repayment | (noun) the act of returning money received previously | Synonyms: refund |
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(noun) payment of a debt or obligation | Synonyms: quittance |
replacement | (noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another | Synonyms: replacing |
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(noun) a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another | Synonyms: substitute |
(noun) an event in which one thing is substituted for another | Synonyms: permutation, substitution, switch, transposition |
(noun) a person who follows next in order | Synonyms: successor |
(noun) someone who takes the place of another person | Synonyms: alternate, surrogate |
(noun) filling again by supplying what has been used up | Synonyms: refilling, renewal, replenishment |
replenishment | (noun) filling again by supplying what has been used up | Synonyms: refilling, renewal, replacement |
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requirement | (noun) something that is required in advance | Synonyms: prerequisite |
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(noun) required activity | Synonyms: demand |
(noun) anything indispensable | Synonyms: essential, necessary, necessity, requisite |
resentment | (noun) a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will | Synonyms: bitterness, gall, rancor, rancour |
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resettlement | (noun) the transportation of people (as a family or colony) to a new settlement (as after an upheaval of some kind) | Synonyms: relocation |
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reshipment | (noun) the act of shipping again (especially by transferring to another ship) | - |
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restatement | (noun) a revised statement | - |
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retirement | (noun) withdrawal from your position or occupation | - |
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(noun) withdrawal for prayer and study and meditation | Synonyms: retreat |
(noun) the state of being retired from one's business or occupation | - |
retrenchment | (noun) the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable | Synonyms: curtailment, downsizing |
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(noun) entrenchment consisting of an additional interior fortification to prolong the defense | - |
revetement | (noun) a facing (usually masonry) that supports an embankment | Synonyms: revetment, stone facing |
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revetment | (noun) a facing (usually masonry) that supports an embankment | Synonyms: revetement, stone facing |
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(noun) a barrier against explosives | - |
revilement | (noun) a rude expression intended to offend or hurt | Synonyms: abuse, contumely, insult, vilification |
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rudiment | (noun) the remains of a body part that was functional at an earlier stage of life | - |
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sacrament | (noun) a formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it; the two Protestant ceremonies are baptism and the Lord's Supper; in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church there are seven traditional rites accepted as instituted by Jesus: baptism and confirmation and Holy Eucharist and penance and holy orders and matrimony and extreme unction | - |
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secernment | (noun) the cognitive process whereby two or more stimuli are distinguished | Synonyms: discrimination |
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(noun) the organic process of synthesizing and releasing some substance | Synonyms: secretion |
secondment | (noun) the detachment of a person from their regular organization for temporary assignment elsewhere | - |
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(noun) a speech seconding a motion | Synonyms: endorsement, indorsement, second |
sediment | (noun) matter that has been deposited by some natural process | Synonyms: deposit |
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segment | (noun) one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object | Synonyms: section |
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(noun) one of the parts into which something naturally divides | - |
sentiment | (noun) a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty | Synonyms: opinion, persuasion, thought, view |
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(noun) tender, romantic, or nostalgic feeling or emotion | - |
settlement | (noun) termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities | Synonyms: liquidation |
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(noun) the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies | Synonyms: colonisation, colonization |
(noun) something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making | Synonyms: closure, resolution |
(noun) a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it | - |
(noun) a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government | Synonyms: colony |
(noun) a community of people smaller than a town | Synonyms: small town, village |
(noun) an area where a group of families live together | - |
shipment | (noun) the act of sending off something | Synonyms: despatch, dispatch |
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(noun) goods carried by a large vehicle | Synonyms: cargo, consignment, freight, lading, load, loading, payload |
solacement | (noun) the comfort you feel when consoled in times of disappointment | Synonyms: consolation, solace |
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(noun) comfort in disappointment or misery | Synonyms: solace |
statement | (noun) a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc | - |
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(noun) a document showing credits and debits | Synonyms: financial statement |
(noun) a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true | Synonyms: argument |
(noun) (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program | Synonyms: command, instruction, program line |
(noun) (music) the presentation of a musical theme | - |
(noun) a nonverbal message | - |
(noun) the act of affirming or asserting or stating something | Synonyms: affirmation, assertion |
supplement | (noun) a supplementary component that improves capability | Synonyms: accessory, add-on, appurtenance |
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(noun) a quantity added (e.g. to make up for a deficiency) | Synonyms: supplementation |
(noun) textual matter that is added onto a publication; usually at the end | Synonyms: addendum, postscript |
sustainment | (noun) the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence | Synonyms: maintenance, sustenance, sustentation, upkeep |
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tapotement | (noun) massage in which the body is tapped rhythmically with the fingers or with short rapid movements of the sides of the hand; used to loosen mucus on the chest walls of patients with bronchitis | - |
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tegument | (noun) a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch | Synonyms: cutis, skin |
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temperament | (noun) an adjustment of the intervals (as in tuning a keyboard instrument) so that the scale can be used to play in different keys | - |
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(noun) your usual mood | Synonyms: disposition |
(noun) excessive emotionalism or irritability and excitability (especially when displayed openly) | - |
tenement | (noun) a run-down apartment house barely meeting minimal standards | Synonyms: tenement house |
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testament | (noun) a profession of belief | - |
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(noun) a legal document declaring a person's wishes regarding the disposal of their property when they die | Synonyms: will |
(noun) strong evidence for something | - |
torment | (noun) the act of harassing someone | Synonyms: badgering, bedevilment, worrying |
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(noun) a severe affliction | Synonyms: curse |
(noun) intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain | Synonyms: agony, torture |
(noun) extreme mental distress | Synonyms: anguish, torture |
(noun) a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented | Synonyms: harassment |
(noun) unbearable physical pain | Synonyms: torture |
tournament | (noun) a sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner | Synonyms: tourney |
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(noun) a series of jousts between knights contesting for a prize | - |
traducement | (noun) a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions | Synonyms: calumniation, calumny, defamation, hatchet job, obloquy |
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transshipment | (noun) the transfer from one conveyance to another for shipment | - |
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treatment | (noun) care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury) | Synonyms: intervention |
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(noun) the management of someone or something | Synonyms: handling |
(noun) (medicine) the act of caring for someone (as by medication or remedial training etc.) | Synonyms: therapy |
(noun) a manner of dealing with something artistically | - |
(noun) an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic | Synonyms: discourse, discussion |
underachievement | (noun) poorer than expected performance (poorer than might have been predicted from intelligence tests) | - |
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underdevelopment | (noun) (photography) inadequate processing of film resulting in inadequate contrast | - |
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(noun) state of inadequate development | - |
undergarment | (noun) a garment worn under other garments | Synonyms: unmentionable |
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underlayment | (noun) a pad placed under a carpet | Synonyms: carpet pad, rug pad, underlay |
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undernourishment | (noun) not having enough food to develop or function normally | Synonyms: malnourishment |
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underpayment | (noun) the act of paying less than required | - |
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(noun) a payment smaller than needed or expected | - |
understatement | (noun) a statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been said | - |
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unemployment | (noun) the state of being unemployed or not having a job | - |
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unenlightenment | (noun) a lack of understanding | - |
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varment | (noun) any usually predatory wild animal considered undesirable; e.g., coyote | Synonyms: varmint |
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vestment | (noun) gown (especially ceremonial garments) worn by the clergy | - |
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weldment | (noun) an assembly of parts welded together | - |
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wonderment | (noun) the feeling aroused by something strange and surprising | Synonyms: admiration, wonder |
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worriment | (noun) a difficulty that causes anxiety | Synonyms: inconvenience, troublesomeness |
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