chaperon | (noun) one who accompanies and supervises a young woman or gatherings of young people | Synonyms: chaperone |
---|
(verb) accompany as a chaperone | Synonyms: chaperone |
chaperone | (noun) one who accompanies and supervises a young woman or gatherings of young people | Synonyms: chaperon |
---|
(verb) accompany as a chaperone | Synonyms: chaperon |
emperor | (noun) large richly colored butterfly | Synonyms: emperor butterfly |
---|
(noun) large moth of temperate forests of Eurasia having heavily scaled transparent wings | Synonyms: emperor moth, Saturnia pavonia |
(noun) red table grape of California | - |
(noun) the male ruler of an empire | - |
hyperon | (noun) any baryon that is not a nucleon; unstable particle with mass greater than a neutron | - |
---|
hyperope | (noun) a person with hyperopia; a farsighted person | - |
---|
hyperopia | (noun) abnormal condition in which vision for distant objects is better than for near objects | Synonyms: farsightedness, hypermetropia, hypermetropy, longsightedness |
---|
hyperopic | (adjective) abnormal ability to focus of distant objects | Synonyms: hypermetropic |
---|
obstreperous | (adjective) boisterously and noisily aggressive | - |
---|
(adjective) noisily and stubbornly defiant | - |
obstreperously | (adverb) in manner that attracts attention | Synonyms: clamorously, loudly |
---|
obstreperousness | (noun) noisy defiance | - |
---|
operon | (noun) a segment of DNA containing adjacent genes including structural genes and an operator gene and a regulatory gene | - |
---|
operose | (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, punishing, toilsome |
---|
operoseness | (noun) the quality of requiring extended effort | Synonyms: laboriousness, toilsomeness |
---|
peperomia | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Peperomia; grown primarily for their often succulent foliage | - |
---|
pepperoni | (noun) a pork and beef sausage (or a thin slice of this sausage) | - |
---|
peroneal | (adjective) of or relating to the fibula or the outer part of the leg below the knee | - |
---|
peroneus | (noun) muscle of the lower leg that is involved in moving the foot | - |
---|
perorate | (verb) deliver an oration in grandiloquent style | - |
---|
(verb) conclude a speech with a formal recapitulation | - |
peroration | (noun) (rhetoric) the concluding section of an oration | - |
---|
(noun) a flowery and highly rhetorical oration | - |
peroxidase | (noun) any of a group of enzymes (occurring especially in plant cells) that catalyze the oxidation of a compound by a peroxide | - |
---|
peroxide | (noun) a viscous liquid with strong oxidizing properties; a powerful bleaching agent; also used (in aqueous solutions) as a mild disinfectant and (in strong concentrations) as an oxidant in rocket fuels | Synonyms: hydrogen peroxide |
---|
(noun) an inorganic compound containing the divalent ion -O-O- | - |
(verb) bleach with peroxide | - |
piperocaine | (noun) a compound used in the form of its hydrochloride as a local or spinal anesthetic | Synonyms: Metycaine, piperocaine hydrochloride |
---|
prosperous | (adjective) marked by peace and prosperity | Synonyms: golden, halcyon |
---|
(adjective) presaging or likely to bring good luck or a good outcome | Synonyms: favorable, favourable, golden, lucky |
(adjective) in fortunate circumstances financially; moderately rich | Synonyms: comfortable, easy, well-fixed, well-heeled, well-off, well-situated, well-to-do |
(adjective) very lively and profitable | Synonyms: booming, burgeoning, flourishing, palmy, prospering, roaring, thriving |
prosperously | (adverb) in the manner of prosperous people | - |
---|
superorder | (noun) (biology) a taxonomic group ranking above an order and below a class or subclass | - |
---|
superordinate | (adjective) of higher rank or status or value | - |
---|
(noun) a word that is more generic than a given word | Synonyms: hypernym, superordinate word |
(noun) one of greater rank or station or quality | Synonyms: higher-up, superior |
(verb) place in a superior order or rank | - |
superordination | (noun) the semantic relation of being superordinate or belonging to a higher rank or class | Synonyms: hypernymy |
---|
superoxide | (noun) the univalent anion O2- | Synonyms: superoxide anion |
---|
(noun) a metallic oxide containing the univalent anion O2- | - |