aureate | (adjective) having the deep slightly brownish color of gold | Synonyms: gilded, gilt, gold, golden |
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(adjective) elaborately or excessively ornamented | Synonyms: flamboyant, florid |
baccalaureate | (noun) an academic degree conferred on someone who has successfully completed undergraduate studies | Synonyms: bachelor's degree |
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(noun) a farewell sermon to a graduating class at their commencement ceremonies | - |
breath | (noun) the process of taking in and expelling air during breathing | - |
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(noun) an indirect suggestion | Synonyms: hint, intimation |
(noun) a slight movement of the air | - |
(noun) the air that is inhaled and exhaled in respiration | - |
(noun) a short respite | Synonyms: breather, breathing place, breathing space, breathing spell, breathing time |
breathalyse | (verb) test someone's alcohol level in his blood by means of a breathalyzer | Synonyms: breathalyze |
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breathalyser | (noun) a device that measures chemicals (especially the alcohol content) in a person's expired breath | Synonyms: breathalyzer |
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breathalyze | (verb) test someone's alcohol level in his blood by means of a breathalyzer | Synonyms: breathalyse |
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breathalyzer | (noun) a device that measures chemicals (especially the alcohol content) in a person's expired breath | Synonyms: breathalyser |
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breathe | (verb) draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs | Synonyms: respire, suspire, take a breath |
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(verb) expel (gases or odors) | Synonyms: emit, pass off |
(verb) reach full flavor by absorbing air and being let to stand after having been uncorked | - |
(verb) take a short break from one's activities in order to relax | Synonyms: catch one's breath, rest, take a breather |
(verb) utter or tell | - |
(verb) manifest or evince | - |
(verb) impart as if by breathing | - |
(verb) be alive | - |
(verb) allow the passage of air through | - |
breathed | (adjective) uttered without voice | Synonyms: voiceless |
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breather | (noun) air passage provided by a retractable device containing intake and exhaust pipes; permits a submarine to stay submerged for extended periods of time | Synonyms: schnorchel, schnorkel, snorkel, snorkel breather |
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(noun) a short respite | Synonyms: breath, breathing place, breathing space, breathing spell, breathing time |
breathing | (adjective) passing or able to pass air in and out of the lungs normally; sometimes used in combination | Synonyms: eupneic, eupnoeic |
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(noun) the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation | Synonyms: external respiration, respiration, ventilation |
breathless | (adjective) not breathing or able to breathe except with difficulty | Synonyms: dyspneal, dyspneic, dyspnoeal, dyspnoeic |
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(adjective) appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse | Synonyms: inanimate, pulseless |
(adjective) tending to cause suspension of regular breathing | Synonyms: breathtaking |
breathlessly | (adverb) in a breathless manner | - |
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breathlessness | (noun) a dyspneic condition | Synonyms: shortness of breath, SOB |
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breathtaking | (adjective) tending to cause suspension of regular breathing | Synonyms: breathless |
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create | (verb) make or cause to be or to become | Synonyms: make |
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(verb) pursue a creative activity; be engaged in a creative activity | - |
(verb) bring into existence | - |
(verb) create or manufacture a man-made product | Synonyms: make, produce |
(verb) create by artistic means | Synonyms: make |
(verb) invest with a new title, office, or rank | - |
creatin | (noun) an amino acid that does not occur in proteins but is found in the muscle tissue of vertebrates both in the free form and as phosphocreatine; supplies energy for muscle contraction | Synonyms: creatine |
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creatine | (noun) an amino acid that does not occur in proteins but is found in the muscle tissue of vertebrates both in the free form and as phosphocreatine; supplies energy for muscle contraction | Synonyms: creatin |
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creation | (noun) the human act of creating | Synonyms: creative activity |
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(noun) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | Synonyms: foundation, founding, initiation, innovation, instauration, institution, introduction, origination |
(noun) an artifact that has been brought into existence by someone | - |
(noun) the event that occurred at the beginning of something | Synonyms: conception |
(noun) everything that exists anywhere | Synonyms: cosmos, existence, macrocosm, universe, world |
creationism | (noun) the literal belief in the account of Creation given in the Book of Genesis | - |
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creative | (adjective) having the ability or power to create | Synonyms: originative |
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(adjective) promoting construction or creation | - |
creatively | (adverb) in a creative manner | - |
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creativeness | (noun) the ability to create | Synonyms: creative thinking, creativity |
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creativity | (noun) the ability to create | Synonyms: creative thinking, creativeness |
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creator | (noun) a person who grows or makes or invents things | - |
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creature | (noun) a living organism characterized by voluntary movement | Synonyms: animal, animate being, beast, brute, fauna |
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(noun) a living being | Synonyms: wight |
(noun) a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else | Synonyms: puppet, tool |
entreat | (verb) ask for or request earnestly | Synonyms: adjure, beseech, bid, conjure, press |
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entreatingly | (adverb) in a beseeching manner | Synonyms: beseechingly, imploringly, importunately, pleadingly |
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entreaty | (noun) earnest or urgent request | Synonyms: appeal, prayer |
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great | (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell |
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(adjective) in an advanced stage of pregnancy | Synonyms: big, enceinte, expectant, gravid, heavy, large, with child |
(adjective) uppercase | Synonyms: capital, majuscule |
(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect | - |
(adjective) of major significance or importance | Synonyms: outstanding |
(adjective) relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind | - |
(noun) a person who has achieved distinction and honor in some field | - |
greatcoat | (noun) a heavy coat worn over clothes in winter | Synonyms: overcoat, topcoat |
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greater | (adjective) greater in size or importance or degree | - |
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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 |
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 | - |
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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miscreate | (verb) shape or form or make badly | - |
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miscreation | (noun) something abnormal or anomalous | Synonyms: malformation |
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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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nonrecreational | (adjective) involving gainful employment in something often done as a hobby | Synonyms: paid |
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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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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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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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procreative | (adjective) producing new life or offspring | Synonyms: generative, reproductive |
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reata | (noun) a long noosed rope used to catch animals | Synonyms: lariat, lasso, riata |
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reattribute | (verb) attribute to another source | - |
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recreate | (verb) give new life or energy to | Synonyms: animate, quicken, reanimate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify, vivify |
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(verb) form anew in the imagination; recollect and re-form in the mind | Synonyms: re-create |
(verb) produce or make another of | Synonyms: re-create |
(verb) make a replica of | Synonyms: copy, re-create |
(verb) give encouragement to | Synonyms: cheer, embolden, hearten |
(verb) engage in recreational activities rather than work; occupy oneself in a diversion | Synonyms: play |
recreation | (noun) an activity that diverts or amuses or stimulates | Synonyms: diversion |
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(noun) activity that refreshes and recreates; activity that renews your health and spirits by enjoyment and relaxation | Synonyms: refreshment |
recreational | (adjective) of or relating to recreation | - |
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(adjective) engaged in as a pastime | Synonyms: amateur, unpaid |
retreat | (noun) (military) withdrawal of troops to a more favorable position to escape the enemy's superior forces or after a defeat | - |
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(noun) withdrawal for prayer and study and meditation | Synonyms: retirement |
(noun) the act of withdrawing or going backward (especially to escape something hazardous or unpleasant) | - |
(noun) an area where you can be alone | Synonyms: hideaway |
(noun) (military) a bugle call signaling the lowering of the flag at sunset | - |
(noun) (military) a signal to begin a withdrawal from a dangerous position | - |
(noun) a place of privacy; a place affording peace and quiet | - |
(verb) make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity | Synonyms: back away, back out, crawfish, crawfish out, pull back, pull in one's horns, withdraw |
(verb) pull back or move away or backward | Synonyms: draw back, move back, pull away, pull back, recede, retire, withdraw |
(verb) move back | Synonyms: retrograde |
(verb) move away, as for privacy | - |
retreatant | (noun) a participant in a religious retreat | - |
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retreated | (noun) people who have retreated | - |
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threat | (noun) a warning that something unpleasant is imminent | - |
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(noun) declaration of an intention or a determination to inflict harm on another | - |
(noun) a person who inspires fear or dread | Synonyms: scourge, terror |
(noun) something that is a source of danger | Synonyms: menace |
threaten | (verb) to utter intentions of injury or punishment against | - |
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(verb) to be a menacing indication of something | - |
(verb) pose a threat to; present a danger to | Synonyms: endanger, imperil, jeopardise, jeopardize, menace, peril |
threatened | (adjective) (of flora or fauna) likely in the near future to become endangered | - |
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threatening | (adjective) threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments | Synonyms: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister |
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(adjective) darkened by clouds | Synonyms: heavy, lowering, sullen |
threateningly | (adverb) in a menacing manner | Synonyms: menacingly |
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treat | (noun) an occurrence that causes special pleasure or delight | - |
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(noun) something considered choice to eat | Synonyms: dainty, delicacy, goody, kickshaw |
(verb) provide treatment for | Synonyms: care for |
(verb) subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition | Synonyms: process |
(verb) regard or consider in a specific way | - |
(verb) act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression | Synonyms: address, cover, deal, handle, plow |
(verb) engage in negotiations in order to reach an agreement | - |
(verb) provide with choice or abundant food or drink | Synonyms: regale |
(verb) provide with a gift or entertainment | - |
(verb) interact in a certain way | Synonyms: do by, handle |
treated | (adjective) subjected to a physical (or chemical) treatment or action or agent | - |
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(adjective) given medical care or treatment | - |
(adjective) made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment | Synonyms: hardened, tempered, toughened |
treater | (noun) someone who negotiates (confers with others in order to reach a settlement) | Synonyms: negotiant, negotiator |
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treatise | (noun) a formal exposition | - |
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treatment | (noun) care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury) | Synonyms: intervention |
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(noun) the management of someone or something | Synonyms: handling |
(noun) (medicine) the act of caring for someone (as by medication or remedial training etc.) | Synonyms: therapy |
(noun) a manner of dealing with something artistically | - |
(noun) an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic | Synonyms: discourse, discussion |
treaty | (noun) a written agreement between two states or sovereigns | Synonyms: accord, pact |
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uncreative | (adjective) not creative | - |
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uncreativeness | (noun) a lack of creativity | - |
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unthreatening | (adjective) not unfriendly or threatening | Synonyms: well-meaning |
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untreated | (adjective) not subjected to chemical or physical treatment | - |
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(adjective) not given medical care or treatment | - |
(adjective) (of a specimen for study under a microscope) not treated with a reagent or dye | - |
wreath | (noun) flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes | Synonyms: chaplet, coronal, garland, lei |
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wreathe | (verb) form into a wreath | Synonyms: wind |
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(verb) decorate or deck with wreaths | - |
(verb) move with slow, sinuous movements | - |