Term: boondoggle: work of little or no value done merely to look busy
Broader: waste: useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly | Unrelated: scarabaeid beetle: any of numerous species of stout-bodied beetles having heads with horny spikes
Broader: waste: useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly | Unrelated: ball carrier: (football) the player who is carrying (and trying to advance) the ball on an offensive play
Broader: waste: useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly | Unrelated: erythroblast: a nucleated cell in bone marrow from which red blood cells develop
Broader: waste: useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly | Unrelated: great grandparent: a parent of your grandparent
Broader: waste: useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly | Unrelated: applecart: the planning that is disrupted when someone `upsets the applecart'
Broader: waste: useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly | Unrelated: ladder-back: a chair with a ladder-back
Broader: waste: useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly | Unrelated: bay: a compartment on a ship between decks; often used as a hospital
Broader: waste: useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly | Unrelated: photometer: measuring instrument for measuring the luminous intensity of a source by comparing it (visually or photoelectrically) with a standard source
Broader: waste: useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly | Unrelated: beet sugar: sugar made from sugar beets
Broader: waste: useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly | Unrelated: troglodytidae: wrens