adventurism | (noun) recklessness in politics or foreign affairs | - |
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agriculturist | (noun) someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil | Synonyms: agriculturalist, cultivator, grower, raiser |
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algorism | (noun) computation with Arabic figures | - |
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(noun) the Arabic (or decimal) system of numeration | - |
allegoriser | (noun) someone who communicates in allegories | Synonyms: allegorizer |
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allomerism | (noun) (chemistry) variability in chemical composition without variation in crystalline form | - |
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amateurishness | (noun) something that demonstrates a lack of professional competency | - |
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amateurism | (noun) the conviction that people should participate in sports as a hobby (for the fun of it) rather than for money | - |
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ambergris | (noun) waxy substance secreted by the sperm whale and found floating at sea or washed ashore; used in perfume | - |
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amorist | (noun) one dedicated to love and lovemaking especially one who writes about love | - |
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aneurism | (noun) a cardiovascular disease characterized by a saclike widening of an artery resulting from weakening of the artery wall | Synonyms: aneurysm |
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angiopteris | (noun) highly variable species of very large primitive ferns of the Pacific tropical areas with high rainfall | Synonyms: Angiopteris evecta, giant fern |
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anthropocentrism | (noun) an inclination to evaluate reality exclusively in terms of human values | Synonyms: anthropocentricity |
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aorist | (noun) a verb tense in some languages (classical Greek and Sanskrit) expressing action (especially past action) without indicating its completion or continuation | - |
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aphorism | (noun) a short pithy instructive saying | Synonyms: apophthegm, apothegm |
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aphorist | (noun) someone who formulates aphorisms or who repeats aphorisms | - |
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apiarist | (noun) a farmer who keeps bees for their honey | Synonyms: apiculturist, beekeeper |
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apiculturist | (noun) a farmer who keeps bees for their honey | Synonyms: apiarist, beekeeper |
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apprisal | (noun) informing by words | Synonyms: notification, telling |
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apriorism | (noun) belief in a priori principles or reasoning; specifically : the doctrine that knowledge rests upon principles that are self-evident to reason or are presupposed by experience in general. | - |
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arboriculturist | (noun) someone trained in forestry | Synonyms: forester, tree farmer |
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arborist | (noun) a specialist in treating damaged trees | Synonyms: tree surgeon |
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arishth | (noun) large semi-evergreen tree of the East Indies; trunk exudes a tenacious gum; bitter bark used as a tonic; seeds yield an aromatic oil; sometimes placed in genus Melia | Synonyms: Azadirachta indica, margosa, Melia Azadirachta, neem, neem tree, nim tree |
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arista | (noun) bristlelike process near the tip of the antenna of certain flies | - |
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aristocracy | (noun) a privileged class holding hereditary titles | Synonyms: nobility |
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(noun) the most powerful members of a society | Synonyms: gentry |
aristocrat | (noun) a member of the aristocracy | Synonyms: blue blood, patrician |
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aristocratism | (noun) the principles, practices or characteristics of aristocracy. | - |
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asterisk | (noun) a star-shaped character * used in printing | Synonyms: star |
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asterism | (noun) (astronomy) a cluster of stars (or a small constellation) | - |
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(noun) (mineralogy) a star-shaped figure with six rays that is seen in some crystal structures under reflected or transmitted light | - |
auriscope | (noun) medical instrument consisting of a magnifying lens and light; used for examining the external ear (the auditory meatus and especially the tympanic membrane) | Synonyms: auroscope, otoscope |
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authorisation | (noun) the act of conferring legality or sanction or formal warrant | Synonyms: authorization, empowerment |
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(noun) the power or right to give orders or make decisions | Synonyms: authority, authorization, dominance, potency, say-so |
(noun) official permission or approval | Synonyms: authority, authorization, sanction |
(noun) a document giving an official instruction or command | Synonyms: authorization, mandate |
authoriser | (noun) an authority who authorizes (people or actions) | Synonyms: authorizer |
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barbarisation | (noun) an act that makes people primitive and uncivilized | Synonyms: barbarization |
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barbarism | (noun) a brutal barbarous savage act | Synonyms: barbarity, brutality, savagery |
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barrister | (noun) a British or Canadian lawyer who speaks in the higher courts of law on behalf of either the defense or prosecution | - |
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bassarisk | (noun) raccoon-like omnivorous mammal of Mexico and the southwestern United States having a long bushy tail with black and white rings | Synonyms: Bassariscus astutus, cacomistle, cacomixle, civet cat, coon cat, miner's cat, raccoon fox, ring-tailed cat, ringtail |
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behaviorism | (noun) an approach to psychology that emphasizes observable measurable behavior | Synonyms: behavioristic psychology, behaviourism, behaviouristic psychology |
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behaviorist | (noun) a psychologist who subscribes to behaviorism | Synonyms: behaviourist |
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behaviourism | (noun) an approach to psychology that emphasizes observable measurable behavior | Synonyms: behaviorism, behavioristic psychology, behaviouristic psychology |
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behaviourist | (noun) a psychologist who subscribes to behaviorism | Synonyms: behaviorist |
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bioterrorism | (noun) terrorism using the weapons of biological warfare | Synonyms: biological terrorism |
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biprism | (noun) an optical device for obtaining interference fringes | - |
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blepharism | (noun) condition in which a person blinks continuously | - |
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boorishness | (noun) inelegance by virtue of being an uncouth boor | Synonyms: uncouthness |
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(noun) the manner of a rude or insensitive person | - |
bowdlerisation | (noun) the act of deleting or modifying all passages considered to be indecent | Synonyms: bowdlerization |
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(noun) written material that has been bowdlerized | Synonyms: bowdlerization |
bowdleriser | (noun) a person who edits a text by removing obscene or offensive words or passages | Synonyms: bowdlerizer, expurgator |
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brisance | (noun) the shattering or crushing effect of a sudden release of energy as in an explosion | - |
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brisket | (noun) a cut of meat from the breast or lower chest especially of beef | - |
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briskness | (noun) liveliness and eagerness | Synonyms: alacrity, smartness |
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brisling | (noun) small herring processed like a sardine | Synonyms: Clupea sprattus, sprat |
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(noun) small fatty European fish; usually smoked or canned like sardines | Synonyms: sprat |
bristle | (noun) a stiff hair | - |
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(noun) a stiff fiber (coarse hair or filament); natural or synthetic | - |
bristlegrass | (noun) grasses of grasslands and woodlands having large gracefully arching spikes with long bristles beneath each spikelet | Synonyms: bristle grass |
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bristletail | (noun) small wingless insect with a long bristlelike tail | - |
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bristliness | (noun) the quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines | Synonyms: prickliness, spininess, thorniness |
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calorisator | (noun) an apparatus used in beet-sugar factories to heat the juice in order to aid the diffusion. | Synonyms: calorizator |
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caparison | (noun) stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse | Synonyms: housing, trapping |
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careerism | (noun) the practice of advancing your career at the expense of your personal integrity | - |
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careerist | (noun) a professional who is intent on furthering his or her career by any possible means and often at the expense of their own integrity | - |
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caricaturist | (noun) someone who parodies in an exaggerated manner | - |
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carissa | (noun) a shrub of the genus Carissa having fragrant white flowers and plumlike red to purple-black fruits | - |
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categorisation | (noun) the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type | Synonyms: assortment, categorization, classification, compartmentalisation, compartmentalization |
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(noun) the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories | Synonyms: categorization, classification, sorting |
(noun) a group of people or things arranged by class or category | Synonyms: categorization, classification |
catheterisation | (noun) the operation of introducing a catheter into the body | Synonyms: catheterization |
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cauterisation | (noun) the act of coagulating blood and destroying tissue with a hot iron or caustic agent or by freezing | Synonyms: cauterization, cautery |
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centrism | (noun) a political philosophy of avoiding the extremes of left and right by taking a moderate position or course of action | Synonyms: moderatism |
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centrist | (noun) a person who takes a position in the political center | Synonyms: middle of the roader, moderate, moderationist |
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cerise | (noun) a red the color of ripe cherries | Synonyms: cherry, cherry red |
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characterisation | (noun) a graphic or vivid verbal description | Synonyms: characterization, delineation, depiction, picture, word-painting, word picture |
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(noun) the act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features | Synonyms: characterization |
characteristic | (noun) a distinguishing quality; a feature that can be used to identify something | - |
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(noun) any measurable property of a device measured under closely specified conditions | Synonyms: device characteristic |
(noun) a prominent attribute or aspect of something | Synonyms: feature |
(noun) the integer part (positive or negative) of the representation of a logarithm; in the expression log 643 = 2.808 the characteristic is 2 | - |
characteristicness | (noun) The quality or state of being a distinguishing feature of a person or thing. | - |
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charisma | (noun) a personal attractiveness or interestingness that enables you to influence others | Synonyms: personal appeal, personal magnetism |
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chorister | (noun) a singer in a choir | - |
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chrism | (noun) a consecrated ointment consisting of a mixture of oil and balsam | Synonyms: chrisom, holy oil, sacramental oil |
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chrisom | (noun) a consecrated ointment consisting of a mixture of oil and balsam | Synonyms: chrism, holy oil, sacramental oil |
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christ | (noun) any expected deliverer | Synonyms: messiah |
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christella | (noun) any of several tropical ferns of the genus Christella having thin brittle fronds | - |
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christening | (noun) giving a Christian name at baptism | - |
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circularisation | (noun) circulating printed notices as a means of advertising | Synonyms: circularization |
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clerisy | (noun) an educated and intellectual elite | Synonyms: intelligentsia |
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clitoris | (noun) a female sexual organ homologous to the penis | Synonyms: button, clit |
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colorist | (noun) a painter able to achieve special effects with color | - |
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comparison | (noun) the act of examining resemblances | Synonyms: comparing |
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(noun) qualities that are comparable | Synonyms: comparability, compare, equivalence |
(noun) relation based on similarities and differences | - |
consumerism | (noun) a movement advocating greater protection of the interests of consumers | - |
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(noun) the theory that an increasing consumption of goods is economically beneficial | - |
counterterrorism | (noun) a strategy intended to prevent or counter terrorism | - |
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counterterrorist | (noun) someone who attempts to prevent terrorism | - |
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crisis | (noun) a crucial stage or turning point in the course of something | - |
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(noun) an unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty | - |
crisp | (noun) a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat | Synonyms: chip, potato chip, Saratoga chip |
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crispiness | (noun) firm but easily broken | Synonyms: brittleness, crispness |
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crispness | (noun) firm but easily broken | Synonyms: brittleness, crispiness |
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(noun) a pleasing firmness and freshness | - |
(noun) an expressive style that is direct and to the point | - |
crisscross | (noun) a marking that consists of lines that cross each other | Synonyms: cross, mark |
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cristal | (noun) street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine | Synonyms: Adam, disco biscuit, ecstasy, go, hug drug, X, XTC |
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cristobalite | (noun) a white mineral consisting of silica; found in volcanic rocks | - |
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debris | (noun) the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up | Synonyms: detritus, dust, junk, rubble |
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denturist | (noun) someone who makes dental appliances (bridges and dentures) | Synonyms: dental technician |
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depolarisation | (noun) a loss of polarity or polarization | Synonyms: depolarization |
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derision | (noun) the act of deriding or treating with contempt | Synonyms: ridicule |
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(noun) contemptuous laughter | - |
derris | (noun) any of various usually woody vines of the genus Derris of tropical Asia whose roots yield the insecticide rotenone; several are sources of native fish and arrow poisons | - |
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diarist | (noun) someone who keeps a diary or journal | Synonyms: diary keeper, journalist |
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econometrist | (noun) an economist who uses statistical and mathematical methods | Synonyms: econometrician |
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ecoterrorism | (noun) violence carried out to further the political or social objectives of the environmentalists | Synonyms: eco-warfare, ecological terrorism, ecological warfare |
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ecotourism | (noun) tourism to exotic or threatened ecosystems to observe wildlife or to help preserve nature | - |
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egocentrism | (noun) concern for your own interests and welfare | Synonyms: egoism, self-centeredness, self-concern, self-interest |
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