accelerometer | (noun) an instrument for measuring the acceleration of aircraft or rockets | - |
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actinometer | (noun) an instrument for measuring the intensity of electromagnetic radiation (usually by the photochemical effect) | - |
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algometer | (noun) device for measuring pain caused by pressure | - |
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altimeter | (noun) an instrument that measures the height above ground; used in navigation | - |
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ammeter | (noun) a meter that measures the flow of electrical current in amperes | - |
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anemoclinometer | (noun) A type of instrument which measures the inclination of the wind to the horizontal plane. | - |
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anemometer | (noun) a gauge for recording the speed and direction of wind | Synonyms: wind gage, wind gauge |
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atmometer | (noun) an instrument that measures rate of evaporation of water | Synonyms: evaporometer |
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audiometer | (noun) an instrument used to measure the sensitivity of hearing | Synonyms: sonometer |
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barometer | (noun) an instrument that measures atmospheric pressure | - |
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bathometer | (noun) an instrument that measures the depth of water | Synonyms: bathymeter |
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bathymeter | (noun) an instrument that measures the depth of water | Synonyms: bathometer |
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bolometer | (noun) an instrument that measures heat radiation; extremely sensitive | - |
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cafeteria | (noun) a restaurant where you serve yourself and pay a cashier | - |
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calorimeter | (noun) a measuring instrument that determines quantities of heat | - |
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catheter | (noun) a thin flexible tube inserted into the body to permit introduction or withdrawal of fluids or to keep the passageway open | - |
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catheterisation | (noun) the operation of introducing a catheter into the body | Synonyms: catheterization |
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catheterise | (verb) insert a catheter into (a body part) | Synonyms: catheterize |
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catheterization | (noun) the operation of introducing a catheter into the body | Synonyms: catheterisation |
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catheterize | (verb) insert a catheter into (a body part) | Synonyms: catheterise |
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cemetery | (noun) a tract of land used for burials | Synonyms: burial ground, burial site, burying ground, graveyard, memorial park, necropolis |
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centimeter | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter | Synonyms: centimetre, cm |
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chronometer | (noun) an accurate clock (especially used in navigation) | - |
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clinometer | (noun) an instrument used by surveyors in order to measure an angle of inclination or elevation | Synonyms: inclinometer |
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colorimeter | (noun) a measuring instrument used in colorimetric analysis to determine the quantity of a substance from the color it yields with specific reagents | Synonyms: tintometer |
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craniometer | (noun) an instrument for measuring skull sizes | - |
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cricketer | (noun) an athlete who plays cricket | - |
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cryometer | (noun) a thermometer designed to measure low temperatures | - |
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cytophotometer | (noun) a photometer that can be used to locate and identify chemical compounds in a cell by measuring the intensity of the light that passes through stained sections of the cytoplasm | - |
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dasymeter | (noun) densimeter consisting of a thin glass globe that is weighed in a gas to determine its density | - |
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decameter | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to ten meters | Synonyms: dam, decametre, dekameter, dekametre, dkm |
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decimeter | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to one tenth of a meter | Synonyms: decimetre, dm |
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declinometer | (noun) an instrument for measuring magnetic declination | Synonyms: transit declinometer |
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dekameter | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to ten meters | Synonyms: dam, decameter, decametre, dekametre, dkm |
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deleterious | (adjective) harmful to living things | Synonyms: hurtful, injurious |
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densimeter | (noun) a measuring instrument for determining density or specific gravity | Synonyms: densitometer |
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densitometer | (noun) a measuring instrument for determining optical or photographic density | - |
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(noun) a measuring instrument for determining density or specific gravity | Synonyms: densimeter |
deter | (verb) turn away from by persuasion | Synonyms: dissuade |
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(verb) try to prevent; show opposition to | Synonyms: discourage |
deterge | (verb) wipe away; to wash off or out, cleanse; chiefly in medical use: to clear away foul matter from the body | - |
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detergence | (noun) detergent quality; the quality of having cleansing power | Synonyms: detergency |
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detergency | (noun) detergent quality; the quality of having cleansing power | Synonyms: detergence |
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detergent | (adjective) having cleansing power | Synonyms: detersive |
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(noun) a cleansing agent that differs from soap but can also emulsify oils and hold dirt in suspension | - |
(noun) a surface-active chemical widely used in industry and laundering | - |
deteriorate | (verb) grow progressively worse | Synonyms: degenerate, devolve, drop |
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(verb) become worse or disintegrate | - |
deterioration | (noun) process of changing to an inferior state | Synonyms: declension, decline in quality, worsening |
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(noun) a symptom of reduced quality or strength | Synonyms: impairment |
determent | (noun) a communication that makes you afraid to try something | Synonyms: deterrence, intimidation |
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determinable | (adjective) capable of being determined or limited or fixed | - |
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determinant | (adjective) having the power or quality of deciding | Synonyms: deciding, determinative, determining |
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(noun) a determining or causal element or factor | Synonyms: causal factor, determinative, determiner, determining factor |
(noun) a square matrix used to solve simultaneous equations | - |
(noun) the site on the surface of an antigen molecule to which an antibody attaches itself | Synonyms: antigenic determinant, epitope |
determinate | (adjective) precisely determined or limited or defined; especially fixed by rule or by a specific and constant cause | - |
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(adjective) not continuing to grow indefinitely at the apex | - |
(adjective) supplying or being a final or conclusive settlement | Synonyms: definitive |
determinateness | (noun) the quality of being predictable with great confidence | Synonyms: definiteness |
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determination | (noun) the act of determining the properties of something, usually by research or calculation | Synonyms: finding |
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(noun) the act of making up your mind about something | Synonyms: conclusion, decision |
(noun) the quality of being determined to do or achieve something; firmness of purpose | Synonyms: purpose |
(noun) a position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration | Synonyms: conclusion, decision |
(noun) deciding or controlling something's outcome or nature | - |
determinative | (adjective) having the power or quality of deciding | Synonyms: deciding, determinant, determining |
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(noun) a determining or causal element or factor | Synonyms: causal factor, determinant, determiner, determining factor |
(noun) one of a limited class of noun modifiers that determine the referents of noun phrases | Synonyms: determiner |
determine | (verb) reach, make, or come to a decision about something | Synonyms: decide, make up one's mind |
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(verb) fix conclusively or authoritatively | Synonyms: set |
(verb) shape or influence; give direction to | Synonyms: influence, mold, mould, regulate, shape |
(verb) fix in scope; fix the boundaries of | - |
(verb) establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study | Synonyms: ascertain, find, find out |
(verb) find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort | Synonyms: ascertain, check, find out, learn, see, watch |
(verb) decide upon or fix definitely | Synonyms: define, fix, limit, set, specify |
(verb) settle conclusively; come to terms | Synonyms: settle, square off, square up |
determined | (adjective) having been learned or found or determined especially by investigation | - |
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(adjective) strongly motivated to succeed | Synonyms: compulsive, driven |
(adjective) characterized by great determination | - |
(adjective) determined or decided upon as by an authority | Synonyms: dictated, set |
(adjective) devoting full strength and concentrated attention to | - |
determinedly | (adverb) with determination; in a determined manner | Synonyms: unfalteringly, unshakably |
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(adverb) with ambition; in an ambitious and energetic manner | Synonyms: ambitiously |
determiner | (noun) a determining or causal element or factor | Synonyms: causal factor, determinant, determinative, determining factor |
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(noun) one of a limited class of noun modifiers that determine the referents of noun phrases | Synonyms: determinative |
(noun) an argument that is conclusive | Synonyms: clincher, determining factor |
determining | (adjective) having the power or quality of deciding | Synonyms: deciding, determinant, determinative |
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determinism | (noun) (philosophy) a philosophical theory holding that all events are inevitable consequences of antecedent sufficient causes; often understood as denying the possibility of free will | - |
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determinist | (noun) anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny | Synonyms: fatalist, predestinarian, predestinationist |
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deterministic | (adjective) an inevitable consequence of antecedent sufficient causes | - |
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deterrence | (noun) the act or process of discouraging actions or preventing occurrences by instilling fear or doubt or anxiety | - |
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(noun) a communication that makes you afraid to try something | Synonyms: determent, intimidation |
(noun) a negative motivational influence | Synonyms: disincentive |
deterrent | (adjective) tending to deter | - |
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(noun) something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | Synonyms: balk, baulk, check, handicap, hinderance, hindrance, impediment |
detersive | (adjective) having cleansing power | Synonyms: detergent |
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diameter | (noun) the length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference | Synonyms: diam |
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(noun) a straight line connecting the center of a circle with two points on its perimeter (or the center of a sphere with two points on its surface) | - |
dieter | (noun) a person who diets | - |
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dosemeter | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring doses of ionizing radiation (X-rays or radioactivity) | Synonyms: dosimeter |
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dosimeter | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring doses of ionizing radiation (X-rays or radioactivity) | Synonyms: dosemeter |
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durometer | (noun) An instrument for measuring the degree of hardness; especially, an instrument for testing the relative hardness of steel rails and the like. | - |
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dynamometer | (noun) measuring instrument designed to measure power | Synonyms: ergometer |
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electrodynamometer | (noun) measuring instrument that uses the interaction of the magnetic fields of two coils to measure current or voltage or power | - |
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electrometer | (noun) meter to measure electrostatic voltage differences; draws no current from the source | - |
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ergometer | (noun) measuring instrument designed to measure power | Synonyms: dynamometer |
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eriometer | (noun) An instrument for measuring the diameters of minute particles or fibers, from the size of the colored rings produced by the diffraction of the light in which the objects are viewed. | - |
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etcetera | (noun) additional unspecified odds and ends; more of the same; entity, other pronoun; pronoun, entity; quantifier: other | - |
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(adverb) continuing in the same way | Synonyms: and so forth, and so on, etc. |
eternal | (adjective) tiresomely long; seemingly without end | Synonyms: endless, interminable |
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(adjective) continuing forever or indefinitely | Synonyms: aeonian, ageless, eonian, everlasting, perpetual, unceasing, unending |
eternalise | (verb) make famous forever | Synonyms: eternalize, eternise, eternize, immortalise, immortalize |
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eternalize | (verb) make famous forever | Synonyms: eternalise, eternise, eternize, immortalise, immortalize |
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eternally | (adverb) for a limitless time | Synonyms: everlastingly, evermore, forever |
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eternise | (verb) make famous forever | Synonyms: eternalise, eternalize, eternize, immortalise, immortalize |
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eternity | (noun) a state of eternal existence believed in some religions to characterize the afterlife | Synonyms: timeless existence, timelessness |
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(noun) time without end | Synonyms: infinity |
(noun) a seemingly endless time interval (waiting) | - |
eternize | (verb) make famous forever | Synonyms: eternalise, eternalize, eternise, immortalise, immortalize |
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(verb) cause to continue indefinitely | - |
eudiometer | (noun) measuring instrument consisting of a graduated glass tube for measuring volume changes in chemical reactions between gases | - |
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evaporometer | (noun) an instrument that measures rate of evaporation of water | Synonyms: atmometer |
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fathometer | (noun) depth finder for determining depth of water or a submerged object by means of ultrasound waves | Synonyms: sonic depth finder |
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femtometer | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to one quadrillionth of a meter | Synonyms: femtometre, fermi |
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feterita | (noun) a Sudanese sorghum having exceptionally large soft white grains | Synonyms: federita, Sorghum vulgare caudatum |
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fluxmeter | (noun) meter that measures magnetic flux by the current it generates in a coil | - |
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galvanometer | (noun) meter for detecting or comparing or measuring small electric currents | - |
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gasometer | (noun) a large gas-tight spherical or cylindrical tank for holding gas to be used as fuel | Synonyms: gas holder |
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(noun) a meter for measuring the amount of gas flowing through a particular pipe | Synonyms: gas meter |
gaussmeter | (noun) a meter to compare strengths of magnetic fields | Synonyms: magnetometer |
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geometer | (noun) a mathematician specializing in geometry | Synonyms: geometrician |
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goniometer | (noun) direction finder that determines the angular direction of incoming radio signals | - |
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gravimeter | (noun) a measuring instrument for determining the specific gravity of a liquid or solid | Synonyms: hydrometer |
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(noun) a measuring instrument for measuring variations in the gravitational field of the earth | Synonyms: gravity meter |
greeter | (noun) a person who greets | Synonyms: saluter, welcomer |
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hectometer | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to 100 meters | Synonyms: hectometre, hm |
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heliometer | (noun) an instrument used to measure the angular separation of two stars that are too far apart to be included in the field of view of an ordinary telescope | - |
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heterocercal | (adjective) possessing a tail with the upper lobe larger than the lower and with the vertebral column prolonged into the upper lobe | - |
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heterocycle | (noun) a ring of atoms of more than one kind; especially a ring of carbon atoms containing at least one atom that is not carbon | Synonyms: heterocyclic ring |
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(noun) a compound containing a heterocyclic ring | Synonyms: heterocyclic, heterocyclic compound |
heterocyclic | (adjective) containing a closed ring of atoms of which at least one is not a carbon atom | - |
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(noun) a compound containing a heterocyclic ring | Synonyms: heterocycle, heterocyclic compound |
heterodactyl | (adjective) (of bird feet) having the first and second toes directed backward the third and fourth forward | - |
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heterodox | (adjective) characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards | Synonyms: dissident, heretical |
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