antidepressant | (noun) any of a class of drugs used to treat depression; often have undesirable side effects | Synonyms: antidepressant drug |
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antinode | (noun) (physics) the point of maximum displacement in a periodic system | - |
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antipode | (noun) direct opposite | - |
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antipodean | (adjective) relating to the antipodes or situated at opposite sides of the earth | Synonyms: antipodal |
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antipodes | (noun) any two places or regions on diametrically opposite sides of the Earth | - |
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antiredeposition | (noun) the process of preventing redeposition | - |
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antitrade | (noun) winds blowing from west to east and lying above the trade winds in the tropics | Synonyms: antitrade wind |
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antitrades | (noun) wind in the upper atmosphere blowing above but in the opposite direction from the trade winds | - |
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apodeictic | (adjective) of a proposition; necessarily true or logically certain | Synonyms: apodictic |
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apodeme | (noun) ridge-like ingrowth of the exoskeleton of an arthropod that supports internal organs and provides attachment points for muscles | - |
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appendectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the vermiform appendix | Synonyms: appendicectomy |
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applauder | (noun) someone who applauds | Synonyms: clapper |
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apprehended | (adjective) fully understood or grasped | Synonyms: appreciated, comprehended |
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apprehender | (noun) a person who seizes or arrests (especially a person who seizes or arrests in the name of justice) | - |
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(noun) a person who knows or apprehends | Synonyms: knower |
aptitude | (noun) inherent ability | - |
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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 | - |
arcdegree | (noun) a measure for arcs and angles | Synonyms: degree |
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archdeacon | (noun) (Anglican Church) an ecclesiastical dignitary usually ranking just below a bishop | - |
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archdeaconry | (noun) the territorial jurisdiction of an archdeacon | - |
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ardeb | (noun) a unit of dry measure used in Egypt | - |
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ardent | (adjective) glowing or shining like fire | - |
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(adjective) characterized by strong enthusiasm | Synonyms: warm |
(adjective) characterized by intense emotion | Synonyms: fervent, fervid, fiery, impassioned, perfervid, torrid |
ardently | (adverb) in an ardent manner | - |
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arrivederci | (noun) a farewell remark | Synonyms: adieu, adios, au revoir, auf wiedersehen, bye-bye, bye, cheerio, good-by, good-bye, good day, goodby, goodbye, sayonara, so long |
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arsenide | (noun) a compound of arsenic with a more positive element | - |
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arthrodesis | (noun) the surgical fixation of a joint which is intended to result in bone fusion | - |
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ascendence | (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendance, ascendancy, ascendency, control, dominance |
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ascendency | (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, control, dominance |
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ascendent | (adjective) tending or directed upward | Synonyms: ascendant, ascensive |
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(adjective) most powerful or important or influential | Synonyms: ascendant, dominating |
(noun) someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) | Synonyms: ancestor, antecedent, ascendant, root |
(noun) position or state of being dominant or in control | Synonyms: ascendant |
ascender | (noun) (printing) the part of tall lowercase letters that extends above the other lowercase letters | - |
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(noun) a lowercase letter that has a part extending above other lowercase letters | - |
(noun) someone who ascends | - |
aside | (noun) a line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage | - |
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(noun) a message that departs from the main subject | Synonyms: digression, divagation, excursus, parenthesis |
(adverb) on or to one side | - |
(adverb) out of the way (especially away from one's thoughts) | Synonyms: away |
(adverb) in reserve; not for immediate use | Synonyms: away, by |
(adverb) not taken into account or excluded from consideration | Synonyms: apart |
(adverb) placed or kept separate and distinct as for a purpose | Synonyms: apart |
(adverb) in a different direction | Synonyms: away |
asphodel | (noun) any of various chiefly Mediterranean plants of the genera Asphodeline and Asphodelus having linear leaves and racemes of white or pink or yellow flowers | - |
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astounded | (adjective) filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock | Synonyms: amazed, astonied, astonished, stunned |
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astride | (adverb) with one leg on each side | Synonyms: astraddle |
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(adverb) with the legs stretched far apart | - |
asunder | (adjective) widely separated especially in space | - |
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(adverb) into parts or pieces | Synonyms: apart |
asyndetic | (adjective) lacking conjunctions | - |
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asyndeton | (noun) the omission of conjunctions where they would normally be used | - |
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atherodyde | (noun) a simple type of jet engine; must be launched at high speed | Synonyms: athodyd, flying drainpipe, ramjet, ramjet engine |
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atrophedema | (noun) recurrent large circumscribed areas of subcutaneous edema; onset is sudden and it disappears within 24 hours; seen mainly in young women, often as an allergic reaction to food or drugs | Synonyms: angioedema, giant hives, periodic edema, Quincke's edema |
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attainder | (noun) cancellation of civil rights | Synonyms: civil death |
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attended | (adjective) playing or singing with instrumental or vocal accompaniment | Synonyms: accompanied |
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(adjective) having a caretaker or other watcher | Synonyms: tended to |
attendee | (noun) a person who is present and participates in a meeting | Synonyms: attendant, attender, meeter |
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attender | (noun) someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another | Synonyms: attendant, tender |
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(noun) a person who is present and participates in a meeting | Synonyms: attendant, attendee, meeter |
(noun) someone who listens attentively | Synonyms: auditor, hearer, listener |
attitude | (noun) a theatrical pose created for effect | - |
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(noun) the arrangement of the body and its limbs | Synonyms: position, posture |
(noun) a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways | Synonyms: mental attitude |
(noun) position of aircraft or spacecraft relative to a frame of reference (the horizon or direction of motion) | - |
autoloader | (noun) a firearm that reloads itself | Synonyms: self-loader |
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azederach | (noun) tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree | Synonyms: azedarach, China tree, chinaberry, chinaberry tree, Melia azedarach, Melia azederach, Persian lilac, pride-of-India |
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azide | (noun) a chemical compound containing the azido group combined with an element or radical | - |
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azoimide | (noun) a colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and poisonous and foul-smelling | Synonyms: HN, hydrazoic acid, hydrogen azide |
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babyminder | (noun) a person who looks after babies (usually in the person's own home) while the babys' parents are working | Synonyms: baby minder, minder |
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backgrounder | (noun) a press conference or interview in which a government official explains to reporters the background of an action or policy | - |
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backhanded | (adjective) (of racket strokes) made across the body with back of hand facing direction of stroke | Synonyms: backhand |
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(adjective) roundabout or ambiguous | - |
backhander | (noun) a backhanded blow | - |
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backside | (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
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(noun) the side of an object that is opposite its front | Synonyms: back end, rear |
backslide | (verb) drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards | Synonyms: lapse |
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backslider | (noun) someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior | Synonyms: recidivist, reversionist |
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bacteriacide | (noun) any chemical agent that destroys bacteria | Synonyms: bactericide |
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bactericide | (noun) any drug that destroys bacteria or inhibits their growth | Synonyms: antibacterial, antibacterial drug |
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(noun) any chemical agent that destroys bacteria | Synonyms: bacteriacide |
baddeleyite | (noun) a mineral consisting of zirconium oxide | - |
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baedeker | (noun) any of a series of travel guidebooks published by the German firm founded by Karl Baedeker | - |
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balderdash | (noun) trivial nonsense | Synonyms: fiddle-faddle, piffle |
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ballade | (noun) a poem consisting of 3 stanzas and an envoy | - |
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balladeer | (noun) a singer of popular ballads | Synonyms: crooner |
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balustrade | (noun) a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling | Synonyms: balusters, banister, bannister, handrail |
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bandeau | (noun) an undergarment worn by women to support their breasts | Synonyms: bra, brassiere |
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banded | (adjective) identified with a band especially around a leg | - |
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(adjective) characterized by a band of especially white around the body | - |
(adjective) marked with bands or strips of contrasting color or texture | - |
bandelet | (noun) molding in the form of a ring; at top of a column | Synonyms: annulet, bandelette, bandlet, square and rabbet |
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bandelette | (noun) molding in the form of a ring; at top of a column | Synonyms: annulet, bandelet, bandlet, square and rabbet |
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banderilla | (noun) a decorated dart that is implanted in the neck or shoulders of the bull during a bull fight | - |
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banderillero | (noun) the bullfighter who implants decorated darts (banderillas) into the neck or shoulders of the bull during a bull fight | - |
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bandleader | (noun) the leader of a dance band | - |
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barde | (verb) put a caparison on | Synonyms: bard, caparison, dress up |
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barehanded | (adjective) with bare hands | - |
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bareheaded | (adjective) having the head uncovered | Synonyms: bared |
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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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bartender | (noun) an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar | Synonyms: barkeep, barkeeper, mixologist |
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bdellium | (noun) aromatic gum resin; similar to myrrh | - |
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beaded | (adjective) covered with beads of liquid | - |
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bearded | (adjective) having a growth of hairlike awns | - |
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(adjective) having hair on the cheeks and chin | Synonyms: barbate, bewhiskered, whiskered, whiskery |
beardedness | (noun) The quality of having a beard. | - |
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beatitude | (noun) a state of supreme happiness | Synonyms: beatification, blessedness |
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bedded | (adjective) having a bed or beds as specified | - |
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(adjective) deposited or arranged in horizontal layers | Synonyms: stratified |
bedder | (noun) an ornamental plant suitable for planting in a flowerbed | Synonyms: bedding plant |
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bedeck | (verb) decorate | Synonyms: bedight, deck |
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bedesman | (noun) a person who is paid to pray for the soul of another | Synonyms: beadsman |
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bedevil | (verb) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly | Synonyms: befuddle, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw |
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(verb) treat cruelly | Synonyms: crucify, dun, frustrate, rag, torment |
bedevilment | (noun) the act of harassing someone | Synonyms: badgering, torment, worrying |
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bedew | (verb) cover with drops of dew or as with dew | - |
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bedewed | (adjective) wet with dew | Synonyms: dewy |
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bedridden | (adjective) confined to bed (by illness) | Synonyms: bedfast, bedrid, sick-abed |
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bedside | (noun) space by the side of a bed (especially the bed of a sick or dying person) | - |
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beheaded | (adjective) having had the head cut off | Synonyms: decapitated |
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beholden | (adjective) under a moral obligation to someone | - |
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beholder | (noun) a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses | Synonyms: observer, perceiver, percipient |
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belvedere | (noun) a gazebo sited to command a fine view | - |
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(noun) densely branched Eurasian plant; foliage turns purple-red in autumn | Synonyms: Bassia scoparia, burning bush, fire-bush, fire bush, Kochia scoparia, summer cypress |
bended | (adjective) used of the back and knees; stooped | Synonyms: bent |
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bender | (noun) revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party | Synonyms: booze-up, carousal, carouse, toot |
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(noun) a pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approaches the batter | Synonyms: breaking ball, curve, curve ball |
(noun) a tool for bending | - |
besides | (adverb) making an additional point; anyway | Synonyms: in any case |
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(adverb) in addition | Synonyms: also, as well, likewise, too |
bestride | (verb) get up on the back of | Synonyms: climb on, get on, hop on, jump on, mount, mount up |
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betide | (verb) become of; happen to | Synonyms: bechance, befall |
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bewilder | (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
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(verb) cause to be confused emotionally | Synonyms: bemuse, discombobulate, throw |