affranchise | (verb) grant freedom to; as from slavery or servitude | Synonyms: enfranchise |
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ahistorical | (adjective) unconcerned with or unrelated to history or to historical development or to tradition | - |
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amphisbaena | (noun) (classical mythology) a serpent with a head at each end of its body | - |
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amphistylar | (adjective) marked by columniation having free columns in porticoes either at both ends or at both sides of a structure | Synonyms: amphiprostylar, amphiprostyle, porticoed |
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(adjective) having columns either at both ends or at both sides | - |
anamorphism | (noun) a distorted projection or perspective; especially an image distorted in such a way that it becomes visible only when viewed in a special manner | Synonyms: anamorphosis |
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(noun) metamorphism that occurs deep under the earth's surface; changes simple minerals into complex minerals | - |
(noun) the evolution of one type of organism from another by a long series of gradual changes | Synonyms: anamorphosis |
anarchism | (noun) a political theory favoring the abolition of governments | - |
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anarchist | (noun) an advocate of anarchism | Synonyms: nihilist, syndicalist |
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anarchistic | (adjective) of or related to anarchism or tending toward anarchism | - |
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anorchism | (noun) absence of one of both testes | Synonyms: anorchia, anorchidism |
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anthropomorphise | (verb) ascribe human features to something | Synonyms: anthropomorphize |
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anthropomorphism | (noun) the representation of objects (especially a god) as having human form or traits | Synonyms: theanthropism |
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anthropopathism | (noun) Attribution of human feelings to things not human, such as inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena. | - |
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antihistamine | (noun) a medicine used to treat allergies and hypersensitive reactions and colds; works by counteracting the effects of histamine on a receptor site | - |
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apostrophise | (verb) use an apostrophe | Synonyms: apostrophize |
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architeuthis | (noun) largest mollusk known about but never seen (to 60 feet long) | Synonyms: giant squid |
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bakshis | (noun) a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter) | Synonyms: backsheesh, baksheesh, bakshish, gratuity, pourboire, tip |
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bakshish | (noun) a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter) | Synonyms: backsheesh, baksheesh, bakshis, gratuity, pourboire, tip |
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bewhisker | (verb) furnish with whiskers | Synonyms: whisker |
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bewhiskered | (adjective) having hair on the cheeks and chin | Synonyms: barbate, bearded, whiskered, whiskery |
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biographism | (noun) reduction of textual meaning to authorial biography. | - |
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brachistochrone | (noun) a curve between two points along which a body can move under gravity in a shorter time than for any other curve. | - |
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calligraphist | (noun) someone skilled in penmanship | Synonyms: calligrapher |
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catechise | (verb) examine through questioning and answering | Synonyms: catechize |
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(verb) give religious instructions to | Synonyms: catechize |
catechism | (noun) an elementary book summarizing the principles of a Christian religion; written as questions and answers | - |
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(noun) a series of questions put to an individual (such as a political candidate) to elicit their views | - |
catechismal | (adjective) of or relating to a catechism summarizing the principles of Christianity | - |
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catechist | (noun) one who instructs catechumens in preparation for baptism (especially one using a catechism) | - |
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catechistic | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a rigorous catechism | Synonyms: catechetic |
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cheiloschisis | (noun) a congenital cleft in the middle of the upper lip | Synonyms: cleft lip, harelip |
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chisel | (noun) an edge tool with a flat steel blade with a cutting edge | - |
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(verb) carve with a chisel | - |
(verb) engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud | Synonyms: cheat |
(verb) deprive somebody of something by deceit | Synonyms: cheat, rip off |
chiseled | (adjective) having a clean and distinct outline as if precisely cut along the edges | Synonyms: well-defined |
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chiseler | (noun) a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud | Synonyms: chiseller, defrauder, gouger, grifter, scammer, swindler |
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chiseller | (noun) a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud | Synonyms: chiseler, defrauder, gouger, grifter, scammer, swindler |
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cosmographist | (noun) a scientist knowledgeable about cosmography | Synonyms: cosmographer |
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cryptorchism | (noun) failure of one or both testes to move into the scrotum as the male fetus develops | Synonyms: cryptorchidism, cryptorchidy |
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dehisce | (verb) burst or split open | - |
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dehiscence | (noun) (biology) release of material by splitting open of an organ or tissue; the natural bursting open at maturity of a fruit or other reproductive body to release seeds or spores or the bursting open of a surgically closed wound | - |
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dehiscent | (adjective) (of e.g. fruits and anthers) opening spontaneously at maturity to release seeds | - |
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deipnosophist | (noun) someone skilled at informal chitchat | - |
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demographist | (noun) a scientist who studies the growth and density of populations and their vital statistics | Synonyms: demographer, population scientist |
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diastrophism | (noun) the process of deformation that produces continents and ocean basins in the earth's crust | - |
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dimorphism | (noun) (biology) the existence of two forms of individual within the same animal species (independent of sex differences) | - |
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(noun) (chemistry) the property of certain substances that enables them to exist in two distinct crystalline forms | - |
disenfranchise | (verb) deprive of voting rights | Synonyms: disfranchise |
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disenfranchised | (adjective) deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote | Synonyms: disfranchised, voiceless, voteless |
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disenfranchisement | (noun) the act of withdrawing certification or terminating a franchise | - |
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disfranchise | (verb) deprive of voting rights | Synonyms: disenfranchise |
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disfranchised | (adjective) deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote | Synonyms: disenfranchised, voiceless, voteless |
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disfranchisement | (noun) the discontinuation of a franchise; especially the discontinuation of the right to vote | - |
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eggwhisk | (noun) a mixer for beating eggs or whipping cream | Synonyms: eggbeater |
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empathise | (verb) be understanding of | Synonyms: empathize, sympathise, sympathize, understand |
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enantiomorphism | (noun) the relation of opposition between crystals or molecules that are reflections of one another | Synonyms: mirror-image relation |
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enfranchise | (verb) grant voting rights | - |
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(verb) grant freedom to; as from slavery or servitude | Synonyms: affranchise |
enfranchised | (adjective) endowed with the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote | - |
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enfranchisement | (noun) the act of certifying or bestowing a franchise on | Synonyms: certification |
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(noun) a statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the rights of citizenship and the right to vote) | Synonyms: franchise |
(noun) freedom from political subjugation or servitude | - |
erethism | (noun) an abnormally high degree of irritability or sensitivity to stimulation of an organ or body part | - |
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fetichism | (noun) sexual arousal or gratification resulting from handling a fetish (or a specific part of the body other than the sexual organs) | Synonyms: fetishism |
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(noun) a belief in the magical power of fetishes (or the worship of a fetish) | Synonyms: fetishism |
fetishism | (noun) sexual arousal or gratification resulting from handling a fetish (or a specific part of the body other than the sexual organs) | Synonyms: fetichism |
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(noun) a belief in the magical power of fetishes (or the worship of a fetish) | Synonyms: fetichism |
fetishist | (noun) one who engages in fetishism (especially of a sexual nature) | - |
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franchise | (noun) a statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the rights of citizenship and the right to vote) | Synonyms: enfranchisement |
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(noun) an authorization to sell a company's goods or services in a particular place | - |
(noun) a business established or operated under an authorization to sell or distribute a company's goods or services in a particular area | Synonyms: dealership |
(verb) grant a franchise to | - |
gymnosophist | (noun) member of a Hindu sect practicing gymnosophy (especially nudism) | - |
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haematohiston | (noun) a colorless protein obtained by removing heme from hemoglobin; the oxygen carrying compound in red blood cells | Synonyms: globin, hematohiston |
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hagiographist | (noun) the author of a worshipful or idealizing biography | Synonyms: hagiographer, hagiologist |
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haschisch | (noun) purified resinous extract of the hemp plant; used as a hallucinogen | Synonyms: hash, hasheesh, hashish |
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hashish | (noun) purified resinous extract of the hemp plant; used as a hallucinogen | Synonyms: haschisch, hash, hasheesh |
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hematohiston | (noun) a colorless protein obtained by removing heme from hemoglobin; the oxygen carrying compound in red blood cells | Synonyms: globin, haematohiston |
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hierarchisation | (noun) The act or result of hierarchizing; the establishment of a hierarchy. | Synonyms: hierarchization |
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hispid | (adjective) (of animals or plants) having stiff coarse hairs or bristles | - |
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hiss | (noun) a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt | Synonyms: bird, boo, Bronx cheer, hoot, raspberry, razz, razzing, snort |
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(noun) a fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval) | Synonyms: fizzle, hissing, hushing, sibilation |
(verb) make a sharp hissing sound, as if to show disapproval | Synonyms: sibilate, siss, sizz |
(verb) express or utter with a hiss | Synonyms: sibilate, siss, sizz |
(verb) show displeasure, as after a performance or speech | Synonyms: boo |
(verb) move with a whooshing sound | Synonyms: whoosh |
hisser | (noun) someone who communicates disapproval by hissing | - |
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hissing | (noun) a fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval) | Synonyms: fizzle, hiss, hushing, sibilation |
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histaminase | (noun) enzyme that acts as a catalyst in converting histidine to histamine | - |
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histamine | (noun) amine formed from histidine that stimulates gastric secretions and dilates blood vessels; released by the human immune system during allergic reactions | - |
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histidine | (noun) an essential amino acid found in proteins that is important for the growth and repair of tissue | - |
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histiocyte | (noun) a macrophage that is found in connective tissue | - |
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histiocytosis | (noun) a blood disease characterized by an abnormal multiplication of macrophages | - |
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histocompatibility | (noun) condition in which the cells of one tissue can survive in the presence of cells of another tissue | - |
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histogram | (noun) a bar chart representing a frequency distribution; heights of the bars represent observed frequencies | - |
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histoincompatibility | (noun) incompatibility in which one person's tissue cannot be transplanted to another person | - |
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histologic | (adjective) of or relating to histology | Synonyms: histological |
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histological | (adjective) of or relating to histology | Synonyms: histologic |
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histologically | (adverb) involving the use of histology or histological techniques | - |
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histologist | (noun) anatomist who specializes in the microscopic study of animal tissues | - |
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histology | (noun) the branch of biology that studies the microscopic structure of animal or plant tissues | - |
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histone | (noun) a simple protein containing mainly basic amino acids; present in cell nuclei in association with nucleic acids | - |
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historian | (noun) a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it | Synonyms: historiographer |
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historic | (adjective) important in history | - |
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(adjective) belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past | Synonyms: historical |
historical | (adjective) used of the study of a phenomenon (especially language) as it changes through time | Synonyms: diachronic |
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(adjective) of or relating to the study of history | - |
(adjective) belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past | Synonyms: historic |
(adjective) having once lived or existed or taken place in the real world as distinct from being legendary | - |
historically | (adverb) with respect to history | - |
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(adverb) throughout history | - |
historicalness | (noun) significance owing to its history | - |
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(noun) the state of having in fact existed in the past | - |
historicism | (noun) a theory that social and cultural events are determined by history | - |
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historied | (adjective) having an illustrious past | Synonyms: celebrated, storied |
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historiographer | (noun) a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it | Synonyms: historian |
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historiography | (noun) the writing of history | - |
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(noun) a body of historical literature | - |
history | (noun) the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings | - |
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(noun) all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge | - |
(noun) a record or narrative description of past events | Synonyms: account, chronicle, story |
(noun) the aggregate of past events | - |
(noun) the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future | - |
histrion | (noun) a theatrical performer | Synonyms: actor, player, role player, thespian |
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histrionic | (adjective) characteristic of acting or a stage performance; often affected | Synonyms: melodramatic |
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histrionics | (noun) a performance of a play | Synonyms: representation, theatrical, theatrical performance |
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(noun) a deliberate display of emotion for effect | - |
homomorphism | (noun) similarity of form | Synonyms: homomorphy |
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immunohistochemistry | (noun) an assay that shows specific antigens in tissues by the use of markers that are either fluorescent dyes or enzymes (such as horseradish peroxidase) | - |
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indehiscent | (adjective) (of e.g. fruits) not opening spontaneously at maturity to release seeds | - |
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isomorphism | (noun) (biology) similarity or identity of form or shape or structure | Synonyms: isomorphy |
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