acanthopterygian | (noun) a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays | Synonyms: spiny-finned fish |
---|
amethopterin | (noun) toxic antimetabolite that limits cellular reproduction by acting as an antagonist to folic acid; used to treat certain cancers and psoriasis and rheumatoid arthritis | Synonyms: methotrexate, methotrexate sodium |
---|
amorphophallus | (noun) any plant of the genus Amorphophallus | - |
---|
anorthopia | (noun) distorted vision in which straight lines appear curved | - |
---|
anthophyllite | (noun) a dark brown mineral of the amphibole group; magnesium iron silicate | - |
---|
archbishop | (noun) a bishop of highest rank | - |
---|
archbishopric | (noun) the territorial jurisdiction of an archbishop | - |
---|
bakeshop | (noun) a workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold | Synonyms: bakehouse, bakery |
---|
barbershop | (noun) a shop where men can get their hair cut | - |
---|
bellhop | (noun) someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels | Synonyms: bellboy, bellman |
---|
bishop | (noun) (chess) a piece that can be moved diagonally over unoccupied squares of the same color | - |
---|
(noun) port wine mulled with oranges and cloves | - |
(noun) a senior member of the Christian clergy having spiritual and administrative authority; appointed in Christian churches to oversee priests or ministers; considered in some churches to be successors of the twelve Apostles of Christ | - |
bishopric | (noun) the territorial jurisdiction of a bishop | Synonyms: diocese, episcopate |
---|
bishopry | (noun) the office and dignity of a bishop | Synonyms: episcopate |
---|
bookshop | (noun) a shop where books are sold | Synonyms: bookstall, bookstore |
---|
bronchopneumonia | (noun) pneumonia characterized by acute inflammation of the walls of the bronchioles | Synonyms: bronchial pneumonia |
---|
carhop | (noun) a waiter at a drive-in restaurant | - |
---|
chop | (noun) a tennis return made with a downward motion that puts backspin on the ball | Synonyms: chop shot |
---|
(noun) a grounder that bounces high in the air | Synonyms: chopper |
(noun) a jaw | - |
(noun) a small cut of meat including part of a rib | - |
(noun) the irregular motion of waves (usually caused by wind blowing in a direction opposite to the tide) | - |
chophouse | (noun) a restaurant that specializes in steaks | Synonyms: steakhouse |
---|
chopine | (noun) a woman's shoe with a very high thick sole | Synonyms: platform |
---|
chopper | (noun) a grounder that bounces high in the air | Synonyms: chop |
---|
(noun) a butcher's knife having a large square blade | Synonyms: cleaver, meat cleaver |
(noun) an aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the rotation of overhead blades | Synonyms: eggbeater, helicopter, whirlybird |
(noun) informal terms for a human `tooth' | Synonyms: pearly |
choppiness | (noun) used of the sea during inclement or stormy weather | Synonyms: rough water, roughness |
---|
chopsteak | (noun) a patty of ground cooked beef | Synonyms: beef patty, chop steak, chopped steak, hamburger steak |
---|
chopstick | (noun) one of a pair of slender sticks used as oriental tableware to eat food with | - |
---|
clodhopper | (noun) a thick and heavy shoe | Synonyms: brogan, brogue, work shoe |
---|
euronithopod | (noun) widespread group including duck-billed dinosaurs and their early relatives (hadrosaurs, trachodon and iguanodon) | Synonyms: Euronithopoda, Ornithopoda, suborder Euronithopoda, suborder Ornithopoda |
---|
froghopper | (noun) a variety of spittlebug | - |
---|
gnathopod | (noun) One of a set of three paired appendages on the thorax of a decapod crustacean, located just posterior to the maxillae and used in feeding. | Synonyms: maxilliped |
---|
grasshopper | (noun) terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping | Synonyms: hopper |
---|
(noun) a cocktail made of creme de menthe and cream (sometimes with creme de cacao) | - |
hop | (noun) the act of hopping; jumping upward or forward (especially on one foot) | - |
---|
(noun) an informal dance where popular music is played | Synonyms: record hop |
(noun) twining perennials having cordate leaves and flowers arranged in conelike spikes; the dried flowers of this plant are used in brewing to add the characteristic bitter taste to beer | Synonyms: hops |
hope | (noun) one of the three Christian virtues | - |
---|
(noun) grounds for feeling hopeful about the future | Synonyms: promise |
(noun) the general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled | - |
(noun) a specific instance of feeling hopeful | - |
(noun) someone (or something) on which expectations are centered | - |
hopeful | (noun) an ambitious and aspiring young person | Synonyms: aspirant, aspirer, wannabe, wannabee |
---|
hopefulness | (noun) the feeling you have when you have hope | - |
---|
(noun) full of hope | - |
hopelessness | (noun) the despair you feel when you have abandoned hope of comfort or success | - |
---|
hoper | (noun) a person who hopes | - |
---|
hopper | (noun) (baseball) a hit that travels along the ground | Synonyms: ground ball, groundball, grounder |
---|
(noun) terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping | Synonyms: grasshopper |
(noun) funnel-shaped receptacle; contents pass by gravity into a receptacle below | - |
(noun) a machine used for picking hops | Synonyms: hop-picker |
(noun) someone who hops | - |
hops | (noun) twining perennials having cordate leaves and flowers arranged in conelike spikes; the dried flowers of this plant are used in brewing to add the characteristic bitter taste to beer | Synonyms: hop |
---|
hopsack | (noun) a loosely woven coarse fabric of cotton or linen; used in clothing | Synonyms: hopsacking |
---|
hopsacking | (noun) a loosely woven coarse fabric of cotton or linen; used in clothing | Synonyms: hopsack |
---|
hopscotch | (noun) a game in which a child tosses a stone into an area drawn on the ground and then hops through it and back to regain the stone | - |
---|
lambchop | (noun) chop cut from a lamb | Synonyms: lamb-chop, lamb chop |
---|
leafhopper | (noun) small leaping insect that sucks the juices of plants | - |
---|
lithophyte | (noun) plant that grows on rocks or stony soil and derives nourishment from the atmosphere | Synonyms: lithophytic plant |
---|
lithops | (noun) any plant of the genus Lithops native to Africa having solitary yellow or white flowers and thick leaves that resemble stones | Synonyms: flowering stone, living stone, stone-face, stone life face, stone plant, stoneface |
---|
lymphopenia | (noun) an abnormally small number of lymphocytes in the circulating blood | Synonyms: lymphocytopenia |
---|
lymphopoiesis | (noun) the formation of lymphocytes in the bone marrow and lymph nodes and thymus and spleen | - |
---|
metamorphopsia | (noun) a defect of vision in which objects appear to be distorted; usually due to a defect in the retina | - |
---|
morphophoneme | (noun) (linguistics) the phonemes (or strings of phonemes) that constitute the various allomorphs of a morpheme | - |
---|
morphophonemics | (noun) the study of the phonological realization of the allomorphs of the morphemes of a language | - |
---|
morphophysiology | (noun) the study of anatomy in its relation to function | Synonyms: functional anatomy, physiological anatomy |
---|
onychophoran | (noun) any of numerous velvety-skinned wormlike carnivorous animals common in tropical forests having characteristics of both arthropods and annelid worms | Synonyms: peripatus, velvet worm |
---|
ornithopod | (noun) bipedal herbivorous dinosaur | Synonyms: ornithopod dinosaur |
---|
ornithopter | (noun) heavier-than-air craft that is propelled by the flapping of wings | Synonyms: orthopter |
---|
orthopaedics | (noun) the branch of medical science concerned with disorders or deformities of the spine and joints | Synonyms: orthopedics |
---|
orthopaedist | (noun) a specialist in correcting deformities of the skeletal system (especially in children) | Synonyms: orthopedist |
---|
orthopedics | (noun) the branch of medical science concerned with disorders or deformities of the spine and joints | Synonyms: orthopaedics |
---|
orthopedist | (noun) a specialist in correcting deformities of the skeletal system (especially in children) | Synonyms: orthopaedist |
---|
orthophosphate | (noun) a salt of phosphoric acid | Synonyms: inorganic phosphate, phosphate |
---|
orthopnea | (noun) form of dyspnea in which the person can breathe comfortably only when standing or sitting erect; associated with asthma and emphysema and angina pectoris | - |
---|
orthopter | (noun) heavier-than-air craft that is propelled by the flapping of wings | Synonyms: ornithopter |
---|
orthopteran | (noun) any of various insects having leathery forewings and membranous hind wings and chewing mouthparts | Synonyms: orthopteron, orthopterous insect |
---|
orthopteron | (noun) any of various insects having leathery forewings and membranous hind wings and chewing mouthparts | Synonyms: orthopteran, orthopterous insect |
---|
orthoptics | (noun) treatment of defects of binocular vision (such as strabismus and amblyopia) by nonsurgical measures (especially by exercises to strengthen the eye muscles) | - |
---|
orthoptist | (noun) a specialist in orthoptics | - |
---|
pawnshop | (noun) a shop where loans are made with personal property as security | Synonyms: loan office, pawnbroker's shop |
---|
phosphoprotein | (noun) containing chemically bound phosphoric acid | - |
---|
planthopper | (noun) related to the leafhoppers and spittlebugs but rarely damages cultivated plants | Synonyms: plant hopper |
---|
porkchop | (noun) chop cut from a hog | - |
---|
psychopath | (noun) someone with a sociopathic personality; a person with an antisocial personality disorder (`psychopath' was once widely used but has now been superseded by `sociopath') | Synonyms: sociopath |
---|
psychopathology | (noun) the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders | Synonyms: psychiatry, psychological medicine |
---|
(noun) the branch of psychology concerned with abnormal behavior | Synonyms: abnormal psychology |
psychopathy | (noun) any disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychiatric intervention | Synonyms: mental disease, mental illness |
---|
psychopharmacology | (noun) the study of drugs that affect the mind | - |
---|
psychophysicist | (noun) a psychologist trained in psychophysics | - |
---|
psychophysics | (noun) the branch of psychology concerned with quantitative relations between physical stimuli and their psychological effects | - |
---|
psychophysiology | (noun) the branch of psychology that is concerned with the physiological bases of psychological processes | Synonyms: neuropsychology, physiological psychology |
---|
psychopomp | (noun) a conductor of souls to the afterworld | - |
---|
sandhopper | (noun) small amphipod crustaceans that hop like fleas; common on ocean beaches | Synonyms: beach flea, sand flea, sand hopper |
---|
scaphopod | (noun) burrowing marine mollusk | - |
---|
shop | (noun) a course of instruction in a trade (as carpentry or electricity) | Synonyms: shop class |
---|
(noun) a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services | Synonyms: store |
(noun) small workplace where handcrafts or manufacturing are done | Synonyms: workshop |
shopaholic | (noun) a compulsive shopper | - |
---|
shopfront | (noun) the front side of a store facing the street; usually contains display windows | Synonyms: storefront |
---|
shophar | (noun) an ancient musical horn made from the horn of a ram; used in ancient times by the Israelites to sound a warning or a summons; used in synagogues today on solemn occasions | Synonyms: shofar |
---|
shopkeeper | (noun) a merchant who owns or manages a shop | Synonyms: market keeper, storekeeper, tradesman |
---|
shoplifter | (noun) a thief who steals goods that are in a store | Synonyms: booster, lifter |
---|
shoplifting | (noun) the act of stealing goods that are on display in a store | Synonyms: shrinkage |
---|
shopper | (noun) someone who visits stores in search of articles to buy | - |
---|
(noun) a commercial agent who shops at the competitor's store in order to compare their prices and merchandise with those of the store that employs her | - |
shopping | (noun) searching for or buying goods or services | - |
---|
(noun) the commodities purchased from stores | - |
shopwalker | (noun) an employee of a retail store who supervises sales personnel and helps with customer problems | Synonyms: floorwalker |
---|
shopwindow | (noun) a window of a store facing onto the street; used to display merchandise for sale in the store | Synonyms: display window, shop window, show window |
---|
slopshop | (noun) a store that sells cheap ready-made clothing | Synonyms: slopseller's shop |
---|
stanhope | (noun) a light open horse-drawn carriage with two or four wheels and one seat | - |
---|
stanhopea | (noun) any of various orchids of the genus Stanhopea having a single large leaf and loose racemes of large fragrant flowers of various colors; Mexico to Brazil | - |
---|
sweatshop | (noun) factory where workers do piecework for poor pay and are prevented from forming unions; common in the clothing industry | - |
---|
teashop | (noun) a restaurant where tea and light meals are available | Synonyms: tea parlor, tea parlour, teahouse, tearoom |
---|
thriftshop | (noun) a shop that sells secondhand goods at reduced prices | Synonyms: second-hand store |
---|
toyshop | (noun) shop where toys are sold | - |
---|
treehopper | (noun) small leaping insect that sucks juices of branches and twigs | - |
---|
trichopteran | (noun) caddis fly | Synonyms: trichopteron, trichopterous insect |
---|
trichopteron | (noun) caddis fly | Synonyms: trichopteran, trichopterous insect |
---|
triphosphopyridine | (noun) a pyridine ring with three phosphorus groups | - |
---|
whopper | (noun) something especially big or impressive of its kind | Synonyms: whacker |
---|
(noun) a gross untruth; a blatant lie | Synonyms: walloper |