aponeurosis | (noun) any of the deeper and thicker fascia that attach muscles to bones; resemble flattened tendons | - |
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aponeurotic | (adjective) of or relating to an aponeurosis | - |
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bioweapon | (noun) any weapon usable in biological warfare | Synonyms: bioarm, biological weapon |
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campong | (noun) a native malay village | Synonyms: kampong |
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capon | (noun) castrated male chicken | - |
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(noun) flesh of a castrated male chicken | - |
caponise | (verb) convert a cock into a capon | Synonyms: caponize |
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caponize | (verb) convert a cock into a capon | Synonyms: caponise |
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component | (noun) an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system | Synonyms: constituent, element |
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(noun) an abstract part of something | Synonyms: constituent, element, factor, ingredient |
(noun) something determined in relation to something that includes it | Synonyms: component part, constituent, part, portion |
corespondent | (noun) the codefendant charged with adultery with the estranged spouse in a divorce proceeding | Synonyms: co-respondent |
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cornpone | (noun) cornbread often made without milk or eggs and baked or fried (southern) | Synonyms: pone |
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correspond | (verb) exchange messages | - |
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(verb) be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics | Synonyms: agree, check, fit, gibe, jibe, match, tally |
(verb) take the place of or be parallel or equivalent to | Synonyms: represent, stand for |
(verb) be equivalent or parallel, in mathematics | Synonyms: equate |
correspondence | (noun) similarity by virtue of corresponding | Synonyms: parallelism |
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(noun) compatibility of observations | Synonyms: agreement |
(noun) (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane | Synonyms: balance, symmetricalness, symmetry |
(noun) communication by the exchange of letters | - |
(noun) the relation of corresponding in degree or size or amount | Synonyms: commensurateness, proportionateness |
correspondent | (adjective) similar or equivalent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar | Synonyms: analogous |
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(noun) someone who communicates by means of letters | Synonyms: letter writer |
(noun) a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media | Synonyms: newswriter |
corresponding | (adjective) accompanying | - |
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(adjective) conforming in every respect | Synonyms: comparable, like |
(adjective) similar especially in position or purpose | - |
correspondingly | (adverb) in a corresponding manner | - |
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cosponsor | (verb) sponsor together with another sponsor | - |
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coupon | (noun) a test sample of some substance | - |
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(noun) a negotiable certificate that can be detached and redeemed as needed | Synonyms: voucher |
crampon | (noun) an iron spike attached to the shoe to prevent slipping on ice when walking or climbing | Synonyms: climber, climbing iron, crampoon |
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(noun) a hinged pair of curved iron bars; used to raise heavy objects | Synonyms: crampoon |
depone | (verb) make a deposition; declare under oath | Synonyms: depose, swear |
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deponent | (noun) a person who testifies or gives a deposition | Synonyms: deposer, testifier |
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despond | (verb) lose confidence or hope; become dejected | - |
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despondence | (noun) feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless | Synonyms: despondency, disconsolateness, heartsickness |
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despondency | (noun) feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless | Synonyms: despondence, disconsolateness, heartsickness |
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despondent | (adjective) without or almost without hope | Synonyms: heartsick |
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despondently | (adverb) with desperation | Synonyms: despairingly |
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eponym | (noun) the name derived from a person (real or imaginary) | - |
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(noun) the person for whom something is named | - |
eponymic | (adjective) being or relating to or bearing the name of an eponym | Synonyms: eponymous |
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eponymous | (adjective) being or relating to or bearing the name of an eponym | Synonyms: eponymic |
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eponymy | (noun) the derivation of a general name from that of a famous person | - |
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exponent | (noun) a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself | Synonyms: index, power |
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(noun) a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea | Synonyms: advocate, advocator, proponent |
(noun) someone who expounds and interprets or explains | - |
exponential | (adjective) of or involving exponents | - |
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(noun) a function in which an independent variable appears as an exponent | Synonyms: exponential function |
exponentially | (adverb) in an exponential manner | - |
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exponentiation | (noun) the process of raising a quantity to some assigned power | Synonyms: involution |
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fishpond | (noun) a freshwater pond with fish | - |
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hereupon | (adverb) immediately after this | - |
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horsepond | (noun) a pond for watering horses | - |
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hydroponic | (adjective) of or relating to aquiculture | Synonyms: aquacultural, aquicultural |
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hydroponics | (noun) a technique of growing plants (without soil) in water containing dissolved nutrients | Synonyms: aquiculture, tank farming |
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hyponatremia | (noun) abnormally low level of sodium in the blood; associated with dehydration | - |
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hyponym | (noun) a word that is more specific than a given word | Synonyms: subordinate, subordinate word |
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hyponymy | (noun) the semantic relation of being subordinate or belonging to a lower rank or class | Synonyms: subordination |
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imponderable | (adjective) difficult or impossible to evaluate with precision | - |
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(noun) a factor whose effects cannot be accurately assessed | - |
irresponsibility | (noun) a form of untrustworthiness; the trait of lacking a sense of responsibility and not feeling accountable for your actions | Synonyms: irresponsibleness |
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irresponsible | (adjective) showing lack of care for consequences | - |
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irresponsibleness | (noun) a form of untrustworthiness; the trait of lacking a sense of responsibility and not feeling accountable for your actions | Synonyms: irresponsibility |
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irresponsibly | (adverb) in an irresponsible manner | - |
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japonica | (noun) deciduous thorny shrub native to Japan having red blossoms | Synonyms: Chaenomeles japonica, maule's quince |
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(noun) greenhouse shrub with glossy green leaves and showy fragrant rose-like flowers; cultivated in many varieties | Synonyms: Camellia japonica |
kampong | (noun) a native malay village | Synonyms: campong |
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mascarpone | (noun) soft mild Italian cream cheese | - |
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microtoponym | (noun) a name of a "minor" or small natural feature (e.g., a field, path, bridge, ditch, etc.). | - |
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millpond | (noun) a pond formed by damming a stream to provide a head of water to turn a mill wheel | - |
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opponent | (adjective) characterized by active hostility | Synonyms: opposing |
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(noun) someone who offers opposition | Synonyms: adversary, antagonist, opposer, resister |
(noun) a contestant that you are matched against | Synonyms: opposite, opposition |
pompon | (noun) dusky grey food fish found from Louisiana and Florida southward | Synonyms: Anisotremus surinamensis, black margate |
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(noun) decoration consisting of a ball of tufted wool or silk; usually worn on a hat | Synonyms: pom-pom |
ponce | (noun) someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce) | Synonyms: fancy man, pandar, pander, panderer, pimp, procurer |
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(noun) a man who is effeminate in his manner and fussy in the way he dresses | - |
poncho | (noun) a blanket-like cloak with a hole in the center for the head | - |
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pond | (noun) a small lake | Synonyms: pool |
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ponder | (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, contemplate, excogitate, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, reflect, ruminate, speculate, think over |
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ponderable | (adjective) capable of being weighed or considered | - |
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(adjective) capable of being thought about | Synonyms: cogitable |
ponderer | (noun) a reflective thinker characterized by quiet contemplation | Synonyms: muller, muser, ruminator |
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pondering | (adjective) deeply or seriously thoughtful | Synonyms: brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, reflective, ruminative |
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ponderosa | (noun) common and widely distributed tall timber pine of western North America having dark green needles in bunches of 2 to 5 and thick bark with dark brown plates when mature | Synonyms: bull pine, Pinus ponderosa, ponderosa pine, western yellow pine |
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ponderosity | (noun) the property of being large in mass | Synonyms: heft, heftiness, massiveness, ponderousness |
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ponderous | (adjective) slow and laborious because of weight | Synonyms: heavy, lumbering |
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(adjective) having great mass and weight and unwieldiness | - |
(adjective) labored and dull | - |
ponderously | (adverb) in a heavy ponderous manner | - |
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(adverb) in an uninterestingly ponderous manner | - |
ponderousness | (noun) the property of being large in mass | Synonyms: heft, heftiness, massiveness, ponderosity |
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(noun) an oppressive quality that is laborious and solemn and lacks grace or fluency | Synonyms: heaviness |
pondweed | (noun) any of several submerged or floating freshwater perennial aquatic weeds belonging to the family Potamogetonaceae | - |
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(noun) submerged freshwater perennials | Synonyms: ditchmoss, Elodea, genus Elodea |
pone | (noun) cornbread often made without milk or eggs and baked or fried (southern) | Synonyms: cornpone |
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pong | (noun) an unpleasant smell | Synonyms: niff |
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pongee | (noun) a soft thin cloth woven from raw silk (or an imitation) | - |
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pongid | (noun) any of the large anthropoid apes of the family Pongidae | Synonyms: great ape |
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poniard | (noun) a dagger with a slender blade | Synonyms: bodkin |
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(verb) stab with a poniard | - |
pons | (noun) a band of nerve fibers linking the medulla oblongata and the cerebellum with the midbrain | Synonyms: pons Varolii |
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pontifex | (noun) a member of the highest council of priests in ancient Rome | - |
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pontiff | (noun) the head of the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: Bishop of Rome, Catholic Pope, Holy Father, pope, Roman Catholic Pope, Vicar of Christ |
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pontifical | (adjective) denoting or governed by or relating to a bishop or bishops | Synonyms: episcopal |
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(adjective) proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles | Synonyms: apostolic, apostolical, papal |
(adjective) puffed up with vanity | Synonyms: grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, portentous |
(noun) the vestments and other insignia of a pontiff (especially a bishop) | - |
pontificate | (noun) the government of the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: papacy |
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(verb) talk in a dogmatic and pompous manner | - |
(verb) administer a pontifical office | - |
pontoon | (noun) a float supporting a seaplane | - |
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(noun) (nautical) a floating structure (as a flat-bottomed boat) that serves as a dock or to support a bridge | - |
pony | (noun) any of various breeds of small gentle horses usually less than five feet high at the shoulder | - |
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(noun) a range horse of the western United States | - |
(noun) an informal term for a racehorse | - |
(noun) a small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey | Synonyms: jigger, shot glass |
(noun) a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly) | Synonyms: crib, trot |
ponycart | (noun) a cart with an underslung axle and two seats | Synonyms: donkey cart, pony cart, tub-cart |
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ponytail | (noun) a hair style that draws the hair back so that it hangs down in back of the head like a pony's tail | - |
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postpone | (verb) hold back to a later time | Synonyms: defer, hold over, prorogue, put off, put over, remit, set back, shelve, table |
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postponement | (noun) act of putting off to a future time | Synonyms: deferment, deferral |
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(noun) time during which some action is awaited | Synonyms: delay, hold, time lag, wait |
postponer | (noun) someone who postpones work (especially out of laziness or habitual carelessness) | Synonyms: cunctator, procrastinator |
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preponderance | (noun) a superiority in numbers or amount | Synonyms: prevalence |
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(noun) exceeding in heaviness; having greater weight | - |
(noun) superiority in power or influence | - |
preponderant | (adjective) having superior power and influence | Synonyms: overriding, paramount, predominant, predominate, preponderating |
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preponderantly | (adverb) much greater in number or influence | Synonyms: predominantly |
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preponderate | (verb) weigh more heavily | Synonyms: outbalance, outweigh, overbalance |
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preponderating | (adjective) having superior power and influence | Synonyms: overriding, paramount, predominant, predominate, preponderant |
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proponent | (noun) a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea | Synonyms: advocate, advocator, exponent |
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respond | (verb) show a response or a reaction to something | Synonyms: react |
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(verb) respond favorably or as hoped | - |
(verb) react verbally | Synonyms: answer, reply |
respondent | (adjective) replying | Synonyms: answering |
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(noun) someone who responds | Synonyms: answerer, responder |
(noun) the codefendant (especially in a divorce proceeding) who is accused of adultery with the corespondent | - |
responder | (noun) someone who responds | Synonyms: answerer, respondent |
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response | (noun) a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent | Synonyms: reaction |
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(noun) the manner in which an electrical or mechanical device responds to an input signal or a range of input signals | - |
(noun) the speech act of continuing a conversational exchange | Synonyms: reply |
(noun) a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation | Synonyms: answer, reply |
(noun) the manner in which something is greeted | Synonyms: reception |
(noun) a phrase recited or sung by the congregation following a versicle by the priest or minister | - |
(noun) a result | - |
responsibility | (noun) the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force | Synonyms: duty, obligation |
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(noun) a form of trustworthiness; the trait of being answerable to someone for something or being responsible for one's conduct | Synonyms: responsibleness |
(noun) the proper sphere or extent of your activities | Synonyms: province |
responsible | (adjective) worthy of or requiring responsibility or trust; or held accountable | - |
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(adjective) being the agent or cause | Synonyms: responsible for |
(adjective) having an acceptable credit rating | Synonyms: creditworthy |
responsibleness | (noun) a form of trustworthiness; the trait of being answerable to someone for something or being responsible for one's conduct | Synonyms: responsibility |
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responsibly | (adverb) in a responsible manner | - |
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responsive | (adjective) readily reacting or replying to people or events or stimuli; showing emotion | - |
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(adjective) containing or using responses; alternating | Synonyms: antiphonal |
(adjective) reacting to a stimulus | Synonyms: reactive |
responsiveness | (noun) the quality of being responsive; reacting quickly; as a quality of people, it involves responding with emotion to people and events | - |
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(noun) responsive to stimulation | Synonyms: reactivity |
saponaceous | (adjective) resembling or having the qualities of soap | Synonyms: soapy |
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