abscess | (noun) symptom consisting of a localized collection of pus surrounded by inflamed tissue | - |
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abscessed | (adjective) infected and filled with pus | - |
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acaulescent | (adjective) (of plants) having no apparent stem above ground | Synonyms: stemless |
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acquiesce | (verb) to agree or express agreement | Synonyms: accede, assent |
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acquiescence | (noun) agreement with a statement or proposal to do something | Synonyms: assent |
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(noun) acceptance without protest | - |
acquiescent | (adjective) willing to carry out the orders or wishes of another without protest | Synonyms: biddable |
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adolesce | (verb) become adolescent; pass through adolescence | - |
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adolescence | (noun) in the state that someone is in between puberty and adulthood | - |
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(noun) the time period between the beginning of puberty and adulthood | - |
adolescent | (adjective) relating to or peculiar to or suggestive of an adolescent | - |
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(adjective) in the state of development between puberty and maturity | - |
(adjective) displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity | Synonyms: jejune, juvenile, puerile |
(adjective) being of the age 13 through 19 | Synonyms: teen, teenage, teenaged |
(noun) a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity | Synonyms: stripling, teen, teenager |
albescent | (adjective) becoming or shading into white | - |
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alcalescent | (adjective) tending to become alkaline; slightly alkaline | Synonyms: alkalescent |
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alkalescent | (adjective) tending to become alkaline; slightly alkaline | Synonyms: alcalescent |
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arborescent | (adjective) resembling a tree in form and branching structure | Synonyms: arboreal, arboreous, arboresque, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, tree-shaped, treelike |
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ascend | (verb) slope upwards | - |
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(verb) travel up | Synonyms: go up |
(verb) come up, of celestial bodies | Synonyms: come up, rise, uprise |
(verb) go along towards (a river's) source | - |
(verb) move to a better position in life or to a better job | Synonyms: move up, rise |
(verb) appear to be moving upward, as by means of tendrils | Synonyms: climb up |
(verb) become king or queen | - |
(verb) go back in order of genealogical succession | - |
ascendable | (adjective) capable of being ascended | Synonyms: ascendible, climbable |
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ascendance | (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendancy, ascendence, ascendency, control, dominance |
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ascendancy | (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendance, ascendence, ascendency, control, dominance |
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ascendant | (adjective) tending or directed upward | Synonyms: ascendent, ascensive |
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(adjective) most powerful or important or influential | Synonyms: ascendent, dominating |
(noun) someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) | Synonyms: ancestor, antecedent, ascendent, root |
(noun) position or state of being dominant or in control | Synonyms: ascendent |
ascendence | (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendance, ascendancy, ascendency, control, dominance |
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ascendency | (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, control, dominance |
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ascendent | (adjective) tending or directed upward | Synonyms: ascendant, ascensive |
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(adjective) most powerful or important or influential | Synonyms: ascendant, dominating |
(noun) someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) | Synonyms: ancestor, antecedent, ascendant, root |
(noun) position or state of being dominant or in control | Synonyms: ascendant |
ascender | (noun) (printing) the part of tall lowercase letters that extends above the other lowercase letters | - |
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(noun) a lowercase letter that has a part extending above other lowercase letters | - |
(noun) someone who ascends | - |
ascendible | (adjective) capable of being ascended | Synonyms: ascendable, climbable |
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ascending | (adjective) moving or going or growing upward | - |
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(noun) the act of changing location in an upward direction | Synonyms: ascension, ascent, rise |
ascension | (noun) the act of changing location in an upward direction | Synonyms: ascending, ascent, rise |
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(noun) a movement upward; rise above the ground | Synonyms: ascent, rise, rising |
(noun) (astronomy) the rising of a star above the horizon | - |
ascensional | (adjective) tending to rise | - |
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ascensive | (adjective) tending or directed upward | Synonyms: ascendant, ascendent |
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ascent | (noun) the act of changing location in an upward direction | Synonyms: ascending, ascension, rise |
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(noun) a movement upward; rise above the ground | Synonyms: ascension, rise, rising |
(noun) an upward slope or grade (as in a road) | Synonyms: acclivity, climb, raise, rise, upgrade |
ascertain | (verb) be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something | Synonyms: assure, check, control, ensure, insure, see, see to it |
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(verb) learn or discover with certainty | - |
(verb) find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort | Synonyms: check, determine, find out, learn, see, watch |
(verb) establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study | Synonyms: determine, find, find out |
ascertainable | (adjective) capable of being ascertained or found out | Synonyms: discoverable |
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ascertained | (adjective) discovered or determined by scientific observation | Synonyms: discovered, observed |
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ascesis | (noun) rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint | Synonyms: asceticism |
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ascetic | (adjective) pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline | Synonyms: ascetical |
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(adjective) practicing great self-denial | Synonyms: ascetical, austere, spartan |
(noun) someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline | Synonyms: abstainer |
ascetical | (adjective) pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline | Synonyms: ascetic |
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(adjective) practicing great self-denial | Synonyms: ascetic, austere, spartan |
ascetically | (adverb) in an ascetic manner | - |
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asceticism | (noun) rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint | Synonyms: ascesis |
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(noun) the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures) | Synonyms: austerity, nonindulgence |
(noun) the doctrine that through renunciation of worldly pleasures it is possible to achieve a high spiritual or intellectual state | - |
autofluorescence | (noun) self-induced fluorescence | - |
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autofluorescent | (adjective) emitting light via self-induced fluorescence | - |
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bioluminescence | (noun) luminescence produced by physiological processes (as in the firefly) | - |
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bioluminescent | (adjective) (of living organisms) emitting light | - |
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candescent | (adjective) glowing from great heat | - |
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canescent | (adjective) of greyish white | - |
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(adjective) covered with fine whitish hairs or down | Synonyms: hoary |
caulescent | (adjective) (of plants) producing a well-developed stem above ground | Synonyms: cauline, stemmed |
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chemiluminescence | (noun) luminescence resulting from a chemical reaction as the oxidation of luciferin in fireflies | - |
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chemiluminescent | (adjective) relating to the phenomenon of chemiluminescence | - |
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coalesce | (verb) mix together different elements | Synonyms: blend, combine, commingle, conflate, flux, fuse, immix, meld, merge, mix |
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(verb) fuse or cause to grow together | - |
coalesced | (adjective) joined together into a whole | Synonyms: amalgamate, amalgamated, consolidated, fused |
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coalescence | (noun) the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts | Synonyms: coalescency, coalition, concretion, conglutination |
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coalescency | (noun) the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts | Synonyms: coalescence, coalition, concretion, conglutination |
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coalescent | (adjective) growing together, fusing | Synonyms: coalescing |
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cognoscente | (noun) an expert able to appreciate a field; especially in the fine arts | Synonyms: connoisseur |
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concupiscence | (noun) a desire for sexual intimacy | Synonyms: eros, physical attraction, sexual desire |
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concupiscent | (adjective) vigorously passionate | Synonyms: lustful, lusty |
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condescend | (verb) treat condescendingly | Synonyms: patronise, patronize |
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(verb) do something that one considers to be below one's dignity | Synonyms: deign, descend |
(verb) behave in a patronizing and condescending manner | - |
(verb) debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way | Synonyms: lower oneself, stoop |
condescending | (adjective) (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension | Synonyms: arch, patronising, patronizing |
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condescendingly | (adverb) with condescension; in a patronizing manner | Synonyms: patronisingly, patronizingly |
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condescendingness | (noun) affability to your inferiors and temporary disregard for differences of position or rank | Synonyms: condescension |
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condescension | (noun) the trait of displaying arrogance by patronizing those considered inferior | Synonyms: disdainfulness, superciliousness |
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(noun) affability to your inferiors and temporary disregard for differences of position or rank | Synonyms: condescendingness |
(noun) a communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient | Synonyms: disdain, patronage |
convalesce | (verb) get over an illness or shock | Synonyms: recover, recuperate |
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convalescence | (noun) gradual healing (through rest) after sickness or injury | Synonyms: recovery, recuperation |
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convalescent | (adjective) returning to health after illness or debility | Synonyms: recovering |
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(noun) a person who is recovering from illness | - |
crescendo | (adjective) (music) gradually increasing in volume | - |
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(noun) (music) a gradual increase in loudness | - |
(verb) grow louder | - |
crescent | (adjective) resembling the new moon in shape | Synonyms: crescent-shaped, lunate, semilunar |
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(noun) any shape resembling the curved shape of the moon in its first or last quarters | - |
damascene | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of Damascus or its people | - |
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(adjective) (of metals) decorated or inlaid with a wavy pattern of different (especially precious) metals | - |
(noun) a design produced by inlaying gold or silver into steel | - |
(verb) inlay metal with gold and silver | - |
decalescence | (noun) phenomenon that occurs when a metal is being heated and there is a sudden slowing in the rate of temperature increase; slowing is caused by a change in the internal crystal structure of the metal | - |
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decalescent | (adjective) absorbing heat without increase in temperature when heated beyond a certain point | - |
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decrescendo | (adjective) (music) gradually decreasing in volume | Synonyms: diminuendo |
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(noun) (music) a gradual decrease in loudness | Synonyms: diminuendo |
(verb) grow quieter | - |
defervesce | (verb) experience an abatement of a fever | - |
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defervescence | (noun) abatement of a fever as indicated by a reduction in body temperature | - |
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defervescent | (adjective) of or relating to the reduction of a fever | - |
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dehisce | (verb) burst or split open | - |
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dehiscence | (noun) (biology) release of material by splitting open of an organ or tissue; the natural bursting open at maturity of a fruit or other reproductive body to release seeds or spores or the bursting open of a surgically closed wound | - |
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dehiscent | (adjective) (of e.g. fruits and anthers) opening spontaneously at maturity to release seeds | - |
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deliquesce | (verb) melt or become liquid by absorbing moisture from the air | - |
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(verb) melt away in the process of decay | - |
deliquescent | (adjective) (especially of certain salts) becoming liquid by absorbing moisture from the air | - |
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descend | (verb) come as if by falling | Synonyms: fall, settle |
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(verb) move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way | Synonyms: come down, fall, go down |
(verb) do something that one considers to be below one's dignity | Synonyms: condescend, deign |
(verb) come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example | Synonyms: come, derive |
descendant | (adjective) going or coming down | Synonyms: descendent |
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(adjective) proceeding by descent from an ancestor | Synonyms: descendent |
(noun) a person considered as descended from some ancestor | Synonyms: descendent |
descendants | (noun) all of the offspring of a given progenitor | Synonyms: posterity |
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descendent | (adjective) going or coming down | Synonyms: descendant |
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(adjective) proceeding by descent from an ancestor | Synonyms: descendant |
(noun) a person considered as descended from some ancestor | Synonyms: descendant |
descender | (noun) (printing) the part of lowercase letters that extends below the other lowercase letters | - |
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(noun) a lowercase letter that has a part extending below other lowercase letters | - |
(noun) someone who descends | - |
descending | (adjective) coming down or downward | - |
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descensus | (noun) the slipping or falling out of place of an organ (as the uterus) | Synonyms: prolapse, prolapsus |
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descent | (noun) the act of changing your location in a downward direction | - |
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(noun) properties attributable to your ancestry | Synonyms: extraction, origin |
(noun) a movement downward | - |
(noun) the hereditary derivation of an individual | Synonyms: ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock |
(noun) a downward slope or bend | Synonyms: declension, declination, decline, declivity, downslope, fall |
(noun) the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors | Synonyms: filiation, line of descent, lineage |
detumescence | (noun) diminution of swelling; the subsidence of anything swollen | - |
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disceptation | (noun) a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement | Synonyms: arguing, argument, contention, contestation, controversy, disputation, tilt |
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discern | (verb) detect with the senses | Synonyms: distinguish, make out, pick out, recognise, recognize, spot, tell apart |
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discernability | (noun) distinctness that makes perception easy | Synonyms: legibility |
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discernable | (adjective) perceptible by the senses or intellect | Synonyms: discernible |
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discernible | (adjective) perceptible by the senses or intellect | Synonyms: discernable |
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(adjective) capable of being seen or noticed | Synonyms: evident, observable |
(adjective) capable of being perceived clearly | - |
discerning | (adjective) having or revealing keen insight and good judgment | - |
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(adjective) able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive | - |
(adjective) quick to understand | Synonyms: apprehensive |
(adjective) unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic | Synonyms: discreet |
discernment | (noun) the trait of judging wisely and objectively | Synonyms: discretion |
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(noun) the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations | Synonyms: judgement, judgment, sagaciousness, sagacity |
(noun) the cognitive condition of someone who understands | Synonyms: apprehension, savvy, understanding |
(noun) perception of that which is obscure | Synonyms: perceptiveness |
(noun) delicate discrimination (especially of esthetic values) | Synonyms: appreciation, perceptiveness, taste |
discerp | (verb) divide into pieces | Synonyms: dismember, take apart |
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(verb) cut off from a whole | Synonyms: lop, sever |
effervesce | (verb) become bubbly or frothy or foaming | Synonyms: fizz, foam, form bubbles, froth, sparkle |
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effervescence | (noun) the property of giving off bubbles | Synonyms: bubbliness, frothiness |
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(noun) the process of bubbling as gas escapes | - |
effervescent | (adjective) (of a liquid) giving off bubbles | - |
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(adjective) used of wines and waters; charged naturally or artificially with carbon dioxide | Synonyms: sparkling |
(adjective) marked by high spirits or excitement | Synonyms: bubbling, frothy, scintillating, sparkly |
effloresce | (verb) come into or as if into flower | Synonyms: burst forth |
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(verb) assume crystalline form; become crystallized | Synonyms: crystalise, crystalize, crystallize |
(verb) become encrusted with crystals due to evaporation | - |
efflorescence | (noun) a powdery deposit on a surface | Synonyms: bloom |
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(noun) the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms | Synonyms: anthesis, blossoming, florescence, flowering, inflorescence |
(noun) any red eruption of the skin | Synonyms: rash, roseola, skin rash |
(noun) the period of greatest prosperity or productivity | Synonyms: bloom, blossom, flower, flush, heyday, peak, prime |
efflorescent | (adjective) when the bud, or buds, on a plant are bursting into flower | Synonyms: abloom |
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evanesce | (verb) disappear gradually | Synonyms: blow over, fade, fleet, pass, pass off |
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evanescence | (noun) the event of fading and gradually vanishing from sight | - |
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