| allantois | (noun) the vascular fetal membrane that lies below the chorion and develops from the hindgut in many embryonic higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals) | - |
|---|
| altoist | (noun) a musician who plays the alto saxophone | Synonyms: alto saxophonist |
|---|
| avoirdupois | (noun) excess bodily weight | Synonyms: blubber, fat, fatness |
|---|
| (noun) a system of weights based on the 16-ounce pound (or 7,000 grains) | Synonyms: avoirdupois weight |
| boisterousness | (noun) the property of being noisy and lively and unrestrained | - |
|---|
| (noun) a turbulent and stormy state of the sea | - |
| booboisie | (noun) class consisting of all those who are considered boobs | - |
|---|
| bourgeois | (noun) a member of the middle class | Synonyms: burgher |
|---|
| (noun) a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise | Synonyms: businessperson |
| bourgeoisie | (noun) the social class between the lower and upper classes | Synonyms: middle class |
|---|
| chamois | (noun) hoofed mammal of mountains of Eurasia having upright horns with backward-hooked tips | Synonyms: Rupicapra rupicapra |
|---|
| (noun) a soft suede leather formerly from the skin of the chamois antelope but now from sheepskin | Synonyms: chammy, chammy leather, chamois leather, shammy, shammy leather |
| chinoiserie | (noun) a style in art reflecting Chinese influence; elaborately decorated and intricately patterned | - |
|---|
| chorioallantois | (noun) the very vascular fetal membrane composed of the fused chorion and adjacent wall of the allantois | Synonyms: chorioallantoic membrane |
|---|
| cloisonne | (noun) enamelware in which colored areas are separated by thin metal strips | - |
|---|
| cloister | (noun) residence that is a place of religious seclusion (such as a monastery) | Synonyms: religious residence |
|---|
| (noun) a courtyard with covered walks (as in religious institutions) | - |
| connoisseur | (noun) an expert able to appreciate a field; especially in the fine arts | Synonyms: cognoscente |
|---|
| connoisseurship | (noun) love of or taste for fine objects of art | Synonyms: vertu, virtu |
|---|
| counterpoise | (noun) a weight that balances another weight | Synonyms: balance, counterbalance, counterweight, equaliser, equalizer |
|---|
| counterpoison | (noun) a remedy that stops or controls the effects of a poison | Synonyms: antidote |
|---|
| croissant | (noun) very rich flaky crescent-shaped roll | Synonyms: crescent roll |
|---|
| damoiselle | (noun) a young unmarried woman | Synonyms: damosel, damozel, damsel, demoiselle |
|---|
| demoiselle | (noun) small brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes of coral reefs | Synonyms: damselfish |
|---|
| (noun) a young unmarried woman | Synonyms: damoiselle, damosel, damozel, damsel |
| dichroism | (noun) pleochroism of a crystal so that it exhibits two different colors when viewed from two different directions | - |
|---|
| egoism | (noun) concern for your own interests and welfare | Synonyms: egocentrism, self-centeredness, self-concern, self-interest |
|---|
| (noun) (ethics) the theory that the pursuit of your own welfare is the basis of morality | - |
| egoist | (noun) a self-centered person with little regard for others | Synonyms: egocentric |
|---|
| (noun) a conceited and self-centered person | Synonyms: egotist, swellhead |
| equipoise | (noun) equality of distribution | Synonyms: balance, counterbalance, equilibrium |
|---|
| framboise | (noun) the common European raspberry; fruit red or orange | Synonyms: European raspberry, Rubus idaeus, wild raspberry |
|---|
| genoise | (noun) rich and delicate Italian sponge cake | - |
|---|
| hautbois | (noun) a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece | Synonyms: hautboy, oboe |
|---|
| heroism | (noun) the qualities of a hero or heroine; exceptional or heroic courage when facing danger (especially in battle) | Synonyms: gallantry, valiance, valiancy, valor, valorousness, valour |
|---|
| hoist | (noun) lifting device for raising heavy or cumbersome objects | - |
|---|
| hoister | (noun) an operator of a hoist | - |
|---|
| hoodooism | (noun) a religious cult practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries (especially Haiti); involves witchcraft and animistic deities | Synonyms: vodoun, voodoo, voodooism |
|---|
| hydroisohypse | (noun) a line on a map connecting points of equal level on the piezometric surface. | - |
|---|
| hydroisopieze | (noun) a line on a map connecting points of identical pressures in the water bearing stratum. | - |
|---|
| jingoism | (noun) fanatical patriotism | Synonyms: chauvinism, superpatriotism, ultranationalism |
|---|
| (noun) an appeal intended to arouse patriotic emotions | Synonyms: flag waving |
| jingoist | (noun) an extreme bellicose nationalist | Synonyms: chauvinist, flag-waver, hundred-percenter, jingo, patrioteer |
|---|
| joist | (noun) beam used to support floors or roofs | - |
|---|
| locoism | (noun) a disease of livestock caused by locoweed poisoning; characterized by weakness and lack of coordination and trembling and partial paralysis | Synonyms: loco disease |
|---|
| mademoiselle | (noun) small silvery drumfish often mistaken for white perch; found along coasts of United States from New York to Mexico | Synonyms: Bairdiella chrysoura, silver perch |
|---|
| malinois | (noun) fawn-colored short-haired sheepdog | - |
|---|
| moistener | (noun) a device that dampens or moistens something | Synonyms: dampener |
|---|
| moistening | (noun) the act of making something slightly wet | Synonyms: dampening |
|---|
| moistness | (noun) a slight wetness | Synonyms: damp, dampness |
|---|
| moisture | (noun) wetness caused by water | Synonyms: wet |
|---|
| noise | (noun) the quality of lacking any predictable order or plan | Synonyms: haphazardness, randomness, stochasticity |
|---|
| (noun) incomprehensibility resulting from irrelevant information or meaningless facts or remarks | - |
| (noun) the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience | Synonyms: dissonance, racket |
| (noun) a loud outcry of protest or complaint | - |
| (noun) sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound) | - |
| (noun) electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication | Synonyms: disturbance, interference |
| noiselessness | (noun) the property of making no noise | - |
|---|
| noisemaker | (noun) a device (such as a clapper or bell or horn) used to make a loud noise at a celebration | - |
|---|
| noisiness | (noun) the auditory effect characterized by loud and constant noise | Synonyms: racketiness |
|---|
| noisomeness | (noun) the quality of being noxious | Synonyms: harmfulness, noxiousness |
|---|
| oboist | (noun) a musician who plays the oboe | - |
|---|
| patois | (noun) a regional dialect of a language (especially French); usually considered substandard | - |
|---|
| (noun) a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves) | Synonyms: argot, cant, jargon, lingo, slang, vernacular |
| pleochroism | (noun) the phenomenon of different colors appearing when certain crystals are viewed from different directions | - |
|---|
| poise | (noun) great coolness and composure under strain | Synonyms: aplomb, assuredness, cool, sang-froid |
|---|
| (noun) a cgs unit of dynamic viscosity equal to one dyne-second per square centimeter; the viscosity of a fluid in which a force of one dyne per square centimeter maintains a velocity of 1 centimeter per second | - |
| (noun) a state of being balanced in a stable equilibrium | - |
| poison | (noun) anything that harms or destroys | - |
|---|
| (noun) any substance that causes injury or illness or death of a living organism | Synonyms: poisonous substance, toxicant |
| poisonberry | (noun) Eurasian herb naturalized in America having white flowers and poisonous hairy foliage and bearing black berries that are sometimes poisonous but sometimes edible | Synonyms: black nightshade, common nightshade, poison-berry, Solanum nigrum |
|---|
| poisoner | (noun) someone who kills with poison | - |
|---|
| poisoning | (noun) the act of giving poison to a person or animal with the intent to kill | - |
|---|
| (noun) the physiological state produced by a poison or other toxic substance | Synonyms: intoxication, toxic condition |
| porpoise | (noun) any of several small gregarious cetacean mammals having a blunt snout and many teeth | - |
|---|
| radioisotope | (noun) a radioactive isotope of an element; produced either naturally or artificially | - |
|---|
| roisterer | (noun) an especially noisy and unrestrained merrymaker | - |
|---|
| soloist | (noun) a musician who performs a solo | - |
|---|
| stereoisomer | (noun) any of a group of isomers in which atoms are linked in the same order but differ in their spatial arrangement. | - |
|---|
| taoiseach | (noun) the prime minister of the Irish Republic | - |
|---|
| tortoise | (noun) usually herbivorous land turtles having clawed elephant-like limbs; worldwide in arid areas except Australia and Antarctica | - |
|---|
| tortoiseshell | (noun) a cat having black and cream-colored and yellowish markings | Synonyms: calico cat, tortoiseshell-cat |
|---|
| (noun) brilliantly colored; larvae feed on nettles | Synonyms: tortoiseshell butterfly |
| (noun) the mottled horny substance of the shell of some turtles | - |
| trichroism | (noun) pleochroism of a crystal so that it exhibits three different colors when viewed from three different directions | - |
|---|
| turquoise | (noun) a shade of blue tinged with green | Synonyms: aqua, aquamarine, cobalt blue, greenish blue, peacock blue |
|---|
| (noun) a blue to grey green mineral consisting of copper aluminum phosphate | - |
| vichyssoise | (noun) a creamy potato soup flavored with leeks and onions; usually served cold | - |
|---|
| voodooism | (noun) a religious cult practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries (especially Haiti); involves witchcraft and animistic deities | Synonyms: hoodooism, vodoun, voodoo |
|---|