| applause | (noun) a demonstration of approval by clapping the hands together | Synonyms: clapping, hand clapping |
|---|
| auscultate | (verb) examine by auscultation | - |
|---|
| auscultation | (noun) listening to sounds within the body (usually with a stethoscope) | - |
|---|
| auscultatory | (adjective) of or relating to auscultation | - |
|---|
| auspex | (noun) (ancient Rome) a religious official who interpreted omens to guide public policy | Synonyms: augur |
|---|
| auspicate | (verb) commence in a manner calculated to bring good luck | - |
|---|
| (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
| auspice | (noun) a favorable omen | - |
|---|
| auspices | (noun) kindly endorsement and guidance | Synonyms: aegis, protection |
|---|
| auspicious | (adjective) auguring favorable circumstances and good luck | - |
|---|
| auspiciously | (adverb) in an auspicious manner | Synonyms: propitiously |
|---|
| auspiciousness | (noun) the favorable quality of strongly indicating a successful result | Synonyms: propitiousness |
|---|
| austenite | (noun) a solid solution of ferric carbide or carbon in iron; cools to form pearlite or martensite | - |
|---|
| austenitic | (adjective) composed of austenite | - |
|---|
| austere | (adjective) practicing great self-denial | Synonyms: ascetic, ascetical, spartan |
|---|
| (adjective) of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect | Synonyms: stern |
| (adjective) severely simple | Synonyms: severe, stark, stern |
| austerely | (adverb) in an austere fashion | - |
|---|
| austereness | (noun) extreme plainness | Synonyms: severeness, severity |
|---|
| austerity | (noun) the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures) | Synonyms: asceticism, nonindulgence |
|---|
| austral | (adjective) of the south or coming from the south | - |
|---|
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Argentina; equal to 100 centavos | - |
| australopithecine | (adjective) of or belonging to the hominid genus Australopithecus | - |
|---|
| (noun) any of several extinct humanlike bipedal primates with relatively small brains of the genus Australopithecus; from 1 to 4 million years ago | - |
| banausic | (adjective) (formal) ordinary and not refined | - |
|---|
| catacaustic | (noun) a caustic curve formed by light reflecting from a curved surface. | - |
|---|
| causa | (noun) a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy | Synonyms: case, cause, lawsuit, suit |
|---|
| causal | (adjective) involving or constituting a cause; causing | - |
|---|
| causalgia | (noun) a burning pain in a limb along the course of a peripheral nerve; usually associated with skin changes | - |
|---|
| causality | (noun) the relation between causes and effects | - |
|---|
| causally | (adverb) in a causal fashion | - |
|---|
| causation | (noun) the act of causing something to happen | Synonyms: causing |
|---|
| causative | (adjective) producing an effect | - |
|---|
| cause | (noun) any entity that produces an effect or is responsible for events or results | Synonyms: causal agency, causal agent |
|---|
| (noun) a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy | Synonyms: case, causa, lawsuit, suit |
| (noun) a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end | Synonyms: campaign, crusade, drive, effort, movement |
| (noun) a justification for something existing or happening | Synonyms: grounds, reason |
| (noun) events that provide the generative force that is the origin of something | - |
| (verb) cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner | Synonyms: get, have, induce, make, stimulate |
| (verb) give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally | Synonyms: do, make |
| causeless | (adjective) having no cause or apparent cause | Synonyms: fortuitous, uncaused |
|---|
| (adjective) having no justifying cause or reason | Synonyms: reasonless |
| causerie | (noun) light informal conversation for social occasions | Synonyms: chin-wag, chin-wagging, chin wag, chin wagging, chit-chat, chit chat, chitchat, gab, gabfest, gossip, small talk, tittle-tattle |
|---|
| causeway | (noun) a road that is raised above water or marshland or sand | - |
|---|
| (verb) pave a road with cobblestones or pebbles | - |
| (verb) provide with a causeway | - |
| causing | (noun) the act of causing something to happen | Synonyms: causation |
|---|
| caustic | (adjective) of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action | Synonyms: corrosive, erosive, mordant, vitriolic |
|---|
| (adjective) harsh or corrosive in tone | Synonyms: acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic |
| (noun) the envelope of light rays reflected or refracted by a curved surface or object | - |
| (noun) any chemical substance that burns or destroys living tissue | - |
| caustically | (adverb) in a caustic vitriolic manner | Synonyms: vitriolically |
|---|
| clausal | (adjective) of or relating to or functioning as a clause | - |
|---|
| clause | (noun) (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate functioning as a part of a complex sentence | - |
|---|
| (noun) a separate section of a legal document (as a statute or contract or will) | Synonyms: article |
| claustrophobe | (noun) a person suffering from claustrophobia | - |
|---|
| claustrophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of being closed in a confined space | - |
|---|
| claustrophobic | (adjective) suffering from claustrophobia; abnormally afraid of closed-in places | - |
|---|
| (adjective) uncomfortably closed or hemmed in | - |
| claustrum | (noun) a layer of grey matter in the brain adjacent to the lenticular nucleus | - |
|---|
| degauss | (verb) make nonmagnetic; take away the magnetic properties (of) | Synonyms: demagnetise, demagnetize |
|---|
| degaussing | (noun) the process of making a (steel) ship's hull nonmagnetic by producing an opposing magnetic field | - |
|---|
| encaustic | (noun) a paint consisting of pigment mixed with melted beeswax; it is fixed with heat after application | - |
|---|
| exhaust | (noun) system consisting of the parts of an engine through which burned gases or steam are discharged | Synonyms: exhaust system |
|---|
| (noun) gases ejected from an engine as waste products | Synonyms: exhaust fumes, fumes |
| (verb) wear out completely | Synonyms: beat, tucker, tucker out, wash up |
| (verb) eliminate (a substance) | Synonyms: discharge, eject, expel, release |
| (verb) use up the whole supply of | - |
| (verb) use up (resources or materials) | Synonyms: consume, deplete, eat, eat up, expend, run through, use, use up, wipe out |
| (verb) deplete | Synonyms: play out, run down, sap, tire |
| exhausted | (adjective) depleted of energy, force, or strength | Synonyms: spent |
|---|
| (adjective) drained physically | - |
| (adjective) drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted | Synonyms: dog-tired, fagged, fatigued, gone, played out, spent, washed-out, worn-out, worn out |
| exhaustible | (adjective) capable of being used up | - |
|---|
| (adjective) capable of being used up; capable of being exhausted | - |
| exhausting | (adjective) having a debilitating effect | Synonyms: draining |
|---|
| (adjective) producing exhaustion | Synonyms: tiring, wearing, wearying |
| exhaustion | (noun) the act of exhausting something entirely | - |
|---|
| (noun) serious weakening and loss of energy | Synonyms: debilitation, enervation, enfeeblement |
| (noun) extreme fatigue | - |
| exhaustive | (adjective) performed comprehensively and completely; not superficial or partial | Synonyms: thorough, thoroughgoing |
|---|
| exhaustively | (adverb) in an exhaustive manner | Synonyms: thoroughly |
|---|
| gauss | (noun) a unit of magnetic flux density equal to 1 maxwell per square centimeter | - |
|---|
| gaussmeter | (noun) a meter to compare strengths of magnetic fields | Synonyms: magnetometer |
|---|
| hausen | (noun) valuable source of caviar and isinglass; found in Black and Caspian seas | Synonyms: Acipenser huso, beluga, white sturgeon |
|---|
| hausmannite | (noun) a mineral consisting of manganese tetroxide; a source of manganese | - |
|---|
| haustorium | (noun) a root-like attachment in parasitic plants that penetrates and obtains food from the host | - |
|---|
| heliopause | (noun) the boundary marking the edge of the sun's influence; the boundary (roughly 100 AU from the sun) between the interplanetary medium and the interstellar medium; where the solar wind from the sun and the radiation from other stars meet | - |
|---|
| holocaust | (noun) an act of mass destruction and loss of life (especially in war or by fire) | - |
|---|
| implausibility | (noun) the quality of provoking disbelief | Synonyms: implausibleness |
|---|
| implausible | (adjective) having a quality that provokes disbelief | - |
|---|
| implausibleness | (noun) the quality of provoking disbelief | Synonyms: implausibility |
|---|
| implausibly | (adverb) not easy to believe | Synonyms: improbably, incredibly, unbelievably |
|---|
| inauspicious | (adjective) not auspicious; boding ill | Synonyms: unfortunate |
|---|
| (adjective) contrary to your interests or welfare | Synonyms: adverse, untoward |
| (adjective) presaging ill fortune | Synonyms: ill, ominous |
| inauspiciously | (adverb) in an inauspicious manner | Synonyms: unpropitiously |
|---|
| inauspiciousness | (noun) the quality of suggesting an unsuccessful result | Synonyms: unpropitiousness |
|---|
| inexhaustibility | (noun) The state or condition of being impossible to exhaust; of being unlimited. | - |
|---|
| inexhaustible | (adjective) incapable of being entirely consumed or used up | - |
|---|
| (adjective) that cannot be entirely consumed or used up | Synonyms: unlimited |
| inexhaustibly | (adverb) with indefatigable energy | Synonyms: indefatigably, tirelessly |
|---|
| mausoleum | (noun) a large burial chamber, usually above ground | - |
|---|
| menopausal | (adjective) of or relating to the menopause | - |
|---|
| menopause | (noun) the time in a woman's life in which the menstrual cycle ends | Synonyms: change of life, climacteric |
|---|
| microgauss | (noun) a unit of magnetic flux density equal to one millionth of a gauss | - |
|---|
| nausea | (noun) disgust so strong it makes you feel sick | - |
|---|
| (noun) the state that precedes vomiting | Synonyms: sickness |
| nauseant | (noun) a medicine that induces nausea and vomiting | Synonyms: emetic, vomit, vomitive |
|---|
| nauseate | (verb) cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of | Synonyms: churn up, disgust, revolt, sicken |
|---|
| (verb) upset and make nauseated | Synonyms: sicken, turn one's stomach |
| nauseated | (adjective) feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit | Synonyms: nauseous, queasy, sick, sickish |
|---|
| nauseating | (adjective) causing or able to cause nausea | Synonyms: loathsome, nauseous, noisome, offensive, queasy, sickening, vile |
|---|
| nauseatingness | (noun) extreme unpalatability to the mouth | Synonyms: disgustingness, distastefulness, sickeningness, unsavoriness |
|---|
| nauseous | (adjective) feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit | Synonyms: nauseated, queasy, sick, sickish |
|---|
| (adjective) causing or able to cause nausea | Synonyms: loathsome, nauseating, noisome, offensive, queasy, sickening, vile |
| noncausal | (adjective) not causative | Synonyms: noncausative |
|---|
| noncausative | (adjective) not causative | Synonyms: noncausal |
|---|
| pause | (noun) temporary inactivity | - |
|---|
| (noun) a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something | Synonyms: break, intermission, interruption, suspension |
| (verb) cease an action temporarily | Synonyms: break, intermit |
| (verb) interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing | Synonyms: hesitate |
| plausibility | (noun) apparent validity | Synonyms: plausibleness |
|---|
| plausible | (adjective) apparently reasonable and credible, and therefore convincing | - |
|---|
| (adjective) given to or characterized by presenting specious arguments | - |
| plausibleness | (noun) apparent validity | Synonyms: plausibility |
|---|
| plausibly | (adverb) easy to believe on the basis of available evidence | Synonyms: believably, credibly, probably |
|---|
| plausive | (adjective) expressing or manifesting praise or approval | Synonyms: affirmative, approbative, approbatory, approving |
|---|
| postmenopausal | (adjective) subsequent to menopause | - |
|---|
| premenopausal | (adjective) prior to menopause | - |
|---|
| sausage | (noun) a small nonrigid airship used for observation or as a barrage balloon | Synonyms: blimp, sausage balloon |
|---|
| (noun) highly seasoned minced meat stuffed in casings | - |
| tropopause | (noun) the region of discontinuity between the troposphere and the stratosphere | - |
|---|
| uncaused | (adjective) having no cause or apparent cause | Synonyms: causeless, fortuitous |
|---|
| unexhausted | (adjective) not used up completely | - |
|---|