| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | being cooked |
| Synonyms: | baking, boiling, brewing, broiling, browning, frying, grilling, heating, roasting, simmering, sizzling, steaming, steeping, stewing, toasting |
| Main Entry: | cook |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | prepare food, usually using heat |
| Synonyms: | French fry, bake, barbecue, blanch, boil, braise, brew, broil, brown, burn, coddle, curry, decoct, deep fry, devil, doctor*, escallop, fix, fricassee, fry, griddle, grill, heat, imbue, melt, microwave, mull, nuke, panfry, parboil, parch, percolate, poach, pressure-cook, reduce, roast, ruin*, sauté, scald, scorch, sear, seethe, simmer, sizzle, spoil*, steam, steep, stew, toast, warm up |
| Main Entry: | cuisine |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | food |
| Synonyms: | cooking, dishes, eats, fare, grub, meal, menu |
| Main Entry: | food |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | edible material |
| Synonyms: | aliment, bite*, board, bread, cheer, chow, comestible, cookery, cooking, cuisine, diet, drink, eatable, eats, entrée, fare, fast food, feed, fodder*, foodstuff, goodies, grit, groceries, grub, handout, home cooking, keep, larder, meal, meat, menu, mess*, moveable feast, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, provision, ration, refreshment, slop, snack, store, subsistence, support, sustenance, table, take out, tuck, viand, victual, vittles |
| Antonyms: | beverage, drink |
| Main Entry: | housework |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cleaning, maintaining a home |
| Synonyms: | administration, bed-making, cooking, domestic art, domestic science, dusting, home economics, homemaking, housecraft, housekeeping, ironing, laundering, management, mopping, sewing, stewardship, sweeping, washing |
| Main Entry: | thriving |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | successful |
| Synonyms: | advancing, arrived, blooming, booming, burgeoning, cooking*, developing, doing well, flourishing, going strong, growing, have it made, have the wherewithal, healthy, home free, on top of heap, progressing, prolific, prospering, prosperous, rich, roaring, robust, rolling, sitting pretty, wealthy |
| Antonyms: | declining, failing, languishing, losing |
| Main Entry: | afoot |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in progress |
| Synonyms: | astir, brewing, cooking*, forthcoming, getting ready, going on, in preparation |
| Antonyms: | completed, ended, finished |
| Main Entry: | heating |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | calefaction |
| Synonyms: | baking, boiling, broiling, cooking, grilling, melting, roasting, scalding, steaming, warming |
| Antonyms: | cooling, freezing, refrigeration |
| Main Entry: | on a roll |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | enjoying good fortune |
| Synonyms: | cooking, hot, hot-handed, in a groove, in a zone, on fire, on one's game, smoking |