creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire | a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep |
an offensive or indecent word or phrase | a plot of ground in which plants are growing |
any fungus of the order Ustilaginales | a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track |
destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores | 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. |
a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink | single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance |
| 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) |