abseiler | (noun) a person who descends down a nearly vertical face by using a doubled rope that is wrapped around the body and attached to some high point | Synonyms: rappeller |
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acidophile | (noun) an organism that thrives in a relatively acid environment | Synonyms: acidophil |
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acrylonitrile | (noun) a colorless liquid unsaturated nitrile made from propene | Synonyms: propenonitrile, vinyl cyanide |
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aerophile | (noun) a lover of aviation | - |
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afebrile | (adjective) having no fever | - |
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agile | (adjective) moving quickly and lightly | Synonyms: nimble, quick, spry |
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(adjective) mentally quick | Synonyms: nimble |
agilely | (adverb) in a nimble or agile manner; with quickness and lightness and ease | Synonyms: nimbly |
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aileron | (noun) an airfoil that controls lateral motion | - |
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airmailer | (noun) a mailer for airmail | - |
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alfileria | (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, clocks, Erodium cicutarium, filaree, filaria, pin clover, pin grass, redstem storksbill |
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anglophile | (noun) an admirer of England and things English | Synonyms: anglophil |
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anile | (adjective) of or like a feeble old woman | - |
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antiepileptic | (noun) a drug used to treat or prevent convulsions (as in epilepsy) | Synonyms: anticonvulsant, anticonvulsant drug, antiepileptic drug |
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antilepton | (noun) the antiparticle of a lepton | - |
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aquilege | (noun) a plant of the genus Aquilegia having irregular showy spurred flowers; north temperate regions especially mountains | Synonyms: aquilegia, columbine |
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aquilegia | (noun) a plant of the genus Aquilegia having irregular showy spurred flowers; north temperate regions especially mountains | Synonyms: aquilege, columbine |
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ariled | (adjective) (of some seeds) having a fleshy and usually brightly colored cover | Synonyms: arillate |
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audile | (adjective) of or relating to the process of hearing | Synonyms: auditive, auditory |
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(noun) one whose mental imagery is auditory rather than visual or motor | - |
automobile | (noun) a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine | Synonyms: auto, car, machine, motorcar |
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(verb) travel in an automobile | - |
awhile | (adverb) for a brief period | Synonyms: for a while |
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axile | (adjective) relating to or attached to the axis | Synonyms: axial |
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bailee | (noun) the agent to whom property involved in a bailment is delivered | - |
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bailey | (noun) the outer defensive wall that surrounds the outer courtyard of a castle | - |
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(noun) the outer courtyard of a castle | - |
basileus | (noun) a ruler of the eastern Roman Empire | - |
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basophile | (noun) a leukocyte with basophilic granules easily stained by basic stains | Synonyms: basophil |
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beguile | (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
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(verb) influence by slyness | Synonyms: hoodwink, juggle |
beguiled | (adjective) filled with wonder and delight | Synonyms: captivated, charmed, delighted, enthralled, entranced |
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beguilement | (noun) an entertainment that provokes pleased interest and distracts you from worries and vexations | Synonyms: distraction |
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(noun) magnetic personal charm | Synonyms: animal magnetism, bewitchery |
beguiler | (noun) a person who charms others (usually by personal attractiveness) | Synonyms: charmer |
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(noun) someone who leads you to believe something that is not true | Synonyms: cheat, cheater, deceiver, slicker, trickster |
bibliophile | (noun) someone who loves (and usually collects) books | Synonyms: book lover, booklover |
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bile | (noun) a digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder; aids in the digestion of fats | Synonyms: gall |
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bilestone | (noun) a calculus formed in the gall bladder or its ducts | Synonyms: gallstone |
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blackmailer | (noun) a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them | Synonyms: extortioner, extortionist |
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bloodmobile | (noun) a motor vehicle equipped to collect blood donations | - |
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bobtailed | (adjective) having a short or shortened tail | Synonyms: bobtail |
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bodiless | (adjective) not having a material body | Synonyms: discorporate, disembodied, unbodied, unembodied |
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(adjective) having no trunk or main part | Synonyms: bodyless |
boiled | (adjective) cooked in hot water | Synonyms: poached, stewed |
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boiler | (noun) sealed vessel where water is converted to steam | Synonyms: steam boiler |
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(noun) a metal pot for stewing or boiling; usually has a lid | Synonyms: kettle |
boilerplate | (noun) thick plate iron used in the production of boilers | - |
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(noun) standard formulations uniformly found in certain types of legal documents or news stories | - |
boilersuit | (noun) a loose protective coverall or smock worn over ordinary clothing for dirty work | Synonyms: boilers suit, overall |
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bookmobile | (noun) a van with shelves of books; serves as a mobile library or bookstore | - |
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broiled | (adjective) cooked by radiant heat (as over a grill) | Synonyms: grilled |
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broiler | (noun) an oven or part of a stove used for broiling | - |
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(noun) flesh of a small young chicken not over 2 1/2 lb suitable for broiling | - |
camachile | (noun) common thorny tropical American tree having terminal racemes of yellow flowers followed by sickle-shaped or circinate edible pods and yielding good timber and a yellow dye and mucilaginous gum | Synonyms: huamachil, manila tamarind, Pithecellobium dulce, wild tamarind |
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camomile | (noun) Eurasian plant with apple-scented foliage and white-rayed flowers and feathery leaves used medicinally; in some classification systems placed in genus Anthemis | Synonyms: Anthemis nobilis, Chamaemelum nobilis, chamomile |
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campanile | (noun) a bell tower; usually stands alone unattached to a building | Synonyms: belfry |
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cantabile | (adjective) smooth and flowing | Synonyms: singing |
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cantilever | (noun) projecting horizontal beam fixed at one end only | - |
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(verb) construct with girders and beams such that only one end is fixed | - |
(verb) project as a cantilever | - |
caviler | (noun) a disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections | Synonyms: caviller, pettifogger, quibbler |
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centile | (noun) (statistics) any of the 99 numbered points that divide an ordered set of scores into 100 parts each of which contains one-hundredth of the total | Synonyms: percentile |
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chamomile | (noun) Eurasian plant with apple-scented foliage and white-rayed flowers and feathery leaves used medicinally; in some classification systems placed in genus Anthemis | Synonyms: Anthemis nobilis, camomile, Chamaemelum nobilis |
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chile | (noun) very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency | Synonyms: chili, chili pepper, chilli, chilly |
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chlorobenzylidenemalononitrile | (noun) a tear gas that is stronger than CN gas but wears off faster; can be deployed by grenades or cluster bombs; can cause skin burns and fatal pulmonary edema | Synonyms: CS gas |
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chrysotile | (noun) a grey or green fibrous mineral; an important source of commercial asbestos | - |
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coiled | (adjective) curled or wound (especially in concentric rings or spirals) | - |
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compile | (verb) put together out of existing material | Synonyms: compose |
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(verb) use a computer program to translate source code written in a particular programming language into computer-readable machine code that can be executed | - |
(verb) get or gather together | Synonyms: accumulate, amass, collect, hoard, pile up, roll up |
compiler | (noun) (computer science) a program that decodes instructions written in a higher order language and produces an assembly language program | Synonyms: compiling program |
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(noun) a person who compiles information (as for reference purposes) | - |
contractile | (adjective) capable of contracting or being contracted | - |
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crocodile | (noun) large voracious aquatic reptile having a long snout with massive jaws and sharp teeth and a body covered with bony plates; of sluggish tropical waters | - |
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debile | (adjective) lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality | Synonyms: decrepit, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weak, weakly |
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decile | (noun) (statistics) any of nine points that divided a distribution of ranked scores into equal intervals where each interval contains one-tenth of the scores | - |
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defile | (noun) a narrow pass (especially one between mountains) | Synonyms: gorge |
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(verb) spot, stain, or pollute | Synonyms: befoul, foul, maculate |
(verb) make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically | Synonyms: maculate, stain, sully, tarnish |
(verb) place under suspicion or cast doubt upon | Synonyms: cloud, corrupt, sully, taint |
defiled | (adjective) morally blemished; stained or impure | Synonyms: maculate |
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defilement | (noun) the state of being polluted | Synonyms: befoulment, pollution |
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defiler | (noun) a person or organization that causes pollution of the environment | Synonyms: polluter |
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despoiled | (adjective) having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence | Synonyms: pillaged, raped, ravaged, sacked |
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despoiler | (noun) someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war) | Synonyms: freebooter, looter, pillager, plunderer, raider, spoiler |
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detailed | (adjective) developed or executed with care and in minute detail | Synonyms: elaborate, elaborated |
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dilemma | (noun) state of uncertainty or perplexity especially as requiring a choice between equally unfavorable options | Synonyms: quandary |
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dilettante | (adjective) showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish | Synonyms: dilettanteish, dilettantish, sciolistic |
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(noun) an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge | Synonyms: dabbler, sciolist |
dilettanteish | (adjective) showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish | Synonyms: dilettante, dilettantish, sciolistic |
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dilettantish | (adjective) showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish | Synonyms: dilettante, dilettanteish, sciolistic |
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docile | (adjective) willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed | - |
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(adjective) easily handled or managed | Synonyms: gentle |
(adjective) ready and willing to be taught | Synonyms: teachable |
domicile | (noun) housing that someone is living in | Synonyms: abode, dwelling, dwelling house, habitation, home |
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(noun) (law) the residence where you have your permanent home or principal establishment and to where, whenever you are absent, you intend to return; every person is compelled to have one and only one domicile at a time | Synonyms: legal residence |
(verb) make one's home in a particular place or community | Synonyms: domiciliate, reside, shack |
ductile | (adjective) capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out | Synonyms: malleable, pliable, pliant, tensile, tractile |
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(adjective) easily influenced | Synonyms: malleable |
ductileness | (noun) the malleability of something that can be drawn into threads or wires or hammered into thin sheets | Synonyms: ductility |
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embroiled | (adjective) deeply involved especially in something complicated | Synonyms: entangled |
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enophile | (noun) someone who appreciates wine | Synonyms: oenophile |
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ensile | (verb) store in a silo | - |
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eosinophile | (noun) a leukocyte readily stained with eosin | Synonyms: eosinophil |
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epilepsy | (noun) a disorder of the central nervous system characterized by loss of consciousness and convulsions | - |
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epileptic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of epilepsy | - |
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(noun) a person who has epilepsy | - |
erectile | (adjective) capable of being raised to an upright position | - |
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(adjective) filled with vascular sinuses and capable of becoming distended and rigid as the result of being filled with blood | Synonyms: cavernous |
erstwhile | (adjective) belonging to some prior time | Synonyms: former, old, one-time, onetime, quondam, sometime |
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(adverb) at a previous time | Synonyms: at one time, erst, formerly, once |
exile | (noun) the act of expelling a person from their native land | Synonyms: deportation, expatriation, transportation |
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(noun) a person who is expelled from home or country by authority | Synonyms: deportee |
(noun) a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country | Synonyms: expat, expatriate |
(verb) expel from a country | Synonyms: deport, expatriate |
expansile | (adjective) (of gases) capable of expansion | Synonyms: expandable, expandible, expansible |
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extensile | (adjective) capable of being protruded or stretched or opened out | Synonyms: extensible |
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facile | (adjective) expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively | Synonyms: eloquent, fluent, silver-tongued, silver, smooth-spoken |
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(adjective) performing adroitly and without effort | - |
(adjective) superficially impressive, but lacking depth and attention to the true complexities of a subject | Synonyms: neat, slick |
facsimile | (noun) duplicator that transmits the copy by wire or radio | Synonyms: facsimile machine, fax |
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(noun) an exact copy or reproduction | Synonyms: autotype |
(verb) send something via a facsimile machine | Synonyms: fax, telefax |
febrile | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by fever | Synonyms: feverish |
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fertile | (adjective) capable of reproducing | - |
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(adjective) marked by great fruitfulness | Synonyms: fat, productive, rich |
(adjective) bearing in abundance especially offspring | Synonyms: prolific |
(adjective) intellectually productive | Synonyms: fecund, prolific |
fictile | (adjective) of or relating to the craft of pottery | - |
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(adjective) capable of being molded or modeled (especially of earth or clay or other soft material) | Synonyms: moldable, plastic |
(adjective) susceptible to being led or directed | Synonyms: pliable |
file | (noun) a steel hand tool with small sharp teeth on some or all of its surfaces; used for smoothing wood or metal | - |
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(noun) office furniture consisting of a container for keeping papers in order | Synonyms: file cabinet, filing cabinet |
(noun) a set of related records (either written or electronic) kept together | Synonyms: data file |
(noun) a line of persons or things ranged one behind the other | Synonyms: Indian file, single file |
(verb) place in a container for keeping records | Synonyms: file away |
(verb) file a formal charge against | Synonyms: charge, lodge |
(verb) record in a public office or in a court of law | Synonyms: register |
(verb) smooth with a file | - |
(verb) proceed in line | - |
filefish | (noun) narrow flattened warm-water fishes with leathery skin and a long file-like dorsal spine | - |
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filename | (noun) (computer science) the name given to a computer file in order to distinguish it from other files; may contain an extension that indicates the type of file | Synonyms: computer file name, computer filename, file name |
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filer | (noun) a party who files a notice with a law court | - |
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(noun) a clerk who is employed to maintain the files of an organization | Synonyms: file clerk, filing clerk |
filet | (noun) lace having a square mesh | Synonyms: fillet |
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(noun) a boneless steak cut from the tenderloin of beef | Synonyms: fillet |
(noun) a longitudinal slice or boned side of a fish | Synonyms: fillet, fish filet, fish fillet |
(verb) cut into filets | Synonyms: fillet |
(verb) decorate with a lace of geometric designs | Synonyms: fillet |
fissile | (adjective) capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction of the grain | - |
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(adjective) capable of undergoing nuclear fission | Synonyms: fissionable |
flexile | (adjective) able to flex; able to bend easily | Synonyms: flexible |
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florilegium | (noun) an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc. | Synonyms: garland, miscellany |
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