| alignment | (noun) the act of adjusting or aligning the parts of a device in relation to each other | - |
|---|
| (noun) the spatial property possessed by an arrangement or position of things in a straight line or in parallel lines | - |
| (noun) (astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac | Synonyms: conjunction |
| (noun) an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty | Synonyms: alinement, alliance, coalition |
| arraignment | (noun) a legal document calling someone to court to answer an indictment | - |
|---|
| assignation | (noun) a secret rendezvous (especially between lovers) | Synonyms: tryst |
|---|
| (noun) the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan | Synonyms: allocation, allotment, apportioning, apportionment, parceling, parcelling |
| assignee | (noun) (law) the party to whom something is assigned (e.g., someone to whom a right or property is legally transferred) | - |
|---|
| assigning | (noun) the act of distributing something to designated places or persons | Synonyms: assignment |
|---|
| assignment | (noun) a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces) | Synonyms: duty assignment |
|---|
| (noun) the act of putting a person into a non-elective position | Synonyms: appointment, designation, naming |
| (noun) the act of distributing something to designated places or persons | Synonyms: assigning |
| (noun) an undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor) | - |
| (noun) the instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another | - |
| (noun) (law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance | Synonyms: grant |
| assignor | (noun) (law) the party who makes an assignment | - |
|---|
| beignet | (noun) a deep-fried, yeast-raised doughnut dusted with confectioners' sugar | Synonyms: French fritter |
|---|
| benignancy | (noun) the quality of being kind and gentle | Synonyms: benignity, graciousness |
|---|
| benignity | (noun) a kind act | Synonyms: kindness |
|---|
| (noun) the quality of being kind and gentle | Synonyms: benignancy, graciousness |
| bigness | (noun) the property of having a relatively great size | Synonyms: largeness |
|---|
| bignoniad | (noun) any woody plant of the family Bignoniaceae | - |
|---|
| bourguignon | (noun) reduced red wine with onions and parsley and thyme and butter | Synonyms: bourguignon sauce, Burgundy sauce |
|---|
| campaign | (noun) several related operations aimed at achieving a particular goal (usually within geographical and temporal constraints) | Synonyms: military campaign |
|---|
| (noun) an overland journey by hunters (especially in Africa) | Synonyms: hunting expedition, safari |
| (noun) a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end | Synonyms: cause, crusade, drive, effort, movement |
| (noun) a race between candidates for elective office | Synonyms: political campaign, run |
| campaigner | (noun) a politician who is running for public office | Synonyms: candidate, nominee |
|---|
| campaigning | (noun) the campaign of a candidate to be elected | Synonyms: candidacy, candidature, electioneering, political campaign |
|---|
| champaign | (noun) extensive tract of level open land | Synonyms: field, plain |
|---|
| chignon | (noun) a roll of hair worn at the nape of the neck | - |
|---|
| coign | (noun) the keystone of an arch | Synonyms: coigne, quoin |
|---|
| (noun) expandable metal or wooden wedge used by printers to lock up a form within a chase | Synonyms: coigne, quoin |
| coigne | (noun) the keystone of an arch | Synonyms: coign, quoin |
|---|
| (noun) expandable metal or wooden wedge used by printers to lock up a form within a chase | Synonyms: coign, quoin |
| consignee | (noun) the person to whom merchandise is delivered over | - |
|---|
| consigner | (noun) the person who delivers over or commits merchandise | Synonyms: consignor |
|---|
| consignment | (noun) the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital) | Synonyms: commitment, committal |
|---|
| (noun) the delivery of goods for sale or disposal | - |
| (noun) goods carried by a large vehicle | Synonyms: cargo, freight, lading, load, loading, payload, shipment |
| consignor | (noun) the person who delivers over or commits merchandise | Synonyms: consigner |
|---|
| cosignatory | (noun) one of two or more signers of the same document (as a treaty or declaration) | Synonyms: cosigner |
|---|
| cosigner | (noun) one of two or more signers of the same document (as a treaty or declaration) | Synonyms: cosignatory |
|---|
| (noun) a signer in addition to the principal signer (to verify the authenticity of the principal signature or to provide surety) | - |
| countersign | (noun) a second confirming signature endorsing a document already signed | Synonyms: countersignature |
|---|
| (noun) a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group | Synonyms: parole, password, watchword, word |
| countersignature | (noun) a second confirming signature endorsing a document already signed | Synonyms: countersign |
|---|
| dealignment | (noun) a process whereby voters are moved toward nonpartisanship thus weakening the structure of political parties | - |
|---|
| design | (noun) the act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan) | Synonyms: designing |
|---|
| (noun) a decorative or artistic work | Synonyms: figure, pattern |
| (noun) a preliminary sketch indicating the plan for something | - |
| (noun) the creation of something in the mind | Synonyms: conception, excogitation, innovation, invention |
| (noun) an arrangement scheme | Synonyms: plan |
| (noun) something intended as a guide for making something else | Synonyms: blueprint, pattern |
| (noun) an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions | Synonyms: aim, intent, intention, purpose |
| designation | (noun) the act of putting a person into a non-elective position | Synonyms: appointment, assignment, naming |
|---|
| (noun) the act of designating or identifying something | Synonyms: identification |
| (noun) identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others | Synonyms: appellation, appellative, denomination |
| designatum | (noun) something (whether existing or not) that is referred to by a linguistic expression | - |
|---|
| designer | (noun) someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings) | Synonyms: architect |
|---|
| (noun) someone who designs clothing | Synonyms: clothes designer, couturier, fashion designer |
| (noun) a person who specializes in interior design | Synonyms: interior designer |
| (noun) a person who devises plots or intrigues | Synonyms: intriguer |
| (noun) someone who specializes in graphic design | Synonyms: graphic designer |
| designing | (noun) the act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan) | Synonyms: design |
|---|
| dignitary | (noun) an important or influential (and often overbearing) person | Synonyms: high-up, high muckamuck, panjandrum, very important person, VIP |
|---|
| dignity | (noun) the quality of being worthy of esteem or respect | Synonyms: self-regard, self-respect, self-worth |
|---|
| (noun) formality in bearing and appearance | Synonyms: gravitas, lordliness |
| (noun) high office or rank or station | - |
| ensign | (noun) colors flown by a ship to show its nationality | - |
|---|
| (noun) an emblem flown as a symbol of nationality | Synonyms: national flag |
| (noun) a person who holds a commissioned rank in the United States Navy or the United States Coast Guard; below lieutenant junior grade | - |
| fansign | (noun) a sign made by a fan, usually with the target's name on it | - |
|---|
| feigning | (noun) the act of giving a false appearance | Synonyms: pretence, pretending, pretense, simulation |
|---|
| (noun) pretending with intention to deceive | Synonyms: dissembling, pretence, pretense |
| fogsignal | (noun) a loud low warning signal that can be heard by fogbound ships | Synonyms: foghorn |
|---|
| foreigner | (noun) a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country | Synonyms: alien, noncitizen, outlander |
|---|
| (noun) someone who is excluded from or is not a member of a group | Synonyms: outsider |
| foreignness | (noun) the quality of being alien or not native | Synonyms: curiousness, strangeness |
|---|
| gelignite | (noun) a type of dynamite in which the nitroglycerin is absorbed in a base of wood pulp and sodium or potassium nitrate | Synonyms: gelly |
|---|
| igniter | (noun) a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires | Synonyms: ignitor, light, lighter |
|---|
| (noun) a substance used to ignite or kindle a fire | Synonyms: ignitor, lighter |
| ignition | (noun) the act of setting something on fire | Synonyms: firing, inflammation, kindling, lighting |
|---|
| (noun) the mechanism that ignites the fuel in an internal-combustion engine | Synonyms: ignition system |
| (noun) the process of initiating combustion or catching fire | - |
| ignitor | (noun) a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires | Synonyms: igniter, light, lighter |
|---|
| (noun) a substance used to ignite or kindle a fire | Synonyms: igniter, lighter |
| ignobility | (noun) the quality of being ignoble | Synonyms: ignobleness |
|---|
| ignobleness | (noun) the quality of being ignoble | Synonyms: ignobility |
|---|
| ignominiousness | (noun) unworthiness meriting public disgrace and dishonor | Synonyms: disgracefulness, shamefulness |
|---|
| ignominy | (noun) a state of dishonor | Synonyms: disgrace, shame |
|---|
| ignoramus | (noun) an ignorant person | Synonyms: know nothing, uneducated person |
|---|
| ignorance | (noun) the lack of knowledge or education | - |
|---|
| ignorantness | (noun) ignorance (especially of orthodox beliefs) | Synonyms: nescience, unknowing, unknowingness |
|---|
| indignation | (noun) a feeling of righteous anger | Synonyms: outrage |
|---|
| indignity | (noun) an affront to one's dignity or self-esteem | - |
|---|
| insignia | (noun) a badge worn to show official position | - |
|---|
| insignificance | (noun) the quality of having little or no significance | - |
|---|
| ligne | (noun) a linear unit (1/40 inch) used to measure diameter of buttons | - |
|---|
| lignin | (noun) a complex polymer; the chief constituent of wood other than carbohydrates; binds to cellulose fibers to harden and strengthen cell walls of plants | - |
|---|
| lignite | (noun) intermediate between peat and bituminous coal | Synonyms: brown coal, wood coal |
|---|
| lignosae | (noun) a category in some early taxonomies | - |
|---|
| lignum | (noun) woody tissue | - |
|---|
| malignance | (noun) quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will | Synonyms: malignancy, malignity |
|---|
| (noun) (medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death | Synonyms: malignancy |
| malignancy | (noun) quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will | Synonyms: malignance, malignity |
|---|
| (noun) (medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death | Synonyms: malignance |
| maligner | (noun) one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel | Synonyms: backbiter, defamer, libeler, slanderer, traducer, vilifier |
|---|
| malignity | (noun) quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will | Synonyms: malignance, malignancy |
|---|
| (noun) wishing evil to others | Synonyms: malevolence |
| malignment | (noun) slanderous defamation | Synonyms: smear, vilification |
|---|
| mignonette | (noun) Mediterranean woody annual widely cultivated for its dense terminal spikelike clusters greenish or yellowish white flowers having an intense spicy fragrance | Synonyms: Reseda odorata, sweet reseda |
|---|
| misalignment | (noun) the spatial property of things that are not properly aligned | - |
|---|
| nonalignment | (noun) people (or countries) who are not aligned with other people (or countries) in a pact or treaty | Synonyms: nonalinement |
|---|
| peignoir | (noun) a loose dressing gown for women | Synonyms: housecoat, neglige, negligee, wrapper |
|---|
| pignolia | (noun) edible seed of any of several nut pines especially some pinons of southwestern North America | Synonyms: pine nut, pinon nut |
|---|
| pignut | (noun) an American hickory tree having bitter nuts | Synonyms: black hickory, brown hickory, Carya glabra, pignut hickory |
|---|
| poignance | (noun) a state of deeply felt distress or sorrow | Synonyms: poignancy |
|---|
| poignancy | (noun) a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow) | Synonyms: pathos |
|---|
| (noun) a state of deeply felt distress or sorrow | Synonyms: poignance |
| reassignment | (noun) assignment to a different duty | - |
|---|
| reign | (noun) royal authority; the dominion of a monarch | Synonyms: sovereignty |
|---|
| (noun) the period during which a monarch is sovereign | - |
| (noun) a period during which something or somebody is dominant or powerful | - |
| resignation | (noun) the act of giving up (a claim or office or possession etc.) | - |
|---|
| (noun) a formal document giving notice of your intention to resign | - |
| (noun) acceptance of despair | Synonyms: surrender |
| seigneur | (noun) a man of rank in the ancient regime | Synonyms: feudal lord, seignior |
|---|
| seigneury | (noun) the position and authority of a feudal lord | Synonyms: feudal lordship, seigniory |
|---|
| (noun) the estate of a seigneur | Synonyms: seigniory, signory |
| seignior | (noun) a man of rank in the ancient regime | Synonyms: feudal lord, seigneur |
|---|
| seigniorage | (noun) charged by a government for coining bullion | - |
|---|
| seigniory | (noun) the position and authority of a feudal lord | Synonyms: feudal lordship, seigneury |
|---|
| (noun) the estate of a seigneur | Synonyms: seigneury, signory |
| sign | (noun) structure displaying a board on which advertisements can be posted | Synonyms: signboard |
|---|
| (noun) a public display of a message | - |
| (noun) a gesture that is part of a sign language | - |
| (noun) any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message | Synonyms: signal, signaling, signalling |
| (noun) a character indicating a relation between quantities | - |
| (noun) a perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened) | Synonyms: mark |
| (noun) a fundamental linguistic unit linking a signifier to that which is signified | - |
| (noun) an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come | Synonyms: augury, foretoken, preindication |
| (noun) (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided | Synonyms: house, mansion, planetary house, sign of the zodiac, star sign |
| (noun) having an indicated pole (as the distinction between positive and negative electric charges) | Synonyms: polarity |
| (noun) (medicine) any objective evidence of the presence of a disorder or disease | - |
| signage | (noun) signs collectively (especially commercial signs or posters) | - |
|---|
| signal | (noun) any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message | Synonyms: sign, signaling, signalling |
|---|
| (noun) any incitement to action | - |
| (noun) an electric quantity (voltage or current or field strength) whose modulation represents coded information about the source from which it comes | - |
| signaler | (noun) someone who communicates by signals | Synonyms: signaller |
|---|
| signaling | (noun) any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message | Synonyms: sign, signal, signalling |
|---|
| signalisation | (noun) a conspicuous indication | Synonyms: signalization |
|---|
| signalization | (noun) a conspicuous indication | Synonyms: signalisation |
|---|
| signaller | (noun) someone who communicates by signals | Synonyms: signaler |
|---|
| signalling | (noun) any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message | Synonyms: sign, signal, signaling |
|---|
| signalman | (noun) a railroad employee in charge of signals and point in a railroad yard | - |
|---|
| signatory | (noun) someone who signs and is bound by a document | Synonyms: signer |
|---|
| signature | (noun) a distinguishing style | Synonyms: touch |
|---|
| (noun) your name written in your own handwriting | - |
| (noun) a sheet with several pages printed on it; it folds to page size and is bound with other signatures to form a book | - |
| (noun) the sharps or flats that follow the clef and indicate the key | Synonyms: key signature |
| (noun) a melody used to identify a performer or a dance band or radio/tv program | Synonyms: signature tune, theme song |
| signboard | (noun) structure displaying a board on which advertisements can be posted | Synonyms: sign |
|---|
| signer | (noun) someone who signs and is bound by a document | Synonyms: signatory |
|---|
| (noun) someone who can use sign language to communicate | - |
| signet | (noun) a seal (especially one used to mark documents officially) | - |
|---|
| significance | (noun) the quality of being significant | - |
|---|
| (noun) a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred | Synonyms: implication, import |
| (noun) the message that is intended or expressed or signified | Synonyms: import, meaning, signification |
| signification | (noun) the message that is intended or expressed or signified | Synonyms: import, meaning, significance |
|---|