alopecia | (noun) loss of hair (especially on the head) or loss of wool or feathers; in humans it can result from heredity or hormonal imbalance or certain diseases or drugs and treatments (chemotherapy for cancer) | - |
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alopecic | (adjective) pertaining to loss of hair or wool or feathers | - |
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aspect | (noun) the feelings expressed on a person's face | Synonyms: expression, face, facial expression, look |
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(noun) a characteristic to be considered | - |
(noun) a distinct feature or element in a problem | Synonyms: facet |
(noun) the visual percept of a region | Synonyms: panorama, prospect, scene, view, vista |
(noun) the beginning or duration or completion or repetition of the action of a verb | - |
aspectual | (adjective) of or belonging to an aspect (as an aspect of the verb) | - |
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bespeckle | (verb) mark with small spots | Synonyms: speckle |
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bespectacled | (adjective) wearing, or having the face adorned with, eyeglasses or an eyeglass | Synonyms: monocled, spectacled |
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circumspect | (adjective) heedful of potential consequences | Synonyms: discreet |
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circumspection | (noun) the trait of being circumspect and prudent | Synonyms: caution |
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(noun) knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress | Synonyms: discreetness, discretion, prudence |
circumspectly | (adverb) in a cagey manner | Synonyms: cagily |
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conspecific | (adjective) belonging to the same species | - |
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(noun) an organism belonging to the same species as another organism | - |
conspectus | (noun) an overall summary | - |
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copeck | (noun) 100 kopecks equal 1 ruble in Russia | Synonyms: kopeck, kopek |
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disrespect | (noun) a manner that is generally disrespectful and contemptuous | Synonyms: contempt |
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(noun) a disrespectful mental attitude | - |
(noun) an expression of lack of respect | Synonyms: discourtesy |
(verb) have little or no respect for; hold in contempt | Synonyms: disesteem |
(verb) show a lack of respect for | - |
disrespectful | (adjective) exhibiting lack of respect; rude and discourteous | - |
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(adjective) neither feeling nor showing respect | Synonyms: aweless, awless |
disrespectfully | (adverb) in a disrespectful manner | - |
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especial | (adjective) surpassing what is common or usual or expected | Synonyms: exceptional, particular, special |
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especially | (adverb) to a distinctly greater extent or degree than is common | Synonyms: particularly, peculiarly, specially |
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(adverb) in a special manner | Synonyms: specially |
expect | (verb) be pregnant with | Synonyms: bear, carry, gestate, have a bun in the oven |
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(verb) look forward to the birth of a child | - |
(verb) regard something as probable or likely | Synonyms: anticipate |
(verb) look forward to the probable occurrence of | Synonyms: await, look, wait |
(verb) consider reasonable or due | - |
(verb) consider obligatory; request and expect | Synonyms: ask, require |
expectable | (adjective) to be expected | - |
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expectancy | (noun) something expected (as on the basis of a norm) | Synonyms: anticipation |
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(noun) an expectation | Synonyms: anticipation |
expectant | (adjective) marked by eager anticipation | Synonyms: anticipant, anticipative |
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(adjective) in an advanced stage of pregnancy | Synonyms: big, enceinte, gravid, great, heavy, large, with child |
expectantly | (adverb) in an expectant manner | - |
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expectation | (noun) belief about (or mental picture of) the future | Synonyms: outlook, prospect |
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(noun) the sum of the values of a random variable divided by the number of values | Synonyms: arithmetic mean, expected value, first moment |
(noun) the feeling that something is about to happen | - |
(noun) anticipating with confidence of fulfillment | Synonyms: anticipation |
expected | (adjective) considered likely or probable to happen or arrive | - |
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expectedness | (noun) ordinariness as a consequence of being expected and not surprising | - |
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(noun) the state of being that is commonly observed | Synonyms: commonness |
expectorant | (noun) a medicine promoting expectoration | Synonyms: expectorator |
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expectorate | (verb) discharge (phlegm or sputum) from the lungs and out of the mouth | Synonyms: cough out, cough up, spit out, spit up |
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(verb) clear out the chest and lungs | Synonyms: clear out, drive out |
expectoration | (noun) the act of spitting (forcefully expelling saliva) | Synonyms: spit, spitting |
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(noun) the process of coughing up and spitting out | - |
expectorator | (noun) a medicine promoting expectoration | Synonyms: expectorant |
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(noun) a person who spits (ejects saliva or phlegm from the mouth) | Synonyms: spitter |
extrospection | (noun) examination or observation of what is outside oneself, as opposed to introspection. | - |
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extrospective | (adjective) not introspective; examining what is outside yourself | Synonyms: extroverted |
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flyspeck | (adjective) very small | Synonyms: bantam, diminutive, lilliputian, midget, petite, tiny |
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(noun) a tiny dark speck made by the excrement of a fly | - |
henpecked | (adjective) harassed by persistent nagging | Synonyms: dominated |
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impeccability | (noun) the quality of being exempt from sin or incapable of sinning | - |
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(noun) the quality of being without an error or fault | Synonyms: faultlessness |
impeccable | (adjective) without fault or error | Synonyms: faultless, immaculate, incorrupted |
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(adjective) not capable of sin | - |
impeccably | (adverb) flawlessly | - |
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impeccant | (adjective) free from sin | Synonyms: innocent, sinless |
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impecunious | (adjective) not having enough money to pay for necessities | Synonyms: hard up, in straitened circumstances, penniless, penurious, pinched |
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impecuniousness | (noun) a state of lacking money | Synonyms: pennilessness, penuriousness |
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inspect | (verb) examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification | Synonyms: audit, scrutinise, scrutinize |
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(verb) come to see in an official or professional capacity | Synonyms: visit |
(verb) look over carefully | - |
inspection | (noun) a formal or official examination | Synonyms: review |
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inspector | (noun) an investigator who observes carefully | Synonyms: examiner |
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(noun) a high ranking police officer | - |
inspectorate | (noun) a body of inspectors | - |
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inspectorship | (noun) the office of inspector | - |
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interspecies | (adjective) arising or occurring between species | Synonyms: interspecific |
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interspecific | (adjective) arising or occurring between species | Synonyms: interspecies |
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intraspecies | (adjective) arising or occurring within a species; involving the members of one species | Synonyms: intraspecific |
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intraspecific | (adjective) arising or occurring within a species; involving the members of one species | Synonyms: intraspecies |
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introspect | (verb) reflect on one's own thoughts and feelings | - |
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introspection | (noun) the contemplation of your own thoughts and desires and conduct | Synonyms: self-contemplation, self-examination |
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introspectionism | (noun) a doctrine that psychology must be based essentially on data derived from introspection. | - |
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introspective | (adjective) given to examining own sensory and perceptual experiences | Synonyms: introverted, self-examining |
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introspectiveness | (noun) thoughtfulness about your own situation and feelings | - |
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ipecac | (noun) a medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning) | - |
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irrespective | (adverb) in spite of everything; without regard to drawbacks | Synonyms: disregarding, disregardless, no matter, regardless |
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kopeck | (noun) 100 kopecks equal 1 ruble in Russia | Synonyms: copeck, kopek |
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lipectomy | (noun) plastic surgery involving the breakdown and removal of fatty tissue | Synonyms: selective lipectomy |
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lumpectomy | (noun) surgical removal of a tumor without removing much of the surrounding tissue or lymph nodes; performed in some cases of breast cancer | - |
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nonspecific | (adjective) not caused by a specific agent; used also of staining in making microscope slides | - |
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nonspecifically | (adverb) without specificity | - |
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overspecialise | (verb) become overly specialized | Synonyms: overspecialize |
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overspecialize | (verb) become overly specialized | Synonyms: overspecialise |
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pecan | (noun) smooth brown oval nut of south central United States | - |
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(noun) tree of southern United States and Mexico cultivated for its nuts | Synonyms: Carya illinoensis, Carya illinoinsis, pecan tree |
(noun) wood of a pecan tree | - |
peccable | (adjective) liable to sin | Synonyms: peccant |
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peccadillo | (noun) a petty misdeed | Synonyms: indiscretion |
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peccant | (adjective) liable to sin | Synonyms: peccable |
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peccary | (noun) nocturnal gregarious pig-like wild animals of North America and South America | Synonyms: musk hog |
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peck | (noun) a light kiss | - |
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(noun) bite by a bird | - |
(noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
(noun) a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches | - |
(noun) a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons | - |
(verb) bother persistently with trivial complaints | Synonyms: hen-peck, nag |
(verb) eat by pecking at, like a bird | Synonyms: pick up |
(verb) eat like a bird | Synonyms: peck at, pick at |
(verb) kiss lightly | Synonyms: smack |
(verb) hit lightly with a picking motion | Synonyms: beak, pick |
pecker | (noun) bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects | Synonyms: peckerwood, woodpecker |
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(noun) horny projecting mouth of a bird | Synonyms: beak, bill, neb, nib |
(noun) obscene terms for penis | Synonyms: cock, dick, prick, putz, shaft, tool |
peckerwood | (noun) bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects | Synonyms: pecker, woodpecker |
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peckish | (adjective) somewhat hungry | - |
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(adjective) easily irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy |
pecopteris | (noun) Carboniferous fossil fern characterized by a regular arrangement of the leaflets resembling a comb | - |
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pecs | (noun) either of two large muscles of the chest | Synonyms: musculus pectoralis, pectoral, pectoral muscle, pectoralis |
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pectic | (adjective) of or relating to or derived from pectin | - |
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pectin | (noun) any of various water-soluble colloidal carbohydrates that occur in ripe fruit and vegetables; used in making fruit jellies and jams | - |
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pectinate | (adjective) like a comb | - |
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pectineal | (adjective) of or relating to the pubis | - |
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pectoral | (adjective) of or relating to the chest or thorax | Synonyms: thoracic |
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(noun) an adornment worn on the chest or breast | Synonyms: pectoral medallion |
(noun) either of two large muscles of the chest | Synonyms: musculus pectoralis, pecs, pectoral muscle, pectoralis |
pectoralis | (noun) either of two large muscles of the chest | Synonyms: musculus pectoralis, pecs, pectoral, pectoral muscle |
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pectus | (noun) the part of the human torso between the neck and the diaphragm or the corresponding part in other vertebrates | Synonyms: chest, thorax |
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peculate | (verb) appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use | Synonyms: defalcate, embezzle, malversate, misappropriate |
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peculation | (noun) the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else | Synonyms: defalcation, embezzlement, misapplication, misappropriation |
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peculator | (noun) someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use | Synonyms: defalcator, embezzler |
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peculiar | (adjective) characteristic of one only; distinctive or special | - |
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(adjective) unique or specific to a person or thing or category | Synonyms: particular, special |
(adjective) beyond or deviating from the usual or expected | Synonyms: curious, funny, odd, queer, rum, rummy, singular |
(adjective) markedly different from the usual; special | - |
peculiarity | (noun) something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting | Synonyms: curio, curiosity, oddity, oddment, rarity |
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(noun) a distinguishing trait | Synonyms: distinctiveness, speciality, specialness, specialty |
(noun) an odd or unusual characteristic | Synonyms: distinctive feature, distinguishing characteristic |
peculiarly | (adverb) in a manner differing from the usual or expected | Synonyms: curiously, inexplicably, oddly |
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(adverb) uniquely or characteristically | Synonyms: particularly |
(adverb) to a distinctly greater extent or degree than is common | Synonyms: especially, particularly, specially |
pecuniary | (adjective) relating to or involving money | Synonyms: monetary |
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perspective | (noun) the appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer | Synonyms: linear perspective |
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(noun) a way of regarding situations or topics etc. | Synonyms: position, view |
pipeclay | (noun) fine white clay used in making tobacco pipes and pottery and in whitening leather | Synonyms: terra alba |
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polypectomy | (noun) surgical removal of a polyp | - |
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prospect | (noun) a prediction of the course of a disease | Synonyms: medical prognosis, prognosis |
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(noun) the visual percept of a region | Synonyms: aspect, panorama, scene, view, vista |
(noun) belief about (or mental picture of) the future | Synonyms: expectation, outlook |
(noun) someone who is considered for something (for an office or prize or honor etc.) | Synonyms: candidate |
(noun) the possibility of future success | Synonyms: chance |
(verb) explore for useful or valuable things or substances, such as minerals | - |
(verb) search for something desirable | - |
prospective | (adjective) of or concerned with or related to the future | - |
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prospectiveness | (noun) The quality of relating to or furnishing a future prospect. | - |
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prospector | (noun) someone who explores an area for mineral deposits | - |
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prospectus | (noun) a catalog listing the courses offered by a college or university | Synonyms: course catalog, course catalogue |
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(noun) a formal written offer to sell securities (filed with the SEC) that sets forth a plan for a (proposed) business enterprise | - |
repechage | (noun) a race (especially in rowing) in which runners-up in the eliminating heats compete for a place in the final race | - |
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respect | (noun) behavior intended to please your parents | Synonyms: obedience |
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(noun) a courteous expression (by word or deed) of esteem or regard | Synonyms: deference |
(noun) courteous regard for people's feelings | Synonyms: deference, respectfulness |
(noun) (usually preceded by `in') a detail or point | Synonyms: regard |
(noun) an attitude of admiration or esteem | Synonyms: esteem, regard |
(noun) a feeling of friendship and esteem | Synonyms: regard |
(noun) the condition of being honored (esteemed or respected or well regarded) | Synonyms: esteem, regard |
(verb) regard highly; think much of | Synonyms: esteem, prise, prize, value |
(verb) show respect towards | Synonyms: abide by, honor, honour, observe |
respectability | (noun) honorableness by virtue of being respectable and having a good reputation | Synonyms: reputability |
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respectable | (adjective) characterized by socially or conventionally acceptable morals | - |
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(adjective) large in amount or extent or degree | Synonyms: goodish, goodly, healthy, hefty, sizable, sizeable, tidy |
(adjective) deserving of esteem and respect | Synonyms: admirable, estimable, good, honorable |
respectably | (adverb) in a decent and morally reputable manner | - |
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(adverb) to a tolerably worthy extent | Synonyms: creditably |