abampere | (noun) a unit of current equal to 10 amperes | Synonyms: abamp |
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adherence | (noun) faithful support for a cause or political party or religion | Synonyms: adhesion, attachment |
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(noun) the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition | Synonyms: adhesion, adhesiveness, bond |
adherent | (noun) someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another | Synonyms: disciple |
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adulterer | (noun) someone who commits adultery or fornication | Synonyms: fornicator |
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adulteress | (noun) a woman adulterer | Synonyms: fornicatress, hussy, jade, loose woman, slut, strumpet, trollop |
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afferent | (noun) a nerve that passes impulses from receptors toward or to the central nervous system | Synonyms: afferent nerve, sensory nerve |
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aftereffect | (noun) any result that follows its cause after an interval | - |
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(noun) a delayed effect of a drug or therapy | - |
ampere | (noun) the basic unit of electric current adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites | Synonyms: A, amp |
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(noun) a former unit of electric current (slightly smaller than the SI ampere) | Synonyms: international ampere |
answerer | (noun) someone who responds | Synonyms: respondent, responder |
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aperea | (noun) South American cavy; possibly ancestral to the domestic guinea pig | Synonyms: Cavia porcellus, wild cavy |
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aphaeresis | (noun) (linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until' | Synonyms: apheresis |
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apheresis | (noun) a procedure in which blood is drawn and separated into its components by dialysis; some are retained and the rest are returned to the donor by transfusion | Synonyms: pheresis |
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(noun) (linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until' | Synonyms: aphaeresis |
arere | (noun) large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds; yields soft white to pale yellow wood | Synonyms: obeche, obechi, samba, Triplochiton scleroxcylon |
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arthromere | (noun) any of the segments in the body of a jointed animal like an arthropod | - |
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astereognosis | (noun) a loss of the ability to recognize objects by handling them | Synonyms: tactile agnosia |
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asthenosphere | (noun) the lower layer of the crust | - |
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atmosphere | (noun) a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing | Synonyms: air, aura |
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(noun) the mass of air surrounding the Earth | Synonyms: air |
(noun) the envelope of gases surrounding any celestial body | - |
(noun) a unit of pressure: the pressure that will support a column of mercury 760 mm high at sea level and 0 degrees centigrade | Synonyms: atm, standard atmosphere, standard pressure |
(noun) the weather or climate at some place | Synonyms: atmospheric state |
(noun) a particular environment or surrounding influence | Synonyms: ambiance, ambience |
austereness | (noun) extreme plainness | Synonyms: severeness, severity |
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autostereotype | (noun) the standardized mental picture held in common by members of a cultural group depicting an oversimplified image of themselves and their behaviour. | - |
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bacteremia | (noun) transient presence of bacteria (or other microorganisms) in the blood | Synonyms: bacteriaemia, bacteriemia |
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badgerer | (noun) someone who tries to embarrass you with gibes and questions and objections | Synonyms: heckler |
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banneret | (noun) a knight honored for valor; entitled to display a square banner and to hold higher command | Synonyms: knight banneret, knight of the square flag |
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barterer | (noun) a trader who exchanges goods and not money | - |
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bathysphere | (noun) spherical deep diving apparatus (lowered by a cable) for underwater exploration | - |
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belligerence | (noun) a natural disposition to be hostile | Synonyms: aggressiveness, pugnacity |
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(noun) hostile or warlike attitude or nature | Synonyms: belligerency |
belligerency | (noun) fighting; acts of overt warfare | Synonyms: hostilities |
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(noun) hostile or warlike attitude or nature | Synonyms: belligerence |
belligerent | (noun) someone who fights (or is fighting) | Synonyms: battler, combatant, fighter, scrapper |
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belvedere | (noun) a gazebo sited to command a fine view | - |
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(noun) densely branched Eurasian plant; foliage turns purple-red in autumn | Synonyms: Bassia scoparia, burning bush, fire-bush, fire bush, Kochia scoparia, summer cypress |
bereaved | (noun) a person who has suffered the death of someone they loved | Synonyms: bereaved person |
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bereavement | (noun) state of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one | Synonyms: mourning |
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beret | (noun) a cap with no brim or bill; made of soft cloth | - |
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biosphere | (noun) the regions of the surface and atmosphere of the Earth (or other planet) where living organisms exist | - |
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blastomere | (noun) any cell resulting from cleavage of a fertilized egg | - |
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blastosphere | (noun) early stage of an embryo produced by cleavage of an ovum; a liquid-filled sphere whose wall is composed of a single layer of cells; during this stage (about eight days after fertilization) implantation in the wall of the uterus occurs | Synonyms: blastula |
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blubberer | (noun) someone who sniffles and weeps with loud sobs | - |
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blunderer | (noun) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | Synonyms: botcher, bumbler, bungler, butcher, fuckup, fumbler, sad sack, stumbler |
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blusterer | (noun) a person who causes trouble by speaking indiscreetly | Synonyms: loudmouth |
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borderer | (noun) an inhabitant of a border area (especially the border between Scotland and England) | - |
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boutonniere | (noun) a flower that is worn in a buttonhole | - |
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brassiere | (noun) an undergarment worn by women to support their breasts | Synonyms: bandeau, bra |
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buckminsterfullerene | (noun) a spheroidal fullerene; the first known example of a fullerene | Synonyms: buckyball |
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budgereegah | (noun) small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors | Synonyms: budgerigar, budgerygah, budgie, grass parakeet, lovebird, Melopsittacus undulatus, shell parakeet |
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cashmere | (noun) a soft fabric made from the wool of the Cashmere goat | - |
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(noun) the wool of the Kashmir goat | - |
caterer | (noun) someone who provides food and service (as for a party) | - |
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centromere | (noun) a specialized condensed region of each chromosome that appears during mitosis where the chromatids are held together to form an X shape | Synonyms: kinetochore |
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cere | (noun) the fleshy, waxy covering at the base of the upper beak of some birds | - |
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cereal | (noun) a breakfast food prepared from grain | - |
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(noun) foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses | Synonyms: food grain, grain |
(noun) grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat, rice, rye, oats, maize, buckwheat, millet | Synonyms: cereal grass |
cerebellum | (noun) a major division of the vertebrate brain; situated above the medulla oblongata and beneath the cerebrum in humans | - |
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cerebration | (noun) the process of using your mind to consider something carefully | Synonyms: intellection, mentation, thinking, thought, thought process |
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cerebromeningitis | (noun) inflammation of the brain and spinal cord and their meninges | Synonyms: encephalomeningitis, meningoencephalitis |
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cerebroside | (noun) A cerebroside is any of various organic lipid compounds containing glucose or galactose and glucose; it occurs in the myelin sheath of cerebrospinal neurons. | - |
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cerebrum | (noun) anterior portion of the brain consisting of two hemispheres; dominant part of the brain in humans | - |
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cerecloth | (noun) a waterproof waxed cloth once used as a shroud | - |
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cerement | (noun) burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped | Synonyms: pall, shroud, winding-clothes, winding-sheet |
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ceremonial | (noun) a formal event performed on a special occasion | Synonyms: ceremonial occasion, ceremony, observance |
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ceremoniousness | (noun) a ceremonial manner | - |
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ceremony | (noun) the proper or conventional behavior on some solemn occasion | - |
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(noun) any activity that is performed in an especially solemn elaborate or formal way | - |
(noun) a formal event performed on a special occasion | Synonyms: ceremonial, ceremonial occasion, observance |
ceresin | (noun) a white wax extracted from ozokerite | - |
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chanterelle | (noun) widely distributed edible mushroom rich yellow in color with a smooth cap and a pleasant apricot aroma | Synonyms: Cantharellus cibarius, chantarelle |
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chatterer | (noun) passerine bird of New World tropics | Synonyms: cotinga |
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(noun) an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker | Synonyms: babbler, chatterbox, magpie, prater, spouter |
cheerer | (noun) a spectator who shouts encouragement | - |
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chickeree | (noun) far western United States counterpart of the red squirrel | Synonyms: Douglas squirrel, Tamiasciurus douglasi |
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chromosphere | (noun) a gaseous layer of the sun's atmosphere (extending from the photosphere to the corona) that is visible during a total eclipse of the sun | - |
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circumference | (noun) the size of something as given by the distance around it | Synonyms: perimeter |
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(noun) the length of the closed curve of a circle | - |
(noun) the boundary line encompassing an area or object | Synonyms: circuit |
clerestory | (noun) part of an interior wall rising above the adjacent roof with windows admitting light | Synonyms: clearstory |
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cockerel | (noun) a young domestic cock; not older than one year | - |
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coherence | (noun) logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts | Synonyms: coherency |
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(noun) the state of cohering or sticking together | Synonyms: coherency, cohesion, cohesiveness |
coherency | (noun) logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts | Synonyms: coherence |
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(noun) the state of cohering or sticking together | Synonyms: coherence, cohesion, cohesiveness |
compere | (noun) British term for someone who introduces television acts or cabarets etc | - |
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conferee | (noun) a member of a conference | - |
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(noun) a person on whom something is bestowed | - |
conference | (noun) a discussion among participants who have an agreed (serious) topic | Synonyms: group discussion |
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(noun) a prearranged meeting for consultation or exchange of information or discussion (especially one with a formal agenda) | - |
(noun) an association of sports teams that organizes matches for its members | Synonyms: league |
confrere | (noun) a person who is member of one's class or profession | Synonyms: colleague, fellow |
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coreference | (noun) the grammatical relation between two words that have a common referent | - |
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counterespionage | (noun) spying on the spies | - |
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counterevidence | (noun) (philosophy, law, sciences) Evidence which tends to disprove a claim or hypothesis. | Synonyms: counter-evidence |
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counterexample | (noun) refutation by example | - |
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countertransference | (noun) the psychoanalyst's displacement of emotion onto the patient or more generally the psychoanalyst's emotional involvement in the therapeutic interaction | - |
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cubitiere | (noun) body armor that protects the elbow | - |
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decipherer | (noun) a reader capable of reading and interpreting illegible or obscure text | - |
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(noun) the kind of intellectual who converts messages from a code to plain text | Synonyms: decoder |
dedifferentiation | (noun) the loss of specialization in form or function | - |
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deference | (noun) a courteous expression (by word or deed) of esteem or regard | Synonyms: respect |
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(noun) a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others | Synonyms: complaisance, compliance, compliancy, obligingness |
(noun) courteous regard for people's feelings | Synonyms: respect, respectfulness |
deliverer | (noun) a person who rescues you from harm or danger | Synonyms: rescuer, savior, saviour |
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(noun) a person who gives up or transfers money or goods | - |
(noun) someone employed to make deliveries | Synonyms: delivery boy, deliveryman |
deregulating | (noun) the act of freeing from regulation (especially from governmental regulations) | Synonyms: deregulation |
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deregulation | (noun) the act of freeing from regulation (especially from governmental regulations) | Synonyms: deregulating |
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derelict | (noun) a ship abandoned on the high seas | Synonyms: abandoned ship |
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(noun) a person without a home, job, or property | - |
dereliction | (noun) willful negligence | - |
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(noun) a tendency to be negligent and uncaring | Synonyms: delinquency, willful neglect |
derriere | (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
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diaeresis | (noun) a diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel to indicate that it does not form a diphthong with an adjacent vowel | Synonyms: dieresis |
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dieresis | (noun) a diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel to indicate that it does not form a diphthong with an adjacent vowel | Synonyms: diaeresis |
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difference | (noun) the quality of being unlike or dissimilar | - |
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(noun) a disagreement or argument about something important | Synonyms: conflict, difference of opinion, dispute |
(noun) a variation that deviates from the standard or norm | Synonyms: departure, deviation, divergence |
(noun) the number that remains after subtraction; the number that when added to the subtrahend gives the minuend | Synonyms: remainder |
(noun) a significant change | - |
differentia | (noun) distinguishing characteristics (especially in different species of a genus) | - |
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differential | (noun) a bevel gear that permits rotation of two shafts at different speeds; used on the rear axle of automobiles to allow wheels to rotate at different speeds on curves | Synonyms: differential gear |
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(noun) a quality that differentiates between similar things | - |
(noun) the result of mathematical differentiation; the instantaneous change of one quantity relative to another; df(x)/dx | Synonyms: derivative, derived function, differential coefficient, first derivative |
differentiation | (noun) the mathematical process of obtaining the derivative of a function | - |
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(noun) a discrimination between things as different and distinct on the basis of their characteristics or attributes | Synonyms: distinction |
(noun) (biology) the structural adaptation of some body part for a particular function | Synonyms: specialisation, specialization |
differentiator | (noun) a person who (or that which) differentiates | Synonyms: discriminator |
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discoverer | (noun) someone who is the first to observe something | Synonyms: finder, spotter |
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(noun) someone who is the first to think of or make something | Synonyms: artificer, inventor |
disinterest | (noun) tolerance attributable to a lack of involvement | Synonyms: neutrality |
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(noun) lack of interest | - |
disinterestedness | (noun) freedom from bias or from selfish motives | - |
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dodderer | (noun) one who dodders from old age and weakness | - |
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doggerel | (noun) a comic verse of irregular measure | Synonyms: doggerel verse, jingle |
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dotterel | (noun) rare plover of upland areas of Eurasia | Synonyms: Charadrius morinellus, dotrel, Eudromias morinellus |
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