appellant | (noun) the party who appeals a decision of a lower court | Synonyms: plaintiff in error |
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appellation | (noun) identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others | Synonyms: appellative, denomination, designation |
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(noun) a geographical indication used to identify where the grapes for a wine are grown | - |
appellative | (noun) identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others | Synonyms: appellation, denomination, designation |
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cappelletti | (noun) small circular or square cases of dough with savory fillings | Synonyms: ravioli |
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expelling | (noun) any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body | Synonyms: discharge, emission |
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fingerspelling | (noun) an alphabet of manual signs | Synonyms: finger spelling |
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gospeller | (noun) a preacher of the Christian gospel | Synonyms: evangelist, gospeler, revivalist |
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impeller | (noun) the blade of a rotor (as in the compressor of a jet engine) | - |
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interpellation | (noun) the action of interjecting or interposing an action or remark that interrupts | Synonyms: interjection, interpolation, interposition |
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(noun) (parliament) a parliamentary procedure of demanding that a government official explain some act or policy | - |
misspelling | (noun) a spelling that is incorrect | - |
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pellagra | (noun) a disease caused by deficiency of niacin or tryptophan (or by a defect in the metabolic conversion of tryptophan to niacin); characterized by gastrointestinal disturbances and erythema and nervous or mental disorders; may be caused by malnutrition or alcoholism or other nutritional impairments | Synonyms: Alpine scurvy, maidism, mal de la rosa, mal rosso, mayidism, Saint Ignatius' itch |
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pellet | (noun) a solid missile discharged from a firearm | Synonyms: shot |
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(noun) a small rounded mass of a substance | - |
pellicle | (noun) thin protective membrane in some protozoa | - |
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pellitory | (noun) a small Mediterranean plant containing a volatile oil once used to relieve toothache | Synonyms: Anacyclus pyrethrum, pellitory-of-Spain |
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(noun) herb that grows in crevices having long narrow leaves and small pink apetalous flowers | Synonyms: Parietaria difusa, pellitory-of-the-wall, wall pellitory |
pellucidity | (noun) passing light without diffusion or distortion | Synonyms: limpidity, pellucidness |
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(noun) free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression | Synonyms: clarity, clearness, limpidity, lucidity, lucidness |
pellucidness | (noun) passing light without diffusion or distortion | Synonyms: limpidity, pellucidity |
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propellant | (noun) any substance that propels | Synonyms: propellent |
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propellent | (noun) any substance that propels | Synonyms: propellant |
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propeller | (noun) a mechanical device that rotates to push against air or water | Synonyms: propellor |
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propellor | (noun) a mechanical device that rotates to push against air or water | Synonyms: propeller |
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rappeller | (noun) a person who descends down a nearly vertical face by using a doubled rope that is wrapped around the body and attached to some high point | Synonyms: abseiler |
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repellant | (noun) the power to repel | Synonyms: repellent |
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(noun) a chemical substance that repels animals | Synonyms: repellent |
(noun) a compound with which fabrics are treated to repel water | Synonyms: repellent |
repellent | (noun) the power to repel | Synonyms: repellant |
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(noun) a chemical substance that repels animals | Synonyms: repellant |
(noun) a compound with which fabrics are treated to repel water | Synonyms: repellant |
spell | (noun) a verbal formula believed to have magical force | Synonyms: charm, magic spell, magical spell |
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(noun) a psychological state induced by (or as if induced by) a magical incantation | Synonyms: enchantment, trance |
(noun) a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else) | Synonyms: go, tour, turn |
(noun) a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition | Synonyms: patch, piece, while |
spellbinder | (noun) an orator who can hold his listeners spellbound | - |
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spelldown | (noun) a contest in which you are eliminated if you fail to spell a word correctly | Synonyms: spelling bee, spelling contest |
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speller | (noun) an introductory textbook to teach spelling | - |
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(noun) someone who spells words | Synonyms: good speller, poor speller |
spelling | (noun) forming words with letters according to the principles underlying accepted usage | - |
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