assessment | (noun) the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event | Synonyms: judgement, judgment |
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(noun) the market value set on assets | - |
(noun) the classification of someone or something with respect to its worth | Synonyms: appraisal |
(noun) an amount determined as payable | - |
besmear | (verb) spread or daub (a surface) | Synonyms: bedaub |
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businessmen | (noun) the body of individuals who manage businesses | Synonyms: business community |
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cosmea | (noun) any of various mostly Mexican herbs of the genus Cosmos having radiate heads of variously colored flowers and pinnate leaves; popular fall-blooming annuals | Synonyms: cosmos |
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cosmetic | (adjective) serving an aesthetic purpose in beautifying the body | Synonyms: enhancive |
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(adjective) serving an esthetic rather than a useful purpose | Synonyms: decorative, ornamental |
(noun) a toiletry designed to beautify the body | - |
cosmetically | (adverb) for cosmetic purposes to improve appearance | - |
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cosmetician | (noun) someone who sells or applies cosmetics | - |
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(noun) someone who works in a beauty parlor | Synonyms: beautician |
cosmetologist | (noun) an expert in the use of cosmetics | - |
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cosmetology | (noun) the practice of beautifying the face and hair and skin | - |
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cytosmear | (noun) a thin tissue or blood sample spread on a glass slide and stained for cytologic examination and diagnosis under a microscope | Synonyms: cytologic smear, smear |
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disembarrassment | (noun) something that extricates you from embarrassment | - |
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dismember | (verb) separate the limbs from the body | - |
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(verb) divide into pieces | Synonyms: discerp, take apart |
dismemberment | (noun) the removal of limbs; being cut to pieces | Synonyms: taking apart |
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dysmenorrhea | (noun) painful menstruation | - |
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embarrassment | (noun) extreme excess | Synonyms: overplus, plethora, superfluity |
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(noun) some event that causes someone to be embarrassed | - |
(noun) the shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public | - |
(noun) the state of being embarrassed (usually by some financial inadequacy) | - |
embossment | (noun) sculpture consisting of shapes carved on a surface so as to stand out from the surrounding background | Synonyms: relief, relievo, rilievo, sculptural relief |
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(noun) an impression produced by pressure or printing | Synonyms: imprint |
encompassment | (noun) including entirely | - |
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engrossment | (noun) the quality of being intent and concentrated | Synonyms: intentness |
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(noun) the mental state of being preoccupied by something | Synonyms: absorption, preoccupancy, preoccupation |
(noun) complete attention; intense mental effort | Synonyms: absorption, concentration, immersion |
gaussmeter | (noun) a meter to compare strengths of magnetic fields | Synonyms: magnetometer |
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harassment | (noun) the act of tormenting by continued persistent attacks and criticism | Synonyms: molestation |
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(noun) a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented | Synonyms: torment |
impressment | (noun) the act of coercing someone into government service | Synonyms: impress |
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jacksmelt | (noun) a relatively large silversides of the Pacific coast of North America (known to reach 18 inches in length) | Synonyms: Atherinopsis californiensis |
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kismet | (noun) (Islam) the will of Allah | Synonyms: kismat |
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mesmeric | (adjective) attracting and holding interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: hypnotic, mesmerizing, spellbinding |
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mesmerise | (verb) induce hypnosis in | Synonyms: hypnotise, hypnotize, mesmerize |
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(verb) attract strongly, as if with a magnet | Synonyms: bewitch, magnetise, magnetize, mesmerize, spellbind |
mesmerised | (adjective) having your attention fixated as though by a spell | Synonyms: fascinated, hypnotised, hypnotized, mesmerized, spell-bound, spellbound, transfixed |
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mesmerism | (noun) the act of inducing hypnosis | Synonyms: hypnotism, suggestion |
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mesmerist | (noun) a person who induces hypnosis | Synonyms: hypnotiser, hypnotist, hypnotizer, mesmerizer |
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mesmerize | (verb) induce hypnosis in | Synonyms: hypnotise, hypnotize, mesmerise |
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(verb) attract strongly, as if with a magnet | Synonyms: bewitch, magnetise, magnetize, mesmerise, spellbind |
mesmerized | (adjective) having your attention fixated as though by a spell | Synonyms: fascinated, hypnotised, hypnotized, mesmerised, spell-bound, spellbound, transfixed |
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mesmerizer | (noun) a person who induces hypnosis | Synonyms: hypnotiser, hypnotist, hypnotizer, mesmerist |
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mesmerizing | (adjective) attracting and holding interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: hypnotic, mesmeric, spellbinding |
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reassessment | (noun) a new appraisal or evaluation | Synonyms: reappraisal, revaluation, review |
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smear | (noun) an act that brings discredit to the person who does it | Synonyms: blot, smirch, spot, stain |
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(noun) a blemish made by dirt | Synonyms: blot, daub, slur, smirch, smudge, spot |
(noun) a thin tissue or blood sample spread on a glass slide and stained for cytologic examination and diagnosis under a microscope | Synonyms: cytologic smear, cytosmear |
(noun) slanderous defamation | Synonyms: malignment, vilification |
(verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, besmirch, calumniate, defame, denigrate, slander, smirch, sully |
(verb) make a smudge on; soil by smudging | Synonyms: blur, smudge, smutch |
(verb) stain by smearing or daubing with a dirty substance | - |
(verb) cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it | Synonyms: daub |
smegma | (noun) a white secretion of the sebaceous glands of the foreskin | - |
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smell | (noun) the act of perceiving the odor of something | Synonyms: smelling |
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(noun) any property detected by the olfactory system | Synonyms: aroma, odor, odour, olfactory property, scent |
(noun) the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents | Synonyms: olfaction, olfactory modality, sense of smell |
(noun) the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form | Synonyms: odor, odour, olfactory perception, olfactory sensation |
(noun) the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people | Synonyms: feel, feeling, flavor, flavour, look, spirit, tone |
(verb) become aware of not through the senses but instinctively | Synonyms: sense, smell out |
(verb) emit an odor | - |
(verb) inhale the odor of; perceive by the olfactory sense | - |
(verb) smell bad | - |
(verb) have an element suggestive (of something) | Synonyms: reek, smack |
smelling | (adjective) (used with `of' or `with') noticeably odorous | Synonyms: redolent |
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(noun) the act of perceiving the odor of something | Synonyms: smell |
smelly | (adjective) offensively malodorous | Synonyms: fetid, foetid, foul-smelling, foul, funky, ill-scented, noisome, stinking |
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smelt | (noun) small trout-like silvery marine or freshwater food fishes of cold northern waters | - |
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(noun) small cold-water silvery fish; migrate between salt and fresh water | - |
(verb) extract (metals) by heating | - |
smelter | (noun) an industrial plant for smelting | Synonyms: smeltery |
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smeltery | (noun) an industrial plant for smelting | Synonyms: smelter |
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smew | (noun) smallest merganser and most expert diver; found in northern Eurasia | Synonyms: Mergus albellus |
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