alanine | (noun) a crystalline amino acid that occurs in many proteins | - |
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canavanine | (noun) an amino acid found in the jack bean | - |
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canine | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of members of the family Canidae | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to a pointed conical tooth | Synonyms: laniary |
(noun) any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles | Synonyms: canid |
(noun) one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars | Synonyms: canine tooth, cuspid, dogtooth, eye tooth, eyetooth |
caning | (noun) work made of interlaced slender branches (especially willow branches) | Synonyms: wicker, wickerwork |
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cleaning | (noun) the act of making something clean | Synonyms: cleansing, cleanup |
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demeaning | (adjective) causing awareness of your shortcomings | Synonyms: humbling, humiliating, mortifying |
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demeaningly | (adverb) in a humiliating manner | Synonyms: humiliatingly |
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dihydroxyphenylalanine | (noun) amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain | Synonyms: dopa |
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guanine | (noun) a purine base found in DNA and RNA; pairs with cytosine | Synonyms: G |
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guaranine | (noun) Guaranine is the name used to describe caffeine derived from the guarana plant. | - |
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housecleaning | (noun) the act of cleaning the rooms and furnishings of a house | - |
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(noun) (figurative) the act of reforming by the removal of unwanted personnel or practices or conditions | - |
leaning | (adjective) departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal | Synonyms: atilt, canted, tilted, tipped |
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(noun) the act of deviating from a vertical position | - |
(noun) the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical | Synonyms: inclination, lean, list, tilt |
(noun) a natural inclination | Synonyms: proclivity, propensity |
(noun) an inclination to do something | Synonyms: propensity, tendency |
loaning | (noun) disposing of money or property with the expectation that the same thing (or an equivalent) will be returned | Synonyms: lending |
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meaning | (adjective) rich in significance or implication | Synonyms: pregnant, significant |
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(noun) the idea that is intended | Synonyms: substance |
(noun) the message that is intended or expressed or signified | Synonyms: import, significance, signification |
meaningful | (adjective) having a meaning or purpose | - |
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meaningfully | (adverb) in a meaningful manner; so as to be meaningful | - |
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meaningfulness | (noun) the quality of having great value or significance | - |
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meaningless | (adjective) having no meaning or direction or purpose | Synonyms: nonmeaningful |
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(adjective) producing no result or effect | Synonyms: futile, ineffectual, otiose, unavailing |
meaninglessness | (noun) the quality of having no value or significance | - |
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(noun) a message that seems to convey no meaning | Synonyms: bunk, hokum, nonsense, nonsensicality |
melanin | (noun) insoluble pigments that account for the color of e.g. skin and scales and feathers | - |
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mezzanine | (noun) intermediate floor just above the ground floor | Synonyms: entresol, mezzanine floor |
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(noun) first or lowest balcony | Synonyms: first balcony |
nonmeaningful | (adjective) having no meaning or direction or purpose | Synonyms: meaningless |
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phenylalanine | (noun) an essential amino acid found in proteins and needed for growth of children and for protein metabolism in children and adults; abundant in milk and eggs; it is normally converted to tyrosine in the human body | - |
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phycocyanin | (noun) blue pigment in algae | - |
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picaninny | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black child | Synonyms: piccaninny, pickaninny |
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piccaninny | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black child | Synonyms: picaninny, pickaninny |
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pickaninny | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black child | Synonyms: picaninny, piccaninny |
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pyocyanin | (noun) a toxic blue crystalline antibiotic found in green pus | - |
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saffranine | (noun) any of a class of chiefly red organic dyes | Synonyms: safranin, safranine |
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safranin | (noun) any of a class of chiefly red organic dyes | Synonyms: saffranine, safranine |
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safranine | (noun) any of a class of chiefly red organic dyes | Synonyms: saffranine, safranin |
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sailplaning | (noun) the activity of flying a glider | Synonyms: glide, gliding, sailing, soaring |
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sopranino | (adjective) higher in range than soprano | - |
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thioguanine | (noun) an antineoplastic drug used to treat acute leukemias | - |
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tobogganing | (noun) riding on a long light sled with low handrails | - |
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unmeaning | (adjective) without meaning | - |
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uraninite | (noun) a mineral consisting of uranium oxide and trace amounts of radium and thorium and polonium and lead and helium; uraninite in massive form is called pitchblende which is the chief uranium ore | Synonyms: pitchblende |
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waning | (adjective) (of the Moon) pertaining to the period during which the visible surface of the moon decreases | - |
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(noun) a gradual decrease in magnitude or extent | - |
weaning | (noun) the act of substituting other food for the mother's milk in the diet of a child or young mammal | Synonyms: ablactation |
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