abhorrence | (noun) hate coupled with disgust | Synonyms: abomination, detestation, execration, loathing, odium |
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abhorrent | (adjective) offensive to the mind | Synonyms: detestable, obscene, repugnant, repulsive |
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adherence | (noun) faithful support for a cause or political party or religion | Synonyms: adhesion, attachment |
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(noun) the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition | Synonyms: adhesion, adhesiveness, bond |
adherent | (adjective) sticking fast | - |
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(noun) someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another | Synonyms: disciple |
adrenal | (adjective) of or pertaining to the adrenal glands or their secretions | - |
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(adjective) near the kidneys | - |
(noun) either of a pair of complex endocrine glands situated near the kidney | Synonyms: adrenal gland, suprarenal gland |
adrenalectomy | (noun) surgical removal of one or both adrenal glands | Synonyms: suprarenalectomy |
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adrenaline | (noun) a catecholamine secreted by the adrenal medulla in response to stress (trade name Adrenalin); stimulates autonomic nerve action | Synonyms: Adrenalin, epinephrin, epinephrine |
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adrenarche | (noun) the increase in activity of the adrenal glands just before puberty | - |
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adrenergic | (adjective) relating to epinephrine (its release or action) | Synonyms: sympathomimetic |
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(noun) drug that has the effects of epinephrine | Synonyms: adrenergic drug |
adrenocortical | (adjective) of or derived from the cortex of the adrenal glands | - |
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adrenocorticotrophic | (adjective) stimulating or acting on the adrenal cortex | Synonyms: adrenocorticotropic |
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adrenocorticotrophin | (noun) a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex | Synonyms: ACTH, adrenocorticotrophic hormone, adrenocorticotropic hormone, adrenocorticotropin, corticotrophin, corticotropin |
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adrenocorticotropic | (adjective) stimulating or acting on the adrenal cortex | Synonyms: adrenocorticotrophic |
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adrenocorticotropin | (noun) a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex | Synonyms: ACTH, adrenocorticotrophic hormone, adrenocorticotrophin, adrenocorticotropic hormone, corticotrophin, corticotropin |
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adrenosterone | (noun) a steroid having androgenic activity; obtained from the cortex of the adrenal gland | - |
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afferent | (adjective) of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying sensory information from the sense organs to the CNS | - |
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(noun) a nerve that passes impulses from receptors toward or to the central nervous system | Synonyms: afferent nerve, sensory nerve |
andrena | (noun) a bee that is a member of the genus Andrena | Synonyms: andrenid, mining bee |
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andrenid | (noun) a bee that is a member of the genus Andrena | Synonyms: andrena, mining bee |
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antiadrenergic | (adjective) relating to blocking or reducing adrenergic effects in the body | - |
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apparency | (noun) the property of being apparent | Synonyms: apparentness |
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apparent | (adjective) clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment | Synonyms: evident, manifest, palpable, patent, plain, unmistakable |
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(adjective) appearing as such but not necessarily so | Synonyms: ostensible, seeming |
apparently | (adverb) from appearances alone | Synonyms: on the face of it, ostensibly, seemingly |
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(adverb) unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly') | Synonyms: evidently, manifestly, obviously, patently, plain, plainly |
apparentness | (noun) the property of being apparent | Synonyms: apparency |
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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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arena | (noun) a playing field where sports events take place | Synonyms: scene of action |
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(noun) a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments | Synonyms: bowl, sports stadium, stadium |
(noun) the central area of an ancient Roman amphitheater where contests and spectacles were held; especially an area that was strewn with sand | - |
(noun) a particular environment or walk of life | Synonyms: area, domain, field, orbit, sphere |
arenaceous | (adjective) resembling or containing or abounding in sand; or growing in sandy areas | Synonyms: sandlike, sandy |
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arenavirus | (noun) animal viruses belonging to the family Arenaviridae | - |
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arenicolous | (adjective) growing or living or burrowing in sand | - |
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austereness | (noun) extreme plainness | Synonyms: severeness, severity |
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awareness | (noun) having knowledge of | Synonyms: cognisance, cognizance, consciousness, knowingness |
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(noun) state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness | Synonyms: sentience |
bareness | (noun) an extreme lack of furnishings or ornamentation | Synonyms: starkness |
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(noun) the state of being unclothed and exposed (especially of a part of the body) | - |
(noun) a bleak and desolate atmosphere | Synonyms: bleakness, desolation, nakedness |
barren | (adjective) providing no shelter or sustenance | Synonyms: bare, bleak, desolate, stark |
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(adjective) completely wanting or lacking | Synonyms: destitute, devoid, free, innocent |
(adjective) not bearing offspring | - |
(noun) an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation | Synonyms: waste, wasteland |
barrenness | (noun) the quality of yielding nothing of value | Synonyms: aridity, fruitlessness |
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(noun) the state (usually of a woman) of having no children or being unable to have children | - |
barrenwort | (noun) slow-growing creeping plant with semi-evergreen leaves on erect wiry stems; used as ground cover | Synonyms: bishop's hat, Epimedium grandiflorum |
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belligerence | (noun) a natural disposition to be hostile | Synonyms: aggressiveness, pugnacity |
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(noun) hostile or warlike attitude or nature | Synonyms: belligerency |
belligerency | (noun) fighting; acts of overt warfare | Synonyms: hostilities |
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(noun) hostile or warlike attitude or nature | Synonyms: belligerence |
belligerent | (adjective) characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight | Synonyms: aggressive |
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(adjective) engaged in war | Synonyms: militant, war-ridden, warring |
(noun) someone who fights (or is fighting) | Synonyms: battler, combatant, fighter, scrapper |
belligerently | (adverb) with hostility; in a belligerent hostile manner | Synonyms: hostilely |
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besprent | (adjective) sprinkled over | - |
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bizarreness | (noun) strikingly out of the ordinary | Synonyms: outlandishness, weirdness |
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brent | (noun) small dark geese that breed in the north and migrate southward | Synonyms: brant, brant goose, brent goose |
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brethren | (noun) (plural) the lay members of a male religious order | - |
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buckminsterfullerene | (noun) a spheroidal fullerene; the first known example of a fullerene | Synonyms: buckyball |
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chlorenchyma | (noun) parenchyma whose cells contain chloroplasts | - |
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chloroprene | (noun) derivative of butadiene used in making neoprene by polymerization | - |
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circumference | (noun) the size of something as given by the distance around it | Synonyms: perimeter |
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(noun) the length of the closed curve of a circle | - |
(noun) the boundary line encompassing an area or object | Synonyms: circuit |
circumferent | (adjective) closely encircling | Synonyms: encompassing, surrounding |
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circumferential | (adjective) lying around or just outside the edges or outskirts | - |
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clarence | (noun) a closed carriage with four wheels and seats for four passengers | - |
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cocksureness | (noun) total certainty or greater certainty than circumstances warrant | Synonyms: certitude, overconfidence |
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coherence | (noun) logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts | Synonyms: coherency |
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(noun) the state of cohering or sticking together | Synonyms: coherency, cohesion, cohesiveness |
coherency | (noun) logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts | Synonyms: coherence |
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(noun) the state of cohering or sticking together | Synonyms: coherence, cohesion, cohesiveness |
coherent | (adjective) marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts | Synonyms: consistent, logical, ordered |
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(adjective) (physics) of waves having a constant phase relation | - |
(adjective) sticking together | Synonyms: tenacious |
(adjective) capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner | Synonyms: logical, lucid |
coherently | (adverb) in a coherent manner | - |
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comburent | (adjective) supporting combustion | Synonyms: comburant, combustive |
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concurrence | (noun) acting together, as agents or circumstances or events | Synonyms: concurrency |
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(noun) the temporal property of two things happening at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrence, coincidence, conjunction |
(noun) agreement of results or opinions | Synonyms: concurrency |
(noun) a state of cooperation | Synonyms: meeting of minds |
concurrency | (noun) acting together, as agents or circumstances or events | Synonyms: concurrence |
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(noun) agreement of results or opinions | Synonyms: concurrence |
concurrent | (adjective) occurring or operating at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrent, coincident, coincidental, coinciding, cooccurring, simultaneous |
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concurrently | (adverb) overlapping in duration | Synonyms: at the same time |
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conference | (noun) a discussion among participants who have an agreed (serious) topic | Synonyms: group discussion |
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(noun) a prearranged meeting for consultation or exchange of information or discussion (especially one with a formal agenda) | - |
(noun) an association of sports teams that organizes matches for its members | Synonyms: league |
coreference | (noun) the grammatical relation between two words that have a common referent | - |
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coreferent | (adjective) related by sharing a symbolic link to a concrete object or an abstraction | - |
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coreferential | (adjective) relating to coreference | Synonyms: co-referent |
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corticoafferent | (adjective) of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the cerebral cortex | Synonyms: corticipetal |
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corticoefferent | (adjective) of a nerve fiber passing outward from the cerebral cortex | Synonyms: corticifugal, corticofugal |
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countercurrent | (noun) actions counter to the main group activity | Synonyms: crosscurrent |
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(noun) a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current | Synonyms: crosscurrent, rip, riptide, tide rip |
countertransference | (noun) the psychoanalyst's displacement of emotion onto the patient or more generally the psychoanalyst's emotional involvement in the therapeutic interaction | - |
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crenate | (adjective) having a margin with rounded scallops | Synonyms: crenated, scalloped |
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crenated | (adjective) having a margin with rounded scallops | Synonyms: crenate, scalloped |
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crenation | (noun) one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.) | Synonyms: crenature, crenel, crenelle, scallop |
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crenature | (noun) one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.) | Synonyms: crenation, crenel, crenelle, scallop |
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crenel | (noun) a notch or open space between two merlons in a crenelated battlement | Synonyms: crenelle |
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(noun) one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.) | Synonyms: crenation, crenature, crenelle, scallop |
(verb) supply with battlements | Synonyms: crenelate, crenellate |
crenelate | (verb) supply with battlements | Synonyms: crenel, crenellate |
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crenelated | (adjective) having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement | Synonyms: battlemented, castellated, castled, embattled |
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crenelation | (noun) the action of constructing ramparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows | Synonyms: crenellation |
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(noun) a rampart built around the top of a castle with regular gaps for firing arrows or guns | Synonyms: battlement, crenellation |
crenellate | (verb) supply with battlements | Synonyms: crenel, crenelate |
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crenellation | (noun) the action of constructing ramparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows | Synonyms: crenelation |
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(noun) a rampart built around the top of a castle with regular gaps for firing arrows or guns | Synonyms: battlement, crenelation |
crenelle | (noun) a notch or open space between two merlons in a crenelated battlement | Synonyms: crenel |
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(noun) one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.) | Synonyms: crenation, crenature, crenel, scallop |
crenulate | (adjective) having a margin with small rounded teeth | Synonyms: crenulated |
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crenulated | (adjective) having a margin with small rounded teeth | Synonyms: crenulate |
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crosscurrent | (noun) actions counter to the main group activity | Synonyms: countercurrent |
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(noun) a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current | Synonyms: countercurrent, rip, riptide, tide rip |
cryptocurrency | (noun) a currency based on the usage of cryptography to secure transactions | - |
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currency | (noun) the property of belonging to the present time | Synonyms: currentness, up-to-dateness |
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(noun) general acceptance or use | - |
(noun) the metal or paper medium of exchange that is presently used | - |
current | (adjective) occurring in or belonging to the present time | - |
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(noun) a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes) | Synonyms: stream |
(noun) dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas | Synonyms: flow, stream |
(noun) a flow of electricity through a conductor | Synonyms: electric current |
currently | (adverb) at this time or period; now | Synonyms: presently |
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currentness | (noun) the property of belonging to the present time | Synonyms: currency, up-to-dateness |
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dedifferentiate | (verb) lose specialization in form or function | - |
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dedifferentiated | (adjective) having experienced or undergone dedifferentiation or the loss of specialization in form or function | - |
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dedifferentiation | (noun) the loss of specialization in form or function | - |
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deference | (noun) a courteous expression (by word or deed) of esteem or regard | Synonyms: respect |
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(noun) a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others | Synonyms: complaisance, compliance, compliancy, obligingness |
(noun) courteous regard for people's feelings | Synonyms: respect, respectfulness |
deferent | (adjective) showing deference | Synonyms: deferential, regardful |
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deferential | (adjective) showing deference | Synonyms: deferent, regardful |
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deferentially | (adverb) in a respectfully deferential manner | - |
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(adverb) in a servile manner | Synonyms: submissively |
demureness | (noun) the trait of behaving with reserve and decorum | - |
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(noun) the affectation of being demure in a provocative way | Synonyms: coyness |
deterrence | (noun) the act or process of discouraging actions or preventing occurrences by instilling fear or doubt or anxiety | - |
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(noun) a communication that makes you afraid to try something | Synonyms: determent, intimidation |
(noun) a negative motivational influence | Synonyms: disincentive |
deterrent | (adjective) tending to deter | - |
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(noun) something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | Synonyms: balk, baulk, check, handicap, hinderance, hindrance, impediment |
difference | (noun) the quality of being unlike or dissimilar | - |
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(noun) a disagreement or argument about something important | Synonyms: conflict, difference of opinion, dispute |
(noun) a variation that deviates from the standard or norm | Synonyms: departure, deviation, divergence |
(noun) the number that remains after subtraction; the number that when added to the subtrahend gives the minuend | Synonyms: remainder |
(noun) a significant change | - |
different | (adjective) unlike in nature or quality or form or degree | - |
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(adjective) distinctly separate from the first | - |
(adjective) differing from all others; not ordinary | - |
(adjective) distinct or separate | - |