acroanesthesia | (noun) loss of sensation in the extremities | Synonyms: acroanaesthesia |
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aeroplane | (noun) an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets | Synonyms: airplane, plane |
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airplane | (noun) an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets | Synonyms: aeroplane, plane |
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alkane | (noun) a series of non-aromatic saturated hydrocarbons with the general formula CnH(2n+2) | Synonyms: alkane series, methane series, paraffin, paraffin series |
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alkanet | (noun) perennial or biennial herb cultivated for its delicate usually blue flowers | Synonyms: Anchusa officinalis, bugloss |
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aminoalkane | (noun) a compound derived from ammonia by replacing hydrogen atoms by univalent hydrocarbon radicals | Synonyms: amine |
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aminomethane | (noun) a methyl with the hydrogen atom replaced by an amino radical | - |
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ane | (adjective) used of a single unit or thing; not two or more | Synonyms: 1, i, one |
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anecdotal | (adjective) having the character of an anecdote | - |
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(adjective) characterized by or given to telling anecdotes | Synonyms: anecdotic, anecdotical |
anecdotalism | (noun) The property of being related to short accounts of real incidents or persons, often humorous or interesting. | - |
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anecdote | (noun) short account of an incident (especially a biographical one) | - |
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anecdotic | (adjective) characterized by or given to telling anecdotes | Synonyms: anecdotal, anecdotical |
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anecdotical | (adjective) characterized by or given to telling anecdotes | Synonyms: anecdotal, anecdotic |
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anecdotist | (noun) a person skilled in telling anecdotes | Synonyms: raconteur |
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anechoic | (adjective) not having or producing echoes; sound-absorbent | - |
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anele | (verb) administer an oil or ointment to; often in a religious ceremony of blessing | Synonyms: anoint, embrocate, inunct, oil |
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anemia | (noun) a deficiency of red blood cells | Synonyms: anaemia |
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(noun) a lack of vitality | Synonyms: anaemia |
anemic | (adjective) relating to anemia or suffering from anemia | Synonyms: anaemic |
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(adjective) lacking vigor or energy | Synonyms: anaemic |
anemoclinometer | (noun) A type of instrument which measures the inclination of the wind to the horizontal plane. | - |
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anemograph | (noun) An instrument which records wind velocities. | - |
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anemographic | (adjective) pertaining to the recording of wind measurements | - |
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anemography | (noun) recording anemometrical measurements | - |
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anemometer | (noun) a gauge for recording the speed and direction of wind | Synonyms: wind gage, wind gauge |
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anemometric | (adjective) pertaining to the measurement of wind speed and direction | Synonyms: anemometrical |
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anemometrical | (adjective) pertaining to the measurement of wind speed and direction | Synonyms: anemometric |
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anemometry | (noun) measuring wind speed and direction | - |
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anemone | (noun) marine polyps that resemble flowers but have oral rings of tentacles; differ from corals in forming no hard skeleton | Synonyms: sea anemone |
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(noun) any woodland plant of the genus Anemone grown for its beautiful flowers and whorls of dissected leaves | Synonyms: windflower |
anemophilous | (adjective) of flowering plants (especially grasses etc) that are pollinated by the wind | - |
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anencephalia | (noun) a defect in brain development resulting in small or missing brain hemispheres | Synonyms: anencephaly |
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anencephalic | (adjective) characterized by partial or total absence of a brain | Synonyms: anencephalous |
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anencephalous | (adjective) characterized by partial or total absence of a brain | Synonyms: anencephalic |
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anencephaly | (noun) a defect in brain development resulting in small or missing brain hemispheres | Synonyms: anencephalia |
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anergy | (noun) reduction or lack of an immune response to a specific antigen | - |
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(noun) inactivity and lack of energy | - |
aneroid | (adjective) containing no liquid or actuated without the use of liquid | - |
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(noun) a barometer that measures pressure without using fluids | Synonyms: aneroid barometer |
anesthesia | (noun) loss of bodily sensation with or without loss of consciousness | Synonyms: anaesthesia |
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anesthesiologist | (noun) a specialist who administers an anesthetic to a patient before he is treated | Synonyms: anaesthetist, anesthetist |
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anesthesiology | (noun) the branch of medical science that studies and applies anesthetics | - |
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anesthetic | (adjective) relating to or producing insensibility | Synonyms: anaesthetic |
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(adjective) characterized by insensibility | Synonyms: anaesthetic |
(noun) a drug that causes temporary loss of bodily sensations | Synonyms: anaesthetic, anaesthetic agent, anesthetic agent |
anesthetise | (verb) administer an anesthetic drug to | Synonyms: anaesthetise, anaesthetize, anesthetize, put out, put under |
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anesthetist | (noun) a specialist who administers an anesthetic to a patient before he is treated | Synonyms: anaesthetist, anesthesiologist |
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anesthetize | (verb) administer an anesthetic drug to | Synonyms: anaesthetise, anaesthetize, anesthetise, put out, put under |
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anesthyl | (noun) a mixture of methyl and ethyl chloride; sprayed on as a local anesthetic | - |
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anestric | (adjective) of or relating to anestrus | Synonyms: anestrous, anoestrous |
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anestrous | (adjective) (of lower mammals) not in a state of estrus; not in heat | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to anestrus | Synonyms: anestric, anoestrous |
anestrum | (noun) applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or interval of sexual inactivity between two periods of estrus | Synonyms: anestrus, anoestrum, anoestrus |
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anestrus | (noun) applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or interval of sexual inactivity between two periods of estrus | Synonyms: anestrum, anoestrum, anoestrus |
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anethole | (noun) an organic compound that is widely used as a flavoring substance. | Synonyms: anise camphor |
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aneuploid | (adjective) having a chromosome number that is not an exact multiple of the haploid number | - |
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aneuploidy | (noun) an abnormality involving a chromosome number that is not an exact multiple of the haploid number (one chromosome set is incomplete) | - |
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aneurin | (noun) a B vitamin that prevents beriberi; maintains appetite and growth | Synonyms: antiberiberi factor, thiamin, thiamine, vitamin B1 |
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aneurism | (noun) a cardiovascular disease characterized by a saclike widening of an artery resulting from weakening of the artery wall | Synonyms: aneurysm |
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aneurismal | (adjective) relating to or affected by an aneurysm | Synonyms: aneurismatic, aneurysmal, aneurysmatic |
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aneurismatic | (adjective) relating to or affected by an aneurysm | Synonyms: aneurismal, aneurysmal, aneurysmatic |
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aneurysm | (noun) a cardiovascular disease characterized by a saclike widening of an artery resulting from weakening of the artery wall | Synonyms: aneurism |
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aneurysmal | (adjective) relating to or affected by an aneurysm | Synonyms: aneurismal, aneurismatic, aneurysmatic |
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aneurysmatic | (adjective) relating to or affected by an aneurysm | Synonyms: aneurismal, aneurismatic, aneurysmal |
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anew | (adverb) again but in a new or different way | Synonyms: afresh |
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aquaplane | (noun) a board that is pulled by a speedboat as a person stands on it and skims over the top of the water | - |
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(verb) ride on an aquaplane | - |
(verb) rise up onto a thin film of water between the tires and road so that there is no more contact with the road | - |
araneidal | (adjective) relating to or resembling a spider | Synonyms: araneidan |
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araneidan | (adjective) relating to or resembling a spider | Synonyms: araneidal |
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arcane | (adjective) requiring secret or mysterious knowledge | - |
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avellane | (adjective) pertaining to filberts or hazelnuts | Synonyms: avellan |
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balletomane | (noun) a ballet enthusiast | - |
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bane | (noun) something causing misery or death | Synonyms: curse, nemesis, scourge |
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baneberry | (noun) a plant of the genus Actaea having acrid poisonous berries | Synonyms: cohosh, herb Christopher |
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(noun) a poisonous berry of a plant of the genus Actaea | - |
baneful | (adjective) deadly or sinister | Synonyms: baleful |
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(adjective) exceedingly harmful | Synonyms: deadly, pernicious, pestilent |
banefully | (adverb) in a noxiously baneful way | Synonyms: perniciously |
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beaner | (noun) a baseball deliberately thrown at the batter's head | Synonyms: beanball |
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biplane | (noun) old fashioned airplane; has two wings one above the other | - |
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buccaneer | (noun) someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation | Synonyms: pirate, sea robber, sea rover |
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(verb) live like a buccaneer | - |
buccaneering | (noun) hijacking on the high seas or in similar contexts; taking a ship or plane away from the control of those who are legally entitled to it | Synonyms: piracy |
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bugbane | (noun) a plant of the genus Cimicifuga having flowers in long racemes or panicles reported to be distasteful to insects | - |
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(noun) North American plant having large leaves and yellowish green flowers growing in racemes; yields a toxic alkaloid used medicinally | Synonyms: American hellebore, Indian poke, Veratrum viride, white hellebore |
butane | (noun) occurs in natural gas; used in the manufacture of rubber and fuels | - |
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calcaneal | (adjective) relating to the heel bone or heel | - |
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calcaneus | (noun) the largest tarsal bone; forms the human heel | Synonyms: heelbone, os tarsi fibulare |
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cane | (noun) a stiff switch, used to hit (usually students) as punishment | - |
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(noun) a stick that people can lean on to help them walk | - |
(noun) a strong slender often flexible stem as of bamboos, reeds, rattans, or sugar cane | - |
(verb) beat with a cane | Synonyms: flog, lambast, lambaste |
canebrake | (noun) a dense growth of cane (especially giant cane) | - |
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canecutter | (noun) a wood rabbit of southeastern United States swamps and lowlands | Synonyms: swamp hare, swamp rabbit, Sylvilagus aquaticus |
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canella | (noun) highly aromatic inner bark of the Canella winterana used as a condiment and a tonic | Synonyms: canella bark, white cinnamon |
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canescent | (adjective) of greyish white | - |
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(adjective) covered with fine whitish hairs or down | Synonyms: hoary |
castanets | (noun) (used in the plural) a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance | Synonyms: bones, clappers, finger cymbals |
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cellophane | (noun) a transparent paperlike product that is impervious to moisture and used to wrap candy or cigarettes etc. | - |
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chicane | (noun) the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) | Synonyms: chicanery, guile, shenanigan, trickery, wile |
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(noun) a movable barrier used in motor racing; sometimes placed before a dangerous corner to reduce speed as cars pass in single file | - |
(noun) a bridge hand that is void of trumps | - |
(verb) raise trivial objections | Synonyms: carp, cavil |
(verb) defeat someone through trickery or deceit | Synonyms: cheat, chouse, jockey, screw, shaft |
chicanery | (noun) the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) | Synonyms: chicane, guile, shenanigan, trickery, wile |
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cismontane | (adjective) on this (the speaker's) side of the mountains | - |
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cleaner | (noun) a preparation used in cleaning something | Synonyms: cleanser, cleansing agent |
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(noun) someone whose occupation is cleaning | - |
(noun) the operator of dry-cleaning establishment | Synonyms: dry cleaner |
cleaners | (noun) shop where dry cleaning is done | Synonyms: dry cleaners |
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coetaneous | (adjective) of the same period | Synonyms: coeval, contemporaneous |
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consentaneous | (adjective) in complete agreement | Synonyms: consentient, unanimous |
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contemporaneity | (noun) the quality of being current or of the present | Synonyms: contemporaneousness, modernism, modernity, modernness |
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(noun) the quality of belonging to the same period of time | Synonyms: contemporaneousness |
contemporaneous | (adjective) of the same period | Synonyms: coetaneous, coeval |
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(adjective) occurring in the same period of time | Synonyms: contemporary |
contemporaneously | (adverb) during the same period of time | - |
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contemporaneousness | (noun) the quality of being current or of the present | Synonyms: contemporaneity, modernism, modernity, modernness |
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(noun) the quality of belonging to the same period of time | Synonyms: contemporaneity |
counterpane | (noun) decorative cover for a bed | Synonyms: bed cover, bed covering, bedcover, bedspread, spread |
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crane | (noun) large long-necked wading bird of marshes and plains in many parts of the world | - |
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(noun) lifts and moves heavy objects; lifting tackle is suspended from a pivoted boom that rotates around a vertical axis | - |
(verb) stretch (the neck) so as to see better | Synonyms: stretch out |
cranesbill | (noun) any of numerous geraniums of the genus Geranium | Synonyms: crane's bill |
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cryoanesthesia | (noun) insensibility resulting from cold | Synonyms: cryoanaesthesia |
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cutaneal | (adjective) relating to or existing on or affecting the skin | Synonyms: cutaneous, dermal |
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cutaneous | (adjective) relating to or existing on or affecting the skin | Synonyms: cutaneal, dermal |
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cyclopropane | (noun) a colorless flammable gas sometimes used as an inhalation anesthetic | - |
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