Kidney

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Anatomy Either one of a pair of organs in the dorsal region of the vertebrate abdominal cavity, functioning to maintain proper water and electrolyte balance, regulate acid-base concentration, and filter the blood of metabolic wastes, which are then excreted as urine.
  • n. The kidney of certain animals, eaten as food.
  • n. An excretory organ of certain invertebrates.
  • n. Temperment; kind: a person of the same kidney.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An organ in the body that filters the blood, producing urine.
  • n. This organ (of an animal) cooked as food
  • n. constitution, temperament, nature
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A glandular organ which excretes urea and other waste products from the animal body; a urinary gland.
  • n. Habit; disposition; sort; kind.
  • n. A waiter.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In anatomy, a glandular structure whose function is the purification of the blood by the excretion of urine; one of the renes or reins; a renal organ.
  • n. Anything resembling a kidney in shape or otherwise, as a potato.
  • n. plural The inmost parts; the reins.
  • n. A waiting-servant.
  • n. In min., a concretion shaped like a kidney.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. either of two bean-shaped excretory organs that filter wastes (especially urea) from the blood and excrete them and water in urine
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    habit    disposition    sort    kind    waiter    reins    ren    nephros   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Sidney    Sydney   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Liver    lung    bladder    intestine    gland    marrow    spleen    prostate    pancreas    bowel