abnormal | (adjective) not normal; not typical or usual or regular or conforming to a norm | Synonyms: unnatural |
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(adjective) departing from the normal in e.g. intelligence and development | - |
(adjective) much greater than the normal | - |
abnormalcy | (noun) an abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies | Synonyms: abnormality |
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abnormality | (noun) behavior that breaches the rule or etiquette or custom or morality | Synonyms: irregularity |
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(noun) marked strangeness as a consequence of being abnormal | Synonyms: freakishness |
(noun) retardation sufficient to fall outside the normal range of intelligence | Synonyms: mental defectiveness |
(noun) an abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies | Synonyms: abnormalcy |
abnormally | (adverb) in an abnormal manner | - |
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abysmal | (adjective) resembling an abyss in depth; so deep as to be unmeasurable | Synonyms: abyssal, unfathomable |
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(adjective) very great; limitless | - |
abysmally | (adverb) in a terrible manner | Synonyms: abominably, atrociously, awfully, rottenly, terribly |
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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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aneurismal | (adjective) relating to or affected by an aneurysm | Synonyms: aneurismatic, aneurysmal, aneurysmatic |
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aneurysmal | (adjective) relating to or affected by an aneurysm | Synonyms: aneurismal, aneurismatic, aneurysmatic |
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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 |
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 |
antimalarial | (noun) a medicinal drug used to prevent or treat malaria | Synonyms: antimalarial drug |
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asterismal | (adjective) relating to asterisms or constellations | - |
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autosomal | (adjective) of or relating to an autosome | - |
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baptismal | (adjective) of or relating to baptism | - |
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blastemal | (adjective) of or relating to blastemata | Synonyms: blastematic, blastemic |
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brumal | (adjective) characteristic of or relating to winter | Synonyms: hibernal, hiemal |
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cataclysmal | (adjective) severely destructive | Synonyms: cataclysmic |
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catechismal | (adjective) of or relating to a catechism summarizing the principles of Christianity | - |
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centesimal | (adjective) relating to or divided into hundredths | - |
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(adjective) the ordinal number of one hundred in counting order | Synonyms: 100th, hundredth |
chiasmal | (adjective) of or relating to a chiasm | Synonyms: chiasmatic, chiasmic |
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chlorobenzylidenemalononitrile | (noun) a tear gas that is stronger than CN gas but wears off faster; can be deployed by grenades or cluster bombs; can cause skin burns and fatal pulmonary edema | Synonyms: CS gas |
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chromosomal | (adjective) of or relating to a chromosome | - |
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comal | (adjective) of certain seeds (such as cotton) having a tuft or tufts of hair | Synonyms: comate, comose |
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coseismal | (adjective) being where earthquake waves arrive simultaneously | Synonyms: coseismic |
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decimal | (adjective) numbered or proceeding by tens; based on ten | Synonyms: denary |
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(noun) a proper fraction whose denominator is a power of 10 | Synonyms: decimal fraction |
(noun) a number in the decimal system | - |
decimalisation | (noun) the act of changing to a decimal system | Synonyms: decimalization |
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decimalise | (verb) change to the decimal system | Synonyms: decimalize |
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(verb) change from fractions to decimals | Synonyms: decimalize |
decimalization | (noun) the act of changing to a decimal system | Synonyms: decimalisation |
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decimalize | (verb) change to the decimal system | Synonyms: decimalise |
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(verb) change from fractions to decimals | Synonyms: decimalise |
dermal | (adjective) of or relating to or located in the dermis | Synonyms: dermic |
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(adjective) of or relating to a cuticle or cuticula | Synonyms: cuticular, epidermal, epidermic |
(adjective) relating to or existing on or affecting the skin | Synonyms: cutaneal, cutaneous |
diethylmalonylurea | (noun) a barbiturate used as a hypnotic | Synonyms: barbital, barbitone, diethylbarbituric acid, veronal |
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dismal | (adjective) causing dejection | Synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry |
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dismally | (adverb) in a dreadful manner | Synonyms: dreadfully |
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(adverb) in a cheerless manner | Synonyms: drearily |
duodecimal | (adjective) based on twelve | - |
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(noun) one part in twelve equal parts | Synonyms: one-twelfth, twelfth, twelfth part |
ectodermal | (adjective) of or relating to the ectoderm | Synonyms: ectodermic |
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endothermal | (adjective) (of a chemical reaction or compound) occurring or formed with absorption of heat | Synonyms: endothermic, heat-absorbing |
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epidermal | (adjective) of or relating to a cuticle or cuticula | Synonyms: cuticular, dermal, epidermic |
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exothermal | (adjective) (of a chemical reaction or compound) occurring or formed with the liberation of heat | Synonyms: exothermic, heat-releasing |
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female | (adjective) being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces fertilizable gametes (ova) from which offspring develop | - |
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(adjective) for or pertaining to or composed of women or girls | - |
(adjective) characteristic of or peculiar to a woman | Synonyms: distaff |
(noun) an animal that produces gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes (spermatozoa) | - |
(noun) a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies | Synonyms: female person |
femaleness | (noun) the properties characteristic of the female sex | Synonyms: feminineness |
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formal | (adjective) being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress) | - |
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(adjective) (of spoken and written language) adhering to traditional standards of correctness and without casual, contracted, and colloquial forms | - |
(adjective) refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court | Synonyms: courtly, stately |
(adjective) logically deductive | - |
(adjective) represented in simplified or symbolic form | Synonyms: conventional, schematic |
(adjective) characteristic of or befitting a person in authority | - |
(noun) a gown for evening wear | Synonyms: dinner dress, dinner gown, evening gown |
(noun) a lavish dance requiring formal attire | Synonyms: ball |
formaldehyde | (noun) a colorless poisonous gas; made by the oxidation of methanol | Synonyms: methanal |
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formalin | (noun) a 10% solution of formaldehyde in water; used as a disinfectant or to preserve biological specimens | Synonyms: formol |
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formalisation | (noun) the act of making formal (as by stating formal rules governing classes of expressions) | Synonyms: formalization |
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formalise | (verb) make formal or official | Synonyms: formalize |
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(verb) declare or make legally valid | Synonyms: formalize, validate |
formalised | (adjective) concerned with or characterized by rigorous adherence to recognized forms (especially in religion or art) | Synonyms: formalistic, formalized |
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(adjective) given formal standing or endorsement; made official or legitimate by the observance of proper procedures | Synonyms: formalized |
formalism | (noun) the practice of scrupulous adherence to prescribed or external forms | - |
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(noun) (philosophy) the philosophical theory that formal (logical or mathematical) statements have no meaning but that its symbols (regarded as physical entities) exhibit a form that has useful applications | - |
(noun) the doctrine that formal structure rather than content is what should be represented | - |
formalistic | (adjective) concerned with or characterized by rigorous adherence to recognized forms (especially in religion or art) | Synonyms: formalised, formalized |
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formalities | (noun) a requirement of etiquette or custom | Synonyms: formality |
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formality | (noun) compliance with formal rules | - |
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(noun) a manner that strictly observes all forms and ceremonies | Synonyms: formalness |
(noun) a requirement of etiquette or custom | Synonyms: formalities |
formalization | (noun) the act of making formal (as by stating formal rules governing classes of expressions) | Synonyms: formalisation |
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formalize | (verb) make formal or official | Synonyms: formalise |
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(verb) declare or make legally valid | Synonyms: formalise, validate |
formalized | (adjective) concerned with or characterized by rigorous adherence to recognized forms (especially in religion or art) | Synonyms: formalised, formalistic |
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(adjective) given formal standing or endorsement; made official or legitimate by the observance of proper procedures | Synonyms: formalised |
formally | (adverb) in a formal manner | - |
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(adverb) with official authorization | Synonyms: officially |
formalness | (noun) a manner that strictly observes all forms and ceremonies | Synonyms: formality |
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formalwear | (noun) attire to wear on formal occasions in the evening | Synonyms: evening clothes, evening dress, eveningwear |
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geothermal | (adjective) of or relating to the heat in the interior of the earth | Synonyms: geothermic |
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geothermally | (adverb) by means of heat from the interior of the earth | - |
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haemal | (adjective) relating to the blood vessels or blood | Synonyms: haematal, hemal, hematal |
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hemal | (adjective) relating to the blood vessels or blood | Synonyms: haemal, haematal, hematal |
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hexadecimal | (adjective) of or pertaining to a number system having 16 as its base | Synonyms: hex |
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hiemal | (adjective) characteristic of or relating to winter | Synonyms: brumal, hibernal |
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hyperthermal | (adjective) of or relating to or affected by hyperthermia | - |
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hypodermal | (adjective) of or relating to the hypodermis | - |
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infinitesimal | (adjective) infinitely or immeasurably small | Synonyms: minute |
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(noun) (mathematics) a variable that has zero as its limit | - |
informal | (adjective) not formal | - |
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(adjective) used of spoken and written language | - |
(adjective) having or fostering a warm or friendly and informal atmosphere | Synonyms: cosy, cozy, intimate |
(adjective) not officially recognized or controlled | Synonyms: loose |
informality | (noun) a manner that does not take forms and ceremonies seriously | - |
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(noun) freedom from constraint or embarrassment | Synonyms: ease |
informally | (adverb) without formality | - |
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(adverb) with the use of colloquial expressions | Synonyms: colloquially, conversationally |
intimal | (adjective) of or relating to the intima | - |
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intradermal | (adjective) relating to areas between the layers of the skin | Synonyms: intracutaneous, intradermic |
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intradermally | (adverb) into the skin | - |
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isoseismal | (noun) a line on a map connecting points at which earthquake shocks are of equal intensity. | - |
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isothermal | (adjective) of a process or change taking place at constant temperature | - |
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keratomalacia | (noun) softening and drying and ulceration of the cornea resulting from vitamin A deficiency; symptom of cystic fibrosis or sprue | - |
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lachrymal | (adjective) of or relating to tears | Synonyms: lacrimal |
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(adjective) relating to or located near the organ that produces tears | Synonyms: lacrimal |
lacrimal | (adjective) of or relating to tears | Synonyms: lachrymal |
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(adjective) relating to or located near the organ that produces tears | Synonyms: lachrymal |
malabsorption | (noun) abnormal absorption of nutrients from the digestive tract | - |
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malacca | (noun) a cane made from the stem of a rattan palm | Synonyms: malacca cane |
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(noun) stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles | - |
malachite | (noun) a green or blue mineral used as an ore of copper and for making ornamental objects | - |
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