evasion | (noun) the act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver | - |
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(noun) nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do | Synonyms: dodging, escape |
(noun) the deliberate act of failing to pay money | Synonyms: nonpayment |
(noun) a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth | Synonyms: equivocation |
evasiveness | (noun) intentionally vague or ambiguous | Synonyms: equivocation, prevarication |
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eve | (noun) the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall) | Synonyms: even, evening, eventide |
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(noun) the day before | - |
(noun) the period immediately before something | - |
even | (noun) the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall) | Synonyms: eve, evening, eventide |
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evenfall | (noun) the time of day immediately following sunset | Synonyms: crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, fall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, twilight |
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evening | (noun) the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall) | Synonyms: eve, even, eventide |
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(noun) a later concluding time period | - |
(noun) the early part of night (from dinner until bedtime) spent in a special way | - |
eveningwear | (noun) attire to wear on formal occasions in the evening | Synonyms: evening clothes, evening dress, formalwear |
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evenness | (noun) a quality of uniformity and lack of variation | Synonyms: invariability |
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(noun) the quality of being balanced | - |
(noun) the parity of even numbers (divisible by two) | - |
evensong | (noun) (Anglican Church) a daily evening service with prayers prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer | Synonyms: Evening Prayer |
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(noun) the sixth of the seven canonical hours of the divine office; early evening; now often made a public service on Sundays | Synonyms: vespers |
event | (noun) something that happens at a given place and time | - |
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(noun) a phenomenon located at a single point in space-time; the fundamental observational entity in relativity theory | - |
(noun) a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon | Synonyms: consequence, effect, issue, outcome, result, upshot |
(noun) a special set of circumstances | Synonyms: case |
eventide | (noun) the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall) | Synonyms: eve, even, evening |
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eventration | (noun) protrusion of the intestine through the abdominal wall | - |
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eventuality | (noun) a possible event or occurrence or result | Synonyms: contingence, contingency |
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evergreen | (noun) a plant having foliage that persists and remains green throughout the year | Synonyms: evergreen plant |
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everlasting | (noun) any of various plants of various genera of the family Compositae having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color | Synonyms: everlasting flower |
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everlastingness | (noun) the property of lasting forever | - |
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eversion | (noun) the act of turning inside out | Synonyms: everting, inversion |
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(noun) the position of being turned outward | - |
everting | (noun) the act of turning inside out | Synonyms: eversion, inversion |
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everydayness | (noun) ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplace | Synonyms: commonness, commonplaceness |
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everyman | (noun) the ordinary person | - |
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everything | (noun) all things that are of importance to a person | - |
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eviction | (noun) the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law | Synonyms: dispossession, legal ouster |
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(noun) action by a landlord that compels a tenant to leave the premises (as by rendering the premises unfit for occupancy); no physical expulsion or legal process is involved | Synonyms: constructive eviction |
evidence | (noun) your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief | Synonyms: grounds |
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(noun) (law) all the means by which any alleged matter of fact whose truth is investigated at judicial trial is established or disproved | - |
(noun) an indication that makes something evident | - |
evil | (noun) morally objectionable behavior | Synonyms: immorality, iniquity, wickedness |
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(noun) the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice | Synonyms: evilness |
evildoer | (noun) a person who sins (without repenting) | Synonyms: sinner |
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evildoing | (noun) the act of transgressing; the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle | Synonyms: transgression |
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evilness | (noun) the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice | Synonyms: evil |
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evisceration | (noun) surgical removal of an organ (or the contents of an organ) from a patient | - |
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(noun) the act of removing the bowels or viscera; the act of cutting so as to cause the viscera to protrude | Synonyms: disembowelment |
(noun) altering something (as a legislative act or a statement) in such a manner as to reduce its value | - |
evocation | (noun) imaginative re-creation | - |
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(noun) stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors | Synonyms: elicitation, induction |
(noun) calling up supposed supernatural forces by spells and incantations | Synonyms: summoning |
evolution | (noun) (biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms | Synonyms: organic evolution, phylogenesis, phylogeny |
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(noun) a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage) | Synonyms: development |
evolutionism | (noun) (biology) a scientific theory of the origin of species of plants and animals | Synonyms: theory of evolution, theory of organic evolution |
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evolutionist | (noun) a person who believes in organic evolution | - |
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fever | (noun) a state of nervous excitement | - |
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(noun) a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection | Synonyms: febricity, febrility, feverishness, pyrexia |
feverfew | (noun) bushy aromatic European perennial herb having clusters of buttonlike white-rayed flower heads; valued traditionally for medicinal uses; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum | Synonyms: Chrysanthemum parthenium, Tanacetum parthenium |
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feverishness | (noun) a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection | Synonyms: febricity, febrility, fever, pyrexia |
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(noun) A state of wildly excited activity or emotion. | - |
feverroot | (noun) coarse weedy American perennial herb with large usually perfoliate leaves and purple or dull red flowers | Synonyms: horse gentian, tinker's root, Triostium perfoliatum, wild coffee |
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gamedev | (noun) someone who develops a game | - |
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geneva | (noun) gin made in the Netherlands | Synonyms: Holland gin, Hollands |
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grapevine | (noun) gossip spread by spoken communication | Synonyms: pipeline, word of mouth |
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(noun) any of numerous woody vines of genus Vitis bearing clusters of edible berries | Synonyms: grape, grape vine |
grevillea | (noun) any shrub or tree of the genus Grevillea | - |
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grievance | (noun) a complaint about a (real or imaginary) wrong that causes resentment and is grounds for action | - |
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(noun) an allegation that something imposes an illegal obligation or denies some legal right or causes injustice | - |
(noun) a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation | Synonyms: grudge, score |
griever | (noun) a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died) | Synonyms: lamenter, mourner, sorrower |
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inevitability | (noun) the quality of being unavoidable | Synonyms: inevitableness |
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inevitable | (noun) an unavoidable event | - |
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inevitableness | (noun) the quality of being unavoidable | Synonyms: inevitability |
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irrelevance | (noun) the lack of a relation of something to the matter at hand | Synonyms: irrelevancy |
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irrelevancy | (noun) the lack of a relation of something to the matter at hand | Synonyms: irrelevance |
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irreverence | (noun) a disrespectful act | Synonyms: violation |
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(noun) an irreverent mental attitude | - |
irreversibility | (noun) the quality of being irreversible (once done it cannot be changed) | - |
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irrevocability | (noun) The state or condition of being impossible to retract or reverse; finality. | - |
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laevulose | (noun) a simple sugar found in honey and in many ripe fruits | Synonyms: fructose, fruit sugar, levulose |
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lev | (noun) the basic unit of money in Bulgaria | - |
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levallorphan | (noun) drug (trade name Lorfan) that is related to morphine but that counteracts the respiratory depression produced by morphine poisoning but without affecting its analgesic effects | Synonyms: Lorfan |
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levanter | (noun) an easterly wind in the western Mediterranean area | - |
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levator | (noun) a muscle that serves to lift some body part (as the eyelid or lip) | - |
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levee | (noun) an embankment that is built in order to prevent a river from overflowing | - |
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(noun) a pier that provides a landing place on a river | - |
(noun) a formal reception of visitors or guests (as at a royal court) | - |
level | (noun) indicator that establishes the horizontal when a bubble is centered in a tube of liquid | Synonyms: spirit level |
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(noun) a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale | Synonyms: floor, storey, story |
(noun) a flat surface at right angles to a plumb line | Synonyms: horizontal surface |
(noun) a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality | Synonyms: degree, grade |
(noun) height above ground | - |
(noun) an abstract place usually conceived as having depth | Synonyms: layer, stratum |
(noun) a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process | Synonyms: degree, point, stage |
(noun) a relative position or degree of value in a graded group | Synonyms: grade, tier |
leveler | (noun) a radical who advocates the abolition of social distinctions | Synonyms: leveller |
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levelheadedness | (noun) the property of having or showing sound judgment. | - |
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leveling | (noun) the act of making equal or uniform | Synonyms: equalisation, equalization |
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(noun) complete destruction of a building | Synonyms: demolishing, razing, tearing down |
(noun) changing the ground level to a smooth horizontal or gently sloping surface | Synonyms: grading |
leveller | (noun) a radical who advocates the abolition of social distinctions | Synonyms: leveler |
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levelness | (noun) The property of being the same height at all places; parallel to a flat ground. | - |
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lever | (noun) a rigid bar pivoted about a fulcrum | - |
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(noun) a flat metal tumbler in a lever lock | Synonyms: lever tumbler |
(noun) a simple machine that gives a mechanical advantage when given a fulcrum | - |
leverage | (noun) investing with borrowed money as a way to amplify potential gains (at the risk of greater losses) | Synonyms: leveraging |
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(noun) strategic advantage; power to act effectively | - |
(noun) the mechanical advantage gained by being in a position to use a lever | Synonyms: purchase |
leveraging | (noun) investing with borrowed money as a way to amplify potential gains (at the risk of greater losses) | Synonyms: leverage |
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leveret | (noun) a young hare especially one in its first year | - |
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leviathan | (noun) the largest or most massive thing of its kind | - |
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(noun) monstrous sea creature symbolizing evil in the Old Testament | - |
levirate | (noun) the biblical institution whereby a man must marry the widow of his childless brother in order to maintain the brother's line | - |
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levis | (noun) a popular brand of jeans | Synonyms: Levi's |
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levitation | (noun) the act of raising (a body) from the ground by presumably spiritualistic means | - |
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(noun) movement upward in virtue of lightness | - |
(noun) the phenomenon of a person or thing rising into the air by apparently supernatural means | - |
levity | (noun) a manner lacking seriousness | - |
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(noun) feeling an inappropriate lack of seriousness | - |
levodopa | (noun) the levorotatory form of dopa (trade names Bendopa and Brocadopa and Larodopa); as a drug it is used to treat Parkinson's disease | Synonyms: Bendopa, Brocadopa, L-dopa, Larodopa |
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levorotation | (noun) rotation to the left | Synonyms: counterclockwise rotation |
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levulose | (noun) a simple sugar found in honey and in many ripe fruits | Synonyms: fructose, fruit sugar, laevulose |
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levy | (noun) the act of drafting into military service | Synonyms: levy en masse |
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(noun) a charge imposed and collected | - |
longevity | (noun) duration of service | Synonyms: length of service |
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(noun) the property of being long-lived | Synonyms: seniority |
macroevolution | (noun) evolution on a large scale extending over geologic era and resulting in the formation of new taxonomic groups | - |
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maglev | (noun) high-speed rail technology; train is suspended on a magnetic cushion above a magnetized track and so travels free of friction | Synonyms: magnetic levitation |
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malevolence | (noun) the quality of threatening evil | Synonyms: malevolency, malice |
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(noun) wishing evil to others | Synonyms: malignity |
malevolency | (noun) the quality of threatening evil | Synonyms: malevolence, malice |
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masdevallia | (noun) any of numerous orchids of the genus Masdevallia; tufted evergreen often diminutive plants whose flowers in a remarkable range of colors usually resemble a tricorn with sepals fused at the base to form a tube | - |
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medevac | (noun) the evacuation of persons (usually by air transportation) to a place where they can receive medical care | Synonyms: medical evacuation, medivac |
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medievality | (noun) The quality of being of or relating to the Middle Ages, perhaps circa 500 to circa 1500 CE. | - |
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mendelevium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic element synthesized by bombarding einsteinium with alpha particles (Md is the current symbol for mendelevium but Mv was formerly the symbol) | Synonyms: atomic number 101, Md, Mv |
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microdevice | (noun) any very small device manufactured using microfabrication. | - |
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microevolution | (noun) evolution resulting from small specific genetic changes that can lead to a new subspecies | - |
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misbeliever | (noun) a person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: heretic, religious outcast |
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mischievousness | (noun) reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others | Synonyms: devilment, devilry, deviltry, mischief-making, mischief, rascality, roguery, roguishness, shenanigan |
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(noun) an attribute of mischievous children | Synonyms: badness, naughtiness |
(noun) the trait of behaving like an imp | Synonyms: impishness, puckishness, whimsicality |
neoevolutionism | (noun) school of anthropology concerned with long-term culture change and with the similar patterns of development that may be seen in unrelated, widely separated cultures. | Synonyms: neo-evolutionism |
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neve | (noun) the upper part of a glacier (beyond the limit of perpetual snow) where the snow turns to ice | - |
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nevirapine | (noun) a non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (trade name Viramune) used to treat AIDS and HIV | Synonyms: Viramune |
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nevus | (noun) a blemish on the skin that is formed before birth | Synonyms: birthmark |
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nonachievement | (noun) an act that does not achieve its intended goal | Synonyms: nonaccomplishment |
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nonachiever | (noun) a student who does not perform as well as expected or as well as the IQ indicates | Synonyms: underachiever, underperformer |
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nonbeliever | (noun) someone who refuses to believe (as in a divinity) | - |
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nondevelopment | (noun) failure of normal development to occur | - |
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nonevent | (noun) an anticipated event that turns out to be far less significant than was expected | - |
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overachievement | (noun) better than expected performance (better than might have been predicted from intelligence tests) | - |
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overachiever | (noun) a student who attains higher standards than the IQ indicated | - |
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peeve | (noun) an annoyed or irritated mood | - |
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