquid obtained by compressing gaseous oxygen and then cooling it below its boiling point; used as an oxidizer in rocket propellants
Lunch meat - any of various sausages or molded loaf meats sliced and served cold
Lunch - a midday meal; verb take the midday meal; provide a midday meal for
Luncheon meat - any of various sausages or molded loaf meats sliced and served cold
Lutefisk - dried cod soaked in a lye solution before boiling to give it a gelatinous consistency
Luxembourg - a grand duchy (a constitutional monarchy) landlocked in northwestern Europe between France and Belgium and Germany; an international financial center; the capital and largest city of Luxembourg
Lysine - an essential amino acid found in proteins; occurs especially in gelatin and casein
MON - the Mon-Khmer language spoken by the Mon; a member of a Buddhist people living in Myanmar and adjacent parts of Thailand; the second day of the week; the first working day
MSG - white crystalline compound used as a food additive to enhance flavor; often used in Chinese cooking
Macadamia nut - nutlike seed with sweet and crisp white meat; small Australian tree with racemes of pink flowers; widely cultivated (especially in Hawaii) for its sweet edible nuts
Macadamia - any tree of the genus Macadamia
Macaroni salad - having macaroni as the base
Macedonia - landlocked republic on the Balkan Peninsula; achieved independence from Yugoslavia in 1991; the ancient kingdom of Philip II and Alexander the Great in the southeastern Balkans that is now divided among modern Macedonia and Greece and Bulgaria
Macedonian - of or relating to Macedonia or its inhabitants; the Slavic language of modern Macedonia; a native or inhabitant of Macedon
Mackerel - any of various fishes of the family Scombridae; flesh of very important usually small (to 18 in) fatty Atlantic fish
Macoun - similar to McIntosh; juicy and late-ripening
Macrobiotic diet - a diet consisting chiefly of beans and whole grains
Macrobiotic - of or relating to the theory or practice of macrobiotics
Madeira cake - a rich sponge cake with close texture; intended to be eaten with a glass of Madeira wine
Magnesium - a light silver-white ductile bivalent metallic element; in pure form it burns with brilliant white flame; occurs naturally only in combination (as in magnesite and dolomite and carnallite and spinel and olivine)
Main course - a square mainsail; the principal dish of a meal
Maize - a strong yellow color; tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times
Maize - a strong yellow color; tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times
Maja squinado - a large spider crab of Europe
Malawian - relating to or characteristic of Malawi or its people or culture; a native or inhabitant of Malawi
Malay - of or relating to or characteristic of the people or language of Malaysia and the northern Malay Peninsula and parts of the western Malay Archipelago; a western subfamily of Western Malayo-Polynesian languages; a member of a people inhabiting the northern Malay Peninsula and Malaysia and parts of the western Malay Archipelago
Malaysia - a constitutional monarchy in southeastern Asia on Borneo and the Malay Peninsula; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1957
Malaysian - of or relating to or characteristic of Malaysia; the Malay language spoken in Malaysia; a native or inhabitant of Malaysia
Malaysian - of or relating to or characteristic of Malaysia; the Malay language spoken in Malaysia; a native or inhabitant of Malaysia
Maldivian - a native or inhabitant of Maldives
Malian - of or relating to or characteristic of Mali or its people; a native or inhabitant of Mali
Malnutrition - a state of poor nutrition; can result from insufficient or excessive or unbalanced diet or from inability to absorb foods
Malted - of grain that has been converted into malt; a milkshake made with malt powder
Maltese - of or relating to the island or republic of Malta or its inhabitants; breed of toy dogs having a long straight silky white coat
Maltose - a white crystalline sugar formed during the digestion of starches
Malus pumila - native Eurasian tree widely cultivated in many varieties for its firm rounded edible fruits
Malus - apple trees; found throughout temperate zones of the northern hemisphere
Mama - a name under which Ninkhursag was worshipped; informal terms for a mother
Manganese - a hard brittle grey polyvalent metallic element that resembles iron but is not magnetic; used in making steel; occurs in many minerals
Mannequin - a life-size dummy used to display clothes; a woman who wears clothes to display fashions
Mantis shrimp - tropical marine burrowing crustaceans with large grasping appendages
Maple syrup - made by concentrating sap from sugar maples
Maple - any of numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Acer bearing winged seeds in pairs; north temperate zone; wood of any of various maple trees; especially the hard close-grained wood of the sugar maple; used especially for furniture and flooring
Marasca - Dalmatian bitter wild cherry tree bearing fruit whose juice is made into maraschino liqueur; small bitter fruit of the marasca cherry tree from whose juice maraschino liqueur is made
Maraschino cherry - cherry preserved in true or imitation maraschino liqueur; Dalmatian bitter wild cherry tree bearing fruit whose juice is made into maraschino liqueur
Marbled - patterned with veins or streaks or color resembling marble
Margarine - a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter
Maritimes - the collective name for the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island
Marketing - shopping at a market; the commercial processes involved in promoting and selling and distributing a product or service; the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money
Marlin - large long-jawed oceanic sport fishes; related to sailfishes and spearfishes; not completely cold-blooded i.e. able to warm their brains and eyes
Marmalade - a preserve made of the pulp and rind of citrus fruits
Marquette - a town on Lake Superior on the Upper Peninsula in northwest Michigan; French missionary who accompanied Louis Joliet in exploring the upper Mississippi River valley (1637-1675)
Marzipan - almond paste and egg whites
Masa - an independent group of closely related Chadic languages spoken in the area between the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages
Massasoit - Wampanoag leader who aided the Pilgrims (1580-1661)
Matzah ball - a Jewish dumpling made of matzo meal; usually served in soup
Matzo ball - a Jewish dumpling made of matzo meal; usually served in soup
Matzo - brittle flat bread eaten at Passover
Mauritanian - of or related to the island or country of Mauritius or its inhabitants; a native or inhabitant of Mauritania
Mauritian - of or related to the island or country of Mauritius or its inhabitants; a native or inhabitant of Mauritius
Mauritius - an island in the southwestern Indian Ocean; a parliamentary state on the island of Mauritius
Mayan - a member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who had a culture (which reached its peak between AD 300 and 900) characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy; a family of American Indian languages spoken by Maya
Mayonnaise - egg yolks and oil and vinegar
Mazzard - wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting
McIntosh - early-ripening apple popular in the northeastern United States; primarily eaten raw but suitable for applesauce
Meal - coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse; the food served and eaten at one time; any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times
Mealworm - the larva of beetles of the family Tenebrionidae
Meat pie - pie made with meat or fowl enclosed in pastry or covered with pastry or biscuit dough
Meat pie - pie made with meat or fowl enclosed in pastry or covered with pastry or biscuit dough
Meat - the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food; the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone
Meatball - ground meat formed into a ball and fried or simmered in broth
Meatloaf - a baked loaf of ground meat
Mechanical - using (or as if using) mechanisms or tools or devices; relating to or governed by or in accordance with mechanics; relating to or concerned with machinery or tools
Medieval - as if belonging to the Middle Ages; old-fashioned and unenlightened; relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages; characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages
Mediterranean - of or relating to or characteristic of or located near the Mediterranean Sea; the largest inland sea; between Europe and Africa and Asia
Melba - Australian operatic soprano (1861-1931)
Melody - the perception of pleasant arrangements of musical notes; a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence
Melon ball - a bite of melon cut as a sphere
Melon - any of numerous fruits of the gourd family having a hard rind and sweet juicy flesh; any of various fruit of cucurbitaceous vines including: muskmelons; watermelons; cantaloupes; cucumbers
Memphis - an ancient city of Egypt on the Nile (south of Cairo); largest city of Tennessee; located in southwestern Tennessee on bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River
Mennonite - a member of an Anabaptist movement in Holland noted for its simplicity of life
Merry-go-round - a never-ending cycle of activities and events (especially when they seem to have little purpose); large mechanical apparatus with seats for children to ride on
Mesocarp - the middle layer of a pericarp
Methionine - a crystalline amino acid containing sulfur; found in most proteins and essential for nutrition
Mexican - of or relating to Mexico or its inhabitants; a native or inhabitant of Mexico
Mexico - a republic in southern North America; became independent from Spain in 1810
Microbiology - the branch of biology that studies microorganisms and their effects on humans
Middle Ages - the period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance
Middle Eastern - of or relating to or located in the Middle East
Milkmaid - a woman who works in a dairy
Milkman - someone who delivers milk
Milkshake - frothy drink of milk and flavoring and sometimes fruit or ice cream
Milky - resembling milk in color or cloudiness; not clear
Milling - corrugated edge of a coin
Milo - small drought-resistant sorghums having large yellow or whitish grains
Mimic - constituting an imitation; someone who mimics (especially an actor or actress); verb imitate (a person or manner), especially for satirical effect
Mince pie - pie containing mincemeat
Mincing - affectedly dainty or refined
Miscellaneous - constituting a grab-bag category; consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds (even to the point of incongruity)
Mission - the organized work of a religious missionary; a special assignment that is given to a person or group; an operation that is assigned by a higher headquarters; an organization of missionaries in a foreign land sent to carry on religious work; a group of representatives or delegates
Mizen - fore-and-aft sail set on the mizzenmast; third mast from the bow in a vessel having three or more masts; the after and shorter mast of a yawl, ketch, or dandy
Mockernut hickory - smooth-barked North American hickory with 7 to 9 leaflets bearing a hard-shelled edible nut
Modeling - a preliminary sculpture in wax or clay from which a finished work can be copied; the act of representing something (usually on a smaller scale); sculpture produced by molding
Molasses - thick dark syrup produced by boiling down juice from sugar cane; especially during sugar refining
Moldovan - of or relating to or characteristic of Moldova or its people or culture
Molybdenum - a polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties; used to strengthen and harden steel
Mon - the Mon-Khmer language spoken by the Mon; a member of a Buddhist people living in Myanmar and adjacent parts of Thailand; the second day of the week; the first working day
Mongolian - of or relating to the modern Mongolian People's Republic; of or relating to the region of Mongolia or its people or their languages or cultures; a family of Altaic language spoken in Mongolia; a member of the nomadic peoples of Mongolia
Monkey - any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians); one who is playfully mischievous; verb do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly; play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly
Monosaccharide - a sugar (like sucrose or fructose) that does not hydrolyse to give other sugars; the simplest group of carbohydrates
Montreal - a city in southern Quebec province on the Saint Lawrence River; the largest city in Quebec and 2nd largest in Canada; the 2nd largest French-speaking city in the world
Moose - large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called `elk' in Europe and `moose' in North America
Morello - cultivated sour cherry with dark-colored skin and juice; any of several cultivated sour cherry trees bearing fruit with dark skin and juice
Moroccan - of or relating to or characteristic of Morocco or its people; a native or inhabitant of Morocco
Morris - United States statesman who led the committee that produced the final draft of the United States Constitution (1752-1816); leader of the American Revolution who signed the Declaration of Independence and raised money for the Continental Army (1734-1806); English poet and craftsman (1834-1896); United States suffragist in Wyoming (1814-1902)
Moses - (Old Testament) the Hebrew prophet who led the Israelites from Egypt across the Red sea on a journey known as the Exodus; Moses received the Ten Commandments from God on Mount Sinai; United States painter of colorful and primitive rural scenes (1860-1961)
Mother-in-law - the mother of your spouse
Mountain - a land mass that projects well above its surroundings; higher than a hill; a large number or amount
Mozambican - of or relating to the people of Mozambique; of or relating to or located in Mozambique; a native or inhabitant of Mozambique
Mrs - a form of address for a married woman
Mud flat - a tract of low muddy land near an estuary; covered at high tide and exposed at low tide
Musa acuminata - low-growing Asian banana tree cultivated especially in the West Indies for its clusters of edible yellow fruit
Musa - type genus of the Musaceae: bananas
Mush - a journey by dogsled; cornmeal boiled in water; an expression that is excessively sweet and sentimental; any soft or soggy mass; verb drive (a team of dogs or a dogsled); travel with a dogsled
Mushy peas - marrowfat peas that have been soaked overnight and then boiled; served with fish and chips
Mussel - marine or freshwater bivalve mollusk that lives attached to rocks etc.; black marine bivalves usually steamed in wine
Mustard oil - oil obtained from mustard seeds and used in making soap
Mustard - leaves eaten as cooked greens; pungent powder or paste prepared from ground mustard seeds; any of several cruciferous plants of the genus Brassica
Mytilidae - marine mussels
Naga - Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma
Namibian - of or relating to Namibia or its people; a native or inhabitant of Namibia
Nan - leavened bread baked in a clay oven in India; usually shaped like a teardrop; a river of western Thailand flowing southward to join the Ping River to form the Chao Phraya; your grandmother
Nanking - a city in eastern China on the Yangtze River; a former capital of China; the scene of a Japanese massacre in the 1930s
Napoleon - a card game similar to whist; usually played for stakes; a rectangular piece of pastry with thin flaky layers and filled with custard cream; French general who became emperor of the French (1769-1821)
Nauruan - of or relating to the island republic of Nauru or its residents; a native or inhabitant of Nauru
Neapolitan - of or relating to or characteristic of Naples or its people; a native or inhabitant of Naples
Nectar - fruit juice especially when undiluted; a sweet liquid secretion that is attractive to pollinators; (classical mythology) the food and drink of the gods; mortals who ate it became immortal
Nectarine - a variety or mutation of the peach that has a smooth skin; variety or mutation of the peach bearing fruit with smooth skin and (usually) yellow flesh
Nepalese - of or pertaining to or characteristic of Nepal or its people or language or culture; a native or inhabitant of Nepal
Nephrops norvegicus - edible European lobster resembling the American lobster but slenderer
Netherlands - a constitutional monarchy in western Europe on the North Sea; half the country lies below sea level
New Mexico - a state in southwestern United States on the Mexican border
New York City - the largest city in New York State and in the United States; located in southeastern New York at the mouth of the Hudson river; a major financial and cultural center
New Zealand - North Island and South Island and adjacent small islands in the South Pacific; an independent country within the British Commonwealth; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1907; known for sheep and spectacular scenery
Newborn - having just or recently arisen or come into existence; recently borne; a baby from birth to four weeks
Niagara - a river flowing from Lake Erie into Lake Ontario; forms boundary between Ontario and New York; waterfall in Canada is the Horseshoe Falls; in the United States it is the American Falls
Nib - the writing point of a pen; horny projecting mouth of a bird
Nickel - a United States coin worth one twentieth of a dollar; five dollars worth of a drug; a hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite; verb plate with nickel
Niger - a landlocked republic in West Africa; gained independence from France in 1960; most of the country is dominated by the Sahara Desert; an African river; flows into the South Atlantic
Nigerian - of or relating to the people of Nigeria; of or relating to Nigeria; a native or inhabitant of Nigeria
North America - the nations of the North American continent collectively; a continent (the third largest) in the western hemisphere connected to South America by the Isthmus of Panama
North Carolina - a state in southeastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies; one of the British colonies that formed the United States
North Korean - of or relating to or characteristic of North Korea or its people or their culture; a Korean from North Korea
North Star - the brightest star in Ursa Minor; at the end of the handle of the little dipper; the northern axis of the earth points toward it
Northern Europe - the northernmost countries of Europe
Northern Spy - large late-ripening apple with skin striped with yellow and red
Norwegian - of or relating to Norway or its people or culture or language; a Scandinavian language that is spoken in Norway; a native or inhabitant of Norway
Nougat - nuts or fruit pieces in a sugar paste
Nutrition - the scientific study of food and drink (especially in humans); (physiology) the organic process of nourishing or being nourished; the processes by which an organism assimilates food and uses it for growth and maintenance; a source of materials to nourish the body
Nuts - informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
Oak - a deciduous tree of the genus Quercus; has acorns and lobed leaves; the hard durable wood of any oak; used especially for furniture and flooring
Oat - seed of the annual grass Avena sativa (spoken of primarily in the plural as `oats'); annual grass of Europe and North Africa; grains used as food and fodder (referred to primarily in the plural: `oats')
Oatcake - thin flat unleavened cake of baked oatmeal
Obesity - more than average fatness
Occitan - the medieval dialects of Langue d'oc (southern France)
Oceanic - constituting or living in the open sea; resembling the ocean in apparent limitlessness in extent or degree; relating to or occurring or living in or frequenting the open ocean; an eastern subfamily of Malayo-Polynesian languages
Octopus - bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles; tentacles of octopus prepared as food
Offal - viscera and trimmings of a butchered animal often considered inedible by humans
Oil paint - paint in which a drying oil is the vehicle
Oil - oil paint containing pigment that is used by an artist; a slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water; any of a group of liquid edible fats that are obtained from plants; verb cover with oil, as if by rubbing; administer an oil or ointment to ; often in a religious ceremony of blessing
Olive oil - oil from olives
Olympia - a plain in Greece in the northwestern Peloponnese; the chief sanctuary of Zeus and the site of the original Olympian Games; capital of the state of Washington; located in western Washington on Puget Sound
Omani - of or relating to Oman or its people; a native or inhabitant of Oman
Omelette - beaten eggs or an egg mixture cooked until just set; may be folded around e.g. ham or cheese or jelly
Omnivore - an animal that feeds on both animal and vegetable substances; a person who eats all kinds of foods
Onion roll - yeast-raised roll flavored with onion
Onion - an aromatic flavorful bulb; bulbous plant having hollow leaves cultivated worldwide for its rounded edible bulb; edible bulb of an onion plant
Ontario - a prosperous and industrialized province in central Canada; the smallest of the Great Lakes
Opal - a translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color; some varieties are used as gemstones
Orange juice - bottled or freshly squeezed juice of oranges
Orange - of the color between red and yellow; similar to the color of a ripe orange; orange color or pigment; any of a range of colors between red and yellow; round yellow to orange fruit of any of several citrus trees; a river in South Africa that flows generally westward to the Atlantic Ocean; any citrus tree bearing oranges; any pigment producing the orange color
Orangery - a place where oranges are grown; a plantation of orange trees in warm climes or a greenhouse in cooler areas
Oregon - a state in northwestern United States on the Pacific
Oriental - denoting or characteristic of the biogeographic region including southern Asia and the Malay Archipelago as far as the Philippines and Borneo and Java; a member of an Oriental race; the term is regarded as offensive by Asians (especially by Asian Americans)
Orion - a constellation on the equator east of Taurus; contains Betelgeuse and Rigel; (Greek mythology) a giant Boeotian hunter who pursued the Pleiades and was eventually slain by Artemis; was then placed in the sky as a constellation
Ostrich - fast-running African flightless bird with two-toed feet; largest living bird; a person who refuses to face reality or recognize the truth (a reference to the popular notion that the ostrich hides from danger by burying its head in the sand)
Other - very unusual; different in character or quality from the normal or expected; recently past; not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied; belonging to the distant past
Ottoman - of or relating to the Ottoman Empire or its people or its culture; thick cushion used as a seat; the Turkish dynasty that ruled the Ottoman Empire from the 13th century to its dissolution after World War I; a Turk (especially a Turk who is a member of the tribe of Osman I); a low seat or a stool to rest the feet of a seated person
Outline - a schematic or preliminary plan; a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory; the line that appears to bound an object; verb describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of; trace the shape of; draw up an outline or sketch for something
Oven - kitchen appliance used for baking or roasting
Overview - a general summary of a subject
Oyster bar - a bar (as in a restaurant) that specializes in oysters prepared in different ways
Oyster - marine mollusks having a rough irregular shell; found on the sea bed mostly in coastal waters; a small muscle on each side of the back of a fowl; edible body of any of numerous oysters; verb gather oysters, dig oysters
Oysters Rockefeller - oysters spread with butter and spinach and seasonings and baked on the half shell
Pacific Northwest - a region of the northwestern United States usually including Washington and Oregon and sometimes southwestern British Columbia
Pacific - promoting peace; disposed to peace or of a peaceful nature; relating to or bordering the Pacific Ocean; the largest ocean in the world
Packaging - the business of packing; material used to make packages; a message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea or person or institution
Packed - pressed together or compressed; filled to capacity
Pain - a somatic sensation of acute discomfort; emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid; a bothersome annoying person; a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder; something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness; verb cause emotional anguish or make miserable; cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed
Pakistani - of or relating to Pakistan or its people or language; a native or inhabitant of Pakistan
Palestinian - of or relating to the area of Palestine and its inhabitants; an ethnic group of Arabs formerly living in Palestine; a descendant of the Arabs who inhabited Palestine
Palm kernel - see o any oil palm
Palm nut - see o any oil palm
Palm oil - oil from nuts of oil palms especially the African oil palm
Palm - the inner surface of the hand from the wrist to the base of the fingers; any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves; a linear unit based on the length or width of the human hand; an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event; verb touch, lift, or hold with the hands
Palmer - United States golfer (born in 1929)
Panamanian - of or relating to or characteristic of Panama or its people; a native or inhabitant of Panama
Pancake - a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle
Pangolin - toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body covered with horny scales and a long snout for feeding on ants and termites
Panini - Indian grammarian whose grammatical rules for Sanskrit are the first known example of descriptive linguistics (circa 400 BC)
Pareve - containing no meat or milk (or their derivatives) and thus eatable with both meat and dairy dishes according to the dietary laws of Judaism
Paris - the capital and largest city of France; and international center of culture and commerce; a town in northeastern Texas; (Greek mythology) the prince of Troy who abducted Helen from her husband Menelaus and provoked the Trojan War; sometimes placed in subfamily Trilliaceae
Parsi - a member of a monotheistic sect of Zoroastrian origin; descended from the Persians; now found in western India
Parsley - aromatic herb with flat or crinkly leaves that are cut finely and used to garnish food; annual or perennial herb with aromatic leaves
Partridge - small Old World gallinaceous game birds; flesh of either quail or grouse; valued as a game bird in eastern United States and Canada; a popular North American game bird; named for its call; heavy-bodied small-winged South American game bird resembling a gallinaceous bird but related to the ratite birds
Parts - the local environment
Pashtun - an ethnic minority speaking Pashto and living in northwestern Pakistan and southeastern Afghanistan; a member of the mountain people living in the eastern regions of Afghanistan
Pasta salad - a salad having any of various pastas as the base
Pasta - shaped and dried dough made from flour and water and sometimes egg; a dish that contains pasta as its main ingredient
Paste - an adhesive made from water and flour or starch; used on paper and paperboard; any mixture of a soft and malleable consistency; a tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers; verb cover the surface of; hit with the fists; join or attach with or as if with glue
Pastel - delicate and pale in color; lacking in body or vigor; any of various pale or light colors
Pasteurized - having been subjected to pasteurization in order to halt fermentation
Pastrami - highly seasoned cut of smoked beef
Pathology - the branch of medical science that studies the causes and nature and effects of diseases; any deviation from a healthy or normal condition
Patty - round flat candy; small pie or pasty; small flat mass of chopped food
Pattypan squash - round greenish-white squash having one face flattened with a scalloped edge; squash plant having flattened round fruit with a scalloped edge; usually greenish white
Paul - (New Testament) a Christian missionary to the Gentiles; author of several Epistles in the New Testament; even though Paul was not present at the Last Supper he is considered an apostle; United States feminist (1885-1977)
Pea soup - a thick soup made of dried peas (usually made into a puree); a heavy thick yellow fog
Peach Melba - ice cream and peaches with a liqueur
Peach - downy juicy fruit with sweet yellowish or whitish flesh; cultivated in temperate regions; a shade of pink tinged with yellow; a very attractive or seductive looking woman; verb divulge confidential information or secrets; "Be careful--his secretary talks"
Peanut butter - a spread made from ground peanuts
Peanut oil - a oil from peanuts; used in cooking and making soap
Pearl - a smooth lustrous round structure inside the shell of a clam or oyster; much valued as a jewel; a shade of white the color of bleached bones; a shape that is spherical and small; verb gather pearls, from oysters in the ocean
Pearmain - any of several varieties of apples with red skins
Peasant - a country person; a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement; one of a (chiefly European) class of agricultural laborers
Pease pudding - a pudding made with strained split peas mixed with egg
Pecan pie - pie made of pecans and sugar and corn syrup and butter and eggs
Pecan - smooth brown oval nut of south central United States; tree of southern United States and Mexico cultivated for its nuts; wood of a pecan tree
Pectin - any of various water-soluble colloidal carbohydrates that occur in ripe fruit and vegetables; used in making fruit jellies and jams
Peel - the rind of a fruit or vegetable; British politician (1788-1850); the tissue forming the hard outer layer (of e.g. a fruit); verb get undressed; come off in flakes or thin small pieces; strip the skin off
Pennsylvania Dutch - a dialect of High German spoken in parts of Pennsylvania and Maryland
Pepin - king of the Franks and father of Charlemagne who defended papal interests and founded the Carolingian dynasty in 751 (714-768)
Pepperoni - a pork and beef sausage (or a thin slice of this sausage)
Persian - of or relating to Iran or its people or language or culture; the language of Persia (Iran) in any of its ancient forms; a native or inhabitant of Iran
Peruvian - of or relating to or characteristic of Peru or its people; a native or inhabitant of Peru
Peter - disciple of Jesus and leader of the apostles; regarded by Catholics as the vicar of Christ on earth and first Pope; obscene terms for penis
Pheasant - large long-tailed gallinaceous bird native to the Old World but introduced elsewhere; flesh of a pheasant; usually braised
Phenylalanine - an essential amino acid found in proteins and needed for growth of children and for protein metabolism in children and adults; abundant in milk and eggs; it is normally converted to tyrosine in the human body
Philippines - an archipelago in the southwestern Pacific including some 7000 islands; a republic on the Philippine Islands; achieved independence from the United States in 1946
Phosphorus - a multivalent nonmetallic element of the nitrogen family that occurs commonly in inorganic phosphate rocks and as organic phosphates in all living cells; is highly reactive and occurs in several allotropic forms; a planet (usually Venus) seen just before sunrise in the eastern sky
Phytophthora - destructive parasitic fungi causing brown rot in plants
Pica - magpies; eating earth or clay or chalk; occurs in some primitive tribes or sometimes in cases of nutritional deficiency; a linear unit (1/6 inch) used in printing
Piccalilli - relish of chopped pickled cucumbers and green peppers and onion
Pickled herring - herring preserved in a pickling liquid (usually brine or vinegar)
Pickled - (used of foods) preserved in a pickling liquid
Picnic - any informal meal eaten outside or on an excursion; any undertaking that is easy to do; a day devoted to an outdoor social gathering; verb eat alfresco, in the open air
Pie - dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top; a prehistoric unrecorded language that was the ancestor of all Indo-European languages
Pig - a crude block of metal (lead or iron) poured from a smelting furnace; domestic swine; mold consisting of a bed of sand in which pig iron is cast; uncomplimentary terms for a policeman; a person regarded as greedy and pig-like; a coarse obnoxious person; verb live like a pig, in squalor; give birth; eat greedily
Pigeon - wild and domesticated birds having a heavy body and short legs
Pilaf - rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes
Pimiento - fully ripened sweet red pepper; usually cooked; plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits; the principal salad peppers
Pine nut - edible seed of any of several nut pines especially some pinons of southwestern North America
Pink Lady - a cocktail made of gin and brandy with lemon juice and grenadine shaken with an egg white and ice
Pink - of a light shade of red; a light shade of red; any of various flowers of plants of the genus Dianthus cultivated for their fragrant flowers; a person with mildly leftist political views; verb cut in a zigzag pattern with pinking shears, in sewing; sound like a car engine that is firing too early; make light, repeated taps on a surface
Pipeline - a pipe used to transport liquids or gases; gossip spread by spoken communication
Pirozhki - small fruit or meat turnover baked or fried
Pistachio - nut of Mediterranean trees having an edible green kernel; small tree of southern Europe and Asia Minor bearing small hard-shelled nuts
Pita - usually small round bread that can open into a pocket for filling
Pizza - Italian open pie made of thin bread dough spread with a spiced mixture of e.g. tomato sauce and cheese
Planetary - of or relating to or characteristic of the planet Earth or its inhabitants; involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope; having no fixed course; of or relating to or resembling the physical or orbital characteristics of a planet or the planets
Planking - the work of covering an area with planks; (nautical) a covering or flooring constructed of planks (as on a ship); planks collectively; a quantity of planks
Plantation - a newly established colony (especially in the colonization of North America); an estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale (especially in tropical areas); garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth
Platter - a large shallow dish used for serving food; sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove
Ploughman's lunch - a meal consisting of a sandwich of bread and cheese and a salad
Poached - cooked in hot water
Poaching - cooking in simmering liquid
Polenta - a thick mush made of cornmeal boiled in stock or water
Pollination - transfer of pollen from the anther to the stigma of a plant
Pollock - United States artist famous for painting with a drip technique; a leader of abstract expressionism in America (1912-1956); important food and game fish of northern seas (especially the northern Atlantic); related to cod; lean white flesh of North Atlantic fish; similar to codfish
Polygonaceae - a family of plants of order Polygonales chiefly of the north temperate zone; includes the buckwheats
Polyunsaturated fat - a class of fats having long carbon chains with many double bonds unsaturated with hydrogen atoms; used in some margarines; supposedly associated with low blood cholesterol
Pom - a disparaging term for English immigrants to Australia or New Zealand
Pome - a fleshy fruit (apple or pear or related fruits) having seed chambers and an outer fleshy part
Pomelo - large pear-shaped fruit similar to grapefruit but with coarse dry pulp; southeastern Asian tree producing large fruits resembling grapefruits
Poncirus - one species: trifoliate orange
Popcorn - small kernels of corn exploded by heat; corn having small ears and kernels that burst when exposed to dry heat
Poppy seed - small grey seed of a poppy flower; used whole or ground in baked items
Pork and beans - dried beans cooked with pork and tomato sauce
Pork belly - side of fresh pork
Pork pie - small pie filled with minced seasoned pork
Pork tenderloin - pork loin muscle
Pork - meat from a domestic hog or pig; a legislative appropriation designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents
Portal - a grand and imposing entrance (often extended metaphorically); a short vein that carries blood into the liver; a site that the owner positions as an entrance to other sites on the internet
Portland - largest city in Maine in the southwestern corner of the state; freshwater port and largest city in Oregon; located in northwestern Oregon on the Willamette River which divides the city into east and west sections; renowned for its beautiful natural setting among the mountains
Portugal - a republic in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; Portuguese explorers and colonists in the 15th and 16th centuries created a vast overseas empire (including Brazil)
Portuguese - of or relating to or characteristic of Portugal or the people of Portugal; the Romance language spoken in Portugal and Brazil; a native or inhabitant of Portugal
Pot roast - cut of beef suitable for simmering in liquid in a closed pot
Potassium chloride - salt of potassium (KCl) (trade names K-Dur 20, Kaochlor and K-lor and Klorvess and K-lyte); taken in tablet form to treat potassium deficiency
Potassium nitrate - (KNO3) used especially as a fertilizer and explosive
Potassium - a light soft silver-white metallic element of the alkali metal group; oxidizes rapidly in air and reacts violently with water; is abundant in nature in combined forms occurring in sea water and in carnallite and kainite and sylvite
Potato chip - a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat
Potato salad - any of various salads having chopped potatoes as the base
Potato - an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland; annual native to South America having underground stolons bearing edible starchy tubers; widely cultivated as a garden vegetable; vines are poisonous
Potluck - whatever happens to be available especially when offered to an unexpected guest or when brought by guests and shared by all
Pottage - a stew of vegetables and (sometimes) meat; thick (often creamy) soup
Poultry - flesh of chickens or turkeys or ducks or geese raised for food; a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl
Powdered - consisting of fine particles
Praline - cookie-sized candy made of brown sugar and butter and pecans
Precooked - cooked partially or completely beforehand
Preservation - the activity of protecting something from loss or danger; a process that saves organic substances from decay; the condition of being (well or ill) preserved; an occurrence of improvement by virtue of preventing loss or injury or other change
Preserving - saving from harm or loss
Pretzel - glazed and salted cracker typically in the shape of a loose knot
Prima - indicating the most important performer or role; used primarily as eating apples
Principal - most important element; the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account; the educator who has executive authority for a school; capital as contrasted with the income derived from it; the original amount of a debt on which interest is calculated; an actor who plays a principal role
Pristine - immaculately clean and unused; completely free from dirt or contamination
Processed - subjected to a special process or treatment; prepared or converted from a natural state by subjecting to a special process; freed from impurities by processing
Processing - preparing or putting through a prescribed procedure
Proline - an amino acid that is found in many proteins (especially collagen)
Prunus persica - cultivated in temperate regions
Pseudoscience - an activity resembling science but based on fallacious assumptions
Public relations - a promotion intended to create goodwill for a person or institution
Puerto Rican - a native or resident of Puerto Rico
Puffed rice - puffy rice kernels
Pumpernickel - bread made of coarse rye flour
Pumpkin pie - pie made of mashed pumpkin and milk and eggs and sugar
Punjabi - the Indic language spoken by most people in Punjab in northwestern India; a member of the majority people of Punjab in northwestern India
Pushup - an arm exercise performed lying face to the floor and pushing the body up and down with the arms
Pyrus - fruit trees native to the Old World: pears
Qatari - of or concerning Qatar; a native or inhabitant of Qatar
Quackery - medical practice and advice based on observation and experience in ignorance of scientific findings; the dishonesty of a charlatan
Quail - small gallinaceous game birds; flesh of quail; suitable for roasting or broiling if young; otherwise must be braised; verb draw back, as with fear or pain
Quality - of high social status; of superior grade; an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; a degree or grade of excellence or worth; a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something; high social status; (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound)
Quark - (physics) hypothetical truly fundamental particle in mesons and baryons; there are supposed to be six flavors of quarks (and their antiquarks), which come in pairs; each has an electric charge of +2/3 or -1/3; fresh unripened cheese of a smooth texture made from pasteurized milk, a starter, and rennet
Quebec - the largest province of Canada; a French colony from 1663 to 1759 when it was lost to the British; the French-speaking capital of the province of Quebec; situated on the Saint Lawrence River
Quebecois - of or relating to Quebec (especially to the French speaking inhabitants or their culture); a native or inhabitant of Quebec (especially one who speaks French)
Quiche - the Mayan language spoken by the Quiche; a tart filled with rich unsweetened custard; often contains other ingredients (as cheese or ham or seafood or vegetables); a member of the Mayan people of south central Guatemala
Quick - easily aroused or excited; accomplished rapidly and without delay; apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity; moving quickly and lightly; performed with little or no delay; hurried and brief; adv. with little or no delay; any area of the body that is highly sensitive to pain (as the flesh underneath the skin or a fingernail or toenail)
Rabbit - any of various burrowing animals of the family Leporidae having long ears and short tails; some domesticated and raised for pets or food; flesh of any of various rabbits or hares (wild or domesticated) eaten as food; the fur of a rabbit; verb hunt rabbits
Rachel - (Old Testament) the second wife of Jacob and mother of Joseph and Benjamin
Ranch - farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle); verb manage or run a ranch
Rangpur - hybrid between mandarin orange and lemon having very acid fruit with orange peel
Rapeseed oil - edible light yellow to brown oil from rapeseed used also as a lubricant or illuminant
Rastafari - a Black youth subculture and religious movement that arose in the ghettos of Kingston, Jamaica, in the 1950s; Rastafarians regard Ras Tafari as divine; males grow hair in long dreadlocks and wear woolen caps; use marijuana and listen to reggae music
Ravioli - small circular or square cases of dough with savory fillings
Razor clam - marine clam having a long narrow curved thin shell
Red Delicious - a sweet eating apple with bright red skin; most widely grown apple worldwide
Red meat - meat that is dark in color before cooking (as beef, venison, lamb, mutton)
Reduction - the act of reducing complexity; any process in which electrons are added to an atom or ion (as by removing oxygen or adding hydrogen); always occurs accompanied by oxidation of the reducing agent; the act of decreasing or reducing something
Refinery - an industrial plant for purifying a crude substance
Refining - the process of removing impurities (as from oil or metals or sugar etc.)
Refried beans - dried beans cooked and mashed and then fried in lard with various seasonings
Regina - the provincial capital of Saskatchewan
Regional - related or limited to a particular region; characteristic of a region
Related - connected by kinship, common origin, or marriage; being connected either logically or causally or by shared characteristics; having close kinship and appropriateness; similar or related in quality or character
Research - systematic investigation to establish facts; a search for knowledge; verb inquire into; attempt to find out in a systematically and scientific manner
Restaurant - a building where people go to eat
Restaurateur - the proprietor of a restaurant
Reuben - a hot sandwich with corned beef and Swiss cheese and sauerkraut on rye bread; (Old Testment) a son of Jacob and forefather of one of the tribes of Israel
Rheology - the branch of physics that studies the deformation and flow of matter
Rhubarb pie - pie containing diced rhubarb and much sugar
Rice - grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished; United States playwright (1892-1967); English lyricist who frequently worked with Andrew Lloyd Webber (born in 1944); annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper; verb sieve so that it becomes the consistency of rice
Ripper - a murderer who slashes the victims with a knife
Ripper - a murderer who slashes the victims with a knife
Risotto - rice cooked with broth and sprinkled with grated cheese
Rissole - minced cooked meat or fish coated in egg and breadcrumbs and fried in deep fat
Roast beef - cut of beef suitable for roasting
Roast - (meat) cooked by dry heat in an oven; a piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion; negative criticism; verb cook with dry heat, usually in an oven; subject to laughter or ridicule
Roasted - (meat) cooked by dry heat in an oven
Roasting - cooking (meat) by dry heat in an oven (usually with fat added)
Roasting - cooking (meat) by dry heat in an oven (usually with fat added)
Rock candy - sugar in large hard clear crystals on a string; hard bright-colored stick candy (typically flavored with peppermint)
Rocky Mountain - of or relating to or located on the Rocky Mountains
Roe - the eggs or egg-laden ovary of a fish; the egg mass or spawn of certain crustaceans such as the lobster; eggs of female fish; fish eggs or egg-filled ovary; having a grainy texture
Roman times - the time period during which Rome dominated Europe
Romanian - of or relating to or characteristic of the country of Romania or its people or languages; an eastern Romance language spoken in Romania; a native or inhabitant of Romania
Rome - the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church; capital and largest city of Italy; on the Tiber; seat of the Roman Catholic Church; formerly the capital of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire
Rondo - a musical form that is often the last movement of a sonata
Rooster - adult male chicken
Rosette - an ornament or pattern resembling a rose that is worn as a badge of office or as recognition of having won an honor; a cluster of leaves growing in crowded circles from a common center or crown (usually at or close to the ground); circular window filled with tracery; rhizoctinia disease of potatoes
Rotavirus - the reovirus causing infant enteritis
Rotisserie - a restaurant that specializes in roasted and barbecued meats; an oven or broiler equipped with a rotating spit on which meat cooks as it turns
Royalty - royal persons collectively; payment to the holder of a patent or copyright or resource for the right to use their property
Rubens - prolific Flemish baroque painter; knighted by the English king Charles I (1577-1640)
Rubus - large genus of brambles bearing berries
Ruby - of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies; a transparent piece of ruby that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem; a transparent deep red variety of corundum; used as a gemstone and in lasers; a deep and vivid red color
Rugelach - pastry made with a cream cheese dough and different fillings (as raisins and walnuts and cinnamon or chocolate and walnut and apricot preserves)
Rum - beyond or deviating from the usual or expected; liquor distilled from fermented molasses; a card game based on collecting sets and sequences; the winner is the first to meld all their cards
Rump - fleshy hindquarters; behind the loin and above the round; the part of a quadruped that corresponds to the human buttocks; the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
Russian - of or pertaining to or characteristic of Russia or its people or culture or language; the Slavic language that is the official language of Russia; a native or inhabitant of Russia
Rustic - awkwardly simple and provincial; characteristic of the fields or country; used of idealized country life; characteristic of rural life; an unsophisticated country person
Rwanda - a landlocked republic in central Africa; formerly a German colony
Rwandan - of or pertaining to Rwanda; a native or inhabitant of Rwanda
Rye bread - any of various breads made entirely or partly with rye flour
Rye - whiskey distilled from rye or rye and malt; hardy annual cereal grass widely cultivated in northern Europe where its grain is the chief ingredient of black bread and in North America for forage and soil improvement; the seed of the cereal grass
Saba - a island in the Netherlands Antilles that is the top of an extinct volcano
Sabahan - of or pertaining to Sabah or its people; a Malaysian from Sabah
Sabine - of or relating to or characteristic of the Sabines; a river in eastern Texas that flows south into the Gulf of Mexico; a member of an ancient Oscan-speaking people of the central Apennines north of Rome who were conquered and assimilated into the Roman state in 290 BC
Saccharin - a crystalline substance 500 times sweeter than sugar; used as a calorie-free sweetener
Safflower oil - oil from seeds of the safflower plant; oil from safflower seeds used as food as well as in medicines and paints
Saigon - a city in South Vietnam; formerly (as Saigon) it was the capital of French Indochina
Sailor - any member of a ship's crew; a stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown; a serviceman in the navy
Sake - a reason for wanting something done; the purpose of achieving or obtaining; Japanese alcoholic beverage made from fermented rice; usually served hot
Salad bar - a bar where diners can assemble a salad to their own taste
Salad bowl - a large bowl for mixing and serving a salad; a plate or bowl for individual servings of salad
Salad cream - a creamy salad dressing resembling mayonnaise
Salad days - the best time of youth
Salad - food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing; usually consisting of or including greens
Salami - highly seasoned fatty sausage of pork and beef usually dried
Salat - the second pillar of Islam is prayer; a prescribed liturgy performed five times a day (preferably in a mosque) and oriented toward Mecca
Salisbury steak - ground beef patty usually with a sauce
Salmagundi - cooked meats and eggs and vegetables usually arranged in rows around the plate and dressed with a salad dressing; a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
Salmon - of orange tinged with pink; any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn; flesh of any of various marine or freshwater fish of the family Salmonidae; a tributary of the Snake River in Idaho
Salmonella - rod-shaped Gram-negative enterobacteria; cause typhoid fever and food poisoning; can be used as a bioweapon
Salt pork - fat from the back and sides and belly of a hog carcass cured with salt
Salt-cured - (used especially of meats) preserved in salt
Salting - the act of adding salt to food
Salvadoran - of or relating to or characteristic of El Salvador or its people; a native or inhabitant of El Salvador
Sam - a guided missile fired from land or shipboard against an airborne target
Samba - a form of canasta using three decks of cards and six jokers; a lively ballroom dance from Brazil; music composed for dancing the samba; large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds; yields soft white to pale yellow wood; verb dance the samba
Sambar - a deer of southern Asia with antlers that have three tines
Sami - the language of nomadic Lapps in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula; a member of an indigenous nomadic people living in northern Scandinavia and herding reindeer
Samosa - small turnover of Indian origin filled with vegetables or meat and fried and served hot
San Francisco Bay - a bay of the Pacific in western California
San Francisco - a port in western California near the Golden Gate that is one of the major industrial and transportation centers; it has one of the world's finest harbors; site of the Golden Gate Bridge
Sandwich - two (or more) slices of bread with a filling between them; verb insert or squeeze tightly between two people or objects; make into a sandwich
Santa Claus - the legendary patron saint of children
Saponification - a chemical reaction in which an ester is heated with an alkali (especially the alkaline hydrolysis of a fat or oil to make soap)
Sarawakian - of or relating to Sarawak or its people; a native or inhabitant of Sarawak
Sardine - any of various small edible herring or related food fishes frequently canned; small fatty fish usually canned; small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring; a deep orange-red variety of chalcedony
Sardinian - of or relating to or characteristic of Sardinia or its people; the Italian dialect spoken in Sardinia; sometimes considered a separate language with many loan words from Spanish; a native or inhabitant of Sardinia
Sashimi - very thinly sliced raw fish
Sauce - flavorful relish or dressing or topping served as an accompaniment to food; verb add zest or flavor to, make more interesting; dress (food) with a relish; behave saucy or impudently towards
Saudi-Arabian - of or relating to Saudi Arabia or its people
Sausage roll - sausage meat rolled and baked in pastry
Sausage - highly seasoned minced meat stuffed in casings; a small nonrigid airship used for observation or as a barrage balloon
Saveloy - a ready-cooked and highly seasoned pork sausage
Savoury - pleasing to the sense of taste; morally respectable or inoffensive; having an agreeably pungent taste; an aromatic or spicy dish served at the end of dinner or as an hors d'oeuvre; either of two aromatic herbs of the mint family
Scallion - young onion before the bulb has enlarged; plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves; used in cooking; believed derived from the wild Allium ampeloprasum
Schmaltz - (Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music
Schmidt - German statesman who served as chancellor of Germany (born in 1918)
Schnecken - rolled dough spread with sugar and nuts then sliced and baked in muffin tins with honey or sugar and butter in the bottom
Scotch egg - hard-cooked egg encased in sausage meat then breaded and deep-fried
Scotland - one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; located on the northern part of the island of Great Britain; famous for bagpipes and plaids and kilts
Scottish - of or relating to or characteristic of Scotland or its people or culture or its English dialect or Gaelic language; the dialect of English used in Scotland
Scouse - a stew of meat and vegetables and hardtack that is eaten by sailors
Scrapple - scraps of meat (usually pork) boiled with cornmeal and shaped into loaves for slicing and frying
Scraps - food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)
Sea cucumber - echinoderm having a flexible sausage-shaped body, tentacles surrounding the mouth and tube feet; free-living mud feeders
Sea urchin - shallow-water echinoderms having soft bodies enclosed in thin spiny globular shells
Sea - relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships; a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land; turbulent water with swells of considerable size; anything apparently limitless in quantity or volume
Seafood - edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc
Seamless - perfectly consistent and coherent; used especially of skin; not having or joined by a seam or seams
Seasoned - rendered competent through trial and experience; aged or processed
Selenium - a toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium; occurs in several allotropic forms; a stable grey metallike allotrope conducts electricity better in the light than in the dark and is used in photocells; occurs in sulfide ores (as pyrite)
Seltzer - naturally effervescent mineral water; effervescent beverage artificially charged with carbon dioxide
Semisweet - having a taste that is a mixture of bitterness and sweetness
Senegalese - of or relating to or characteristic of Senegal or its people; a native or inhabitant of Senegal
Sensation - an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation; a general feeling of excitement and heightened interest; a state of widespread public excitement and interest; the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
Sephardi - a Jew who is of Spanish or Portuguese or North African descent
Serbian - of or relating to the people or language or culture of the region of Serbia; a member of a Slavic people who settled in Serbia and neighboring areas in the 6th and 7th centuries
Serine - a sweetish crystalline amino acid involved in the synthesis by the body of cysteine
Server - utensil used in serving food or drink; (computer science) a computer that provides client stations with access to files and printers as shared resources to a computer network; (court games) the player who serves to start a point; a person whose occupation is to serve at table (as in a restaurant)
Sesame oil - oil obtained from sesame seeds
Seven Seas - an informal expression for all of the oceans of the world
Seychellois - of the Seychelles or their people; a native or inhabitant of Seychelles
Shagbark hickory - North American hickory having loose grey shaggy bark and edible nuts
Shallot - small mild-flavored onion-like or garlic-like clustered bulbs used for seasoning; type of onion plant producing small clustered mild-flavored bulbs used as seasoning; aggregated bulb of the multiplier onion
Shanghai - the largest city of China; located in the east on the Pacific; one of the largest ports in the world; verb take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship
Shark - any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales; a person who is unusually skilled in certain ways; a person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest; verb hunt shark; play the shark; act with trickery
Sharpie - a long narrow shallow-draft boat with a flat bottom and a triangular sail; formerly used along the northern Atlantic coast of the United States; a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games; an alert and energetic person
Sheep - woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat; a docile and vulnerable person who would rather follow than make an independent decision; a timid defenseless simpleton who is readily preyed upon
Shellbark hickory - North American hickory having loose grey shaggy bark and edible nuts
Shellfish - meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean); invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell
Shepherd's pie - pie of hash covered with mashed potatoes and browned in the oven
Shiitake - edible east Asian mushroom having a golden or dark brown to blackish cap and an inedible stipe
Shish kebab - cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables
Shocking - giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation; glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism
Shoofly pie - open pie filled with a mixture of sweet crumbs and molasses
Short ribs - rib ends between the rib road and the plate
Shrimp - small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible; any of various edible decapod crustaceans; disparaging terms for small people; verb fish for shrimp
Sicilian - of or relating to or characteristic of Sicily or the people of Sicily; a resident of Sicily
Side dish - a dish that is served with but is subordinate to a main course
Sierra Leonean - of or relating to Sierra Leone or its people; a native or inhabitant of Sierra Leone
Sikh - of or relating to the Sikhs or their religious beliefs and customs; an adherent of Sikhism
Silk - a fabric made from the fine threads produced by certain insect larvae; fibers from silkworm cocoons provide threads for knitting
Silkworm - hairless white caterpillar of the Asian silkworm moth; source of most commercial silk; larva of a saturniid moth; spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon
Simmering - cooking in a liquid that has been brought to a boil
Sindhi - the Indic language of the Sindhi
Singapore - an island south of the Malay Peninsula; a country in southeastern Asia on the island of Singapore; achieved independence from Malaysia in 1965; the capital of Singapore; one of the world's biggest ports
Singaporean - of or relating to the city of Singapore; of or relating to the island nation of Singapore and its people; an inhabitant of Singapore
Sirloin - the portion of the loin (especially of beef) just in front of the rump
Skim milk - milk from which the cream has been skimmed
Skimmed - used of milk and milk products from which the cream has been removed
Skipjack - medium-sized tuna-like food fish of warm Atlantic and Pacific waters; less valued than tuna; oceanic schooling tuna of considerable value in Pacific but less in Atlantic; reaches 75 pounds; very similar to if not the same as oceanic bonito; able to right itself when on its back by flipping into the air with a clicking sound
Slaughter - the killing of animals (as for food); the savage and excessive killing of many people; a sound defeat; verb kill a large number of people indiscriminately; kill (animals) usually for food consumption
Slaughterhouse - a building where animals are butchered
Slider - a fastball that curves slightly away from the side from which it was thrown; freshwater turtle of United States and South America; frequently raised commercially; some young sold as pets; someone who races the luge; a person who slips or slides because of loss of traction
Sloppy joe - ground beef (not a patty) cooked in a spicy sauce and served on a bun
Slovak - the Slavic language spoken in Slovakia; a native or inhabitant of Slovakia
Slovenian - of or relating to or characteristic of Slovenia or its people or language; a native or inhabitant of Slovenia
Smelling salts - a pungent preparation of ammonium carbonate and perfume; sniffed as a stimulant to relieve faintness
Smetana - Czech composer (1824-1884)
Smoked salmon - salmon cured by smoking
Smoked - (used especially of meats and fish) dried and cured by hanging in wood smoke
Smoking - emitting smoke in great volume; the act of smoking tobacco or other substances; a hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion
Smothering - causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat
Snack - a light informal meal; verb eat a snack; eat lightly
Sockeye salmon - small salmon with red flesh; found in rivers and tributaries of the northern Pacific and valued as food; adults die after spawning; fatty red flesh of salmon of Pacific coast and rivers
Sodium chloride - a white crystalline solid consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl)
Sodium nitrate - (NaNO3) used especially as a fertilizer and explosive
Sodium - a silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group; occurs abundantly in natural compounds (especially in salt water); burns with a yellow flame and reacts violently in water; occurs in sea water and in the mineral halite (rock salt)
Soft diet - a diet that does not require chewing; advised for those with intestinal disorders
Software - (computer science) written programs or procedures or rules and associated documentation pertaining to the operation of a computer system and that are stored in read/write memory
Sole - not divided or shared with others; being the only one; single and isolated from others; right-eyed flatfish; many are valued as food; most common in warm seas especially European; the underside of footwear or a golf club; the underside of the foot; lean flesh of any of several flatfish; verb put a new sole on
Somali - of or relating to the African republic of Somalia or its people or their language and culture; the Cushitic language spoken by the Somali; a member of a tall dark (mostly Muslim) people inhabiting Somalia
Sommelier - a waiter who manages wine service in a hotel or restaurant
Sorghum - made from juice of sweet sorghum; economically important Old World tropical cereal grass; annual or perennial tropical and subtropical cereal grasses: sorghum
Sou - a former French coin of low denomination; often used of any small amount of money
Soul food - food traditionally eaten by African-Americans in the South
Soup - liquid food especially of meat or fish or vegetable stock often containing pieces of solid food; an unfortunate situation; any composition having a consistency suggestive of soup; verb dope (a racehorse)
Sour cream - artificially soured light cream
Sourdough - a settler or prospector (especially in western United States or northwest Canada and Alaska); a leaven of dough in which fermentation is active; used by pioneers for making bread
Soured - having turned bad
Souring - the process of becoming sour
South Africa - a republic at the southernmost part of Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1910; first European settlers were Dutch (known as Boers)
South African - of or pertaining to or characteristic of South Africa or its people; a native or inhabitant of South Africa
South Korea - a republic in the southern half of the Korean Peninsula; established in 1948
South - situated in or facing or moving toward or coming from the south; adv. in a southern direction; any region lying in or toward the south; the region of the United States lying south of the Mason-Dixon line; the cardinal compass point that is at 180 degrees; the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861
Southeast Asia - a geographical division of Asia that includes Indochina plus Indonesia and the Philippines and Singapore
Souvlaki - made of lamb
Soviet - of or relating to or characteristic of the former Soviet Union or its people; an elected governmental council in a Communist country (especially one that is a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
Soy flour - meal made from soybeans
Soy sauce - thin sauce made of fermented soy beans
Soy - most highly proteinaceous vegetable crop known; erect bushy hairy annual herb having trifoliate leaves and purple to pink flowers; extensively cultivated for food and forage and soil improvement but especially for its nutritious oil-rich seeds; native to Asia; a source of oil; used for forage and soil improvement and as food; thin sauce made of fermented soy beans
Soybean meal - meal made from soybeans
Soybean oil - oil from soya beans
Soybean - most highly proteinaceous vegetable crop known; erect bushy hairy annual herb having trifoliate leaves and purple to pink flowers; extensively cultivated for food and forage and soil improvement but especially for its nutritious oil-rich seeds; native to Asia; a source of oil; used for forage and soil improvement and as food
Spaghetti squash - medium-sized oval squash with flesh in the form of strings that resemble spaghetti; squash plant bearing oval fruit with smooth yellowish skin and tender stranded flesh resembling spaghetti
Spaghetti - pasta in the form of long strings; spaghetti served with a tomato sauce
Spanish - of or relating to or characteristic of Spain or the people of Spain; the Romance language spoken in most of Spain and the countries colonized by Spain; the people of Spain
Spartan - resolute in the face of pain or danger or adversity; of or relating to or characteristic of Sparta or its people; practicing great self-denial; unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment; a resident of Sparta
Speck - a very small spot; a slight but appreciable addition; (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything; verb produce specks in or on
Spelt - hardy wheat grown mostly in Europe for livestock feed
Spin-off - a product made during the manufacture of something else
Spineless - lacking spiny processes; lacking thorns; weak in willpower, courage or vitality; lacking a backbone or spinal column
Spiny - having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.; having spines
Splendour - the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand; a quality that outshines the usual
Sponge cake - a light porous cake made with eggs and flour and sugar without shortening
Spotted dick - a suet pudding containing currants
Sprinkles - bits of sweet chocolate used as a topping on e.g. ice cream
Sprite - a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers
Sprouting - the process whereby seeds or spores sprout and begin to grow
Sri Lanka - a republic on the island of Ceylon; became independent of the United Kingdom in 1948
Sri Lankan - of or relating to Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) or its people or culture; a native or inhabitant of Sri Lanka
Standing rib roast - a cut of meat including more than one rib
Starch - a complex carbohydrate found chiefly in seeds, fruits, tubers, roots and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice; an important foodstuff and used otherwise especially in adhesives and as fillers and stiffeners for paper and textiles; verb stiffen with starch
Stayman - apple grown chiefly in the Shenandoah Valley
Steak and kidney pie - steak with sauteed kidneys and onions cooked in wine and stock then covered with pastry and baked
Steak au poivre - steak covered with crushed peppercorns pan-broiled and served with brandy-and-butter sauce
Steak - a slice of meat cut from the fleshy part of an animal or large fish
Steaming - filled with steam or emitting moisture in the form of vapor or mist; adv. (used of heat) extremely
Stella - United States minimalist painter (born in 1936)
Stew - food prepared by stewing especially meat or fish with vegetables; agitation resulting from active worry; verb cook slowly and for a long time in liquid; bear a grudge; harbor ill feelings; be in a huff; be silent or sullen
Stewed - cooked in hot water
Stewing - an extreme state of worry and agitation; cooking in a liquid that has been brought to a boil
Stockfish - fish cured by being split and air-dried without salt
Stone pine - medium-sized two-needled pine of southern Europe having a spreading crown; widely cultivated for its sweet seeds that resemble almonds
Storage - the act of storing something; the commercial enterprise of storing goods and materials; (computer science) the process of storing information in a computer memory or on a magnetic tape or disk; depositing in a warehouse; an electronic memory device; a depository for goods
Stover - the dried stalks and leaves of a field crop (especially corn) used as animal fodder after the grain has been harvested
Strudel - thin sheet of filled dough rolled and baked
Stuffed cabbage - parboiled head of cabbage scooped out and filled with a hash of chopped e.g. beef or ham and baked; served with tomato or cheese sauce
Stuffed peppers - parboiled green peppers stuffed usually with rice and meat and baked briefly
Stuffing - padding put in mattresses and cushions and upholstered furniture; a mixture of seasoned ingredients used to stuff meats and vegetables
Sturgeon - large primitive fishes valued for their flesh and roe; widely distributed in the North Temperate Zone
Succotash - fresh corn and lima beans with butter or cream
Suckling pig - whole young pig suitable for roasting
Sucrose - a complex carbohydrate found in many plants and used as a sweetening agent
Sudanese - of or relating to or characteristic of the African Republic of the Sudan or its people; a native or inhabitant of Sudan
Suet pudding - a sweet or savory pudding made with suet and steamed or boiled
Suet - hard fat around the kidneys and loins in beef and mutton
Sugar beet - white-rooted beet grown as a source of sugar; form of the common beet having a sweet white root from which sugar is obtained
Sugar candy - made by boiling pure sugar until it hardens
Sugar-bush - evergreen shrub of southeastern United States with spikes of reddish yellow flowers and glandular hairy fruits
Sugar - a white crystalline carbohydrate used as a sweetener and preservative; informal terms for money; an essential structural component of living cells and source of energy for animals; includes simple sugars with small molecules as well as macromolecular substances; are classified according to the number of monosaccharide groups they contain; verb sweeten with sugar
Sugarcane - tall tropical southeast Asian grass having stout fibrous jointed stalks; sap is a chief source of sugar; juicy canes whose sap is a source of molasses and commercial sugar; fresh canes are sometimes chewed for the juice
Sugarloaf - a large conical loaf of concentrated refined sugar
Sukiyaki - thin beef strips (or chicken or pork) cooked briefly at the table with onions and greens and soy sauce
Sundae - ice cream served with a topping
Sundanese - the Indonesian language spoken in the Lesser Sunda Islands
Sundowner - a drink taken at sundown; a tramp who habitually arrives at sundown
Sunflower oil - oil from sunflower seeds
Sunset - providing for termination; of a declining industry or technology; the daily event of the sun sinking below the horizon; atmospheric phenomena accompanying the daily disappearance of the sun; the time in the evening at which the sun begins to fall below the horizon
Suntan - a browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun; verb get a tan from being exposed to the sun
Super - including more than a specified category; extremely large; of the highest quality; adv. to an extreme degree; a caretaker for an apartment house; represents the owner as janitor and rent collector
Supper - a light evening meal; served in early evening if dinner is at midday or served late in the evening at bedtime; a social gathering where a light evening meal is served
Supra - adv. at an earlier place
Supreme - greatest or maximal in degree; extreme; final or last in your life or progress; highest in excellence or achievement; greatest in status or authority or power
Sushi - rice (with raw fish) wrapped in seaweed
Sustainable - capable of being sustained
Swazi - of or relating to or characteristic of Swaziland or its people or their language; a Bantu language closely related to Zulu; a member of a southeast African people living in Swaziland and adjacent areas
Sweating - being wet with perspiration; the process of the sweat glands of the skin secreting a salty fluid
Sweden - a Scandinavian kingdom in the eastern part of the Scandinavian Peninsula
Swedish - of or relating to or characteristic of Sweden or its people or culture or language; a Scandinavian language that is the official language of Sweden and one of two official languages of Finland
Sweet chestnut - wild or cultivated throughout southern Europe, northwestern Africa and southwestern Asia
Sweet lemon - lemon tree having fruit with a somewhat insipid sweetish pulp
Sweetener - anything that serves as an enticement; something added to foods to make them taste sweeter
Sweetheart - privileged treatment of a favored person or corporation (sometimes unethically); any well-liked individual; a person loved by another person; a very attractive or seductive looking woman
Sweetness - the property of tasting as if it contains sugar; the quality of giving pleasure; a pleasingly sweet olfactory property; the taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth
Swiss - of or relating to Switzerland or its people or culture; the natives or inhabitants of Switzerland
Switzerland - a landlocked federal republic in central Europe
Swordfish - large toothless marine food fish with a long swordlike upper jaw; not completely cold-blooded i.e. they are able to warm their brains and eyes: worldwide in warm waters but feed on cold ocean floor coming to surface at night; flesh of swordfish usually served as steaks
Sydney - the largest Australian city located in southeastern Australia on the Tasman Sea; state capital of New South Wales; Australia's chief port
Syllabub - sweetened cream beaten with wine or liquor; spiced hot milk with rum or wine
Syrian - of or relating to or characteristic of Syria or its people or culture; a native or inhabitant of Syria
Syrup - a thick sweet sticky liquid
TV dinner - a meal that is prepared in advance and frozen; can be heated and served
Tabasco - very hot red peppers; usually long and thin; some very small; very spicy sauce (trade name Tabasco) made from fully-aged red peppers; a Mexican state on the Gulf of Campeche
Tabbouleh - a finely chopped salad with tomatoes and parsley and mint and scallions and bulgur wheat
Table salt - white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food
Table service - tableware consisting of a complete set of articles (silver or dishware) for use at table
Tablecloth - a covering spread over a dining table
Tableware - articles for use at the table (dishes and silverware and glassware)
Taco - a tortilla rolled cupped around a filling; offensive terms for a person of Mexican descent
Taffy - chewy candy of sugar or syrup boiled until thick and pulled until glossy
Tahini - a thick Middle Eastern paste made from ground sesame seeds
Taipei - the capital of Nationalist China; located in northern Taiwan
Taiwan - an island in southeastern Asia 100 miles off the coast of mainland China in the South China Sea; a government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the communists led by Mao Zedong
Taiwanese - of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on Taiwan or its residents or their language; a native or inhabitant of Taiwan; any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province
Tallow - obtained from suet and used in making soap, candles and lubricants
Tamale pie - a meat mixture covered with cornbread topping that resembles a Mexican dish
Tamale - corn and cornmeal dough stuffed with a meat mixture then wrapped in corn husks and steamed; a city in northern Ghana
Tamil - of or relating to a speaker of the Tamil language or the language itself; the Dravidian language spoken since prehistoric times by the Tamil in southern India and Sri Lanka; a member of the mixed Dravidian and Caucasian people of southern India and Sri Lanka
Tandoor - a clay oven used in northern India and Pakistan
Tang - any of various coarse seaweeds; the imperial dynasty of China from 618 to 907; any of various kelps especially of the genus Laminaria; brown algae seaweed with serrated edges; a common rockweed used in preparing kelp and as manure; a tart spicy quality; the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
Tangelo - large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin; hybrid between grapefruit and mandarin orange; cultivated especially in Florida
Tangerine - of a strong reddish orange color; a reddish to vivid orange color; any of various deep orange mandarins grown in the United States and southern Africa; a variety of mandarin orange
Tangor - large citrus tree having large sweet deep orange fruit that is easily peeled; widely cultivated in Florida
Tanzania - a republic in eastern Africa
Tanzanian - of or relating to the republic of Tanzania or its people; a native or inhabitant of Tanzania
Tapioca pudding - sweet pudding thickened with tapioca
Tare - counterweight consisting of an empty container that is used as a counterbalance to obtain net weight; any of several weedy vetches grown for forage; weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous
Taro - tropical starchy tuberous root; herb of the Pacific islands grown throughout the tropics for its edible root and in temperate areas as an ornamental for its large glossy leaves; edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants
Tatar - the Turkic language spoken by the Tatar living from the Volga to the Ural Mountains; a member of the Turkic-speaking people living from the Volga to the Ural Mountains (the name has been attributed to many other groups); a member of the Mongolian people of central Asia who invaded Russia in the 13th century
Tavern - a building with a bar that is licensed to sell alcoholic drinks
Tay - a branch of the Tai languages
Tea party - a party at which tea is served
Tea - a light midafternoon meal of tea and sandwiches or cakes; dried leaves of the tea shrub; used to make tea; a beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water; a reception or party at which tea is served; a tropical evergreen shrub or small tree extensively cultivated in e.g. China and Japan and India; source of tea leaves
Technology - the practical application of science to commerce or industry; the discipline dealing with the art or science of applying scientific knowledge to practical problems
Teff - an African grass economically important as a cereal grass (yielding white flower of good quality) as well as for forage and hay
Telugu - a Dravidian language spoken by the Telugu in southeastern India; a member of the people in southeastern India (Andhra Pradesh) who speak the Telugu language
Tempura - vegetables and seafood dipped in batter and deep-fried
Tenderloin - the tender meat of the loin muscle on each side of the vertebral column; a city district known for its vice and high crime rate
Tendon - a cord or band of inelastic tissue connecting a muscle with its bony attachment
Teriyaki - beef or chicken or seafood marinated in spicy soy sauce and grilled or broiled
Terms - the amount of money needed to purchase something; status with respect to the relations between people or groups
Texas - the second largest state; located in southwestern United States on the Gulf of Mexico
Thai - of or relating to Thailand; of or relating to the languages of the Thai people; of or relating to or characteristic of Thailand or its people; a branch of the Tai languages; a native or inhabitant of Thailand
Thailand - a country of southeastern Asia that extends southward along the Isthmus of Kra to the Malay peninsula
Theobroma cacao - tropical American tree producing cacao beans
Theobroma - cacao plants
Thermal - caused by or designed to retain heat; of or relating to a hot spring; relating to or associated with heat; rising current of warm air
Thomas Jefferson - 3rd President of the United States; chief drafter of the Declaration of Independence; made the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and sent out the Lewis and Clark Expedition to explore it (1743-1826)
Threonine - a colorless crystalline amino acid found in protein; occurs in the hydrolysates of certain proteins; an essential component of human nutrition
Tibetan - of or relating to or characteristic of Tibet or its people or their language; Himalayish language spoken in Tibet; a native or inhabitant of Tibet
Tiffin - a midday meal
Tiger - large feline of forests in most of Asia having a tawny coat with black stripes; endangered; a fierce or audacious person
Tilapia - a genus of Cichlidae
Timber - a beam made of wood; a post made of wood; (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound); land that is covered with trees and shrubs; the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material
Tlingit - the Na-Dene language spoken by the Tlingit; a member of a seafaring group of North American Indians living in southern Alaska
Toad-in-the-hole - sausage baked in batter
Toast - slices of bread that have been toasted; a celebrity who receives much acclaim and attention; a drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event; a person in desperate straits; someone doomed; verb propose a toast to; make brown and crisp by heating
Toasting - cooking to a brown crispiness over a fire or on a grill
Toddy - a mixed drink made of liquor and water with sugar and spices and served hot
Toffee - caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets
Tofu - cheeselike food made of curdled soybean milk
Togolese - of or relating to the African country of Togo or its people; a native or inhabitant of Togo
Tokyo - the capital and largest city of Japan; the economic and cultural center of Japan
Tomato - mildly acid red or yellow pulpy fruit eaten as a vegetable; native to South America; widely cultivated in many varieties
Toned - having or distinguished by a tone; often used in combination; having or characterized or distinguished by tone or a specific tone; often used in combination
Topaz - a mineral (fluosilicate of aluminum) that occurs in crystals of various colors and is used as a gemstone; a yellow quartz; a light brown the color of topaz
Toronto - the provincial capital and largest city in Ontario (and the largest city in Canada)
Tortellini - small ring-shaped stuffed pasta
Tortilla chip - a small piece of tortilla
Tortilla - thin unleavened pancake made from cornmeal or wheat flour
Treacle - an expression that is excessively sweet and sentimental; a pale cane syrup
Trifle - sponge cake spread with jam and soaked in wine; served with a custard sauce; something of small importance; a detail that is considered insignificant; verb consider not very seriously; act frivolously; waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently
Trifoliate orange - small fast-growing spiny deciduous Chinese orange tree bearing sweetly scented flowers and decorative but inedible fruit: used as a stock in grafting and for hedges
Tripe - lining of the stomach of a ruminant (especially a bovine) used as food; nonsensical talk or writing
Triticum - annual cereal grasses from Mediterranean area; widely cultivated in temperate regions
Trout - any of various game and food fishes of cool fresh waters mostly smaller than typical salmons; flesh of any of several primarily freshwater game and food fishes
Truffle - creamy chocolate candy; edible subterranean fungus of the genus Tuber; any of various highly prized edible subterranean fungi of the genus Tuber; grow naturally in southwestern Europe
Tryptophan - an amino acid that occurs in proteins; is essential for growth and normal metabolism; a precursor of niacin
Tuna fish - important warm-water fatty fish of the genus Thunnus of the family Scombridae; usually served as steaks
Tuna salad - salad composed primarily of chopped canned tuna fish
Tuna - New Zealand eel; any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm waters; important warm-water fatty fish of the genus Thunnus of the family Scombridae; usually served as steaks; tropical American prickly pear of Jamaica
Tunisian - of or relating to Tunisia or its inhabitants; of or relating to the city of Tunis or its residents; a native or inhabitant of Tunisia
Turban squash - large squash shaped somewhat like a turban usually with a rounded central portion protruding from the blossom end; squash plants bearing hard-shelled fruit shaped somewhat like a turban with a rounded central portion protruding from the end opposite the stem
Turkey - large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food; an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual; flesh of large domesticated fowl usually roasted; a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; achieved independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1923; a person who does something thoughtless or annoying
Turkic - of or relating to the people who speak the Turkic language; a subfamily of Altaic languages
Turkish - of or relating to or characteristic of Turkey or its people or language; a Turkic language spoken by the Turks
Turmeric - ground dried rhizome of the turmeric plant used as seasoning; widely cultivated tropical plant of India having yellow flowers and a large aromatic deep yellow rhizome; source of a condiment and a yellow dye
Turnover - a dish made by folding a piece of pastry over a filling; the act of upsetting something; the volume measured in dollars; the ratio of the number of workers that had to be replaced in a given time period to the average number of workers
Turtle - any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming; verb hunt for turtles, especially as an occupation; overturn accidentally
Tyrosine - an amino acid found in most proteins; a precursor of several hormones
Udmurt - the Finnic language spoken by the Votyak; a member of the Finno-Ugric-speaking people living in eastern European Russia
Uganda - a landlocked republic in eastern Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1962
Ugandan - of or relating to or characteristic of Uganda or its people; a native or inhabitant of Uganda
Ugli fruit - large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin; hybrid between grapefruit and mandarin orange; cultivated especially in Florida
Ukrainian - of or relating to or characteristic of Ukraine or its people or culture; the Slavic language spoken in the Ukraine
Ulster - loose long overcoat of heavy fabric; usually belted; a historic division of Ireland located in the northeastern part of the island; six of Ulster's nine counties are in Northern Ireland
United Kingdom - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland
United States - North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776; the executive and legislative and judicial branches of the federal government of the United States
Unleavened - made without leavening
Urban legend - a story that appears mysteriously and spreads spontaneously in various forms and is usually false; contains elements of humor or horror and is popularly believed to be true
Uruguayan - of or relating to or characteristic of Uruguay or its people; a native or inhabitant of Uruguay
Uzbek - the Turkic language spoken by the Uzbek; a member of a Turkic people of Uzbekistan and neighboring areas; a landlocked republic in west central Asia; formerly an Asian soviet
Vaccinium corymbosum - high-growing deciduous shrub of eastern North America bearing edible blueish to blackish berries with a distinct bloom; source of most cultivated blueberries
Vaccinium myrsinites - shrub of the eastern United States having shining evergreen leaves and bluish-black fruit
Vaccinium pallidum - low deciduous shrub of the eastern United States bearing dark blue sweet berries
Valencia orange - variety of sweet orange cultivated extensively in Florida and California
Valine - an essential amino acid found in proteins; important for growth in children and nitrogen balance in adults
Van - a truck with an enclosed cargo space; a camper equipped with living quarters; the leading units moving at the head of an army; any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)
Vanadium - a soft silvery white toxic metallic element used in steel alloys; it occurs in several complex minerals including carnotite and vanadinite
Vegetable oil - any of a group of liquid edible fats that are obtained from plants
Vegetarianism - a diet excluding all meat and fish
Venetian - of or relating to or characteristic of Venice or its people; a resident of Venice
Venezuelan - of or relating to or characteristic of Venezuela or its people; a native or inhabitant of Venezuela
Venison - meat from a deer used as food
Venus - type genus of the family Veneridae: genus of edible clams with thick oval shells; the second nearest planet to the sun; visible from Earth as an early `morning star' or an `evening star'; goddess of love; counterpart of Greek Aphrodite
Vermicelli - pasta in strings thinner than spaghetti
Vienna sausage - short slender frankfurter usually with ends cut off
Vienna - the capital and largest city of Austria; located on the Danube in northeastern Austria; was the home of Beethoven and Brahms and Haydn and Mozart and Schubert and Strauss
Vietnam - a communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea; achieved independence from France in 1945; a prolonged war (1954-1975) between the communist armies of North Vietnam who were supported by the Chinese and the armies of South Vietnam who were supported by the United States
Vietnamese - of or relating to or characteristic of the people of Vietnam; of or relating to the Vietnamese language; of or relating to Vietnam; the Mon-Khmer language spoken in Vietnam; a native or inhabitant of Vietnam
Vinaigrette - oil and vinegar with mustard and garlic
Vinegar - sour-tasting liquid produced usually by oxidation of the alcohol in wine or cider and used as a condiment or food preservative; dilute acetic acid
Vitamin A - any of several fat-soluble vitamins essential for normal vision; prevents night blindness or inflammation or dryness of the eyes
Vitamin B - originally thought to be a single vitamin but now separated into several B vitamins
Vitamin C - a vitamin found in fresh fruits (especially citrus fruits) and vegetables; prevents scurvy
Vitamin D - a fat-soluble vitamin that prevents rickets
Vitamin E - a fat-soluble vitamin that is essential for normal reproduction; an important antioxidant that neutralizes free radicals in the body
Vitamin K - a fat-soluble vitamin that helps in the clotting of blood
Vitis - the type genus of the family Vitaceae; woody vines with simple leaves and small flowers; includes a wide variety of grapes
Vivaldi - Italian baroque composer and violinist (1675-1741)
Vol-au-vent - puff paste shell filled with a savory meat mixture usually with a sauce
Wafer - thin disk of unleavened bread used in a religious service (especially in the celebration of the Eucharist); a small thin crisp cake or cookie; a small adhesive disk of paste; used to seal letters
Waffle iron - a kitchen appliance for baking waffles; the appliance usually consists of two indented metal pans hinged together so that they create a pattern on the waffle
Waffle - pancake batter baked in a waffle iron; verb pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness
Waiter - a person whose occupation is to serve at table (as in a restaurant); a person who waits or awaits
Waldorf salad - typically made of apples and celery with nuts or raisins and dressed with mayonnaise
Wales - one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; during Roman times the region was known as Cambria
Walleye - pike-like freshwater perches; strabismus in which one or both eyes are directed outward
Walnut oil - oil from walnuts
Walnut - nut of any of various walnut trees having a wrinkled two-lobed seed with a hard shell; any of various trees of the genus Juglans; hard dark-brown wood of any of various walnut trees; used especially for furniture and paneling
Warmer - device that heats water or supplies warmth to a room
Wasabi - the thick green root of the wasabi plant that the Japanese use in cooking and that tastes like strong horseradish; in powder or paste form it is often eaten with raw fish; a Japanese plant of the family Cruciferae with a thick green root
Water buffalo - an Asian buffalo that is often domesticated for use as a draft animal
Watermelon - large oblong or roundish melon with a hard green rind and sweet watery red or occasionally yellowish pulp; an African melon
Waxy - having the paleness of wax; resembling or covered with wax; made of or covered with wax
Wealthy - having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value
Welsh rabbit - cheese melted with ale or beer served over toast
Welsh - of or relating to or characteristic of Wales or its people or their language; a breed of dual-purpose cattle developed in Wales; a Celtic language of Wales; a native or resident of Wales; verb cheat by avoiding payment of a gambling debt
Wet - consisting of or trading in alcoholic liquor; covered or soaked with a liquid such as water; producing or secreting milk; supporting or permitting the legal production and sale of alcoholic beverages; containing moisture or volatile components; very drunk; wetness caused by water; verb make one's bed or clothes wet by urinating; cause to become wet
Whale oil - a white to brown oil obtained from whale blubber; formerly used as an illuminant
Whale - any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head; a very large person; impressive in size or qualities; verb hunt for whales
Wheat - grains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flour; annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains
Whey - watery part of milk produced when raw milk sours and coagulates; the serum or watery part of milk that is separated from the curd in making cheese
Whisky - a liquor made from fermented mash of grain
White chocolate - a blend of cocoa butter and milk solids and sugar and vanilla; used in candy bars and backing and coatings; not technically chocolate because it contains no chocolate liquor
White meat - meat carved from the breast of a fowl
White rice - having husk or outer brown layers removed
White-bread - of or belonging to or representative of the white middle class
White-hot - intensely zealous or fervid; glowing white with heat
Whitebait - the edible young of especially herrings and sprats and smelts; minnows or other small fresh- or saltwater fish (especially herring); usually cooked whole
Whole-wheat - of or relating to or derived from wheat
Whopper - a gross untruth; a blatant lie; something especially big or impressive of its kind
Wild rice - grains of aquatic grass of North America; perennial aquatic grass of North America bearing grain used for food
Windowpane - very thin translucent flounder of the Atlantic coast of North America; a pane of glass in a window
Wine - a red as dark as red wine; fermented juice (of grapes especially); verb treat to wine; drink wine
Winesap - crisp apple with dark red skin
Winter melon - the fruit of the winter melon vine; a green melon with pale green to orange flesh that keeps well; any of a variety of muskmelon vines having fruit with a smooth white rind and white or greenish flesh that does not have a musky smell
Winter - the coldest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox; verb spend the winter
Wolf - any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs; a man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women; German classical scholar who claimed that the Iliad and Odyssey were composed by several authors (1759-1824); Austrian composer (1860-1903); a cruelly rapacious person; verb eat hastily
Wonton - a soup with won ton dumplings; a Chinese dumpling filled with spiced minced pork; usually served in soup
Woodcock - game bird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe
Worcestershire sauce - a savory sauce of vinegar and soy sauce and spices
Worcestershire - a savory sauce of vinegar and soy sauce and spices
Xylose - a sugar extracted from wood or straw; used in foods for diabetics
Yak butter - butter made from yaks' milk
Yak - large long-haired wild ox of Tibet often domesticated; noisy talk
Yelp - a sharp high-pitched cry (especially by a dog); verb bark in a high-pitched tone
Yemeni - of or relating to or characteristic of Yemen or its inhabitants; a native or inhabitant of Yemen
Yogurt - a custard-like food made from curdled milk
Yorkshire pudding - light puffy bread made of a puff batter and traditionally baked in the pan with roast beef
Zambian - of or relating to or characteristic of Zambia or its people; a native or inhabitant of Zambia
Zest - a tart spicy quality; vigorous and enthusiastic enjoyment; verb add herbs or spices to
Zill - one of a pair of small metallic cymbals worn on the thumb and middle finger; used in belly dancing in rhythm with the dance
Zimbabwean - of or relating to or characteristic of Zimbabwe or its people; a native or inhabitant of Zimbabwe
Zinc - a bluish-white lustrous metallic element; brittle at ordinary temperatures but malleable when heated; used in a wide variety of alloys and in galvanizing iron; it occurs as zinc sulphide in zinc blende; verb coat or cover with zinc
Zucchini - small cucumber-shaped vegetable marrow; typically dark green; marrow squash plant whose fruit are eaten when small
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annual - completing its life cycle within a year; occurring or payable every year; a reference book that is published regularly once every year; a plant that completes its entire life cycle within the space of a year
based - having a base of operations (often used as a combining form); having a base; having a basis; often used as combining terms; being derived from (often followed by `on' or `upon')
batter - a flour mixture thin enough to pour or drop from a spoon; (baseball) a ballplayer who is batting; verb make a dent or impression in; strike violently and repeatedly; strike against forcefully
biodegradable - capable of being decomposed by e.g. bacteria
biological - of parents and children; related by blood; pertaining to biology or to life and living things
boycott - a group's refusal to have commercial dealings with some organization in protest against its policies; verb refuse to sponsor; refuse to do business with
caffer - an offensive term for any Black African
cake - a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax); made from or based on a mixture of flour and sugar and eggs; small flat mass of chopped food; verb form a coat over
certified - endorsed authoritatively as having met certain requirements; holding appropriate documentation and officially on record as qualified to perform a specified function or practice a specified skill; having quality or payment or delivery guaranteed; fit to be certified as insane (and treated accordingly)
clinical - scientifically detached; unemotional; relating to a clinic or conducted in or as if in a clinic and depending on direct observation of patients
criticism - a serious examination and judgment of something; a written evaluation of a work of literature; disapproval expressed by pointing out faults or shortcomings
culinary - of or relating to or used in cooking
current - occurring in or belonging to the present time; a steady flow (usually from natural causes); a flow of electricity through a conductor; dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas
dane - a native or inhabitant of Denmark
dishware - tableware (eating and serving dishes) collectively
dle - a chronic skin disease occurring primarily in women between the ages of 20 and 40; characterized by an eruption of red lesions over the cheeks and bridge of the nose
documentary - relating to or consisting of or derived from documents; emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings, insertion of fictional matter, or interpretation; a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event
extraction - the act of pulling out (as a tooth); the process of obtaining something from a mixture or compound by chemical or physical or mechanical means; properties attributable to your ancestry
flaxseed oil - a drying oil extracted from flax seed and used in making such things as oil paints
food - any substance that can be metabolized by an organism to give energy and build tissue; anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking; any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment
fruit - the consequence of some effort or action; the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant; an amount of a product; verb bear fruit; cause to bear fruit
garlic butter - butter seasoned with mashed garlic
genus - a general kind of something; (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species
ginger - (used especially of hair or fur) having a bright orange-brown color; pungent rhizome of the common ginger plant; used fresh as a seasoning especially in Oriental cookery; dried ground gingerroot; perennial plants having thick branching aromatic rhizomes and leafy reedlike stems; liveliness and energy; verb add ginger to in order to add flavor
horned - having a horn or horns or hornlike parts or horns of a particular kind
juice - any of several liquids of the body; the liquid part that can be extracted from plant or animal tissue; electric current; energetic vitality
lauric acid - a crystalline fatty acid occurring as glycerides in natural fats and oils (especially coconut oil and palm-kernel oil)
leaf - hinged or detachable flat section (as of a table or door); a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book); the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants; verb produce leaves, of plants; turn over pages; look through a book or other written material
leaf - hinged or detachable flat section (as of a table or door); a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book); the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants; verb produce leaves, of plants; turn over pages; look through a book or other written material
lectin - any of several plant glycoproteins that act like specific antibodies but are not antibodies in that they are not evoked by an antigenic stimulus
linoleic acid - a liquid polyunsaturated fatty acid abundant in plant fats and oils; a fatty acid essential for nutrition; used to make soap
list - a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics); the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical; verb give or make a list of; name individually; give the names of; tilt to one side; cause to lean to the side; include in a list; enumerate
men - the force of workers available
metabolite - any substance involved in metabolism (either as a product of metabolism or as necessary for metabolism)
military - associated with or performed by armed services as contrasted with civilians; characteristic of or associated with soldiers or the military; of or relating to the study of the principles of warfare; the military forces of a nation
mocha - superior dark coffee made from beans from Arabia; flavoring made from mixed coffee and chocolate; soft suede glove leather from goatskin
muskmelon - the fruit of a muskmelon vine; any of several sweet melons related to cucumbers; any of several varieties of vine whose fruit has a netted rind and edible flesh and a musky smell
mutton - meat from a mature domestic sheep; the square of a body of any size of type
myristic acid - a saturated fatty acid occurring naturally in animal and vegetable fats
n-th - last or greatest in an indefinitely large series
non - adv. negation of a word or group of words
oleic acid - a colorless oily liquid occurring as a glyceride; it is the major fatty acid in olive oil and canola oil; used in making soap and cosmetics and ointments and lubricating oils
palmitic acid - a saturated fatty acid that is the major fat in meat and dairy products
pasty - resembling paste in color; pallid; having the sticky properties of an adhesive; (usually used in the plural) one of a pair of adhesive patches worn to cover the nipples of exotic dancers and striptease performers; small meat pie or turnover
pes - the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint
prawn - shrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers; most are edible; any of various edible decapod crustaceans; verb fish for prawns
punctum - (anatomy) a point or small area
religious - having or showing belief in and reverence for a deity; concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church; extremely scrupulous and conscientious; a member of a religious order who is bound by vows of poverty and chastity and obedience
rico - law intended to eradicate organized crime by establishing strong sanctions and forfeiture provisions
ringer - (horseshoes) the successful throw of a horseshoe or quoit so as to encircle a stake or peg; a contestant entered in a competition under false pretenses; a person who is almost identical to another; a person who rings church bells (as for summoning the congregation)
riparia - a genus of Hirundinidae
rna - (biochemistry) a long linear polymer of nucleotides found in the nucleus but mainly in the cytoplasm of a cell where it is associated with microsomes; it transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm and controls certain chemical processes in the cell
sculpture - creating figures or designs in three dimensions; a three-dimensional work of plastic art; verb shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it; create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material
services - performance of duties or provision of space and equipment helpful to others
sir - term of address for a man; a title used before the name of knight or baronet
ski - narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used in pairs for gliding over snow; verb move along on skis
slipper - low footwear that can be slipped on and off easily; usually worn indoors; a person who slips or slides because of loss of traction
species - a specific kind of something; (biology) taxonomic group whose members can interbreed
spruce - marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; any coniferous tree of the genus Picea; light soft moderately strong wood of spruce trees; used especially for timbers and millwork; verb dress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion; make neat, smart, or trim
squid - widely distributed fast-moving ten-armed cephalopod mollusk having a long tapered body with triangular tail fins; (Italian cuisine) squid prepared as food
stearic acid - a waxy saturated fatty acid; occurs widely as a glyceride in animal and vegetable fats
stearin - an ester of glycerol and stearic acid
suite - apartment consisting of a series of connected rooms used as a living unit (as in a hotel); a musical composition of several movements only loosely connected; a matching set of furniture; the group following and attending to some important person
talc - a fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate; used in a variety of products including talcum powder; verb apply talcum powder to (one's body)
textile - of or relating to fabrics or fabric making; artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers
tit - small insectivorous birds; either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman; the small projection of a mammary gland
traditional - consisting of or derived from tradition; pertaining to time-honored orthodox doctrines
uta - a reptile genus of Iguanidae
var - a unit of electrical power in an AC circuit equal to the power dissipated when 1 volt produces a current of 1 ampere
veal - meat from a calf
vegetarian - eater of fruits and grains and nuts; someone who eats no meat or fish or (often) any animal products
vinifera - common European grape cultivated in many varieties; chief source of Old World wine and table grapes

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