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 |
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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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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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 |
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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bluegill | (noun) important edible sunfish of eastern and central United States | Synonyms: Lepomis macrochirus |
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caregiver | (noun) a person who is responsible for attending to the needs of a child or dependent adult | - |
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(noun) a person who helps in identifying or preventing or treating illness or disability | Synonyms: health care provider, health professional, PCP, primary care provider |
collegial | (adjective) characterized by or having authority vested equally among colleagues | - |
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(adjective) of or resembling or typical of a college or college students | Synonyms: collegiate |
collegian | (noun) a student (or former student) at a college or university | Synonyms: college boy, college man |
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collegiate | (adjective) of or resembling or typical of a college or college students | Synonyms: collegial |
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cystoplegia | (noun) paralysis of the urinary bladder | Synonyms: cystoparalysis |
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diplegia | (noun) paralysis of corresponding parts on both sides of the body | - |
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egis | (noun) armor plate that protects the chest; the front part of a cuirass | Synonyms: aegis, breastplate |
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egregious | (adjective) conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible | Synonyms: crying, flagrant, glaring, gross, rank |
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elegiac | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy | - |
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(adjective) expressing sorrow often for something past | - |
elegise | (verb) compose an elegy | Synonyms: elegize |
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elegist | (noun) the author of a mournful poem lamenting the dead | - |
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elegize | (verb) compose an elegy | Synonyms: elegise |
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florilegium | (noun) an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc. | Synonyms: garland, miscellany |
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geostrategic | (adjective) of or relating to geostrategy | - |
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gynostegium | (noun) the crown of the stamen in plants of the genus Asclepias | - |
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hegira | (noun) a journey by a large group to escape from a hostile environment | Synonyms: exodus, hejira |
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hemiplegia | (noun) paralysis of one side of the body | Synonyms: unilateral paralysis |
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hemiplegic | (noun) a person who has hemiplegia (is paralyzed on one side of the body) | - |
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homegirl | (noun) a fellow female member of a youth gang | - |
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illegibility | (noun) the quality of writing (print or handwriting) that cannot be deciphered | - |
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illegible | (adjective) (of handwriting, print, etc.) not legible | - |
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illegibly | (adverb) in an illegible manner | Synonyms: undecipherably, unreadably |
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illegitimacy | (noun) unlawfulness by virtue of not being authorized by or in accordance with law | - |
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(noun) the status of being born to parents who were not married | Synonyms: bar sinister, bastardy |
illegitimate | (adjective) of marriages and offspring; not recognized as lawful | - |
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(adjective) contrary to or forbidden by law | Synonyms: illicit, outlaw, outlawed, unlawful |
(noun) the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents | Synonyms: bastard, by-blow, illegitimate child, love child, whoreson |
illegitimately | (adverb) of biological parents not married to each other | Synonyms: out of wedlock |
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(adverb) in a manner disapproved or not allowed by custom | Synonyms: illicitly |
intercollegiate | (adjective) used of competition between colleges or universities | - |
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legibility | (noun) a quality of writing (print or handwriting) that can be easily read | Synonyms: readability |
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(noun) distinctness that makes perception easy | Synonyms: discernability |
legible | (adjective) (of handwriting, print, etc.) capable of being read or deciphered | - |
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legibly | (adverb) in a legible manner | Synonyms: decipherably, readably |
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leging | (noun) a garment covering the leg (usually extending from the knee to the ankle) | Synonyms: leg covering, legging |
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legion | (adjective) amounting to a large indefinite number | Synonyms: numerous |
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(noun) a vast multitude | Synonyms: horde, host |
(noun) a large military unit | - |
(noun) association of ex-servicemen | - |
(noun) archaic terms for army | Synonyms: host |
legionary | (noun) a soldier who is a member of a legion (especially the French Foreign Legion) | Synonyms: legionnaire |
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legionella | (noun) the motile aerobic rod-shaped Gram-negative bacterium that thrives in central heating and air conditioning systems and can cause Legionnaires' disease | Synonyms: Legionella pneumophilia |
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legionnaire | (noun) a soldier who is a member of a legion (especially the French Foreign Legion) | Synonyms: legionary |
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legislate | (verb) make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation | Synonyms: pass |
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legislating | (noun) the act of making or enacting laws | Synonyms: lawmaking, legislation |
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legislation | (noun) the act of making or enacting laws | Synonyms: lawmaking, legislating |
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(noun) law enacted by a legislative body | Synonyms: statute law |
legislative | (adjective) of or relating to or created by legislation | - |
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(adjective) relating to a legislature or composed of members of a legislature | - |
legislatively | (adverb) by legislation | - |
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legislator | (noun) someone who makes or enacts laws | - |
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legislatorship | (noun) the office of legislator | - |
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legislature | (noun) persons who make or amend or repeal laws | Synonyms: general assembly, law-makers, legislative assembly, legislative body |
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legitimacy | (noun) lawfulness by virtue of being authorized or in accordance with law | - |
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(noun) undisputed credibility | Synonyms: authenticity, genuineness |
legitimate | (adjective) of marriages and offspring; recognized as lawful | - |
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(adjective) in accordance with recognized or accepted standards or principles | - |
(adjective) authorized, sanctioned by, or in accordance with law | Synonyms: lawful, licit |
(adjective) based on known statements or events or conditions | Synonyms: logical |
(verb) make (an illegitimate child) legitimate; declare the legitimacy of (someone) | - |
(verb) show or affirm to be just and legitimate | - |
(verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize |
legitimately | (adverb) in a lawfully recognized manner | - |
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(adverb) in a manner acceptable to common custom | Synonyms: lawfully, licitly |
legitimation | (noun) the act of making lawful | Synonyms: legalisation, legalization |
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(noun) the act of rendering a person legitimate | - |
legitimatise | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize |
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legitimatize | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimise, legitimize |
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legitimise | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimize |
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legitimize | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise |
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megillah | (noun) (Yiddish) a long boring tediously detailed account | - |
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megilp | (noun) a medium for oil-paints; linseed oil mixed with mastic varnish or turpentine | Synonyms: magilp |
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monoplegia | (noun) paralysis of a single limb | - |
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ophthalmoplegia | (noun) paralysis of the motor nerves of the eye | - |
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paraplegia | (noun) paralysis of the lower half of the body (most often as a result of trauma) | - |
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paraplegic | (adjective) suffering complete paralysis of the lower half of the body usually resulting from damage to the spinal cord | - |
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(noun) a person who has paraplegia (is paralyzed from the waist down) | - |
physostegia | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Physostegia having sessile linear to oblong leaves and showy white or rose or lavender flowers | - |
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quadriplegia | (noun) paralysis of both arms and both legs | - |
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quadriplegic | (noun) a person who is paralyzed in both arms and both legs | - |
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regicide | (noun) the act of killing a king | - |
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(noun) someone who commits regicide; the killer of a king | - |
regift | (verb) give a present that one has received to someone else | - |
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regime | (noun) (medicine) a systematic plan for therapy (often including diet) | Synonyms: regimen |
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(noun) the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit | Synonyms: authorities, government |
regimen | (noun) (medicine) a systematic plan for therapy (often including diet) | Synonyms: regime |
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regiment | (noun) army unit smaller than a division, which can be divided into several companies, squadrons, or batteries and often into two battalions. | - |
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(verb) assign to a regiment | - |
(verb) form (military personnel) into a regiment | - |
(verb) subject to rigid discipline, order, and systematization | - |
regimental | (adjective) belonging to or concerning a regiment | - |
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regimentally | (adverb) in a regimental manner or by regiments | - |
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regimentals | (noun) the military uniform and insignia of a regiment | - |
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regimentation | (noun) the imposition of order or discipline | - |
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regimented | (adjective) strictly controlled | - |
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region | (noun) a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve | Synonyms: area |
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(noun) a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about | Synonyms: realm |
(noun) the extended spatial location of something | Synonyms: part |
(noun) a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth | - |
(noun) the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of') | Synonyms: neighborhood |
regional | (adjective) characteristic of a region | - |
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(adjective) related or limited to a particular region | - |
regionalism | (noun) loyalty to the interests of a particular region | - |
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(noun) a feature (as a pronunciation or expression or custom) that is characteristic of a particular region | - |
(noun) a foreign policy that defines the international interests of a country in terms of particular geographic areas | - |
regionality | (noun) The property of being of, or pertaining to, a specific region or district. | - |
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(noun) The property of being of, or pertaining to, a large geographic region. | - |
regionally | (adverb) in a regional manner | - |
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register | (noun) a regulator (as a sliding plate) for regulating the flow of air into a furnace or other heating device | - |
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(noun) an air passage (usually in the floor or a wall of a room) for admitting or excluding heated air from the room | - |
(noun) a cashbox with an adding machine to register transactions; used in shops to add up the bill | Synonyms: cash register |
(noun) (computer science) memory device that is the part of computer memory that has a specific address and that is used to hold information of a specific kind | - |
(noun) (music) the timbre that is characteristic of a certain range and manner of production of the human voice or of different pipe organ stops or of different musical instruments | - |
(noun) an official written record of names or events or transactions | Synonyms: registry |
(noun) a book in which names and transactions are listed | - |
(verb) enter into someone's consciousness | - |
(verb) indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments | Synonyms: read, record, show |
(verb) record in a public office or in a court of law | Synonyms: file |
(verb) send by registered mail | - |
(verb) manipulate the registers of an organ | - |
(verb) be aware of | Synonyms: record |
(verb) show in one's face | - |
(verb) record in writing; enter into a book of names or events or transactions | - |
(verb) enroll to vote | - |
(verb) have one's name listed as a candidate for several parties | Synonyms: cross-file |
registered | (adjective) listed or recorded officially | - |
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(adjective) (of animals) officially recorded with or certified by a recognized breed association; especially in a stud book | - |
(adjective) (of a boat or vessel) furnished with necessary official documents specifying ownership etc | - |
registrant | (noun) a person who is formally entered (along with others) in a register (and who obtains certain rights thereby) | - |
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registrar | (noun) someone responsible for keeping records | Synonyms: record-keeper, recorder |
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(noun) the administrator responsible for student records | - |
(noun) a person employed to keep a record of the owners of stocks and bonds issued by the company | - |
registration | (noun) the act of enrolling | Synonyms: enrollment, enrolment |
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(noun) the act of adjusting something to match a standard | Synonyms: adjustment, readjustment |
(noun) (music) the sound property resulting from a combination of organ stops used to perform a particular piece of music; the technique of selecting and adjusting organ stops | - |
(noun) a document certifying an act of registering | - |
(noun) the body of people (such as students) who register or enroll at the same time | Synonyms: enrollment |
registry | (noun) an official written record of names or events or transactions | Synonyms: register |
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sacrilegious | (adjective) grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred | Synonyms: blasphemous, profane |
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sacrilegiously | (adverb) in a sacrilegious manner | - |
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sacrilegiousness | (noun) profaneness by virtue of committing sacrilege | - |
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strategian | (noun) an expert in strategy (especially in warfare) | Synonyms: strategist |
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strategic | (adjective) relating to or concerned with strategy | Synonyms: strategical |
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(adjective) highly important to or an integral part of a strategy or plan of action especially in war | - |
strategical | (adjective) relating to or concerned with strategy | Synonyms: strategic |
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strategically | (adverb) with regard to strategy | - |
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strategics | (noun) the science or art of strategy | - |
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strategist | (noun) an expert in strategy (especially in warfare) | Synonyms: strategian |
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