abiogenist | (noun) a believer in abiogenesis | - |
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abolitionism | (noun) the doctrine that calls for the abolition of slavery | - |
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abolitionist | (noun) a reformer who favors abolishing slavery | Synonyms: emancipationist |
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abortionist | (noun) a person (who should be a doctor) who terminates pregnancies | - |
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abstractionism | (noun) an abstract genre of art; artistic content depends on internal form rather than pictorial representation | Synonyms: abstract art |
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(noun) a representation having no reference to concrete objects or specific examples | Synonyms: unrealism |
abstractionist | (adjective) not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature | Synonyms: abstract, nonfigurative, nonobjective |
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(noun) a painter of abstract pictures | Synonyms: abstract artist |
accompanist | (noun) a person who provides musical accompaniment (usually on a piano) | Synonyms: accompanyist |
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accordionist | (noun) a musician who plays the accordion | - |
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actinism | (noun) the property of radiation that enables it to produce photochemical effects | - |
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administer | (verb) give or apply (medications) | Synonyms: dispense |
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(verb) administer or bestow, as in small portions | Synonyms: allot, deal, deal out, dish out, dispense, distribute, dole out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out |
(verb) perform (a church sacrament) ritually | - |
(verb) work in an administrative capacity; supervise or be in charge of | Synonyms: administrate |
(verb) direct the taking of | - |
administrable | (adjective) capable of being administered or managed | - |
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administrate | (verb) work in an administrative capacity; supervise or be in charge of | Synonyms: administer |
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administration | (noun) a method of tending to or managing the affairs of some group of people (especially the group's business affairs) | Synonyms: disposal |
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(noun) the act of administering medication | Synonyms: giving medication |
(noun) the act of meting out justice according to the law | Synonyms: judicature |
(noun) the act of governing; exercising authority | Synonyms: governance, governing, government, government activity |
(noun) the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something | Synonyms: brass, establishment, governance, governing body, organisation, organization |
(noun) the tenure of a president | Synonyms: presidency, presidential term |
administrative | (adjective) of or relating to or responsible for administration | - |
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administratively | (adverb) by or for an administrator | - |
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administrator | (noun) someone who administers a business | Synonyms: decision maker |
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(noun) the party appointed by a probate court to distribute the estate of someone who dies without a will or without naming an executor | - |
(noun) someone who manages a government agency or department | Synonyms: executive |
administrivia | (noun) the tiresome but essential details that must be taken care of and tasks that must be performed in running an organization | - |
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admonish | (verb) take to task | Synonyms: reproof, reprove |
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(verb) warn strongly; put on guard | Synonyms: caution, monish |
(verb) advise or counsel in terms of someone's behavior | Synonyms: discourage, monish, warn |
admonisher | (noun) someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided | Synonyms: monitor, reminder |
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admonishing | (adjective) expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective | Synonyms: admonitory, reproachful, reproving |
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admonishment | (noun) a firm rebuke | Synonyms: admonition, monition |
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adonis | (noun) any handsome young man | - |
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aepyornis | (noun) huge (to 9 ft.) extinct flightless bird of Madagascar | Synonyms: elephant bird |
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agnise | (verb) be fully aware or cognizant of | Synonyms: agnize, realise, realize, recognise, recognize |
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agonise | (verb) suffer agony or anguish | Synonyms: agonize |
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(verb) cause to agonize | Synonyms: agonize |
agonised | (adjective) expressing pain or agony | Synonyms: agonized |
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agonising | (adjective) extremely painful | Synonyms: agonizing, excruciating, harrowing, torturesome, torturing, torturous |
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agonist | (noun) (biochemistry) a drug that can combine with a receptor on a cell to produce a physiological reaction | - |
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(noun) a muscle that contracts while another relaxes | - |
(noun) someone involved in a contest or battle (as in an agon) | - |
(noun) the principal character in a work of fiction | Synonyms: protagonist |
agonistic | (adjective) of or relating to the athletic contests held in ancient Greece | - |
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(adjective) struggling for effect | Synonyms: strained |
(adjective) striving to overcome in argument | Synonyms: agonistical, combative |
agonistical | (adjective) striving to overcome in argument | Synonyms: agonistic, combative |
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albinism | (noun) the congenital absence of pigmentation in the eyes and skin and hair | - |
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albinistic | (adjective) of or pertaining to or affected by albinism | Synonyms: albinal, albinic, albinotic |
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aldosteronism | (noun) a condition caused by overproduction of aldosterone | Synonyms: hyperaldosteronism |
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alienism | (noun) the quality of being alien | Synonyms: alienage |
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(noun) an obsolete term for the study and treatment of mental illness | - |
alienist | (noun) a psychiatrist and specialist in the legal aspects of mental illness | - |
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alkalinise | (verb) make (a substance) alkaline | Synonyms: alkalinize |
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(verb) become alkaline | Synonyms: alkalinize |
alpinist | (noun) a mountain climber who specializes in difficult climbs | - |
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aluminise | (verb) cover with aluminum | Synonyms: aluminize |
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anachronism | (noun) an artifact that belongs to another time | - |
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(noun) a person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age | - |
(noun) something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred | Synonyms: misdating, mistiming |
anachronistic | (adjective) chronologically misplaced | Synonyms: anachronic, anachronous |
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anachronistically | (adverb) in an anachronistic manner | - |
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anise | (noun) liquorice-flavored seeds, used medicinally and in cooking and liquors | Synonyms: anise seed, aniseed |
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(noun) native to Egypt but cultivated widely for its aromatic seeds and the oil from them used medicinally and as a flavoring in cookery | Synonyms: anise plant, Pimpinella anisum |
aniseed | (noun) liquorice-flavored seeds, used medicinally and in cooking and liquors | Synonyms: anise, anise seed |
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aniseikonia | (noun) visual defect in which the shape and size of an ocular image differ in the two eyes | - |
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aniseikonic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of the visual defect aniseikonia | - |
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anisette | (noun) liquorice-flavored usually colorless sweet liqueur made from aniseed | Synonyms: anisette de Bordeaux |
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anisogamete | (noun) either of a pair of unlike gametes especially those unlike in size | - |
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anisogametic | (adjective) relating to either of a pair of dissimilar (anisogamic) gametes combining in sexual reproduction | - |
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anisogamic | (adjective) relating to a type of sexual reproduction in which the gametes are dissimilar in some respect (as size or shape) | Synonyms: anisogamous |
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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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anisogamy | (noun) (biology) reproduction by the union or fusion of two differing gametes (especially differing in size) | - |
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anisometric | (adjective) having unsymmetrical parts or unequal dimensions or measurements | Synonyms: unsymmetrical |
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anisometropia | (noun) difference in the refractive power of the two eyes | - |
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anisometropic | (adjective) relating to a difference in the refractive power of the two eyes | - |
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anisotropic | (adjective) not invariant with respect to direction | - |
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anisotropically | (adverb) in an anisotropic manner | - |
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anisotropy | (noun) the property of being anisotropic; having a different value when measured in different directions | - |
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antagonise | (verb) provoke the hostility of | Synonyms: antagonize |
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(verb) act in opposition to | Synonyms: antagonize, counteract |
antagonism | (noun) (biochemistry) interference in or inhibition of the physiological action of a chemical substance by another having a similar structure | - |
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(noun) an actively expressed feeling of dislike and hostility | - |
(noun) the relation between opposing principles or forces or factors | - |
(noun) a state of deep-seated ill-will | Synonyms: enmity, hostility |
antagonist | (noun) a drug that neutralizes or counteracts the effects of another drug | - |
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(noun) a muscle that relaxes while another contracts | - |
(noun) someone who offers opposition | Synonyms: adversary, opponent, opposer, resister |
antagonistic | (adjective) arousing animosity or hostility | - |
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(adjective) used especially of drugs or muscles that counteract or neutralize each other's effect | Synonyms: incompatible |
(adjective) characterized by antagonism or antipathy | Synonyms: antipathetic, antipathetical |
(adjective) incapable of harmonious association | - |
(adjective) indicating opposition or resistance | Synonyms: counter |
antagonistically | (adverb) in an antagonistic manner | - |
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antiestablishmentarianism | (noun) the doctrine of opposition to the social and political establishment | Synonyms: antiestablishmentism |
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antifeminism | (noun) activity indicative of belief in the superiority of men over women | Synonyms: chauvinism, male chauvinism |
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antifeminist | (noun) someone who does not believe in the social or economic or political equality of men and women | - |
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antinomianism | (noun) the theological doctrine that by faith and God's grace a Christian is freed from all laws (including the moral standards of the culture) | - |
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archaeornis | (noun) extinct primitive toothed bird with a long feathered tail and three free clawed digits on each wing | - |
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arianist | (noun) an adherent of Arianism (the belief that Jesus Christ was not truly God) | - |
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arsonist | (noun) a criminal who illegally sets fire to property | Synonyms: firebug, incendiary |
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associationism | (noun) (psychology) a theory that association is the basic principle of mental activity | Synonyms: association theory |
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astonish | (verb) affect with wonder | Synonyms: amaze, astound |
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astonished | (adjective) filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock | Synonyms: amazed, astonied, astounded, stunned |
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astonishing | (adjective) so surprisingly impressive as to stun or overwhelm | Synonyms: astounding, staggering, stupefying |
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(adjective) surprising greatly | Synonyms: amazing |
astonishingly | (adverb) in an amazing manner; to everyone's surprise | Synonyms: amazingly, surprisingly |
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astonishment | (noun) the feeling that accompanies something extremely surprising | Synonyms: amazement |
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asynchronism | (noun) the relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times | Synonyms: asynchrony, desynchronisation, desynchronization, desynchronizing |
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attitudinise | (verb) assume certain affected attitudes | Synonyms: attitudinize |
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authoritarianism | (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: absolutism, Caesarism, despotism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny |
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avianise | (verb) to modify microorganisms by repeated culture in the developing chick embryo | Synonyms: avianize |
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avifaunistic | (adjective) of or relating to birds of a particular region or period | Synonyms: avifaunal |
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baboonish | (adjective) resembling a baboon | - |
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balloonist | (noun) someone who flies a balloon | - |
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banish | (verb) drive away | - |
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(verb) expel, as if by official decree | Synonyms: bar, relegate |
(verb) expel from a community or group | Synonyms: ban, blackball, cast out, ostracise, ostracize, shun |
(verb) ban from a place of residence, as for punishment | Synonyms: ban |
banishment | (noun) rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone | Synonyms: proscription |
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(noun) the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent) | Synonyms: Coventry, ostracism |
banister | (noun) a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling | Synonyms: balusters, balustrade, bannister, handrail |
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bannister | (noun) a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling | Synonyms: balusters, balustrade, banister, handrail |
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bassoonist | (noun) a musician who plays the bassoon | - |
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benison | (noun) a spoken blessing | - |
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benniseed | (noun) small oval seeds of the sesame plant | Synonyms: sesame seed |
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bituminise | (verb) treat with bitumen | Synonyms: bituminize |
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bohemianism | (noun) conduct characteristic of a bohemian | - |
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botanise | (verb) collect and study plants | Synonyms: botanize |
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botanist | (noun) a biologist specializing in the study of plants | Synonyms: phytologist, plant scientist |
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brainish | (adjective) characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation | Synonyms: hotheaded, impetuous, impulsive, madcap, tearaway |
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brownish | (adjective) of a color similar to that of wood or earth | Synonyms: brown, chocolate-brown, dark-brown |
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buffoonish | (adjective) like a clown | Synonyms: clownish, clownlike, zany |
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burnish | (noun) the property of being smooth and shiny | Synonyms: gloss, glossiness, polish |
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(verb) polish and make shiny | Synonyms: buff, furbish |
burnished | (adjective) made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow | Synonyms: bright, lustrous, shining, shiny |
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burnisher | (noun) a hand tool with polished agate tips (or other gemstone) for rubbing the gold leaf in order to obtain a highly polished surface, used in gilding. | Synonyms: burnishing tool |
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caffeinism | (noun) poisoning resulting from excessive intake of caffeine containing products | Synonyms: caffeine intoxication |
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