abarticulation | (noun) dislocation of a joint | - |
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acicula | (noun) a needlelike part or structure of a plant or animal or crystal; as a spine or bristle or crystal | - |
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acicular | (adjective) narrow and long and pointed; as pine leaves | Synonyms: acerate, acerose, needle-shaped |
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aciculate | (adjective) related to plants or animals or crystals having aciculae or needlelike parts | - |
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agricultural | (adjective) relating to or used in or promoting agriculture or farming | - |
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(adjective) relating to farming or agriculture | Synonyms: agrarian, farming |
agriculturalist | (noun) someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil | Synonyms: agriculturist, cultivator, grower, raiser |
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agriculture | (noun) the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock | Synonyms: farming, husbandry |
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(noun) a large-scale farming enterprise | Synonyms: agribusiness, factory farm |
(noun) the class of people engaged in growing food | - |
agriculturist | (noun) someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil | Synonyms: agriculturalist, cultivator, grower, raiser |
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apiculate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) having a short sharply pointed tip | - |
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apicultural | (adjective) relating to the care and breeding of bees | - |
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apiculture | (noun) the cultivation of bees on a commercial scale for the production of honey | Synonyms: beekeeping |
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apiculturist | (noun) a farmer who keeps bees for their honey | Synonyms: apiarist, beekeeper |
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appendicular | (adjective) relating to or consisting of an appendage or appendages; especially the limbs | - |
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appendicularia | (noun) free-swimming tadpole-shaped pelagic tunicate resembling larvae of other tunicates | - |
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aquicultural | (adjective) of or relating to aquiculture | Synonyms: aquacultural, hydroponic |
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aquiculture | (noun) a technique of growing plants (without soil) in water containing dissolved nutrients | Synonyms: hydroponics, tank farming |
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arboriculture | (noun) the tending of and caring for trees | Synonyms: tree farming |
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arboriculturist | (noun) someone trained in forestry | Synonyms: forester, tree farmer |
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articular | (adjective) relating to or affecting the joints of the body | Synonyms: articulary |
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articulary | (adjective) relating to or affecting the joints of the body | Synonyms: articular |
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articulate | (adjective) expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language | - |
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(adjective) consisting of segments held together by joints | Synonyms: articulated |
(verb) speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way | Synonyms: enounce, enunciate, pronounce, say, sound out |
(verb) express or state clearly | Synonyms: enunciate, vocalise, vocalize |
(verb) put into words or an expression | Synonyms: formulate, give voice, phrase, word |
(verb) provide with a joint | Synonyms: joint |
(verb) unite by forming a joint or joints | - |
articulated | (adjective) consisting of segments held together by joints | Synonyms: articulate |
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articulately | (adverb) in an articulate manner | Synonyms: eloquently |
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(adverb) with eloquence | Synonyms: eloquently |
articulateness | (noun) the quality of being facile in speech and writing | Synonyms: fluency, volubility |
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articulatio | (noun) (anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion) | Synonyms: articulation, joint |
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articulation | (noun) the act of joining things in such a way that motion is possible | - |
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(noun) (anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion) | Synonyms: articulatio, joint |
(noun) the aspect of pronunciation that involves bringing articulatory organs together so as to shape the sounds of speech | - |
(noun) expressing in coherent verbal form | Synonyms: voice |
(noun) the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made | Synonyms: join, joint, junction, juncture |
articulative | (adjective) of or relating to articulation | Synonyms: articulatory |
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articulator | (noun) a movable speech organ | - |
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(noun) someone who pronounces words | - |
articulatory | (adjective) of or relating to articulation | Synonyms: articulative |
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atrioventricular | (adjective) relating to or affecting the atria and ventricles of the heart | Synonyms: auriculoventricular |
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auricula | (noun) a pouch projecting from the top front of each atrium of the heart | Synonyms: auricular appendage, auricular appendix |
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(noun) yellow-flowered primrose native to Alps; commonly cultivated | Synonyms: bear's ear, Primula auricula |
auricular | (adjective) of or relating to near the ear | Synonyms: otic |
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(adjective) pertaining to an auricle of the heart | - |
(adjective) relating to or perceived by or shaped like the organ of hearing | - |
auriculare | (noun) the craniometric point at the center of the opening of the external acoustic meatus | Synonyms: auricular point |
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auriculate | (adjective) having auricles | Synonyms: auriculated |
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auriculated | (adjective) having auricles | Synonyms: auriculate |
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auriculoventricular | (adjective) relating to or affecting the atria and ventricles of the heart | Synonyms: atrioventricular |
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biauricular | (adjective) relating to the two auditory openings | - |
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bicuspid | (adjective) having two cusps or points (especially a molar tooth) | Synonyms: bicuspidate |
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(noun) a tooth having two cusps or points; located between the incisors and the molars | Synonyms: premolar |
bicuspidate | (adjective) having two cusps or points (especially a molar tooth) | Synonyms: bicuspid |
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calicular | (adjective) relating to or resembling a calyculus | Synonyms: calycular |
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caliculus | (noun) a small cup-shaped structure (as a taste bud or optic cup or cavity of a coral containing a polyp) | Synonyms: calycle, calyculus |
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canalicular | (adjective) relating to or like or having a canaliculus | - |
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canaliculate | (adjective) having thin parallel channels | - |
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canaliculus | (noun) a small canal or duct as in some bones and parts of plants | - |
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canicular | (adjective) relating to or especially immediately preceding or following the heliacal rising of Canicula (the Dog Star) | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to the dog days of summer | - |
canicule | (noun) the hot period between early July and early September; a period of inactivity | Synonyms: canicular days, dog days |
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capsicum | (noun) any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers | Synonyms: capsicum pepper plant, pepper |
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conspicuous | (adjective) obvious to the eye or mind | - |
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(adjective) without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious | Synonyms: blatant, blazing |
conspicuously | (adverb) in a manner tending to attract attention | - |
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(adverb) in a prominent way | Synonyms: prominently |
conspicuousness | (noun) high visibility | - |
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(noun) the state of being conspicuous | - |
curlicue | (noun) a short twisting line | Synonyms: squiggle |
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(noun) a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals) | Synonyms: coil, curl, gyre, ringlet, roll, scroll, whorl |
curricular | (adjective) of or relating to an academic course of study | - |
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curriculum | (noun) an integrated course of academic studies | Synonyms: course of study, program, programme, syllabus |
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cuticula | (noun) the outer body wall of an insect | - |
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cuticular | (adjective) of or relating to a cuticle or cuticula | Synonyms: dermal, epidermal, epidermic |
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denticulate | (adjective) having a very finely toothed margin | - |
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dicumarol | (noun) an anticoagulant drug that has now been largely replaced by warfarin | Synonyms: dicoumarol |
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difficult | (adjective) not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure | Synonyms: hard |
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(adjective) hard to control | Synonyms: unmanageable |
difficultness | (noun) the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result | Synonyms: difficulty |
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difficulty | (noun) an effort that is inconvenient | Synonyms: trouble |
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(noun) the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result | Synonyms: difficultness |
disarticulate | (verb) separate at the joints | Synonyms: disjoint |
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diverticulitis | (noun) inflammation of a diverticulum in the digestive tract (especially the colon); characterized by painful abdominal cramping and fever and constipation | - |
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diverticulosis | (noun) presence of multiple diverticula in the walls of the colon | - |
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diverticulum | (noun) a herniation through the muscular wall of a tubular organ (especially the colon) | - |
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epicure | (noun) a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink) | Synonyms: bon vivant, epicurean, foodie, gastronome, gourmet |
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epicurean | (adjective) displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses | Synonyms: luxuriant, luxurious, sybaritic, voluptuary, voluptuous |
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(adjective) devoted to pleasure | Synonyms: hedonic, hedonistic |
(noun) a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink) | Synonyms: bon vivant, epicure, foodie, gastronome, gourmet |
epicureanism | (noun) a doctrine of hedonism that was defended by several ancient Greek philosophers | - |
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epicurism | (noun) the disposition and habits of an epicure | - |
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extracurricular | (adjective) characterized by adultery | Synonyms: adulterous, extramarital |
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(adjective) outside the regular duties of your job or profession | - |
(adjective) outside the regular academic curriculum | - |
fasciculation | (noun) muscular twitching of contiguous groups of muscle fibers | - |
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fascicule | (noun) an installment of a printed work | Synonyms: fascicle |
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fasciculus | (noun) a bundle of fibers (especially nerve fibers) | Synonyms: fascicle, fiber bundle, fibre bundle |
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fisticuffs | (noun) fighting with the fists | Synonyms: boxing, pugilism |
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(noun) a fight with bare fists | Synonyms: fistfight, slugfest |
floricultural | (adjective) of or relating to or involving floriculture | - |
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floriculture | (noun) the cultivation of flowering plants | Synonyms: flower gardening |
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follicular | (adjective) of or relating to or constituting a follicle | - |
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folliculitis | (noun) inflammation of a hair follicle | - |
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fruticulose | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a shrub | Synonyms: fruticose, shrubby |
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funicular | (adjective) relating to or operated by a cable | - |
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(noun) a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars | Synonyms: cable railway, funicular railway |
funiculitis | (noun) inflammation of a funiculus (especially an inflammation of the spermatic cord) | - |
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funiculus | (noun) any of several body structure resembling a cord | - |
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(noun) the stalk of a plant ovule or seed | Synonyms: funicle |
geniculate | (adjective) bent at a sharp angle | - |
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gesticulate | (verb) show, express or direct through movement | Synonyms: gesture, motion |
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gesticulating | (adjective) making gestures while speaking | - |
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gesticulation | (noun) a deliberate and vigorous gesture or motion | - |
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graticule | (noun) a network of fine lines, dots, cross hairs, or wires in the focal plane of the eyepiece of an optical instrument | Synonyms: reticle, reticule |
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horticultural | (adjective) of or relating to the cultivation of plants | - |
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horticulturally | (adverb) by means of horticulture | - |
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horticulture | (noun) the cultivation of plants | Synonyms: gardening |
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horticulturist | (noun) an expert in the science of cultivating plants (fruit or flowers or vegetables or ornamental plants) | Synonyms: plantsman |
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inarticulate | (adjective) without or deprived of the use of speech or words | Synonyms: unarticulate |
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inarticulately | (adverb) in an inarticulate manner | - |
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(adverb) without eloquence; in an inarticulate manner | Synonyms: ineloquently |
inconspicuous | (adjective) not prominent or readily noticeable | Synonyms: invisible |
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inconspicuously | (adverb) in a manner intended to avoid attracting attention | - |
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inconspicuousness | (noun) the quality of being not easily seen | - |
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intraventricular | (adjective) within the system of ventricles in the brain | - |
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lenticular | (adjective) convex on both sides; shaped like a lentil | Synonyms: biconvex, convexo-convex, lentiform |
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manicure | (noun) professional care for the hands and fingernails | - |
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(verb) care for (one's hand) by cutting and shaping the nails, etc. | - |
(verb) trim carefully and neatly | - |
manicurist | (noun) a beautician who cleans and trims and polishes the fingernails | - |
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matriculate | (noun) someone who has been admitted to a college or university | - |
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(verb) enroll as a student | - |