allopathy | (noun) the usual method of treating disease with remedies that produce effects differing from those produced by the disease itself | - |
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allopatry | (noun) the occurrence of related organisms in separate geographical areas with no overlap | - |
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allophone | (noun) (linguistics) any of various acoustically different forms of the same phoneme | - |
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allopurinol | (noun) a drug (trade name Zyloprim) used to treat gout and other conditions in which there is an excessive buildup of uric acid | Synonyms: Zyloprim |
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alopecia | (noun) loss of hair (especially on the head) or loss of wool or feathers; in humans it can result from heredity or hormonal imbalance or certain diseases or drugs and treatments (chemotherapy for cancer) | - |
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anglophil | (noun) an admirer of England and things English | Synonyms: anglophile |
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anglophile | (noun) an admirer of England and things English | Synonyms: anglophil |
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anglophobe | (noun) a person who hates England and everything English | - |
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anomalops | (noun) fish having a luminous organ beneath eye; of warm waters of the western Pacific and Puerto Rico | Synonyms: flashlight fish |
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anomalopteryx | (noun) the smallest moa; slender moa about the size of a large turkey | Synonyms: Anomalopteryx oweni |
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antelope | (noun) graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles, springboks, impalas, addax, gerenuks, blackbucks, dik-diks | - |
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australopithecine | (noun) any of several extinct humanlike bipedal primates with relatively small brains of the genus Australopithecus; from 1 to 4 million years ago | - |
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camelopard | (noun) tallest living quadruped; having a spotted coat and small horns and very long neck and legs; of savannahs of tropical Africa | Synonyms: Giraffa camelopardalis, giraffe |
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cellophane | (noun) a transparent paperlike product that is impervious to moisture and used to wrap candy or cigarettes etc. | - |
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cephalopod | (noun) marine mollusk characterized by well-developed head and eyes and sucker-bearing tentacles | Synonyms: cephalopod mollusk |
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clop | (noun) the sound of a horse's hoofs hitting on a hard surface | Synonyms: clip-clop, clippety-clop, clopping, clumping, clunking |
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clopping | (noun) the sound of a horse's hoofs hitting on a hard surface | Synonyms: clip-clop, clippety-clop, clop, clumping, clunking |
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codswallop | (noun) nonsensical talk or writing | Synonyms: applesauce, folderol, rubbish, trash, tripe, trumpery, wish-wash |
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coelophysis | (noun) one of the oldest known dinosaurs; late Triassic; cannibalistic | - |
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colophon | (noun) a publisher's emblem printed in a book (usually on the title page) | - |
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colophony | (noun) translucent brittle substance produced from pine oleoresin; used especially in varnishes and inks and on the bows of stringed instruments | - |
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cyclopaedia | (noun) a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty | Synonyms: cyclopedia, encyclopaedia, encyclopedia |
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cyclopedia | (noun) a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty | Synonyms: cyclopaedia, encyclopaedia, encyclopedia |
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cyclopia | (noun) a developmental abnormality in which there is only one eye | - |
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cyclopropane | (noun) a colorless flammable gas sometimes used as an inhalation anesthetic | - |
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cyclops | (noun) minute free-swimming freshwater copepod having a large median eye and pear-shaped body and long antennae used in swimming; important in some food chains and as intermediate hosts of parasitic worms that affect man e.g. Guinea worms | Synonyms: water flea |
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developer | (noun) photographic equipment consisting of a chemical solution for developing film | - |
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(noun) someone who develops real estate (especially someone who prepares a site for residential or commercial use) | - |
developing | (noun) processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible | Synonyms: development |
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development | (noun) act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining | - |
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(noun) the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful | Synonyms: exploitation |
(noun) (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated | - |
(noun) a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation | - |
(noun) a district that has been developed to serve some purpose | - |
(noun) processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible | Synonyms: developing |
(noun) (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level | Synonyms: growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny |
(noun) a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage) | Synonyms: evolution |
(noun) a state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess) | - |
diplopia | (noun) visual impairment in which an object is seen as two objects | Synonyms: double vision |
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dollop | (noun) a small measure (usually of food) | - |
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downslope | (noun) a downward slope or bend | Synonyms: declension, declination, decline, declivity, descent, fall |
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elopement | (noun) the act of running away with a lover (usually to get married) | - |
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encephalopathy | (noun) any disorder or disease of the brain | Synonyms: brain disease, brain disorder |
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encyclopaedia | (noun) a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty | Synonyms: cyclopaedia, cyclopedia, encyclopedia |
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encyclopaedism | (noun) profound scholarly knowledge | Synonyms: encyclopedism, eruditeness, erudition, learnedness, learning, scholarship |
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encyclopaedist | (noun) a person who compiles information for encyclopedias | Synonyms: encyclopedist |
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encyclopedia | (noun) a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty | Synonyms: cyclopaedia, cyclopedia, encyclopaedia |
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encyclopedism | (noun) profound scholarly knowledge | Synonyms: encyclopaedism, eruditeness, erudition, learnedness, learning, scholarship |
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encyclopedist | (noun) a person who compiles information for encyclopedias | Synonyms: encyclopaedist |
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envelope | (noun) any wrapper or covering | - |
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(noun) a flat (usually rectangular) container for a letter, thin package, etc. | - |
(noun) the bag containing the gas in a balloon | Synonyms: gasbag |
(noun) the maximum operating capability of a system (especially an aircraft) | - |
(noun) a natural covering (as by a fluid) | - |
(noun) a curve that is tangent to each of a family of curves | - |
envelopment | (noun) the act of enclosing something inside something else | Synonyms: enclosing, enclosure, inclosure |
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escallop | (noun) edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions | Synonyms: scallop, scollop |
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(noun) edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces | Synonyms: scallop, scollop |
(noun) thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled | Synonyms: cutlet, scallop, scollop |
exaflop | (noun) (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system, equal to one quintillion floating-point operations a second. | Synonyms: EFLOPS |
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fasciolopsiasis | (noun) infestation with the large intestinal fluke Fasciolopsis buski; common in eastern Asia | - |
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flop | (noun) the act of throwing yourself down; collapse; sink | Synonyms: collapse |
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(noun) a complete failure | Synonyms: bust, fizzle |
(noun) someone who is unsuccessful | Synonyms: dud, washout |
(noun) an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers | Synonyms: floating-point operation |
flophouse | (noun) a cheap lodging house | Synonyms: dosshouse |
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floppy | (noun) a small plastic magnetic disk enclosed in a stiff envelope with a radial slit; used to store data or programs for a microcomputer | Synonyms: diskette, floppy disk |
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gallop | (noun) a fast gait of a horse; a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously | - |
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galop | (noun) music suitable for a galop dance | - |
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gigaflop | (noun) a unit of measure for the calculating speed of a computer equal to one billion floating point operations per second. | Synonyms: billion floating point operations per second, GFLOPS |
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glop | (noun) writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental | Synonyms: mush, slop, treacle |
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(noun) any gummy shapeless matter; usually unpleasant | - |
haloperidol | (noun) tranquilizer (trade name Haldol) used to treat some psychotic disorders and Tourette's syndrome | Synonyms: Haldol |
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halophil | (noun) archaebacteria requiring a salt-rich environment for growth and survival | Synonyms: halophile |
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halophile | (noun) archaebacteria requiring a salt-rich environment for growth and survival | Synonyms: halophil |
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halophyte | (noun) plant growing naturally in very salty soil | - |
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hemeralopia | (noun) inability to see clearly in bright light | Synonyms: day blindness |
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holophyte | (noun) an organism that produces its own food by photosynthesis | - |
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hyaloplasm | (noun) the clear nongranular portion of the cytoplasm of a cell | Synonyms: ground substance |
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interloper | (noun) someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission | Synonyms: intruder, trespasser |
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jalopy | (noun) a car that is old and unreliable | Synonyms: bus, heap |
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lope | (noun) a smooth three-beat gait; between a trot and a gallop | Synonyms: canter |
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(noun) a slow pace of running | Synonyms: jog, trot |
lopper | (noun) a long-handled pruning saw with a curved blade at the end and sometimes a clipper; used to prune small trees | Synonyms: pruner, pruning hook |
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lopsidedness | (noun) an oblique or slanting asymmetry | Synonyms: skewness |
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malope | (noun) western Mediterranean annual having deep purple-red flowers subtended by 3 large cordate bracts | Synonyms: Malope trifida |
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megaflop | (noun) (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system, one megaflops is a million floating point operations per second | Synonyms: MFLOP, million floating point operations per second |
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megalopolis | (noun) a very large urban complex (usually involving several cities and towns) | - |
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nondevelopment | (noun) failure of normal development to occur | - |
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nyctalopia | (noun) inability to see clearly in dim light; due to a deficiency of vitamin A or to a retinal disorder | Synonyms: moon blindness, night blindness |
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orlop | (noun) the fourth or lowest deck | Synonyms: fourth deck, orlop deck |
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parallelopiped | (noun) a prism whose bases are parallelograms | Synonyms: parallelepiped, parallelepipedon, parallelopipedon |
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parallelopipedon | (noun) a prism whose bases are parallelograms | Synonyms: parallelepiped, parallelepipedon, parallelopiped |
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petaflop | (noun) (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system, equal to one quadrillion floating-point operations a second. | Synonyms: PFLOPS |
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phalloplasty | (noun) reconstructive surgery on the penis to repair congenital abnormality or injury | - |
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plop | (noun) the noise of a rounded object dropping into a liquid without a splash | - |
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psilophyte | (noun) any plant of the order Psilophytales: a savannah plant | - |
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psilophyton | (noun) any plant or fossil of the genus Psilophyton | - |
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redevelopment | (noun) the act of improving by renewing and restoring | Synonyms: overhaul, renovation |
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salopettes | (noun) trousers usually of stretch material and kept taut by a strap under the foot, worn for skiing or as a fashion garment. | Synonyms: ski pants |
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scallop | (noun) edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions | Synonyms: escallop, scollop |
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(noun) edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces | Synonyms: escallop, scollop |
(noun) thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled | Synonyms: cutlet, escallop, scollop |
(noun) one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.) | Synonyms: crenation, crenature, crenel, crenelle |
scallopine | (noun) sauteed cutlets (usually veal or poultry) that have been pounded thin and coated with flour | Synonyms: scallopini |
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scallopini | (noun) sauteed cutlets (usually veal or poultry) that have been pounded thin and coated with flour | Synonyms: scallopine |
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scollop | (noun) edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions | Synonyms: escallop, scallop |
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(noun) edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces | Synonyms: escallop, scallop |
(noun) thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled | Synonyms: cutlet, escallop, scallop |
scolopendrium | (noun) a fern thought to resemble a millipede | - |
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slop | (noun) writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental | Synonyms: glop, mush, treacle |
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(noun) wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk | Synonyms: pigswill, pigwash, slops, swill |
(noun) (usually plural) weak or watery unappetizing food or drink | - |
(noun) deep soft mud in water or slush | Synonyms: mire |
(noun) (usually plural) waste water from a kitchen or bathroom or chamber pot that has to be emptied by hand | - |
slope | (noun) the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal | Synonyms: gradient |
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(noun) an elevated geological formation | Synonyms: incline, side |
sloppiness | (noun) the quality of not being careful or taking pains | Synonyms: carelessness |
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(noun) falsely emotional in a maudlin way | Synonyms: drippiness, mawkishness, mushiness, sentimentality, soupiness |
(noun) a lack of order and tidiness; not cared for | Synonyms: slovenliness, unkemptness |
(noun) the wetness of ground that is covered or soaked with water | Synonyms: muddiness, wateriness |
slops | (noun) cheap clothing (as formerly issued to sailors in Britain) | - |
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(noun) wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk | Synonyms: pigswill, pigwash, slop, swill |
slopseller | (noun) a dealer in cheap ready-made clothing | Synonyms: slop-seller |
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slopshop | (noun) a store that sells cheap ready-made clothing | Synonyms: slopseller's shop |
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stylopodium | (noun) an enlargement at the base of the style in some Umbelliferae | - |
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telophase | (noun) the final stage of mitosis | - |
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(noun) the final stage of meiosis when the chromosomes move toward opposite ends of the nuclear spindle | - |
teraflop | (noun) (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system, with 1 teraflop being one trillion floating point operations per second | Synonyms: trillion floating point operations per second |
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thallophyte | (noun) any of a group of cryptogamic organisms consisting principally of a thallus and thus showing no differentiation into stem and root and leaf | - |
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trollop | (noun) a woman adulterer | Synonyms: adulteress, fornicatress, hussy, jade, loose woman, slut, strumpet |
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(noun) a dirty untidy woman | Synonyms: slattern, slovenly woman, slut |
(noun) A sexually loose woman | Synonyms: ho, hoe, hussy, slut |
underdevelopment | (noun) (photography) inadequate processing of film resulting in inadequate contrast | - |
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(noun) state of inadequate development | - |
uvulopalatopharyngoplasty | (noun) surgical resection of unnecessary palatal and oropharyngeal tissue to open the airway; intended to cure extreme cases of snoring (with or without sleep apnea) | Synonyms: palatopharyngoplasty, PPP, UPPP |
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wallop | (noun) a severe blow | - |
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(noun) a forceful consequence; a strong effect | Synonyms: impact |
walloper | (noun) a gross untruth; a blatant lie | Synonyms: whopper |
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(noun) a winner by a wide margin | - |
(noun) a very hard hitter | - |
walloping | (noun) a sound defeat | Synonyms: debacle, drubbing, slaughter, thrashing, trouncing, whipping |
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