afternoon | (noun) a conventional expression of greeting or farewell, used to wish someone a good afternoon | Synonyms: good afternoon |
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(noun) the part of the day between noon and evening | - |
alternate | (noun) someone who takes the place of another person | Synonyms: replacement, surrogate |
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alternation | (noun) successive change from one thing or state to another and back again | - |
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alternative | (noun) one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen | Synonyms: choice, option |
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alternator | (noun) an old term for an electric generator that produces alternating current (especially in automobiles) | - |
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bittern | (noun) relatively small compact tawny-brown heron with nocturnal habits and a booming cry; found in marshes | - |
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bitterness | (noun) the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste | Synonyms: bitter |
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(noun) a rough and bitter manner | Synonyms: acerbity, acrimony, jaundice, tartness, thorniness |
(noun) the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: bitter |
(noun) a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will | Synonyms: gall, rancor, rancour, resentment |
bitternut | (noun) hickory of the eastern United States having a leaves with 7 or 9 leaflets and thin-shelled very bitter nuts | Synonyms: bitter hickory, bitter pignut, bitternut hickory, Carya cordiformis, swamp hickory |
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butternut | (noun) oily egg-shaped nut of an American tree of the walnut family | - |
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(noun) North American walnut tree having light-brown wood and edible nuts; source of a light-brown dye | Synonyms: butternut tree, Juglans cinerea, white walnut |
cistern | (noun) an artificial reservoir for storing liquids; especially an underground tank for storing rainwater | - |
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(noun) a tank that holds the water used to flush a toilet | Synonyms: water tank |
(noun) a sac or cavity containing fluid especially lymph or cerebrospinal fluid | Synonyms: cisterna |
cisterna | (noun) a sac or cavity containing fluid especially lymph or cerebrospinal fluid | Synonyms: cistern |
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cittern | (noun) a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings | Synonyms: cither, cithern, citole, gittern |
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consternation | (noun) fear resulting from the awareness of danger | Synonyms: alarm, dismay |
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easterner | (noun) an inhabitant of an eastern area; especially of the U.S. | - |
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eternity | (noun) a state of eternal existence believed in some religions to characterize the afterlife | Synonyms: timeless existence, timelessness |
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(noun) time without end | Synonyms: infinity |
(noun) a seemingly endless time interval (waiting) | - |
extern | (noun) a nonresident doctor or medical student; connected with a hospital but not living there | Synonyms: medical extern |
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external | (noun) outward features | - |
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externalisation | (noun) embodying in an outward form | Synonyms: exteriorisation, exteriorization, externalization |
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(noun) attributing to outside causes | Synonyms: externalization |
externality | (noun) the quality or state of being outside or directed toward or relating to the outside or exterior | Synonyms: outwardness |
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externalization | (noun) embodying in an outward form | Synonyms: exteriorisation, exteriorization, externalisation |
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(noun) attributing to outside causes | Synonyms: externalisation |
fraternisation | (noun) associating with others in a brotherly or friendly way; especially with an enemy | Synonyms: fraternization |
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fraternity | (noun) people engaged in a particular occupation | Synonyms: brotherhood, sodality |
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(noun) a social club for male undergraduates | Synonyms: frat |
fraternization | (noun) associating with others in a brotherly or friendly way; especially with an enemy | Synonyms: fraternisation |
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gittern | (noun) a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings | Synonyms: cither, cithern, citole, cittern |
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intern | (noun) an advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience | Synonyms: houseman, interne, medical intern |
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internalisation | (noun) learning (of values or attitudes etc.) that is incorporated within yourself | Synonyms: incorporation, internalization |
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internality | (noun) preoccupation with what concerns human inner nature (especially ethical or ideological values) | Synonyms: inwardness |
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internalization | (noun) learning (of values or attitudes etc.) that is incorporated within yourself | Synonyms: incorporation, internalisation |
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internationalisation | (noun) the act of bringing something under international control | Synonyms: internationalization |
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internationalism | (noun) quality of being international in scope | Synonyms: internationality |
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(noun) the doctrine that nations should cooperate because their common interests are more important than their differences | - |
internationalist | (noun) an advocate of internationalism | - |
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(noun) a member of a socialist or communist international | - |
internationality | (noun) quality of being international in scope | Synonyms: internationalism |
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internationalization | (noun) the act of bringing something under international control | Synonyms: internationalisation |
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interne | (noun) an advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience | Synonyms: houseman, intern, medical intern |
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internee | (noun) a person who is interned | - |
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internet | (noun) a computer network consisting of a worldwide network of computer networks that use the TCP/IP network protocols to facilitate data transmission and exchange | Synonyms: cyberspace, net |
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internist | (noun) a specialist in internal medicine | - |
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internment | (noun) the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison) | Synonyms: imprisonment |
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(noun) placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law | Synonyms: impounding, impoundment, poundage |
(noun) confinement during wartime | - |
internode | (noun) a segment of a stem between two nodes | - |
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internship | (noun) the position of a medical intern | - |
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internuncio | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) a diplomatic representative of the Pope ranking below a nuncio | - |
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lantern | (noun) light in a transparent protective case | - |
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lanternfish | (noun) small fish having rows of luminous organs along each side; some surface at night | - |
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lectern | (noun) desk or stand with a slanted top used to hold a text at the proper height for a lecturer | Synonyms: reading desk |
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maternalism | (noun) motherly care; behavior characteristic of a mother; the practice of acting as a mother does toward her children | - |
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(noun) the quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother | Synonyms: maternal quality, maternity, motherliness |
maternity | (noun) the quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother | Synonyms: maternal quality, maternalism, motherliness |
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(noun) the kinship relation between an offspring and the mother | Synonyms: motherhood |
(noun) the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus | Synonyms: gestation, pregnancy |
midafternoon | (noun) the middle part of the afternoon | - |
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pastern | (noun) the part between the fetlock and the hoof | Synonyms: fetter bone |
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paternalism | (noun) the attitude (of a person or a government) that subordinates should be controlled in a fatherly way for their own good | - |
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paternity | (noun) the act of initiating a new idea or theory or writing | Synonyms: authorship |
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(noun) the kinship relation between an offspring and the father | Synonyms: fatherhood |
(noun) the state of being a father | - |
paternoster | (noun) a type of lift having a chain of open compartments that move continually in an endless loop so that (agile) passengers can step on or off at each floor | - |
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pattern | (noun) a customary way of operation or behavior | Synonyms: practice |
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(noun) a decorative or artistic work | Synonyms: design, figure |
(noun) a perceptual structure | Synonyms: form, shape |
(noun) a model considered worthy of imitation | - |
(noun) something intended as a guide for making something else | Synonyms: blueprint, design |
(noun) something regarded as a normative example | Synonyms: convention, formula, normal, rule |
(noun) graphical representation (in polar or Cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle | Synonyms: radiation diagram, radiation pattern |
(noun) the path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport | Synonyms: approach pattern, traffic pattern |
patternmaker | (noun) someone who makes patterns (as for sewing or carpentry or metalworking) | - |
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postern | (noun) a small gate in the rear of a fort or castle | - |
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quartern | (noun) one of four equal parts | Synonyms: fourth, fourth part, one-fourth, one-quarter, quarter, twenty-five percent |
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quatern | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one | Synonyms: 4, four, foursome, IV, Little Joe, quadruplet, quartet, quaternary, quaternion, quaternity, tetrad |
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quaternary | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one | Synonyms: 4, four, foursome, IV, Little Joe, quadruplet, quartet, quatern, quaternion, quaternity, tetrad |
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quaternion | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one | Synonyms: 4, four, foursome, IV, Little Joe, quadruplet, quartet, quatern, quaternary, quaternity, tetrad |
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quaternity | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one | Synonyms: 4, four, foursome, IV, Little Joe, quadruplet, quartet, quatern, quaternary, quaternion, tetrad |
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sempiternity | (noun) the property of being perpetual (seemingly ceaseless) | Synonyms: perpetuity |
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slattern | (noun) a dirty untidy woman | Synonyms: slovenly woman, slut, trollop |
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(noun) a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets | Synonyms: floozie, floozy, hooker, hustler, street girl, streetwalker |
slatternliness | (noun) in the manner of a slattern | Synonyms: sluttishness |
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stern | (noun) the rear part of a ship | Synonyms: after part, poop, quarter, tail |
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(noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
sternness | (noun) uncompromising resolution | Synonyms: strictness |
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(noun) the quality (as of scenery) being grim and gloomy and forbidding | - |
sternocleidomastoid | (noun) one of two thick muscles running from the sternum and clavicle to the mastoid and occipital bone; turns head obliquely to the opposite side; when acting together they flex the neck and extend the head | Synonyms: musculus sternocleidomastoideus, sternocleido mastoideus, sternocleidomastoid muscle |
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sternpost | (noun) (nautical) the principal upright timber at the stern of a vessel | - |
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sternum | (noun) the flat bone that articulates with the clavicles and the first seven pairs of ribs | Synonyms: breastbone |
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sternutation | (noun) a symptom consisting of the involuntary expulsion of air from the nose | Synonyms: sneeze, sneezing |
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sternutator | (noun) a chemical substance that causes sneezing and coughing and crying | Synonyms: sternutatory |
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sternutatory | (noun) a chemical substance that causes sneezing and coughing and crying | Synonyms: sternutator |
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sternwheeler | (noun) a paddle steamer having the paddle wheel in the stern | - |
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subaltern | (noun) a British commissioned army officer below the rank of captain | - |
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tern | (noun) small slender gull having narrow wings and a forked tail | - |
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ternary | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one | Synonyms: 3, deuce-ace, III, leash, tercet, ternion, terzetto, three, threesome, tierce, trey, triad, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troika |
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ternion | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one | Synonyms: 3, deuce-ace, III, leash, tercet, ternary, terzetto, three, threesome, tierce, trey, triad, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troika |
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utterness | (noun) the quality of being complete or utter or extreme | Synonyms: absoluteness, starkness |
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western | (noun) a sandwich made from a western omelet | Synonyms: western sandwich |
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westerner | (noun) an inhabitant of a western area; especially of the U.S. | - |
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