arterialize | (verb) change venous blood into arterial blood | Synonyms: arterialise |
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artificialism | (noun) Czech surrealism founded in 1928 by Jindrich Styrsky and Toyen (Marie Cerminova). | - |
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artificiality | (noun) the quality of being produced by people and not occurring naturally | - |
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asexuality | (noun) having no evident sex or sex organs | Synonyms: sexlessness |
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atonalism | (noun) the absence of a key; alternative to the diatonic system | Synonyms: atonality |
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atonalistic | (adjective) of or relating to atonalism | - |
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atonality | (noun) the absence of a key; alternative to the diatonic system | Synonyms: atonalism |
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atypicality | (noun) any state that is not typical | Synonyms: untypicality |
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bacchanalia | (noun) a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity | Synonyms: bacchanal, debauch, debauchery, drunken revelry, orgy, riot, saturnalia |
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bacchanalian | (adjective) used of riotously drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchic, carousing, orgiastic |
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balibago | (noun) shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores; yields a light tough wood used for canoe outriggers and a fiber used for cordage and caulk; often cultivated for ornament | Synonyms: Hibiscus tiliaceus, mahagua, mahoe, majagua, purau |
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banality | (noun) a trite or obvious remark | Synonyms: bromide, cliche, commonplace, platitude |
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battalion | (noun) an army unit usually consisting of a headquarters and three or more companies | - |
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(noun) a large indefinite quantity | Synonyms: large number, multitude, pack, plurality |
bestialise | (verb) make brutal and depraved; give animal-like qualities to | Synonyms: bestialize |
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bestiality | (noun) sexual activity between a person and an animal | Synonyms: sodomy, zooerastia, zooerasty |
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(noun) the stupid brutal quality of a beast | - |
bestialize | (verb) make brutal and depraved; give animal-like qualities to | Synonyms: bestialise |
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bilateralism | (noun) the property of being symmetrical about a vertical plane | Synonyms: bilateral symmetry, bilaterality |
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bilaterality | (noun) the property of being symmetrical about a vertical plane | Synonyms: bilateral symmetry, bilateralism |
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bilingualism | (noun) the ability to speak two languages colloquially | - |
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bilingualist | (noun) a person who speaks two languages fluently | Synonyms: bilingual |
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bipedalism | (noun) the bodily attribute of being bipedal; having two feet | - |
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bisexuality | (noun) sexual activity with both men and women | - |
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(noun) showing characteristics of both sexes | Synonyms: androgyny, hermaphroditism |
brachycephalic | (adjective) having a short broad head with a cephalic index of over 80 | Synonyms: brachycranial, brachycranic |
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(noun) an adult with a short broad head | - |
brachycephalism | (noun) the quality of being brachycephalic | Synonyms: brachycephaly |
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brutalisation | (noun) an act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities | Synonyms: animalisation, animalization, brutalization |
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(noun) the activity of treating someone savagely or viciously | Synonyms: brutalization |
(noun) the condition of being treated in a cruel and savage manner | Synonyms: brutalization |
brutalise | (verb) become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling | Synonyms: animalise, animalize, brutalize |
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(verb) make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman | Synonyms: animalise, animalize, brutalize |
(verb) treat brutally | Synonyms: brutalize |
brutality | (noun) a brutal barbarous savage act | Synonyms: barbarism, barbarity, savagery |
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(noun) the trait of extreme cruelty | Synonyms: ferociousness, savagery, viciousness |
brutalization | (noun) an act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities | Synonyms: animalisation, animalization, brutalisation |
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(noun) the activity of treating someone savagely or viciously | Synonyms: brutalisation |
(noun) the condition of being treated in a cruel and savage manner | Synonyms: brutalisation |
brutalize | (verb) become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling | Synonyms: animalise, animalize, brutalise |
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(verb) make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman | Synonyms: animalise, animalize, brutalise |
(verb) treat brutally | Synonyms: brutalise |
bubaline | (adjective) relating to or resembling a buffalo | - |
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cabalism | (noun) adherence to some extreme traditional theological concept or interpretation | Synonyms: kabbalism |
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cabalist | (noun) an expert who is highly skilled in obscure or difficult or esoteric matters | Synonyms: kabbalist |
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(noun) a member of a cabal | - |
cabalistic | (adjective) having a secret or hidden meaning | Synonyms: cryptic, cryptical, kabbalistic, qabalistic, sibylline |
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caliber | (noun) a degree or grade of excellence or worth | Synonyms: calibre, quality |
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(noun) diameter of a tube or gun barrel | Synonyms: bore, calibre, gauge |
calibrate | (verb) make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring | Synonyms: fine-tune, graduate |
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(verb) measure the caliber of | - |
(verb) mark (the scale of a measuring instrument) so that it can be read in the desired units | - |
calibrated | (adjective) marked with or divided into degrees | Synonyms: graduated |
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calibration | (noun) the act of checking or adjusting (by comparison with a standard) the accuracy of a measuring instrument | Synonyms: standardisation, standardization |
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calibre | (noun) a degree or grade of excellence or worth | Synonyms: caliber, quality |
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(noun) diameter of a tube or gun barrel | Synonyms: bore, caliber, gauge |
caliche | (noun) nitrate-bearing rock or gravel of the sodium nitrate deposits of Chile and Peru | - |
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(noun) crust or layer of hard subsoil encrusted with calcium-carbonate occurring in arid or semiarid regions | Synonyms: hardpan |
calico | (adjective) made of calico or resembling calico in being patterned | - |
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(adjective) having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly | Synonyms: motley, multi-color, multi-colored, multi-colour, multi-coloured, multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured |
(noun) coarse cloth with a bright print | - |
calicular | (adjective) relating to or resembling a calyculus | Synonyms: calycular |
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caliculus | (noun) a small cup-shaped structure (as a taste bud or optic cup or cavity of a coral containing a polyp) | Synonyms: calycle, calyculus |
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calif | (noun) the civil and religious leader of a Muslim state considered to be a representative of Allah on earth | Synonyms: caliph, kalif, kaliph, khalif, khalifah |
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californium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic element; discovered by bombarding curium with alpha particles | Synonyms: atomic number 98, Cf |
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caliginous | (adjective) dark and misty and gloomy | - |
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caliper | (noun) an instrument for measuring the distance between two points | Synonyms: calliper |
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(verb) measure the diameter of something with calipers | Synonyms: calliper |
caliph | (noun) the civil and religious leader of a Muslim state considered to be a representative of Allah on earth | Synonyms: calif, kalif, kaliph, khalif, khalifah |
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caliphate | (noun) the office of a caliph | - |
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(noun) the territorial jurisdiction of a caliph | - |
calisaya | (noun) Peruvian shrub or small tree having large glossy leaves and cymes of fragrant yellow to green or red flowers; cultivated for its medicinal bark | Synonyms: Cinchona calisaya, Cinchona ledgeriana, Cinchona officinalis |
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calisthenic | (adjective) of or relating to calisthenics | - |
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calisthenics | (noun) the practice of calisthenic exercises | Synonyms: callisthenics |
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(noun) light exercises designed to promote general fitness | Synonyms: callisthenics |
canalicular | (adjective) relating to or like or having a canaliculus | - |
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canaliculate | (adjective) having thin parallel channels | - |
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canaliculus | (noun) a small canal or duct as in some bones and parts of plants | - |
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canalisation | (noun) the production of a canal or a conversion to canals | Synonyms: canalization |
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(noun) management through specified channels of communication | Synonyms: canalization, channelisation, channelization |
canalise | (verb) provide (a city) with a canal | Synonyms: canal, canalize |
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canalization | (noun) the production of a canal or a conversion to canals | Synonyms: canalisation |
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(noun) management through specified channels of communication | Synonyms: canalisation, channelisation, channelization |
canalize | (verb) provide (a city) with a canal | Synonyms: canal, canalise |
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cannibalic | (adjective) marked by barbarity suggestive of a cannibal; rapaciously savage | - |
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cannibalise | (verb) eat human flesh | Synonyms: cannibalize |
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(verb) use parts of something to repair something else | Synonyms: cannibalize |
cannibalism | (noun) the practice of eating the flesh of your own kind | - |
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cannibalistic | (adjective) characteristic of cannibals or exhibiting cannibalism | - |
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cannibalize | (verb) eat human flesh | Synonyms: cannibalise |
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(verb) use parts of something to repair something else | Synonyms: cannibalise |
capitalisation | (noun) the act of capitalizing on an opportunity | Synonyms: capitalization |
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(noun) the sale of capital stock | Synonyms: capitalization |
(noun) an estimation of the value of a business | Synonyms: capitalization |
(noun) writing in capital letters | Synonyms: capitalization |
capitalise | (verb) convert (a company's reserve funds) into capital | Synonyms: capitalize |
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(verb) consider expenditures as capital assets rather than expenses | Synonyms: capitalize |
(verb) compute the present value of a business or an income | Synonyms: capitalize |
(verb) write in capital letters | Synonyms: capitalize |
(verb) draw advantages from | Synonyms: capitalize, take advantage |
(verb) supply with capital, as of a business by using a combination of capital used by investors and debt capital provided by lenders | Synonyms: capitalize |
capitalism | (noun) an economic system based on private ownership of capital | Synonyms: capitalist economy |
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capitalist | (adjective) favoring or practicing capitalism | Synonyms: capitalistic |
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(adjective) of or relating to capitalism or capitalists | Synonyms: capitalistic |
(noun) a person who invests capital in a business (especially a large business) | - |
(noun) a conservative advocate of capitalism | - |
capitalistic | (adjective) favoring or practicing capitalism | Synonyms: capitalist |
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(adjective) of or relating to capitalism or capitalists | Synonyms: capitalist |
capitalization | (noun) the act of capitalizing on an opportunity | Synonyms: capitalisation |
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(noun) the sale of capital stock | Synonyms: capitalisation |
(noun) an estimation of the value of a business | Synonyms: capitalisation |
(noun) writing in capital letters | Synonyms: capitalisation |
capitalize | (verb) convert (a company's reserve funds) into capital | Synonyms: capitalise |
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(verb) consider expenditures as capital assets rather than expenses | Synonyms: capitalise |
(verb) compute the present value of a business or an income | Synonyms: capitalise |
(verb) write in capital letters | Synonyms: capitalise |
(verb) draw advantages from | Synonyms: capitalise, take advantage |
(verb) supply with capital, as of a business by using a combination of capital used by investors and debt capital provided by lenders | Synonyms: capitalise |
cardinality | (noun) (mathematics) the number of elements in a set or group (considered as a property of that grouping) | - |
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carnalise | (verb) debase through carnal gratification | Synonyms: carnalize, sensualise, sensualize |
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carnality | (noun) feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness | Synonyms: lasciviousness, lubricity, prurience, pruriency |
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carnalize | (verb) debase through carnal gratification | Synonyms: carnalise, sensualise, sensualize |
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(verb) ascribe to an origin in sensation | Synonyms: sensualize |
(verb) represent materialistically, as in a painting or a sculpture | Synonyms: sensualize |
causality | (noun) the relation between causes and effects | - |
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cavalier | (adjective) given to haughty disregard of others | Synonyms: high-handed |
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(noun) a gallant or courtly gentleman | Synonyms: chevalier |
cavalierly | (adverb) in a proud and domineering manner | Synonyms: disdainfully |
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centralisation | (noun) the act of consolidating power under a central control | Synonyms: centralization |
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(noun) gathering to a center | Synonyms: centralization |
centralise | (verb) make central | Synonyms: centralize, concentrate |
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centralised | (adjective) drawn toward a center or brought under the control of a central authority | Synonyms: centralized |
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centralising | (adjective) tending to draw to a central point | Synonyms: centralizing |
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centralism | (noun) the political policy of concentrating power in a central organization | - |
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centralist | (adjective) advocating centralization | Synonyms: centralistic |
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centralistic | (adjective) advocating centralization | Synonyms: centralist |
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centrality | (noun) the property of being central | - |
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centralization | (noun) the act of consolidating power under a central control | Synonyms: centralisation |
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(noun) gathering to a center | Synonyms: centralisation |
centralize | (verb) make central | Synonyms: centralise, concentrate |
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centralized | (adjective) drawn toward a center or brought under the control of a central authority | Synonyms: centralised |
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centralizing | (adjective) tending to draw to a central point | Synonyms: centralising |
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cephalic | (adjective) of or relating to the head | - |
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cephalitis | (noun) inflammation of the brain usually caused by a virus; symptoms include headache and neck pain and drowsiness and nausea and fever (`phrenitis' is no longer in scientific use) | Synonyms: encephalitis, phrenitis |
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chalice | (noun) a bowl-shaped drinking vessel; especially the Eucharistic cup | Synonyms: goblet |
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chevalier | (noun) a gallant or courtly gentleman | Synonyms: cavalier |
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chlorthalidone | (noun) a diuretic (trade names Hygroton and Thalidone) used to control hypertension and conditions that cause edema; effective in lowering blood pressure to prevent heart attacks | Synonyms: Hygroton, Thalidone |
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chrysalis | (noun) pupa of a moth or butterfly enclosed in a cocoon | - |
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classicalism | (noun) a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms | Synonyms: classicism |
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clericalism | (noun) a policy of supporting the influence and power of the clergy in secular or political matters | - |
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clericalist | (noun) one who advocates clericalism | - |
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clericalization | (noun) The process of increasing the power or influence of a religious hierarchy. | - |
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clinocephalism | (noun) a congenital defect in which the top of the head is depressed (concave instead of convex) | Synonyms: clinocephaly |
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