allantois | (noun) the vascular fetal membrane that lies below the chorion and develops from the hindgut in many embryonic higher vertebrates (reptiles, birds and mammals) | - |
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altoist | (noun) a musician who plays the alto saxophone | Synonyms: alto saxophonist |
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avoirdupois | (noun) excess bodily weight | Synonyms: blubber, fat, fatness |
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(noun) a system of weights based on the 16-ounce pound (or 7,000 grains) | Synonyms: avoirdupois weight |
boisterous | (adjective) noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline | Synonyms: rambunctious, robustious, rumbustious, unruly |
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(adjective) full of rough and exuberant animal spirits | Synonyms: knockabout |
(adjective) violently agitated and turbulent | Synonyms: fierce, rough |
boisterously | (adverb) in a carefree manner | Synonyms: rollickingly |
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boisterousness | (noun) the property of being noisy and lively and unrestrained | - |
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(noun) a turbulent and stormy state of the sea | - |
booboisie | (noun) class consisting of all those who are considered boobs | - |
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bourgeois | (adjective) (according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class | - |
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(adjective) belonging to the middle class | - |
(adjective) conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class | Synonyms: conservative, materialistic |
(noun) a member of the middle class | Synonyms: burgher |
(noun) a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise | Synonyms: businessperson |
bourgeoisie | (noun) the social class between the lower and upper classes | Synonyms: middle class |
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chamois | (noun) hoofed mammal of mountains of Eurasia having upright horns with backward-hooked tips | Synonyms: Rupicapra rupicapra |
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(noun) a soft suede leather formerly from the skin of the chamois antelope but now from sheepskin | Synonyms: chammy, chammy leather, chamois leather, shammy, shammy leather |
chinoiserie | (noun) a style in art reflecting Chinese influence; elaborately decorated and intricately patterned | - |
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chorioallantois | (noun) the very vascular fetal membrane composed of the fused chorion and adjacent wall of the allantois | Synonyms: chorioallantoic membrane |
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cloisonne | (adjective) (for metals) having areas separated by metal and filled with colored enamel and fired | Synonyms: champleve |
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(noun) enamelware in which colored areas are separated by thin metal strips | - |
cloister | (noun) residence that is a place of religious seclusion (such as a monastery) | Synonyms: religious residence |
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(noun) a courtyard with covered walks (as in religious institutions) | - |
(verb) seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister | - |
(verb) surround with a cloister | - |
(verb) surround with a cloister, as of a garden | - |
cloistered | (adjective) providing privacy or seclusion | Synonyms: reclusive, secluded, sequestered |
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(adjective) of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows | Synonyms: cloistral, conventual, monastic, monastical |
cloistral | (adjective) of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows | Synonyms: cloistered, conventual, monastic, monastical |
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connoisseur | (noun) an expert able to appreciate a field; especially in the fine arts | Synonyms: cognoscente |
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connoisseurship | (noun) love of or taste for fine objects of art | Synonyms: vertu, virtu |
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counterpoise | (noun) a weight that balances another weight | Synonyms: balance, counterbalance, counterweight, equaliser, equalizer |
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(verb) constitute a counterweight or counterbalance to | Synonyms: counterpose, counterweight |
counterpoised | (adjective) brought into equipoise by means of a weight or force that offsets another | Synonyms: counterbalanced |
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counterpoison | (noun) a remedy that stops or controls the effects of a poison | Synonyms: antidote |
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croissant | (noun) very rich flaky crescent-shaped roll | Synonyms: crescent roll |
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damoiselle | (noun) a young unmarried woman | Synonyms: damosel, damozel, damsel, demoiselle |
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demoiselle | (noun) small brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes of coral reefs | Synonyms: damselfish |
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(noun) a young unmarried woman | Synonyms: damoiselle, damosel, damozel, damsel |
dichroism | (noun) pleochroism of a crystal so that it exhibits two different colors when viewed from two different directions | - |
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egoism | (noun) concern for your own interests and welfare | Synonyms: egocentrism, self-centeredness, self-concern, self-interest |
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(noun) (ethics) the theory that the pursuit of your own welfare is the basis of morality | - |
egoist | (noun) a self-centered person with little regard for others | Synonyms: egocentric |
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(noun) a conceited and self-centered person | Synonyms: egotist, swellhead |
egoistic | (adjective) concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others | Synonyms: egocentric, egoistical, self-centered, self-centred, self-seeking, self-serving, selfish |
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egoistical | (adjective) concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others | Synonyms: egocentric, egoistic, self-centered, self-centred, self-seeking, self-serving, selfish |
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equipoise | (noun) equality of distribution | Synonyms: balance, counterbalance, equilibrium |
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equipoised | (adjective) lacking lateral dominance; being neither right-handed nor left-handed | - |
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foist | (verb) insert surreptitiously or without warrant | - |
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(verb) to force onto another | - |
framboise | (noun) the common European raspberry; fruit red or orange | Synonyms: European raspberry, Rubus idaeus, wild raspberry |
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genoise | (noun) rich and delicate Italian sponge cake | - |
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ghettoise | (verb) put in a ghetto | Synonyms: ghettoize |
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hautbois | (noun) a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece | Synonyms: hautboy, oboe |
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heroism | (noun) the qualities of a hero or heroine; exceptional or heroic courage when facing danger (especially in battle) | Synonyms: gallantry, valiance, valiancy, valor, valorousness, valour |
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hoist | (noun) lifting device for raising heavy or cumbersome objects | - |
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(verb) raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help | Synonyms: lift, wind |
(verb) raise by using ropes and pulleys | Synonyms: run up |
(verb) move from one place to another by lifting | - |
hoister | (noun) an operator of a hoist | - |
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hoodooism | (noun) a religious cult practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries (especially Haiti); involves witchcraft and animistic deities | Synonyms: vodoun, voodoo, voodooism |
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hydroisohypse | (noun) a line on a map connecting points of equal level on the piezometric surface. | - |
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hydroisopieze | (noun) a line on a map connecting points of identical pressures in the water bearing stratum. | - |
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jingoism | (noun) fanatical patriotism | Synonyms: chauvinism, superpatriotism, ultranationalism |
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(noun) an appeal intended to arouse patriotic emotions | Synonyms: flag waving |
jingoist | (noun) an extreme bellicose nationalist | Synonyms: chauvinist, flag-waver, hundred-percenter, jingo, patrioteer |
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jingoistic | (adjective) fanatically patriotic | Synonyms: chauvinistic, flag-waving, nationalistic, superpatriotic, ultranationalistic |
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joist | (noun) beam used to support floors or roofs | - |
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locoism | (noun) a disease of livestock caused by locoweed poisoning; characterized by weakness and lack of coordination and trembling and partial paralysis | Synonyms: loco disease |
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mademoiselle | (noun) small silvery drumfish often mistaken for white perch; found along coasts of United States from New York to Mexico | Synonyms: Bairdiella chrysoura, silver perch |
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malinois | (noun) fawn-colored short-haired sheepdog | - |
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moist | (adjective) slightly wet | Synonyms: damp, dampish |
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moisten | (verb) make moist | Synonyms: dampen, wash |
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(verb) moisten with fine drops | Synonyms: drizzle |
moistener | (noun) a device that dampens or moistens something | Synonyms: dampener |
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moistening | (noun) the act of making something slightly wet | Synonyms: dampening |
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moistly | (adverb) in a damp manner | Synonyms: damply |
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moistness | (noun) a slight wetness | Synonyms: damp, dampness |
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moisture | (noun) wetness caused by water | Synonyms: wet |
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moisturise | (verb) make (more) humid | Synonyms: humidify, moisturize |
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moisturize | (verb) make (more) humid | Synonyms: humidify, moisturise |
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noise | (noun) the quality of lacking any predictable order or plan | Synonyms: haphazardness, randomness, stochasticity |
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(noun) incomprehensibility resulting from irrelevant information or meaningless facts or remarks | - |
(noun) the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience | Synonyms: dissonance, racket |
(noun) a loud outcry of protest or complaint | - |
(noun) sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound) | - |
(noun) electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication | Synonyms: disturbance, interference |
(verb) emit a noise | Synonyms: make noise, resound |
noiseless | (adjective) making no sound | - |
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noiselessly | (adverb) without a sound | Synonyms: soundlessly |
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noiselessness | (noun) the property of making no noise | - |
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noisemaker | (noun) a device (such as a clapper or bell or horn) used to make a loud noise at a celebration | - |
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noisily | (adverb) with much noise or loud and unpleasant sound | - |
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noisiness | (noun) the auditory effect characterized by loud and constant noise | Synonyms: racketiness |
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noisome | (adjective) offensively malodorous | Synonyms: fetid, foetid, foul-smelling, foul, funky, ill-scented, smelly, stinking |
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(adjective) causing or able to cause nausea | Synonyms: loathsome, nauseating, nauseous, offensive, queasy, sickening, vile |
noisomeness | (noun) the quality of being noxious | Synonyms: harmfulness, noxiousness |
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noisy | (adjective) full of or characterized by loud and nonmusical sounds | - |
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(adjective) attracting attention by showiness or bright colors | - |
nonpoisonous | (adjective) safe to eat | Synonyms: non-poisonous, nontoxic |
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(adjective) not producing poison | Synonyms: non-poisonous |
oboist | (noun) a musician who plays the oboe | - |
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patois | (noun) a regional dialect of a language (especially French); usually considered substandard | - |
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(noun) a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves) | Synonyms: argot, cant, jargon, lingo, slang, vernacular |
pleochroism | (noun) the phenomenon of different colors appearing when certain crystals are viewed from different directions | - |
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poise | (noun) great coolness and composure under strain | Synonyms: aplomb, assuredness, cool, sang-froid |
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(noun) a cgs unit of dynamic viscosity equal to one dyne-second per square centimeter; the viscosity of a fluid in which a force of one dyne per square centimeter maintains a velocity of 1 centimeter per second | - |
(noun) a state of being balanced in a stable equilibrium | - |
(verb) hold or carry in equilibrium | Synonyms: balance |
(verb) cause to be balanced or suspended | - |
(verb) prepare (oneself), often but not necessarily for something unpleasant or difficult | Synonyms: brace |
(verb) be motionless, in suspension | - |
poised | (adjective) marked by balance or equilibrium and readiness for action | - |
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(adjective) in full control of your faculties | Synonyms: collected, equanimous, self-collected, self-contained, self-possessed |
poison | (noun) anything that harms or destroys | - |
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(noun) any substance that causes injury or illness or death of a living organism | Synonyms: poisonous substance, toxicant |
(verb) administer poison to | - |
(verb) add poison to | Synonyms: envenom |
(verb) kill with poison | - |
(verb) kill by its poison | - |
(verb) spoil as if by poison | - |
poisonberry | (noun) Eurasian herb naturalized in America having white flowers and poisonous hairy foliage and bearing black berries that are sometimes poisonous but sometimes edible | Synonyms: black nightshade, common nightshade, poison-berry, Solanum nigrum |
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poisoner | (noun) someone who kills with poison | - |
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poisoning | (noun) the act of giving poison to a person or animal with the intent to kill | - |
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(noun) the physiological state produced by a poison or other toxic substance | Synonyms: intoxication, toxic condition |
poisonous | (adjective) not safe to eat | - |
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(adjective) marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful | Synonyms: venomous, vicious |
(adjective) having the qualities or effects of a poison | Synonyms: toxicant |
poisonously | (adverb) in a very malevolent manner | Synonyms: venomously |
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porpoise | (noun) any of several small gregarious cetacean mammals having a blunt snout and many teeth | - |
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radioisotope | (noun) a radioactive isotope of an element; produced either naturally or artificially | - |
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roister | (verb) engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: carouse, riot |
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roisterer | (noun) an especially noisy and unrestrained merrymaker | - |
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soloist | (noun) a musician who performs a solo | - |
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stereoisomer | (noun) any of a group of isomers in which atoms are linked in the same order but differ in their spatial arrangement. | - |
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taoiseach | (noun) the prime minister of the Irish Republic | - |
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tortoise | (noun) usually herbivorous land turtles having clawed elephant-like limbs; worldwide in arid areas except Australia and Antarctica | - |
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tortoiseshell | (noun) a cat having black and cream-colored and yellowish markings | Synonyms: calico cat, tortoiseshell-cat |
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(noun) brilliantly colored; larvae feed on nettles | Synonyms: tortoiseshell butterfly |
(noun) the mottled horny substance of the shell of some turtles | - |
trichroism | (noun) pleochroism of a crystal so that it exhibits three different colors when viewed from three different directions | - |
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turquoise | (noun) a shade of blue tinged with green | Synonyms: aqua, aquamarine, cobalt blue, greenish blue, peacock blue |
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(noun) a blue to grey green mineral consisting of copper aluminum phosphate | - |
vichyssoise | (noun) a creamy potato soup flavored with leeks and onions; usually served cold | - |
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voodooism | (noun) a religious cult practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries (especially Haiti); involves witchcraft and animistic deities | Synonyms: hoodooism, vodoun, voodoo |
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