aculea | (noun) small spiny outgrowth on the wings of certain insects | - |
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aculeate | (adjective) having or resembling a stinger or barb | Synonyms: aculeated |
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aculeated | (adjective) having or resembling a stinger or barb | Synonyms: aculeate |
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aculeus | (noun) a sharp-pointed process especially a sting of a hymenopterous insect | - |
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(noun) a stiff sharp-pointed plant process | - |
aquacultural | (adjective) of or relating to aquiculture | Synonyms: aquicultural, hydroponic |
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aquaculture | (noun) rearing aquatic animals or cultivating aquatic plants for food | - |
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baculiform | (adjective) formed like a bacillus | Synonyms: bacillar, bacillary, bacilliform, rod-shaped |
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caracul | (noun) hardy coarse-haired sheep of central Asia; lambs are valued for their soft curly black fur | Synonyms: broadtail, karakul |
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ejaculate | (noun) the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract | Synonyms: come, cum, seed, semen, seminal fluid |
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(verb) eject semen | - |
(verb) utter impulsively | Synonyms: blunder, blunder out, blurt, blurt out |
ejaculation | (noun) an abrupt emphatic exclamation expressing emotion | Synonyms: interjection |
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(noun) the discharge of semen in males | - |
ejaculator | (noun) a speaker who utters a sudden exclamation | - |
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(noun) a man who ejaculates semen | - |
facula | (noun) a large bright spot on the sun's photosphere occurring most frequently in the vicinity of sunspots | Synonyms: solar facula |
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(noun) a bright spot on a planet | - |
facultative | (adjective) able to exist under more than one set of conditions | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to the mental faculties | - |
(adjective) granting a privilege or permission or power to do or not do something | - |
(adjective) optional | Synonyms: elective |
faculty | (noun) one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind | Synonyms: mental faculty, module |
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(noun) the body of teachers and administrators at a school | Synonyms: staff |
immaculacy | (noun) The characteristic of having no stain or blemish; of being spotless, undefiled, clear, pure. | - |
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immaculate | (adjective) completely neat and clean | Synonyms: speckless, spic-and-span, spic, spick-and-span, spick, spotless |
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(adjective) without fault or error | Synonyms: faultless, impeccable, incorrupted |
(adjective) free from stain or blemish | Synonyms: undefiled |
immaculately | (adverb) in an immaculate manner | - |
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immaculateness | (noun) the state of being spotlessly clean | Synonyms: spotlessness |
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macula | (noun) a small yellowish central area of the retina that is rich in cones and that mediates clear detailed vision | Synonyms: macula lutea, macular area, yellow spot |
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(noun) a patch of skin that is discolored but not usually elevated; caused by various diseases | Synonyms: macule |
(noun) a cooler darker spot appearing periodically on the sun's photosphere; associated with a strong magnetic field | Synonyms: sunspot |
maculate | (adjective) spotted or blotched | - |
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(adjective) morally blemished; stained or impure | Synonyms: defiled |
(verb) spot, stain, or pollute | Synonyms: befoul, defile, foul |
(verb) make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically | Synonyms: defile, stain, sully, tarnish |
maculation | (noun) the act of spotting or staining something | Synonyms: spotting, staining |
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(noun) a small contrasting part of something | Synonyms: dapple, fleck, patch, speckle, spot |
macule | (noun) a patch of skin that is discolored but not usually elevated; caused by various diseases | Synonyms: macula |
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miraculous | (adjective) peculiarly fortunate or appropriate; as if by divine intervention | Synonyms: heaven-sent, providential |
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(adjective) being or having the character of a miracle | Synonyms: marvellous, marvelous |
miraculously | (adverb) in a miraculous manner | - |
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oracular | (adjective) of or relating to an oracle | - |
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(adjective) resembling an oracle in obscurity of thought | Synonyms: enigmatic |
(adjective) obscurely prophetic | Synonyms: Delphic |
spectacular | (adjective) having a quality that thrusts itself into attention | Synonyms: outstanding, prominent, salient, striking |
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(adjective) characteristic of spectacles or drama | - |
(adjective) sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect | Synonyms: dramatic, striking |
(noun) a lavishly produced performance | - |
spectacularly | (adverb) in a spectacular manner | Synonyms: stunningly |
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sustentacular | (adjective) serving to sustain or support | - |
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tentacular | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling tentacles | - |
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unspectacular | (adjective) not spectacular | - |
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vernacular | (adjective) being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language | Synonyms: common, vulgar |
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(noun) the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language) | - |
(noun) a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves) | Synonyms: argot, cant, jargon, lingo, patois, slang |