FORMICIDAE Synonyms

• (of seeds or insects) having winglike extensions

• a permanent organization of the military land forces of a nation or state

• the army of the United States of America; the agency that organizes and trains soldiers for land warfare

• a large number of people united for some specific purpose

• a projectile that is fired from a gun

• a high-speed passenger train

• (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity

• robust hairy social bee of temperate regions

• a woodworker who makes or repairs wooden objects

• work as a carpenter

• a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government

• one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States

• a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together

• a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated

• a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country

• (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell

• the event of something burning (often destructive)

• the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy

• the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke

• a fireplace in which a relatively small fire is burning

• once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles), associated with the humour bile

• feelings of great warmth and intensity

• fuel that is burning and is used as a means for cooking

• a severe trial

• intense adverse criticism

• start firing a weapon

• cause to go off

• bake in a kiln so as to harden

• terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position

• go off or discharge

• drive out or away by or as if by fire

• call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)

• destroy by fire

• provide with fuel

• generate an electrical impulse

• become ignited

• start or maintain a fire in

• someone who hunts for food and provisions

• an order of insects including: bees; wasps; ants; ichneumons; sawflies; gall wasps; etc.

• small air-breathing arthropod

• a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect

• insects; about five-sixths of all known animal species

• being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that perform the fertilizing function in generation

• an animal that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that can fertilize female gametes (ova)

• the capital of Maldives in the center of the islands

• a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies

• characteristic of a man

• for or pertaining to or composed of men or boys

• (baseball) the slight elevation on which the pitcher stands

• a small natural hill

• a collection of objects laid on top of each other

• structure consisting of an artificial heap or bank usually of earth or stones

• the position on a baseball team of the player who throws the ball for a batter to try to hit

• form into a rounded elevation

• a structure in which animals lay eggs or give birth to their young

• a kind of gun emplacement

• a cosy or secluded retreat

• a gang of people (criminals or spies or terrorists) assembled in one locality

• furniture pieces made to fit close together

• inhabit a nest, usually after building

• fit together or fit inside

• move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position

• gather nests

• of or relating to a wedding

• the paved surface of a thoroughfare

• material used to pave an area

• walk consisting of a paved area for pedestrians; usually beside a street or roadway

• the title of the ancient Egyptian kings

• the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs

• a female sovereign ruler

• the wife or widow of a king

• something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind

• a competitor who holds a preeminent position

• offensive term for a homosexual man

• one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen

• (chess) the most powerful piece

• an especially large mole rat and the only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring which are sired by only a few males

• female cat

• promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess

• become a queen

• relating to human society and its members

• living together or enjoying life in communities or organized groups

• relating to or belonging to or characteristic of high society

• a party of people assembled to promote sociability and communal activity

• composed of sociable people or formed for the purpose of sociability

• tending to move or live together in groups or colonies of the same kind

• marked by friendly companionship with others