MORTARS Synonyms

• a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States

• grinding tooth with a broad crown; located behind the premolars

• machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing

• a machine tool that polishes metal

• Swiss chemist who synthesized DDT and discovered its use as an insecticide (1899-1965)

• a reflective thinker characterized by quiet contemplation

• a heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone

• Swiss physicist who studied superconductivity (born in 1927)

• a vessel in which wine is mulled

• German physiologist and anatomist (1801-1858)

• German mathematician and astronomer (1436-1476)

• British philologist (born in Germany) who specialized in Sanskrit (1823-1900)

• United States geneticist who studied the effects of X-rays on genes (1890-1967)

• machine consisting of a heavy bar that moves vertically for pounding or crushing ores

• a heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone

• a club-shaped hand tool for grinding and mixing substances in a mortar

• grind, mash or pulverize in a mortar

• (used only in combination) something weighing a given number of pounds

• a heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone

• a person who smashes something

• a very attractive or seductive looking woman

• a conspicuous success

• a muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range

• a muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range