acidic | (adjective) being or containing an acid; of a solution having an excess of hydrogen atoms (having a pH of less than 7) | - |
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(adjective) being sour to the taste | Synonyms: acid, acidulent, acidulous |
acidification | (noun) the process of becoming acid or being converted into an acid | - |
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acidify | (verb) turn acidic | Synonyms: acetify |
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(verb) make sour or more sour | Synonyms: acetify, acidulate, sour |
acidimetric | (adjective) involving or related to acidimetry | - |
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acidimetry | (noun) volumetric analysis using standard solutions of acids to measure the amount of a base present | - |
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acidity | (noun) pH values below 7 | - |
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(noun) the property of being acidic | Synonyms: sour, sourness |
(noun) the taste experience when something acidic is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: acidulousness |
acidophil | (noun) an organism that thrives in a relatively acid environment | Synonyms: acidophile |
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acidophile | (noun) an organism that thrives in a relatively acid environment | Synonyms: acidophil |
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acidophilic | (adjective) especially of some bacteria; growing well in an acid medium | Synonyms: acidophilous, aciduric |
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acidophilous | (adjective) especially of some bacteria; growing well in an acid medium | Synonyms: acidophilic, aciduric |
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acidophilus | (noun) a bacterium that is used to make yogurt and to supplement probiotics | Synonyms: Lactobacillus acidophilus |
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acidosis | (noun) abnormally high acidity (excess hydrogen-ion concentration) of the blood and other body tissues | - |
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acidotic | (adjective) having or being characterized by acidosis | - |
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acidulate | (verb) make sour or more sour | Synonyms: acetify, acidify, sour |
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acidulent | (adjective) being sour to the taste | Synonyms: acid, acidic, acidulous |
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acidulous | (adjective) being sour to the taste | Synonyms: acid, acidic, acidulent |
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acidulousness | (noun) the taste experience when something acidic is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: acidity |
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aciduric | (adjective) especially of some bacteria; growing well in an acid medium | Synonyms: acidophilic, acidophilous |
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acinar | (adjective) pertaining to the individual parts making up an aggregate fruit like a blackberry | - |
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(adjective) pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland) | Synonyms: acinic, acinose, acinous |
acinic | (adjective) pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland) | Synonyms: acinar, acinose, acinous |
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acinose | (adjective) pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland) | Synonyms: acinar, acinic, acinous |
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acinous | (adjective) pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland) | Synonyms: acinar, acinic, acinose |
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acinus | (noun) one of the small sacs or saclike dilations in a compound gland | - |
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(noun) one of the small drupes making up an aggregate or multiple fruit like a blackberry | - |
ackee | (noun) red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds; flesh is poisonous when unripe or overripe | Synonyms: akee |
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acknowledge | (verb) accept as legally binding and valid | - |
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(verb) accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority | Synonyms: know, recognise, recognize |
(verb) declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of | Synonyms: admit |
(verb) express obligation, thanks, or gratitude for | Synonyms: recognise, recognize |
(verb) report the receipt of | Synonyms: receipt |
(verb) express recognition of the presence or existence of, or acquaintance with | Synonyms: notice |
acknowledgeable | (adjective) capable of being acknowledged | - |
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acknowledged | (adjective) recognized or made known or admitted | - |
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(adjective) generally accepted | - |
acknowledgement | (noun) a statement acknowledging something or someone | Synonyms: acknowledgment |
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(noun) the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged | Synonyms: acknowledgment, recognition |
acknowledgment | (noun) a statement acknowledging something or someone | Synonyms: acknowledgement |
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(noun) a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage | Synonyms: citation, cite, credit, mention, quotation, reference |
(noun) the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged | Synonyms: acknowledgement, recognition |
acme | (noun) the highest point (of something) | Synonyms: apex, peak, vertex |
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(noun) the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development | Synonyms: elevation, height, meridian, peak, pinnacle, summit, superlative, tiptop, top |
acmeism | (noun) An early 20th-century Russian school of poetry that rejected the vagueness and emotionality of Symbolism in favor of Imagist clarity and texture. | - |
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acne | (noun) an inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin; characterized by papules or pustules or comedones | - |
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acned | (adjective) (of complexion) blemished by imperfections of the skin | Synonyms: pimpled, pimply, pustulate |
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acneiform | (adjective) resembling acne | - |
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acold | (adjective) of persons; feeling cold | - |
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acolyte | (noun) someone who assists a priest or minister in a liturgical service; a cleric ordained in the highest of the minor orders in the Roman Catholic Church but not in the Anglican Church or the Eastern Orthodox Churches | - |
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aconite | (noun) any of various usually poisonous plants of the genus Aconitum having tuberous roots and palmately lobed leaves and blue or white flowers | - |
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acorea | (noun) absence of the pupil in an eye | - |
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acorn | (noun) fruit of the oak tree: a smooth thin-walled nut in a woody cup-shaped base | - |
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acousma | (noun) illusory auditory perception of strange nonverbal sounds | Synonyms: auditory hallucination |
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acoustic | (adjective) of or relating to the science of acoustics | Synonyms: acoustical |
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(noun) a remedy for hearing loss or deafness | - |
acoustical | (adjective) of or relating to the science of acoustics | Synonyms: acoustic |
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acoustically | (adverb) with respect to acoustics | - |
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acoustician | (noun) a physicist who specializes in acoustics | - |
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acousticophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of sounds including your own voice | Synonyms: phonophobia |
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acoustics | (noun) the study of the physical properties of sound | - |
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acquaint | (verb) cause to come to know personally | Synonyms: introduce, present |
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(verb) make familiar or conversant with | Synonyms: familiarise, familiarize |
(verb) inform | - |
acquaintance | (noun) personal knowledge or information about someone or something | Synonyms: conversance, conversancy, familiarity |
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(noun) a person with whom you are acquainted | Synonyms: friend |
(noun) a relationship less intimate than friendship | Synonyms: acquaintanceship |
acquaintanceship | (noun) a relationship less intimate than friendship | Synonyms: acquaintance |
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acquainted | (adjective) having fair knowledge of | - |
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acquiesce | (verb) to agree or express agreement | Synonyms: accede, assent |
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acquiescence | (noun) agreement with a statement or proposal to do something | Synonyms: assent |
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(noun) acceptance without protest | - |
acquiescent | (adjective) willing to carry out the orders or wishes of another without protest | Synonyms: biddable |
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acquirable | (adjective) capable of being acquired | - |
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acquire | (verb) come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes) | Synonyms: develop, get, grow, produce |
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(verb) take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect | Synonyms: adopt, assume, take, take on |
(verb) gain through experience | Synonyms: develop, evolve |
(verb) gain knowledge or skills | Synonyms: larn, learn |
(verb) come into the possession of something concrete or abstract | Synonyms: get |
(verb) win something through one's efforts | Synonyms: gain, win |
(verb) locate (a moving entity) by means of a tracking system such as radar | - |
acquired | (adjective) gotten through environmental forces | - |
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acquirement | (noun) an ability that has been acquired by training | Synonyms: accomplishment, acquisition, attainment, skill |
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acquirer | (noun) a corporation gaining financial control over another corporation or financial institution through a payment in cash or an exchange of stock | - |
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(noun) the financial institution that dispenses cash in automated teller machines and collects a fee from the bank that issued the credit card | - |
(noun) a credit card processing bank; merchants receive credit for credit card receipts less a processing fee | Synonyms: merchant bank |
(noun) a person who acquires something (usually permanently) | - |
acquiring | (noun) the act of acquiring something | Synonyms: getting |
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acquisition | (noun) the act of contracting or assuming or acquiring possession of something | - |
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(noun) an ability that has been acquired by training | Synonyms: accomplishment, acquirement, attainment, skill |
(noun) the cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge | Synonyms: learning |
(noun) something acquired | - |
acquisitive | (adjective) eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas | - |
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acquisitiveness | (noun) strong desire to acquire and possess | - |
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acquit | (verb) behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself | Synonyms: act, bear, behave, carry, comport, conduct, deport, do |
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(verb) pronounce not guilty of criminal charges | Synonyms: assoil, clear, discharge, exculpate, exonerate |
acquittal | (noun) a judgment of not guilty | - |
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acquittance | (noun) a legal document evidencing the discharge of a debt or obligation | Synonyms: release |
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acquitted | (adjective) declared not guilty of a specific offense or crime; legally blameless | Synonyms: not guilty |
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acre | (noun) a unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries | - |
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acreage | (noun) an area of ground used for some particular purpose (such as building or farming) | Synonyms: land area |
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acres | (noun) extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use | Synonyms: demesne, estate, land, landed estate |
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acrid | (adjective) strong and sharp | Synonyms: pungent |
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(adjective) harsh or corrosive in tone | Synonyms: acerb, acerbic, acid, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic |
acridid | (noun) grasshopper with short antennae | Synonyms: short-horned grasshopper |
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acridity | (noun) extreme bitterness | Synonyms: acridness |
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(noun) the quality of being sharply disagreeable in language or tone | Synonyms: acridness |
(noun) having an acrid smell | - |
acridness | (noun) extreme bitterness | Synonyms: acridity |
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(noun) the quality of being sharply disagreeable in language or tone | Synonyms: acridity |
acrimonious | (adjective) marked by strong resentment or cynicism | Synonyms: bitter |
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acrimony | (noun) a rough and bitter manner | Synonyms: acerbity, bitterness, jaundice, tartness, thorniness |
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acritical | (adjective) without a crisis (as of some diseases) | - |
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acroanaesthesia | (noun) loss of sensation in the extremities | Synonyms: acroanesthesia |
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acroanesthesia | (noun) loss of sensation in the extremities | Synonyms: acroanaesthesia |
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acrobat | (noun) an athlete who performs acts requiring skill and agility and coordination | - |
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acrobatic | (adjective) vigorously active | Synonyms: athletic, gymnastic |
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acrobatics | (noun) the gymnastic moves of an acrobat | Synonyms: tumbling |
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(noun) the performance of stunts while in flight in an aircraft | Synonyms: aerobatics, stunt flying, stunting |
acrocarp | (noun) a moss in which the main axis is terminated by the archegonium (and hence the capsule) | Synonyms: acrocarpous moss |
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acrocarpous | (adjective) (of mosses) having the archegonia at the top of the stem | - |
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acrocentric | (adjective) having a subterminal centromere | - |
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acrocephaly | (noun) a congenital abnormality of the skull; the top of the skull assumes a cone shape | Synonyms: oxycephaly |
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acrocyanosis | (noun) cyanosis of the extremities; can occur when a spasm of the blood vessels is caused by exposure to cold or by strong emotion | Synonyms: Raynaud's sign |
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acrodont | (noun) an animal having teeth consolidated with the summit of the alveolar ridge without sockets | - |
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acrogen | (noun) any flowerless plant such as a fern (pteridophyte) or moss (bryophyte) in which growth occurs only at the tip of the main stem | - |
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acrogenic | (adjective) pertaining to flowerless plants (ferns or mosses) in which growth occurs only at the tip of the main stem | Synonyms: acrogenous |
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acrogenous | (adjective) pertaining to flowerless plants (ferns or mosses) in which growth occurs only at the tip of the main stem | Synonyms: acrogenic |
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acrolein | (noun) a pungent colorless unsaturated liquid aldehyde made from propene | Synonyms: propenal |
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acromegalia | (noun) enlargement of bones of hands and feet and face; often accompanied by headache and muscle pain and emotional disturbances; caused by overproduction of growth hormone by the anterior pituitary gland (due to a tumor) | Synonyms: acromegaly |
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acromegalic | (adjective) marked or affected by enlargement or hypertrophy of the extremities or the face | - |
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acromegaly | (noun) enlargement of bones of hands and feet and face; often accompanied by headache and muscle pain and emotional disturbances; caused by overproduction of growth hormone by the anterior pituitary gland (due to a tumor) | Synonyms: acromegalia |
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acromicria | (noun) abnormally small extremities (underdeveloped fingers and toes) | Synonyms: acromikria |
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acromikria | (noun) abnormally small extremities (underdeveloped fingers and toes) | Synonyms: acromicria |
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acromion | (noun) the outermost point of the spine of the shoulder blade | Synonyms: acromial process |
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acromphalus | (noun) abnormal protrusion of the navel; sometimes the start of umbilical hernia | - |
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acromyotonia | (noun) myotonia of the extremities only; causes spastic deformity of the hand or foot | - |
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acronym | (noun) a word formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced as one word | Synonyms: initialism |
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