aftersensation | (noun) an image (usually a negative image) that persists after stimulation has ceased | Synonyms: afterimage |
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bonsai | (noun) a dwarfed ornamental tree or shrub grown in a tray or shallow pot | - |
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caravansary | (noun) an inn in some eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans | Synonyms: caravan inn, caravanserai, khan |
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chainsaw | (noun) portable power saw; teeth linked to form an endless chain | Synonyms: chain saw |
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commensal | (adjective) living in a state of commensalism | - |
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(noun) either of two different animal or plant species living in close association but not interdependent | - |
commensalism | (noun) the relation between two different kinds of organisms when one receives benefits from the other without damaging it | - |
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commensally | (adverb) in a commensal manner | - |
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compensable | (adjective) for which money is paid | Synonyms: paying, remunerative, salaried, stipendiary |
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compensate | (verb) make payment to; compensate | Synonyms: recompense, remunerate |
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(verb) make amends for; pay compensation for | Synonyms: indemnify, recompense, repair |
(verb) do or give something to somebody in return | Synonyms: make up, pay, pay off |
(verb) make reparations or amends for | Synonyms: correct, redress, right |
(verb) adjust for | Synonyms: correct, counterbalance, even off, even out, even up, make up |
(verb) make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities | Synonyms: cover, overcompensate |
compensated | (adjective) receiving or eligible for compensation | Synonyms: remunerated, salaried, stipendiary |
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compensation | (noun) the act of compensating for service or loss or injury | Synonyms: recompense |
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(noun) something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury) | - |
(noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors | - |
condensate | (noun) atmospheric moisture that has condensed because of cold | Synonyms: condensation |
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(noun) a product of condensation | - |
condensation | (noun) the act of increasing the density of something | Synonyms: condensing |
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(noun) (psychoanalysis) an unconscious process whereby two ideas or images combine into a single symbol; especially in dreams | - |
(noun) a shortened version of a written work | Synonyms: abridgement, abridgment, capsule |
(noun) the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together | Synonyms: compression, contraction |
(noun) atmospheric moisture that has condensed because of cold | Synonyms: condensate |
(noun) the process of changing from a gaseous to a liquid or solid state | - |
consanguine | (adjective) related by blood | Synonyms: akin, blood-related, cognate, consanguineal, consanguineous, kin |
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consanguineal | (adjective) related by blood | Synonyms: akin, blood-related, cognate, consanguine, consanguineous, kin |
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consanguineous | (adjective) related by blood | Synonyms: akin, blood-related, cognate, consanguine, consanguineal, kin |
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consanguinity | (noun) (anthropology) the condition of being related by blood | Synonyms: blood kinship, cognation |
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dispensability | (noun) the quality possessed by something that you can get along without | Synonyms: dispensableness |
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dispensable | (adjective) capable of being dispensed with or done without | - |
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dispensableness | (noun) the quality possessed by something that you can get along without | Synonyms: dispensability |
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dispensary | (noun) clinic where medicine and medical supplies are dispensed | - |
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dispensation | (noun) the act of dispensing (giving out in portions) | - |
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(noun) an exemption from some rule or obligation | - |
(noun) a share that has been dispensed or distributed | - |
gainsay | (verb) take exception to | Synonyms: challenge, dispute |
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greensand | (noun) an olive-green sandstone containing glauconite | - |
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indispensability | (noun) the quality possessed by something that you cannot possibly do without | Synonyms: indispensableness, vitalness |
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indispensable | (adjective) not to be dispensed with; essential | - |
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(adjective) absolutely necessary; vitally necessary | Synonyms: essential |
(adjective) unavoidable | - |
indispensableness | (noun) the quality possessed by something that you cannot possibly do without | Synonyms: indispensability, vitalness |
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insalubrious | (adjective) detrimental to health | Synonyms: unhealthful, unhealthy |
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insalubriousness | (noun) the quality of being insalubrious and debilitating | Synonyms: insalubrity |
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insalubrity | (noun) the quality of being insalubrious and debilitating | Synonyms: insalubriousness |
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insane | (adjective) afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement | - |
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(adjective) very foolish | Synonyms: harebrained, mad |
insanely | (adverb) in an insane manner | Synonyms: crazily, dementedly, madly |
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(adverb) (used as intensives) excessively | Synonyms: deadly, deucedly, devilishly, madly |
insaneness | (noun) obsolete terms for legal insanity | Synonyms: lunacy, madness |
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insanitary | (adjective) not sanitary or healthful | Synonyms: unhealthful, unsanitary |
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insanity | (noun) relatively permanent disorder of the mind | - |
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insatiable | (adjective) impossible to satisfy | Synonyms: insatiate, unsatiable |
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insatiably | (adverb) in an insatiable manner; with persistence but without satisfaction | Synonyms: unsatiably |
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(adverb) to an insatiable degree | Synonyms: unsatiably |
insatiate | (adjective) impossible to satisfy | Synonyms: insatiable, unsatiable |
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insensate | (adjective) devoid of feeling and consciousness and animation | Synonyms: insentient |
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(adjective) without compunction or human feeling | Synonyms: cold-blooded, cold, inhuman |
insensately | (adverb) in an insensate manner | - |
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lansa | (noun) East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit | Synonyms: lansat, lanseh, lanset |
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lansat | (noun) East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit | Synonyms: lansa, lanseh, lanset |
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mainsail | (noun) the lowermost sail on the mainmast | - |
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mansard | (adjective) (of a roof) having two slopes on all sides with the lower slope steeper than the upper | - |
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(noun) a hip roof having two slopes on each side | Synonyms: mansard roof |
mensal | (adjective) pertaining to or used at the dining table | - |
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monounsaturated | (adjective) (of long-chain carbon compounds especially fats) saturated except for one multiple bond | - |
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overcompensate | (verb) make excessive corrections for fear of making an error | Synonyms: over-correct |
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(verb) make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities | Synonyms: compensate, cover |
overcompensation | (noun) excessive compensation | - |
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(noun) (psychiatry) an attempt to overcome a real or imagined defect or unwanted trait by overly exaggerating its opposite | - |
polyunsaturated | (adjective) (of long-chain carbon compounds especially fats) having many unsaturated bonds | - |
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ransack | (verb) search thoroughly | Synonyms: comb |
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(verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, foray, loot, pillage, plunder, reave, rifle, strip |
ransacked | (adjective) wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value | Synonyms: looted, pillaged, plundered |
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ransacking | (noun) a thorough search for something (often causing disorder or confusion) | Synonyms: rummage |
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sensate | (adjective) having physical sensation | - |
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sensation | (noun) an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation | Synonyms: aesthesis, esthesis, sense datum, sense experience, sense impression |
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(noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended | Synonyms: sense, sensory faculty, sentience, sentiency |
(noun) a general feeling of excitement and heightened interest | - |
(noun) someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field | Synonyms: ace, adept, champion, genius, hotshot, maven, mavin, star, superstar, virtuoso, whiz, whizz, wiz, wizard |
(noun) a state of widespread public excitement and interest | - |
sensational | (adjective) causing intense interest, curiosity, or emotion | - |
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(adjective) relating to or concerned in sensation | Synonyms: sensory |
(adjective) commanding attention | Synonyms: arresting, stunning |
sensationalism | (noun) (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience | Synonyms: empiricism, empiricist philosophy |
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(noun) (philosophy) the ethical doctrine that feeling is the only criterion for what is good | Synonyms: sensualism |
(noun) the journalistic use of subject matter that appeals to vulgar tastes | Synonyms: luridness |
(noun) subject matter that is calculated to excite and please vulgar tastes | - |
sensationalist | (noun) someone who uses exaggerated or lurid material in order to gain public attention | Synonyms: ballyhoo artist |
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sensationalistic | (adjective) typical of tabloids | Synonyms: scandalmongering, yellow |
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sensationally | (adverb) in a sensational manner | - |
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transact | (verb) conduct business | - |
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transactinide | (adjective) of or belonging to the elements with atomic numbers greater than 103 | - |
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(noun) any of the artificially produced elements with atomic numbers greater than 103 | - |
transaction | (noun) the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities) | Synonyms: dealing, dealings |
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transactions | (noun) a written account of what transpired at a meeting | Synonyms: minutes, proceedings |
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transactor | (noun) someone who conducts or carries on business or negotiations | - |
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transalpine | (adjective) on or relating to or characteristic of the region or peoples beyond the Alps from Italy (or north of the Alps) | Synonyms: ultramontane |
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(noun) one living on or coming from the other side of the Alps from Italy | - |
transaminase | (noun) a class of transferases that catalyze transamination (that transfer an amino group from an amino acid to another compound) | Synonyms: aminopherase, aminotransferase |
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transaminate | (verb) undergo transfer from one compound to another | - |
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(verb) change (an amino group) by transferring it from one compound to another | - |
transamination | (noun) the process of transferring an amino group from one compound to another | - |
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(noun) the process of transposing an amino group within a chemical compound | - |
transatlantic | (adjective) crossing the Atlantic Ocean | - |
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uncompensated | (adjective) not paying a salary | Synonyms: unsalaried |
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unsaddle | (verb) remove the saddle from | Synonyms: offsaddle |
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unsaddled | (adjective) with no saddle | - |
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unsafe | (adjective) involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm | Synonyms: dangerous |
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(adjective) lacking in security or safety | Synonyms: insecure |
(adjective) not safe from attack | Synonyms: insecure |
unsaid | (adjective) not made explicit | Synonyms: unexpressed, unspoken, unstated, unuttered, unverbalised, unverbalized, unvoiced |
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unsalable | (adjective) impossible to sell | Synonyms: unsaleable |
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unsalaried | (adjective) not paying a salary | Synonyms: uncompensated |
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unsaleable | (adjective) impossible to sell | Synonyms: unsalable |
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unsalted | (adjective) without salt or seasoning | Synonyms: unseasoned |
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unsanctification | (noun) unholiness by virtue of being profane | Synonyms: profaneness |
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unsanctified | (adjective) not holy because unconsecrated or impure or defiled | Synonyms: profane, unconsecrated |
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unsanctify | (verb) remove the sanctification from or make unsanctified | - |
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unsanctioned | (adjective) without explicit official permission | - |
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unsanded | (adjective) used of wood and furniture | Synonyms: raw |
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unsanitariness | (noun) a state that is not conducive to health | - |
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unsanitary | (adjective) not sanitary or healthful | Synonyms: insanitary, unhealthful |
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unsaponified | (adjective) not converted into soap | - |
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unsarcastic | (adjective) not sarcastic | - |
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unsated | (adjective) not having been satisfied | Synonyms: unsatiated, unsatisfied |
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unsatiable | (adjective) impossible to satisfy | Synonyms: insatiable, insatiate |
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unsatiably | (adverb) in an insatiable manner; with persistence but without satisfaction | Synonyms: insatiably |
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(adverb) to an insatiable degree | Synonyms: insatiably |
unsatiated | (adjective) not having been satisfied | Synonyms: unsated, unsatisfied |
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unsatisfactorily | (adverb) in an unsatisfactory manner | - |
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unsatisfactoriness | (noun) the quality of being inadequate or unsuitable | - |
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unsatisfactory | (adjective) not giving satisfaction | - |
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unsatisfiable | (adjective) not capable of being satisfied | - |
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unsatisfied | (adjective) worried and uneasy | Synonyms: restless, ungratified |
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(adjective) not having been satisfied | Synonyms: unsated, unsatiated |
unsatisfying | (adjective) not up to expectations | Synonyms: disappointing, dissatisfactory |
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unsaturated | (adjective) used of a compound (especially of carbon) containing atoms sharing more than one valence bond | - |
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(adjective) not saturated; capable of dissolving more of a substance at a given temperature | - |
(adjective) (of color) not chromatically pure; diluted | - |
unsaved | (adjective) in danger of the eternal punishment of Hell | Synonyms: cursed, damned, doomed, unredeemed |
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unsavoriness | (noun) extreme unpalatability to the mouth | Synonyms: disgustingness, distastefulness, nauseatingness, sickeningness |
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(noun) the property of being extremely unacceptable to the mind | Synonyms: disgustingness |