bdellium | (noun) aromatic gum resin; similar to myrrh | - |
---|
bellicoseness | (noun) a natural disposition to fight | Synonyms: bellicosity |
---|
bellicosity | (noun) a natural disposition to fight | Synonyms: bellicoseness |
---|
belligerence | (noun) a natural disposition to be hostile | Synonyms: aggressiveness, pugnacity |
---|
(noun) hostile or warlike attitude or nature | Synonyms: belligerency |
belligerency | (noun) fighting; acts of overt warfare | Synonyms: hostilities |
---|
(noun) hostile or warlike attitude or nature | Synonyms: belligerence |
belligerent | (noun) someone who fights (or is fighting) | Synonyms: battler, combatant, fighter, scrapper |
---|
belling | (noun) a noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple | Synonyms: callathump, callithump, charivari, chivaree, shivaree |
---|
camellia | (noun) any of several shrubs or small evergreen trees having solitary white or pink or reddish flowers | Synonyms: camelia |
---|
cellist | (noun) someone who plays a violoncello | Synonyms: violoncellist |
---|
counselling | (noun) something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action | Synonyms: counsel, counseling, direction, guidance |
---|
counterintelligence | (noun) intelligence activities concerned with identifying and counteracting the threat to security posed by hostile intelligence organizations or by individuals engaged in espionage or sabotage or subversion or terrorism | - |
---|
duellist | (noun) a person who fights duels | Synonyms: dueler, duelist, dueller |
---|
dwelling | (noun) housing that someone is living in | Synonyms: abode, domicile, dwelling house, habitation, home |
---|
ellipse | (noun) a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it | Synonyms: oval |
---|
ellipsis | (noun) omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences | Synonyms: eclipsis |
---|
ellipsoid | (noun) a surface whose plane sections are all ellipses or circles | - |
---|
ellipticity | (noun) the property possessed by a round shape that is flattened at the poles | Synonyms: oblateness |
---|
embellishment | (noun) the act of adding extraneous decorations to something | Synonyms: ornamentation |
---|
(noun) a superfluous ornament | - |
(noun) elaboration of an interpretation by the use of decorative (sometimes fictitious) detail | Synonyms: embroidery |
expelling | (noun) any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body | Synonyms: discharge, emission |
---|
fedelline | (noun) extremely fine pasta thinner than vermicelli | - |
---|
fingerspelling | (noun) an alphabet of manual signs | Synonyms: finger spelling |
---|
foretelling | (noun) the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means | Synonyms: divination, fortune telling, soothsaying |
---|
(noun) a statement made about the future | Synonyms: forecasting, prediction, prognostication |
fortunetelling | (noun) the practice of predicting people's futures (usually for payment) | - |
---|
fuelling | (noun) the activity of supplying or taking on fuel | Synonyms: fueling, refueling |
---|
gibberellin | (noun) a plant hormone isolated from a fungus; used in promoting plant growth | - |
---|
hellion | (noun) a rowdy or mischievous person (usually a young man) | Synonyms: devil, heller |
---|
hellishness | (noun) The property of being extremely bad, miserable, difficult or terrifying; resembling a nightmare. | Synonyms: nightmarishness |
---|
hyperintelligence | (noun) Remarkable intelligence, intelligence at or above and beyond the level of a genius. | Synonyms: superintelligence |
---|
intelligence | (noun) the operation of gathering information about an enemy | Synonyms: intelligence activity, intelligence operation |
---|
(noun) the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience | - |
(noun) information about recent and important events | Synonyms: news, tidings, word |
(noun) secret information about an enemy (or potential enemy) | Synonyms: intelligence information |
(noun) a unit responsible for gathering and interpreting information about an enemy | Synonyms: intelligence agency, intelligence service |
intelligentsia | (noun) an educated and intellectual elite | Synonyms: clerisy |
---|
intelligibility | (noun) the quality of language that is comprehensible | - |
---|
lamellibranch | (noun) marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together | Synonyms: bivalve, pelecypod |
---|
mellitate | (noun) a salt of mellitic acid. | - |
---|
misspelling | (noun) a spelling that is incorrect | - |
---|
modelling | (noun) the act of representing something (usually on a smaller scale) | Synonyms: model, modeling |
---|
(noun) a preliminary sculpture in wax or clay from which a finished work can be copied | Synonyms: modeling, molding, moulding |
(noun) sculpture produced by molding | Synonyms: clay sculpture, modeling, mold, molding, mould, moulding |
panelling | (noun) a panel or section of panels in a wall or door | Synonyms: pane, paneling |
---|
panellist | (noun) a member of a panel | Synonyms: panelist |
---|
parcelling | (noun) the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan | Synonyms: allocation, allotment, apportioning, apportionment, assignation, parceling |
---|
pellicle | (noun) thin protective membrane in some protozoa | - |
---|
pellitory | (noun) a small Mediterranean plant containing a volatile oil once used to relieve toothache | Synonyms: Anacyclus pyrethrum, pellitory-of-Spain |
---|
(noun) herb that grows in crevices having long narrow leaves and small pink apetalous flowers | Synonyms: Parietaria difusa, pellitory-of-the-wall, wall pellitory |
quelling | (noun) forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority | Synonyms: crushing, stifling, suppression |
---|
ravelling | (noun) a bit of fiber that has become separated from woven fabric | Synonyms: raveling |
---|
rebellion | (noun) organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another | Synonyms: insurrection, revolt, rising, uprising |
---|
(noun) refusal to accept some authority or code or convention | - |
rebelliousness | (noun) an insubordinate act | Synonyms: insubordination |
---|
(noun) intentionally contemptuous behavior or attitude | Synonyms: defiance |
regnellidium | (noun) small latex-containing aquatic fern of southern Brazil | Synonyms: Regnellidium diphyllum |
---|
satellite | (noun) man-made equipment that orbits around the earth or the moon | Synonyms: artificial satellite, orbiter |
---|
(noun) any celestial body orbiting around a planet or star | - |
(noun) a person who follows or serves another | Synonyms: planet |
selling | (noun) the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money | Synonyms: marketing, merchandising |
---|
shelling | (noun) the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target | Synonyms: barrage, barrage fire, battery, bombardment |
---|
smelling | (noun) the act of perceiving the odor of something | Synonyms: smell |
---|
spelling | (noun) forming words with letters according to the principles underlying accepted usage | - |
---|
superintelligence | (noun) Remarkable intelligence, intelligence at or above and beyond the level of a genius. | Synonyms: hyperintelligence |
---|
swelling | (noun) the increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water) | Synonyms: intumescence, intumescency |
---|
(noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance |
(noun) an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement | Synonyms: lump, puffiness |
teleselling | (noun) the use of the telephone as an interactive medium for promotion and sales | Synonyms: telecommerce, telemarketing |
---|
telling | (noun) informing by words | Synonyms: apprisal, notification |
---|
(noun) an act of narration | Synonyms: recounting, relation |
(noun) disclosing information or giving evidence about another | Synonyms: singing, tattle |
tortellini | (noun) small ring-shaped stuffed pasta | - |
---|
towelling | (noun) any of various fabrics (linen or cotton) used to make towels | Synonyms: toweling |
---|
travelling | (noun) the act of going from one place to another | Synonyms: travel, traveling |
---|
trellis | (noun) latticework used to support climbing plants | Synonyms: treillage |
---|
umbellifer | (noun) any of numerous aromatic herbs of the family Umbelliferae | Synonyms: umbelliferous plant |
---|
unintelligibility | (noun) incomprehensibility as a consequence of being unintelligible | - |
---|
(noun) nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible | Synonyms: incoherence, incoherency |
vellication | (noun) a sudden muscle spasm; especially one caused by a nervous condition | Synonyms: twitch, twitching |
---|
vermicelli | (noun) pasta in strings thinner than spaghetti | - |
---|
violoncellist | (noun) someone who plays a violoncello | Synonyms: cellist |
---|
yelling | (noun) uttering a loud inarticulate cry as of pain or excitement | Synonyms: shouting |
---|