abettal | (noun) the verbal act of urging on | Synonyms: abetment, instigation |
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acquittal | (noun) a judgment of not guilty | - |
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acquittance | (noun) a legal document evidencing the discharge of a debt or obligation | Synonyms: release |
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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 |
arietta | (noun) a short aria | Synonyms: short aria |
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attache | (noun) a shallow and rectangular briefcase | Synonyms: attache case |
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(noun) a specialist assigned to the staff of a diplomatic mission | - |
attachment | (noun) the act of fastening things together | Synonyms: fastening |
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(noun) the act of attaching or affixing something | Synonyms: affixation |
(noun) faithful support for a cause or political party or religion | Synonyms: adherence, adhesion |
(noun) a supplementary part or accessory | - |
(noun) a connection that fastens things together | Synonyms: bond |
(noun) a writ authorizing the seizure of property that may be needed for the payment of a judgment in a judicial proceeding | - |
(noun) a feeling of affection for a person or an institution | Synonyms: fond regard |
attack | (noun) (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons) | Synonyms: onrush, onset, onslaught |
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(noun) a decisive manner of beginning a musical tone or phrase | Synonyms: tone-beginning |
(noun) the act of attacking | Synonyms: attempt |
(noun) ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation | Synonyms: approach, plan of attack |
(noun) an offensive move in a sport or game | - |
(noun) strong criticism | - |
(noun) intense adverse criticism | Synonyms: blast, fire, flack, flak |
(noun) the onset of a corrosive or destructive process (as by a chemical agent) | - |
(noun) a sudden occurrence of an uncontrollable condition | - |
attacker | (noun) someone who attacks | Synonyms: aggressor, assailant, assaulter |
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attainability | (noun) the state of being achievable | Synonyms: achievability, attainableness |
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attainableness | (noun) the state of being achievable | Synonyms: achievability, attainability |
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attainder | (noun) cancellation of civil rights | Synonyms: civil death |
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attainment | (noun) the act of achieving an aim | - |
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(noun) arrival at a new stage | - |
(noun) an ability that has been acquired by training | Synonyms: accomplishment, acquirement, acquisition, skill |
attar | (noun) essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers | Synonyms: atar, athar, ottar |
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battalion | (noun) an army unit usually consisting of a headquarters and three or more companies | - |
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(noun) a large indefinite quantity | Synonyms: large number, multitude, pack, plurality |
berretta | (noun) a stiff cap with ridges across the crown; worn by Roman Catholic clergy | Synonyms: biretta, birretta |
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bioattack | (noun) the use of bacteria or viruses or toxins to destroy men and animals or food | Synonyms: biologic attack, biological attack, biological warfare, BW |
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biretta | (noun) a stiff cap with ridges across the crown; worn by Roman Catholic clergy | Synonyms: berretta, birretta |
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birretta | (noun) a stiff cap with ridges across the crown; worn by Roman Catholic clergy | Synonyms: berretta, biretta |
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cattail | (noun) tall erect herbs with sword-shaped leaves; cosmopolitan in fresh and salt marshes | - |
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cattalo | (noun) hardy breed of cattle resulting from crossing domestic cattle with the American buffalo; yields leaner beef than conventional breeds | Synonyms: beefalo |
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chittamwood | (noun) deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico | Synonyms: black haw, Bumelia lanuginosa, chittimwood, false buckthorn, shittimwood |
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(noun) shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada | Synonyms: bearberry, bearwood, cascara buckthorn, chittimwood, Rhamnus purshianus |
(noun) shrubby tree of southern United States having large plumes of feathery flowers resembling puffs of smoke | Synonyms: American smokewood, Cotinus americanus, Cotinus obovatus |
coattail | (noun) the loose back flap of a coat that hangs below the waist | - |
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committal | (noun) the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital) | Synonyms: commitment, consignment |
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(noun) the act of committing a crime | Synonyms: commission, perpetration |
cottage | (noun) a small house with a single story | Synonyms: bungalow |
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cottager | (noun) someone who lives in a cottage | Synonyms: cottage dweller |
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cottar | (noun) fastener consisting of a wedge or pin inserted through a slot to hold two other pieces together | Synonyms: cotter |
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(noun) a peasant farmer in the Scottish Highlands | Synonyms: cotter |
counterattack | (noun) an attack by a defending force against an attacking enemy force in order to regain lost ground or cut off enemy advance units etc. | Synonyms: countermove |
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(noun) (chess) an attack that is intended to counter the opponent's advantage in another part of the board | Synonyms: counterplay |
crottal | (noun) any of several lichens of the genus Parmelia from which reddish brown or purple dyes are made | Synonyms: crotal, crottle |
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curettage | (noun) surgery to remove tissue or growths from a bodily cavity (as the uterus) by scraping with a curette | Synonyms: curettement |
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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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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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frittata | (noun) Italian omelet with diced vegetables and meats; cooked until bottom is set then inverted into another pan to cook the top | - |
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frottage | (noun) masturbation by rubbing against another person (as in a crowd) | - |
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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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manhattan | (noun) a cocktail made with whiskey and sweet vermouth with a dash of bitters | - |
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nonremittal | (noun) loss resulting from failure of a debt to be paid | Synonyms: default, nonpayment |
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(noun) act of failing to meet a financial obligation | Synonyms: default, nonpayment |
operetta | (noun) a short amusing opera | Synonyms: light opera |
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ottar | (noun) essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers | Synonyms: atar, athar, attar |
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outtake | (noun) a scene that is filmed but is not used in the final editing of the film | - |
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pitta | (noun) any bird of the genus Pitta; brilliantly colored chiefly terrestrial birds with short wings and tail and stout bills | - |
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pittance | (noun) an inadequate payment | - |
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pottage | (noun) a stew of vegetables and (sometimes) meat | - |
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(noun) thick (often creamy) soup | Synonyms: potage |
psittacosaur | (noun) primitive dinosaur actually lacking horns and having only the beginning of a frill; long hind limbs and short forelimbs; may have been bipedal | Synonyms: psittacosaurus |
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psittacosaurus | (noun) primitive dinosaur actually lacking horns and having only the beginning of a frill; long hind limbs and short forelimbs; may have been bipedal | Synonyms: psittacosaur |
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psittacosis | (noun) infectious disease of birds | Synonyms: parrot disease |
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(noun) an atypical pneumonia caused by a rickettsia microorganism and transmitted to humans from infected birds | Synonyms: ornithosis, parrot fever |
quittance | (noun) payment of a debt or obligation | Synonyms: repayment |
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(noun) a document or receipt certifying release from an obligation or debt | - |
rattail | (noun) deep-sea fish with a large head and body and long tapering tail | Synonyms: grenadier, rattail fish |
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rattan | (noun) a switch made from the stems of the rattan palms | Synonyms: ratan |
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(noun) climbing palm of Sri Lanka and southern India remarkable for the great length of the stems which are used for malacca canes | Synonyms: Calamus rotang, rattan palm |
(noun) the stem of various climbing palms of the genus Calamus and related genera used to make wickerwork and furniture and canes | Synonyms: rattan cane |
rebuttal | (noun) the speech act of refuting by offering a contrary contention or argument | - |
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(noun) (law) a pleading by the defendant in reply to a plaintiff's surrejoinder | Synonyms: rebutter |
regatta | (noun) a meeting for boat races | - |
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remittal | (noun) the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance | Synonyms: absolution, remission, remission of sin |
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(noun) an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease) | Synonyms: remission, subsidence |
(noun) a payment of money sent to a person in another place | Synonyms: remission, remitment, remittance |
remittance | (noun) a payment of money sent to a person in another place | Synonyms: remission, remitment, remittal |
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ricotta | (noun) soft Italian cheese like cottage cheese | - |
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rijsttaffel | (noun) dish originating in Indonesia; a wide variety of foods and sauces are served with rice | Synonyms: rijstafel, rijstaffel |
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sagitta | (noun) any arrowworm of the genus Sagitta | - |
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shirttail | (noun) fabric forming the tail of a shirt | - |
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(noun) a brief addendum at the end of a newspaper article | - |
shittah | (noun) source of a wood mentioned frequently in the Bible; probably a species of genus Acacia | Synonyms: shittah tree |
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surrebuttal | (noun) (law) a pleading by the plaintiff in reply to the defendant's rebutter | Synonyms: surrebutter |
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terracotta | (noun) a hard unglazed brownish-red earthenware | Synonyms: terra cotta |
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transmittal | (noun) the act of sending a message; causing a message to be transmitted | Synonyms: transmission, transmitting |
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transmittance | (noun) the fraction of radiant energy that passes through a substance | Synonyms: transmission |
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unattainability | (noun) The fact of being unattainable, of not being able to be reached or acquired. | - |
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unattainableness | (noun) the state of being unattainable | - |
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vendetta | (noun) a feud in which members of the opposing parties murder each other | Synonyms: blood feud |
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wattage | (noun) the product of voltage and current | Synonyms: electric power, electrical power |
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yottabit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 zettabits or 10^24 bits | Synonyms: Yb, Ybit |
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yottabyte | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 zebibytes or 2^80 bytes | Synonyms: YB, YiB, yobibyte |
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(noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 zettabytes or 10^24 bytes | Synonyms: YB |
yottaflop | (noun) (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system, equal to one septillion floating-point operations a second. | Synonyms: YFLOPS |
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zettabit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 exabits or 10^21 bits | Synonyms: Zb, Zbit |
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zettabyte | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 exbibytes or 2^70 bytes | Synonyms: ZB, zebibyte, ZiB |
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(noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 exabytes or 10^21 bytes | Synonyms: ZB |
zettaflop | (noun) (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system, equal to one sextillion floating-point operations a second. | Synonyms: ZFLOPS |
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