earth /ûrth/

1. The third planet in order from the sun (often with cap)
2. The material on the surface of the globe
3. Soil, a mixture of disintegrated rock and organic material, in which plants are rooted
4. Dry land as opposed to sea
5. The land and sea as opposed to the sky
6. The world
7. The inhabitants of the world
8. Dirt
9. Dead matter
10. The human body
11. A burrow, esp of a badger or fox
12. An electrical connection with the earth, usu by a wire soldered to a metal plate sunk in moist earth
13. An old name for certain oxides of metals (see alkaline earth under alkali, rare earth under rare¹)

1. To connect to earth electrically
2. To bury, inter (obsolete)
3. To hide or make hide in the earth or in a hole
4. To clog, cover, smear or partially cover with earth (often with up)

1. To burrow
2. To hide

earthˈen adjective

1. Made of earth or clay
2. Earthly

earthˈily adverb

In an earthy manner

earthˈiness noun

earthˈliness noun

earthˈling noun

1. A person living on the earth
2. A worldly-minded person

earthˈly adjective

1. Belonging to the earth
2. Vile
3. Worldly
4. Conceivably possible on earth

Chance (for earthly chance)

earthˈward adverb (also earthˈwards)

Towards the earth

Moving towards the earth

earthˈy adjective

1. Consisting of, relating to or resembling earth
2. Inhabiting the earth
3. Gross
4. Unrefined

earthˈ-bag noun

A sack of earth used in fortifications

earthˈ-bath noun

A bath of earth or mud

earthˈ-board noun

The board of a plough or other implement that turns over the earth

earthˈborn adjective

Born from or on the earth

earthˈbound adjective

1. Confined to the earth
2. Heading towards the earth
3. Lacking imagination

earthˈ-bred adjective

1. Bred from earth
2. Mean, grovelling

earth-chestˈnut same as earth-nut below.

earthˈ-closet noun

A lavatory in which the excreta are covered with earth

earthˈ-created adjective

Made of earth

earthˈenware noun

1. Crockery
2. Coarse pottery

earthˈfall noun

A landslide

earthˈfast adjective

Fixed in the earth

earthˈ-fed adjective

Contented with earthly things

earthˈflax noun

Asbestos

earthˈ-hog noun

The aardvark

earthˈ-house noun

An underground stone-lined gallery associated with the Iron Age, which may have functioned as a storehouse or dwelling, a souterrain, also called Picts' house

earthˈ-hunger noun

Passion for acquiring land

earthing tyres plural noun

Aircraft tyres that discharge static electricity on grounding

earth-light see earth-shine below.

earthˈly-mindˈed adjective

Having the mind intent on earthly things

earthˈly-mindˈedness noun

earthˈman or earthˈwoman noun

Esp in science fiction, a person who lives on the planet earth

earth mother noun

1. The earth personified as a goddess
2. A woman, typically fertile and of generous proportions, who seems to symbolize motherhood

earthˈ-motherly adjective

earthˈ-movement noun (geology)

Elevation, subsidence or folding of the earth's crust

earthˈmover noun

Any piece of machinery designed to move earth, eg a bulldozer

earthˈmoving adjective

earthˈ-nut noun

1. The edible root-tuber of Conopodium flexuosum, a woodland umbelliferous plant
2. The plant itself (also arnut, pig-nut, earth-chestnut)
3. The peanut (genus Arachis)

earth observation noun (space)

Observation of the Earth from satellites by remote sensing techniques

earthˈ-pea noun

The peanut

earthˈ-pillar noun (geology)

A column of soft material protected from erosion by an overlying stone

earthˈ-plate noun

A buried plate of metal forming the earth connection of a telegraph-wire, lightning conductor, etc

earthˈquake noun

1. A quaking or shaking of the earth
2. A heaving of the ground
3. A disruptive event, upheaval (figurative)

earthˈquaked adjective

Shaken or destroyed by an earthquake

earthˈquaking adjective

earth science noun

Any of the sciences dealing with the earth, eg geography or geology

earthˈshaking or earthˈshattering adjective

Of great importance or consequence

earthˈshakingly or earthˈshatteringly adverb

earthˈ-shine or earthˈ-light noun

The faint light visible on the part of the moon not illuminated by the sun

earth sign noun

Any of the three signs of the zodiac (Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn) believed to have an affinity with earth

earthˈ-smoke noun (botany)

Fumitory

earthˈ-star noun

A fungus (genus Geaster) related to the puffballs that opens out into a starlike form

earthˈ-table noun (building)

A course of stone or brick just above the ground

earthˈ-tone noun

A colour like that of the earth, eg a brown or green

• semicolons
• semicoma
• semicomas
• semicomatose
• semiconducting
• semiconductivity
• semiconductor
• semiconductor diode
• semiconductor diodes
• semiconductors
• semiconscious
• semicrystallic
• semicrystalline
• semicylinder
• semicylinders
• semicylindrical
• semidemisemiquaver
• semideponent
• semideponents
• semi-detached
• semi-diameter
• semi-diameters
• semi-ditone
• semi-ditones
• semi-diurnal