adscript | (adjective) written or printed immediately following another character and aligned with it | - |
---|
(adjective) (used of persons) bound to a tract of land; hence their service is transferable from owner to owner | Synonyms: adscripted |
adscripted | (adjective) (used of persons) bound to a tract of land; hence their service is transferable from owner to owner | Synonyms: adscript |
---|
amitriptyline | (noun) a tricyclic antidepressant drug (trade name Elavil) with serious side effects; interacts with many other medications | Synonyms: amitriptyline hydrochloride, Elavil |
---|
ascription | (noun) assigning to a cause or source | Synonyms: attribution |
---|
(noun) assigning some quality or character to a person or thing | Synonyms: attribution |
circumscription | (noun) the act of circumscribing | - |
---|
conniption | (noun) a display of bad temper | Synonyms: fit, scene, tantrum |
---|
conscript | (noun) someone who is drafted into military service | Synonyms: draftee, inductee |
---|
(verb) enroll into service compulsorily | - |
conscription | (noun) compulsory military service | Synonyms: draft, muster, selective service |
---|
description | (noun) sort or variety | - |
---|
(noun) the act of describing something | - |
(noun) a statement that represents something in words | Synonyms: verbal description |
descriptive | (adjective) of or relating to an approach to linguistic analysis that aims at the description of a language's forms, structures and usage | - |
---|
(adjective) serving to describe or inform or characterized by description | - |
descriptively | (adverb) by giving a description | - |
---|
descriptivism | (noun) (linguistics) a doctrine supporting or promoting descriptive linguistics | - |
---|
(noun) (ethics) a doctrine holding that moral statements have a truth value | - |
descriptor | (noun) a piece of stored information that is used to identify an item in an information storage and retrieval system | - |
---|
(noun) the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something | Synonyms: form, signifier, word form |
dipteran | (noun) insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing | Synonyms: dipteron, dipterous insect, two-winged insects |
---|
dipterocarp | (noun) tree of the family Dipterocarpaceae | - |
---|
dipteron | (noun) insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing | Synonyms: dipteran, dipterous insect, two-winged insects |
---|
dipterous | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the Diptera | - |
---|
diptych | (noun) a painting or carving (especially an altarpiece) on two panels (usually hinged like a book) | - |
---|
ecliptic | (noun) the great circle representing the apparent annual path of the sun; the plane of the Earth's orbit around the sun; makes an angle of about 23 degrees with the equator | - |
---|
elliptic | (adjective) characterized by extreme economy of expression or omission of superfluous elements | Synonyms: elliptical |
---|
(adjective) rounded like an egg | Synonyms: egg-shaped, elliptical, oval-shaped, oval, ovate, oviform, ovoid, prolate |
(adjective) (of a leaf shape) in the form of an ellipse | - |
elliptical | (adjective) characterized by extreme economy of expression or omission of superfluous elements | Synonyms: elliptic |
---|
(adjective) rounded like an egg | Synonyms: egg-shaped, elliptic, oval-shaped, oval, ovate, oviform, ovoid, prolate |
ellipticity | (noun) the property possessed by a round shape that is flattened at the poles | Synonyms: oblateness |
---|
equipt | (adjective) provided or fitted out with what is necessary or useful or appropriate | Synonyms: equipped |
---|
hemipteran | (noun) insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis | Synonyms: bug, hemipteron, hemipterous insect |
---|
hemipteron | (noun) insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis | Synonyms: bug, hemipteran, hemipterous insect |
---|
inscription | (noun) the activity of inscribing (especially carving or engraving) letters or words | - |
---|
(noun) letters inscribed (especially words engraved or carved) on something | Synonyms: lettering |
(noun) a short message (as in a book or musical work or on a photograph) dedicating it to someone or something | Synonyms: dedication |
inscriptive | (adjective) of or relating to an inscription | - |
---|
inscriptively | (adverb) by means of an inscription | - |
---|
manuscript | (noun) the form of a literary work submitted for publication | Synonyms: ms |
---|
(noun) handwritten book or document | Synonyms: holograph |
nondescript | (adjective) lacking distinct or individual characteristics; dull and uninteresting | Synonyms: characterless |
---|
(noun) a person who is not easily classified and not very interesting | - |
nonprescription | (adjective) purchasable without a doctor's prescription | Synonyms: over-the-counter |
---|
nortriptyline | (noun) a tricyclic antidepressant drug (trade name Pamelor) used along with psychotherapy to treat dysthymic depression; may interact dangerously if taken with other drugs | Synonyms: Pamelor |
---|
peripteral | (adjective) having columns on all sides | - |
---|
playscript | (noun) a written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance | Synonyms: book, script |
---|
postscript | (noun) a note appended to a letter after the signature | Synonyms: PS |
---|
(noun) textual matter that is added onto a publication; usually at the end | Synonyms: addendum, supplement |
prescript | (noun) prescribed guide for conduct or action | Synonyms: rule |
---|
prescription | (adjective) available only with a doctor's written prescription | - |
---|
(noun) a drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist | Synonyms: ethical drug, prescription drug, prescription medicine |
(noun) directions prescribed beforehand; the action of prescribing authoritative rules or directions | - |
(noun) written instructions from a physician or dentist to a druggist concerning the form and dosage of a drug to be issued to a given patient | - |
(noun) written instructions for an optician on the lenses for a given person | - |
prescriptive | (adjective) pertaining to giving directives or rules | Synonyms: normative |
---|
prescriptivism | (noun) (linguistics) a doctrine supporting or promoting prescriptive linguistics | - |
---|
(noun) (ethics) a doctrine holding that moral statements prescribe appropriate attitudes and behavior | - |
proscription | (noun) rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone | Synonyms: banishment |
---|
(noun) a decree that prohibits something | Synonyms: ban, prohibition |
protriptyline | (noun) tricyclic antidepressant used to treat clinical depression | - |
---|
pseudoperipteral | (adjective) having columniation completely circling an area of the structure | Synonyms: peristylar |
---|
receipt | (noun) the act of receiving | Synonyms: reception |
---|
(noun) an acknowledgment (usually tangible) that payment has been made | - |
(verb) mark or stamp as paid | - |
(verb) report the receipt of | Synonyms: acknowledge |
receipts | (noun) the entire amount of income before any deductions are made | Synonyms: gross, revenue |
---|
rescript | (noun) something that has been written again | Synonyms: revision, rewrite |
---|
(noun) the act of rewriting something | Synonyms: revisal, revise, revision |
(noun) a reply by a Pope to an inquiry concerning a point of law or morality | - |
(noun) a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge) | Synonyms: decree, edict, fiat, order |
riptide | (noun) a strong surface current flowing outwards from a shore | Synonyms: rip current |
---|
(noun) a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current | Synonyms: countercurrent, crosscurrent, rip, tide rip |
script | (noun) a written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance | Synonyms: book, playscript |
---|
(noun) a particular orthography or writing system | - |
(noun) something written by hand | Synonyms: hand, handwriting |
(verb) write a script for | - |
scripted | (adjective) written as for a film or play or broadcast | Synonyms: written |
---|
scriptorium | (noun) a room in a monastery that is set aside for writing or copying manuscripts | - |
---|
scriptural | (adjective) of or pertaining to or contained in or in accordance with the Bible | Synonyms: biblical |
---|
(adjective) written or relating to writing | - |
scripture | (noun) any writing that is regarded as sacred by a religious group | Synonyms: sacred scripture |
---|
scriptwriter | (noun) someone who writes scripts for plays or movies or broadcast dramas | - |
---|
striptease | (noun) a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music | Synonyms: strip, strip show |
---|
(noun) a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music | Synonyms: ecdysiast, exotic dancer, peeler, stripper, striptease artist, stripteaser |
stripteaser | (noun) a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music | Synonyms: ecdysiast, exotic dancer, peeler, stripper, striptease, striptease artist |
---|
subscript | (adjective) written or printed below and to one side of another character | Synonyms: inferior |
---|
(noun) a character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side of another character | Synonyms: inferior |
subscription | (noun) a pledged contribution | - |
---|
(noun) the act of signing your name; writing your signature (as on a document) | - |
(noun) agreement expressed by (or as if expressed by) signing your name | - |
(noun) a payment for consecutive issues of a newspaper or magazine for a given period of time | - |
superscript | (adjective) written or printed above and to one side of another character | Synonyms: superior |
---|
(noun) a character or symbol set or printed or written above and immediately to one side of another character | Synonyms: superior |
superscription | (noun) the activity of superscribing | - |
---|
(noun) an inscription written above something else | - |
tiptoe | (noun) the tip of a toe | - |
---|
(adverb) on tiptoe or as if on tiptoe | - |
(verb) walk on one's toes | Synonyms: tip, tippytoe |
tiptop | (adjective) of the highest quality | Synonyms: A-one, ace, crack, first-rate, super, top-notch, topnotch, tops |
---|
(noun) the extreme top or summit | - |
(noun) the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development | Synonyms: acme, elevation, height, meridian, peak, pinnacle, summit, superlative, top |
transcript | (noun) a reproduction of a written record (e.g. of a legal or school record) | Synonyms: copy |
---|
(noun) something that has been transcribed; a written record (usually typewritten) of dictated or recorded speech | - |
transcriptase | (noun) the enzyme that copies DNA into RNA | Synonyms: RNA polymerase |
---|
transcription | (noun) the act of making a record (especially an audio record) | Synonyms: recording |
---|
(noun) the act of arranging and adapting a piece of music | Synonyms: arrangement, arranging |
(noun) a sound or television recording (e.g., from a broadcast to a tape recording) | - |
(noun) something written, especially copied from one medium to another, as a typewritten version of dictation | Synonyms: written text |
(noun) (genetics) the organic process whereby the DNA sequence in a gene is copied into mRNA; the process whereby a base sequence of messenger RNA is synthesized on a template of complementary DNA | - |
tripton | (noun) The inorganic particulate matter suspended in bodies of water such as lakes and seas. | - |
---|
triptych | (noun) art consisting of a painting or carving (especially an altarpiece) on three panels (usually hinged together) | - |
---|
typescript | (noun) typewritten matter especially a typewritten copy of a manuscript | - |
---|
undescriptive | (adjective) not successful in describing | - |
---|
unscripted | (adjective) not furnished with or using a script | - |
---|
whiptail | (noun) any of numerous very agile and alert New World lizards | Synonyms: whiptail lizard |
---|