| abdominal
|
(noun) the muscles of the abdomen |
Synonyms:
ab,
abdominal muscle |
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| abettal
|
(noun) the verbal act of urging on |
Synonyms:
instigation,
abetment |
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| aboriginal
|
(noun) an indigenous person who was born in a particular place |
Synonyms:
native,
indigen,
indigene,
aborigine |
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| accidental
|
(noun) a musical notation that makes a note sharp or flat or natural although that is not part of the key signature |
- |
|---|
| accrual
|
(noun) the act of accumulating |
Synonyms:
accruement,
accumulation |
|---|
| accusal
|
(noun) a formal charge of wrongdoing brought against a person; the act of imputing blame or guilt |
Synonyms:
accusation |
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| acetal
|
(noun) any organic compound formed by adding alcohol molecules to aldehyde molecules |
- |
|---|
| acquittal
|
(noun) a judgment of not guilty |
- |
|---|
| admiral
|
(noun) the supreme commander of a fleet; ranks above a vice admiral and below a fleet admiral |
Synonyms:
full admiral |
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| (noun) any of several brightly colored butterflies |
- |
| adrenal
|
(noun) either of a pair of complex endocrine glands situated near the kidney |
Synonyms:
suprarenal gland,
adrenal gland |
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| adverbial
|
(noun) a word or group of words function as an adverb |
- |
|---|
| advertorial
|
(noun) an advertisement that is written and presented in the style of an editorial or journalistic report |
- |
|---|
| aerial
|
(noun) a pass to a receiver downfield from the passer |
Synonyms:
forward pass |
|---|
| (noun) an electrical device that sends or receives radio or television signals |
Synonyms:
antenna,
transmitting aerial |
| agal
|
(noun) a cord (usually of goat's hair) that Arabs (especially Bedouins) wind around their heads to hold down the kaffiyeh |
- |
|---|
| ammonal
|
(noun) Ammonal is an explosive made up of ammonium nitrate and aluminum powder. |
- |
|---|
| amobarbital
|
(noun) a barbiturate with sedative and hypnotic effects; used to relieve insomnia and as an anticonvulsant |
- |
|---|
| anatomical
|
(noun) an expression that relates to anatomy |
Synonyms:
anatomical reference |
|---|
| animal
|
(noun) a living organism characterized by voluntary movement |
Synonyms:
fauna,
creature,
beast,
brute,
animate being |
|---|
| annual
|
(noun) (botany) a plant that completes its entire life cycle within the space of a year |
- |
|---|
| (noun) a reference book that is published regularly once every year |
Synonyms:
yearbook,
yearly |
| antibacterial
|
(noun) any drug that destroys bacteria or inhibits their growth |
Synonyms:
bactericide,
antibacterial drug |
|---|
| antidiarrheal
|
(noun) a drug used to control or stop diarrhea |
Synonyms:
antidiarrheal drug |
|---|
| antifungal
|
(noun) any agent that destroys or prevents the growth of fungi |
Synonyms:
antifungal agent,
antimycotic,
antimycotic agent,
fungicide |
|---|
| antimalarial
|
(noun) a medicinal drug used to prevent or treat malaria |
Synonyms:
antimalarial drug |
|---|
| antimicrobial
|
(noun) an agent (as heat or radiation or a chemical) that destroys microorganisms that might carry disease |
Synonyms:
disinfectant,
germicide,
antimicrobic |
|---|
| antiphonal
|
(noun) bound collection of antiphons |
Synonyms:
antiphonary |
|---|
| antipodal
|
(noun) the relation of opposition along a diameter |
Synonyms:
diametrical opposition,
antipodal opposition |
|---|
| antiprotozoal
|
(noun) a medicinal drug used to fight diseases (like malaria) that are caused by protozoa |
Synonyms:
antiprotozoal drug |
|---|
| antiviral
|
(noun) any drug that destroys viruses |
Synonyms:
antiviral agent,
antiviral drug |
|---|
| appeal
|
(noun) earnest or urgent request |
Synonyms:
prayer,
entreaty |
|---|
| (noun) attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates |
Synonyms:
charm,
appealingness |
| (noun) (law) a legal proceeding in which the appellant resorts to a higher court for the purpose of obtaining a review of a lower court decision and a reversal of the lower court's judgment or the granting of a new trial |
- |
| (noun) request for a sum of money |
Synonyms:
solicitation,
collection,
ingathering |
| appraisal
|
(noun) the classification of someone or something with respect to its worth |
Synonyms:
assessment |
|---|
| (noun) a document appraising the value of something (as for insurance or taxation) |
Synonyms:
estimate,
estimation |
| (noun) an expert estimation of the quality, quantity, and other characteristics of someone or something |
- |
| apprisal
|
(noun) informing by words |
Synonyms:
notification,
telling |
|---|
| approval
|
(noun) the formal act of approving |
Synonyms:
approving,
blessing |
|---|
| (noun) a feeling of liking something or someone good |
- |
| (noun) acceptance as satisfactory |
Synonyms:
favorable reception,
favourable reception |
| (noun) a message expressing a favorable opinion |
Synonyms:
commendation |
| argal
|
(noun) wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia |
Synonyms:
Ovis ammon,
argali |
|---|
| arousal
|
(noun) the act of arousing |
Synonyms:
rousing |
|---|
| (noun) a state of heightened physiological activity |
- |
| (noun) awakening from sleep |
- |
| (noun) mutual sexual fondling prior to sexual intercourse |
Synonyms:
stimulation,
foreplay |
| arrival
|
(noun) accomplishment of an objective |
Synonyms:
reaching |
|---|
| (noun) the act of arriving at a certain place |
- |
| (noun) someone who arrives (or has arrived) |
Synonyms:
comer,
arriver |
| arsenal
|
(noun) all the weapons and equipment that a country has |
Synonyms:
armory,
armoury |
|---|
| (noun) a military structure where arms and ammunition and other military equipment are stored and training is given in the use of arms |
Synonyms:
armory,
armoury |
| (noun) a place where arms are manufactured |
Synonyms:
armory,
armoury |
| arsenical
|
(noun) a pesticide or drug containing arsenic |
- |
|---|
| astragal
|
(noun) the bone in the ankle that articulates with the leg bones to form the ankle joint |
Synonyms:
talus,
anklebone,
astragalus |
|---|
| (noun) a beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture |
Synonyms:
bead,
beading,
beadwork |
| audiovisual
|
(noun) materials using sight or sound to present information |
Synonyms:
audiovisual aid |
|---|
| austral
|
(noun) the basic unit of money in Argentina; equal to 100 centavos |
- |
|---|
| avowal
|
(noun) a statement asserting the existence or the truth of something |
Synonyms:
affirmation,
avouchment |
|---|
| bacchanal
|
(noun) someone who engages in drinking bouts |
Synonyms:
drunken reveler,
drunken reveller,
bacchant |
|---|
| (noun) a drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus |
Synonyms:
bacchant |
| (noun) a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity |
Synonyms:
riot,
debauch,
debauchery,
drunken revelry,
orgy,
saturnalia,
bacchanalia |
| balmoral
|
(noun) a sturdy laced walking shoe |
- |
|---|
| barbital
|
(noun) a barbiturate used as a hypnotic |
Synonyms:
diethylbarbituric acid,
diethylmalonylurea,
veronal,
barbitone |
|---|
| bestowal
|
(noun) the act of conferring an honor or presenting a gift |
Synonyms:
conferment,
conferral,
bestowment |
|---|
| (noun) a gift that is bestowed or conferred |
Synonyms:
bestowment |
| betrayal
|
(noun) an act of deliberate betrayal |
Synonyms:
perfidy,
treachery,
treason |
|---|
| (noun) the quality of aiding an enemy |
- |
| betrothal
|
(noun) a mutual promise to marry |
Synonyms:
engagement,
troth |
|---|
| (noun) the act of becoming betrothed or engaged |
Synonyms:
espousal |
| bicentennial
|
(noun) the 200th anniversary (or the celebration of it) |
Synonyms:
bicentenary |
|---|
| biennial
|
(noun) (botany) a plant having a life cycle that normally takes two seasons from germination to death to complete; flowering biennials usually bloom and fruit in the second season |
- |
|---|
| bilabial
|
(noun) a consonant that is articulated using both lips; /p/ or /b/ or /w/ |
- |
|---|
| bilingual
|
(noun) a person who speaks two languages fluently |
Synonyms:
bilingualist |
|---|
| bimetal
|
(noun) material made by bonding together sheets of two different metals |
- |
|---|
| binomial
|
(noun) (mathematics) a quantity expressed as a sum or difference of two terms; a polynomial with two terms |
- |
|---|
| bisexual
|
(noun) a person who is sexually attracted to both sexes |
Synonyms:
bisexual person |
|---|
| bonemeal
|
(noun) fertilizer made of ground bones |
- |
|---|
| borstal
|
(noun) formerly a British reform school for youths considered too young to send to prison |
- |
|---|
| botanical
|
(noun) a drug made from part of a plant (as the bark or root or leaves) |
- |
|---|
| bridal
|
(noun) archaic terms for a wedding or wedding feast |
Synonyms:
espousal |
|---|
| brinjal
|
(noun) hairy upright herb native to southeastern Asia but widely cultivated for its large glossy edible fruit commonly used as a vegetable |
Synonyms:
mad apple,
eggplant,
aubergine,
garden egg,
eggplant bush,
Solanum melongena |
|---|
| buntal
|
(noun) fine white Philippine fiber from stalks of unopened leaves of talipot palms; used in making hats |
- |
|---|
| burial
|
(noun) the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave |
Synonyms:
sepulture,
inhumation,
interment,
entombment |
|---|
| (noun) concealing something under the ground |
Synonyms:
burying |
| cabal
|
(noun) a clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigue |
Synonyms:
junto,
camarilla,
faction |
|---|
| (noun) a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act (especially a political plot) |
Synonyms:
conspiracy |
| canal
|
(noun) (astronomy) an indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels; they are now believed to be an optical illusion |
- |
|---|
| (noun) a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance |
Synonyms:
channel,
duct,
epithelial duct |
| (noun) long and narrow strip of water made for boats or for irrigation |
- |
| cannibal
|
(noun) a person who eats human flesh |
Synonyms:
man-eater,
anthropophagite,
anthropophagus |
|---|
| capital
|
(noun) assets available for use in the production of further assets |
Synonyms:
working capital |
|---|
| (noun) wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value |
- |
| (noun) a seat of government |
- |
| (noun) one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis |
Synonyms:
upper-case letter,
uppercase,
majuscule,
capital letter |
| (noun) a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product |
- |
| (noun) the upper part of a column that supports the entablature |
Synonyms:
cap,
chapiter |
| caracal
|
(noun) of deserts of northern Africa and southern Asia |
Synonyms:
desert lynx,
Lynx caracal |
|---|
| cardinal
|
(noun) (Roman Catholic Church) one of a group of more than 100 prominent bishops in the Sacred College who advise the Pope and elect new Popes |
- |
|---|
| (noun) the number of elements in a mathematical set; denotes a quantity but not the order |
Synonyms:
cardinal number |
| (noun) a variable color averaging a vivid red |
Synonyms:
carmine |
| (noun) crested thick-billed North American finch having bright red plumage in the male |
Synonyms:
Richmondena Cardinalis,
redbird,
Cardinalis cardinalis,
cardinal grosbeak |
| carnival
|
(noun) a festival marked by merrymaking and processions |
- |
|---|
| (noun) a frenetic disorganized (and often comic) disturbance suggestive of a large public entertainment |
Synonyms:
circus |
| (noun) a traveling show; having sideshows and rides and games of skill etc. |
Synonyms:
funfair,
fair |
| carousal
|
(noun) revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party |
Synonyms:
carouse,
bender,
booze-up,
toot |
|---|
| carpal
|
(noun) any of the eight small bones of the wrist of primates |
Synonyms:
wrist bone,
carpal bone |
|---|
| cathedral
|
(noun) any large and important church |
- |
|---|
| (noun) the principal Christian church building of a bishop's diocese |
Synonyms:
duomo |
| cental
|
(noun) a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds |
Synonyms:
hundredweight,
quintal,
short hundredweight,
centner,
cwt |
|---|
| centennial
|
(noun) the 100th anniversary (or the celebration of it) |
Synonyms:
centenary |
|---|
| central
|
(noun) a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication |
Synonyms:
exchange,
telephone exchange |
|---|
| cereal
|
(noun) grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet |
Synonyms:
cereal grass |
|---|
| (noun) foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses |
Synonyms:
grain,
food grain |
| (noun) a breakfast food prepared from grain |
- |
| ceremonial
|
(noun) a formal event performed on a special occasion |
Synonyms:
observance,
ceremony,
ceremonial occasion |
|---|
| chanal
|
(noun) thorny shrub or small tree common in central Argentina having small orange or yellow flowers followed by edible berries |
Synonyms:
Geoffroea decorticans,
chanar |
|---|
| chaparral
|
(noun) dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes |
Synonyms:
bush,
scrub |
|---|
| charcoal
|
(noun) a carbonaceous material obtained by heating wood or other organic matter in the absence of air |
Synonyms:
wood coal |
|---|
| (noun) a stick of black carbon material used for drawing |
Synonyms:
fusain |
| (noun) a very dark grey color |
Synonyms:
oxford gray,
oxford grey,
charcoal gray,
charcoal grey |
| (noun) a drawing made with a stick of black carbon material |
- |
| chemical
|
(noun) material produced by or used in a reaction involving changes in atoms or molecules |
Synonyms:
chemical substance |
|---|
| choral
|
(noun) a stately Protestant (especially Lutheran) hymn tune |
Synonyms:
chorale |
|---|
| classical
|
(noun) traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste |
Synonyms:
serious music,
classical music |
|---|
| coal
|
(noun) fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period |
- |
|---|
| (noun) a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering |
Synonyms:
ember |
| cochineal
|
(noun) a red dyestuff consisting of dried bodies of female cochineal insects |
- |
|---|
| (noun) Mexican red scale insect that feeds on cacti; the source of a red dye |
Synonyms:
Dactylopius coccus,
cochineal insect |
| coeval
|
(noun) a person of nearly the same age as another |
Synonyms:
contemporary |
|---|
| collateral
|
(noun) a security pledged for the repayment of a loan |
- |
|---|
| colonial
|
(noun) a resident of a colony |
- |
|---|
| commensal
|
(noun) either of two different animal or plant species living in close association but not interdependent |
- |
|---|
| commercial
|
(noun) a commercially sponsored ad on radio or television |
Synonyms:
commercial message |
|---|
| committal
|
(noun) the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital) |
Synonyms:
commitment,
consignment |
|---|
| (noun) the act of committing a crime |
Synonyms:
perpetration,
commission |
| commonweal
|
(noun) the good of a community |
Synonyms:
common good |
|---|
| conferral
|
(noun) the act of conferring an honor or presenting a gift |
Synonyms:
conferment,
bestowal,
bestowment |
|---|
| confessional
|
(noun) a booth where a priest sits to hear confessions |
- |
|---|
| constitutional
|
(noun) a regular walk taken as a form of exercise |
- |
|---|
| construal
|
(noun) an interpretation of the meaning of something; the act of construing |
- |
|---|
| consuetudinal
|
(noun) a manual describing the customs of a particular group (especially the ceremonial practices of a monastic order) |
Synonyms:
consuetudinary |
|---|
| copal
|
(noun) a brittle aromatic resin used in varnishes |
- |
|---|
| coral
|
(noun) a variable color averaging a deep pink |
- |
|---|
| (noun) the hard stony skeleton of a Mediterranean coral that has a delicate red or pink color and is used for jewelry |
Synonyms:
red coral,
precious coral |
| (noun) unfertilized lobster roe; reddens in cooking; used as garnish or to color sauces |
- |
| (noun) marine colonial polyp characterized by a calcareous skeleton; masses in a variety of shapes often forming reefs |
- |
| cordial
|
(noun) strong highly flavored sweet liquor usually drunk after a meal |
Synonyms:
liqueur |
|---|
| cornmeal
|
(noun) coarsely ground corn |
Synonyms:
Indian meal |
|---|