acephalism | (noun) absence of the head (as in the development of some monsters) | Synonyms: acephalia, acephaly |
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actualisation | (noun) making real or giving the appearance of reality | Synonyms: actualization, realisation, realization |
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actualise | (verb) represent or describe realistically | Synonyms: actualize |
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(verb) make real or concrete; give reality or substance to | Synonyms: actualize, realise, realize, substantiate |
aerialist | (noun) an acrobat who performs in the air (as on a rope or trapeze) | - |
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agriculturalist | (noun) someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil | Synonyms: agriculturist, cultivator, grower, raiser |
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alkalise | (verb) turn basic and less acidic | Synonyms: alkalify, alkalize, basify |
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alkaliser | (noun) an agent that counteracts or neutralizes acidity (especially in the stomach) | Synonyms: alkalizer, antacid, antiacid, gastric antacid |
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amoralism | (noun) the doctrine that moral distinctions are invalid | - |
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amoralist | (noun) someone who adheres to the doctrine that ordinary moral distinctions are invalid | - |
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anecdotalism | (noun) The property of being related to short accounts of real incidents or persons, often humorous or interesting. | - |
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animalisation | (noun) an act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities | Synonyms: animalization, brutalisation, brutalization |
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animalise | (verb) become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling | Synonyms: animalize, brutalise, brutalize |
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(verb) make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman | Synonyms: animalize, brutalise, brutalize |
(verb) represent in the form of an animal | Synonyms: animalize |
animalism | (noun) preoccupation with satisfaction of physical drives and appetites | Synonyms: physicality |
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(noun) the doctrine that human beings are purely animal in nature and lacking a spiritual nature | - |
animalistic | (adjective) of or pertaining to animalism | - |
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annalism | (noun) The writing of annals. | - |
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annalist | (noun) a historian who writes annals | - |
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annalistic | (adjective) relating to annals | - |
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anomalist | (noun) someone who has a special interest in exceptional cases | - |
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arbalist | (noun) late version of the crossbow with a steel bow | Synonyms: arbalest |
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(noun) archer who uses an arbalest | - |
arterialise | (verb) change venous blood into arterial blood | Synonyms: arterialize |
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artificialism | (noun) Czech surrealism founded in 1928 by Jindrich Styrsky and Toyen (Marie Cerminova). | - |
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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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bestialise | (verb) make brutal and depraved; give animal-like qualities to | Synonyms: bestialize |
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bilateralism | (noun) the property of being symmetrical about a vertical plane | Synonyms: bilateral symmetry, bilaterality |
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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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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 |
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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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 |
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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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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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 |
carnalise | (verb) debase through carnal gratification | Synonyms: carnalize, sensualise, sensualize |
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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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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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clinocephalism | (noun) a congenital defect in which the top of the head is depressed (concave instead of convex) | Synonyms: clinocephaly |
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colloquialism | (noun) a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech | - |
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colonialism | (noun) exploitation by a stronger country of weaker one; the use of the weaker country's resources to strengthen and enrich the stronger country | - |
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colonialist | (noun) a believer in colonialism | - |
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commensalism | (noun) the relation between two different kinds of organisms when one receives benefits from the other without damaging it | - |
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commercialisation | (noun) the act of commercializing something; involving something in commerce | Synonyms: commercialization |
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commercialise | (verb) make commercial | Synonyms: commercialize, market |
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commercialised | (adjective) organized principally for financial gain | Synonyms: commercialized |
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commercialism | (noun) transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services) | Synonyms: commerce, mercantilism |
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communalise | (verb) make something the property of the commune or community | Synonyms: communalize |
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communalism | (noun) the practice of communal living and common ownership | - |
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(noun) loyalty and commitment to the interests of your own minority or ethnic group rather than to society as a whole | - |
compartmentalisation | (noun) the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type | Synonyms: assortment, categorisation, categorization, classification, compartmentalization |
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(noun) a mild state of dissociation | Synonyms: compartmentalization |
compartmentalise | (verb) separate into isolated compartments or categories | Synonyms: compartmentalize, cut up |
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compartmentalised | (adjective) divided up into compartments or categories | Synonyms: compartmental, compartmentalized |
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conceptualisation | (noun) inventing or contriving an idea or explanation and formulating it mentally | Synonyms: conceptualization, formulation |
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(noun) an elaborated concept | Synonyms: conceptuality, conceptualization |
conceptualise | (verb) have the idea for | Synonyms: conceive, conceptualize, gestate |
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conceptualism | (noun) the doctrine that the application of a general term to various objects indicates the existence of a mental entity that mediates the application | - |
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conceptualistic | (adjective) involving or characteristic of conceptualism | - |
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constitutionalise | (verb) incorporate into a constitution, make constitutional | Synonyms: constitutionalize |
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constitutionalism | (noun) advocacy of a system of government according to constitutional principles | - |
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(noun) a constitutional system of government (usually with a written constitution) | - |
constitutionalist | (noun) an advocate of constitutional government | - |
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contextualism | (noun) any doctrine emphasizing the importance of the context in solving problems or establishing the meaning of terms | - |
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controversialist | (noun) a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy | Synonyms: disputant, eristic |
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conventionalisation | (noun) the act of conventionalizing; conforming to a conventional style | Synonyms: conventionalization |
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conventionalise | (verb) make conventional or adapt to conventions | Synonyms: conventionalize |
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conventionalised | (adjective) using artistic forms and conventions to create effects; not natural or spontaneous | Synonyms: conventionalized, stylised, stylized |
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conventionalism | (noun) orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional | Synonyms: convention, conventionality |
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conversationalist | (noun) someone skilled at conversation | Synonyms: conversationist, schmoozer |
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corydalis | (noun) a plant of the genus Corydalis with beautiful compound foliage and spurred tubular flowers | - |
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criminalisation | (noun) legislation that makes something illegal | Synonyms: criminalization |
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criminalise | (verb) declare illegal; outlaw | Synonyms: criminalize, illegalise, illegalize, outlaw |
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criminalism | (noun) the state of being a criminal | Synonyms: criminality, criminalness |
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crystalise | (verb) assume crystalline form; become crystallized | Synonyms: crystalize, crystallize, effloresce |
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(verb) cause to form crystals or assume crystalline form | Synonyms: crystalize, crystallise, crystallize |
(verb) cause to take on a definite and clear shape | Synonyms: crystalize, crystallise, crystallize |
(verb) make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear | Synonyms: clear, clear up, crystalize, crystallise, crystallize, elucidate, enlighten, illuminate, shed light on, sort out, straighten out |
crystalised | (adjective) having both internal structure and external form of a crystal | Synonyms: crystallized |
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(adjective) (used especially of fruits) preserved by coating with or allowing to absorb sugar | Synonyms: candied, crystalized, glace |
cymbalist | (noun) a performer on the cymbals | - |
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decentalisation | (noun) the social process in which population and industry moves from urban centers to outlying districts | Synonyms: decentralization |
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decentralisation | (noun) the spread of power away from the center to local branches or governments | Synonyms: decentralization |
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decentralise | (verb) make less central | Synonyms: decentralize, deconcentrate |
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decentralised | (adjective) withdrawn from a center or place of concentration; especially having power or function dispersed from a central to local authorities | Synonyms: decentralized |
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decentralising | (adjective) tending away from a central point | Synonyms: decentralizing |
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decimalisation | (noun) the act of changing to a decimal system | Synonyms: decimalization |
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