| absolute | (adjective) perfect or complete or pure | - |
|---|
| (adjective) not limited by law | - |
| (adjective) not capable of being violated or infringed | Synonyms: infrangible, inviolable |
| (adjective) expressing finality with no implication of possible change | - |
| (adjective) complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: downright, out-and-out, rank, right-down, sheer |
| (noun) something that is conceived or that exists independently and not in relation to other things; something that does not depend on anything else and is beyond human control; something that is not relative | - |
| absolutely | (adverb) completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: dead, perfectly, utterly |
|---|
| (adverb) totally and definitely; without question | - |
| absoluteness | (noun) the quality of being absolute | - |
|---|
| (noun) the quality of being complete or utter or extreme | Synonyms: starkness, utterness |
| circumvolute | (verb) wind or turn in volutions, especially in an inward spiral, as of snail | - |
|---|
| convolute | (adjective) rolled longitudinally upon itself | Synonyms: convoluted |
|---|
| (verb) practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive | Synonyms: pervert, sophisticate, twist, twist around |
| (verb) curl, wind, or twist together | Synonyms: convolve |
| convoluted | (adjective) rolled longitudinally upon itself | Synonyms: convolute |
|---|
| (adjective) highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious | Synonyms: Byzantine, involved, knotty, labyrinthine, tangled, tortuous |
| dilute | (adjective) reduced in strength or concentration or quality or purity | Synonyms: diluted |
|---|
| (verb) lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture | Synonyms: cut, reduce, thin, thin out |
| (verb) corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones | Synonyms: adulterate, debase, load, stretch |
| diluted | (adjective) reduced in strength or concentration or quality or purity | Synonyms: dilute |
|---|
| dissolute | (adjective) unrestrained by convention or morality | Synonyms: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, fast, libertine, profligate, riotous |
|---|
| dissolutely | (adverb) in a dissolute way | Synonyms: profligately |
|---|
| dissoluteness | (noun) indiscipline with regard to sensuous pleasures | Synonyms: incontinence, self-gratification |
|---|
| elute | (verb) wash out with a solvent, as in chromatography | - |
|---|
| flute | (noun) a high-pitched woodwind instrument; a slender tube closed at one end with finger holes on one end and an opening near the closed end across which the breath is blown | Synonyms: transverse flute |
|---|
| (noun) a groove or furrow in cloth etc (particularly a shallow concave groove on the shaft of a column) | Synonyms: fluting |
| (noun) a tall narrow wineglass | Synonyms: champagne flute, flute glass |
| (verb) form flutes in | - |
| glute | (noun) any one of three large skeletal muscles that form the buttock and move the thigh | Synonyms: gluteal muscle, gluteus, gluteus muscle |
|---|
| gluteal | (adjective) of or relating to or near the gluteus muscles | - |
|---|
| glutelin | (noun) a simple protein found in the seeds of cereals | - |
|---|
| gluten | (noun) a protein substance that remains when starch is removed from cereal grains; gives cohesiveness to dough | - |
|---|
| glutethimide | (noun) sedative (trade name Doriden) used to treat some sleep disorders | Synonyms: Doriden |
|---|
| gluteus | (noun) any one of three large skeletal muscles that form the buttock and move the thigh | Synonyms: glute, gluteal muscle, gluteus muscle |
|---|
| involute | (adjective) (of some shells) closely coiled so that the axis is obscured | - |
|---|
| (adjective) especially of petals or leaves in bud; having margins rolled inward | Synonyms: rolled |
| irresolute | (adjective) uncertain how to act or proceed | - |
|---|
| irresolutely | (adverb) lacking determination or decisiveness | - |
|---|
| irresoluteness | (noun) the trait of being irresolute; lacking firmness of purpose | Synonyms: irresolution |
|---|
| lute | (noun) chordophone consisting of a plucked instrument having a pear-shaped body, a usually bent neck, and a fretted fingerboard | - |
|---|
| (noun) a substance for packing a joint or coating a porous surface to make it impervious to gas or liquid | Synonyms: luting |
| luteal | (adjective) of or relating to the corpus luteum | - |
|---|
| lutecium | (noun) a trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; usually occurs in association with yttrium | Synonyms: atomic number 71, Lu, lutetium |
|---|
| lutefisk | (noun) dried cod soaked in a lye solution before boiling to give it a gelatinous consistency | Synonyms: lutfisk |
|---|
| lutein | (noun) yellow carotenoid pigments in plants and animal fats and egg yolks | Synonyms: xanthophyl, xanthophyll |
|---|
| lutenist | (noun) a musician who plays the lute | Synonyms: lutanist, lutist |
|---|
| luteotropin | (noun) gonadotropic hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary; in females it stimulates growth of the mammary glands and lactation after parturition | Synonyms: lactogenic hormone, prolactin |
|---|
| lutetium | (noun) a trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; usually occurs in association with yttrium | Synonyms: atomic number 71, Lu, lutecium |
|---|
| pollute | (verb) make impure | Synonyms: contaminate, foul |
|---|
| polluted | (adjective) rendered unwholesome by contaminants and pollution | Synonyms: contaminated |
|---|
| polluter | (noun) a person or organization that causes pollution of the environment | Synonyms: defiler |
|---|
| resolute | (adjective) firm in purpose or belief; characterized by firmness and determination | - |
|---|
| (adjective) characterized by quickness and firmness | Synonyms: unhesitating |
| resolutely | (adverb) showing firm determination or purpose | - |
|---|
| (adverb) with firmness of purpose | Synonyms: decisively |
| resoluteness | (noun) the trait of being resolute | Synonyms: firmness, firmness of purpose, resolution, resolve |
|---|
| salute | (noun) an act of honor or courteous recognition | Synonyms: salutation |
|---|
| (noun) a formal military gesture of respect | Synonyms: military greeting |
| (noun) an act of greeting with friendly words and gestures like bowing or lifting the hat | - |
| (verb) greet in a friendly way | - |
| (verb) recognize with a gesture prescribed by a military regulation; assume a prescribed position | Synonyms: present |
| (verb) honor with a military ceremony, as when honoring dead soldiers | - |
| (verb) express commendation of | - |
| (verb) propose a toast to | Synonyms: drink, pledge, toast, wassail |
| (verb) become noticeable | - |
| saluter | (noun) a person who greets | Synonyms: greeter, welcomer |
|---|
| solute | (noun) the dissolved matter in a solution; the component of a solution that changes its state | - |
|---|
| undiluted | (adjective) not diluted | - |
|---|
| unpolluted | (adjective) free from admixture with noxious elements; clean | Synonyms: uncontaminated |
|---|
| volute | (adjective) in the shape of a coil | Synonyms: coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, spiralling, turbinate, voluted, whorled |
|---|
| (noun) a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops | Synonyms: coil, helix, spiral, whorl |
| (noun) ornament consisting of a curve on a plane that winds around a center with an increasing distance from the center | Synonyms: spiral |
| voluted | (adjective) in the shape of a coil | Synonyms: coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, spiralling, turbinate, volute, whorled |
|---|