abnegate | (verb) deny or renounce | - |
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(verb) surrender (power or a position) | - |
(verb) deny oneself (something); restrain, especially from indulging in some pleasure | Synonyms: deny |
abnegation | (noun) renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others | Synonyms: denial, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-renunciation |
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(noun) the denial and rejection of a doctrine or belief | - |
abnegator | (noun) one who gives up or relinquishes or renounces something | - |
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aboveground | (adjective) on or above the surface of the ground | - |
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acromegalia | (noun) enlargement of bones of hands and feet and face; often accompanied by headache and muscle pain and emotional disturbances; caused by overproduction of growth hormone by the anterior pituitary gland (due to a tumor) | Synonyms: acromegaly |
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acromegalic | (adjective) marked or affected by enlargement or hypertrophy of the extremities or the face | - |
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acromegaly | (noun) enlargement of bones of hands and feet and face; often accompanied by headache and muscle pain and emotional disturbances; caused by overproduction of growth hormone by the anterior pituitary gland (due to a tumor) | Synonyms: acromegalia |
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adenomegaly | (noun) gland enlargement | - |
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aegir | (noun) a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary) | Synonyms: bore, eager, eagre, tidal bore |
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aegis | (noun) kindly endorsement and guidance | Synonyms: auspices, protection |
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(noun) armor plate that protects the chest; the front part of a cuirass | Synonyms: breastplate, egis |
aggregate | (adjective) composed of a dense cluster of separate units such as carpels or florets or drupelets | - |
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(adjective) formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole | Synonyms: aggregated, aggregative, mass |
(noun) the whole amount | Synonyms: sum, total, totality |
(noun) a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together | Synonyms: congeries, conglomeration |
(noun) material such as sand or gravel used with cement and water to make concrete, mortar, or plaster | - |
(verb) gather in a mass, sum, or whole | Synonyms: combine |
(verb) amount in the aggregate to | - |
aggregated | (adjective) formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole | Synonyms: aggregate, aggregative, mass |
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aggregation | (noun) the act of gathering something together | Synonyms: assembling, collecting, collection |
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(noun) several things grouped together or considered as a whole | Synonyms: accumulation, assemblage, collection |
aggregative | (adjective) formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole | Synonyms: aggregate, aggregated, mass |
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aggregator | (noun) a person who collects things | Synonyms: collector |
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allegation | (noun) (law) a formal accusation against somebody (often in a court of law) | - |
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(noun) statements affirming or denying certain matters of fact that you are prepared to prove | Synonyms: allegement |
allege | (verb) report or maintain | Synonyms: aver, say |
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alleged | (adjective) declared but not proved | - |
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(adjective) doubtful or suspect | Synonyms: so-called, supposed |
allegedly | (adverb) according to what has been alleged | - |
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allegement | (noun) statements affirming or denying certain matters of fact that you are prepared to prove | Synonyms: allegation |
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allegiance | (noun) the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action | Synonyms: commitment, dedication, loyalty |
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(noun) the loyalty that citizens owe to their country (or subjects to their sovereign) | Synonyms: fealty |
allegiant | (adjective) steadfast in devotion (especially to your lawful monarch or government) | - |
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allegoresis | (noun) the interpretation of written, oral, or artistic expression as allegory. | - |
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allegoric | (adjective) used in or characteristic of or containing allegory | Synonyms: allegorical |
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allegorical | (adjective) used in or characteristic of or containing allegory | Synonyms: allegoric |
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allegorically | (adverb) in an allegorical manner | - |
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allegoricalness | (noun) The state or quality of being allegorical. | - |
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allegorise | (verb) make into an allegory | Synonyms: allegorize |
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(verb) interpret as an allegory | Synonyms: allegorize |
allegoriser | (noun) someone who communicates in allegories | Synonyms: allegorizer |
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allegorize | (verb) make into an allegory | Synonyms: allegorise |
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(verb) interpret as an allegory | Synonyms: allegorise |
allegorizer | (noun) someone who communicates in allegories | Synonyms: allegoriser |
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allegory | (noun) a short moral story (often with animal characters) | Synonyms: apologue, fable, parable |
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(noun) an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor | - |
(noun) a visible symbol representing an abstract idea | Synonyms: emblem |
allegretto | (adjective) (of tempo) faster than allegro | - |
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(noun) a musical composition or musical passage to be performed at a somewhat quicker tempo than andante but not as fast as allegro | - |
(noun) a quicker tempo than andante but not as fast as allegro | - |
(adverb) in a moderately quick tempo | - |
allegro | (adjective) (of tempo) fast | - |
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(noun) a musical composition or musical passage to be performed quickly in a brisk lively manner | - |
(noun) a brisk and lively tempo | - |
(adverb) in a quick and lively tempo | - |
apophthegm | (noun) a short pithy instructive saying | Synonyms: aphorism, apothegm |
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apothegm | (noun) a short pithy instructive saying | Synonyms: aphorism, apophthegm |
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apothegmatic | (adjective) given to or characterized by terse apothegms | Synonyms: apothegmatical |
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(adjective) terse and witty and like a maxim | Synonyms: aphoristic, epigrammatic |
apothegmatical | (adjective) given to or characterized by terse apothegms | Synonyms: apothegmatic |
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aquilege | (noun) a plant of the genus Aquilegia having irregular showy spurred flowers; north temperate regions especially mountains | Synonyms: aquilegia, columbine |
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aquilegia | (noun) a plant of the genus Aquilegia having irregular showy spurred flowers; north temperate regions especially mountains | Synonyms: aquilege, columbine |
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arcdegree | (noun) a measure for arcs and angles | Synonyms: degree |
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archegonial | (adjective) of or relating to an archegonium | Synonyms: archegoniate |
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archegoniate | (adjective) of or relating to an archegonium | Synonyms: archegonial |
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archegonium | (noun) a female sex organ occurring in mosses, ferns, and most gymnosperms | - |
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arpeggio | (noun) a chord whose notes are played in rapid succession rather than simultaneously | - |
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assegai | (noun) the slender spear of the Bantu-speaking people of Africa | Synonyms: assagai |
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autoregulation | (noun) (physiology) processes that maintain a generally constant physiological state in a cell or organism | - |
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bandyleg | (noun) a leg bowed outward at the knee (or below the knee) | Synonyms: bandy leg, bow leg, bowleg, genu varum, tibia vara |
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barelegged | (adjective) having the legs uncovered by clothing | - |
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battleground | (noun) a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought | Synonyms: battlefield, field, field of battle, field of honor |
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beaugregory | (noun) a blue and yellow damselfish of Bermuda and Florida and the West Indies | Synonyms: Pomacentrus leucostictus |
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beg | (verb) call upon in supplication; entreat | Synonyms: implore, pray |
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(verb) make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently | Synonyms: solicit, tap |
(verb) dodge, avoid answering, or take for granted | - |
(verb) ask to obtain free | - |
beget | (verb) make (offspring) by reproduction | Synonyms: bring forth, engender, father, generate, get, mother, sire |
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begetter | (noun) a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father) | Synonyms: father, male parent |
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beggar | (noun) a pauper who lives by begging | Synonyms: mendicant |
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(verb) reduce to beggary | Synonyms: pauperise, pauperize |
(verb) be beyond the resources of | - |
beggarly | (adjective) marked by poverty befitting a beggar | Synonyms: mean |
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(adjective) (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt | Synonyms: mean |
beggarman | (noun) a man who is a beggar | - |
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beggarweed | (noun) West Indian forage plant cultivated in southern United States as forage and to improve soil | Synonyms: Desmodium purpureum, Desmodium tortuosum |
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beggarwoman | (noun) a woman who is a beggar | - |
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beggary | (noun) a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person) | Synonyms: begging, mendicancy |
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(noun) the state of being a beggar or mendicant | Synonyms: mendicancy, mendicity |
begging | (noun) a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person) | Synonyms: beggary, mendicancy |
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begild | (verb) decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold | Synonyms: engild, gild |
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begin | (verb) take the first step or steps in carrying out an action | Synonyms: commence, get, get down, set about, set out, start, start out |
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(verb) set in motion, cause to start | Synonyms: commence, lead off, start |
(verb) begin to speak or say | - |
(verb) begin to speak, understand, read, and write a language | - |
(verb) achieve or accomplish in the least degree, usually used in the negative | - |
(verb) begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object | Synonyms: start |
(verb) have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense | Synonyms: start |
(verb) be the first item or point, constitute the beginning or start, come first in a series | - |
(verb) have a beginning characterized in some specified way | Synonyms: start |
(verb) have a beginning, of a temporal event | - |
beginner | (noun) someone new to a field or activity | Synonyms: initiate, novice, tiro, tyro |
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(noun) a person who founds or establishes some institution | Synonyms: father, founder, founding father |
beginning | (adjective) serving to begin | Synonyms: first |
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(noun) the act of starting something | Synonyms: commencement, start |
(noun) the first part or section of something | - |
(noun) the event consisting of the start of something | - |
(noun) the place where something begins, where it springs into being | Synonyms: origin, root, rootage, source |
(noun) the time at which something is supposed to begin | Synonyms: commencement, first, get-go, kickoff, offset, outset, showtime, start, starting time |
begonia | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Begonia grown for their attractive glossy asymmetrical leaves and colorful flowers in usually terminal cymes or racemes | - |
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begotten | (adjective) (of offspring) generated by procreation | - |
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begrime | (verb) make soiled, filthy, or dirty | Synonyms: bemire, colly, dirty, grime, soil |
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begrimed | (adjective) thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot | Synonyms: dingy, grimy, grubby, grungy, raunchy |
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begrudge | (verb) wish ill or allow unwillingly | Synonyms: resent |
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(verb) be envious of; set one's heart on | Synonyms: envy |
beguile | (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
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(verb) influence by slyness | Synonyms: hoodwink, juggle |
beguiled | (adjective) filled with wonder and delight | Synonyms: captivated, charmed, delighted, enthralled, entranced |
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beguilement | (noun) an entertainment that provokes pleased interest and distracts you from worries and vexations | Synonyms: distraction |
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(noun) magnetic personal charm | Synonyms: animal magnetism, bewitchery |
beguiler | (noun) a person who charms others (usually by personal attractiveness) | Synonyms: charmer |
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(noun) someone who leads you to believe something that is not true | Synonyms: cheat, cheater, deceiver, slicker, trickster |
beguiling | (adjective) misleading by means of pleasant or alluring methods | - |
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(adjective) highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire | Synonyms: alluring, enticing, tempting |
beguine | (noun) a ballroom dance that originated in the French West Indies; similar to the rumba | - |
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(noun) music written in the bolero rhythm of the beguine dance | - |
begum | (noun) a Muslim woman of high rank in India or Pakistan | - |
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besiege | (verb) harass, as with questions or requests | - |
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(verb) surround so as to force to give up | Synonyms: beleaguer, circumvent, hem in, surround |
(verb) cause to feel distressed or worried | - |
besieged | (adjective) surrounded by hostile forces | - |
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besieger | (noun) an enemy who lays siege to your position | - |
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(noun) an energetic petitioner | - |
besieging | (noun) the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack | Synonyms: beleaguering, military blockade, siege |
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biodegradable | (adjective) capable of being decomposed by e.g. bacteria | - |
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biodegrade | (verb) break down naturally through the action of biological agents | - |
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blackleg | (noun) someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike | Synonyms: rat, scab, strikebreaker |
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(verb) take the place of work of someone on strike | Synonyms: fink, rat, scab |
blitzkrieg | (noun) a swift and violent military offensive with intensive aerial bombardment | Synonyms: blitz |
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(verb) fight a quick and surprising war | - |
bluegill | (noun) important edible sunfish of eastern and central United States | Synonyms: Lepomis macrochirus |
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bluegrass | (noun) a type of country music played at a rapid tempo on banjos and guitars | - |
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(noun) any of various grasses of the genus Poa | Synonyms: blue grass |
bodega | (noun) a small Hispanic shop selling wine and groceries | - |
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bootleg | (adjective) distributed or sold illicitly | Synonyms: black-market, black, contraband, smuggled |
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(noun) the part of a boot above the instep | - |
(noun) whiskey illegally distilled from a corn mash | Synonyms: corn liquor, moonshine |
(verb) produce or distribute illegally | - |
(verb) sell illicit products such as drugs or alcohol | - |
bootlegger | (noun) someone who makes or sells illegal liquor | Synonyms: moonshiner |
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bootlegging | (noun) the act of making or transporting alcoholic liquor for sale illegally | - |
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(noun) the act of selling illegally or without permission | - |
bowleg | (adjective) have legs that curve outward at the knees | Synonyms: bandy-legged, bandy, bowed, bowlegged |
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(noun) a leg bowed outward at the knee (or below the knee) | Synonyms: bandy leg, bandyleg, bow leg, genu varum, tibia vara |
bowlegged | (adjective) have legs that curve outward at the knees | Synonyms: bandy-legged, bandy, bowed, bowleg |
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bregma | (noun) the craniometric point at the junction of the sagittal and coronal sutures at the top of the cranium | - |
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bregmatic | (adjective) of or relating to the bregma of the skull | - |
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bridegroom | (noun) a man who has recently been married | Synonyms: groom |
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(noun) a man participant in his own marriage ceremony | Synonyms: groom |
bristlegrass | (noun) grasses of grasslands and woodlands having large gracefully arching spikes with long bristles beneath each spikelet | Synonyms: bristle grass |
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bromegrass | (noun) any of various woodland and meadow grasses of the genus Bromus; native to temperate regions | Synonyms: brome |
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budgereegah | (noun) small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors | Synonyms: budgerigar, budgerygah, budgie, grass parakeet, lovebird, Melopsittacus undulatus, shell parakeet |
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cablegram | (noun) a telegram sent abroad | Synonyms: cable, overseas telegram |
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