abort | (noun) the act of terminating a project or procedure before it is completed | - |
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aborticide | (noun) the act of destroying a fetus | Synonyms: feticide |
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(noun) a drug (or other chemical agent) that causes abortion | Synonyms: abortifacient, abortion-inducing drug |
abortifacient | (noun) a drug (or other chemical agent) that causes abortion | Synonyms: aborticide, abortion-inducing drug |
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abortion | (noun) termination of pregnancy | - |
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(noun) failure of a plan | Synonyms: miscarriage |
abortionist | (noun) a person (who should be a doctor) who terminates pregnancies | - |
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abortus | (noun) a human fetus whose weight is less than 0.5 kilogram when removed or expelled from the mother's body | - |
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adrenocorticotrophin | (noun) a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex | Synonyms: ACTH, adrenocorticotrophic hormone, adrenocorticotropic hormone, adrenocorticotropin, corticotrophin, corticotropin |
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adrenocorticotropin | (noun) a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex | Synonyms: ACTH, adrenocorticotrophic hormone, adrenocorticotrophin, adrenocorticotropic hormone, corticotrophin, corticotropin |
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airport | (noun) an airfield equipped with control tower and hangars as well as accommodations for passengers and cargo | Synonyms: aerodrome, airdrome, drome |
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airworthiness | (noun) fitness to fly | - |
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amortisation | (noun) payment of an obligation in a series of installments or transfers | Synonyms: amortization |
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(noun) the reduction of the value of an asset by prorating its cost over a period of years | Synonyms: amortization |
amortization | (noun) payment of an obligation in a series of installments or transfers | Synonyms: amortisation |
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(noun) the reduction of the value of an asset by prorating its cost over a period of years | Synonyms: amortisation |
anorthite | (noun) rare plagioclastic feldspar occurring in many igneous rocks | - |
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anorthography | (noun) a loss of the ability to write or to express thoughts in writing because of a brain lesion | Synonyms: agraphia, logagraphia |
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anorthopia | (noun) distorted vision in which straight lines appear curved | - |
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aorta | (noun) the large trunk artery that carries blood from the left ventricle of the heart to branch arteries | - |
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aortitis | (noun) inflammation of the aorta | - |
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apportioning | (noun) the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan | Synonyms: allocation, allotment, apportionment, assignation, parceling, parcelling |
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apportionment | (noun) the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan | Synonyms: allocation, allotment, apportioning, assignation, parceling, parcelling |
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assortment | (noun) the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type | Synonyms: categorisation, categorization, classification, compartmentalisation, compartmentalization |
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(noun) a collection containing a variety of sorts of things | Synonyms: miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, variety |
awlwort | (noun) small aquatic plant having tufted awl-shaped leaves in a basal rosette and minute white flowers; circumboreal | Synonyms: Subularia aquatica |
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barrenwort | (noun) slow-growing creeping plant with semi-evergreen leaves on erect wiry stems; used as ground cover | Synonyms: bishop's hat, Epimedium grandiflorum |
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bellwort | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Uvularia having yellowish drooping bell-shaped flowers | Synonyms: merry bells, wild oats |
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birthwort | (noun) creeping plant having curving flowers thought to resemble fetuses; native to Europe; naturalized Great Britain and eastern North America | Synonyms: Aristolochia clematitis |
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bladderwort | (noun) any of numerous aquatic carnivorous plants of the genus Utricularia some of whose leaves are modified as small urn-shaped bladders that trap minute aquatic animals | - |
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blameworthiness | (noun) a state of guilt | Synonyms: culpability, culpableness |
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bloodwort | (noun) any of various plants of the family Haemodoraceae; roots contain a deep red coloring matter | - |
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bortsch | (noun) a Russian or Polish soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation | Synonyms: borsch, borscht, borsh, borshch, borsht |
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boxershorts | (noun) underpants worn by men | Synonyms: boxers, drawers, shorts, underdrawers |
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butterwort | (noun) any of numerous carnivorous bog plants of the genus Pinguicula having showy purple or yellow or white flowers and a rosette of basal leaves coated with a sticky secretion to trap small insects | - |
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carport | (noun) garage for one or two cars consisting of a flat roof supported on poles | Synonyms: car port |
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chlortetracycline | (noun) a yellow crystalline antibiotic (trade name Aureomycin) used to treat certain bacterial and rickettsial diseases | Synonyms: Aureomycin |
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chlorthalidone | (noun) a diuretic (trade names Hygroton and Thalidone) used to control hypertension and conditions that cause edema; effective in lowering blood pressure to prevent heart attacks | Synonyms: Hygroton, Thalidone |
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chortle | (noun) a soft partly suppressed laugh | Synonyms: chuckle |
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cohort | (noun) a band of warriors (originally a unit of a Roman Legion) | - |
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(noun) a company of companions or supporters | - |
(noun) a group of people having approximately the same age | Synonyms: age bracket, age group |
colewort | (noun) a hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head | Synonyms: borecole, Brassica oleracea acephala, cole, kail, kale |
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comfort | (noun) the act of consoling; giving relief in affliction | Synonyms: consolation, solace |
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(noun) assistance, such as that provided to an enemy or to a known criminal | - |
(noun) bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together | Synonyms: comforter, puff, quilt |
(noun) a feeling of freedom from worry or disappointment | - |
(noun) a state of being relaxed and feeling no pain | Synonyms: comfortableness |
(noun) a freedom from financial difficulty that promotes a comfortable state | Synonyms: ease |
(noun) satisfaction or physical well-being provided by a person or thing | - |
comfortableness | (noun) a feeling of being at ease in a relationship | - |
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(noun) a state of being relaxed and feeling no pain | Synonyms: comfort |
comforter | (noun) bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together | Synonyms: comfort, puff, quilt |
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(noun) device used for an infant to suck or bite on | Synonyms: baby's dummy, pacifier, teething ring |
(noun) a person who commiserates with someone who has had misfortune | Synonyms: sympathiser, sympathizer |
(noun) a person who reduces the intensity (e.g., of fears) and calms and pacifies | Synonyms: allayer, reliever |
comforts | (noun) things that make you comfortable and at ease | Synonyms: amenities, conveniences, creature comforts |
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comportment | (noun) dignified manner or conduct | Synonyms: bearing, mien, presence |
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consort | (noun) a family of similar musical instrument playing together | Synonyms: choir |
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(noun) the husband or wife of a reigning monarch | - |
consortium | (noun) an association of companies for some definite purpose | Synonyms: pool, syndicate |
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contortion | (noun) the act of twisting or deforming the shape of something (e.g., yourself) | Synonyms: deformation |
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(noun) a tortuous and twisted shape or position | Synonyms: crookedness, torsion, tortuosity, tortuousness |
contortionist | (noun) an acrobat able to twist into unusual positions | - |
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coralwort | (noun) European bittercress having a knotted white rootstock | Synonyms: Cardamine bulbifera, coral-root bittercress, coralroot, Dentaria bulbifera |
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cortege | (noun) the group following and attending to some important person | Synonyms: entourage, retinue, suite |
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(noun) a funeral procession | - |
cortex | (noun) the tissue forming the outer layer of an organ or structure in plant or animal | - |
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(noun) the layer of unmyelinated neurons (the grey matter) forming the cortex of the cerebrum | Synonyms: cerebral cortex, cerebral mantle, pallium |
(noun) the tissue that surrounds the lens nucleus | Synonyms: lens cortex |
corticoid | (noun) a steroid hormone produced by the adrenal cortex or synthesized; administered as drugs they reduce swelling and decrease the body's immune response | Synonyms: adrenal cortical steroid, corticosteroid |
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corticosteroid | (noun) a steroid hormone produced by the adrenal cortex or synthesized; administered as drugs they reduce swelling and decrease the body's immune response | Synonyms: adrenal cortical steroid, corticoid |
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corticosterone | (noun) secreted by the adrenal cortex; involved in regulating water and electrolyte balance in the body | - |
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corticotrophin | (noun) a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex | Synonyms: ACTH, adrenocorticotrophic hormone, adrenocorticotrophin, adrenocorticotropic hormone, adrenocorticotropin, corticotropin |
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corticotropin | (noun) a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex | Synonyms: ACTH, adrenocorticotrophic hormone, adrenocorticotrophin, adrenocorticotropic hormone, adrenocorticotropin, corticotrophin |
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cortina | (noun) a cobwebby partial veil consisting of silky fibrils | - |
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cortisol | (noun) an adrenal-cortex hormone (trade names Hydrocortone or Cortef) that is active in carbohydrate and protein metabolism | Synonyms: Cortef, hydrocortisone, Hydrocortone |
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cortisone | (noun) a corticosteroid hormone (trade name Cortone Acetate) normally produced by the adrenal cortex; is converted to hydrocortisone | Synonyms: Cortone Acetate |
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creditworthiness | (noun) trustworthiness with money as based on a person's credit history; a general qualification for borrowing | - |
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danewort | (noun) dwarf herbaceous elder of Europe having pink flowers and a nauseous odor | Synonyms: dwarf elder, Sambucus ebulus |
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davenport | (noun) a large sofa usually convertible into a bed | - |
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(noun) a small decorative writing desk | - |
decortication | (noun) removal of the outer covering of an organ or part | - |
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deportation | (noun) the act of expelling a person from their native land | Synonyms: exile, expatriation, transportation |
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(noun) the expulsion from a country of an undesirable alien | - |
deportee | (noun) a person who is expelled from home or country by authority | Synonyms: exile |
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deportment | (noun) (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people | Synonyms: behavior, behaviour, conduct, demeanor, demeanour |
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discomfort | (noun) an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress | Synonyms: irritation, soreness |
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(noun) the state of being tense and feeling pain | Synonyms: uncomfortableness |
disproportion | (noun) lack of proportion; imbalance among the parts of something | Synonyms: dissymmetry, imbalance |
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distortion | (noun) the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean | Synonyms: overrefinement, straining, torture, twisting |
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(noun) the mistake of misrepresenting the facts | - |
(noun) a change for the worse | Synonyms: deformation |
(noun) an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image | Synonyms: aberration, optical aberration |
(noun) a change (usually undesired) in the waveform of an acoustic or analog electrical signal; the difference between two measurements of a signal (as between the input and output signal) | - |
(noun) a shape resulting from distortion | Synonyms: distorted shape |
distortionist | (noun) a painter who introduces distortions | - |
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effort | (noun) earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something | Synonyms: attempt, endeavor, endeavour, try |
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(noun) use of physical or mental energy; hard work | Synonyms: elbow grease, exertion, sweat, travail |
(noun) a notable achievement | Synonyms: exploit, feat |
(noun) a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end | Synonyms: campaign, cause, crusade, drive, movement |
effortfulness | (noun) the quality of requiring deliberate effort | - |
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effortlessness | (noun) the quality of requiring little effort | - |
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epanorthosis | (noun) immediate rephrasing for intensification or justification | - |
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escort | (noun) the act of accompanying someone or something in order to protect them | Synonyms: accompaniment |
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(noun) a participant in a date | Synonyms: date |
(noun) someone who escorts and protects a prominent person | Synonyms: bodyguard |
(noun) an attendant who is employed to accompany someone | - |
esports | (noun) electronic sports | - |
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exhortation | (noun) the act of exhorting; an earnest attempt at persuasion | Synonyms: incitement |
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(noun) a communication intended to urge or persuade the recipients to take some action | - |
export | (noun) commodities (goods or services) sold to a foreign country | Synonyms: exportation |
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exportation | (noun) the commercial activity of selling and shipping goods to a foreign country | Synonyms: exporting |
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(noun) commodities (goods or services) sold to a foreign country | Synonyms: export |
exporter | (noun) a businessperson who transports goods abroad (for sale) | - |
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exporting | (noun) the commercial activity of selling and shipping goods to a foreign country | Synonyms: exportation |
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extortion | (noun) the felonious act of extorting money (as by threats of violence) | - |
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(noun) unjust exaction (as by the misuse of authority) | - |
(noun) an exorbitant charge | - |
extortioner | (noun) a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them | Synonyms: blackmailer, extortionist |
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extortionist | (noun) a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them | Synonyms: blackmailer, extortioner |
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fanwort | (noun) common aquatic plant of eastern North America having floating and submerged leaves and white yellow-spotted flowers | Synonyms: Cabomba caroliniana, water-shield |
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felwort | (noun) gentian of Europe and China having creamy white flowers with fringed corollas | Synonyms: gentianella amarella |
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figwort | (noun) any of numerous tall coarse woodland plants of the genus Scrophularia | - |
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fleawort | (noun) plantain of Mediterranean regions whose seeds swell and become gelatinous when moist and are used as a mild laxative | Synonyms: Plantago psyllium, psyllium, Spanish psyllium |
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fort | (noun) a fortified defensive structure | Synonyms: fortress |
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(noun) a fortified military post where troops are stationed | Synonyms: garrison |
forte | (noun) the stronger part of a sword blade between the hilt and the foible | - |
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(noun) an asset of special worth or utility | Synonyms: long suit, metier, speciality, specialty, strength, strong point, strong suit |
(noun) a musical composition or musical passage to be performed loudly | - |
forthcomingness | (noun) the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon | Synonyms: imminence, imminency, imminentness, impendence, impendency |
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forthrightness | (noun) the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech | Synonyms: candidness, candor, candour, directness, frankness |
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forties | (noun) the time of life between 40 and 50 | Synonyms: mid-forties |
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(noun) the decade from 1940 to 1949 | Synonyms: 1940s |
fortieth | (noun) position 40 in a countable series of things | - |
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fortification | (noun) the addition of an ingredient for the purpose of enrichment (as the addition of alcohol to wine or the addition of vitamins to food) | - |
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(noun) defensive structure consisting of walls or mounds built around a stronghold to strengthen it | Synonyms: munition |
(noun) the art or science of strengthening defenses | - |
fortissimo | (noun) a musical composition or musical passage to be performed very loudly | - |
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fortitude | (noun) strength of mind that enables one to endure adversity with courage | - |
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fortnight | (noun) a period of fourteen consecutive days | Synonyms: two weeks |
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fortress | (noun) a fortified defensive structure | Synonyms: fort |
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fortuitousness | (noun) the quality of happening accidentally and by lucky chance | - |
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fortuity | (noun) anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause | Synonyms: accident, chance event, stroke |
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fortune | (noun) an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another | Synonyms: chance, hazard, luck |
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(noun) an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome | Synonyms: luck |
(noun) a large amount of wealth or prosperity | - |
(noun) your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you) | Synonyms: circumstances, destiny, fate, lot, luck, portion |
fortuneteller | (noun) a person who foretells your personal future | Synonyms: fortune teller |
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