ablutionary | (adjective) cleansing the body by washing; especially ritual washing of e.g. hands | Synonyms: cleansing |
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abolitionary | (adjective) relating to or favoring abolition, especially abolition of slavery | - |
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accessional | (adjective) of or constituting an accession | - |
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accommodational | (adjective) of or relating to the accommodation of the lens of the eye | - |
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accretionary | (adjective) marked or produced by accretion | - |
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acculturational | (adjective) of or relating to acculturation | Synonyms: acculturative |
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actionable | (adjective) affording grounds for legal action | - |
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adaptational | (adjective) of or relating to adaptation | - |
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additional | (adjective) further or added | Synonyms: extra |
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additionally | (adverb) in addition, by way of addition; furthermore | Synonyms: to boot |
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aeronaut | (noun) someone who operates an aircraft | Synonyms: aviator, flier, flyer |
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aeronautic | (adjective) of or pertaining to aeronautics | Synonyms: aeronautical |
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aeronautical | (adjective) of or pertaining to aeronautics | Synonyms: aeronautic |
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aeronautics | (noun) the theory and practice of navigation through air or space | Synonyms: astronautics |
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affectional | (adjective) characterized by emotion | Synonyms: affective, emotive |
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affectionate | (adjective) having or displaying warmth or affection | Synonyms: fond, lovesome, tender |
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affectionately | (adverb) with affection | Synonyms: dear, dearly |
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affectionateness | (noun) a quality proceeding from feelings of affection or love | Synonyms: fondness, lovingness, warmth |
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(noun) a positive feeling of liking | Synonyms: affection, fondness, heart, philia, tenderness, warmheartedness, warmness |
aficionado | (noun) a serious devotee of some particular music genre or musical performer | - |
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(noun) a fan of bull fighting | - |
agonadal | (adjective) lacking gonads | - |
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agonal | (adjective) pertaining to or associated with agony (especially death agonies) | - |
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alendronate | (noun) a tablet (trade name Fosamax) prescribed to prevent or treat osteoporosis in women after menopause | Synonyms: Fosamax |
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alkylbenzenesulfonate | (noun) sulfonate of alkyl benzene | - |
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ammonal | (noun) Ammonal is an explosive made up of ammonium nitrate and aluminum powder. | - |
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annexational | (adjective) relating to annexation | - |
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antiphonal | (adjective) containing or using responses; alternating | Synonyms: responsive |
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(adjective) relating to or resembling an antiphon or antiphony | Synonyms: antiphonary |
(noun) bound collection of antiphons | Synonyms: antiphonary |
antiphonary | (adjective) relating to or resembling an antiphon or antiphony | Synonyms: antiphonal |
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(noun) bound collection of antiphons | Synonyms: antiphonal |
apparitional | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a phantom | Synonyms: ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral, spiritual |
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apportionable | (adjective) capable of being distributed | Synonyms: allocable, allocatable |
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appositional | (adjective) relating to or being in apposition | Synonyms: appositive |
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arbitrational | (adjective) relating to or resulting from arbitration | Synonyms: arbitral |
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archidiaconal | (adjective) of or relating to an archdeacon or his office | - |
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archidiaconate | (noun) office or position of an archdeacon | - |
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argonaut | (noun) someone engaged in a dangerous but potentially rewarding adventure | - |
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ascensional | (adjective) tending to rise | - |
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associational | (adjective) of or relating to associations or associationism | - |
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assonance | (noun) the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words | Synonyms: vowel rhyme |
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assonant | (adjective) having the same vowel sound occurring with different consonants in successive words or stressed syllables | - |
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(adjective) having the same sound (especially the same vowel sound) occurring in successive stressed syllables | - |
assonate | (verb) correspond in vowel sounds; rhyme in assonance | - |
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astronaut | (noun) a person trained to travel in a spacecraft | Synonyms: cosmonaut, spaceman |
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astronautic | (adjective) of or belonging to astronauts or the science of astronautics | Synonyms: astronautical |
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astronautical | (adjective) of or belonging to astronauts or the science of astronautics | Synonyms: astronautic |
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astronautics | (noun) the theory and practice of navigation through air or space | Synonyms: aeronautics |
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astronavigation | (noun) navigating according to the positions of the stars | Synonyms: celestial navigation |
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atonal | (adjective) characterized by avoidance of traditional western tonality | Synonyms: unkeyed |
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atonalism | (noun) the absence of a key; alternative to the diatonic system | Synonyms: atonality |
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atonalistic | (adjective) of or relating to atonalism | - |
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atonality | (noun) the absence of a key; alternative to the diatonic system | Synonyms: atonalism |
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atonally | (adverb) without tonality | - |
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attentional | (adjective) of or relating to attention | - |
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attritional | (adjective) relating to or caused by attrition | - |
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autochthonal | (adjective) originating where it is found | Synonyms: autochthonic, autochthonous, endemic, indigenous |
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avocational | (adjective) of or involved in an avocation | - |
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axonal | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling an axon | - |
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azonal | (adjective) not divided into zones | - |
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aztreonam | (noun) an antibiotic (trade name Azactam) used against severe infections; has minimal side effects | Synonyms: Azactam |
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baronage | (noun) the peers of a kingdom considered as a group | Synonyms: peerage |
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bicarbonate | (noun) a salt of carbonic acid (containing the anion HCO3) in which one hydrogen atom has been replaced; an acid carbonate | Synonyms: hydrogen carbonate |
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bidirectional | (adjective) reactive or functioning or allowing movement in two usually opposite directions | - |
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billionaire | (noun) a very rich person whose material wealth is valued at more than a billion dollars | - |
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bisectional | (adjective) of or relating to bisection | - |
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bizonal | (adjective) relating to or concerned with the combined affairs of two administrative zones | - |
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bonanza | (noun) a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money) | Synonyms: boom, bunce, godsend, gold rush, gravy, manna from heaven, windfall |
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(noun) an especially rich vein of precious ore | - |
bonavist | (noun) perennial twining vine of Old World tropics having trifoliate leaves and racemes of fragrant purple pea-like flowers followed by maroon pods of edible seeds; grown as an ornamental and as a vegetable on the Indian subcontinent; sometimes placed in genus Dolichos | Synonyms: Dolichos lablab, Egyptian bean, hyacinth bean, Indian bean, Lablab purpureus |
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cannonade | (noun) intense and continuous artillery fire | Synonyms: drumfire |
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(verb) attack with cannons or artillery | - |
cantonal | (adjective) of or relating to a canton | - |
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carbonaceous | (adjective) relating to or consisting of or yielding carbon | Synonyms: carbonic, carboniferous, carbonous |
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carbonado | (noun) a piece of meat (or fish) that has been scored and broiled | - |
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(noun) an inferior dark diamond used in industry for drilling and polishing | Synonyms: black diamond |
carbonara | (noun) sauce for pasta; contains eggs and bacon or ham and grated cheese | - |
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carbonate | (noun) a salt or ester of carbonic acid (containing the anion CO3) | - |
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(verb) treat with carbon dioxide | - |
(verb) turn into a carbonate | - |
carbonated | (adjective) having carbonation (especially artificially carbonated) | - |
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carbonation | (noun) saturation with carbon dioxide (as soda water) | - |
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carbonator | (noun) a device that carries out carbonation. | Synonyms: soda carbonator, soda maker |
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cardiopulmonary | (adjective) of or pertaining to or affecting both the heart and the lungs and their functions | Synonyms: cardiorespiratory |
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cautionary | (adjective) serving to warn | Synonyms: admonitory, exemplary, monitory, warning |
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(adjective) warding off | Synonyms: prophylactic |
chinchona | (noun) any of several trees of the genus Cinchona | Synonyms: cinchona |
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cinchona | (noun) any of several trees of the genus Cinchona | Synonyms: chinchona |
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(noun) medicinal bark of cinchona trees; source of quinine and quinidine | Synonyms: cinchona bark, Jesuit's bark, Peruvian bark |
clonal | (adjective) of or relating to a clone | - |
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coeducational | (adjective) attended by members of both sexes | Synonyms: co-ed |
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combinational | (adjective) able to or tending to combine | Synonyms: combinable, combinatory |
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commissionaire | (noun) a uniformed doorman | - |
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commonage | (noun) property held in common | - |
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commonality | (noun) sharing of common attributes | Synonyms: commonness |
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(noun) a class composed of persons lacking clerical or noble rank | Synonyms: commonalty, commons |
commonalty | (noun) a class composed of persons lacking clerical or noble rank | Synonyms: commonality, commons |
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communicational | (adjective) used in communication | - |
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companionability | (noun) suitability to be a companion | Synonyms: companionableness |
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companionable | (adjective) suggestive of companionship | - |
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companionableness | (noun) suitability to be a companion | Synonyms: companionability |
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companionate | (adjective) like a companion | - |
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compassionate | (adjective) showing or having compassion | - |
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(verb) share the suffering of | Synonyms: condole with, feel for, pity, sympathize with |
compassionately | (adverb) in a sympathetic manner | Synonyms: pityingly |
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compassionateness | (noun) a deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering | Synonyms: compassion |
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compositional | (adjective) arranging or grouping | - |
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computational | (adjective) of or involving computation or computers | - |
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computationally | (adverb) with regard to computation | - |
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conacaste | (noun) tropical South American tree having a wide-spreading crown of bipinnate leaves and coiled ear-shaped fruits; grown for shade and ornament as well as valuable timber | Synonyms: elephant's ear, Enterolobium cyclocarpa |
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conceptional | (adjective) being of the nature of a notion or concept | Synonyms: ideational, notional |
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concessionaire | (noun) someone who holds or operates a concession | Synonyms: concessioner |
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conditional | (adjective) imposing or depending on or containing a condition | - |
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(adjective) qualified by reservations | - |
conditionality | (noun) the state of being conditional | - |
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