antipollution | (adjective) intended to reduce pollution | - |
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atoll | (noun) an island consisting of a circular coral reef surrounding a lagoon | - |
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ayatollah | (noun) a high-ranking Shiite religious leader who is regarded as an authority on religious law and its interpretation and who has political power as well | - |
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bankroll | (noun) a roll of currency notes (often taken as the resources of a person or business etc.) | Synonyms: roll |
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(verb) provide with sufficient funds; finance | - |
barcarolle | (noun) a boating song sung by Venetian gondoliers | Synonyms: barcarole |
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bedroll | (noun) bedding rolled up for carrying | - |
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blackpoll | (noun) North American warbler having a black-and-white head | Synonyms: Dendroica striate |
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blolly | (noun) evergreen climbing shrub of southern Florida and West Indies grown for its racemes of fragrant white to creamy flowers followed by globose white succulent berries | Synonyms: Chiococca alba, West Indian snowberry |
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boll | (noun) the rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant | - |
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bollard | (noun) a strong post (as on a wharf or quay or ship for attaching mooring lines) | Synonyms: bitt |
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bollix | (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
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bollock | (noun) a pulley-block at the head of a topmast | Synonyms: bullock block |
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(noun) one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens | Synonyms: ball, ballock, egg, nut, orchis, testicle, testis |
bollocks | (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
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bollworm | (noun) any of various moth caterpillars that destroy cotton bolls | - |
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brolly | (noun) colloquial terms for an umbrella | Synonyms: gamp |
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caroller | (noun) a singer of carols | Synonyms: caroler |
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cherimolla | (noun) large tropical fruit with leathery skin and soft pulp; related to custard apples | Synonyms: cherimoya |
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cholla | (noun) arborescent cacti having very spiny cylindrical stem segments; southwestern United States and Mexico | Synonyms: Opuntia cholla |
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collaborate | (verb) work together on a common enterprise or project | Synonyms: cooperate, join forces |
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(verb) cooperate as a traitor | - |
collaboration | (noun) act of working jointly | Synonyms: coaction |
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(noun) act of cooperating traitorously with an enemy that is occupying your country | Synonyms: collaborationism, quislingism |
collaborationism | (noun) act of cooperating traitorously with an enemy that is occupying your country | Synonyms: collaboration, quislingism |
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collaborationist | (noun) someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force | Synonyms: collaborator, quisling |
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collaborative | (adjective) accomplished by collaboration | - |
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collaborator | (noun) an associate in an activity or endeavor or sphere of common interest | Synonyms: cooperator, pardner, partner |
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(noun) someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force | Synonyms: collaborationist, quisling |
(noun) someone who assists in a plot | Synonyms: confederate, henchman, partner in crime |
collage | (noun) a paste-up made by sticking together pieces of paper or photographs to form an artistic image | Synonyms: montage |
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(noun) any collection of diverse things | - |
collagen | (noun) a fibrous scleroprotein in bone and cartilage and tendon and other connective tissue; yields gelatin on boiling | - |
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collagenase | (noun) any enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of collagen and gelatin | - |
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collagenic | (adjective) relating to or consisting of collagen | Synonyms: collagenous |
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collagenous | (adjective) relating to or consisting of collagen | Synonyms: collagenic |
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collapsable | (adjective) capable of collapsing or being collapsed | Synonyms: collapsible |
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collapse | (noun) the act of throwing yourself down; collapse; sink | Synonyms: flop |
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(noun) a natural event caused by something suddenly falling down or caving in | - |
(noun) a sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures) | Synonyms: crash |
(noun) an abrupt failure of function or complete physical exhaustion | Synonyms: prostration |
(verb) collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack | Synonyms: break down |
(verb) lose significance, effectiveness, or value | - |
(verb) suffer a nervous breakdown | Synonyms: break up, crack, crack up, crock up |
(verb) break down, literally or metaphorically | Synonyms: break, cave in, fall in, founder, give, give way |
(verb) fold or close up | - |
(verb) fall apart | Synonyms: break down, crumble, crumple, tumble |
(verb) cause to burst | Synonyms: burst |
collapsible | (adjective) capable of collapsing or being collapsed | Synonyms: collapsable |
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collar | (noun) the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal) | Synonyms: apprehension, arrest, catch, pinch, taking into custody |
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(noun) a figurative restraint | Synonyms: leash |
(noun) a band that fits around the neck and is usually folded over | Synonyms: neckband |
(noun) necklace that fits tightly around a woman's neck | Synonyms: choker, dog collar, neckband |
(noun) a band of leather or rope that is placed around an animal's neck as a harness or to identify it | - |
(noun) the stitching that forms the rim of a shoe or boot | Synonyms: shoe collar |
(noun) a short ring fastened over a rod or shaft to limit, guide, or secure a machine part | - |
(noun) anything worn or placed about the neck | - |
(noun) (zoology) an encircling band or marking around the neck of any animal | - |
(verb) take into custody | Synonyms: apprehend, arrest, cop, nab, nail, pick up |
(verb) furnish with a collar | - |
(verb) seize by the neck or collar | - |
collarbone | (noun) bone linking the scapula and sternum | Synonyms: clavicle |
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collard | (noun) variety of kale having smooth leaves | - |
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collards | (noun) kale that has smooth leaves | Synonyms: collard greens |
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collarless | (adjective) without a collar | - |
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collate | (verb) compare critically; of texts | - |
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(verb) to assemble in proper sequence | - |
collateral | (adjective) descended from a common ancestor but through different lines | Synonyms: indirect |
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(adjective) situated or running side by side | - |
(adjective) additional but secondary; auxiliary; | - |
(adjective) occurring with or following as a consequence | Synonyms: accompanying, attendant, concomitant, consequent, ensuant, incidental, resultant, sequent |
(adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
(noun) a security pledged for the repayment of a loan | - |
collateralize | (verb) pledge as a collateral | - |
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collation | (noun) careful examination and comparison to note points of disagreement | - |
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(noun) assembling in proper numerical or logical sequence | - |
(noun) a light informal meal | Synonyms: bite, snack |
collator | (noun) a machine that selects, merges and matches decks of punch cards. | - |
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colleague | (noun) an associate that one works with | Synonyms: co-worker, fellow worker, workfellow |
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(noun) a person who is member of one's class or profession | Synonyms: confrere, fellow |
collect | (adjective) payable by the recipient on delivery | Synonyms: cod |
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(noun) a short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of England | - |
(adverb) make a telephone call or mail a package so that the recipient pays | - |
(verb) assemble or get together | Synonyms: garner, gather, pull together |
(verb) get or bring together | Synonyms: pull in |
(verb) get or gather together | Synonyms: accumulate, amass, compile, hoard, pile up, roll up |
(verb) call for and obtain payment of | Synonyms: take in |
(verb) gather or collect | Synonyms: call for, gather up, pick up |
collectable | (adjective) subject to or requiring payment especially as specified | Synonyms: collectible, payable |
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(noun) things considered to be worth collecting (not necessarily valuable or antique) | Synonyms: collectible |
collected | (adjective) brought together in one place | Synonyms: gathered |
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(adjective) in full control of your faculties | Synonyms: equanimous, poised, self-collected, self-contained, self-possessed |
collectedly | (adverb) in a self-collected or self-possessed manner | Synonyms: composedly |
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collectibility | (noun) The quality of being subject to payment or likely to be paid. | - |
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collectible | (adjective) subject to or requiring payment especially as specified | Synonyms: collectable, payable |
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(noun) things considered to be worth collecting (not necessarily valuable or antique) | Synonyms: collectable |
collecting | (noun) the act of gathering something together | Synonyms: aggregation, assembling, collection |
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collection | (noun) the act of gathering something together | Synonyms: aggregation, assembling, collecting |
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(noun) a publication containing a variety of works | Synonyms: compendium |
(noun) request for a sum of money | Synonyms: appeal, ingathering, solicitation |
(noun) several things grouped together or considered as a whole | Synonyms: accumulation, aggregation, assemblage |
collective | (adjective) forming a whole or aggregate | - |
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(adjective) done by or characteristic of individuals acting together | Synonyms: corporate |
(adjective) set up on the principle of collectivism or ownership and production by the workers involved usually under the supervision of a government | - |
(noun) members of a cooperative enterprise | - |
collectively | (adverb) in conjunction with; combined | Synonyms: conjointly, jointly, together with |
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collectivisation | (noun) the organization of a nation or economy on the basis of collectivism | Synonyms: collectivization |
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collectivise | (verb) bring under collective control; of farms and industrial enterprises | Synonyms: collectivize |
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collectivised | (adjective) characterized by the principle of ownership by the state or the people of the means of production | Synonyms: collectivized |
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(adjective) subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively | Synonyms: collectivist, collectivistic, collectivized, state-controlled |
collectivism | (noun) a political theory that the people should own the means of production | - |
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(noun) Soviet communism | Synonyms: Bolshevism, sovietism |
collectivist | (adjective) subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively | Synonyms: collectivised, collectivistic, collectivized, state-controlled |
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(noun) a person who belongs to the political left | Synonyms: left-winger, leftist |
collectivistic | (adjective) subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively | Synonyms: collectivised, collectivist, collectivized, state-controlled |
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collectivization | (noun) the organization of a nation or economy on the basis of collectivism | Synonyms: collectivisation |
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collectivize | (verb) bring under collective control; of farms and industrial enterprises | Synonyms: collectivise |
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collectivized | (adjective) characterized by the principle of ownership by the state or the people of the means of production | Synonyms: collectivised |
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(adjective) subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively | Synonyms: collectivised, collectivist, collectivistic, state-controlled |
collector | (noun) the electrode in a transistor through which a primary flow of carriers leaves the region between the electrodes | - |
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(noun) a crater that has collected cosmic material hitting the earth | - |
(noun) a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes) | Synonyms: accumulator, gatherer |
(noun) a person who collects things | Synonyms: aggregator |
colleen | (noun) an Irish girl | - |
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college | (noun) a complex of buildings in which an institution of higher education is housed | - |
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(noun) the body of faculty and students of a college | - |
(noun) an institution of higher education created to educate and grant degrees; often a part of a university | - |
collegial | (adjective) characterized by or having authority vested equally among colleagues | - |
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(adjective) of or resembling or typical of a college or college students | Synonyms: collegiate |
collegian | (noun) a student (or former student) at a college or university | Synonyms: college boy, college man |
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collegiate | (adjective) of or resembling or typical of a college or college students | Synonyms: collegial |
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collembolan | (noun) any of numerous minute wingless primitive insects possessing a special abdominal appendage that allows the characteristic nearly perpetual springing pattern; found in soil rich in organic debris or on the surface of snow or water | Synonyms: springtail |
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collet | (noun) a band or collar that holds an individual stone in a jewelry setting | - |
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(noun) a metal cap or band placed on a wooden pole to prevent splitting | Synonyms: ferrule |
(noun) a cone-shaped chuck used for holding cylindrical pieces in a lathe | Synonyms: collet chuck |
collide | (verb) crash together with violent impact | Synonyms: clash |
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(verb) cause to collide | - |
(verb) be incompatible; be or come into conflict | Synonyms: clash, jar |
collider | (noun) an accelerator in which two beams of particles are forced to collide head on | - |
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collie | (noun) a silky-coated sheepdog with a long ruff and long narrow head developed in Scotland | - |
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collier | (noun) someone who works in a coal mine | Synonyms: coal miner, pitman |
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colliery | (noun) a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it | Synonyms: pit |
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colligate | (verb) consider (an instance of something) as part of a general rule or principle | Synonyms: subsume |
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(verb) make a logical or causal connection | Synonyms: associate, connect, link, link up, relate, tie in |
colligation | (noun) the connection of isolated facts by a general hypothesis | - |
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(noun) the state of being joined together | Synonyms: conjugation, conjunction, junction |
collimate | (verb) adjust the line of sight of (an optical instrument) | - |
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(verb) make or place parallel to something | Synonyms: parallel |
collimation | (noun) the accurate adjustment of the line of sight of a telescope | - |
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collimator | (noun) optical device consisting of a tube containing a convex achromatic lens at one end and a slit at the other with the slit at the focus of the lens; light rays leave the slit as a parallel beam | - |
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(noun) a small telescope attached to a large telescope to use in setting the line of the larger one | - |
collinear | (adjective) lying on the same line | - |
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collins | (noun) tall iced drink of liquor (usually gin) with fruit juice | Synonyms: Tom Collins |
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collision | (noun) a conflict of opposed ideas or attitudes or goals | - |
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(noun) an accident resulting from violent impact of a moving object | - |
(noun) (physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together | Synonyms: hit |
collocate | (verb) group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side | Synonyms: chunk, lump |
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(verb) have a strong tendency to occur side by side | - |
collocation | (noun) the act of positioning close together (or side by side) | Synonyms: apposition, juxtaposition |
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(noun) a grouping of words in a sentence | - |
collodion | (noun) a colorless syrupy solution of pyroxylin in ether and alcohol; used as a coating for wounds or photographic films | - |
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collogue | (verb) confer secretly | - |
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colloid | (noun) a mixture with properties between those of a solution and fine suspension | - |
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colloidal | (adjective) of or relating to or having the properties of a colloid | - |
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colloidally | (adverb) in a colloidal manner | - |
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colloquial | (adjective) characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation | Synonyms: conversational |
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colloquialism | (noun) a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech | - |
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colloquially | (adverb) with the use of colloquial expressions | Synonyms: conversationally, informally |
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colloquium | (noun) an address to an academic meeting or seminar | - |
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(noun) an academic meeting or seminar usually led by a different lecturer and on a different topic at each meeting | - |
colloquy | (noun) formal conversation | - |
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(noun) a conversation especially a formal one | - |
collotype | (noun) a photomechanical printing process that uses a glass plate with a gelatin surface that carries the image to be reproduced; can be used with one or more colors | Synonyms: collotype printing, photogelatin process |
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collude | (verb) act in unison or agreement and in secret towards a deceitful or illegal purpose | Synonyms: conspire |
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collusion | (noun) secret agreement | - |
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(noun) agreement on a secret plot | Synonyms: connivance |
collusive | (adjective) acting together in secret toward a fraudulent or illegal end | Synonyms: conniving |
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colly | (verb) make soiled, filthy, or dirty | Synonyms: begrime, bemire, dirty, grime, soil |
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