alar | (adjective) of or relating to the axil | Synonyms: axillary |
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(adjective) having or resembling wings | Synonyms: alary, aliform, wing-shaped |
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 |
(verb) warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness | Synonyms: alert |
(verb) fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised | Synonyms: appal, appall, dismay, horrify |
alarmed | (adjective) experiencing a sudden sense of danger | - |
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alarming | (adjective) frightening because of an awareness of danger | - |
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alarmingly | (adverb) in an alarming manner | - |
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alarmism | (noun) needless warnings | - |
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alarmist | (noun) a person who alarms others needlessly | - |
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alarum | (noun) an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger | Synonyms: alarm, alert, warning signal |
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alary | (adjective) having or resembling wings | Synonyms: alar, aliform, wing-shaped |
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antimalarial | (noun) a medicinal drug used to prevent or treat malaria | Synonyms: antimalarial drug |
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astragalar | (adjective) of or relating to the anklebone | - |
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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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crotalaria | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Crotalaria having inflated pods within which the seeds rattle; used for pasture and green-manure crops | Synonyms: rattlebox |
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encephalartos | (noun) any of numerous cycads of the genus Encephalartos having stout cylindrical trunks and a terminal crown of long often spiny pinnate leaves | - |
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intercalary | (adjective) having a day or month inserted to make the calendar year correspond to the solar year: | - |
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malar | (noun) the arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek | Synonyms: cheekbone, jugal bone, malar bone, os zygomaticum, zygomatic, zygomatic bone |
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malaria | (noun) an infective disease caused by sporozoan parasites that are transmitted through the bite of an infected Anopheles mosquito; marked by paroxysms of chills and fever | - |
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malarial | (adjective) of or infected by or resembling malaria | - |
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malarkey | (noun) empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk | Synonyms: idle words, jazz, malarky, nothingness, wind |
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malarky | (noun) empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk | Synonyms: idle words, jazz, malarkey, nothingness, wind |
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phalarope | (noun) small sandpiper-like shorebird having lobate toes and being good swimmers; breed in the Arctic and winter in the tropics | - |
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salariat | (noun) the class of workers who are salaried and get regular, non-hourly pay checks. | - |
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salaried | (adjective) receiving a salary | - |
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(adjective) for which money is paid | Synonyms: compensable, paying, remunerative, stipendiary |
(adjective) receiving or eligible for compensation | Synonyms: compensated, remunerated, stipendiary |
salary | (noun) something that remunerates | Synonyms: earnings, pay, remuneration, wage |
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scalar | (adjective) of or relating to a directionless magnitude (such as mass or speed etc.) that is completely specified by its magnitude | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to a musical scale | - |
(noun) a variable quantity that cannot be resolved into components | - |
talaria | (noun) a winged sandal (as worn by Hermes in Greco-Roman art) | - |
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unalarming | (adjective) not alarming; assuaging alarm | - |
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unsalaried | (adjective) not paying a salary | Synonyms: uncompensated |
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