aminobenzine | (noun) oily poisonous liquid amine obtained from nitrobenzene and used to make dyes and plastics and medicines | Synonyms: aniline, aniline oil, phenylamine |
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bonobo | (noun) small chimpanzee of swamp forests in Zaire; a threatened species | Synonyms: Pan paniscus, pygmy chimpanzee |
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cenobite | (noun) a member of a religious order living in common | Synonyms: coenobite |
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cenobitic | (adjective) of or relating to or befitting cenobites or their practices of communal living | Synonyms: cenobitical, coenobitic, coenobitical |
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cenobitical | (adjective) of or relating to or befitting cenobites or their practices of communal living | Synonyms: cenobitic, coenobitic, coenobitical |
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coenobite | (noun) a member of a religious order living in common | Synonyms: cenobite |
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coenobitic | (adjective) of or relating to or befitting cenobites or their practices of communal living | Synonyms: cenobitic, cenobitical, coenobitical |
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coenobitical | (adjective) of or relating to or befitting cenobites or their practices of communal living | Synonyms: cenobitic, cenobitical, coenobitic |
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cyanobacteria | (noun) predominantly photosynthetic prokaryotic organisms containing a blue pigment in addition to chlorophyll; occur singly or in colonies in diverse habitats; important as phytoplankton | Synonyms: blue-green algae |
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cyanobacterial | (adjective) relating to or caused by photosynthetic bacteria of the class Cyanobacteria | Synonyms: cyanophyte |
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doorknob | (noun) a knob used to release the catch when opening a door (often called `doorhandle' in Great Britain) | Synonyms: doorhandle |
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ennoble | (verb) give a title to someone; make someone a member of the nobility | Synonyms: entitle, gentle |
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(verb) confer dignity or honor upon | Synonyms: dignify |
ennoblement | (noun) the act of raising someone to the nobility | - |
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(noun) the state of being noble | - |
ennobling | (adjective) tending to exalt | Synonyms: exalting |
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(adjective) investing with dignity or honor | Synonyms: dignifying |
gynobase | (noun) the enlarged receptacle in which the pistil is borne | - |
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hobnob | (verb) rub elbows with | - |
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ignobility | (noun) the quality of being ignoble | Synonyms: ignobleness |
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ignoble | (adjective) completely lacking nobility in character or quality or purpose | - |
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(adjective) not of the nobility | Synonyms: ungentle, untitled |
ignobleness | (noun) the quality of being ignoble | Synonyms: ignobility |
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ignobly | (adverb) in a currish manner; meanspiritedly | Synonyms: currishly |
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knob | (noun) a round handle | - |
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(noun) a circular rounded projection or protuberance | Synonyms: boss |
(noun) an ornament in the shape of a ball on the hilt of a sword or dagger | Synonyms: pommel |
(noun) any thickened enlargement | Synonyms: node, thickening |
knobbed | (adjective) used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots | Synonyms: gnarled, gnarly, knotted, knotty |
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knobble | (noun) a small knob | - |
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knobbly | (adjective) having knobs | Synonyms: knobby |
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knobby | (adjective) having knobs | Synonyms: knobbly |
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knobkerrie | (noun) a short wooden club with a heavy knob on one end; used by aborigines in southern Africa | Synonyms: knobkerry |
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knobkerry | (noun) a short wooden club with a heavy knob on one end; used by aborigines in southern Africa | Synonyms: knobkerrie |
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melanoblast | (noun) an epidermal cell that is a precursor of a melanocyte | - |
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monoblast | (noun) a large immature monocyte normally found in bone marrow | - |
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nob | (noun) informal term for an upper-class or wealthy person | Synonyms: toff |
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nobble | (verb) disable by drugging | - |
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(verb) take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom | Synonyms: abduct, kidnap, snatch |
(verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, lift, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
(verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize |
nobelium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic element synthesized by bombarding curium with carbon ions; 7 isotopes are known | Synonyms: atomic number 102, No |
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nobility | (noun) the quality of elevation of mind and exaltation of character or ideals or conduct | Synonyms: grandeur, magnanimousness, nobleness |
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(noun) a privileged class holding hereditary titles | Synonyms: aristocracy |
(noun) the state of being of noble birth | Synonyms: noblesse |
noble | (adjective) having or showing or indicative of high or elevated character | - |
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(adjective) of or belonging to or constituting the hereditary aristocracy especially as derived from feudal times | - |
(adjective) impressive in size, manner, or appearance | Synonyms: baronial, imposing, stately |
(adjective) inert especially toward oxygen | - |
(noun) a titled peer of the realm | Synonyms: Lord, nobleman |
nobleman | (noun) a titled peer of the realm | Synonyms: Lord, noble |
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nobleness | (noun) the quality of elevation of mind and exaltation of character or ideals or conduct | Synonyms: grandeur, magnanimousness, nobility |
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noblesse | (noun) members of the nobility (especially of the French nobility) | - |
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(noun) the state of being of noble birth | Synonyms: nobility |
noblewoman | (noun) a woman of the peerage in Britain | Synonyms: Lady, peeress |
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nobly | (adverb) in a noble manner | - |
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nobody | (noun) a person of no influence | Synonyms: cipher, cypher, nonentity |
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nonobjective | (adjective) not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature | Synonyms: abstract, abstractionist, nonfigurative |
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nonobligatory | (adjective) not required by rule or law | Synonyms: nonmandatory |
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nonobservance | (noun) a lack of conformity with law or custom or practice etc. | - |
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nonobservant | (adjective) failing or refusing to observe religious customs | - |
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phenobarbital | (noun) a long-acting barbiturate used as a sedative | Synonyms: Luminal, phenobarbitone, purple heart, sodium thiopental |
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phenobarbitone | (noun) a long-acting barbiturate used as a sedative | Synonyms: Luminal, phenobarbital, purple heart, sodium thiopental |
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retinoblastoma | (noun) malignant ocular tumor of retinal cells; usually occurs before the third year of life; composed of primitive small round retinal cells | - |
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snob | (noun) a person regarded as arrogant and annoying | Synonyms: prig, snoot, snot |
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snobbery | (noun) the trait of condescending to those of lower social status | Synonyms: snobbishness, snobbism |
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snobbish | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior | Synonyms: clannish, cliquish, clubby, snobby |
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snobbishly | (adverb) in a snobbish manner | Synonyms: snootily, uppishly |
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snobbishness | (noun) the trait of condescending to those of lower social status | Synonyms: snobbery, snobbism |
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snobbism | (noun) the trait of condescending to those of lower social status | Synonyms: snobbery, snobbishness |
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snobby | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior | Synonyms: clannish, cliquish, clubby, snobbish |
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technobabble | (noun) technical jargon from computing and other high-tech subjects | - |
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unobjectionable | (adjective) (of behavior or especially language) free from objectionable elements; fit for all observers | Synonyms: clean |
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(adjective) not objectionable | - |
(adjective) not causing disapproval | Synonyms: innocuous |
unobjective | (adjective) (of e.g. evidence) not objective or easily verified | Synonyms: unverifiable |
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unobligated | (adjective) not obligated | - |
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unobliging | (adjective) not accommodating | Synonyms: unaccommodating |
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unobservable | (adjective) not accessible to direct observation | - |
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unobservant | (adjective) not consciously observing | Synonyms: unseeing |
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unobserved | (adjective) unnoticed | Synonyms: unseen |
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unobstructed | (adjective) free from impediment or obstruction or hindrance | - |
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unobtainable | (adjective) not capable of being obtained | Synonyms: inaccessible, unprocurable, untouchable |
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unobtrusive | (adjective) not obtrusive or undesirably noticeable | - |
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unobtrusively | (adverb) in an unobtrusive manner | - |
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unobtrusiveness | (noun) the quality of not sticking out in an unwelcome way | - |
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unobvious | (adjective) not immediately apparent | - |
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