agglomerative | (adjective) clustered together but not coherent | Synonyms: agglomerate, agglomerated, clustered |
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agglomerator | (noun) a device that causes material to gather into rounded balls | - |
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aggrade | (verb) build up to a level by depositing sediment | - |
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aggrandise | (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, embroider, lard, pad |
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aggrandisement | (noun) the act of increasing the wealth or prestige or power or scope of something | Synonyms: aggrandizement, elevation |
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aggrandize | (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandise, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, embroider, lard, pad |
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aggrandizement | (noun) the act of increasing the wealth or prestige or power or scope of something | Synonyms: aggrandisement, elevation |
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aggravate | (verb) make worse | Synonyms: exacerbate, exasperate, worsen |
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(verb) exasperate or irritate | Synonyms: exacerbate, exasperate |
aggravated | (adjective) incited, especially deliberately, to anger | Synonyms: provoked |
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(adjective) made more severe or intense especially in law | - |
aggravating | (adjective) making worse | Synonyms: exacerbating, exasperating |
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aggravatingly | (adverb) in an aggravating fashion | - |
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aggravation | (noun) unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment | Synonyms: irritation, provocation |
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(noun) action that makes a problem or a disease (or its symptoms) worse | Synonyms: exacerbation |
(noun) an exasperated feeling of annoyance | Synonyms: exasperation |
aggravator | (noun) an unpleasant person who is annoying or exasperating | Synonyms: annoyance |
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agora | (noun) 100 agorot equal 1 shekel in Israel | - |
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(noun) a place of assembly for the people in ancient Greece | Synonyms: public square |
(noun) the marketplace in ancient Greece | - |
agoraphobia | (noun) a morbid fear of open spaces (as fear of being caught alone in some public place) | - |
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agoraphobic | (adjective) suffering from agoraphobia; abnormally afraid of open or public places | - |
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agranulocytic | (adjective) relating to the blood disorder of agranulocytosis | - |
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agranulocytosis | (noun) an acute blood disorder (often caused by radiation or drug therapy) characterized by severe reduction in granulocytes | Synonyms: agranulosis, granulocytopenia |
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agranulosis | (noun) an acute blood disorder (often caused by radiation or drug therapy) characterized by severe reduction in granulocytes | Synonyms: agranulocytosis, granulocytopenia |
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agrapha | (noun) sayings of Jesus not recorded in the canonical Gospels | - |
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agraphia | (noun) a loss of the ability to write or to express thoughts in writing because of a brain lesion | Synonyms: anorthography, logagraphia |
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agraphic | (adjective) relating to or having agraphia | - |
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agraphon | (noun) (usually plural) a saying of Jesus not in the canonical gospels but found in other New Testament or early Christian writings. | - |
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agrarian | (adjective) relating to farming or agriculture | Synonyms: agricultural, farming |
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agricultural | (adjective) relating to or used in or promoting agriculture or farming | - |
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(adjective) relating to farming or agriculture | Synonyms: agrarian, farming |
agriculturalist | (noun) someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil | Synonyms: agriculturist, cultivator, grower, raiser |
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airbrake | (noun) a vehicular brake that operates by compressed air; especially for heavy vehicles | - |
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(noun) a small parachute or articulated flap to reduce the speed of an aircraft | Synonyms: dive brake |
aircraft | (noun) a vehicle that can fly | - |
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aircraftman | (noun) a noncommissioned officer in the British Royal Air Force | Synonyms: aircraftsman |
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aircraftsman | (noun) a noncommissioned officer in the British Royal Air Force | Synonyms: aircraftman |
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airframe | (noun) the framework and covering of an airplane or rocket (excluding the engines) | - |
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algebra | (noun) the mathematics of generalized arithmetical operations | - |
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algebraic | (adjective) of or relating to algebra | Synonyms: algebraical |
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algebraical | (adjective) of or relating to algebra | Synonyms: algebraic |
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algebraically | (adverb) in an algebraic manner | - |
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algebraist | (noun) a mathematician whose specialty is algebra | - |
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aliterate | (noun) a person who can read but is disinclined to derive information from literary sources | Synonyms: aliterate person |
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alliterate | (verb) use alliteration as a form of poetry | - |
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alliteration | (noun) use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse | Synonyms: beginning rhyme, head rhyme, initial rhyme |
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alliterative | (adjective) having the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable | - |
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alliteratively | (adverb) in an alliterative manner | - |
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alliterator | (noun) a speaker or writer who makes use of alliteration | - |
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allograft | (noun) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor of the same species but different genetic makeup; recipient's immune system must be suppressed to prevent rejection of the graft | Synonyms: homograft |
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allograph | (noun) a variant form of a grapheme, as `m' or `M' or a handwritten version of that grapheme | - |
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(noun) a signature written by one person for another | - |
allographic | (adjective) of or relating to an allograph | - |
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alprazolam | (noun) an antianxiety agent (trade name Xanax) of the benzodiazepine class | Synonyms: Xanax |
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alterability | (noun) the quality of being alterable | - |
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alterable | (adjective) capable of being changed or altered in some characteristic | - |
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(adjective) (of the punishment ordered by a court) capable of being changed to one less severe | - |
alteration | (noun) the act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration and modification) | Synonyms: revision |
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(noun) the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment) | Synonyms: adjustment, modification |
(noun) an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another | Synonyms: change, modification |
alterative | (adjective) tending to cure or restore to health | Synonyms: curative, healing, remedial, sanative, therapeutic |
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altostratus | (noun) a stratus cloud at an intermediate altitude of 2 or 3 miles | Synonyms: altostratus cloud |
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amaranth | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Amaranthus having dense plumes of green or red flowers; often cultivated for food | - |
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(noun) seed of amaranth plants used as a native cereal in Central and South America | - |
amaranthine | (adjective) of or related to the amaranth plant | - |
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(adjective) of an imaginary flower that never fades | Synonyms: unfading |
ambulacral | (adjective) pertaining to the ambulacra of radial echinoderms | - |
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ameliorate | (verb) get better | Synonyms: better, improve, meliorate |
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(verb) to make better | Synonyms: amend, better, improve, meliorate |
ameliorating | (adjective) tending to ameliorate | Synonyms: ameliorative, amelioratory, meliorative |
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amelioration | (noun) the act of relieving ills and changing for the better | Synonyms: betterment, melioration |
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ameliorative | (adjective) tending to ameliorate | Synonyms: ameliorating, amelioratory, meliorative |
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amelioratory | (adjective) tending to ameliorate | Synonyms: ameliorating, ameliorative, meliorative |
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aminopherase | (noun) a class of transferases that catalyze transamination (that transfer an amino group from an amino acid to another compound) | Synonyms: aminotransferase, transaminase |
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aminotransferase | (noun) a class of transferases that catalyze transamination (that transfer an amino group from an amino acid to another compound) | Synonyms: aminopherase, transaminase |
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amora | (noun) one of a group of rabbis (active AD 250-500) who discussed the Mishnaic law in the law schools of Palestine and Mesopotamia where they explained and applied earlier teachings and whose discussions are recorded in the Talmud; they emphasized the study of Torah and the importance of personal action and the fulfillment of the commandments | - |
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amoralism | (noun) the doctrine that moral distinctions are invalid | - |
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amoralist | (noun) someone who adheres to the doctrine that ordinary moral distinctions are invalid | - |
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amorality | (noun) the quality of being amoral | - |
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amorally | (adverb) without regard for morality | Synonyms: immorally |
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amperage | (noun) the strength of an electrical current measured in amperes | - |
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amphibrach | (noun) a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed-unstressed syllables (e.g., `remember') | - |
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amphora | (noun) an ancient jar with two handles and a narrow neck; used to hold oil or wine | - |
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anagram | (noun) a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase | - |
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(verb) read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning | Synonyms: anagrammatise, anagrammatize |
anagrammatic | (adjective) related to anagrams or containing or making an anagram | Synonyms: anagrammatical |
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anagrammatical | (adjective) related to anagrams or containing or making an anagram | Synonyms: anagrammatic |
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anagrammatise | (verb) read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning | Synonyms: anagram, anagrammatize |
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anagrammatize | (verb) read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning | Synonyms: anagram, anagrammatise |
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anagrams | (noun) a game whose object is to form words from a group of randomly chosen letters | - |
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anaphora | (noun) using a pronoun or similar word instead of repeating a word used earlier | - |
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(noun) repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | Synonyms: epanaphora |
ancestral | (adjective) of or belonging to or inherited from an ancestor | - |
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(adjective) inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent | Synonyms: hereditary, patrimonial, transmissible |
anchorage | (noun) the act of anchoring | - |
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(noun) place for vessels to anchor | Synonyms: anchorage ground |
(noun) a fee for anchoring | - |
(noun) the condition of being secured to a base | - |
(noun) the provision of a sense of security or steadfastness | - |
andradite | (noun) a garnet consisting of calcium iron silicate and having any color ranging from yellow and green to brown and black; used as gemstone | - |
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anemograph | (noun) An instrument which records wind velocities. | - |
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anemographic | (adjective) pertaining to the recording of wind measurements | - |
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anemography | (noun) recording anemometrical measurements | - |
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anfractuous | (adjective) full of twists and turns | - |
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angiocardiogram | (noun) a series of X rays representing the action of the heart and its blood vessels after the injection of a radiopaque substance | - |
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angiogram | (noun) an X-ray representation of blood vessels made after the injection of a radiopaque substance | - |
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angiography | (noun) roentgenographic examination of blood vessels after injection of a radiopaque contrast medium; produces an angiogram | - |
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angostura | (noun) the bitter bark of a South American tree; used in medicines and liqueurs and bitters | Synonyms: angostura bark |
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anorak | (noun) a kind of heavy jacket | Synonyms: parka, windbreaker, windcheater |
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anorthography | (noun) a loss of the ability to write or to express thoughts in writing because of a brain lesion | Synonyms: agraphia, logagraphia |
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answerability | (noun) responsibility to someone or for some activity | Synonyms: accountability, answerableness |
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answerable | (adjective) morally or legally responsible to a higher authority | - |
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(adjective) capable of being answered | - |
(adjective) liable to account for one's actions | Synonyms: accountable |
answerableness | (noun) responsibility to someone or for some activity | Synonyms: accountability, answerability |
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anterograde | (adjective) of amnesia; affecting time immediately following trauma | - |
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antheral | (adjective) capable of fertilizing female organs | Synonyms: staminate |
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anthracite | (noun) a hard natural coal that burns slowly and gives intense heat | Synonyms: anthracite coal, hard coal |
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anthracitic | (adjective) relating to or resembling anthracite coal | - |
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anthracosis | (noun) lung disease caused by inhaling coal dust | Synonyms: black lung, black lung disease, coal miner's lung |
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anthrax | (noun) a highly infectious animal disease (especially cattle and sheep); it can be transmitted to people | Synonyms: splenic fever |
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(noun) a disease of humans that is not communicable; caused by infection with Bacillus anthracis followed by septicemia | - |
antiaircraft | (adjective) designed for defense from a surface position against air attack | - |
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(noun) artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes | Synonyms: ack-ack, ack-ack gun, antiaircraft gun, flack, flak, pom-pom |
anticholinesterase | (noun) a medicine that inhibits cholinesterase by combining with it and so has a cholinergic effect | - |
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