abridgment | (noun) a shortened version of a written work | Synonyms: abridgement, capsule, condensation |
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acknowledgment | (noun) a statement acknowledging something or someone | Synonyms: acknowledgement |
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(noun) a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage | Synonyms: citation, cite, credit, mention, quotation, reference |
(noun) the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged | Synonyms: acknowledgement, recognition |
anastigmat | (noun) compound lens or lens system designed to be free of astigmatism and able to form approximately point images | - |
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anastigmatic | (adjective) not astigmatic | Synonyms: stigmatic |
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(adjective) pertaining to a lens or lens system free of astigmatism (able to form point images) | Synonyms: stigmatic |
apophthegm | (noun) a short pithy instructive saying | Synonyms: aphorism, apothegm |
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apothegm | (noun) a short pithy instructive saying | Synonyms: aphorism, apophthegm |
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apothegmatic | (adjective) given to or characterized by terse apothegms | Synonyms: apothegmatical |
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(adjective) terse and witty and like a maxim | Synonyms: aphoristic, epigrammatic |
apothegmatical | (adjective) given to or characterized by terse apothegms | Synonyms: apothegmatic |
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astigmatic | (adjective) of or relating to a defect in the eye or in a lens caused by a deviation from spherical curvature which prevents light rays from meeting at a common focus and so results in distorted images | - |
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astigmatism | (noun) (optics) defect in an optical system in which light rays from a single point fail to converge in a single focal point | Synonyms: astigmia |
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(noun) (ophthalmology) impaired eyesight resulting usually from irregular conformation of the cornea; common in nearsighted people | Synonyms: astigmia |
astigmia | (noun) (optics) defect in an optical system in which light rays from a single point fail to converge in a single focal point | Synonyms: astigmatism |
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(noun) (ophthalmology) impaired eyesight resulting usually from irregular conformation of the cornea; common in nearsighted people | Synonyms: astigmatism |
augment | (verb) grow or intensify | - |
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(verb) enlarge or increase | - |
augmentation | (noun) the act of augmenting | - |
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(noun) the statement of a theme in notes of greater duration (usually twice the length of the original) | - |
(noun) the amount by which something becomes greater | - |
augmentative | (adjective) increasing or having the power to increase especially in size or amount or degree | - |
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(adjective) intensifying by augmentation and enhancement | Synonyms: enhancive |
augmented | (adjective) added to or made greater in amount or number or strength | - |
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bagman | (noun) a racketeer assigned to collect or distribute payoff money | - |
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(noun) a salesman who travels to call on customers | Synonyms: commercial traveler, commercial traveller, roadman, traveling salesman, travelling salesman |
bigmouthed | (adjective) unwisely talking too much | Synonyms: blabbermouthed, blabby, talkative |
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bogmat | (noun) having narrow flat sickle-shaped submerged fronds; North America | Synonyms: mud midget, Wolffiella gladiata |
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bregma | (noun) the craniometric point at the junction of the sagittal and coronal sutures at the top of the cranium | - |
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bregmatic | (adjective) of or relating to the bregma of the skull | - |
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depigmentation | (noun) absence or loss of pigmentation (or less than normal pigmentation) in the skin or hair | - |
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diaphragm | (noun) a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens | Synonyms: stop |
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(noun) electro-acoustic transducer that vibrates to receive or produce sound waves | - |
(noun) a contraceptive device consisting of a flexible dome-shaped cup made of rubber or plastic; it is filled with spermicide and fitted over the uterine cervix | Synonyms: contraceptive diaphragm, pessary |
(noun) (anatomy) a muscular partition separating the abdominal and thoracic cavities; functions in respiration | Synonyms: midriff |
dislodgment | (noun) forced removal from a position of advantage | Synonyms: dislodgement |
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dogma | (noun) a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative | - |
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(noun) a religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof | Synonyms: tenet |
dogmatic | (adjective) relating to or involving dogma | - |
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(adjective) of or pertaining to or characteristic of a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative | - |
(adjective) characterized by assertion of unproved or unprovable principles | Synonyms: dogmatical |
dogmatical | (adjective) characterized by assertion of unproved or unprovable principles | Synonyms: dogmatic |
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dogmatically | (adverb) in a narrow-minded dogmatic manner | - |
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dogmatise | (verb) state as a dogma | Synonyms: dogmatize |
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(verb) speak dogmatically | Synonyms: dogmatize |
dogmatism | (noun) tendency to assert principles as undeniably true | - |
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dogmatist | (noun) a stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions | Synonyms: doctrinaire |
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dogmatize | (verb) state as a dogma | Synonyms: dogmatise |
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(verb) speak dogmatically | Synonyms: dogmatise |
enigma | (noun) something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained | Synonyms: closed book, mystery, secret |
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(noun) a difficult problem | Synonyms: brain-teaser, conundrum, riddle |
enigmatic | (adjective) resembling an oracle in obscurity of thought | Synonyms: oracular |
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(adjective) not clear to the understanding | Synonyms: enigmatical, puzzling |
enigmatical | (adjective) not clear to the understanding | Synonyms: enigmatic, puzzling |
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enigmatically | (adverb) in a cryptic manner | Synonyms: cryptically, mysteriously |
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enigmaticness | (noun) Mysteriousness, complexity; the property of being puzzling or inexplicable. | - |
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(noun) The quality of a person of puzzling, secretive or contradictory character. | - |
figment | (noun) a contrived or fantastic idea | - |
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fragment | (noun) a broken piece of a brittle artifact | Synonyms: shard, sherd |
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(noun) an incomplete piece | - |
(noun) a piece broken off or cut off of something else | - |
(verb) break or cause to break into pieces | Synonyms: break up, fragmentise, fragmentize |
fragmental | (adjective) consisting of small disconnected parts | Synonyms: fragmentary |
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fragmentary | (adjective) consisting of small disconnected parts | Synonyms: fragmental |
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fragmentation | (noun) separating something into fine particles | Synonyms: atomisation, atomization |
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(noun) the scattering of bomb fragments after the bomb explodes | - |
(noun) (computer science) the condition of a file that is broken up and stored in many different locations on a magnetic disk | - |
(noun) the disintegration of social norms governing behavior and thought and social relationships | - |
fragmented | (adjective) having been divided; having the unity destroyed | Synonyms: disconnected, disunited, split |
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fragmentise | (verb) break or cause to break into pieces | Synonyms: break up, fragment, fragmentize |
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fragmentize | (verb) break or cause to break into pieces | Synonyms: break up, fragment, fragmentise |
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frogman | (noun) someone who works underwater | Synonyms: diver, underwater diver |
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frogmarch | (verb) carry someone against his will upside down such that each limb is held by one person | - |
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(verb) march a person against his will by any method | - |
frogmouth | (noun) insectivorous bird of Australia and southeastern Asia having a wide frog-like mouth | - |
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gagman | (noun) someone who writes comic material for public performers | Synonyms: gagster, gagwriter |
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(noun) a comedian who uses gags | Synonyms: standup comedian |
gm | (noun) a metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram | Synonyms: g, gram, gramme |
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hangman | (noun) an executioner who hangs the condemned person | - |
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hyperpigmentation | (noun) unusual darkening of the skin | - |
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hypopigmentation | (noun) unusual lack of skin color | - |
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hypozeugma | (noun) use of a series of subjects with a single predicate | - |
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judgment | (noun) (law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it | Synonyms: judgement, judicial decision |
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(noun) the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event | Synonyms: assessment, judgement |
(noun) the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions | Synonyms: judgement, perspicacity, sound judgement, sound judgment |
(noun) the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions | Synonyms: judgement, judging |
(noun) the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations | Synonyms: discernment, judgement, sagaciousness, sagacity |
(noun) an opinion formed by judging something | Synonyms: judgement, mind |
(noun) the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision | Synonyms: judgement, legal opinion, opinion |
judgmental | (adjective) depending on judgment | - |
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kerugma | (noun) preaching the gospel of Christ in the manner of the early church | Synonyms: kerygma |
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kerygma | (noun) preaching the gospel of Christ in the manner of the early church | Synonyms: kerugma |
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kingmaker | (noun) an important person who can bring leaders to power through the exercise of political influence | - |
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lodgment | (noun) the state or quality of being lodged or fixed even temporarily | Synonyms: lodgement, lodging |
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magma | (noun) molten rock in the earth's crust | - |
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neostigmine | (noun) a cholinergic drug (trade name Prostigmin) used to treat some ophthalmic conditions and to treat myasthenia gravis | Synonyms: Prostigmin |
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nonjudgmental | (adjective) refraining from making judgments especially ones based on personal opinions or standards | - |
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nonsegmental | (adjective) having a body that is not divided into segments | Synonyms: unsegmented |
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nystagmus | (noun) involuntary movements of the eyeballs; its presence or absence is used to diagnose a variety of neurological and visual disorders | - |
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paradigm | (noun) a standard or typical example | Synonyms: epitome, image, prototype |
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(noun) the generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time | - |
(noun) the class of all items that can be substituted into the same position (or slot) in a grammatical sentence (are in paradigmatic relation with one another) | Synonyms: substitution class |
(noun) systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word | - |
paradigmatic | (adjective) of or relating to a typical example | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to a grammatical paradigm | - |
(adjective) related as members of a substitution class | - |
paregmenon | (noun) juxtaposing words having a common derivation (as in `sense and sensibility') | - |
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pegmatite | (noun) a form of igneous rock consisting of extremely coarse granite resulting from the crystallization of magma rich in rare elements | - |
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phlegm | (noun) inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy | Synonyms: flatness, languor, lethargy, sluggishness |
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(noun) expectorated matter; saliva mixed with discharges from the respiratory passages; in ancient and medieval physiology it was believed to cause sluggishness | Synonyms: sputum |
(noun) apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions | Synonyms: emotionlessness, impassiveness, impassivity, indifference, stolidity, unemotionality |
phlegmatic | (adjective) showing little emotion | Synonyms: phlegmatical |
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phlegmatical | (adjective) showing little emotion | Synonyms: phlegmatic |
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phlegmatically | (adverb) in a phlegmatic manner | - |
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phlegmatizer | (noun) a material added to an explosive to make it less susceptible to detonation and thus more stable and safer to handle and transport. | - |
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phlegmy | (adjective) characterized by phlegm | - |
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photopigment | (noun) a special pigment found in the rods and cones of the retina | - |
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phragmacone | (noun) the thin conical chambered internal shell (either straight or curved) of a belemnite | Synonyms: phragmocone |
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phragmocone | (noun) the thin conical chambered internal shell (either straight or curved) of a belemnite | Synonyms: phragmacone |
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physostigmine | (noun) used in treatment of Alzheimer's disease and glaucoma | - |
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pigman | (noun) a herder or swine | Synonyms: swineherd |
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pigment | (noun) a substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surface (especially a mixture of pigment suspended in a liquid); dries to form a hard coating | Synonyms: paint |
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(noun) dry coloring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint, etc.) | - |
(noun) any substance whose presence in plant or animal tissues produces a characteristic color | - |
(verb) color or dye with a pigment | - |
(verb) acquire pigment; become colored or imbued | - |
pigmentation | (noun) coloration of living tissues by pigment | - |
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(noun) the deposition of pigment in animals or plants or human beings | - |
pigmy | (noun) an unusually small individual | Synonyms: pygmy |
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pragmatic | (adjective) of or concerning the theory of pragmatism | Synonyms: pragmatical |
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(adjective) concerned with practical matters | Synonyms: matter-of-fact, pragmatical |
(adjective) guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory | Synonyms: hard-nosed, hardheaded, practical |
(noun) an imperial decree that becomes part of the fundamental law of the land | Synonyms: pragmatic sanction |
pragmatical | (adjective) of or concerning the theory of pragmatism | Synonyms: pragmatic |
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(adjective) concerned with practical matters | Synonyms: matter-of-fact, pragmatic |
pragmatically | (adverb) in a practical manner, as opposed to theoretically or idealistically | - |
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pragmatics | (noun) the study of language use | - |
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pragmatism | (noun) the attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality and literal truth | Synonyms: realism |
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(noun) (philosophy) the doctrine that practical consequences are the criteria of knowledge and meaning and value | - |
pragmatist | (noun) a person who takes a practical approach to problems and is concerned primarily with the success or failure of their actions | - |
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(noun) an adherent of philosophical pragmatism | - |
prejudgment | (noun) a judgment reached before the evidence is available | Synonyms: prejudgement |
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pygmy | (noun) an unusually small individual | Synonyms: pigmy |
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quagmire | (noun) a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot | Synonyms: mire, morass, quag, slack |
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rectosigmoid | (adjective) of or related to or near the sigmoid colon and the upper part of the rectum | - |
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rigmarole | (noun) a long and complicated and confusing procedure | Synonyms: rigamarole |
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(noun) a set of confused and meaningless statements | Synonyms: rigamarole |
ringmaster | (noun) the person in charge of performances in a circus ring | - |
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segment | (noun) one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object | Synonyms: section |
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(noun) one of the parts into which something naturally divides | - |
(verb) divide into segments | Synonyms: section |
(verb) divide or split up | - |
segmental | (adjective) having the body divided into successive metameres or segments, as in earthworms or lobsters | Synonyms: metameric, segmented |
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(adjective) divided or organized into speech segments or isolable speech sounds | - |
segmentation | (noun) the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart | Synonyms: division, partition, partitioning, sectionalisation, sectionalization |
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(noun) (embryology) the repeated division of a fertilised ovum | Synonyms: cleavage |
segmented | (adjective) having the body divided into successive metameres or segments, as in earthworms or lobsters | Synonyms: metameric, segmental |
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sigma | (noun) the 18th letter of the Greek alphabet | - |
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sigmoid | (adjective) of or relating to the sigmoid flexure in the large intestine | Synonyms: sigmoidal |
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(adjective) curved in two directions (like the letter S) | - |