abcoulomb | (noun) a unit of electrical charge equal to 10 coulombs | - |
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abdominousness | (noun) the bodily property of a protruding belly | Synonyms: paunchiness |
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aboulia | (noun) a loss of will power | Synonyms: abulia |
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abstemiousness | (noun) moderation in eating and drinking | - |
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(noun) restricted to bare necessities | - |
accouchement | (noun) the parturition process in human beings; having a baby; the process of giving birth to a child | Synonyms: childbearing, childbirth, vaginal birth |
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accoucheur | (noun) a physician specializing in obstetrics | Synonyms: obstetrician |
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accoucheuse | (noun) a woman skilled in aiding the delivery of babies | Synonyms: midwife |
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account | (noun) the quality of taking advantage | - |
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(noun) importance or value | - |
(noun) a record or narrative description of past events | Synonyms: chronicle, history, story |
(noun) an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered | Synonyms: bill, invoice |
(noun) a short account of the news | Synonyms: news report, report, story, write up |
(noun) a statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc. | Synonyms: explanation |
(noun) the act of informing by verbal report | Synonyms: report |
(noun) grounds | Synonyms: score |
(noun) a statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance | Synonyms: account statement, accounting |
(noun) a formal contractual relationship established to provide for regular banking or brokerage or business services | Synonyms: business relationship |
accountability | (noun) responsibility to someone or for some activity | Synonyms: answerability, answerableness |
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accountancy | (noun) the occupation of maintaining and auditing records and preparing financial reports for a business | Synonyms: accounting |
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accountant | (noun) someone who maintains and audits business accounts | Synonyms: comptroller, controller |
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accountantship | (noun) the position of accountant | - |
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accounting | (noun) the occupation of maintaining and auditing records and preparing financial reports for a business | Synonyms: accountancy |
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(noun) a system that provides quantitative information about finances | - |
(noun) a convincing explanation that reveals basic causes | - |
(noun) a statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance | Synonyms: account, account statement |
(noun) a bookkeeper's chronological list of related debits and credits of a business; forms part of a ledger of accounts | Synonyms: accounting system, method of accounting |
accouterment | (noun) clothing that is worn or carried, but not part of your main clothing | Synonyms: accessory, accoutrement |
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accoutrement | (noun) clothing that is worn or carried, but not part of your main clothing | Synonyms: accessory, accouterment |
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acidulousness | (noun) the taste experience when something acidic is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: acidity |
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acousma | (noun) illusory auditory perception of strange nonverbal sounds | Synonyms: auditory hallucination |
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acoustic | (noun) a remedy for hearing loss or deafness | - |
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acoustician | (noun) a physicist who specializes in acoustics | - |
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acousticophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of sounds including your own voice | Synonyms: phonophobia |
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acoustics | (noun) the study of the physical properties of sound | - |
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adjournment | (noun) the termination of a meeting | Synonyms: dissolution |
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(noun) the act of postponing to another time or place | - |
adnoun | (noun) an adjective used as a noun | - |
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adulterousness | (noun) The quality of being adulterous, involving sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse. | - |
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advantageousness | (noun) the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome | Synonyms: favorableness, favourableness, positiveness, positivity, profitableness |
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adventurousness | (noun) the trait of being adventurous | Synonyms: venturesomeness |
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afterthought | (noun) an addition that was not included in the original plan | - |
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(noun) thinking again about a choice previously made | Synonyms: reconsideration, rethink, second thought |
agouti | (noun) agile long-legged rabbit-sized rodent of Central America and South America and the West Indies; valued as food | Synonyms: Dasyprocta aguti |
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alehouse | (noun) a tavern where ale is sold | - |
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allmouth | (noun) fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey | Synonyms: angler, angler fish, anglerfish, goosefish, Lophius Americanus, lotte, monkfish |
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ambidextrousness | (noun) the property of being equally skillful with each hand | Synonyms: ambidexterity |
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ambitiousness | (noun) a strong drive for success | Synonyms: ambition |
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amorousness | (noun) a feeling of love or fondness | Synonyms: enamoredness |
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(noun) the arousal of feelings of sexual desire | Synonyms: amativeness, eroticism, erotism, sexiness |
amount | (noun) how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify | Synonyms: measure, quantity |
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(noun) the relative magnitude of something with reference to a criterion | - |
(noun) a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers | Synonyms: sum, total |
(noun) a quantity of money | Synonyms: amount of money, sum, sum of money |
amour | (noun) a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship | Synonyms: affair, affaire, intimacy, involvement, liaison |
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ampoule | (noun) a small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle) | Synonyms: ampul, ampule, phial, vial |
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anjou | (noun) a pear with firm flesh and a green skin | - |
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announcement | (noun) a public statement containing information about an event that has happened or is going to happen | Synonyms: promulgation |
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(noun) a formal public statement | Synonyms: annunciation, declaration, proclamation |
announcer | (noun) reads news, commercials on radio or television | - |
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(noun) someone who proclaims a message publicly | - |
anomalousness | (noun) deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule | Synonyms: anomaly |
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antireligiousness | (noun) The state or condition of being opposed to religion. | - |
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anxiousness | (noun) a feeling of mild anxiety about possible developments | Synonyms: disquiet |
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(noun) (psychiatry) a relatively permanent state of worry and nervousness occurring in a variety of mental disorders, usually accompanied by compulsive behavior or attacks of panic | Synonyms: anxiety |
aoudad | (noun) wild sheep of northern Africa | Synonyms: Ammotragus lervia, arui, audad, Barbary sheep, maned sheep |
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arbour | (noun) a framework that supports climbing plants | Synonyms: arbor, bower, pergola |
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ardour | (noun) intense feeling of love | Synonyms: ardor |
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(noun) a feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause) | Synonyms: ardor, elan, zeal |
(noun) feelings of great warmth and intensity | Synonyms: ardor, fervency, fervidness, fervor, fervour, fire |
arduousness | (noun) extreme effortfulness | Synonyms: strenuousness |
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armour | (noun) tough more-or-less rigid protective covering of an animal or plant | Synonyms: armor |
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(noun) protective covering made of metal and used in combat | Synonyms: armor |
(noun) a military unit consisting of armored fighting vehicles | Synonyms: armor |
armourer | (noun) a manufacturer of firearms | Synonyms: armorer |
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(noun) an enlisted man responsible for the upkeep of small arms and machine guns etc. | Synonyms: armorer, artificer |
(noun) a worker skilled in making armor or arms | Synonyms: armorer |
armoury | (noun) a place where arms are manufactured | Synonyms: armory, arsenal |
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(noun) a military structure where arms and ammunition and other military equipment are stored and training is given in the use of arms | Synonyms: armory, arsenal |
(noun) all the weapons and equipment that a country has | Synonyms: armory, arsenal |
(noun) a collection of resources | Synonyms: armory, inventory |
arousal | (noun) the act of arousing | Synonyms: rousing |
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(noun) mutual sexual fondling prior to sexual intercourse | Synonyms: foreplay, stimulation |
(noun) awakening from sleep | - |
(noun) a state of heightened physiological activity | - |
arouser | (noun) someone who rouses others from sleep | Synonyms: rouser, waker |
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assiduousness | (noun) great and constant diligence and attention | Synonyms: assiduity, concentration |
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atrociousness | (noun) the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane | Synonyms: atrocity, barbarity, barbarousness, heinousness |
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audaciousness | (noun) fearless daring | Synonyms: audacity, temerity |
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(noun) aggressive boldness or unmitigated effrontery | Synonyms: audacity |
auspiciousness | (noun) the favorable quality of strongly indicating a successful result | Synonyms: propitiousness |
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avariciousness | (noun) extreme greed for material wealth | Synonyms: avarice, covetousness, cupidity |
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avouchment | (noun) a statement asserting the existence or the truth of something | Synonyms: affirmation, avowal |
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babiroussa | (noun) Indonesian wild pig with enormous curved canine teeth | Synonyms: babirusa, babirussa, Babyrousa Babyrussa |
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background | (noun) scenery hung at back of stage | Synonyms: backcloth, backdrop |
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(noun) (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear | Synonyms: desktop, screen background |
(noun) a person's social heritage: previous experience or training | - |
(noun) the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground | Synonyms: ground |
(noun) information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem | Synonyms: background knowledge |
(noun) extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured | Synonyms: background signal |
(noun) relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation | - |
(noun) the state of the environment in which a situation exists | Synonyms: scope, setting |
backgrounder | (noun) a press conference or interview in which a government official explains to reporters the background of an action or policy | - |
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backgrounding | (noun) the execution of low priority programs while higher priority programs are not using the processing system | Synonyms: background processing |
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bakehouse | (noun) a workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold | Synonyms: bakery, bakeshop |
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barbarousness | (noun) the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane | Synonyms: atrociousness, atrocity, barbarity, heinousness |
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barouche | (noun) a horse-drawn carriage having four wheels; has an outside seat for the driver and facing inside seats for two couples and a folding top | - |
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barracouta | (noun) a large marine food fish common on the coasts of Australia, New Zealand, and southern Africa | Synonyms: snoek |
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barrelhouse | (noun) a cheap drinking and dancing establishment | Synonyms: honky-tonk |
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bathhouse | (noun) a building containing public baths | Synonyms: bagnio |
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(noun) a building containing dressing rooms for bathers | Synonyms: bathing machine |
battleground | (noun) a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought | Synonyms: battlefield, field, field of battle, field of honor |
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bawdyhouse | (noun) a building where prostitutes are available | Synonyms: bagnio, bordello, brothel, cathouse, house of ill repute, house of prostitution, sporting house, whorehouse |
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bayou | (noun) a swampy arm or slow-moving outlet of a lake (term used mainly in Mississippi and Louisiana) | - |
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beauteousness | (noun) the quality of being good looking and attractive | Synonyms: comeliness, fairness, loveliness |
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bedground | (noun) an area on which a drove of cattle or sheep can sleep for a night | Synonyms: bed-ground, bed ground |
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befoulment | (noun) the state of being polluted | Synonyms: defilement, pollution |
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behaviour | (noun) manner of acting or controlling yourself | Synonyms: behavior, conduct, doings |
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(noun) (psychology) the aggregate of the responses or reactions or movements made by an organism in any situation | Synonyms: behavior |
(noun) (behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people | Synonyms: behavior, conduct, demeanor, demeanour, deportment |
(noun) the action or reaction of something (as a machine or substance) under specified circumstances | Synonyms: behavior |
behaviourism | (noun) an approach to psychology that emphasizes observable measurable behavior | Synonyms: behaviorism, behavioristic psychology, behaviouristic psychology |
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behaviourist | (noun) a psychologist who subscribes to behaviorism | Synonyms: behaviorist |
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bijou | (noun) a small and delicately worked piece | - |
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biliousness | (noun) a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger | Synonyms: irritability, peevishness, pettishness, snappishness, surliness, temper |
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(noun) gastric distress caused by a disorder of the liver or gall bladder | - |
birdhouse | (noun) a shelter for birds | - |
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bivouac | (noun) temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers | Synonyms: camp, cantonment, encampment |
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(noun) a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent | Synonyms: campground, camping area, camping ground, camping site, campsite, encampment |
bivouacking | (noun) the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp | Synonyms: camping, encampment, tenting |
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blabbermouth | (noun) someone who gossips indiscreetly | Synonyms: talebearer, taleteller, tattler, tattletale, telltale |
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blackout | (noun) a momentary loss of consciousness | - |
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(noun) partial or total loss of memory | Synonyms: amnesia, memory loss |
(noun) the failure of electric power for a general region | - |
(noun) darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft) | Synonyms: brownout, dimout |
(noun) a suspension of radio or tv broadcasting | - |
blockhouse | (noun) a stronghold that is reinforced for protection from enemy fire; with apertures for defensive fire | - |
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bloodhound | (noun) a breed of large powerful hound of European origin having very acute smell and used in tracking | Synonyms: sleuthhound |
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blouse | (noun) a top worn by women | - |
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blowout | (noun) a gay festivity | Synonyms: gala, gala affair, jamboree |
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(noun) a sudden malfunction of a part or apparatus | - |
(noun) an easy victory | Synonyms: laugher, romp, runaway, shoo-in, walkaway |
boardinghouse | (noun) a private house that provides accommodations and meals for paying guests | Synonyms: boarding house |
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boarhound | (noun) large hound used in hunting wild boars | - |
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boathouse | (noun) a shed at the edge of a river or lake; used to store boats | - |
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boisterousness | (noun) the property of being noisy and lively and unrestrained | - |
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(noun) a turbulent and stormy state of the sea | - |
booklouse | (noun) minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and papers | Synonyms: book louse, deathwatch, Liposcelis divinatorius |
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borough | (noun) one of the administrative divisions of a large city | - |
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(noun) an English town that forms the constituency of a member of parliament | - |
bouchee | (noun) shell of puff paste | Synonyms: patty shell |
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boucle | (noun) a fabric of uneven yarn that has an uneven knobby effect | - |
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boudoir | (noun) a lady's bedroom or private sitting room | - |
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bouffant | (noun) a woman's hairstyle in which the hair gives a puffy appearance | - |
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bouffe | (noun) opera with a happy ending and in which some of the text is spoken | Synonyms: comic opera, opera bouffe, opera comique |
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bougainvillea | (noun) any of several South American ornamental woody vines of the genus Bougainvillea having brilliant red or purple flower bracts; widely grown in warm regions | - |
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bough | (noun) any of the larger branches of a tree | - |
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