acre | (noun) a unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries | - |
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acreage | (noun) an area of ground used for some particular purpose (such as building or farming) | Synonyms: land area |
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acres | (noun) extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use | Synonyms: demesne, estate, land, landed estate |
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acridid | (noun) grasshopper with short antennae | Synonyms: short-horned grasshopper |
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acridity | (noun) extreme bitterness | Synonyms: acridness |
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(noun) the quality of being sharply disagreeable in language or tone | Synonyms: acridness |
(noun) having an acrid smell | - |
acridness | (noun) extreme bitterness | Synonyms: acridity |
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(noun) the quality of being sharply disagreeable in language or tone | Synonyms: acridity |
acrimony | (noun) a rough and bitter manner | Synonyms: acerbity, bitterness, jaundice, tartness, thorniness |
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acroanaesthesia | (noun) loss of sensation in the extremities | Synonyms: acroanesthesia |
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acroanesthesia | (noun) loss of sensation in the extremities | Synonyms: acroanaesthesia |
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acrobat | (noun) an athlete who performs acts requiring skill and agility and coordination | - |
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acrobatics | (noun) the gymnastic moves of an acrobat | Synonyms: tumbling |
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(noun) the performance of stunts while in flight in an aircraft | Synonyms: aerobatics, stunt flying, stunting |
acrocarp | (noun) a moss in which the main axis is terminated by the archegonium (and hence the capsule) | Synonyms: acrocarpous moss |
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acrocephaly | (noun) a congenital abnormality of the skull; the top of the skull assumes a cone shape | Synonyms: oxycephaly |
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acrocyanosis | (noun) cyanosis of the extremities; can occur when a spasm of the blood vessels is caused by exposure to cold or by strong emotion | Synonyms: Raynaud's sign |
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acrodont | (noun) an animal having teeth consolidated with the summit of the alveolar ridge without sockets | - |
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acrogen | (noun) any flowerless plant such as a fern (pteridophyte) or moss (bryophyte) in which growth occurs only at the tip of the main stem | - |
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acrolein | (noun) a pungent colorless unsaturated liquid aldehyde made from propene | Synonyms: propenal |
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acromegalia | (noun) enlargement of bones of hands and feet and face; often accompanied by headache and muscle pain and emotional disturbances; caused by overproduction of growth hormone by the anterior pituitary gland (due to a tumor) | Synonyms: acromegaly |
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acromegaly | (noun) enlargement of bones of hands and feet and face; often accompanied by headache and muscle pain and emotional disturbances; caused by overproduction of growth hormone by the anterior pituitary gland (due to a tumor) | Synonyms: acromegalia |
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acromicria | (noun) abnormally small extremities (underdeveloped fingers and toes) | Synonyms: acromikria |
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acromikria | (noun) abnormally small extremities (underdeveloped fingers and toes) | Synonyms: acromicria |
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acromion | (noun) the outermost point of the spine of the shoulder blade | Synonyms: acromial process |
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acromphalus | (noun) abnormal protrusion of the navel; sometimes the start of umbilical hernia | - |
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acromyotonia | (noun) myotonia of the extremities only; causes spastic deformity of the hand or foot | - |
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acronym | (noun) a word formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced as one word | Synonyms: initialism |
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acrophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of great heights | - |
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acrophony | (noun) naming a letter of the alphabet by using a word whose initial sound is the sound represented by that letter | - |
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acropolis | (noun) the citadel in ancient Greek towns | - |
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acrosome | (noun) a process at the anterior end of a sperm cell that produces enzymes to facilitate penetration of the egg | - |
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acrostic | (noun) a puzzle where you fill a square grid with words reading the same down as across | Synonyms: word square |
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(noun) verse in which certain letters such as the first in each line form a word or message | - |
acrylamide | (noun) a white crystalline amide of propenoic acid can damage the nervous system and is carcinogenic in laboratory animals | - |
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acrylate | (noun) a salt or ester of propenoic acid | Synonyms: propenoate |
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acrylic | (noun) a synthetic fabric made from polyacrylonitrile | - |
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(noun) used especially by artists | Synonyms: acrylic paint |
(noun) a glassy thermoplastic; can be cast and molded or used in coatings and adhesives | Synonyms: acrylate resin, acrylic resin |
(noun) polymerized from acrylonitrile | Synonyms: acrylic fiber |
acrylonitrile | (noun) a colorless liquid unsaturated nitrile made from propene | Synonyms: propenonitrile, vinyl cyanide |
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alacrity | (noun) liveliness and eagerness | Synonyms: briskness, smartness |
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ambulacrum | (noun) one of the five areas on the undersurface of an echinoderm on which the tube feet are located | - |
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dacryocyst | (noun) either of the two dilated ends of the lacrimal ducts at the nasal ends of the eyes that fill with tears secreted by the lacrimal glands | Synonyms: lacrimal sac, tear sac |
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dacryocystitis | (noun) inflammation of the lacrimal sac causing obstruction of the tube draining tears into the nose | - |
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dacryon | (noun) the craniometric point at the junction of the anterior border of the lacrimal bone with the frontal bone | - |
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diacritic | (noun) a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation | Synonyms: diacritical mark |
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epacris | (noun) any heathlike evergreen shrub of the genus Epacris grown for their showy and crowded spikes of small bell-shaped or tubular flowers | - |
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lacrimation | (noun) shedding tears | Synonyms: lachrymation, tearing, watering |
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lacrimator | (noun) a gas that makes the eyes fill with tears but does not damage them; used in dispersing crowds | Synonyms: lachrymator, tear gas, teargas |
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lacrosse | (noun) a game invented by American Indians; now played by two teams who use long-handled rackets to catch and carry and throw the ball toward the opponents' goal | - |
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macrame | (noun) a relatively coarse lace; made by weaving and knotting cords | - |
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macrencephaly | (noun) an abnormally large braincase | - |
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macro | (noun) a single computer instruction that results in a series of instructions in machine language | Synonyms: macro instruction |
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macrobiotics | (noun) the theory of promoting health and longevity by means of diet (especially whole beans and grains) | - |
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macrocephaly | (noun) an abnormally large head; differs from hydrocephalus because there is no increased intracranial pressure and the overgrowth is symmetrical | Synonyms: megacephaly, megalocephaly |
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macrocosm | (noun) everything that exists anywhere | Synonyms: cosmos, creation, existence, universe, world |
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macrocyte | (noun) abnormally large red blood cell (associated with pernicious anemia) | Synonyms: megalocyte |
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macrocytosis | (noun) the presence of macrocytes in the blood | - |
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macroeconomics | (noun) the branch of economics that studies the overall working of a national economy | - |
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macroeconomist | (noun) an economist who specializes in macroeconomics | Synonyms: macroeconomic expert |
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macroelement | (noun) a chemical element required in relatively large quantities for the normal physiologic processes of the body. | Synonyms: major mineral |
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macroevolution | (noun) evolution on a large scale extending over geologic era and resulting in the formation of new taxonomic groups | - |
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macroglia | (noun) tissue consisting of large stellate neuroglial cells | Synonyms: astroglia |
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macroglossia | (noun) a congenital disorder characterized by an abnormally large tongue; often seen in cases of Down's syndrome | - |
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macromolecule | (noun) any very large complex molecule; found only in plants and animals | Synonyms: supermolecule |
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macron | (noun) a diacritical mark (-) placed above a vowel to indicate a long sound | - |
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macrophage | (noun) a large phagocyte; some are fixed and other circulate in the blood stream | - |
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macrosporangium | (noun) a plant structure that produces megaspores | Synonyms: megasporangium |
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macrospore | (noun) larger of the two types of spore produced in heterosporous plants; develops in ovule into a female gametophyte | Synonyms: megaspore |
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macrotus | (noun) large-eared greyish bat of southern California and northwestern Mexico | Synonyms: Macrotus californicus |
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macrozamia | (noun) any treelike cycad of the genus Macrozamia having erect trunks and pinnate leaves and large cones with sometimes edible nuts; Australia | - |
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massacre | (noun) the savage and excessive killing of many people | Synonyms: butchery, carnage, mass murder, slaughter |
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mepacrine | (noun) a drug (trade name Atabrine) used to treat certain worm infestations and once used to treat malaria | Synonyms: Atabrine, quinacrine, quinacrine hydrochloride |
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nacre | (noun) the iridescent internal layer of a mollusk shell | Synonyms: mother-of-pearl |
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phalacrosis | (noun) the condition of having no hair on the top of the head | Synonyms: baldness |
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quinacrine | (noun) a drug (trade name Atabrine) used to treat certain worm infestations and once used to treat malaria | Synonyms: Atabrine, mepacrine, quinacrine hydrochloride |
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sacrament | (noun) a formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it; the two Protestant ceremonies are baptism and the Lord's Supper; in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church there are seven traditional rites accepted as instituted by Jesus: baptism and confirmation and Holy Eucharist and penance and holy orders and matrimony and extreme unction | - |
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sacredness | (noun) the quality of being sacred | - |
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sacrifice | (noun) the act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity | Synonyms: ritual killing |
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(noun) the act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc. | Synonyms: forfeit, forfeiture |
(noun) (baseball) an out that advances the base runners | - |
(noun) personnel that are sacrificed (e.g., surrendered or lost in order to gain an objective) | - |
(noun) a loss entailed by giving up or selling something at less than its value | - |
sacrificer | (noun) a religious person who offers up a sacrifice | - |
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sacrilege | (noun) blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character | Synonyms: blasphemy, desecration, profanation |
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sacrilegiousness | (noun) profaneness by virtue of committing sacrilege | - |
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sacristan | (noun) an officer of the church who is in charge of sacred objects | Synonyms: sexton |
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sacristy | (noun) a room in a church where sacred vessels and vestments are kept or meetings are held | Synonyms: vestry |
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sacrum | (noun) wedge-shaped bone consisting of five fused vertebrae forming the posterior part of the pelvis; its base connects with the lowest lumbar vertebra and its tip with the coccyx | - |
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simulacrum | (noun) a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture) | Synonyms: effigy, image |
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(noun) an insubstantial or vague semblance | - |
wiseacre | (noun) an upstart who makes conceited, sardonic, insolent comments | Synonyms: smart aleck, weisenheimer, wise guy, wisenheimer |
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