artefact | (noun) a man-made object taken as a whole | Synonyms: artifact |
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artefactual | (adjective) of or relating to artifacts | Synonyms: artifactual |
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artifact | (noun) a man-made object taken as a whole | Synonyms: artefact |
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artifactual | (adjective) of or relating to artifacts | Synonyms: artefactual |
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benefact | (verb) help as a benefactor | - |
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benefaction | (noun) an act intending or showing kindness and good will | Synonyms: benevolence |
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(noun) a contribution of money or assistance | - |
benefactor | (noun) a person who helps people or institutions (especially with financial help) | Synonyms: helper |
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benefactress | (noun) a woman benefactor | - |
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calefaction | (noun) the property of being warming | Synonyms: incalescence |
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calefactive | (adjective) serving to heat | Synonyms: calefactory |
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calefactory | (adjective) serving to heat | Synonyms: calefactive |
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chylifactive | (adjective) producing or converting into chyle | Synonyms: chylifactory, chylific |
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chylifactory | (adjective) producing or converting into chyle | Synonyms: chylifactive, chylific |
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cofactor | (noun) a substance (as a coenzyme) that must join with another to produce a given result | - |
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counterfactual | (adjective) going counter to the facts (usually as a hypothesis) | Synonyms: contrary to fact |
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counterfactuality | (noun) the quality of being contrary to fact | - |
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dissatisfaction | (noun) the feeling of being displeased and discontent | - |
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dissatisfactory | (adjective) not up to expectations | Synonyms: disappointing, unsatisfying |
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fact | (noun) a piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred | - |
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(noun) a concept whose truth can be proved | - |
(noun) a statement or assertion of verified information about something that is the case or has happened | - |
(noun) an event known to have happened or something known to have existed | - |
faction | (noun) a dissenting clique | Synonyms: sect |
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(noun) a clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigue | Synonyms: cabal, camarilla, junto |
factious | (adjective) dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion) | Synonyms: dissentious, divisive |
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factitious | (adjective) not produced by natural forces | - |
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factoid | (noun) a brief (usually one sentence and usually trivial) news item | - |
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(noun) something resembling a fact; unverified (often invented) information that is given credibility because it appeared in print | - |
factor | (noun) (genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity | Synonyms: cistron, gene |
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(noun) an abstract part of something | Synonyms: component, constituent, element, ingredient |
(noun) an independent variable in statistics | - |
(noun) anything that contributes causally to a result | - |
(noun) a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission | Synonyms: agent, broker |
(noun) one of two or more integers that can be exactly divided into another integer | Synonyms: divisor |
(noun) any of the numbers (or symbols) that form a product when multiplied together | - |
(verb) resolve into factors | Synonyms: factor in, factor out |
(verb) consider as relevant when making a decision | Synonyms: factor in, factor out |
(verb) be a contributing factor | - |
factorial | (adjective) of or relating to factorials | - |
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(noun) the product of all the integers up to and including a given integer | - |
factoring | (noun) (mathematics) the resolution of an expression into factors such that when multiplied together they give the original expression | Synonyms: factorisation, factorization |
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factorisation | (noun) (mathematics) the resolution of an expression into factors such that when multiplied together they give the original expression | Synonyms: factoring, factorization |
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factorise | (verb) resolve (a polynomial) into factors | Synonyms: factorize |
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factorization | (noun) (mathematics) the resolution of an expression into factors such that when multiplied together they give the original expression | Synonyms: factoring, factorisation |
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factorize | (verb) resolve (a polynomial) into factors | Synonyms: factorise |
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factory | (noun) a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing | Synonyms: manufactory, manufacturing plant, mill |
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factotum | (noun) a servant employed to do a variety of jobs | - |
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factual | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by facts | - |
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(adjective) existing in act or fact | Synonyms: actual |
factuality | (noun) the quality of being actual or based on fact | Synonyms: factualness |
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factually | (adverb) as a fact or based on fact | - |
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factualness | (noun) the quality of being actual or based on fact | Synonyms: factuality |
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liquefaction | (noun) the conversion of a solid or a gas into a liquid | - |
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malefactor | (noun) someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime | Synonyms: criminal, crook, felon, outlaw |
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manufactory | (noun) a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing | Synonyms: factory, manufacturing plant, mill |
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manufacture | (noun) the organized action of making of goods and services for sale | Synonyms: industry |
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(noun) the act of making something (a product) from raw materials | Synonyms: fabrication, manufacturing |
(verb) put together out of artificial or natural components or parts | Synonyms: construct, fabricate |
(verb) concoct something artificial or untrue | Synonyms: cook up, fabricate, invent, make up |
(verb) create or produce in a mechanical way | - |
(verb) produce naturally | - |
manufactured | (adjective) produced in a large-scale industrial operation | - |
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manufacturer | (noun) a business engaged in manufacturing some product | Synonyms: maker, manufacturing business |
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(noun) someone who manufactures something | Synonyms: producer |
manufacturing | (noun) the act of making something (a product) from raw materials | Synonyms: fabrication, manufacture |
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multifactorial | (adjective) involving or depending on several factors or causes (especially pertaining to a condition or disease resulting from the interaction of many genes) | - |
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olfaction | (noun) the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents | Synonyms: olfactory modality, sense of smell, smell |
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olfactive | (adjective) of or relating to olfaction | Synonyms: olfactory |
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olfactology | (noun) the scientific study of smells or of the sense of smell. | - |
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olfactory | (adjective) of or relating to olfaction | Synonyms: olfactive |
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petrifaction | (noun) a rock created by petrifaction; an organic object infiltrated with mineral matter and preserved in its original form | - |
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(noun) the process of turning some plant material into stone by infiltration with water carrying mineral particles without changing the original shape | Synonyms: petrification |
putrefaction | (noun) moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles | Synonyms: corruption, degeneracy, depravation, depravity |
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(noun) (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action | Synonyms: breakdown, decomposition, rot, rotting |
(noun) a state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor | Synonyms: rot |
putrefactive | (adjective) causing or promoting bacterial putrefaction | Synonyms: putrefacient |
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rarefaction | (noun) a decrease in the density of something | - |
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satisfaction | (noun) act of fulfilling a desire or need or appetite | - |
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(noun) the contentment one feels when one has fulfilled a desire, need, or expectation | - |
(noun) compensation for a wrong | Synonyms: atonement, expiation |
(noun) (law) the payment of a debt or fulfillment of an obligation | - |
(noun) state of being gratified or satisfied | Synonyms: gratification |
satisfactorily | (adverb) in a satisfactory manner | - |
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satisfactoriness | (noun) the quality of giving satisfaction sufficient to meet a demand or requirement | - |
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satisfactory | (adjective) giving satisfaction | - |
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(adjective) meeting requirements | Synonyms: acceptable, decent |
stupefaction | (noun) the action of stupefying; making dull or lethargic | - |
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(noun) marginal consciousness | Synonyms: grogginess, semiconsciousness, stupor |
(noun) a feeling of stupefied astonishment | - |
surfactant | (noun) a chemical agent capable of reducing the surface tension of a liquid in which it is dissolved | Synonyms: surface-active agent, wetter, wetting agent |
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tumefaction | (noun) the process of tumefying; the organic process whereby tissue becomes swollen by the accumulation of fluid within it | - |
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unsatisfactorily | (adverb) in an unsatisfactory manner | - |
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unsatisfactoriness | (noun) the quality of being inadequate or unsuitable | - |
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unsatisfactory | (adjective) not giving satisfaction | - |
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