abacinate | (verb) blind by holding a red-hot metal plate before someone's eyes | - |
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aborticide | (noun) the act of destroying a fetus | Synonyms: feticide |
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(noun) a drug (or other chemical agent) that causes abortion | Synonyms: abortifacient, abortion-inducing drug |
abortifacient | (adjective) causing abortion | - |
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(noun) a drug (or other chemical agent) that causes abortion | Synonyms: aborticide, abortion-inducing drug |
abscise | (verb) remove or separate by abscission | - |
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(verb) shed flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of a scar tissue | - |
abscissa | (noun) the value of a coordinate on the horizontal axis | - |
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abscission | (noun) the act of cutting something off | Synonyms: cutting off |
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(noun) shedding of flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of scar tissue in a plant | - |
absorbefacient | (adjective) inducing or promoting absorption | Synonyms: sorbefacient |
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acacia | (noun) any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia | - |
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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 |
acaracide | (noun) a chemical agent used to kill mites | Synonyms: acaricide |
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acaricide | (noun) a chemical agent used to kill mites | Synonyms: acaracide |
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acciaccatura | (noun) an embellishing note usually written in smaller size | Synonyms: appoggiatura, grace note |
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accidence | (noun) the part of grammar that deals with the inflections of words | Synonyms: inflectional morphology |
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accident | (noun) anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause | Synonyms: chance event, fortuity, stroke |
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(noun) an unfortunate mishap; especially one causing damage or injury | - |
accidental | (adjective) not of prime or central importance | Synonyms: incidental, nonessential |
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(adjective) happening by chance or unexpectedly or unintentionally | Synonyms: inadvertent |
(noun) a musical notation that makes a note sharp or flat or natural although that is not part of the key signature | - |
accidentally | (adverb) without advance planning | Synonyms: by chance, circumstantially, unexpectedly |
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(adverb) without intention; in an unintentional manner | Synonyms: unintentionally |
(adverb) of a minor or subordinate nature | Synonyms: incidentally |
accipitrine | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the genus Accipiter (or to typical hawks) | - |
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achromaticity | (noun) the visual property of being without chromatic color | Synonyms: achromatism, colorlessness, colourlessness |
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acicula | (noun) a needlelike part or structure of a plant or animal or crystal; as a spine or bristle or crystal | - |
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acicular | (adjective) narrow and long and pointed; as pine leaves | Synonyms: acerate, acerose, needle-shaped |
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aciculate | (adjective) related to plants or animals or crystals having aciculae or needlelike parts | - |
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acid | (adjective) having the characteristics of an acid | - |
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(adjective) being sour to the taste | Synonyms: acidic, acidulent, acidulous |
(adjective) harsh or corrosive in tone | Synonyms: acerb, acerbic, acrid, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic |
(noun) street name for lysergic acid diethylamide | Synonyms: back breaker, battery-acid, dose, dot, Elvis, loony toons, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, pane, superman, window pane, Zen |
(noun) any of various water-soluble compounds having a sour taste and capable of turning litmus red and reacting with a base to form a salt | - |
acidemia | (noun) a blood disorder characterized by an increased concentration of hydrogen ions in the blood (which falls below 7 on the pH scale) | - |
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acidic | (adjective) being or containing an acid; of a solution having an excess of hydrogen atoms (having a pH of less than 7) | - |
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(adjective) being sour to the taste | Synonyms: acid, acidulent, acidulous |
acidification | (noun) the process of becoming acid or being converted into an acid | - |
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acidify | (verb) turn acidic | Synonyms: acetify |
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(verb) make sour or more sour | Synonyms: acetify, acidulate, sour |
acidimetric | (adjective) involving or related to acidimetry | - |
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acidimetry | (noun) volumetric analysis using standard solutions of acids to measure the amount of a base present | - |
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acidity | (noun) pH values below 7 | - |
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(noun) the property of being acidic | Synonyms: sour, sourness |
(noun) the taste experience when something acidic is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: acidulousness |
acidophil | (noun) an organism that thrives in a relatively acid environment | Synonyms: acidophile |
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acidophile | (noun) an organism that thrives in a relatively acid environment | Synonyms: acidophil |
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acidophilic | (adjective) especially of some bacteria; growing well in an acid medium | Synonyms: acidophilous, aciduric |
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acidophilous | (adjective) especially of some bacteria; growing well in an acid medium | Synonyms: acidophilic, aciduric |
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acidophilus | (noun) a bacterium that is used to make yogurt and to supplement probiotics | Synonyms: Lactobacillus acidophilus |
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acidosis | (noun) abnormally high acidity (excess hydrogen-ion concentration) of the blood and other body tissues | - |
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acidotic | (adjective) having or being characterized by acidosis | - |
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acidulate | (verb) make sour or more sour | Synonyms: acetify, acidify, sour |
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acidulent | (adjective) being sour to the taste | Synonyms: acid, acidic, acidulous |
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acidulous | (adjective) being sour to the taste | Synonyms: acid, acidic, acidulent |
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acidulousness | (noun) the taste experience when something acidic is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: acidity |
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aciduric | (adjective) especially of some bacteria; growing well in an acid medium | Synonyms: acidophilic, acidophilous |
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acinar | (adjective) pertaining to the individual parts making up an aggregate fruit like a blackberry | - |
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(adjective) pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland) | Synonyms: acinic, acinose, acinous |
acinic | (adjective) pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland) | Synonyms: acinar, acinose, acinous |
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acinose | (adjective) pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland) | Synonyms: acinar, acinic, acinous |
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acinous | (adjective) pertaining to one of the small sacs (as in a compound gland) | Synonyms: acinar, acinic, acinose |
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acinus | (noun) one of the small sacs or saclike dilations in a compound gland | - |
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(noun) one of the small drupes making up an aggregate or multiple fruit like a blackberry | - |
acoustician | (noun) a physicist who specializes in acoustics | - |
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actinomycin | (noun) any of various red antibiotics isolated from soil bacteria | - |
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adducing | (noun) citing as evidence or proof | - |
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adenocarcinoma | (noun) malignant tumor originating in glandular epithelium | Synonyms: glandular cancer, glandular carcinoma |
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adenocarcinomatous | (adjective) of or pertaining to adenocarcinoma | - |
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adiabaticity | (noun) The condition of occurring without gain or loss of heat (and thus with no change in entropy, in the quasistatic approximation). | - |
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adscititious | (adjective) added or derived from something outside; not inherent | - |
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(adjective) supplemental; not part of the real or essential nature of a thing | - |
advancing | (adjective) moving forward | Synonyms: forward-moving, forward |
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aecial | (adjective) of or belonging to an aecium | - |
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aeciospore | (noun) spore of a rust fungus formed in an aecium | - |
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aecium | (noun) fruiting body of some rust fungi bearing chains of aeciospores | - |
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aeromedicine | (noun) the study and treatment of disorders associated with flight (especially with space flight) | Synonyms: aerospace medicine, aviation medicine |
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aesthetician | (noun) a philosopher who specializes in the nature of beauty | Synonyms: esthetician |
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(noun) a worker skilled in giving beauty treatments (manicures and facials etc.) | Synonyms: esthetician |
aficionado | (noun) a serious devotee of some particular music genre or musical performer | - |
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(noun) a fan of bull fighting | - |
agnosticism | (noun) the disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge | Synonyms: scepticism, skepticism |
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(noun) a religious orientation of doubt; a denial of ultimate knowledge of the existence of God | - |
alopecia | (noun) loss of hair (especially on the head) or loss of wool or feathers; in humans it can result from heredity or hormonal imbalance or certain diseases or drugs and treatments (chemotherapy for cancer) | - |
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alopecic | (adjective) pertaining to loss of hair or wool or feathers | - |
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altricial | (adjective) (of hatchlings) naked and blind and dependent on parents for food | - |
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amerciable | (adjective) of a crime or misdemeanor; punishable by a fine set by a judge | - |
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americium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic metallic element; discovered by bombarding uranium with helium atoms | Synonyms: Am, atomic number 95 |
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aminoaciduria | (noun) abnormal presence of amino acids in the urine; usually a symptom of metabolic defects | - |
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amoxicillin | (noun) an antibiotic; a semisynthetic oral penicillin (trade names Amoxil and Larotid and Polymox and Trimox and Augmentin) used to treat bacterial infections | Synonyms: Amoxil, Augmentin, Larotid, Polymox, Trimox |
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amphotericin | (noun) an antibiotic and antifungal agent | - |
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ampicillin | (noun) semisynthetic penicillin (trade names Principen and Polycillin and SK-Ampicillin) | Synonyms: Polycillin, Principen, SK-Ampicillin |
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analyticity | (noun) the property of being analytic | - |
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ancient | (adjective) very old | - |
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(adjective) belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire | - |
(noun) a person who lived in ancient times | - |
(noun) a very old person | Synonyms: antediluvian |
anciently | (adverb) in ancient times; long ago | - |
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ancientness | (noun) extreme oldness | Synonyms: antiquity |
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ancients | (noun) people who lived in times long past (especially during the historical period before the fall of the Roman Empire in western Europe) | - |
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ancillary | (adjective) furnishing added support | Synonyms: accessory, adjunct, adjuvant, appurtenant, auxiliary |
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androecium | (noun) a male gametoecium | - |
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anglicise | (verb) make English in appearance | Synonyms: anglicize |
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anglicize | (verb) make English in appearance | Synonyms: anglicise |
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annunciate | (verb) foreshadow or presage | Synonyms: announce, foretell, harbinger, herald |
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annunciation | (noun) a formal public statement | Synonyms: announcement, declaration, proclamation |
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annunciator | (noun) an indicator that announces which electrical circuit has been active (as on a telephone switchboard) | - |
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annunciatory | (adjective) relating to the act of announcing or being announced | - |
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antacid | (adjective) acting to neutralize acid (especially in the stomach) | - |
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(noun) an agent that counteracts or neutralizes acidity (especially in the stomach) | Synonyms: alkaliser, alkalizer, antiacid, gastric antacid |
anthracite | (noun) a hard natural coal that burns slowly and gives intense heat | Synonyms: anthracite coal, hard coal |
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anthracitic | (adjective) relating to or resembling anthracite coal | - |
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anthropocentricity | (noun) an inclination to evaluate reality exclusively in terms of human values | Synonyms: anthropocentrism |
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antiacid | (noun) an agent that counteracts or neutralizes acidity (especially in the stomach) | Synonyms: alkaliser, alkalizer, antacid, gastric antacid |
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anticipant | (adjective) marked by eager anticipation | Synonyms: anticipative, expectant |
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(noun) one who anticipates | Synonyms: anticipator |
anticipate | (verb) be a forerunner of or occur earlier than | - |
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(verb) regard something as probable or likely | Synonyms: expect |
(verb) realize beforehand | Synonyms: foreknow, foresee, previse |
(verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: call, forebode, foretell, predict, prognosticate, promise |
(verb) be excited or anxious about | Synonyms: look for, look to |
(verb) act in advance of; deal with ahead of time | Synonyms: counter, foresee, forestall |
anticipated | (adjective) expected hopefully | Synonyms: awaited, hoped-for |
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anticipation | (noun) the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future) | Synonyms: prediction, prevision |
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(noun) something expected (as on the basis of a norm) | Synonyms: expectancy |
(noun) an expectation | Synonyms: expectancy |
(noun) anticipating with confidence of fulfillment | Synonyms: expectation |
anticipative | (adjective) marked by eager anticipation | Synonyms: anticipant, expectant |
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anticipator | (noun) one who anticipates | Synonyms: anticipant |
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anticipatory | (adjective) in anticipation | Synonyms: prevenient |
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antimycin | (noun) a crystalline antibiotic active against various fungi | - |
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antisepticize | (verb) disinfect with an antiseptic | - |
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antisocial | (adjective) shunning contact with others | - |
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(adjective) hostile to or disruptive of normal standards of social behavior | Synonyms: asocial |