dendrology | (noun) the study of wooden plants | - |
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depend | (verb) have faith or confidence in | Synonyms: bank, bet, calculate, count, look, reckon, rely, swear |
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(verb) be contingent upon (something that is elided) | - |
dependability | (noun) the quality of being dependable or reliable | Synonyms: dependableness, reliability, reliableness |
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dependable | (adjective) worthy of reliance or trust | Synonyms: reliable |
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(adjective) financially safe | Synonyms: good, safe, secure |
(adjective) consistent in performance or behavior | Synonyms: rock-steady, steady-going |
(adjective) worthy of being depended on | Synonyms: honest, reliable, true |
dependableness | (noun) the quality of being dependable or reliable | Synonyms: dependability, reliability, reliableness |
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dependably | (adverb) in a faithful manner | Synonyms: faithfully, reliably |
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dependance | (noun) the state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else | Synonyms: dependence, dependency |
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(noun) being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) | Synonyms: addiction, dependence, dependency, habituation |
dependant | (adjective) addicted to a drug | Synonyms: dependent, drug-addicted, hooked, strung-out |
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(adjective) contingent on something else | Synonyms: dependent, qualified |
(noun) a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support) | Synonyms: dependent |
dependence | (noun) the state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else | Synonyms: dependance, dependency |
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(noun) being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) | Synonyms: addiction, dependance, dependency, habituation |
dependency | (noun) a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country | Synonyms: colony |
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(noun) the state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else | Synonyms: dependance, dependence |
(noun) being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) | Synonyms: addiction, dependance, dependence, habituation |
dependent | (adjective) relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed | - |
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(adjective) (of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence | Synonyms: subordinate |
(adjective) addicted to a drug | Synonyms: dependant, drug-addicted, hooked, strung-out |
(adjective) contingent on something else | Synonyms: dependant, qualified |
(adjective) being under the power or sovereignty of another or others | Synonyms: subject |
(adjective) held from above and hanging down | Synonyms: pendant, pendent |
(noun) a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support) | Synonyms: dependant |
descend | (verb) come as if by falling | Synonyms: fall, settle |
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(verb) move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way | Synonyms: come down, fall, go down |
(verb) do something that one considers to be below one's dignity | Synonyms: condescend, deign |
(verb) come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example | Synonyms: come, derive |
descendant | (adjective) going or coming down | Synonyms: descendent |
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(adjective) proceeding by descent from an ancestor | Synonyms: descendent |
(noun) a person considered as descended from some ancestor | Synonyms: descendent |
descendants | (noun) all of the offspring of a given progenitor | Synonyms: posterity |
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descendent | (adjective) going or coming down | Synonyms: descendant |
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(adjective) proceeding by descent from an ancestor | Synonyms: descendant |
(noun) a person considered as descended from some ancestor | Synonyms: descendant |
descender | (noun) (printing) the part of lowercase letters that extends below the other lowercase letters | - |
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(noun) a lowercase letter that has a part extending below other lowercase letters | - |
(noun) someone who descends | - |
descending | (adjective) coming down or downward | - |
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diminuendo | (adjective) (music) gradually decreasing in volume | Synonyms: decrescendo |
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(noun) (music) a gradual decrease in loudness | Synonyms: decrescendo |
distend | (verb) become wider | Synonyms: dilate |
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(verb) swell from or as if from internal pressure | - |
(verb) cause to expand as if by internal pressure | - |
distended | (adjective) abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas | Synonyms: bloated, intumescent, puffy, swollen, tumescent, tumid, turgid |
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dividend | (noun) that part of the earnings of a corporation that is distributed to its shareholders; usually paid quarterly | - |
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(noun) a bonus; something extra (especially a share of a surplus) | - |
(noun) a number to be divided by another number | - |
ecofriendly | (adjective) Good for the environment | - |
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effendi | (noun) a former Turkish term of respect; especially for government officials | - |
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emend | (verb) make improvements or corrections to | - |
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emendation | (noun) a correction by emending; a correction resulting from critical editing | - |
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emended | (adjective) improved or corrected by critical editing | Synonyms: edited |
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end | (noun) the part you are expected to play | - |
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(noun) (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage, designating players at each end of the defensive line | - |
(noun) a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold | Synonyms: oddment, remainder, remnant |
(noun) a final part or section | - |
(noun) the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it | Synonyms: goal |
(noun) the last section of a communication | Synonyms: close, closing, conclusion, ending |
(noun) the final stage or concluding parts of an event or occurrence | Synonyms: last |
(noun) either extremity of something that has length | Synonyms: terminal |
(noun) a boundary marking the extremities of something | - |
(noun) the surface at either extremity of a three-dimensional object | - |
(noun) one of two places from which people are communicating to each other | - |
(noun) (football) the person who plays at one end of the line of scrimmage | - |
(noun) a final state | Synonyms: death, destruction |
(noun) the point in time at which something ends | Synonyms: ending |
(verb) bring to an end or halt | Synonyms: terminate |
(verb) put an end to | - |
(verb) have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical | Synonyms: cease, finish, stop, terminate |
(verb) be the end of; be the last or concluding part of | Synonyms: terminate |
endaemonism | (noun) an ethical system that evaluates actions by reference to personal well-being through a life based on reason | Synonyms: eudemonism |
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endameba | (noun) any ameba of the genus Endamoeba | - |
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endanger | (verb) put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position | Synonyms: expose, peril, queer, scupper |
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(verb) pose a threat to; present a danger to | Synonyms: imperil, jeopardise, jeopardize, menace, peril, threaten |
endangered | (adjective) (of flora or fauna) in imminent danger of extinction | - |
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endangerment | (noun) a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune | Synonyms: hazard, jeopardy, peril, risk |
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endarterectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the inner lining of an artery that is clogged with atherosclerosis | - |
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endarteritis | (noun) inflammation of the inner lining of an artery | - |
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endband | (noun) a part of a book, most often found with hardcover bindings, that consists of a small cord or strip of material affixed near the spine to provide structural reinforcement and sometimes decorative effect. | - |
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endear | (verb) make attractive or lovable | - |
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endearing | (adjective) lovable especially in a childlike or naive way | Synonyms: adorable, lovely |
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endearingly | (adverb) in an adorable manner | Synonyms: adorably |
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endearment | (noun) the act of showing affection | - |
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endeavor | (noun) earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something | Synonyms: attempt, effort, endeavour, try |
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(noun) a purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness) | Synonyms: endeavour, enterprise |
(verb) attempt by employing effort | Synonyms: endeavour, strive |
endeavour | (noun) earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something | Synonyms: attempt, effort, endeavor, try |
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(noun) a purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness) | Synonyms: endeavor, enterprise |
(verb) attempt by employing effort | Synonyms: endeavor, strive |
ended | (adjective) having come or been brought to a conclusion | Synonyms: all over, complete, concluded, over, terminated |
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endemic | (adjective) of or relating to a disease (or anything resembling a disease) constantly present to greater or lesser extent in a particular locality | Synonyms: endemical |
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(adjective) native to or confined to a certain region | - |
(adjective) originating where it is found | Synonyms: autochthonal, autochthonic, autochthonous, indigenous |
(noun) a plant or animal that is native to a certain limited area | - |
(noun) a disease that is constantly present to a greater or lesser degree in people of a certain class or in people living in a particular location | Synonyms: endemic disease |
endemical | (adjective) of or relating to a disease (or anything resembling a disease) constantly present to greater or lesser extent in a particular locality | Synonyms: endemic |
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endemism | (noun) nativeness by virtue of originating or occurring naturally (as in a particular place) | Synonyms: autochthony, indigenousness |
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endergonic | (adjective) (biochemistry) of a process accompanied by or requiring the absorption of energy; the products of the process are of greater free energy than the reactants | - |
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endermatic | (adjective) acting by absorption through the skin | Synonyms: endermic |
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endermic | (adjective) acting by absorption through the skin | Synonyms: endermatic |
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endgame | (noun) the final stages of a chess game after most of the pieces have been removed from the board | Synonyms: end game |
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(noun) the final stages of an extended process of negotiation | Synonyms: end game |
ending | (noun) the act of ending something | Synonyms: conclusion, termination |
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(noun) the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme) | Synonyms: termination |
(noun) the last section of a communication | Synonyms: close, closing, conclusion, end |
(noun) event whose occurrence ends something | Synonyms: conclusion, finish |
(noun) the point in time at which something ends | Synonyms: end |
endive | (noun) variety of endive having leaves with irregular frilled edges | Synonyms: chicory escarole, escarole |
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(noun) widely cultivated herb with leaves valued as salad green; either curly serrated leaves or broad flat ones that are usually blanched | Synonyms: Cichorium endivia, witloof |
endless | (adjective) having the ends united so as to form a continuous whole | - |
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(adjective) having no known beginning and presumably no end | Synonyms: dateless, sempiternal |
(adjective) tiresomely long; seemingly without end | Synonyms: eternal, interminable |
(adjective) infinitely great in number | - |
endlessly | (adverb) continuing forever without end | Synonyms: infinitely |
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(adverb) with unflagging resolve | Synonyms: ceaselessly, continuously, incessantly, unceasingly, unendingly |
(adverb) all the time; seemingly without stopping | Synonyms: interminably |
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds | - |
endlessness | (noun) the property of being (or seeming to be) without end | - |
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endmost | (adjective) being or situated at an end | Synonyms: terminal |
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endoblast | (noun) the inner germ layer that develops into the lining of the digestive and respiratory systems | Synonyms: endoderm, entoblast, entoderm, hypoblast |
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endocarditis | (noun) inflammation of the endocardium and heart valves | - |
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endocardium | (noun) the membrane that lines the cavities of the heart and forms part of the heart valves | - |
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endocarp | (noun) the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed | Synonyms: pit, stone |
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endocentric | (adjective) fulfilling the grammatical role of one of its constituents | - |
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endocervicitis | (noun) inflammation of the mucous lining of the uterine cervix | - |
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endocranium | (noun) membrane lining the inside of the skull | - |
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endocrinal | (adjective) of or belonging to endocrine glands or their secretions | Synonyms: endocrine |
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endocrine | (adjective) of or belonging to endocrine glands or their secretions | Synonyms: endocrinal |
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(noun) the secretion of an endocrine gland that is transmitted by the blood to the tissue on which it has a specific effect | Synonyms: hormone, internal secretion |
(noun) any of the glands of the endocrine system that secrete hormones directly into the bloodstream | Synonyms: ductless gland, endocrine gland |
endocrinologist | (noun) physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of conditions affecting the endocrine system | - |
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endocrinology | (noun) the branch of medicine dealing with the endocrine glands and their secretions | - |
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endoderm | (noun) the inner germ layer that develops into the lining of the digestive and respiratory systems | Synonyms: endoblast, entoblast, entoderm, hypoblast |
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endodontia | (noun) the branch of dentistry dealing with diseases of the dental pulp | Synonyms: endodontics |
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endodontic | (adjective) of or relating to or involving or practicing endodontics | - |
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endodontics | (noun) the branch of dentistry dealing with diseases of the dental pulp | Synonyms: endodontia |
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endodontist | (noun) a dentist specializing in diseases of the dental pulp and nerve | - |
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endoergic | (adjective) (of a nuclear reaction) occurring with absorption of energy | Synonyms: energy-absorbing |
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endogamic | (adjective) pertaining to or characterized by the custom of marrying only within the limits of a clan or tribe | Synonyms: endogamous |
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(adjective) characterized by or fit for fertilization by pollen from another flower of the same kind | Synonyms: endogamous |
endogamous | (adjective) pertaining to or characterized by the custom of marrying only within the limits of a clan or tribe | Synonyms: endogamic |
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(adjective) characterized by or fit for fertilization by pollen from another flower of the same kind | Synonyms: endogamic |
endogamy | (noun) marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law | Synonyms: inmarriage, intermarriage |
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endogen | (noun) a monocotyledonous flowering plant; the stem grows by deposits on its inside | Synonyms: liliopsid, monocot, monocotyledon |
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endogenetic | (adjective) of rocks formed or occurring beneath the surface of the earth | Synonyms: endogenic |
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endogenic | (adjective) derived or originating internally | Synonyms: endogenous |
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(adjective) of rocks formed or occurring beneath the surface of the earth | Synonyms: endogenetic |
endogenous | (adjective) derived or originating internally | Synonyms: endogenic |
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(adjective) of or resembling an endogen | - |
endogenously | (adverb) in an endogenous manner | - |
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endogeny | (noun) a geological phenomenon below the surface of the earth | - |
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endolymph | (noun) the bodily fluid that fills the membranous labyrinth of the inner ear | - |
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endometrial | (adjective) of or relating to the endometrium | - |
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endometriosis | (noun) the presence of endometrium elsewhere than in the lining of the uterus; causes premenstrual pain and dysmenorrhea | Synonyms: adenomyosis |
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endometritis | (noun) inflammation of the lining of the uterus (of the endometrium) | Synonyms: metritis |
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endometrium | (noun) (pregnancy) the mucous membrane that lines the uterus; thickens under hormonal control and (if pregnancy does not occur) is shed in menstruation; if pregnancy occurs it is shed along with the placenta at parturition | - |
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endomorph | (noun) a heavy person with a soft and rounded body | - |
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endomorphic | (adjective) having a squat and fleshy build | Synonyms: pyknic |
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endomorphy | (noun) round, fat, and heavy | Synonyms: pyknic type |
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endoneurium | (noun) delicate connective tissue around individual nerve fibers in nerve | - |
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endonuclease | (noun) a nuclease that cleaves nucleic acids at interior bonds and so produces fragments of various sizes | - |
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endoparasite | (noun) any of various parasites that live in the internal organs of animals (especially intestinal worms) | Synonyms: endozoan, entoparasite, entozoan, entozoon |
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endoparasitic | (adjective) of or relating to parasites that live in the internal organs of animals | - |
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endoplasm | (noun) the inner portion of the cytoplasm of a cell | - |
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endopsammon | (noun) The microscopic fauna of sand and mud. | - |
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endorphin | (noun) a neurochemical occurring naturally in the brain and having analgesic properties | - |
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endorse | (verb) sign as evidence of legal transfer | Synonyms: indorse |
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(verb) be behind; approve of | Synonyms: back, indorse, plump for, plunk for, support |
(verb) guarantee as meeting a certain standard | Synonyms: certify, indorse |
(verb) give support or one's approval to | Synonyms: back, indorse, second |
endorsement | (noun) the act of endorsing | Synonyms: indorsement |
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(noun) formal and explicit approval | Synonyms: countenance, imprimatur, indorsement, sanction, warrant |
(noun) a promotional statement (as found on the dust jackets of books) | Synonyms: blurb, indorsement |
(noun) a speech seconding a motion | Synonyms: indorsement, second, secondment |
(noun) a signature that validates something | Synonyms: indorsement |
endorser | (noun) someone who expresses strong approval | Synonyms: indorser, ratifier, subscriber |
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(noun) a person who transfers his ownership interest in something by signing a check or negotiable security | Synonyms: indorser |
endoscope | (noun) a long slender medical instrument for examining the interior of a bodily organ or performing minor surgery | - |
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