greatest | (adjective) highest in quality | Synonyms: sterling, superlative |
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greathearted | (adjective) noble and generous in spirit | Synonyms: magnanimous |
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greatly | (adverb) to an extraordinary extent or degree | - |
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greatness | (noun) the property possessed by something or someone of outstanding importance or eminence | Synonyms: illustriousness |
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(noun) unusual largeness in size or extent or number | Synonyms: enormousness, grandness, immenseness, immensity, sizeableness, vastness, wideness |
greave | (noun) armor plate that protects legs below the knee | Synonyms: jambeau |
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greaves | (noun) the residue that remains after animal fat has been rendered | Synonyms: crackling |
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groundbreaker | (noun) someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art | Synonyms: innovator, pioneer, trailblazer |
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groundbreaking | (adjective) being or producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before | Synonyms: innovational, innovative |
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(noun) the ceremonial breaking of the ground to formally begin a construction project | Synonyms: groundbreaking ceremony |
hairsbreadth | (noun) a very small distance or space | Synonyms: hair's-breadth, hair, whisker |
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hairstreak | (noun) small butterflies having striped markings under the wings | Synonyms: hairstreak butterfly |
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handbreadth | (noun) any unit of length based on the breadth of the human hand | Synonyms: handsbreadth |
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handsbreadth | (noun) any unit of length based on the breadth of the human hand | Synonyms: handbreadth |
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headstream | (noun) a stream that forms the source of a river | - |
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heartbreak | (noun) intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death) | Synonyms: brokenheartedness, grief, heartache |
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heartbreaker | (noun) a narrow defeat or a defeat at the last minute | - |
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(noun) a charming person who is irresponsible in emotional relationships | - |
heartbreaking | (adjective) causing or marked by grief or anguish | Synonyms: grievous, heartrending |
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hereabout | (adverb) in this general vicinity | Synonyms: hereabouts |
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hereabouts | (adverb) in this general vicinity | Synonyms: hereabout |
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hereafter | (noun) the time yet to come | Synonyms: future, futurity, time to come |
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(noun) life after death | Synonyms: afterlife |
(adverb) in a subsequent part of this document or statement or matter etc. | Synonyms: hereinafter, hereunder |
(adverb) following this in time or order or place; after this | - |
(adverb) in a future life or state | - |
housebreak | (verb) train (a pet) to live cleanly in a house | Synonyms: house-train |
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housebreaker | (noun) a burglar who unlawfully breaks into and enters another person's house | Synonyms: cat burglar |
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(noun) a wrecker of houses | Synonyms: housewrecker |
housebreaking | (noun) trespassing for an unlawful purpose; illegal entrance into premises with criminal intent | Synonyms: break-in, breaking and entering |
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icebreaker | (noun) a beginning that relaxes a tense or formal atmosphere | - |
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(noun) a ship with a reinforced bow to break up ice and keep channels open for navigation | Synonyms: iceboat |
icecream | (noun) frozen dessert containing cream and sugar and flavoring | Synonyms: ice cream |
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incorporeal | (adjective) without material form or substance | Synonyms: immaterial |
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incorporeality | (noun) the quality of not being physical; not consisting of matter | Synonyms: immateriality |
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increase | (noun) the act of increasing something | Synonyms: step-up |
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(noun) the amount by which something increases | Synonyms: increment |
(noun) a change resulting in an increase | - |
(noun) a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important | Synonyms: growth, increment |
(noun) a quantity that is added | Synonyms: addition, gain |
(verb) become bigger or greater in amount | - |
(verb) make bigger or more | - |
increased | (adjective) made greater in size or amount or degree | - |
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increasing | (adjective) becoming greater or larger | - |
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(adjective) (music) increasing in tempo and/or volume | - |
increasingly | (adverb) advancing in amount or intensity | Synonyms: more and more, progressively |
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irreality | (noun) the state of being insubstantial or imaginary; not existing objectively or in fact | Synonyms: unreality |
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jailbreak | (noun) an escape from jail | Synonyms: break, breakout, gaolbreak, prison-breaking, prisonbreak |
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(noun) the removal of security locks from an electronic device | - |
jawbreaker | (noun) a word that is hard to pronounce | - |
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(noun) a large round hard candy | - |
laureate | (adjective) worthy of the greatest honor or distinction | - |
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(noun) someone honored for great achievements; figuratively someone crowned with a laurel wreath | - |
lawbreaker | (noun) someone who violates the law | Synonyms: law offender, violator |
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lipread | (verb) interpret by lipreading; of deaf people | Synonyms: lip-read, speech-read |
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lipreading | (noun) perceiving what a person is saying by observing the movements of the lips | - |
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mainstream | (noun) the prevailing current of thought | - |
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mainstreamed | (adjective) (of the handicapped) placed in regular school classes | - |
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makeready | (noun) final preparation and adjustments | - |
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malonylurea | (noun) a white crystalline acid derived from pyrimidine; used in preparing barbiturate drugs | Synonyms: barbituric acid |
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maltreat | (verb) treat badly | Synonyms: abuse, ill-treat, ill-use, mistreat, step |
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maltreated | (adjective) subjected to cruel treatment | Synonyms: abused, ill-treated, mistreated |
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maltreater | (noun) someone who abuses | Synonyms: abuser |
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maltreatment | (noun) cruel or inhumane treatment | Synonyms: abuse, ill-treatment, ill-usage |
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marmoreal | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of marble | Synonyms: marmorean |
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marmorean | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of marble | Synonyms: marmoreal |
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middlebreaker | (noun) moldboard plow with a double moldboard designed to move dirt to either side of a central furrow | Synonyms: lister, lister plough, lister plow, middle buster |
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midspread | (noun) a measure of statistical dispersion, being equal to the difference between the upper and lower quartiles. | Synonyms: interquartile range, middle fifty |
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midstream | (noun) the middle of a stream | - |
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miscreant | (noun) a person without moral scruples | Synonyms: reprobate |
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miscreate | (verb) shape or form or make badly | - |
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miscreation | (noun) something abnormal or anomalous | Synonyms: malformation |
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misread | (verb) interpret wrongly | Synonyms: misinterpret |
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(verb) read or interpret wrongly | - |
misreading | (noun) misinterpretation caused by inaccurate reading | - |
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mistreat | (verb) treat badly | Synonyms: abuse, ill-treat, ill-use, maltreat, step |
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mistreated | (adjective) subjected to cruel treatment | Synonyms: abused, ill-treated, maltreated |
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mistreatment | (noun) the practice of treating (someone or something) badly | - |
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newsbreak | (noun) a short news announcement concerning some on-going news story | Synonyms: flash, news bulletin, newsflash |
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newsreader | (noun) someone who reads out broadcast news bulletin | Synonyms: news reader |
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nonarboreal | (adjective) not inhabiting or frequenting trees | - |
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nonreader | (noun) a student who is very slow in learning to read | - |
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(noun) a person unable to read | Synonyms: illiterate, illiterate person |
nonrecreational | (adjective) involving gainful employment in something often done as a hobby | Synonyms: paid |
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noreaster | (noun) a storm blowing from the northeast | Synonyms: northeaster |
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orthochorea | (noun) a form of chorea in which spasms occur mainly when the patient is erect | - |
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outbreak | (noun) a sudden violent spontaneous occurrence (usually of some undesirable condition) | Synonyms: eruption, irruption |
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outreach | (noun) the act of reaching out | - |
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outspread | (adjective) fully extended in width | Synonyms: spread |
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overeager | (adjective) excessively eager | - |
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overeat | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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overeating | (noun) eating to excess (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: gluttony, gula |
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overreach | (verb) beat through cleverness and wit | Synonyms: beat, circumvent, outfox, outsmart, outwit |
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(verb) fail by aiming too high or trying too hard | - |
overreaching | (adjective) revealing excessive self-confidence; reaching for the heights | Synonyms: vaulting |
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overreact | (verb) show an exaggerated response to something | - |
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overreaction | (noun) an excessive reaction; a reaction with inappropriate emotional behavior | - |
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overspread | (verb) spread across or over | Synonyms: spread |
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packthread | (noun) a strong three-ply twine used to sew or tie packages | - |
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pancreas | (noun) a large elongated exocrine gland located behind the stomach; secretes pancreatic juice and insulin | - |
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pancreatectomy | (noun) surgical removal of part or all of the pancreas | - |
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pancreatic | (adjective) of or involving the pancreas | - |
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pancreatin | (noun) extract from the pancreas of animals that contains pancreatic enzymes; used to treat pancreatitis and other conditions involving insufficient pancreatic secretions | - |
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pancreatitis | (noun) inflammation of the pancreas; usually marked by abdominal pain | - |
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phosphocreatine | (noun) an organic compound of creatine and phosphoric acid; found in the muscles of vertebrates where its hydrolysis releases energy for muscular contraction | Synonyms: creatine phosphate, creatine phosphoric acid |
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phreatic | (adjective) of or relating to ground water | - |
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preach | (verb) speak, plead, or argue in favor of | Synonyms: advocate |
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(verb) deliver a sermon | Synonyms: prophesy |
preacher | (noun) someone whose occupation is preaching the gospel | Synonyms: preacher man, sermoniser, sermonizer |
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preachification | (noun) moralization delivered tediously in a preachy manner | - |
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preachify | (verb) speak as if delivering a sermon; express moral judgements | Synonyms: moralise, moralize, sermonise, sermonize |
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preaching | (noun) an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service) | Synonyms: discourse, sermon |
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(noun) a moralistic rebuke | Synonyms: sermon |
preachment | (noun) a sermon on a moral or religious topic | Synonyms: homily |
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preachy | (adjective) inclined to or marked by tedious moralization | - |
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preadolescent | (adjective) of or relating to or designed for children between the ages of 9 and 12 | Synonyms: preteen |
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preamble | (noun) a preliminary introduction to a statute or constitution (usually explaining its purpose) | - |
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(verb) make a preliminary introduction, usually to a formal document | - |
preanal | (adjective) situated in front of the anus | - |
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prearrange | (verb) arrange beforehand | - |
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prearrangement | (noun) something arranged in advance | - |
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preassemble | (verb) to manufacture sections of (a building), especially in a factory, so that they can be easily transported to and rapidly assembled on a building site of buildings | Synonyms: prefabricate |
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prisonbreak | (noun) an escape from jail | Synonyms: break, breakout, gaolbreak, jailbreak, prison-breaking |
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procreate | (verb) have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant | Synonyms: multiply, reproduce |
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procreation | (noun) the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring | Synonyms: breeding, facts of life, reproduction |
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