aching | (adjective) causing a dull and steady pain | Synonyms: achy |
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(noun) a dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain | Synonyms: ache |
admonishing | (adjective) expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective | Synonyms: admonitory, reproachful, reproving |
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adrenocorticotrophin | (noun) a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex | Synonyms: ACTH, adrenocorticotrophic hormone, adrenocorticotropic hormone, adrenocorticotropin, corticotrophin, corticotropin |
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airworthiness | (noun) fitness to fly | - |
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amaranthine | (adjective) of or related to the amaranth plant | - |
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(adjective) of an imaginary flower that never fades | Synonyms: unfading |
anhinga | (noun) fish-eating bird of warm inland waters having a long flexible neck and slender sharp-pointed bill | Synonyms: darter, snakebird |
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apomorphine | (noun) a morphine derivative that is not as strong as morphine; used as an emetic and in small doses as a sedative | - |
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approaching | (adjective) of the relatively near future | Synonyms: coming, forthcoming, upcoming |
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(noun) the act of drawing spatially closer to something | Synonyms: approach, coming |
(noun) the temporal property of becoming nearer in time | Synonyms: approach, coming |
(noun) the event of one object coming closer to another | Synonyms: approach |
archine | (noun) a Russian unit of length (71 cm) | - |
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arching | (adjective) forming or resembling an arch | Synonyms: arced, arched, arciform, arcuate, bowed |
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astonishing | (adjective) so surprisingly impressive as to stun or overwhelm | Synonyms: astounding, staggering, stupefying |
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(adjective) surprising greatly | Synonyms: amazing |
astonishingly | (adverb) in an amazing manner; to everyone's surprise | Synonyms: amazingly, surprisingly |
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baldachin | (noun) ornamented canopy supported by columns or suspended from a roof or projected from a wall (as over an altar) | - |
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bathing | (noun) immersing the body in water or sunshine | - |
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(noun) the act of washing yourself (or another person) | Synonyms: washup |
behind | (adjective) having the lower score or lagging position in a contest | - |
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(noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
(adverb) in or to or toward the rear | - |
(adverb) remaining in a place or condition that has been left or departed from | - |
(adverb) in debt | Synonyms: behindhand, in arrears |
(adverb) in or into an inferior position | - |
(adverb) showing a time that is earlier than the actual time | Synonyms: slow |
behindhand | (adjective) behind schedule | - |
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(adverb) in debt | Synonyms: behind, in arrears |
belching | (noun) a reflex that expels gas noisily from the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: belch, burp, burping, eructation |
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(noun) the forceful expulsion of something from inside | - |
beseeching | (adjective) begging | Synonyms: imploring, pleading |
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beseechingly | (adverb) in a beseeching manner | Synonyms: entreatingly, imploringly, importunately, pleadingly |
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beseechingness | (noun) The state or quality of one who begs or implores. | - |
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bethink | (verb) consider or ponder something carefully | - |
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(verb) cause oneself to consider something | - |
bewitching | (adjective) capturing interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: captivating, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing, fascinating |
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bewitchingly | (adverb) in a bewitching manner | Synonyms: captivatingly, enchantingly, enthrallingly |
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birthing | (noun) the process of giving birth | Synonyms: birth, giving birth, parturition |
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bitchiness | (noun) malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty | Synonyms: cattiness, nastiness, spite, spitefulness |
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blameworthiness | (noun) a state of guilt | Synonyms: culpability, culpableness |
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blushing | (adjective) having a red face from embarrassment or shame or agitation or emotional upset | Synonyms: blushful, red-faced |
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brainwashing | (noun) forcible indoctrination into a new set of attitudes and beliefs | - |
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branching | (adjective) having branches | Synonyms: branched, ramate, ramose, ramous |
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(adjective) resembling the branches of a tree | - |
(noun) the act of branching out or dividing into branches | Synonyms: fork, forking, ramification |
breathing | (adjective) passing or able to pass air in and out of the lungs normally; sometimes used in combination | Synonyms: eupneic, eupnoeic |
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(noun) the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation | Synonyms: external respiration, respiration, ventilation |
brushing | (noun) the act of brushing your hair | Synonyms: brush |
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(noun) the act of brushing your teeth | Synonyms: brush |
bushing | (noun) a cylindrical metal lining used to reduce friction | Synonyms: cylindrical lining |
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(noun) an insulating liner in an opening through which conductors pass | - |
cachinnate | (verb) laugh loudly and in an unrestrained way | - |
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cachinnation | (noun) loud convulsive laughter | - |
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capuchin | (noun) monkey of Central America and South America having thick hair on the head that resembles a monk's cowl | Synonyms: Cebus capucinus, ringtail |
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(noun) a hooded cloak for women | - |
catarrhine | (adjective) of or related to Old World monkeys that have nostrils together and opening downward | Synonyms: catarrhinian |
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(noun) of Africa or Arabia or Asia; having nonprehensile tails and nostrils close together | Synonyms: Old World monkey |
catarrhinian | (adjective) of or related to Old World monkeys that have nostrils together and opening downward | Synonyms: catarrhine |
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catching | (adjective) (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection | Synonyms: communicable, contagious, contractable, transmissible, transmittable |
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(noun) (baseball) playing the position of catcher on a baseball team | - |
(noun) the act of detecting something; catching sight of something | Synonyms: detection, espial, spotting, spying |
(noun) becoming infected | Synonyms: contracting |
catechin | (noun) a tannic acid that is extracted from black catechu as a white crystalline substance | - |
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cephalothin | (noun) a semisynthetic analogue of cephalosporin | - |
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chin | (noun) the protruding part of the lower jaw | Synonyms: mentum |
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(verb) raise oneself while hanging from one's hands until one's chin is level with the support bar | Synonyms: chin up |
china | (noun) high quality porcelain originally made only in China | - |
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(noun) dishware made of high quality porcelain | Synonyms: chinaware |
chinaberry | (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, azederach, China tree, chinaberry tree, Melia azedarach, Melia azederach, Persian lilac, pride-of-India |
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(noun) evergreen of tropical America having pulpy fruit containing saponin which was used as soap by Native Americans | Synonyms: China tree, false dogwood, jaboncillo, Sapindus saponaria |
chinaware | (noun) dishware made of high quality porcelain | Synonyms: china |
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chincapin | (noun) small nut of either of two small chestnut trees of the southern United States; resembles a hazelnut | Synonyms: chinkapin, chinquapin |
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chinch | (noun) bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood | Synonyms: bed bug, bedbug, Cimex lectularius |
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chincherinchee | (noun) South African perennial with long-lasting spikes of white blossoms that are shipped in to Europe and America for use as winter cut flowers | Synonyms: Ornithogalum thyrsoides, wonder flower |
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chinchilla | (noun) small rodent with soft pearly grey fur; native to the Andes but bred in captivity for fur | Synonyms: Chinchilla laniger |
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(noun) a thick twilled fabric of wool and cotton | - |
(noun) the expensive silvery grey fur of the chinchilla | - |
chinchillon | (noun) gregarious burrowing rodent larger than the chinchillas | Synonyms: Lagostomus maximus, viscacha |
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chinchona | (noun) any of several trees of the genus Cinchona | Synonyms: cinchona |
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chinchy | (adjective) embarrassingly stingy | Synonyms: cheap, chintzy |
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chine | (noun) backbone of an animal | - |
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(noun) cut of meat or fish including at least part of the backbone | - |
(verb) cut through the backbone of an animal | - |
chink | (noun) a short light metallic sound | Synonyms: click, clink |
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(noun) a narrow opening as e.g. between planks in a wall | - |
(noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Chinese descent | Synonyms: Chinaman |
(verb) make cracks or chinks in | Synonyms: check |
(verb) fill the chinks of, as with caulking | - |
(verb) make or emit a high sound | Synonyms: clink, tink, tinkle |
chinkapin | (noun) small nut of either of two small chestnut trees of the southern United States; resembles a hazelnut | Synonyms: chincapin, chinquapin |
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chinked | (adjective) having narrow opening filled | Synonyms: stopped-up |
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chinless | (adjective) having a receding chin | - |
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chino | (noun) a coarse twilled cotton fabric frequently used for uniforms | - |
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chinoiserie | (noun) a style in art reflecting Chinese influence; elaborately decorated and intricately patterned | - |
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chinook | (noun) large Pacific salmon valued as food; adults die after spawning | Synonyms: chinook salmon, king salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, quinnat salmon |
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(noun) pink or white flesh of large Pacific salmon | Synonyms: chinook salmon, king salmon |
(noun) a warm dry wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rockies | Synonyms: chinook wind, snow eater |
chinos | (noun) (plural) trousers made with chino cloth | - |
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chinquapin | (noun) small nut of either of two small chestnut trees of the southern United States; resembles a hazelnut | Synonyms: chincapin, chinkapin |
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(noun) shrubby chestnut tree of southeastern United States having small edible nuts | Synonyms: Allegheny chinkapin, Castanea pumila, dwarf chestnut, eastern chinquapin |
(noun) shrubby tree closely related to the Allegheny chinkapin but with larger leaves; southern midwestern United States | Synonyms: Castanea ozarkensis, Ozark chinkapin, Ozark chinquapin |
chintz | (noun) a brightly printed and glazed cotton fabric | - |
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chintzily | (adverb) in a stingy manner | Synonyms: cheaply, stingily |
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chintzy | (adjective) of very poor quality; flimsy | Synonyms: bum, cheap, cheesy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny |
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(adjective) embarrassingly stingy | Synonyms: cheap, chinchy |
clashing | (adjective) sharply and harshly discordant | - |
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clothing | (noun) a covering designed to be worn on a person's body | Synonyms: article of clothing, habiliment, vesture, wear, wearable |
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coaching | (noun) the job of a professional coach | Synonyms: coaching job |
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cochin | (noun) Asian breed of large fowl with dense plumage and feathered legs | Synonyms: cochin china |
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cochineal | (noun) Mexican red scale insect that feeds on cacti; the source of a red dye | Synonyms: cochineal insect, Dactylopius coccus |
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(noun) a red dyestuff consisting of dried bodies of female cochineal insects | - |
corticotrophin | (noun) a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex | Synonyms: ACTH, adrenocorticotrophic hormone, adrenocorticotrophin, adrenocorticotropic hormone, adrenocorticotropin, corticotropin |
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coughing | (noun) a sudden noisy expulsion of air from the lungs that clears the air passages; a common symptom of upper respiratory infection or bronchitis or pneumonia or tuberculosis | Synonyms: cough |
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crashing | (adjective) informal intensifiers | Synonyms: bally, blinking, bloody, blooming, flaming, fucking |
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creditworthiness | (noun) trustworthiness with money as based on a person's credit history; a general qualification for borrowing | - |
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crushing | (adjective) physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination | Synonyms: devastating |
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(noun) forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority | Synonyms: quelling, stifling, suppression |
crushingly | (adverb) in a crushing manner | - |
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dashing | (adjective) marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners | Synonyms: dapper, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, snappy, spiffy, spruce |
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(adjective) lively and spirited | Synonyms: gallant |
dashingly | (adverb) in a highly fashionable manner | - |
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dauphin | (noun) formerly, the eldest son of the King of France and direct heir to the throne | - |
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delphinium | (noun) any plant of the genus Delphinium having palmately divided leaves and showy spikes of variously colored spurred flowers; some contain extremely poisonous substances | - |
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demolishing | (noun) complete destruction of a building | Synonyms: leveling, razing, tearing down |
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diacetylmorphine | (noun) a narcotic that is considered a hard drug; a highly addictive morphine derivative; intravenous injection provides the fastest and most intense rush | Synonyms: heroin |
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diminishing | (adjective) becoming smaller or less or appearing to do so | - |
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dishwashing | (noun) the act of washing dishes | Synonyms: washup |
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dolphin | (noun) any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout; larger than porpoises | - |
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(noun) large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii) | Synonyms: dolphinfish, mahimahi |
dolphinfish | (noun) large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii) | Synonyms: dolphin, mahimahi |
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(noun) the lean flesh of a saltwater fish found in warm waters (especially in Hawaii) | Synonyms: mahimahi |
doublethink | (noun) believing two contradictory ideas at the same time | - |
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doughiness | (noun) The quality or state of having the characteristics of dough, especially in appearance or consistency. | - |
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drenching | (noun) the act of making something completely wet | Synonyms: soaking, souse, sousing |
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earthing | (noun) fastening electrical equipment to earth | Synonyms: grounding |
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echinocactus | (noun) any cactus of the genus Echinocactus; strongly ribbed and very spiny; southwestern United States to Brazil | Synonyms: barrel cactus |
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echinococcosis | (noun) infestation with larval echinococci (tapeworms) | Synonyms: hydatid disease, hydatidosis |
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echinococcus | (noun) tapeworms whose larvae are parasitic in humans and domestic animals | - |
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echinoderm | (noun) marine invertebrates with tube feet and five-part radially symmetrical bodies | - |
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echinus | (noun) ovolo molding between the shaft and the abacus of a Doric column | - |
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encroaching | (adjective) gradually intrusive without right or permission | Synonyms: invasive, trespassing |
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endorphin | (noun) a neurochemical occurring naturally in the brain and having analgesic properties | - |
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errhine | (adjective) causing nasal discharge | - |
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etching | (noun) making engraved or etched plates and printing designs from them | Synonyms: engraving |
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(noun) an etched plate made with the use of acid | - |
(noun) an impression made from an etched plate | - |
everything | (noun) all things that are of importance to a person | - |
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extinguishing | (noun) the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning | Synonyms: extinction, quenching |
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