achromous | (adjective) having no color | Synonyms: achromic |
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acronymous | (adjective) characterized by the use of acronyms | Synonyms: acronymic |
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agamous | (adjective) (of reproduction) not involving the fusion of male and female gametes in reproduction | Synonyms: agamic, agamogenetic, apomictic, parthenogenetic |
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allmouth | (noun) fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey | Synonyms: angler, angler fish, anglerfish, goosefish, Lophius Americanus, lotte, monkfish |
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allogamous | (adjective) relating to cross-fertilization in plants | - |
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amount | (noun) how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify | Synonyms: measure, quantity |
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(noun) the relative magnitude of something with reference to a criterion | - |
(noun) a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers | Synonyms: sum, total |
(noun) a quantity of money | Synonyms: amount of money, sum, sum of money |
(verb) to measure up to in kind or quality | Synonyms: add up, come |
(verb) add up in number or quantity | Synonyms: add up, come, number, total |
(verb) be tantamount or equivalent to | - |
amour | (noun) a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship | Synonyms: affair, affaire, intimacy, involvement, liaison |
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anadromous | (adjective) migrating from the sea to fresh water to spawn | - |
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angiospermous | (adjective) of or related to or characteristic of plants that are angiosperms | - |
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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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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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antitumour | (adjective) used in the treatment of cancer | Synonyms: anticancer, antineoplastic, antitumor |
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antonymous | (adjective) of words: having opposite meanings | - |
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apogamous | (adjective) of or relating to the development of an embryo in the absence of fertilization | Synonyms: apogametic, apogamic |
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armour | (noun) tough more-or-less rigid protective covering of an animal or plant | Synonyms: armor |
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(noun) protective covering made of metal and used in combat | Synonyms: armor |
(noun) a military unit consisting of armored fighting vehicles | Synonyms: armor |
(verb) equip with armor | Synonyms: armor |
armoured | (adjective) protected by armor (used of persons or things military) | Synonyms: armored |
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(adjective) used of animals; provided with protective covering | Synonyms: armored |
armourer | (noun) a manufacturer of firearms | Synonyms: armorer |
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(noun) an enlisted man responsible for the upkeep of small arms and machine guns etc. | Synonyms: armorer, artificer |
(noun) a worker skilled in making armor or arms | Synonyms: armorer |
armoury | (noun) a place where arms are manufactured | Synonyms: armory, arsenal |
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(noun) a military structure where arms and ammunition and other military equipment are stored and training is given in the use of arms | Synonyms: armory, arsenal |
(noun) all the weapons and equipment that a country has | Synonyms: armory, arsenal |
(noun) a collection of resources | Synonyms: armory, inventory |
autogamous | (adjective) characterized by or fit for autogamy | Synonyms: autogamic |
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autonomous | (adjective) (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces | Synonyms: independent, self-governing, sovereign |
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(adjective) (of persons) free from external control and constraint in e.g. action and judgment | Synonyms: self-directed, self-reliant |
(adjective) existing as an independent entity | - |
badmouth | (verb) speak unfavorably about | Synonyms: drag through the mud, malign, traduce |
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bigamous | (adjective) of illegal marriage to a second person while legally married to a first | - |
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bigmouthed | (adjective) unwisely talking too much | Synonyms: blabbermouthed, blabby, talkative |
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biramous | (adjective) resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches | Synonyms: bifurcate, branched, forficate, fork-like, forked, pronged, prongy |
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blabbermouth | (noun) someone who gossips indiscreetly | Synonyms: talebearer, taleteller, tattler, tattletale, telltale |
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blabbermouthed | (adjective) prone to communicate confidential information | Synonyms: leaky, talebearing, tattling |
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(adjective) unwisely talking too much | Synonyms: bigmouthed, blabby, talkative |
blasphemous | (adjective) characterized by profanity or cursing | Synonyms: blue, profane |
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(adjective) grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred | Synonyms: profane, sacrilegious |
blasphemously | (adverb) in a blasphemous manner | - |
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brumous | (adjective) filled or abounding with fog or mist | Synonyms: foggy, hazy, misty |
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camouflage | (noun) the act of concealing the identity of something by modifying its appearance | Synonyms: disguise |
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(noun) device or stratagem for concealment or deceit | - |
(noun) fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan; intended to make the wearer of a garment made of this fabric hard to distinguish from the background | Synonyms: camo |
(noun) an outward semblance that misrepresents the true nature of something | Synonyms: disguise |
(verb) disguise by camouflaging; exploit the natural surroundings to disguise something | - |
camouflaged | (adjective) made invisible by means of protective coloring | - |
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catadromous | (adjective) migrating from fresh water to the sea to spawn | - |
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catamount | (noun) large American feline resembling a lion | Synonyms: cougar, Felis concolor, mountain lion, painter, panther, puma |
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(noun) short-tailed wildcats with usually tufted ears; valued for their fur | Synonyms: lynx |
catamountain | (noun) bushy-tailed wildcat of Europe that resembles the domestic cat and is regarded as the ancestor of the domestic cat | Synonyms: European wildcat, Felis silvestris |
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clamour | (noun) loud and persistent outcry from many people | Synonyms: clamor, clamoring, clamouring, hue and cry |
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(verb) utter or proclaim insistently and noisily | Synonyms: clamor |
(verb) make loud demands | Synonyms: clamor |
clamouring | (noun) loud and persistent outcry from many people | Synonyms: clamor, clamoring, clamour, hue and cry |
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cleistogamous | (adjective) exhibiting or relating to cleistogamy | Synonyms: cleistogamic |
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closemouthed | (adjective) inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information | Synonyms: close, closelipped, secretive, tightlipped |
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cormous | (adjective) having or producing corms | Synonyms: cormose |
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cottonmouth | (noun) venomous semiaquatic snake of swamps in southern United States | Synonyms: Agkistrodon piscivorus, cottonmouth moccasin, water moccasin |
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cryptogamous | (adjective) of or relating to a cryptogam | Synonyms: cryptogamic |
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damourite | (noun) a variety of muscovite | - |
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diadromous | (adjective) (used of fish) migratory between fresh and salt waters | - |
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dichotomous | (adjective) divided or dividing into two sharply distinguished parts or classifications | - |
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dichotomously | (adverb) in a dichotomous manner | - |
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dimout | (noun) darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft) | Synonyms: blackout, brownout |
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dismount | (noun) the act of dismounting (a horse or bike etc.) | - |
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(verb) alight from (a horse) | Synonyms: get down, get off, light, unhorse |
dormouse | (noun) small furry-tailed squirrel-like Old World rodent that becomes torpid in cold weather | - |
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enamour | (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
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endogamous | (adjective) pertaining to or characterized by the custom of marrying only within the limits of a clan or tribe | Synonyms: endogamic |
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(adjective) characterized by or fit for fertilization by pollen from another flower of the same kind | Synonyms: endogamic |
enormous | (adjective) extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree | Synonyms: tremendous |
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enormously | (adverb) vastly | Synonyms: hugely, staggeringly, tremendously |
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enormousness | (noun) unusual largeness in size or extent or number | Synonyms: grandness, greatness, immenseness, immensity, sizeableness, vastness, wideness |
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eponymous | (adjective) being or relating to or bearing the name of an eponym | Synonyms: eponymic |
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equanimous | (adjective) in full control of your faculties | Synonyms: collected, poised, self-collected, self-contained, self-possessed |
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exogamous | (adjective) pertaining to or characterized by the custom of marrying only outside the limits of a clan or tribe | Synonyms: exogamic |
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(adjective) characterized by or fit for fertilization by a flower that is not closely related | Synonyms: exogamic |
famous | (adjective) widely known and esteemed | Synonyms: celebrated, famed, far-famed, illustrious, notable, noted, renowned |
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famously | (adverb) in a manner or to an extent that is well known | - |
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(adverb) wonderfully | Synonyms: excellently, magnificently, splendidly |
fieldmouse | (noun) any nocturnal Old World mouse of the genus Apodemus inhabiting woods and fields and gardens | Synonyms: field mouse |
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frogmouth | (noun) insectivorous bird of Australia and southeastern Asia having a wide frog-like mouth | - |
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glamour | (noun) alluring beauty or charm (often with sex-appeal) | Synonyms: glamor |
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(verb) cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something | Synonyms: bewitch, enchant, hex, jinx, witch |
glamourisation | (noun) the act of glamorizing; making something or someone more beautiful (often in a superficial way) | Synonyms: glamorisation, glamorization, glamourization |
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glamourise | (verb) make glamorous and attractive | Synonyms: glamorise, glamorize, glamourize |
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(verb) interpret romantically | Synonyms: glamorize, romanticise, romanticize |
glamourization | (noun) the act of glamorizing; making something or someone more beautiful (often in a superficial way) | Synonyms: glamorisation, glamorization, glamourisation |
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glamourize | (verb) make glamorous and attractive | Synonyms: glamorise, glamorize, glamourise |
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glamourous | (adjective) having an air of allure, romance and excitement | Synonyms: glamorous |
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goalmouth | (noun) (sports) the area immediately in front of the goal | - |
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grumous | (adjective) transformed from a liquid into a soft semisolid or solid mass | Synonyms: coagulate, coagulated, curdled, grumose |
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gymnospermous | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of plants of the class Gymnospermae | - |
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homonymous | (adjective) of or related to or being homonyms | Synonyms: homonymic |
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hoodmould | (noun) a protective drip that is made of stone | Synonyms: dripstone, hoodmold |
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humour | (noun) the quality of being funny | Synonyms: humor |
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(noun) the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous | Synonyms: humor, sense of humor, sense of humour |
(noun) the liquid parts of the body | Synonyms: bodily fluid, body fluid, humor, liquid body substance |
(noun) (Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state | Synonyms: humor |
(noun) a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter | Synonyms: humor, wit, witticism, wittiness |
(noun) a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling | Synonyms: humor, mood, temper |
(verb) put into a good mood | Synonyms: humor |
humouring | (noun) the act of indulging or gratifying a desire | Synonyms: humoring, indulgence, indulging, pampering |
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humourist | (noun) someone who acts, speaks or writes in an amusing way | Synonyms: humorist |
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humourless | (adjective) lacking humor | Synonyms: humorless, unhumorous |
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humourlessly | (adverb) in a humorless manner | Synonyms: humorlessly |
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humourous | (adjective) full of or characterized by humor | Synonyms: humorous |
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humous | (noun) a thick spread made from mashed chickpeas, tahini, lemon juice and garlic; used especially as a dip for pita; originated in the Middle East | Synonyms: hommos, hoummos, hummus, humus |
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infamous | (adjective) known widely and usually unfavorably | Synonyms: ill-famed, notorious |
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insurmountable | (adjective) not capable of being surmounted or overcome | Synonyms: unsurmountable |
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(adjective) impossible to surmount | Synonyms: insuperable |
largemouth | (noun) a large black bass; the angle of the jaw falls behind the eye | Synonyms: largemouth bass, largemouth black bass, largemouthed bass, largemouthed black bass, Micropterus salmoides |
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limousine | (noun) large luxurious car; usually driven by a chauffeur | Synonyms: limo |
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longanimous | (adjective) showing patient and unruffled self-control and restraint under adversity; slow to retaliate or express resentment | Synonyms: forbearing |
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loudmouth | (noun) a person who causes trouble by speaking indiscreetly | Synonyms: blusterer |
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magnanimous | (adjective) generous and understanding and tolerant | Synonyms: big, large |
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(adjective) noble and generous in spirit | Synonyms: greathearted |
magnanimously | (adverb) in a magnanimous manner | - |
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magnanimousness | (noun) the quality of elevation of mind and exaltation of character or ideals or conduct | Synonyms: grandeur, nobility, nobleness |
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mealymouthed | (adjective) hesitant to state facts or opinions simply and directly as from e.g. timidity or hypocrisy | Synonyms: mealy-mouthed |
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monochromous | (adjective) having or appearing to have only one color | Synonyms: monochromatic, monochrome, monochromic |
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monogamous | (adjective) (used of relationships and of individuals) having one mate | - |
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monogamousness | (noun) the practice or state of having only one spouse at a time | Synonyms: monogamy |
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monosemous | (adjective) having only one meaning | - |
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motormouth | (noun) someone who talks incessantly | - |
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moue | (noun) a disdainful grimace | Synonyms: pout, wry face |
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moufflon | (noun) wild mountain sheep of Corsica and Sardinia | Synonyms: mouflon, Ovis musimon |
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mouflon | (noun) wild mountain sheep of Corsica and Sardinia | Synonyms: moufflon, Ovis musimon |
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moujik | (noun) a Russian peasant (especially prior to 1917) | Synonyms: mujik, muzhik, muzjik |
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mould | (noun) container into which liquid is poured to create a given shape when it hardens | Synonyms: cast, mold |
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(noun) sculpture produced by molding | Synonyms: clay sculpture, modeling, modelling, mold, molding, moulding |
(noun) a distinctive nature, character, or type | Synonyms: mold |
(noun) a dish or dessert that is formed in or on a mold | Synonyms: mold |
(noun) a fungus that produces a superficial growth on various kinds of damp or decaying organic matter | Synonyms: mold |
(noun) the process of becoming mildewed | Synonyms: mildew, mold |
(noun) the distinctive form in which a thing is made | Synonyms: cast, mold, stamp |
(noun) loose soil rich in organic matter | Synonyms: mold |
(verb) become moldy; spoil due to humidity | Synonyms: mildew, mold |
(verb) shape or influence; give direction to | Synonyms: determine, influence, mold, regulate, shape |
(verb) fit tightly, follow the contours of | Synonyms: mold |
(verb) form by pouring (e.g., wax or hot metal) into a cast or mold | Synonyms: cast, mold |
(verb) make something, usually for a specific function | Synonyms: forge, form, mold, shape, work |
(verb) form in clay, wax, etc | Synonyms: model, mold |
mouldboard | (noun) wedge formed by the curved part of a steel plow blade that turns the furrow | Synonyms: moldboard |
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