| acupressure | (noun) treatment of symptoms by applying pressure with the fingers to specific pressure points on the body | Synonyms: G-Jo, shiatsu |
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| adpressed | (adjective) pressed close to or lying flat against something | Synonyms: appressed |
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| antidepressant | (noun) any of a class of drugs used to treat depression; often have undesirable side effects | Synonyms: antidepressant drug |
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| appreciable | (adjective) enough to be estimated or measured | - |
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| appreciably | (adverb) to a noticeable degree | - |
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| appreciate | (verb) gain in value | Synonyms: apprise, apprize, revalue |
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| (verb) increase the value of | Synonyms: apprise, apprize |
| (verb) be fully aware of; realize fully | Synonyms: take account |
| (verb) recognize with gratitude; be grateful for | - |
| (verb) hold dear | Synonyms: prize, treasure, value |
| appreciated | (adjective) fully understood or grasped | Synonyms: apprehended, comprehended |
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| appreciation | (noun) a favorable judgment | Synonyms: admiration |
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| (noun) an increase in price or value | - |
| (noun) understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something | Synonyms: grasp, hold |
| (noun) delicate discrimination (especially of esthetic values) | Synonyms: discernment, perceptiveness, taste |
| (noun) an expression of gratitude | - |
| appreciative | (adjective) having or showing appreciation or a favorable critical judgment or opinion | - |
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| (adjective) feeling or expressive of gratitude | - |
| appreciatively | (adverb) with appreciation; in a grateful manner | Synonyms: gratefully |
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| appreciativeness | (noun) warm friendly feelings of gratitude | Synonyms: gratefulness, thankfulness |
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| appreciator | (noun) a person who is fully aware of something and understands it | - |
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| apprehend | (verb) get the meaning of something | Synonyms: compass, comprehend, dig, get the picture, grasp, grok, savvy |
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| (verb) take into custody | Synonyms: arrest, collar, cop, nab, nail, pick up |
| (verb) anticipate with dread or anxiety | Synonyms: quail at |
| apprehended | (adjective) fully understood or grasped | Synonyms: appreciated, comprehended |
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| apprehender | (noun) a person who seizes or arrests (especially a person who seizes or arrests in the name of justice) | - |
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| (noun) a person who knows or apprehends | Synonyms: knower |
| apprehensible | (adjective) capable of being apprehended or understood | Synonyms: graspable, intelligible, perceivable, understandable |
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| apprehension | (noun) the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal) | Synonyms: arrest, catch, collar, pinch, taking into custody |
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| (noun) the cognitive condition of someone who understands | Synonyms: discernment, savvy, understanding |
| (noun) painful expectation | Synonyms: misgiving |
| (noun) fearful expectation or anticipation | Synonyms: apprehensiveness, dread |
| apprehensive | (adjective) in fear or dread of possible evil or harm | - |
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| (adjective) quick to understand | Synonyms: discerning |
| (adjective) mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc | Synonyms: worried |
| apprehensively | (adverb) with anxiety or apprehension | Synonyms: anxiously, uneasily |
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| apprehensiveness | (noun) fearful expectation or anticipation | Synonyms: apprehension, dread |
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| apprentice | (noun) works for an expert to learn a trade | Synonyms: learner, prentice |
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| (verb) be or work as an apprentice | - |
| apprenticed | (adjective) bound by contract | Synonyms: articled, bound, indentured |
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| apprenticeship | (noun) the position of apprentice | - |
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| appressed | (adjective) pressed close to or lying flat against something | Synonyms: adpressed |
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| bedspread | (noun) decorative cover for a bed | Synonyms: bed cover, bed covering, bedcover, counterpane, spread |
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| besprent | (adjective) sprinkled over | - |
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| chloroprene | (noun) derivative of butadiene used in making neoprene by polymerization | - |
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| ciderpress | (noun) a press that is used to extract the juice from apples | - |
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| clothespress | (noun) a closet where clothes are stored | Synonyms: clothes closet |
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| comprehend | (verb) get the meaning of something | Synonyms: apprehend, compass, dig, get the picture, grasp, grok, savvy |
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| (verb) to become aware of through the senses | Synonyms: perceive |
| (verb) include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory | Synonyms: cover, embrace, encompass |
| comprehended | (adjective) fully understood or grasped | Synonyms: appreciated, apprehended |
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| comprehendible | (adjective) capable of being comprehended or understood | Synonyms: comprehensible |
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| comprehensibility | (noun) the quality of comprehensible language or thought | Synonyms: understandability |
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| comprehensible | (adjective) capable of being comprehended or understood | Synonyms: comprehendible |
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| comprehension | (noun) an ability to understand the meaning or importance of something (or the knowledge acquired as a result) | - |
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| (noun) the relation of comprising something | Synonyms: inclusion |
| comprehensive | (adjective) including all or everything | - |
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| (adjective) broad in scope | - |
| (noun) an intensive examination testing a student's proficiency in some special field of knowledge | Synonyms: comp, comprehensive examination |
| comprehensively | (adverb) in an all-inclusive manner | - |
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| comprehensiveness | (noun) the capacity to understand a broad range of topics | Synonyms: breadth, largeness |
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| (noun) completeness over a broad scope | Synonyms: fullness |
| compress | (noun) a cloth pad or dressing (with or without medication) applied firmly to some part of the body (to relieve discomfort or reduce fever) | - |
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| (verb) squeeze or press together | Synonyms: compact, constrict, contract, press, squeeze |
| (verb) make more compact by or as if by pressing | Synonyms: compact, pack together |
| compressed | (adjective) pressed tightly together | Synonyms: tight |
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| (adjective) reduced in volume by pressure | - |
| (adjective) flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes) | Synonyms: flat |
| compressibility | (noun) the property of being able to occupy less space | Synonyms: sponginess, squeezability |
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| compressible | (adjective) capable of being compressed or made more compact | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being easily compressed | Synonyms: squeezable |
| compressing | (noun) applying pressure | Synonyms: compression |
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| compression | (noun) applying pressure | Synonyms: compressing |
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| (noun) encoding information while reducing the bandwidth or bits required | - |
| (noun) the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together | Synonyms: condensation, contraction |
| (noun) an increase in the density of something | Synonyms: compaction, concretion, densification |
| compressor | (noun) a mechanical device that compresses gasses | - |
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| (noun) an electronic device that reduces the dynamic range of an audio signal. | - |
| cypre | (noun) large tropical American tree of the genus Cordia grown for its abundant creamy white flowers and valuable wood | Synonyms: Cordia alliodora, Equador laurel, princewood, salmwood, Spanish elm |
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| cypress | (noun) any of numerous evergreen conifers of the genus Cupressus of north temperate regions having dark scalelike leaves and rounded cones | Synonyms: cypress tree |
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| (noun) wood of any of various cypress trees especially of the genus Cupressus | - |
| decompress | (verb) become less tense, rest, or take one's ease | Synonyms: loosen up, relax, slow down, unbend, unwind |
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| (verb) decrease the pressure of | Synonyms: depressurise, depressurize |
| (verb) restore to its uncompressed form | Synonyms: uncompress |
| decompressing | (noun) relieving pressure (especially bringing a compressed person gradually back to atmospheric pressure) | Synonyms: decompression |
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| decompression | (noun) relieving pressure (especially bringing a compressed person gradually back to atmospheric pressure) | Synonyms: decompressing |
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| (noun) restoring compressed information to its normal form for use or display | - |
| deprecate | (verb) belittle | Synonyms: depreciate, vilipend |
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| (verb) express strong disapproval of; deplore | - |
| deprecating | (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: belittling, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting |
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| deprecatio | (noun) a praying against evil, against others, or oneself; a prayer for the removal of some evil. | - |
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| deprecation | (noun) the act of expressing disapproval (especially of yourself) | Synonyms: denigration |
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| (noun) a prayer to avert or remove some evil or disaster | - |
| deprecative | (adjective) given to expressing disapproval | - |
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| (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: belittling, deprecating, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting |
| deprecatively | (adverb) in a deprecative manner | - |
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| deprecatory | (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: belittling, deprecating, deprecative, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting |
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| depreciate | (verb) lose in value | Synonyms: devaluate, devalue, undervalue |
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| (verb) lower the value of something | - |
| (verb) belittle | Synonyms: deprecate, vilipend |
| depreciating | (adjective) tending to decrease or cause a decrease in value | Synonyms: depreciative, depreciatory |
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| depreciation | (noun) a decrease in price or value | - |
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| (noun) a communication that belittles somebody or something | Synonyms: derogation, disparagement |
| (noun) decrease in value of an asset due to obsolescence or use | Synonyms: wear and tear |
| depreciative | (adjective) tending to decrease or cause a decrease in value | Synonyms: depreciating, depreciatory |
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| (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: belittling, deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciatory, slighting |
| depreciator | (noun) one who disparages or belittles the worth of something | Synonyms: detractor, disparager, knocker |
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| depreciatory | (adjective) tending to decrease or cause a decrease in value | Synonyms: depreciating, depreciative |
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| (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: belittling, deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, slighting |
| depredation | (noun) an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding | Synonyms: predation |
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| (noun) (usually plural) a destructive action | Synonyms: ravage |
| depress | (verb) lessen the activity or force of | - |
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| (verb) press down | Synonyms: press down |
| (verb) cause to drop or sink | Synonyms: lower |
| (verb) lower someone's spirits; make downhearted | Synonyms: cast down, deject, demoralise, demoralize, dismay, dispirit, get down |
| (verb) lower (prices or markets) | - |
| depressant | (adjective) capable of depressing physiological or psychological activity or response by a chemical agent | - |
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| (noun) a drug that reduces excitability and calms a person | Synonyms: downer, sedative, sedative drug |
| depressed | (adjective) filled with melancholy and despondency | Synonyms: blue, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, grim, low-spirited, low |
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| (adjective) lower than previously | Synonyms: down |
| (adjective) flattened downward as if pressed from above or flattened along the dorsal and ventral surfaces | - |
| depressing | (adjective) causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy | Synonyms: cheerless, uncheerful |
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| depressingly | (adverb) in a depressing manner or to a depressing degree | - |
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| depression | (noun) pushing down | - |
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| (noun) sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy | - |
| (noun) a sunken or depressed geological formation | Synonyms: natural depression |
| (noun) angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object) | - |
| (noun) a concavity in a surface produced by pressing | Synonyms: impression, imprint |
| (noun) a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity | - |
| (noun) an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation | Synonyms: low |
| (noun) a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment | Synonyms: economic crisis, slump |
| (noun) a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention | Synonyms: clinical depression, depressive disorder |
| depressive | (noun) someone suffering psychological depression | - |
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| depressor | (noun) a device used by physician to press a part down or aside | - |
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| (noun) any skeletal muscle that draws a body part down | Synonyms: depressor muscle |
| (noun) any nerve whose activity tends to reduce the activity or tone of the body part it serves | Synonyms: depressor nerve |
| depressurise | (verb) decrease the pressure of | Synonyms: decompress, depressurize |
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| depressurize | (verb) decrease the pressure of | Synonyms: decompress, depressurise |
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| dispread | (verb) spread abroad or out | - |
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| empress | (noun) a woman emperor or the wife of an emperor | - |
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| encopresis | (noun) involuntary defecation not attributable to physical defects or illness | - |
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| entrepreneur | (noun) someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it | Synonyms: enterpriser |
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| entrepreneurial | (adjective) of or relating to an entrepreneur | - |
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| (adjective) willing to take risks in order to make a profit | - |
| espresso | (noun) strong black coffee brewed by forcing hot water under pressure through finely ground coffee beans | - |
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| express | (adjective) not tacit or implied | - |
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| (adjective) without unnecessary stops | - |
| (noun) rapid transport of goods | Synonyms: expressage |
| (noun) public transport consisting of a fast train or bus that makes only a few scheduled stops | Synonyms: limited |
| (noun) mail that is distributed by a rapid and efficient system | Synonyms: express mail |
| (adverb) by express | - |
| (verb) articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise | Synonyms: give tongue to, utter, verbalise, verbalize |
| (verb) give expression to | Synonyms: evince, show |
| (verb) serve as a means for expressing something | Synonyms: carry, convey |
| (verb) indicate through a symbol, formula, etc. | Synonyms: state |
| (verb) send by rapid transport or special messenger service | - |
| (verb) obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action | Synonyms: extract, press out |
| (verb) manifest the effects of (a gene or genetic trait) | - |
| expressage | (noun) rapid transport of goods | Synonyms: express |
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| expressed | (adjective) precisely and clearly expressed or readily observable; leaving nothing to implication | Synonyms: explicit |
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| (adjective) communicated in words | Synonyms: uttered, verbalised, verbalized, voiced |
| expressible | (adjective) capable of being expressed | - |
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| expression | (noun) the act of forcing something out by squeezing or pressing | - |
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| (noun) the feelings expressed on a person's face | Synonyms: aspect, face, facial expression, look |
| (noun) a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations | Synonyms: locution, saying |
| (noun) the style of expressing yourself | Synonyms: formulation |
| (noun) expression without words | Synonyms: manifestation, reflection, reflexion |
| (noun) a group of symbols that make a mathematical statement | Synonyms: formula |
| (noun) the communication (in speech or writing) of your beliefs or opinions | Synonyms: verbal expression, verbalism |
| (noun) a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit | Synonyms: construction, grammatical construction |
| (noun) (genetics) the process of expressing a gene | - |
| expressionism | (noun) an art movement early in the 20th century; the artist's subjective expression of inner experiences was emphasized; an inner feeling was expressed through a distorted rendition of reality | - |
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| expressionist | (adjective) of or relating to expressionism | Synonyms: expressionistic |
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| (noun) an artist who is an adherent of expressionism | - |
| expressionistic | (adjective) of or relating to expressionism | Synonyms: expressionist |
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| expressionless | (adjective) deliberately impassive in manner | Synonyms: deadpan, impassive, poker-faced, unexpressive |
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| expressive | (adjective) performing gestures or possessing qualities or features that suggest a certain state of being or emotion | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by expression | - |
| expressively | (adverb) with expression; in an expressive manner | - |
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| expressiveness | (noun) the quality of being expressive | - |
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| expressly | (adverb) with specific intentions; for the express purpose | - |
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| expressway | (noun) a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic | Synonyms: freeway, motorway, pike, state highway, superhighway, throughway, thruway |
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| immunosuppressant | (noun) a drug that lowers the body's normal immune response | Synonyms: immune suppressant drug, immunosuppressive, immunosuppressive drug, immunosuppressor |
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| immunosuppressed | (adjective) of persons whose immune response is inadequate | - |
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| immunosuppression | (noun) lowering the body's normal immune response to invasion by foreign substances; can be deliberate (as in lowering the immune response to prevent rejection of a transplanted organ) or incidental (as a side effect of radiotherapy or chemotherapy for cancer) | - |
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| immunosuppressive | (adjective) of or relating to a substance that lowers the body's normal immune response and induces immunosuppression | - |
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| (noun) a drug that lowers the body's normal immune response | Synonyms: immune suppressant drug, immunosuppressant, immunosuppressive drug, immunosuppressor |
| immunosuppressor | (noun) a drug that lowers the body's normal immune response | Synonyms: immune suppressant drug, immunosuppressant, immunosuppressive, immunosuppressive drug |
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| imprecate | (verb) utter obscenities or profanities | Synonyms: blaspheme, curse, cuss, swear |
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| (verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemise, anathemize, bedamn, beshrew, curse, damn, maledict |