auberge | (noun) a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers | Synonyms: hostel, hostelry, inn, lodge |
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aubergine | (noun) egg-shaped vegetable having a shiny skin typically dark purple but occasionally white or yellow | Synonyms: eggplant, mad apple |
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(noun) hairy upright herb native to southeastern Asia but widely cultivated for its large glossy edible fruit commonly used as a vegetable | Synonyms: brinjal, eggplant, eggplant bush, garden egg, mad apple, Solanum melongena |
auction | (noun) the public sale of something to the highest bidder | Synonyms: auction sale, vendue |
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(noun) a variety of bridge in which tricks made in excess of the contract are scored toward game; now generally superseded by contract bridge | Synonyms: auction bridge |
auctioneer | (noun) an agent who conducts an auction | - |
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audaciousness | (noun) fearless daring | Synonyms: audacity, temerity |
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(noun) aggressive boldness or unmitigated effrontery | Synonyms: audacity |
audacity | (noun) fearless daring | Synonyms: audaciousness, temerity |
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(noun) aggressive boldness or unmitigated effrontery | Synonyms: audaciousness |
audad | (noun) wild sheep of northern Africa | Synonyms: Ammotragus lervia, aoudad, arui, Barbary sheep, maned sheep |
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audibility | (noun) quality or fact or degree of being audible or perceptible by the ear | Synonyms: audibleness |
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audible | (noun) a football play is changed orally after both teams have assumed their positions at the line of scrimmage | - |
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audibleness | (noun) quality or fact or degree of being audible or perceptible by the ear | Synonyms: audibility |
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audience | (noun) a conference (usually with someone important) | Synonyms: consultation, interview |
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(noun) a gathering of spectators or listeners at a (usually public) performance | - |
(noun) the part of the general public interested in a source of information, entertainment, or a product/service | - |
(noun) an opportunity to state your case and be heard | Synonyms: hearing |
audile | (noun) one whose mental imagery is auditory rather than visual or motor | - |
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audio | (noun) the sound elements of television | - |
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(noun) a recording of acoustic signals | Synonyms: audio recording, sound recording |
(noun) an audible acoustic wave frequency | Synonyms: audio frequency |
(noun) the audible part of a transmitted signal | Synonyms: sound |
audiocassette | (noun) a cassette for audiotape | - |
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audiogram | (noun) a graphical representation of a person's auditory sensitivity to sound | - |
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audiology | (noun) the measurement of hearing | Synonyms: audiometry |
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audiometer | (noun) an instrument used to measure the sensitivity of hearing | Synonyms: sonometer |
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audiometry | (noun) measuring sensitivity of hearing | - |
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(noun) the measurement of hearing | Synonyms: audiology |
audiotape | (noun) magnetic tape for use in recording sound | - |
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(noun) a tape recording of sound | - |
audiovisual | (noun) materials using sight or sound to present information | Synonyms: audiovisual aid |
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audit | (noun) a methodical examination or review of a condition or situation | - |
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(noun) an inspection of the accounting procedures and records by a trained accountant or CPA | Synonyms: audited account |
audition | (noun) a test of the suitability of a performer | Synonyms: tryout |
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(noun) the ability to hear; the auditory faculty | Synonyms: auditory modality, auditory sense, hearing, sense of hearing |
auditor | (noun) a qualified accountant who inspects the accounting records and practices of a business or other organization | - |
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(noun) someone who listens attentively | Synonyms: attender, hearer, listener |
(noun) a student who attends a course but does not take it for credit | - |
auditorium | (noun) the area of a theater or concert hall where the audience sits | - |
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augend | (noun) a number to which another number (the addend) is added | - |
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auger | (noun) hand tool for boring holes | Synonyms: gimlet, screw auger, wimble |
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(noun) a long flexible steel coil for dislodging stoppages in curved pipes | Synonyms: plumber's snake, snake |
aught | (noun) a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential | Synonyms: cipher, cypher, goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo |
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augite | (noun) dark-green to black glassy mineral of the pyroxene group containing large amounts of aluminum and iron and magnesium | - |
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augmentation | (noun) the act of augmenting | - |
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(noun) the statement of a theme in notes of greater duration (usually twice the length of the original) | - |
(noun) the amount by which something becomes greater | - |
augur | (noun) (ancient Rome) a religious official who interpreted omens to guide public policy | Synonyms: auspex |
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augury | (noun) an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come | Synonyms: foretoken, preindication, sign |
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auk | (noun) black-and-white short-necked web-footed diving bird of northern seas | - |
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auklet | (noun) any of several small auks of the northern Pacific coasts | - |
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aunt | (noun) the sister of your father or mother; the wife of your uncle | Synonyms: auntie, aunty |
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auntie | (noun) the sister of your father or mother; the wife of your uncle | Synonyms: aunt, aunty |
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aunty | (noun) the sister of your father or mother; the wife of your uncle | Synonyms: aunt, auntie |
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aura | (noun) an indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint | Synonyms: aureole, gloriole, glory, halo, nimbus |
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(noun) a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing | Synonyms: air, atmosphere |
(noun) a sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure | - |
aureole | (noun) an indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint | Synonyms: aura, gloriole, glory, halo, nimbus |
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(noun) the outermost region of the sun's atmosphere; visible as a white halo during a solar eclipse | Synonyms: corona |
auricle | (noun) a small conical pouch projecting from the upper anterior part of each atrium of the heart | Synonyms: atrial auricle, auricula atrii |
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(noun) the externally visible cartilaginous structure of the external ear | Synonyms: ear, pinna |
auricula | (noun) a pouch projecting from the top front of each atrium of the heart | Synonyms: auricular appendage, auricular appendix |
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(noun) yellow-flowered primrose native to Alps; commonly cultivated | Synonyms: bear's ear, Primula auricula |
auriculare | (noun) the craniometric point at the center of the opening of the external acoustic meatus | Synonyms: auricular point |
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auriscope | (noun) medical instrument consisting of a magnifying lens and light; used for examining the external ear (the auditory meatus and especially the tympanic membrane) | Synonyms: auroscope, otoscope |
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aurochs | (noun) large recently extinct long-horned European wild ox; considered one of the ancestors of domestic cattle | Synonyms: Bos primigenius, urus |
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(noun) European bison having a smaller and higher head than the North American bison | Synonyms: Bison bonasus, wisent |
aurora | (noun) an atmospheric phenomenon consisting of bands of light caused by charged solar particles following the earth's magnetic lines of force | - |
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(noun) the first light of day | Synonyms: break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, dawn, dawning, daybreak, dayspring, first light, morning, sunrise, sunup |
auroscope | (noun) medical instrument consisting of a magnifying lens and light; used for examining the external ear (the auditory meatus and especially the tympanic membrane) | Synonyms: auriscope, otoscope |
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auscultation | (noun) listening to sounds within the body (usually with a stethoscope) | - |
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auspex | (noun) (ancient Rome) a religious official who interpreted omens to guide public policy | Synonyms: augur |
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auspice | (noun) a favorable omen | - |
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auspices | (noun) kindly endorsement and guidance | Synonyms: aegis, protection |
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auspiciousness | (noun) the favorable quality of strongly indicating a successful result | Synonyms: propitiousness |
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austenite | (noun) a solid solution of ferric carbide or carbon in iron; cools to form pearlite or martensite | - |
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austereness | (noun) extreme plainness | Synonyms: severeness, severity |
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austerity | (noun) the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures) | Synonyms: asceticism, nonindulgence |
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austral | (noun) the basic unit of money in Argentina; equal to 100 centavos | - |
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australopithecine | (noun) any of several extinct humanlike bipedal primates with relatively small brains of the genus Australopithecus; from 1 to 4 million years ago | - |
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autacoid | (noun) any physiologically active internal secretion especially one of uncertain classification | Synonyms: autocoid |
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autarchy | (noun) a political system governed by a single individual | Synonyms: autocracy |
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(noun) economic independence as a national policy | Synonyms: autarky |
autarky | (noun) economic independence as a national policy | Synonyms: autarchy |
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auteur | (noun) a filmmaker who has a personal style and keeps creative control over his or her works | - |
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authentication | (noun) validating the authenticity of something or someone | Synonyms: certification |
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(noun) a mark on an article of trade to indicate its origin and authenticity | Synonyms: assay-mark, hallmark |
authenticator | (noun) one who determines authenticity (as of works of art) or who guarantees validity | Synonyms: appraiser |
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authenticity | (noun) undisputed credibility | Synonyms: genuineness, legitimacy |
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author | (noun) writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay) | Synonyms: writer |
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(noun) someone who originates or causes or initiates something | Synonyms: generator, source |
authoress | (noun) a woman author | - |
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authorisation | (noun) the act of conferring legality or sanction or formal warrant | Synonyms: authorization, empowerment |
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(noun) the power or right to give orders or make decisions | Synonyms: authority, authorization, dominance, potency, say-so |
(noun) official permission or approval | Synonyms: authority, authorization, sanction |
(noun) a document giving an official instruction or command | Synonyms: authorization, mandate |
authoriser | (noun) an authority who authorizes (people or actions) | Synonyms: authorizer |
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authoritarian | (noun) a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner | Synonyms: dictator |
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authoritarianism | (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: absolutism, Caesarism, despotism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny |
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authorities | (noun) the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit | Synonyms: government, regime |
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authority | (noun) the power or right to give orders or make decisions | Synonyms: authorisation, authorization, dominance, potency, say-so |
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(noun) official permission or approval | Synonyms: authorisation, authorization, sanction |
(noun) freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities | Synonyms: assurance, confidence, self-assurance, self-confidence, sureness |
(noun) an authoritative written work | - |
(noun) an administrative unit of government | Synonyms: agency, bureau, federal agency, government agency, office |
(noun) an expert whose views are taken as definitive | - |
(noun) (usually plural) persons who exercise (administrative) control over others | - |
authorization | (noun) the act of conferring legality or sanction or formal warrant | Synonyms: authorisation, empowerment |
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(noun) the power or right to give orders or make decisions | Synonyms: authorisation, authority, dominance, potency, say-so |
(noun) official permission or approval | Synonyms: authorisation, authority, sanction |
(noun) a document giving an official instruction or command | Synonyms: authorisation, mandate |
authorizer | (noun) an authority who authorizes (people or actions) | Synonyms: authoriser |
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authorship | (noun) the act of creating written works | Synonyms: composition, penning, writing |
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(noun) the act of initiating a new idea or theory or writing | Synonyms: paternity |
autism | (noun) (psychiatry) an abnormal absorption with the self; marked by communication disorders and short attention span and inability to treat others as people | - |
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auto | (noun) a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine | Synonyms: automobile, car, machine, motorcar |
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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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autoantibody | (noun) an antibody acting against tissues of the organism that produces it | - |
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autobahn | (noun) an expressway in a German-speaking country | - |
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autobiographer | (noun) someone who writes their own biography | - |
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autobiography | (noun) a biography of yourself | - |
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autobus | (noun) a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport | Synonyms: bus, charabanc, coach, double-decker, jitney, motorbus, motorcoach, omnibus, passenger vehicle |
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autocatalysis | (noun) catalysis in which the catalyst is one of the products of the reaction | - |
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autochthon | (noun) the earliest known inhabitants of a region | - |
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autochthony | (noun) nativeness by virtue of originating or occurring naturally (as in a particular place) | Synonyms: endemism, indigenousness |
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autoclave | (noun) a device for heating substances above their boiling point; used to manufacture chemicals or to sterilize surgical instruments | Synonyms: steriliser, sterilizer |
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autocoid | (noun) any physiologically active internal secretion especially one of uncertain classification | Synonyms: autacoid |
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autocorrect | (noun) a system for automatically correcting text | - |
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autocracy | (noun) a political theory favoring unlimited authority by a single individual | - |
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(noun) a political system governed by a single individual | Synonyms: autarchy |
autocrat | (noun) a cruel and oppressive dictator | Synonyms: despot, tyrant |
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autocue | (noun) a device that displays words for people to read | Synonyms: prompter |
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autodidact | (noun) a person who has taught himself | - |
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autoeroticism | (noun) using your own body as a sexual object | Synonyms: autoerotism |
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autoerotism | (noun) using your own body as a sexual object | Synonyms: autoeroticism |
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autofluorescence | (noun) self-induced fluorescence | - |
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autofocus | (noun) an optical device for focussing a camera or other instrument automatically | - |
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autogamy | (noun) self-fertilization in plants | - |
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autogenesis | (noun) a hypothetical organic phenomenon by which living organisms are created from nonliving matter | Synonyms: abiogenesis, autogeny, spontaneous generation |
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autogenics | (noun) training patients in self-induced relaxation | Synonyms: autogenic therapy, autogenic training |
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autogeny | (noun) a hypothetical organic phenomenon by which living organisms are created from nonliving matter | Synonyms: abiogenesis, autogenesis, spontaneous generation |
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autogiro | (noun) an aircraft that is supported in flight by unpowered rotating horizontal wings (or blades); forward propulsion is provided by a conventional propeller | Synonyms: autogyro, gyroplane |
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