arrhythmical | (adjective) without regard for rhythm | Synonyms: arrhythmic |
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arrowsmith | (noun) a maker of arrows | - |
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artemisia | (noun) any of various composite shrubs or herbs of the genus Artemisia having aromatic green or greyish foliage | - |
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assimilability | (noun) Capability of being taken in and utilized as nourishment. | - |
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assimilable | (adjective) able to be absorbed and incorporated into body tissues | - |
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assimilate | (verb) become similar to one's environment | - |
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(verb) make similar | - |
(verb) become similar in sound | - |
(verb) take up mentally | Synonyms: absorb, ingest, take in |
(verb) take (gas, light or heat) into a solution | Synonyms: imbibe |
assimilating | (adjective) capable of taking (gas, light, or liquids) into a solution | Synonyms: assimilative, assimilatory |
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assimilation | (noun) in the theories of Jean Piaget: the application of a general schema to a particular instance | - |
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(noun) the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure | Synonyms: acculturation |
(noun) a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound | - |
(noun) the process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion | Synonyms: absorption |
(noun) the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another | Synonyms: absorption |
(noun) the state of being assimilated; people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family | - |
assimilative | (adjective) capable of taking (gas, light, or liquids) into a solution | Synonyms: assimilating, assimilatory |
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(adjective) capable of mentally absorbing | - |
assimilator | (noun) someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs | Synonyms: learner, scholar, student |
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assimilatory | (adjective) capable of taking (gas, light, or liquids) into a solution | Synonyms: assimilating, assimilative |
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assuming | (adjective) excessively forward | Synonyms: assumptive, presumptuous |
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astigmia | (noun) (optics) defect in an optical system in which light rays from a single point fail to converge in a single focal point | Synonyms: astigmatism |
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(noun) (ophthalmology) impaired eyesight resulting usually from irregular conformation of the cornea; common in nearsighted people | Synonyms: astigmatism |
astrodynamics | (noun) the branch of astronomy that studies the motion of natural and artificial bodies in space | - |
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astronomic | (adjective) relating or belonging to the science of astronomy | Synonyms: astronomical |
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(adjective) inconceivably large | Synonyms: astronomical, galactic |
astronomical | (adjective) relating or belonging to the science of astronomy | Synonyms: astronomic |
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(adjective) inconceivably large | Synonyms: astronomic, galactic |
astronomically | (adverb) enormously | - |
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atomic | (adjective) (weapons) deriving destructive energy from the release of atomic energy | Synonyms: nuclear |
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(adjective) of or relating to or comprising atoms | - |
(adjective) immeasurably small | - |
atomisation | (noun) separating something into fine particles | Synonyms: atomization, fragmentation |
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(noun) annihilation by reducing something to atoms | Synonyms: atomization |
atomise | (verb) break up into small particles | Synonyms: atomize |
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(verb) strike at with firepower or bombs | Synonyms: atomize, nuke, zap |
(verb) spray very finely | Synonyms: atomize |
atomiser | (noun) a dispenser that turns a liquid (such as perfume) into a fine mist | Synonyms: atomizer, nebuliser, nebulizer, spray, sprayer |
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atomism | (noun) (chemistry) any theory in which all matter is composed of tiny discrete finite indivisible indestructible particles | Synonyms: atomic theory, atomist theory, atomistic theory |
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(noun) (psychology) a theory that reduces all mental phenomena to simple elements (sensations and feelings) that form complex ideas by association | - |
atomistic | (adjective) divided into separate and often disparate elements | Synonyms: atomistical |
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atomistical | (adjective) divided into separate and often disparate elements | Synonyms: atomistic |
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atomization | (noun) separating something into fine particles | Synonyms: atomisation, fragmentation |
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(noun) annihilation by reducing something to atoms | Synonyms: atomisation |
atomize | (verb) break up into small particles | Synonyms: atomise |
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(verb) strike at with firepower or bombs | Synonyms: atomise, nuke, zap |
(verb) spray very finely | Synonyms: atomise |
atomizer | (noun) a dispenser that turns a liquid (such as perfume) into a fine mist | Synonyms: atomiser, nebuliser, nebulizer, spray, sprayer |
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autogamic | (adjective) characterized by or fit for autogamy | Synonyms: autogamous |
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autonomic | (adjective) relating to or controlled by the autonomic nervous system | - |
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autotomic | (adjective) of or relating to autotomy | - |
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autotomise | (verb) cause a body part to undergo autotomy | Synonyms: autotomize |
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autotomize | (verb) cause a body part to undergo autotomy | Synonyms: autotomise |
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avitaminosis | (noun) any of several diseases caused by deficiency of one or more vitamins | Synonyms: hypovitaminosis |
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avitaminotic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of avitaminosis | - |
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azoimide | (noun) a colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and poisonous and foul-smelling | Synonyms: HN, hydrazoic acid, hydrogen azide |
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azotaemia | (noun) accumulation in the blood of nitrogenous waste products (urea) that are usually excreted in the urine | Synonyms: azotemia, uraemia, uremia |
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azotemia | (noun) accumulation in the blood of nitrogenous waste products (urea) that are usually excreted in the urine | Synonyms: azotaemia, uraemia, uremia |
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azotemic | (adjective) of or involving excess nitrogenous waste products in the urine (usually due to kidney insufficiency) | Synonyms: uraemic, uremic |
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azymia | (noun) absence of an enzyme | - |
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babyminder | (noun) a person who looks after babies (usually in the person's own home) while the babys' parents are working | Synonyms: baby minder, minder |
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bacteremia | (noun) transient presence of bacteria (or other microorganisms) in the blood | Synonyms: bacteriaemia, bacteriemia |
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bacteremic | (adjective) of or relating to or having bacteremia | - |
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bacteriaemia | (noun) transient presence of bacteria (or other microorganisms) in the blood | Synonyms: bacteremia, bacteriemia |
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bacteriemia | (noun) transient presence of bacteria (or other microorganisms) in the blood | Synonyms: bacteremia, bacteriaemia |
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badminton | (noun) a game played on a court with light long-handled rackets used to volley a shuttlecock over a net | - |
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balmily | (adverb) in a mildly insane manner | Synonyms: daftly, dottily, nuttily, wackily |
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balminess | (noun) the quality of weather that is deliciously mild and soothing | Synonyms: softness |
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balsamic | (adjective) of or relating to or containing balsam | Synonyms: balsamy |
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beaming | (adjective) radiating or as if radiating light | Synonyms: beamy, effulgent, radiant, refulgent |
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(adjective) cheerful and bright | Synonyms: glad |
(adjective) pleased and proud | - |
beamish | (adjective) smiling with happiness or optimism | Synonyms: smiling, twinkly |
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becoming | (adjective) displaying or setting off to best advantage | - |
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(adjective) according with custom or propriety | Synonyms: comely, comme il faut, decorous, seemly |
becomingly | (adverb) in a becoming manner | - |
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becomingness | (noun) the quality of being becoming | - |
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bedlamite | (noun) an archaic term for a lunatic | - |
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bellarmine | (noun) a stoneware drinking jug with a long neck; decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine (17th century) | Synonyms: greybeard, long-beard, longbeard |
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bemire | (verb) make soiled, filthy, or dirty | Synonyms: begrime, colly, dirty, grime, soil |
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benjamin | (noun) gum resin used especially in treating skin irritation | Synonyms: asa dulcis, benzoin, gum benjamin, gum benzoin |
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besmirch | (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, calumniate, defame, denigrate, slander, smear, smirch, sully |
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(verb) smear so as to make dirty or stained | Synonyms: smirch |
bigamist | (noun) someone who marries one person while already legally married to another | - |
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bigeminal | (adjective) occurring in pairs | - |
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bimillenary | (noun) a span of 2000 years | Synonyms: bimillennium |
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(noun) the 2000th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: bimillennium |
bimillenial | (adjective) of or relating to a bimillennium | - |
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bimillennium | (noun) a span of 2000 years | Synonyms: bimillenary |
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(noun) the 2000th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: bimillenary |
bimorphemic | (adjective) consisting of two morphemes | - |
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binomial | (adjective) of or relating to or consisting of two terms | - |
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(adjective) having or characterized by two names, especially those of genus and species in taxonomies | Synonyms: binominal |
(noun) (mathematics) a quantity expressed as a sum or difference of two terms; a polynomial with two terms | - |
binominal | (adjective) having or characterized by two names, especially those of genus and species in taxonomies | Synonyms: binomial |
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biochemical | (adjective) of or relating to biochemistry; involving chemical processes in living organisms | - |
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biochemically | (adverb) with respect to biochemistry | - |
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biochemist | (noun) someone with special training in biochemistry | - |
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biochemistry | (noun) the organic chemistry of compounds and processes occurring in organisms; the effort to understand biology within the context of chemistry | - |
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biodynamics | (noun) the branch of biology dealing with energy or the activity of living organisms. | - |
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bioluminescence | (noun) luminescence produced by physiological processes (as in the firefly) | - |
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bioluminescent | (adjective) (of living organisms) emitting light | - |
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bionomic | (adjective) of or relating to the science of ecology | Synonyms: bionomical, ecologic, ecological |
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bionomical | (adjective) of or relating to the science of ecology | Synonyms: bionomic, ecologic, ecological |
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bionomics | (noun) the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment | Synonyms: ecology, environmental science |
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bituminise | (verb) treat with bitumen | Synonyms: bituminize |
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bituminize | (verb) treat with bitumen | Synonyms: bituminise |
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bituminoid | (adjective) like bitumen | Synonyms: bitumenoid |
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bituminous | (adjective) resembling or containing bitumen | - |
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blacksmith | (noun) a smith who forges and shapes iron with a hammer and anvil | - |
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blastemic | (adjective) of or relating to blastemata | Synonyms: blastemal, blastematic |
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blastodermic | (adjective) of or relating to a blastoderm | Synonyms: blastodermatic |
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blemish | (noun) a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body) | Synonyms: defect, mar |
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(verb) add a flaw or blemish to; make imperfect or defective | Synonyms: flaw |
(verb) mar or impair with a flaw | Synonyms: spot |
(verb) mar or spoil the appearance of | Synonyms: deface, disfigure |
blemished | (adjective) marred by imperfections | - |
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(adjective) having a blemish or flaw | Synonyms: flawed |
blooming | (adjective) informal intensifiers | Synonyms: bally, blinking, bloody, crashing, flaming, fucking |
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(noun) the organic process of bearing flowers | Synonyms: bloom |
blossoming | (noun) the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms | Synonyms: anthesis, efflorescence, florescence, flowering, inflorescence |
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bohemia | (noun) a group of artists and writers with real or pretended artistic or intellectual aspirations and usually an unconventional life style | - |
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bohemian | (adjective) unconventional in especially appearance and behavior | - |
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(noun) a nonconformist writer or artist who lives an unconventional life | - |
bohemianism | (noun) conduct characteristic of a bohemian | - |
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bonhomie | (noun) a disposition to be friendly and approachable (easy to talk to) | Synonyms: affability, affableness, amiability, amiableness, geniality |
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booming | (adjective) (used of the voice or sound) deep and resonant | Synonyms: stentorian |
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(adjective) very lively and profitable | Synonyms: burgeoning, flourishing, palmy, prospering, prosperous, roaring, thriving |
brahmin | (noun) the highest of the four varnas: the priestly or sacerdotal category | Synonyms: brahman |
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(noun) a member of the highest of the four Hindu varnas | Synonyms: brahman |
(noun) a member of a social and cultural elite (especially a descendant of an old New England family) | Synonyms: brahman |
brahminic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a brahmin | Synonyms: brahminical |
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brahminical | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a brahmin | Synonyms: brahminic |
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brainstorming | (noun) a group problem-solving technique in which members spontaneously share ideas and solutions | - |
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brimming | (adjective) filled up | Synonyms: brimful, brimfull |
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bromic | (adjective) relating to or containing bromine (especially pentavalent bromine) | - |
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bromide | (noun) a trite or obvious remark | Synonyms: banality, cliche, commonplace, platitude |
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(noun) any of the salts of hydrobromic acid; formerly used as a sedative but now generally replaced by safer drugs | - |
bromidic | (adjective) given to uttering bromides | - |
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(adjective) dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality | Synonyms: corny, platitudinal, platitudinous |