Words and phrases whose definition contains use:  (1404 results)
abuse, accept, access, acres, adopt, ailey, applied, archer, aside, avail, away, backlog, basic, bathtub, beach chair, benton, bentwood, blackguard, bombing, bowman, breakage, broad bean, bronze age, brooder, build up, burn off, burn up, burr drill, busy, butter, buy in, by hand, caboose, carson, cellphone, charcot, chartered, chervil, chicane, claim form, clapped out, claxon, co-opt, command, common, commons, compile, condemned, conk out, conserve, console, constraint, consume, creaky, cripple, cross hair, cumbrous, dating, deck chair, deepen, defunct, demesne, deplete, descartes, detach, deterge, devote, dextral, disused, dockage, doll up, dongle, do drugs, do up, draw back, drugless, dust sheet, dyeing, eat up, effort, embrace, employed, engaged, espouse, essay, estate, etching, europe, evade, exert, exhaust, expend, exploit, extend, eyebath, eyecup, eyesight, eye cup, fair use, fantan, farm out, fencing, field tent, filing, fireplug, first strike, foglamp, foodstuff, free-base, freestyle, free weight, friendly, galton, gear up, gesture, glam up, godard, golf game, gothic, go bad, greco, griffith, guestroom, guide on, habit, hampton, handed, handgrip, handle, handling, handy, harnessed, hawser, head rhyme, hedge fund, hi-tech, high-tech, hired, hive up, hoarder, hockey, hoffmann, holdout, hold back, horse bean, hot pad, houseboat, husband, idle, improved, instal, install, involved, in use, james watt, jamming, keep back, kiosk, labrouste, lacrosse, language, laptop, lash-up, lawn chair, lay in, leaky, leary, lens cap, letter, level, life raft, lister, livestock, living, lumber, made-up, mail fraud, maintain, maintained, marshal, microbe, mindless, misuse, motion, mounted, muller, nervi, newspeak, nicad, nickname, noddle, non-u, nuisance, off-peak, oilstone, on tapp, opel, oppress, oral, pepper, phase iv, pinter, pipage, piton, pooler, poop out, poster, post horse, pot-trained, prepare, preserve, preserved, prevail, priestcraft, privy, proscribed, protect, psalter, ptomaine, pull back, purchase, purist, put in, ram disk, rastas, ready, regain, rehash, rental, renter, renting, rent out, reserve, reserved, restore, restrict, retain, retained, retired, retract, retread, retrench, retrieve, reuse, rework, rotate, run-down, run down, run out, run through, sacred, safe sex, save-all, saved upp, saying, scare quote, schoolbook, school text, secret, seeing, senseless, service, set up, sevens, shampoo, shortened, signer, simpson, slanguage, slangy, soft-soap, speech act, spin-dry, staining, standby, staple, steam coal, stockpile, stone age, stored upp, strong-arm, suited, summon, supple, supply, suppress, sweep up, szilard, taboo, tanbark, tax form, tenant, textbook, thrifty, timber, title, toll-free, town gas, trademarked, travail, trawler, tree farm, trespass, trowel, truman, trustee, try out, tweedle, unused, uptime, useful, useless, user, use up, utile, van gogh, verbal, vermeer, viewgraph, waiting, warburg, wash down, wasted, wasteful, wear off, wear out, wear thin, well-worn, whaleboat, wharfage, wherry, whipsaw, white goods, wieldy, wipe out, wire, withdrawer, wordy, workhorse, working, yacht chair, zeugma
air cover, air mattress, all-purpose, amazon, ambitious, aneroid, aphasia, aphasic, appanage, appliance, arm-twisting, armory, armoury, arsenal, arulo, assault gun, as needed, atrophied, atrophy, barbaric, bathing tub, bath linen, battery, beaked parsley, bed pillow, biochip, black letter, book of psalms, boys-and-girls, brevity, business loan, by machine, cabin car, capital, carbon tet, carling float, carriage wrench, car mirror, casual, casuistic, catharsis, celluloid, cerebrate, challenging, chemically, chipotle, chloasma, clapperclaw, cocklebur, coconut, coercion, cogitate, common land, conducting, consumptive, contract in, contract out, contrivance, conversion, corruption, corruptness, coumadin, cross wire, cubicle, cumbersome, currency, currier, cyberspace, decrepit, dedicate, defalcate, deictic, demotic, denature, dentist's drill, deposit, develop, digitise, digitize, diminished, direct loan, dirty war, disposal, distortion, docking fee, domestic, donor card, douglas moore, drug abuse, durables, dust cover, eatable, edible, eisenstein, elbow grease, el greco, embezzle, embezzled, escalade, establish, everyday, examine, excellence, exclusive, exercise, exertion, exploitive, expression, field glasses, field hockey, find oneself, flea-bitten, food product, forbidden, foregrounding, fruition, fuel cell, functional, gamesmanship, garden chair, gateway drug, germ warfare, great burdock, gutenberg, hangover, hawala, heat engine, hedgefund, herbalist, herb doctor, highjacking, highway code, hijacking, hire out, hive away, impression, industry, inspection, instrument, insurgence, interest rate, internet, jan vermeer, jiujitsu, judicious, jujitsu, jujutsu, kafocin, kaopectate, katharsis, ketalar, ketamine, kiddie porn, kiddy porn, kitchenware, knockabout, labor coach, lay away, lens cover, leverage, leyte island, library, locution, luridness, machine code, make over, malpighi, malversate, mastering, medai guru, melasma, metalware, mnemonist, mobile phone, mobilise, mobilize, modular, monitrice, motor pool, napier, narcotic, nebula, ninjitsu, ninjutsu, noetic, nonverbal, northrop frye, numerate, obsolete, occupied, of value, old bullion, oppression, optimise, optimize, order form, out-of-date, outdated, outerwear, overclothes, overdrive, overhead, overuse, overwork, parliament, peculate, peppercorn, perversion, peter out, phrenitis, pied-a-terre, pincushion, pin number, potty-trained, practical, pragmatics, pretty up, printer's ink, printing ink, prosthetics, protropin, public works, purgation, pyramid, quantify, rational, readiness, ready-made, reagent, reasonless, recover, recycle, redundant, red notice, reinstate, renewal, reprocess, reservoir, retrofit, rhetoric, ribosome, rifleman, robotics, royalty, salt away, sanctified, secluded, service door, sheet anchor, shovelboard, shuffleboard, sightedness, sinistral, slanginess, solar house, sottishness, sounding board, speculum, spitefully, stack away, stash away, state tax lien, statistics, straight razor, street fighter, stylistic, suitable, swimming hole, syllepsis, symbolise, symbolize, symploce, syncretic, tableware, table mat, take in vain, tape cartridge, test paper, tetherball, time sharing, tim leary, toilet-train, toilet-trained, trickery, unbroken, unfriendly, unimproved, unsanctioned, unseemly, unwieldy, usable, useable, usefulness, uselessness, usufruct, utensil, utilised, utilized, utterance, valuable, varese, verbiage, verboten, vertically, volapuk, vulgarise, vulgarize, waist anchor, warfarin, war of nerves, waste paper, water ox, weaponize, weapons-grade, wear and tear, wherever, white horehound, withering, woebegone, woodenware, worthlessness, x-raying
acronymic, acronymous, adaptable, adulterant, aflatoxin, age of reason, agnosia, alliterate, almond willow, alvin ailey, analysis, anti-drug law, antiphrasis, apostrophise, apostrophize, appropriate, archaism, architecture, assault rifle, as required, audiotape, autoinjector, available, baron lister, basic english, bathroom tissue, beginning rhyme, binary file, binocular, binoculars, bioattack, bioweapon, black hollander, borrower's card, cannibalise, cannibalize, casuistical, cellular phone, cephalitis, charles edward ives, chicanery, chincherinchee, clinical test, coconut meat, collimator, coloration, colouration, comestible, commercial loan, common horehound, condemnation, consecrated, consumer goods, consumer loan, contraception, controlled substance, conversation, convertible, correggio, cultivated, cyberculture, dead metaphor, declarative, decompression, decrepitude, defalcator, despitefully, developer, digitalise, digitalize, disposable, drawing paper, durable goods, economic, economise, economize, economy, edgard varese, educated, electric cord, electric shock, electrify, electronics, embellishment, embezzler, embroidery, endoscopy, enlightenment, eolithic, escalader, espionage, exploitative, eye dialect, facial tissue, facilitate, farm animal, fifth amendment, fire hydrant, formication, francis galton, galileo, generalise, generalize, grandiloquence, greater burdock, harold pinter, harry truman, hendiadys, henri labrouste, herbs mercury, herb mercury, holography, holy water, home computer, honorific, household linen, hydropathy, hypnotic trance, hypozeugma, ignition lock, illustrative, immobilise, immobilize, incubator, indication, informally, initial rhyme, insurgency, interlingua, intrinsic fraud, intuition, iron filing, jean luc godard, john maynard keynes, john napier, josef hoffmann, joseph lister, judiciously, katzenjammer, laboratory, lambdacism, landed estate, language learning, lawn furniture, leo szilard, letter paper, leyte invasion, library card, litmus paper, luminism, machine language, magniloquence, mammography, manageable, markup language, metal filing, microscopist, microscopy, militarise, militarize, monumental, naval blockade, nonlexically, nonviolent, northern snakehead, nouvelle cuisine, officer's mess, operable, opera glasses, paralanguage, peculator, personal loan, pertinently, pictographic, plumbing fixture, popularise, popularize, preoccupy, preparation, preparedness, private nuisance, processional, prohibited, pro re nata, public easement, pudendal block, punctuation, rachel carson, rastafari, rate of interest, reclaimable, reclamation, recyclable, recycling, redeployment, redevelop, redundancy, reestablish, rene descartes, repetition, requisition, reusable, rubber bullet, safety factor, sama-veda, secularize, serviceable, service entrance, shenanigan, snakes and ladders, solar heater, spectrometry, spectroscopy, squirrel away, submersible, substance abuse, symbolism, syncretical, syncretism, syncretistic, synecdochic, table service, take advantage, telecommerce, teleconference, telegnostic, telegraph form, telescope sight, teleselling, terrorism, terrorist act, text edition, tighten one's belt, toilet paper, toilet tissue, transitively, trigger-happy, two-handed saw, typing paper, underemployed, unitary, unoccupied, unsuitable, unusable, unuseable, unusefulness, user-friendly, utiliser, utility, utilizer, videotape, vincent van gogh, with chemicals, wonder flower
abbe condenser, accentuation, active air defense, air reconnaissance, alcohol abuse, alliteration, alliterator, allyl alcohol, analogical, application form, appropriator, archaicism, arctium lappa, artificial lake, atomic power, bedroom furniture, biologism, biopiracy, boxing equipment, caravaggio, catachresis, centrifugal pump, centrifugation, cephaloglycin, chemosurgery, chemotherapy, child pornography, chrysotherapy, clinical trial, colloquially, computer language, consumer credit, coordinated, coprolalia, cosmetologist, cryosurgery, curietherapy, declaratory, defoliation, depreciation, desktop publishing, dilapidation, discretionary, dishwashing liquid, documentation, domesticated, electrologist, eminent domain, encephalitis, entomostraca, exemplifying, exercising weight, exploitatory, expropriated, factor of safety, femtochemistry, foreground processing, french academy, frozen metaphor, galvanisation, galvanization, general-purpose, grandiosity, gross anatomy, harry s truman, herbal medicine, herbal therapy, herman northrop frye, histologically, homo sapiens, horizontally, hydrogenation, hydrotherapy, hypnotherapy, hypozeuxis, identity theft, ideography, idiom neutral, imaginative, inarticulate, insinuation, intellectual, interrogative, intransitively, inutility, jail delivery, jan van der meer, jean martin charcot, johann gutenberg, laptop computer, laundry detergent, legal guardian, lending library, lionel hampton, machine translation, magnetically, manhattan project, manipulation, mask of pregnancy, mass spectroscopy, militarism, military drill, misapplication, misappropriate, mobilisation, mobilization, neurasthenia, new style calendar, nondisposable, nuclear power, office furniture, operational, parisology, passive air defense, paul hermann muller, perchloromethane, phillips screwdriver, photojournalist, phototherapy, phytotherapy, power politics, practicality, president truman, program library, prohibitionist, psychokinetic, ptomaine poisoning, public library, pull out all the stops, radiology, raw material, redisposition, removable disk, roman calendar, rubbing alcohol, salix triandra, schiaparelli, sergei eisenstein, shooting gallery, sir francis galton, sir james young simpson, solar energy, sophistication, symbolisation, symbolization, syncretistical, teleconferencing, telemarketing, telephone unit, telescopic sight, terrorist attack, theorisation, theorization, thermotherapy, thomas hart benton, timothy leary, typewriter paper, unacceptable, unarticulate, uneducated, unmanageable, unserviceable, utilizable, utilization, verbal creation, vocalization, water buffalo, wilhelm von opel, wireless telegraph, working capital, x-radiation, x-ray therapy, zoning commission

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