collogue | (verb) confer secretly | - |
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colloid | (noun) a mixture with properties between those of a solution and fine suspension | - |
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colloidal | (adjective) of or relating to or having the properties of a colloid | - |
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colloidally | (adverb) in a colloidal manner | - |
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colloquial | (adjective) characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation | Synonyms: conversational |
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colloquialism | (noun) a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech | - |
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colloquially | (adverb) with the use of colloquial expressions | Synonyms: conversationally, informally |
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colloquium | (noun) an address to an academic meeting or seminar | - |
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(noun) an academic meeting or seminar usually led by a different lecturer and on a different topic at each meeting | - |
colloquy | (noun) formal conversation | - |
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(noun) a conversation especially a formal one | - |
collotype | (noun) a photomechanical printing process that uses a glass plate with a gelatin surface that carries the image to be reproduced; can be used with one or more colors | Synonyms: collotype printing, photogelatin process |
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coloradillo | (noun) handsome shrub with showy orange to scarlet or crimson flowers; Florida and West Indies to Mexico and Brazil | Synonyms: Hamelia erecta, Hamelia patens, scarlet bush, scarlet hamelia |
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councillor | (noun) a member of a council | Synonyms: council member |
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councillorship | (noun) the position of council member | Synonyms: councilorship |
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counsellor | (noun) a lawyer who pleads cases in court | Synonyms: advocate, counsel, counselor-at-law, counselor, pleader |
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(noun) someone who gives advice about problems | Synonyms: counselor |
(noun) someone who has supervisory duties at a summer camp | Synonyms: counselor |
counsellorship | (noun) the position of counselor | Synonyms: counselorship |
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criollo | (noun) cocoa of superior quality | - |
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(noun) a Spanish American of pure European stock (usually Spanish) | - |
crystallogen | (noun) any chemical element that belongs to the carbon group. | Synonyms: carbon group element, Group 14 element, tetragen, tetrel |
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crystallographer | (noun) a specialist in crystallography | - |
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crystallography | (noun) the branch of science that studies the formation and structure of crystals | - |
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cumswallow | (verb) to swallow ejaculate | - |
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disallow | (verb) command against | Synonyms: forbid, interdict, nix, prohibit, proscribe, veto |
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dollop | (noun) a small measure (usually of food) | - |
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escallop | (noun) edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions | Synonyms: scallop, scollop |
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(noun) edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces | Synonyms: scallop, scollop |
(noun) thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled | Synonyms: cutlet, scallop, scollop |
(verb) bake in a sauce, milk, etc., often with breadcrumbs on top | Synonyms: scallop |
falloff | (noun) a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality | Synonyms: drop-off, falling off, slack, slump |
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fallout | (noun) any adverse and unwanted secondary effect | Synonyms: side effect |
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(noun) the radioactive particles that settle to the ground after a nuclear explosion | Synonyms: radioactive dust |
fallow | (adjective) undeveloped but potentially useful | - |
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(adjective) left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season | - |
(noun) cultivated land that is not seeded for one or more growing seasons | - |
felloe | (noun) rim (or part of the rim) into which spokes are inserted | Synonyms: felly |
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fellow | (noun) a boy or man | Synonyms: blighter, bloke, chap, cuss, fella, feller, gent, lad |
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(noun) a man who is the lover of a man or woman | Synonyms: beau, boyfriend, swain |
(noun) a friend who is frequently in the company of another | Synonyms: associate, companion, comrade, familiar |
(noun) a person who is member of one's class or profession | Synonyms: colleague, confrere |
(noun) an informal form of address for a man | Synonyms: buster, dude |
(noun) a member of a learned society | - |
(noun) one of a pair | Synonyms: mate |
fellowship | (noun) an association of people who share common beliefs or activities | Synonyms: family |
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(noun) money granted (by a university or foundation or other agency) for advanced study or research | - |
(noun) the state of being with someone | Synonyms: companionship, company, society |
fibrillose | (adjective) covered with fibrils more or less evenly disposed | - |
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follow | (verb) behave in accordance or in agreement with | Synonyms: conform to |
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(verb) keep informed | Synonyms: keep abreast, keep up |
(verb) keep to | Synonyms: stick to, stick with |
(verb) follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something | Synonyms: trace |
(verb) grasp the meaning | - |
(verb) imitate in behavior; take as a model | Synonyms: take after |
(verb) perform an accompaniment to | Synonyms: accompany, play along |
(verb) to travel behind, go after, come after | - |
(verb) travel along a certain course | Synonyms: travel along |
(verb) follow in or as if in pursuit | Synonyms: pursue |
(verb) keep under surveillance | Synonyms: surveil, survey |
(verb) choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans | Synonyms: adopt, espouse |
(verb) to subscribe to someone's updates on social media | - |
(verb) to be subscribed to updates from another user on social media | - |
(verb) act in accordance with someone's rules, commands, or wishes | Synonyms: abide by, comply |
(verb) be the successor (of) | Synonyms: come after, succeed |
(verb) follow with the eyes or the mind | Synonyms: keep an eye on, observe, watch, watch over |
(verb) work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function | Synonyms: be |
(verb) accept and follow the leadership or command or guidance of | - |
(verb) adhere to or practice | - |
(verb) be later in time | Synonyms: postdate |
(verb) come after in time, as a result | Synonyms: come after |
(verb) be next | - |
(verb) to bring something about at a later time than | - |
(verb) to be the product or result | Synonyms: come |
(verb) come as a logical consequence; follow logically | Synonyms: fall out |
follower | (noun) a person who accepts the leadership of another | - |
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(noun) someone who travels behind or pursues another | - |
followers | (noun) a group of followers or enthusiasts | Synonyms: following |
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following | (adjective) going or proceeding or coming after in the same direction | - |
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(adjective) in the desired direction | - |
(adjective) about to be mentioned or specified | Synonyms: undermentioned |
(adjective) immediately following in time or order | Synonyms: next |
(noun) the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture | Synonyms: chase, pursual, pursuit |
(noun) a group of followers or enthusiasts | Synonyms: followers |
followup | (noun) a subsequent examination of a patient for the purpose of monitoring earlier treatment | Synonyms: follow-up, reexamination, review |
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(noun) an activity that continues something that has already begun or that repeats something that has already been done | Synonyms: follow-up |
(noun) a piece of work that exploits or builds on earlier work | Synonyms: follow-up |
frijolillo | (noun) shrub or small tree having pinnate leaves poisonous to livestock and dense racemes of intensely fragrant blue flowers and red beans | Synonyms: coral bean, frijolito, mescal bean, Sophora secundiflora |
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gallon | (noun) United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters | Synonyms: gal |
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(noun) a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 quarts or 4.545 liters | Synonyms: congius, Imperial gallon |
gallop | (noun) a fast gait of a horse; a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously | - |
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(verb) ride at a galloping pace | - |
(verb) go at galloping speed | - |
(verb) cause to move at full gallop | Synonyms: extend |
gallous | (noun) alternative terms for gallows | Synonyms: gallows-tree, gallows tree, gibbet |
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gallows | (noun) an instrument of execution consisting of a wooden frame from which a condemned person is executed by hanging | - |
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granadillo | (noun) West Indian tree yielding a fine grade of green ebony | Synonyms: Brya ebenus, granadilla tree |
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guilloche | (noun) an architectural decoration formed by two intersecting wavy bands | - |
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guillotine | (noun) instrument of execution that consists of a weighted blade between two vertical poles; used for beheading people | - |
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(noun) closure imposed on the debate of specific sections of a bill | Synonyms: closure by compartment |
(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine | - |
halloo | (noun) a shout to attract attention | - |
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(verb) shout `halloo', as when greeting someone or attracting attention | - |
(verb) urge on with shouts | - |
hallow | (verb) render holy by means of religious rites | Synonyms: bless, consecrate, sanctify |
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hallowed | (adjective) worthy of religious veneration | Synonyms: sacred |
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hello | (noun) an expression of greeting | Synonyms: hi, how-do-you-do, howdy, hullo |
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hillock | (noun) a small natural hill | Synonyms: hammock, hummock, knoll, mound |
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hollo | (noun) a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal) | Synonyms: bellow, bellowing, holla, holler, hollering, holloa, roar, roaring, yowl |
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(verb) utter a sudden loud cry | Synonyms: call, cry, holler, scream, shout, shout out, squall, yell |
(verb) cry hollo | - |
(verb) encourage somebody by crying hollo | - |
holloa | (noun) a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal) | Synonyms: bellow, bellowing, holla, holler, hollering, hollo, roar, roaring, yowl |
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hollow | (adjective) not solid; having a space or gap or cavity | - |
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(adjective) lacking in substance or character | - |
(adjective) devoid of significance or force | Synonyms: empty, vacuous |
(adjective) as if echoing in a hollow space | - |
(noun) a depression hollowed out of solid matter | Synonyms: hole |
(noun) a small valley between mountains | Synonyms: holler |
(noun) a cavity or space in something | - |
(verb) remove the interior of | Synonyms: core out, hollow out |
(verb) remove the inner part or the core of | Synonyms: dig, excavate |
holloware | (noun) silverware serving dishes | Synonyms: hollowware |
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hollowly | (adverb) in a hollow manner | - |
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hollowness | (noun) the property of having a sunken area | - |
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(noun) the quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical | Synonyms: falseness, insincerity |
(noun) the state of being hollow: having an empty space within | - |
hollowware | (noun) silverware serving dishes | Synonyms: holloware |
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hullo | (noun) an expression of greeting | Synonyms: hello, hi, how-do-you-do, howdy |
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hydrocolloid | (noun) a substance that forms a gel with water | - |
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illogic | (noun) invalid or incorrect reasoning | Synonyms: illogicality, illogicalness, inconsequence |
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illogical | (adjective) lacking in correct logical relation | Synonyms: unlogical |
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(adjective) lacking orderly continuity | Synonyms: confused, disconnected, disjointed, disordered, garbled, scattered, unconnected |
illogicality | (noun) invalid or incorrect reasoning | Synonyms: illogic, illogicalness, inconsequence |
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illogically | (adverb) in an illogical manner | - |
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illogicalness | (noun) invalid or incorrect reasoning | Synonyms: illogic, illogicality, inconsequence |
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jaboncillo | (noun) evergreen of tropical America having pulpy fruit containing saponin which was used as soap by Native Americans | Synonyms: China tree, chinaberry, false dogwood, Sapindus saponaria |
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jello | (noun) fruit-flavored dessert (trade mark Jell-O) made from a commercially prepared gelatin powder | Synonyms: Jell-O |
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levallorphan | (noun) drug (trade name Lorfan) that is related to morphine but that counteracts the respiratory depression produced by morphine poisoning but without affecting its analgesic effects | Synonyms: Lorfan |
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libellous | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libelous, slanderous |
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lollop | (verb) walk clumsily and with a bounce | - |
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maillot | (noun) tights for dancers or gymnasts | - |
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(noun) a woman's one-piece bathing suit | Synonyms: tank suit |
mallow | (noun) any of various plants of the family Malvaceae | - |
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mamoncillo | (noun) tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp | Synonyms: genip, ginep, honey berry, Melicocca bijuga, Melicocca bijugatus, Spanish lime, Spanish lime tree |
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marshmallow | (noun) spongy confection made of gelatin and sugar and corn syrup and dusted with powdered sugar | - |
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marvellous | (adjective) extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers | Synonyms: fantastic, grand, howling, marvelous, phenomenal, rattling, terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous |
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(adjective) too improbable to admit of belief | Synonyms: improbable, marvelous, tall |
(adjective) being or having the character of a miracle | Synonyms: marvelous, miraculous |
marvellously | (adverb) (used as an intensifier) excellently | Synonyms: marvelously, superbly, terrifically, toppingly, wonderfully, wondrous, wondrously |
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maxillodental | (adjective) of or relating to the upper jaw and its associated teeth | - |
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maxillofacial | (adjective) of or relating to the upper jaw and face (particularly with reference to specialized surgery of the maxilla) | - |
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maxillomandibular | (adjective) relating to the upper and lower jaws | - |
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mellow | (adjective) slightly and pleasantly intoxicated from alcohol or a drug (especially marijuana) | Synonyms: high |
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(adjective) unhurried and relaxed | Synonyms: laid-back |
(adjective) having a full and pleasing flavor through proper aging | Synonyms: mellowed |
(adjective) softened through age or experience | Synonyms: mellowed |
(adverb) in a mellow manner | Synonyms: mellowly |
(verb) make or grow (more) mellow | - |
(verb) soften, make mellow | - |
(verb) become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial | Synonyms: mellow out, melt |
mellowed | (adjective) having a full and pleasing flavor through proper aging | Synonyms: mellow |
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(adjective) softened through age or experience | Synonyms: mellow |
mellowing | (noun) the process of becoming mellow | - |
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mellowingly | (adverb) so as to mellow | - |
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mellowly | (adverb) in a mellow manner | Synonyms: mellow |
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mellowness | (noun) the property of a sensation that is rich and pleasing | Synonyms: fullness, richness |
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(noun) a soft shade of a color | - |
(noun) geniality, as through the effects of alcohol or marijuana | - |
(noun) a taste (especially of fruit) that is ripe and of full flavor | - |
(noun) a feeling of good humor and sympathy through maturity or intoxication or a relaxed state | - |
metalloid | (adjective) of or being a nonmetallic element that has some of the properties of metal | - |
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morello | (noun) cultivated sour cherry with dark-colored skin and juice | - |
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(noun) any of several cultivated sour cherry trees bearing fruit with dark skin and juice | Synonyms: Prunus cerasus austera |
mulloway | (noun) large important food fish of Australia; almost indistinguishable from the maigre | Synonyms: jewfish, Sciaena antarctica |
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ocotillo | (noun) desert shrub of southwestern United States and Mexico having slender naked spiny branches that after the rainy season put forth foliage and clusters of red flowers | Synonyms: coachwhip, Fouquieria splendens, Jacob's staff, vine cactus |
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oscillogram | (noun) the recording produced by an oscillograph | - |
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oscillograph | (noun) a device for making a record of the wave forms of fluctuating voltages or currents | - |
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oscilloscope | (noun) electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities | Synonyms: cathode-ray oscilloscope, CRO, scope |
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pallone | (noun) an Italian game similar to tennis | - |
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pallor | (noun) unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress) | Synonyms: achromasia, lividity, lividness, luridness, paleness, pallidness, wanness |
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papilloma | (noun) a benign epithelial tumor forming a rounded mass | Synonyms: papillary tumor, papillary tumour, villoma |
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papillon | (noun) small slender toy spaniel with erect ears and a black-spotted brown to white coat | - |
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papillose | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling papilla | Synonyms: papillary |
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pasteurellosis | (noun) an acute infectious disease characterized by pneumonia and blood infection | Synonyms: hemorrhagic septicemia |
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peccadillo | (noun) a petty misdeed | Synonyms: indiscretion |
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phalloidin | (noun) one of a group of toxins from the death cap (Amanita phalloides) known as phallotoxins. | - |
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phalloplasty | (noun) reconstructive surgery on the penis to repair congenital abnormality or injury | - |
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phyllo | (noun) tissue thin sheets of pastry used especially in Greek dishes | - |
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phylloclad | (noun) a flattened stem resembling and functioning as a leaf | Synonyms: cladode, cladophyll, phylloclade |
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