aerogenerator | (noun) generator that extracts usable energy from winds | Synonyms: wind generator, windmill |
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cineraria | (noun) herb of Canary Islands widely cultivated for its blue or purple or red or variegated daisylike flowers | Synonyms: Pericallis cruenta, Senecio cruentus |
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cinerarium | (noun) a niche for a funeral urn containing the ashes of the cremated dead | Synonyms: columbarium |
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cinerary | (adjective) containing or used for ashes of the cremated dead | - |
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degeneracy | (noun) moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles | Synonyms: corruption, depravation, depravity, putrefaction |
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(noun) the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities | Synonyms: decadence, decadency, degeneration |
degenerate | (adjective) unrestrained by convention or morality | Synonyms: debauched, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, fast, libertine, profligate, riotous |
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(noun) a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior | Synonyms: deviant, deviate, perv, perve, pervert |
(verb) grow progressively worse | Synonyms: deteriorate, devolve, drop |
degeneration | (noun) passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form | Synonyms: retrogression |
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(noun) the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality | Synonyms: devolution |
(noun) the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities | Synonyms: decadence, decadency, degeneracy |
degenerative | (adjective) (of illness) marked by gradual deterioration of organs and cells along with loss of function | - |
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demineralisation | (noun) the removal of minerals and mineral salts from a liquid (especially from water) | Synonyms: demineralization |
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(noun) abnormal loss of mineral salts (especially from bone) | Synonyms: demineralization |
demineralise | (verb) remove the minerals or salts from | Synonyms: demineralize |
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demineralization | (noun) the removal of minerals and mineral salts from a liquid (especially from water) | Synonyms: demineralisation |
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(noun) abnormal loss of mineral salts (especially from bone) | Synonyms: demineralisation |
demineralize | (verb) remove the minerals or salts from | Synonyms: demineralise |
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exonerate | (verb) pronounce not guilty of criminal charges | Synonyms: acquit, assoil, clear, discharge, exculpate |
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exonerated | (adjective) freed from any question of guilt | Synonyms: absolved, clear, cleared, exculpated, vindicated |
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exoneration | (noun) the act of vindicating or defending against criticism or censure etc. | Synonyms: vindication |
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(noun) the condition of being relieved from blame or obligation | - |
exonerative | (adjective) providing absolution | Synonyms: absolvitory, forgiving |
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funeral | (noun) a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated | Synonyms: obsequy |
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funerary | (adjective) of or for or relating to a funeral | - |
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general | (adjective) applying to all or most members of a category or group | - |
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(adjective) affecting the entire body | - |
(adjective) prevailing among and common to the general public | - |
(adjective) of worldwide scope or applicability | Synonyms: cosmopolitan, ecumenical, oecumenical, universal, world-wide, worldwide |
(adjective) somewhat indefinite | - |
(adjective) not specialized or limited to one class of things | - |
(noun) a fact about the whole (as opposed to particular) | - |
(noun) a general officer of the highest rank | Synonyms: full general |
(noun) the head of a religious order or congregation | Synonyms: superior general |
(verb) command as a general | - |
generalcy | (noun) the office and authority of a general | Synonyms: generalship |
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generalisation | (noun) an idea or conclusion having general application | Synonyms: generality, generalization |
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(noun) reasoning from detailed facts to general principles | Synonyms: generalization, induction, inductive reasoning |
(noun) (psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus | Synonyms: generalization, stimulus generalisation, stimulus generalization |
(noun) the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances | Synonyms: abstraction, generalization |
generalise | (verb) become systemic and spread throughout the body | Synonyms: generalize |
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(verb) speak or write in generalities | Synonyms: generalize |
(verb) draw from specific cases for more general cases | Synonyms: extrapolate, generalize, infer |
(verb) cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use | Synonyms: generalize, popularise, popularize, vulgarise, vulgarize |
generalised | (adjective) not biologically differentiated or adapted to a specific function or environment | Synonyms: generalized |
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generalissimo | (noun) the officer who holds the supreme command | Synonyms: commander-in-chief, commander in chief |
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generalist | (noun) a modern scholar who is in a position to acquire more than superficial knowledge about many different interests | Synonyms: Renaissance man |
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generality | (noun) the quality of being general or widespread or having general applicability | - |
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(noun) an idea or conclusion having general application | Synonyms: generalisation, generalization |
generalization | (noun) an idea or conclusion having general application | Synonyms: generalisation, generality |
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(noun) reasoning from detailed facts to general principles | Synonyms: generalisation, induction, inductive reasoning |
(noun) (psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus | Synonyms: generalisation, stimulus generalisation, stimulus generalization |
(noun) the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances | Synonyms: abstraction, generalisation |
generalize | (verb) become systemic and spread throughout the body | Synonyms: generalise |
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(verb) speak or write in generalities | Synonyms: generalise |
(verb) draw from specific cases for more general cases | Synonyms: extrapolate, generalise, infer |
(verb) cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use | Synonyms: generalise, popularise, popularize, vulgarise, vulgarize |
generalized | (adjective) not biologically differentiated or adapted to a specific function or environment | Synonyms: generalised |
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generally | (adverb) without regard to specific details or exceptions | Synonyms: broadly, broadly speaking, loosely |
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(adverb) without distinction of one from others | Synonyms: in general, in the main |
(adverb) usually; as a rule | Synonyms: by and large, more often than not, mostly |
generalship | (noun) the office and authority of a general | Synonyms: generalcy |
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(noun) the leadership ability of a military general | - |
generate | (verb) make (offspring) by reproduction | Synonyms: beget, bring forth, engender, father, get, mother, sire |
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(verb) produce, create | Synonyms: bring forth |
(verb) produce (energy) | - |
(verb) give or supply | Synonyms: give, render, return, yield |
generation | (noun) the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production | Synonyms: multiplication, propagation |
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(noun) the production of heat or electricity | - |
(noun) a coming into being | Synonyms: genesis |
(noun) group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent | - |
(noun) all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age | Synonyms: coevals, contemporaries |
(noun) the normal time between successive generations | - |
(noun) a stage of technological development or innovation | - |
generational | (adjective) of or relating to a generation | - |
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generative | (adjective) having the ability to produce or originate | Synonyms: productive |
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(adjective) producing new life or offspring | Synonyms: procreative, reproductive |
generator | (noun) engine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy by electromagnetic induction | - |
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(noun) an apparatus that produces a vapor or gas | - |
(noun) an electronic device for producing a signal voltage | - |
(noun) someone who originates or causes or initiates something | Synonyms: author, source |
habanera | (noun) a Cuban dance in duple time | - |
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(noun) music composed in duple time for dancing the habanera | - |
incinerate | (verb) cause to undergo combustion | Synonyms: burn |
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(verb) become reduced to ashes | - |
incineration | (noun) the act of burning something completely; reducing it to ashes | - |
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incinerator | (noun) a furnace for incinerating (especially to dispose of refuse) | - |
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ineradicable | (adjective) not able to be destroyed or rooted out | - |
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invulnerability | (noun) the property of being invulnerable; the property of being incapable of being hurt (physically or emotionally) | - |
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(noun) having the strength to withstand attack | Synonyms: impregnability |
invulnerable | (adjective) immune to attack; impregnable | - |
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itinerant | (adjective) traveling from place to place to work | - |
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(noun) a laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by employment | Synonyms: gipsy, gypsy |
itinerary | (noun) a proposed route of travel | Synonyms: travel plan |
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(noun) a guidebook for travelers | Synonyms: travel guidebook |
(noun) an established line of travel or access | Synonyms: path, route |
itinerate | (verb) travel from place to place, as for work | - |
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itineration | (noun) journeying from place to place preaching or lecturing; a preaching tour or lecturing tour | - |
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mineral | (adjective) relating to minerals | - |
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(adjective) composed of matter other than plant or animal | - |
(noun) solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition | - |
mineralize | (verb) transform (a metal) into an ore | - |
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(verb) convert into a mineral substance | - |
mineralocorticoid | (noun) hormone that is one of the steroids of the adrenal cortex that influences the metabolism of sodium and potassium | - |
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mineralogist | (noun) a scientist trained in mineralogy | - |
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mineralogy | (noun) the branch of geology that studies minerals: their structure and properties and the ways of distinguishing them | - |
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moneran | (adjective) of or relating to the Monera | - |
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(noun) organisms that typically reproduce by asexual budding or fission and whose nutritional mode is absorption or photosynthesis or chemosynthesis | Synonyms: moneron |
outgeneral | (verb) surpass in generalship | - |
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overgeneralise | (verb) draw too general a conclusion | Synonyms: overgeneralize |
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overgeneralize | (verb) draw too general a conclusion | Synonyms: overgeneralise |
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regenerate | (adjective) reformed spiritually or morally | - |
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(verb) restore strength | Synonyms: revitalize |
(verb) undergo regeneration | - |
(verb) form or produce anew | - |
(verb) get or give new life or energy; return to life, regain energy, recuperate | Synonyms: rejuvenate, restore |
(verb) replace (tissue or a body part) through the formation of new tissue | - |
(verb) be formed or shaped anew | - |
(verb) bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one | Synonyms: reclaim, rectify, reform |
(verb) amplify (an electron current) by causing part of the power in the output circuit to act upon the input circuit | - |
(verb) reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new | Synonyms: renew |
regenerating | (adjective) that are generating anew | - |
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regeneration | (noun) the activity of spiritual or physical renewal | - |
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(noun) forming again (especially with improvements or removal of defects); renewing and reconstituting | Synonyms: re-formation |
(noun) (biology) growth anew of lost tissue or destroyed parts or organs | - |
(noun) feedback in phase with (augmenting) the input | Synonyms: positive feedback |
remunerate | (verb) make payment to; compensate | Synonyms: compensate, recompense |
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remunerated | (adjective) receiving or eligible for compensation | Synonyms: compensated, salaried, stipendiary |
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remuneration | (noun) the act of paying for goods or services or to recompense for losses | - |
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(noun) something that remunerates | Synonyms: earnings, pay, salary, wage |
remunerative | (adjective) for which money is paid | Synonyms: compensable, paying, salaried, stipendiary |
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(adjective) producing a sizeable profit | Synonyms: lucrative, moneymaking |
remunerator | (noun) a person who pays money for something | Synonyms: payer |
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scorzonera | (noun) long black salsify | Synonyms: black salsify |
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(noun) perennial south European herb having narrow entire leaves and solitary yellow flower heads and long black edible roots shaped like carrots | Synonyms: black salsify, Scorzonera hispanica, viper's grass |
turbogenerator | (noun) generator consisting of a steam turbine coupled to an electric generator for the production of electric power | - |
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unerasable | (adjective) cannot be removed or erased | Synonyms: indelible |
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unregenerate | (adjective) not reformed morally or spiritually | Synonyms: unregenerated |
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(adjective) tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield | Synonyms: obstinate, stubborn |
(adjective) unrepentant and incapable of being reformed | Synonyms: unreformable |
unregenerated | (adjective) not reformed morally or spiritually | Synonyms: unregenerate |
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unremunerative | (adjective) not yielding profit or recompense | - |
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venerability | (noun) the quality of deserving veneration | Synonyms: venerableness |
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venerable | (adjective) profoundly honored | Synonyms: august, revered |
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(adjective) impressive by reason of age | - |
venerableness | (noun) the quality of deserving veneration | Synonyms: venerability |
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venerate | (verb) regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of | Synonyms: fear, revere, reverence |
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venerating | (adjective) feeling or manifesting veneration | Synonyms: respectful, reverential |
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veneration | (noun) religious zeal; the willingness to serve God | Synonyms: cultism, devotion |
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(noun) a feeling of profound respect for someone or something | Synonyms: awe, fear, reverence |
venerator | (noun) someone who regards with deep respect or reverence | - |
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vulnerability | (noun) susceptibility to injury or attack | - |
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(noun) the state of being vulnerable or exposed | Synonyms: exposure |
vulnerable | (adjective) susceptible to attack | - |
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(adjective) susceptible to criticism or persuasion or temptation | - |
(adjective) capable of being wounded or hurt | - |
vulnerably | (adverb) in a vulnerable manner | - |
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