airpost | (noun) a system of conveying mail by aircraft | Synonyms: airmail |
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apostasy | (noun) the act of abandoning a party for cause | Synonyms: tergiversation |
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(noun) the state of having rejected your religious beliefs for your political party or a cause (often in favor of opposing beliefs or causes) | Synonyms: defection, renunciation |
apostate | (adjective) not faithful to religion or party or cause | - |
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(noun) a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc. | Synonyms: deserter, ratter, recreant, renegade, turncoat |
apostatise | (verb) abandon one's beliefs or allegiances | Synonyms: apostatize, tergiversate |
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apostatize | (verb) abandon one's beliefs or allegiances | Synonyms: apostatise, tergiversate |
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apostle | (noun) an ardent early supporter of a cause or reform | - |
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apostleship | (noun) the position of apostle | - |
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apostolic | (adjective) of or relating to or deriving from the Apostles or their teachings | Synonyms: apostolical |
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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: apostolical, papal, pontifical |
apostolical | (adjective) of or relating to or deriving from the Apostles or their teachings | Synonyms: apostolic |
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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, papal, pontifical |
apostrophe | (noun) address to an absent or imaginary person | - |
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(noun) the mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word | - |
apostrophic | (adjective) of or characteristic of apostrophe | - |
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apostrophise | (verb) use an apostrophe | Synonyms: apostrophize |
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apostrophize | (verb) use an apostrophe | Synonyms: apostrophise |
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balanoposthitis | (noun) inflammation of both the head of the penis and the foreskin | - |
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bedpost | (noun) any of 4 vertical supports at the corners of a bedstead | - |
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compost | (noun) a mixture of decaying vegetation and manure; used as a fertilizer | - |
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(verb) convert to compost | - |
doorpost | (noun) a jamb for a door | Synonyms: doorjamb |
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expostulate | (verb) reason with (somebody) for the purpose of dissuasion | - |
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expostulation | (noun) the act of expressing earnest opposition or protest | Synonyms: objection, remonstrance, remonstration |
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(noun) an exclamation of protest or remonstrance or reproof | - |
fingerpost | (noun) a guidepost resembling a hand with a pointing index finger | Synonyms: fingerboard |
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gatepost | (noun) either of two posts that bound a gate | - |
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goalpost | (noun) one of a pair of posts (usually joined by a crossbar) that are set up as a goal at each end of a playing field | - |
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guidepost | (noun) a rule or principle that provides guidance to appropriate behavior | Synonyms: guideline, rule of thumb |
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(noun) a post bearing a sign that gives directions or shows the way | Synonyms: signpost |
hypostasis | (noun) (metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality | - |
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(noun) any of the three persons of the Godhead constituting the Trinity especially the person of Christ in which divine and human natures are united | Synonyms: hypostasis of Christ |
(noun) the accumulation of blood in an organ | - |
(noun) the suppression of a gene by the effect of an unrelated gene | Synonyms: epistasis |
hypostatisation | (noun) regarding something abstract as a material thing | Synonyms: hypostatization, reification |
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hypostatise | (verb) construe as a real existence, of a conceptual entity | Synonyms: hypostatize |
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hypostatization | (noun) regarding something abstract as a material thing | Synonyms: hypostatisation, reification |
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hypostatize | (verb) construe as a real existence, of a conceptual entity | Synonyms: hypostatise |
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impost | (noun) the lowest stone in an arch -- from which it springs | Synonyms: springer |
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(noun) money collected under a tariff | Synonyms: custom, customs, customs duty |
imposter | (noun) a person who makes deceitful pretenses | Synonyms: fake, faker, fraud, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer |
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impostor | (noun) a person who makes deceitful pretenses | Synonyms: fake, faker, fraud, imposter, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer |
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imposture | (noun) pretending to be another person | Synonyms: impersonation |
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lamppost | (noun) a metal post supporting an outdoor lamp (such as a streetlight) | - |
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milepost | (noun) stone post at side of a road to show distances | Synonyms: milestone |
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outpost | (noun) a military post stationed at a distance from the main body of troops | - |
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(noun) a settlement on the frontier of civilization | Synonyms: frontier settlement |
(noun) a station in a remote or sparsely populated location | Synonyms: outstation |
post | (noun) a job in an organization | Synonyms: berth, office, place, position, situation |
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(noun) the delivery and collection of letters and packages | - |
(noun) an upright consisting of a piece of timber or metal fixed firmly in an upright position | - |
(noun) military installation at which a body of troops is stationed | Synonyms: military post |
(noun) the system whereby messages are transmitted via the post office | Synonyms: mail, mail service, postal service |
(noun) a pole or stake set up to mark something (as the start or end of a race track) | Synonyms: stake |
(noun) A message on a social media website | - |
(noun) any particular collection of letters or packages that is delivered | Synonyms: mail |
(noun) the position where someone (as a guard or sentry) stands or is assigned to stand | Synonyms: station |
(verb) display, as of records in sports games | - |
(verb) mark or expose as infamous | Synonyms: brand |
(verb) cause to be directed or transmitted to another place | Synonyms: mail, send |
(verb) publicize with, or as if with, a poster | - |
(verb) To post a message on a social media website | - |
(verb) assign to a station | Synonyms: place, send, station |
(verb) place so as to be noticed | Synonyms: put up |
(verb) mark with a stake | Synonyms: stake |
(verb) affix in a public place or for public notice | - |
(verb) ride Western style and bob up and down in the saddle in rhythm with a horse's trotting gait | - |
(verb) transfer (entries) from one account book to another | Synonyms: carry |
(verb) enter on a public list | - |
(verb) assign to a post; put into a post | - |
postage | (noun) a small adhesive token stuck on a letter or package to indicate that postal fees have been paid | Synonyms: postage stamp, stamp |
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(noun) the charge for mailing something | - |
postal | (adjective) of or relating to the system for delivering mail | - |
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postalveolar | (noun) (phonetics) Any sound articulated with the tongue near or touching the back of the alveolar ridge. | Synonyms: post-alveolar, post-alveolar consonant, postalveolar consonant |
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postbag | (noun) letter carrier's shoulder bag | Synonyms: mailbag |
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postbiblical | (adjective) subsequent to biblical times | - |
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postbox | (noun) public box for deposit of mail | Synonyms: letter box, mailbox |
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postcard | (noun) a card for sending messages by post without an envelope | Synonyms: mailing-card, post card, postal card |
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postcava | (noun) receives blood from lower limbs and abdominal organs and empties into the posterior part of the right atrium of the heart; formed from the union of the two iliac veins | Synonyms: inferior vena cava |
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postcode | (noun) a code of letters and digits added to a postal address to aid in the sorting of mail | Synonyms: postal code, ZIP, ZIP code |
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postdate | (verb) establish something as being later relative to something else | - |
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(verb) be later in time | Synonyms: follow |
postdiluvian | (adjective) existing or occurring after Noah's flood | - |
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(noun) anything living after Noah's flood | - |
postdoc | (noun) a scholar or researcher who is involved in academic study beyond the level of a doctoral degree | Synonyms: post doc |
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(noun) a grant that funds postdoctoral study or research | Synonyms: post doc, postdoctoral |
postdoctoral | (adjective) of or relating to study or research that is done after work for the doctoral degree has been completed | - |
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(noun) a grant that funds postdoctoral study or research | Synonyms: post doc, postdoc |
posted | (adjective) publicly displayed | - |
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poster | (noun) a horse kept at an inn or post house for use by mail carriers or for rent to travelers | Synonyms: post-horse, post horse |
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(noun) a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement | Synonyms: bill, card, notice, placard, posting |
(noun) someone who pastes up bills or placards on walls or billboards | Synonyms: bill poster, bill sticker |
posterboard | (noun) a cardboard suitable for making posters | Synonyms: paperboard, poster board |
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posterior | (adjective) located at or near or behind a part or near the end of a structure | - |
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(adjective) coming at a subsequent time or stage | Synonyms: later, ulterior |
(noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
(noun) a tooth situated at the back of the mouth | Synonyms: back tooth |
posteriority | (noun) the quality of being toward the back or toward the rear end | - |
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(noun) following in time | Synonyms: subsequence, subsequentness |
posterity | (noun) all future generations | - |
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(noun) all of the offspring of a given progenitor | Synonyms: descendants |
postern | (noun) a small gate in the rear of a fort or castle | - |
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postexilic | (adjective) of or relating to the period in Jewish history after 539 BC (after the Babylonian Captivity) | - |
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postfix | (noun) an affix that is added at the end of the word | Synonyms: suffix |
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postganglionic | (adjective) beyond or distal to a ganglion (referring especially to the unmyelinated fibers that originate from cells in autonomic ganglia) | - |
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postglacial | (adjective) relating to or occurring during the time following a glacial period | - |
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postgraduate | (adjective) of or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree | Synonyms: graduate |
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(noun) a student who continues studies after graduation | Synonyms: grad student, graduate student |
posthitis | (noun) inflammation of the foreskin of the penis; usually caused by bacterial infection | - |
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posthole | (noun) a hole dug in the ground to hold a fence post | Synonyms: post hole |
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posthouse | (noun) an inn for exchanging post horses and accommodating riders | Synonyms: post house |
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posthumous | (adjective) occurring or coming into existence after a person's death | - |
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posthumously | (adverb) after death | - |
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postiche | (noun) something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be | Synonyms: fake, sham |
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(noun) a covering or bunch of human or artificial hair used for disguise or adornment | Synonyms: false hair, hairpiece |
postictal | (adjective) pertaining to the period following a seizure or convulsion | - |
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postilion | (noun) someone who rides the near horse of a pair in order to guide the horses pulling a carriage (especially a carriage without a coachman) | Synonyms: postillion |
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postillion | (noun) someone who rides the near horse of a pair in order to guide the horses pulling a carriage (especially a carriage without a coachman) | Synonyms: postilion |
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postindustrial | (adjective) of or relating to a society or economy marked by a lessened importance of manufacturing and an increase of services, information, and research | - |
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posting | (noun) the transmission of a letter | Synonyms: mailing |
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(noun) a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement | Synonyms: bill, card, notice, placard, poster |
(noun) (bookkeeping) a listing on the company's records | - |
postlude | (noun) a voluntary played at the end of a religious service | - |
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postman | (noun) a man who delivers the mail | Synonyms: carrier, letter carrier, mail carrier, mailman |
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postmark | (noun) a cancellation mark stamped on mail by postal officials; indicates the post office and date of mailing | - |
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(verb) stamp with a postmark to indicate date and time of mailing | Synonyms: frank |
postmaster | (noun) the person in charge of a post office | - |
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postmenopausal | (adjective) subsequent to menopause | - |
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postmeridian | (adjective) after midday | - |
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postmillennial | (adjective) of or relating to the period following the millennium | - |
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postmistress | (noun) a woman postmaster | - |
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postmodern | (adjective) of or relating to postmodernism | Synonyms: postmodernist |
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postmodernism | (noun) genre of art and literature and especially architecture in reaction against principles and practices of established modernism | - |
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postmodernist | (adjective) of or relating to postmodernism | Synonyms: postmodern |
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postmortal | (adjective) occurring or done after death | Synonyms: postmortem |
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postmortem | (adjective) occurring or done after death | Synonyms: postmortal |
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(adjective) after death or after an event | - |
(noun) an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease | Synonyms: autopsy, necropsy, PM, post-mortem, post-mortem examination, postmortem examination |
(noun) discussion of an event after it has occurred | Synonyms: post-mortem |
postnatal | (adjective) occurring immediately after birth | Synonyms: postpartum |
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postnuptial | (adjective) relating to events after a marriage | - |
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postoperative | (adjective) happening or done after a surgical operation | - |
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postoperatively | (adverb) after the operation | - |
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postpaid | (adjective) used especially of mail; paid in advance | Synonyms: prepaid |
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postpartum | (adjective) occurring immediately after birth | Synonyms: postnatal |
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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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postpose | (verb) place after another constituent in the sentence | - |
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postposition | (noun) (linguistics) the placing of one linguistic element after another (as placing a modifier after the word that it modifies in a sentence or placing an affix after the base to which it is attached) | - |
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postpositive | (adjective) (of a modifier) placed after another word | - |
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postprandial | (adjective) following a meal (especially dinner) | - |
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postscript | (noun) a note appended to a letter after the signature | Synonyms: PS |
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(noun) textual matter that is added onto a publication; usually at the end | Synonyms: addendum, supplement |
postulant | (noun) one submitting a request or application especially one seeking admission into a religious order | - |
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