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Associations of "Hand to mouth" (30 Words)
cheek | Either side of the face below the eye. Gabriel had to bite his cheeks to keep from laughing. |
chew | A chewy sweet. She chewed at a fingernail. |
chewing | Biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow. |
chin | Raise oneself while hanging from one s hands until one s chin is level with the support bar. He looked about ready to chin someone. |
choking | The act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe. No evidence that the choking was done by the accused. |
chomp | Munch or chew noisily or vigorously. She chomped on a roll. |
dentist | A person qualified to practice dentistry. His mouth is still sore from his visit to the dentist s. |
epiglottis | A flap of cartilage behind the root of the tongue, which is depressed during swallowing to cover the opening of the windpipe. |
forehead | The part of the face above the eyes. |
gargle | Utter with gargling or burbling sounds. A gargle for sore throats. |
gnash | (of teeth) strike together; grind. The dog s jaws were primed to gnash. |
gum | Cover fill fix or smear with or as if with gum. These trees gum in the Spring. |
halitosis | Offensive breath. |
hyoid | Relating to the hyoid or structures associated with it. |
implant | Provide someone or something with something by implantation. A silicone breast implant. |
jaw | The lower movable bone of the jaw or the part of the face containing it. I was too busy to spend time jawing with the rest of the crew. |
lengthiness | Amount or degree or range to which something extends. |
lingua | A mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity. |
lip | (of the ball) hit the rim of (a hole) but fail to go in. The lip of the cup. |
mastication | Biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow. |
molar | Grinding tooth with a broad crown located behind the premolars. Such molar problems of personality as the ego functions. |
orthodontics | The branch of dentistry dealing with the prevention or correction of irregularities of the teeth. |
puppet | A small figure of a person operated from above with strings by a puppeteer. A former revolutionary hero who is now a puppet of the state. |
spit | The act of spitting forcefully expelling saliva. He was spitting with sudden fury. |
stifler | A person who stifles or smothers or suppresses. He is a real conversation stifler. |
throat | The part of an animal s body that corresponds to a person s throat. A gold pendant gleamed at her throat. |
tongue | Sound a note distinctly on a wind instrument by interrupting the air flow with the tongue. The other horse tongued every part of the colt s mane. |
tooth | Something resembling the tooth of an animal. The paper used in copying machines is good as it has tooth and takes ink well. |
toothpaste | A dentifrice in the form of a paste. Fluoride toothpastes. |
ventriloquist | A performer who projects the voice into a wooden dummy. |