acrimony | (noun) a rough and bitter manner | Synonyms: acerbity, bitterness, jaundice, tartness, thorniness |
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afterimage | (noun) an image (usually a negative image) that persists after stimulation has ceased | Synonyms: aftersensation |
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agrimonia | (noun) a plant of the genus Agrimonia having spikelike clusters of small yellow flowers | Synonyms: agrimony |
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agrimony | (noun) a plant of the genus Agrimonia having spikelike clusters of small yellow flowers | Synonyms: agrimonia |
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alastrim | (noun) a mild form of smallpox caused by a less virulent form of the virus | Synonyms: Cuban itch, Kaffir pox, milk pox, pseudosmallpox, pseudovariola, variola minor, West Indian smallpox, white pox |
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brim | (noun) a circular projection that sticks outward from the crown of a hat | - |
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(noun) the top edge of a vessel or other container | Synonyms: lip, rim |
brimstone | (noun) an old name for sulfur | Synonyms: native sulfur, native sulphur |
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calorimeter | (noun) a measuring instrument that determines quantities of heat | - |
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calorimetry | (noun) measurement of quantities of heat | - |
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caprimulgid | (noun) mainly crepuscular or nocturnal nonpasserine birds with mottled greyish-brown plumage and large eyes; feed on insects | Synonyms: goatsucker, nightjar |
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ceriman | (noun) tropical cylindrical fruit resembling a pinecone with pineapple-banana flavor | Synonyms: monstera |
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(noun) tropical American vine having roots that hang like cords and cylindrical fruit with a pineapple and banana flavor | Synonyms: Monstera deliciosa |
cetrimide | (noun) a cationic detergent that is a powerful disinfectant | - |
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cherimolla | (noun) large tropical fruit with leathery skin and soft pulp; related to custard apples | Synonyms: cherimoya |
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cherimoya | (noun) large tropical fruit with leathery skin and soft pulp; related to custard apples | Synonyms: cherimolla |
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(noun) small tropical American tree bearing round or oblong fruit | Synonyms: Annona cherimola, cherimoya tree |
colorimeter | (noun) a measuring instrument used in colorimetric analysis to determine the quantity of a substance from the color it yields with specific reagents | Synonyms: tintometer |
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colorimetry | (noun) quantitative chemical analysis by color using a colorimeter | Synonyms: colorimetric analysis |
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crime | (noun) (criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act | Synonyms: criminal offence, criminal offense, law-breaking |
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(noun) an evil act not necessarily punishable by law | - |
criminal | (noun) someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime | Synonyms: crook, felon, malefactor, outlaw |
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criminalisation | (noun) legislation that makes something illegal | Synonyms: criminalization |
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criminalism | (noun) the state of being a criminal | Synonyms: criminality, criminalness |
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criminality | (noun) the state of being a criminal | Synonyms: criminalism, criminalness |
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criminalization | (noun) legislation that makes something illegal | Synonyms: criminalisation |
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criminalness | (noun) the state of being a criminal | Synonyms: criminalism, criminality |
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criminologist | (noun) a specialist in criminology | - |
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criminology | (noun) the scientific study of crime and criminal behavior and law enforcement | - |
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crimp | (noun) a lock of hair that has been artificially waved or curled | - |
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(noun) someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers | Synonyms: crimper |
(noun) an angular or rounded shape made by folding | Synonyms: bend, crease, flexure, fold, plication |
crimper | (noun) a mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it | Synonyms: curler, hair curler, roller |
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(noun) a hand tool used for joining two pieces of metal or other ductile material (usually a wire and a metal plate) by deforming one or both of them to hold the other. | Synonyms: crimping pliers |
(noun) someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers | Synonyms: crimp |
crimson | (noun) a deep and vivid red color | Synonyms: deep red, ruby |
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cybercrime | (noun) crime committed using a computer and the internet to steal a person's identity or sell contraband or stalk victims or disrupt operations with malevolent programs | - |
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decriminalisation | (noun) legislation that makes something legal that was formerly illegal | Synonyms: decriminalization |
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decriminalization | (noun) legislation that makes something legal that was formerly illegal | Synonyms: decriminalisation |
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detriment | (noun) a damage or loss | Synonyms: hurt |
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discrimination | (noun) unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice | Synonyms: favoritism, favouritism |
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(noun) the cognitive process whereby two or more stimuli are distinguished | Synonyms: secernment |
discriminator | (noun) a person who (or that which) differentiates | Synonyms: differentiator |
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experiment | (noun) the act of conducting a controlled test or investigation | Synonyms: experimentation |
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(noun) a venture at something new or different | - |
(noun) the testing of an idea | Synonyms: experimentation |
experimentalism | (noun) an orientation that favors experimentation and innovation | - |
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(noun) an empirical doctrine that advocates experimental principles | - |
experimentation | (noun) the act of conducting a controlled test or investigation | Synonyms: experiment |
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(noun) the testing of an idea | Synonyms: experiment |
experimenter | (noun) a research worker who conducts experiments | - |
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(noun) a person who enjoys testing innovative ideas | - |
ferrimagnetism | (noun) a phenomenon in ferrites where there can be incomplete cancellation of antiferromagnetic arranged spins giving a net magnetic moment | - |
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grimace | (noun) a contorted facial expression | Synonyms: face |
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grime | (noun) anything regarded as making something unclean | Synonyms: dirt, filth, grease, grunge, soil, stain |
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griminess | (noun) the state of being grimy | Synonyms: grubbiness |
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grimness | (noun) something hard to endure | Synonyms: asperity, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity |
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(noun) the quality of being ghastly | Synonyms: ghastliness, gruesomeness, luridness |
grimoire | (noun) a manual of black magic (for invoking spirits and demons) | - |
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imprimatur | (noun) formal and explicit approval | Synonyms: countenance, endorsement, indorsement, sanction, warrant |
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incrimination | (noun) an accusation that you are responsible for some lapse or misdeed | Synonyms: blame, inculpation |
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interim | (noun) the time between one event, process, or period and another | Synonyms: lag, meantime, meanwhile |
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lacrimation | (noun) shedding tears | Synonyms: lachrymation, tearing, watering |
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lacrimator | (noun) a gas that makes the eyes fill with tears but does not damage them; used in dispersing crowds | Synonyms: lachrymator, tear gas, teargas |
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marimba | (noun) a percussion instrument with wooden bars tuned to produce a chromatic scale and with resonators; played with small mallets | Synonyms: xylophone |
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matrimony | (noun) the ceremony or sacrament of marriage | - |
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(noun) the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce) | Synonyms: marriage, spousal relationship, union, wedlock |
megrim | (noun) a severe recurring vascular headache; occurs more frequently in women than men | Synonyms: hemicrania, migraine, sick headache |
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megrims | (noun) a state of depression | Synonyms: blue devils, blues, vapors, vapours |
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merriment | (noun) activities that are enjoyable or amusing | Synonyms: fun, playfulness |
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(noun) a gay feeling | Synonyms: gaiety |
nutriment | (noun) a source of materials to nourish the body | Synonyms: aliment, alimentation, nourishment, nutrition, sustenance, victuals |
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parimutuel | (noun) betting where winners share the total amount wagered | - |
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patrimony | (noun) an inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture) | Synonyms: birthright |
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(noun) a church endowment | - |
perimeter | (noun) the size of something as given by the distance around it | Synonyms: circumference |
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(noun) the boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary | Synonyms: border, margin |
(noun) a line enclosing a plane areas | - |
perimysium | (noun) the sheath of connective tissue that covers a bundle of muscle fibers | - |
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pilgrim | (noun) someone who journeys in foreign lands | - |
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(noun) someone who journeys to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion | - |
pilgrimage | (noun) a journey to a sacred place | Synonyms: pilgrim's journey |
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polarimeter | (noun) an optical device used to measure the rotation of the plane of vibration of polarized light | Synonyms: polariscope |
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primacy | (noun) the state of being first in importance | - |
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primality | (noun) the property of being a prime number | - |
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primaquine | (noun) synthetic antimalarial drug | - |
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primary | (noun) a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen | Synonyms: primary election |
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(noun) one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing | Synonyms: primary feather, primary quill |
(noun) coil forming the part of an electrical circuit such that changing current in it induces a current in a neighboring circuit | Synonyms: primary coil, primary winding |
(noun) (astronomy) a celestial body (especially a star) relative to other objects in orbit around it | - |
primate | (noun) any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet | - |
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(noun) a senior clergyman and dignitary | Synonyms: archpriest, hierarch, high priest, prelate |
primateship | (noun) the office of primate | - |
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primatology | (noun) the branch of zoology that studies primates | - |
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prime | (noun) a natural number that has exactly two distinct natural number divisors: 1 and itself | Synonyms: prime quantity |
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(noun) the time of maturity when power and vigor are greatest | Synonyms: prime of life |
(noun) the second canonical hour; about 6 a.m. | - |
(noun) the period of greatest prosperity or productivity | Synonyms: bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flower, flush, heyday, peak |
primer | (noun) any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant | Synonyms: fuse, fusee, fuze, fuzee, priming |
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(noun) the first or preliminary coat of paint or size applied to a surface | Synonyms: flat coat, ground, primer coat, priming, priming coat, undercoat |
(noun) an introductory textbook | - |
primidone | (noun) an anticonvulsant (trade name Mysoline) used to treat grand mal seizures and essential tremor | Synonyms: Mysoline |
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primigravida | (noun) (obstetrics) a woman who is pregnant for the first time | Synonyms: gravida I |
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priming | (noun) the act of making something ready | - |
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(noun) any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant | Synonyms: fuse, fusee, fuze, fuzee, primer |
(noun) the first or preliminary coat of paint or size applied to a surface | Synonyms: flat coat, ground, primer, primer coat, priming coat, undercoat |
primipara | (noun) (obstetrics) woman who has been delivered of a child for the first time | Synonyms: para I |
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primitive | (noun) a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms | - |
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(noun) a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived | - |
(noun) a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization | Synonyms: primitive person |
primitiveness | (noun) a wild or unrefined state | Synonyms: crudeness, crudity, primitivism, rudeness |
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primitivism | (noun) a genre characteristic of (or imitative of) primitive artists or children | - |
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(noun) a wild or unrefined state | Synonyms: crudeness, crudity, primitiveness, rudeness |
primness | (noun) exaggerated and arrogant properness | Synonyms: priggishness |
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(noun) excessive or affected modesty | Synonyms: Grundyism, prudery, prudishness |
primo | (noun) the principal part of a duet (especially a piano duet) | - |
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primogenitor | (noun) an ancestor in the direct line | Synonyms: progenitor |
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primogeniture | (noun) right of inheritance belongs exclusively to the eldest son | - |
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primordiality | (noun) The quality of being first, earliest or original. | - |
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primordium | (noun) an organ in its earliest stage of development; the foundation for subsequent development | Synonyms: anlage |
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primping | (noun) careful or finicky grooming | - |
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primrose | (noun) any of numerous short-stemmed plants of the genus Primula having tufted basal leaves and showy flowers clustered in umbels or heads | Synonyms: primula |
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primula | (noun) any of numerous short-stemmed plants of the genus Primula having tufted basal leaves and showy flowers clustered in umbels or heads | Synonyms: primrose |
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primus | (noun) the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church of Scotland | - |
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pyrimidine | (noun) a heterocyclic organic compound with a penetrating odor | - |
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(noun) any of several basic compounds derived from pyrimidine | - |
recrimination | (noun) mutual accusations | - |
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reprimand | (noun) an act or expression of criticism and censure | Synonyms: rebuke, reprehension, reproof, reproval |
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rim | (noun) the top edge of a vessel or other container | Synonyms: brim, lip |
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(noun) a projection used for strength or for attaching to another object | Synonyms: flange |
(noun) the outer part of a wheel to which the tire is attached | - |
(noun) (basketball) the hoop from which the net is suspended | - |
(noun) the shape of a raised edge of a more or less circular object | - |
rima | (noun) a narrow elongated opening or fissure between two symmetrical parts | - |
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rime | (noun) correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds) | Synonyms: rhyme |
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(noun) ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside) | Synonyms: frost, hoar, hoarfrost |
rimu | (noun) tall New Zealand timber tree | Synonyms: Dacrydium cupressinum, imou pine, red pine |
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scrim | (noun) a firm open-weave fabric used for a curtain in the theater | - |
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scrimmage | (noun) a noisy riotous fight | Synonyms: battle royal, melee |
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(noun) (American football) practice play between a football team's squads | - |
scrimshanker | (noun) a shirker | - |
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scrimshaw | (noun) a carving (or engraving) on whalebone, whale ivory, walrus tusk, etc., usually by American whalers | - |
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shrimp | (noun) small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible | - |
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(noun) any of various edible decapod crustaceans | Synonyms: prawn |
(noun) disparaging terms for small people | Synonyms: half-pint, peewee, runt |