accredit | (verb) ascribe an achievement to | Synonyms: credit |
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(verb) grant credentials to | Synonyms: recognise, recognize |
(verb) provide or send (envoys or ambassadors) with official credentials | - |
accreditation | (noun) the act of granting credit or recognition (especially with respect to an educational institution that maintains suitable standards) | - |
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accredited | (adjective) given official approval to act | Synonyms: commissioned, licenced, licensed |
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accrete | (verb) grow together (of plants and organs) | Synonyms: grow together |
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(verb) grow or become attached by accretion | - |
accretion | (noun) (law) an increase in a beneficiary's share in an estate (as when a co-beneficiary dies or fails to meet some condition or rejects the inheritance) | - |
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(noun) an increase by natural growth or addition | Synonyms: accumulation |
(noun) (geology) an increase in land resulting from alluvial deposits or waterborne sediment | - |
(noun) (biology) growth by addition as by the adhesion of parts or particles | - |
(noun) (astronomy) the formation of a celestial object by the effect of gravity pulling together surrounding objects and gases | - |
(noun) something contributing to growth or increase | - |
accretionary | (adjective) marked or produced by accretion | - |
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accretive | (adjective) growing by accretion | - |
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acre | (noun) a unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries | - |
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acreage | (noun) an area of ground used for some particular purpose (such as building or farming) | Synonyms: land area |
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acres | (noun) extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use | Synonyms: demesne, estate, land, landed estate |
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aircrew | (noun) the crew of an aircraft | Synonyms: air crew |
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aircrewman | (noun) a member of an aircrew | - |
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airscrew | (noun) a propeller that rotates to push against air | Synonyms: airplane propeller, prop |
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bittercress | (noun) any of various herbs of the genus Cardamine, having usually pinnate leaves and racemes of white, pink or purple flowers; cosmopolitan except Antarctic | Synonyms: bitter cress |
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chancre | (noun) a small hard painless nodule at the site of entry of a pathogen (as syphilis) | - |
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coldcream | (noun) a cream used cosmetically (mostly by women) for softening and cleaning the skin | Synonyms: cold cream, face cream, vanishing cream |
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concrete | (adjective) capable of being perceived by the senses; not abstract or imaginary | - |
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(adjective) formed by the coalescence of particles | - |
(noun) a strong hard building material composed of sand and gravel and cement and water | - |
(verb) form into a solid mass; coalesce | - |
(verb) cover with cement | - |
concretely | (adverb) in concrete terms | - |
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concreteness | (noun) the quality of being concrete (not abstract) | - |
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concretion | (noun) the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts | Synonyms: coalescence, coalescency, coalition, conglutination |
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(noun) an increase in the density of something | Synonyms: compaction, compression, densification |
(noun) a hard lump produced by the concretion of mineral salts; found in hollow organs or ducts of the body | Synonyms: calculus |
(noun) the formation of stonelike objects within a body organ (e.g., the kidneys) | - |
concretise | (verb) become specific | Synonyms: concretize |
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concretism | (noun) a representation of an abstract idea in concrete terms | Synonyms: concrete representation |
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concretistic | (adjective) of or relating to concrete representations of abstractions | - |
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concretize | (verb) become specific | Synonyms: concretise |
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(verb) make something concrete | - |
corkscrew | (noun) a bottle opener that pulls corks | Synonyms: bottle screw |
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(verb) move in a spiral or zigzag course | Synonyms: spiral |
creak | (noun) a squeaking sound | Synonyms: creaking |
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(verb) make a high-pitched, screeching noise | Synonyms: screak, screech, skreak, squeak, whine |
creakily | (adverb) in a creaky manner | Synonyms: creakingly, screakily |
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creaking | (noun) a squeaking sound | Synonyms: creak |
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creakingly | (adverb) in a creaky manner | Synonyms: creakily, screakily |
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creaky | (adjective) having a rasping or grating sound | Synonyms: screaky |
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(adjective) of or pertaining to arthritis | Synonyms: arthritic, rheumatic, rheumatoid, rheumy |
(adjective) worn and broken down by hard use | Synonyms: decrepit, derelict, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone |
cream | (noun) toiletry consisting of any of various substances in the form of a thick liquid that have a soothing and moisturizing effect when applied to the skin | Synonyms: emollient, ointment |
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(noun) the part of milk containing the butterfat | - |
(noun) the best people or things in a group | Synonyms: pick |
(verb) add cream to one's coffee, for example | - |
(verb) make creamy by beating | - |
(verb) remove from the surface | Synonyms: cream off, skim, skim off |
(verb) put on cream, as on one's face or body | - |
(verb) beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight | Synonyms: bat, clobber, drub, lick, thrash |
creamcups | (noun) California plant with small pale yellow flowers | Synonyms: Platystemon californicus |
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creamer | (noun) a small pitcher for serving cream | Synonyms: cream pitcher |
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creamery | (noun) a workplace where dairy products (butter and cheese etc.) are produced or sold | - |
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creaminess | (noun) the property of having the thickness of heavy cream | Synonyms: soupiness |
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creampie | (noun) Ejaculate inside a vagina or anus | - |
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(verb) The act of ejaculating inside another person | - |
creamy | (adjective) of the color of cream | - |
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(adjective) thick like cream | - |
crease | (noun) a Malayan dagger with a wavy blade | Synonyms: creese, kris |
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(noun) a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface | Synonyms: crinkle, furrow, line, seam, wrinkle |
(noun) an angular or rounded shape made by folding | Synonyms: bend, crimp, flexure, fold, plication |
(verb) become wrinkled or crumpled or creased | Synonyms: crinkle, crumple, rumple, wrinkle |
(verb) make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic | Synonyms: crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch, scrunch up, wrinkle |
(verb) make wrinkled or creased | Synonyms: furrow, wrinkle |
(verb) scrape gently | Synonyms: graze, rake |
creaseless | (adjective) used especially of fabrics | Synonyms: uncreased |
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creaseproof | (adjective) of fabric that does not wrinkle easily | Synonyms: crease-resistant, wrinkle-resistant, wrinkleproof |
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creashak | (noun) evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries; leaves turn red in autumn | Synonyms: Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, bear's grape, common bearberry, hog cranberry, mealberry, mountain box, red bearberry, sand berry, sandberry, wild cranberry |
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create | (verb) make or cause to be or to become | Synonyms: make |
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(verb) pursue a creative activity; be engaged in a creative activity | - |
(verb) bring into existence | - |
(verb) create or manufacture a man-made product | Synonyms: make, produce |
(verb) create by artistic means | Synonyms: make |
(verb) invest with a new title, office, or rank | - |
creatin | (noun) an amino acid that does not occur in proteins but is found in the muscle tissue of vertebrates both in the free form and as phosphocreatine; supplies energy for muscle contraction | Synonyms: creatine |
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creatine | (noun) an amino acid that does not occur in proteins but is found in the muscle tissue of vertebrates both in the free form and as phosphocreatine; supplies energy for muscle contraction | Synonyms: creatin |
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creation | (noun) the human act of creating | Synonyms: creative activity |
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(noun) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | Synonyms: foundation, founding, initiation, innovation, instauration, institution, introduction, origination |
(noun) an artifact that has been brought into existence by someone | - |
(noun) the event that occurred at the beginning of something | Synonyms: conception |
(noun) everything that exists anywhere | Synonyms: cosmos, existence, macrocosm, universe, world |
creationism | (noun) the literal belief in the account of Creation given in the Book of Genesis | - |
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creative | (adjective) having the ability or power to create | Synonyms: originative |
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(adjective) promoting construction or creation | - |
creatively | (adverb) in a creative manner | - |
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creativeness | (noun) the ability to create | Synonyms: creative thinking, creativity |
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creativity | (noun) the ability to create | Synonyms: creative thinking, creativeness |
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creator | (noun) a person who grows or makes or invents things | - |
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creature | (noun) a living organism characterized by voluntary movement | Synonyms: animal, animate being, beast, brute, fauna |
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(noun) a living being | Synonyms: wight |
(noun) a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else | Synonyms: puppet, tool |
creche | (noun) a hospital where foundlings (infant children of unknown parents) are taken in and cared for | Synonyms: foundling hospital |
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(noun) a representation of Christ's nativity in the stable at Bethlehem | - |
cred | (noun) credibility among young fashionable urban individuals | Synonyms: street cred, street credibility |
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credal | (adjective) of or relating to a creed | Synonyms: creedal |
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credence | (noun) a kind of sideboard or buffet | Synonyms: credenza |
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(noun) the mental attitude that something is believable and should be accepted as true | Synonyms: acceptance |
credendum | (noun) (Christianity) any of the sections into which a creed or other statement of doctrine is divided | Synonyms: article of faith |
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credential | (noun) a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts | Synonyms: certificate, certification, credentials |
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credentialled | (adjective) certified as professional by evidence or testimonials | - |
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credentials | (noun) a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts | Synonyms: certificate, certification, credential |
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credenza | (noun) a kind of sideboard or buffet | Synonyms: credence |
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credibility | (noun) the quality of being believable or trustworthy | Synonyms: believability, credibleness |
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credible | (adjective) capable of being believed | Synonyms: believable |
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(adjective) appearing to merit belief or acceptance | - |
(adjective) (a common but incorrect usage where `credulous' would be appropriate) credulous | - |
credibleness | (noun) the quality of being believable or trustworthy | Synonyms: believability, credibility |
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credibly | (adverb) easy to believe on the basis of available evidence | Synonyms: believably, plausibly, probably |
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credit | (noun) recognition by a college or university that a course of studies has been successfully completed; typically measured in semester hours | Synonyms: course credit |
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(noun) used in the phrase `to your credit' in order to indicate an achievement deserving praise | - |
(noun) an estimate, based on previous dealings, of a person's or an organization's ability to fulfill their financial commitments | Synonyms: credit rating |
(noun) approval | Synonyms: recognition |
(noun) an entry on a list of persons who contributed to a film or written work | - |
(noun) a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage | Synonyms: acknowledgment, citation, cite, mention, quotation, reference |
(noun) arrangement for deferred payment for goods and services | Synonyms: deferred payment |
(noun) an accounting entry acknowledging income or capital items | Synonyms: credit entry |
(noun) money available for a client to borrow | - |
(verb) have trust in; trust in the truth or veracity of | - |
(verb) give someone credit for something | - |
(verb) ascribe an achievement to | Synonyms: accredit |
(verb) enter as credit | - |
creditable | (adjective) worthy of often limited commendation | - |
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creditably | (adverb) to a tolerably worthy extent | Synonyms: respectably |
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credited | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') given credit for | - |
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creditor | (noun) a person to whom money is owed by a debtor; someone to whom an obligation exists | - |
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credits | (noun) a list of acknowledgements of those who contributed to the creation of a film (usually run at the end of the film) | - |
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creditworthiness | (noun) trustworthiness with money as based on a person's credit history; a general qualification for borrowing | - |
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creditworthy | (adjective) having an acceptable credit rating | Synonyms: responsible |
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credo | (noun) any system of principles or beliefs | Synonyms: creed |
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credulity | (noun) tendency to believe readily | - |
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credulous | (adjective) disposed to believe on little evidence | - |
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(adjective) showing a lack of judgment or experience | - |
credulously | (adverb) in a credulous manner | Synonyms: believingly |
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credulousness | (noun) tendency to believe too readily and therefore to be easily deceived | Synonyms: gullibility |
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creed | (noun) any system of principles or beliefs | Synonyms: credo |
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(noun) the written body of teachings of a religious group that are generally accepted by that group | Synonyms: church doctrine, gospel, religious doctrine |
creedal | (adjective) of or relating to a creed | Synonyms: credal |
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creek | (noun) a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river) | Synonyms: brook |
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creel | (noun) a wicker basket used by anglers to hold fish | - |
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creep | (noun) a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body | Synonyms: crawl, crawling, creeping |
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(noun) a pen that is fenced so that young animals can enter but adults cannot | - |
(noun) a slow longitudinal movement or deformation | - |
(noun) someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric | Synonyms: spook, weirdie, weirdo, weirdy |
(verb) move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground | Synonyms: crawl |
(verb) to go stealthily or furtively | Synonyms: mouse, pussyfoot, sneak |
(verb) grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface) | - |
(verb) show submission or fear | Synonyms: cower, crawl, cringe, fawn, grovel |
creeper | (noun) any of various small insectivorous birds of the Northern Hemisphere that climb up a tree trunk supporting themselves on stiff tail feathers and their feet | Synonyms: tree creeper |
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(noun) a person who crawls or creeps along the ground | Synonyms: crawler |
(noun) any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping | - |
creepiness | (noun) an uneasy sensation as of insects creeping on your skin | - |
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creeping | (noun) a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body | Synonyms: crawl, crawling, creep |
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creeps | (noun) a feeling of fear and revulsion | - |
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(noun) a disease of cattle and sheep attributed to a dietary deficiency; characterized by anemia and softening of the bones and a slow stiff gait | - |
creepy | (adjective) causing a sensation as of things crawling on your skin | Synonyms: creepy-crawly |
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(adjective) annoying and unpleasant | - |
creese | (noun) a Malayan dagger with a wavy blade | Synonyms: crease, kris |
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cremains | (noun) the remains of a dead body after cremation | - |
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cremate | (verb) reduce to ashes | - |
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cremation | (noun) the incineration of a dead body | - |
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crematorium | (noun) a furnace where a corpse can be burned and reduced to ashes | Synonyms: cremation chamber, crematory |
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(noun) a mortuary where corpses are cremated | Synonyms: crematory |
crematory | (noun) a furnace where a corpse can be burned and reduced to ashes | Synonyms: cremation chamber, crematorium |
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(noun) a mortuary where corpses are cremated | Synonyms: crematorium |
crenate | (adjective) having a margin with rounded scallops | Synonyms: crenated, scalloped |
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crenated | (adjective) having a margin with rounded scallops | Synonyms: crenate, scalloped |
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crenation | (noun) one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.) | Synonyms: crenature, crenel, crenelle, scallop |
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crenature | (noun) one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.) | Synonyms: crenation, crenel, crenelle, scallop |
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crenel | (noun) a notch or open space between two merlons in a crenelated battlement | Synonyms: crenelle |
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(noun) one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.) | Synonyms: crenation, crenature, crenelle, scallop |
(verb) supply with battlements | Synonyms: crenelate, crenellate |
crenelate | (verb) supply with battlements | Synonyms: crenel, crenellate |
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