abvolt | (noun) a unit of potential equal to one-hundred-millionth of a volt | - |
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acculturate | (verb) assimilate culturally | - |
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acculturation | (noun) the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture | Synonyms: enculturation, socialisation, socialization |
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(noun) all the knowledge and values shared by a society | Synonyms: culture |
(noun) the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure | Synonyms: assimilation |
acculturational | (adjective) of or relating to acculturation | Synonyms: acculturative |
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acculturative | (adjective) of or relating to acculturation | Synonyms: acculturational |
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admiralty | (noun) the office of admiral | - |
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(noun) the department in charge of the navy (as in Great Britain) | - |
adult | (adjective) (of animals) fully developed | Synonyms: big, full-grown, fully grown, grown, grownup |
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(adjective) designed to arouse lust | Synonyms: pornographic |
(noun) any mature animal | - |
(noun) a fully developed person from maturity onward | Synonyms: grownup |
adulterant | (adjective) making impure or corrupt by adding extraneous materials | Synonyms: adulterating |
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(noun) any substance that lessens the purity or effectiveness of a substance | Synonyms: adulterator |
adulterate | (adjective) mixed with impurities | Synonyms: adulterated, debased |
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(verb) corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones | Synonyms: debase, dilute, load, stretch |
adulterated | (adjective) mixed with impurities | Synonyms: adulterate, debased |
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adulterating | (adjective) making impure or corrupt by adding extraneous materials | Synonyms: adulterant |
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adulteration | (noun) the act of adulterating (especially the illicit substitution of one substance for another) | - |
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(noun) being mixed with extraneous material; the product of adulterating | Synonyms: debasement |
adulterator | (noun) a changer who lessens the purity or effectiveness of a substance | - |
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(noun) any substance that lessens the purity or effectiveness of a substance | Synonyms: adulterant |
adulterer | (noun) someone who commits adultery or fornication | Synonyms: fornicator |
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adulteress | (noun) a woman adulterer | Synonyms: fornicatress, hussy, jade, loose woman, slut, strumpet, trollop |
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adulterine | (adjective) conceived in adultery | - |
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adulterous | (adjective) characterized by adultery | Synonyms: extracurricular, extramarital |
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(adjective) not faithful to a spouse or lover | Synonyms: cheating, two-timing |
adulterously | (adverb) in an adulterous manner | - |
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adulterousness | (noun) The quality of being adulterous, involving sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse. | - |
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adultery | (noun) extramarital sex that willfully and maliciously interferes with marriage relations | Synonyms: criminal conversation, fornication |
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adulthood | (noun) the state (and responsibilities) of a person who has attained maturity | - |
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(noun) the period of time in your life after your physical growth has stopped and you are fully developed | Synonyms: maturity |
adulting | (noun) acting like an adult | - |
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agricultural | (adjective) relating to or used in or promoting agriculture or farming | - |
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(adjective) relating to farming or agriculture | Synonyms: agrarian, farming |
agriculturalist | (noun) someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil | Synonyms: agriculturist, cultivator, grower, raiser |
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agriculture | (noun) the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock | Synonyms: farming, husbandry |
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(noun) a large-scale farming enterprise | Synonyms: agribusiness, factory farm |
(noun) the class of people engaged in growing food | - |
agriculturist | (noun) someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil | Synonyms: agriculturalist, cultivator, grower, raiser |
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altar | (noun) a raised structure on which gifts or sacrifices to a god are made | - |
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(noun) the table in Christian churches where communion is given | Synonyms: communion table, Lord's table |
altarpiece | (noun) a painted or carved screen placed above and behind an altar or communion table | Synonyms: reredos |
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altazimuth | (noun) an instrument that measures the altitude and azimuth of celestial bodies; used in navigation | - |
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altcoin | (noun) an alternative cryptocurrency | - |
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alter | (verb) remove the ovaries of | Synonyms: castrate, neuter, spay |
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(verb) become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence | Synonyms: change, vary |
(verb) cause to change; make different; cause a transformation | Synonyms: change, modify |
(verb) insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby | Synonyms: falsify, interpolate |
(verb) make an alteration to | - |
alterability | (noun) the quality of being alterable | - |
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alterable | (adjective) capable of being changed or altered in some characteristic | - |
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(adjective) (of the punishment ordered by a court) capable of being changed to one less severe | - |
alteration | (noun) the act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration and modification) | Synonyms: revision |
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(noun) the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment) | Synonyms: adjustment, modification |
(noun) an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another | Synonyms: change, modification |
alterative | (adjective) tending to cure or restore to health | Synonyms: curative, healing, remedial, sanative, therapeutic |
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altercate | (verb) have a disagreement over something | Synonyms: argufy, dispute, quarrel, scrap |
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altercation | (noun) noisy quarrel | Synonyms: affray, fracas |
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altered | (adjective) changed in form or character without becoming something else | - |
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(adjective) having testicles or ovaries removed | Synonyms: neutered |
(adjective) changed in order to improve or made more fit for a particular purpose | Synonyms: adapted |
altering | (noun) the sterilization of an animal | Synonyms: fixing, neutering |
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alternate | (adjective) of leaves and branches etc; first on one side and then on the other in two ranks along an axis; not paired | - |
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(adjective) serving or used in place of another | Synonyms: alternative, substitute |
(adjective) occurring by turns; first one and then the other | Synonyms: alternating |
(adjective) every second one of a series | - |
(noun) someone who takes the place of another person | Synonyms: replacement, surrogate |
(verb) do something in turns | Synonyms: take turns |
(verb) go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions | Synonyms: jump |
(verb) reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) | Synonyms: flip-flop, flip, interchange, switch, tack |
(verb) be an understudy or alternate for a role | Synonyms: understudy |
(verb) exchange people temporarily to fulfill certain jobs and functions | - |
alternately | (adverb) in an alternating sequence or position | - |
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alternating | (adjective) (of a current) reversing direction | - |
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(adjective) occurring by turns; first one and then the other | Synonyms: alternate |
alternation | (noun) successive change from one thing or state to another and back again | - |
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alternative | (adjective) necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities | - |
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(adjective) serving or used in place of another | Synonyms: alternate, substitute |
(adjective) pertaining to unconventional choices | - |
(noun) one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen | Synonyms: choice, option |
alternatively | (adverb) in place of, or as an alternative to | Synonyms: instead, or else |
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alternator | (noun) an old term for an electric generator that produces alternating current (especially in automobiles) | - |
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althaea | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Althaea; similar to but having smaller flowers than genus Alcea | Synonyms: althea, hollyhock |
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althea | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Althaea; similar to but having smaller flowers than genus Alcea | Synonyms: althaea, hollyhock |
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altimeter | (noun) an instrument that measures the height above ground; used in navigation | - |
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altissimo | (adjective) very high | - |
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altitude | (noun) elevation especially above sea level or above the earth's surface | Synonyms: height |
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(noun) angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object) | Synonyms: ALT, EL, elevation |
(noun) the perpendicular distance from the base of a geometric figure to the opposite vertex (or side if parallel) | - |
altitudinal | (adjective) pertaining to altitude | - |
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altitudinous | (adjective) indefinitely high; lofty | - |
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alto | (adjective) (of a musical instrument) second highest member of a group | - |
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(adjective) of or being the highest male voice; having a range above that of tenor | Synonyms: countertenor |
(adjective) of or being the lowest female voice | Synonyms: contralto |
(noun) the pitch range of the lowest female voice | - |
(noun) (of a musical instrument) the second highest instrument in a family of musical instruments | - |
(noun) the lowest female singing voice | Synonyms: contralto |
(noun) the highest adult male singing voice | Synonyms: countertenor |
(noun) a singer whose voice lies in the alto clef | - |
altocumulus | (noun) a cumulus cloud at an intermediate altitude of 2 or 3 miles | Synonyms: altocumulus cloud |
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altogether | (noun) informal terms for nakedness | Synonyms: birthday suit, raw |
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(adverb) with everything included or counted | Synonyms: all told, in all |
(adverb) with everything considered (and neglecting details) | Synonyms: all in all, on the whole, tout ensemble |
(adverb) to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent; Completely or entirely | Synonyms: all, completely, entirely, right, totally, whole, wholly |
altoist | (noun) a musician who plays the alto saxophone | Synonyms: alto saxophonist |
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altostratus | (noun) a stratus cloud at an intermediate altitude of 2 or 3 miles | Synonyms: altostratus cloud |
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altricial | (adjective) (of hatchlings) naked and blind and dependent on parents for food | - |
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altruism | (noun) the quality of unselfish concern for the welfare of others | Synonyms: selflessness |
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altruist | (noun) someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being | Synonyms: philanthropist |
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altruistic | (adjective) showing unselfish concern for the welfare of others | Synonyms: selfless |
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altruistically | (adverb) in an altruistic manner | Synonyms: selflessly |
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antepenult | (noun) the 3rd syllable of a word counting back from the end | Synonyms: antepenultima, antepenultimate |
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antepenultima | (noun) the 3rd syllable of a word counting back from the end | Synonyms: antepenult, antepenultimate |
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antepenultimate | (adjective) third from last | - |
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(noun) the 3rd syllable of a word counting back from the end | Synonyms: antepenult, antepenultima |
apicultural | (adjective) relating to the care and breeding of bees | - |
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apiculture | (noun) the cultivation of bees on a commercial scale for the production of honey | Synonyms: beekeeping |
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apiculturist | (noun) a farmer who keeps bees for their honey | Synonyms: apiarist, beekeeper |
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aquacultural | (adjective) of or relating to aquiculture | Synonyms: aquicultural, hydroponic |
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aquaculture | (noun) rearing aquatic animals or cultivating aquatic plants for food | - |
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aquicultural | (adjective) of or relating to aquiculture | Synonyms: aquacultural, hydroponic |
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aquiculture | (noun) a technique of growing plants (without soil) in water containing dissolved nutrients | Synonyms: hydroponics, tank farming |
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arboriculture | (noun) the tending of and caring for trees | Synonyms: tree farming |
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arboriculturist | (noun) someone trained in forestry | Synonyms: forester, tree farmer |
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asphalt | (noun) a dark bituminous substance found in natural beds and as residue from petroleum distillation; consists mainly of hydrocarbons | Synonyms: mineral pitch |
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(noun) mixed asphalt and crushed gravel or sand; used especially for paving but also for roofing | - |
(verb) cover with tar or asphalt | - |
asphaltic | (adjective) containing asphalt | - |
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assault | (noun) close fighting during the culmination of a military attack | - |
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(noun) a threatened or attempted physical attack by someone who appears to be able to cause bodily harm if not stopped | - |
(noun) the crime of forcing a person to submit to sexual intercourse against his or her will | Synonyms: rape, ravishment, violation |
(verb) attack in speech or writing | Synonyms: assail, attack, lash out, round, snipe |
(verb) attack someone physically or emotionally | Synonyms: assail, attack, set on |
(verb) force (someone) to have sex against their will | Synonyms: dishonor, dishonour, outrage, rape, ravish, violate |
assaulter | (noun) someone who attacks | Synonyms: aggressor, assailant, attacker |
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assaultive | (adjective) disposed to attack | Synonyms: attacking |
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atilt | (adjective) departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal | Synonyms: canted, leaning, tilted, tipped |
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auscultate | (verb) examine by auscultation | - |
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auscultation | (noun) listening to sounds within the body (usually with a stethoscope) | - |
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auscultatory | (adjective) of or relating to auscultation | - |
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basalt | (noun) the commonest type of solidified lava; a dense dark grey fine-grained igneous rock that is composed chiefly of plagioclase feldspar and pyroxene | - |
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basaltic | (adjective) of or relating to or containing basalt | - |
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belt | (noun) the act of hitting vigorously | Synonyms: knock, rap, whack, whang |
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(noun) a band to tie or buckle around the body (usually at the waist) | - |
(noun) endless loop of flexible material between two rotating shafts or pulleys | - |
(noun) ammunition (usually of small caliber) loaded in flexible linked strips for use in a machine gun | Synonyms: belt ammunition, belted ammunition |
(noun) a vigorous blow | Synonyms: bang, bash, knock, smash |
(noun) an elongated region where a specific condition or characteristic is found | - |
(noun) a path or strip (as cut by one course of mowing) | Synonyms: swath |
(verb) deliver a blow to | - |
(verb) fasten with a belt | - |
(verb) sing loudly and forcefully | Synonyms: belt out |
belted | (adjective) having or provided with a belt | - |
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belting | (noun) the material of which belts are made | - |
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beltless | (adjective) lacking a belt | Synonyms: unbelted |
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beltlike | (adjective) resembling a belt around something | Synonyms: belt-like |
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beltway | (noun) a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center | Synonyms: bypass, ring road, ringway |
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biltong | (noun) meat that is salted and cut into strips and dried in the sun | - |
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bloodguilt | (noun) the state of being guilty of bloodshed and murder | - |
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bloodguilty | (adjective) guilty of murder or bloodshed | - |
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bolt | (noun) a sudden abandonment (as from a political party) | - |
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(noun) the act of moving with great haste | Synonyms: dash |
(noun) a screw that screws into a nut to form a fastener | - |
(noun) the part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key | Synonyms: deadbolt |
(noun) a sliding bar in a breech-loading firearm that ejects an empty cartridge and replaces it and closes the breech | - |
(noun) a roll of cloth or wallpaper of a definite length | - |
(noun) a discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder | Synonyms: bolt of lightning, thunderbolt |
(adverb) directly | Synonyms: bang, slap, slapdash, smack |
(adverb) in a rigid manner | Synonyms: rigidly, stiffly |
(verb) make or roll into bolts | - |
(verb) eat hastily without proper chewing | Synonyms: gobble |
(verb) swallow hastily | - |
(verb) secure or lock with a bolt | - |
(verb) move or jump suddenly | - |
(verb) leave suddenly and as if in a hurry | Synonyms: beetle off, bolt out, run off, run out |
(verb) run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along | Synonyms: abscond, absquatulate, decamp, go off, make off, run off |
bolti | (noun) important food fish of the Nile and other rivers of Africa and Asia Minor | Synonyms: Tilapia nilotica |
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built | (adjective) (used of soaps or cleaning agents) having a substance (an abrasive or filler) added to increase effectiveness | Synonyms: reinforced |
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bullterrier | (noun) a powerful short-haired terrier originated in England by crossing the bulldog with terriers | Synonyms: bull terrier |
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caltrop | (noun) tropical annual procumbent poisonous subshrub having fruit that splits into five spiny nutlets; serious pasture weed | Synonyms: devil's weed, Tribulus terestris |
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(noun) Mediterranean annual or biennial herb having pinkish to purple flowers surrounded by spine-tipped scales; naturalized in America | Synonyms: Centauria calcitrapa, star-thistle |
(noun) a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits | Synonyms: water chestnut, water chestnut plant |