accoutrement | (noun) clothing that is worn or carried, but not part of your main clothing | Synonyms: accessory, accouterment |
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acquirement | (noun) an ability that has been acquired by training | Synonyms: accomplishment, acquisition, attainment, skill |
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allurement | (noun) the act of enticing a person to do something wrong (as an offer of sex in return for money) | Synonyms: solicitation |
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(noun) the power to entice or attract through personal charm | Synonyms: allure, temptingness |
(noun) attractiveness | - |
arbitrement | (noun) the act of deciding as an arbiter; giving authoritative judgment | Synonyms: arbitrament, arbitration |
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bioremediation | (noun) the act of treating waste or pollutants by the use of microorganisms (as bacteria) that can break down the undesirable substances | - |
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(noun) the branch of biotechnology that uses biological process to overcome environmental problems | - |
categoreme | (noun) a categorematic expression; a term capable of standing alone as the subject or predicate of a logical proposition | Synonyms: categorem |
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cerement | (noun) burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped | Synonyms: pall, shroud, winding-clothes, winding-sheet |
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decrement | (noun) the amount by which something decreases | Synonyms: decrease |
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(noun) a process of becoming smaller or shorter | Synonyms: decrease |
decrementation | (noun) the operation of subtracting one from the operand. | - |
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disfigurement | (noun) the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something | Synonyms: defacement, disfiguration, mutilation |
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(noun) an appearance that has been spoiled or is misshapen | Synonyms: deformity, disfiguration |
entremets | (noun) a dish that is served with, but is subordinate to, a main course | Synonyms: side dish, side order |
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excrement | (noun) waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body | Synonyms: body waste, excreta, excretion, excretory product |
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extreme | (noun) the furthest or highest degree of something | - |
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(noun) the point located farthest from the middle of something | Synonyms: extreme point, extremum |
extremeness | (noun) the quality of being extreme | - |
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hyperemesis | (noun) severe and excessive vomiting | - |
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immurement | (noun) the state of being imprisoned | Synonyms: captivity, imprisonment, incarceration |
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increment | (noun) the amount by which something increases | Synonyms: increase |
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(noun) a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important | Synonyms: growth, increase |
incrementation | (noun) the operation of adding one to the operand. | - |
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maturement | (noun) coming to full development; becoming mature | Synonyms: maturation, ripening |
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measurement | (noun) the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule | Synonyms: measure, measuring, mensuration |
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monoreme | (noun) a galley that has one bank of oars. | - |
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monotreme | (noun) the most primitive mammals comprising the only extant members of the subclass Prototheria | Synonyms: egg-laying mammal |
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premeditation | (noun) planning or plotting in advance of acting | Synonyms: forethought |
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(noun) (law) thought and intention to commit a crime well in advance of the crime; goes to show criminal intent | - |
procurement | (noun) the act of getting possession of something | Synonyms: procural, procurance |
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remediation | (noun) act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil | Synonyms: redress, remedy |
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remedy | (noun) act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil | Synonyms: redress, remediation |
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(noun) a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain | Synonyms: curative, cure, therapeutic |
remembering | (noun) the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered | Synonyms: memory |
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remembrance | (noun) the ability to recall past occurrences | Synonyms: anamnesis, recollection |
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(noun) a recognition of meritorious service | Synonyms: commemoration, memorial |
requirement | (noun) something that is required in advance | Synonyms: prerequisite |
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(noun) required activity | Synonyms: demand |
(noun) anything indispensable | Synonyms: essential, necessary, necessity, requisite |
retirement | (noun) withdrawal from your position or occupation | - |
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(noun) withdrawal for prayer and study and meditation | Synonyms: retreat |
(noun) the state of being retired from one's business or occupation | - |
syncategoreme | (noun) a syncategorematic expression; a word that cannot be used alone as a term in a logical proposition | Synonyms: syncategorem |
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tremendismo | (noun) post-war Spanish literary style marked by a tendency to emphasize violence and grotesque imagery. | - |
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trireme | (noun) ancient Greek or Roman galley or warship having three tiers of oars on each side | - |
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