icaco | (noun) plum-shaped whitish to almost black fruit used for preserves; tropical American | Synonyms: coco plum, cocoa plum |
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(noun) small tropical American tree bearing edible plumlike fruit | Synonyms: Chrysobalanus icaco, coco plum, coco plum tree, cocoa plum |
ice | (noun) a rink with a floor of ice for ice hockey or ice skating | Synonyms: ice-skating rink, ice rink |
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(noun) an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant | Synonyms: chalk, chicken feed, crank, deoxyephedrine, glass, meth, methamphetamine, methamphetamine hydrochloride, Methedrine, shabu, trash |
(noun) a frozen dessert with fruit flavoring (especially one containing no milk) | Synonyms: frappe |
(noun) a flavored sugar topping used to coat and decorate cakes | Synonyms: frosting, icing |
(noun) the frozen part of a body of water | - |
(noun) diamonds | Synonyms: sparkler |
(noun) water frozen in the solid state | Synonyms: water ice |
iceberg | (noun) lettuce with crisp tightly packed light-green leaves in a firm head | Synonyms: crisphead lettuce, iceberg lettuce |
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(noun) a large mass of ice floating at sea; usually broken off of a polar glacier | Synonyms: berg |
iceboat | (noun) a ship with a reinforced bow to break up ice and keep channels open for navigation | Synonyms: icebreaker |
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(noun) a sailing vessel with runners and a cross-shaped frame; suitable for traveling over ice | Synonyms: ice yacht, scooter |
icebox | (noun) white goods in which food can be stored at low temperatures | Synonyms: refrigerator |
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icebreaker | (noun) a beginning that relaxes a tense or formal atmosphere | - |
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(noun) a ship with a reinforced bow to break up ice and keep channels open for navigation | Synonyms: iceboat |
icecap | (noun) a mass of ice and snow that permanently covers a large area of land (e.g., the polar regions or a mountain peak) | Synonyms: ice cap |
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icecream | (noun) frozen dessert containing cream and sugar and flavoring | Synonyms: ice cream |
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icefall | (noun) a steep part of a glacier resembling a frozen waterfall | - |
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icehouse | (noun) a house for storing ice | - |
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iceman | (noun) someone who cuts and delivers ice | - |
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(noun) a professional killer | Synonyms: hatchet man |
icepick | (noun) pick consisting of a steel rod with a sharp point; used for breaking up blocks of ice | Synonyms: ice pick |
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icetray | (noun) a tray for making cubes of ice in a refrigerator | - |
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ichneumon | (noun) northern African mongoose; in ancient times thought to devour crocodile eggs | Synonyms: Herpestes ichneumon |
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ichor | (noun) a fluid product of inflammation | Synonyms: festering, purulence, pus, sanies, suppuration |
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(noun) (Greek mythology) the rarified fluid said to flow in the veins of the Gods | - |
ichthyolatry | (noun) the worship of fish | Synonyms: fish-worship |
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ichthyologist | (noun) a zoologist who studies fishes | - |
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ichthyology | (noun) the branch of zoology that studies fishes | - |
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ichthyosaur | (noun) any of several marine reptiles of the Mesozoic having a body like a porpoise with dorsal and tail fins and paddle-shaped limbs | - |
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ichthyosaurus | (noun) ichthyosaurs of the Jurassic | - |
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ichthyosis | (noun) any of several congenital diseases in which the skin is dry and scaly like a fish | - |
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ichthyostega | (noun) early tetrapod amphibian found in Greenland | - |
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icicle | (noun) ice resembling a pendent spear, formed by the freezing of dripping water | - |
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iciness | (noun) coldness due to a cold environment | Synonyms: chill, gelidity |
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(noun) a lack of affection or enthusiasm | Synonyms: chilliness, coldness, coolness, frigidity, frigidness |
icing | (noun) (ice hockey) the act of shooting the puck from within your own defensive area the length of the rink beyond the opponent's goal | Synonyms: icing the puck |
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(noun) a flavored sugar topping used to coat and decorate cakes | Synonyms: frosting, ice |
(noun) the formation of frost or ice on a surface | Synonyms: frost |
icon | (noun) a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface | Synonyms: ikon, image, picture |
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(noun) a conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church | Synonyms: ikon |
(noun) (computer science) a graphic symbol (usually a simple picture) that denotes a program or a command or a data file or a concept in a graphical user interface | - |
iconoclasm | (noun) the orientation of an iconoclast | - |
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iconoclast | (noun) someone who attacks cherished ideas or traditional institutions | - |
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(noun) a destroyer of images used in religious worship | Synonyms: image breaker |
iconography | (noun) the images and symbolic representations that are traditionally associated with a person or a subject | - |
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iconolatry | (noun) the worship of sacred images | - |
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iconology | (noun) the branch of art history that studies visual images and their symbolic meaning (especially in social or political terms) | - |
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iconoscope | (noun) the first practical television-camera for picture pickup; invented in 1923 by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin | - |
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icosahedron | (noun) any polyhedron having twenty plane faces | - |
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icterus | (noun) yellowing of the skin and the whites of the eyes caused by an accumulation of bile pigment (bilirubin) in the blood; can be a symptom of gallstones or liver infection or anemia | Synonyms: jaundice |
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ictodosaur | (noun) intermediate in form between the therapsids and most primitive true mammals | - |
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ictus | (noun) a sudden occurrence (or recurrence) of a disease | Synonyms: raptus, seizure |
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