aboral | (adjective) opposite to or away from the mouth | - |
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admiral | (noun) any of several brightly colored butterflies | - |
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(noun) the supreme commander of a fleet; ranks above a vice admiral and below a fleet admiral | Synonyms: full admiral |
admiralty | (noun) the office of admiral | - |
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(noun) the department in charge of the navy (as in Great Britain) | - |
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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ambulacral | (adjective) pertaining to the ambulacra of radial echinoderms | - |
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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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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 |
antheral | (adjective) capable of fertilizing female organs | Synonyms: staminate |
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antiparallel | (adjective) (especially of vectors) parallel but oppositely directed | - |
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antiviral | (adjective) inhibiting or stopping the growth and reproduction of viruses | - |
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(noun) any drug that destroys viruses | Synonyms: antiviral agent, antiviral drug |
apicultural | (adjective) relating to the care and breeding of bees | - |
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apteral | (adjective) having columns at one or both ends but not along the sides | - |
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(adjective) (of insects) without wings | Synonyms: apterous |
aquacultural | (adjective) of or relating to aquiculture | Synonyms: aquicultural, hydroponic |
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aquicultural | (adjective) of or relating to aquiculture | Synonyms: aquacultural, hydroponic |
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aralia | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Aralia; often aromatic plants having compound leaves and small umbellate flowers | - |
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arbitral | (adjective) relating to or resulting from arbitration | Synonyms: arbitrational |
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architectural | (adjective) of or pertaining to the art and science of architecture | - |
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architecturally | (adverb) with regard to architecture | - |
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arthralgia | (noun) pain in a joint or joints | - |
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arthralgic | (adjective) of or relating to arthralgia | - |
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astral | (adjective) being or relating to or resembling or emanating from stars | Synonyms: stellar |
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aural | (adjective) relating to or characterized by an aura | - |
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(adjective) of or pertaining to hearing or the ear | - |
aurally | (adverb) with regard to sound or the ear | - |
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auroral | (adjective) characteristic of the dawn | Synonyms: aurorean |
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(adjective) of or relating to the atmospheric phenomenon auroras | - |
austral | (adjective) of the south or coming from the south | - |
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(noun) the basic unit of money in Argentina; equal to 100 centavos | - |
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 | - |
balmoral | (noun) a sturdy laced walking shoe | - |
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behavioral | (adjective) of or relating to behavior | Synonyms: behavioural |
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behavioural | (adjective) of or relating to behavior | Synonyms: behavioral |
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biaural | (adjective) relating to or having or hearing with two ears | Synonyms: binaural |
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bicameral | (adjective) composed of two legislative bodies | - |
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(adjective) consisting of two chambers | Synonyms: two-chambered |
bilateral | (adjective) having two sides or parts | Synonyms: two-sided |
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(adjective) affecting or undertaken by two parties | - |
(adjective) having identical parts on each side of an axis | Synonyms: bilaterally symmetric, bilaterally symmetrical, isobilateral |
bilateralism | (noun) the property of being symmetrical about a vertical plane | Synonyms: bilateral symmetry, bilaterality |
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bilaterality | (noun) the property of being symmetrical about a vertical plane | Synonyms: bilateral symmetry, bilateralism |
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bilaterally | (adverb) with the involvement of two parties or governments | - |
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(adverb) so as to involve two sides or parts | - |
binaural | (adjective) relating to or having or hearing with two ears | Synonyms: biaural |
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binaurally | (adverb) in a binaural manner | Synonyms: in both ears, to both ears |
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blastoporal | (adjective) of or relating to a blastopore | Synonyms: blastoporic |
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braless | (adjective) having the breasts uncovered or featuring such nudity | Synonyms: bare-breasted, topless |
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cadastral | (adjective) of or relating to the records of a cadastre | - |
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caesural | (adjective) of or relating to a caesura | - |
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campestral | (adjective) of fields or open country | - |
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cathedral | (adjective) relating to or containing or issuing from a bishop's office or throne | - |
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(noun) any large and important church | - |
(noun) the principal Christian church building of a bishop's diocese | Synonyms: duomo |
central | (adjective) in or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area | - |
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(adjective) serving as an essential component | Synonyms: cardinal, fundamental, key, primal |
(noun) a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication | Synonyms: exchange, telephone exchange |
centralisation | (noun) the act of consolidating power under a central control | Synonyms: centralization |
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(noun) gathering to a center | Synonyms: centralization |
centralise | (verb) make central | Synonyms: centralize, concentrate |
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centralised | (adjective) drawn toward a center or brought under the control of a central authority | Synonyms: centralized |
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centralising | (adjective) tending to draw to a central point | Synonyms: centralizing |
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centralism | (noun) the political policy of concentrating power in a central organization | - |
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centralist | (adjective) advocating centralization | Synonyms: centralistic |
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centralistic | (adjective) advocating centralization | Synonyms: centralist |
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centrality | (noun) the property of being central | - |
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centralization | (noun) the act of consolidating power under a central control | Synonyms: centralisation |
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(noun) gathering to a center | Synonyms: centralisation |
centralize | (verb) make central | Synonyms: centralise, concentrate |
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centralized | (adjective) drawn toward a center or brought under the control of a central authority | Synonyms: centralised |
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centralizing | (adjective) tending to draw to a central point | Synonyms: centralising |
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centrally | (adverb) in or near or toward a center or according to a central role or function | - |
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cerebral | (adjective) involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct | Synonyms: intellectual |
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(adjective) of or relating to the cerebrum or brain | - |
cerebrally | (adverb) in the brain | - |
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(adverb) in an intellectual manner | - |
chaparral | (noun) dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes | Synonyms: bush, scrub |
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cheliceral | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling chelicerae | Synonyms: chelicerate |
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chimeral | (adjective) being or relating to or like a chimera | Synonyms: chimeric, chimerical |
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chiralgia | (noun) a pain in the hand that is not traumatic | - |
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choral | (adjective) related to or written for or performed by a chorus or choir | - |
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(noun) a stately Protestant (especially Lutheran) hymn tune | Synonyms: chorale |
chorale | (noun) a stately Protestant (especially Lutheran) hymn tune | Synonyms: choral |
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chorally | (adverb) by a chorus | - |
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clitoral | (adjective) of or relating to the clitoris | Synonyms: clitoric |
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cloistral | (adjective) of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows | Synonyms: cloistered, conventual, monastic, monastical |
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collateral | (adjective) descended from a common ancestor but through different lines | Synonyms: indirect |
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(adjective) situated or running side by side | - |
(adjective) additional but secondary; auxiliary; | - |
(adjective) occurring with or following as a consequence | Synonyms: accompanying, attendant, concomitant, consequent, ensuant, incidental, resultant, sequent |
(adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
(noun) a security pledged for the repayment of a loan | - |
collateralize | (verb) pledge as a collateral | - |
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conferral | (noun) the act of conferring an honor or presenting a gift | Synonyms: bestowal, bestowment, conferment |
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conjectural | (adjective) based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence | Synonyms: divinatory, hypothetic, hypothetical, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious |
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conjecturally | (adverb) in a manner involving or inclined to conjecture and supposition | - |
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connatural | (adjective) normally existing at birth | Synonyms: inborn, inbred |
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(adjective) similar in nature | - |
contralateral | (adjective) on or relating to the opposite side (of the body) | - |
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contralto | (adjective) of or being the lowest female voice | Synonyms: alto |
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(noun) the lowest female singing voice | Synonyms: alto |
(noun) a woman singer having a contralto voice | - |
coral | (adjective) of a strong pink to yellowish-pink color | - |
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(noun) marine colonial polyp characterized by a calcareous skeleton; masses in a variety of shapes often forming reefs | - |
(noun) a variable color averaging a deep pink | - |
(noun) unfertilized lobster roe; reddens in cooking; used as garnish or to color sauces | - |
(noun) the hard stony skeleton of a Mediterranean coral that has a delicate red or pink color and is used for jewelry | Synonyms: precious coral, red coral |
coralbells | (noun) perennial plant of the western United States having bright red flowers in feathery spikes; used as an ornamental | Synonyms: Heuchera sanguinea |
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coralberry | (noun) shrub with coral-red berries; Japan to northern India | Synonyms: Ardisia crenata, spiceberry |
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(noun) North American deciduous shrub cultivated for it abundant clusters of coral-red berrylike fruits | Synonyms: Indian currant, Symphoricarpos orbiculatus |
coralroot | (noun) European bittercress having a knotted white rootstock | Synonyms: Cardamine bulbifera, coral-root bittercress, coralwort, Dentaria bulbifera |
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coralwood | (noun) East Indian tree with racemes of yellow-white flowers; cultivated as an ornamental | Synonyms: Adenanthera pavonina, Barbados pride, coral-wood, peacock flower fence, red sandalwood |
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coralwort | (noun) European bittercress having a knotted white rootstock | Synonyms: Cardamine bulbifera, coral-root bittercress, coralroot, Dentaria bulbifera |
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corporal | (adjective) possessing or existing in bodily form | Synonyms: bodied, corporate, embodied, incarnate |
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(adjective) affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit | Synonyms: bodily, corporeal, somatic |
(noun) a noncommissioned officer in the Army or Air Force or Marines | - |
corporality | (noun) the quality of being physical; consisting of matter | Synonyms: corporeality, materiality, physicalness |
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corral | (noun) a pen for cattle | Synonyms: cattle pen, cow pen |
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(verb) enclose in a corral | - |
(verb) arrange wagons so that they form a corral | - |
(verb) gather and secure | - |
coverall | (noun) a loose-fitting protective garment that is worn over other clothing | - |
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crural | (adjective) of or relating the leg from the knee to the foot | - |
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cultural | (adjective) of or relating to the shared knowledge and values of a society | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to the arts and manners that a group favors | - |
(adjective) relating to the raising of plants or animals | - |
(adjective) denoting or deriving from or distinctive of the ways of living built up by a group of people | Synonyms: ethnic, ethnical |
culturally | (adverb) with regard to a culture | - |
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cystoparalysis | (noun) paralysis of the urinary bladder | Synonyms: cystoplegia |
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cytoarchitectural | (adjective) of or relating to cytoarchitecture | Synonyms: cytoarchitectonic |
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decentralisation | (noun) the spread of power away from the center to local branches or governments | Synonyms: decentralization |
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decentralise | (verb) make less central | Synonyms: decentralize, deconcentrate |
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decentralised | (adjective) withdrawn from a center or place of concentration; especially having power or function dispersed from a central to local authorities | Synonyms: decentralized |
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decentralising | (adjective) tending away from a central point | Synonyms: decentralizing |
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decentralization | (noun) the spread of power away from the center to local branches or governments | Synonyms: decentralisation |
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(noun) the social process in which population and industry moves from urban centers to outlying districts | Synonyms: decentalisation |