achievement | (noun) the action of accomplishing something | Synonyms: accomplishment |
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achiever | (noun) a person with a record of successes | Synonyms: succeeder, success, winner |
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asseveration | (noun) a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary) | Synonyms: assertion, averment |
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asseverator | (noun) someone who claims to speak the truth | Synonyms: affirmer, asserter, avower, declarer |
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believer | (noun) a person who has religious faith | Synonyms: worshiper, worshipper |
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(noun) a supporter who accepts something as true | Synonyms: truster |
bevel | (noun) a hand tool consisting of two rules that are hinged together so you can draw or measure angles of any size | Synonyms: bevel square |
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(noun) two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degrees | Synonyms: cant, chamfer |
beverage | (noun) any liquid suitable for drinking | Synonyms: drink, drinkable, potable |
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breve | (noun) a diacritical mark (U-shaped) placed over a vowel to indicate a short sound | - |
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brevet | (noun) a document entitling a commissioned officer to hold a higher rank temporarily (but without higher pay) | - |
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cantilever | (noun) projecting horizontal beam fixed at one end only | - |
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cleverness | (noun) the property of being ingenious | Synonyms: ingeniousness, ingenuity |
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(noun) intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty | Synonyms: brightness, smartness |
(noun) the power of creative imagination | Synonyms: ingeniousness, ingenuity, inventiveness |
developer | (noun) photographic equipment consisting of a chemical solution for developing film | - |
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(noun) someone who develops real estate (especially someone who prepares a site for residential or commercial use) | - |
developing | (noun) processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible | Synonyms: development |
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development | (noun) act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining | - |
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(noun) the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful | Synonyms: exploitation |
(noun) (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated | - |
(noun) a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation | - |
(noun) a district that has been developed to serve some purpose | - |
(noun) processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible | Synonyms: developing |
(noun) (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level | Synonyms: growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny |
(noun) a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage) | Synonyms: evolution |
(noun) a state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess) | - |
eleven | (noun) a team that plays football | Synonyms: football team |
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(noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of ten and one | Synonyms: 11, XI |
eleventh | (noun) position 11 in a countable series of things | - |
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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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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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griever | (noun) a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died) | Synonyms: lamenter, mourner, sorrower |
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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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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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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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neve | (noun) the upper part of a glacier (beyond the limit of perpetual snow) where the snow turns to ice | - |
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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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perseverance | (noun) the act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating behavior | Synonyms: perseveration, persistence |
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(noun) persistent determination | Synonyms: doggedness, persistence, persistency, pertinacity, tenaciousness, tenacity |
perseveration | (noun) the act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating behavior | Synonyms: perseverance, persistence |
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(noun) the tendency for a memory or idea to persist or recur without any apparent stimulus for it | - |
preventative | (noun) remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease | Synonyms: preventive, prophylactic |
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(noun) an agent or device intended to prevent conception | Synonyms: birth control device, contraceptive, contraceptive device, preventive, prophylactic device |
(noun) any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome | Synonyms: encumbrance, hinderance, hindrance, hitch, incumbrance, interference, preventive |
prevention | (noun) the act of preventing | Synonyms: bar |
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preventive | (noun) remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease | Synonyms: preventative, prophylactic |
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(noun) an agent or device intended to prevent conception | Synonyms: birth control device, contraceptive, contraceptive device, preventative, prophylactic device |
(noun) any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome | Synonyms: encumbrance, hinderance, hindrance, hitch, incumbrance, interference, preventative |
preventiveness | (noun) The property of preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to something. | - |
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redevelopment | (noun) the act of improving by renewing and restoring | Synonyms: overhaul, renovation |
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reeve | (noun) female ruff | - |
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reliever | (noun) a pitcher who does not start the game | Synonyms: fireman, relief pitcher |
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(noun) someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult) | Synonyms: backup, backup man, fill-in, relief, stand-in, substitute |
(noun) a person who reduces the intensity (e.g., of fears) and calms and pacifies | Synonyms: allayer, comforter |
reprieve | (noun) the act of reprieving; postponing or remitting punishment | Synonyms: respite |
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(noun) a warrant granting postponement (usually to postpone the execution of the death sentence) | - |
(noun) an interruption in the intensity or amount of something | Synonyms: abatement, hiatus, respite, suspension |
(noun) a (temporary) relief from harm or discomfort | Synonyms: respite |
retriever | (noun) a dog with heavy water-resistant coat that can be trained to retrieve game | - |
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revealing | (noun) the speech act of making something evident | Synonyms: disclosure, revelation |
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reveille | (noun) a signal to get up in the morning; in the military it is a bugle call at sunrise | - |
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(noun) (military) signal to wake up | Synonyms: wake-up signal |
revel | (noun) unrestrained merrymaking | Synonyms: revelry |
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revelation | (noun) an enlightening or astonishing disclosure | - |
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(noun) communication of knowledge to man by a divine or supernatural agency | Synonyms: divine revelation |
(noun) the speech act of making something evident | Synonyms: disclosure, revealing |
reveler | (noun) a celebrant who shares in a noisy party | Synonyms: merrymaker, reveller |
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reveller | (noun) a celebrant who shares in a noisy party | Synonyms: merrymaker, reveler |
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revelry | (noun) unrestrained merrymaking | Synonyms: revel |
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revenant | (noun) someone who has returned from the dead | - |
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(noun) a person who returns after a lengthy absence | - |
revenge | (noun) action taken in return for an injury or offense | Synonyms: retaliation |
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revenue | (noun) the entire amount of income before any deductions are made | Synonyms: gross, receipts |
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(noun) government income due to taxation | Synonyms: tax income, tax revenue, taxation |
revenuer | (noun) a government agent responsible for collecting revenue (especially one responsible for stopping bootlegging) | - |
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reverberance | (noun) having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant | Synonyms: plangency, resonance, ringing, sonority, sonorousness, vibrancy |
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reverberation | (noun) the repetition of a sound resulting from reflection of the sound waves | Synonyms: echo, replication, sound reflection |
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(noun) a remote or indirect consequence of some action | Synonyms: repercussion |
revere | (noun) a lapel on a woman's garment; turned back to show the reverse side | Synonyms: revers |
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reverence | (noun) an act showing respect (especially a bow or curtsy) | - |
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(noun) a reverent mental attitude | - |
(noun) a feeling of profound respect for someone or something | Synonyms: awe, fear, veneration |
reverend | (noun) a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church | Synonyms: clergyman, man of the cloth |
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reverie | (noun) an abstracted state of absorption | Synonyms: revery |
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(noun) absentminded dreaming while awake | Synonyms: air castle, castle in Spain, castle in the air, daydream, daydreaming, oneirism, revery |
revers | (noun) a lapel on a woman's garment; turned back to show the reverse side | Synonyms: revere |
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reversal | (noun) a change from one state to the opposite state | - |
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(noun) the act of reversing the order or place of | Synonyms: transposition |
(noun) turning in the opposite direction | Synonyms: reverse, reversion, turnabout, turnaround |
(noun) a major change in attitude or principle or point of view | Synonyms: about-face, policy change, volte-face |
(noun) a judgment by a higher court that the judgment of a lower court was incorrect and should be set aside | - |
(noun) a decision to reverse an earlier decision | Synonyms: change of mind, flip-flop, turnabout, turnaround |
(noun) turning in an opposite direction or position | Synonyms: turn around |
(noun) an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating | Synonyms: black eye, blow, reverse, setback |
reverse | (noun) (American football) a running play in which a back running in one direction hands the ball to a back running in the opposite direction | - |
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(noun) turning in the opposite direction | Synonyms: reversal, reversion, turnabout, turnaround |
(noun) the gears by which the motion of a machine can be reversed | Synonyms: reverse gear |
(noun) the side of a coin or medal that does not bear the principal design | Synonyms: verso |
(noun) an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating | Synonyms: black eye, blow, reversal, setback |
(noun) a relation of direct opposition | Synonyms: contrary, opposite |
reversibility | (noun) the quality of being reversible in either direction | - |
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reversible | (noun) a garment (especially a coat) that can be worn inside out (with either side of the cloth showing) | - |
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reversion | (noun) a failure to maintain a higher state | Synonyms: backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reverting |
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(noun) turning in the opposite direction | Synonyms: reversal, reverse, turnabout, turnaround |
(noun) returning to a former state | Synonyms: regress, regression, retrogression, retroversion |
(noun) (genetics) a return to a normal phenotype (usually resulting from a second mutation) | - |
(noun) a reappearance of an earlier characteristic | Synonyms: atavism, throwback |
(noun) (law) an interest in an estate that reverts to the grantor (or his heirs) at the end of some period (e.g., the death of the grantee) | - |
reversioner | (noun) (law) a party who is entitled to an estate in reversion | - |
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reversionist | (noun) someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior | Synonyms: backslider, recidivist |
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reverting | (noun) a failure to maintain a higher state | Synonyms: backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion |
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