ablism | (noun) discrimination in favor of the able-bodied | Synonyms: able-bodiedism, able-bodism, ableism |
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antiestablishmentarianism | (noun) the doctrine of opposition to the social and political establishment | Synonyms: antiestablishmentism |
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antiestablishmentism | (noun) the doctrine of opposition to the social and political establishment | Synonyms: antiestablishmentarianism |
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assembling | (noun) the act of gathering something together | Synonyms: aggregation, collecting, collection |
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babbling | (noun) gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby | Synonyms: babble, lallation |
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bibliographer | (noun) someone trained in compiling bibliographies | - |
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bibliography | (noun) a list of writings with time and place of publication (such as the writings of a single author or the works referred to in preparing a document etc.) | - |
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bibliolatry | (noun) the worship of the Bible | Synonyms: Bible-worship |
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bibliomania | (noun) preoccupation with the acquisition and possession of books | - |
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bibliophile | (noun) someone who loves (and usually collects) books | Synonyms: book lover, booklover |
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bibliopole | (noun) a dealer in secondhand books (especially rare or curious books) | Synonyms: bibliopolist |
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bibliopolist | (noun) a dealer in secondhand books (especially rare or curious books) | Synonyms: bibliopole |
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bibliothec | (noun) a professional person trained in library science and engaged in library services | Synonyms: librarian |
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bibliotheca | (noun) a collection of books | - |
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bibliotics | (noun) the scientific study of documents and handwriting etc. especially to determine authorship or authenticity | - |
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bibliotist | (noun) someone who engages in bibliotics | - |
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blight | (noun) a state or condition being blighted | - |
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(noun) any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting | - |
blighter | (noun) a persistently annoying person | Synonyms: cuss, gadfly, pest, pesterer |
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(noun) a boy or man | Synonyms: bloke, chap, cuss, fella, feller, fellow, gent, lad |
blimp | (noun) a small nonrigid airship used for observation or as a barrage balloon | Synonyms: sausage, sausage balloon |
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blind | (noun) a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight | Synonyms: screen |
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(noun) a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters) | - |
(noun) something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity | Synonyms: subterfuge |
(noun) people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group | - |
blinder | (noun) blind consisting of a leather eyepatch sewn to the side of the halter that prevents a horse from seeing something on either side | Synonyms: blinker, winker |
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blindfold | (noun) a cloth used to cover the eyes | - |
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blindness | (noun) the state of being blind or lacking sight | Synonyms: cecity, sightlessness |
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blindworm | (noun) small burrowing legless European lizard with tiny eyes; popularly believed to be blind | Synonyms: Anguis fragilis, slowworm |
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(noun) any of the small slender limbless burrowing wormlike amphibians of the order Gymnophiona; inhabit moist soil in tropical regions | Synonyms: caecilian |
bling | (noun) flashy, ostentatious jewelry | Synonyms: bling bling |
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blini | (noun) Russian pancake of buckwheat flour and yeast; usually served with caviar and sour cream | Synonyms: bliny |
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blink | (noun) a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly | Synonyms: blinking, eye blink, nictation, nictitation, wink, winking |
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blinker | (noun) a light that flashes on and off; used as a signal or to send messages | Synonyms: flasher |
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(noun) blind consisting of a leather eyepatch sewn to the side of the halter that prevents a horse from seeing something on either side | Synonyms: blinder, winker |
(noun) a blinking light on a motor vehicle that indicates the direction in which the vehicle is about to turn | Synonyms: trafficator, turn indicator, turn signal |
blinking | (noun) a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly | Synonyms: blink, eye blink, nictation, nictitation, wink, winking |
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blinks | (noun) small Indian lettuce of northern regions | Synonyms: blinking chickweed, Montia lamprosperma, water chickweed |
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blintz | (noun) (Judaism) thin pancake folded around a filling and fried or baked | Synonyms: blintze |
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blintze | (noun) (Judaism) thin pancake folded around a filling and fried or baked | Synonyms: blintz |
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bliny | (noun) Russian pancake of buckwheat flour and yeast; usually served with caviar and sour cream | Synonyms: blini |
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blip | (noun) a radar echo displayed so as to show the position of a reflecting surface | Synonyms: pip, radar target |
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(noun) a sudden minor shock or meaningless interruption | - |
bliss | (noun) a state of extreme happiness | Synonyms: blissfulness, cloud nine, seventh heaven, walking on air |
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blissfulness | (noun) a state of extreme happiness | Synonyms: bliss, cloud nine, seventh heaven, walking on air |
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blister | (noun) (pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid | Synonyms: bleb, bulla |
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(noun) (botany) a swelling on a plant similar to that on the skin | - |
(noun) a flaw on a surface resulting when an applied substance does not adhere (as an air bubble in a coat of paint) | - |
blistering | (noun) the formation of vesicles in or beneath the skin | Synonyms: vesication, vesiculation |
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blitheness | (noun) a feeling of spontaneous good spirits | Synonyms: cheerfulness |
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blitz | (noun) a swift and violent military offensive with intensive aerial bombardment | Synonyms: blitzkrieg |
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(noun) (American football) defensive players try to break through the offensive line | Synonyms: linebacker blitzing, safety blitz |
blitzkrieg | (noun) a swift and violent military offensive with intensive aerial bombardment | Synonyms: blitz |
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blizzard | (noun) a series of unexpected and unpleasant occurrences | Synonyms: rash |
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(noun) a storm with widespread snowfall accompanied by strong winds | Synonyms: snowstorm |
brambling | (noun) Eurasian finch | Synonyms: Fringilla montifringilla |
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bubbliness | (noun) the property of giving off bubbles | Synonyms: effervescence, frothiness |
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cobbling | (noun) the shoemaker's trade | Synonyms: shoe repairing, shoemaking |
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crumbliness | (noun) excessive breakableness | Synonyms: friability |
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disestablishment | (noun) the act terminating an established state of affairs; especially ending a connection with the Church of England | - |
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dissembling | (noun) the act of deceiving | Synonyms: deceit, deception, dissimulation |
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(noun) pretending with intention to deceive | Synonyms: feigning, pretence, pretense |
doubling | (noun) raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2 | Synonyms: double |
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(noun) increase by a factor of two | - |
dribbling | (noun) the propulsion of a ball by repeated taps or kicks | Synonyms: dribble |
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eblis | (noun) (Islam) the principal evil jinni in Islamic mythology | - |
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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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gambling | (noun) the act of playing for stakes in the hope of winning (including the payment of a price for a chance to win a prize) | Synonyms: gaming, play |
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goblin | (noun) (folklore) a small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings | Synonyms: hob, hobgoblin |
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grumbling | (noun) a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone | Synonyms: grumble, murmur, murmuring, mutter, muttering |
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(noun) a loud low dull continuous noise | Synonyms: grumble, rumble, rumbling |
hobgoblin | (noun) an object of dread or apprehension | Synonyms: bugbear |
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(noun) (folklore) a small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings | Synonyms: goblin, hob |
marbling | (noun) the intermixture of fat and lean in a cut of meat | - |
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mumbling | (noun) ineffectual chewing (as if without teeth) | Synonyms: gumming |
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(noun) indistinct enunciation | - |
niblick | (noun) an iron with considerable loft | Synonyms: nine iron |
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obbligato | (noun) a part of the score that must be performed without change or omission | Synonyms: obligato |
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(noun) a persistent but subordinate motif | Synonyms: obligato |
obligation | (noun) the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force | Synonyms: duty, responsibility |
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(noun) a legal agreement specifying a payment or action and the penalty for failure to comply | - |
(noun) a written promise to repay a debt | Synonyms: certificate of indebtedness, debt instrument |
(noun) a personal relation in which one is indebted for a service or favor | Synonyms: indebtedness |
(noun) the state of being obligated to do or pay something | - |
obligato | (noun) a part of the score that must be performed without change or omission | Synonyms: obbligato |
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(noun) a persistent but subordinate motif | Synonyms: obbligato |
obliger | (noun) someone who performs a service or does a favor | Synonyms: accommodator |
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obligingness | (noun) a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others | Synonyms: complaisance, compliance, compliancy, deference |
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oblique | (noun) a diagonally arranged abdominal muscle on either side of the torso | Synonyms: abdominal external oblique muscle, external oblique muscle, musculus obliquus externus abdominis |
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(noun) any grammatical case other than the nominative | Synonyms: oblique case |
obliqueness | (noun) the property of being neither parallel nor perpendicular, but at a slanting angle | - |
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(noun) the quality of being oblique and rambling indirectly | Synonyms: deviousness |
obliquity | (noun) the quality of being deceptive | Synonyms: deceptiveness |
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(noun) the presentation during labor of the head of the fetus at an abnormal angle | Synonyms: asynclitism |
obliteration | (noun) destruction by annihilating something | Synonyms: annihilation |
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(noun) the complete destruction of every trace of something | Synonyms: eradication |
obliterator | (noun) an eliminator that does away with all traces | - |
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oblivion | (noun) total forgetfulness | Synonyms: obliviousness |
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(noun) the state of being disregarded or forgotten | Synonyms: limbo |
obliviousness | (noun) total forgetfulness | Synonyms: oblivion |
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oubliette | (noun) a dungeon with the only entrance or exit being a trap door in the ceiling | - |
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public | (noun) people in general considered as a whole | Synonyms: populace, world |
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(noun) a body of people sharing some common interest | - |
publican | (noun) the keeper of a public house | Synonyms: tavern keeper |
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publication | (noun) the business of issuing printed matter for sale or distribution | Synonyms: publishing |
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(noun) the act of issuing printed materials | Synonyms: issue |
(noun) the communication of something to the public; making information generally known | - |
(noun) a copy of a printed work offered for distribution | - |
publiciser | (noun) someone who publicizes | Synonyms: publicist, publicizer |
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publicist | (noun) someone who publicizes | Synonyms: publiciser, publicizer |
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publicity | (noun) the quality of being open to public view | - |
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(noun) a message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea or person or institution | Synonyms: packaging, promo, promotion, promotional material |
publicizer | (noun) someone who publicizes | Synonyms: publiciser, publicist |
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publicizing | (noun) the business of drawing public attention to goods and services | Synonyms: advertising, merchandising |
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publisher | (noun) a firm in the publishing business | Synonyms: publishing company, publishing firm, publishing house |
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(noun) a person engaged in publishing periodicals or books or music | - |
(noun) the proprietor of a newspaper | Synonyms: newspaper publisher |
publishing | (noun) the business of issuing printed matter for sale or distribution | Synonyms: publication |
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razbliuto | (noun) the sentimental feeling you have about someone you once loved but no longer do | - |
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republic | (noun) a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them | Synonyms: commonwealth, democracy |
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(noun) a form of government whose head of state is not a monarch | - |
republican | (noun) an advocate of a republic (usually in opposition to a monarchy) | - |
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republicanism | (noun) the political orientation of those who hold that a republic is the best form of government | - |
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republication | (noun) the act of publishing again | Synonyms: republishing |
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(noun) something that has been published again; a fresh publication (as of a literary work) | - |
republishing | (noun) the act of publishing again | Synonyms: republication |
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rumbling | (noun) a loud low dull continuous noise | Synonyms: grumble, grumbling, rumble |
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shambling | (noun) walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet | Synonyms: shamble, shuffle, shuffling |
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sibling | (noun) a person's brother or sister | Synonyms: sib |
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snowblindness | (noun) temporary blindness caused by exposure to sunlight reflected from snow or ice | Synonyms: snow-blindness |
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stabling | (noun) accommodation for animals (especially for horses) | - |
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sublieutenant | (noun) an officer ranking next below a lieutenant | - |
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sublimate | (noun) the product of vaporization of a solid | - |
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sublimation | (noun) (psychology) modifying the natural expression of an impulse or instinct (especially a sexual one) to one that is socially acceptable | - |
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(noun) (chemistry) a change directly from the solid to the gaseous state without becoming liquid | - |
sublimit | (noun) (insurance) a limitation in an amount of loss coverage. | - |
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sublimity | (noun) nobility in thought or feeling or style | - |
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