angiohemophilia | (noun) a form of hemophilia discovered by Erik von Willebrand; a genetic disorder that is inherited as an autosomal recessive trait; characterized by a deficiency of the coagulation factor and by mucosal bleeding | Synonyms: vascular hemophilia, von Willebrand's disease |
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angioma | (noun) a tumor consisting of a mass of blood or lymphatic vessels | - |
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angiomatous | (adjective) of or related to or having a tumor of the kind known as an angioma | - |
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angiosarcoma | (noun) a rare malignant neoplasm arising from vascular tissue; usually occurs in the breast and skin and is believed to originate from the endothelial cells of blood vessels | - |
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angiosperm | (noun) plants having seeds in a closed ovary | Synonyms: flowering plant |
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angiospermous | (adjective) of or related to or characteristic of plants that are angiosperms | - |
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angleworm | (noun) terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers | Synonyms: crawler, dew worm, earthworm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightcrawler, nightwalker, red worm, wiggler |
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angrecum | (noun) any of various spectacular orchids of the genus Angraecum having dark green leathery leaves and usually nocturnally scented white or ivory flowers | - |
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angstrom | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to one ten billionth of a meter (or 0.0001 micron); used to specify wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation | Synonyms: A, angstrom unit |
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anima | (noun) (Jungian psychology) the inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious | - |
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animadversion | (noun) harsh criticism or disapproval | Synonyms: censure |
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animadvert | (verb) express one's opinion openly and without fear or hesitation | Synonyms: opine, sound off, speak out, speak up |
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(verb) express blame or censure or make a harshly critical remark | - |
animal | (adjective) marked by the appetites and passions of the body | Synonyms: carnal, fleshly, sensual |
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(noun) a living organism characterized by voluntary movement | Synonyms: animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna |
animalcule | (noun) microscopic organism such as an amoeba or paramecium | Synonyms: animalculum |
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animalculum | (noun) microscopic organism such as an amoeba or paramecium | Synonyms: animalcule |
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animalisation | (noun) an act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities | Synonyms: animalization, brutalisation, brutalization |
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animalise | (verb) become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling | Synonyms: animalize, brutalise, brutalize |
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(verb) make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman | Synonyms: animalize, brutalise, brutalize |
(verb) represent in the form of an animal | Synonyms: animalize |
animalism | (noun) preoccupation with satisfaction of physical drives and appetites | Synonyms: physicality |
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(noun) the doctrine that human beings are purely animal in nature and lacking a spiritual nature | - |
animalistic | (adjective) of or pertaining to animalism | - |
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animality | (noun) the physical (or animal) side of a person as opposed to the spirit or intellect | Synonyms: animal nature |
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animalization | (noun) an act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities | Synonyms: animalisation, brutalisation, brutalization |
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(noun) a depiction in the form of an animal | - |
animalize | (verb) become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling | Synonyms: animalise, brutalise, brutalize |
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(verb) make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman | Synonyms: animalise, brutalise, brutalize |
(verb) represent in the form of an animal | Synonyms: animalise |
animate | (adjective) endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life | - |
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(adjective) belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings | - |
(adjective) endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness | Synonyms: sentient |
(verb) give new life or energy to | Synonyms: quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify, vivify |
(verb) make lively | Synonyms: enliven, invigorate, liven, liven up |
(verb) give lifelike qualities to | Synonyms: animise, animize |
(verb) heighten or intensify | Synonyms: enliven, exalt, inspire, invigorate |
animated | (adjective) having life or vigor or spirit | Synonyms: alive |
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(adjective) made to appear to move as living creatures do | - |
animatedly | (adverb) in an animated manner | - |
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animateness | (noun) the property of being animated; having animal life as distinguished from plant life | Synonyms: aliveness, liveness |
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animating | (adjective) giving spirit and vivacity | Synonyms: enlivening |
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animation | (noun) the making of animated cartoons | - |
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(noun) general activity and motion | Synonyms: liveliness |
(noun) the activity of giving vitality and vigour to something | Synonyms: invigoration, vivification |
(noun) the property of being able to survive and grow | Synonyms: vitality |
(noun) quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous | Synonyms: brio, invigoration, spiritedness, vivification |
(noun) the condition of living or the state of being alive | Synonyms: aliveness, life, living |
animatism | (noun) the attribution of consciousness and personality to natural phenomena such as thunderstorms and earthquakes and to objects such as plants and stones | - |
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animatistic | (adjective) of or pertaining to animatism | - |
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animator | (noun) the technician who produces animated cartoons | - |
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(noun) someone who imparts energy and vitality and spirit to other people | Synonyms: energiser, energizer, vitaliser, vitalizer |
animatronics | (noun) the construction of robots to look like animals (developed for Disneyland) | - |
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anime | (noun) a style of animation developed in Japan, characterized by stylized colorful art and often adult themes | - |
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(noun) a hard copal derived from an African tree | Synonyms: Zanzibar copal |
(noun) any of various resins or oleoresins | Synonyms: gum anime |
animise | (verb) give lifelike qualities to | Synonyms: animate, animize |
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animism | (noun) the doctrine that all natural objects and the universe itself have souls | - |
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animist | (adjective) of or pertaining to the doctrine of animism | Synonyms: animistic |
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(noun) one who accepts the doctrine of animism | - |
animistic | (adjective) of or pertaining to the doctrine of animism | Synonyms: animist |
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animize | (verb) give lifelike qualities to | Synonyms: animate, animise |
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animosity | (noun) a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility | Synonyms: animus, bad blood |
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animus | (noun) a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility | Synonyms: animosity, bad blood |
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anisogamete | (noun) either of a pair of unlike gametes especially those unlike in size | - |
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anisogametic | (adjective) relating to either of a pair of dissimilar (anisogamic) gametes combining in sexual reproduction | - |
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anisogamic | (adjective) relating to a type of sexual reproduction in which the gametes are dissimilar in some respect (as size or shape) | Synonyms: anisogamous |
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anisogamous | (adjective) relating to a type of sexual reproduction in which the gametes are dissimilar in some respect (as size or shape) | Synonyms: anisogamic |
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anisogamy | (noun) (biology) reproduction by the union or fusion of two differing gametes (especially differing in size) | - |
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anisometric | (adjective) having unsymmetrical parts or unequal dimensions or measurements | Synonyms: unsymmetrical |
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anisometropia | (noun) difference in the refractive power of the two eyes | - |
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anisometropic | (adjective) relating to a difference in the refractive power of the two eyes | - |
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annalism | (noun) The writing of annals. | - |
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announcement | (noun) a public statement containing information about an event that has happened or is going to happen | Synonyms: promulgation |
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(noun) a formal public statement | Synonyms: annunciation, declaration, proclamation |
annulment | (noun) (law) a formal termination (of a relationship or a judicial proceeding etc) | Synonyms: invalidation |
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(noun) the act of abrogating; an official or legal cancellation | Synonyms: abrogation, repeal |
(noun) the state of being cancelled or annulled | Synonyms: revocation |
annum | (noun) (Latin) year | - |
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anoestrum | (noun) applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or interval of sexual inactivity between two periods of estrus | Synonyms: anestrum, anestrus, anoestrus |
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anointment | (noun) the act of applying oil or an oily liquid | Synonyms: anointing |
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anomalist | (noun) someone who has a special interest in exceptional cases | - |
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anomalops | (noun) fish having a luminous organ beneath eye; of warm waters of the western Pacific and Puerto Rico | Synonyms: flashlight fish |
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anomalopteryx | (noun) the smallest moa; slender moa about the size of a large turkey | Synonyms: Anomalopteryx oweni |
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anomalous | (adjective) deviating from the general or common order or type | - |
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anomalously | (adverb) in an anomalous manner | - |
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anomalousness | (noun) deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule | Synonyms: anomaly |
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anomaly | (noun) (astronomy) position of a planet as defined by its angular distance from its perihelion (as observed from the sun) | - |
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(noun) a person who is unusual | Synonyms: unusual person |
(noun) deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule | Synonyms: anomalousness |
anomia | (noun) inability to name objects or to recognize written or spoken names of objects | Synonyms: amnesic aphasia, amnestic aphasia, anomic aphasia, nominal aphasia |
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anomic | (adjective) socially disoriented | Synonyms: alienated, disoriented |
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anomie | (noun) lack of moral standards in a society | Synonyms: anomy |
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(noun) personal state of isolation and anxiety resulting from a lack of social control and regulation | Synonyms: anomy |
anomy | (noun) lack of moral standards in a society | Synonyms: anomie |
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(noun) personal state of isolation and anxiety resulting from a lack of social control and regulation | Synonyms: anomie |
anonym | (noun) a fictitious name used when the person performs a particular social role | Synonyms: nom de guerre, pseudonym |
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anonymity | (noun) the state of being anonymous | Synonyms: namelessness |
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anonymous | (adjective) having no known name or identity or known source | Synonyms: anon. |
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(adjective) not known or lacking marked individuality | - |
anonymously | (adverb) without giving a name | - |
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anorchidism | (noun) absence of one of both testes | Synonyms: anorchia, anorchism |
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anorchism | (noun) absence of one of both testes | Synonyms: anorchia, anorchidism |
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anorgasmia | (noun) absence of an orgasm in sexual relations | - |
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anosmatic | (adjective) relating to an impairment or loss of the sense of smell | Synonyms: anosmic |
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anosmia | (noun) absence of the sense of smell (as by damage to olfactory nasal tissue or the olfactory nerve or by obstruction of the nasal passages) | - |
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anosmic | (adjective) relating to an impairment or loss of the sense of smell | Synonyms: anosmatic |
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(adjective) having impaired sense of smell | - |
anoxemia | (noun) abnormally low oxygen content in arterial blood | - |
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anoxemic | (adjective) relating to or marked by abnormally little oxygen in arterial blood | - |
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antagonism | (noun) (biochemistry) interference in or inhibition of the physiological action of a chemical substance by another having a similar structure | - |
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(noun) an actively expressed feeling of dislike and hostility | - |
(noun) the relation between opposing principles or forces or factors | - |
(noun) a state of deep-seated ill-will | Synonyms: enmity, hostility |
antebellum | (adjective) belonging to a period before a war especially the American Civil War | - |
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antechamber | (noun) a large entrance or reception room or area | Synonyms: anteroom, entrance hall, foyer, hall, lobby, vestibule |
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antemeridian | (adjective) before noon | - |
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antemortem | (adjective) preceding death | - |
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antepartum | (adjective) occurring or existing before birth | Synonyms: antenatal, prenatal |
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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 |
anteroom | (noun) a large entrance or reception room or area | Synonyms: antechamber, entrance hall, foyer, hall, lobby, vestibule |
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anthelminthic | (adjective) capable of expelling or destroying parasitic worms | Synonyms: anthelmintic, helminthic, parasiticidal |
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(noun) a medication capable of causing the evacuation of parasitic intestinal worms | Synonyms: anthelmintic, helminthic, vermifuge |
anthelmintic | (adjective) capable of expelling or destroying parasitic worms | Synonyms: anthelminthic, helminthic, parasiticidal |
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(noun) a medication capable of causing the evacuation of parasitic intestinal worms | Synonyms: anthelminthic, helminthic, vermifuge |
anthem | (noun) a song of praise (to God or to a saint or to a nation) | Synonyms: hymn |
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(noun) a song of devotion or loyalty (as to a nation or school) | - |
antheridium | (noun) the male sex organ of spore-producing plants; produces antherozoids; equivalent to the anther in flowers | - |
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anthropocentrism | (noun) an inclination to evaluate reality exclusively in terms of human values | Synonyms: anthropocentricity |
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anthropologism | (noun) a point of view in which human nature is exhaustively determined by the culture in which a person lives, leaving no room for human agency. | - |
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anthropometric | (adjective) of or relating to anthropometry | Synonyms: anthropometrical |
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anthropometrical | (adjective) of or relating to anthropometry | Synonyms: anthropometric |
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anthropometry | (noun) measurement and study of the human body and its parts and capacities | - |
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anthropomorphic | (adjective) suggesting human characteristics for animals or inanimate things | Synonyms: anthropomorphous, humanlike |
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anthropomorphise | (verb) ascribe human features to something | Synonyms: anthropomorphize |
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anthropomorphism | (noun) the representation of objects (especially a god) as having human form or traits | Synonyms: theanthropism |
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anthropomorphize | (verb) ascribe human features to something | Synonyms: anthropomorphise |
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anthropomorphous | (adjective) suggesting human characteristics for animals or inanimate things | Synonyms: anthropomorphic, humanlike |
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