angiitis | (noun) inflammation of a blood vessel or lymph duct | - |
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anginose | (adjective) of or related to the pain of angina pectoris | Synonyms: anginal, anginous |
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anginous | (adjective) of or related to the pain of angina pectoris | Synonyms: anginal, anginose |
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angiocarpous | (adjective) having or being fruit enclosed in a shell or husk | Synonyms: angiocarpic |
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angiogenesis | (noun) the formation of new blood vessels | - |
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angiologist | (noun) a physician who specializes in angiology | - |
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angiomatous | (adjective) of or related to or having a tumor of the kind known as an angioma | - |
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angioplasty | (noun) an operation to repair a damaged blood vessel or unblock a coronary artery | - |
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angiopteris | (noun) highly variable species of very large primitive ferns of the Pacific tropical areas with high rainfall | Synonyms: Angiopteris evecta, giant fern |
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angiosarcoma | (noun) a rare malignant neoplasm arising from vascular tissue; usually occurs in the breast and skin and is believed to originate from the endothelial cells of blood vessels | - |
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angioscope | (noun) a modified microscope used to study capillary vessels | - |
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angiosperm | (noun) plants having seeds in a closed ovary | Synonyms: flowering plant |
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angiospermous | (adjective) of or related to or characteristic of plants that are angiosperms | - |
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angiotelectasia | (noun) dilation and enlargement of arterioles | - |
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angiotensin | (noun) any of several vasoconstrictor substances (trade name Hypertensin) that cause narrowing of blood vessels | Synonyms: angiotonin, Hypertensin |
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anglerfish | (noun) fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey | Synonyms: allmouth, angler, angler fish, goosefish, Lophius Americanus, lotte, monkfish |
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anglicise | (verb) make English in appearance | Synonyms: anglicize |
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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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angriness | (noun) the state of being angry | Synonyms: anger |
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angst | (noun) an acute but unspecific feeling of anxiety; usually reserved for philosophical anxiety about the world or about personal freedom | - |
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angstrom | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to one ten billionth of a meter (or 0.0001 micron); used to specify wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation | Synonyms: A, angstrom unit |
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anguish | (noun) extreme mental distress | Synonyms: torment, torture |
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(noun) extreme distress of body or mind | - |
(verb) cause emotional anguish or make miserable | Synonyms: hurt, pain |
(verb) suffer great pains or distress | - |
anguished | (adjective) experiencing intense pain especially mental pain | Synonyms: tormented, tortured |
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anhidrosis | (noun) failure of the sweat glands | Synonyms: anhydrosis |
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anhydrosis | (noun) failure of the sweat glands | Synonyms: anhidrosis |
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anhydrous | (adjective) without water; especially without water of crystallization | - |
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animadversion | (noun) harsh criticism or disapproval | Synonyms: censure |
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animalisation | (noun) an act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities | Synonyms: animalization, brutalisation, brutalization |
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animalise | (verb) become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling | Synonyms: animalize, brutalise, brutalize |
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(verb) make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman | Synonyms: animalize, brutalise, brutalize |
(verb) represent in the form of an animal | Synonyms: animalize |
animalism | (noun) preoccupation with satisfaction of physical drives and appetites | Synonyms: physicality |
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(noun) the doctrine that human beings are purely animal in nature and lacking a spiritual nature | - |
animalistic | (adjective) of or pertaining to animalism | - |
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animateness | (noun) the property of being animated; having animal life as distinguished from plant life | Synonyms: aliveness, liveness |
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animatism | (noun) the attribution of consciousness and personality to natural phenomena such as thunderstorms and earthquakes and to objects such as plants and stones | - |
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animatistic | (adjective) of or pertaining to animatism | - |
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animatronics | (noun) the construction of robots to look like animals (developed for Disneyland) | - |
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animise | (verb) give lifelike qualities to | Synonyms: animate, animize |
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animism | (noun) the doctrine that all natural objects and the universe itself have souls | - |
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animist | (adjective) of or pertaining to the doctrine of animism | Synonyms: animistic |
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(noun) one who accepts the doctrine of animism | - |
animistic | (adjective) of or pertaining to the doctrine of animism | Synonyms: animist |
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animosity | (noun) a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility | Synonyms: animus, bad blood |
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animus | (noun) a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility | Synonyms: animosity, bad blood |
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anise | (noun) liquorice-flavored seeds, used medicinally and in cooking and liquors | Synonyms: anise seed, aniseed |
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(noun) native to Egypt but cultivated widely for its aromatic seeds and the oil from them used medicinally and as a flavoring in cookery | Synonyms: anise plant, Pimpinella anisum |
aniseed | (noun) liquorice-flavored seeds, used medicinally and in cooking and liquors | Synonyms: anise, anise seed |
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aniseikonia | (noun) visual defect in which the shape and size of an ocular image differ in the two eyes | - |
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aniseikonic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of the visual defect aniseikonia | - |
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anisette | (noun) liquorice-flavored usually colorless sweet liqueur made from aniseed | Synonyms: anisette de Bordeaux |
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anisogamete | (noun) either of a pair of unlike gametes especially those unlike in size | - |
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anisogametic | (adjective) relating to either of a pair of dissimilar (anisogamic) gametes combining in sexual reproduction | - |
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anisogamic | (adjective) relating to a type of sexual reproduction in which the gametes are dissimilar in some respect (as size or shape) | Synonyms: anisogamous |
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anisogamous | (adjective) relating to a type of sexual reproduction in which the gametes are dissimilar in some respect (as size or shape) | Synonyms: anisogamic |
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anisogamy | (noun) (biology) reproduction by the union or fusion of two differing gametes (especially differing in size) | - |
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anisometric | (adjective) having unsymmetrical parts or unequal dimensions or measurements | Synonyms: unsymmetrical |
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anisometropia | (noun) difference in the refractive power of the two eyes | - |
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anisometropic | (adjective) relating to a difference in the refractive power of the two eyes | - |
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anisotropic | (adjective) not invariant with respect to direction | - |
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anisotropically | (adverb) in an anisotropic manner | - |
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anisotropy | (noun) the property of being anisotropic; having a different value when measured in different directions | - |
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anklets | (noun) a sock that reaches just above the ankle | Synonyms: anklet, bobbysock, bobbysocks |
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ankus | (noun) an elephant goad with a sharp spike and a hook | - |
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ankyloglossia | (noun) a congenital anomaly in which the mucous membrane under the tongue is too short limiting the mobility of the tongue | Synonyms: tongue tie |
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ankylosaur | (noun) having the back covered with thick bony plates; thought to have walked with a sprawling gait resembling a lizard's | Synonyms: ankylosaurus |
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ankylosaurus | (noun) having the back covered with thick bony plates; thought to have walked with a sprawling gait resembling a lizard's | Synonyms: ankylosaur |
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ankylose | (verb) undergo ankylosis | Synonyms: ancylose |
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(verb) produce ankylosis by surgery | Synonyms: ancylose |
ankylosis | (noun) abnormal adhesion and rigidity of the bones of a joint | Synonyms: anchylosis |
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annalism | (noun) The writing of annals. | - |
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annalist | (noun) a historian who writes annals | - |
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annalistic | (adjective) relating to annals | - |
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annals | (noun) a chronological account of events in successive years | Synonyms: chronological record |
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(noun) reports of the work of a society or learned body etc | - |
anniversary | (noun) the date on which an event occurred in some previous year (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: day of remembrance |
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annulus | (noun) (Fungi) a remnant of the partial veil that in mature mushrooms surrounds the stem like a collar | Synonyms: skirt |
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(noun) a toroidal shape | Synonyms: anchor ring, doughnut, halo, ring |
anodise | (verb) coat a metal with an oxide coat | Synonyms: anodize |
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anoestrous | (adjective) of or relating to anestrus | Synonyms: anestric, anestrous |
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anoestrum | (noun) applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or interval of sexual inactivity between two periods of estrus | Synonyms: anestrum, anestrus, anoestrus |
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anoestrus | (noun) applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or interval of sexual inactivity between two periods of estrus | Synonyms: anestrum, anestrus, anoestrum |
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anomalist | (noun) someone who has a special interest in exceptional cases | - |
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anomalops | (noun) fish having a luminous organ beneath eye; of warm waters of the western Pacific and Puerto Rico | Synonyms: flashlight fish |
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anomalous | (adjective) deviating from the general or common order or type | - |
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anomalously | (adverb) in an anomalous manner | - |
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anomalousness | (noun) deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule | Synonyms: anomaly |
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anonymous | (adjective) having no known name or identity or known source | Synonyms: anon. |
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(adjective) not known or lacking marked individuality | - |
anonymously | (adverb) without giving a name | - |
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anorchidism | (noun) absence of one of both testes | Synonyms: anorchia, anorchism |
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anorchism | (noun) absence of one of both testes | Synonyms: anorchia, anorchidism |
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anorgasmia | (noun) absence of an orgasm in sexual relations | - |
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anosmatic | (adjective) relating to an impairment or loss of the sense of smell | Synonyms: anosmic |
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anosmia | (noun) absence of the sense of smell (as by damage to olfactory nasal tissue or the olfactory nerve or by obstruction of the nasal passages) | - |
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anosmic | (adjective) relating to an impairment or loss of the sense of smell | Synonyms: anosmatic |
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(adjective) having impaired sense of smell | - |
anserine | (adjective) of or resembling a goose | - |
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(adjective) having or revealing stupidity | Synonyms: dopey, dopy, foolish, gooselike, goosey, goosy, jerky |
answer | (noun) a nonverbal reaction | - |
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(noun) the speech act of replying to a question | - |
(noun) a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation | Synonyms: reply, response |
(noun) a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem | Synonyms: resolution, result, solution, solvent |
(noun) the principal pleading by the defendant in response to plaintiff's complaint; in criminal law it consists of the defendant's plea of `guilty' or `not guilty' (or nolo contendere); in civil law it must contain denials of all allegations in the plaintiff's complaint that the defendant hopes to controvert and it can contain affirmative defenses or counterclaims | - |
(verb) give the correct answer or solution to | - |
(verb) respond to a signal | - |
(verb) understand the meaning of | Synonyms: resolve |
(verb) react to a stimulus or command | - |
(verb) react verbally | Synonyms: reply, respond |
(verb) give a defence or refutation of (a charge) or in (an argument) | - |
(verb) be satisfactory for; meet the requirements of or serve the purpose of | - |
(verb) match or correspond | - |
(verb) be liable or accountable | - |
(verb) be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity | Synonyms: do, serve, suffice |
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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answerer | (noun) someone who responds | Synonyms: respondent, responder |
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answering | (adjective) replying | Synonyms: respondent |
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antagonise | (verb) provoke the hostility of | Synonyms: antagonize |
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(verb) act in opposition to | Synonyms: antagonize, counteract |
antagonism | (noun) (biochemistry) interference in or inhibition of the physiological action of a chemical substance by another having a similar structure | - |
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(noun) an actively expressed feeling of dislike and hostility | - |
(noun) the relation between opposing principles or forces or factors | - |
(noun) a state of deep-seated ill-will | Synonyms: enmity, hostility |
antagonist | (noun) a drug that neutralizes or counteracts the effects of another drug | - |
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(noun) a muscle that relaxes while another contracts | - |
(noun) someone who offers opposition | Synonyms: adversary, opponent, opposer, resister |
antagonistic | (adjective) arousing animosity or hostility | - |
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(adjective) used especially of drugs or muscles that counteract or neutralize each other's effect | Synonyms: incompatible |
(adjective) characterized by antagonism or antipathy | Synonyms: antipathetic, antipathetical |
(adjective) incapable of harmonious association | - |
(adjective) indicating opposition or resistance | Synonyms: counter |
antagonistically | (adverb) in an antagonistic manner | - |
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anthesis | (noun) the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms | Synonyms: blossoming, efflorescence, florescence, flowering, inflorescence |
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