amarelle | (noun) pale red sour cherry with colorless or nearly colorless juice | - |
---|
(noun) any of several cultivated sour cherry trees bearing pale red fruit with colorless juice | Synonyms: Prunus cerasus caproniana |
antireligiousness | (noun) The state or condition of being opposed to religion. | - |
---|
apparel | (noun) clothing in general | Synonyms: clothes, dress, wearing apparel |
---|
barrel | (noun) a cylindrical container that holds liquids | Synonyms: cask |
---|
(noun) a tube through which a bullet travels when a gun is fired | Synonyms: gun barrel |
(noun) any of various units of capacity | Synonyms: bbl |
(noun) the quantity that a barrel (of any size) will hold | Synonyms: barrelful |
(noun) a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends | Synonyms: drum |
barrelfish | (noun) blackish fish of New England waters | Synonyms: black rudderfish, Hyperglyphe perciformis |
---|
barrelful | (noun) the quantity that a barrel (of any size) will hold | Synonyms: barrel |
---|
barrelhouse | (noun) a cheap drinking and dancing establishment | Synonyms: honky-tonk |
---|
barrels | (noun) the amount that many barrels might hold | - |
---|
borrelia | (noun) cause of e.g. European and African relapsing fever | - |
---|
carelessness | (noun) failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances | Synonyms: neglect, negligence, nonperformance |
---|
(noun) the quality of not being careful or taking pains | Synonyms: sloppiness |
carrel | (noun) small individual study area in a library | Synonyms: carrell, cubicle, stall |
---|
carrell | (noun) small individual study area in a library | Synonyms: carrel, cubicle, stall |
---|
chantarelle | (noun) widely distributed edible mushroom rich yellow in color with a smooth cap and a pleasant apricot aroma | Synonyms: Cantharellus cibarius, chanterelle |
---|
chanterelle | (noun) widely distributed edible mushroom rich yellow in color with a smooth cap and a pleasant apricot aroma | Synonyms: Cantharellus cibarius, chantarelle |
---|
chlorella | (noun) any alga of the genus Chlorella | - |
---|
cockerel | (noun) a young domestic cock; not older than one year | - |
---|
coreligionist | (noun) someone having the same religion as another person | - |
---|
correlate | (noun) either of two or more related or complementary variables | Synonyms: correlative |
---|
correlation | (noun) a statistic representing how closely two variables co-vary; it can vary from -1 (perfect negative correlation) through 0 (no correlation) to +1 (perfect positive correlation) | Synonyms: coefficient of correlation, correlation coefficient |
---|
(noun) a statistical relation between two or more variables such that systematic changes in the value of one variable are accompanied by systematic changes in the other | Synonyms: correlational statistics |
(noun) a reciprocal relation between two or more things | Synonyms: correlativity |
correlative | (noun) either of two or more related or complementary variables | Synonyms: correlate |
---|
correlativity | (noun) a reciprocal relation between two or more things | Synonyms: correlation |
---|
derelict | (noun) a ship abandoned on the high seas | Synonyms: abandoned ship |
---|
(noun) a person without a home, job, or property | - |
dereliction | (noun) willful negligence | - |
---|
(noun) a tendency to be negligent and uncaring | Synonyms: delinquency, willful neglect |
doggerel | (noun) a comic verse of irregular measure | Synonyms: doggerel verse, jingle |
---|
dotrel | (noun) rare plover of upland areas of Eurasia | Synonyms: Charadrius morinellus, dotterel, Eudromias morinellus |
---|
dotterel | (noun) rare plover of upland areas of Eurasia | Synonyms: Charadrius morinellus, dotrel, Eudromias morinellus |
---|
featurelessness | (noun) The state or condition of being without distinguishing features. | - |
---|
firelight | (noun) the light of a fire (especially in a fireplace) | - |
---|
firelighter | (noun) (a piece of) a substance that burns easily and can be used to start a coal or coke fire | - |
---|
firelock | (noun) a muzzle loader that had a flintlock type of gunlock | Synonyms: flintlock |
---|
forelady | (noun) a woman who is foreperson of a jury | Synonyms: forewoman |
---|
foreland | (noun) a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea) | Synonyms: head, headland, promontory |
---|
(noun) land forming the forward margin of something | - |
foreleg | (noun) the forelimb of a quadruped | - |
---|
forelimb | (noun) the front limb (or the homologous structure in other animals, such as a flipper or wing) | - |
---|
forelock | (noun) a lock of a horse's mane that grows forward between the ears | Synonyms: foretop |
---|
(noun) a lock of hair growing (or falling) over the forehead | - |
gambrel | (noun) a gable roof with two slopes on each side and the lower slope being steeper | Synonyms: gambrel roof |
---|
ghrelin | (noun) a gastrointestinal hormone produced by epithelial cells lining the fundus of the stomach; appears to be a stimulant for appetite and feeding, but is also a strong stimulant of growth hormone secretion from the anterior pituitary | - |
---|
gibberellin | (noun) a plant hormone isolated from a fungus; used in promoting plant growth | - |
---|
harelip | (noun) a congenital cleft in the middle of the upper lip | Synonyms: cheiloschisis, cleft lip |
---|
hireling | (noun) a person who works only for money | Synonyms: pensionary |
---|
interrelatedness | (noun) mutual or reciprocal relation or relatedness | Synonyms: interrelation, interrelationship |
---|
interrelation | (noun) mutual or reciprocal relation or relatedness | Synonyms: interrelatedness, interrelationship |
---|
interrelationship | (noun) mutual or reciprocal relation or relatedness | Synonyms: interrelatedness, interrelation |
---|
irrelevance | (noun) the lack of a relation of something to the matter at hand | Synonyms: irrelevancy |
---|
irrelevancy | (noun) the lack of a relation of something to the matter at hand | Synonyms: irrelevance |
---|
irreligion | (noun) the quality of not being devout | Synonyms: irreligiousness |
---|
irreligionist | (noun) someone who is indifferent or hostile to religion | - |
---|
irreligiousness | (noun) the quality of not being devout | Synonyms: irreligion |
---|
kestrel | (noun) small Old World falcon that hovers in the air against a wind | Synonyms: Falco tinnunculus |
---|
(noun) small North American falcon | Synonyms: American kestrel, Falco sparverius, sparrow hawk |
laurel | (noun) (antiquity) a wreath of laurel foliage worn on the head as an emblem of victory | Synonyms: bay wreath, laurel wreath |
---|
(noun) any of various aromatic trees of the laurel family | - |
laurels | (noun) a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction | Synonyms: accolade, award, honor, honour |
---|
(noun) the state of being honored | Synonyms: honor, honour |
laurelwood | (noun) tropical American tree; valued for its hard durable wood | Synonyms: Calophyllum candidissimum, lancewood tree |
---|
leisureliness | (noun) slowness by virtue of being leisurely | - |
---|
lustrelessness | (noun) the property of having little or no contrast; lacking highlights or gloss | Synonyms: flatness, lusterlessness, mat, matt, matte |
---|
mackerel | (noun) any of various fishes of the family Scombridae | - |
---|
(noun) flesh of very important usually small (to 18 in) fatty Atlantic fish | - |
mandrel | (noun) any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts | Synonyms: arbor, mandril, spindle |
---|
minstrel | (noun) a singer of folk songs | Synonyms: folk singer, jongleur, poet-singer, troubadour |
---|
(noun) a performer in a minstrel show | - |
minstrelsy | (noun) the art of a minstrel | - |
---|
(noun) ballads sung by minstrels | - |
(noun) a troupe of minstrels | - |
mongrel | (noun) an inferior dog or one of mixed breed | Synonyms: cur, mutt |
---|
(noun) derogatory term for a variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin | Synonyms: bastard |
morel | (noun) any of various edible mushrooms of the genus Morchella having a brownish spongelike cap | - |
---|
morello | (noun) cultivated sour cherry with dark-colored skin and juice | - |
---|
(noun) any of several cultivated sour cherry trees bearing fruit with dark skin and juice | Synonyms: Prunus cerasus austera |
mozzarella | (noun) mild white Italian cheese | - |
---|
norethynodrel | (noun) a progesterone derivative used in oral contraceptives and in the control of menstruation and the treatment of abnormal uterine bleeding | - |
---|
norgestrel | (noun) synthetic progestin used in oral contraceptives | - |
---|
pasteurellosis | (noun) an acute infectious disease characterized by pneumonia and blood infection | Synonyms: hemorrhagic septicemia |
---|
pastureland | (noun) a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock | Synonyms: grazing land, lea, ley, pasture, pasture land |
---|
petrel | (noun) relatively small long-winged tube-nosed bird that flies far from land | - |
---|
pickerel | (noun) any of several North American species of small pike | - |
---|
(noun) flesh of young or small pike | - |
pickerelweed | (noun) American plant having spikes of blue flowers and growing in shallow water of streams and ponds | Synonyms: pickerel weed, Pontederia cordata, wampee |
---|
pipistrel | (noun) small European brown bat | Synonyms: pipistrelle, Pipistrellus pipistrellus |
---|
pipistrelle | (noun) small European brown bat | Synonyms: pipistrel, Pipistrellus pipistrellus |
---|
pointrel | (noun) a tool used by an engraver | Synonyms: graver, graving tool, pointel |
---|
prelacy | (noun) the office or station of a prelate | Synonyms: prelature |
---|
(noun) prelates collectively | Synonyms: prelature |
prelate | (noun) a senior clergyman and dignitary | Synonyms: archpriest, hierarch, high priest, primate |
---|
prelature | (noun) the office or station of a prelate | Synonyms: prelacy |
---|
(noun) prelates collectively | Synonyms: prelacy |
prelim | (noun) an examination taken by graduate students to determine their fitness to continue | Synonyms: preliminary exam, preliminary examination |
---|
(noun) a minor match preceding the main event | Synonyms: preliminary |
preliminary | (noun) a minor match preceding the main event | Synonyms: prelim |
---|
(noun) something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows | Synonyms: overture, prelude |
prelims | (noun) written matter preceding the main text of a book | Synonyms: front matter |
---|
prelude | (noun) music that precedes a fugue or introduces an act in an opera | - |
---|
(noun) something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows | Synonyms: overture, preliminary |
protirelin | (noun) hormone released by the hypothalamus that controls the release of thyroid-stimulating hormone from the anterior pituitary | Synonyms: thyrotropin-releasing factor, thyrotropin-releasing hormone, TRF, TRH |
---|
quarrel | (noun) an arrow that is shot from a crossbow; has a head with four edges | - |
---|
(noun) an angry dispute | Synonyms: dustup, row, run-in, words, wrangle |
quarreler | (noun) a disputant who quarrels | Synonyms: quarreller |
---|
quarreller | (noun) a disputant who quarrels | Synonyms: quarreler |
---|
quarrelsomeness | (noun) an inclination to be quarrelsome and contentious | Synonyms: contentiousness |
---|
relapse | (noun) a failure to maintain a higher state | Synonyms: backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapsing, reversion, reverting |
---|
relapsing | (noun) a failure to maintain a higher state | Synonyms: backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapse, reversion, reverting |
---|
relatedness | (noun) a particular manner of connectedness | - |
---|
relation | (noun) an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together | - |
---|
(noun) (usually plural) mutual dealings or connections among persons or groups | - |
(noun) sexual activity between individuals, especially the insertion of a man's penis into a woman's vagina until orgasm and ejaculation occur | Synonyms: carnal knowledge, coition, coitus, copulation, intercourse, sex act, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relation |
(noun) (law) the principle that an act done at a later time is deemed by law to have occurred at an earlier time | Synonyms: relation back |
(noun) an act of narration | Synonyms: recounting, telling |
(noun) a person related by blood or marriage | Synonyms: relative |
relations | (noun) mutual dealings or connections or communications among persons or groups | Synonyms: dealings |
---|
relationship | (noun) a relation between people; (`relationship' is often used where `relation' would serve, as in `the relationship between inflation and unemployment', but the preferred usage of `relationship' is for human relations or states of relatedness) | Synonyms: human relationship |
---|
(noun) (anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption | Synonyms: family relationship, kinship |
(noun) a state of connectedness between people (especially an emotional connection) | - |
(noun) a state involving mutual dealings between people or parties or countries | - |
relative | (noun) an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus) | Synonyms: congenator, congener, congeneric |
---|
(noun) a person related by blood or marriage | Synonyms: relation |
relativisation | (noun) the act or result of making relative or regarding as relative rather than absolute. | Synonyms: relativization |
---|
relativism | (noun) (philosophy) the philosophical doctrine that all criteria of judgment are relative to the individuals and situations involved | - |
---|
relativity | (noun) the quality of being relative and having significance only in relation to something else | - |
---|
(noun) (physics) the theory that space and time are relative concepts rather than absolute concepts | Synonyms: Einstein's theory of relativity, relativity theory, theory of relativity |
relativization | (noun) the act or result of making relative or regarding as relative rather than absolute. | Synonyms: relativisation |
---|
relatum | (noun) a term in a proposition that is related to the referent of the proposition | - |
---|
relaxant | (noun) a drug that relaxes and relieves tension | - |
---|
relaxation | (noun) freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility) | Synonyms: ease, repose, rest |
---|
(noun) the act of making less strict | Synonyms: liberalisation, liberalization |
(noun) a method of solving simultaneous equations by guessing a solution and then reducing the errors that result by successive approximations until all the errors are less than some specified amount | Synonyms: relaxation method |
(noun) an occurrence of control or strength weakening | Synonyms: loosening, slackening |
(noun) a feeling of refreshing tranquility and an absence of tension or worry | Synonyms: easiness |
(noun) (physics) the exponential return of a system to equilibrium after a disturbance | Synonyms: relaxation behavior |
(noun) (physiology) the gradual lengthening of inactive muscle or muscle fibers | - |
relaxedness | (noun) The quality of being eased or loosened, or of having an easy-going mood or temperament. | - |
---|
relaxer | (noun) any agent that produces relaxation | - |
---|