superintendence | (noun) management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group | Synonyms: oversight, supervising, supervision |
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superintendent | (noun) a person who directs and manages an organization | Synonyms: overseer |
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(noun) a caretaker for an apartment house; represents the owner as janitor and rent collector | Synonyms: super |
surrender | (noun) the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions) | Synonyms: capitulation, fall |
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(noun) the delivery of a principal into lawful custody | - |
(noun) a verbal act of admitting defeat | Synonyms: giving up, yielding |
(noun) acceptance of despair | Synonyms: resignation |
(verb) give up or agree to forgo to the power or possession of another | Synonyms: give up |
(verb) relinquish possession or control over | Synonyms: cede, deliver, give up |
surrenderer | (noun) a person who yields or surrenders | Synonyms: yielder |
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suspend | (verb) stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it | Synonyms: freeze |
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(verb) cause to be held in suspension in a fluid | - |
(verb) make inoperative or stop | Synonyms: set aside |
(verb) hang freely | - |
(verb) bar temporarily; from school, office, etc. | Synonyms: debar |
(verb) render temporarily ineffective | - |
suspended | (adjective) (of undissolved particles in a fluid) supported or kept from sinking or falling by buoyancy and without apparent attachment | - |
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suspender | (noun) elastic straps that hold trousers up | Synonyms: brace, gallus |
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tend | (verb) have care of or look after | - |
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(verb) manage or run | - |
(verb) have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined | Synonyms: be given, incline, lean, run |
tendencious | (adjective) having or marked by a strong tendency especially a controversial one | Synonyms: tendentious |
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tendency | (noun) a characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward a certain condition or character or effect | Synonyms: inclination |
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(noun) an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others | Synonyms: disposition, inclination |
(noun) an inclination to do something | Synonyms: leaning, propensity |
(noun) a general direction in which something tends to move | Synonyms: trend |
tendentious | (adjective) having or marked by a strong tendency especially a controversial one | Synonyms: tendencious |
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tendentiously | (adverb) in a tendentious manner | - |
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tendentiousness | (noun) an intentional and controversial bias | - |
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tender | (adjective) easy to cut or chew | - |
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(adjective) physically untoughened | Synonyms: untoughened |
(adjective) given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality | - |
(adjective) (of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition | - |
(adjective) having or displaying warmth or affection | Synonyms: affectionate, fond, lovesome |
(adjective) hurting | Synonyms: raw, sensitive, sore |
(adjective) (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail | Synonyms: crank, cranky, tippy |
(adjective) young and immature | - |
(noun) ship that usually provides supplies to other ships | Synonyms: supply ship |
(noun) a boat for communication between ship and shore | Synonyms: cutter, pinnace, ship's boat |
(noun) car attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water | - |
(noun) a formal proposal to buy at a specified price | Synonyms: bid |
(noun) someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another | Synonyms: attendant, attender |
(noun) something that can be used as an official medium of payment | Synonyms: legal tender, stamp |
(verb) make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer | Synonyms: tenderise, tenderize |
(verb) make a tender of; in legal settlements | - |
(verb) offer or present for acceptance | - |
(verb) propose a payment | Synonyms: bid, offer |
tenderfoot | (noun) an inexperienced person (especially someone inexperienced in outdoor living) | - |
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tendergreen | (noun) Asiatic plant cultivated for its swollen root crown and edible foliage | Synonyms: Brassica perviridis, Brassica rapa perviridis, spinach mustard |
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tenderhearted | (adjective) easily moved by another's distress | - |
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(adjective) easily moved to love | - |
tenderheartedness | (noun) warm compassionate feelings | Synonyms: tenderness |
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tenderisation | (noun) the act of making meat tender by pounding or marinating it | Synonyms: tenderization |
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tenderise | (verb) make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer | Synonyms: tender, tenderize |
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tenderised | (adjective) made tender as by marinating or pounding | Synonyms: tenderized |
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tenderiser | (noun) a substance (as the plant enzyme papain) applied to meat to make it tender | Synonyms: tenderizer |
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tenderization | (noun) the act of making meat tender by pounding or marinating it | Synonyms: tenderisation |
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tenderize | (verb) make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer | Synonyms: tender, tenderise |
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tenderized | (adjective) made tender as by marinating or pounding | Synonyms: tenderised |
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tenderizer | (noun) a substance (as the plant enzyme papain) applied to meat to make it tender | Synonyms: tenderiser |
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tenderloin | (noun) the tender meat of the loin muscle on each side of the vertebral column | Synonyms: undercut |
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(noun) a city district known for its vice and high crime rate | Synonyms: combat zone |
tenderly | (adverb) with tenderness; in a tender manner | - |
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tenderness | (noun) a tendency to express warm and affectionate feeling | - |
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(noun) a feeling of concern for the welfare of someone (especially someone defenseless) | Synonyms: softheartedness |
(noun) a positive feeling of liking | Synonyms: affection, affectionateness, fondness, heart, philia, warmheartedness, warmness |
(noun) warm compassionate feelings | Synonyms: tenderheartedness |
(noun) a pain that is felt (as when the area is touched) | Synonyms: rawness, soreness |
tending | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') naturally disposed toward | Synonyms: apt, disposed, given, minded |
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(noun) the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something | Synonyms: aid, attention, care |
tendinitis | (noun) inflammation of a tendon | Synonyms: tendonitis, tenonitis |
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tendinous | (adjective) consisting of tendons or resembling a tendon | Synonyms: sinewy |
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tendon | (noun) a cord or band of inelastic tissue connecting a muscle with its bony attachment | Synonyms: sinew |
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tendonitis | (noun) inflammation of a tendon | Synonyms: tendinitis, tenonitis |
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tendosynovitis | (noun) inflammation of a tendon and its enveloping sheath | Synonyms: tendonous synovitis, tenosynovitis |
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tendrac | (noun) small often spiny insectivorous mammal of Madagascar; resembles a hedgehog | Synonyms: tenrec |
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tendril | (noun) slender stem-like structure by which some twining plants attach themselves to an object for support | - |
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thiabendazole | (noun) an antifungal agent and anthelmintic | - |
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transcend | (verb) be greater in scope or size than some standard | Synonyms: exceed, surpass |
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(verb) be superior or better than some standard | Synonyms: exceed, go past, overstep, pass, top |
transcendence | (noun) a state of being or existence above and beyond the limits of material experience | Synonyms: transcendency |
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(noun) the state of excelling or surpassing or going beyond usual limits | Synonyms: superiority, transcendency |
transcendency | (noun) a state of being or existence above and beyond the limits of material experience | Synonyms: transcendence |
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(noun) the state of excelling or surpassing or going beyond usual limits | Synonyms: superiority, transcendence |
transcendent | (adjective) exceeding or surpassing usual limits especially in excellence | Synonyms: surpassing |
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(adjective) beyond and outside the ordinary range of human experience or understanding | - |
transcendental | (adjective) of or characteristic of a system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material | - |
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(adjective) existing outside of or not in accordance with nature | Synonyms: nonnatural, otherworldly, preternatural |
transcendentalism | (noun) any system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material | Synonyms: transcendental philosophy |
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transcendentalist | (noun) advocate of transcendentalism | - |
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transcendentally | (adverb) in a transcendental way or to a transcendental extent | - |
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transgender | (adjective) involving a partial or full reversal of gender | Synonyms: transgendered |
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transgendered | (adjective) involving a partial or full reversal of gender | Synonyms: transgender |
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(noun) a person who has undergone a sex change operation | Synonyms: transexual, transsexual |
tremendismo | (noun) post-war Spanish literary style marked by a tendency to emphasize violence and grotesque imagery. | - |
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tremendous | (adjective) extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers | Synonyms: fantastic, grand, howling, marvellous, marvelous, phenomenal, rattling, terrific, wonderful, wondrous |
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(adjective) extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree | Synonyms: enormous |
(adjective) extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact | Synonyms: awful, frightful, terrible |
tremendously | (adverb) vastly | Synonyms: enormously, hugely, staggeringly |
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trend | (noun) a general tendency to change (as of opinion) | Synonyms: drift, movement |
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(noun) the popular taste at a given time | Synonyms: style, vogue |
(noun) general line of orientation | Synonyms: course |
(noun) a general direction in which something tends to move | Synonyms: tendency |
(verb) turn sharply; change direction abruptly | Synonyms: curve, cut, sheer, slew, slue, swerve, veer |
(verb) to be temporarily popular | - |
trendsetting | (adjective) initiating or popularizing a trend | Synonyms: trend-setting |
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trendy | (adjective) in accord with the latest fad | Synonyms: voguish |
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unamended | (adjective) (of legislation) not amended | - |
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unappendaged | (adjective) not having an appendage | - |
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unattended | (adjective) lacking accompaniment or a guard or escort | - |
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(adjective) lacking a caretaker | Synonyms: neglected |
(adjective) not watched | - |
unbend | (verb) release from mental strain, tension, or formality | - |
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(verb) become less tense, rest, or take one's ease | Synonyms: decompress, loosen up, relax, slow down, unwind |
(verb) make less taut | Synonyms: relax |
(verb) free from flexure | - |
(verb) unfasten, as a sail, from a spar or a stay | - |
(verb) straighten up or out; make straight | Synonyms: straighten |
unbendable | (adjective) marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable | Synonyms: firm, steadfast, steady, stiff, unfaltering, unshakable, unwavering |
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unbending | (adjective) incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances | Synonyms: inflexible, rigid |
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unblended | (adjective) not blended or mixed together | - |
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uncomprehended | (adjective) not fully understood | - |
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uncomprehending | (adjective) lacking understanding | - |
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undefendable | (adjective) not defended or capable of being defended | Synonyms: assailable, open, undefended |
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undefended | (adjective) not defended or capable of being defended | Synonyms: assailable, open, undefendable |
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undependability | (noun) the trait of not being dependable or reliable | Synonyms: undependableness, unreliability, unreliableness |
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undependable | (adjective) not worthy of reliance or trust | Synonyms: unreliable |
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(adjective) liable to be erroneous or misleading | Synonyms: unreliable |
undependableness | (noun) the trait of not being dependable or reliable | Synonyms: undependability, unreliability, unreliableness |
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undependably | (adverb) in an unfaithful undependable unreliable manner | Synonyms: unfaithfully, unreliably |
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underspend | (verb) spend at less than the normal rate | - |
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(verb) spend less than the whole of (a budget, for example) | - |
undescended | (adjective) (of the testis) remaining in the abdomen instead of descending into the scrotum | - |
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unended | (adjective) not ended; lacking an end or conclusion | - |
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unending | (adjective) continuing forever or indefinitely | Synonyms: aeonian, ageless, eonian, eternal, everlasting, perpetual, unceasing |
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unendingly | (adverb) with unflagging resolve | Synonyms: ceaselessly, continuously, endlessly, incessantly, unceasingly |
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unendowed | (adjective) not equipped or provided | - |
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unendurable | (adjective) incapable of being tolerated or endured | Synonyms: intolerable, unbearable |
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unexpendable | (adjective) not suitable to be expended | - |
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unexpended | (adjective) not used up | Synonyms: left, left over, leftover, odd, remaining |
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(adjective) (of financial resources) not spent | Synonyms: unspent |
unextended | (adjective) not extended or stretched out | - |
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unfriend | (verb) To remove someone from your list of friends on a social network | - |
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unfriendliness | (noun) an unfriendly disposition | - |
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(noun) dislike experienced as an absence of friendliness | - |
unfriendly | (adjective) not disposed to friendship or friendliness | - |
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(adjective) not easy to understand or use | - |
(adjective) very unfavorable to life or growth | Synonyms: hostile, uncongenial |
(adjective) not friendly | Synonyms: inimical |
unintended | (adjective) not deliberate | - |
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unoffending | (adjective) not offending | - |
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(adjective) not causing anger or annoyance | Synonyms: inoffensive |
unpretending | (adjective) not ostentatious | Synonyms: unostentatious, unpretentious |
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untended | (adjective) lacking care and attention | - |
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unvendible | (adjective) not fit for sale | Synonyms: unmarketable, unmerchantable |
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upend | (verb) set, turn, or stand on end | - |
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(verb) become turned or set on end | - |
upended | (adjective) turned up on end | - |
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upending | (noun) turning upside down; setting on end | Synonyms: inversion |
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vend | (verb) sell or offer for sale from place to place | Synonyms: hawk, huckster, monger, peddle, pitch |
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vendable | (adjective) fit to be offered for sale | Synonyms: marketable, merchantable, sellable, vendible |
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vendee | (noun) a person who buys | Synonyms: buyer, emptor, purchaser |
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vender | (noun) someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money | Synonyms: marketer, seller, trafficker, vendor |
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vendetta | (noun) a feud in which members of the opposing parties murder each other | Synonyms: blood feud |
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vendible | (adjective) fit to be offered for sale | Synonyms: marketable, merchantable, sellable, vendable |
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vending | (noun) the act of selling goods for a living | Synonyms: hawking, peddling, vendition |
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vendition | (noun) the act of selling goods for a living | Synonyms: hawking, peddling, vending |
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vendor | (noun) someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money | Synonyms: marketer, seller, trafficker, vender |
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vendue | (noun) the public sale of something to the highest bidder | Synonyms: auction, auction sale |
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