aestival | (adjective) (rare) of or occurring in summer | Synonyms: estival |
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aestivate | (verb) sleep during summer | Synonyms: estivate |
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aestivation | (noun) (botany) the arrangement of sepals and petals in a flower bud before it opens | Synonyms: estivation |
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(noun) (zoology) cessation or slowing of activity during the summer; especially slowing of metabolism in some animals during a hot or dry period | Synonyms: estivation |
agrestic | (adjective) characteristic of the fields or country | Synonyms: rustic |
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(adjective) (of behavior) rustic and uncouth | - |
alkahestic | (adjective) of or pertaining to the alkahest that alchemists assumed to exist | - |
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amnestic | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by amnesia | Synonyms: amnesic |
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anamnestic | (adjective) of or relating to anamnesis; aiding the memory | - |
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anapaestic | (adjective) (of a metric foot) characterized by two short syllables followed by a long one | Synonyms: anapestic |
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anapestic | (adjective) (of a metric foot) characterized by two short syllables followed by a long one | Synonyms: anapaestic |
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arresting | (adjective) commanding attention | Synonyms: sensational, stunning |
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autosuggestion | (noun) a system for self-improvement developed by Emile Coue which was popular in the 1920s and 1930s | Synonyms: auto-suggestion, self-suggestion |
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bestial | (adjective) resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility | Synonyms: beastly, brutal, brute, brutish |
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bestialise | (verb) make brutal and depraved; give animal-like qualities to | Synonyms: bestialize |
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bestiality | (noun) sexual activity between a person and an animal | Synonyms: sodomy, zooerastia, zooerasty |
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(noun) the stupid brutal quality of a beast | - |
bestialize | (verb) make brutal and depraved; give animal-like qualities to | Synonyms: bestialise |
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bestially | (adverb) in the manner of a beast | Synonyms: brutishly, in a beastly manner |
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bestiary | (noun) a medieval book (usually illustrated) with allegorical and amusing descriptions of real and fabled animals | - |
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bestir | (verb) become active | Synonyms: rouse |
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birdnesting | (noun) hunting for birds' nests to get the eggs | - |
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candlestick | (noun) a holder with sockets for candles | Synonyms: candle holder |
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catachrestic | (adjective) constituting or characterized by or given to catachresis | Synonyms: catachrestical |
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catachrestical | (adjective) constituting or characterized by or given to catachresis | Synonyms: catachrestic |
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celestial | (adjective) relating to or inhabiting a divine heaven | Synonyms: heavenly |
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(adjective) of or relating to the sky | Synonyms: heavenly |
(adjective) of heaven or the spirit | Synonyms: ethereal, supernal |
celestite | (noun) a mineral consisting of strontium sulphate | - |
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clandestine | (adjective) conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods | Synonyms: cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, secret, surreptitious, undercover, underground |
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comestible | (adjective) suitable for use as food | Synonyms: eatable, edible |
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(noun) any substance that can be used as food | Synonyms: eatable, edible, pabulum, victual, victuals |
congestion | (noun) excessive accumulation of blood or other fluid in a body part | - |
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(noun) excessive crowding | Synonyms: over-crowding |
congestive | (adjective) relating to or affected by an abnormal collection of blood or other fluid | - |
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destination | (noun) the ultimate goal for which something is done | Synonyms: terminus |
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(noun) written directions for finding some location; written on letters or packages that are to be delivered to that location | Synonyms: address, name and address |
(noun) the place designated as the end (as of a race or journey) | Synonyms: finish, goal |
destine | (verb) design or destine | Synonyms: designate, intend, specify |
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(verb) decree or designate beforehand | Synonyms: designate, doom, fate |
destined | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') governed by fate | Synonyms: bound |
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(adjective) headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in `college-bound students' | Synonyms: bound |
destiny | (noun) an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future | Synonyms: fate |
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(noun) the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events | Synonyms: fate |
(noun) your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you) | Synonyms: circumstances, fate, fortune, lot, luck, portion |
destitute | (adjective) completely wanting or lacking | Synonyms: barren, devoid, free, innocent |
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(adjective) poor enough to need help from others | Synonyms: impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needy, poverty-stricken |
destitution | (noun) a state without friends or money or prospects | - |
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digestibility | (noun) the property of being easy to digest | Synonyms: digestibleness |
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digestible | (adjective) capable of being converted into assimilable condition in the alimentary canal | - |
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digestibleness | (noun) the property of being easy to digest | Synonyms: digestibility |
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digestion | (noun) learning and coming to understand ideas and information | - |
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(noun) the organic process by which food is converted into substances that can be absorbed into the body | - |
(noun) the process of decomposing organic matter (as in sewage) by bacteria or by chemical action or heat | - |
digestive | (adjective) relating to or having the power to cause or promote digestion | - |
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(noun) any substance that promotes digestion | - |
divestiture | (noun) the sale by a company of a product line or a subsidiary or a division | - |
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(noun) an order to an offending party to rid itself of property; it has the purpose of depriving the defendant of the gains of wrongful behavior | - |
domestic | (adjective) of concern to or concerning the internal affairs of a nation | - |
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(adjective) of or involving the home or family | - |
(adjective) of or relating to the home | - |
(adjective) produced in a particular country | - |
(adjective) converted or adapted to domestic use | Synonyms: domesticated |
(noun) a servant who is paid to perform menial tasks around the household | Synonyms: domestic help, house servant |
domestically | (adverb) with respect to home or family | - |
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(adverb) with respect to the internal affairs of a government | - |
domesticate | (verb) overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable | Synonyms: domesticise, domesticize, reclaim, tame |
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(verb) adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment | Synonyms: cultivate, naturalise, naturalize, tame |
(verb) make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans | Synonyms: tame |
domesticated | (adjective) accustomed to home life | - |
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(adjective) converted or adapted to domestic use | Synonyms: domestic |
domestication | (noun) accommodation to domestic life | - |
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(noun) the attribute of having been domesticated | Synonyms: tameness |
(noun) adaptation to intimate association with human beings | - |
domesticise | (verb) overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable | Synonyms: domesticate, domesticize, reclaim, tame |
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domesticity | (noun) domestic activities or life | - |
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(noun) the quality of being domestic or domesticated | - |
domesticize | (verb) overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable | Synonyms: domesticate, domesticise, reclaim, tame |
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estimable | (adjective) deserving of respect or high regard | - |
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(adjective) may be computed or estimated | Synonyms: computable |
(adjective) deserving of esteem and respect | Synonyms: admirable, good, honorable, respectable |
estimate | (noun) a judgment of the qualities of something or somebody | Synonyms: estimation |
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(noun) an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth | Synonyms: approximation, estimation, idea |
(noun) the respect with which a person is held | Synonyms: estimation |
(noun) a document appraising the value of something (as for insurance or taxation) | Synonyms: appraisal, estimation |
(noun) a statement indicating the likely cost of some job | - |
(verb) judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time) | Synonyms: approximate, gauge, guess, judge |
(verb) judge to be probable | Synonyms: calculate, count on, figure, forecast, reckon |
estimation | (noun) a judgment of the qualities of something or somebody | Synonyms: estimate |
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(noun) an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth | Synonyms: approximation, estimate, idea |
(noun) the respect with which a person is held | Synonyms: estimate |
(noun) a document appraising the value of something (as for insurance or taxation) | Synonyms: appraisal, estimate |
estimator | (noun) an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines) | Synonyms: calculator, computer, figurer, reckoner |
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estival | (adjective) (rare) of or occurring in summer | Synonyms: aestival |
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estivate | (verb) sleep during summer | Synonyms: aestivate |
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estivation | (noun) (botany) the arrangement of sepals and petals in a flower bud before it opens | Synonyms: aestivation |
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(noun) (zoology) cessation or slowing of activity during the summer; especially slowing of metabolism in some animals during a hot or dry period | Synonyms: aestivation |
festinate | (verb) act at high speed | Synonyms: hasten, hurry, look sharp, rush |
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festination | (noun) involuntary shortening of stride and quickening of gait that occurs in some diseases (e.g., Parkinson's disease) | - |
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festival | (noun) an organized series of acts and performances (usually in one place) | Synonyms: fete |
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(noun) a day or period of time set aside for feasting and celebration | - |
festive | (adjective) offering fun and gaiety | Synonyms: festal, gay, merry |
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festivity | (noun) any joyous diversion | Synonyms: celebration |
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fiddlestick | (noun) a bow used in playing the violin | Synonyms: violin bow |
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forestiera | (noun) any plant of the genus Forestiera | - |
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gastrointestinal | (adjective) of or relating to the stomach and intestines | Synonyms: GI |
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gesticulate | (verb) show, express or direct through movement | Synonyms: gesture, motion |
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gesticulating | (adjective) making gestures while speaking | - |
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gesticulation | (noun) a deliberate and vigorous gesture or motion | - |
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guestimate | (noun) an estimate that combines reasoning with guessing | Synonyms: guesstimate |
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harvesting | (noun) the gathering of a ripened crop | Synonyms: harvest, harvest home |
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incontestible | (adjective) incapable of being contested or disputed | Synonyms: incontestable |
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indigestibility | (noun) the property of being difficult to digest | Synonyms: indigestibleness |
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indigestible | (adjective) digested with difficulty | - |
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indigestibleness | (noun) the property of being difficult to digest | Synonyms: indigestibility |
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indigestion | (noun) a disorder of digestive function characterized by discomfort or heartburn or nausea | Synonyms: dyspepsia, stomach upset, upset stomach |
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inestimable | (adjective) beyond calculation or measure | Synonyms: immeasurable, incomputable |
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ingestion | (noun) the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating) | Synonyms: consumption, intake, uptake |
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interesting | (adjective) arousing or holding the attention | - |
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interestingly | (adverb) in an interesting manner | - |
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interestingness | (noun) the power of attracting or holding one's attention (because it is unusual or exciting etc.) | Synonyms: interest |
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intestinal | (adjective) of or relating to or inside the intestines | Synonyms: enteral, enteric |
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intestine | (noun) the part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus | Synonyms: bowel, gut |
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investigate | (verb) investigate scientifically | Synonyms: look into |
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(verb) conduct an inquiry or investigation of | Synonyms: enquire, inquire |
investigating | (noun) the work of inquiring into something thoroughly and systematically | Synonyms: investigation |
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investigation | (noun) the work of inquiring into something thoroughly and systematically | Synonyms: investigating |
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(noun) an inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities | Synonyms: probe |
investigative | (adjective) designed to find information or ascertain facts | Synonyms: fact-finding, investigatory |
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investigator | (noun) someone who investigates | - |
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(noun) a scientist who devotes himself to doing research | Synonyms: research worker, researcher |
(noun) a police officer who investigates crimes | Synonyms: detective, police detective, tec |
investigatory | (adjective) designed to find information or ascertain facts | Synonyms: fact-finding, investigative |
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investing | (noun) the act of investing; laying out money or capital in an enterprise with the expectation of profit | Synonyms: investment |
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investiture | (noun) the ceremonial act of clothing someone in the insignia of an office; the formal promotion of a person to an office or rank | Synonyms: investment |
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(noun) the ceremony of installing a new monarch | Synonyms: coronation, enthronement, enthronisation, enthronization |
jesting | (adjective) characterized by jokes and good humor | Synonyms: jocose, jocular, joking |
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jestingly | (adverb) in jest | Synonyms: jokingly |
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majestic | (adjective) having or displaying great dignity or nobility | Synonyms: gallant, lofty, proud |
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(adjective) belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler | Synonyms: imperial, purple, regal, royal |
(adjective) majestic in manner or bearing; superior to mundane matters | Synonyms: olympian |
majestically | (adverb) in a majestic manner | - |
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mestiza | (noun) a woman of mixed racial ancestry (especially mixed European and Native American ancestry) | - |
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mestizo | (noun) a person of mixed racial ancestry (especially mixed European and Native American ancestry) | - |
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metrestick | (noun) a rule one meter long (usually marked off in centimeters and millimeters) | Synonyms: meterstick |
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misestimate | (verb) calculate incorrectly | Synonyms: miscalculate |
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(verb) to reckon wrongly | Synonyms: miscalculate |
misestimation | (noun) a mistake in calculating | Synonyms: miscalculation, misreckoning |
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nondigestible | (adjective) not digestible | - |
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overestimate | (noun) a calculation that results in an estimate that is too high | Synonyms: overestimation, overrating, overreckoning |
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(noun) an appraisal that is too high | Synonyms: overappraisal, overestimation, overvaluation |
(verb) make too high an estimate of | Synonyms: overrate |
(verb) assign too high a value to | Synonyms: overvalue |
overestimation | (noun) a calculation that results in an estimate that is too high | Synonyms: overestimate, overrating, overreckoning |
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(noun) an appraisal that is too high | Synonyms: overappraisal, overestimate, overvaluation |