abecedarian | (adjective) alphabetically arranged (as for beginning readers) | - |
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(noun) a novice learning the rudiments of some subject | - |
ablepharia | (noun) a congenital absence of eyelids (partial or complete) | - |
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acariasis | (noun) infestation with itch mites | Synonyms: acaridiasis, acariosis |
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actiniarian | (noun) any sea anemone or related animal | Synonyms: actinia, actinian |
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actuarial | (adjective) of or relating to the work of an actuary | - |
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agrarian | (adjective) relating to farming or agriculture | Synonyms: agricultural, farming |
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alfilaria | (noun) European weed naturalized in southwestern United States and Mexico having reddish decumbent stems with small fernlike leaves and small deep reddish-lavender flowers followed by slender fruits that stick straight up; often grown for forage | Synonyms: alfileria, clocks, Erodium cicutarium, filaree, filaria, pin clover, pin grass, redstem storksbill |
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antiauthoritarian | (adjective) opposed to authoritarianism | - |
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antiestablishmentarianism | (noun) the doctrine of opposition to the social and political establishment | Synonyms: antiestablishmentism |
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antimalarial | (noun) a medicinal drug used to prevent or treat malaria | Synonyms: antimalarial drug |
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antiquarian | (adjective) of or relating to antiques or antiquities | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to persons who study or deal in antiques or antiquities | - |
(noun) an expert or collector of antiquities | Synonyms: antiquary, archaist |
apiarian | (adjective) relating to bees or beekeeping | - |
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appendicularia | (noun) free-swimming tadpole-shaped pelagic tunicate resembling larvae of other tunicates | - |
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araucaria | (noun) any of several tall South American or Australian trees with large cones and edible seeds | - |
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aria | (noun) an elaborate song for solo voice | - |
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arianist | (noun) an adherent of Arianism (the belief that Jesus Christ was not truly God) | - |
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ascariasis | (noun) infestation of the human intestine with Ascaris roundworms | - |
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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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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 |
bibliothecarial | (adjective) of or relating to a library or bibliotheca or a librarian | Synonyms: bibliothecal |
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bivariate | (adjective) having two variables | - |
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caesarian | (adjective) relating to abdominal delivery | Synonyms: caesarean, cesarean, cesarian |
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(noun) the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius Caesar was born that way) | Synonyms: abdominal delivery, C-section, caesarean, caesarean delivery, caesarean section, caesarian delivery, caesarian section, cesarean, cesarean delivery, cesarean section, cesarian, cesarian section |
calceolaria | (noun) any garden plant of the genus Calceolaria having flowers with large inflated slipper-shaped lower lip | Synonyms: slipperwort |
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calvaria | (noun) the dome of the skull | Synonyms: skullcap |
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centenarian | (adjective) being at least 100 years old | - |
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(noun) someone who is at least 100 years old | - |
cercaria | (noun) tadpole-shaped parasitic larva of a trematode worm; tail disappears in adult stage | - |
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cercarial | (adjective) of or relating to cercaria | - |
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cesarian | (adjective) relating to abdominal delivery | Synonyms: caesarean, caesarian, cesarean |
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(noun) the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius Caesar was born that way) | Synonyms: abdominal delivery, C-section, caesarean, caesarean delivery, caesarean section, caesarian, caesarian delivery, caesarian section, cesarean, cesarean delivery, cesarean section, cesarian section |
cineraria | (noun) herb of Canary Islands widely cultivated for its blue or purple or red or variegated daisylike flowers | Synonyms: Pericallis cruenta, Senecio cruentus |
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cnidarian | (noun) radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp and medusa forms | Synonyms: coelenterate |
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commissariat | (noun) a stock or supply of foods | Synonyms: provender, provisions, viands, victuals |
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contrarian | (noun) an investor who deliberately decides to go against the prevailing wisdom of other investors | - |
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covariance | (noun) (statistics) the mean value of the product of the deviations of two variates from their respective means | - |
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covariant | (adjective) changing so that interrelations with another variable quantity or set of quantities remain unchanged | - |
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covariation | (noun) (statistics) correlated variation | - |
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crotalaria | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Crotalaria having inflated pods within which the seeds rattle; used for pasture and green-manure crops | Synonyms: rattlebox |
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disciplinarian | (noun) someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms | Synonyms: martinet, moralist |
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egalitarian | (adjective) favoring social equality | Synonyms: classless |
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(noun) a person who believes in the equality of all people | Synonyms: equalitarian |
egalitarianism | (noun) the doctrine of the equality of mankind and the desirability of political and economic and social equality | Synonyms: equalitarianism |
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equalitarian | (noun) a person who believes in the equality of all people | Synonyms: egalitarian |
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equalitarianism | (noun) the doctrine of the equality of mankind and the desirability of political and economic and social equality | Synonyms: egalitarianism |
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establishmentarianism | (noun) the doctrine of supporting the social or political establishment | Synonyms: establishmentism |
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estuarial | (adjective) of or relating to or found in estuaries | Synonyms: estuarine |
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filaria | (noun) slender threadlike roundworms living in the blood and tissues of vertebrates; transmitted as larvae by biting insects | - |
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(noun) European weed naturalized in southwestern United States and Mexico having reddish decumbent stems with small fernlike leaves and small deep reddish-lavender flowers followed by slender fruits that stick straight up; often grown for forage | Synonyms: alfilaria, alfileria, clocks, Erodium cicutarium, filaree, pin clover, pin grass, redstem storksbill |
filarial | (adjective) related to or infested with or transmitting parasitic worms especially filaria | - |
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filariasis | (noun) a disease caused by nematodes in the blood or tissues of the body causing blockage of lymphatic vessels | - |
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flexitarianism | (noun) The practice of eating mainly vegetarian food, but making occasional exceptions for social, pragmatic, cultural, or nutritional reasons. | Synonyms: semi-vegetarianism |
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grammarian | (noun) a linguist who specializes in the study of grammar and syntax | Synonyms: syntactician |
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hereditarianism | (noun) the philosophical doctrine that heredity is more important than environment in determining intellectual growth | - |
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humanitarian | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of humanitarianism | - |
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(adjective) marked by humanistic values and devotion to human welfare | Synonyms: human-centered, human-centred, humanist, humanistic |
(noun) someone devoted to the promotion of human welfare and to social reforms | Synonyms: do-gooder, improver |
(noun) an advocate of the principles of humanism; someone concerned with the interests and welfare of humans | Synonyms: humanist |
humanitarianism | (noun) the doctrine that people's duty is to promote human welfare | Synonyms: humanism |
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invariability | (noun) the quality of being resistant to variation | Synonyms: invariableness, invariance |
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(noun) a quality of uniformity and lack of variation | Synonyms: evenness |
invariable | (adjective) not liable to or capable of change | - |
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(noun) a quantity that does not vary | Synonyms: constant, constant quantity |
invariableness | (noun) the quality of being resistant to variation | Synonyms: invariability, invariance |
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invariably | (adverb) without variation or change, in every case | Synonyms: always, constantly |
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invariance | (noun) the quality of being resistant to variation | Synonyms: invariability, invariableness |
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(noun) the nature of a quantity or property or function that remains unchanged when a given transformation is applied to it | - |
invariant | (adjective) unvarying in nature | Synonyms: changeless, constant, unvarying |
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(adjective) unaffected by a designated operation or transformation | - |
(noun) a feature (quantity or property or function) that remains unchanged when a particular transformation is applied to it | - |
lapidarian | (adjective) inscribed on stone | - |
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lariat | (noun) a long noosed rope used to catch animals | Synonyms: lasso, reata, riata |
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latitudinarian | (adjective) unwilling to accept authority or dogma (especially in religion) | Synonyms: free-thinking, undogmatic, undogmatical |
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(noun) a person who is broad-minded and tolerant (especially in standards of religious belief and conduct) | - |
libertarian | (noun) someone who believes the doctrine of free will | - |
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(noun) an advocate of libertarianism | - |
libertarianism | (noun) an ideological belief in freedom of thought, speech and action | - |
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librarian | (noun) a professional person trained in library science and engaged in library services | Synonyms: bibliothec |
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librarianship | (noun) the position of librarian | - |
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lumpenproletariat | (noun) (Marxism) the unorganized lower levels of the proletariat who are not interested in revolutionary advancement | - |
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malaria | (noun) an infective disease caused by sporozoan parasites that are transmitted through the bite of an infected Anopheles mosquito; marked by paroxysms of chills and fever | - |
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malarial | (adjective) of or infected by or resembling malaria | - |
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mammillaria | (noun) any cactus of the genus Mammillaria | - |
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maria | (noun) a dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon | Synonyms: mare |
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mariachi | (noun) a group of street musicians in Mexico | - |
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maxillaria | (noun) any of numerous orchids of the genus Maxillaria often cultivated for their large brilliantly colored solitary flowers | - |
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miliaria | (noun) obstruction of the sweat ducts during high heat and humidity | Synonyms: heat rash, prickly heat |
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millenarian | (adjective) relating to or believing in the millennium of peace and happiness | Synonyms: chiliastic |
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(noun) a person who believes in the coming of the millennium (a time of great peace and prosperity) | Synonyms: chiliast, millenarist |
millenarianism | (noun) belief in the Christian doctrine of the millennium mentioned in the Book of Revelations | Synonyms: chiliasm, millenarism, millenniumism |
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multivariate | (adjective) pertaining to any procedure involving two or more variables | - |
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narial | (adjective) of or relating to or near the nares | - |
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necessitarian | (noun) someone who does not believe the doctrine of free will | - |
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nonagenarian | (adjective) being from 90 to 99 years old | - |
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(noun) someone whose age is in the nineties | - |
nonsectarian | (adjective) not restricted to one sect or school or party | Synonyms: unsectarian |
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octogenarian | (adjective) being from 80 to 89 years old | - |
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(noun) someone whose age is in the eighties | - |
ovarian | (adjective) of or involving the ovaries | - |
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pariah | (noun) a person who is rejected (from society or home) | Synonyms: castaway, Ishmael, outcast |
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parliamentarian | (noun) an expert in parliamentary rules and procedures | - |
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planaria | (noun) free-swimming mostly freshwater flatworms; popular in laboratory studies for the ability to regenerate lost parts | Synonyms: planarian |
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planarian | (noun) free-swimming mostly freshwater flatworms; popular in laboratory studies for the ability to regenerate lost parts | Synonyms: planaria |
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platitudinarian | (noun) a bore who makes excessive use of platitudes | - |
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pollotarianism | (noun) the practice of following a diet that includes chicken or other poultry, but not meat from mammals. | - |
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predestinarian | (adjective) of or relating to predestination; holding the doctrine of predestination | - |
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(noun) anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny | Synonyms: determinist, fatalist, predestinationist |
predestinarianism | (noun) the belief or doctrine of predestinarians | - |
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prelapsarian | (adjective) of or relating to the time before the Fall of Adam and Eve | - |
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proletarian | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of the proletariat | - |
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(noun) a member of the working class (not necessarily employed) | Synonyms: prole, worker |
proletarianism | (noun) The condition or political position of a member of the working class. | - |
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proletariat | (noun) a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages | Synonyms: labor, labour, working class |
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radiolarian | (noun) protozoa with amoeba-like bodies and radiating filamentous pseudopods | - |
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riparian | (adjective) of or relating to or located on the banks of a river or stream | - |
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salariat | (noun) the class of workers who are salaried and get regular, non-hourly pay checks. | - |
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secretarial | (adjective) of or relating to a secretary or to a secretary's work | - |
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secretariat | (noun) an administrative unit responsible for maintaining records and other secretarial duties; especially for international organizations | Synonyms: secretariate |
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secretariate | (noun) an administrative unit responsible for maintaining records and other secretarial duties; especially for international organizations | Synonyms: secretariat |
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