absorptance | (noun) a measure of the rate of decrease in the intensity of electromagnetic radiation (as light) as it passes through a given substance; the fraction of incident radiant energy absorbed per unit mass or thickness of an absorber | Synonyms: absorption coefficient, coefficient of absorption |
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acceptance | (noun) the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception | Synonyms: acceptation, adoption, espousal |
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(noun) the act of taking something that is offered | - |
(noun) a disposition to tolerate or accept people or situations | Synonyms: sufferance, toleration |
(noun) the mental attitude that something is believable and should be accepted as true | Synonyms: credence |
(noun) (contract law) words signifying consent to the terms of an offer (thereby creating a contract) | - |
(noun) a time draft drawn on and accepted by a bank | Synonyms: banker's acceptance |
(noun) the state of being acceptable and accepted | - |
accountancy | (noun) the occupation of maintaining and auditing records and preparing financial reports for a business | Synonyms: accounting |
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accountant | (noun) someone who maintains and audits business accounts | Synonyms: comptroller, controller |
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accountantship | (noun) the position of accountant | - |
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acetanilid | (noun) a solid odourless chemical of leaf or flake-like appearance; used in rubber accelerator, dye, and camphor synthesis; metabolised to paracetamol (acetaminophen) | Synonyms: acetanilide, phenylacetamide |
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acetanilide | (noun) a solid odourless chemical of leaf or flake-like appearance; used in rubber accelerator, dye, and camphor synthesis; metabolised to paracetamol (acetaminophen) | Synonyms: acetanilid, phenylacetamide |
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acquaintance | (noun) personal knowledge or information about someone or something | Synonyms: conversance, conversancy, familiarity |
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(noun) a person with whom you are acquainted | Synonyms: friend |
(noun) a relationship less intimate than friendship | Synonyms: acquaintanceship |
acquaintanceship | (noun) a relationship less intimate than friendship | Synonyms: acquaintance |
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acquittance | (noun) a legal document evidencing the discharge of a debt or obligation | Synonyms: release |
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adjutant | (noun) large Indian stork with a military gait | Synonyms: adjutant bird, adjutant stork, Leptoptilus dubius |
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(noun) an officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer | Synonyms: aide-de-camp, aide |
admittance | (noun) the act of admitting someone to enter | Synonyms: admission |
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(noun) the right to enter | Synonyms: access, accession, admission, entree |
anatotitan | (noun) one of the largest and most famous duck-billed dinosaurs | - |
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annuitant | (noun) the recipient of an annuity | - |
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arccotangent | (noun) the inverse function of the cotangent; the angle that has a cotangent equal to a given number | Synonyms: arc cotangent, inverse cotangent |
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arctan | (noun) the inverse function of the tangent; the angle that has a tangent equal to a given number | Synonyms: arc tangent, arctangent, inverse tangent |
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arctangent | (noun) the inverse function of the tangent; the angle that has a tangent equal to a given number | Synonyms: arc tangent, arctan, inverse tangent |
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assistance | (noun) the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose | Synonyms: aid, assist, help |
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(noun) a person or thing that is a resource that helps make something easier or possible to do | Synonyms: aid, help |
(noun) gift of money or other material help to support a person or cause | Synonyms: aid, economic aid, economic assistance, financial aid, financial assistance |
assistant | (noun) a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose | Synonyms: help, helper, supporter |
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attestant | (noun) (law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature | Synonyms: attestator, attestor, witness |
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(noun) someone who affirms or vouches for the correctness or truth or genuineness of something | Synonyms: attester |
bandstand | (noun) a platform where a (brass) band can play in the open air | Synonyms: outdoor stage, stand |
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blatancy | (noun) the property of being both obvious and offensive | - |
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botanical | (noun) a drug made from part of a plant (as the bark or root or leaves) | - |
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botanist | (noun) a biologist specializing in the study of plants | Synonyms: phytologist, plant scientist |
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botany | (noun) the branch of biology that studies plants | Synonyms: phytology |
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(noun) all the plant life in a particular region or period | Synonyms: flora, vegetation |
butane | (noun) occurs in natural gas; used in the manufacture of rubber and fuels | - |
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butanol | (noun) a flammable alcohol derived from butanes and used for solvents | Synonyms: butyl alcohol |
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butanone | (noun) colorless soluble flammable liquid ketone used as a solvent for resins and as a paint remover and in lacquers and cements and adhesives and cleaning fluids and celluloid | Synonyms: methyl ethyl ketone |
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bystander | (noun) a nonparticipant spectator | - |
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cabstand | (noun) a place where taxis park while awaiting customers | Synonyms: taxi rank, taxistand |
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caftan | (noun) a (cotton or silk) cloak with full sleeves and sash reaching down to the ankles; worn by men in the Levant | Synonyms: kaftan |
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(noun) a woman's dress style that imitates the caftan cloaks worn by men in the Near East | Synonyms: kaftan |
capacitance | (noun) an electrical device characterized by its capacity to store an electric charge | Synonyms: capacitor, condenser, electrical condenser |
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(noun) an electrical phenomenon whereby an electric charge is stored | Synonyms: capacity, electrical capacity |
capstan | (noun) a windlass rotated in a horizontal plane around a vertical axis; used on ships for weighing anchor or raising heavy sails | - |
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castanets | (noun) (used in the plural) a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance | Synonyms: bones, clappers, finger cymbals |
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catananche | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Catananche having long-stalked heads of blue or yellow flowers | - |
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charlatan | (noun) a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes | Synonyms: mountebank |
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charlatanism | (noun) the dishonesty of a charlatan | Synonyms: quackery |
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chemoattractant | (noun) a substance inducing positive chemotaxis in motile cells. | - |
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circumstance | (noun) information that should be kept in mind when making a decision | Synonyms: condition, consideration |
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(noun) formal ceremony about important occasions | - |
(noun) a condition that accompanies or influences some event or activity | - |
(noun) the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event | Synonyms: context, setting |
circumstances | (noun) a person's financial situation (good or bad) | - |
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(noun) your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you) | Synonyms: destiny, fate, fortune, lot, luck, portion |
coltan | (noun) a valuable black mineral combining niobite and tantalite; used in cell phones and computer chips | Synonyms: columbite-tantalite |
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combatant | (noun) someone who fights (or is fighting) | Synonyms: battler, belligerent, fighter, scrapper |
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concomitance | (noun) occurrence or existence together or in connection with one another | - |
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concomitant | (noun) an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another | Synonyms: accompaniment, attendant, co-occurrence |
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conductance | (noun) a material's capacity to conduct electricity; measured as the reciprocal of electrical resistance | - |
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constancy | (noun) the quality of being enduring and free from change or variation | Synonyms: stability |
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(noun) faithfulness and dependability in personal attachments (especially sexual fidelity) | - |
(noun) (psychology) the tendency for perceived objects to give rise to very similar perceptual experiences in spite of wide variations in the conditions of observation | Synonyms: perceptual constancy |
constant | (noun) a quantity that does not vary | Synonyms: constant quantity, invariable |
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(noun) a number representing a quantity assumed to have a fixed value in a specified mathematical context | - |
constantan | (noun) an alloy of copper and nickel with high electrical resistance and a low temperature coefficient; used as resistance wire | Synonyms: Eureka |
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consubstantiation | (noun) the doctrine of the High Anglican Church that after the consecration of the Eucharist the substance of the body and blood of Christ coexists with the substance of the consecrated bread and wine | - |
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consultancy | (noun) the practice of giving expert advice within a particular field | - |
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consultant | (noun) an expert who gives advice | Synonyms: adviser, advisor |
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contestant | (noun) a person who participates in competitions | - |
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(noun) a person who dissents from some established policy | Synonyms: dissenter, dissident, objector, protester |
cosmopolitan | (noun) a sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries | Synonyms: cosmopolite |
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cosmopolitanity | (noun) a state or quality of being cosmopolitan | - |
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cotan | (noun) ratio of the adjacent to the opposite side of a right-angled triangle | Synonyms: cotangent |
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cotangent | (noun) ratio of the adjacent to the opposite side of a right-angled triangle | Synonyms: cotan |
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counterirritant | (noun) a medicine applied locally to produce superficial inflammation in order to reduce deeper inflammation | - |
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cryptanalysis | (noun) the science of analyzing and deciphering codes and ciphers and cryptograms | Synonyms: cryptanalytics, cryptography, cryptology |
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cryptanalyst | (noun) decoder skilled in the analysis of codes and cryptograms | Synonyms: cryptographer, cryptologist |
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cryptanalytics | (noun) the science of analyzing and deciphering codes and ciphers and cryptograms | Synonyms: cryptanalysis, cryptography, cryptology |
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debutante | (noun) a young woman making her debut into society | Synonyms: deb |
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decongestant | (noun) a drug that decreases pulmonary congestion | - |
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dilettante | (noun) an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge | Synonyms: dabbler, sciolist |
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dilutant | (noun) a diluting agent | Synonyms: diluent, thinner |
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disentanglement | (noun) the act of releasing from a snarled or tangled condition | Synonyms: extrication, unsnarling, untangling |
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disentangler | (noun) a person who removes tangles; someone who takes something out of a tangled state | Synonyms: unraveler, unraveller |
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disinfectant | (noun) an agent (as heat or radiation or a chemical) that destroys microorganisms that might carry disease | Synonyms: antimicrobial, antimicrobic, germicide |
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disinheritance | (noun) the act by a donor that terminates the right of a person to inherit | - |
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disputant | (noun) a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy | Synonyms: controversialist, eristic |
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distance | (noun) the property created by the space between two objects or points | - |
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(noun) size of the gap between two places | Synonyms: length |
(noun) indifference by personal withdrawal | Synonyms: aloofness |
(noun) a distant region | - |
(noun) the interval between two times | Synonyms: space |
(noun) a remote point in time | - |
dittany | (noun) Eurasian perennial herb with white flowers that emit flammable vapor in hot weather | Synonyms: burning bush, Dictamnus alba, fraxinella, gas plant |
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elastance | (noun) The capacity of a dielectric for opposing an electric charge | Synonyms: electrical elastance |
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entanglement | (noun) an intricate trap that entangles or ensnares its victim | Synonyms: web |
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etanercept | (noun) a genetically engineered anti-TNF compound (trade name Enbrel) consisting of receptors that bind TNF; it is injected twice a week in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis | Synonyms: Enbrel |
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excitant | (noun) a drug that temporarily quickens some vital process | Synonyms: stimulant, stimulant drug |
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executant | (noun) a performer (usually of musical works) | - |
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exorbitance | (noun) excessive excess | Synonyms: outrageousness |
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expectancy | (noun) something expected (as on the basis of a norm) | Synonyms: anticipation |
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(noun) an expectation | Synonyms: anticipation |
extractant | (noun) an immiscible liquid used to extract a substance from another liquid. | - |
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fantan | (noun) a Chinese gambling game; a random number of counters are placed under a bowl and you gamble on how many will be left (0, 1, 2, or 3 modulo 4) | Synonyms: fan tan |
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(noun) a card game in which you play your sevens and other cards in sequence in the same suit as the sevens; you win if you are the first to use all your cards | Synonyms: parliament, sevens |
fontanel | (noun) any membranous gap between the bones of the cranium in an infant or fetus | Synonyms: fontanelle, soft spot |
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fontanelle | (noun) any membranous gap between the bones of the cranium in an infant or fetus | Synonyms: fontanel, soft spot |
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gametangium | (noun) cell or organ in which gametes develop | - |
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gitana | (noun) a Spanish female Gypsy | - |
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gitano | (noun) a Spanish male Gypsy | - |
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grandstand | (noun) a stand at a racecourse or stadium consisting of tiers with rows of individual seats that are under a protective roof | Synonyms: covered stand |
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(noun) the audience at a stadium or racetrack | - |
grandstander | (noun) someone who performs with an eye to the applause from spectators in the grandstand | - |
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habitant | (noun) a person who inhabits a particular place | Synonyms: denizen, dweller, indweller, inhabitant |
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hallstand | (noun) a piece of furniture where coats and hats and umbrellas can be hung; usually has a mirror | - |
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handstand | (noun) the act of supporting yourself by your hands alone in an upside down position | - |
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happenstance | (noun) an event that might have been arranged although it was really accidental | Synonyms: coincidence |
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harmattan | (noun) a dusty wind from the Sahara that blows toward the western coast of Africa during the winter | - |
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headstand | (noun) an acrobatic feat in which a person balances on the head (usually with the help of the hands) | - |
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heptane | (noun) a colorless volatile highly flammable liquid obtained from petroleum and used as an anesthetic or a solvent or in determining octane ratings | - |
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hesitance | (noun) a feeling of diffidence and indecision about doing something | Synonyms: hesitancy |
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hesitancy | (noun) a certain degree of unwillingness | Synonyms: disinclination, hesitation, indisposition, reluctance |
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(noun) a feeling of diffidence and indecision about doing something | Synonyms: hesitance |
humectant | (noun) any substance that is added to another substance to keep it moist | - |
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importance | (noun) the quality of being important and worthy of note | - |
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(noun) a prominent status | Synonyms: grandness |
inconstancy | (noun) the quality of being changeable and variable | Synonyms: changefulness |
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(noun) unfaithfulness by virtue of being unreliable or treacherous | Synonyms: faithlessness, falseness, fickleness |
inductance | (noun) an electrical device (typically a conducting coil) that introduces inductance into a circuit | Synonyms: inductor |
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(noun) an electrical phenomenon whereby an electromotive force (EMF) is generated in a closed circuit by a change in the flow of current | Synonyms: induction |