accipitrine | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the genus Accipiter (or to typical hawks) | - |
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armpit | (noun) the hollow under the arm where it is joined to the shoulder | Synonyms: axilla, axillary cavity, axillary fossa |
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australopithecine | (adjective) of or belonging to the hominid genus Australopithecus | - |
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(noun) any of several extinct humanlike bipedal primates with relatively small brains of the genus Australopithecus; from 1 to 4 million years ago | - |
bicipital | (adjective) having two heads or points of origin as a biceps | - |
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caespitose | (adjective) (of plants) growing in small dense clumps or tufts | Synonyms: cespitose, tufted |
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capital | (adjective) of principal importance | - |
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(adjective) first-rate | - |
(adjective) uppercase | Synonyms: great, majuscule |
(noun) the upper part of a column that supports the entablature | Synonyms: cap, chapiter |
(noun) one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis | Synonyms: capital letter, majuscule, upper-case letter, uppercase |
(noun) a seat of government | - |
(noun) a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product | - |
(noun) wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value | - |
(noun) assets available for use in the production of further assets | Synonyms: working capital |
capitalisation | (noun) the act of capitalizing on an opportunity | Synonyms: capitalization |
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(noun) the sale of capital stock | Synonyms: capitalization |
(noun) an estimation of the value of a business | Synonyms: capitalization |
(noun) writing in capital letters | Synonyms: capitalization |
capitalise | (verb) convert (a company's reserve funds) into capital | Synonyms: capitalize |
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(verb) consider expenditures as capital assets rather than expenses | Synonyms: capitalize |
(verb) compute the present value of a business or an income | Synonyms: capitalize |
(verb) write in capital letters | Synonyms: capitalize |
(verb) draw advantages from | Synonyms: capitalize, take advantage |
(verb) supply with capital, as of a business by using a combination of capital used by investors and debt capital provided by lenders | Synonyms: capitalize |
capitalism | (noun) an economic system based on private ownership of capital | Synonyms: capitalist economy |
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capitalist | (adjective) favoring or practicing capitalism | Synonyms: capitalistic |
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(adjective) of or relating to capitalism or capitalists | Synonyms: capitalistic |
(noun) a person who invests capital in a business (especially a large business) | - |
(noun) a conservative advocate of capitalism | - |
capitalistic | (adjective) favoring or practicing capitalism | Synonyms: capitalist |
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(adjective) of or relating to capitalism or capitalists | Synonyms: capitalist |
capitalization | (noun) the act of capitalizing on an opportunity | Synonyms: capitalisation |
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(noun) the sale of capital stock | Synonyms: capitalisation |
(noun) an estimation of the value of a business | Synonyms: capitalisation |
(noun) writing in capital letters | Synonyms: capitalisation |
capitalize | (verb) convert (a company's reserve funds) into capital | Synonyms: capitalise |
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(verb) consider expenditures as capital assets rather than expenses | Synonyms: capitalise |
(verb) compute the present value of a business or an income | Synonyms: capitalise |
(verb) write in capital letters | Synonyms: capitalise |
(verb) draw advantages from | Synonyms: capitalise, take advantage |
(verb) supply with capital, as of a business by using a combination of capital used by investors and debt capital provided by lenders | Synonyms: capitalise |
capitate | (adjective) being abruptly enlarged and globose at the tip | - |
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(noun) the wrist bone with a rounded head shape that articulates with the 3rd metacarpus | Synonyms: capitate bone, os capitatum |
capitation | (noun) a tax levied on the basis of a fixed amount per person | - |
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capitol | (noun) a building occupied by a state legislature | - |
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capitula | (noun) a short scripture reading; done after a psalmody. | - |
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capitular | (adjective) of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical chapter | Synonyms: capitulary |
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capitulary | (adjective) of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical chapter | Synonyms: capitular |
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capitulate | (verb) surrender under agreed conditions | - |
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capitulation | (noun) the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions) | Synonyms: fall, surrender |
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(noun) a summary that enumerates the main parts of a topic | - |
(noun) a document containing the terms of surrender | - |
capitulum | (noun) a dense cluster of flowers or foliage | Synonyms: head |
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(noun) fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn | Synonyms: ear, spike |
(noun) an arrangement of leafy branches forming the top or head of a tree | - |
cespitose | (adjective) (of plants) growing in small dense clumps or tufts | Synonyms: caespitose, tufted |
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cesspit | (noun) a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it | Synonyms: cesspool, sink, sump |
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chalkpit | (noun) a quarry for chalk | Synonyms: chalk pit |
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chapiter | (noun) the upper part of a column that supports the entablature | Synonyms: cap, capital |
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coalpit | (noun) a mine where coal is dug from the ground | Synonyms: coal mine |
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cockpit | (noun) compartment where the pilot sits while flying the aircraft | - |
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(noun) seat where the driver sits while driving a racing car | - |
(noun) a pit for cockfights | - |
colpitis | (noun) inflammation of the vagina | - |
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crepitate | (verb) make a crackling sound | Synonyms: crackle |
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crepitation | (noun) the sharp sound of snapping noises | Synonyms: crackle, crackling |
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decapitate | (verb) cut the head of | Synonyms: behead, decollate |
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decapitated | (adjective) having had the head cut off | Synonyms: beheaded |
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decapitation | (noun) killing by cutting off the head | Synonyms: beheading |
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(noun) execution by cutting off the victim's head | Synonyms: beheading |
decrepit | (adjective) lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality | Synonyms: debile, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weak, weakly |
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(adjective) worn and broken down by hard use | Synonyms: creaky, derelict, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone |
decrepitate | (verb) to roast or calcine so as to cause to crackle or until crackling stops | - |
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(verb) undergo decrepitation and crackle | - |
decrepitation | (noun) the crackling or breaking up of certain crystals when they are heated | - |
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decrepitude | (noun) a state of deterioration due to old age or long use | Synonyms: dilapidation |
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(noun) The quality or state of being wasted and weakened by or as if by the infirmities of old age. | - |
despite | (noun) contemptuous disregard | - |
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(noun) lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike | Synonyms: contempt, disdain, scorn |
despiteful | (adjective) showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt; motivated by spite | Synonyms: spiteful, vindictive |
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despitefully | (adverb) in a maliciously spiteful manner | Synonyms: spitefully |
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dryopithecine | (noun) considered a possible ancestor to both anthropoid apes and humans | - |
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epitaph | (noun) an inscription on a tombstone or monument in memory of the person buried there | - |
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(noun) a summary statement of commemoration for a dead person | - |
epitaxy | (noun) growing a crystal layer of one mineral on the crystal base of another mineral in such a manner that its crystalline orientation is the same as that of the substrate | - |
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epithalamium | (noun) an ode honoring a bride and bridegroom | - |
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epithelial | (adjective) of or belonging to the epithelium | Synonyms: epithelioid |
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epithelioid | (adjective) of or belonging to the epithelium | Synonyms: epithelial |
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epithelioma | (noun) a malignant tumor of the epithelial tissue | - |
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epithelium | (noun) membranous tissue covering internal organs and other internal surfaces of the body | Synonyms: epithelial tissue |
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epithet | (noun) descriptive word or phrase | - |
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(noun) a defamatory or abusive word or phrase | Synonyms: name |
epitome | (noun) a standard or typical example | Synonyms: image, paradigm, prototype |
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(noun) a brief abstract (as of an article or book) | - |
epitomise | (verb) embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of | Synonyms: epitomize, typify |
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epitomize | (verb) embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of | Synonyms: epitomise, typify |
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epitope | (noun) the site on the surface of an antigen molecule to which an antibody attaches itself | Synonyms: antigenic determinant, determinant |
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fleapit | (noun) an old shabby movie theater | - |
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hospitable | (adjective) favorable to life and growth | - |
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(adjective) disposed to treat guests and strangers with cordiality and generosity | - |
(adjective) having an open mind | - |
hospitableness | (noun) having a disposition that welcomes guests and is fond of entertaining | - |
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hospitably | (adverb) in a hospitable manner | - |
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hospital | (noun) a health facility where patients receive treatment | Synonyms: infirmary |
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(noun) a medical institution where sick or injured people are given medical or surgical care | - |
hospitalisation | (noun) placing in medical care in a hospital | Synonyms: hospital care, hospitalization |
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hospitalise | (verb) admit into a hospital | Synonyms: hospitalize |
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hospitality | (noun) kindness in welcoming guests or strangers | Synonyms: cordial reception |
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hospitalization | (noun) placing in medical care in a hospital | Synonyms: hospital care, hospitalisation |
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(noun) insurance that pays all or part of a patient's hospital expense | Synonyms: hospitalization insurance |
(noun) the condition of being treated as a patient in a hospital | - |
(noun) a period of time when you are confined to a hospital | - |
hospitalize | (verb) admit into a hospital | Synonyms: hospitalise |
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hospitaller | (noun) title of the member of any of several religious orders that cared for the sick in hospitals. | - |
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hyperpituitarism | (noun) excessive activity of the pituitary gland (especially overactivity of the anterior lobe which leads to excess secretion of growth hormone) | - |
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inhospitable | (adjective) unfavorable to life or growth | - |
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(adjective) not hospitable | - |
inhospitableness | (noun) having an unfriendly and inhospitable disposition | - |
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(noun) the environmental condition in a region that lacks a favorable climate or terrain for life or growth | - |
inhospitably | (adverb) in an inhospitable manner | - |
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inhospitality | (noun) unkind and inconsiderate welcome | - |
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neuroepithelioma | (noun) malignant tumor of the neuroepithelium | - |
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neuroepithelium | (noun) epithelium associated with special sense organs and containing sensory nerve endings | - |
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occipital | (adjective) of or relating to the occiput | - |
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overcapitalisation | (noun) (business) too much capitalization (the sale of more stock than the business warrants) | Synonyms: overcapitalization |
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overcapitalise | (verb) capitalize beyond what the business or the profit-making prospects warrant | Synonyms: overcapitalize |
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(verb) overestimate the market value of | Synonyms: overcapitalize |
(verb) estimate the capital value of (a company) at an unreasonably or unlawfully high level | Synonyms: overcapitalize |
overcapitalization | (noun) (business) too much capitalization (the sale of more stock than the business warrants) | Synonyms: overcapitalisation |
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overcapitalize | (verb) capitalize beyond what the business or the profit-making prospects warrant | Synonyms: overcapitalise |
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(verb) overestimate the market value of | Synonyms: overcapitalise |
(verb) estimate the capital value of (a company) at an unreasonably or unlawfully high level | Synonyms: overcapitalise |
palpitant | (adjective) having a slight and rapid trembling motion | Synonyms: palpitating |
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palpitate | (verb) beat rapidly | Synonyms: flutter |
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(verb) shake with fast, tremulous movements | Synonyms: quake, quiver |
(verb) cause to throb or beat rapidly | - |
palpitating | (adjective) having a slight and rapid trembling motion | Synonyms: palpitant |
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palpitation | (noun) a rapid and irregular heart beat | - |
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(noun) a shaky motion | Synonyms: quiver, quivering, shakiness, shaking, trembling, vibration |
phlogopite | (noun) a brown form of mica consisting of hydrous silicate of potassium and magnesium and aluminum | - |
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pipit | (noun) a songbird that lives mainly on the ground in open country; has streaky brown plumage | Synonyms: lark, titlark |
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pit | (noun) a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate | Synonyms: quarry, stone pit |
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(noun) a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it | Synonyms: colliery |
(noun) a trap in the form of a concealed hole | Synonyms: pitfall |
(noun) lowered area in front of a stage where an orchestra accompanies the performers | Synonyms: orchestra pit |
(noun) (auto racing) an area at the side of a racetrack where the race cars are serviced and refueled | - |
(noun) (commodity exchange) the part of the floor of a commodity exchange where trading in a particular commodity is carried on | - |
(noun) an enclosure in which animals are made to fight | - |
(noun) (Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment | Synonyms: Hell, infernal region, Inferno, nether region, perdition |
(noun) a sizeable hole (usually in the ground) | Synonyms: cavity |
(noun) the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed | Synonyms: endocarp, stone |
(noun) a concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression) | Synonyms: fossa |
(verb) remove the pits from | Synonyms: stone |
(verb) set into opposition or rivalry | Synonyms: match, oppose, play off |
(verb) mark with a scar | Synonyms: mark, pock, scar |
pita | (noun) usually small round bread that can open into a pocket for filling | Synonyms: pocket bread |
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pitahaya | (noun) highly colored edible fruit of pitahaya cactus having bright red juice; often as large as a peach | - |
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(noun) cactus of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico having edible juicy fruit | Synonyms: Acanthocereus pentagonus, Acanthocereus tetragonus, pitahaya cactus |
pitanga | (noun) Brazilian tree with spicy red fruit; often cultivated in California and Florida | Synonyms: Eugenia uniflora, Surinam cherry |
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pitch | (noun) the action or manner of throwing something | - |
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(noun) an all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump | Synonyms: auction pitch |
(noun) a high approach shot in golf | Synonyms: pitch shot |
(noun) the act of throwing a baseball or softball by the pitcher towards home plate, which initiates play by giving the batter a chance to hit it | Synonyms: delivery |
(noun) abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance) | Synonyms: lurch, pitching |
(noun) the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration | - |
(noun) degree of deviation from a horizontal plane | Synonyms: rake, slant |
(noun) promotion by means of an argument and demonstration | Synonyms: sales pitch, sales talk |
(noun) a vendor's position (especially on the sidewalk) | - |
(noun) a sports field with predetermined dimensions for playing soccer | Synonyms: soccer field |
(noun) any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue | Synonyms: tar |
(verb) set to a certain pitch | - |
(verb) set the level or character of | Synonyms: gear |
(verb) lead (a card) and establish the trump suit | - |
(verb) throw or toss with a light motion | Synonyms: flip, sky, toss |
(verb) erect and fasten | Synonyms: set up |
(verb) hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin | - |
(verb) throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball | Synonyms: deliver |
(verb) fall or plunge forward | - |
(verb) be at an angle | Synonyms: incline, slope |
(verb) heel over | Synonyms: cant, cant over, slant, tilt |
(verb) move abruptly | Synonyms: lurch, shift |
(verb) sell or offer for sale from place to place | Synonyms: hawk, huckster, monger, peddle, vend |
pitchblende | (noun) a mineral consisting of uranium oxide and trace amounts of radium and thorium and polonium and lead and helium; uraninite in massive form is called pitchblende which is the chief uranium ore | Synonyms: uraninite |
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pitched | (adjective) (of sound) set to a certain pitch or key; usually used as a combining form | - |
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(adjective) set at a slant | - |
pitcher | (noun) the position on a baseball team of the player who throws the ball for a batter to try to hit | Synonyms: mound |
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(noun) an open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring | Synonyms: ewer |
(noun) (baseball) the person who does the pitching | Synonyms: hurler, twirler |
(noun) (botany) a leaf that is modified in such a way as to resemble a pitcher or ewer | - |
(noun) the quantity contained in a pitcher | Synonyms: pitcherful |
pitcherful | (noun) the quantity contained in a pitcher | Synonyms: pitcher |
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pitchfork | (noun) a long-handled hand tool with sharp widely spaced prongs for lifting and pitching hay | - |
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(verb) lift with a pitchfork | Synonyms: fork |
pitching | (noun) (baseball) playing the position of pitcher on a baseball team | - |
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(noun) abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance) | Synonyms: lurch, pitch |
pitchman | (noun) someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals) | Synonyms: hawker, packman, peddler, pedlar |
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(noun) an aggressive salesman who uses a fast line of talk to sell something | - |
pitchstone | (noun) dark acid granitic glass | - |
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pitchy | (adjective) of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal | Synonyms: coal-black, jet-black, jet, sooty |
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(adjective) having the characteristics of pitch or tar | Synonyms: resinous, resiny, tarry |
piteous | (adjective) deserving or inciting pity | Synonyms: hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched |
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piteously | (adverb) in a piteous manner | - |
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pitfall | (noun) a trap in the form of a concealed hole | Synonyms: pit |
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(noun) an unforeseen or unexpected or surprising difficulty | Synonyms: booby trap |