allamanda | (noun) a plant of the genus Allamanda having large showy funnel-shaped flowers in terminal cymes | - |
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allemande | (noun) egg-thickened veloute | Synonyms: allemande sauce |
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almandine | (noun) a purple variety of the ruby spinel | - |
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(noun) a deep red garnet consisting of iron aluminum silicate | Synonyms: almandite |
almandite | (noun) a deep red garnet consisting of iron aluminum silicate | Synonyms: almandine |
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archimandrite | (noun) the superior of an abbey of monks | Synonyms: abbot |
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command | (noun) the power or authority to command | - |
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(noun) availability for use | - |
(noun) great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity | Synonyms: control, mastery |
(noun) an authoritative direction or instruction to do something | Synonyms: bid, bidding, dictation |
(noun) (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program | Synonyms: instruction, program line, statement |
(noun) a military unit or region under the control of a single officer | - |
(noun) a position of highest authority | - |
commandant | (noun) an officer in command of a military unit | Synonyms: commander, commanding officer |
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commander | (noun) an officer in command of a military unit | Synonyms: commandant, commanding officer |
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(noun) a commissioned naval officer who ranks above a lieutenant commander and below a captain | - |
(noun) an officer in the airforce | Synonyms: air force officer |
(noun) someone in an official position of authority who can command or control others | - |
commandership | (noun) the position or office of commander | Synonyms: commandery |
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commandery | (noun) the position or office of commander | Synonyms: commandership |
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commandment | (noun) a doctrine that is taught | Synonyms: precept, teaching |
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(noun) something that is commanded | - |
commando | (noun) an amphibious military unit trained for raids into enemy territory | - |
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(noun) a member of a military unit trained as shock troops for hit-and-run raids | Synonyms: ranger |
countermand | (noun) a contrary command cancelling or reversing a previous command | - |
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demand | (noun) the act of demanding | - |
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(noun) required activity | Synonyms: requirement |
(noun) an urgent or peremptory request | - |
(noun) the ability and desire to purchase goods and services | - |
(noun) a condition requiring relief | Synonyms: need |
demander | (noun) a person who makes demands | - |
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germander | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Teucrium | - |
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gerrymander | (noun) an act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage) | - |
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gourmand | (noun) a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess | Synonyms: glutton, gourmandizer, trencherman |
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gourmandism | (noun) the disposition and habits of a gourmand | - |
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gourmandizer | (noun) a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess | Synonyms: glutton, gourmand, trencherman |
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lemanderin | (noun) hybrid between mandarin orange and lemon having very acid fruit with orange peel | Synonyms: Citrus limonia, rangpur, rangpur lime |
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mandala | (noun) any of various geometric designs (usually circular) symbolizing the universe; used chiefly in Hinduism and Buddhism as an aid to meditation | - |
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mandamus | (noun) an extraordinary writ commanding an official to perform a ministerial act that the law recognizes as an absolute duty and not a matter for the official's discretion; used only when all other judicial remedies fail | Synonyms: writ of mandamus |
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mandarin | (noun) a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China | Synonyms: mandarin orange |
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(noun) a high public official of imperial China | - |
(noun) any high government official or bureaucrat | - |
(noun) a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group | - |
(noun) shrub or small tree having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin yellow-orange to flame-orange rind that is loose and easily removed; native to southeastern Asia | Synonyms: Citrus reticulata, mandarin orange, mandarin orange tree |
mandatary | (noun) the recipient of a mandate | Synonyms: mandatory |
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mandate | (noun) the commission that is given to a government and its policies through an electoral victory | - |
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(noun) a document giving an official instruction or command | Synonyms: authorisation, authorization |
(noun) a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they are able to stand by themselves | Synonyms: mandatory |
mandator | (noun) an authority who issues a mandate | - |
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mandatory | (noun) a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they are able to stand by themselves | Synonyms: mandate |
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(noun) the recipient of a mandate | Synonyms: mandatary |
mandible | (noun) the jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth | Synonyms: jawbone, jowl, lower jaw, lower jawbone, mandibula, mandibular bone, submaxilla |
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mandibula | (noun) the jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth | Synonyms: jawbone, jowl, lower jaw, lower jawbone, mandible, mandibular bone, submaxilla |
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mandioc | (noun) cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca | Synonyms: bitter cassava, gari, mandioca, Manihot esculenta, Manihot utilissima, manioc, tapioca plant |
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mandioca | (noun) cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca | Synonyms: bitter cassava, gari, mandioc, Manihot esculenta, Manihot utilissima, manioc, tapioca plant |
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mandola | (noun) an early type of mandolin | - |
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mandolin | (noun) a stringed instrument related to the lute, usually played with a plectrum | - |
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mandrake | (noun) a plant of southern Europe and North Africa having purple flowers, yellow fruits and a forked root formerly thought to have magical powers | Synonyms: devil's apples, Mandragora officinarum |
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(noun) the root of the mandrake plant; used medicinally or as a narcotic | Synonyms: mandrake root |
mandrel | (noun) any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts | Synonyms: arbor, mandril, spindle |
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mandril | (noun) any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts | Synonyms: arbor, mandrel, spindle |
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mandrill | (noun) baboon of west Africa with a bright red and blue muzzle and blue hindquarters | Synonyms: Mandrillus sphinx |
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manduction | (noun) biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow | Synonyms: chew, chewing, mastication |
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(noun) the act of participating in the celebration of the Eucharist | Synonyms: Communion, Holy Communion, sacramental manduction |
remand | (noun) the act of sending an accused person back into custody to await trial (or the continuation of the trial) | - |
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reprimand | (noun) an act or expression of criticism and censure | Synonyms: rebuke, reprehension, reproof, reproval |
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salamander | (noun) any of various typically terrestrial amphibians that resemble lizards and that return to water only to breed | - |
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(noun) fire iron consisting of a metal rod with a handle; used to stir a fire | Synonyms: fire hook, poker, stove poker |
(noun) reptilian creature supposed to live in fire | - |
tamandu | (noun) small toothless anteater with prehensile tail and four-clawed forelimbs; of tropical South America and Central America | Synonyms: lesser anteater, tamandua, Tamandua tetradactyla |
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tamandua | (noun) small toothless anteater with prehensile tail and four-clawed forelimbs; of tropical South America and Central America | Synonyms: lesser anteater, tamandu, Tamandua tetradactyla |
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