aborad | (adverb) away from the mouth or oral region | - |
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aboral | (adjective) opposite to or away from the mouth | - |
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adorability | (noun) extreme attractiveness | Synonyms: adorableness |
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adorable | (adjective) lovable especially in a childlike or naive way | Synonyms: endearing, lovely |
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adorableness | (noun) extreme attractiveness | Synonyms: adorability |
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adorably | (adverb) in an adorable manner | Synonyms: endearingly |
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adoration | (noun) the act of admiring strongly | Synonyms: idolisation, idolization |
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(noun) the worship given to God alone | Synonyms: latria |
(noun) a feeling of profound love and admiration | Synonyms: worship |
agora | (noun) 100 agorot equal 1 shekel in Israel | - |
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(noun) a place of assembly for the people in ancient Greece | Synonyms: public square |
(noun) the marketplace in ancient Greece | - |
agoraphobia | (noun) a morbid fear of open spaces (as fear of being caught alone in some public place) | - |
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agoraphobic | (adjective) suffering from agoraphobia; abnormally afraid of open or public places | - |
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ameliorate | (verb) get better | Synonyms: better, improve, meliorate |
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(verb) to make better | Synonyms: amend, better, improve, meliorate |
ameliorating | (adjective) tending to ameliorate | Synonyms: ameliorative, amelioratory, meliorative |
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amelioration | (noun) the act of relieving ills and changing for the better | Synonyms: betterment, melioration |
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ameliorative | (adjective) tending to ameliorate | Synonyms: ameliorating, amelioratory, meliorative |
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amelioratory | (adjective) tending to ameliorate | Synonyms: ameliorating, ameliorative, meliorative |
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amora | (noun) one of a group of rabbis (active AD 250-500) who discussed the Mishnaic law in the law schools of Palestine and Mesopotamia where they explained and applied earlier teachings and whose discussions are recorded in the Talmud; they emphasized the study of Torah and the importance of personal action and the fulfillment of the commandments | - |
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amoralism | (noun) the doctrine that moral distinctions are invalid | - |
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amoralist | (noun) someone who adheres to the doctrine that ordinary moral distinctions are invalid | - |
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amorality | (noun) the quality of being amoral | - |
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amorally | (adverb) without regard for morality | Synonyms: immorally |
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amphora | (noun) an ancient jar with two handles and a narrow neck; used to hold oil or wine | - |
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anaphora | (noun) using a pronoun or similar word instead of repeating a word used earlier | - |
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(noun) repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | Synonyms: epanaphora |
anchorage | (noun) the act of anchoring | - |
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(noun) place for vessels to anchor | Synonyms: anchorage ground |
(noun) a fee for anchoring | - |
(noun) the condition of being secured to a base | - |
(noun) the provision of a sense of security or steadfastness | - |
anorak | (noun) a kind of heavy jacket | Synonyms: parka, windbreaker, windcheater |
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aplacophoran | (noun) deep-water wormlike mollusks lacking calcareous plates on the body but having fine slimy spicules on the covering mantle | Synonyms: solenogaster |
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arboraceous | (adjective) abounding in trees | Synonyms: arboreous, woodsy, woody |
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arborary | (adjective) of or relating to or formed by trees | Synonyms: arboreal, arborical, arborous |
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atmoradiograph | (noun) a device which measures the frequency of occurrence of atmospherics. | - |
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aurora | (noun) an atmospheric phenomenon consisting of bands of light caused by charged solar particles following the earth's magnetic lines of force | - |
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(noun) the first light of day | Synonyms: break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, dawn, dawning, daybreak, dayspring, first light, morning, sunrise, sunup |
auroral | (adjective) characteristic of the dawn | Synonyms: aurorean |
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(adjective) of or relating to the atmospheric phenomenon auroras | - |
autoradiograph | (noun) a radiogram produced by radiation emitted by the specimen being photographed | - |
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autoradiographic | (adjective) of or relating to or produced by autoradiography | - |
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autoradiography | (noun) producing a radiograph by means of the radiation emitted from the specimen being photographed | - |
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balmoral | (noun) a sturdy laced walking shoe | - |
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behavioral | (adjective) of or relating to behavior | Synonyms: behavioural |
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blastoporal | (adjective) of or relating to a blastopore | Synonyms: blastoporic |
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boracic | (adjective) of or relating to or derived from or containing boron | Synonyms: boric |
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borage | (noun) an herb whose leaves are used to flavor sauces and punches; young leaves can be eaten in salads or cooked | - |
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(noun) hairy blue-flowered European annual herb long used in herbal medicine and eaten raw as salad greens or cooked like spinach | Synonyms: Borago officinalis, tailwort |
borate | (noun) a salt or ester of boric acid | - |
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borated | (adjective) mixed or impregnated with borax | - |
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borax | (noun) an ore of boron consisting of hydrated sodium borate; used as a flux or cleansing agent | - |
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camphoraceous | (adjective) being or having the properties of camphor | - |
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camphorate | (verb) treat with camphor | - |
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camphorated | (adjective) impregnated with camphor | - |
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certiorari | (noun) a common law writ issued by a superior court to one of inferior jurisdiction demanding the record of a particular case | Synonyms: writ of certiorari |
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chlorambucil | (noun) an alkylating agent (trade name Leukeran) used to treat some kinds of cancer | Synonyms: Leukeran |
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chloramine | (noun) any of several compounds containing chlorine and nitrogen; used as an antiseptic in wounds | Synonyms: chloramine-T |
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chloramphenicol | (noun) an oral antibiotic (trade name Chloromycetin) used to treat serious infections (especially typhoid fever) | Synonyms: Chloromycetin |
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chlorate | (noun) any salt of chloric acid | - |
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choragic | (adjective) pertaining to or characteristic of a choragus | - |
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choragus | (noun) (ancient Greece) leader of a group or festival; leader of a chorus | - |
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choral | (adjective) related to or written for or performed by a chorus or choir | - |
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(noun) a stately Protestant (especially Lutheran) hymn tune | Synonyms: chorale |
chorale | (noun) a stately Protestant (especially Lutheran) hymn tune | Synonyms: choral |
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chorally | (adverb) by a chorus | - |
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ciliophoran | (noun) a protozoan with a microscopic appendage extending from the surface of the cell | Synonyms: ciliate, ciliated protozoan |
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clitoral | (adjective) of or relating to the clitoris | Synonyms: clitoric |
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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 |
coloradillo | (noun) handsome shrub with showy orange to scarlet or crimson flowers; Florida and West Indies to Mexico and Brazil | Synonyms: Hamelia erecta, Hamelia patens, scarlet bush, scarlet hamelia |
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coloration | (noun) choice and use of colors (as by an artist) | Synonyms: colouration |
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(noun) appearance with regard to color | Synonyms: colouration |
(noun) the timbre of a musical sound | Synonyms: color, colour, colouration |
coloratura | (noun) singing with florid ornamentation | - |
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(noun) a lyric soprano who specializes in coloratura vocal music | Synonyms: coloratura soprano |
commemorate | (verb) call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony | Synonyms: remember |
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(verb) be or provide a memorial to a person or an event | Synonyms: immortalise, immortalize, memorialise, memorialize |
(verb) celebrate by some ceremony or observation | Synonyms: mark |
commemorating | (adjective) intended as a commemoration | Synonyms: commemorative |
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commemoration | (noun) a recognition of meritorious service | Synonyms: memorial, remembrance |
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(noun) a ceremony to honor the memory of someone or something | Synonyms: memorialisation, memorialization |
commemorative | (adjective) intended as a commemoration | Synonyms: commemorating |
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(noun) an object (such as a coin or postage stamp) made to mark an event or honor a person | - |
contemporaneity | (noun) the quality of being current or of the present | Synonyms: contemporaneousness, modernism, modernity, modernness |
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(noun) the quality of belonging to the same period of time | Synonyms: contemporaneousness |
contemporaneous | (adjective) of the same period | Synonyms: coetaneous, coeval |
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(adjective) occurring in the same period of time | Synonyms: contemporary |
contemporaneously | (adverb) during the same period of time | - |
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contemporaneousness | (noun) the quality of being current or of the present | Synonyms: contemporaneity, modernism, modernity, modernness |
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(noun) the quality of belonging to the same period of time | Synonyms: contemporaneity |
contemporaries | (noun) all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age | Synonyms: coevals, generation |
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contemporariness | (noun) The state or quality of being contemporary, modern, of the present age. | - |
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contemporary | (adjective) belonging to the present time | Synonyms: present-day |
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(adjective) characteristic of the present | Synonyms: modern-day |
(adjective) occurring in the same period of time | Synonyms: contemporaneous |
(noun) a person of nearly the same age as another | Synonyms: coeval |
coracan | (noun) East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient | Synonyms: African millet, corakan, Eleusine coracana, finger millet, kurakkan, ragee, ragi |
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coracle | (noun) a small rounded boat made of hides stretched over a wicker frame; still used in some parts of Great Britain | - |
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corakan | (noun) East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient | Synonyms: African millet, coracan, Eleusine coracana, finger millet, kurakkan, ragee, ragi |
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coral | (adjective) of a strong pink to yellowish-pink color | - |
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(noun) marine colonial polyp characterized by a calcareous skeleton; masses in a variety of shapes often forming reefs | - |
(noun) a variable color averaging a deep pink | - |
(noun) unfertilized lobster roe; reddens in cooking; used as garnish or to color sauces | - |
(noun) the hard stony skeleton of a Mediterranean coral that has a delicate red or pink color and is used for jewelry | Synonyms: precious coral, red coral |
coralbells | (noun) perennial plant of the western United States having bright red flowers in feathery spikes; used as an ornamental | Synonyms: Heuchera sanguinea |
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coralberry | (noun) shrub with coral-red berries; Japan to northern India | Synonyms: Ardisia crenata, spiceberry |
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(noun) North American deciduous shrub cultivated for it abundant clusters of coral-red berrylike fruits | Synonyms: Indian currant, Symphoricarpos orbiculatus |
coralroot | (noun) European bittercress having a knotted white rootstock | Synonyms: Cardamine bulbifera, coral-root bittercress, coralwort, Dentaria bulbifera |
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coralwood | (noun) East Indian tree with racemes of yellow-white flowers; cultivated as an ornamental | Synonyms: Adenanthera pavonina, Barbados pride, coral-wood, peacock flower fence, red sandalwood |
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coralwort | (noun) European bittercress having a knotted white rootstock | Synonyms: Cardamine bulbifera, coral-root bittercress, coralroot, Dentaria bulbifera |
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cormorant | (noun) large voracious dark-colored long-necked seabird with a distensible pouch for holding fish; used in Asia to catch fish | Synonyms: Phalacrocorax carbo |
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corporal | (adjective) possessing or existing in bodily form | Synonyms: bodied, corporate, embodied, incarnate |
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(adjective) affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit | Synonyms: bodily, corporeal, somatic |
(noun) a noncommissioned officer in the Army or Air Force or Marines | - |
corporality | (noun) the quality of being physical; consisting of matter | Synonyms: corporeality, materiality, physicalness |
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corporate | (adjective) of or belonging to a corporation | - |
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(adjective) possessing or existing in bodily form | Synonyms: bodied, corporal, embodied, incarnate |
(adjective) done by or characteristic of individuals acting together | Synonyms: collective |
(adjective) organized and maintained as a legal corporation | Synonyms: incorporated |
corporation | (noun) slang for a paunch | Synonyms: bay window, pot, potbelly, tummy |
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(noun) a business firm whose articles of incorporation have been approved in some state | Synonyms: corp |
corporatism | (noun) control of a state or organization by large interest groups | - |
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corporatist | (adjective) of or relating to corporatism | - |
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(noun) a supporter of corporatism | - |
corroborant | (adjective) used of a medicine that is strengthening | - |
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corroborate | (verb) establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts | Synonyms: affirm, confirm, substantiate, support, sustain |
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(verb) give evidence for | Synonyms: validate |
(verb) support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm | Synonyms: bear out, support, underpin |
corroboration | (noun) confirmation that some fact or statement is true through the use of documentary evidence | Synonyms: certification, documentation |
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corroborative | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
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corroboratory | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
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cyclorama | (noun) a picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous scene | Synonyms: diorama, panorama |
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decorate | (verb) provide with decoration | Synonyms: dress |
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(verb) make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc. | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, embellish, grace, ornament |
(verb) award a mark of honor, such as a medal, to | - |
(verb) be beautiful to look at | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, deck, embellish, grace |
decorated | (adjective) provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction | Synonyms: adorned |
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