abracadabra | (noun) gibberish and nonsense | - |
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academe | (noun) the academic world | Synonyms: academia |
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academia | (noun) the academic world | Synonyms: academe |
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academic | (adjective) associated with academia or an academy | - |
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(adjective) marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects | Synonyms: donnish, pedantic |
(adjective) hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an immediate or practical result | - |
(noun) an educator who works at a college or university | Synonyms: academician, faculty member |
academically | (adverb) in regard to academic matters | - |
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academician | (noun) an educator who works at a college or university | Synonyms: academic, faculty member |
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(noun) a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation | Synonyms: schoolman |
(noun) someone elected to honorary membership in an academy | - |
academicianship | (noun) the position of member of an honorary academy | - |
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academicism | (noun) orthodoxy of a scholastic variety | Synonyms: academism, scholasticism |
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(noun) Purely speculative thoughts and attitudes. | - |
(noun) a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art. | Synonyms: academic art, academism |
academism | (noun) orthodoxy of a scholastic variety | Synonyms: academicism, scholasticism |
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(noun) a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art. | Synonyms: academic art, academicism |
academy | (noun) a learned establishment for the advancement of knowledge | - |
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(noun) a secondary school (usually private) | - |
(noun) a school for special training | - |
(noun) an institution for the advancement of art or science or literature | Synonyms: honorary society |
ambuscade | (noun) the act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise | Synonyms: ambush, lying in wait, trap |
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(verb) wait in hiding to attack | Synonyms: ambush, bushwhack, lie in wait, lurk, scupper, waylay |
arcade | (noun) a structure composed of a series of arches supported by columns | Synonyms: colonnade |
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(noun) a covered passageway with shops and stalls on either side | - |
arcadian | (adjective) (used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic | Synonyms: bucolic, pastoral |
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avocado | (adjective) of the dull yellowish green of the meat of an avocado | - |
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(noun) a pear-shaped tropical fruit with green or blackish skin and rich yellowish pulp enclosing a single large seed | Synonyms: aguacate, alligator pear, avocado pear |
(noun) tropical American tree bearing large pulpy green fruits | Synonyms: avocado tree, Persea Americana |
barricade | (noun) a barrier set up by police to stop traffic on a street or road in order to catch a fugitive or inspect traffic etc. | Synonyms: roadblock |
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(noun) a barrier (usually thrown up hastily) to impede the advance of an enemy | - |
(verb) block off with barricades | Synonyms: barricado |
(verb) prevent access to by barricading | - |
(verb) render unsuitable for passage | Synonyms: bar, block, block off, block up, blockade, stop |
barricaded | (adjective) preventing entry or exit or a course of action | Synonyms: barred, blockaded |
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barricado | (verb) block off with barricades | Synonyms: barricade |
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brocade | (noun) thick heavy expensive material with a raised pattern | - |
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(verb) weave a design into (textiles) | - |
brocaded | (adjective) embellished with a raised pattern created by pressure or embroidery | Synonyms: embossed, raised |
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cad | (noun) someone who is morally reprehensible | Synonyms: blackguard, bounder, dog, heel, hound |
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cadaster | (noun) a public register showing the details of ownership and value of land; made for the purpose of taxation | Synonyms: cadastre |
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cadastral | (adjective) of or relating to the records of a cadastre | - |
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cadastre | (noun) a public register showing the details of ownership and value of land; made for the purpose of taxation | Synonyms: cadaster |
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cadaver | (noun) the dead body of a human being | Synonyms: clay, corpse, remains, stiff |
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cadaveric | (adjective) of or relating to a cadaver or corpse | Synonyms: cadaverous |
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cadaverine | (noun) a colorless toxic ptomaine with an unpleasant odor formed during the putrefaction of animal tissue | - |
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cadaverous | (adjective) of or relating to a cadaver or corpse | Synonyms: cadaveric |
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(adjective) very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold | Synonyms: emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted |
caddie | (noun) an attendant who carries the golf clubs for a player | Synonyms: golf caddie |
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(verb) act as a caddie and carry clubs for a player | Synonyms: caddy |
caddish | (adjective) offensively discourteous | Synonyms: unchivalrous, ungallant |
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caddisworm | (noun) larva of the caddis fly; constructs a case of silk covered with sand or plant debris | Synonyms: strawworm |
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caddy | (noun) a can for storing tea | Synonyms: tea caddy |
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(verb) act as a caddie and carry clubs for a player | Synonyms: caddie |
cadence | (noun) a recurrent rhythmical series | Synonyms: cadency |
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(noun) the close of a musical section | - |
(noun) (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse | Synonyms: beat, measure, meter, metre |
cadenced | (adjective) marked by a rhythmical cadence | Synonyms: cadent |
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cadency | (noun) a recurrent rhythmical series | Synonyms: cadence |
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cadent | (adjective) marked by a rhythmical cadence | Synonyms: cadenced |
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cadenza | (noun) a brilliant solo passage occurring near the end of a piece of music | - |
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cadet | (noun) a military trainee (as at a military academy) | Synonyms: plebe |
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cadetship | (noun) the position of cadet | - |
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cadge | (verb) ask for and get free; be a parasite | Synonyms: bum, grub, mooch, sponge |
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(verb) obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling | Synonyms: schnorr, scrounge, shnorr |
cadger | (noun) someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free) | Synonyms: mooch, moocher, scrounger |
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cadmium | (noun) a soft bluish-white ductile malleable toxic bivalent metallic element; occurs in association with zinc ores | Synonyms: atomic number 48, Cd |
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cadre | (noun) a nucleus of military personnel capable of expansion | - |
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(noun) a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement | Synonyms: cell |
caducean | (adjective) of or relating to a caduceus | - |
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caduceus | (noun) an insignia used by the medical profession; modeled after the staff of Hermes | - |
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caducous | (adjective) shed at an early stage of development | Synonyms: shed |
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cascade | (noun) a sudden downpour (as of tears or sparks etc) likened to a rain shower | Synonyms: shower |
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(noun) a succession of stages or operations or processes or units | - |
(noun) a small waterfall or series of small waterfalls | - |
(verb) arrange (open windows) on a computer desktop so that they overlap each other, with the title bars visible | - |
(verb) rush down in big quantities, like a cascade | Synonyms: cascade down |
cavalcade | (noun) a procession of people traveling on horseback | - |
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cicada | (noun) stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings; male has drum-like organs for producing a high-pitched drone | Synonyms: cicala |
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circadian | (adjective) of or relating to biological processes occurring at 24-hour intervals | - |
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cycad | (noun) any tropical gymnosperm of the order Cycadales; having unbranched stems with a crown of fernlike leaves | - |
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decade | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system | Synonyms: 10, ten, tenner, X |
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(noun) a period of 10 years | Synonyms: decennary, decennium |
decadence | (noun) the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities | Synonyms: decadency, degeneracy, degeneration |
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decadency | (noun) the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities | Synonyms: decadence, degeneracy, degeneration |
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decadent | (adjective) marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay | Synonyms: fin-de-siecle |
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(adjective) luxuriously self-indulgent | - |
(noun) a person who has fallen into a decadent state (morally or artistically) | - |
escadrille | (noun) an air force squadron typically containing six airplanes (as in France during World War I) | - |
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(noun) a small squadron | - |
facade | (noun) the face or front of a building | Synonyms: frontage, frontal |
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(noun) a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant | Synonyms: window dressing |
incommunicado | (adjective) without the means or right to communicate | - |
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macadam | (noun) a paved surface having compressed layers of broken rocks held together with tar | Synonyms: tarmac, tarmacadam |
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(noun) broken stone used in macadamized roadways | - |
(verb) surface with macadam | Synonyms: macadamise, macadamize, tarmac |
macadamia | (noun) any tree of the genus Macadamia | Synonyms: macadamia tree |
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macadamise | (verb) surface with macadam | Synonyms: macadam, macadamize, tarmac |
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macadamize | (verb) surface with macadam | Synonyms: macadam, macadamise, tarmac |
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motorcade | (noun) a procession of people traveling in motor cars | - |
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muscadel | (noun) wine from muscat grapes | Synonyms: muscadelle, muscat, muscatel |
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muscadelle | (noun) wine from muscat grapes | Synonyms: muscadel, muscat, muscatel |
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muscadine | (noun) dull-purple grape of southern United States | Synonyms: bullace grape |
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(noun) native grape of southeastern United States; origin of many cultivated varieties | Synonyms: Vitis rotundifolia |
nicad | (noun) a rechargeable battery with a nickel cathode and a cadmium anode; often used in emergency systems because of its low discharge rate when not in use | Synonyms: nickel-cadmium accumulator |
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peccadillo | (noun) a petty misdeed | Synonyms: indiscretion |
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picador | (noun) the horseman who pricks the bull with a lance early in the bullfight to goad the bull and to make it keep its head low | - |
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saccade | (noun) a rapid, jerky movement of the eyes between positions of rest | - |
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(noun) an abrupt spasmodic movement | Synonyms: jerk, jerking, jolt |
saccadic | (adjective) of or related to the rapid movement of the eyes between points of fixation | - |
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scad | (noun) any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae | - |
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scads | (noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: dozens, gobs, heaps, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scores, slews, stacks, tons, wads |
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succade | (noun) fruit cooked in sugar syrup and encrusted with a sugar crystals | Synonyms: candied fruit, crystallized fruit |
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tarmacadam | (noun) a paved surface having compressed layers of broken rocks held together with tar | Synonyms: macadam, tarmac |
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(noun) a paving material of tar and broken stone; mixed in a factory and shaped during paving | Synonyms: tarmac |