abscess | (noun) symptom consisting of a localized collection of pus surrounded by inflamed tissue | - |
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abscessed | (adjective) infected and filled with pus | - |
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access | (noun) the act of approaching or entering | - |
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(noun) a way of entering or leaving | Synonyms: approach |
(noun) (computer science) the operation of reading or writing stored information | Synonyms: memory access |
(noun) the right to enter | Synonyms: accession, admission, admittance, entree |
(noun) the right to obtain or make use of or take advantage of something (as services or membership) | - |
(noun) a code (a series of characters or digits) that must be entered in some way (typed or dialed or spoken) to get the use of something (a telephone line or a computer or a local area network etc.) | Synonyms: access code |
(verb) reach or gain access to | Synonyms: get at |
(verb) obtain or retrieve from a storage device; as of information on a computer | - |
accessary | (adjective) aiding and abetting in a crime | Synonyms: accessory |
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(noun) someone who helps another person commit a crime | Synonyms: accessory |
accessibility | (noun) the quality of being at hand when needed | Synonyms: availability, availableness, handiness |
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(noun) the attribute of being easy to meet or deal with | Synonyms: approachability |
accessible | (adjective) capable of being reached | - |
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(adjective) easy to get along with or talk to; friendly | - |
(adjective) easily obtained | - |
(adjective) capable of being read with comprehension | Synonyms: approachable |
accession | (noun) the act of attaining or gaining access to a new office or right or position (especially the throne) | Synonyms: rise to power |
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(noun) the right to enter | Synonyms: access, admission, admittance, entree |
(noun) agreeing with or consenting to (often unwillingly) | Synonyms: assenting |
(noun) something added to what you already have | Synonyms: addition |
(noun) (civil law) the right to all of that which your property produces whether by growth or improvement | - |
(noun) a process of increasing by addition (as to a collection or group) | - |
(verb) make a record of additions to a collection, such as a library | - |
accessional | (adjective) of or constituting an accession | - |
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accessorial | (adjective) nonessential but helpful | - |
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accessory | (adjective) furnishing added support | Synonyms: adjunct, adjuvant, ancillary, appurtenant, auxiliary |
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(adjective) aiding and abetting in a crime | Synonyms: accessary |
(noun) a supplementary component that improves capability | Synonyms: add-on, appurtenance, supplement |
(noun) clothing that is worn or carried, but not part of your main clothing | Synonyms: accouterment, accoutrement |
(noun) someone who helps another person commit a crime | Synonyms: accessary |
cessation | (noun) a stopping | Synonyms: surcease |
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cession | (noun) the act of ceding | Synonyms: ceding |
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cesspit | (noun) a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it | Synonyms: cesspool, sink, sump |
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cesspool | (noun) a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it | Synonyms: cesspit, sink, sump |
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concession | (noun) a contract granting the right to operate a subsidiary business | Synonyms: grant |
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(noun) a point conceded or yielded | - |
(noun) the act of conceding or yielding | Synonyms: conceding, yielding |
concessionaire | (noun) someone who holds or operates a concession | Synonyms: concessioner |
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concessioner | (noun) someone who holds or operates a concession | Synonyms: concessionaire |
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concessive | (adjective) of or pertaining to concession | - |
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deaccession | (verb) sell (art works) from a collection, especially in order to raise money for the purchase of other art works | - |
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excess | (adjective) more than is needed, desired, or required | Synonyms: extra, redundant, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus |
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(noun) excessive indulgence | Synonyms: overindulgence |
(noun) immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits | Synonyms: excessiveness, inordinateness |
(noun) a quantity much larger than is needed | Synonyms: nimiety, surplus, surplusage |
(noun) the state of being more than full | Synonyms: overabundance, surfeit |
excessive | (adjective) beyond normal limits | Synonyms: inordinate, undue, unreasonable |
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(adjective) unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings | Synonyms: extravagant, exuberant, overweening |
excessively | (adverb) to a degree exceeding normal or proper limits | Synonyms: overly, to a fault, too |
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excessiveness | (noun) immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits | Synonyms: excess, inordinateness |
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inaccessibility | (noun) the quality of not being accessible | - |
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inaccessible | (adjective) capable of being reached only with great difficulty or not at all | Synonyms: unaccessible |
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(adjective) not capable of being obtained | Synonyms: unobtainable, unprocurable, untouchable |
inaccessibly | (adverb) in an inaccessible manner | - |
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incessancy | (noun) the quality of something that continues without end or interruption | Synonyms: ceaselessness, continuousness, incessantness |
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incessant | (adjective) uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing | Synonyms: ceaseless, constant, never-ending, perpetual, unceasing, unremitting |
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incessantly | (adverb) invariably | Synonyms: always, constantly, forever, perpetually |
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(adverb) with unflagging resolve | Synonyms: ceaselessly, continuously, endlessly, unceasingly, unendingly |
incessantness | (noun) the quality of something that continues without end or interruption | Synonyms: ceaselessness, continuousness, incessancy |
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intercessio | (noun) the right of veto possessed by Roman magistrates. | - |
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intercession | (noun) the act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute, etc.) | Synonyms: intervention |
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(noun) a prayer to God on behalf of another person | - |
intercessor | (noun) a negotiator who acts as a link between parties | Synonyms: go-between, intermediary, intermediator, mediator |
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microprocessor | (noun) integrated circuit semiconductor chip that performs the bulk of the processing and controls the parts of a system | - |
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multiprocessing | (noun) simultaneous processing by two or more processing units | Synonyms: parallel processing |
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multiprocessor | (noun) a computer that uses two or more processing units under integrated control | - |
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necessarily | (adverb) in an essential manner | Synonyms: needfully |
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(adverb) as a highly likely consequence | - |
(adverb) in such a manner as could not be otherwise | Synonyms: inevitably, needs, of necessity |
necessary | (adjective) absolutely essential | - |
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(adjective) unavoidably determined by prior circumstances | - |
(noun) anything indispensable | Synonyms: essential, necessity, requirement, requisite |
necessitarian | (noun) someone who does not believe the doctrine of free will | - |
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necessitate | (verb) require as useful, just, or proper | Synonyms: ask, call for, demand, involve, need, postulate, require, take |
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(verb) cause to be a concomitant | - |
necessitous | (adjective) poor enough to need help from others | Synonyms: destitute, impoverished, indigent, needy, poverty-stricken |
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necessity | (noun) anything indispensable | Synonyms: essential, necessary, requirement, requisite |
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(noun) the condition of being essential or indispensable | - |
precess | (verb) move in a gyrating fashion | - |
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precession | (noun) the act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a ceremony) | Synonyms: precedence, precedency |
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(noun) the motion of a spinning body (as a top) in which it wobbles so that the axis of rotation sweeps out a cone | - |
predecessor | (noun) something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone | Synonyms: forerunner, harbinger, herald, precursor |
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(noun) one who precedes you in time (as in holding a position or office) | - |
princess | (noun) a female member of a royal family other than the queen (especially the daughter of a sovereign) | - |
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process | (noun) a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states | Synonyms: physical process |
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(noun) a particular course of action intended to achieve a result | Synonyms: procedure |
(noun) a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant | Synonyms: appendage, outgrowth |
(noun) (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents | Synonyms: cognitive operation, cognitive process, mental process, operation |
(noun) a mental process that you are not directly aware of | Synonyms: unconscious process |
(noun) a writ issued by authority of law; usually compels the defendant's attendance in a civil suit; failure to appear results in a default judgment against the defendant | Synonyms: summons |
(verb) subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition | Synonyms: treat |
(verb) perform mathematical and logical operations on (data) according to programmed instructions in order to obtain the required information | - |
(verb) deliver a warrant or summons to someone | Synonyms: serve, swear out |
(verb) shape, form, or improve a material | Synonyms: work, work on |
(verb) institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against | Synonyms: action, litigate, sue |
(verb) deal with in a routine way | - |
(verb) march in a procession | Synonyms: march |
processed | (adjective) prepared or converted from a natural state by subjecting to a special process | - |
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(adjective) freed from impurities by processing | Synonyms: refined |
(adjective) subjected to a special process or treatment | - |
processing | (noun) preparing or putting through a prescribed procedure | - |
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procession | (noun) the group action of a collection of people or animals or vehicles moving ahead in more or less regular formation | - |
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(noun) the act of moving forward (as toward a goal) | Synonyms: advance, advancement, forward motion, onward motion, progress, progression |
(noun) (theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost | Synonyms: emanation, rise |
processional | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a procession | - |
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(adjective) intended for use in a procession | - |
(noun) religious music used in a procession | Synonyms: prosodion |
processor | (noun) (computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing | Synonyms: C.P.U., central processing unit, central processor, CPU, mainframe |
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(noun) a business engaged in processing agricultural products and preparing them for market | - |
(noun) someone who processes things (foods or photographs or applicants etc.) | - |
recess | (noun) a pause from doing something (as work) | Synonyms: break, respite, time out |
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(noun) an enclosure that is set back or indented | Synonyms: niche |
(noun) an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands) | Synonyms: inlet |
(noun) a small concavity | Synonyms: corner, niche, recession |
(noun) a state of abeyance or suspended business | Synonyms: deferral |
(verb) close at the end of a session | Synonyms: adjourn, break up |
(verb) make a recess in | - |
(verb) put into a recess | - |
recessed | (adjective) resembling an alcove | - |
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(adjective) having a sunken area | Synonyms: deep-set, sunken |
recession | (noun) the act of becoming more distant | Synonyms: receding |
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(noun) the act of ceding back | Synonyms: ceding back |
(noun) the withdrawal of the clergy and choir from the chancel to the vestry at the end of a church service | Synonyms: recessional |
(noun) a small concavity | Synonyms: corner, niche, recess |
(noun) the state of the economy declines; a widespread decline in the GDP and employment and trade lasting from six months to a year | - |
recessional | (adjective) of or relating to receding | - |
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(noun) a hymn that is sung at the end of a service as the clergy and choir withdraw | - |
(noun) the withdrawal of the clergy and choir from the chancel to the vestry at the end of a church service | Synonyms: recession |
recessionary | (adjective) of or pertaining to a recession | Synonyms: recessive |
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recessive | (adjective) (of genes) producing its characteristic phenotype only when its allele is identical | - |
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(adjective) of or pertaining to a recession | Synonyms: recessionary |
(noun) an allele that produces its characteristic phenotype only when its paired allele is identical | Synonyms: recessive allele |
reprocess | (verb) use again after processing | Synonyms: recycle, reuse |
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secession | (noun) formal separation from an alliance or federation | Synonyms: withdrawal |
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(noun) an Austrian school of art and architecture parallel to the French art nouveau in the 1890s | Synonyms: sezession |
secessionism | (noun) a doctrine that maintains the right of secession | - |
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secessionist | (noun) an advocate of secessionism | - |
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success | (noun) an attainment that is successful | - |
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(noun) an event that accomplishes its intended purpose | - |
(noun) a person with a record of successes | Synonyms: achiever, succeeder, winner |
(noun) a state of prosperity or fame | - |
successful | (adjective) having succeeded or being marked by a favorable outcome | - |
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successfully | (adverb) with success; in a successful manner | - |
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successfulness | (noun) the condition of prospering; having good fortune | Synonyms: prosperity |
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succession | (noun) the action of following in order | Synonyms: sequence |
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(noun) acquisition of property by descent or by will | Synonyms: taking over |
(noun) a following of one thing after another in time | Synonyms: chronological sequence, chronological succession, sequence, successiveness |
(noun) a group of people or things arranged or following in order | - |
(noun) (ecology) the gradual and orderly process of change in an ecosystem brought about by the progressive replacement of one community by another until a stable climax is established | Synonyms: ecological succession |
successive | (adjective) in regular succession without gaps | Synonyms: consecutive, sequent, sequential, serial |
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successively | (adverb) in proper order or sequence | Synonyms: in turn |
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successiveness | (noun) a following of one thing after another in time | Synonyms: chronological sequence, chronological succession, sequence, succession |
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successor | (noun) a thing or person that immediately replaces something or someone | - |
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(noun) a person who inherits some title or office | Synonyms: heir |
(noun) a person who follows next in order | Synonyms: replacement |
teleprocessing | (noun) data processing in which some of the functions are performed in different places and connected by transmission facilities | Synonyms: distributed data processing, remote-access data processing |
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unaccessible | (adjective) capable of being reached only with great difficulty or not at all | Synonyms: inaccessible |
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unnecessarily | (adverb) in an unnecessary manner | - |
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(adverb) without any necessity | - |
unnecessary | (adjective) not necessary | Synonyms: unneeded |
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unprocessed | (adjective) not altered from an original or natural state | - |
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(adjective) not refined or processed | Synonyms: crude, unrefined |
(adjective) not treated or prepared by a special process | - |
unsuccessful | (adjective) not successful; having failed or having an unfavorable outcome | - |
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(adjective) failing to accomplish an intended result | Synonyms: abortive, stillborn |
unsuccessfully | (adverb) without success | - |
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