aliterate | (noun) a person who can read but is disinclined to derive information from literary sources | Synonyms: aliterate person |
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alliterate | (verb) use alliteration as a form of poetry | - |
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alliteration | (noun) use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse | Synonyms: beginning rhyme, head rhyme, initial rhyme |
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alliterative | (adjective) having the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable | - |
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alliteratively | (adverb) in an alliterative manner | - |
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alliterator | (noun) a speaker or writer who makes use of alliteration | - |
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arbiter | (noun) someone chosen to judge and decide a disputed issue | Synonyms: arbitrator, umpire |
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(noun) someone with the power to settle matters at will | Synonyms: supreme authority |
backbiter | (noun) one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel | Synonyms: defamer, libeler, maligner, slanderer, traducer, vilifier |
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biter | (noun) someone who bites | - |
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cassiterite | (noun) a hard heavy dark mineral that is the chief source of tin | - |
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centiliter | (noun) a metric unit of volume equal to one hundredth of a liter | Synonyms: centilitre, cl |
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chapiter | (noun) the upper part of a column that supports the entablature | Synonyms: cap, capital |
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copywriter | (noun) a person employed to write advertising or publicity copy | - |
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counterfeiter | (noun) someone who makes copies illegally | Synonyms: forger |
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criterial | (adjective) serving as a basis for evaluation | Synonyms: criterional |
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criterion | (noun) the ideal in terms of which something can be judged | Synonyms: standard |
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(noun) a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated | Synonyms: measure, standard, touchstone |
criterional | (adjective) serving as a basis for evaluation | Synonyms: criterial |
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criterium | (noun) a bicycle race held on a short course (usually less than 5 km or 3 miles) | Synonyms: crit |
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decaliter | (noun) a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters | Synonyms: dal, decalitre, dekaliter, dekalitre, dkl |
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deciliter | (noun) a metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter | Synonyms: decilitre, dl |
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dekaliter | (noun) a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters | Synonyms: dal, decaliter, decalitre, dekalitre, dkl |
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dumbwaiter | (noun) a small elevator used to convey food (or other goods) from one floor of a building to another | Synonyms: food elevator |
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dynamiter | (noun) a person who uses dynamite in a revolutionary cause | Synonyms: dynamitist |
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exploiter | (noun) a person who uses something or someone selfishly or unethically | Synonyms: user |
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fruiterer | (noun) a person who sells fruit | - |
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gagwriter | (noun) someone who writes comic material for public performers | Synonyms: gagman, gagster |
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gaiter | (noun) legging consisting of a cloth or leather covering for the leg from the knee to the ankle | - |
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(noun) a cloth covering (a legging) that covers the instep and ankles | Synonyms: spat |
(noun) a shoe covering the ankle with elastic gores in the sides | - |
ghostwriter | (noun) a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else | Synonyms: ghost |
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goiter | (noun) abnormally enlarged thyroid gland; can result from underproduction or overproduction of hormone or from a deficiency of iodine in the diet | Synonyms: goitre, struma, thyromegaly |
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headwaiter | (noun) a dining-room attendant who is in charge of the waiters and the seating of customers | Synonyms: captain, maitre d', maitre d'hotel |
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hectoliter | (noun) a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 100 liters | Synonyms: hectolitre, hl |
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igniter | (noun) a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires | Synonyms: ignitor, light, lighter |
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(noun) a substance used to ignite or kindle a fire | Synonyms: ignitor, lighter |
illiteracy | (noun) an inability to read | Synonyms: analphabetism |
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(noun) ignorance resulting from not reading | - |
illiterate | (adjective) not able to read or write | - |
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(adjective) lacking culture, especially in language and literature | - |
(adjective) uneducated in the fundamentals of a given art or branch of learning; lacking knowledge of a specific field | Synonyms: ignorant |
(noun) a person unable to read | Synonyms: illiterate person, nonreader |
inciter | (noun) someone who deliberately foments trouble | Synonyms: firebrand, instigant, instigator, provoker |
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iterate | (verb) run or be performed again | - |
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(verb) to say, state, or perform again | Synonyms: ingeminate, reiterate, repeat, restate, retell |
iteration | (noun) doing or saying again; a repeated performance | - |
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(noun) (computer science) executing the same set of instructions a given number of times or until a specified result is obtained | Synonyms: looping |
(noun) (computer science) a single execution of a set of instructions that are to be repeated | Synonyms: loop |
iterative | (adjective) marked by iteration | Synonyms: reiterative |
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(noun) the aspect of the verb that expresses the repetition of an action | Synonyms: iterative aspect |
kiloliter | (noun) a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 1000 liters | Synonyms: cubic meter, cubic metre, kilolitre |
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limiter | (noun) (electronics) a nonlinear electronic circuit whose output is limited in amplitude; used to limit the instantaneous amplitude of a waveform (to clip off the peaks of a waveform) | Synonyms: clipper |
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liter | (noun) a metric unit of capacity, formerly defined as the volume of one kilogram of pure water under standard conditions; now equal to 1,000 cubic centimeters (or approximately 1.75 pints) | Synonyms: cubic decimeter, cubic decimetre, l, litre |
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literacy | (noun) the ability to read and write | - |
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literal | (adjective) limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text | - |
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(adjective) without interpretation or embellishment | - |
(adjective) avoiding embellishment or exaggeration (used for emphasis) | - |
(adjective) being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something | Synonyms: actual, genuine, real |
(noun) a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind | Synonyms: erratum, literal error, misprint, typo, typographical error |
literalise | (verb) make literal | Synonyms: literalize |
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literalism | (noun) the doctrine of realistic (literal) portrayal in art or literature | - |
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(noun) a disposition to interpret statements in their literal sense | - |
literalize | (verb) make literal | Synonyms: literalise |
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literally | (adverb) in a literal sense | - |
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(adverb) (intensifier before a figurative expression) without exaggeration | - |
literalness | (noun) adhering to the concrete construal of something | - |
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literary | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of literature | - |
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(adjective) appropriate to literature rather than everyday speech or writing | - |
(adjective) knowledgeable about literature | - |
literate | (adjective) able to read and write | - |
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(adjective) versed in literature; dealing with literature | - |
(adjective) knowledgeable and educated in one or several fields | - |
(noun) a person who can read and write | Synonyms: literate person |
literati | (noun) the literary intelligentsia | - |
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literatim | (adverb) letter for letter | - |
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literature | (noun) the profession or art of a writer | - |
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(noun) the humanistic study of a body of literature | Synonyms: lit |
(noun) creative writing of recognized artistic value | - |
(noun) published writings in a particular style on a particular subject | - |
loiter | (verb) be about a place without any apparent purpose | Synonyms: footle, hang around, lallygag, linger, loaf, lollygag, lounge, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry |
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loiterer | (noun) someone who lingers aimlessly in or about a place | Synonyms: lingerer |
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milliliter | (noun) a metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter | Synonyms: cc, cubic centimeter, cubic centimetre, mil, millilitre, ml |
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miter | (noun) a liturgical headdress worn by bishops on formal occasions | Synonyms: mitre |
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(noun) the surface of a beveled end of a piece where a miter joint is made | Synonyms: mitre |
(noun) joint that forms a corner; usually both sides are bevelled at a 45-degree angle to form a 90-degree corner | Synonyms: miter joint, mitre, mitre joint |
(verb) bevel the edges of, to make a miter joint | - |
(verb) fit together in a miter joint | - |
(verb) confer a miter on (a bishop) | - |
miterwort | (noun) any of various rhizomatous perennial herbs of the genus Mitella having a capsule resembling a bishop's miter | Synonyms: bishop's cap, mitrewort |
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newswriter | (noun) a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media | Synonyms: correspondent |
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niter | (noun) (KNO3) used especially as a fertilizer and explosive | Synonyms: nitre, potassium nitrate, saltpeter, saltpetre |
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nonliteral | (adjective) (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech | Synonyms: figurative |
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nonliterary | (adjective) marked by lack of affectation or pedantry | Synonyms: unliterary |
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nonliterate | (adjective) used of a society that has not developed writing | Synonyms: preliterate |
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obliterable | (adjective) able to be obliterated completely | Synonyms: removable |
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obliterate | (adjective) reduced to nothingness | Synonyms: blotted out, obliterated |
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(verb) remove completely from recognition or memory | Synonyms: efface |
(verb) make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing | Synonyms: blot out, hide, obscure, veil |
(verb) mark for deletion, rub off, or erase | Synonyms: kill, wipe out |
(verb) do away with completely, without leaving a trace | - |
obliterated | (adjective) reduced to nothingness | Synonyms: blotted out, obliterate |
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obliteration | (noun) destruction by annihilating something | Synonyms: annihilation |
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(noun) the complete destruction of every trace of something | Synonyms: eradication |
obliterator | (noun) an eliminator that does away with all traces | - |
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orbiter | (noun) man-made equipment that orbits around the earth or the moon | Synonyms: artificial satellite, satellite |
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plaiter | (noun) someone who plaits (hair or fabric etc.) | - |
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preliterate | (adjective) not yet having acquired the ability to read and write | - |
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(adjective) used of a society that has not developed writing | Synonyms: nonliterate |
profiterole | (noun) a small hollow pastry that is typically filled with cream and covered with chocolate | - |
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reciter | (noun) someone who recites from memory | - |
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reconnoiter | (verb) explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody | Synonyms: reconnoitre, scout |
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reconnoitering | (noun) exploring in order to gain information | Synonyms: exploratory survey, reconnoitring, scouting |
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recruiter | (noun) an official who enlists personnel for military service | - |
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(noun) someone who supplies members or employees | - |
reiterate | (verb) to say, state, or perform again | Synonyms: ingeminate, iterate, repeat, restate, retell |
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reiteration | (noun) the act of repeating over and again (or an instance thereof) | Synonyms: reduplication |
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reiterative | (adjective) marked by iteration | Synonyms: iterative |
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rewriter | (noun) someone who puts text into appropriate form for publication | Synonyms: redact, redactor, reviser, rewrite man |
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screenwriter | (noun) someone who writes screenplays | Synonyms: film writer |
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scriptwriter | (noun) someone who writes scripts for plays or movies or broadcast dramas | - |
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semiliterate | (adjective) literate but poorly informed | - |
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(adjective) barely able to read and write | - |
(adjective) able to read but not to write | - |
semiterrestrial | (adjective) chiefly but not exclusively terrestrial | - |
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sempiternal | (adjective) having no known beginning and presumably no end | Synonyms: dateless, endless |
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sempiternity | (noun) the property of being perpetual (seemingly ceaseless) | Synonyms: perpetuity |
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songwriter | (noun) a composer of words or music for popular songs | Synonyms: ballad maker, songster |
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speechwriter | (noun) a writer who composes speeches for others to deliver | - |
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sportswriter | (noun) a journalist who writes about sports | Synonyms: sports writer |
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subliterary | (adjective) not written as or intended to be literature | - |
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teletypewriter | (noun) a character printer connected to a telegraph that operates like a typewriter | Synonyms: teleprinter, teletype machine, telex, telex machine |
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titer | (noun) the concentration of a solution as determined by titration | Synonyms: titre |
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transliterate | (verb) rewrite in a different script | Synonyms: transcribe |
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transliteration | (noun) a transcription from one alphabet to another | - |
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typewriter | (noun) hand-operated character printer for printing written messages one character at a time | - |
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underwriter | (noun) a financial institution that sells insurance | Synonyms: insurance company, insurance firm, insurance underwriter, insurer |
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(noun) a banker who deals chiefly in underwriting new securities | Synonyms: investment banker |
(noun) an agent who sells insurance | Synonyms: general agent, insurance agent, insurance broker |
unliterary | (adjective) marked by lack of affectation or pedantry | Synonyms: nonliterary |
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vomiter | (noun) a person who vomits | Synonyms: spewer |
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waiter | (noun) a person whose occupation is to serve at table (as in a restaurant) | Synonyms: server |
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(noun) a person who waits or awaits | - |
writer | (noun) writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay) | Synonyms: author |
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(noun) a person who is able to write and has written something | - |