allegation | (noun) (law) a formal accusation against somebody (often in a court of law) | - |
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(noun) statements affirming or denying certain matters of fact that you are prepared to prove | Synonyms: allegement |
allegement | (noun) statements affirming or denying certain matters of fact that you are prepared to prove | Synonyms: allegation |
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allegiance | (noun) the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action | Synonyms: commitment, dedication, loyalty |
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(noun) the loyalty that citizens owe to their country (or subjects to their sovereign) | Synonyms: fealty |
allegoresis | (noun) the interpretation of written, oral, or artistic expression as allegory. | - |
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allegoricalness | (noun) The state or quality of being allegorical. | - |
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allegoriser | (noun) someone who communicates in allegories | Synonyms: allegorizer |
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allegorizer | (noun) someone who communicates in allegories | Synonyms: allegoriser |
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allegory | (noun) a short moral story (often with animal characters) | Synonyms: apologue, fable, parable |
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(noun) an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor | - |
(noun) a visible symbol representing an abstract idea | Synonyms: emblem |
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 | - |
aquilege | (noun) a plant of the genus Aquilegia having irregular showy spurred flowers; north temperate regions especially mountains | Synonyms: aquilegia, columbine |
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aquilegia | (noun) a plant of the genus Aquilegia having irregular showy spurred flowers; north temperate regions especially mountains | Synonyms: aquilege, columbine |
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bandyleg | (noun) a leg bowed outward at the knee (or below the knee) | Synonyms: bandy leg, bow leg, bowleg, genu varum, tibia vara |
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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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blackleg | (noun) someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike | Synonyms: rat, scab, strikebreaker |
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bootleg | (noun) the part of a boot above the instep | - |
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(noun) whiskey illegally distilled from a corn mash | Synonyms: corn liquor, moonshine |
bootlegger | (noun) someone who makes or sells illegal liquor | Synonyms: moonshiner |
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bootlegging | (noun) the act of making or transporting alcoholic liquor for sale illegally | - |
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(noun) the act of selling illegally or without permission | - |
bowleg | (noun) a leg bowed outward at the knee (or below the knee) | Synonyms: bandy leg, bandyleg, bow leg, genu varum, tibia vara |
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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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cablegram | (noun) a telegram sent abroad | Synonyms: cable, overseas telegram |
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cleg | (noun) large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals | Synonyms: clegg, horse fly, horsefly |
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clegg | (noun) large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals | Synonyms: cleg, horse fly, horsefly |
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college | (noun) a complex of buildings in which an institution of higher education is housed | - |
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(noun) the body of faculty and students of a college | - |
(noun) an institution of higher education created to educate and grant degrees; often a part of a university | - |
collegian | (noun) a student (or former student) at a college or university | Synonyms: college boy, college man |
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cystoplegia | (noun) paralysis of the urinary bladder | Synonyms: cystoparalysis |
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delegacy | (noun) the appointment of a delegate | - |
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(noun) a group of representatives or delegates | Synonyms: commission, delegation, deputation, mission |
(noun) the state of serving as an official and authorized delegate or agent | Synonyms: agency, representation |
delegate | (noun) a person appointed or elected to represent others | - |
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delegating | (noun) authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions | Synonyms: delegation, deputation, relegating, relegation |
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delegation | (noun) authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions | Synonyms: delegating, deputation, relegating, relegation |
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(noun) a group of representatives or delegates | Synonyms: commission, delegacy, deputation, mission |
diplegia | (noun) paralysis of corresponding parts on both sides of the body | - |
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dogleg | (noun) a golf hole with a sharp angle in the fairway | - |
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(noun) angle that resembles the hind leg of a dog | - |
elegance | (noun) a refined quality of gracefulness and good taste | - |
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(noun) a quality of neatness and ingenious simplicity in the solution of a problem (especially in science or mathematics) | - |
elegist | (noun) the author of a mournful poem lamenting the dead | - |
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elegy | (noun) a mournful poem; a lament for the dead | Synonyms: lament |
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florilegium | (noun) an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc. | Synonyms: garland, miscellany |
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foreleg | (noun) the forelimb of a quadruped | - |
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hemiplegia | (noun) paralysis of one side of the body | Synonyms: unilateral paralysis |
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hemiplegic | (noun) a person who has hemiplegia (is paralyzed on one side of the body) | - |
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illegality | (noun) unlawfulness by virtue of violating some legal statute | - |
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illegibility | (noun) the quality of writing (print or handwriting) that cannot be deciphered | - |
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illegitimacy | (noun) unlawfulness by virtue of not being authorized by or in accordance with law | - |
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(noun) the status of being born to parents who were not married | Synonyms: bar sinister, bastardy |
illegitimate | (noun) the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents | Synonyms: bastard, by-blow, illegitimate child, love child, whoreson |
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inelegance | (noun) the quality of lacking refinement and good taste | - |
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leg | (noun) a section or portion of a journey or course | Synonyms: stage |
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(noun) (nautical) the distance traveled by a sailing vessel on a single tack | - |
(noun) a cloth covering consisting of the part of a pair of trousers that covers a person's leg | - |
(noun) one of the supports for a piece of furniture | - |
(noun) a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg | Synonyms: peg, pegleg, wooden leg |
(noun) a human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part of the limb between the knee and ankle | - |
(noun) a structure in animals that is similar to a human leg and used for locomotion | - |
(noun) the limb of an animal used for food | - |
(noun) a part of a forked or branching shape | Synonyms: branch, ramification |
legacy | (noun) (law) a gift of personal property by will | Synonyms: bequest |
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legalese | (noun) a style that uses the abstruse technical vocabulary of the law | - |
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legalisation | (noun) the act of making lawful | Synonyms: legalization, legitimation |
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legalism | (noun) strict conformity to the letter of the law rather than its spirit | - |
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legality | (noun) lawfulness by virtue of conformity to a legal statute | - |
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legalization | (noun) the act of making lawful | Synonyms: legalisation, legitimation |
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legate | (noun) a member of a legation | Synonyms: official emissary |
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legatee | (noun) someone to whom a legacy is bequeathed | - |
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legateship | (noun) the post or office of legate | Synonyms: legation |
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legation | (noun) the post or office of legate | Synonyms: legateship |
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(noun) a permanent diplomatic mission headed by a minister | Synonyms: foreign mission |
legend | (noun) brief description accompanying an illustration | Synonyms: caption |
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(noun) a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events | Synonyms: fable |
leger | (noun) a record in which commercial accounts are recorded | Synonyms: account book, book, book of account, ledger |
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legerdemain | (noun) an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers | Synonyms: conjuration, conjuring trick, deception, illusion, magic, magic trick, thaumaturgy, trick |
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legerity | (noun) the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble | Synonyms: agility, lightness, lightsomeness, nimbleness |
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legging | (noun) a garment covering the leg (usually extending from the knee to the ankle) | Synonyms: leg covering, leging |
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leghorn | (noun) a stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown | Synonyms: boater, Panama, Panama hat, sailor, skimmer, straw hat |
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legibility | (noun) a quality of writing (print or handwriting) that can be easily read | Synonyms: readability |
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(noun) distinctness that makes perception easy | Synonyms: discernability |
leging | (noun) a garment covering the leg (usually extending from the knee to the ankle) | Synonyms: leg covering, legging |
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legion | (noun) a vast multitude | Synonyms: horde, host |
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(noun) a large military unit | - |
(noun) association of ex-servicemen | - |
(noun) archaic terms for army | Synonyms: host |
legionary | (noun) a soldier who is a member of a legion (especially the French Foreign Legion) | Synonyms: legionnaire |
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legionella | (noun) the motile aerobic rod-shaped Gram-negative bacterium that thrives in central heating and air conditioning systems and can cause Legionnaires' disease | Synonyms: Legionella pneumophilia |
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legionnaire | (noun) a soldier who is a member of a legion (especially the French Foreign Legion) | Synonyms: legionary |
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legislating | (noun) the act of making or enacting laws | Synonyms: lawmaking, legislation |
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legislation | (noun) the act of making or enacting laws | Synonyms: lawmaking, legislating |
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(noun) law enacted by a legislative body | Synonyms: statute law |
legislator | (noun) someone who makes or enacts laws | - |
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legislatorship | (noun) the office of legislator | - |
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legislature | (noun) persons who make or amend or repeal laws | Synonyms: general assembly, law-makers, legislative assembly, legislative body |
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legitimacy | (noun) lawfulness by virtue of being authorized or in accordance with law | - |
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(noun) undisputed credibility | Synonyms: authenticity, genuineness |
legitimation | (noun) the act of making lawful | Synonyms: legalisation, legalization |
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(noun) the act of rendering a person legitimate | - |
legs | (noun) staying power | - |
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legume | (noun) the seedpod of a leguminous plant (such as peas or beans or lentils) | - |
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(noun) an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae | Synonyms: leguminous plant |
(noun) the fruit or seed of any of various bean or pea plants consisting of a case that splits along both sides when ripe and having the seeds attach to one side of the case | - |
longlegs | (noun) long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons | Synonyms: Himantopus stilt, long-legs, stilt, stilt plover, stiltbird |
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monoplegia | (noun) paralysis of a single limb | - |
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ophthalmoplegia | (noun) paralysis of the motor nerves of the eye | - |
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paralegal | (noun) a person with specialized training who assists lawyers | Synonyms: legal assistant |
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paraplegia | (noun) paralysis of the lower half of the body (most often as a result of trauma) | - |
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paraplegic | (noun) a person who has paraplegia (is paralyzed from the waist down) | - |
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pegleg | (noun) a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg | Synonyms: leg, peg, wooden leg |
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phlegm | (noun) inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy | Synonyms: flatness, languor, lethargy, sluggishness |
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(noun) expectorated matter; saliva mixed with discharges from the respiratory passages; in ancient and medieval physiology it was believed to cause sluggishness | Synonyms: sputum |
(noun) apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions | Synonyms: emotionlessness, impassiveness, impassivity, indifference, stolidity, unemotionality |
phlegmatizer | (noun) a material added to an explosive to make it less susceptible to detonation and thus more stable and safer to handle and transport. | - |
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phototelegraph | (noun) an apparatus for transmitting pictures by phototelegraphy. | - |
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phototelegraphy | (noun) an early technology for the transmission of facsimiles. | - |
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privilege | (noun) a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right) | Synonyms: exclusive right, perquisite, prerogative |
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(noun) (law) the right to refuse to divulge information obtained in a confidential relationship | - |
(noun) a special advantage or immunity or benefit not enjoyed by all | - |
prolegomenon | (noun) a preliminary discussion inserted at the beginning of a book or treatise | - |
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quadriplegia | (noun) paralysis of both arms and both legs | - |
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quadriplegic | (noun) a person who is paralyzed in both arms and both legs | - |
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radiotelegraph | (noun) the use of radio to send telegraphic messages (usually by Morse code) | Synonyms: radiotelegraphy, wireless telegraph, wireless telegraphy |
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(noun) telegraphy that uses transmission by radio rather than by wire | Synonyms: radiotelegraphy, wireless telegraphy |
radiotelegraphy | (noun) the use of radio to send telegraphic messages (usually by Morse code) | Synonyms: radiotelegraph, wireless telegraph, wireless telegraphy |
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(noun) telegraphy that uses transmission by radio rather than by wire | Synonyms: radiotelegraph, wireless telegraphy |
relegating | (noun) authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions | Synonyms: delegating, delegation, deputation, relegation |
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relegation | (noun) authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions | Synonyms: delegating, delegation, deputation, relegating |
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(noun) mild banishment; consignment to an inferior position | - |
(noun) the act of assigning (someone or something) to a particular class or category | - |
roughleg | (noun) large hawk of the Northern Hemisphere that feeds chiefly on small rodents and is beneficial to farmers | Synonyms: Buteo lagopus, rough-legged hawk |
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sacrilege | (noun) blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character | Synonyms: blasphemy, desecration, profanation |
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sacrilegiousness | (noun) profaneness by virtue of committing sacrilege | - |
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semilegality | (noun) The property of being of partial or questionable legality. | Synonyms: semi-legality |
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spindlelegs | (noun) long thin legs | Synonyms: spindleshanks |
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(noun) a thin person with long thin legs | Synonyms: spindleshanks |