anna | (noun) a former copper coin of Pakistan and India | - |
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annalism | (noun) The writing of annals. | - |
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annalist | (noun) a historian who writes annals | - |
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annals | (noun) a chronological account of events in successive years | Synonyms: chronological record |
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(noun) reports of the work of a society or learned body etc | - |
annealing | (noun) hardening something by heat treatment | Synonyms: tempering |
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annelid | (noun) worms with cylindrical bodies segmented both internally and externally | Synonyms: annelid worm, segmented worm |
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annex | (noun) an addition that extends a main building | Synonyms: annexe, extension, wing |
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annexa | (noun) accessory or adjoining anatomical parts or appendages to an organ (especially of the embryo) | Synonyms: adnexa |
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annexation | (noun) the formal act of acquiring something (especially territory) by conquest or occupation | - |
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(noun) incorporation by joining or uniting | Synonyms: appropriation |
annexe | (noun) an addition that extends a main building | Synonyms: annex, extension, wing |
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annihilation | (noun) destruction by annihilating something | Synonyms: obliteration |
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(noun) total destruction | Synonyms: disintegration |
annihilator | (noun) a total destroyer | - |
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anniversary | (noun) the date on which an event occurred in some previous year (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: day of remembrance |
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annon | (noun) sweet pulpy tropical fruit with thick scaly rind and shiny black seeds | Synonyms: sugar apple, sweetsop |
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annotating | (noun) the act of adding notes | Synonyms: annotation |
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annotation | (noun) the act of adding notes | Synonyms: annotating |
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(noun) a comment or instruction (usually added) | Synonyms: notation, note |
annotator | (noun) a commentator who writes notes to a text | - |
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announcement | (noun) a public statement containing information about an event that has happened or is going to happen | Synonyms: promulgation |
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(noun) a formal public statement | Synonyms: annunciation, declaration, proclamation |
announcer | (noun) reads news, commercials on radio or television | - |
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(noun) someone who proclaims a message publicly | - |
annoyance | (noun) the act of troubling or annoying someone | Synonyms: annoying, irritation, vexation |
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(noun) something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: bother, botheration, infliction, nuisance, pain, pain in the ass, pain in the neck |
(noun) anger produced by some annoying irritation | Synonyms: chafe, vexation |
(noun) an unpleasant person who is annoying or exasperating | Synonyms: aggravator |
(noun) the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: botheration, irritation, vexation |
annoyer | (noun) someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity) | Synonyms: tease, teaser, vexer |
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annoying | (noun) the act of troubling or annoying someone | Synonyms: annoyance, irritation, vexation |
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annual | (noun) a reference book that is published regularly once every year | Synonyms: yearbook, yearly |
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(noun) (botany) a plant that completes its entire life cycle within the space of a year | - |
annualry | (noun) the third finger (especially of the left hand) | Synonyms: ring finger |
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annuitant | (noun) the recipient of an annuity | - |
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annuity | (noun) income from capital investment paid in a series of regular payments | Synonyms: rente |
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annulet | (noun) molding in the form of a ring; at top of a column | Synonyms: bandelet, bandelette, bandlet, square and rabbet |
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(noun) (heraldry) a charge in the shape of a small ring | - |
annulment | (noun) (law) a formal termination (of a relationship or a judicial proceeding etc) | Synonyms: invalidation |
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(noun) the act of abrogating; an official or legal cancellation | Synonyms: abrogation, repeal |
(noun) the state of being cancelled or annulled | Synonyms: revocation |
annulus | (noun) (Fungi) a remnant of the partial veil that in mature mushrooms surrounds the stem like a collar | Synonyms: skirt |
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(noun) a toroidal shape | Synonyms: anchor ring, doughnut, halo, ring |
annum | (noun) (Latin) year | - |
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annunciation | (noun) a formal public statement | Synonyms: announcement, declaration, proclamation |
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annunciator | (noun) an indicator that announces which electrical circuit has been active (as on a telephone switchboard) | - |
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archiannelid | (noun) small primitive marine worm lacking external segmentation and resembling polychaete larvae | - |
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bandanna | (noun) large and brightly colored handkerchief; often used as a neckerchief | Synonyms: bandana |
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banner | (noun) long strip of cloth or paper used for decoration or advertising | Synonyms: streamer |
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(noun) any distinctive flag | Synonyms: standard |
(noun) a newspaper headline that runs across the full page | Synonyms: streamer |
banneret | (noun) a knight honored for valor; entitled to display a square banner and to hold higher command | Synonyms: knight banneret, knight of the square flag |
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banning | (noun) an official prohibition or edict against something | Synonyms: ban, forbiddance, forbidding |
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bannister | (noun) a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling | Synonyms: balusters, balustrade, banister, handrail |
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bannock | (noun) a flat bread made of oat or barley flour; common in New England and Scotland | - |
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banns | (noun) a public announcement of a proposed marriage | - |
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canna | (noun) any plant of the genus Canna having large sheathing leaves and clusters of large showy flowers | - |
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cannabin | (noun) a resin obtained from the hemp plant; thought to be the active narcotic agent in marijuana | Synonyms: cannabis resin |
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cannabis | (noun) the most commonly used illicit drug; considered a soft drug, it consists of the dried leaves of the hemp plant; smoked or chewed for euphoric effect | Synonyms: ganja, marihuana, marijuana |
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(noun) any plant of the genus Cannabis; a coarse bushy annual with palmate leaves and clusters of small green flowers; yields tough fibers and narcotic drugs | Synonyms: hemp |
cannelloni | (noun) tubular pasta filled with meat or cheese | - |
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cannery | (noun) a factory where food is canned | - |
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cannibal | (noun) a person who eats human flesh | Synonyms: anthropophagite, anthropophagus, man-eater |
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cannibalism | (noun) the practice of eating the flesh of your own kind | - |
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cannikin | (noun) a small can | - |
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(noun) a wooden bucket | - |
cannister | (noun) metal container for storing dry foods such as tea or flour | Synonyms: canister, tin |
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cannon | (noun) a shot in billiards in which the cue ball contacts one object ball and then the other | Synonyms: carom |
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(noun) lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals | Synonyms: shank |
(noun) a large artillery gun that is usually on wheels | - |
(noun) heavy automatic gun fired from an airplane | - |
(noun) (Middle Ages) a cylindrical piece of armor plate to protect the arm | - |
(noun) heavy gun fired from a tank | - |
cannonade | (noun) intense and continuous artillery fire | Synonyms: drumfire |
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cannonball | (noun) a solid projectile that in former times was fired from a cannon | Synonyms: cannon ball, round shot |
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cannoneer | (noun) a serviceman in the artillery | Synonyms: artilleryman, gunner, machine gunner |
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cannula | (noun) a small flexible tube inserted into a body cavity for draining off fluid or introducing medication | - |
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cannulation | (noun) the insertion of a cannula or tube into a hollow body organ | Synonyms: cannulisation, cannulization, canulation, canulisation, canulization, intubation |
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cannulisation | (noun) the insertion of a cannula or tube into a hollow body organ | Synonyms: cannulation, cannulization, canulation, canulisation, canulization, intubation |
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cannulization | (noun) the insertion of a cannula or tube into a hollow body organ | Synonyms: cannulation, cannulisation, canulation, canulisation, canulization, intubation |
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caravanning | (noun) the practice of taking holidays in a caravan | - |
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channel | (noun) a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors | Synonyms: distribution channel |
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(noun) a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through | - |
(noun) a television station and its programs | Synonyms: television channel, TV channel |
(noun) a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance | Synonyms: canal, duct, epithelial duct |
(noun) a path over which electrical signals can pass | Synonyms: transmission channel |
(noun) (often plural) a means of communication or access | Synonyms: communication channel, line |
(noun) a deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels | - |
(noun) a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record) | Synonyms: groove |
channelisation | (noun) management through specified channels of communication | Synonyms: canalisation, canalization, channelization |
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channelization | (noun) management through specified channels of communication | Synonyms: canalisation, canalization, channelisation |
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channels | (noun) official routes of communication | - |
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clannishness | (noun) tendency to associate with only a select group | Synonyms: cliquishness, exclusiveness |
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cleanness | (noun) the state of being clean; without dirt or other impurities | - |
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(noun) without moral defects | - |
cranny | (noun) a small opening or crevice (especially in a rock face or wall) | - |
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(noun) a long narrow depression in a surface | Synonyms: chap, crack, crevice, fissure |
engelmannia | (noun) common erect hairy perennial of plains and prairies of southern and central United States having flowers that resemble sunflowers | - |
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fanny | (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
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(noun) external female sex organs | Synonyms: female genital organ, female genitalia, female genitals |
flannel | (noun) a soft light woolen fabric; used for clothing | - |
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(noun) bath linen consisting of a piece of cloth used to wash the face and body | Synonyms: face cloth, washcloth, washrag |
(noun) (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth | Synonyms: gabardine, tweed, white |
flannelbush | (noun) any of several handsome evergreen shrubs of California and northern Mexico having downy lobed leaves and showy yellow flowers | Synonyms: California beauty, flannel bush |
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flannelette | (noun) a cotton fabric imitating flannel | - |
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frangipanni | (noun) any of various tropical American deciduous shrubs or trees of the genus Plumeria having milky sap and showy fragrant funnel-shaped variously colored flowers | Synonyms: frangipani |
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gannet | (noun) large heavily built seabird with a long stout bill noted for its plunging dives for fish | - |
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grannie | (noun) the mother of your father or mother | Synonyms: gran, grandma, grandmother, granny, nan, nanna |
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granny | (noun) a reef knot crossed the wrong way and therefore insecure | Synonyms: granny knot |
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(noun) the mother of your father or mother | Synonyms: gran, grandma, grandmother, grannie, nan, nanna |
(noun) an old woman | - |
hausmannite | (noun) a mineral consisting of manganese tetroxide; a source of manganese | - |
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hosanna | (noun) a cry of praise or adoration (to God) | - |
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humanness | (noun) the quality of being human | Synonyms: humanity, manhood |
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leanness | (noun) the property of having little body fat | Synonyms: spareness, thinness |
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(noun) the quality of being meager | Synonyms: exiguity, meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness |
manna | (noun) (Old Testament) food that God gave the Israelites during the Exodus | Synonyms: manna from heaven, miraculous food |
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(noun) hardened sugary exudation of various trees | - |
mannequin | (noun) a life-size dummy used to display clothes | Synonyms: form, manakin, manikin, mannikin |
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(noun) a woman who wears clothes to display fashions | Synonyms: fashion model, manakin, manikin, mannikin, model |
manner | (noun) a way of acting or behaving | Synonyms: personal manner |
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(noun) how something is done or how it happens | Synonyms: fashion, mode, style, way |
(noun) a kind | - |
mannerism | (noun) a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display | Synonyms: affectation, affectedness, pose |
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(noun) a behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual | Synonyms: foible, idiosyncrasy |
manners | (noun) social deportment | - |
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mannikin | (noun) a life-size dummy used to display clothes | Synonyms: form, manakin, manikin, mannequin |
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(noun) a person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal | Synonyms: homunculus, manikin |
(noun) a woman who wears clothes to display fashions | Synonyms: fashion model, manakin, manikin, mannequin, model |
mannitol | (noun) a diuretic (trade name Osmitrol) used to promote the excretion of urine | Synonyms: Osmitrol |
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meanness | (noun) the quality of being deliberately mean | Synonyms: beastliness |
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(noun) extreme stinginess | Synonyms: closeness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, tightfistedness, tightness |
nanna | (noun) the mother of your father or mother | Synonyms: gran, grandma, grandmother, grannie, granny, nan |
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nanny | (noun) female goat | Synonyms: nanny-goat, she-goat |
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(noun) a woman who is the custodian of children | Synonyms: nurse, nursemaid |
pannier | (noun) set of small hoops used to add fullness over the hips | - |
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(noun) a large basket (usually one of a pair) carried by a beast of burden or on by a person | - |
(noun) either of a pair of bags or boxes hung over the rear wheel of a vehicle (as a bicycle) | - |
pannikin | (noun) a small pan or cup (usually of tin) | - |
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pfannkuchen | (noun) puffy mildly sweet lemon-flavored egg mixture sprinkled with confectioners' sugar and served with jam or a wine or fruit sauce | Synonyms: german pancake |
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planner | (noun) a notebook for recording appointments and things to be done, etc. | - |
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(noun) a person who makes plans | Synonyms: contriver, deviser |
planning | (noun) an act of formulating a program for a definite course of action | - |
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(noun) the act or process of drawing up plans or layouts for some project or enterprise | - |
(noun) the cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening | Synonyms: preparation, provision |
sannup | (noun) a married male American Indian | - |
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sannyasi | (noun) a Hindu religious mendicant | Synonyms: sannyasin, sanyasi |
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sannyasin | (noun) a Hindu religious mendicant | Synonyms: sannyasi, sanyasi |
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savanna | (noun) a flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions | Synonyms: savannah |
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savannah | (noun) a flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions | Synonyms: savanna |
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scanner | (noun) a radio receiver that moves automatically across some selected range of frequencies looking for some signal or condition | Synonyms: electronic scanner |
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(noun) a radar dish that rotates or oscillates in order to scan a broad area | - |
(noun) an electronic device that generates a digital representation of an image for data input to a computer | Synonyms: digital scanner, image scanner |
(noun) someone who scans verse to determine the number and prosodic value of the syllables | - |
scanning | (noun) the act of systematically moving a finely focused beam of light or electrons over a surface in order to produce an image of it for analysis or transmission | - |
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(noun) the process of translating photographs into a digital form that can be recognized by a computer | - |