abhor | (verb) find repugnant | Synonyms: abominate, execrate, loathe |
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abhorrence | (noun) hate coupled with disgust | Synonyms: abomination, detestation, execration, loathing, odium |
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abhorrent | (adjective) offensive to the mind | Synonyms: detestable, obscene, repugnant, repulsive |
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abhorrer | (noun) a signer of a 1679 address to Charles II in which those who petitioned for the reconvening of parliament were condemned and abhorred | - |
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adiaphoron | (noun) (Stoic philosophy) a matter having no moral merit or demerit. | - |
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(noun) a religious ceremonial or ritual observance that is held to be an affair of the individual conscience because it is neither forbidden nor enjoined by the scriptures. | - |
ahorse | (adjective) traveling on horseback | Synonyms: ahorseback |
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(adverb) on the back of a horse | Synonyms: ahorseback, horseback |
ahorseback | (adjective) traveling on horseback | Synonyms: ahorse |
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(adverb) on the back of a horse | Synonyms: ahorse, horseback |
amphora | (noun) an ancient jar with two handles and a narrow neck; used to hold oil or wine | - |
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amphoric | (adjective) the sound heard in auscultation resembling the hollow sound made by blowing across the mouth of a bottle | - |
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anaphor | (noun) a word (such as a pronoun) used to avoid repetition; the referent of an anaphor is determined by its antecedent | - |
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anaphora | (noun) using a pronoun or similar word instead of repeating a word used earlier | - |
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(noun) repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | Synonyms: epanaphora |
anaphoric | (adjective) relating to anaphora | - |
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anchor | (noun) a mechanical device that prevents a vessel from moving | Synonyms: ground tackle |
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(noun) a central cohesive source of support and stability | Synonyms: backbone, keystone, linchpin, lynchpin, mainstay |
(noun) a television reporter who coordinates a broadcast to which several correspondents contribute | Synonyms: anchorman, anchorperson |
(verb) secure a vessel with an anchor | Synonyms: cast anchor, drop anchor |
(verb) fix firmly and stably | Synonyms: ground |
anchorage | (noun) the act of anchoring | - |
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(noun) place for vessels to anchor | Synonyms: anchorage ground |
(noun) a fee for anchoring | - |
(noun) the condition of being secured to a base | - |
(noun) the provision of a sense of security or steadfastness | - |
anchorite | (noun) one retired from society for religious reasons | Synonyms: hermit |
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anchoritic | (adjective) characterized by ascetic solitude | Synonyms: eremitic, eremitical, hermitic, hermitical |
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anchorman | (noun) a television reporter who coordinates a broadcast to which several correspondents contribute | Synonyms: anchor, anchorperson |
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anchorperson | (noun) a television reporter who coordinates a broadcast to which several correspondents contribute | Synonyms: anchor, anchorman |
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antheridiophore | (noun) gametophore bearing antheridia as in certain mosses and liverworts | - |
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antiauthoritarian | (adjective) opposed to authoritarianism | - |
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aphorise | (verb) speak or write in aphorisms | Synonyms: aphorize |
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aphorism | (noun) a short pithy instructive saying | Synonyms: apophthegm, apothegm |
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aphorist | (noun) someone who formulates aphorisms or who repeats aphorisms | - |
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aphoristic | (adjective) containing aphorisms or maxims | Synonyms: axiomatic |
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(adjective) terse and witty and like a maxim | Synonyms: apothegmatic, epigrammatic |
aphorize | (verb) speak or write in aphorisms | Synonyms: aphorise |
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aplacophoran | (noun) deep-water wormlike mollusks lacking calcareous plates on the body but having fine slimy spicules on the covering mantle | Synonyms: solenogaster |
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ashore | (adverb) towards the shore from the water | - |
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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 |
bighorn | (noun) wild sheep of mountainous regions of western North America having massive curled horns | Synonyms: bighorn sheep, cimarron, Ovis canadensis, Rocky Mountain bighorn, Rocky Mountain sheep |
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blackthorn | (noun) erect and almost thornless American hawthorn with somewhat pear-shaped berries | Synonyms: Crataegus calpodendron, Crataegus tomentosa, pear haw, pear hawthorn |
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(noun) a thorny Eurasian bush with plumlike fruits | Synonyms: Prunus spinosa, sloe |
boxershorts | (noun) underpants worn by men | Synonyms: boxers, drawers, shorts, underdrawers |
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boxthorn | (noun) any of various shrubs or vines of the genus Lycium with showy flowers and bright berries | Synonyms: matrimony vine |
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buckthorn | (noun) any shrub or small tree of the genus Bumelia | - |
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(noun) a shrub or shrubby tree of the genus Rhamnus; fruits are source of yellow dyes or pigments | - |
(noun) an Old World plantain with long narrow ribbed leaves widely established in temperate regions | Synonyms: English plantain, narrow-leaved plantain, Plantago lanceolata, ribgrass, ribwort, ripple-grass |
bullhorn | (noun) a portable loudspeaker with built-in microphone and amplifier | Synonyms: loud-hailer, loud hailer |
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camphor | (noun) a resin obtained from the camphor tree; used in making celluloid and liniment | - |
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camphoraceous | (adjective) being or having the properties of camphor | - |
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camphorate | (verb) treat with camphor | - |
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camphorated | (adjective) impregnated with camphor | - |
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camphoric | (adjective) relating to or derived from or containing camphor | - |
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camphorweed | (noun) aromatic plant of western United States | Synonyms: Trichostema lanceolatum, turpentine camphor weed, vinegarweed |
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carpophore | (noun) a slender stalk that furnishes an axis for a carpel | - |
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carthorse | (noun) draft horse kept for pulling carts | Synonyms: cart horse, drayhorse |
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cataphoresis | (noun) the motion of charged particles in a colloid under the influence of an electric field; particles with a positive charge go to the cathode and negative to the anode | Synonyms: dielectrolysis, electrophoresis, ionophoresis |
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cataphoretic | (adjective) of or relating to electrophoresis | Synonyms: electrophoretic |
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cephalochordate | (noun) fish-like animals having a notochord rather than a true spinal column | - |
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chlamyphore | (noun) very small Argentine armadillo with pale silky hair and pink plates on head and neck | Synonyms: Chlamyphorus truncatus, fairy armadillo, pichiciago, pichiciego |
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choragic | (adjective) pertaining to or characteristic of a choragus | - |
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choragus | (noun) (ancient Greece) leader of a group or festival; leader of a chorus | - |
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choral | (adjective) related to or written for or performed by a chorus or choir | - |
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(noun) a stately Protestant (especially Lutheran) hymn tune | Synonyms: chorale |
chorale | (noun) a stately Protestant (especially Lutheran) hymn tune | Synonyms: choral |
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chorally | (adverb) by a chorus | - |
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chord | (noun) a combination of three or more notes that blend harmoniously when sounded together | - |
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(noun) a straight line connecting two points on a curve | - |
(verb) bring into consonance, harmony, or accord while making music or singing | Synonyms: harmonise, harmonize |
(verb) play chords on (a stringed instrument) | - |
chordal | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or emphasizing chords | - |
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chordamesoderm | (noun) the area of mesoderm that forms the notochord | Synonyms: chordomesoderm |
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chordate | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of the Chordata | - |
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(noun) any animal of the phylum Chordata having a notochord or spinal column | - |
chorditis | (noun) inflammation of the vocal cords | - |
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(noun) inflammation of the spermatic cord or vocal cords or vocal folds | - |
chordomesoderm | (noun) the area of mesoderm that forms the notochord | Synonyms: chordamesoderm |
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chordophone | (noun) a stringed instrument of the group including harps, lutes, lyres, and zithers | - |
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chore | (noun) a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee | Synonyms: job, task |
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chorea | (noun) any of several degenerative nervous disorders characterized by spasmodic movements of the body and limbs | - |
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(noun) chorea in dogs | Synonyms: canine chorea |
choreograph | (verb) plan and oversee the development and details of | - |
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(verb) compose a sequence of dance steps, often to music | - |
choreographer | (noun) someone who creates new dances | - |
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choreographic | (adjective) of or concerned with choreography | - |
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choreography | (noun) a show involving artistic dancing | Synonyms: stage dancing |
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(noun) the representation of dancing by symbols as music is represented by notes | - |
(noun) a notation used by choreographers | - |
choric | (adjective) relating to or written for or in the style of a Greek chorus | - |
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chorine | (noun) a woman who dances in a chorus line | Synonyms: chorus girl, showgirl |
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chorioallantois | (noun) the very vascular fetal membrane composed of the fused chorion and adjacent wall of the allantois | Synonyms: chorioallantoic membrane |
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choriomeningitis | (noun) a cerebral meningitis with cellular infiltration of the meninges | - |
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chorion | (noun) the outermost membranous sac enclosing the embryo in higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals) | - |
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chorionic | (adjective) of or relating to a chorion | - |
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chorioretinitis | (noun) inflammation of the choroid layer behind the retina | - |
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chorister | (noun) a singer in a choir | - |
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chorizo | (noun) a spicy Spanish pork sausage | - |
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choroid | (noun) a highly vascular membrane in the eye between the retina and the sclera; a dark pigmentation minimizes the scattering of light inside the eye | Synonyms: choroid coat |
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chortle | (noun) a soft partly suppressed laugh | Synonyms: chuckle |
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(verb) laugh quietly or with restraint | Synonyms: chuckle, laugh softly |
chorus | (noun) the part of a song where a soloist is joined by a group of singers | Synonyms: refrain |
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(noun) any utterance produced simultaneously by a group | - |
(noun) a group of people assembled to sing together | - |
(noun) a body of dancers or singers who perform together | Synonyms: chorus line |
(noun) a company of actors who comment (by speaking or singing in unison) on the action in a classical Greek play | Synonyms: Greek chorus |
(verb) utter in unison | - |
(verb) sing in a choir | Synonyms: choir |
chromophore | (noun) the chemical group that gives color to a molecule | - |
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ciliophoran | (noun) a protozoan with a microscopic appendage extending from the surface of the cell | Synonyms: ciliate, ciliated protozoan |
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clavichord | (noun) an early stringed instrument like a piano but with more delicate sound | - |
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clotheshorse | (noun) a framework on which to hang clothes (as for drying) | - |
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(noun) a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance | Synonyms: beau, dandy, dude, fashion plate, fop, gallant, sheik, swell |
coauthor | (noun) a writer who collaborates with others in writing something | Synonyms: joint author |
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cockhorse | (noun) anything used as a toy horse (such as a rocking horse or one knee of an adult) | - |
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cohort | (noun) a band of warriors (originally a unit of a Roman Legion) | - |
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(noun) a company of companions or supporters | - |
(noun) a group of people having approximately the same age | Synonyms: age bracket, age group |