Word Meanings - THICKET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A wood or a collection of trees, shrubs, etc., closely set; as, a ram caught in a thicket. Gen. xxii. 13.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of THICKET)

• Jungle
• Thicket
• brake
• involution
• ravelling
• entanglement
• labyrinth
• wilderness
• Wood
• grove
• forest
• cope

Related words: (words related to THICKET)

• FORESTICK
  Front stick of a hearth fire.
• FOREST
  A large extent or precinct of country, generally waste and woody, belonging to the sovereign, set apart for the keeping of game for his use, not inclosed, but distinguished by certain limits, and protected by certain laws, courts, and officers of
• LABYRINTHAL
  Pertaining to, or resembling, a labyrinth; intricate; labyrinthian.
• LABYRINTHINE
  Pertaining to, or like, a labyrinth; labyrinthal.
• BRAKE
  of Break. Tennyson.
• LABYRINTHICI
  An order of teleostean fishes, including the Anabas, or climbing perch, and other allied fishes. Note: They have, connected with the gill chamber, a special cavity in which a labyrinthiform membrane is arranged so as to retain water to supply the
• LABYRINTHIC; LABYRINTHICAL
  Like or pertaining to a labyrinth.
• FORESTAY
  A large, strong rope, reaching from the foremast head to the bowsprit, to support the mast. See Illust. under Ship.
• FORESTAGE
  A duty or tribute payable to the king's foresters. A service paid by foresters to the king.
• LABYRINTHIFORM
  Having the form of a labyrinth; intricate.
• BRAKEMAN
  A man in charge of a brake or brakes.
• LABYRINTHIAN
  Intricately winding; like a labyrinth; perplexed; labyrinthal.
• GROVEL
  adv., on the face, prone, which was misunderstood as a p. pr.; cf. OE. gruf, groff, in the same sense; of Scand. origin, cf. Icel. 1. To creep on the earth, or with the face to the ground; to lie prone, or move uneasily with the body prostrate
• INVOLUTION
  The insertion of one or more clauses between the subject and the verb, in a way that involves or complicates the construction. (more info) 1. The act of involving or infolding. 2. The state of being entangled or involved; complication;
• ENTANGLEMENT
  State of being entangled; intricate and confused involution; that which entangles; intricacy; perplexity.
• FORESTER
  A lepidopterous insect belonging to Alypia and allied genera; as, the eight-spotted forester , which in the larval state is injurious to the grapevine. (more info) 1. One who has charge of the growing timber on an estate; an officer appointed
• FORESTALL
  To obstruct or stop up, as a way; to stop the passage of on highway; to intercept on the road, as goods on the way to market. To forestall the market, to buy or contract for merchandise or provision on its way to market, with the intention
• GROVELER
  One who grovels; an abject wretch.
• WILDERNESS
  1. A tract of land, or a region, uncultivated and uninhabited by human beings, whether a forest or a wide, barren plain; a wild; a waste; a desert; a pathless waste of any kind. The wat'ry wilderness yields no supply. Waller. 2. A disorderly or
• JUNGLE
  A dense growth of brushwood, grasses, reeds, vines, etc.; an almost impenetrable thicket of trees, canes, and reedy vegetation, as in India, Africa, Australia, and Brazil. The jungles of India are of bamboos, canes, and other palms, very difficult
• COAFFOREST
  To convert into, or add to, a forest. Howell.
• CANEBRAKE
  A thicket of canes. Ellicott.
• AFFOREST
  To convert into a forest; as, to afforest a tract of country.
• UNDERGROVE
  A grove of shrubs or low trees under taller ones. Wordsworth.
• REAFFORESTATION
  The act or process of converting again into a forest.
• AIR BRAKE
  A railway brake operated by condensed air. Knight.
• REFORESTIZE
  To convert again into a forest; to plant again with trees.
• REFOREST
  To replant with trees; to reafforest; to reforestize.