alarm | (noun) a device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event | Synonyms: alarm system, warning device |
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(noun) a clock that wakes a sleeper at some preset time | Synonyms: alarm clock |
(noun) an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger | Synonyms: alarum, alert, warning signal |
(noun) fear resulting from the awareness of danger | Synonyms: consternation, dismay |
angiosperm | (noun) plants having seeds in a closed ovary | Synonyms: flowering plant |
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angleworm | (noun) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: crawler, dew worm, earthworm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightcrawler, nightwalker, red worm, wiggler |
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arm | (noun) the part of a garment that is attached at the armhole and that provides a cloth covering for the arm | Synonyms: sleeve |
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(noun) any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting | Synonyms: weapon, weapon system |
(noun) the part of an armchair or sofa that supports the elbow and forearm of a seated person | - |
(noun) any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm | Synonyms: branch, limb |
(noun) a human limb; technically the part of the superior limb between the shoulder and the elbow but commonly used to refer to the whole superior limb | - |
(noun) a division of some larger or more complex organization | Synonyms: branch, subdivision |
armyworm | (noun) moth whose destructive larvae travel in multitudes | Synonyms: Pseudaletia unipuncta |
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(noun) noctuid moth larvae that travel in multitudes destroying especially grass and grain | Synonyms: army worm, Pseudaletia unipuncta |
(noun) larva of fungus gnat that feed on cereals and other grains; they march in large companies in regular order when the food is exhausted | - |
arrowworm | (noun) any worm of the Chaetognatha; transparent marine worm with horizontal lateral and caudal fins and a row of movable curved spines at each side of the mouth | Synonyms: chaetognath |
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autoalarm | (noun) a radio receiving device used on ships that rings an alarm bell when a distress signal is received. | Synonyms: auto-alarm |
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barm | (noun) a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey | Synonyms: yeast |
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berm | (noun) a narrow edge of land (usually unpaved) along the side of a road | Synonyms: shoulder |
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(noun) a narrow ledge or shelf typically at the top or bottom of a slope | - |
bioarm | (noun) any weapon usable in biological warfare | Synonyms: biological weapon, bioweapon |
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blastoderm | (noun) a layer of cells on the inside of the blastula | Synonyms: blastodisc, germinal area, germinal disc |
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blindworm | (noun) small burrowing legless European lizard with tiny eyes; popularly believed to be blind | Synonyms: Anguis fragilis, slowworm |
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(noun) any of the small slender limbless burrowing wormlike amphibians of the order Gymnophiona; inhabit moist soil in tropical regions | Synonyms: caecilian |
bloodworm | (noun) a segmented marine worm with bright red body; often used for bait | - |
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bollworm | (noun) any of various moth caterpillars that destroy cotton bolls | - |
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bookworm | (noun) someone who spends a great deal of time reading | - |
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(noun) a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit | Synonyms: pedant, scholastic |
brainstorm | (noun) the clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation | Synonyms: brainwave, insight |
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bromoform | (noun) colorless liquid haloform CHBr3 | Synonyms: tribromomethane |
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cabbageworm | (noun) toxic green larva of a cabbage butterfly | Synonyms: Pieris rapae |
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caddisworm | (noun) larva of the caddis fly; constructs a case of silk covered with sand or plant debris | Synonyms: strawworm |
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cairngorm | (noun) a smoky yellow or brown quartz | Synonyms: smoky quartz |
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cankerworm | (noun) green caterpillar of a geometrid moth; pest of various fruit and shade trees | - |
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caseworm | (noun) insect larva that constructs a protective case around its body | - |
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charm | (noun) something believed to bring good luck | Synonyms: good luck charm |
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(noun) attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates | Synonyms: appeal, appealingness |
(noun) (physics) one of the six flavors of quark, the third most massive of all quarks | - |
(noun) a verbal formula believed to have magical force | Synonyms: magic spell, magical spell, spell |
chloroform | (noun) a volatile liquid haloform (CHCl3); formerly used as an anesthetic | Synonyms: trichloromethane |
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chordamesoderm | (noun) the area of mesoderm that forms the notochord | Synonyms: chordomesoderm |
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chordomesoderm | (noun) the area of mesoderm that forms the notochord | Synonyms: chordamesoderm |
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corm | (noun) solid swollen underground bulb-shaped stem or stem base and serving as a reproductive structure | - |
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cuneiform | (noun) an ancient wedge-shaped script used in Mesopotamia and Persia | - |
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cutworm | (noun) North American moth whose larvae feed on young plant stems cutting them off at the ground | - |
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dorm | (noun) a college or university building containing living quarters for students | Synonyms: dormitory, hall, residence hall, student residence |
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earthworm | (noun) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: angleworm, crawler, dew worm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightcrawler, nightwalker, red worm, wiggler |
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echinoderm | (noun) marine invertebrates with tube feet and five-part radially symmetrical bodies | - |
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ectoderm | (noun) the outer germ layer that develops into skin and nervous tissue | Synonyms: ectoblast, exoderm |
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ectotherm | (noun) an animal whose body temperature varies with the temperature of its surroundings; any animal except birds and mammals | Synonyms: poikilotherm |
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eelworm | (noun) any of various small free-living plant-parasitic roundworms | - |
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endoderm | (noun) the inner germ layer that develops into the lining of the digestive and respiratory systems | Synonyms: endoblast, entoblast, entoderm, hypoblast |
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endosperm | (noun) nutritive tissue surrounding the embryo within seeds of flowering plants | - |
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entoderm | (noun) the inner germ layer that develops into the lining of the digestive and respiratory systems | Synonyms: endoblast, endoderm, entoblast, hypoblast |
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episperm | (noun) protective outer layer of seeds of flowering plants | Synonyms: seed coat, testa |
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exoderm | (noun) the outer germ layer that develops into skin and nervous tissue | Synonyms: ectoblast, ectoderm |
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exotherm | (noun) a compound that gives off heat during its formation and absorbs heat during its decomposition | - |
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farm | (noun) workplace consisting of farm buildings and cultivated land as a unit | - |
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firearm | (noun) a portable gun | Synonyms: piece, small-arm |
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firestorm | (noun) an outburst of controversy | - |
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(noun) a storm in which violent winds are drawn into the column of hot air rising over a severely bombed area | - |
firm | (noun) the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments | Synonyms: business firm, house |
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fishworm | (noun) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: angleworm, crawler, dew worm, earthworm, fishing worm, nightcrawler, nightwalker, red worm, wiggler |
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flatworm | (noun) parasitic or free-living worms having a flattened body | Synonyms: platyhelminth |
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fluoroform | (noun) colorless gas haloform CHF3 (similar to chloroform) | Synonyms: trifluoromethane |
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forearm | (noun) the part of the superior limb between the elbow and the wrist | - |
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form | (noun) the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance | Synonyms: shape |
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(noun) a life-size dummy used to display clothes | Synonyms: manakin, manikin, mannequin, mannikin |
(noun) a mold for setting concrete | - |
(noun) the visual appearance of something or someone | Synonyms: cast, shape |
(noun) any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline) | Synonyms: configuration, conformation, contour, shape |
(noun) an ability to perform well | - |
(noun) a particular mode in which something is manifested | - |
(noun) alternative names for the body of a human being | Synonyms: anatomy, bod, build, chassis, figure, flesh, frame, human body, material body, physical body, physique, shape, soma |
(noun) a perceptual structure | Synonyms: pattern, shape |
(noun) a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality | Synonyms: kind, sort, variety |
(noun) the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something | Synonyms: descriptor, signifier, word form |
(noun) a printed document with spaces in which to write | - |
(noun) an arrangement of the elements in a composition or discourse | - |
(noun) a body of students who are taught together | Synonyms: class, course, grade |
(noun) (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups | Synonyms: strain, var., variant |
(noun) (physical chemistry) a distinct state of matter in a system; matter that is identical in chemical composition and physical state and separated from other material by the phase boundary | Synonyms: phase |
germ | (noun) a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use | Synonyms: bug, microbe |
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(noun) a small apparently simple structure (as a fertilized egg) from which new tissue can develop into a complete organism | - |
(noun) anything that provides inspiration for later work | Synonyms: seed, source |
glowworm | (noun) the luminous larva or wingless grub-like female of a firefly | - |
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gymnosperm | (noun) plants of the class Gymnospermae having seeds not enclosed in an ovary | - |
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hailstorm | (noun) a storm during which hail falls | - |
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haloform | (noun) compounds with the formula CHX3, where X is a halogen atom | - |
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harm | (noun) the act of damaging something or someone | Synonyms: damage, hurt, scathe |
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(noun) the occurrence of a change for the worse | Synonyms: damage, impairment |
(noun) any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury | Synonyms: hurt, injury, trauma |
herm | (noun) a statue consisting of a squared stone pillar with a carved head (usually a bearded Hermes) on top; used in ancient Greece as a boundary marker or signpost | - |
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homeotherm | (noun) an animal that has a body temperature that is relatively constant and independent of the environmental temperature | Synonyms: homoiotherm, homotherm |
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homoiotherm | (noun) an animal that has a body temperature that is relatively constant and independent of the environmental temperature | Synonyms: homeotherm, homotherm |
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homotherm | (noun) an animal that has a body temperature that is relatively constant and independent of the environmental temperature | Synonyms: homeotherm, homoiotherm |
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hookworm | (noun) parasitic bloodsucking roundworms having hooked mouth parts to fasten to the intestinal wall of human and other hosts | - |
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(noun) infestation of the intestines by hookworms which enter the body (usually) through the skin | Synonyms: hookworm disease |
inchworm | (noun) small hairless caterpillar having legs on only its front and rear segments; mostly larvae of moths of the family Geometridae | Synonyms: looper, measuring worm |
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iodoform | (noun) a yellowish crystalline solid with a penetrating odor; sometimes used as an antiseptic dressing | Synonyms: triiodomethane |
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(noun) sweet smelling yellow solid haloform CHI3 | Synonyms: tri-iodomethane |
isogeotherm | (noun) an isogram connecting points of equal temperature below the surface of the earth. | - |
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isotherm | (noun) (meteorology) an isogram connecting points having the same temperature at a given time | - |
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jointworm | (noun) larva of chalcid flies injurious to the straw of wheat and other grains | Synonyms: strawworm |
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lobworm | (noun) marine worms having a row of tufted gills along each side of the back; often used for fishing bait | Synonyms: lug, lugworm |
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lugworm | (noun) marine worms having a row of tufted gills along each side of the back; often used for fishing bait | Synonyms: lobworm, lug |
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mealworm | (noun) the larva of beetles of the family Tenebrionidae | - |
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mesoderm | (noun) the middle germ layer that develops into muscle and bone and cartilage and blood and connective tissue | Synonyms: mesoblast |
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midterm | (noun) an examination administered in the middle of an academic term | Synonyms: midterm exam, midterm examination |
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(noun) middle of an academic term or a political term in office | - |
(noun) the middle of the gestation period | - |
nitrochloroform | (noun) a heavy colorless insoluble liquid compound that causes tears and vomiting; used as a pesticide and as tear gas | Synonyms: chloropicrin |
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norm | (noun) a statistic describing the location of a distribution | Synonyms: average |
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(noun) a standard or model or pattern regarded as typical | - |
ostracoderm | (noun) extinct fish-like jawless vertebrate having a heavily armored body; of the Paleozoic | - |
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pachyderm | (noun) any of various nonruminant hoofed mammals having very thick skin: elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus | - |
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perisperm | (noun) the nutritive tissue outside the sac containing the embryo in some seeds | - |
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perm | (noun) a series of waves in the hair made by applying heat and chemicals | Synonyms: permanent, permanent wave |
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pinworm | (noun) small threadlike worm infesting human intestines and rectum especially in children | Synonyms: Enterobius vermicularis, threadworm |
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pisiform | (noun) a small wrist bone that articulates only with the triquetral | Synonyms: os pisiforme, pisiform bone |
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placoderm | (noun) fish-like vertebrate with bony plates on head and upper body; dominant in seas and rivers during the Devonian; considered the earliest vertebrate with jaws | - |
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platform | (noun) a raised horizontal surface | - |
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(noun) any military structure or vehicle bearing weapons | Synonyms: weapons platform |
(noun) a woman's shoe with a very high thick sole | Synonyms: chopine |
(noun) the combination of a particular computer and a particular operating system | - |
(noun) a long, flat raised structure of a railway station, where people get on and off of trains | - |
(noun) a document stating the aims and principles of a political party | Synonyms: political platform, political program, program |
poikilotherm | (noun) an animal whose body temperature varies with the temperature of its surroundings; any animal except birds and mammals | Synonyms: ectotherm |
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polearm | (noun) a close combat weapon in which the main fighting part of the weapon is fitted to the end of a long shaft, typically of wood, thereby extending the user's effective range. | Synonyms: pole weapon |
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progymnosperm | (noun) an ancestral fossil type from which modern gymnosperms are thought to have derived | - |
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pteridosperm | (noun) an extinct seed-producing fernlike plant of the order Cycadofilicales (or group Pteridospermae) | Synonyms: seed fern |
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rainstorm | (noun) a storm with rain | - |
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reform | (noun) a change for the better as a result of correcting abuses | - |
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(noun) a campaign aimed to correct abuses or malpractices | - |
(noun) self-improvement in behavior or morals by abandoning some vice | - |
ringworm | (noun) infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches | Synonyms: roundworm, tinea |
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roundworm | (noun) unsegmented worms with elongated rounded body pointed at both ends; mostly free-living but some are parasitic | Synonyms: nematode, nematode worm |
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(noun) infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches | Synonyms: ringworm, tinea |
sandstorm | (noun) a windstorm that lifts up clouds of dust or sand | Synonyms: dust storm, duster, sirocco |
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schoolmarm | (noun) a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict) | Synonyms: mistress, schoolma'am, schoolmistress |
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shipworm | (noun) wormlike marine bivalve that bores into wooden piers and ships by means of drill-like shells | Synonyms: teredinid |
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shitstorm | (noun) A considerable backlash or controversy | - |
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silkworm | (noun) the commercially bred hairless white caterpillar of the domestic silkworm moth which spins a cocoon that can be processed to yield silk fiber; the principal source of commercial silk | - |
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(noun) larva of a saturniid moth; spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon | Synonyms: giant silkworm, wild wilkworm |
slowworm | (noun) small burrowing legless European lizard with tiny eyes; popularly believed to be blind | Synonyms: Anguis fragilis, blindworm |
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smarm | (noun) excessive but superficial compliments given with affected charm | Synonyms: fulsomeness, unction |
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snowstorm | (noun) a storm with widespread snowfall accompanied by strong winds | Synonyms: blizzard |
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sperm | (noun) the male reproductive cell; the male gamete | Synonyms: sperm cell, spermatozoan, spermatozoon |
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splitworm | (noun) greyish-brown moth whose larva is the potato tuberworm | Synonyms: Phthorimaea operculella, potato moth, potato tuber moth |
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squirm | (noun) the act of wiggling | Synonyms: wiggle, wriggle |
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