amenability | (noun) the trait of being cooperative | Synonyms: amenableness, cooperativeness |
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amenable | (adjective) disposed or willing to conform | Synonyms: conformable |
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(adjective) liable to answer to a higher authority | - |
(adjective) responsive to suggestions and influences | Synonyms: tractable |
(adjective) open to being acted upon in a certain way | - |
amenableness | (noun) the trait of being cooperative | Synonyms: amenability, cooperativeness |
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amend | (verb) to make better | Synonyms: ameliorate, better, improve, meliorate |
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(verb) set straight or right | Synonyms: rectify, remediate, remedy, repair |
(verb) make amendments to | - |
amendable | (adjective) capable of being corrected by additions | Synonyms: correctable |
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amendatory | (adjective) effecting amendment | - |
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amended | (adjective) of legislation | - |
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(adjective) modified for the better | - |
amendment | (noun) the act of amending or correcting | - |
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(noun) a statement that is added to or revises or improves a proposal or document (a bill or constitution etc.) | - |
amends | (noun) something done or paid in expiation of a wrong | Synonyms: reparation |
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(noun) a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury | Synonyms: damages, indemnification, indemnity, redress, restitution |
amenia | (noun) absence or suppression of normal menstrual flow | Synonyms: amenorrhea, amenorrhoea |
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amenities | (noun) things that make you comfortable and at ease | Synonyms: comforts, conveniences, creature comforts |
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amenity | (noun) pleasantness resulting from agreeable conditions | Synonyms: agreeableness |
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amenorrhea | (noun) absence or suppression of normal menstrual flow | Synonyms: amenia, amenorrhoea |
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amenorrheal | (adjective) related to the suppression of normal menstrual flow for any reason other than pregnancy | Synonyms: amenorrheic, amenorrhoeal, amenorrhoeic |
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amenorrheic | (adjective) related to the suppression of normal menstrual flow for any reason other than pregnancy | Synonyms: amenorrheal, amenorrhoeal, amenorrhoeic |
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amenorrhoea | (noun) absence or suppression of normal menstrual flow | Synonyms: amenia, amenorrhea |
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amenorrhoeal | (adjective) related to the suppression of normal menstrual flow for any reason other than pregnancy | Synonyms: amenorrheal, amenorrheic, amenorrhoeic |
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amenorrhoeic | (adjective) related to the suppression of normal menstrual flow for any reason other than pregnancy | Synonyms: amenorrheal, amenorrheic, amenorrhoeal |
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ament | (noun) a cylindrical spikelike inflorescence | Synonyms: catkin |
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amentaceous | (adjective) (of plants) bearing or characterized by aments or catkins | Synonyms: amentiferous |
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amentia | (noun) extreme mental retardation | Synonyms: idiocy |
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amentiferous | (adjective) (of plants) bearing or characterized by aments or catkins | Synonyms: amentaceous |
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arbitrament | (noun) the act of deciding as an arbiter; giving authoritative judgment | Synonyms: arbitration, arbitrement |
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armament | (noun) the act of equipping with weapons in preparation for war | Synonyms: arming, equipping |
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(noun) weaponry used by military or naval force | - |
armamentarium | (noun) the collection of equipment and methods used in the practice of medicine | - |
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catamenia | (noun) the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause | Synonyms: flow, menses, menstruation, menstruum, period |
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catamenial | (adjective) of or relating to menstruation or the menses | Synonyms: menstrual |
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cinnamene | (noun) a colorless oily liquid; the monomer for polystyrene | Synonyms: phenylethylene, styrene, vinylbenzene |
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cyclamen | (noun) Mediterranean plant widely cultivated as a houseplant for its showy dark green leaves splotched with silver and nodding white or pink to reddish flowers with reflexed petals | Synonyms: Cyclamen purpurascens |
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disarmament | (noun) act of reducing or depriving of arms | Synonyms: disarming |
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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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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) | - |
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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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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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 | - |
foramen | (noun) a natural opening or perforation through a bone or a membranous structure | Synonyms: hiatus |
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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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gameness | (noun) disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet | Synonyms: claudication, gimp, gimpiness, lameness, limping |
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hereditament | (noun) any property (real or personal or mixed) that can be inherited | - |
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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 |
medicament | (noun) (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease | Synonyms: medication, medicinal drug, medicine |
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ornament | (noun) something used to beautify | Synonyms: decoration, ornamentation |
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(verb) make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc. | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, decorate, embellish, grace |
(verb) be an ornament to | - |
ornamental | (adjective) serving an esthetic rather than a useful purpose | Synonyms: cosmetic, decorative |
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(noun) any plant grown for its beauty or ornamental value | - |
ornamentalism | (noun) the practice of ornamental display | - |
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ornamentalist | (noun) someone who decorates | Synonyms: decorator |
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ornamentally | (adverb) in an ornamental, nonfunctional manner | - |
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ornamentation | (noun) the act of adding extraneous decorations to something | Synonyms: embellishment |
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(noun) something used to beautify | Synonyms: decoration, ornament |
(noun) the state of being ornamented | - |
parliament | (noun) a card game in which you play your sevens and other cards in sequence in the same suit as the sevens; you win if you are the first to use all your cards | Synonyms: fantan, sevens |
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(noun) a legislative assembly in certain countries | - |
parliamentarian | (noun) an expert in parliamentary rules and procedures | - |
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parliamentary | (adjective) relating to or having the nature of a parliament | - |
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(adjective) having the supreme legislative power resting with a body of cabinet ministers chosen from and responsible to the legislature or parliament | - |
(adjective) in accord with rules and customs of a legislative or deliberative assembly | - |
predicament | (noun) a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one | Synonyms: plight, quandary |
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pronunciamento | (noun) a public declaration of intentions (as issued by a political party or government) | Synonyms: manifesto |
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putamen | (noun) the outer reddish part of the lenticular nucleus | - |
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rearmament | (noun) the act of arming again | - |
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sacrament | (noun) a formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it; the two Protestant ceremonies are baptism and the Lord's Supper; in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church there are seven traditional rites accepted as instituted by Jesus: baptism and confirmation and Holy Eucharist and penance and holy orders and matrimony and extreme unction | - |
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sacramental | (adjective) of or relating to or involving a sacrament | - |
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sameness | (noun) the quality of being alike | - |
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(noun) the quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety | Synonyms: humdrum, monotony |
selfsameness | (noun) the quality of being identical with itself | - |
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stamen | (noun) the male reproductive organ of a flower | - |
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tameness | (noun) the attribute of having been domesticated | Synonyms: domestication |
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(noun) the quality of being vapid and unsophisticated | Synonyms: jejuneness, jejunity, vapidity, vapidness |
temperament | (noun) an adjustment of the intervals (as in tuning a keyboard instrument) so that the scale can be used to play in different keys | - |
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(noun) your usual mood | Synonyms: disposition |
(noun) excessive emotionalism or irritability and excitability (especially when displayed openly) | - |
temperamental | (adjective) relating to or caused by temperament | - |
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(adjective) subject to sharply varying moods | Synonyms: moody |
(adjective) likely to perform unpredictably | Synonyms: erratic |
temperamentally | (adverb) by temperament | - |
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testament | (noun) a profession of belief | - |
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(noun) a legal document declaring a person's wishes regarding the disposal of their property when they die | Synonyms: will |
(noun) strong evidence for something | - |
testamentary | (adjective) of or relating to a will or testament or bequeathed by a will or testament | - |
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tournament | (noun) a sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner | Synonyms: tourney |
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(noun) a series of jousts between knights contesting for a prize | - |
unamended | (adjective) (of legislation) not amended | - |
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unlamented | (adjective) not grieved for; causing no mourning | Synonyms: unmourned |
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unornamented | (adjective) lacking embellishment or ornamentation | Synonyms: bare, plain, spare, unembellished |
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unparliamentary | (adjective) so rude and abusive as to be unsuitable for parliament | - |
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