abundance | (noun) the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply | Synonyms: copiousness, teemingness |
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(noun) (chemistry) the ratio of the total mass of an element in the earth's crust to the total mass of the earth's crust; expressed as a percentage or in parts per million | - |
(noun) (physics) the ratio of the number of atoms of a specific isotope of an element to the total number of isotopes present | - |
abundant | (adjective) present in great quantity | - |
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abundantly | (adverb) in an abundant manner | Synonyms: copiously, extravagantly, profusely |
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agenda | (noun) a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to | Synonyms: docket, schedule |
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(noun) a list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting) | Synonyms: agendum, order of business |
allamanda | (noun) a plant of the genus Allamanda having large showy funnel-shaped flowers in terminal cymes | - |
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amendable | (adjective) capable of being corrected by additions | Synonyms: correctable |
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amendatory | (adjective) effecting amendment | - |
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anaconda | (noun) large arboreal boa of tropical South America | Synonyms: Eunectes murinus |
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andante | (adjective) (of tempo) moderately slow | - |
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(noun) a musical composition or musical passage to be performed moderately slow | - |
(noun) a moderately slow tempo (a walking pace) | - |
(adverb) at a moderately slow tempo | - |
andantino | (adjective) (of tempo) moderately fast | - |
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appendage | (noun) a part that is joined to something larger | - |
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(noun) an external body part that projects from the body | Synonyms: extremity, member |
(noun) a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant | Synonyms: outgrowth, process |
appendaged | (adjective) having an appendage | - |
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appendant | (adjective) affixed as an appendage | - |
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ascendable | (adjective) capable of being ascended | Synonyms: ascendible, climbable |
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ascendance | (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendancy, ascendence, ascendency, control, dominance |
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ascendancy | (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendance, ascendence, ascendency, control, dominance |
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ascendant | (adjective) tending or directed upward | Synonyms: ascendent, ascensive |
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(adjective) most powerful or important or influential | Synonyms: ascendent, dominating |
(noun) someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) | Synonyms: ancestor, antecedent, ascendent, root |
(noun) position or state of being dominant or in control | Synonyms: ascendent |
attendance | (noun) the act of being present (at a meeting or event etc.) | Synonyms: attending |
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(noun) the number of people that are present | - |
(noun) the frequency with which a person is present | - |
attendant | (adjective) being present (at a meeting or event, etc.) | - |
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(adjective) occurring with or following as a consequence | Synonyms: accompanying, collateral, concomitant, consequent, ensuant, incidental, resultant, sequent |
(noun) an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another | Synonyms: accompaniment, co-occurrence, concomitant |
(noun) someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another | Synonyms: attender, tender |
(noun) a person who is present and participates in a meeting | Synonyms: attendee, attender, meeter |
bandage | (noun) a piece of soft material that covers and protects an injured part of the body | Synonyms: patch |
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(verb) dress by covering or binding | - |
(verb) wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose | Synonyms: bind |
bandaged | (adjective) covered or wrapped with a bandage | Synonyms: bound |
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bandaging | (noun) the act of applying a bandage | Synonyms: binding, dressing |
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bandana | (noun) large and brightly colored handkerchief; often used as a neckerchief | Synonyms: bandanna |
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bandanna | (noun) large and brightly colored handkerchief; often used as a neckerchief | Synonyms: bandana |
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bendability | (noun) the property of being easily bent without breaking | Synonyms: pliability |
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bendable | (adjective) capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking | Synonyms: pliable, pliant, waxy |
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benday | (verb) reproduce by the Benday process | - |
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bindable | (adjective) capable of being fastened or secured with a rope or bond | Synonyms: bondable |
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bondable | (adjective) capable of holding together or cohering; as particles in a mass | - |
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(adjective) capable of being fastened or secured with a rope or bond | Synonyms: bindable |
bondage | (noun) sexual practice that involves physically restraining (by cords or handcuffs) one of the partners | - |
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(noun) the state of being under the control of another person | Synonyms: slavery, thraldom, thrall, thralldom |
(noun) the state of being under the control of a force or influence or abstract power | - |
boundary | (noun) the greatest possible degree of something | Synonyms: bound, limit |
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(noun) the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something | Synonyms: bound, bounds |
(noun) a line determining the limits of an area | Synonyms: bound, edge |
calendar | (noun) a list or register of events (appointments or social events or court cases etc) | - |
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(noun) a tabular array of the days (usually for one year) | - |
(noun) a system of timekeeping that defines the beginning and length and divisions of the year | - |
(verb) enter into a calendar | - |
caranda | (noun) South American palm yielding a wax similar to carnauba wax | Synonyms: caranda palm, caranday, Copernicia alba, Copernicia australis, wax palm |
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caranday | (noun) South American palm yielding a wax similar to carnauba wax | Synonyms: caranda, caranda palm, Copernicia alba, Copernicia australis, wax palm |
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codefendant | (noun) a defendant who has been joined together with one or more other defendants in a single action | Synonyms: co-defendant |
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commandant | (noun) an officer in command of a military unit | Synonyms: commander, commanding officer |
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commendable | (adjective) worthy of high praise | Synonyms: applaudable, laudable, praiseworthy |
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(adverb) in an admirable manner | Synonyms: admirably, laudably, praiseworthily |
commendation | (noun) an official award (as for bravery or service) usually given as formal public statement | Synonyms: citation |
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(noun) a message expressing a favorable opinion | Synonyms: approval |
corrigenda | (noun) a list of printing errors in a book along with their corrections | - |
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defendable | (adjective) capable of being defended | Synonyms: defensible |
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defendant | (noun) a person or institution against whom an action is brought in a court of law; the person being sued or accused | Synonyms: suspect |
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demimondaine | (noun) a female prostitute | - |
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dependability | (noun) the quality of being dependable or reliable | Synonyms: dependableness, reliability, reliableness |
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dependable | (adjective) worthy of reliance or trust | Synonyms: reliable |
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(adjective) financially safe | Synonyms: good, safe, secure |
(adjective) consistent in performance or behavior | Synonyms: rock-steady, steady-going |
(adjective) worthy of being depended on | Synonyms: honest, reliable, true |
dependableness | (noun) the quality of being dependable or reliable | Synonyms: dependability, reliability, reliableness |
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dependably | (adverb) in a faithful manner | Synonyms: faithfully, reliably |
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dependance | (noun) the state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else | Synonyms: dependence, dependency |
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(noun) being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) | Synonyms: addiction, dependence, dependency, habituation |
dependant | (adjective) addicted to a drug | Synonyms: dependent, drug-addicted, hooked, strung-out |
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(adjective) contingent on something else | Synonyms: dependent, qualified |
(noun) a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support) | Synonyms: dependent |
descendant | (adjective) going or coming down | Synonyms: descendent |
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(adjective) proceeding by descent from an ancestor | Synonyms: descendent |
(noun) a person considered as descended from some ancestor | Synonyms: descendent |
descendants | (noun) all of the offspring of a given progenitor | Synonyms: posterity |
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emendation | (noun) a correction by emending; a correction resulting from critical editing | - |
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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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endameba | (noun) any ameba of the genus Endamoeba | - |
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endanger | (verb) put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position | Synonyms: expose, peril, queer, scupper |
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(verb) pose a threat to; present a danger to | Synonyms: imperil, jeopardise, jeopardize, menace, peril, threaten |
endangered | (adjective) (of flora or fauna) in imminent danger of extinction | - |
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endangerment | (noun) a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune | Synonyms: hazard, jeopardy, peril, risk |
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endarterectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the inner lining of an artery that is clogged with atherosclerosis | - |
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endarteritis | (noun) inflammation of the inner lining of an artery | - |
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expandability | (noun) A physical property of gases, denoting that they expand to fill their containers. | - |
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expandable | (adjective) (of gases) capable of expansion | Synonyms: expandible, expansible, expansile |
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(adjective) able to expand or be expanded | Synonyms: expandible, expansible |
expendable | (adjective) suitable to be expended | - |
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(adjective) (used of funds) remaining after taxes | Synonyms: spendable |
extendable | (adjective) capable of being lengthened | Synonyms: extendible |
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fandango | (noun) a provocative Spanish courtship dance in triple time; performed by a man and a woman playing castanets | - |
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fecundate | (verb) introduce semen into (a female) | Synonyms: fertilise, fertilize, inseminate |
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(verb) make fertile or productive | Synonyms: fertilise, fertilize |
fecundation | (noun) creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant | Synonyms: fertilisation, fertilization, impregnation |
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(noun) making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure | Synonyms: dressing, fertilisation, fertilization |
fondant | (noun) candy made of a thick creamy sugar paste | - |
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foundation | (noun) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | Synonyms: creation, founding, initiation, innovation, instauration, institution, introduction, origination |
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(noun) lowest support of a structure | Synonyms: base, foot, fundament, groundwork, substructure, understructure |
(noun) a woman's undergarment worn to give shape to the contours of the body | Synonyms: foundation garment |
(noun) the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained | Synonyms: base, basis, cornerstone, fundament, groundwork |
(noun) education or instruction in the fundamentals of a field of knowledge | Synonyms: grounding |
(noun) an institution supported by an endowment | - |
(noun) the basis on which something is grounded | - |
fundament | (noun) lowest support of a structure | Synonyms: base, foot, foundation, groundwork, substructure, understructure |
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(noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
(noun) the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained | Synonyms: base, basis, cornerstone, foundation, groundwork |
fundamental | (adjective) being or involving basic facts or principles | Synonyms: rudimentary, underlying |
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(adjective) serving as an essential component | Synonyms: cardinal, central, key, primal |
(adjective) far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something | Synonyms: profound |
(noun) the lowest tone of a harmonic series | Synonyms: first harmonic, fundamental frequency |
(noun) any factor that could be considered important to the understanding of a particular business | - |
fundamentalism | (noun) a form of Protestantism that takes the interpretation of every word in the sacred texts as literal truth | - |
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(noun) the strict adherence to the basic principles or doctrines of a religion, ideology, etc. | - |
fundamentalist | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of Protestant fundamentalism or its adherents | Synonyms: fundamentalistic |
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(adjective) of or relating to or tending toward ideological fundamentalism | Synonyms: fundamentalistic |
(noun) a supporter of fundamentalism | - |
(noun) an adherent of fundamentalist principles | - |
fundamentalistic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of Protestant fundamentalism or its adherents | Synonyms: fundamentalist |
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(adjective) of or relating to or tending toward ideological fundamentalism | Synonyms: fundamentalist |
fundamentally | (adverb) in essence; at bottom or by one's (or its) very nature | Synonyms: basically, essentially |
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fundamentalness | (noun) The state or condition of being fundamental; essential importance. | - |
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fundamentals | (noun) principles from which other truths can be derived | Synonyms: basic principle, basics, bedrock, fundamental principle |
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funday | (noun) Sunday as a day for relaxing and having fun | - |
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gendarme | (noun) a French policeman | - |
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gendarmerie | (noun) French police force; a group of gendarmes or gendarmes collectively | Synonyms: gendarmery |
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gendarmery | (noun) French police force; a group of gendarmes or gendarmes collectively | Synonyms: gendarmerie |
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grandad | (noun) the father of your father or mother | Synonyms: gramps, granddad, granddaddy, grandfather, grandpa |
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grandaunt | (noun) an aunt of your father or mother | Synonyms: great-aunt |
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groenendael | (noun) black-coated sheepdog with a heavily plumed tail | - |
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hacienda | (noun) the main house on a ranch or large estate | - |
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(noun) a large estate in Spanish-speaking countries | - |
hollandaise | (noun) eggs and butter with lemon juice | - |
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indaba | (noun) a council at which indigenous peoples of southern Africa meet to discuss some important question | - |
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indapamide | (noun) diuretic (trade name Lozal) used in the treatment of hypertension | Synonyms: Lozal |
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inundate | (verb) fill or cover completely, usually with water | Synonyms: deluge, submerge |
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(verb) fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid | Synonyms: deluge, flood, swamp |
inundated | (adjective) covered with water | Synonyms: afloat, awash, flooded, overflowing |
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inundation | (noun) the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land | Synonyms: alluvion, deluge, flood |
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(noun) an overwhelming number or amount | Synonyms: deluge, flood, torrent |
jacaranda | (noun) an important Brazilian timber tree yielding a heavy hard dark-colored wood streaked with black | Synonyms: Brazilian rosewood, caviuna wood, Dalbergia nigra |
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kinda | (adverb) to some (great or small) extent | Synonyms: kind of, rather, sort of |
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landau | (noun) a four-wheel covered carriage with a roof divided into two parts (front and back) that can be let down separately | - |
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legendary | (adjective) so celebrated as to having taken on the nature of a legend | - |
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(adjective) celebrated in fable or legend | Synonyms: fabled |
lendable | (adjective) available for lending | - |
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lindane | (noun) a white crystalline powder used as an agricultural insecticide | - |
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mandala | (noun) any of various geometric designs (usually circular) symbolizing the universe; used chiefly in Hinduism and Buddhism as an aid to meditation | - |
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mandamus | (noun) an extraordinary writ commanding an official to perform a ministerial act that the law recognizes as an absolute duty and not a matter for the official's discretion; used only when all other judicial remedies fail | Synonyms: writ of mandamus |
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mandarin | (noun) a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China | Synonyms: mandarin orange |
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(noun) a high public official of imperial China | - |
(noun) any high government official or bureaucrat | - |
(noun) a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group | - |
(noun) shrub or small tree having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin yellow-orange to flame-orange rind that is loose and easily removed; native to southeastern Asia | Synonyms: Citrus reticulata, mandarin orange, mandarin orange tree |
mandatary | (noun) the recipient of a mandate | Synonyms: mandatory |
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mandate | (noun) the commission that is given to a government and its policies through an electoral victory | - |
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(noun) a document giving an official instruction or command | Synonyms: authorisation, authorization |
(noun) a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they are able to stand by themselves | Synonyms: mandatory |
(verb) assign authority to | - |
(verb) make mandatory | - |
(verb) assign under a mandate | - |