aerophilatelic | (adjective) of or relating to airmail stamps | - |
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aerophilately | (noun) the collection and study of airmail stamps | - |
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ailanthus | (noun) any of several deciduous Asian trees of the genus Ailanthus | - |
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alfilaria | (noun) European weed naturalized in southwestern United States and Mexico having reddish decumbent stems with small fernlike leaves and small deep reddish-lavender flowers followed by slender fruits that stick straight up; often grown for forage | Synonyms: alfileria, clocks, Erodium cicutarium, filaree, filaria, pin clover, pin grass, redstem storksbill |
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alhamdulilah | (noun) An expression meaning 'praise God' in Arabic | - |
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annihilate | (verb) kill in large numbers | Synonyms: carry off, decimate, eliminate, eradicate, extinguish, wipe out |
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annihilated | (adjective) destroyed completely | Synonyms: exterminated, wiped out |
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annihilating | (adjective) wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction | Synonyms: annihilative, devastating, withering |
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(adjective) making light of | Synonyms: devastating, withering |
annihilation | (noun) destruction by annihilating something | Synonyms: obliteration |
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(noun) total destruction | Synonyms: disintegration |
annihilative | (adjective) wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction | Synonyms: annihilating, devastating, withering |
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annihilator | (noun) a total destroyer | - |
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assailability | (noun) vulnerability to forceful attack | - |
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assailable | (adjective) not defended or capable of being defended | Synonyms: open, undefendable, undefended |
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assailant | (noun) someone who attacks | Synonyms: aggressor, assaulter, attacker |
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assibilate | (verb) change into a sibilant | - |
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(verb) insert a sibilant sound before or after (another sound) | - |
assibilation | (noun) pronunciation with a sibilant (hissing or whistling) sound | Synonyms: sibilation |
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(noun) the development of a consonant phoneme into a sibilant | - |
assimilability | (noun) Capability of being taken in and utilized as nourishment. | - |
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assimilable | (adjective) able to be absorbed and incorporated into body tissues | - |
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assimilate | (verb) become similar to one's environment | - |
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(verb) make similar | - |
(verb) become similar in sound | - |
(verb) take up mentally | Synonyms: absorb, ingest, take in |
(verb) take (gas, light or heat) into a solution | Synonyms: imbibe |
assimilating | (adjective) capable of taking (gas, light, or liquids) into a solution | Synonyms: assimilative, assimilatory |
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assimilation | (noun) in the theories of Jean Piaget: the application of a general schema to a particular instance | - |
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(noun) the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure | Synonyms: acculturation |
(noun) a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound | - |
(noun) the process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion | Synonyms: absorption |
(noun) the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another | Synonyms: absorption |
(noun) the state of being assimilated; people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family | - |
assimilative | (adjective) capable of taking (gas, light, or liquids) into a solution | Synonyms: assimilating, assimilatory |
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(adjective) capable of mentally absorbing | - |
assimilator | (noun) someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs | Synonyms: learner, scholar, student |
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assimilatory | (adjective) capable of taking (gas, light, or liquids) into a solution | Synonyms: assimilating, assimilative |
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availability | (noun) the quality of being at hand when needed | Synonyms: accessibility, availableness, handiness |
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available | (adjective) obtainable or accessible and ready for use or service | - |
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(adjective) convenient for use or disposal | Synonyms: usable, useable |
(adjective) not busy; not otherwise committed | Synonyms: uncommitted |
availableness | (noun) the quality of being at hand when needed | Synonyms: accessibility, availability, handiness |
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bailable | (adjective) eligible for bail | - |
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(adjective) admitting of bail | - |
basilar | (adjective) of or relating to or located at the base | Synonyms: basilary |
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basilary | (adjective) of or relating to or located at the base | Synonyms: basilar |
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bifilar | (adjective) having or using two filaments | - |
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bilabial | (adjective) of or relating to or being a speech sound that is articulated using both lips | - |
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(noun) a consonant that is articulated using both lips; /p/ or /b/ or /w/ | - |
bilabiate | (adjective) having two lips | Synonyms: two-lipped |
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bilateral | (adjective) having two sides or parts | Synonyms: two-sided |
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(adjective) affecting or undertaken by two parties | - |
(adjective) having identical parts on each side of an axis | Synonyms: bilaterally symmetric, bilaterally symmetrical, isobilateral |
bilateralism | (noun) the property of being symmetrical about a vertical plane | Synonyms: bilateral symmetry, bilaterality |
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bilaterality | (noun) the property of being symmetrical about a vertical plane | Synonyms: bilateral symmetry, bilateralism |
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bilaterally | (adverb) with the involvement of two parties or governments | - |
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(adverb) so as to involve two sides or parts | - |
bombilate | (verb) make a buzzing sound | Synonyms: bombinate, buzz |
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bombilation | (noun) sound of rapid vibration | Synonyms: bombination, buzz |
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bronchodilator | (noun) a drug that relaxes and dilates the bronchial passageways and improves the passages of air into the lungs | - |
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cartilage | (noun) tough elastic tissue; mostly converted to bone in adults | Synonyms: gristle |
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cartilaginification | (noun) abnormal formation of cartilage from other tissues; observed in some Asians | - |
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cartilaginous | (adjective) of or relating to cartilage | - |
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(adjective) difficult to chew | Synonyms: gristly, rubbery |
cilantro | (noun) parsley-like herb used as seasoning or garnish | Synonyms: Chinese parsley, coriander |
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(noun) Old World herb with aromatic leaves and seed resembling parsley | Synonyms: Chinese parsley, coriander, coriander plant, Coriandrum sativum |
compilation | (noun) the act of compiling (as into a single book or file or list) | Synonyms: compiling |
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(noun) something that is compiled (as into a single book or file) | Synonyms: digest |
curtilage | (noun) the enclosed land around a house or other building | Synonyms: grounds, yard |
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defilade | (noun) the arrangement of defensive fortifications to protect against enemy fire | - |
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depilate | (verb) remove body hair | Synonyms: epilate |
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depilation | (noun) the act of removing hair (as from an animal skin) | Synonyms: epilation |
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(noun) the condition of being void of hair | Synonyms: hairlessness |
depilator | (noun) a cosmetic for temporary removal of undesired hair | Synonyms: depilatory, epilator |
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depilatory | (adjective) able to remove hair or render hairless | - |
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(noun) a cosmetic for temporary removal of undesired hair | Synonyms: depilator, epilator |
(noun) a chemical (usually a sulfide) used to remove hair or wool or bristles from hides | - |
despoilation | (noun) the act of stripping and taking by force | Synonyms: despoilment, despoliation, spoil, spoilation, spoliation |
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dilapidate | (verb) fall into decay or ruin | Synonyms: crumble, decay |
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(verb) bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin by neglect or misuse | - |
dilapidated | (adjective) in deplorable condition | Synonyms: bedraggled, broken-down, derelict, ramshackle, tatterdemalion, tumble-down |
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dilapidation | (noun) the process of becoming dilapidated | Synonyms: ruin |
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(noun) a state of deterioration due to old age or long use | Synonyms: decrepitude |
dilatation | (noun) the act of expanding an aperture | Synonyms: dilation |
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(noun) the state of being stretched beyond normal dimensions | Synonyms: distension, distention |
dilate | (verb) become wider | Synonyms: distend |
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(verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing | Synonyms: elaborate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, flesh out, lucubrate |
dilater | (noun) a surgical instrument that is used to dilate or distend an opening or an organ | Synonyms: dilator |
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dilation | (noun) the act of expanding an aperture | Synonyms: dilatation |
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(noun) a lengthy discussion (spoken or written) on a particular topic | - |
dilator | (noun) a surgical instrument that is used to dilate or distend an opening or an organ | Synonyms: dilater |
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(noun) a drug that causes dilation | - |
(noun) a muscle or nerve that dilates or widens a body part | - |
dilatoriness | (noun) slowness as a consequence of not getting around to it | Synonyms: procrastination |
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dilatory | (adjective) wasting time | Synonyms: laggard, pokey, poky |
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dissimilar | (adjective) not similar | - |
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(adjective) not alike or similar | Synonyms: unalike |
dissimilarity | (noun) the quality of being dissimilar | Synonyms: unsimilarity |
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dissimilate | (verb) become dissimilar or less similar | - |
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(verb) make dissimilar; cause to become less similar | - |
(verb) become dissimilar by changing the sound qualities | - |
dissimilation | (noun) breakdown in living organisms of more complex substances into simpler ones together with release of energy | Synonyms: catabolism, destructive metabolism, katabolism |
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(noun) a linguistic process by which one of two similar sounds in a word becomes less like the other | - |
drosophila | (noun) small fruit fly used by Thomas Hunt Morgan in studying basic mechanisms of inheritance | Synonyms: Drosophila melanogaster |
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enchilada | (noun) tortilla with meat filling baked in tomato sauce seasoned with chili | - |
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enfilade | (noun) gunfire directed along the length rather than the breadth of a formation | Synonyms: enfilade fire |
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(verb) rake or be in a position to rake with gunfire in a lengthwise direction | - |
ensilage | (noun) fodder harvested while green and kept succulent by partial fermentation as in a silo | Synonyms: silage |
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epilate | (verb) remove body hair | Synonyms: depilate |
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epilation | (noun) the act of removing hair (as from an animal skin) | Synonyms: depilation |
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(noun) loss of hair; the result of removing hair | - |
epilator | (noun) a cosmetic for temporary removal of undesired hair | Synonyms: depilator, depilatory |
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equilateral | (adjective) having all sides or faces equal | - |
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(noun) a figure whose sides are all equal | - |
exhilarate | (verb) fill with sublime emotion | Synonyms: beatify, exalt, inebriate, thrill, tickle pink |
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exhilarated | (adjective) made joyful | Synonyms: gladdened |
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exhilarating | (adjective) making lively and joyful | Synonyms: elating |
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(adjective) making lively and cheerful | Synonyms: stimulating |
exhilaration | (noun) the feeling of lively and cheerful joy | Synonyms: excitement |
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fibrocartilage | (noun) cartilage that is largely composed of fibers like those in ordinary connective tissue | - |
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fibrocartilaginous | (adjective) of or relating to fibrocartilage | - |
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filaggrin | (noun) the main protein of the keratohyalin granules | - |
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filago | (noun) any plant of the genus Filago having capitate clusters of small woolly flower heads | Synonyms: cotton rose, cudweed |
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filagree | (noun) delicate and intricate ornamentation (usually in gold or silver or other fine twisted wire) | Synonyms: filigree, fillagree |
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filament | (noun) a thin wire (usually tungsten) that is heated white hot by the passage of an electric current | - |
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(noun) a threadlike structure (as a chainlike series of cells) | Synonyms: filum |
(noun) the stalk of a stamen | - |
(noun) a very slender natural or synthetic fiber | Synonyms: fibril, strand |
filamentlike | (adjective) thin in diameter; resembling a thread | Synonyms: filamentous, filiform, threadlike, thready |
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filamentous | (adjective) thin in diameter; resembling a thread | Synonyms: filamentlike, filiform, threadlike, thready |
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filar | (adjective) related to or having filaments (especially across a field of view as in the eyepiece of a telescope) | - |
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filaree | (noun) European weed naturalized in southwestern United States and Mexico having reddish decumbent stems with small fernlike leaves and small deep reddish-lavender flowers followed by slender fruits that stick straight up; often grown for forage | Synonyms: alfilaria, alfileria, clocks, Erodium cicutarium, filaria, pin clover, pin grass, redstem storksbill |
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filaria | (noun) slender threadlike roundworms living in the blood and tissues of vertebrates; transmitted as larvae by biting insects | - |
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(noun) European weed naturalized in southwestern United States and Mexico having reddish decumbent stems with small fernlike leaves and small deep reddish-lavender flowers followed by slender fruits that stick straight up; often grown for forage | Synonyms: alfilaria, alfileria, clocks, Erodium cicutarium, filaree, pin clover, pin grass, redstem storksbill |
filarial | (adjective) related to or infested with or transmitting parasitic worms especially filaria | - |
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filariasis | (noun) a disease caused by nematodes in the blood or tissues of the body causing blockage of lymphatic vessels | - |
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filariid | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the family Filariidae | - |
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filature | (noun) a bobbin used in spinning silk into thread | - |
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gracilariid | (noun) small dull or metallic-colored tineoid moths whose larvae mine in plant leaves | Synonyms: gracilariid moth |
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heliophila | (noun) any of various South African herbs and subshrubs cultivated for long showy racemes of bright blue flowers with white eyes | - |
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hilar | (adjective) of or relating to or located near a hilum | - |
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hilarious | (adjective) marked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter | Synonyms: screaming, uproarious |
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hilariously | (adverb) in a hilarious manner | Synonyms: uproariously |
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hilarity | (noun) great merriment | Synonyms: glee, gleefulness, mirth, mirthfulness |
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horripilate | (verb) cause (someone's) hair to stand on end and to have goosebumps | - |
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(verb) have one's hair stand on end and get goosebumps | - |