acroscopic | (adjective) facing or on the side toward the apex | - |
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adrenocorticotropic | (adjective) stimulating or acting on the adrenal cortex | Synonyms: adrenocorticotrophic |
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aeolotropic | (adjective) having properties with different values along different axes | Synonyms: eolotropic |
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allotropic | (adjective) of or related to or exhibiting allotropism | Synonyms: allotropical |
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allotropical | (adjective) of or related to or exhibiting allotropism | Synonyms: allotropic |
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allspice | (noun) ground dried berrylike fruit of a West Indian allspice tree; suggesting combined flavors of cinnamon and nutmeg and cloves | - |
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(noun) aromatic West Indian tree that produces allspice berries | Synonyms: allspice tree, Pimenta dioica, pimento tree |
(noun) deciduous shrubs having aromatic bark; eastern China; southwestern and eastern United States | - |
amblyopic | (adjective) pertaining to a kind of visual impairment without apparent organic pathology | - |
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ametropic | (adjective) of or relating to an abnormal condition of the eye in which visual images are not in focus on the retina | - |
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ampicillin | (noun) semisynthetic penicillin (trade names Principen and Polycillin and SK-Ampicillin) | Synonyms: Polycillin, Principen, SK-Ampicillin |
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angiocarpic | (adjective) having or being fruit enclosed in a shell or husk | Synonyms: angiocarpous |
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anisometropic | (adjective) relating to a difference in the refractive power of the two eyes | - |
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anisotropic | (adjective) not invariant with respect to direction | - |
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anisotropically | (adverb) in an anisotropic manner | - |
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anthropic | (adjective) relating to mankind or the period of mankind's existence | Synonyms: anthropical |
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anthropical | (adjective) relating to mankind or the period of mankind's existence | Synonyms: anthropic |
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antitypic | (adjective) of or relating to an antitype that is a symbol | Synonyms: antitypical |
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(adjective) of or relating to an antitype that represents an opposite | Synonyms: antitypical |
antitypical | (adjective) of or relating to an antitype that is a symbol | Synonyms: antitypic |
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(adjective) of or relating to an antitype that represents an opposite | Synonyms: antitypic |
apical | (adjective) situated at an apex | - |
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apicalization | (noun) (phonetics) An articulatory feature of phones, usually consonants, produced by obstructing the air passage with the tip of the tongue. | - |
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apiculate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) having a short sharply pointed tip | - |
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apicultural | (adjective) relating to the care and breeding of bees | - |
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apiculture | (noun) the cultivation of bees on a commercial scale for the production of honey | Synonyms: beekeeping |
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apiculturist | (noun) a farmer who keeps bees for their honey | Synonyms: apiarist, beekeeper |
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archetypical | (adjective) representing or constituting an original type after which other similar things are patterned | Synonyms: archetypal, prototypal, prototypic, prototypical |
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aspic | (noun) savory jelly based on fish or meat stock used as a mold for meats or vegetables | - |
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atypic | (adjective) not representative of a group, class, or type | Synonyms: atypical, untypical |
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atypical | (adjective) not representative of a group, class, or type | Synonyms: atypic, untypical |
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(adjective) deviating from normal expectations; somewhat odd, strange, or abnormal | Synonyms: irregular |
atypicality | (noun) any state that is not typical | Synonyms: untypicality |
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atypically | (adverb) in a manner that is not typical | Synonyms: untypically |
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auspicate | (verb) commence in a manner calculated to bring good luck | - |
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(verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
auspice | (noun) a favorable omen | - |
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auspices | (noun) kindly endorsement and guidance | Synonyms: aegis, protection |
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auspicious | (adjective) auguring favorable circumstances and good luck | - |
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auspiciously | (adverb) in an auspicious manner | Synonyms: propitiously |
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auspiciousness | (noun) the favorable quality of strongly indicating a successful result | Synonyms: propitiousness |
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autotypic | (adjective) of or relating to autotypy | - |
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basiscopic | (adjective) facing or on the side toward the base | - |
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biotypic | (adjective) of or relating to a biotype | - |
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bronchoscopic | (adjective) of or relating to an instrument for examining the interior of the bronchi | - |
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chloropicrin | (noun) a heavy colorless insoluble liquid compound that causes tears and vomiting; used as a pesticide and as tear gas | Synonyms: nitrochloroform |
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conspicuous | (adjective) obvious to the eye or mind | - |
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(adjective) without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious | Synonyms: blatant, blazing |
conspicuously | (adverb) in a manner tending to attract attention | - |
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(adverb) in a prominent way | Synonyms: prominently |
conspicuousness | (noun) high visibility | - |
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(noun) the state of being conspicuous | - |
coppice | (noun) a dense growth of bushes | Synonyms: brush, brushwood, copse, thicket |
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depict | (verb) give a description of | Synonyms: describe, draw |
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(verb) show in, or as in, a picture | Synonyms: picture, render, show |
(verb) make a portrait of | Synonyms: limn, portray |
depicted | (adjective) represented graphically by sketch or design or lines | Synonyms: pictured, portrayed |
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depicting | (noun) a representation by picture or portraiture | Synonyms: depiction, portrayal, portraying |
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depiction | (noun) representation by drawing or painting etc | Synonyms: delineation, portrayal |
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(noun) a drawing of the outlines of forms or objects | Synonyms: delineation, limning, line drawing |
(noun) a representation by picture or portraiture | Synonyms: depicting, portrayal, portraying |
(noun) a graphic or vivid verbal description | Synonyms: characterisation, characterization, delineation, picture, word-painting, word picture |
depictive | (adjective) depicted in a recognizable manner | Synonyms: delineative |
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despicability | (noun) unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values | Synonyms: baseness, contemptibility, despicableness, sordidness |
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despicable | (adjective) morally reprehensible | Synonyms: slimy, ugly, unworthy, vile, worthless, wretched |
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despicableness | (noun) unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values | Synonyms: baseness, contemptibility, despicability, sordidness |
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despicably | (adverb) in a despicable manner | - |
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deuteranopic | (adjective) inability to see the color green or to distinguish green and purplish-red | Synonyms: green-blind |
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ectopic | (adjective) exhibiting ectopia | - |
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emmetropic | (adjective) of or relating to the normal condition of the eye in which visual images are in clear focus on the retina | - |
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endoscopic | (adjective) of or relating to endoscopy | - |
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eolotropic | (adjective) having properties with different values along different axes | Synonyms: aeolotropic |
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epic | (adjective) constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic | Synonyms: epical |
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(adjective) very imposing or impressive; surpassing the ordinary (especially in size or scale) | Synonyms: heroic, larger-than-life |
(noun) a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds | Synonyms: epic poem, epos, heroic poem |
epical | (adjective) constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic | Synonyms: epic |
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epicalyx | (noun) a group of bracts simulating a calyx as in a carnation or hibiscus | Synonyms: calycle, calyculus, false calyx |
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epicanthic | (adjective) relating to the epicanthus | - |
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epicanthus | (noun) a vertical fold of skin over the nasal canthus; typical for many east Asian peoples; sometimes occurs in Down's syndrome | Synonyms: epicanthic fold |
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epicardia | (noun) the short part of the esophagus extending downward from the diaphragm to the stomach | - |
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epicardium | (noun) the innermost of the two layers of the pericardium | Synonyms: visceral pericardium |
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epicarp | (noun) outermost layer of the pericarp of fruits as the skin of a peach or grape | Synonyms: exocarp |
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epicarpal | (adjective) of or relating to the epicarp | - |
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epicene | (adjective) having an ambiguous sexual identity | Synonyms: bisexual |
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(adjective) having unsuitable feminine qualities | Synonyms: cissy, effeminate, emasculate, sissified, sissy, sissyish |
(noun) one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made | Synonyms: androgyne, epicene person, gynandromorph, hermaphrodite, intersex |
epicenter | (noun) the point on the Earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake | Synonyms: epicentre |
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epicentre | (noun) the point on the Earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake | Synonyms: epicenter |
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epicheirema | (noun) a syllogism in which some statement supporting one or both of the premises is introduced with the premises themselves. | - |
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epicness | (noun) The quality or state of being momentously heroic, grand in scale or character. | - |
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epicondyle | (noun) a projection on a bone above a condyle serving for the attachment of muscles and ligaments | - |
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epicondylitis | (noun) painful inflammation of the muscles and soft tissues around an epicondyle | - |
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epicranium | (noun) the muscle and aponeurosis and skin covering the cranium | - |
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epicure | (noun) a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink) | Synonyms: bon vivant, epicurean, foodie, gastronome, gourmet |
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epicurean | (adjective) displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses | Synonyms: luxuriant, luxurious, sybaritic, voluptuary, voluptuous |
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(adjective) devoted to pleasure | Synonyms: hedonic, hedonistic |
(noun) a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink) | Synonyms: bon vivant, epicure, foodie, gastronome, gourmet |
epicureanism | (noun) a doctrine of hedonism that was defended by several ancient Greek philosophers | - |
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epicurism | (noun) the disposition and habits of an epicure | - |
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epicycle | (noun) a circle that rolls around (inside or outside) another circle; generates an epicycloid or hypocycloid | - |
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epicyclic | (adjective) of or relating to an epicycle | Synonyms: epicyclical |
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epicyclical | (adjective) of or relating to an epicycle | Synonyms: epicyclic |
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epicycloid | (noun) a line generated by a point on a circle rolling around another circle | - |
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ergotropic | (adjective) of or relating to ergotropism | - |
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extropic | (adjective) of or relating to extropy | - |
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genotypic | (adjective) of or relating to or constituting a genotype | Synonyms: genotypical |
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genotypical | (adjective) of or relating to or constituting a genotype | Synonyms: genotypic |
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gonadotropic | (adjective) of or relating to or involving gonadotropin | Synonyms: gonadotrophic |
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gyroscopic | (adjective) having the characteristics of a gyroscope | - |
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hospice | (noun) a program of medical and emotional care for the terminally ill | - |
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(noun) a lodging for travelers (especially one kept by a monastic order) | - |
hygroscopic | (adjective) absorbing moisture (as from the air) | - |
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hypermetropic | (adjective) abnormal ability to focus of distant objects | Synonyms: hyperopic |
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hyperopic | (adjective) abnormal ability to focus of distant objects | Synonyms: hypermetropic |
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icepick | (noun) pick consisting of a steel rod with a sharp point; used for breaking up blocks of ice | Synonyms: ice pick |
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inauspicious | (adjective) not auspicious; boding ill | Synonyms: unfortunate |
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(adjective) contrary to your interests or welfare | Synonyms: adverse, untoward |
(adjective) presaging ill fortune | Synonyms: ill, ominous |
inauspiciously | (adverb) in an inauspicious manner | Synonyms: unpropitiously |
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inauspiciousness | (noun) the quality of suggesting an unsuccessful result | Synonyms: unpropitiousness |
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inconspicuous | (adjective) not prominent or readily noticeable | Synonyms: invisible |
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inconspicuously | (adverb) in a manner intended to avoid attracting attention | - |
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inconspicuousness | (noun) the quality of being not easily seen | - |
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