duckbill | (adjective) having a beak resembling that of a duck | Synonyms: duck-billed |
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(noun) small densely furred aquatic monotreme of Australia and Tasmania having a broad bill and tail and webbed feet; only species in the family Ornithorhynchidae | Synonyms: duck-billed platypus, duckbilled platypus, Ornithorhynchus anatinus, platypus |
(noun) primitive fish of the Mississippi valley having a long paddle-shaped snout | Synonyms: paddlefish, Polyodon spathula |
duplicability | (noun) the quality of being reproducible | Synonyms: reproducibility |
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durability | (noun) permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force | Synonyms: enduringness, lastingness, strength |
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dustbin | (noun) a bin that holds rubbish until it is collected | Synonyms: ash-bin, ash bin, ashbin, ashcan, garbage can, trash barrel, trash bin, trash can, wastebin |
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ebbing | (noun) a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number) | Synonyms: ebb, wane |
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edibility | (noun) the property of being fit to eat | Synonyms: edibleness |
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eligibility | (noun) the quality or state of being eligible | - |
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embitter | (verb) cause to be bitter or resentful | Synonyms: acerbate, envenom |
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embitterment | (noun) the state of being embittered | - |
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enterobiasis | (noun) an infestation with or a resulting infection caused by the pinworm Enterobius vermicularis; occurs especially in children | - |
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entomophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of insects | - |
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equatability | (noun) capability of being equated | - |
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erbium | (noun) a trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs with yttrium | Synonyms: atomic number 68, Er |
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euphorbium | (noun) an acrid brown gum resin now used mainly in veterinary medicine | Synonyms: gum eurphorbium |
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exabit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 petabits or 10^18 bits | Synonyms: Eb, Ebit |
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exbibit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 pebibits or 2^60 bits | Synonyms: Eibit |
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exbibyte | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 pebibytes or 2^60 bytes | Synonyms: EB, EiB, exabyte |
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exchangeability | (noun) the quality of being capable of exchange or interchange | Synonyms: fungibility, interchangeability, interchangeableness |
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excitability | (noun) being easily excited | Synonyms: excitableness, volatility |
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(noun) excessive sensitivity of an organ or body part | Synonyms: irritability |
executability | (noun) capability of being executed | - |
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exhibit | (noun) something shown to the public | Synonyms: display, showing |
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(noun) an object or statement produced before a court of law and referred to while giving evidence | - |
(verb) walk ostentatiously | Synonyms: march, parade |
(verb) give an exhibition of to an interested audience | Synonyms: demo, demonstrate, present, show |
(verb) to show, make visible or apparent | Synonyms: display, expose |
(verb) show an attribute, property, knowledge, or skill | - |
exhibition | (noun) the act of exhibiting | - |
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(noun) a collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display | Synonyms: expo, exposition |
exhibitioner | (noun) someone who organizes an exhibit for others to see | Synonyms: exhibitor, shower |
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exhibitionism | (noun) the perverse act of exposing and attracting attention to your own genitals | Synonyms: immodesty |
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(noun) extravagant and conspicuous behavior intended to attract attention to yourself | - |
exhibitionist | (noun) someone who deliberately behaves in such a way as to attract attention | Synonyms: show-off |
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(noun) someone with a compulsive desire to expose the genitals | Synonyms: flasher |
exhibitionistic | (adjective) compulsively attracting attention to yourself especially by public exposure or exaggerated behavior | - |
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exhibitor | (noun) someone who organizes an exhibit for others to see | Synonyms: exhibitioner, shower |
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exobiology | (noun) the branch of biology concerned with the effects of outer space on living organisms and the search for extraterrestrial life | Synonyms: astrobiology, space biology |
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exorbitance | (noun) excessive excess | Synonyms: outrageousness |
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exorbitant | (adjective) greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation | Synonyms: extortionate, outrageous, steep, unconscionable, usurious |
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exorbitantly | (adverb) to an exorbitant degree | Synonyms: extortionately, usuriously |
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expandability | (noun) A physical property of gases, denoting that they expand to fill their containers. | - |
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exurbia | (noun) a residential area outside of a city and beyond suburbia | - |
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fabian | (adjective) using cautious slow strategy to wear down opposition; avoiding direct confrontation | - |
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fallibility | (noun) the likelihood of making errors | - |
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fatigability | (noun) susceptibility to fatigue; a tendency to get tired or lose strength | - |
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feasibility | (noun) the quality of being doable | Synonyms: feasibleness |
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fibbing | (noun) a trivial act of lying or being deliberately unclear | Synonyms: paltering |
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firebird | (noun) eastern subspecies of northern oriole | Synonyms: Baltimore bird, Baltimore oriole, hangbird, Icterus galbula galbula |
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(noun) the male is bright red with black wings and tail | Synonyms: Piranga olivacea, redbird, scarlet tanager |
(noun) tropical American flycatcher found as far north as southern Texas and Arizona; adult male has bright scarlet and black plumage | Synonyms: Pyrocephalus rubinus mexicanus, vermillion flycatcher |
flabbily | (adverb) in a flabby manner | - |
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flabbiness | (noun) a flabby softness | Synonyms: flaccidity, limpness |
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flammability | (noun) the quality of being easily ignited and burning rapidly | Synonyms: inflammability |
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flexibility | (noun) the quality of being adaptable or variable | Synonyms: flexibleness |
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(noun) the property of being flexible; easily bent or shaped | Synonyms: flexibleness |
(noun) the trait of being easily persuaded | Synonyms: tractability, tractableness |
flurbiprofen | (noun) a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Ansaid) that is administered only orally | Synonyms: Ansaid |
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forbid | (verb) command against | Synonyms: disallow, interdict, nix, prohibit, proscribe, veto |
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(verb) keep from happening or arising; make impossible | Synonyms: foreclose, forestall, preclude, prevent |
forbiddance | (noun) the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof) | Synonyms: inhibition, prohibition |
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(noun) an official prohibition or edict against something | Synonyms: ban, banning, forbidding |
forbidden | (adjective) excluded from use or mention | Synonyms: out, prohibited, proscribed, taboo, tabu, verboten |
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forbidding | (adjective) threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments | Synonyms: baleful, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening |
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(adjective) harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance | Synonyms: dour, grim |
(noun) an official prohibition or edict against something | Synonyms: ban, banning, forbiddance |
forbiddingly | (adverb) in an unpleasant or menacing manner | - |
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formidability | (noun) impressive difficulty | Synonyms: toughness |
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frangibility | (noun) quality of being easily damaged or destroyed | Synonyms: breakability, fragility, frangibleness |
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freebie | (noun) something that is free (usually provided as part of a promotional scheme) | Synonyms: freebee |
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friability | (noun) excessive breakableness | Synonyms: crumbliness |
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frogbit | (noun) European floating plant with roundish heart-shaped leaves and white flowers | Synonyms: frog's-bit, Hydrocharis morsus-ranae |
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frostbite | (noun) destruction of tissue by freezing and characterized by tingling, blistering and possibly gangrene | Synonyms: cryopathy |
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frostbitten | (adjective) injured by freezing or partial freezing | - |
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fungibility | (noun) the quality of being capable of exchange or interchange | Synonyms: exchangeability, interchangeability, interchangeableness |
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furbish | (verb) polish and make shiny | Synonyms: buff, burnish |
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gambist | (noun) a musician who performs upon the viola da gamba | - |
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gambit | (noun) a chess move early in the game in which the player sacrifices minor pieces in order to obtain an advantageous position | - |
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(noun) a maneuver in a game or conversation | Synonyms: ploy, stratagem |
(noun) an opening remark intended to secure an advantage for the speaker | Synonyms: ploy |
gaolbird | (noun) a criminal who has been jailed repeatedly | Synonyms: jail bird, jailbird |
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gastrolobium | (noun) any of various Australian evergreen shrubs of the genus Gastrolobium having whorled compound leaves poisonous to livestock and showy yellow to deep reddish-orange flowers followed by two-seeded pods | Synonyms: poison bush, poison pea |
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gerbil | (noun) small Old World burrowing desert rodent with long soft pale fur and hind legs adapted for leaping | Synonyms: gerbille |
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gerbille | (noun) small Old World burrowing desert rodent with long soft pale fur and hind legs adapted for leaping | Synonyms: gerbil |
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gibibit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 mebibits or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bits | Synonyms: Gibit |
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gibibyte | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bytes | Synonyms: G, GB, GiB, gigabyte |
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gibingly | (adverb) in a disrespectful jeering manner | Synonyms: jeeringly, mockingly |
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gigabit | (noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 megabits or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bits | Synonyms: Gb, Gbit |
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globigerina | (noun) marine protozoan having a rounded shell with spiny processes | - |
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globin | (noun) a colorless protein obtained by removing heme from hemoglobin; the oxygen carrying compound in red blood cells | Synonyms: haematohiston, hematohiston |
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graspability | (noun) The quality of being able to be understood or comprehended; understandability. | - |
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grubbily | (adverb) in a dingy manner | Synonyms: dingily, grungily |
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grubbiness | (noun) the state of being grimy | Synonyms: griminess |
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gubbins | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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gullibility | (noun) tendency to believe too readily and therefore to be easily deceived | Synonyms: credulousness |
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gynophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of women | - |
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gyrostabiliser | (noun) a stabilizer consisting of a heavy gyroscope that spins on a vertical axis; reduces side-to-side rolling of a ship or plane | Synonyms: gyrostabilizer |
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gyrostabilizer | (noun) a stabilizer consisting of a heavy gyroscope that spins on a vertical axis; reduces side-to-side rolling of a ship or plane | Synonyms: gyrostabiliser |
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habiliment | (noun) a covering designed to be worn on a person's body | Synonyms: article of clothing, clothing, vesture, wear, wearable |
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habilimented | (adjective) dressed or clothed especially in fine attire; often used in combination | Synonyms: appareled, attired, dressed, garbed, garmented, robed |
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habilitate | (verb) provide with clothes or put clothes on | Synonyms: apparel, clothe, dress, enclothe, fit out, garb, garment, raiment, tog |
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(verb) qualify for teaching at a university in Europe | - |
habit | (noun) excessive use of drugs | Synonyms: drug abuse, substance abuse |
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(noun) (psychology) an automatic pattern of behavior in reaction to a specific situation; may be inherited or acquired through frequent repetition | Synonyms: use |
(noun) a distinctive attire worn by a member of a religious order | - |
(noun) attire that is typically worn by a horseback rider (especially a woman's attire) | Synonyms: riding habit |
(noun) an established custom | Synonyms: wont |
(noun) the general form or mode of growth (especially of a plant or crystal) | - |
(verb) put a habit on | - |
habitability | (noun) suitability for living in or on | Synonyms: habitableness |
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habitable | (adjective) fit for habitation | Synonyms: inhabitable |
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habitableness | (noun) suitability for living in or on | Synonyms: habitability |
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habitant | (noun) a person who inhabits a particular place | Synonyms: denizen, dweller, indweller, inhabitant |
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habitat | (noun) the type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs | Synonyms: home ground |
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habitation | (noun) the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men) | Synonyms: inhabitancy, inhabitation |
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(noun) housing that someone is living in | Synonyms: abode, domicile, dwelling, dwelling house, home |
(noun) the native habitat or home of an animal or plant | - |
habited | (adjective) dressed in a habit | - |
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habitual | (adjective) commonly used or practiced; usual | Synonyms: accustomed, customary, wonted |
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habitually | (adverb) according to habit or custom | - |
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habituate | (verb) make psychologically or physically used (to something) | Synonyms: accustom |
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(verb) take or consume (regularly or habitually) | Synonyms: use |
habituation | (noun) a general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions | - |
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(noun) being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) | Synonyms: addiction, dependance, dependence, dependency |
habitude | (noun) habitual mode of behavior | - |
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habitue | (noun) a regular patron | Synonyms: fixture, regular |
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habitus | (noun) constitution of the human body | Synonyms: body-build, build, physique |
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(noun) person's predisposition to be affected by something (as a disease) | - |
haemoglobin | (noun) a hemoprotein composed of globin and heme that gives red blood cells their characteristic color; function primarily to transport oxygen from the lungs to the body tissues | Synonyms: Hb, hemoglobin |
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haemoglobinemia | (noun) presence of excessive hemoglobin in the blood plasma | Synonyms: hemoglobinemia |
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haemoglobinopathy | (noun) a blood disease characterized by the presence of abnormal hemoglobins in the blood | Synonyms: hemoglobinopathy |
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haemoglobinuria | (noun) presence of hemoglobin in the urine | Synonyms: hemoglobinuria |
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