abrachia | (noun) the condition of having no arms | - |
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ache | (noun) a dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain | Synonyms: aching |
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achene | (noun) small dry indehiscent fruit with the seed distinct from the fruit wall | - |
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achievability | (noun) the state of being achievable | Synonyms: attainability, attainableness |
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achievement | (noun) the action of accomplishing something | Synonyms: accomplishment |
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achiever | (noun) a person with a record of successes | Synonyms: succeeder, success, winner |
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achillea | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Achillea native to Europe and having small white flowers in flat-topped flower heads | - |
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achimenes | (noun) any plant of the genus Achimenes having showy bell-shaped flowers that resemble gloxinias | Synonyms: hot water plant |
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aching | (noun) a dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain | Synonyms: ache |
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achira | (noun) canna grown especially for its edible rootstock from which arrowroot starch is obtained | Synonyms: arrowroot, Canna edulis, Canna indica, indian shot |
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achlorhydria | (noun) an abnormal deficiency or absence of free hydrochloric acid in the gastric juice; often associated with severe anemias and cancer of the stomach | - |
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acholia | (noun) a condition in which little or no bile is secreted or the flow of bile into the digestive tract is obstructed | Synonyms: cholestasis |
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achondrite | (noun) a stony meteor lacking chondrules | - |
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achondroplasia | (noun) an inherited skeletal disorder beginning before birth; cartilage is converted to bone resulting in dwarfism | Synonyms: achondroplasty, chondrodystrophy, osteosclerosis congenita |
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achondroplasty | (noun) an inherited skeletal disorder beginning before birth; cartilage is converted to bone resulting in dwarfism | Synonyms: achondroplasia, chondrodystrophy, osteosclerosis congenita |
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achromasia | (noun) unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress) | Synonyms: lividity, lividness, luridness, paleness, pallidness, pallor, wanness |
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achromaticity | (noun) the visual property of being without chromatic color | Synonyms: achromatism, colorlessness, colourlessness |
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achromatin | (noun) the part of a cell nucleus that is relatively uncolored by stains or dyes | - |
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achromatism | (noun) the visual property of being without chromatic color | Synonyms: achromaticity, colorlessness, colourlessness |
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achromia | (noun) an absence of normal pigmentation especially in the skin (as in albinism) or in red blood cells | - |
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achylia | (noun) absence of gastric juices (partial or complete) | Synonyms: achylia gastrica |
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amphibrach | (noun) a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed-unstressed syllables (e.g., `remember') | - |
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anachronism | (noun) an artifact that belongs to another time | - |
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(noun) a person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age | - |
(noun) something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred | Synonyms: misdating, mistiming |
apache | (noun) a Parisian gangster | - |
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approach | (noun) the act of drawing spatially closer to something | Synonyms: approaching, coming |
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(noun) a relatively short golf shot intended to put the ball onto the putting green | Synonyms: approach shot |
(noun) ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation | Synonyms: attack, plan of attack |
(noun) a way of entering or leaving | Synonyms: access |
(noun) the temporal property of becoming nearer in time | Synonyms: approaching, coming |
(noun) a close approximation | - |
(noun) a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others | Synonyms: advance, feeler, overture |
(noun) the event of one object coming closer to another | Synonyms: approaching |
(noun) the final path followed by an aircraft as it is landing | Synonyms: approach path, glide path, glide slope |
approachability | (noun) the attribute of being easy to meet or deal with | Synonyms: accessibility |
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approaching | (noun) the act of drawing spatially closer to something | Synonyms: approach, coming |
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(noun) the temporal property of becoming nearer in time | Synonyms: approach, coming |
(noun) the event of one object coming closer to another | Synonyms: approach |
arachnid | (noun) air-breathing arthropods characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legs | Synonyms: arachnoid |
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arachnoid | (noun) air-breathing arthropods characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legs | Synonyms: arachnid |
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(noun) the middle of the 3 meninges | Synonyms: arachnoid membrane |
arachnophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of spiders | - |
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attache | (noun) a shallow and rectangular briefcase | Synonyms: attache case |
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(noun) a specialist assigned to the staff of a diplomatic mission | - |
attachment | (noun) the act of fastening things together | Synonyms: fastening |
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(noun) the act of attaching or affixing something | Synonyms: affixation |
(noun) faithful support for a cause or political party or religion | Synonyms: adherence, adhesion |
(noun) a supplementary part or accessory | - |
(noun) a connection that fastens things together | Synonyms: bond |
(noun) a writ authorizing the seizure of property that may be needed for the payment of a judgment in a judicial proceeding | - |
(noun) a feeling of affection for a person or an institution | Synonyms: fond regard |
azadirachtin | (noun) insecticide | - |
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azedarach | (noun) tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree | Synonyms: azederach, China tree, chinaberry, chinaberry tree, Melia azedarach, Melia azederach, Persian lilac, pride-of-India |
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azederach | (noun) tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree | Synonyms: azedarach, China tree, chinaberry, chinaberry tree, Melia azedarach, Melia azederach, Persian lilac, pride-of-India |
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bachelor | (noun) a man who has never been married | Synonyms: unmarried man |
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(noun) a knight of the lowest order; could display only a pennon | Synonyms: bachelor-at-arms, knight bachelor |
bachelorette | (noun) a young unmarried woman who lives alone | Synonyms: bachelor girl |
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bachelorhood | (noun) the state of being an unmarried man | - |
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(noun) the time of a man's life prior to marriage | - |
backache | (noun) an ache localized in the back | - |
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baldachin | (noun) ornamented canopy supported by columns or suspended from a roof or projected from a wall (as over an altar) | - |
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batrachian | (noun) any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species | Synonyms: anuran, frog, salientian, toad, toad frog |
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batrachomyomachia | (noun) a silly altercation | - |
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beach | (noun) an area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake | - |
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beachball | (noun) large and light ball; for play at the seaside | Synonyms: beach ball |
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beachcomber | (noun) a vagrant living on a beach | - |
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beachfront | (noun) a strip of land running along a beach | - |
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beachhead | (noun) an initial accomplishment that opens the way for further developments | Synonyms: foothold |
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(noun) a bridgehead on the enemy's shoreline seized by an amphibious operation | - |
beachwear | (noun) clothing to be worn at a beach | - |
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bellyache | (noun) an ache localized in the stomach or abdominal region | Synonyms: gastralgia, stomach ache, stomachache |
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bellyacher | (noun) a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining | Synonyms: complainer, crybaby, grumbler, moaner, sniveller, squawker, whiner |
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bleach | (noun) the act of whitening something by bleaching it (exposing it to sunlight or using a chemical bleaching agent) | - |
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(noun) the whiteness that results from removing the color from something | - |
(noun) an agent that makes things white or colorless | Synonyms: blanching agent, bleaching agent, whitener |
bleacher | (noun) a worker who bleaches (cloth or flour etc.) | - |
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bleachers | (noun) (used in the plural) an outdoor grandstand without a roof; patrons are exposed to the sun as linens are when they are bleached | - |
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brachiation | (noun) swinging by the arms from branch to branch | - |
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brachiopod | (noun) marine animal with bivalve shell having a pair of arms bearing tentacles for capturing food; found worldwide | Synonyms: lamp shell, lampshell |
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brachistochrone | (noun) a curve between two points along which a body can move under gravity in a shorter time than for any other curve. | - |
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brachium | (noun) (biology) a branching or armlike part of an animal | - |
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brachycephalic | (noun) an adult with a short broad head | - |
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brachycephalism | (noun) the quality of being brachycephalic | Synonyms: brachycephaly |
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brachycephaly | (noun) the quality of being brachycephalic | Synonyms: brachycephalism |
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brachydactylia | (noun) abnormal shortness of fingers and toes | Synonyms: brachydactyly |
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brachydactyly | (noun) abnormal shortness of fingers and toes | Synonyms: brachydactylia |
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brachyuran | (noun) typical crabs | - |
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breach | (noun) a failure to perform some promised act or obligation | - |
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(noun) a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions) | Synonyms: break, falling out, rift, rupture, severance |
(noun) an opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification) | - |
broach | (noun) a decorative pin worn by women | Synonyms: breastpin, brooch |
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cachalot | (noun) large whale with a large cavity in the head containing spermaceti and oil; also a source of ambergris | Synonyms: black whale, Physeter catodon, sperm whale |
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cache | (noun) a hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons) | - |
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(noun) (computer science) RAM memory that is set aside as a specialized buffer storage that is continually updated; used to optimize data transfers between system elements with different characteristics | Synonyms: memory cache |
(noun) a secret store of valuables or money | Synonyms: hoard, stash |
cachet | (noun) a seal on a letter | - |
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(noun) an indication of approved or superior status | Synonyms: seal, seal of approval |
(noun) a warrant formerly issued by a French king who could warrant imprisonment or death in a signed letter under his seal | Synonyms: lettre de cachet |
cachexia | (noun) any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease | Synonyms: cachexy, wasting |
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cachexy | (noun) any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease | Synonyms: cachexia, wasting |
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cachinnation | (noun) loud convulsive laughter | - |
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cachou | (noun) a scented lozenge used to sweeten the breath (e.g. to conceal the odor of tobacco) | - |
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camachile | (noun) common thorny tropical American tree having terminal racemes of yellow flowers followed by sickle-shaped or circinate edible pods and yielding good timber and a yellow dye and mucilaginous gum | Synonyms: huamachil, manila tamarind, Pithecellobium dulce, wild tamarind |
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campeachy | (noun) spiny shrub or small tree of Central America and West Indies having bipinnate leaves and racemes of small bright yellow flowers and yielding a hard brown or brownish-red heartwood used in preparing a black dye | Synonyms: bloodwood tree, Haematoxylum campechianum, logwood, logwood tree |
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catachresis | (noun) strained or paradoxical use of words either in error (as `blatant' to mean `flagrant') or deliberately (as in a mixed metaphor: `blind mouths') | - |
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chachalaca | (noun) slender arboreal guan resembling a wild turkey; native to Central America and Mexico; highly regarded as game birds | - |
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chachka | (noun) (Yiddish) an inexpensive showy trinket | Synonyms: tchotchke, tsatske, tshatshke |
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(noun) (Yiddish) an attractive, unconventional woman | Synonyms: tchotchke, tchotchkeleh, tsatske, tshatshke |
coach | (noun) a carriage pulled by four horses with one driver | Synonyms: coach-and-four, four-in-hand |
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(noun) a railcar where passengers ride | Synonyms: carriage, passenger car |
(noun) a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport | Synonyms: autobus, bus, charabanc, double-decker, jitney, motorbus, motorcoach, omnibus, passenger vehicle |
(noun) a person who gives private instruction (as in singing, acting, etc.) | Synonyms: private instructor, tutor |
(noun) (sports) someone in charge of training an athlete or a team | Synonyms: handler, manager |
coachbuilder | (noun) a craftsman who makes the bodies of motor vehicles | - |
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coaching | (noun) the job of a professional coach | Synonyms: coaching job |
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coachman | (noun) a man who drives a coach (or carriage) | - |
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coachwhip | (noun) a whipsnake of southern United States and Mexico; tail resembles a braided whip | Synonyms: coachwhip snake, Masticophis flagellum |
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(noun) desert shrub of southwestern United States and Mexico having slender naked spiny branches that after the rainy season put forth foliage and clusters of red flowers | Synonyms: Fouquieria splendens, Jacob's staff, ocotillo, vine cactus |
cockroach | (noun) any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic pests | Synonyms: roach |
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coronach | (noun) a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person | Synonyms: dirge, lament, requiem, threnody |
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dacha | (noun) Russian country house | - |
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dachshund | (noun) small long-bodied short-legged German breed of dog having a short sleek coat and long drooping ears; suited for following game into burrows | Synonyms: badger dog, dachsie |
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dachsie | (noun) small long-bodied short-legged German breed of dog having a short sleek coat and long drooping ears; suited for following game into burrows | Synonyms: badger dog, dachshund |
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detachment | (noun) the act of releasing from an attachment or connection | Synonyms: disengagement |
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(noun) coming apart | Synonyms: breakup, separation |
(noun) avoiding emotional involvement | Synonyms: withdrawal |
(noun) a small unit of troops of special composition | - |
(noun) the state of being isolated or detached | Synonyms: insularism, insularity, insulation |
diachrony | (noun) the study of linguistic change | Synonyms: diachronic linguistics, historical linguistics |
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dibrach | (noun) a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed syllables | Synonyms: pyrrhic |
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drachm | (noun) a unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains | Synonyms: drachma, dram |
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(noun) a unit of capacity or volume in the apothecary system equal to one eighth of a fluid ounce | Synonyms: fluid drachm, fluid dram, fluidram |
(noun) a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 60 minims or 3.5516 cubic centimeters | Synonyms: fluid drachm, fluid dram, fluidram |
drachma | (noun) formerly the basic unit of money in Greece | Synonyms: Greek drachma |
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(noun) a unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains | Synonyms: drachm, dram |
earache | (noun) an ache localized in the middle or inner ear | Synonyms: otalgia |
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earreach | (noun) the range within which a voice can be heard | Synonyms: earshot, hearing |
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encroacher | (noun) someone who enters by force in order to conquer | Synonyms: invader |
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encroachment | (noun) entry to another's property without right or permission | Synonyms: intrusion, trespass, usurpation, violation |
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(noun) influencing strongly | Synonyms: impact, impingement |
(noun) any entry into an area not previously occupied | Synonyms: intrusion, invasion |
fastnacht | (noun) doughnut traditionally eaten on Shrove Tuesday | - |
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gazpacho | (noun) a soup made with chopped tomatoes and onions and cucumbers and peppers and herbs; served cold | - |
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gouache | (noun) a watercolor executed with opaque watercolors mixed with gum | - |
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(noun) an opaque watercolor prepared with gum | - |
guacharo | (noun) nocturnal fruit-eating bird of South America that has fatty young yielding an oil that is used instead of butter | Synonyms: oilbird, Steatornis caripensis |
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