disyllable | (noun) a word having two syllables | Synonyms: dissyllable |
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drab | (noun) a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown | Synonyms: olive drab |
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draba | (noun) any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems; fruit is a dehiscent oblong or linear silique | - |
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drabness | (noun) having a drab or dowdy quality; lacking stylishness or elegance | Synonyms: dowdiness, homeliness |
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drinkable | (noun) any liquid suitable for drinking | Synonyms: beverage, drink, potable |
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dronabinol | (noun) psychoactive substance present in marijuana; used therapeutically to control nausea associated with cancer therapy | - |
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duplicability | (noun) the quality of being reproducible | Synonyms: reproducibility |
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durability | (noun) permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force | Synonyms: enduringness, lastingness, strength |
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durables | (noun) consumer goods that are not destroyed by use | Synonyms: consumer durables, durable goods |
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eatable | (noun) any substance that can be used as food | Synonyms: comestible, edible, pabulum, victual, victuals |
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ecobabble | (noun) using the technical language of ecology to make the user seem ecologically aware | - |
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elaborateness | (noun) marked by elaborately complex detail | Synonyms: elaboration, intricacy, involution |
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(noun) an ornate appearance; being elaborately (even excessively) decorated | Synonyms: ornateness |
elaboration | (noun) developing in intricate and painstaking detail | Synonyms: working out |
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(noun) addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail | Synonyms: amplification |
(noun) marked by elaborately complex detail | Synonyms: elaborateness, intricacy, involution |
(noun) a discussion that provides additional information | Synonyms: enlargement, expansion |
(noun) the result of improving something | Synonyms: refinement |
employable | (noun) a person who is qualified and ready to work | - |
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enjoyableness | (noun) pleasantness resulting from something that can be enjoyed | - |
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entablature | (noun) (architecture) the structure consisting of the part of a classical temple above the columns between a capital and the roof | - |
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equatability | (noun) capability of being equated | - |
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establishment | (noun) the act of forming or establishing something | Synonyms: constitution, formation, organisation, organization |
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(noun) a public or private structure (business or governmental or educational) including buildings and equipment for business or residence | - |
(noun) the cognitive process of establishing a valid proof | Synonyms: validation |
(noun) an organization founded and united for a specific purpose | Synonyms: institution |
(noun) any large organization | - |
(noun) the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something | Synonyms: administration, brass, governance, governing body, organisation, organization |
(noun) (ecology) the process by which a plant or animal becomes established in a new habitat | Synonyms: ecesis |
establishmentarianism | (noun) the doctrine of supporting the social or political establishment | Synonyms: establishmentism |
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establishmentism | (noun) the doctrine of supporting the social or political establishment | Synonyms: establishmentarianism |
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exabit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 petabits or 10^18 bits | Synonyms: Eb, Ebit |
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exabyte | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 pebibytes or 2^60 bytes | Synonyms: EB, EiB, exbibyte |
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(noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 petabytes or 10^18 bytes | Synonyms: EB |
exchangeability | (noun) the quality of being capable of exchange or interchange | Synonyms: fungibility, interchangeability, interchangeableness |
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excitability | (noun) being easily excited | Synonyms: excitableness, volatility |
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(noun) excessive sensitivity of an organ or body part | Synonyms: irritability |
excitableness | (noun) being easily excited | Synonyms: excitability, volatility |
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executability | (noun) capability of being executed | - |
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expandability | (noun) A physical property of gases, denoting that they expand to fill their containers. | - |
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fable | (noun) a short moral story (often with animal characters) | Synonyms: allegory, apologue, parable |
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(noun) a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events | Synonyms: legend |
(noun) a deliberately false or improbable account | Synonyms: fabrication, fiction |
fabric | (noun) artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers | Synonyms: cloth, material, textile |
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(noun) the underlying structure | Synonyms: framework |
fabrication | (noun) the act of making something (a product) from raw materials | Synonyms: manufacture, manufacturing |
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(noun) the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery) | Synonyms: assembly |
(noun) writing in a fictional form | Synonyms: fictionalisation, fictionalization |
(noun) the deliberate act of deviating from the truth | Synonyms: lying, prevarication |
(noun) a deliberately false or improbable account | Synonyms: fable, fiction |
fabricator | (noun) someone who tells lies | Synonyms: fibber, storyteller |
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fabulist | (noun) a person who tells or invents fables | - |
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fashionableness | (noun) The state of being fashionable; stylishness; elegance. | - |
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fatigability | (noun) susceptibility to fatigue; a tendency to get tired or lose strength | - |
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favorableness | (noun) the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome | Synonyms: advantageousness, favourableness, positiveness, positivity, profitableness |
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favourableness | (noun) the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome | Synonyms: advantageousness, favorableness, positiveness, positivity, profitableness |
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flab | (noun) loose or flaccid body fat | - |
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flabbiness | (noun) a flabby softness | Synonyms: flaccidity, limpness |
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flammability | (noun) the quality of being easily ignited and burning rapidly | Synonyms: inflammability |
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fleabag | (noun) a run-down hotel | - |
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fleabane | (noun) hairy perennial Eurasian herb with yellow daisylike flowers reputed to destroy or drive away fleas | Synonyms: feabane mullet, Pulicaria dysenterica |
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(noun) any of several North American plants of the genus Erigeron having daisylike flowers; formerly believed to repel fleas | - |
(noun) common North American weed with linear leaves and small discoid heads of yellowish flowers; widely naturalized throughout temperate regions; sometimes placed in genus Erigeron | Synonyms: Canadian fleabane, Conyza canadensis, Erigeron canadensis, horseweed |
formidability | (noun) impressive difficulty | Synonyms: toughness |
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friability | (noun) excessive breakableness | Synonyms: crumbliness |
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gab | (noun) light informal conversation for social occasions | Synonyms: causerie, chin-wag, chin-wagging, chin wag, chin wagging, chit-chat, chit chat, chitchat, gabfest, gossip, small talk, tittle-tattle |
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gabapentin | (noun) an anticonvulsant (trade name Neurontin) used to control some types of seizures in the treatment of epilepsy; also used to manage neuralgia caused by shingles | Synonyms: Neurontin |
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gabardine | (noun) a firm durable fabric with a twill weave | - |
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(noun) a loose coverall (coat or frock) reaching down to the ankles | Synonyms: dust coat, duster, gaberdine, smock |
(noun) (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth | Synonyms: flannel, tweed, white |
gabble | (noun) rapid and indistinct speech | Synonyms: jabber, jabbering |
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gabbro | (noun) one of a family of granular intrusive rocks | - |
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gaberdine | (noun) a loose coverall (coat or frock) reaching down to the ankles | Synonyms: dust coat, duster, gabardine, smock |
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gabfest | (noun) light informal conversation for social occasions | Synonyms: causerie, chin-wag, chin-wagging, chin wag, chin wagging, chit-chat, chit chat, chitchat, gab, gossip, small talk, tittle-tattle |
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gable | (noun) the vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof | Synonyms: gable end, gable wall |
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gadabout | (noun) a restless seeker after amusement or social companionship | - |
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gigabit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 megabits or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bits | Synonyms: Gb, Gbit |
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gigabyte | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bytes | Synonyms: G, GB, GiB, gibibyte |
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(noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 megabytes or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bytes | Synonyms: G, GB |
glabella | (noun) a smooth prominence of the frontal bone between and above the eyebrows; the most forward projecting point of the forehead in the midline at the level of the supraorbital ridges | Synonyms: mesophyron |
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grab | (noun) the act of catching an object with the hands | Synonyms: catch, snap, snatch |
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(noun) a mechanical device for gripping an object | - |
grabber | (noun) an unpleasant person who grabs inconsiderately | - |
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graspability | (noun) The quality of being able to be understood or comprehended; understandability. | - |
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guanabana | (noun) large spiny tropical fruit with tart pulp related to custard apples | Synonyms: soursop |
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guanabenz | (noun) antihypertensive drug (trade name Wytensin) that reduces blood pressure by its effect on the central nervous system | Synonyms: Wytensin |
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gyrostabiliser | (noun) a stabilizer consisting of a heavy gyroscope that spins on a vertical axis; reduces side-to-side rolling of a ship or plane | Synonyms: gyrostabilizer |
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gyrostabilizer | (noun) a stabilizer consisting of a heavy gyroscope that spins on a vertical axis; reduces side-to-side rolling of a ship or plane | Synonyms: gyrostabiliser |
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habanera | (noun) a Cuban dance in duple time | - |
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(noun) music composed in duple time for dancing the habanera | - |
haberdasher | (noun) a merchant who sells men's clothing | Synonyms: clothier |
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haberdashery | (noun) the drygoods sold by a haberdasher | Synonyms: men's furnishings |
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(noun) a store where men's clothes are sold | Synonyms: clothing store, haberdashery store, mens store |
habergeon | (noun) (Middle Ages) a light sleeveless coat of chain mail worn under the hauberk | - |
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habiliment | (noun) a covering designed to be worn on a person's body | Synonyms: article of clothing, clothing, vesture, wear, wearable |
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habit | (noun) excessive use of drugs | Synonyms: drug abuse, substance abuse |
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(noun) (psychology) an automatic pattern of behavior in reaction to a specific situation; may be inherited or acquired through frequent repetition | Synonyms: use |
(noun) a distinctive attire worn by a member of a religious order | - |
(noun) attire that is typically worn by a horseback rider (especially a woman's attire) | Synonyms: riding habit |
(noun) an established custom | Synonyms: wont |
(noun) the general form or mode of growth (especially of a plant or crystal) | - |
habitability | (noun) suitability for living in or on | Synonyms: habitableness |
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habitableness | (noun) suitability for living in or on | Synonyms: habitability |
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habitant | (noun) a person who inhabits a particular place | Synonyms: denizen, dweller, indweller, inhabitant |
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habitat | (noun) the type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs | Synonyms: home ground |
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habitation | (noun) the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men) | Synonyms: inhabitancy, inhabitation |
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(noun) housing that someone is living in | Synonyms: abode, domicile, dwelling, dwelling house, home |
(noun) the native habitat or home of an animal or plant | - |
habituation | (noun) a general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions | - |
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(noun) being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) | Synonyms: addiction, dependance, dependence, dependency |
habitude | (noun) habitual mode of behavior | - |
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habitue | (noun) a regular patron | Synonyms: fixture, regular |
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habitus | (noun) constitution of the human body | Synonyms: body-build, build, physique |
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(noun) person's predisposition to be affected by something (as a disease) | - |
hemimetabolism | (noun) incomplete or partial metamorphosis in insects | Synonyms: hemimetaboly, hemimetamorphosis |
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hemimetaboly | (noun) incomplete or partial metamorphosis in insects | Synonyms: hemimetabolism, hemimetamorphosis |
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heptasyllable | (noun) a word or line of verse of seven syllables. | - |
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heterometabolism | (noun) development of insects with incomplete metamorphosis in which no pupal stage precedes maturity | Synonyms: heterometaboly |
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heterometaboly | (noun) development of insects with incomplete metamorphosis in which no pupal stage precedes maturity | Synonyms: heterometabolism |
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hijab | (noun) the custom in some Islamic societies of women dressing modestly outside the home | - |
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(noun) a headscarf worn by Muslim women; conceals the hair and neck and usually has a face veil that covers the face | - |
holometabola | (noun) insects that undergo complete metamorphosis | Synonyms: metabola |
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holometabolism | (noun) complete metamorphosis in insects | Synonyms: holometaboly |
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holometaboly | (noun) complete metamorphosis in insects | Synonyms: holometabolism |
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honorableness | (noun) the quality of deserving honor or respect; characterized by honor | Synonyms: honourableness |
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honourableness | (noun) the quality of deserving honor or respect; characterized by honor | Synonyms: honorableness |
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hospitableness | (noun) having a disposition that welcomes guests and is fond of entertaining | - |
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huckaback | (noun) toweling consisting of coarse absorbent cotton or linen fabric | Synonyms: huck |
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hullabaloo | (noun) disturbance usually in protest | Synonyms: agitation, excitement, turmoil, upheaval |
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immeasurability | (noun) the quality of being immeasurable. | - |
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immovability | (noun) not capable of being moved or rearranged | Synonyms: immovableness |
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immovable | (noun) property consisting of houses and land | Synonyms: real estate, real property, realty |
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immovableness | (noun) not capable of being moved or rearranged | Synonyms: immovability |
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immutability | (noun) the quality of being incapable of mutation | Synonyms: fixity, immutableness |
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immutableness | (noun) the quality of being incapable of mutation | Synonyms: fixity, immutability |
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impalpability | (noun) the quality of being intangible and not perceptible by touch | Synonyms: intangibility, intangibleness |
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(noun) Ungraspability by or inapprehensibility to the mind. | - |
impeachability | (noun) the state of being liable to impeachment | Synonyms: indictability |
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impeccability | (noun) the quality of being exempt from sin or incapable of sinning | - |
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(noun) the quality of being without an error or fault | Synonyms: faultlessness |