bimester | (noun) a period of 2 months | - |
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bimestrial | (adjective) two months long; lasting two months | - |
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(adjective) occurring every two months | Synonyms: bimonthly |
chromesthesia | (noun) a form of synesthesia in which nonvisual stimulation results in the experience of color sensations | Synonyms: chromaesthesia |
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comestible | (adjective) suitable for use as food | Synonyms: eatable, edible |
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(noun) any substance that can be used as food | Synonyms: eatable, edible, pabulum, victual, victuals |
domestic | (adjective) of concern to or concerning the internal affairs of a nation | - |
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(adjective) of or involving the home or family | - |
(adjective) of or relating to the home | - |
(adjective) produced in a particular country | - |
(adjective) converted or adapted to domestic use | Synonyms: domesticated |
(noun) a servant who is paid to perform menial tasks around the household | Synonyms: domestic help, house servant |
domestically | (adverb) with respect to home or family | - |
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(adverb) with respect to the internal affairs of a government | - |
domesticate | (verb) overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable | Synonyms: domesticise, domesticize, reclaim, tame |
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(verb) adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment | Synonyms: cultivate, naturalise, naturalize, tame |
(verb) make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans | Synonyms: tame |
domesticated | (adjective) accustomed to home life | - |
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(adjective) converted or adapted to domestic use | Synonyms: domestic |
domestication | (noun) accommodation to domestic life | - |
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(noun) the attribute of having been domesticated | Synonyms: tameness |
(noun) adaptation to intimate association with human beings | - |
domesticise | (verb) overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable | Synonyms: domesticate, domesticize, reclaim, tame |
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domesticity | (noun) domestic activities or life | - |
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(noun) the quality of being domestic or domesticated | - |
domesticize | (verb) overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable | Synonyms: domesticate, domesticise, reclaim, tame |
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homestead | (noun) dwelling that is usually a farmhouse and adjoining land | - |
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(noun) the home and adjacent grounds occupied by a family | - |
(noun) land acquired from the United States public lands by filing a record and living on and cultivating it under the homestead law | - |
(verb) settle land given by the government and occupy it as a homestead | - |
homesteader | (noun) someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it | Synonyms: nester, squatter |
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homestretch | (noun) the straight stretch of a racetrack leading to the finish line | - |
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(noun) the end of an enterprise | - |
limestone | (noun) a sedimentary rock consisting mainly of calcium that was deposited by the remains of marine animals | - |
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mestiza | (noun) a woman of mixed racial ancestry (especially mixed European and Native American ancestry) | - |
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mestizo | (noun) a person of mixed racial ancestry (especially mixed European and Native American ancestry) | - |
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mestranol | (noun) a synthetic form of estrogen used in combination with a progestin in oral contraceptives | - |
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rhymester | (noun) a writer who composes rhymes; a maker of poor verses (usually used as terms of contempt for minor or inferior poets) | Synonyms: poetiser, poetizer, rhymer, versifier |
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semester | (noun) one of two divisions of an academic year | - |
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(noun) half a year; a period of 6 months | - |
semestral | (adjective) occurring every six months or during every period of six months | Synonyms: semestrial |
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semestrial | (adjective) occurring every six months or during every period of six months | Synonyms: semestral |
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somesthesia | (noun) the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs | Synonyms: somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somataesthesis, somatesthesia, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesis |
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(noun) the perception of tactual or proprioceptive or gut sensations | Synonyms: somaesthesia, somatesthesia, somatic sensation |
somesthesis | (noun) the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs | Synonyms: somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somataesthesis, somatesthesia, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesia |
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trimester | (noun) a period of three months; especially one of the three three-month periods into which human pregnancy is divided | - |
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(noun) one of three divisions of an academic year | - |
undomestic | (adjective) not domestic or related to home | - |
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undomesticated | (adjective) unaccustomed to home life | - |
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(adjective) not domesticated | - |