acquiescence | (noun) agreement with a statement or proposal to do something | Synonyms: assent |
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(noun) acceptance without protest | - |
acquirement | (noun) an ability that has been acquired by training | Synonyms: accomplishment, acquisition, attainment, skill |
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acquirer | (noun) a corporation gaining financial control over another corporation or financial institution through a payment in cash or an exchange of stock | - |
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(noun) the financial institution that dispenses cash in automated teller machines and collects a fee from the bank that issued the credit card | - |
(noun) a credit card processing bank; merchants receive credit for credit card receipts less a processing fee | Synonyms: merchant bank |
(noun) a person who acquires something (usually permanently) | - |
acquiring | (noun) the act of acquiring something | Synonyms: getting |
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acquisition | (noun) the act of contracting or assuming or acquiring possession of something | - |
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(noun) an ability that has been acquired by training | Synonyms: accomplishment, acquirement, attainment, skill |
(noun) the cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge | Synonyms: learning |
(noun) something acquired | - |
acquisitiveness | (noun) strong desire to acquire and possess | - |
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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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acuity | (noun) a quick and penetrating intelligence | Synonyms: acuteness, keenness, sharpness |
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(noun) sharpness of vision; the visual ability to resolve fine detail (usually measured by a Snellen chart) | Synonyms: sharp-sightedness, visual acuity |
aiguillette | (noun) ornamental tagged cord or braid on the shoulder of a uniform | Synonyms: aglet, aiglet |
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altruism | (noun) the quality of unselfish concern for the welfare of others | Synonyms: selflessness |
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altruist | (noun) someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being | Synonyms: philanthropist |
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ambiguity | (noun) unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning | Synonyms: equivocalness |
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(noun) an expression whose meaning cannot be determined from its context | - |
anguish | (noun) extreme mental distress | Synonyms: torment, torture |
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(noun) extreme distress of body or mind | - |
annuitant | (noun) the recipient of an annuity | - |
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annuity | (noun) income from capital investment paid in a series of regular payments | Synonyms: rente |
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antiquity | (noun) an artifact surviving from the past | - |
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(noun) extreme oldness | Synonyms: ancientness |
(noun) the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe | - |
aquiculture | (noun) a technique of growing plants (without soil) in water containing dissolved nutrients | Synonyms: hydroponics, tank farming |
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aquifer | (noun) underground bed or layer yielding ground water for wells and springs etc | - |
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aquilege | (noun) a plant of the genus Aquilegia having irregular showy spurred flowers; north temperate regions especially mountains | Synonyms: aquilegia, columbine |
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aquilegia | (noun) a plant of the genus Aquilegia having irregular showy spurred flowers; north temperate regions especially mountains | Synonyms: aquilege, columbine |
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arguing | (noun) a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement | Synonyms: argument, contention, contestation, controversy, disceptation, disputation, tilt |
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arui | (noun) wild sheep of northern Africa | Synonyms: Ammotragus lervia, aoudad, audad, Barbary sheep, maned sheep |
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assiduity | (noun) great and constant diligence and attention | Synonyms: assiduousness, concentration |
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barbecuing | (noun) roasting a large piece of meat on a revolving spit out of doors over an open fire | - |
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beguilement | (noun) an entertainment that provokes pleased interest and distracts you from worries and vexations | Synonyms: distraction |
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(noun) magnetic personal charm | Synonyms: animal magnetism, bewitchery |
beguiler | (noun) a person who charms others (usually by personal attractiveness) | Synonyms: charmer |
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(noun) someone who leads you to believe something that is not true | Synonyms: cheat, cheater, deceiver, slicker, trickster |
beguine | (noun) a ballroom dance that originated in the French West Indies; similar to the rumba | - |
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(noun) music written in the bolero rhythm of the beguine dance | - |
benzoquinone | (noun) any of a class of aromatic yellow compounds including several that are biologically important as coenzymes or acceptors or vitamins; used in making dyes | Synonyms: quinone |
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biscuit | (noun) small round bread leavened with baking-powder or soda | - |
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(noun) any of various small flat sweet cakes | Synonyms: cookie, cooky |
blanquillo | (noun) important marine food fishes | Synonyms: tilefish |
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bloodguilt | (noun) the state of being guilty of bloodshed and murder | - |
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bluing | (noun) a process that makes something blue (or bluish) | Synonyms: blueing |
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(noun) used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge | Synonyms: blue, blueing |
bluishness | (noun) The quality of being somewhat blue or having a tinge of blue. | - |
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boatbuilder | (noun) a person who builds boats | - |
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bodybuilder | (noun) someone who does special exercises to develop a brawny musculature | Synonyms: muscle-builder, muscle builder, musclebuilder, muscleman |
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bodybuilding | (noun) exercise that builds muscles through tension | Synonyms: anaerobic exercise, muscle building, musclebuilding |
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boilersuit | (noun) a loose protective coverall or smock worn over ordinary clothing for dirty work | Synonyms: boilers suit, overall |
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bouillabaisse | (noun) highly seasoned Mediterranean soup or stew made of several kinds of fish and shellfish with tomatoes and onions or leeks and seasoned with saffron and garlic and herbs | - |
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bouillon | (noun) a clear seasoned broth | - |
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bourguignon | (noun) reduced red wine with onions and parsley and thyme and butter | Synonyms: bourguignon sauce, Burgundy sauce |
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breadfruit | (noun) a large round seedless or seeded fruit with a texture like bread; eaten boiled or baked or roasted or ground into flour; the roasted seeds resemble chestnuts | - |
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(noun) native to Pacific islands and having edible fruit with a texture like bread | Synonyms: Artocarpus altilis, Artocarpus communis, breadfruit tree |
bruin | (noun) large ferocious bear of Eurasia | Synonyms: brown bear, Ursus arctos |
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(noun) a conventional name for a bear used in tales following usage in the old epic `Reynard the Fox' | - |
bruise | (noun) an injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration | Synonyms: contusion |
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bruiser | (noun) a large and strong and heavyset man | Synonyms: bull, Samson, strapper |
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bruitism | (noun) The use in music of sounds taken from an extra-musical source or context. The term is used most often of percussion or of electronic music that suggests the sounds of machinery. | - |
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build | (noun) constitution of the human body | Synonyms: body-build, habitus, physique |
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(noun) alternative names for the body of a human being | Synonyms: anatomy, bod, chassis, figure, flesh, form, frame, human body, material body, physical body, physique, shape, soma |
builder | (noun) someone who contracts for and supervises construction (as of a building) | Synonyms: constructor |
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(noun) a person who creates a business or who organizes and develops a country | - |
(noun) a substance added to soaps or detergents to increase their cleansing action | Synonyms: detergent builder |
building | (noun) the act of constructing something | Synonyms: construction |
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(noun) the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones | Synonyms: construction |
(noun) a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place | Synonyms: edifice |
(noun) the occupants of a building | - |
buildup | (noun) the act of building up an accumulation | - |
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(noun) highly favorable publicity and praise | - |
(noun) the result of the process of accumulation | - |
casuist | (noun) someone whose reasoning is subtle and often specious | Synonyms: sophist |
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casuistry | (noun) moral philosophy based on the application of general ethical principles to resolve moral dilemmas | - |
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(noun) argumentation that is specious or excessively subtle and intended to be misleading | - |
chloroquine | (noun) an antimalarial drug used to treat malaria and amebic dysentery and systemic lupus erythematosus | - |
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circuit | (noun) a journey or route all the way around a particular place or area | Synonyms: tour |
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(noun) movement once around a course | Synonyms: circle, lap |
(noun) an electrical device that provides a path for electrical current to flow | Synonyms: electric circuit, electrical circuit |
(noun) a racetrack for automobile races | Synonyms: racing circuit |
(noun) (law) a judicial division of a state or the United States (so-called because originally judges traveled and held court in different locations); one of the twelve groups of states in the United States that is covered by a particular circuit court of appeals | - |
(noun) an established itinerary of venues or events that a particular group of people travel to | - |
(noun) the boundary line encompassing an area or object | Synonyms: circumference |
circuitousness | (noun) The state of being roundabout, indirect or not to the point. | - |
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circuitry | (noun) electronic equipment consisting of a system of circuits | - |
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cliquishness | (noun) tendency to associate with only a select group | Synonyms: clannishness, exclusiveness |
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coachbuilder | (noun) a craftsman who makes the bodies of motor vehicles | - |
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colloquialism | (noun) a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech | - |
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colloquium | (noun) an address to an academic meeting or seminar | - |
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(noun) an academic meeting or seminar usually led by a different lecturer and on a different topic at each meeting | - |
conduit | (noun) a passage (a pipe or tunnel) through which water or electric wires can pass | - |
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congruity | (noun) the quality of agreeing; being suitable and appropriate | Synonyms: congruence, congruousness |
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conquistador | (noun) an adventurer (especially one who led the Spanish conquest of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century) | - |
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consanguinity | (noun) (anthropology) the condition of being related by blood | Synonyms: blood kinship, cognation |
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contiguity | (noun) the attribute of being so near as to be touching | Synonyms: adjacency, contiguousness |
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continuity | (noun) the property of a continuous and connected period of time | Synonyms: persistence |
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(noun) a detailed script used in making a film in order to avoid discontinuities from shot to shot | - |
(noun) uninterrupted connection or union | - |
coquille | (noun) a dish in the form of a scallop shell | - |
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(noun) seafood served in a scallop shell | - |
countersuit | (noun) a suit brought against someone who has sued you | - |
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cruise | (noun) an ocean trip taken for pleasure | Synonyms: sail |
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cruiser | (noun) a large fast warship; smaller than a battleship and larger than a destroyer | - |
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(noun) a large motorboat that has a cabin and plumbing and other conveniences necessary for living on board | Synonyms: cabin cruiser, pleasure boat, pleasure craft |
(noun) a car in which policemen cruise the streets; equipped with radiotelephonic communications to headquarters | Synonyms: patrol car, police car, police cruiser, prowl car, squad car |
cruiserweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the middleweight division and lighter than those in the super heavyweight division. | Synonyms: light heavyweight |
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(noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 169 and 175 pounds | Synonyms: light heavyweight |
cuirass | (noun) medieval body armor that covers the chest and back | - |
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cuirassier | (noun) a cavalryman equipped with a cuirass | - |
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cuisine | (noun) the practice or manner of preparing food or the food so prepared | Synonyms: culinary art |
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cuisse | (noun) armor plate that protects the thigh | - |
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daiquiri | (noun) a cocktail made with rum and lime or lemon juice | Synonyms: rum cocktail |
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deliquium | (noun) a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain | Synonyms: faint, swoon, syncope |
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discontinuity | (noun) lack of connection or continuity | - |
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disequilibrium | (noun) loss of equilibrium attributable to an unstable situation in which some forces outweigh others | - |
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disguise | (noun) the act of concealing the identity of something by modifying its appearance | Synonyms: camouflage |
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(noun) any attire that modifies the appearance in order to conceal the wearer's identity | - |
(noun) an outward semblance that misrepresents the true nature of something | Synonyms: camouflage |
disquiet | (noun) the trait of seeming ill at ease | Synonyms: unease, uneasiness |
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(noun) a feeling of mild anxiety about possible developments | Synonyms: anxiousness |
disquietude | (noun) feelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable | Synonyms: edginess, inquietude, uneasiness |
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disquisition | (noun) an elaborate analytical or explanatory essay or discussion | - |
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distinguishability | (noun) Capability of being perceived as different or distinct. | - |
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druidism | (noun) the system of religion and philosophy taught by the Druids and their rites and ceremonies | - |
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eggfruit | (noun) ovoid orange-yellow mealy sweet fruit of Florida and West Indies | Synonyms: canistel |
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ennui | (noun) the feeling of being bored by something tedious | Synonyms: boredom, tedium |
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enquirer | (noun) someone who asks a question | Synonyms: asker, inquirer, querier, questioner |
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enquiry | (noun) a systematic investigation of a matter of public interest | Synonyms: inquiry |
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(noun) a search for knowledge | Synonyms: inquiry, research |
(noun) an instance of questioning | Synonyms: inquiry, interrogation, query, question |
equid | (noun) hoofed mammals having slender legs and a flat coat with a narrow mane along the back of the neck | Synonyms: equine |
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equidistribution | (noun) a flat distribution having equal frequencies of occurrence | - |
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equilateral | (noun) a figure whose sides are all equal | - |
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equilibration | (noun) stabilization by bringing into equilibrium | - |
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equilibrium | (noun) a sensory system located in structures of the inner ear that registers the orientation of the head | Synonyms: labyrinthine sense, sense of balance, sense of equilibrium, vestibular sense |
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(noun) a chemical reaction and its reverse proceed at equal rates | Synonyms: chemical equilibrium |
(noun) equality of distribution | Synonyms: balance, counterbalance, equipoise |
(noun) a stable situation in which forces cancel one another | - |
equine | (noun) hoofed mammals having slender legs and a flat coat with a narrow mane along the back of the neck | Synonyms: equid |
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equinoctial | (noun) the great circle on the celestial sphere midway between the celestial poles | Synonyms: celestial equator, equinoctial circle, equinoctial line |
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equinox | (noun) (astronomy) either of the two celestial points at which the celestial equator intersects the ecliptic | Synonyms: equinoctial point |
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(noun) either of two times of the year when the sun crosses the plane of the earth's equator and day and night are of equal length | - |
equipage | (noun) a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses | Synonyms: carriage, rig |
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(noun) equipment and supplies of a military force | Synonyms: materiel |
equipment | (noun) an instrumentality needed for an undertaking or to perform a service | - |
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equipoise | (noun) equality of distribution | Synonyms: balance, counterbalance, equilibrium |
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