atrophy | (noun) any weakening or degeneration (especially through lack of use) | Synonyms: withering |
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(noun) a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse | Synonyms: wasting, wasting away |
(verb) undergo atrophy | - |
attach | (verb) become attached | - |
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(verb) cause to be attached | - |
(verb) be attached; be in contact with | - |
(verb) take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority | Synonyms: confiscate, impound, seize, sequester |
(verb) create social or emotional ties | Synonyms: bind, bond, tie |
attachable | (adjective) capable of being fastened or added to something else | - |
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attache | (noun) a shallow and rectangular briefcase | Synonyms: attache case |
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(noun) a specialist assigned to the staff of a diplomatic mission | - |
attached | (adjective) associated in an exclusive sexual relationship | Synonyms: committed |
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(adjective) used of buildings joined by common sidewalls | - |
(adjective) fond and affectionate | - |
(adjective) being joined in close association | Synonyms: affiliated, connected |
attachment | (noun) the act of fastening things together | Synonyms: fastening |
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(noun) the act of attaching or affixing something | Synonyms: affixation |
(noun) faithful support for a cause or political party or religion | Synonyms: adherence, adhesion |
(noun) a supplementary part or accessory | - |
(noun) a connection that fastens things together | Synonyms: bond |
(noun) a writ authorizing the seizure of property that may be needed for the payment of a judgment in a judicial proceeding | - |
(noun) a feeling of affection for a person or an institution | Synonyms: fond regard |
attorneyship | (noun) the position of attorney | - |
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aught | (noun) a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential | Synonyms: cipher, cypher, goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo |
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aurochs | (noun) large recently extinct long-horned European wild ox; considered one of the ancestors of domestic cattle | Synonyms: Bos primigenius, urus |
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(noun) European bison having a smaller and higher head than the North American bison | Synonyms: Bison bonasus, wisent |
australopithecine | (adjective) of or belonging to the hominid genus Australopithecus | - |
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(noun) any of several extinct humanlike bipedal primates with relatively small brains of the genus Australopithecus; from 1 to 4 million years ago | - |
autarchic | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by autarchy | Synonyms: autarchical, autarkical |
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autarchical | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by autarchy | Synonyms: autarchic, autarkical |
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autarchy | (noun) a political system governed by a single individual | Synonyms: autocracy |
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(noun) economic independence as a national policy | Synonyms: autarky |
authentic | (adjective) not counterfeit or copied | Synonyms: bona fide, unquestionable, veritable |
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(adjective) conforming to fact and therefore worthy of belief | Synonyms: reliable |
authentically | (adverb) genuinely; with authority | Synonyms: genuinely |
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authenticate | (verb) establish the authenticity of something | - |
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authenticated | (adjective) established as genuine | Synonyms: attested, documented |
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authentication | (noun) validating the authenticity of something or someone | Synonyms: certification |
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(noun) a mark on an article of trade to indicate its origin and authenticity | Synonyms: assay-mark, hallmark |
authenticator | (noun) one who determines authenticity (as of works of art) or who guarantees validity | Synonyms: appraiser |
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authenticity | (noun) undisputed credibility | Synonyms: genuineness, legitimacy |
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author | (noun) writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay) | Synonyms: writer |
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(noun) someone who originates or causes or initiates something | Synonyms: generator, source |
(verb) be the author of | - |
authoress | (noun) a woman author | - |
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authorial | (adjective) of or by or typical of an author | Synonyms: auctorial |
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authorisation | (noun) the act of conferring legality or sanction or formal warrant | Synonyms: authorization, empowerment |
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(noun) the power or right to give orders or make decisions | Synonyms: authority, authorization, dominance, potency, say-so |
(noun) official permission or approval | Synonyms: authority, authorization, sanction |
(noun) a document giving an official instruction or command | Synonyms: authorization, mandate |
authorise | (verb) grant authorization or clearance for | Synonyms: authorize, clear, pass |
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(verb) give or delegate power or authority to | Synonyms: authorize, empower |
authorised | (adjective) endowed with authority | Synonyms: authoritative, authorized |
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authoriser | (noun) an authority who authorizes (people or actions) | Synonyms: authorizer |
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authoritarian | (adjective) expecting unquestioning obedience | Synonyms: dictatorial, overbearing |
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(adjective) characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty | Synonyms: autocratic, despotic, dictatorial, tyrannic, tyrannical |
(noun) a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner | Synonyms: dictator |
authoritarianism | (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: absolutism, Caesarism, despotism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny |
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authoritative | (adjective) endowed with authority | Synonyms: authorised, authorized |
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(adjective) having authority or ascendancy or influence | Synonyms: important |
(adjective) of recognized authority or excellence | Synonyms: definitive |
authoritatively | (adverb) in an authoritative and magisterial manner | Synonyms: magisterially |
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authorities | (noun) the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit | Synonyms: government, regime |
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authority | (noun) the power or right to give orders or make decisions | Synonyms: authorisation, authorization, dominance, potency, say-so |
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(noun) official permission or approval | Synonyms: authorisation, authorization, sanction |
(noun) freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities | Synonyms: assurance, confidence, self-assurance, self-confidence, sureness |
(noun) an authoritative written work | - |
(noun) an administrative unit of government | Synonyms: agency, bureau, federal agency, government agency, office |
(noun) an expert whose views are taken as definitive | - |
(noun) (usually plural) persons who exercise (administrative) control over others | - |
authorization | (noun) the act of conferring legality or sanction or formal warrant | Synonyms: authorisation, empowerment |
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(noun) the power or right to give orders or make decisions | Synonyms: authorisation, authority, dominance, potency, say-so |
(noun) official permission or approval | Synonyms: authorisation, authority, sanction |
(noun) a document giving an official instruction or command | Synonyms: authorisation, mandate |
authorize | (verb) grant authorization or clearance for | Synonyms: authorise, clear, pass |
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(verb) give or delegate power or authority to | Synonyms: authorise, empower |
authorized | (adjective) endowed with authority | Synonyms: authorised, authoritative |
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authorizer | (noun) an authority who authorizes (people or actions) | Synonyms: authoriser |
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authorship | (noun) the act of creating written works | Synonyms: composition, penning, writing |
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(noun) the act of initiating a new idea or theory or writing | Synonyms: paternity |
autobahn | (noun) an expressway in a German-speaking country | - |
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autobiographer | (noun) someone who writes their own biography | - |
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autobiographic | (adjective) relating to or in the style of an autobiography | Synonyms: autobiographical |
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(adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of an autobiographer | Synonyms: autobiographical |
autobiographical | (adjective) relating to or in the style of an autobiography | Synonyms: autobiographic |
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(adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of an autobiographer | Synonyms: autobiographic |
autobiography | (noun) a biography of yourself | - |
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autochthon | (noun) the earliest known inhabitants of a region | - |
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autochthonal | (adjective) originating where it is found | Synonyms: autochthonic, autochthonous, endemic, indigenous |
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autochthonic | (adjective) originating where it is found | Synonyms: autochthonal, autochthonous, endemic, indigenous |
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autochthonous | (adjective) of rocks, deposits, etc.; found where they and their constituents were formed | - |
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(adjective) originating where it is found | Synonyms: autochthonal, autochthonic, endemic, indigenous |
autochthony | (noun) nativeness by virtue of originating or occurring naturally (as in a particular place) | Synonyms: endemism, indigenousness |
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autograph | (noun) something written by one's own hand | - |
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(noun) a person's own signature | Synonyms: John Hancock |
(verb) mark with one's signature | Synonyms: inscribe |
autographed | (adjective) bearing an autograph | - |
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autographic | (adjective) written in the author's own handwriting | - |
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automysophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of being dirty | - |
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autophyte | (noun) plant capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances | Synonyms: autophytic plant, autotroph, autotrophic organism |
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autophytic | (adjective) of or relating to organisms (as green plants) that can make complex organic nutritive compounds from simple inorganic sources by photosynthesis | Synonyms: autotrophic |
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autoradiograph | (noun) a radiogram produced by radiation emitted by the specimen being photographed | - |
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autoradiographic | (adjective) of or relating to or produced by autoradiography | - |
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autoradiography | (noun) producing a radiograph by means of the radiation emitted from the specimen being photographed | - |
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autotroph | (noun) plant capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances | Synonyms: autophyte, autophytic plant, autotrophic organism |
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autotrophic | (adjective) of or relating to organisms (as green plants) that can make complex organic nutritive compounds from simple inorganic sources by photosynthesis | Synonyms: autophytic |
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avalanche | (noun) a slide of large masses of snow and ice and mud down a mountain | - |
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(noun) a sudden appearance of an overwhelming number of things | - |
(verb) gather into a huge mass and roll down a mountain, of snow | Synonyms: roll down |
avouch | (verb) admit openly and bluntly; make no bones about | Synonyms: avow |
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avouchment | (noun) a statement asserting the existence or the truth of something | Synonyms: affirmation, avowal |
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awash | (adjective) covered with water | Synonyms: afloat, flooded, inundated, overflowing |
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aweigh | (adjective) (of an anchor) just clear of the bottom | Synonyms: atrip |
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(adjective) (used of an anchor) hanging clear of the bottom | - |
awheel | (adjective) traveling by wheeled vehicle such as bicycle or automobile e.g. | - |
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awhile | (adverb) for a brief period | Synonyms: for a while |
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axerophthol | (noun) any of several fat-soluble vitamins essential for normal vision; prevents night blindness or inflammation or dryness of the eyes | Synonyms: A, antiophthalmic factor, vitamin A |
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ayah | (noun) (in India) a native nursemaid who looks after children | - |
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ayatollah | (noun) a high-ranking Shiite religious leader who is regarded as an authority on religious law and its interpretation and who has political power as well | - |
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azadirachtin | (noun) insecticide | - |
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azathioprine | (noun) an immunosuppressive drug (trade name Imuran) used to prevent rejection of a transplanted organ | Synonyms: Imuran |
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azedarach | (noun) tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree | Synonyms: azederach, China tree, chinaberry, chinaberry tree, Melia azedarach, Melia azederach, Persian lilac, pride-of-India |
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azederach | (noun) tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree | Synonyms: azedarach, China tree, chinaberry, chinaberry tree, Melia azedarach, Melia azederach, Persian lilac, pride-of-India |
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azimuth | (noun) the azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian | Synonyms: AZ |
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azimuthal | (adjective) of or relating to or in azimuth | - |
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azithromycin | (noun) a systemic antibacterial medicine (trade name Zithromax) that is prescribed to treat bacterial infections in many different parts of the body | Synonyms: Zithromax |
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baboonish | (adjective) resembling a baboon | - |
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babushka | (noun) a woman's headscarf folded into a triangle and tied under the chin; worn by Russian peasant women | - |
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babyhood | (noun) the earliest state of immaturity | Synonyms: infancy |
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(noun) the early stage of growth or development | Synonyms: early childhood, infancy |
babyish | (adjective) characteristic of a baby | - |
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bacchanal | (adjective) used of riotously drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: bacchanalian, bacchic, carousing, orgiastic |
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(noun) a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity | Synonyms: bacchanalia, debauch, debauchery, drunken revelry, orgy, riot, saturnalia |
(noun) someone who engages in drinking bouts | Synonyms: bacchant, drunken reveler, drunken reveller |
(noun) a drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus | Synonyms: bacchant |
bacchanalia | (noun) a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity | Synonyms: bacchanal, debauch, debauchery, drunken revelry, orgy, riot, saturnalia |
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bacchanalian | (adjective) used of riotously drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchic, carousing, orgiastic |
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bacchant | (noun) (classical mythology) a priest or votary of Bacchus | - |
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(noun) a drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus | Synonyms: bacchanal |
(noun) someone who engages in drinking bouts | Synonyms: bacchanal, drunken reveler, drunken reveller |
bacchante | (noun) (classical mythology) a priestess or votary of Bacchus | - |
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bacchantic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a bacchanalian reveler | - |
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bacchic | (adjective) used of riotously drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: bacchanal, bacchanalian, carousing, orgiastic |
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bach | (verb) lead a bachelor's existence | Synonyms: bachelor |
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bachelor | (noun) a man who has never been married | Synonyms: unmarried man |
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(noun) a knight of the lowest order; could display only a pennon | Synonyms: bachelor-at-arms, knight bachelor |
(verb) lead a bachelor's existence | Synonyms: bach |
bachelorette | (noun) a young unmarried woman who lives alone | Synonyms: bachelor girl |
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bachelorhood | (noun) the state of being an unmarried man | - |
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(noun) the time of a man's life prior to marriage | - |
backache | (noun) an ache localized in the back | - |
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backbench | (noun) any of the seats occupied by backbenchers in the House of Commons | - |
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backbencher | (noun) a member of the House of Commons who is not a party leader | - |
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backchat | (noun) light teasing repartee | Synonyms: banter, give-and-take, raillery |
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backcloth | (noun) scenery hung at back of stage | Synonyms: backdrop, background |
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backhand | (adjective) (of racket strokes) made across the body with back of hand facing direction of stroke | Synonyms: backhanded |
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(adjective) (of handwriting) having the letters slanting backward | Synonyms: left-slanting |
(noun) a return made with the back of the hand facing the direction of the stroke | Synonyms: backhand shot, backhand stroke |
(verb) hit a tennis ball backhand | - |
backhanded | (adjective) (of racket strokes) made across the body with back of hand facing direction of stroke | Synonyms: backhand |
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(adjective) roundabout or ambiguous | - |
backhander | (noun) a backhanded blow | - |
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backhoe | (noun) an excavator whose shovel bucket is attached to a hinged boom and is drawn backward to move earth | - |
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