anoperineal | (adjective) relating to the anus and surrounding perineum | - |
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blooper | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: bloomer, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall |
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cefoperazone | (noun) a parenteral cephalosporin (trade name Cefobid) used for severe infections | Synonyms: Cefobid |
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cooper | (noun) a craftsman who makes or repairs wooden barrels or tubs | Synonyms: barrel maker |
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(verb) make barrels and casks | - |
cooperate | (verb) work together on a common enterprise or project | Synonyms: collaborate, join forces |
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cooperation | (noun) joint operation or action | - |
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(noun) the practice of cooperating | - |
cooperative | (adjective) done with or working with others for a common purpose or benefit | - |
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(adjective) involving the joint activity of two or more | Synonyms: concerted, conjunct, conjunctive, united |
(adjective) willing to adjust to differences in order to obtain agreement | Synonyms: accommodative |
(noun) a jointly owned commercial enterprise (usually organized by farmers or consumers) that produces and distributes goods and services and is run for the benefit of its owners | Synonyms: co-op |
(noun) an association formed and operated for the benefit of those using it | - |
cooperatively | (adverb) in close cooperation | Synonyms: hand and glove, hand in glove |
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cooperativeness | (noun) the trait of being cooperative | Synonyms: amenability, amenableness |
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cooperator | (noun) an associate in an activity or endeavor or sphere of common interest | Synonyms: collaborator, pardner, partner |
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developer | (noun) photographic equipment consisting of a chemical solution for developing film | - |
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(noun) someone who develops real estate (especially someone who prepares a site for residential or commercial use) | - |
haloperidol | (noun) tranquilizer (trade name Haldol) used to treat some psychotic disorders and Tourette's syndrome | Synonyms: Haldol |
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hoper | (noun) a person who hopes | - |
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improper | (adjective) not suitable or right or appropriate | - |
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(adjective) not appropriate for a purpose or occasion | Synonyms: wrong |
(adjective) not conforming to legality, moral law, or social convention | Synonyms: unconventional, unlawful |
improperly | (adverb) in an improper way | - |
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improperness | (noun) an improper demeanor | Synonyms: impropriety |
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inoperable | (adjective) not suitable for surgery | - |
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(adjective) not able to perform its normal function | - |
inoperative | (adjective) not working or taking effect | - |
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interloper | (noun) someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission | Synonyms: intruder, trespasser |
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interoperability | (noun) (computer science) the ability to exchange and use information (usually in a large heterogeneous network made up of several local area networks) | - |
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interoperable | (adjective) able to exchange and use information | - |
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looper | (noun) small hairless caterpillar having legs on only its front and rear segments; mostly larvae of moths of the family Geometridae | Synonyms: inchworm, measuring worm |
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nonoperational | (adjective) (military) not involved in military operations | Synonyms: inactive |
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opera | (noun) a building where musical dramas are performed | Synonyms: opera house |
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(noun) a drama set to music; consists of singing with orchestral accompaniment and an orchestral overture and interludes | - |
operable | (adjective) capable of being treated by surgical operation | - |
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(adjective) usable for a specific purpose | Synonyms: practicable |
(adjective) fit or ready for use or service | Synonyms: functional, operational, usable, useable |
operagoer | (noun) a patron of the opera | - |
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operand | (noun) a quantity upon which a mathematical operation is performed | - |
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operant | (adjective) having influence or producing an effect | - |
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operate | (verb) perform surgery on | Synonyms: operate on |
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(verb) perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense | Synonyms: maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre |
(verb) handle and cause to function | Synonyms: control |
(verb) keep engaged | Synonyms: engage, lock, mesh |
(verb) perform as expected when applied | Synonyms: function, go, run, work |
(verb) direct or control; projects, businesses, etc. | Synonyms: run |
operatic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of opera | - |
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operating | (adjective) involved in a kind of operation | - |
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(adjective) being in effect or operation | Synonyms: in operation, operational |
operation | (noun) a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body | Synonyms: surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process |
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(noun) (mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods | Synonyms: mathematical operation, mathematical process |
(noun) activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign) | Synonyms: military operation |
(noun) a planned activity involving many people performing various actions | - |
(noun) a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work | Synonyms: procedure |
(noun) a business especially one run on a large scale | - |
(noun) the activity of operating something (a machine or business etc.) | - |
(noun) (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents | Synonyms: cognitive operation, cognitive process, mental process, process |
(noun) (computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction) | - |
(noun) process or manner of functioning or operating | Synonyms: functioning, performance |
(noun) the state of being in effect or being operative | - |
operational | (adjective) (military) of or intended for or involved in military operations | - |
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(adjective) pertaining to a process or series of actions for achieving a result | - |
(adjective) being in effect or operation | Synonyms: in operation, operating |
(adjective) fit or ready for use or service | Synonyms: functional, operable, usable, useable |
operationalism | (noun) (philosophy) the doctrine that the meaning of a proposition consists of the operations involved in proving or applying it | - |
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operationalist | (adjective) of or relating to or espousing operationalism | - |
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operationally | (adverb) in respect to operation | - |
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operations | (noun) financial transactions at a brokerage; having to do with the execution of trades and keeping customer records | Synonyms: trading operations |
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operative | (adjective) being in force or having or exerting force | - |
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(adjective) relating to or requiring or amenable to treatment by surgery especially as opposed to medicine | Synonyms: surgical |
(adjective) (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing | Synonyms: functional, running, working |
(adjective) effective; producing a desired effect | - |
(noun) someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information and assist in criminal investigations | Synonyms: PI, private detective, private eye, private investigator, shamus, sherlock |
(noun) a person secretly employed in espionage for a government | Synonyms: intelligence agent, intelligence officer, secret agent |
operatively | (adverb) in a manner to produce an effect | - |
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operator | (noun) an agent that operates some apparatus or machine | Synonyms: manipulator |
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(noun) someone who owns or operates a business | - |
(noun) a shrewd or unscrupulous person who knows how to circumvent difficulties | Synonyms: hustler, wheeler dealer |
(noun) a speculator who trades aggressively on stock or commodity markets | - |
(noun) (mathematics) a symbol or function representing a mathematical operation | - |
operculate | (adjective) having an operculum | Synonyms: operculated |
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operculated | (adjective) having an operculum | Synonyms: operculate |
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operculum | (noun) a hard flap serving as a cover for (a) the gill slits in fishes or (b) the opening of the shell in certain gastropods when the body is retracted | - |
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operetta | (noun) a short amusing opera | Synonyms: light opera |
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operon | (noun) a segment of DNA containing adjacent genes including structural genes and an operator gene and a regulatory gene | - |
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operose | (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, punishing, toilsome |
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operoseness | (noun) the quality of requiring extended effort | Synonyms: laboriousness, toilsomeness |
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paratrooper | (noun) a soldier in the paratroops | Synonyms: para |
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popery | (noun) offensive terms for the practices and rituals of the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: papism |
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postoperative | (adjective) happening or done after a surgical operation | - |
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postoperatively | (adverb) after the operation | - |
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preoperative | (adjective) happening or done before and in preparation for a surgical operation | - |
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proper | (adjective) marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness | - |
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(adjective) appropriate for a condition or purpose or occasion or a person's character, needs | Synonyms: right |
(adjective) having all the qualities typical of the thing specified | - |
(adjective) limited to the thing specified | - |
properly | (adverb) in the right manner; correctly; suitably | Synonyms: decent, decently, right |
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(adverb) in accordance with what is appropriate or suitable for the circumstances | Synonyms: appropriately, befittingly, duly, fitly, fittingly, suitably |
(adverb) indicating exactness or preciseness | Synonyms: exactly, just, precisely |
properness | (noun) correct or appropriate behavior | Synonyms: correctitude, propriety |
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propertied | (adjective) owning land or securities as a principal source of revenue | Synonyms: property-owning |
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property | (noun) any movable articles or objects used on the set of a play or movie | Synonyms: prop |
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(noun) a basic or essential property shared by all members of a class | - |
(noun) a construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished | Synonyms: attribute, dimension |
(noun) any area set aside for a particular purpose | Synonyms: place |
(noun) something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone | Synonyms: belongings, holding |
propertyless | (adjective) of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers | Synonyms: blue-collar, wage-earning, working-class |
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pseudoperipteral | (adjective) having columniation completely circling an area of the structure | Synonyms: peristylar |
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roper | (noun) a craftsman who makes ropes | Synonyms: rope-maker, ropemaker |
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(noun) a cowboy who uses a lasso to rope cattle or horses | - |
(noun) a decoy who lures customers into a gambling establishment (especially one with a fixed game) | - |
sinoper | (noun) a red ocher formerly used as a pigment | Synonyms: sinopia, sinopis |
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snooper | (noun) a spy who makes uninvited inquiries into the private affairs of others | Synonyms: snoop |
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stooper | (noun) a person who carries himself or herself with the head and shoulders habitually bent forward | - |
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(noun) a person at a racetrack who searches for winning parimutuel tickets that have been carelessly discarded by others | - |
toper | (noun) a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess) | Synonyms: drinker, imbiber, juicer |
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trooper | (noun) a mounted police officer | - |
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(noun) a soldier in a motorized army unit | Synonyms: cavalryman |
(noun) a state police officer | Synonyms: state trooper |
(noun) a soldier mounted on horseback | Synonyms: cavalryman |
uncooperative | (adjective) unwilling to cooperate | - |
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(adjective) intentionally unaccommodating | Synonyms: disobliging |
walloper | (noun) a gross untruth; a blatant lie | Synonyms: whopper |
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(noun) a winner by a wide margin | - |
(noun) a very hard hitter | - |
whooper | (noun) common Old World swan noted for its whooping call | Synonyms: Cygnus cygnus, whooper swan |
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(noun) rare North American crane having black-and-white plumage and a trumpeting call | Synonyms: Grus americana, whooping crane |