abasement | (noun) depriving one of self-esteem | Synonyms: humiliation |
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(noun) a low or downcast state | Synonyms: abjection, degradation |
abashment | (noun) feeling embarrassed due to modesty | Synonyms: bashfulness |
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abasia | (noun) inability to walk | - |
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abdominoplasty | (noun) cosmetic surgery of the abdomen to remove wrinkles and tighten the skin over the stomach | Synonyms: tummy tuck |
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abomasum | (noun) the fourth compartment of the stomach of a ruminant; the one where digestion takes place | Synonyms: fourth stomach |
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abrasion | (noun) the wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice | Synonyms: attrition, detrition, grinding |
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(noun) erosion by friction | Synonyms: attrition, corrasion, detrition |
(noun) an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off | Synonyms: excoriation, scrape, scratch |
abrasive | (noun) a substance that abrades or wears down | Synonyms: abradant, abrasive material |
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abrasiveness | (noun) the roughness of a substance that causes abrasions | Synonyms: harshness, scratchiness |
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(noun) the quality of being sharply disagreeable | - |
acariasis | (noun) infestation with itch mites | Synonyms: acaridiasis, acariosis |
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acaridiasis | (noun) infestation with itch mites | Synonyms: acariasis, acariosis |
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acataphasia | (noun) a disorder in which a lesion to the central nervous system leaves you unable to formulate a statement or to express yourself in an organized manner | - |
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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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admass | (noun) the segment of the public that is easily influenced by mass media (chiefly British) | - |
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aftertaste | (noun) an afterimage of a taste | - |
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agerasia | (noun) youthful appearance in an old person | - |
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alabaster | (noun) a very light white | - |
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(noun) a compact fine-textured, usually white gypsum used for carving | - |
(noun) a hard compact kind of calcite | Synonyms: Mexican onyx, onyx marble, oriental alabaster |
alastrim | (noun) a mild form of smallpox caused by a less virulent form of the virus | Synonyms: Cuban itch, Kaffir pox, milk pox, pseudosmallpox, pseudovariola, variola minor, West Indian smallpox, white pox |
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alias | (noun) a name that has been assumed | Synonyms: assumed name, false name |
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alocasia | (noun) any plant of the genus Alocasia having large showy basal leaves and boat-shaped spathe and reddish berries | Synonyms: elephant's ear, elephant ear |
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amastia | (noun) absence of the mammary glands (either through surgery or developmental defect) | - |
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ambassador | (noun) a diplomat of the highest rank; accredited as representative from one country to another | Synonyms: embassador |
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(noun) an informal representative | - |
ambassadorship | (noun) the post of ambassador | - |
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ambassadress | (noun) a woman ambassador | - |
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amebiasis | (noun) infection by a disease-causing ameba | Synonyms: amebiosis, amoebiasis, amoebiosis |
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ameloblast | (noun) a cell from which tooth enamel develops | - |
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aminopherase | (noun) a class of transferases that catalyze transamination (that transfer an amino group from an amino acid to another compound) | Synonyms: aminotransferase, transaminase |
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aminoplast | (noun) a plastic (synthetic resin) made from amino compounds; used as an adhesive and as a coating for paper and textiles | Synonyms: amino plastic, amino resin |
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aminotransferase | (noun) a class of transferases that catalyze transamination (that transfer an amino group from an amino acid to another compound) | Synonyms: aminopherase, transaminase |
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amoebiasis | (noun) infection by a disease-causing ameba | Synonyms: amebiasis, amebiosis, amoebiosis |
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amylase | (noun) any of a group of proteins found in saliva and pancreatic juice and parts of plants; help convert starch to sugar | - |
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ananas | (noun) large sweet fleshy tropical fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated | Synonyms: pineapple |
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anancasm | (noun) An obsolete term for ritualistic act or sequence of acts performed by a person with obsessive-compulsive neurosis. | - |
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anaphase | (noun) the stage of meiosis or mitosis when chromosomes move toward opposite ends of the nuclear spindle | - |
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anaplasia | (noun) loss of structural differentiation within a cell or group of cells often with increased capacity for multiplication, as in a malignant tumor | - |
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anaplasmosis | (noun) a disease of cattle that is transmitted by cattle ticks; similar to Texas fever | - |
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anaplasty | (noun) surgery concerned with therapeutic or cosmetic reformation of tissue | Synonyms: plastic surgery, reconstructive surgery |
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anasarca | (noun) generalized edema with accumulation of serum in subcutaneous connective tissue | - |
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anaspid | (noun) extinct small freshwater jawless fish usually having a heterocercal tail and an armored head; of the Silurian and Devonian | - |
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anastalsis | (noun) muscular action of the alimentary tract in a direction opposite to peristalsis | - |
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anastigmat | (noun) compound lens or lens system designed to be free of astigmatism and able to form approximately point images | - |
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anastomosis | (noun) a natural or surgical joining of parts or branches of tubular structures so as to make or become continuous | Synonyms: inosculation |
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anastrophe | (noun) the reversal of the normal order of words | Synonyms: inversion |
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anastylosis | (noun) the archeological reassembly of ruined monuments from fallen or decayed fragments (incorporating new materials when necessary) | - |
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angioplasty | (noun) an operation to repair a damaged blood vessel or unblock a coronary artery | - |
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angiotelectasia | (noun) dilation and enlargement of arterioles | - |
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anorgasmia | (noun) absence of an orgasm in sexual relations | - |
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antialiasing | (noun) (computer graphics) a technique that is used to smooth jagged distortions in curves and diagonal lines so they appear smoother | - |
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anticholinesterase | (noun) a medicine that inhibits cholinesterase by combining with it and so has a cholinergic effect | - |
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antimacassar | (noun) a piece of ornamented cloth that protects the back of a chair from hair oils | - |
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antineoplastic | (noun) any of several drugs that control or kill neoplastic cells; used in chemotherapy to kill cancer cells; all have unpleasant side effects that may include nausea and vomiting and hair loss and suppression of bone marrow function | Synonyms: antineoplastic drug, cancer drug |
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antinomasia | (noun) substitution of a title for a name | - |
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antipasto | (noun) a course of appetizers in an Italian meal | - |
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antiphrasis | (noun) the use of a word in a sense opposite to its normal sense (especially in irony) | - |
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antispasmodic | (noun) a drug used to relieve or prevent spasms (especially of the smooth muscles) | Synonyms: antispasmodic agent, spasmolytic |
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aphasia | (noun) inability to use or understand language (spoken or written) because of a brain lesion | - |
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aphasic | (noun) someone affected by aphasia or inability to use or understand language | - |
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aplasia | (noun) failure of some tissue or organ to develop | - |
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apophasis | (noun) mentioning something by saying it will not be mentioned | - |
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apostasy | (noun) the act of abandoning a party for cause | Synonyms: tergiversation |
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(noun) the state of having rejected your religious beliefs for your political party or a cause (often in favor of opposing beliefs or causes) | Synonyms: defection, renunciation |
appeasement | (noun) the act of appeasing (as by acceding to the demands of) | Synonyms: calming |
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appeaser | (noun) someone who tries to bring peace by acceding to demands | - |
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argasid | (noun) tick lacking a dorsal shield and having mouth parts on the under side of the head | Synonyms: soft tick |
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arras | (noun) a wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric often with pictorial designs | Synonyms: tapestry |
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arteriectasia | (noun) an abnormal distension of an artery | Synonyms: arteriectasis |
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arteriectasis | (noun) an abnormal distension of an artery | Synonyms: arteriectasia |
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arthroplasty | (noun) surgical reconstruction or replacement of a malformed or degenerated joint | - |
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asafetida | (noun) the brownish gum resin of various plants; has strong taste and odor; formerly used as an antispasmodic | Synonyms: asafoetida |
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asafoetida | (noun) the brownish gum resin of various plants; has strong taste and odor; formerly used as an antispasmodic | Synonyms: asafetida |
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asana | (noun) (Hinduism) a posture or manner of sitting (as in the practice of yoga) | - |
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asarabacca | (noun) thick creeping evergreen herb of western Europe | Synonyms: Asarum europaeum |
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asbestos | (noun) a fibrous amphibole; used for making fireproof articles; inhaling fibers can cause asbestosis or lung cancer | - |
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asbestosis | (noun) lung disease caused by inhaling asbestos particles | - |
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ascariasis | (noun) infestation of the human intestine with Ascaris roundworms | - |
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ascendance | (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendancy, ascendence, ascendency, control, dominance |
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ascendancy | (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendance, ascendence, ascendency, control, dominance |
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ascendant | (noun) someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) | Synonyms: ancestor, antecedent, ascendent, root |
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(noun) position or state of being dominant or in control | Synonyms: ascendent |
ascendence | (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendance, ascendancy, ascendency, control, dominance |
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ascendency | (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, control, dominance |
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ascendent | (noun) someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) | Synonyms: ancestor, antecedent, ascendant, root |
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(noun) position or state of being dominant or in control | Synonyms: ascendant |
ascender | (noun) (printing) the part of tall lowercase letters that extends above the other lowercase letters | - |
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(noun) a lowercase letter that has a part extending above other lowercase letters | - |
(noun) someone who ascends | - |
ascending | (noun) the act of changing location in an upward direction | Synonyms: ascension, ascent, rise |
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ascension | (noun) the act of changing location in an upward direction | Synonyms: ascending, ascent, rise |
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(noun) a movement upward; rise above the ground | Synonyms: ascent, rise, rising |
(noun) (astronomy) the rising of a star above the horizon | - |
ascent | (noun) the act of changing location in an upward direction | Synonyms: ascending, ascension, rise |
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(noun) a movement upward; rise above the ground | Synonyms: ascension, rise, rising |
(noun) an upward slope or grade (as in a road) | Synonyms: acclivity, climb, raise, rise, upgrade |
ascesis | (noun) rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint | Synonyms: asceticism |
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ascetic | (noun) someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline | Synonyms: abstainer |
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asceticism | (noun) rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint | Synonyms: ascesis |
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(noun) the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures) | Synonyms: austerity, nonindulgence |
(noun) the doctrine that through renunciation of worldly pleasures it is possible to achieve a high spiritual or intellectual state | - |
ascidian | (noun) minute sedentary marine invertebrate having a saclike body with siphons through which water enters and leaves | - |
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ascites | (noun) accumulation of serous fluid in peritoneal cavity | - |
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asclepiad | (noun) any plant of the family Asclepiadaceae | - |
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ascocarp | (noun) mature fruiting body of an ascomycetous fungus | - |
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ascolichen | (noun) a lichen in which the fungus component is an ascomycete | - |
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ascoma | (noun) an ascocarp having the spore-bearing layer of cells (the hymenium) on a broad disklike receptacle | - |
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ascomycete | (noun) any fungus of the class Ascomycetes (or subdivision Ascomycota) in which the spores are formed inside an ascus | Synonyms: ascomycetous fungus |
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ascospore | (noun) sexually produced fungal spore formed within an ascus | - |
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ascot | (noun) a cravat with wide square ends; secured with an ornamental pin | - |
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ascription | (noun) assigning to a cause or source | Synonyms: attribution |
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(noun) assigning some quality or character to a person or thing | Synonyms: attribution |
ascus | (noun) saclike structure in which ascospores are formed through sexual reproduction of ascomycetes | - |
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asdic | (noun) a measuring instrument that sends out an acoustic pulse in water and measures distances in terms of the time for the echo of the pulse to return | Synonyms: echo sounder, sonar |
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