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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accretionary | (adjective) marked or produced by accretion | - |
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antiphonary | (adjective) relating to or resembling an antiphon or antiphony | Synonyms: antiphonal |
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(noun) bound collection of antiphons | Synonyms: antiphonal |
carbonara | (noun) sauce for pasta; contains eggs and bacon or ham and grated cheese | - |
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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 |
confectionary | (noun) a confectioner's shop | Synonyms: candy store, confectionery |
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coronary | (adjective) surrounding like a crown (especially of the blood vessels surrounding the heart) | - |
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(noun) obstruction of blood flow in a coronary artery by a blood clot (thrombus) | Synonyms: coronary thrombosis |
counterrevolutionary | (adjective) marked by opposition or antipathy to revolution | - |
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(adjective) relating to or being a counterrevolution | - |
(noun) a revolutionary whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by an earlier revolution | Synonyms: counter-revolutionist, counterrevolutionist |
deflationary | (adjective) associated with or tending to cause decreases in consumer prices or increases in the purchasing power of money | - |
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dictionary | (noun) a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with information about them | Synonyms: lexicon |
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discretionary | (adjective) having or using the ability to act or decide according to your own discretion or judgment | Synonyms: discretional |
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(adjective) (especially of funds) not earmarked; available for use as needed | - |
diversionary | (adjective) (of tactics e.g.) likely or designed to confuse or deceive | - |
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elocutionary | (adjective) of or relating to elocution | - |
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(adjective) (used of style of speaking) overly embellished | - |
evolutionarily | (adverb) in an evolutionary way; from an evolutionary point of view | - |
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evolutionary | (adjective) of or relating to or produced by evolution | - |
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expeditionary | (adjective) (used of military forces) designed for military operations abroad | - |
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functionary | (noun) a worker who holds or is invested with an office | Synonyms: official |
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geostationary | (adjective) of or having a geosynchronous orbit such that the position in such an orbit is fixed with respect to the earth | - |
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illusionary | (adjective) marked by or producing illusion | Synonyms: illusional |
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inflationary | (adjective) associated with or tending to cause increases in inflation | - |
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insurrectionary | (adjective) of or relating to or given to insurrection | Synonyms: insurrectional |
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intrapulmonary | (adjective) being or occurring within a lung | - |
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legionary | (noun) a soldier who is a member of a legion (especially the French Foreign Legion) | Synonyms: legionnaire |
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missionary | (adjective) relating to or connected to a religious mission | Synonyms: missional |
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(noun) someone who attempts to convert others to a particular doctrine or program | - |
(noun) someone sent on a mission--especially a religious or charitable mission to a foreign country | Synonyms: missioner |
monarch | (noun) large migratory American butterfly having deep orange wings with black and white markings; the larvae feed on milkweed | Synonyms: Danaus plexippus, milkweed butterfly, monarch butterfly |
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(noun) a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right | Synonyms: crowned head, sovereign |
monarchal | (adjective) having the characteristics of or befitting or worthy of a monarch | Synonyms: monarchical |
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(adjective) ruled by or having the supreme power resting with a monarch | Synonyms: monarchic, monarchical |
monarchic | (adjective) ruled by or having the supreme power resting with a monarch | Synonyms: monarchal, monarchical |
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monarchical | (adjective) having the characteristics of or befitting or worthy of a monarch | Synonyms: monarchal |
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(adjective) ruled by or having the supreme power resting with a monarch | Synonyms: monarchal, monarchic |
monarchism | (noun) a belief in and advocacy of monarchy as a political system | - |
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monarchist | (noun) an advocate of the principles of monarchy | Synonyms: royalist |
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monarchy | (noun) an autocracy governed by a monarch who usually inherits the authority | - |
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monarda | (noun) any of various aromatic herbs of the genus Monarda | Synonyms: wild bergamot |
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nonarbitrable | (adjective) not appropriate for or subject to arbitration | - |
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nonarbitrary | (adjective) not subject to individual determination | Synonyms: unarbitrary |
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nonarboreal | (adjective) not inhabiting or frequenting trees | - |
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nutritionary | (adjective) of or relating to or providing nutrition | Synonyms: nutritional |
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octonary | (noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one | Synonyms: 8, eight, eighter, eighter from Decatur, octad, octet, ogdoad, VIII |
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pensionary | (noun) a person who works only for money | Synonyms: hireling |
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(noun) the beneficiary of a pension fund | Synonyms: pensioner |
petitionary | (adjective) of the nature of or expressing a petition | - |
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precautionary | (adjective) taken in advance to protect against possible danger or failure | Synonyms: precautional |
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probationary | (adjective) under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon | Synonyms: provisional, provisionary, tentative |
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provisionary | (adjective) under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon | Synonyms: probationary, provisional, tentative |
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pulmonary | (adjective) relating to or affecting the lungs | Synonyms: pneumonic, pulmonic |
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reactionary | (adjective) opposed to political or social liberalism or reform | Synonyms: far-right, reactionist |
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(noun) an extreme conservative; an opponent of progress or liberalism | Synonyms: extreme right-winger, ultraconservative |
recessionary | (adjective) of or pertaining to a recession | Synonyms: recessive |
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reversionary | (adjective) of or relating to or involving a reversion (especially a legal reversion) | - |
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revolutionariness | (noun) The state or quality of being revolutionary. | - |
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revolutionary | (adjective) advocating or engaged in revolution | - |
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(adjective) relating to or having the nature of a revolution | - |
(adjective) of or relating to or characteristic or causing an axial or orbital turn | Synonyms: rotatory |
(adjective) markedly new or introducing radical change | Synonyms: radical |
(noun) a radical supporter of political or social revolution | Synonyms: revolutionist, subversive, subverter |
sayonara | (noun) a farewell remark | Synonyms: adieu, adios, arrivederci, au revoir, auf wiedersehen, bye-bye, bye, cheerio, good-by, good-bye, good day, goodby, goodbye, so long |
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sonar | (noun) a measuring instrument that sends out an acoustic pulse in water and measures distances in terms of the time for the echo of the pulse to return | Synonyms: asdic, echo sounder |
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stagflationary | (adjective) characteristic of or promoting stagflation | - |
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stationariness | (noun) remaining in place | Synonyms: fixedness, immobility |
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stationary | (adjective) not capable of being moved | - |
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(adjective) standing still | - |
visionariness | (noun) The state or condition of being imaginary or illusory. | - |
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visionary | (adjective) not practical or realizable; speculative | Synonyms: airy, impractical, Laputan, windy |
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(noun) a person with unusual powers of foresight | Synonyms: illusionist, seer |
(noun) a person given to fanciful speculations and enthusiasms with little regard for what is actually possible | - |
zonary | (adjective) relating to or of the nature of a zone | Synonyms: zonal |
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