medication | (noun) the act of treating with medicines or remedies | - |
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(noun) (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease | Synonyms: medicament, medicinal drug, medicine |
medicine | (noun) the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries | Synonyms: practice of medicine |
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(noun) punishment for one's actions | Synonyms: music |
(noun) (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease | Synonyms: medicament, medication, medicinal drug |
(noun) the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques | Synonyms: medical specialty |
medick | (noun) any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves | Synonyms: medic, trefoil |
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medico | (noun) a licensed medical practitioner | Synonyms: doc, doctor, Dr., MD, physician |
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(noun) a student in medical school | Synonyms: medical student |
mendicancy | (noun) a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person) | Synonyms: beggary, begging |
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(noun) the state of being a beggar or mendicant | Synonyms: beggary, mendicity |
mendicant | (noun) a pauper who lives by begging | Synonyms: beggar |
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(noun) a male member of a religious order that originally relied solely on alms | Synonyms: friar |
mendicity | (noun) the state of being a beggar or mendicant | Synonyms: beggary, mendicancy |
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methodicalness | (noun) the quality of appreciating method and system | Synonyms: orderliness |
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modicum | (noun) a small or moderate or token amount | - |
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orthopaedics | (noun) the branch of medical science concerned with disorders or deformities of the spine and joints | Synonyms: orthopedics |
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orthopedics | (noun) the branch of medical science concerned with disorders or deformities of the spine and joints | Synonyms: orthopaedics |
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pandiculation | (noun) yawning and stretching (as when first waking up) | - |
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paramedic | (noun) a person trained to assist medical professionals and to give emergency medical treatment | Synonyms: paramedical |
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paramedical | (noun) a person trained to assist medical professionals and to give emergency medical treatment | Synonyms: paramedic |
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pedicab | (noun) a tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling); used in the Orient for transporting passengers for hire | Synonyms: cycle rickshaw |
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pedicel | (noun) a small stalk bearing a single flower of an inflorescence; an ultimate division of a common peduncle | Synonyms: pedicle |
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pedicle | (noun) a small stalk bearing a single flower of an inflorescence; an ultimate division of a common peduncle | Synonyms: pedicel |
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pediculicide | (noun) a chemical agent that kills lice | - |
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pediculosis | (noun) infestation with lice (Pediculus humanus) resulting in severe itching | Synonyms: lousiness |
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pedicure | (noun) professional care for the feet and toenails | - |
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periodical | (noun) a publication that appears at fixed intervals | - |
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periodicity | (noun) the quality of recurring at regular intervals | Synonyms: cyclicity |
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perpendicular | (noun) an extremely steep face | - |
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(noun) a cord from which a metal weight is suspended pointing directly to the earth's center of gravity; used to determine the vertical from a given point | Synonyms: plumb line |
(noun) a Gothic style in 14th and 15th century England; characterized by vertical lines and a four-centered (Tudor) arch and fan vaulting | Synonyms: English-Gothic, English-Gothic architecture, perpendicular style |
(noun) a straight line at right angles to another line | - |
perpendicularity | (noun) the quality of being at right angles to a given line or plane (especially the plane of the horizon) | - |
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(noun) the relation of opposition between things at right angles | Synonyms: orthogonal opposition, orthogonality |
predicament | (noun) a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one | Synonyms: plight, quandary |
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predicate | (noun) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements | Synonyms: verb phrase |
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(noun) (logic) what is predicated of the subject of a proposition; the second term in a proposition is predicated of the first term by means of the copula | - |
predication | (noun) (logic) a declaration of something self-evident; something that can be assumed as the basis for argument | Synonyms: postulation |
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predicator | (noun) an expression that predicates | - |
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predictability | (noun) the quality of being predictable | - |
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prediction | (noun) the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future) | Synonyms: anticipation, prevision |
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(noun) a statement made about the future | Synonyms: forecasting, foretelling, prognostication |
predictor | (noun) a computer for controlling antiaircraft fire that computes the position of an aircraft at the instant of a shell's arrival | - |
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(noun) information that supports a probabilistic estimate of future events | - |
(noun) someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge) | Synonyms: forecaster, prognosticator, soothsayer |
preindication | (noun) an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come | Synonyms: augury, foretoken, sign |
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prejudice | (noun) a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation | Synonyms: bias, preconception |
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radical | (noun) a character conveying the lexical meaning of a logogram | - |
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(noun) (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed | Synonyms: base, root, root word, stem, theme |
(noun) a person who has radical ideas or opinions | - |
(noun) (mathematics) a quantity expressed as the root of another quantity | - |
(noun) (chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule | Synonyms: chemical group, group |
(noun) an atom or group of atoms with at least one unpaired electron; in the body it is usually an oxygen molecule that has lost an electron and will stabilize itself by stealing an electron from a nearby molecule | Synonyms: free radical |
radicalism | (noun) the political orientation of those who favor revolutionary change in government and society | - |
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radicchio | (noun) prized variety of chicory having globose heads of red leaves | - |
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radicle | (noun) (anatomy) a small structure resembling a rootlet (such as a fibril of a nerve) | - |
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radiculitis | (noun) inflammation of the radicle of a nerve | - |
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rededication | (noun) a new dedication | - |
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ridicule | (noun) the act of deriding or treating with contempt | Synonyms: derision |
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(noun) language or behavior intended to mock or humiliate | - |
ridiculer | (noun) a humorist who uses ridicule and irony and sarcasm | Synonyms: ironist, satirist |
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ridiculousness | (noun) a message whose content is at variance with reason | Synonyms: absurdity, absurdness |
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sporadicalness | (noun) The quality of being rare and scattered in occurrence. | - |
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syndic | (noun) one appointed to represent a city or university or corporation in business transactions | - |
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syndicalism | (noun) a radical political movement that advocates bringing industry and government under the control of labor unions | - |
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syndicalist | (noun) an advocate of anarchism | Synonyms: anarchist, nihilist |
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syndicate | (noun) an association of companies for some definite purpose | Synonyms: consortium, pool |
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(noun) a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities | Synonyms: crime syndicate, family, mob |
(noun) a news agency that sells features or articles or photographs etc. to newspapers for simultaneous publication | - |
syndication | (noun) organizing into or administering as a syndicate | - |
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(noun) selling (an article or cartoon) for publication in many magazines or newspapers at the same time | - |
syndicator | (noun) a businessman who forms a syndicate | - |
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theodicy | (noun) the branch of theology that defends God's goodness and justice in the face of the existence of evil | - |
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underbodice | (noun) a short sleeveless undergarment for women | Synonyms: camisole |
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unpredictability | (noun) lacking predictability | - |
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(noun) the trait of being unpredictably irresolute | Synonyms: volatility |
(noun) the quality of being guided by sudden unpredictable impulses | Synonyms: capriciousness |
valediction | (noun) the act of saying farewell | - |
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(noun) a farewell oration (especially one delivered during graduation exercises by an outstanding member of a graduating class) | Synonyms: valedictory, valedictory address, valedictory oration |
valedictorian | (noun) the student with the best grades who usually delivers the valedictory address at commencement | Synonyms: valedictory speaker |
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valedictory | (noun) a farewell oration (especially one delivered during graduation exercises by an outstanding member of a graduating class) | Synonyms: valediction, valedictory address, valedictory oration |
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verdict | (noun) (law) the findings of a jury on issues of fact submitted to it for decision; can be used in formulating a judgment | Synonyms: finding of fact |
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vindication | (noun) the act of vindicating or defending against criticism or censure etc. | Synonyms: exoneration |
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(noun) the justification for some act or belief | Synonyms: defence, defense |
vindicator | (noun) a person who argues to defend or justify some policy or institution | Synonyms: apologist, justifier |
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vindictiveness | (noun) a malevolent desire for revenge | Synonyms: vengefulness |
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