a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep | creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire |
a plot of ground in which plants are growing | an offensive or indecent word or phrase |
a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track | any fungus of the order Ustilaginales |
the flat surface of a printing press on which the type form is laid in the last stage of producing a newspaper or magazine or book etc. | destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores |
single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance | a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink |
a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit | |
a depression forming the ground under a body of water | |
(geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock) | |