ablate | (verb) wear away through erosion or vaporization | - |
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(verb) remove an organ or bodily structure | - |
ablated | (adjective) made smaller or less by melting or erosion or vaporization | - |
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absquatulate | (verb) run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along | Synonyms: abscond, bolt, decamp, go off, make off, run off |
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accumulate | (verb) increase in amount by collecting or gathering | Synonyms: amass, conglomerate, cumulate, gather, pile up |
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(verb) get or gather together | Synonyms: amass, collect, compile, hoard, pile up, roll up |
accumulated | (adjective) periodically accumulated over time | Synonyms: accrued |
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acetylate | (verb) receive substitution of an acetyl group | Synonyms: acetylise, acetylize |
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(verb) introduce an acetyl group into (a chemical compound) | Synonyms: acetylise, acetylize |
aciculate | (adjective) related to plants or animals or crystals having aciculae or needlelike parts | - |
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acidulate | (verb) make sour or more sour | Synonyms: acetify, acidify, sour |
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acrylate | (noun) a salt or ester of propenoic acid | Synonyms: propenoate |
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adulate | (verb) flatter in an obsequious manner | - |
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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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alate | (adjective) (of seeds or insects) having winglike extensions | Synonyms: alated |
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alated | (adjective) (of seeds or insects) having winglike extensions | Synonyms: alate |
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alveolate | (adjective) pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb) | Synonyms: cavitied, faveolate, honeycombed, pitted |
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ambulate | (verb) walk about; not be bedridden or incapable of walking | - |
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angulate | (adjective) having angles or an angular shape | Synonyms: angular |
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(verb) make or become angular | - |
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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annulate | (adjective) shaped like a ring | Synonyms: annular, annulated, circinate, doughnut-shaped, ring-shaped, ringed |
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annulated | (adjective) shaped like a ring | Synonyms: annular, annulate, circinate, doughnut-shaped, ring-shaped, ringed |
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apiculate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) having a short sharply pointed tip | - |
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appellate | (adjective) of or relating to or taking account of appeals (usually legal appeals) | Synonyms: appellant |
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areolate | (adjective) relating to or like or divided into areolae | Synonyms: areolar |
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arillate | (adjective) (of some seeds) having a fleshy and usually brightly colored cover | Synonyms: ariled |
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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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assibilate | (verb) change into a sibilant | - |
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(verb) insert a sibilant sound before or after (another sound) | - |
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 |
auriculate | (adjective) having auricles | Synonyms: auriculated |
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auriculated | (adjective) having auricles | Synonyms: auriculate |
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backplate | (noun) plate armor protecting the back; worn as part of a cuirass | - |
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barbellate | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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belated | (adjective) after the expected or usual time; delayed | Synonyms: late, tardy |
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belatedly | (adverb) later than usual or than expected | Synonyms: late, tardily |
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biflagellate | (adjective) having two flagella | - |
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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 | - |
biloculate | (adjective) divided into or containing two cells or chambers | Synonyms: bilocular |
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biteplate | (noun) a removable dental appliance that is worn in the palate for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes | Synonyms: bite plate |
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blate | (adjective) disposed to avoid notice | Synonyms: bashful |
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(verb) cry plaintively | Synonyms: baa, blat, bleat |
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 | - |
bombilate | (verb) make a buzzing sound | Synonyms: bombinate, buzz |
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bookplate | (noun) a label identifying the owner of a book in which it is pasted | Synonyms: ex libris |
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bracteolate | (adjective) having bracteoles | - |
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breastplate | (noun) armor plate that protects the chest; the front part of a cuirass | Synonyms: aegis, egis |
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bullate | (adjective) of leaves; appearing puckered as if blistered | - |
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butylate | (verb) introduce the butyl group into a chemical compound | - |
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calceolate | (adjective) of slipper-shaped blossoms | Synonyms: calceiform |
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calculate | (verb) make a mathematical calculation or computation | Synonyms: cipher, compute, cypher, figure, reckon, work out |
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(verb) specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public | Synonyms: aim, direct |
(verb) judge to be probable | Synonyms: count on, estimate, figure, forecast, reckon |
(verb) have faith or confidence in | Synonyms: bank, bet, count, depend, look, reckon, rely, swear |
(verb) predict in advance | Synonyms: forecast |
(verb) keep an account of | Synonyms: account |
calculated | (adjective) carefully thought out in advance | Synonyms: deliberate, measured |
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calyculate | (adjective) having a calyculus | Synonyms: calycled |
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campanulate | (adjective) shaped like a bell or campana | Synonyms: campanular, campanulated |
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campanulated | (adjective) shaped like a bell or campana | Synonyms: campanular, campanulate |
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canaliculate | (adjective) having thin parallel channels | - |
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cancellate | (adjective) having an open or latticed or porous structure | Synonyms: cancellated, cancellous |
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(adjective) having a latticelike structure pierced with holes or windows | Synonyms: cancellated, clathrate |
cancellated | (adjective) having an open or latticed or porous structure | Synonyms: cancellate, cancellous |
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(adjective) having a latticelike structure pierced with holes or windows | Synonyms: cancellate, clathrate |
cannulate | (verb) introduce a cannula or tube into | Synonyms: cannulise, cannulize, canulate, intubate |
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cantillate | (verb) recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm | Synonyms: chant, intonate, intone |
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canulate | (verb) introduce a cannula or tube into | Synonyms: cannulate, cannulise, cannulize, intubate |
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capitulate | (verb) surrender under agreed conditions | - |
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capsulate | (adjective) used of seeds or spores that are enclosed in a capsule | Synonyms: capsulated |
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(verb) enclose in a capsule | Synonyms: capsule, capsulise, capsulize |
capsulated | (adjective) used of seeds or spores that are enclosed in a capsule | Synonyms: capsulate |
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carbolated | (adjective) containing or treated with carbolic acid | - |
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carboxylate | (verb) treat (a chemical compound) with carboxyl or carboxylic acid | - |
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cardinalate | (noun) the office of cardinal | Synonyms: cardinalship |
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(noun) (Roman Catholic Church) the body of all cardinals of the church; elects and advises the pope | Synonyms: College of Cardinals, Sacred College, Sacred College of Cardinals |
carpellate | (adjective) bearing or consisting of carpels | Synonyms: pistillate |
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carunculate | (adjective) having a caruncle | Synonyms: carunculated |
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carunculated | (adjective) having a caruncle | Synonyms: carunculate |
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castellated | (adjective) having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement | Synonyms: battlemented, castled, crenelated, embattled |
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catenulate | (adjective) having a chainlike form | Synonyms: chainlike |
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(verb) arrange in a series of rings or chains, as for spores | Synonyms: catenate |
chelate | (adjective) having or resembling chelae or claws | - |
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(adjective) relating to or characterized by chelation | Synonyms: chelated |
(noun) a heterocyclic compound having a metal ion attached by coordinate bonds to at least two nonmetal ions | Synonyms: chelate compound |
(verb) form a chelate, in chemistry | - |
chelated | (adjective) relating to or characterized by chelation | Synonyms: chelate |
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chocolate | (noun) a medium brown to dark-brown color | Synonyms: burnt umber, coffee, deep brown, umber |
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(noun) a food made from roasted ground cacao beans | - |
(noun) a beverage made from cocoa powder and milk and sugar; usually drunk hot | Synonyms: cocoa, drinking chocolate, hot chocolate |
circulate | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
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(verb) become widely known and passed on | Synonyms: go around, spread |
(verb) move around freely from person to person or from place to place | - |
(verb) move through a space, circuit or system, returning to the starting point | - |
(verb) cause to be distributed | Synonyms: distribute, pass around, pass on |
(verb) cause to move in a circuit or system | - |
circumambulate | (verb) walk around something | Synonyms: walk around |
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circumvallate | (verb) surround with or as if with a rampart or other fortification | - |
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coagulate | (adjective) transformed from a liquid into a soft semisolid or solid mass | Synonyms: coagulated, curdled, grumose, grumous |
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(verb) change from a liquid to a thickened or solid state | Synonyms: clot |
(verb) cause to change from a liquid to a solid or thickened state | Synonyms: clot |
coagulated | (adjective) changed into a solid mass | Synonyms: solidified |
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(adjective) transformed from a liquid into a soft semisolid or solid mass | Synonyms: coagulate, curdled, grumose, grumous |
collate | (verb) compare critically; of texts | - |
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(verb) to assemble in proper sequence | - |
collateral | (adjective) descended from a common ancestor but through different lines | Synonyms: indirect |
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(adjective) situated or running side by side | - |
(adjective) additional but secondary; auxiliary; | - |
(adjective) occurring with or following as a consequence | Synonyms: accompanying, attendant, concomitant, consequent, ensuant, incidental, resultant, sequent |
(adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
(noun) a security pledged for the repayment of a loan | - |
collateralize | (verb) pledge as a collateral | - |
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confabulate | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
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(verb) have a conference in order to talk something over | Synonyms: confab, confer, consult |
(verb) unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory | - |
conflate | (verb) mix together different elements | Synonyms: blend, coalesce, combine, commingle, flux, fuse, immix, meld, merge, mix |
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congratulate | (verb) say something to someone that expresses praise | Synonyms: compliment |
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(verb) express congratulations | Synonyms: felicitate |
(verb) pride or congratulate (oneself) for an achievement | Synonyms: preen |
(verb) be proud of | Synonyms: plume, pride |
constellate | (verb) form a constellation or cluster | - |
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(verb) come together as in a cluster or flock | Synonyms: clump, cluster, flock |
(verb) scatter or intersperse like dots or studs | Synonyms: dot, stud |
consulate | (noun) diplomatic building that serves as the residence or workplace of a consul | - |
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contemplate | (verb) think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes | Synonyms: meditate, study |
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(verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, excogitate, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, speculate, think over |
(verb) consider as a possibility | - |
(verb) look at thoughtfully; observe deep in thought | - |
contralateral | (adjective) on or relating to the opposite side (of the body) | - |
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copperplate | (noun) an engraving consisting of a smooth plate of copper that has been etched or engraved | Synonyms: copperplate engraving |
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(noun) a print made from an engraved copperplate | - |
(noun) a graceful style of handwriting based on the writing used on copperplate engravings | - |
copulate | (verb) engage in sexual intercourse | Synonyms: couple, mate, pair |
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correlate | (adjective) mutually related | Synonyms: correlated, correlative |
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(noun) either of two or more related or complementary variables | Synonyms: correlative |
(verb) bring into a mutual, complementary, or reciprocal relation | - |
(verb) to bear a reciprocal or mutual relation | - |
correlated | (adjective) mutually related | Synonyms: correlate, correlative |
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crenelate | (verb) supply with battlements | Synonyms: crenel, crenellate |
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crenelated | (adjective) having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement | Synonyms: battlemented, castellated, castled, embattled |
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crenellate | (verb) supply with battlements | Synonyms: crenel, crenelate |
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