alprazolam | (noun) an antianxiety agent (trade name Xanax) of the benzodiazepine class | Synonyms: Xanax |
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appraisal | (noun) an expert estimation of the quality, quantity, and other characteristics of someone or something | - |
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(noun) the classification of someone or something with respect to its worth | Synonyms: assessment |
(noun) a document appraising the value of something (as for insurance or taxation) | Synonyms: estimate, estimation |
appraiser | (noun) one who estimates officially the worth or value or quality of things | Synonyms: valuator |
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(noun) one who determines authenticity (as of works of art) or who guarantees validity | Synonyms: authenticator |
apraxia | (noun) inability to make purposeful movements | - |
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chiropractic | (noun) a method of treatment that manipulates body structures (especially the spine) to relieve low back pain or even headache or high blood pressure | - |
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chiropractor | (noun) a therapist who practices chiropractic | - |
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chrysoprase | (noun) a green variety of chalcedony valued as a gemstone | - |
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clomipramine | (noun) a tricyclic antidepressant drug | - |
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copra | (noun) the dried meat of the coconut from which oil is extracted | - |
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depravation | (noun) moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles | Synonyms: corruption, degeneracy, depravity, putrefaction |
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depravity | (noun) a corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice | Synonyms: turpitude |
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(noun) moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles | Synonyms: corruption, degeneracy, depravation, putrefaction |
desipramine | (noun) a tricyclic antidepressant drug that activates the psychomotor system | - |
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dispraise | (noun) the act of speaking contemptuously of | Synonyms: disparagement |
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imipramine | (noun) a tricyclic antidepressant (trade names Imavate and Tofranil) used to treat clinical depression | Synonyms: Imavate, impramine hydrochloride, Tofranil |
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impracticability | (noun) the quality of not being usable | Synonyms: impracticableness |
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impracticableness | (noun) the quality of not being usable | Synonyms: impracticability |
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impracticality | (noun) concerned with theoretical possibilities rather than actual use | - |
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lansoprazole | (noun) antacid (trade name Prevacid) that suppresses acid secretion in the stomach | Synonyms: Prevacid |
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malpractice | (noun) a wrongful act that the actor had no right to do; improper professional conduct | - |
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(noun) professional wrongdoing that results in injury or damage | - |
naprapath | (noun) a therapist who practices naprapathy | - |
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naprapathy | (noun) a drugless method of treatment based on the belief that disease symptoms arise from problems with ligaments and connective tissues | - |
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omeprazole | (noun) antacid (trade name Prilosec) that suppresses acid secretion in the stomach | Synonyms: Prilosec |
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overappraisal | (noun) an appraisal that is too high | Synonyms: overestimate, overestimation, overvaluation |
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overpraise | (noun) excessive or undeserved praise. | - |
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parapraxis | (noun) a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc. | Synonyms: miscue, slip-up, slip |
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practicability | (noun) the quality of being usable | Synonyms: practicableness |
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practicableness | (noun) the quality of being usable | Synonyms: practicability |
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practicality | (noun) concerned with actual use rather than theoretical possibilities | - |
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practice | (noun) a customary way of operation or behavior | Synonyms: pattern |
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(noun) systematic training by multiple repetitions | Synonyms: drill, exercise, practice session, recitation |
(noun) the exercise of a profession | - |
(noun) translating an idea into action | Synonyms: praxis |
(noun) knowledge of how something is usually done | - |
practician | (noun) someone who practices a learned profession | Synonyms: practitioner |
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practitioner | (noun) someone who practices a learned profession | Synonyms: practician |
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praenomen | (noun) the first name of a citizen of ancient Rome | - |
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praesidium | (noun) a permanent executive committee in socialist countries that has all the powers of some larger legislative body and that acts for it when it is not in session | Synonyms: presidium |
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praetor | (noun) an annually elected magistrate of the ancient Roman Republic | Synonyms: pretor |
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praetorium | (noun) the tent of an ancient Roman general | Synonyms: pretorium |
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praetorship | (noun) the office of praetor | - |
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pragmatic | (noun) an imperial decree that becomes part of the fundamental law of the land | Synonyms: pragmatic sanction |
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pragmatics | (noun) the study of language use | - |
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pragmatism | (noun) the attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality and literal truth | Synonyms: realism |
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(noun) (philosophy) the doctrine that practical consequences are the criteria of knowledge and meaning and value | - |
pragmatist | (noun) a person who takes a practical approach to problems and is concerned primarily with the success or failure of their actions | - |
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(noun) an adherent of philosophical pragmatism | - |
prairie | (noun) a treeless grassy plain | - |
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praise | (noun) an expression of approval and commendation | Synonyms: congratulations, extolment, kudos |
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(noun) offering words of homage as an act of worship | - |
praiseworthiness | (noun) the quality of being worthy of praise | Synonyms: laudability, laudableness |
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praisworthiness | (noun) the property of deserving praise | - |
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praline | (noun) cookie-sized candy made of brown sugar and butter and pecans | - |
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pram | (noun) a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around | Synonyms: baby buggy, baby carriage, carriage, go-cart, perambulator, pushchair, pusher, stroller |
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prance | (noun) a proud stiff pompous gait | Synonyms: strut, swagger |
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prancer | (noun) a mettlesome or fiery horse | - |
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prang | (noun) a crash involving a car or plane | - |
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prank | (noun) a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement | Synonyms: antic, caper, joke, put-on, trick |
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(noun) acting like a clown or buffoon | Synonyms: buffoonery, clowning, frivolity, harlequinade, japery |
prankishness | (noun) the trait of indulging in disreputable pranks | Synonyms: rascality, roguishness |
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prankster | (noun) someone who plays practical jokes on others | Synonyms: cut-up, hoaxer, practical joker, tricker, trickster |
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praseodymium | (noun) a soft yellowish-white trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; can be recovered from bastnasite or monazite by an ion-exchange process | Synonyms: atomic number 59, Pr |
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prat | (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
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prate | (noun) idle or foolish and irrelevant talk | Synonyms: blether, chin music, idle talk, prattle |
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prater | (noun) an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker | Synonyms: babbler, chatterbox, chatterer, magpie, spouter |
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pratfall | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup |
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(noun) a fall onto your buttocks | - |
pratincole | (noun) Old World shorebird with long pointed wings and short legs; closely related to the coursers | Synonyms: glareole |
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prattle | (noun) idle or foolish and irrelevant talk | Synonyms: blether, chin music, idle talk, prate |
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prattler | (noun) someone who speaks in a childish way | - |
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pravastatin | (noun) an oral drug (trade name Pravachol) administered to reduce blood cholesterol levels; recommended after nonfatal heart attacks | Synonyms: Pravachol |
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prawn | (noun) shrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers; most are edible | - |
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(noun) any of various edible decapod crustaceans | Synonyms: shrimp |
praxis | (noun) translating an idea into action | Synonyms: practice |
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praya | (noun) colonial siphonophore of up to 130 ft long | - |
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prayer | (noun) the act of communicating with a deity (especially as a petition or in adoration or contrition or thanksgiving) | Synonyms: supplication |
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(noun) earnest or urgent request | Synonyms: appeal, entreaty |
(noun) a fixed text used in praying | - |
(noun) reverent petition to a deity | Synonyms: orison, petition |
(noun) someone who prays to God | Synonyms: supplicant |
prayerbook | (noun) a book containing prayers | Synonyms: prayer book |
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prazosin | (noun) antihypertensive drug (trade name Minipress) | Synonyms: Minipress |
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propranolol | (noun) the first beta blocker (trade name Inderal) used in treating hypertension and angina pectoris and essential tremor | Synonyms: Inderal |
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reappraisal | (noun) a new appraisal or evaluation | Synonyms: reassessment, revaluation, review |
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sapraemia | (noun) blood poisoning caused by putrefactive bacteria; results from eating putrefied matter | Synonyms: sapremia |
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soprano | (noun) the pitch range of the highest female voice | Synonyms: treble |
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(noun) the highest female voice; the voice of a boy before puberty | - |
(noun) a female singer with the highest vocal range of all the voice type | - |
sprachgefuhl | (noun) an intuitive feeling for the natural idiom of a language | - |
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sprag | (noun) a chock or bar wedged under a wheel or between the spokes to prevent a vehicle from rolling down an incline | - |
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(noun) a wooden prop used to support the roof of a mine | Synonyms: pitprop |
sprain | (noun) a painful injury to a joint caused by a sudden wrenching of its ligaments | - |
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sprat | (noun) small herring processed like a sardine | Synonyms: brisling, Clupea sprattus |
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(noun) small fatty European fish; usually smoked or canned like sardines | Synonyms: brisling |
sprawl | (noun) an ungainly posture with arms and legs spread about | Synonyms: sprawling |
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(noun) an aggregation or continuous network of urban communities | Synonyms: conurbation, urban sprawl |
sprawler | (noun) a person who sprawls | - |
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sprawling | (noun) an ungainly posture with arms and legs spread about | Synonyms: sprawl |
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spray | (noun) a dispenser that turns a liquid (such as perfume) into a fine mist | Synonyms: atomiser, atomizer, nebuliser, nebulizer, sprayer |
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(noun) flower arrangement consisting of a single branch or shoot bearing flowers and foliage | - |
(noun) a jet of vapor | - |
(noun) a quantity of small objects flying through the air | Synonyms: spraying |
(noun) water in small drops in the atmosphere; blown from waves or thrown up by a waterfall | - |
(noun) a pesticide in suspension or solution; intended for spraying | - |
sprayer | (noun) a dispenser that turns a liquid (such as perfume) into a fine mist | Synonyms: atomiser, atomizer, nebuliser, nebulizer, spray |
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(noun) a worker who applies spray to a surface | - |
spraying | (noun) the application of a liquid in the form of small particles ejected from a sprayer | - |
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(noun) the dispersion of fungicides or insecticides or fertilizer on growing crops (often from a low-flying aircraft) | Synonyms: crop-dusting |
(noun) a quantity of small objects flying through the air | Synonyms: spray |
suprainfection | (noun) secondary infection caused by an opportunistic infection | - |
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suprarenalectomy | (noun) surgical removal of one or both adrenal glands | Synonyms: adrenalectomy |
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trimipramine | (noun) tricyclic antidepressant drug (trade name Surmontil) used to treat depression and anxiety and (sometimes) insomnia | Synonyms: Surmontil |
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