apothecary | (noun) a health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs | Synonyms: chemist, druggist, pharmacist, pill pusher, pill roller |
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apothecial | (adjective) of or relating to the apothecium of some lichens and fungi | - |
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apothecium | (noun) a cuplike ascocarp in many lichens and ascomycetous fungi | - |
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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 | - |
bibliothec | (noun) a professional person trained in library science and engaged in library services | Synonyms: librarian |
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bibliotheca | (noun) a collection of books | - |
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bibliothecal | (adjective) of or relating to a library or bibliotheca or a librarian | Synonyms: bibliothecarial |
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bibliothecarial | (adjective) of or relating to a library or bibliotheca or a librarian | Synonyms: bibliothecal |
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cachectic | (adjective) relating to or having the symptoms of cachexia | - |
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cathect | (verb) inject with libidinal energy | - |
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cathectic | (adjective) of or relating to cathexis | - |
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check | (noun) the act of restraining power or action or limiting excess | Synonyms: bridle, curb |
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(noun) obstructing an opponent in ice hockey | - |
(noun) (chess) a direct attack on an opponent's king | - |
(noun) the act of inspecting or verifying | Synonyms: check-out procedure, checkout |
(noun) a textile pattern of squares or crossed lines (resembling a checkerboard) | - |
(noun) a mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something | Synonyms: chip |
(noun) an appraisal of the state of affairs | Synonyms: assay |
(noun) additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct | Synonyms: confirmation, substantiation, verification |
(noun) something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | Synonyms: balk, baulk, deterrent, handicap, hinderance, hindrance, impediment |
(noun) the bill in a restaurant | Synonyms: chit, tab |
(noun) a mark indicating that something has been noted or completed etc. | Synonyms: check mark, tick |
(noun) a written order directing a bank to pay money | Synonyms: bank check, cheque |
(noun) the state of inactivity following an interruption | Synonyms: arrest, halt, hitch, stay, stop, stoppage |
(verb) slow the growth or development of | Synonyms: delay, retard |
(verb) become fractured; break or crack on the surface only | Synonyms: break, crack |
(verb) make cracks or chinks in | Synonyms: chink |
(verb) arrest the motion (of something) abruptly | - |
(verb) examine so as to determine accuracy, quality, or condition | Synonyms: check into, check out, check over, check up on, go over, look into, suss out |
(verb) put a check mark on or near or next to | Synonyms: check off, mark, mark off, tick, tick off |
(verb) be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something | Synonyms: ascertain, assure, control, ensure, insure, see, see to it |
(verb) verify by consulting a source or authority | - |
(verb) write out a check on a bank account | - |
(verb) find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort | Synonyms: ascertain, determine, find out, learn, see, watch |
(verb) place into check | - |
(verb) decline to initiate betting | - |
(verb) hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of | Synonyms: arrest, contain, hold back, stop, turn back |
(verb) mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on | Synonyms: checker, chequer |
(verb) stop in a chase especially when scent is lost | - |
(verb) abandon the intended prey, turn, and pursue an inferior prey | - |
(verb) stop for a moment, as if out of uncertainty or caution | - |
(verb) hand over something to somebody as for temporary safekeeping | - |
(verb) consign for shipment on a vehicle | - |
(verb) develop (a child's or animal's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control | Synonyms: condition, discipline, train |
(verb) make an examination or investigation | - |
(verb) lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits | Synonyms: contain, control, curb, hold, hold in, moderate |
(verb) block or impede (a player from the opposing team) in ice hockey | - |
(verb) be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics | Synonyms: agree, correspond, fit, gibe, jibe, match, tally |
(verb) be verified or confirmed; pass inspection | Synonyms: check out |
checkbook | (noun) a book issued to holders of checking accounts | Synonyms: chequebook |
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checked | (adjective) patterned with alternating squares of color | Synonyms: checkered, chequered |
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checker | (noun) one of the flat round pieces used in playing the game of checkers | Synonyms: chequer |
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(noun) one who checks the correctness of something | - |
(noun) an attendant who checks coats or baggage | - |
(verb) variegate with different colors, shades, or patterns | Synonyms: chequer |
(verb) mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on | Synonyms: check, chequer |
checkerberry | (noun) spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil | Synonyms: boxberry, spiceberry, teaberry, wintergreen |
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(noun) creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil | Synonyms: creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, ground-berry, groundberry, mountain tea, teaberry, wintergreen |
checkerbloom | (noun) perennial purple-flowered wild mallow of western North America that is also cultivated | Synonyms: Sidalcea malviflora, wild hollyhock |
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checkerboard | (noun) a board having 64 squares of two alternating colors | Synonyms: checker board, chequerboard |
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checkered | (adjective) marked by changeable fortune | - |
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(adjective) patterned with alternating squares of color | Synonyms: checked, chequered |
checkers | (noun) a checkerboard game for two players who each have 12 pieces; the object is to jump over and so capture the opponent's pieces | Synonyms: draughts |
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checklist | (noun) a list of items (names or tasks etc.) to be checked or consulted | - |
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checkmate | (noun) a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king | Synonyms: mate |
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(noun) complete victory | - |
(verb) place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game | Synonyms: mate |
checkout | (noun) the act of inspecting or verifying | Synonyms: check-out procedure, check |
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(noun) a counter in a supermarket where you pay for your purchases | Synonyms: checkout counter |
(noun) the latest time for vacating a hotel room | Synonyms: checkout time |
checkpoint | (noun) a place (as at a frontier) where travellers are stopped for inspection and clearance | - |
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checkrein | (noun) a rein designed to keep the horse's head in the desired position | Synonyms: bearing rein |
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checkroom | (noun) a room where baggage or parcels are checked | Synonyms: left-luggage office |
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checkrow | (verb) plant in checkrows | - |
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checksum | (noun) a digit representing the sum of the digits in an instance of digital data; used to check whether errors have occurred in transmission or storage | - |
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checkup | (noun) a thorough physical examination; includes a variety of tests depending on the age and sex and health of the person | Synonyms: health check, medical, medical checkup, medical exam, medical examination |
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cleistothecium | (noun) closed spore-bearing structure of some fungi (especially Aspergillaceae and Erysiphaceae) from which spores are released only by decay or disintegration | Synonyms: cleistocarp |
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countercheck | (noun) something that checks the correctness of a previous check | Synonyms: double check |
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(noun) a check that restrains another check | - |
(verb) check a second time | - |
(verb) oppose or check by a counteraction | Synonyms: counteract |
crosscheck | (noun) an illegal check (chopping at an opponent's arms or stick) | - |
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(noun) an instance of confirming something by considering information from several sources | - |
dryopithecine | (noun) considered a possible ancestor to both anthropoid apes and humans | - |
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hecatomb | (noun) a great sacrifice; an ancient Greek or Roman sacrifice of 100 oxen | - |
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heckelphone | (noun) an oboe pitched an octave below the ordinary oboe | Synonyms: basset oboe |
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heckle | (noun) a comb for separating flax fibers | Synonyms: hatchel |
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(verb) challenge aggressively | - |
(verb) comb with a heckle | Synonyms: hackle, hatchel |
heckler | (noun) someone who tries to embarrass you with gibes and questions and objections | Synonyms: badgerer |
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heckling | (noun) shouting to interrupt a speech with which you disagree | Synonyms: barracking |
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hectare | (noun) (abbreviated `ha') a unit of surface area equal to 100 ares (or 10,000 square meters) | - |
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hectic | (adjective) marked by intense agitation or emotion | Synonyms: feverish |
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hectically | (adverb) in a frenzied manner | Synonyms: frenziedly |
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hectogram | (noun) 100 grams | Synonyms: hg |
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hectograph | (noun) duplicator consisting of a gelatin plate from which ink can be taken to make a copy | Synonyms: heliotype |
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(verb) copy on a duplicator | - |
hectoliter | (noun) a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters | Synonyms: hectolitre, hl |
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hectolitre | (noun) a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters | Synonyms: hectoliter, hl |
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hectometer | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to 100 meters | Synonyms: hectometre, hm |
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hectometre | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to 100 meters | Synonyms: hectometer, hm |
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hector | (verb) be bossy towards | Synonyms: ballyrag, boss around, browbeat, bully, bullyrag, push around, strong-arm |
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homothecy | (noun) (mathematics) an isotropic scaling transformation of an affine space with a single fixed point. | Synonyms: homothety |
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hypothecate | (verb) to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds | Synonyms: conjecture, hypothesise, hypothesize, speculate, suppose, theorise, theorize |
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(verb) pledge without delivery or title of possession | - |
paycheck | (noun) a check issued in payment of wages or salary | Synonyms: payroll check |
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perithecium | (noun) flask-shaped ascocarp | - |
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prophecy | (noun) knowledge of the future (usually said to be obtained from a divine source) | Synonyms: prognostication, vaticination |
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(noun) a prediction uttered under divine inspiration | Synonyms: divination |
rudapithecus | (noun) fossil hominoids from northern central Hungary; late Miocene | Synonyms: Dryopithecus Rudapithecus hungaricus |
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sphecoid | (noun) any of various solitary wasps | Synonyms: sphecoid wasp |
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sympathectomy | (noun) surgical interruption of a nerve pathway in the sympathetic nervous system | - |
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theca | (noun) outer sheath of the pupa of certain insects | - |
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(noun) a case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule | Synonyms: sac |
thecodont | (noun) presumably in the common ancestral line to dinosaurs and crocodiles and birds | Synonyms: thecodont reptile |
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uncheckable | (adjective) incapable of being checked or restrained | - |
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unchecked | (adjective) not restrained or controlled | Synonyms: unbridled, uncurbed, ungoverned |
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