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