adhere | (verb) follow through or carry out a plan without deviation | - |
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(verb) stick to firmly | Synonyms: bind, bond, hold fast, stick, stick to |
(verb) come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation | Synonyms: cleave, cling, cohere, stick |
(verb) be compatible or in accordance with | - |
(verb) be loyal to | Synonyms: stand by, stick, stick by |
(verb) be a devoted follower or supporter | Synonyms: stick |
adherence | (noun) faithful support for a cause or political party or religion | Synonyms: adhesion, attachment |
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(noun) the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition | Synonyms: adhesion, adhesiveness, bond |
adherent | (adjective) sticking fast | - |
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(noun) someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another | Synonyms: disciple |
antiheretical | (adjective) opposed to heresy | - |
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anywhere | (adverb) at or in or to any place | Synonyms: anyplace |
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apheresis | (noun) a procedure in which blood is drawn and separated into its components by dialysis; some are retained and the rest are returned to the donor by transfusion | Synonyms: pheresis |
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(noun) (linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until' | Synonyms: aphaeresis |
apheretic | (adjective) relating to or formed by or consisting of aphaeresis | Synonyms: aphaeretic |
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asthenosphere | (noun) the lower layer of the crust | - |
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atmosphere | (noun) a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing | Synonyms: air, aura |
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(noun) the mass of air surrounding the Earth | Synonyms: air |
(noun) the envelope of gases surrounding any celestial body | - |
(noun) a unit of pressure: the pressure that will support a column of mercury 760 mm high at sea level and 0 degrees centigrade | Synonyms: atm, standard atmosphere, standard pressure |
(noun) the weather or climate at some place | Synonyms: atmospheric state |
(noun) a particular environment or surrounding influence | Synonyms: ambiance, ambience |
bathysphere | (noun) spherical deep diving apparatus (lowered by a cable) for underwater exploration | - |
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biosphere | (noun) the regions of the surface and atmosphere of the Earth (or other planet) where living organisms exist | - |
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blastosphere | (noun) early stage of an embryo produced by cleavage of an ovum; a liquid-filled sphere whose wall is composed of a single layer of cells; during this stage (about eight days after fertilization) implantation in the wall of the uterus occurs | Synonyms: blastula |
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bothered | (adjective) caused to show discomposure | Synonyms: daunted, fazed |
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chromosphere | (noun) a gaseous layer of the sun's atmosphere (extending from the photosphere to the corona) that is visible during a total eclipse of the sun | - |
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cohere | (verb) come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation | Synonyms: adhere, cleave, cling, stick |
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(verb) have internal elements or parts logically connected so that aesthetic consistency results | - |
(verb) cause to form a united, orderly, and aesthetically consistent whole | - |
coherence | (noun) logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts | Synonyms: coherency |
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(noun) the state of cohering or sticking together | Synonyms: coherency, cohesion, cohesiveness |
coherency | (noun) logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts | Synonyms: coherence |
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(noun) the state of cohering or sticking together | Synonyms: coherence, cohesion, cohesiveness |
coherent | (adjective) marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts | Synonyms: consistent, logical, ordered |
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(adjective) (physics) of waves having a constant phase relation | - |
(adjective) sticking together | Synonyms: tenacious |
(adjective) capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner | Synonyms: logical, lucid |
coherently | (adverb) in a coherent manner | - |
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deciphered | (adjective) converted from cryptic to intelligible language | - |
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decipherer | (noun) a reader capable of reading and interpreting illegible or obscure text | - |
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(noun) the kind of intellectual who converts messages from a code to plain text | Synonyms: decoder |
elsewhere | (adverb) in or to another place | - |
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ethereal | (adjective) of or containing or dissolved in ether | - |
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(adjective) characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy | Synonyms: gossamer |
(adjective) of heaven or the spirit | Synonyms: celestial, supernal |
(adjective) characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air | Synonyms: aerial, aeriform, aery, airy |
etherealize | (verb) make ethereal | Synonyms: etherialise |
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everywhere | (adverb) to or in any or all places; pronoun, location; quantifier: universal | Synonyms: all over, everyplace |
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exosphere | (noun) the outermost atmospheric layer | - |
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feathered | (adjective) having or covered with feathers | - |
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(adjective) adorned with feathers or plumes | Synonyms: feathery, plumy |
featheredge | (noun) a thin tapering edge | - |
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featheredged | (adjective) having a rough edge; used of handmade paper or paper resembling handmade | Synonyms: deckle-edged, deckled |
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gathered | (adjective) brought together in one place | Synonyms: collected |
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gatherer | (noun) a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes) | Synonyms: accumulator, collector |
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(noun) a person who gathers | - |
geosphere | (noun) the solid part of the earth consisting of the crust and outer mantle | Synonyms: lithosphere |
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gomphothere | (noun) extinct elephants of Central American and South America; of the Miocene and Pleistocene | - |
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heliosphere | (noun) the region inside the heliopause containing the sun and solar system | - |
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hemisphere | (noun) either half of the cerebrum | Synonyms: cerebral hemisphere |
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(noun) half of the terrestrial globe | - |
(noun) half of a sphere | - |
here | (adjective) being here now | - |
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(noun) the present location; this place; location, proximal pronoun; demonstrative pronoun, location; quantifier: demonstrative determiner, singular, proximal | - |
(adverb) in or at this place; where the speaker or writer is | - |
(adverb) to this place (especially toward the speaker) | Synonyms: hither |
(adverb) in this circumstance or respect or on this point or detail | - |
(adverb) at this time; now | - |
hereabout | (adverb) in this general vicinity | Synonyms: hereabouts |
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hereabouts | (adverb) in this general vicinity | Synonyms: hereabout |
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hereafter | (noun) the time yet to come | Synonyms: future, futurity, time to come |
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(noun) life after death | Synonyms: afterlife |
(adverb) in a subsequent part of this document or statement or matter etc. | Synonyms: hereinafter, hereunder |
(adverb) following this in time or order or place; after this | - |
(adverb) in a future life or state | - |
hereby | (adverb) (formal) by means of this | Synonyms: herewith |
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hereditament | (noun) any property (real or personal or mixed) that can be inherited | - |
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hereditarianism | (noun) the philosophical doctrine that heredity is more important than environment in determining intellectual growth | - |
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hereditary | (adjective) occurring among members of a family usually by heredity | Synonyms: familial, genetic, inherited, transmissible, transmitted |
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(adjective) inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent | Synonyms: ancestral, patrimonial, transmissible |
heredity | (noun) the total of inherited attributes | Synonyms: genetic endowment |
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(noun) the biological process whereby genetic factors are transmitted from one generation to the next | - |
herein | (adverb) in this place or thing or document | - |
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hereinafter | (adverb) in a subsequent part of this document or statement or matter etc. | Synonyms: hereafter, hereunder |
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hereinbefore | (adverb) in the preceding part of the current text | - |
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hereness | (noun) the state of being here in this place | - |
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hereof | (adverb) of or concerning this | - |
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heresy | (noun) a belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion | Synonyms: unorthodoxy |
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(noun) any opinions or doctrines at variance with the official or orthodox position | Synonyms: heterodoxy, unorthodoxy |
heretic | (noun) a person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: misbeliever, religious outcast |
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(noun) a person who holds unorthodox opinions in any field (not merely religion) | - |
heretical | (adjective) characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards | Synonyms: dissident, heterodox |
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hereto | (adverb) to this writing or document | - |
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heretofore | (adverb) used in negative statement to describe a situation that has existed up to this point or up to the present time | Synonyms: as yet, hitherto, so far, thus far, til now, until now, up to now, yet |
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hereunder | (adverb) in a subsequent part of this document or statement or matter etc. | Synonyms: hereafter, hereinafter |
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(adverb) under the terms of this agreement | - |
hereupon | (adverb) immediately after this | - |
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herewith | (adverb) (formal) by means of this | Synonyms: hereby |
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houhere | (noun) small tree or shrub of New Zealand having a profusion of axillary clusters of honey-scented paper-white flowers and whose bark is used for cordage | Synonyms: Hoheria populnea, lacebark, ribbonwood |
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hydrosphere | (noun) the watery layer of the earth's surface; includes water vapor | - |
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incoherence | (noun) nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible | Synonyms: incoherency, unintelligibility |
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(noun) lack of cohesion or clarity or organization | Synonyms: incoherency |
incoherency | (noun) nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible | Synonyms: incoherence, unintelligibility |
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(noun) lack of cohesion or clarity or organization | Synonyms: incoherence |
incoherent | (adjective) without logical or meaningful connection | - |
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(adjective) (physics) of waves having no stable definite or stable phase relation | - |
(adjective) unable to express yourself clearly or fluently | Synonyms: tongue-tied |
incoherently | (adverb) in an incoherent manner | - |
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inhere | (verb) be inherent in something | - |
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inherence | (noun) the state of inhering; the state of being a fixed characteristic | Synonyms: inherency |
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inherency | (noun) the state of inhering; the state of being a fixed characteristic | Synonyms: inherence |
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inherent | (adjective) in the nature of something though not readily apparent | Synonyms: implicit in, underlying |
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(adjective) existing as an essential constituent or characteristic | Synonyms: built-in, constitutional, inbuilt, integral |
inherently | (adverb) in an inherent manner | - |
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ionosphere | (noun) the outer region of the Earth's atmosphere; contains a high concentration of free electrons | - |
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isothere | (noun) a line on a map linking places with the same mean summer temperature. | - |
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leathered | (adjective) resembling or made to resemble leather; tough but pliable | Synonyms: coriaceous, leatherlike, leathery |
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leatherette | (noun) fabric made to look like leather | Synonyms: imitation leather |
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lithosphere | (noun) the solid part of the earth consisting of the crust and outer mantle | Synonyms: geosphere |
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magnetosphere | (noun) the magnetic field of a planet; the volume around the planet in which charged particles are subject more to the planet's magnetic field than to the solar magnetic field | - |
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megathere | (noun) gigantic extinct terrestrial sloth-like mammal of the Pliocene and Pleistocene in America | Synonyms: ground sloth |
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mesosphere | (noun) the atmospheric layer between the stratosphere and the thermosphere | - |
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motherese | (noun) an adult's imitation of the speech of a young child | Synonyms: baby talk, babytalk |
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nonhereditary | (adjective) not acquirable by inheritance | Synonyms: nontransmissible |
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nowhere | (noun) an insignificant place | - |
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(adverb) not anywhere; in or at or to no place | - |
oosphere | (noun) a gamete; used especially of lower plants | - |
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ozonosphere | (noun) a layer in the stratosphere (at approximately 20 miles) that contains a concentration of ozone sufficient to block most ultraviolet radiation from the sun | Synonyms: ozone layer |
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pheresis | (noun) a procedure in which blood is drawn and separated into its components by dialysis; some are retained and the rest are returned to the donor by transfusion | Synonyms: apheresis |
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photosphere | (noun) the intensely luminous surface of a star (especially the sun) | - |
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plasmapheresis | (noun) plasma is separated from whole blood and the rest is returned to the donor | - |
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plateletpheresis | (noun) platelets are separated from whole blood and the rest is returned to the donor | - |
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smithereens | (noun) a collection of small fragments considered as a whole | - |
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smothered | (adjective) completely covered | - |
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(adjective) held in check with difficulty | Synonyms: stifled, strangled, suppressed |
smotherer | (noun) a person who stifles or smothers or suppresses | Synonyms: stifler |
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somewhere | (noun) an indefinite or unknown location | - |
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(adverb) in or at or to some place | Synonyms: someplace |
sphere | (noun) any spherically shaped artifact | - |
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(noun) a particular aspect of life or activity | Synonyms: sector |
(noun) the geographical area in which one nation is very influential | Synonyms: sphere of influence |
(noun) the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected | Synonyms: celestial sphere, empyrean, firmament, heavens, vault of heaven, welkin |
(noun) a solid figure bounded by a spherical surface (including the space it encloses) | - |
(noun) a three-dimensional closed surface such that every point on the surface is equidistant from the center | - |
(noun) a particular environment or walk of life | Synonyms: area, arena, domain, field, orbit |
stratosphere | (noun) the atmospheric layer between the troposphere and the mesosphere | - |
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tethered | (adjective) confined or restricted with or as if with a rope or chain | - |
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there | (noun) a location other than here; that place; location, medial pronoun; demonstrative pronoun, location; quantifier: demonstrative determiner, distal; demonstrative pronoun, location; quantifier: demonstrative determiner, singular, distal | - |
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(adverb) in or at that place or location | - |
(adverb) to or toward that place; away from the speaker | Synonyms: thither |
(adverb) in that matter; in that respect; on that point | - |
thereabout | (adverb) near that place | Synonyms: thereabouts |
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(adverb) near that time or date | Synonyms: thereabouts |
thereabouts | (adverb) near that place | Synonyms: thereabout |
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(adverb) near that time or date | Synonyms: thereabout |
thereafter | (adverb) from that time on | Synonyms: thenceforth |
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thereby | (adverb) by that means or because of that | - |
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therefor | (adverb) (in formal usage, especially legal usage) for that or for it | - |
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therefore | (adverb) (used to introduce a logical conclusion) from that fact or reason or as a result | Synonyms: hence, so, thence, thus |
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(adverb) as a consequence | Synonyms: consequently |
therefrom | (adverb) from that place or from there | Synonyms: thence |
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(adverb) from that circumstance or source | Synonyms: thence, thereof |