dagame | (noun) source of a tough elastic wood | Synonyms: Calycophyllum candidissimum, lemonwood tree |
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dame | (noun) informal terms for a (young) woman | Synonyms: bird, chick, doll, skirt, wench |
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(noun) a woman of refinement | Synonyms: gentlewoman, lady, ma'am, madam |
daydreamer | (noun) someone who indulges in idle or absentminded daydreaming | Synonyms: woolgatherer |
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decameter | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to ten meters | Synonyms: dam, decametre, dekameter, dekametre, dkm |
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decametre | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to ten meters | Synonyms: dam, decameter, dekameter, dekametre, dkm |
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defame | (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, besmirch, calumniate, denigrate, slander, smear, smirch, sully |
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defamer | (noun) one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel | Synonyms: backbiter, libeler, maligner, slanderer, traducer, vilifier |
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dekameter | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to ten meters | Synonyms: dam, decameter, decametre, dekametre, dkm |
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dekametre | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to ten meters | Synonyms: dam, decameter, decametre, dekameter, dkm |
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dexamethasone | (noun) a corticosteroid drug (trade names Decadron or Dexamethasone Intensol or Dexone or Hexadrol or Oradexon) used to treat allergies or inflammation | Synonyms: Decadron, Dexamethasone Intensol, Dexone, Hexadrol, Oradexon |
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diameter | (noun) the length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference | Synonyms: diam |
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(noun) a straight line connecting the center of a circle with two points on its perimeter (or the center of a sphere with two points on its surface) | - |
diametral | (adjective) related to or along a diameter | Synonyms: diametric, diametrical |
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diametric | (adjective) related to or along a diameter | Synonyms: diametral, diametrical |
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(adjective) characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed | Synonyms: diametrical, opposite, polar |
diametrical | (adjective) related to or along a diameter | Synonyms: diametral, diametric |
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(adjective) characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed | Synonyms: diametric, opposite, polar |
diametrically | (adverb) as from opposite ends of a diameter | - |
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disarmament | (noun) act of reducing or depriving of arms | Synonyms: disarming |
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doorframe | (noun) the frame that supports a door | Synonyms: doorcase |
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dreamed | (adjective) conceived of or imagined or hoped for | - |
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dreamer | (noun) a person who escapes into a world of fantasy | Synonyms: escapist, wishful thinker |
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(noun) someone guided more by ideals than by practical considerations | Synonyms: idealist |
(noun) someone who is dreaming | - |
duramen | (noun) the older inactive central wood of a tree or woody plant; usually darker and denser than the surrounding sapwood | Synonyms: heartwood |
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enamel | (noun) any smooth glossy coating that resembles ceramic glaze | - |
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(noun) a paint that dries to a hard glossy finish | - |
(noun) hard white substance covering the crown of a tooth | Synonyms: tooth enamel |
(noun) a colored glassy compound (opaque or partially opaque) that is fused to the surface of metal or glass or pottery for decoration or protection | - |
(verb) coat, inlay, or surface with enamel | - |
enamelware | (noun) cooking utensil of enameled iron | - |
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endameba | (noun) any ameba of the genus Endamoeba | - |
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endgame | (noun) the final stages of a chess game after most of the pieces have been removed from the board | Synonyms: end game |
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(noun) the final stages of an extended process of negotiation | Synonyms: end game |
examen | (noun) a detailed inspection of your conscience (as done daily by Jesuits) | Synonyms: examination |
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(noun) a critical study (as of a writer's work) | - |
fame | (noun) the state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed | Synonyms: celebrity, renown |
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(noun) favorable public reputation | - |
famed | (adjective) widely known and esteemed | Synonyms: celebrated, famous, far-famed, illustrious, notable, noted, renowned |
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filament | (noun) a thin wire (usually tungsten) that is heated white hot by the passage of an electric current | - |
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(noun) a threadlike structure (as a chainlike series of cells) | Synonyms: filum |
(noun) the stalk of a stamen | - |
(noun) a very slender natural or synthetic fiber | Synonyms: fibril, strand |
filamentlike | (adjective) thin in diameter; resembling a thread | Synonyms: filamentous, filiform, threadlike, thready |
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filamentous | (adjective) thin in diameter; resembling a thread | Synonyms: filamentlike, filiform, threadlike, thready |
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filename | (noun) (computer science) the name given to a computer file in order to distinguish it from other files; may contain an extension that indicates the type of file | Synonyms: computer file name, computer filename, file name |
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firmament | (noun) the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected | Synonyms: celestial sphere, empyrean, heavens, sphere, vault of heaven, welkin |
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firmamental | (adjective) relating to the firmament or upper regions | - |
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flame | (noun) the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke | Synonyms: fire, flaming |
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(verb) criticize harshly, usually via an electronic medium | - |
(verb) be in flames or aflame | - |
(verb) shine with a sudden light | Synonyms: flare |
flamefish | (noun) a cardinalfish found in tropical Atlantic coastal waters | Synonyms: Apogon maculatus, flame fish |
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flameflower | (noun) plant with fleshy roots and erect stems with narrow succulent leaves and one reddish-orange flower in each upper leaf axil; southwestern United States; Indians once cooked the fleshy roots | Synonyms: flame-flower, flame flower, Talinum aurantiacum |
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(noun) a plant of the genus Kniphofia having long grasslike leaves and tall scapes of red or yellow drooping flowers | Synonyms: flame-flower, flame flower, kniphofia, tritoma |
flamen | (noun) a priest who served a particular deity in ancient Rome | - |
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flamenco | (noun) a style of dancing characteristic of the Andalusian Gypsies; vigorous and rhythmic with clapping and stamping of feet | Synonyms: gypsy dancing |
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(noun) guitar music composed for dancing the flamenco | - |
flameproof | (adjective) resistant to catching fire | Synonyms: flame-retardant |
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flamethrower | (noun) a weapon that squirts ignited fuel for several yards | - |
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foramen | (noun) a natural opening or perforation through a bone or a membranous structure | Synonyms: hiatus |
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forename | (noun) the name that precedes the surname | Synonyms: first name, given name |
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frame | (noun) one of the ten divisions into which bowling is divided | - |
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(noun) a framework that supports and protects a picture or a mirror | Synonyms: framing |
(noun) the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape | Synonyms: skeletal frame, skeleton, underframe |
(noun) the framework for a pair of eyeglasses | - |
(noun) a single one of a series of still transparent pictures forming a cinema, television or video film | - |
(noun) a structure supporting or containing something | Synonyms: framework |
(noun) the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal | Synonyms: skeletal system, skeleton, systema skeletale |
(noun) alternative names for the body of a human being | Synonyms: anatomy, bod, build, chassis, figure, flesh, form, human body, material body, physical body, physique, shape, soma |
(noun) a system of assumptions and standards that sanction behavior and give it meaning | Synonyms: frame of reference |
(noun) a single drawing in a comic strip | - |
(noun) an application that divides the user's display into two or more windows that can be scrolled independently | - |
(noun) (baseball) one of nine divisions of play during which each team has a turn at bat | Synonyms: inning |
(verb) make up plans or basic details for | Synonyms: compose, draw up |
(verb) formulate in a particular style or language | Synonyms: cast, couch, put, redact |
(verb) enclose in or as if in a frame | Synonyms: border, frame in |
(verb) construct by fitting or uniting parts together | Synonyms: frame up |
(verb) take or catch as if in a snare or trap | Synonyms: ensnare, entrap, set up |
(verb) enclose in a frame, as of a picture | - |
framed | (adjective) provided with a frame | - |
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framer | (noun) someone who writes a new law or plan | - |
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(noun) someone who makes frames (as for pictures) | - |
framework | (noun) a structure supporting or containing something | Synonyms: frame |
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(noun) the underlying structure | Synonyms: fabric |
(noun) a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process | Synonyms: model, theoretical account |
fundament | (noun) lowest support of a structure | Synonyms: base, foot, foundation, groundwork, substructure, understructure |
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(noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
(noun) the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained | Synonyms: base, basis, cornerstone, foundation, groundwork |
fundamental | (adjective) being or involving basic facts or principles | Synonyms: rudimentary, underlying |
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(adjective) serving as an essential component | Synonyms: cardinal, central, key, primal |
(adjective) far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something | Synonyms: profound |
(noun) the lowest tone of a harmonic series | Synonyms: first harmonic, fundamental frequency |
(noun) any factor that could be considered important to the understanding of a particular business | - |
fundamentalism | (noun) a form of Protestantism that takes the interpretation of every word in the sacred texts as literal truth | - |
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(noun) the strict adherence to the basic principles or doctrines of a religion, ideology, etc. | - |
fundamentalist | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of Protestant fundamentalism or its adherents | Synonyms: fundamentalistic |
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(adjective) of or relating to or tending toward ideological fundamentalism | Synonyms: fundamentalistic |
(noun) a supporter of fundamentalism | - |
(noun) an adherent of fundamentalist principles | - |
fundamentalistic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of Protestant fundamentalism or its adherents | Synonyms: fundamentalist |
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(adjective) of or relating to or tending toward ideological fundamentalism | Synonyms: fundamentalist |
fundamentally | (adverb) in essence; at bottom or by one's (or its) very nature | Synonyms: basically, essentially |
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fundamentalness | (noun) The state or condition of being fundamental; essential importance. | - |
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fundamentals | (noun) principles from which other truths can be derived | Synonyms: basic principle, basics, bedrock, fundamental principle |
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game | (adjective) willing to face danger | Synonyms: gamey, gamy, gritty, mettlesome, spirited, spunky |
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(adjective) disabled in the feet or legs | Synonyms: crippled, gimpy, halt, halting, lame |
(noun) a contest with rules to determine a winner | - |
(noun) an amusement or pastime | - |
(noun) your occupation or line of work | Synonyms: biz |
(noun) a single play of a sport or other contest | - |
(noun) frivolous or trifling behavior | - |
(noun) animal hunted for food or sport | - |
(noun) the game equipment needed in order to play a particular game | - |
(noun) a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal) | Synonyms: plot, secret plan |
(noun) the flesh of wild animals that is used for food | - |
(noun) (games) the score at a particular point or the score needed to win | - |
(noun) (tennis) a division of play during which one player serves | - |
(verb) place a bet on | Synonyms: back, bet on, gage, punt, stake |
gamebag | (noun) a canvas or leather bag for carrying game (especially birds) killed by a hunter | - |
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gameboard | (noun) a flat portable surface (usually rectangular) designed for board games | Synonyms: board |
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gamecock | (noun) a cock bred and trained for fighting | Synonyms: fighting cock |
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(noun) someone who is a very fierce fighter | Synonyms: hell-kite, hell-rooster |
gamedev | (noun) someone who develops a game | - |
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gamekeeper | (noun) a person employed to take care of game and wildlife | Synonyms: game warden |
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gamelan | (noun) a traditional Indonesian ensemble typically including many tuned percussion instruments including bamboo xylophones and wooden or bronze chimes and gongs | - |
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gamely | (adverb) in an intrepid manner | - |
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gameness | (noun) disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet | Synonyms: claudication, gimp, gimpiness, lameness, limping |
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gamesmanship | (noun) the use of dubious (although not technically illegal) methods to win a game | - |
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gametangium | (noun) cell or organ in which gametes develop | - |
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gamete | (noun) a mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes | - |
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gametocyte | (noun) an immature animal or plant cell that develops into a gamete by meiosis | - |
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gametoecium | (noun) gametangia and surrounding bracts | - |
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gametogenesis | (noun) the development and maturation of sex cells through meiosis | - |
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gametophore | (noun) a modified branch bearing gametangia as in the thalloid liverworts | - |
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gametophyte | (noun) the gamete-bearing individual or phase in the life cycle of a plant having alternation of generations | - |
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gamey | (adjective) willing to face danger | Synonyms: game, gamy, gritty, mettlesome, spirited, spunky |
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(adjective) (used of the smell of meat) smelling spoiled or tainted | Synonyms: gamy, high |
(adjective) suggestive of sexual impropriety | Synonyms: blue, gamy, juicy, naughty, racy, risque, spicy |
gossamer | (adjective) characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy | Synonyms: ethereal |
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(adjective) so thin as to transmit light | Synonyms: cobwebby, diaphanous, filmy, gauze-like, gauzy, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous |
(noun) a gauze fabric with an extremely fine texture | - |
(noun) filaments from a web that was spun by a spider | Synonyms: cobweb |
hame | (noun) stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces | - |
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hamelia | (noun) any of several flowering tropical or subtropical shrubs of the genus Hamelia | - |
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hereditament | (noun) any property (real or personal or mixed) that can be inherited | - |
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hexameter | (noun) a verse line having six metrical feet | - |
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inflame | (verb) become inflamed; get sore | - |
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(verb) cause inflammation in | - |
(verb) arouse or excite feelings and passions | Synonyms: fire up, heat, ignite, stir up, wake |
(verb) cause to start burning | Synonyms: conflagrate, enkindle, kindle |
(verb) catch fire | Synonyms: kindle |
inflamed | (adjective) adorned with tongues of flame | - |
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(adjective) lighted with red light as if with flames | Synonyms: ablaze, reddened |
(adjective) resulting from inflammation; hot and swollen and reddened | - |
isogamete | (noun) either of a pair of conjugating gametes of the same size and structure | - |
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kameez | (noun) a long tunic worn by many people from the Indian subcontinent (usually with a salwar or churidars) | - |
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lame | (adjective) pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness | Synonyms: feeble |
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(adjective) disabled in the feet or legs | Synonyms: crippled, game, gimpy, halt, halting |
(noun) a fabric interwoven with threads of metal | - |
(noun) someone who doesn't understand what is going on | Synonyms: square |
(verb) deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg | Synonyms: cripple |
lamedh | (noun) the 12th letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
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lamella | (noun) thin plate | - |
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(noun) a thin membrane that is one of the calcified layers that form bones | - |
(noun) any of the radiating leaflike spore-producing structures on the underside of the cap of a mushroom or similar fungus | Synonyms: gill |
lamellibranch | (adjective) bivalve | Synonyms: pelecypod, pelecypodous |
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(noun) marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together | Synonyms: bivalve, pelecypod |
lamely | (adverb) in a weak and unconvincing manner | - |
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lameness | (noun) disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet | Synonyms: claudication, gameness, gimp, gimpiness, limping |
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(noun) an imperfection or defectiveness | - |
lament | (noun) a mournful poem; a lament for the dead | Synonyms: elegy |
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(noun) a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person | Synonyms: coronach, dirge, requiem, threnody |
(noun) a cry of sorrow and grief | Synonyms: lamentation, plaint, wail |
(verb) regret strongly | Synonyms: bemoan, bewail, deplore |
(verb) express grief verbally | Synonyms: keen |
lamentable | (adjective) bad; unfortunate | Synonyms: deplorable, distressing, pitiful, sad, sorry |
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lamentably | (adverb) in an unfortunate or deplorable manner | Synonyms: deplorably, sadly, woefully |
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lamentation | (noun) the passionate and demonstrative activity of expressing grief | Synonyms: mourning |
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(noun) a cry of sorrow and grief | Synonyms: lament, plaint, wail |
lamented | (adjective) mourned or grieved for | - |
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lamenter | (noun) a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died) | Synonyms: griever, mourner, sorrower |
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lamenting | (adjective) vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression | Synonyms: wailful, wailing |
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ligament | (noun) any connection or unifying bond | - |
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(noun) a sheet or band of tough fibrous tissue connecting bones or cartilages or supporting muscles or organs | - |
lineament | (noun) the characteristic parts of a person's face: eyes and nose and mouth and chin | Synonyms: feature |
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(noun) a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something | Synonyms: character, quality |
macrame | (noun) a relatively coarse lace; made by weaving and knotting cords | - |
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(verb) make knotted patterns | - |
madame | (noun) title used for a married Frenchwoman | - |
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mainframe | (noun) (computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing | Synonyms: C.P.U., central processing unit, central processor, CPU, processor |
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(noun) a large digital computer serving 100-400 users and occupying a special air-conditioned room | Synonyms: mainframe computer |
mainstreamed | (adjective) (of the handicapped) placed in regular school classes | - |
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