asylum | (noun) a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person | Synonyms: insane asylum, institution, mental home, mental hospital, mental institution, psychiatric hospital |
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(noun) a shelter from danger or hardship | Synonyms: refuge, sanctuary |
decasyllable | (noun) a verse line having ten syllables | - |
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dissyllable | (noun) a word having two syllables | Synonyms: disyllable |
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disyllable | (noun) a word having two syllables | Synonyms: dissyllable |
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heptasyllable | (noun) a word or line of verse of seven syllables. | - |
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isosyllabism | (noun) (linguistics, poetry) the use of isosyllabic verse. | - |
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monosyllable | (noun) a word or utterance of one syllable | Synonyms: monosyllabic word |
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octosyllable | (noun) a verse line having eight syllables or a poem of octosyllabic lines | - |
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polysyllable | (noun) a word of more than three syllables | Synonyms: polysyllabic word |
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psylla | (noun) small active cicada-like insect with hind legs adapted for leaping; feeds on plant juices | Synonyms: jumping plant louse, psyllid |
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psyllid | (noun) small active cicada-like insect with hind legs adapted for leaping; feeds on plant juices | Synonyms: jumping plant louse, psylla |
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psyllium | (noun) plantain of Mediterranean regions whose seeds swell and become gelatinous when moist and are used as a mild laxative | Synonyms: fleawort, Plantago psyllium, Spanish psyllium |
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syllabary | (noun) a writing system whose characters represent syllables | Synonyms: syllabic script |
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syllabication | (noun) forming or dividing words into syllables | Synonyms: syllabification |
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syllabicity | (noun) the pattern of syllable formation in a particular language | - |
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syllabification | (noun) forming or dividing words into syllables | Synonyms: syllabication |
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syllable | (noun) a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme | - |
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syllabub | (noun) sweetened cream beaten with wine or liquor | Synonyms: sillabub |
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(noun) spiced hot milk with rum or wine | Synonyms: sillabub |
syllabus | (noun) an integrated course of academic studies | Synonyms: course of study, curriculum, program, programme |
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syllepsis | (noun) use of a word to govern two or more words though agreeing in number or case etc. with only one | - |
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syllogiser | (noun) logician skilled in syllogistic reasoning | Synonyms: syllogist, syllogizer |
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syllogism | (noun) deductive reasoning in which a conclusion is derived from two premises | - |
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syllogist | (noun) logician skilled in syllogistic reasoning | Synonyms: syllogiser, syllogizer |
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syllogistic | (noun) in logic, the formal analysis of logical terms and operators and the structures that make it possible to infer true conclusions from given premises. | - |
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syllogizer | (noun) logician skilled in syllogistic reasoning | Synonyms: syllogiser, syllogist |
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sylph | (noun) an elemental being believed to inhabit the air | - |
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(noun) a slender graceful young woman | - |
sylva | (noun) the forest trees growing in a country or region | Synonyms: silva |
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sylvan | (noun) a spirit that lives in or frequents the woods | Synonyms: silvan |
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sylvanite | (noun) a silver-white mineral consisting of silver gold telluride; a source of gold in Australia and America | Synonyms: graphic tellurium |
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sylvine | (noun) a mineral consisting of native potassium chloride; an important ore of potassium that is found in sedimentary beds | Synonyms: sylvite |
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sylvite | (noun) a mineral consisting of native potassium chloride; an important ore of potassium that is found in sedimentary beds | Synonyms: sylvine |
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trisyllable | (noun) a word having three syllables | - |
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