accuracy | (noun) the quality of being near to the true value | Synonyms: truth |
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(noun) (mathematics) the number of significant figures given in a number | - |
chiaroscuro | (noun) a monochrome picture made by using several different shades of the same color | - |
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concurrence | (noun) acting together, as agents or circumstances or events | Synonyms: concurrency |
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(noun) the temporal property of two things happening at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrence, coincidence, conjunction |
(noun) agreement of results or opinions | Synonyms: concurrency |
(noun) a state of cooperation | Synonyms: meeting of minds |
concurrency | (noun) acting together, as agents or circumstances or events | Synonyms: concurrence |
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(noun) agreement of results or opinions | Synonyms: concurrence |
countercurrent | (noun) actions counter to the main group activity | Synonyms: crosscurrent |
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(noun) a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current | Synonyms: crosscurrent, rip, riptide, tide rip |
crosscurrent | (noun) actions counter to the main group activity | Synonyms: countercurrent |
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(noun) a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current | Synonyms: countercurrent, rip, riptide, tide rip |
cryptocurrency | (noun) a currency based on the usage of cryptography to secure transactions | - |
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cucurbit | (noun) any plant of the family Cucurbitaceae | - |
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cur | (noun) an inferior dog or one of mixed breed | Synonyms: mongrel, mutt |
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(noun) a cowardly or contemptible person | - |
curability | (noun) capability of being cured or healed | Synonyms: curableness |
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curableness | (noun) capability of being cured or healed | Synonyms: curability |
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curacao | (noun) flavored with sour orange peel | Synonyms: curacoa |
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curacoa | (noun) flavored with sour orange peel | Synonyms: curacao |
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curacy | (noun) the position of a curate | - |
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curandera | (noun) a Mexican woman who practices healing techniques inherited from the Mayans | - |
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curandero | (noun) a Mexican man who practices healing techniques inherited from the Mayans | - |
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curare | (noun) a toxic alkaloid found in certain tropical South American trees that is a powerful relaxant for striated muscles | Synonyms: tubocurarine |
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curassow | (noun) large crested arboreal game bird of warm parts of the Americas having long legs and tails; highly esteemed as game and food | - |
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curate | (noun) a person authorized to conduct religious worship | Synonyms: minister, minister of religion, parson, pastor, rector |
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curative | (noun) a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain | Synonyms: cure, remedy, therapeutic |
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curator | (noun) the custodian of a collection (as a museum or library) | Synonyms: conservator |
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curatorship | (noun) the position of curator | - |
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curb | (noun) the act of restraining power or action or limiting excess | Synonyms: bridle, check |
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(noun) an edge between a sidewalk and a roadway consisting of a line of curbstones (usually forming part of a gutter) | Synonyms: curbing, kerb |
(noun) a horse's bit with an attached chain or strap to check the horse | Synonyms: curb bit |
curbing | (noun) an edge between a sidewalk and a roadway consisting of a line of curbstones (usually forming part of a gutter) | Synonyms: curb, kerb |
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curbside | (noun) the side of a sidewalk that is bordered by a curb | - |
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curbstone | (noun) a paving stone forming part of a curb | Synonyms: kerbstone |
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curd | (noun) coagulated milk; used to make cheese | - |
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(noun) a coagulated liquid resembling milk curd | - |
curdling | (noun) the process of forming semisolid lumps in a liquid | Synonyms: clotting, coagulation |
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cure | (noun) a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain | Synonyms: curative, remedy, therapeutic |
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curet | (noun) a surgical instrument shaped like a scoop to remove tissue from a bodily cavity | Synonyms: curette |
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curettage | (noun) surgery to remove tissue or growths from a bodily cavity (as the uterus) by scraping with a curette | Synonyms: curettement |
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curette | (noun) a surgical instrument shaped like a scoop to remove tissue from a bodily cavity | Synonyms: curet |
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curettement | (noun) surgery to remove tissue or growths from a bodily cavity (as the uterus) by scraping with a curette | Synonyms: curettage |
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curfew | (noun) a signal (usually a bell) announcing the start of curfew restrictions | - |
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(noun) an order that after a specific time certain activities (as being outside on the streets) are prohibited | - |
(noun) the time that the curfew signal is sounded | - |
curie | (noun) a unit of radioactivity equal to the amount of a radioactive isotope that decays at the rate of 37,000,000,000 disintegrations per second | Synonyms: Ci |
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curing | (noun) the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization | Synonyms: hardening, set, solidification, solidifying |
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curio | (noun) something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting | Synonyms: curiosity, oddity, oddment, peculiarity, rarity |
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curiosa | (noun) books on strange or unusual subjects (especially erotica) | - |
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curiosity | (noun) something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting | Synonyms: curio, oddity, oddment, peculiarity, rarity |
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(noun) a state in which you want to learn more about something | Synonyms: wonder |
curiousness | (noun) the quality of being alien or not native | Synonyms: foreignness, strangeness |
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(noun) a state of active curiosity | Synonyms: inquisitiveness |
curium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic metallic element; produced by bombarding plutonium with helium nuclei | Synonyms: atomic number 96, Cm |
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curl | (noun) lock of hair in the shape of a spiral or curl | Synonyms: ringlet, whorl |
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(noun) a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals) | Synonyms: coil, curlicue, gyre, ringlet, roll, scroll, whorl |
curler | (noun) a mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it | Synonyms: crimper, hair curler, roller |
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curlew | (noun) large migratory shorebirds of the sandpiper family; closely related to woodcocks but having a down-curved bill | - |
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curlicue | (noun) a short twisting line | Synonyms: squiggle |
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(noun) a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals) | Synonyms: coil, curl, gyre, ringlet, roll, scroll, whorl |
curliness | (noun) (of hair) a tendency to curl | Synonyms: waviness |
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curling | (noun) a game played on ice in which heavy stones with handles are slid toward a target | - |
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curmudgeon | (noun) a crusty irascible cantankerous old person full of stubborn ideas | - |
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currajong | (noun) widely distributed tree of eastern Australia yielding a tough durable fiber and soft light attractively grained wood; foliage is an important emergency food for cattle | Synonyms: Brachychiton populneus, kurrajong |
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currant | (noun) any of several tart red or black berries used primarily for jellies and jams | - |
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(noun) small dried seedless raisin grown in the Mediterranean region and California; used in cooking | - |
(noun) any of various deciduous shrubs of the genus Ribes bearing currants | Synonyms: currant bush |
currawong | (noun) bluish black fruit-eating bird with a bell-like call | Synonyms: bell magpie |
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currency | (noun) the property of belonging to the present time | Synonyms: currentness, up-to-dateness |
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(noun) general acceptance or use | - |
(noun) the metal or paper medium of exchange that is presently used | - |
current | (noun) a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes) | Synonyms: stream |
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(noun) dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas | Synonyms: flow, stream |
(noun) a flow of electricity through a conductor | Synonyms: electric current |
currentness | (noun) the property of belonging to the present time | Synonyms: currency, up-to-dateness |
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curriculum | (noun) an integrated course of academic studies | Synonyms: course of study, program, programme, syllabus |
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currier | (noun) a craftsman who curries leather for use | - |
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curry | (noun) (East Indian cookery) a pungent dish of vegetables or meats flavored with curry powder and usually eaten with rice | - |
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currycomb | (noun) a square comb with rows of small teeth; used to curry horses | - |
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curse | (noun) profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger | Synonyms: curse word, cuss, expletive, oath, swearing, swearword |
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(noun) an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group | Synonyms: condemnation, execration |
(noun) an evil spell | Synonyms: hex, jinx, whammy |
(noun) a severe affliction | Synonyms: torment |
(noun) something causing misery or death | Synonyms: bane, nemesis, scourge |
cursive | (noun) rapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and are cursively connected within words without lifting the writing implement from the paper | Synonyms: cursive script, longhand, running hand |
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cursor | (noun) (computer science) indicator consisting of a movable spot of light (an icon) on a visual display; moving it allows the user to point to commands or screen positions | Synonyms: pointer |
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curtailment | (noun) the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation | Synonyms: suppression |
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(noun) the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable | Synonyms: downsizing, retrenchment |
(noun) the temporal property of being cut short | - |
curtain | (noun) hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) | Synonyms: drape, drapery, mantle, pall |
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(noun) any barrier to communication or vision | - |
curtilage | (noun) the enclosed land around a house or other building | Synonyms: grounds, yard |
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curtness | (noun) an abrupt discourteous manner | Synonyms: abruptness, brusqueness, gruffness, shortness |
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curtsey | (noun) bending the knees; a gesture of respect made by women | Synonyms: curtsy |
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curtsy | (noun) bending the knees; a gesture of respect made by women | Synonyms: curtsey |
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curvaceousness | (noun) the quality of having a well-rounded body | Synonyms: shapeliness, voluptuousness |
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curvature | (noun) the rate of change (at a point) of the angle between a curve and a tangent to the curve | - |
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(noun) the property possessed by the curving of a line or surface | Synonyms: curve |
(noun) (medicine) a curving or bending; often abnormal | - |
curve | (noun) a pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approaches the batter | Synonyms: bender, breaking ball, curve ball |
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(noun) curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.) | Synonyms: bend |
(noun) the property possessed by the curving of a line or surface | Synonyms: curvature |
(noun) a line on a graph representing data | - |
(noun) the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes | Synonyms: curved shape |
curvet | (noun) a light leap by a horse in which both hind legs leave the ground before the forelegs come down | Synonyms: vaulting |
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discursiveness | (noun) the quality of being discursive | - |
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epicure | (noun) a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink) | Synonyms: bon vivant, epicurean, foodie, gastronome, gourmet |
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epicurean | (noun) a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink) | Synonyms: bon vivant, epicure, foodie, gastronome, gourmet |
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epicureanism | (noun) a doctrine of hedonism that was defended by several ancient Greek philosophers | - |
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epicurism | (noun) the disposition and habits of an epicure | - |
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excursion | (noun) a journey taken for pleasure | Synonyms: expedition, jaunt, junket, outing, pleasure trip, sashay |
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(noun) wandering from the main path of a journey | Synonyms: digression |
excursionist | (noun) a tourist who is visiting sights of interest | Synonyms: rubberneck, sightseer, tripper |
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excursus | (noun) a message that departs from the main subject | Synonyms: aside, digression, divagation, parenthesis |
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inaccuracy | (noun) the quality of being inaccurate and having errors | - |
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incurability | (noun) incapability of being cured or healed | Synonyms: incurableness |
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(noun) incapability of being altered in disposition or habits | - |
incurable | (noun) a person whose disease is incurable | - |
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incurableness | (noun) incapability of being cured or healed | Synonyms: incurability |
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incurrence | (noun) the act of incurring (making yourself subject to something undesirable) | - |
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incurring | (noun) acquiring or coming into something (usually undesirable) | - |
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incursion | (noun) an attack that penetrates into enemy territory | Synonyms: penetration |
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(noun) the act of entering some territory or domain (often in large numbers) | - |
(noun) the mistake of incurring liability or blame | - |
incurvation | (noun) the action of creating a curved shape | - |
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(noun) a shape that curves or bends inward | Synonyms: concave shape, concavity, incurvature |
incurvature | (noun) a shape that curves or bends inward | Synonyms: concave shape, concavity, incurvation |
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insecureness | (noun) the state of being exposed to risk or anxiety | - |
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insecurity | (noun) the anxiety you experience when you feel vulnerable and insecure | - |
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(noun) the state of being subject to danger or injury | - |
kencur | (noun) a dried rhizome or its powdered form of Kaempferia galanga, used in cooking in Indonesia. | - |
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manicure | (noun) professional care for the hands and fingernails | - |
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manicurist | (noun) a beautician who cleans and trims and polishes the fingernails | - |
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mercury | (noun) temperature measured by a mercury thermometer | - |
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(noun) a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures | Synonyms: atomic number 80, Hg, hydrargyrum, quicksilver |
millicurie | (noun) a unit of radioactivity equal to one thousandth of a curie | - |
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nonoccurrence | (noun) absence by virtue of not occurring | - |
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obscurantism | (noun) a deliberate act intended to make something obscure | - |
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(noun) a policy of opposition to enlightenment or the spread of knowledge | - |
obscurantist | (noun) a person who is deliberately vague | - |
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obscureness | (noun) the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand | Synonyms: abstruseness, obscurity, reconditeness |
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(noun) the state of being humble and unimportant | Synonyms: humbleness, lowliness, unimportance |
(noun) the state of being indistinct or indefinite for lack of adequate illumination | Synonyms: obscurity |
obscurity | (noun) the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand | Synonyms: abstruseness, obscureness, reconditeness |
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(noun) an obscure and unimportant standing; not well known | - |
(noun) the state of being indistinct or indefinite for lack of adequate illumination | Synonyms: obscureness |