| abecedarian
|
a novice learning the rudiments of some subject |
- |
| academician
|
someone elected to honorary membership in an academy |
- |
| academician
|
a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation |
schoolman |
| academician
|
an educator who works at a college or university |
academic,
faculty member |
| acanthocephalan
|
any of various worms living parasitically in intestines of vertebrates having a retractile proboscis covered with many hooked spines |
spiny-headed worm |
| acanthopterygian
|
a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays |
spiny-finned fish |
| acoustician
|
a physicist who specializes in acoustics |
- |
| actinian
|
any sea anemone or related animal |
actinia,
actiniarian |
| actiniarian
|
any sea anemone or related animal |
actinia,
actinian |
| actinomyxidian
|
of or relating to parasites of worms |
- |
| actinozoan
|
sessile marine coelenterates including solitary and colonial polyps; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed |
anthozoan |
| adman
|
someone whose business is advertising |
advertiser,
advertizer |
| aesthetician
|
a worker skilled in giving beauty treatments (manicures and facials etc.) |
esthetician |
| aesthetician
|
a philosopher who specializes in the nature of beauty |
esthetician |
| afghan
|
a blanket knitted or crocheted in strips or squares; sometimes used as a shawl |
- |
| afghan
|
a coat made of sheepskin |
sheepskin coat |
| agnathan
|
eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms |
jawless fish,
jawless vertebrate |
| aircraftman
|
a noncommissioned officer in the British Royal Air Force |
aircraftsman |
| aircraftsman
|
a noncommissioned officer in the British Royal Air Force |
aircraftman |
| aircrewman
|
a member of an aircrew |
- |
| airman
|
someone who operates an aircraft |
aeronaut,
aviator,
flier,
flyer |
| airwoman
|
a woman aviator |
aviatress,
aviatrix |
| alderman
|
a member of a municipal legislative body (as a city council) |
- |
| alsatian
|
breed of large shepherd dogs used in police work and as a guide for the blind |
German police dog,
German shepherd,
German shepherd dog |
| amphibian
|
a flat-bottomed motor vehicle that can travel on land or water |
amphibious vehicle |
| amphibian
|
an airplane designed to take off and land on water |
amphibious aircraft |
| amphibian
|
cold-blooded vertebrate typically living on land but breeding in water; aquatic larvae undergo metamorphosis into adult form |
- |
| anatotitan
|
one of the largest and most famous duck-billed dinosaurs |
- |
| anchorman
|
a television reporter who coordinates a broadcast to which several correspondents contribute |
anchor,
anchorperson |
| antediluvian
|
any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian deluge |
antediluvian patriarch |
| antediluvian
|
a very old person |
ancient |
| anthozoan
|
sessile marine coelenterates including solitary and colonial polyps; the medusoid phase is entirely suppressed |
actinozoan |
| antinomian
|
a follower of the doctrine of antinomianism |
- |
| antiquarian
|
an expert or collector of antiquities |
antiquary,
archaist |
| anuran
|
any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species |
frog,
salientian,
batrachian,
toad,
toad frog |
| aplacophoran
|
deep-water wormlike mollusks lacking calcareous plates on the body but having fine slimy spicules on the covering mantle |
solenogaster |
| archosaurian
|
extinct reptiles including: dinosaurs; plesiosaurs; pterosaurs; ichthyosaurs; thecodonts |
archosaur,
archosaurian reptile |
| arctan
|
the inverse function of the tangent; the angle that has a tangent equal to a given number |
inverse tangent,
arc tangent,
arctangent |
| arithmetician
|
someone who specializes in arithmetic |
- |
| artilleryman
|
a serviceman in the artillery |
machine gunner,
gunner,
cannoneer |
| artisan
|
a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft |
journeyman,
craftsman,
artificer |
| ascidian
|
minute sedentary marine invertebrate having a saclike body with siphons through which water enters and leaves |
- |
| ashcan
|
a bin that holds rubbish until it is collected |
dustbin,
garbage can,
wastebin,
ash bin,
ash-bin,
ashbin,
trash barrel,
trash bin,
trash can |
| assemblyman
|
someone who is a member of a legislative assembly |
- |
| assemblywoman
|
a woman assemblyman |
- |
| astrakhan
|
the fur of young lambs |
- |
| authoritarian
|
a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner |
dictator |
| backwoodsman
|
a man who lives on the frontier |
mountain man,
frontiersman |
| baggageman
|
an attendant who takes care of baggage |
- |
| bagman
|
a salesman who travels to call on customers |
roadman,
commercial traveler,
commercial traveller,
traveling salesman,
travelling salesman |
| bagman
|
a racketeer assigned to collect or distribute payoff money |
- |
| balagan
|
a word for chaos or fiasco borrowed from modern Hebrew (where it is a loan word from Russian) |
- |
| balbriggan
|
a cotton knit fabric used for underwear |
- |
| ban
|
a decree that prohibits something |
prohibition,
proscription |
| ban
|
100 bani equal 1 leu in Moldova |
- |
| ban
|
100 bani equal 1 leu in Romania |
- |
| ban
|
an official prohibition or edict against something |
forbiddance,
banning,
forbidding |
| ban
|
a logarithmic unit which measures information or entropy, based on base 10 logarithms and powers of 10. |
Hart,
dit,
hartley |
| bandsman
|
a player in a band (especially a military band) |
- |
| banian
|
East Indian tree that puts out aerial shoots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks |
banyan,
Indian banyan,
East Indian fig tree,
banian tree,
banyan tree,
Ficus bengalensis |
| banian
|
a loose fitting jacket; originally worn in India |
banyan |
| banyan
|
East Indian tree that puts out aerial shoots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks |
banian,
Indian banyan,
East Indian fig tree,
banian tree,
banyan tree,
Ficus bengalensis |
| banyan
|
a loose fitting jacket; originally worn in India |
banian |
| barbacan
|
a tower that is part of a defensive structure (such as a castle) |
barbican |
| barbarian
|
a member of an uncivilized people |
savage |
| barbarian
|
a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement |
peasant,
Goth,
churl,
boor,
tike,
tyke |
| barbican
|
a tower that is part of a defensive structure (such as a castle) |
barbacan |
| bargeman
|
someone who operates a barge |
bargee,
lighterman |
| barman
|
an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar |
mixologist,
barkeep,
barkeeper,
bartender |
| batman
|
an orderly assigned to serve a British military officer |
- |
| batrachian
|
any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species |
frog,
salientian,
anuran,
toad,
toad frog |
| batsman
|
(baseball) a ballplayer who is batting |
batter,
hitter,
slugger |
| beadsman
|
a person who is paid to pray for the soul of another |
bedesman |
| bean
|
any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae used for food |
edible bean |
| bean
|
any of various seeds or fruits that are beans or resemble beans |
- |
| bean
|
any of various leguminous plants grown for their edible seeds and pods |
bean plant |
| bean
|
informal terms for a human head |
dome,
attic,
noggin,
noodle,
bonce |
| beautician
|
someone who works in a beauty parlor |
cosmetician |
| bedesman
|
a person who is paid to pray for the soul of another |
beadsman |
| bedpan
|
a shallow vessel used by a bedridden patient for defecation and urination |
- |
| beggarman
|
a man who is a beggar |
- |
| beggarwoman
|
a woman who is a beggar |
- |
| bellman
|
someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels |
bellboy,
bellhop |
| benzofuran
|
a colorless oily compound extracted from coal tar and used in manufacturing synthetic resins |
coumarone,
cumarone |
| boatman
|
someone who drives or rides in a boat |
boater,
waterman |
| bogbean
|
perennial plant of Europe and America having racemes of white or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves; often rooting at water margin and spreading across the surface |
Menyanthes trifoliata,
marsh trefoil,
water shamrock,
bog myrtle,
buckbean |
| bogeyman
|
an imaginary monster used to frighten children |
bugaboo,
bugbear,
booger,
boogeyman |
| bohemian
|
a nonconformist writer or artist who lives an unconventional life |
- |
| bondman
|
a male bound to serve without wages |
bondsman |
| bondman
|
a male slave |
bondsman |
| bondsman
|
a male slave |
bondman |
| bondsman
|
someone who signs a bond as surety for someone else |
bondswoman |
| bondsman
|
a male bound to serve without wages |
bondman |
| bondswoman
|
someone who signs a bond as surety for someone else |
bondsman |
| bondswoman
|
a female bound to serve without wages |
bondmaid,
bondwoman |
| bondswoman
|
a female slave |
bondmaid,
bondwoman |
| bondwoman
|
a female bound to serve without wages |
bondmaid,
bondswoman |
| bondwoman
|
a female slave |
bondmaid,
bondswoman |
| boogeyman
|
an imaginary monster used to frighten children |
bugaboo,
bugbear,
booger,
bogeyman |
| bookman
|
a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines |
scholar,
scholarly person |
| bowman
|
a person who is expert in the use of a bow and arrow |
archer |
| brachyuran
|
typical crabs |
- |
| brahman
|
a member of a social and cultural elite (especially a descendant of an old New England family) |
brahmin |
| brahman
|
a member of the highest of the four Hindu varnas |
brahmin |
| brahman
|
the highest of the four varnas: the priestly or sacerdotal category |
brahmin |
| brainpan
|
the part of the skull that encloses the brain |
cranium,
braincase |
| brakeman
|
a railroad employee responsible for a train's brakes |
- |
| bran
|
broken husks of the seeds of cereal grains that are separated from the flour by sifting |
- |
| bran
|
food prepared from the husks of cereal grains |
- |
| branchiopodan
|
aquatic crustaceans typically having a carapace and many pairs of leaflike appendages used for swimming as well as respiration and feeding |
branchiopod,
branchiopod crustacean |
| brogan
|
a thick and heavy shoe |
work shoe,
clodhopper,
brogue |
| bryozoan
|
sessile aquatic animal forming mossy colonies of small polyps each having a curved or circular ridge bearing tentacles; attach to stones or seaweed and reproduce by budding |
moss animal,
polyzoan,
sea mat,
sea moss |
| buckbean
|
perennial plant of Europe and America having racemes of white or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves; often rooting at water margin and spreading across the surface |
Menyanthes trifoliata,
marsh trefoil,
water shamrock,
bog myrtle,
bogbean |
| bushman
|
a dweller in the Australian bush country |
- |
| businessman
|
a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive) |
man of affairs |
| businesswoman
|
a female businessperson |
- |
| busman
|
someone who drives a bus |
bus driver |
| butterbean
|
small flat green bean similar to lima beans |
sieva bean,
civet bean,
butter bean |
| cabman
|
someone who drives a taxi for a living |
hack driver,
hack-driver,
cabby,
cabdriver,
taxidriver,
taximan,
livery driver |
| caecilian
|
any of the small slender limbless burrowing wormlike amphibians of the order Gymnophiona; inhabit moist soil in tropical regions |
blindworm |
| caesarean
|
the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius Caesar was born that way) |
C-section,
caesarean delivery,
caesarean section,
caesarian,
caesarian delivery,
caesarian section,
cesarean,
cesarean delivery,
cesarean section,
cesarian,
cesarian section,
abdominal delivery |
| caesarian
|
the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius Caesar was born that way) |
C-section,
caesarean,
caesarean delivery,
caesarean section,
caesarian delivery,
caesarian section,
cesarean,
cesarean delivery,
cesarean section,
cesarian,
cesarian section,
abdominal delivery |
| caftan
|
a woman's dress style that imitates the caftan cloaks worn by men in the Near East |
kaftan |
| caftan
|
a (cotton or silk) cloak with full sleeves and sash reaching down to the ankles; worn by men in the Levant |
kaftan |
| caiman
|
a semiaquatic reptile of Central and South America that resembles an alligator but has a more heavily armored belly |
cayman |
| calean
|
an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water |
narghile,
nargileh,
hookah,
hubble-bubble,
hubbly-bubbly,
kalian,
water pipe,
sheesha,
shisha,
chicha |
| cameraman
|
a photographer who operates a movie camera |
camera operator,
cinematographer |
| can
|
airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc. |
tin,
tin can |
| can
|
the quantity contained in a can |
canful |
| can
|
a buoy with a round bottom and conical top |
can buoy |
| can
|
the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on |
rear,
seat,
backside,
bottom,
ass,
fundament,
stern,
butt,
tail,
rear end,
rump,
nates,
hind end,
hindquarters,
derriere,
posterior,
prat,
keister,
arse,
behind,
bum,
buns,
buttocks,
fanny,
tail end,
tooshie,
tush |
| can
|
a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination |
throne,
toilet,
stool,
pot,
potty,
commode,
crapper |
| can
|
a room or building equipped with one or more toilets |
toilet,
john,
privy,
bathroom,
lav,
lavatory |