barbecue | (noun) a rack to hold meat for cooking over hot charcoal usually out of doors | Synonyms: barbeque |
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(noun) a cookout in which food is cooked over an open fire; especially a whole animal carcass roasted on a spit | Synonyms: barbeque |
(noun) meat that has been barbecued or grilled in a highly seasoned sauce | Synonyms: barbeque |
(verb) cook outdoors on a barbecue grill | Synonyms: barbeque, cook out |
barbecued | (adjective) cooked over an outdoor grill | Synonyms: grilled |
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barbecuing | (noun) roasting a large piece of meat on a revolving spit out of doors over an open fire | - |
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barracuda | (noun) any voracious marine fish of the genus Sphyraena having an elongated cylindrical body and large mouth with projecting lower jaw and long strong teeth | - |
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bascule | (noun) a structure or device in which one end is counterbalanced by the other (on the principle of the seesaw) | - |
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biauricular | (adjective) relating to the two auditory openings | - |
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bicuspid | (adjective) having two cusps or points (especially a molar tooth) | Synonyms: bicuspidate |
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(noun) a tooth having two cusps or points; located between the incisors and the molars | Synonyms: premolar |
bicuspidate | (adjective) having two cusps or points (especially a molar tooth) | Synonyms: bicuspid |
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bilocular | (adjective) divided into or containing two cells or chambers | Synonyms: biloculate |
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biloculate | (adjective) divided into or containing two cells or chambers | Synonyms: bilocular |
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bimolecular | (adjective) relating to or affecting two molecules | - |
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binocular | (adjective) relating to both eyes | - |
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binoculars | (noun) (plural) an optical instrument designed for simultaneous use by both eyes | Synonyms: field glasses, opera glasses |
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biscuit | (noun) small round bread leavened with baking-powder or soda | - |
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(noun) any of various small flat sweet cakes | Synonyms: cookie, cooky |
bloodcurdling | (adjective) extremely alarming | Synonyms: hair-raising, nightmarish |
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buccula | (noun) a fold of fatty tissue under the chin | Synonyms: double chin |
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buttercup | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus | Synonyms: butter-flower, butterflower, crowfoot, goldcup, kingcup |
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cacuminal | (adjective) pronounced with the tip of the tongue turned back toward the hard palate | Synonyms: retroflex |
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caecum | (noun) the cavity in which the large intestine begins and into which the ileum opens | Synonyms: blind gut, cecum |
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calculability | (noun) The quality of being subject to or ascertainable by calculation. | - |
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calculable | (adjective) able to be calculated or estimated | - |
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calculate | (verb) make a mathematical calculation or computation | Synonyms: cipher, compute, cypher, figure, reckon, work out |
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(verb) specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public | Synonyms: aim, direct |
(verb) judge to be probable | Synonyms: count on, estimate, figure, forecast, reckon |
(verb) have faith or confidence in | Synonyms: bank, bet, count, depend, look, reckon, rely, swear |
(verb) predict in advance | Synonyms: forecast |
(verb) keep an account of | Synonyms: account |
calculated | (adjective) carefully thought out in advance | Synonyms: deliberate, measured |
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calculating | (adjective) acting with a specific goal | Synonyms: calculative, conniving, scheming, shrewd |
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calculatingly | (adverb) in a calculating manner | - |
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calculation | (noun) the procedure of calculating; determining something by mathematical or logical methods | Synonyms: computation, computing |
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(noun) problem solving that involves numbers or quantities | Synonyms: computation, figuring, reckoning |
(noun) planning something carefully and intentionally | Synonyms: deliberation |
calculative | (adjective) acting with a specific goal | Synonyms: calculating, conniving, scheming, shrewd |
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calculator | (noun) a small machine that is used for mathematical calculations; can be mechanical or electronic | Synonyms: calculating machine |
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(noun) an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines) | Synonyms: computer, estimator, figurer, reckoner |
calculous | (adjective) relating to or caused by or having a calculus or calculi | - |
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calculus | (noun) the branch of mathematics that is concerned with limits and with the differentiation and integration of functions | Synonyms: infinitesimal calculus |
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(noun) a hard lump produced by the concretion of mineral salts; found in hollow organs or ducts of the body | Synonyms: concretion |
(noun) an incrustation that forms on the teeth and gums | Synonyms: tartar, tophus |
calicular | (adjective) relating to or resembling a calyculus | Synonyms: calycular |
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caliculus | (noun) a small cup-shaped structure (as a taste bud or optic cup or cavity of a coral containing a polyp) | Synonyms: calycle, calyculus |
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calycular | (adjective) relating to or resembling a calyculus | Synonyms: calicular |
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calyculate | (adjective) having a calyculus | Synonyms: calycled |
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calyculus | (noun) a small cup-shaped structure (as a taste bud or optic cup or cavity of a coral containing a polyp) | Synonyms: caliculus, calycle |
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(noun) a group of bracts simulating a calyx as in a carnation or hibiscus | Synonyms: calycle, epicalyx, false calyx |
canalicular | (adjective) relating to or like or having a canaliculus | - |
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canaliculate | (adjective) having thin parallel channels | - |
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canaliculus | (noun) a small canal or duct as in some bones and parts of plants | - |
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canecutter | (noun) a wood rabbit of southeastern United States swamps and lowlands | Synonyms: swamp hare, swamp rabbit, Sylvilagus aquaticus |
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canicular | (adjective) relating to or especially immediately preceding or following the heliacal rising of Canicula (the Dog Star) | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to the dog days of summer | - |
canicule | (noun) the hot period between early July and early September; a period of inactivity | Synonyms: canicular days, dog days |
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capsicum | (noun) any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers | Synonyms: capsicum pepper plant, pepper |
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caracul | (noun) hardy coarse-haired sheep of central Asia; lambs are valued for their soft curly black fur | Synonyms: broadtail, karakul |
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carbuncular | (adjective) afflicted with or resembling a carbuncle | Synonyms: carbuncled |
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cardiovascular | (adjective) of or pertaining to or involving the heart and blood vessels | - |
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caruncula | (noun) an outgrowth on a plant or animal such as a fowl's wattle or a protuberance near the hilum of certain seeds | Synonyms: caruncle |
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caruncular | (adjective) resembling a caruncle | Synonyms: carunculous |
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carunculate | (adjective) having a caruncle | Synonyms: carunculated |
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carunculated | (adjective) having a caruncle | Synonyms: carunculate |
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carunculous | (adjective) resembling a caruncle | Synonyms: caruncular |
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caucus | (noun) a closed political meeting | - |
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(verb) meet to select a candidate or promote a policy | - |
cecum | (noun) the cavity in which the large intestine begins and into which the ileum opens | Synonyms: blind gut, caecum |
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cerebrovascular | (adjective) of or relating to the brain and the blood vessels that supply it | - |
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charcuterie | (noun) a delicatessen that specializes in meats | - |
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chiaroscuro | (noun) a monochrome picture made by using several different shades of the same color | - |
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circuit | (noun) a journey or route all the way around a particular place or area | Synonyms: tour |
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(noun) movement once around a course | Synonyms: circle, lap |
(noun) an electrical device that provides a path for electrical current to flow | Synonyms: electric circuit, electrical circuit |
(noun) a racetrack for automobile races | Synonyms: racing circuit |
(noun) (law) a judicial division of a state or the United States (so-called because originally judges traveled and held court in different locations); one of the twelve groups of states in the United States that is covered by a particular circuit court of appeals | - |
(noun) an established itinerary of venues or events that a particular group of people travel to | - |
(noun) the boundary line encompassing an area or object | Synonyms: circumference |
(verb) make a circuit | - |
circuitous | (adjective) deviating from a straight course | Synonyms: devious, roundabout |
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(adjective) marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct | Synonyms: roundabout |
circuitousness | (noun) The state of being roundabout, indirect or not to the point. | - |
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circuitry | (noun) electronic equipment consisting of a system of circuits | - |
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circular | (adjective) having the shape or form of a circle | Synonyms: round |
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(adjective) describing a circle; moving in a circle | Synonyms: orbitual, rotary |
(noun) an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution | Synonyms: bill, broadsheet, broadside, flier, flyer, handbill, throwaway |
circularisation | (noun) circulating printed notices as a means of advertising | Synonyms: circularization |
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circularise | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
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(verb) distribute circulars to | Synonyms: circularize |
(verb) canvass by distributing letters | Synonyms: circularize |
circularity | (noun) the roundness of a 2-dimensional figure | Synonyms: disk shape |
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circularization | (noun) circulating printed notices as a means of advertising | Synonyms: circularisation |
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circularize | (verb) make circular | - |
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(verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
(verb) distribute circulars to | Synonyms: circularise |
(verb) canvass by distributing letters | Synonyms: circularise |
(verb) canvass by using a questionnaire | - |
circularly | (adverb) in a circular manner | - |
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circulate | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
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(verb) become widely known and passed on | Synonyms: go around, spread |
(verb) move around freely from person to person or from place to place | - |
(verb) move through a space, circuit or system, returning to the starting point | - |
(verb) cause to be distributed | Synonyms: distribute, pass around, pass on |
(verb) cause to move in a circuit or system | - |
circulating | (adjective) passing from one to another | - |
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circulation | (noun) the spread or transmission of something (as news or money) to a wider group or area | - |
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(noun) the dissemination of copies of periodicals (as newspapers or magazines) | - |
(noun) free movement or passage (as of cytoplasm within a cell or sap through a plant) | - |
(noun) movement through a circuit; especially the movement of blood through the heart and blood vessels | - |
(noun) number of copies of a newspaper or magazine that are sold | - |
(noun) (library science) the count of books that are loaned by a library over a specified period | - |
circulative | (adjective) of or relating to circulation | Synonyms: circulatory |
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circulatory | (adjective) relating to circulatory system or to circulation of the blood | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to circulation | Synonyms: circulative |
circumambulate | (verb) walk around something | Synonyms: walk around |
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circumboreal | (adjective) comprising or throughout far northern regions | Synonyms: boreal |
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circumcise | (verb) cut the foreskin off male babies or teenage boys | - |
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(verb) cut the skin over the clitoris | - |
circumcision | (noun) the act of circumcising; surgical removal of the foreskin of males | - |
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(noun) the act of circumcising performed on males eight days after birth as a Jewish and Muslim religious rite | - |
circumduction | (noun) a circular movement of a limb or eye | - |
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circumference | (noun) the size of something as given by the distance around it | Synonyms: perimeter |
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(noun) the length of the closed curve of a circle | - |
(noun) the boundary line encompassing an area or object | Synonyms: circuit |
circumferent | (adjective) closely encircling | Synonyms: encompassing, surrounding |
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circumferential | (adjective) lying around or just outside the edges or outskirts | - |
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circumflex | (noun) a diacritical mark (^) placed above a vowel in some languages to indicate a special phonetic quality | - |
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circumfuse | (verb) spread something around something | - |
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circumlocution | (noun) a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things | Synonyms: ambage, periphrasis |
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(noun) an indirect way of expressing something | Synonyms: indirect expression |
circumlocutious | (adjective) roundabout and unnecessarily wordy | Synonyms: ambagious, circumlocutory, periphrastic |
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circumlocutory | (adjective) roundabout and unnecessarily wordy | Synonyms: ambagious, circumlocutious, periphrastic |
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circumnavigate | (verb) travel around, either by plane or ship | Synonyms: compass |
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circumnavigation | (noun) traveling around something (by ship or plane) | - |
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circumpolar | (adjective) located or found throughout a polar region | - |
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(adjective) (of a celestial body) continually visible above the horizon during the entire 360 degrees of daily travel | - |
circumscribe | (verb) restrict or confine within limits | Synonyms: confine to, limit |
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(verb) draw a line around | - |
(verb) to draw a geometric figure around another figure so that the two are in contact but do not intersect | - |
circumscribed | (adjective) subject to limits or subjected to limits | Synonyms: limited |
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circumscription | (noun) the act of circumscribing | - |
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circumspect | (adjective) heedful of potential consequences | Synonyms: discreet |
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circumspection | (noun) the trait of being circumspect and prudent | Synonyms: caution |
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(noun) knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress | Synonyms: discreetness, discretion, prudence |
circumspectly | (adverb) in a cagey manner | Synonyms: cagily |
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circumstance | (noun) information that should be kept in mind when making a decision | Synonyms: condition, consideration |
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(noun) formal ceremony about important occasions | - |
(noun) a condition that accompanies or influences some event or activity | - |
(noun) the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event | Synonyms: context, setting |
circumstances | (noun) a person's financial situation (good or bad) | - |
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(noun) your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you) | Synonyms: destiny, fate, fortune, lot, luck, portion |
circumstantial | (adjective) fully detailed and specific about particulars | - |
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circumstantially | (adverb) insofar as the circumstances are concerned | - |
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(adverb) without advance planning | Synonyms: accidentally, by chance, unexpectedly |
(adverb) in minute detail | Synonyms: minutely |
(adverb) according to circumstances | - |
circumstantiate | (verb) give circumstantial evidence for | - |
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circumvallate | (verb) surround with or as if with a rampart or other fortification | - |
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circumvent | (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: dodge, duck, elude, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt |
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(verb) beat through cleverness and wit | Synonyms: beat, outfox, outsmart, outwit, overreach |
(verb) surround so as to force to give up | Synonyms: beleaguer, besiege, hem in, surround |