academicianship | (noun) the position of member of an honorary academy | - |
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airmanship | (noun) the art of operating aircraft | Synonyms: aviation |
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aminotransferase | (noun) a class of transferases that catalyze transamination (that transfer an amino group from an amino acid to another compound) | Synonyms: aminopherase, transaminase |
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anserine | (adjective) of or resembling a goose | - |
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(adjective) having or revealing stupidity | Synonyms: dopey, dopy, foolish, gooselike, goosey, goosy, jerky |
answer | (noun) a nonverbal reaction | - |
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(noun) the speech act of replying to a question | - |
(noun) a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation | Synonyms: reply, response |
(noun) a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem | Synonyms: resolution, result, solution, solvent |
(noun) the principal pleading by the defendant in response to plaintiff's complaint; in criminal law it consists of the defendant's plea of `guilty' or `not guilty' (or nolo contendere); in civil law it must contain denials of all allegations in the plaintiff's complaint that the defendant hopes to controvert and it can contain affirmative defenses or counterclaims | - |
(verb) give the correct answer or solution to | - |
(verb) respond to a signal | - |
(verb) understand the meaning of | Synonyms: resolve |
(verb) react to a stimulus or command | - |
(verb) react verbally | Synonyms: reply, respond |
(verb) give a defence or refutation of (a charge) or in (an argument) | - |
(verb) be satisfactory for; meet the requirements of or serve the purpose of | - |
(verb) match or correspond | - |
(verb) be liable or accountable | - |
(verb) be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity | Synonyms: do, serve, suffice |
answerability | (noun) responsibility to someone or for some activity | Synonyms: accountability, answerableness |
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answerable | (adjective) morally or legally responsible to a higher authority | - |
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(adjective) capable of being answered | - |
(adjective) liable to account for one's actions | Synonyms: accountable |
answerableness | (noun) responsibility to someone or for some activity | Synonyms: accountability, answerability |
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answerer | (noun) someone who responds | Synonyms: respondent, responder |
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answering | (adjective) replying | Synonyms: respondent |
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banshee | (noun) (Irish folklore) a female spirit who wails to warn of impending death | Synonyms: banshie |
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banshie | (noun) (Irish folklore) a female spirit who wails to warn of impending death | Synonyms: banshee |
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beanstalk | (noun) stem of a bean plant | - |
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boatmanship | (noun) skill in handling boats | - |
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brinkmanship | (noun) the policy of pushing a dangerous situation to the brink of disaster (to the limits of safety) | - |
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caravansary | (noun) an inn in some eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans | Synonyms: caravan inn, caravanserai, khan |
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caravanserai | (noun) an inn in some eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans | Synonyms: caravan inn, caravansary, khan |
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chairmanship | (noun) the position of chairman | - |
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clansman | (noun) a male member of a clan | - |
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clanswoman | (noun) a female member of a clan | - |
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cleanse | (verb) clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing | Synonyms: clean |
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(verb) purge of an ideology, bad thoughts, or sins | - |
cleanser | (noun) a preparation used in cleaning something | Synonyms: cleaner, cleansing agent |
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cleansing | (adjective) acting like an antiseptic | Synonyms: purifying |
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(adjective) cleansing the body by washing; especially ritual washing of e.g. hands | Synonyms: ablutionary |
(noun) the act of making something clean | Synonyms: cleaning, cleanup |
contredanse | (noun) a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line | Synonyms: contra danse, contradance, country-dance, country dancing |
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(verb) perform a contradance | Synonyms: contra danse, contradance, country-dance |
countertransference | (noun) the psychoanalyst's displacement of emotion onto the patient or more generally the psychoanalyst's emotional involvement in the therapeutic interaction | - |
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craftsmanship | (noun) skill in an occupation or trade | Synonyms: craft, workmanship |
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custodianship | (noun) the position of custodian | - |
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danseur | (noun) a male ballet dancer who is the partner of a ballerina | Synonyms: danseur noble |
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danseuse | (noun) a female ballet dancer | Synonyms: ballerina |
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deanship | (noun) the position or office of a dean | Synonyms: deanery |
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detransitivise | (verb) intransitivize | Synonyms: detransitivize, intransitivise, intransitivize |
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detransitivize | (verb) intransitivize | Synonyms: detransitivise, intransitivise, intransitivize |
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draftsmanship | (noun) the creation of artistic pictures or diagrams | Synonyms: drafting, drawing |
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expanse | (noun) the extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary | Synonyms: area, surface area |
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(noun) a wide scope | Synonyms: sweep |
(noun) a wide and open space or area as of surface or land or sky | - |
expansible | (adjective) (of gases) capable of expansion | Synonyms: expandable, expandible, expansile |
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(adjective) able to expand or be expanded | Synonyms: expandable, expandible |
expansile | (adjective) (of gases) capable of expansion | Synonyms: expandable, expandible, expansible |
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expansion | (noun) the act of increasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope | Synonyms: enlargement |
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(noun) adding information or detail | Synonyms: expanding upon |
(noun) a discussion that provides additional information | Synonyms: elaboration, enlargement |
(noun) a function expressed as a sum or product of terms | - |
expansionism | (noun) the doctrine of expanding the territory or the economic influence of a country | - |
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expansionist | (adjective) of or involving or guided by expansionism | - |
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expansive | (adjective) able or tending to expand or characterized by expansion | - |
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(adjective) friendly and open and willing to talk | Synonyms: talkative |
(adjective) marked by exaggerated feelings of euphoria and delusions of grandeur | - |
(adjective) of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope | Synonyms: grand, heroic |
expansively | (adverb) in an ebullient manner | Synonyms: ebulliently, exuberantly |
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(adverb) in an impressively expansive manner | - |
expansiveness | (noun) a friendly open trait of a talkative person | Synonyms: effusiveness, expansivity |
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(noun) a quality characterized by magnificence of scale or the tendency to expand | Synonyms: expansivity |
expansivity | (noun) a friendly open trait of a talkative person | Synonyms: effusiveness, expansiveness |
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(noun) a quality characterized by magnificence of scale or the tendency to expand | Synonyms: expansiveness |
(noun) the fractional change in length or area or volume per unit change in temperature at a given constant pressure | Synonyms: coefficient of expansion |
explanans | (noun) (logic) statements that explain the explicandum; the explanatory premises | - |
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fansign | (noun) a sign made by a fan, usually with the target's name on it | - |
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foremanship | (noun) the position of foreman | - |
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gamesmanship | (noun) the use of dubious (although not technically illegal) methods to win a game | - |
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glans | (noun) a small rounded structure; especially that at the end of the penis or clitoris | - |
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guardianship | (noun) the responsibility of a guardian or keeper | Synonyms: keeping, safekeeping |
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(noun) attention and management implying responsibility for safety | Synonyms: care, charge, tutelage |
hansom | (noun) a two-wheeled horse-drawn covered carriage with the driver's seat above and behind the passengers | Synonyms: hansom cab |
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horsemanship | (noun) skill in handling and riding horses | - |
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humans | (noun) all of the living human inhabitants of the earth | Synonyms: human beings, human race, humanity, humankind, man, mankind, world |
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intransigence | (noun) the trait of being intransigent; stubbornly refusing to compromise | Synonyms: intransigency |
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intransigency | (noun) the trait of being intransigent; stubbornly refusing to compromise | Synonyms: intransigence |
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intransigent | (adjective) impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason | Synonyms: adamant, adamantine, inexorable |
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intransitive | (adjective) designating a verb that does not require or cannot take a direct object | - |
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(noun) a verb (or verb construction) that does not take an object | Synonyms: intransitive verb, intransitive verb form |
intransitively | (adverb) in an intransitive manner | - |
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intransitiveness | (noun) the grammatical relation created by an intransitive verb | Synonyms: intransitivity |
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intransitivise | (verb) intransitivize | Synonyms: detransitivise, detransitivize, intransitivize |
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intransitivity | (noun) the grammatical relation created by an intransitive verb | Synonyms: intransitiveness |
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intransitivize | (verb) intransitivize | Synonyms: detransitivise, detransitivize, intransitivise |
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jeans | (noun) (used in the plural) close-fitting trousers of heavy denim for manual work or casual wear | Synonyms: blue jeans, denim |
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kalansuwa | (noun) a cap that is wrapped around by a turban and worn by Muslim religious elders | - |
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lansa | (noun) East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit | Synonyms: lansat, lanseh, lanset |
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lansat | (noun) East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit | Synonyms: lansa, lanseh, lanset |
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lanseh | (noun) East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit | Synonyms: lansa, lansat, lanset |
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lanset | (noun) East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit | Synonyms: lansa, lansat, lanseh |
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lansoprazole | (noun) antacid (trade name Prevacid) that suppresses acid secretion in the stomach | Synonyms: Prevacid |
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librarianship | (noun) the position of librarian | - |
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mansard | (adjective) (of a roof) having two slopes on all sides with the lower slope steeper than the upper | - |
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(noun) a hip roof having two slopes on each side | Synonyms: mansard roof |
manse | (noun) the residence of a clergyman (especially a Presbyterian clergyman) | - |
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(noun) a large and imposing house | Synonyms: hall, mansion, mansion house, residence |
manservant | (noun) a man servant | - |
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mansion | (noun) a large and imposing house | Synonyms: hall, manse, mansion house, residence |
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(noun) (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided | Synonyms: house, planetary house, sign, sign of the zodiac, star sign |
manslaughter | (noun) homicide without malice aforethought | - |
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manslayer | (noun) a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being) | Synonyms: liquidator, murderer |
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marksmanship | (noun) skill in shooting | - |
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mcmansion | (noun) a generic, mass-produced luxury home | - |
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means | (noun) to have the ability to produce a particular effect or achieve an end | Synonyms: agency, way |
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(noun) an artifact (that is instrumental in accomplishing some end) for accomplishing some end | Synonyms: instrumentality, instrumentation |
(noun) considerable capital (wealth or income) | Synonyms: substance |
meanspirited | (adjective) lacking in magnanimity | Synonyms: ungenerous |
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(adjective) having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality | Synonyms: base, mean |
meanspiritedly | (adverb) in a meanspirited manner | - |
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merganser | (noun) large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges | Synonyms: fish duck, sawbill, sheldrake |
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mistranslate | (verb) translate incorrectly | - |
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mistranslation | (noun) an incorrect translation | - |
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musicianship | (noun) artistry in performing music | - |
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neurotransmitter | (noun) a neurochemical that transmits nerve impulses across a synapse | - |
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nonpartisanship | (noun) an inclination to weigh both views or opinions equally | Synonyms: impartiality |
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nontransferable | (adjective) incapable of being transferred | Synonyms: unassignable, untransferable |
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nontranslational | (adjective) of or relating to movement that is not uniform or not without rotation | - |
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nontransmissible | (adjective) (of disease) not capable of being passed on | Synonyms: noncommunicable, noncontagious |
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(adjective) not acquirable by inheritance | Synonyms: nonhereditary |
oarsmanship | (noun) skill as an oarsman | - |
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organs | (noun) edible viscera of a butchered animal | Synonyms: variety meat |
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pansexual | (noun) a person who participates in (or is open to) sexual activities of many kinds | - |
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pansinusitis | (noun) inflammation of all of the paranasal sinuses | - |
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panspermia | (noun) The hypothesis that microorganisms may transmit life from outer space to habitable bodies; or the process of such transmission. | - |
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pansy | (noun) offensive term for a homosexual man | Synonyms: fag, faggot, fagot, fairy, nance, poof, poove, pouf, queen, queer |
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(noun) a timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive | Synonyms: milksop, Milquetoast, pantywaist, sissy |
(noun) large-flowered garden plant derived chiefly from the wild pansy of Europe and having velvety petals of various colors | Synonyms: Viola tricolor hortensis |
partisanship | (noun) an inclination to favor one group or view or opinion over alternatives | Synonyms: partiality |
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penmanship | (noun) beautiful handwriting | Synonyms: calligraphy, chirography |
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ransack | (verb) search thoroughly | Synonyms: comb |
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(verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, foray, loot, pillage, plunder, reave, rifle, strip |
ransacked | (adjective) wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value | Synonyms: looted, pillaged, plundered |
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ransacking | (noun) a thorough search for something (often causing disorder or confusion) | Synonyms: rummage |
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