Word Meanings - CHARTERED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Granted or established by charter; having, or existing under, a charter; having a privilege by charter. The sufficiency of chartered rights. Palfrey. The air, a chartered libertine. Shak. 2. Hired or let by charter, as a ship.
Related words: (words related to CHARTERED)
- UNDERDOER
One who underdoes; a shirk. - UNDERBRED
Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith. - UNDERSECRETARY
A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury. - UNDERPLOT
1. A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it. Dryden. 2. A clandestine scheme; a trick. Addison. - HAVENED
Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats. - UNDERNICENESS
A want of niceness; indelicacy; impropriety. - UNDERDOLVEN
p. p. of Underdelve. - UNDERSOIL
The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil. - UNDERNIME
1. To receive; to perceive. He the savor undernom Which that the roses and the lilies cast. Chaucer. 2. To reprove; to reprehend. Piers Plowman. - UNDERPROP
To prop from beneath; to put a prop under; to support; to uphold. Underprop the head that bears the crown. Fenton. - UNDERCREST
To support as a crest; to bear. Shak. - UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
Wildcat insurance. - HAVENER
A harbor master. - UNDERSAY
To say by way of derogation or contradiction. Spenser. - HIRUDINE
Of or pertaining to the leeches. - UNDERTAPSTER
Assistant to a tapster. - UNDERDELVE
To delve under. - UNDERSTOOD
imp. & p. p. of Understand. - UNDERDO
To do less than is requisite or proper; -- opposed to overdo. Grew. - UNDERCOAT
1. A coat worn under another; a light coat, as distinguished from an overcoat, or a greatcoat. 2. A growth of short hair or fur partially concealed by a longer growth; as, a dog's undercoat. - SHIRT WAIST
A belted waist resembling a shirt in plainness of cut and style, worn by women or children; -- in England called a blouse. - THIRSTILY
In a thirsty manner. - SHIRKER
One who shirks. Macaulay. - POSTEXIST
To exist after; to live subsequently. - PLUNDERER
One who plunders or pillages. - WHIRLBONE
The huckle bone. The patella, or kneepan. Ainsworth. - TEN-POUNDER
A large oceanic fish found in the tropical parts of all the oceans. It is used chiefly for bait. - DUNDERHEAD
A dunce; a numskull; a blockhead. Beau. & Fl. - CHIRRUP
To quicken or animate by chirping; to cherup. (more info) Etym: