anthropophagite | (noun) a person who eats human flesh | Synonyms: anthropophagus, cannibal, man-eater |
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anthropophagus | (noun) a person who eats human flesh | Synonyms: anthropophagite, cannibal, man-eater |
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anthropophagy | (noun) human cannibalism; the eating of human flesh | - |
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anthroposophy | (noun) a system of beliefs and practices based on the philosophy of Rudolf Steiner; it claims to integrate the practical and psychological in child-centered education | - |
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anthurium | (noun) any of various tropical American plants cultivated for their showy foliage and flowers | Synonyms: tail-flower, tailflower |
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antiarrhythmic | (noun) a drug used to treat an abnormal heart rhythm | Synonyms: antiarrhythmic drug, antiarrhythmic medication |
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anticholinergic | (noun) a substance that opposes or blocks the action of acetylcholine | Synonyms: anticholinergic drug |
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anticholinesterase | (noun) a medicine that inhibits cholinesterase by combining with it and so has a cholinergic effect | - |
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antidiarrheal | (noun) a drug used to control or stop diarrhea | Synonyms: antidiarrheal drug |
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antiestablishmentarianism | (noun) the doctrine of opposition to the social and political establishment | Synonyms: antiestablishmentism |
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antiestablishmentism | (noun) the doctrine of opposition to the social and political establishment | Synonyms: antiestablishmentarianism |
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antihero | (noun) a protagonist who lacks the characteristics that would make him a hero (or her a heroine) | - |
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antihistamine | (noun) a medicine used to treat allergies and hypersensitive reactions and colds; works by counteracting the effects of histamine on a receptor site | - |
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antihypertensive | (noun) a drug that reduces high blood pressure | Synonyms: antihypertensive drug |
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antilogarithm | (noun) the number of which a given number is the logarithm | Synonyms: antilog |
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antimetathesis | (noun) A rhetorical figure resulting from a reverted arrangement in the last clause of a sentence of the two principal words of the clause preceding; inversion of the members of an antithesis: as, "A poem is a speaking picture; a picture a mute poem". | - |
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antipathy | (noun) the object of a feeling of intense aversion; something to be avoided | - |
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(noun) a feeling of intense dislike | Synonyms: aversion, distaste |
antiphon | (noun) a verse or song to be chanted or sung in response | Synonyms: antiphony |
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antiphonal | (noun) bound collection of antiphons | Synonyms: antiphonary |
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antiphonary | (noun) bound collection of antiphons | Synonyms: antiphonal |
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antiphony | (noun) alternate (responsive) singing by a choir in two parts | - |
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(noun) a verse or song to be chanted or sung in response | Synonyms: antiphon |
antiphrasis | (noun) the use of a word in a sense opposite to its normal sense (especially in irony) | - |
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antipsychotic | (noun) tranquilizer used to treat psychotic conditions when a calming effect is desired | Synonyms: antipsychotic agent, antipsychotic drug, major tranquilizer, major tranquilliser, major tranquillizer, neuroleptic, neuroleptic agent, neuroleptic drug |
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antistrophe | (noun) the section of a choral ode answering a previous strophe in classical Greek drama; the second of two metrically corresponding sections in a poem | - |
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antisyphilitic | (noun) a drug (or other chemical agent) that is effective against syphilis | - |
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antithesis | (noun) the juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas to give a feeling of balance | - |
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(noun) exact opposite | - |
apache | (noun) a Parisian gangster | - |
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apartheid | (noun) a social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination against people who are not Whites; the former official policy in South Africa | - |
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apathy | (noun) the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally | Synonyms: indifference, numbness, spiritlessness |
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(noun) an absence of emotion or enthusiasm | - |
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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aphagia | (noun) loss of the ability to swallow | - |
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aphakia | (noun) absence of the natural lens of the eye (usually resulting from the removal of cataracts) | - |
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aphakic | (noun) someone afflicted by aphakia; someone lacking the natural lenses of the eyes | - |
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aphanite | (noun) fine-grained homogeneous rock (such as basalt) containing minerals undetectable by the naked eye | - |
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aphasia | (noun) inability to use or understand language (spoken or written) because of a brain lesion | - |
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aphasic | (noun) someone affected by aphasia or inability to use or understand language | - |
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aphelion | (noun) apoapsis in solar orbit; the point in the orbit of a planet or comet that is at the greatest distance from the sun | - |
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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 |
aphesis | (noun) the gradual disappearance of an initial (usually unstressed) vowel or syllable as in `squire' for `esquire' | - |
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aphid | (noun) any of various small plant-sucking insects | - |
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aphonia | (noun) a disorder of the vocal organs that results in the loss of voice | Synonyms: voicelessness |
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aphorism | (noun) a short pithy instructive saying | Synonyms: apophthegm, apothegm |
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aphorist | (noun) someone who formulates aphorisms or who repeats aphorisms | - |
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aphrodisia | (noun) a desire for heterosexual intimacy | - |
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aphrodisiac | (noun) a drug or other agent that stimulates sexual desire | - |
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apishamore | (noun) a saddle blanket made of buffalo hide | - |
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aplacophoran | (noun) deep-water wormlike mollusks lacking calcareous plates on the body but having fine slimy spicules on the covering mantle | Synonyms: solenogaster |
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apocryphalness | (noun) The property of being of doubtful authenticity, of lacking authority, or of not being regarded as canonical. | - |
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(noun) The property of being of dubious veracity; of questionable accuracy or truthfulness. | - |
apomorphine | (noun) a morphine derivative that is not as strong as morphine; used as an emetic and in small doses as a sedative | - |
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apophasis | (noun) mentioning something by saying it will not be mentioned | - |
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apophatism | (noun) the religious belief that God cannot be known but is completely `other' and must be described in negative terms (in terms of what God is not) | - |
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apophthegm | (noun) a short pithy instructive saying | Synonyms: aphorism, apothegm |
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apophysis | (noun) (anatomy) a natural outgrowth or projection on an organ or body part such as the process of a vertebra | - |
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(noun) (botany) a natural swelling or enlargement: at the base of the stalk or seta in certain mosses or on the cone scale of certain conifers | - |
apostleship | (noun) the position of apostle | - |
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apostrophe | (noun) address to an absent or imaginary person | - |
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(noun) the mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word | - |
apothecary | (noun) a health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs | Synonyms: chemist, druggist, pharmacist, pill pusher, pill roller |
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apothecium | (noun) a cuplike ascocarp in many lichens and ascomycetous fungi | - |
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apothegm | (noun) a short pithy instructive saying | Synonyms: aphorism, apophthegm |
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apotheosis | (noun) the elevation of a person (as to the status of a god) | Synonyms: deification, exaltation |
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(noun) model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal | Synonyms: ideal, nonesuch, nonpareil, nonsuch, paragon, saint |
apparatchik | (noun) a communist who was a member of the administrative system of a communist party | - |
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(noun) a humorous but derogatory term for an official of a large organization (especially a political organization) | - |
apprehender | (noun) a person who seizes or arrests (especially a person who seizes or arrests in the name of justice) | - |
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(noun) a person who knows or apprehends | Synonyms: knower |
apprehension | (noun) the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal) | Synonyms: arrest, catch, collar, pinch, taking into custody |
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(noun) the cognitive condition of someone who understands | Synonyms: discernment, savvy, understanding |
(noun) painful expectation | Synonyms: misgiving |
(noun) fearful expectation or anticipation | Synonyms: apprehensiveness, dread |
apprehensiveness | (noun) fearful expectation or anticipation | Synonyms: apprehension, dread |
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apprenticeship | (noun) the position of apprentice | - |
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approach | (noun) the act of drawing spatially closer to something | Synonyms: approaching, coming |
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(noun) a relatively short golf shot intended to put the ball onto the putting green | Synonyms: approach shot |
(noun) ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation | Synonyms: attack, plan of attack |
(noun) a way of entering or leaving | Synonyms: access |
(noun) the temporal property of becoming nearer in time | Synonyms: approaching, coming |
(noun) a close approximation | - |
(noun) a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others | Synonyms: advance, feeler, overture |
(noun) the event of one object coming closer to another | Synonyms: approaching |
(noun) the final path followed by an aircraft as it is landing | Synonyms: approach path, glide path, glide slope |
approachability | (noun) the attribute of being easy to meet or deal with | Synonyms: accessibility |
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approaching | (noun) the act of drawing spatially closer to something | Synonyms: approach, coming |
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(noun) the temporal property of becoming nearer in time | Synonyms: approach, coming |
(noun) the event of one object coming closer to another | Synonyms: approach |
aquaphobia | (noun) a morbid fear of drowning | - |
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arachnid | (noun) air-breathing arthropods characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legs | Synonyms: arachnoid |
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arachnoid | (noun) air-breathing arthropods characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legs | Synonyms: arachnid |
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(noun) the middle of the 3 meninges | Synonyms: arachnoid membrane |
arachnophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of spiders | - |
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arch | (noun) (architecture) a masonry construction (usually curved) for spanning an opening and supporting the weight above it | - |
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(noun) a passageway under a curved masonry construction | Synonyms: archway |
(noun) a curved bony structure supporting or enclosing organs (especially the inner sides of the feet) | - |
(noun) a curved shape in the vertical plane that spans an opening | - |
archaebacteria | (noun) considered ancient life forms that evolved separately from bacteria and blue-green algae | Synonyms: archaebacterium, archaeobacteria, archeobacteria |
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archaebacterium | (noun) considered ancient life forms that evolved separately from bacteria and blue-green algae | Synonyms: archaebacteria, archaeobacteria, archeobacteria |
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archaeobacteria | (noun) considered ancient life forms that evolved separately from bacteria and blue-green algae | Synonyms: archaebacteria, archaebacterium, archeobacteria |
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archaeologist | (noun) an anthropologist who studies prehistoric people and their culture | Synonyms: archeologist |
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archaeology | (noun) the branch of anthropology that studies prehistoric people and their cultures | Synonyms: archeology |
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archaeopteryx | (noun) extinct primitive toothed bird of the Jurassic period having a long feathered tail and hollow bones; usually considered the most primitive of all birds | Synonyms: Archaeopteryx lithographica, archeopteryx |
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archaeornis | (noun) extinct primitive toothed bird with a long feathered tail and three free clawed digits on each wing | - |
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archaicism | (noun) the use of an archaic expression | Synonyms: archaism |
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archaism | (noun) the use of an archaic expression | Synonyms: archaicism |
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archaist | (noun) an expert or collector of antiquities | Synonyms: antiquarian, antiquary |
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(noun) a person who archaizes | - |
archangel | (noun) an angel ranked above the highest rank in the celestial hierarchy | - |
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(noun) a biennial cultivated herb; its stems are candied and eaten and its roots are used medicinally | Synonyms: Angelica Archangelica, garden angelica |
archbishop | (noun) a bishop of highest rank | - |
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archbishopric | (noun) the territorial jurisdiction of an archbishop | - |
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archdeacon | (noun) (Anglican Church) an ecclesiastical dignitary usually ranking just below a bishop | - |
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archdeaconry | (noun) the territorial jurisdiction of an archdeacon | - |
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archdiocese | (noun) the diocese of an archbishop | - |
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archduchess | (noun) a wife or widow of an archduke or a princess of the former ruling house of Austria | - |
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archduchy | (noun) the domain controlled by an archduke or archduchess | - |
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archduke | (noun) a sovereign prince of the former ruling house of Austria | - |
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archegonium | (noun) a female sex organ occurring in mosses, ferns, and most gymnosperms | - |
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archenteron | (noun) central cavity of the gastrula; becomes the intestinal or digestive cavity | - |
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archeobacteria | (noun) considered ancient life forms that evolved separately from bacteria and blue-green algae | Synonyms: archaebacteria, archaebacterium, archaeobacteria |
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archeologist | (noun) an anthropologist who studies prehistoric people and their culture | Synonyms: archaeologist |
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archeology | (noun) the branch of anthropology that studies prehistoric people and their cultures | Synonyms: archaeology |
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archeopteryx | (noun) extinct primitive toothed bird of the Jurassic period having a long feathered tail and hollow bones; usually considered the most primitive of all birds | Synonyms: archaeopteryx, Archaeopteryx lithographica |
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archer | (noun) a person who is expert in the use of a bow and arrow | Synonyms: bowman |
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archerfish | (noun) any of several small freshwater fishes that catch insects by squirting water at them and knocking them into the water; found in Indonesia and Australia | Synonyms: Toxotes jaculatrix |
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archery | (noun) the sport of shooting arrows with a bow | - |
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