arum | (noun) any plant of the family Araceae; have small flowers massed on a spadix surrounded by a large spathe | Synonyms: aroid |
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(noun) starch resembling sago that is obtained from cuckoopint root | - |
arundinaceous | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling reedlike plants of the genus Arundinaria | - |
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arytaenoid | (noun) either of two small cartilages at the back of the larynx to which the vocal folds are attached | Synonyms: arytenoid, arytenoid cartilage |
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arytenoid | (noun) either of two small cartilages at the back of the larynx to which the vocal folds are attached | Synonyms: arytaenoid, arytenoid cartilage |
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asarabacca | (noun) thick creeping evergreen herb of western Europe | Synonyms: Asarum europaeum |
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ascariasis | (noun) infestation of the human intestine with Ascaris roundworms | - |
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ascocarp | (noun) mature fruiting body of an ascomycetous fungus | - |
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ascocarpous | (adjective) of or relating to ascocarps | - |
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ashlar | (noun) a rectangular block of hewn stone used for building purposes | - |
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asparaginase | (noun) antineoplastic drug (trade name Elspar) sometimes used to treat lymphoblastic leukemia | Synonyms: Elspar |
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asparagine | (noun) a crystalline amino acid found in proteins and in many plants (e.g., asparagus) | - |
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asparagus | (noun) edible young shoots of the asparagus plant | - |
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(noun) plant whose succulent young shoots are cooked and eaten as a vegetable | Synonyms: Asparagus officinales, edible asparagus |
aspartame | (noun) an artificial sweetener made from aspartic acid; used as a calorie-free sweetener | - |
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astragalar | (adjective) of or relating to the anklebone | - |
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astylar | (adjective) lacking columns or pillars | - |
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atar | (noun) essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers | Synonyms: athar, attar, ottar |
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ataractic | (adjective) tending to soothe or tranquilize | Synonyms: ataraxic, sedative, tranquilising, tranquilizing, tranquillising, tranquillizing |
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(noun) a drug used to reduce stress or tension without reducing mental clarity | Synonyms: antianxiety agent, ataractic agent, ataractic drug, tranquilizer, tranquilliser, tranquillizer |
ataraxia | (noun) peace of mind | - |
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ataraxic | (adjective) tending to soothe or tranquilize | Synonyms: ataractic, sedative, tranquilising, tranquilizing, tranquillising, tranquillizing |
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ataraxis | (noun) the absence of mental stress or anxiety | Synonyms: heartsease, peace, peace of mind, peacefulness, repose, serenity |
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athar | (noun) essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers | Synonyms: atar, attar, ottar |
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athwart | (adverb) at an oblique angle | Synonyms: aslant, obliquely |
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(adverb) at right angles to the center line of a ship | - |
atrioventricular | (adjective) relating to or affecting the atria and ventricles of the heart | Synonyms: auriculoventricular |
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attar | (noun) essential oil or perfume obtained from flowers | Synonyms: atar, athar, ottar |
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auricular | (adjective) of or relating to near the ear | Synonyms: otic |
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(adjective) pertaining to an auricle of the heart | - |
(adjective) relating to or perceived by or shaped like the organ of hearing | - |
auriculare | (noun) the craniometric point at the center of the opening of the external acoustic meatus | Synonyms: auricular point |
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auriculoventricular | (adjective) relating to or affecting the atria and ventricles of the heart | Synonyms: atrioventricular |
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autarchic | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by autarchy | Synonyms: autarchical, autarkical |
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autarchical | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by autarchy | Synonyms: autarchic, autarkical |
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autarchy | (noun) a political system governed by a single individual | Synonyms: autocracy |
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(noun) economic independence as a national policy | Synonyms: autarky |
autarkic | (adjective) of countries; not relying on imports | Synonyms: autarkical |
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autarkical | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by autarchy | Synonyms: autarchic, autarchical |
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(adjective) of countries; not relying on imports | Synonyms: autarkic |
autarky | (noun) economic independence as a national policy | Synonyms: autarchy |
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authoritarian | (adjective) expecting unquestioning obedience | Synonyms: dictatorial, overbearing |
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(adjective) characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty | Synonyms: autocratic, despotic, dictatorial, tyrannic, tyrannical |
(noun) a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner | Synonyms: dictator |
authoritarianism | (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: absolutism, Caesarism, despotism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny |
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autoalarm | (noun) a radio receiving device used on ships that rings an alarm bell when a distress signal is received. | Synonyms: auto-alarm |
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auxiliary | (adjective) functioning in a supporting capacity | Synonyms: subsidiary, supplemental, supplementary |
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(adjective) furnishing added support | Synonyms: accessory, adjunct, adjuvant, ancillary, appurtenant |
(noun) someone who acts as assistant | Synonyms: aide |
avaram | (noun) evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning; sometimes placed in genus Cassia | Synonyms: Cassia auriculata, Senna auriculata, tanner's cassia |
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avarice | (noun) reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: avaritia, covetousness, greed, rapacity |
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(noun) extreme greed for material wealth | Synonyms: avariciousness, covetousness, cupidity |
avaricious | (adjective) immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth | Synonyms: covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy, prehensile |
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avariciously | (adverb) in a greedy manner | Synonyms: covetously, greedily |
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avariciousness | (noun) extreme greed for material wealth | Synonyms: avarice, covetousness, cupidity |
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avaritia | (noun) reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: avarice, covetousness, greed, rapacity |
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avascular | (adjective) without blood vessels | - |
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avatar | (noun) the manifestation of a Hindu deity (especially Vishnu) in human or superhuman or animal form | - |
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(noun) a new personification of a familiar idea | Synonyms: embodiment, incarnation |
aviary | (noun) a building where birds are kept | Synonyms: bird sanctuary, volary |
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avuncular | (adjective) being or relating to an uncle | - |
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(adjective) resembling an uncle in kindness or indulgence | - |
award | (noun) a grant made by a law court | Synonyms: awarding |
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(noun) a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction | Synonyms: accolade, honor, honour, laurels |
(noun) something given for victory or superiority in a contest or competition or for winning a lottery | Synonyms: prize |
(verb) give, especially as an honor or reward | Synonyms: present |
(verb) give as judged due or on the basis of merit | Synonyms: grant |
awarding | (noun) a grant made by a law court | Synonyms: award |
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aware | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `of') having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception | Synonyms: cognisant, cognizant |
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(adjective) bearing in mind; attentive to | Synonyms: mindful |
awareness | (noun) having knowledge of | Synonyms: cognisance, cognizance, consciousness, knowingness |
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(noun) state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness | Synonyms: sentience |
aweary | (adjective) physically and mentally fatigued | Synonyms: weary |
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awkward | (adjective) lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance | - |
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(adjective) hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment | Synonyms: embarrassing, sticky, unenviable |
(adjective) causing inconvenience | - |
(adjective) not elegant or graceful in expression | Synonyms: clumsy, cumbersome, ill-chosen, inapt, inept |
(adjective) socially uncomfortable; unsure and constrained in manner | Synonyms: ill at ease, uneasy |
(adjective) difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape | Synonyms: bunglesome, clumsy, ungainly |
awkwardly | (adverb) in an awkward manner | - |
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awkwardness | (noun) the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are ungainly or inelegant | Synonyms: clumsiness |
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(noun) the quality of an embarrassing situation | Synonyms: nuisance value |
(noun) trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape | Synonyms: cumbersomeness, unwieldiness |
(noun) the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment) | Synonyms: clumsiness, gracelessness, stiffness |
(noun) unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training | Synonyms: clumsiness, ineptitude, ineptness, maladroitness, slowness |
axillary | (adjective) of or relating to the armpit | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to the axil | Synonyms: alar |
azedarach | (noun) tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree | Synonyms: azederach, China tree, chinaberry, chinaberry tree, Melia azedarach, Melia azederach, Persian lilac, pride-of-India |
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baccarat | (noun) a card game played in casinos in which two or more punters gamble against the banker; the player wins who holds 2 or 3 cards that total closest to nine | Synonyms: chemin de fer |
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bacillar | (adjective) relating to or produced by or containing bacilli | Synonyms: bacillary |
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(adjective) formed like a bacillus | Synonyms: bacillary, bacilliform, baculiform, rod-shaped |
bacillary | (adjective) relating to or produced by or containing bacilli | Synonyms: bacillar |
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(adjective) formed like a bacillus | Synonyms: bacillar, bacilliform, baculiform, rod-shaped |
backboard | (noun) a board used to support the back of someone or something | - |
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(noun) a raised vertical board with basket attached; used to play basketball | Synonyms: basketball backboard |
backward | (adjective) directed or facing toward the back or rear | - |
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(adjective) (used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring nature | - |
(adjective) retarded in intellectual development | Synonyms: feebleminded, half-witted, slow-witted |
(adjective) having made less than normal progress | - |
(adverb) in a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal | Synonyms: backwards |
(adverb) in or to or toward a past time | Synonyms: back |
(adverb) at or to or toward the back or rear | Synonyms: back, backwards, rearward, rearwards |
backwardation | (noun) the market condition wherein the price of a forward or futures contract is trading below the expected spot price at contract maturity. | - |
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backwardness | (noun) lack of normal development of intellectual capacities | Synonyms: mental retardation, retardation, slowness, subnormality |
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backwards | (adverb) in a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal | Synonyms: backward |
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(adverb) at or to or toward the back or rear | Synonyms: back, backward, rearward, rearwards |
backyard | (noun) the grounds in back of a house | - |
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ballistocardiogram | (noun) a graphical recording made by a ballistocardiograph | - |
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ballistocardiograph | (noun) a medical instrument that measures the mechanical force of cardiac contractions and the amount of blood passing through the heart during a specified period by measuring the recoil of the body as blood is pumped from the ventricles | Synonyms: cardiograph |
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ballpark | (noun) a facility in which ball games are played (especially baseball games) | Synonyms: park |
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(noun) near to the scope or range of something | Synonyms: approximate range |
bar | (noun) the act of preventing | Synonyms: prevention |
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(noun) a rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon | - |
(noun) an obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal | - |
(noun) a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter | Synonyms: barroom, ginmill, saloon, taproom |
(noun) a counter where you can obtain food or drink | - |
(noun) a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax) | Synonyms: cake |
(noun) (law) a railing that encloses the part of the courtroom where the judges and lawyers sit and the case is tried | - |
(noun) a heating element in an electric fire | - |
(noun) a horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as they perform exercises | - |
(noun) a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background | Synonyms: streak, stripe |
(noun) musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats | Synonyms: measure |
(noun) the body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction | Synonyms: legal community, legal profession |
(noun) a submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore | - |
(noun) (meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter | - |
(verb) prevent from entering; keep out | Synonyms: debar, exclude |
(verb) render unsuitable for passage | Synonyms: barricade, block, block off, block up, blockade, stop |
(verb) secure with, or as if with, bars | - |
(verb) expel, as if by official decree | Synonyms: banish, relegate |
baranduki | (noun) terrestrial Siberian squirrel | Synonyms: baronduki, barunduki, burunduki, Eutamius asiaticus, Eutamius sibiricus |
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barb | (noun) one of the parallel filaments projecting from the main shaft of a feather | - |
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(noun) a subsidiary point facing opposite from the main point that makes an arrowhead or spear hard to remove | - |
(noun) the pointed part of barbed wire | - |
(noun) an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect | Synonyms: dig, gibe, jibe, shaft, shot, slam |
(verb) provide with barbs | - |
barbacan | (noun) a tower that is part of a defensive structure (such as a castle) | Synonyms: barbican |
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barbarian | (adjective) without civilizing influences | Synonyms: barbaric, savage, uncivilised, uncivilized, wild |
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(noun) a member of an uncivilized people | Synonyms: savage |
(noun) a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement | Synonyms: boor, churl, Goth, peasant, tike, tyke |
barbaric | (adjective) without civilizing influences | Synonyms: barbarian, savage, uncivilised, uncivilized, wild |
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(adjective) unrestrained and crudely rich | - |
barbarisation | (noun) an act that makes people primitive and uncivilized | Synonyms: barbarization |
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barbarise | (verb) make crude or savage in behavior or speech | Synonyms: barbarize |
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(verb) become crude or savage or barbaric in behavior or language | Synonyms: barbarize |
barbarism | (noun) a brutal barbarous savage act | Synonyms: barbarity, brutality, savagery |
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barbarity | (noun) a brutal barbarous savage act | Synonyms: barbarism, brutality, savagery |
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(noun) the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane | Synonyms: atrociousness, atrocity, barbarousness, heinousness |
barbarization | (noun) an act that makes people primitive and uncivilized | Synonyms: barbarisation |
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barbarize | (verb) make crude or savage in behavior or speech | Synonyms: barbarise |
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(verb) become crude or savage or barbaric in behavior or language | Synonyms: barbarise |
barbarous | (adjective) (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering | Synonyms: brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious |
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(adjective) primitive in customs and culture | - |
barbarously | (adverb) in a barbarous manner | - |
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barbarousness | (noun) the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane | Synonyms: atrociousness, atrocity, barbarity, heinousness |
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barbasco | (noun) West Indian shrub or small tree having leathery saponaceous leaves and extremely hard wood | Synonyms: Jacquinia keyensis, joewood |
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barbate | (adjective) having hair on the cheeks and chin | Synonyms: bearded, bewhiskered, whiskered, whiskery |
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barbecue | (noun) a rack to hold meat for cooking over hot charcoal usually out of doors | Synonyms: barbeque |
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(noun) a cookout in which food is cooked over an open fire; especially a whole animal carcass roasted on a spit | Synonyms: barbeque |
(noun) meat that has been barbecued or grilled in a highly seasoned sauce | Synonyms: barbeque |
(verb) cook outdoors on a barbecue grill | Synonyms: barbeque, cook out |
barbecued | (adjective) cooked over an outdoor grill | Synonyms: grilled |
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barbecuing | (noun) roasting a large piece of meat on a revolving spit out of doors over an open fire | - |
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barbed | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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(adjective) capable of wounding | Synonyms: biting, mordacious, nipping, pungent |
barbel | (noun) slender tactile process on the jaws of a fish | Synonyms: feeler |
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barbell | (noun) a bar to which heavy discs are attached at each end; used in weightlifting | - |
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barbellate | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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barbeque | (noun) a rack to hold meat for cooking over hot charcoal usually out of doors | Synonyms: barbecue |
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(noun) a cookout in which food is cooked over an open fire; especially a whole animal carcass roasted on a spit | Synonyms: barbecue |
(noun) meat that has been barbecued or grilled in a highly seasoned sauce | Synonyms: barbecue |
(verb) cook outdoors on a barbecue grill | Synonyms: barbecue, cook out |
barber | (noun) a hairdresser who cuts hair and shaves beards as a trade | - |
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(verb) perform the services of a barber: cut the hair and/or beard of | - |
barberry | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Berberis having prickly stems and yellow flowers followed by small red berries | - |
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barbershop | (noun) a shop where men can get their hair cut | - |
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barbet | (noun) small brightly colored stout-billed tropical bird having short weak wings | - |
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barbette | (noun) (formerly) a mound of earth inside a fort from which heavy gun can be fired over the parapet | - |
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barbican | (noun) a tower that is part of a defensive structure (such as a castle) | Synonyms: barbacan |
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