adoxography | (noun) fine writing in praise of trivial or base subjects | - |
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aerogram | (noun) a letter sent by air mail | Synonyms: aerogramme, air letter, airmail letter |
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aerogramme | (noun) a letter sent by air mail | Synonyms: aerogram, air letter, airmail letter |
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aggrandisement | (noun) the act of increasing the wealth or prestige or power or scope of something | Synonyms: aggrandizement, elevation |
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aggrandizement | (noun) the act of increasing the wealth or prestige or power or scope of something | Synonyms: aggrandisement, elevation |
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aggravation | (noun) unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment | Synonyms: irritation, provocation |
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(noun) action that makes a problem or a disease (or its symptoms) worse | Synonyms: exacerbation |
(noun) an exasperated feeling of annoyance | Synonyms: exasperation |
aggravator | (noun) an unpleasant person who is annoying or exasperating | Synonyms: annoyance |
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aggregate | (noun) the whole amount | Synonyms: sum, total, totality |
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(noun) a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together | Synonyms: congeries, conglomeration |
(noun) material such as sand or gravel used with cement and water to make concrete, mortar, or plaster | - |
aggregation | (noun) the act of gathering something together | Synonyms: assembling, collecting, collection |
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(noun) several things grouped together or considered as a whole | Synonyms: accumulation, assemblage, collection |
aggregator | (noun) a person who collects things | Synonyms: collector |
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aggression | (noun) violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked | Synonyms: hostility |
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(noun) deliberately unfriendly behavior | - |
(noun) the act of initiating hostilities | - |
(noun) a disposition to behave aggressively | - |
(noun) a feeling of hostility that arouses thoughts of attack | Synonyms: aggressiveness |
aggressiveness | (noun) the quality of being bold and enterprising | - |
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(noun) a natural disposition to be hostile | Synonyms: belligerence, pugnacity |
(noun) a feeling of hostility that arouses thoughts of attack | Synonyms: aggression |
aggressor | (noun) someone who attacks | Synonyms: assailant, assaulter, attacker |
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(noun) a confident assertive person who acts as instigator | - |
aggro | (noun) (informal British usage) aggravation or aggression | - |
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agranulocytosis | (noun) an acute blood disorder (often caused by radiation or drug therapy) characterized by severe reduction in granulocytes | Synonyms: agranulosis, granulocytopenia |
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agranulosis | (noun) an acute blood disorder (often caused by radiation or drug therapy) characterized by severe reduction in granulocytes | Synonyms: agranulocytosis, granulocytopenia |
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agrapha | (noun) sayings of Jesus not recorded in the canonical Gospels | - |
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agraphia | (noun) a loss of the ability to write or to express thoughts in writing because of a brain lesion | Synonyms: anorthography, logagraphia |
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agraphon | (noun) (usually plural) a saying of Jesus not in the canonical gospels but found in other New Testament or early Christian writings. | - |
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agreeability | (noun) a temperamental disposition to be agreeable | Synonyms: agreeableness |
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agreeableness | (noun) a temperamental disposition to be agreeable | Synonyms: agreeability |
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(noun) pleasantness resulting from agreeable conditions | Synonyms: amenity |
agreement | (noun) compatibility of observations | Synonyms: correspondence |
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(noun) the thing arranged or agreed to | Synonyms: arrangement |
(noun) the verbal act of agreeing | - |
(noun) the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises | Synonyms: understanding |
(noun) the determination of grammatical inflection on the basis of word relations | Synonyms: concord |
(noun) harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters | Synonyms: accord |
agribusiness | (noun) a large-scale farming enterprise | Synonyms: agriculture, factory farm |
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agriculturalist | (noun) someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil | Synonyms: agriculturist, cultivator, grower, raiser |
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agriculture | (noun) the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock | Synonyms: farming, husbandry |
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(noun) a large-scale farming enterprise | Synonyms: agribusiness, factory farm |
(noun) the class of people engaged in growing food | - |
agriculturist | (noun) someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil | Synonyms: agriculturalist, cultivator, grower, raiser |
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agrimonia | (noun) a plant of the genus Agrimonia having spikelike clusters of small yellow flowers | Synonyms: agrimony |
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agrimony | (noun) a plant of the genus Agrimonia having spikelike clusters of small yellow flowers | Synonyms: agrimonia |
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agrobiology | (noun) the study of plant nutrition and growth especially as a way to increase crop yield | - |
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agrology | (noun) science of soils in relation to crops | - |
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agromania | (noun) an intense desire to be alone or out in the open | - |
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agronomist | (noun) an expert in soil management and field-crop production | - |
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agronomy | (noun) the application of soil and plant sciences to land management and crop production | Synonyms: scientific agriculture |
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agrypnia | (noun) a vigil before certain feasts (as e.g. Easter) | - |
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aigret | (noun) a long plume (especially one of egret feathers) worn on a hat or a piece of jewelry in the shape of a plume | Synonyms: aigrette |
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aigrette | (noun) a long plume (especially one of egret feathers) worn on a hat or a piece of jewelry in the shape of a plume | Synonyms: aigret |
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allegretto | (noun) a musical composition or musical passage to be performed at a somewhat quicker tempo than andante but not as fast as allegro | - |
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(noun) a quicker tempo than andante but not as fast as allegro | - |
allegro | (noun) a musical composition or musical passage to be performed quickly in a brisk lively manner | - |
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(noun) a brisk and lively tempo | - |
allograft | (noun) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor of the same species but different genetic makeup; recipient's immune system must be suppressed to prevent rejection of the graft | Synonyms: homograft |
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allograph | (noun) a variant form of a grapheme, as `m' or `M' or a handwritten version of that grapheme | - |
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(noun) a signature written by one person for another | - |
ambergris | (noun) waxy substance secreted by the sperm whale and found floating at sea or washed ashore; used in perfume | - |
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anagram | (noun) a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase | - |
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anagrams | (noun) a game whose object is to form words from a group of randomly chosen letters | - |
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anemograph | (noun) An instrument which records wind velocities. | - |
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anemography | (noun) recording anemometrical measurements | - |
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angiocardiogram | (noun) a series of X rays representing the action of the heart and its blood vessels after the injection of a radiopaque substance | - |
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angiogram | (noun) an X-ray representation of blood vessels made after the injection of a radiopaque substance | - |
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angiography | (noun) roentgenographic examination of blood vessels after injection of a radiopaque contrast medium; produces an angiogram | - |
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angrecum | (noun) any of various spectacular orchids of the genus Angraecum having dark green leathery leaves and usually nocturnally scented white or ivory flowers | - |
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angriness | (noun) the state of being angry | Synonyms: anger |
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anorthography | (noun) a loss of the ability to write or to express thoughts in writing because of a brain lesion | Synonyms: agraphia, logagraphia |
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antigram | (noun) an anagram that means the opposite of the original word or phrase | - |
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arcdegree | (noun) a measure for arcs and angles | Synonyms: degree |
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arteriogram | (noun) an X ray of an artery filled with a contrast medium | - |
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arteriography | (noun) roentgenographic examination of arteries | - |
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arthrogram | (noun) an X ray of a joint after the injection of a contrast medium | - |
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arthrography | (noun) roentgenographic examination of a joint after injection of radiopaque contrast medium; produces an arthrogram | - |
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atmoradiograph | (noun) a device which measures the frequency of occurrence of atmospherics. | - |
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audiogram | (noun) a graphical representation of a person's auditory sensitivity to sound | - |
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autobiographer | (noun) someone who writes their own biography | - |
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autobiography | (noun) a biography of yourself | - |
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autograft | (noun) tissue that is taken from one site and grafted to another site on the same person | Synonyms: autoplasty |
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autograph | (noun) something written by one's own hand | - |
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(noun) a person's own signature | Synonyms: John Hancock |
autoradiograph | (noun) a radiogram produced by radiation emitted by the specimen being photographed | - |
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autoradiography | (noun) producing a radiograph by means of the radiation emitted from the specimen being photographed | - |
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babygram | (noun) an X-ray of the entire body of an infant. | - |
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background | (noun) scenery hung at back of stage | Synonyms: backcloth, backdrop |
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(noun) (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear | Synonyms: desktop, screen background |
(noun) a person's social heritage: previous experience or training | - |
(noun) the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground | Synonyms: ground |
(noun) information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem | Synonyms: background knowledge |
(noun) extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured | Synonyms: background signal |
(noun) relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation | - |
(noun) the state of the environment in which a situation exists | Synonyms: scope, setting |
backgrounder | (noun) a press conference or interview in which a government official explains to reporters the background of an action or policy | - |
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backgrounding | (noun) the execution of low priority programs while higher priority programs are not using the processing system | Synonyms: background processing |
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ballistocardiogram | (noun) a graphical recording made by a ballistocardiograph | - |
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ballistocardiograph | (noun) a medical instrument that measures the mechanical force of cardiac contractions and the amount of blood passing through the heart during a specified period by measuring the recoil of the body as blood is pumped from the ventricles | Synonyms: cardiograph |
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barograph | (noun) a recording barometer; automatically records on paper the variations in atmospheric pressure | - |
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battleground | (noun) a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought | Synonyms: battlefield, field, field of battle, field of honor |
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beaugregory | (noun) a blue and yellow damselfish of Bermuda and Florida and the West Indies | Synonyms: Pomacentrus leucostictus |
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bedground | (noun) an area on which a drove of cattle or sheep can sleep for a night | Synonyms: bed-ground, bed ground |
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bibliographer | (noun) someone trained in compiling bibliographies | - |
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bibliography | (noun) a list of writings with time and place of publication (such as the writings of a single author or the works referred to in preparing a document etc.) | - |
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bigram | (noun) a word that is written with two letters in an alphabetic writing system | - |
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biogeography | (noun) dealing with the geographical distribution of animals and plants | - |
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biographer | (noun) someone who writes an account of a person's life | - |
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biographism | (noun) reduction of textual meaning to authorial biography. | - |
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biography | (noun) an account of the series of events making up a person's life | Synonyms: life, life history, life story |
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bluegrass | (noun) a type of country music played at a rapid tempo on banjos and guitars | - |
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(noun) any of various grasses of the genus Poa | Synonyms: blue grass |
bologram | (noun) record or recording made by a bolometer | Synonyms: bolograph |
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bolograph | (noun) record or recording made by a bolometer | Synonyms: bologram |
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bridegroom | (noun) a man who has recently been married | Synonyms: groom |
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(noun) a man participant in his own marriage ceremony | Synonyms: groom |
bristlegrass | (noun) grasses of grasslands and woodlands having large gracefully arching spikes with long bristles beneath each spikelet | Synonyms: bristle grass |
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bromegrass | (noun) any of various woodland and meadow grasses of the genus Bromus; native to temperate regions | Synonyms: brome |
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bunchgrass | (noun) any of various grasses of many genera that grow in tufts or clumps rather than forming a sod or mat; chiefly of western United States | Synonyms: bunch grass |
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burgrass | (noun) a grass of the genus Cenchrus | Synonyms: bur grass |
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burgrave | (noun) the military governor of a German town in the 12th and 13th centuries | - |
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(noun) a nobleman ruling a German castle and surrounding grounds by hereditary right | - |
cablegram | (noun) a telegram sent abroad | Synonyms: cable, overseas telegram |
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cacography | (noun) poor handwriting | Synonyms: scratch, scrawl, scribble |
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calligrapher | (noun) someone skilled in penmanship | Synonyms: calligraphist |
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calligraphist | (noun) someone skilled in penmanship | Synonyms: calligrapher |
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calligraphy | (noun) beautiful handwriting | Synonyms: chirography, penmanship |
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campground | (noun) a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent | Synonyms: bivouac, camping area, camping ground, camping site, campsite, encampment |
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cardiogram | (noun) a graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph | Synonyms: ECG, EKG, electrocardiogram |
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cardiograph | (noun) medical instrument that records electric currents associated with contractions of the heart | Synonyms: electrocardiograph |
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(noun) a medical instrument that measures the mechanical force of cardiac contractions and the amount of blood passing through the heart during a specified period by measuring the recoil of the body as blood is pumped from the ventricles | Synonyms: ballistocardiograph |
cardiography | (noun) diagnostic procedure consisting of recording the activity of the heart electronically with a cardiograph (and producing a cardiogram) | Synonyms: electrocardiography |
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