autolatry | (noun) the worship of yourself | Synonyms: idiolatry, self-worship |
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autoloader | (noun) a firearm that reloads itself | Synonyms: self-loader |
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autoloading | (adjective) (of firearms) capable of automatic loading and firing continuously | Synonyms: self-loading, semiautomatic |
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autologous | (adjective) derived from organisms of the selfsame individual | - |
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autolysis | (noun) lysis of plant or animal tissue by an internal process | Synonyms: self-digestion |
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autolytic | (adjective) of or relating to self-digestion | - |
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automaker | (noun) a business engaged in the manufacture of automobiles | Synonyms: auto maker, auto manufacturer, car maker, car manufacturer, carmaker |
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automat | (noun) a cafeteria where food is served from machines | - |
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(noun) a vending machine from which you can get food | - |
automate | (verb) make automatic or control or operate automatically | Synonyms: automatise, automatize |
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automated | (adjective) operated by automation | Synonyms: machine-controlled, machine-driven |
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automatic | (adjective) operating with minimal human intervention; independent of external control | - |
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(adjective) without volition or conscious control | Synonyms: reflex, reflexive |
(adjective) resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine | Synonyms: automatonlike, machinelike, robotic, robotlike |
(noun) self-loading rifle capable of automatic fire | Synonyms: automatic rifle, machine rifle |
(noun) a pistol that will keep firing until the ammunition is gone or the trigger is released | Synonyms: automatic pistol |
automatically | (adverb) in a reflex manner | - |
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(adverb) in a mechanical manner; by a mechanism | Synonyms: mechanically |
automation | (noun) the act of implementing the control of equipment with advanced technology; usually involving electronic hardware | Synonyms: mechanisation, mechanization |
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(noun) equipment used to achieve automatic control or operation | - |
(noun) the condition of being automatically operated or controlled | - |
automatise | (verb) make automatic or control or operate automatically | Synonyms: automate, automatize |
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(verb) turn into an automaton | Synonyms: automatize |
automatism | (noun) any reaction that occurs automatically without conscious thought or reflection (especially the undirected behavior seen in psychomotor epilepsy) | - |
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automatize | (verb) make automatic or control or operate automatically | Synonyms: automate, automatise |
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(verb) turn into an automaton | Synonyms: automatise |
automaton | (noun) a mechanism that can move automatically | Synonyms: golem, robot |
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(noun) a machine that operates on its own without the need for human control | - |
(noun) someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way | Synonyms: zombi, zombie |
automatonlike | (adjective) resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine | Synonyms: automatic, machinelike, robotic, robotlike |
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automobile | (noun) a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine | Synonyms: auto, car, machine, motorcar |
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(verb) travel in an automobile | - |
automobilist | (noun) someone who drives (or travels in) an automobile | Synonyms: motorist |
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automotive | (adjective) of or relating to motor vehicles | - |
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(adjective) containing within itself the means of propulsion or movement | Synonyms: self-propelled, self-propelling |
automysophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of being dirty | - |
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autonomic | (adjective) relating to or controlled by the autonomic nervous system | - |
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autonomous | (adjective) (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces | Synonyms: independent, self-governing, sovereign |
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(adjective) (of persons) free from external control and constraint in e.g. action and judgment | Synonyms: self-directed, self-reliant |
(adjective) existing as an independent entity | - |
autonomy | (noun) immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence | Synonyms: liberty |
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(noun) personal independence | Synonyms: self-direction, self-reliance, self-sufficiency |
autophyte | (noun) plant capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances | Synonyms: autophytic plant, autotroph, autotrophic organism |
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autophytic | (adjective) of or relating to organisms (as green plants) that can make complex organic nutritive compounds from simple inorganic sources by photosynthesis | Synonyms: autotrophic |
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autopilot | (noun) a navigational device that automatically keeps ships or planes or spacecraft on a steady course | Synonyms: automatic pilot, robot pilot |
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(noun) a cognitive state in which you act without self-awareness | Synonyms: automatic pilot |
autoplastic | (adjective) of or relating to or involved in autoplasty | - |
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autoplasty | (noun) surgical repair by using tissue from another part of the patient's own body | - |
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(noun) tissue that is taken from one site and grafted to another site on the same person | Synonyms: autograft |
autopsy | (noun) an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease | Synonyms: necropsy, PM, post-mortem, post-mortem examination, postmortem, postmortem examination |
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(verb) perform an autopsy on a dead body; do a post-mortem | - |
autoradiograph | (noun) a radiogram produced by radiation emitted by the specimen being photographed | - |
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autoradiographic | (adjective) of or relating to or produced by autoradiography | - |
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autoradiography | (noun) producing a radiograph by means of the radiation emitted from the specimen being photographed | - |
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autoregulation | (noun) (physiology) processes that maintain a generally constant physiological state in a cell or organism | - |
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autosemantic | (adjective) of a word or phrase meaningful in isolation, independent of context | - |
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autosexing | (noun) (especially of domestic fowl) breeding to reveal differential sex characteristics at hatching | - |
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autosomal | (adjective) of or relating to an autosome | - |
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autosome | (noun) any chromosome that is not a sex chromosome; appear in pairs in body cells but as single chromosomes in spermatozoa | Synonyms: somatic chromosome |
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autostereotype | (noun) the standardized mental picture held in common by members of a cultural group depicting an oversimplified image of themselves and their behaviour. | - |
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autostrada | (noun) an expressway in an Italian-speaking country | - |
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autosuggestion | (noun) a system for self-improvement developed by Emile Coue which was popular in the 1920s and 1930s | Synonyms: auto-suggestion, self-suggestion |
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autotelic | (adjective) of or relating to or believing in autotelism | - |
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autotelism | (noun) belief that a work of art is an end in itself or its own justification | - |
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autotomic | (adjective) of or relating to autotomy | - |
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autotomise | (verb) cause a body part to undergo autotomy | Synonyms: autotomize |
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autotomize | (verb) cause a body part to undergo autotomy | Synonyms: autotomise |
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autotomy | (noun) spontaneous removal or casting off of a body part (as the tail of a lizard or claw of a lobster) especially when the organism is injured or under attack | - |
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autotroph | (noun) plant capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances | Synonyms: autophyte, autophytic plant, autotrophic organism |
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autotrophic | (adjective) of or relating to organisms (as green plants) that can make complex organic nutritive compounds from simple inorganic sources by photosynthesis | Synonyms: autophytic |
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autotype | (noun) an exact copy or reproduction | Synonyms: facsimile |
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(noun) process for producing permanent prints in a carbon pigment | Synonyms: autotypy |
autotypic | (adjective) of or relating to autotypy | - |
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autotypy | (noun) process for producing permanent prints in a carbon pigment | Synonyms: autotype |
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autumn | (noun) the season when the leaves fall from the trees | Synonyms: fall |
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autumnal | (adjective) of or characteristic of or occurring in autumn | - |
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(adjective) characteristic of late maturity verging on decline | - |
beaut | (noun) an outstanding example of its kind | Synonyms: beauty |
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beauteous | (adjective) (poetic) beautiful, especially to the sight | - |
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beauteousness | (noun) the quality of being good looking and attractive | Synonyms: comeliness, fairness, loveliness |
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beautician | (noun) someone who works in a beauty parlor | Synonyms: cosmetician |
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beautification | (noun) the act of making something more beautiful | - |
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beautiful | (adjective) delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration | - |
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(adjective) (of weather) highly enjoyable | - |
beautifully | (adverb) in a beautiful manner | Synonyms: attractively |
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beautify | (verb) make more beautiful | Synonyms: embellish, fancify, prettify |
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(verb) make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc. | Synonyms: adorn, decorate, embellish, grace, ornament |
(verb) be beautiful to look at | Synonyms: adorn, deck, decorate, embellish, grace |
beauty | (noun) the qualities that give pleasure to the senses | - |
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(noun) an outstanding example of its kind | Synonyms: beaut |
(noun) a very attractive or seductive looking woman | Synonyms: dish, knockout, looker, lulu, mantrap, peach, ravisher, smasher, stunner, sweetheart |
cauterant | (noun) an instrument or substance used to destroy tissue for medical reasons (e.g., removal of a wart) by burning it with a hot iron or an electric current or a caustic or by freezing it | Synonyms: cautery |
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cauterisation | (noun) the act of coagulating blood and destroying tissue with a hot iron or caustic agent or by freezing | Synonyms: cauterization, cautery |
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cauterise | (verb) burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent | Synonyms: burn, cauterize |
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(verb) make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals | Synonyms: callous, cauterize |
cauterization | (noun) the act of coagulating blood and destroying tissue with a hot iron or caustic agent or by freezing | Synonyms: cauterisation, cautery |
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cauterize | (verb) burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent | Synonyms: burn, cauterise |
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(verb) make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals | Synonyms: callous, cauterise |
cautery | (noun) the act of coagulating blood and destroying tissue with a hot iron or caustic agent or by freezing | Synonyms: cauterisation, cauterization |
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(noun) an instrument or substance used to destroy tissue for medical reasons (e.g., removal of a wart) by burning it with a hot iron or an electric current or a caustic or by freezing it | Synonyms: cauterant |
caution | (noun) the trait of being cautious; being attentive to possible danger | Synonyms: carefulness, cautiousness |
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(noun) the trait of being circumspect and prudent | Synonyms: circumspection |
(noun) judiciousness in avoiding harm or danger | Synonyms: care, forethought, precaution |
(noun) a warning against certain acts | Synonyms: caveat |
(verb) warn strongly; put on guard | Synonyms: admonish, monish |
cautionary | (adjective) serving to warn | Synonyms: admonitory, exemplary, monitory, warning |
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(adjective) warding off | Synonyms: prophylactic |
cautious | (adjective) showing careful forethought | - |
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(adjective) avoiding excess | Synonyms: conservative |
(noun) people who are fearful and cautious | Synonyms: timid |
cautiously | (adverb) as if with kid gloves; with caution or prudence or tact | Synonyms: carefully, with kid gloves |
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(adverb) in a conservative manner | Synonyms: conservatively, guardedly |
cautiousness | (noun) the trait of being cautious; being attentive to possible danger | Synonyms: carefulness, caution |
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chemoautotroph | (noun) An organism that depends on chemicals for its energy and principally on carbon dioxide for its carbon. | Synonyms: chemotrophic autotroph |
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coauthor | (noun) a writer who collaborates with others in writing something | Synonyms: joint author |
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cosmonaut | (noun) a person trained to travel in a spacecraft | Synonyms: astronaut, spaceman |
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cryocautery | (noun) application of a substance that destroys tissue by freezing it | - |
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(noun) an instrument for destroying tissue by freezing it | - |
cybernaut | (noun) a computer user who uses the internet; someone who explores cyberspace | - |
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electrocautery | (noun) application of a needle heated by an electric current to destroy tissue (as to remove warts) | - |
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fauteuil | (noun) an upholstered armchair | - |
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flautist | (noun) someone who plays the flute | Synonyms: flute player, flutist |
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hautbois | (noun) a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece | Synonyms: hautboy, oboe |
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hautboy | (noun) a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece | Synonyms: hautbois, oboe |
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hauteur | (noun) overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors | Synonyms: arrogance, haughtiness, high-handedness, lordliness |
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inauthentic | (adjective) false or fake; not what it appears to be | Synonyms: spurious, unauthentic |
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incaution | (noun) the trait of forgetting or ignoring possible danger | Synonyms: incautiousness |
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incautious | (adjective) lacking in caution | - |
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(adjective) carelessly failing to exercise proper caution | - |
incautiously | (adverb) without caution or prudence | Synonyms: carelessly |
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incautiousness | (noun) the trait of forgetting or ignoring possible danger | Synonyms: incaution |
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intrauterine | (adjective) within the womb | - |
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juggernaut | (noun) a massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its way | Synonyms: steamroller |
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nautch | (noun) an intricate traditional dance in India performed by professional dancing girls | Synonyms: nauch, nautch dance |
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nautical | (adjective) relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen | Synonyms: marine, maritime |
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nautilus | (noun) cephalopod of the Indian and Pacific oceans having a spiral shell with pale pearly partitions | Synonyms: chambered nautilus, pearly nautilus |
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(noun) cephalopod mollusk of warm seas whose females have delicate papery spiral shells | Synonyms: Argonaut, Argonauta argo, paper nautilus |
(noun) a submarine that is propelled by nuclear power | Synonyms: nuclear-powered submarine, nuclear submarine |
nonautonomous | (adjective) (of peoples and political bodies) controlled by outside forces | Synonyms: nonsovereign |
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oceanaut | (noun) a skilled worker who can live in underwater installations and participate in scientific research | Synonyms: aquanaut |
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overcautious | (adjective) unnecessarily cautious | - |
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pahautea | (noun) evergreen tree of New Zealand resembling the kawaka | Synonyms: Libocedrus bidwillii, mountain pine |
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