biodefense | (noun) procedures involved in taking defensive measures against attacks using biological agents | Synonyms: biodefence, biological defence, biological defense |
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bunsen | (noun) a gas burner used in laboratories; has an air valve to regulate the mixture of gas and air | Synonyms: bunsen burner, etna |
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caravanserai | (noun) an inn in some eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans | Synonyms: caravan inn, caravansary, khan |
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censer | (noun) a container for burning incense (especially one that is swung on a chain in a religious ritual) | Synonyms: thurible |
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cleanser | (noun) a preparation used in cleaning something | Synonyms: cleaner, cleansing agent |
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condenser | (noun) lens used to concentrate light on an object | Synonyms: optical condenser |
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(noun) an electrical device characterized by its capacity to store an electric charge | Synonyms: capacitance, capacitor, electrical condenser |
(noun) a hollow coil that condenses by abstracting heat | - |
(noun) an apparatus that converts vapor into liquid | - |
consecration | (noun) (religion) sanctification of something by setting it apart (usually with religious rites) as dedicated to God | - |
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(noun) a solemn commitment of your life or your time to some cherished purpose (to a service or a goal) | - |
consensus | (noun) agreement in the judgment or opinion reached by a group as a whole | - |
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consent | (noun) permission for something to happen | - |
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consequence | (noun) having important effects or influence | Synonyms: import, moment |
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(noun) the outcome of an event especially as relative to an individual | Synonyms: aftermath |
(noun) a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon | Synonyms: effect, event, issue, outcome, result, upshot |
conservancy | (noun) the official conservation of trees and soil and rivers etc. | - |
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(noun) a commission with jurisdiction over fisheries and navigation in a port or river | - |
conservation | (noun) the preservation and careful management of the environment and of natural resources | - |
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(noun) (physics) the maintenance of a certain quantities unchanged during chemical reactions or physical transformations | - |
(noun) an occurrence of improvement by virtue of preventing loss or injury or other change | Synonyms: preservation |
conservationist | (noun) someone who works to protect the environment from destruction or pollution | Synonyms: environmentalist |
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conservatism | (noun) a political or theological orientation advocating the preservation of the best in society and opposing radical changes | Synonyms: conservativism |
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conservative | (noun) a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas | Synonyms: conservativist |
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conservativism | (noun) a political or theological orientation advocating the preservation of the best in society and opposing radical changes | Synonyms: conservatism |
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conservativist | (noun) a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas | Synonyms: conservative |
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conservatoire | (noun) a schoolhouse with special facilities for fine arts | Synonyms: conservatory |
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conservator | (noun) the custodian of a collection (as a museum or library) | Synonyms: curator |
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(noun) someone appointed by a court to assume responsibility for the interests of a minor or incompetent person | - |
conservatory | (noun) a greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing manner | Synonyms: hothouse, indoor garden |
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(noun) a schoolhouse with special facilities for fine arts | Synonyms: conservatoire |
(noun) the faculty and students of a school specializing in one of the fine arts | - |
conserve | (noun) fruit preserved by cooking with sugar | Synonyms: conserves, preserve, preserves |
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conserves | (noun) fruit preserved by cooking with sugar | Synonyms: conserve, preserve, preserves |
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contredanse | (noun) a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line | Synonyms: contra danse, contradance, country-dance, country dancing |
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cottonseed | (noun) seed of cotton plants; source of cottonseed oil | - |
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counsel | (noun) something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action | Synonyms: counseling, counselling, direction, guidance |
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(noun) a lawyer who pleads cases in court | Synonyms: advocate, counsellor, counselor-at-law, counselor, pleader |
counseling | (noun) something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action | Synonyms: counsel, counselling, direction, guidance |
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counselling | (noun) something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action | Synonyms: counsel, counseling, direction, guidance |
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counsellor | (noun) a lawyer who pleads cases in court | Synonyms: advocate, counsel, counselor-at-law, counselor, pleader |
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(noun) someone who gives advice about problems | Synonyms: counselor |
(noun) someone who has supervisory duties at a summer camp | Synonyms: counselor |
counsellorship | (noun) the position of counselor | Synonyms: counselorship |
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counselor | (noun) a lawyer who pleads cases in court | Synonyms: advocate, counsel, counsellor, counselor-at-law, pleader |
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(noun) someone who gives advice about problems | Synonyms: counsellor |
(noun) someone who has supervisory duties at a summer camp | Synonyms: counsellor |
counselorship | (noun) the position of counselor | Synonyms: counsellorship |
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danseur | (noun) a male ballet dancer who is the partner of a ballerina | Synonyms: danseur noble |
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danseuse | (noun) a female ballet dancer | Synonyms: ballerina |
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defense | (noun) (military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies | Synonyms: defence, defensive measure |
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(noun) the act of defending someone or something against attack or injury | Synonyms: defence |
(noun) a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him | Synonyms: defence, demurrer, denial |
(noun) protection from harm | Synonyms: defence |
(noun) a structure used to defend against attack | Synonyms: defence, defensive structure |
(noun) the justification for some act or belief | Synonyms: defence, vindication |
(noun) the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions | Synonyms: defence, refutation |
(noun) the defendant and his legal advisors collectively | Synonyms: defence, defense lawyers, defense team |
(noun) (sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring | Synonyms: defence, defending team |
(noun) an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack | Synonyms: defence, defence force, defense force |
(noun) (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires | Synonyms: defence, defence mechanism, defence reaction, defense mechanism, defense reaction |
defenselessness | (noun) the property of being helpless in the face of attack | Synonyms: defencelessness, unprotectedness |
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denseness | (noun) the amount per unit size | Synonyms: density |
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(noun) the spatial property of being crowded together | Synonyms: compactness, concentration, density, tightness |
(noun) the quality of being mentally slow and limited | Synonyms: dumbness, slow-wittedness |
dispenser | (noun) a container so designed that the contents can be used in prescribed amounts | - |
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(noun) a person who dispenses | - |
ensemble | (noun) a coordinated outfit (set of clothing) | - |
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(noun) the chorus of a ballet company | Synonyms: corps de ballet |
(noun) a group of musicians playing or singing together | - |
(noun) an assemblage of parts or details (as in a work of art) considered as forming a whole | Synonyms: tout ensemble |
(noun) a cast other than the principals | Synonyms: supporting players |
expanse | (noun) the extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary | Synonyms: area, surface area |
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(noun) a wide scope | Synonyms: sweep |
(noun) a wide and open space or area as of surface or land or sky | - |
expense | (noun) a detriment or sacrifice | - |
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(noun) amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures) | Synonyms: disbursal, disbursement |
(noun) money spent to perform work and usually reimbursed by an employer | - |
frankincense | (noun) an aromatic gum resin obtained from various Arabian or East African trees; formerly valued for worship and for embalming and fumigation | Synonyms: gum olibanum, olibanum, thus |
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ginseng | (noun) Chinese herb with palmately compound leaves and small greenish flowers and forked aromatic roots believed to have medicinal powers | Synonyms: nin-sin, Panax ginseng, Panax pseudoginseng, Panax schinseng |
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(noun) aromatic root of ginseng plants | - |
goldenseal | (noun) perennial herb of northeastern United States having a thick knotted yellow rootstock and large rounded leaves | Synonyms: golden seal, Hydrastis Canadensis, turmeric root, yellow root |
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immenseness | (noun) unusual largeness in size or extent or number | Synonyms: enormousness, grandness, greatness, immensity, sizeableness, vastness, wideness |
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incense | (noun) the pleasing scent produced when incense is burned | - |
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(noun) a substance that produces a fragrant odor when burned | - |
inconsequence | (noun) having no important effects or influence | - |
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(noun) invalid or incorrect reasoning | Synonyms: illogic, illogicality, illogicalness |
innocense | (noun) white and lavender to pale-blue flowers grow in perfect rings of widely spaced bands around the stems forming a kind of pagoda; California | Synonyms: Collinsia bicolor, Collinsia heterophylla, purple chinese houses |
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insect | (noun) small air-breathing arthropod | - |
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(noun) a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect | Synonyms: dirt ball, louse, worm |
insecticide | (noun) a chemical used to kill insects | Synonyms: insect powder |
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insectifuge | (noun) a chemical substance that repels insects | Synonyms: insect repellant, insect repellent |
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insectivore | (noun) small insect-eating mainly nocturnal terrestrial or fossorial mammals | - |
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(noun) any organism that feeds mainly on insects | - |
insecureness | (noun) the state of being exposed to risk or anxiety | - |
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insecurity | (noun) the anxiety you experience when you feel vulnerable and insecure | - |
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(noun) the state of being subject to danger or injury | - |
insemination | (noun) the introduction of semen into the genital tract of a female | - |
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(noun) the act of sowing (of seeds in the ground or, figuratively, of germs in the body or ideas in the mind, etc.) | - |
insensibility | (noun) devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness | Synonyms: callosity, callousness, hardness, unfeelingness |
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(noun) a lack of sensibility | - |
insensitiveness | (noun) the inability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment | Synonyms: insensitivity |
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insensitivity | (noun) the inability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment | Synonyms: insensitiveness |
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insentience | (noun) lacking consciousness or ability to perceive sensations | - |
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insert | (noun) (film) a still picture that is introduced and that interrupts the action of a film | Synonyms: cut-in |
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(noun) (broadcasting) a local announcement inserted into a network program | Synonyms: cut-in |
(noun) an artifact that is inserted or is to be inserted | Synonyms: inset |
(noun) a folded section placed between the leaves of another publication | - |
insertion | (noun) the act of putting one thing into another | Synonyms: introduction, intromission |
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(noun) a message (spoken or written) that is introduced or inserted | Synonyms: interpolation |
inset | (noun) a piece of material used to strengthen or enlarge a garment | Synonyms: gusset |
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(noun) an artifact that is inserted or is to be inserted | Synonyms: insert |
(noun) a small picture inserted within the bounds or a larger one | - |
lanseh | (noun) East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit | Synonyms: lansa, lansat, lanset |
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lanset | (noun) East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit | Synonyms: lansa, lansat, lanseh |
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lense | (noun) a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images | Synonyms: lens, lens system |
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license | (noun) the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization | Synonyms: permission, permit |
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(noun) a legal document giving official permission to do something | Synonyms: licence, permit |
(noun) freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech) | Synonyms: licence |
(noun) excessive freedom; lack of due restraint | Synonyms: licence |
licensee | (noun) someone to whom a license is granted | - |
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licenser | (noun) an official who can issue a license or give authoritative permission (especially one who licenses publications) | - |
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linseed | (noun) the seed of flax used as a source of oil | Synonyms: flaxseed |
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manse | (noun) the residence of a clergyman (especially a Presbyterian clergyman) | - |
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(noun) a large and imposing house | Synonyms: hall, mansion, mansion house, residence |
manservant | (noun) a man servant | - |
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menses | (noun) the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause | Synonyms: catamenia, flow, menstruation, menstruum, period |
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merganser | (noun) large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges | Synonyms: fish duck, sawbill, sheldrake |
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moonseed | (noun) plant of the family Menispermaceae having red or black fruit with crescent- or ring-shaped seeds | - |
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neoconservatism | (noun) an approach to politics or theology that represents a return to a traditional point of view (in contrast to more liberal or radical schools of thought of the 1960s) | - |
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neoconservative | (noun) a conservative who subscribes to neoconservatism | Synonyms: neocon |
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nonsense | (noun) ornamental objects of no great value | Synonyms: falderol, folderal, frill, gimcrack, gimcrackery, trumpery |
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(noun) a message that seems to convey no meaning | Synonyms: bunk, hokum, meaninglessness, nonsensicality |
nonsensicality | (noun) a message that seems to convey no meaning | Synonyms: bunk, hokum, meaninglessness, nonsense |
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offense | (noun) the action of attacking an enemy | Synonyms: offence, offensive |
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(noun) a transgression that constitutes a violation of what is judged to be right | Synonyms: offence |
(noun) a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings of others | Synonyms: discourtesy, offence, offensive activity |
(noun) a feeling of anger caused by being offended | Synonyms: offence, umbrage |
(noun) the team that has the ball (or puck) and is trying to score | Synonyms: offence |
onset | (noun) (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons) | Synonyms: attack, onrush, onslaught |
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(noun) the beginning or early stages | Synonyms: oncoming |
pansexual | (noun) a person who participates in (or is open to) sexual activities of many kinds | - |
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poinsettia | (noun) tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers | Synonyms: Christmas flower, Christmas star, Euphorbia pulcherrima, lobster plant, Mexican flameleaf, painted leaf |
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pretense | (noun) the act of giving a false appearance | Synonyms: feigning, pretence, pretending, simulation |
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(noun) a false or unsupportable quality | Synonyms: pretence, pretension |
(noun) an artful or simulated semblance | Synonyms: guise, pretence, pretext |
(noun) imaginative intellectual play | Synonyms: make-believe, pretence |
(noun) pretending with intention to deceive | Synonyms: dissembling, feigning, pretence |
pumpkinseed | (noun) small brilliantly colored North American sunfish | Synonyms: Lepomis gibbosus |
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recompense | (noun) the act of compensating for service or loss or injury | Synonyms: compensation |
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(noun) payment or reward (as for service rendered) | - |
response | (noun) a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent | Synonyms: reaction |
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(noun) the manner in which an electrical or mechanical device responds to an input signal or a range of input signals | - |
(noun) the speech act of continuing a conversational exchange | Synonyms: reply |
(noun) a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation | Synonyms: answer, reply |
(noun) the manner in which something is greeted | Synonyms: reception |
(noun) a phrase recited or sung by the congregation following a versicle by the priest or minister | - |
(noun) a result | - |
rinse | (noun) washing lightly without soap | - |
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(noun) the act of giving a light tint to the hair | - |
(noun) the removal of soap with clean water in the final stage of washing | Synonyms: rinsing |
(noun) a liquid preparation used on wet hair to give it a tint | - |
sansevieria | (noun) grown as a houseplant for its mottled fleshy sword-shaped leaves or as a source of fiber | Synonyms: bowstring hemp |
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sense | (noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended | Synonyms: sensation, sensory faculty, sentience, sentiency |
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(noun) sound practical judgment | Synonyms: common sense, good sense, gumption, horse sense, mother wit |
(noun) a general conscious awareness | - |
(noun) a natural appreciation or ability | - |
(noun) the meaning of a word or expression; the way in which a word or expression or situation can be interpreted | Synonyms: signified |
senselessness | (noun) total lack of meaning or ideas | Synonyms: inanity, mindlessness, pointlessness, vacuity |
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somatosense | (noun) any of the sensory systems that mediate sensations of pressure and tickle and warmth and cold and vibration and limb position and limb movement and pain | - |
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sunset | (noun) the daily event of the sun sinking below the horizon | - |
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(noun) atmospheric phenomena accompanying the daily disappearance of the sun | - |
(noun) the time in the evening at which the sun begins to fall below the horizon | Synonyms: sundown |
suspense | (noun) an uncertain cognitive state | - |
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(noun) excited anticipation of an approaching climax | - |
(noun) apprehension about what is going to happen | - |
synset | (noun) a set of one or more synonyms | - |
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tense | (noun) a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time | - |
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tenseness | (noun) the physical condition of being stretched or strained | Synonyms: tautness, tension, tensity |
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(noun) (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense | Synonyms: stress, tension |
tinsel | (noun) a thread with glittering metal foil attached | - |
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(noun) a showy decoration that is basically valueless | - |
transept | (noun) structure forming the transverse part of a cruciform church; crosses the nave at right angles | - |
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transexual | (noun) a person whose sexual identification is entirely with the opposite sex | Synonyms: transsexual |
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(noun) a person who has undergone a sex change operation | Synonyms: transgendered, transsexual |
ultraconservative | (noun) an extreme conservative; an opponent of progress or liberalism | Synonyms: extreme right-winger, reactionary |
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unseasonableness | (noun) being at an inappropriate time | Synonyms: untimeliness |
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