acetate | (noun) a fabric made from fibers of cellulose acetate | Synonyms: acetate rayon |
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(noun) a salt or ester of acetic acid | Synonyms: ethanoate |
apostate | (noun) a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc. | Synonyms: deserter, ratter, recreant, renegade, turncoat |
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capitate | (noun) the wrist bone with a rounded head shape that articulates with the 3rd metacarpus | Synonyms: capitate bone, os capitatum |
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dictate | (noun) a guiding principle | - |
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(noun) an authoritative rule | - |
edentate | (noun) primitive terrestrial mammal with few if any teeth; of tropical Central America and South America | - |
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estate | (noun) a major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country (especially in the United Kingdom) and formerly possessing distinct political rights | Synonyms: estate of the realm, the three estates |
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(noun) extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use | Synonyms: acres, demesne, land, landed estate |
(noun) everything you own; all of your assets (whether real property or personal property) and liabilities | - |
hesitater | (noun) one who hesitates (usually out of fear) | Synonyms: hesitator, vacillator, waverer |
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interstate | (noun) one of the system of highways linking major cities in the 48 contiguous states of the United States | Synonyms: interstate highway |
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lactate | (noun) a salt or ester of lactic acid | - |
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mellitate | (noun) a salt of mellitic acid. | - |
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misstatement | (noun) a statement that contains a mistake | - |
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overstatement | (noun) making to seem more important than it really is | Synonyms: exaggeration, magnification |
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oxalacetate | (noun) a salt or ester of oxalacetic acid | Synonyms: oxaloacetate |
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oxaloacetate | (noun) a salt or ester of oxalacetic acid | Synonyms: oxalacetate |
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potentate | (noun) a ruler who is unconstrained by law | Synonyms: dictator |
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precipitate | (noun) a precipitated solid substance in suspension or after settling or filtering | - |
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precipitateness | (noun) the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning | Synonyms: abruptness, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitousness, suddenness |
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prostate | (noun) a firm partly muscular chestnut sized gland in males at the neck of the urethra; produces a viscid secretion that is the fluid part of semen | Synonyms: prostate gland |
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prostatectomy | (noun) surgical removal of part or all of the prostate gland | - |
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reinstatement | (noun) the act of restoring someone to a previous position | - |
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(noun) the condition of being reinstated | - |
restatement | (noun) a revised statement | - |
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state | (noun) the way something is with respect to its main attributes | - |
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(noun) a politically organized body of people under a single government | Synonyms: body politic, commonwealth, country, land, nation, res publica |
(noun) the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state | - |
(noun) the territory occupied by a nation | Synonyms: country, land |
(noun) the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation | Synonyms: province |
(noun) a state of depression or agitation | - |
(noun) (chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container) | Synonyms: state of matter |
statecraft | (noun) wisdom in the management of public affairs | Synonyms: diplomacy, statesmanship |
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stateliness | (noun) an elaborate manner of doing something | - |
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(noun) impressiveness in scale or proportion | Synonyms: loftiness, majesty |
statement | (noun) a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc | - |
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(noun) a document showing credits and debits | Synonyms: financial statement |
(noun) a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true | Synonyms: argument |
(noun) (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program | Synonyms: command, instruction, program line |
(noun) (music) the presentation of a musical theme | - |
(noun) a nonverbal message | - |
(noun) the act of affirming or asserting or stating something | Synonyms: affirmation, assertion |
stater | (noun) a resident of a particular state or group of states | - |
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(noun) any of the various silver or gold coins of ancient Greece | - |
stateroom | (noun) a guest cabin | - |
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statesman | (noun) a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs | - |
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statesmanship | (noun) wisdom in the management of public affairs | Synonyms: diplomacy, statecraft |
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stateswoman | (noun) a woman statesman | - |
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tater | (noun) an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland | Synonyms: Irish potato, murphy, potato, spud, white potato |
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testate | (noun) a person who makes a will | Synonyms: testator |
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tomtate | (noun) found off the West Indies and Florida | Synonyms: Haemulon aurolineatum |
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triacetate | (noun) cellulose acetate that is relatively slow to burn; used instead of celluloid for motion-picture film | Synonyms: cellulose triacetate |
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tungstate | (noun) a salt of tungstic acid | - |
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understatement | (noun) a statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been said | - |
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