altruism | (noun) the quality of unselfish concern for the welfare of others | Synonyms: selflessness |
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alum | (noun) a double sulphate of aluminum and potassium that is used as an astringent (among other things) | - |
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(noun) a white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum: the potassium double sulfate of aluminum | Synonyms: potash alum, potassium alum |
(noun) a white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum: the ammonium double sulfate of aluminum | Synonyms: ammonia alum, ammonium alum |
(noun) a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university) | Synonyms: grad, graduate |
alumbloom | (noun) any of several herbs of the genus Heuchera | Synonyms: alumroot |
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alumina | (noun) any of various forms of aluminum oxide occurring naturally as corundum | Synonyms: aluminium oxide, aluminum oxide |
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aluminate | (noun) a compound of alumina and a metallic oxide | - |
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aluminiferous | (adjective) containing alum or aluminum | - |
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aluminise | (verb) cover with aluminum | Synonyms: aluminize |
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aluminium | (noun) a silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite | Synonyms: Al, aluminum, atomic number 13 |
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aluminize | (verb) cover with aluminum | Synonyms: aluminise |
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aluminous | (adjective) pertaining to or containing aluminum or alum | - |
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aluminum | (noun) a silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite | Synonyms: Al, aluminium, atomic number 13 |
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alumna | (noun) a female person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university) | - |
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alumnus | (noun) a male person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university) | - |
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alumroot | (noun) any of several herbs of the genus Heuchera | Synonyms: alumbloom |
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alundum | (noun) a substance made of fused alumina | - |
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alyssum | (noun) any garden plant of the genus Alyssum having clusters of small yellow or white flowers | Synonyms: madwort |
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amadavat | (noun) red Asian weaverbirds often kept as cage birds | Synonyms: avadavat |
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amah | (noun) a female domestic | Synonyms: housemaid, maid, maidservant |
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(noun) a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else | Synonyms: wet-nurse, wet nurse, wetnurse |
amain | (adverb) with all your strength | - |
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(adverb) at full speed; with great haste | - |
amalgam | (noun) a combination or blend of diverse things | - |
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(noun) an alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth; except for iron and platinum all metals dissolve in mercury and chemists refer to the resulting mercury mixtures as amalgams | Synonyms: dental amalgam |
amalgamate | (adjective) joined together into a whole | Synonyms: amalgamated, coalesced, consolidated, fused |
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(verb) to bring or combine together or with something else | Synonyms: commix, mingle, mix, unify |
amalgamated | (adjective) joined together into a whole | Synonyms: amalgamate, coalesced, consolidated, fused |
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amalgamation | (noun) the combination of two or more commercial companies | Synonyms: merger, uniting |
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amalgamative | (adjective) characterized by or tending toward amalgamation | - |
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amalgamator | (noun) a businessman who arranges an amalgamation of two or more commercial companies | - |
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amanuensis | (noun) someone skilled in the transcription of speech (especially dictation) | Synonyms: shorthand typist, stenographer |
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amaranth | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Amaranthus having dense plumes of green or red flowers; often cultivated for food | - |
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(noun) seed of amaranth plants used as a native cereal in Central and South America | - |
amaranthine | (adjective) of or related to the amaranth plant | - |
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(adjective) of an imaginary flower that never fades | Synonyms: unfading |
amarelle | (noun) pale red sour cherry with colorless or nearly colorless juice | - |
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(noun) any of several cultivated sour cherry trees bearing pale red fruit with colorless juice | Synonyms: Prunus cerasus caproniana |
amaretto | (noun) an Italian almond liqueur | - |
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amaryllis | (noun) bulbous plant having showy white to reddish flowers | - |
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amass | (verb) increase in amount by collecting or gathering | Synonyms: accumulate, conglomerate, cumulate, gather, pile up |
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(verb) get or gather together | Synonyms: accumulate, collect, compile, hoard, pile up, roll up |
amastia | (noun) absence of the mammary glands (either through surgery or developmental defect) | - |
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amateur | (adjective) engaged in as a pastime | Synonyms: recreational, unpaid |
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(adjective) lacking professional skill or expertise | Synonyms: amateurish, inexpert, unskilled |
(noun) someone who pursues a study or sport as a pastime | - |
(noun) an athlete who does not play for pay | - |
amateurish | (adjective) lacking professional skill or expertise | Synonyms: amateur, inexpert, unskilled |
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amateurishly | (adverb) in an amateurish manner | - |
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amateurishness | (noun) something that demonstrates a lack of professional competency | - |
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amateurism | (noun) the conviction that people should participate in sports as a hobby (for the fun of it) rather than for money | - |
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amative | (adjective) inclined toward or displaying love | Synonyms: amorous |
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amativeness | (noun) the arousal of feelings of sexual desire | Synonyms: amorousness, eroticism, erotism, sexiness |
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amatory | (adjective) expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance | Synonyms: amorous, romantic |
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amatungulu | (noun) very large closely branched South African shrub having forked bright green spines and shiny leaves | Synonyms: Carissa grandiflora, Carissa macrocarpa, natal plum |
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amaurosis | (noun) partial or total loss of sight without pathology of the eye; caused by disease of optic nerve or retina or brain | - |
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amaurotic | (adjective) pertaining to blindness caused by amaurosis | - |
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amaze | (verb) affect with wonder | Synonyms: astonish, astound |
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(verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
amazed | (adjective) filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock | Synonyms: astonied, astonished, astounded, stunned |
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amazement | (noun) the feeling that accompanies something extremely surprising | Synonyms: astonishment |
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amazing | (adjective) inspiring awe or admiration or wonder | Synonyms: awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, awing |
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(adjective) surprising greatly | Synonyms: astonishing |
amazingly | (adverb) in an amazing manner; to everyone's surprise | Synonyms: astonishingly, surprisingly |
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amazon | (noun) mainly green tropical American parrots | - |
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(noun) a large strong and aggressive woman | Synonyms: virago |
ambage | (noun) a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things | Synonyms: circumlocution, periphrasis |
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ambages | (noun) (archaic) roundabout or mysterious ways of action | - |
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ambagious | (adjective) roundabout and unnecessarily wordy | Synonyms: circumlocutious, circumlocutory, periphrastic |
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ambassador | (noun) a diplomat of the highest rank; accredited as representative from one country to another | Synonyms: embassador |
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(noun) an informal representative | - |
ambassadorial | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of ambassadors | - |
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ambassadorship | (noun) the post of ambassador | - |
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ambassadress | (noun) a woman ambassador | - |
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amber | (adjective) of a medium to dark brownish yellow color | Synonyms: brownish-yellow, yellow-brown |
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(noun) a deep yellow color | Synonyms: gold |
(noun) a hard yellowish to brownish translucent fossil resin; used for jewelry | - |
amberbell | (noun) eastern North American dogtooth having solitary yellow flowers marked with brown or purple and spotted interiors | Synonyms: Erythronium americanum, trout lily, yellow adder's tongue |
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amberfish | (noun) any of several amber to coppery fork-tailed warm-water carangid fishes | Synonyms: amberjack |
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ambergris | (noun) waxy substance secreted by the sperm whale and found floating at sea or washed ashore; used in perfume | - |
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amberjack | (noun) any of several amber to coppery fork-tailed warm-water carangid fishes | Synonyms: amberfish |
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ambiance | (noun) the atmosphere of an environment | Synonyms: ambience |
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(noun) a particular environment or surrounding influence | Synonyms: ambience, atmosphere |
ambidexterity | (noun) the property of being equally skillful with each hand | Synonyms: ambidextrousness |
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ambidextrous | (adjective) equally skillful with each hand | Synonyms: two-handed |
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(adjective) marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another | Synonyms: deceitful, double-dealing, double-faced, double-tongued, duplicitous, Janus-faced, two-faced |
ambidextrousness | (noun) the property of being equally skillful with each hand | Synonyms: ambidexterity |
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ambience | (noun) the atmosphere of an environment | Synonyms: ambiance |
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(noun) a particular environment or surrounding influence | Synonyms: ambiance, atmosphere |
ambient | (adjective) completely enveloping | - |
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ambiguity | (noun) unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning | Synonyms: equivocalness |
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(noun) an expression whose meaning cannot be determined from its context | - |
ambiguous | (adjective) having more than one possible meaning | - |
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(adjective) open to two or more interpretations; or of uncertain nature or significance; or (often) intended to mislead | Synonyms: equivocal |
(adjective) having no intrinsic or objective meaning; not organized in conventional patterns | - |
ambiguously | (adverb) in an ambiguous manner | Synonyms: equivocally |
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ambit | (noun) an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: | Synonyms: compass, orbit, range, reach, scope |
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ambition | (noun) a strong drive for success | Synonyms: ambitiousness |
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(noun) a cherished desire | Synonyms: aspiration, dream |
(verb) have as one's ambition | - |
ambitionless | (adjective) having little desire for success or achievement | Synonyms: unambitious |
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ambitious | (adjective) having a strong desire for success or achievement | - |
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(adjective) requiring full use of your abilities or resources | Synonyms: challenging |
ambitiously | (adverb) with ambition; in an ambitious and energetic manner | Synonyms: determinedly |
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ambitiousness | (noun) a strong drive for success | Synonyms: ambition |
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ambivalence | (noun) mixed feelings or emotions | Synonyms: ambivalency |
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ambivalency | (noun) mixed feelings or emotions | Synonyms: ambivalence |
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ambivalent | (adjective) uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow | - |
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ambiversion | (noun) (psychology) a balanced disposition intermediate between extroversion and introversion | - |
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ambiversive | (adjective) intermediate between introversive and extroversive | - |
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amble | (noun) a leisurely walk (usually in some public place) | Synonyms: perambulation, promenade, saunter, stroll |
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(verb) walk leisurely | Synonyms: mosey |
ambler | (noun) someone who walks at a leisurely pace | Synonyms: saunterer, stroller |
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amblygonite | (noun) a white or grey mineral consisting of lithium aluminum phosphate; a source of lithium | - |
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amblyopia | (noun) visual impairment without apparent organic pathology | - |
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amblyopic | (adjective) pertaining to a kind of visual impairment without apparent organic pathology | - |
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ambo | (noun) a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it | Synonyms: dais, podium, pulpit, rostrum, soapbox, stump |
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amboceptor | (noun) an immune body formed in the blood during infection or immunization that serves to link the complement to the antigen. | - |
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amboyna | (noun) tree native to southeastern Asia having reddish wood with a mottled or striped black grain | Synonyms: padauk, padouk, Pterocarpus indicus |
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(noun) mottled curly-grained wood of Pterocarpus indicus | Synonyms: Andaman redwood |
ambrosia | (noun) (classical mythology) the food and drink of the gods; mortals who ate it became immortal | Synonyms: nectar |
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(noun) fruit dessert made of oranges and bananas with shredded coconut | - |
(noun) any of numerous chiefly North American weedy plants constituting the genus Ambrosia that produce highly allergenic pollen responsible for much hay fever and asthma | Synonyms: bitterweed, ragweed |
(noun) a mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae | Synonyms: beebread |
ambrosial | (adjective) worthy of the gods | Synonyms: ambrosian |
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(adjective) extremely pleasing to the taste; sweet and fragrant | Synonyms: ambrosian, nectarous |
ambrosian | (adjective) worthy of the gods | Synonyms: ambrosial |
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(adjective) extremely pleasing to the taste; sweet and fragrant | Synonyms: ambrosial, nectarous |
ambulacral | (adjective) pertaining to the ambulacra of radial echinoderms | - |
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ambulacrum | (noun) one of the five areas on the undersurface of an echinoderm on which the tube feet are located | - |
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ambulance | (noun) a vehicle that takes people to and from hospitals | - |
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ambulant | (adjective) able to walk about | Synonyms: ambulatory |
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ambulate | (verb) walk about; not be bedridden or incapable of walking | - |
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ambulation | (noun) walking about | - |
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ambulatory | (adjective) relating to or adapted for walking | - |
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(adjective) able to walk about | Synonyms: ambulant |
(noun) a covered walkway (as in a cloister) | - |