demonstrator | (noun) someone who participates in a public display of group feeling | Synonyms: protester |
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(noun) someone who demonstrates an article to a prospective buyer | Synonyms: sales demonstrator |
(noun) a teacher or teacher's assistant who demonstrates the principles that are being taught | - |
diamond | (noun) the area of a baseball field that is enclosed by 3 bases and home plate | Synonyms: baseball diamond, infield |
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(noun) a playing card in the minor suit that has one or more red rhombuses on it | - |
(noun) the baseball playing field | Synonyms: ball field, baseball field |
(noun) a transparent piece of diamond that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem | - |
(noun) a parallelogram with four equal sides; an oblique-angled equilateral parallelogram | Synonyms: rhomb, rhombus |
(noun) very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem | Synonyms: adamant |
diamondback | (noun) large deadly rattlesnake with diamond-shaped markings | Synonyms: Crotalus adamanteus, diamondback rattlesnake |
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disharmonious | (adjective) lacking in harmony | Synonyms: discordant, dissonant, inharmonic |
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disharmonize | (verb) cause to sound harsh and unpleasant | Synonyms: dissonate |
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disharmony | (noun) a lack of harmony | Synonyms: inharmoniousness |
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edmontosaurus | (noun) duck-billed dinosaur from Canada found as a fossilized mummy with skin | - |
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endaemonism | (noun) an ethical system that evaluates actions by reference to personal well-being through a life based on reason | Synonyms: eudemonism |
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endopsammon | (noun) The microscopic fauna of sand and mud. | - |
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epipsammon | (noun) Microscopic flora and fauna found on the surface of and/or attached to sand grains. | - |
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etymon | (noun) a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes | Synonyms: root |
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eudaemon | (noun) a benevolent spirit | Synonyms: eudemon, good spirit |
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eudaemonia | (noun) a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous | Synonyms: eudaimonia, upbeat, welfare, well-being, wellbeing |
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eudaemonic | (adjective) producing happiness and well-being | Synonyms: eudemonic |
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eudaimonia | (noun) a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous | Synonyms: eudaemonia, upbeat, welfare, well-being, wellbeing |
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eudemon | (noun) a benevolent spirit | Synonyms: eudaemon, good spirit |
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eudemonic | (adjective) producing happiness and well-being | Synonyms: eudaemonic |
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eudemonism | (noun) an ethical system that evaluates actions by reference to personal well-being through a life based on reason | Synonyms: endaemonism |
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fashionmonger | (noun) someone who advises you about fashionable clothing | Synonyms: fashion consultant |
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fishmonger | (noun) someone who sells fish | Synonyms: fishwife |
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gammon | (noun) meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked) | Synonyms: ham, jambon |
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(noun) hind portion of a side of bacon | - |
gnomon | (noun) indicator provided by the stationary arm whose shadow indicates the time on the sundial | - |
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gossipmonger | (noun) a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others | Synonyms: gossip, gossiper, newsmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger |
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gossipmongering | (noun) a conversation that spreads personal information about other people | Synonyms: gossiping |
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harmonic | (adjective) of or relating to harmony as distinct from melody and rhythm | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to the branch of acoustics that studies the composition of musical sounds | - |
(adjective) of or relating to harmonics | - |
(adjective) involving or characterized by harmony | Synonyms: consonant, harmonical, harmonised, harmonized |
(adjective) relating to vibrations that occur as a result of vibrations in a nearby body | Synonyms: sympathetic |
(noun) any of a series of musical tones whose frequencies are integral multiples of the frequency of a fundamental | - |
(noun) a tone that is a component of a complex sound | - |
harmonica | (noun) a small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole | Synonyms: harp, mouth harp, mouth organ |
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harmonical | (adjective) involving or characterized by harmony | Synonyms: consonant, harmonic, harmonised, harmonized |
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harmonically | (adverb) with respect to harmony | - |
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harmonics | (noun) the study of musical sound | - |
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harmonious | (adjective) musically pleasing | - |
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(adjective) exhibiting equivalence or correspondence among constituents of an entity or between different entities | Synonyms: proportionate, symmetrical |
(adjective) existing together in harmony | - |
(adjective) suitable and fitting | - |
harmoniously | (adverb) in a harmonious manner | - |
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harmoniousness | (noun) compatibility in opinion and action | Synonyms: harmony |
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(noun) the property of sounding harmonious | Synonyms: consonance |
harmonisation | (noun) singing in harmony | Synonyms: harmonization |
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(noun) a piece of harmonized music | Synonyms: harmonization |
harmonise | (verb) bring into consonance, harmony, or accord while making music or singing | Synonyms: chord, harmonize |
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(verb) bring into consonance or accord | Synonyms: harmonize, reconcile |
(verb) bring (several things) into consonance or relate harmoniously | Synonyms: harmonize |
(verb) sing or play in harmony | Synonyms: harmonize |
(verb) write a harmony for | Synonyms: harmonize |
(verb) go together | Synonyms: accord, agree, concord, consort, fit in, harmonize |
harmonised | (adjective) involving or characterized by harmony | Synonyms: consonant, harmonic, harmonical, harmonized |
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harmoniser | (noun) a mediator who brings one thing into harmonious agreement with another | Synonyms: harmonizer |
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(noun) a musician who sings or plays in harmony | Synonyms: harmonizer |
harmonium | (noun) a free-reeded instrument with a piano keyboard in which air is forced through the reeds by bellows | Synonyms: organ, reed organ |
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harmonizable | (adjective) capable of being made harmonious or consistent | - |
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harmonization | (noun) singing in harmony | Synonyms: harmonisation |
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(noun) a piece of harmonized music | Synonyms: harmonisation |
harmonize | (verb) bring into consonance, harmony, or accord while making music or singing | Synonyms: chord, harmonise |
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(verb) bring into consonance or accord | Synonyms: harmonise, reconcile |
(verb) bring (several things) into consonance or relate harmoniously | Synonyms: harmonise |
(verb) sing or play in harmony | Synonyms: harmonise |
(verb) write a harmony for | Synonyms: harmonise |
(verb) go together | Synonyms: accord, agree, concord, consort, fit in, harmonise |
harmonized | (adjective) involving or characterized by harmony | Synonyms: consonant, harmonic, harmonical, harmonised |
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harmonizer | (noun) a mediator who brings one thing into harmonious agreement with another | Synonyms: harmoniser |
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(noun) a musician who sings or plays in harmony | Synonyms: harmoniser |
harmony | (noun) an agreeable sound property | - |
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(noun) compatibility in opinion and action | Synonyms: harmoniousness |
(noun) agreement of opinions | Synonyms: concord, concordance |
(noun) the structure of music with respect to the composition and progression of chords | Synonyms: musical harmony |
(noun) a harmonious state of things in general and of their properties (as of colors and sounds); congruity of parts with one another and with the whole | Synonyms: concord, concordance |
hatemonger | (noun) one who arouses hatred for others | - |
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hegemon | (noun) a leading or paramount power | - |
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hegemony | (noun) the dominance or leadership of one social group or nation over others | - |
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homonym | (noun) two words are homonyms if they are pronounced and spelled the same way but have different meanings | - |
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homonymic | (adjective) of or related to or being homonyms | Synonyms: homonymous |
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homonymous | (adjective) of or related to or being homonyms | Synonyms: homonymic |
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homonymy | (noun) the relation between two words that are spelled the same way but differ in meaning or the relation between two words that are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning | - |
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hormonal | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by hormones | - |
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hormone | (noun) the secretion of an endocrine gland that is transmitted by the blood to the tissue on which it has a specific effect | Synonyms: endocrine, internal secretion |
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humongous | (adjective) (used informally) very large | Synonyms: banging, thumping, walloping, whopping |
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ichneumon | (noun) northern African mongoose; in ancient times thought to devour crocodile eggs | Synonyms: Herpestes ichneumon |
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inharmonic | (adjective) lacking in harmony | Synonyms: discordant, disharmonious, dissonant |
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inharmonious | (adjective) not in harmony | Synonyms: unharmonious |
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(adjective) lacking in harmony of parts | - |
inharmoniousness | (noun) a lack of harmony | Synonyms: disharmony |
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intrapulmonary | (adjective) being or occurring within a lung | - |
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ironmonger | (noun) a store selling hardware | Synonyms: hardware store, ironmonger's shop |
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(noun) someone who sells hardware | Synonyms: hardwareman |
ironmongery | (noun) the merchandise that is sold in an ironmonger's shop | - |
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isanemone | (noun) an isogram connecting points having equal wind speed. | - |
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kimono | (noun) a loose robe; imitated from robes originally worn by Japanese | - |
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komondor | (noun) Hungarian breed of large powerful shaggy-coated white dog; used also as guard dog | - |
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lemon | (noun) an artifact (especially an automobile) that is defective or unsatisfactory | Synonyms: stinker |
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(noun) a strong yellow color | Synonyms: gamboge, lemon yellow, maize |
(noun) a distinctive tart flavor characteristic of lemons | - |
(noun) yellow oval fruit with juicy acidic flesh | - |
(noun) a small evergreen tree that originated in Asia but is widely cultivated for its fruit | Synonyms: Citrus limon, lemon tree |
lemonade | (noun) sweetened beverage of diluted lemon juice | - |
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lemongrass | (noun) a tropical grass native to India and Sri Lanka | Synonyms: lemon grass |
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(noun) an aromatic oil that smells like lemon and is widely used in Asian cooking and in perfumes and medicines | Synonyms: lemon grass, lemongrass oil |
lemonlike | (adjective) tasting sour like a lemon | Synonyms: lemony, sourish, tangy, tart |
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lemonwood | (noun) South African evergreen having hard tough wood | Synonyms: lemon-wood, lemon-wood tree, lemonwood tree, Psychotria capensis |
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(noun) hard tough elastic wood of the lemonwood tree; used for making bows and fishing rods | - |
lemony | (adjective) tasting sour like a lemon | Synonyms: lemonlike, sourish, tangy, tart |
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limonene | (noun) a liquid terpene with a lemon odor; found in lemons and oranges and other essential oils | - |
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limonite | (noun) a widely occurring iron oxide ore; a mixture of goethite and hematite and lepidocrocite | - |
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mammon | (noun) wealth regarded as an evil influence | - |
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mamoncillo | (noun) tropical American tree bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp | Synonyms: genip, ginep, honey berry, Melicocca bijuga, Melicocca bijugatus, Spanish lime, Spanish lime tree |
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matrimonial | (adjective) of or relating to the state of marriage | Synonyms: marital, married |
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matrimony | (noun) the ceremony or sacrament of marriage | - |
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(noun) the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce) | Synonyms: marriage, spousal relationship, union, wedlock |
mnemonic | (adjective) of or relating to or involved the practice of aiding the memory | Synonyms: mnemotechnic, mnemotechnical |
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(noun) a device (such as a rhyme or acronym) used to aid recall | - |
mnemonics | (noun) a method or system for improving the memory | - |
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mnemonist | (noun) an expert in the use of mnemonics; someone able to perform unusual feats of memory | - |
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monad | (noun) (biology) a single-celled microorganism (especially a flagellate protozoan) | - |
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(noun) a singular metaphysical entity from which material properties are said to derive | Synonyms: monas |
(noun) (chemistry) an atom having a valence of one | - |
monal | (noun) brilliantly colored pheasant of southern Asia | Synonyms: monaul |
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monandrous | (adjective) having only one husband at a time | - |
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monandry | (noun) the state of having only one husband at a time | - |
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monarch | (noun) large migratory American butterfly having deep orange wings with black and white markings; the larvae feed on milkweed | Synonyms: Danaus plexippus, milkweed butterfly, monarch butterfly |
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(noun) a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right | Synonyms: crowned head, sovereign |
monarchal | (adjective) having the characteristics of or befitting or worthy of a monarch | Synonyms: monarchical |
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(adjective) ruled by or having the supreme power resting with a monarch | Synonyms: monarchic, monarchical |
monarchic | (adjective) ruled by or having the supreme power resting with a monarch | Synonyms: monarchal, monarchical |
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monarchical | (adjective) having the characteristics of or befitting or worthy of a monarch | Synonyms: monarchal |
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(adjective) ruled by or having the supreme power resting with a monarch | Synonyms: monarchal, monarchic |
monarchism | (noun) a belief in and advocacy of monarchy as a political system | - |
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monarchist | (noun) an advocate of the principles of monarchy | Synonyms: royalist |
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monarchy | (noun) an autocracy governed by a monarch who usually inherits the authority | - |
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monarda | (noun) any of various aromatic herbs of the genus Monarda | Synonyms: wild bergamot |
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monas | (noun) a singular metaphysical entity from which material properties are said to derive | Synonyms: monad |
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monastery | (noun) the residence of a religious community | - |
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monastic | (adjective) of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows | Synonyms: cloistered, cloistral, conventual, monastical |
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(noun) a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work | Synonyms: monk |
monastical | (adjective) of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows | Synonyms: cloistered, cloistral, conventual, monastic |
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monasticism | (noun) asceticism as a form of religious life; usually conducted in a community under a common rule and characterized by celibacy and poverty and obedience | - |
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monatomic | (adjective) of or relating to an element consisting of a single atom | Synonyms: monoatomic |
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monaul | (noun) brilliantly colored pheasant of southern Asia | Synonyms: monal |
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monaural | (adjective) relating to or having or hearing with only one ear | - |
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monaurally | (adverb) in a monaural manner | Synonyms: in one ear, to one ear |
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monazite | (noun) a reddish-brown mineral containing rare earth metals; an important source of thorium and cerium | - |
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