| bristlelike | (adjective) resembling a bristle | - |
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| bristletail | (noun) small wingless insect with a long bristlelike tail | - |
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| bristliness | (noun) the quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines | Synonyms: prickliness, spininess, thorniness |
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| bristly | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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| (adjective) very irritable | Synonyms: prickly, splenetic, waspish |
| brit | (noun) the young of a herring or sprat or similar fish | Synonyms: britt |
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| (noun) minute crustaceans forming food for right whales | Synonyms: britt |
| britches | (noun) (used in the plural) informal term for breeches | - |
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| britt | (noun) the young of a herring or sprat or similar fish | Synonyms: brit |
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| (noun) minute crustaceans forming food for right whales | Synonyms: brit |
| brittle | (adjective) having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped | Synonyms: brickle, brickly |
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| (adjective) lacking warmth and generosity of spirit | - |
| (adjective) (of metal or glass) not annealed and consequently easily cracked or fractured | Synonyms: unannealed |
| (noun) caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets | Synonyms: toffee, toffy |
| brittlebush | (noun) fragrant rounded shrub of southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico having brittle stems and small crowded blue-green leaves and yellow flowers; produces a resin used in incense and varnish and in folk medicine | Synonyms: brittle bush, Encelia farinosa, incienso |
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| brittleness | (noun) firm but easily broken | Synonyms: crispiness, crispness |
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| bullbrier | (noun) a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries | Synonyms: briar, brier, catbrier, greenbrier, horse-brier, horse brier, Smilax rotundifolia |
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| cabriolet | (noun) small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and a folding hood | Synonyms: cab |
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| cambric | (noun) a finely woven white linen | - |
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| catbrier | (noun) a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries | Synonyms: briar, brier, bullbrier, greenbrier, horse-brier, horse brier, Smilax rotundifolia |
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| celebrity | (noun) a widely known person | Synonyms: famous person |
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| (noun) the state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed | Synonyms: fame, renown |
| colubrid | (noun) mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes | Synonyms: colubrid snake |
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| debridement | (noun) surgical removal of foreign material and dead tissue from a wound in order to prevent infection and promote healing | - |
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| debrief | (verb) put someone through a debriefing and make him report | - |
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| debriefing | (noun) report of a mission or task | - |
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| debris | (noun) the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up | Synonyms: detritus, dust, junk, rubble |
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| defibrillate | (verb) stop the fibrillation and restore normal contractions, usually by means of electric shocks | - |
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| defibrillation | (noun) treatment by stopping fibrillation of heart muscles (usually by electric shock delivered by a defibrillator) | - |
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| defibrillator | (noun) an electronic device that administers an electric shock of preset voltage to the heart through the chest wall in an attempt to restore the normal rhythm of the heart during ventricular fibrillation | - |
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| defibrinate | (verb) remove fibrin from (blood) | - |
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| dihybrid | (noun) a hybrid produced by parents that differ only at two gene loci that have two alleles each | - |
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| disequilibrium | (noun) loss of equilibrium attributable to an unstable situation in which some forces outweigh others | - |
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| dolabriform | (adjective) having the shape of the head of an ax or cleaver | Synonyms: dolabrate |
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| drawbridge | (noun) a bridge that can be raised to block passage or to allow boats or ships to pass beneath it | Synonyms: lift bridge |
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| embrittle | (verb) make brittle | - |
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| equilibrise | (verb) bring into balance or equilibrium | Synonyms: balance, equilibrate, equilibrize |
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| equilibrium | (noun) a sensory system located in structures of the inner ear that registers the orientation of the head | Synonyms: labyrinthine sense, sense of balance, sense of equilibrium, vestibular sense |
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| (noun) a chemical reaction and its reverse proceed at equal rates | Synonyms: chemical equilibrium |
| (noun) equality of distribution | Synonyms: balance, counterbalance, equipoise |
| (noun) a stable situation in which forces cancel one another | - |
| equilibrize | (verb) bring into balance or equilibrium | Synonyms: balance, equilibrate, equilibrise |
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| fabric | (noun) artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers | Synonyms: cloth, material, textile |
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| (noun) the underlying structure | Synonyms: framework |
| fabricate | (verb) concoct something artificial or untrue | Synonyms: cook up, invent, make up, manufacture |
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| (verb) put together out of artificial or natural components or parts | Synonyms: construct, manufacture |
| fabricated | (adjective) formed or conceived by the imagination | Synonyms: fancied, fictional, fictitious |
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| fabrication | (noun) the act of making something (a product) from raw materials | Synonyms: manufacture, manufacturing |
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| (noun) the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery) | Synonyms: assembly |
| (noun) writing in a fictional form | Synonyms: fictionalisation, fictionalization |
| (noun) the deliberate act of deviating from the truth | Synonyms: lying, prevarication |
| (noun) a deliberately false or improbable account | Synonyms: fable, fiction |
| fabricator | (noun) someone who tells lies | Synonyms: fibber, storyteller |
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| febricity | (noun) a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection | Synonyms: febrility, fever, feverishness, pyrexia |
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| febrifuge | (noun) any medicine that lowers body temperature to prevent or alleviate fever | Synonyms: antipyretic |
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| febrile | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by fever | Synonyms: feverish |
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| febrility | (noun) a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection | Synonyms: febricity, fever, feverishness, pyrexia |
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| fibril | (noun) a very slender natural or synthetic fiber | Synonyms: filament, strand |
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| fibrillate | (verb) make fine, irregular, rapid twitching movements | - |
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| fibrillation | (noun) act or process of forming fibrils | - |
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| (noun) muscular twitching involving individual muscle fibers acting without coordination | - |
| fibrillose | (adjective) covered with fibrils more or less evenly disposed | - |
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| fibrin | (noun) a white insoluble fibrous protein formed by the action of thrombin on fibrinogen when blood clots; it forms a network that traps red cells and platelets | - |
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| fibrinase | (noun) in the clotting of blood thrombin catalyzes factor XIII into its active form (fibrinase) which causes fibrin to form a stable clot | Synonyms: factor XIII |
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| fibrinogen | (noun) a protein present in blood plasma; converts to fibrin when blood clots | Synonyms: factor I |
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| fibrinolysin | (noun) an enzyme that dissolves the fibrin of blood clots | Synonyms: plasmin |
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| fibrinolysis | (noun) a normal ongoing process that dissolves fibrin and results in the removal of small blood clots | - |
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| fibrinopeptide | (noun) peptide released from the amino end of fibrinogen by the action of thrombin to form fibrin during clotting of the blood | - |
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| fibrinous | (adjective) characterized by the presence of fibrin | - |
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| fimbria | (noun) thin projections forming a fringe (especially around the ovarian end of the Fallopian tube) | - |
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| fimbriate | (adjective) having a fringe of slender processes | - |
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| firebrick | (noun) brick made of fire clay; used for lining e.g. furnaces and chimneys | - |
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| flybridge | (noun) the highest navigational bridge on a ship; a small (often open) deck above the pilot house | Synonyms: fly bridge, flying bridge, monkey bridge |
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| footbridge | (noun) a bridge designed for pedestrians | Synonyms: overcrossing, pedestrian bridge |
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| goldbrick | (noun) anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless | - |
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| (noun) a brick-shaped block that looks like gold but is not | - |
| (noun) an idle worthless person | Synonyms: good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, goof-off, ne'er-do-well, no-account |
| (noun) a soldier who performs his duties without proper care or effort | - |
| (verb) avoid (one's assigned duties) | Synonyms: fiddle, shirk, shrink from |
| (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize |
| goldbricking | (noun) the evasion of work or duty | Synonyms: goofing off, shirking, slacking, soldiering |
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| greenbrier | (noun) a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries | Synonyms: briar, brier, bullbrier, catbrier, horse-brier, horse brier, Smilax rotundifolia |
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| hubris | (noun) overbearing pride or presumption | - |
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| hybrid | (adjective) produced by crossbreeding | Synonyms: intercrossed |
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| (noun) (genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species | Synonyms: cross, crossbreed |
| (noun) a car which runs on two power sources, usually an internal combustion engine and an electronic motor | Synonyms: hybrid car |
| (noun) a composite of mixed origin | - |
| (noun) a word that is composed of parts from different languages (e.g., `monolingual' has a Greek prefix and a Latin root) | Synonyms: loan-blend, loanblend |
| hybridisation | (noun) (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids | Synonyms: cross, crossbreeding, crossing, hybridization, hybridizing, interbreeding |
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| hybridise | (verb) breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties | Synonyms: cross, crossbreed, hybridize, interbreed |
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| hybridization | (noun) (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids | Synonyms: cross, crossbreeding, crossing, hybridisation, hybridizing, interbreeding |
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| hybridize | (verb) breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties | Synonyms: cross, crossbreed, hybridise, interbreed |
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| hybridizing | (noun) (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids | Synonyms: cross, crossbreeding, crossing, hybridisation, hybridization, interbreeding |
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| hybridoma | (noun) a hybrid cell resulting from the fusion of a lymphocyte and a tumor cell; used to culture a specific monoclonal antibody | - |
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| imbricate | (adjective) used especially of leaves or bracts; overlapping or layered as scales or shingles | Synonyms: imbricated |
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| (verb) overlap | - |
| (verb) place so as to overlap | - |
| imbricated | (adjective) used especially of leaves or bracts; overlapping or layered as scales or shingles | Synonyms: imbricate |
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| imbrication | (noun) covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles) | Synonyms: lapping, overlapping |
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| inebriant | (noun) a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent | Synonyms: alcohol, alcoholic beverage, alcoholic drink, intoxicant |
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| inebriate | (noun) a chronic drinker | Synonyms: drunk, drunkard, rummy, sot, wino |
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| (verb) become drunk or drink excessively | Synonyms: hit it up, soak, souse |
| (verb) make drunk (with alcoholic drinks) | Synonyms: intoxicate, soak |
| (verb) fill with sublime emotion | Synonyms: beatify, exalt, exhilarate, thrill, tickle pink |
| inebriated | (adjective) stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol) | Synonyms: drunk, gone, intoxicated, ripped |
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| inebriation | (noun) a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: drunkenness, inebriety, insobriety, intoxication, tipsiness |
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| (noun) habitual intoxication; prolonged and excessive intake of alcoholic drinks leading to a breakdown in health and an addiction to alcohol such that abrupt deprivation leads to severe withdrawal symptoms | Synonyms: alcohol addiction, alcoholism, drunkenness |
| inebriety | (noun) a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: drunkenness, inebriation, insobriety, intoxication, tipsiness |
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| insalubrious | (adjective) detrimental to health | Synonyms: unhealthful, unhealthy |
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| insalubriousness | (noun) the quality of being insalubrious and debilitating | Synonyms: insalubrity |
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| insalubrity | (noun) the quality of being insalubrious and debilitating | Synonyms: insalubriousness |
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| insobriety | (noun) a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: drunkenness, inebriation, inebriety, intoxication, tipsiness |
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| lubricant | (noun) a substance capable of reducing friction by making surfaces smooth or slippery | Synonyms: lube, lubricating substance, lubricator |
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| lubricate | (verb) make slippery or smooth through the application of a lubricant | - |
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| (verb) apply a lubricant to | Synonyms: lube |
| (verb) have lubricating properties | - |
| lubricated | (adjective) smeared with oil or grease to reduce friction | Synonyms: greased |
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| lubrication | (noun) an application of a lubricant to something | - |
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| (noun) the condition of having been made smooth or slippery by the application of a lubricant | - |
| lubricator | (noun) a substance capable of reducing friction by making surfaces smooth or slippery | Synonyms: lube, lubricant, lubricating substance |
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| lubricious | (adjective) characterized by lust | Synonyms: lustful, prurient, salacious |
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| (adjective) having a smooth or slippery quality | - |
| lubricity | (noun) feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness | Synonyms: carnality, lasciviousness, prurience, pruriency |
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| lugubrious | (adjective) excessively mournful | - |
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| lugubriously | (adverb) in a sorrowful lugubrious manner | - |
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| lugubriousness | (noun) the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness | Synonyms: gloominess, sadness |
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| manubrium | (noun) the upper part of the breastbone | - |
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| monohybrid | (noun) a hybrid produced by crossing parents that are homozygous except for a single gene locus that has two alleles (as in Mendel's experiments with garden peas) | - |
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| muliebrity | (noun) the trait of behaving in ways considered typical for women | Synonyms: femininity |
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| (noun) the state of being an adult woman | Synonyms: womanhood |
| myofibril | (noun) one of many contractile filaments that make up a striated muscle fiber | Synonyms: myofibrilla, sarcostyle |
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| myofibrilla | (noun) one of many contractile filaments that make up a striated muscle fiber | Synonyms: myofibril, sarcostyle |
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| neurofibril | (noun) Any of the long, thin, microscopic fibrils that run through the body of a neuron and extend into the axon and dendrites, giving the neuron support and shape. | - |
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| nombril | (noun) the center point on a shield | - |
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| opprobrious | (adjective) (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame | Synonyms: black, disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, shameful |
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| (adjective) expressing offensive reproach | Synonyms: abusive, scurrilous |
| opprobrium | (noun) a state of extreme dishonor | Synonyms: infamy |
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| (noun) state of disgrace resulting from public abuse | Synonyms: obloquy |
| prefabricate | (verb) to manufacture sections of (a building), especially in a factory, so that they can be easily transported to and rapidly assembled on a building site of buildings | Synonyms: preassemble |
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| (verb) produce synthetically, artificially, or stereotypically and unoriginally | - |