basipetal | (adjective) of leaves or flowers; developing or opening in succession from apex to base | - |
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desipramine | (noun) a tricyclic antidepressant drug that activates the psychomotor system | - |
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dissipate | (verb) spend frivolously and unwisely | Synonyms: fool, fool away, fritter, fritter away, frivol away, shoot |
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(verb) move away from each other | Synonyms: disperse, scatter, spread out |
(verb) to cause to separate and go in different directions | Synonyms: break up, dispel, disperse, scatter |
(verb) live a life of pleasure, especially with respect to alcoholic consumption | - |
dissipated | (adjective) unrestrained by convention or morality | Synonyms: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissolute, fast, libertine, profligate, riotous |
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(adjective) preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance | Synonyms: betting, card-playing, gambling, sporting |
dissipation | (noun) dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure | Synonyms: dissolution, licentiousness, looseness, profligacy |
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(noun) useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly | Synonyms: waste, wastefulness |
(noun) breaking up and scattering by dispersion | - |
erysipelas | (noun) an acute streptococcal infection characterized by deep-red inflammation of the skin and mucous membranes | - |
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fissiparity | (noun) the tendency to break into parts | - |
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(noun) reproduction of some multicellular organisms by division, as in the case of some starfish | - |
fissiparous | (adjective) reproducing by fission | - |
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(adjective) having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude | Synonyms: breakaway, separatist |
fissiped | (noun) terrestrial carnivores having toes separated to the base: dogs, cats, bears, badgers, raccoons | Synonyms: fissiped mammal |
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gossip | (noun) light informal conversation for social occasions | Synonyms: causerie, chin-wag, chin-wagging, chin wag, chin wagging, chit-chat, chit chat, chitchat, gab, gabfest, small talk, tittle-tattle |
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(noun) a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people | Synonyms: comment, scuttlebutt |
(noun) a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others | Synonyms: gossiper, gossipmonger, newsmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger |
(verb) wag one's tongue; speak about others and reveal secrets or intimacies | Synonyms: dish the dirt |
(verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
gossiper | (noun) a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others | Synonyms: gossip, gossipmonger, newsmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger |
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gossiping | (noun) a conversation that spreads personal information about other people | Synonyms: gossipmongering |
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gossipmonger | (noun) a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others | Synonyms: gossip, gossiper, newsmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger |
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gossipmongering | (noun) a conversation that spreads personal information about other people | Synonyms: gossiping |
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gossipy | (adjective) prone to friendly informal communication | Synonyms: chatty, newsy |
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insipid | (adjective) lacking taste or flavor or tang | Synonyms: bland, flat, flavorless, flavourless, savorless, savourless, vapid |
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(adjective) lacking interest or significance or impact | Synonyms: jejune |
insipidity | (noun) lacking any distinctive or interesting taste property | Synonyms: blandness, insipidness |
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(noun) extreme dullness; lacking spirit or interest | Synonyms: boringness, dreariness, insipidness |
insipidly | (adverb) in an insipid manner | - |
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insipidness | (noun) lacking any distinctive or interesting taste property | Synonyms: blandness, insipidity |
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(noun) extreme dullness; lacking spirit or interest | Synonyms: boringness, dreariness, insipidity |
quasiparticle | (noun) a quantum of energy (in a crystal lattice or other system) that has position and momentum and can in some respects be regarded as a particle | - |
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sip | (noun) a small drink | - |
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(verb) drink in sips | - |
siphon | (noun) a tubular organ in an aquatic animal (especially in mollusks) through which water can be taken in or expelled | Synonyms: syphon |
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(noun) a tube running from the liquid in a vessel to a lower level outside the vessel so that gravity forces the liquid through the tube | Synonyms: syphon |
(verb) move a liquid from one container into another by means of a siphon or a siphoning action | - |
(verb) convey, draw off, or empty by or as if by a siphon | Synonyms: siphon off, syphon |
siphonophore | (noun) a floating or swimming oceanic colony of polyps often transparent or showily colored | - |
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sipper | (noun) a drinker who sips | - |
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sipunculid | (noun) small unsegmented marine worm that when disturbed retracts its anterior portion into the body giving the appearance of a peanut | Synonyms: peanut worm |
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