accustom | (verb) make psychologically or physically used (to something) | Synonyms: habituate |
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accustomed | (adjective) commonly used or practiced; usual | Synonyms: customary, habitual, wonted |
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adjustor | (noun) one who investigates insurance claims or claims for damages and recommends an effective settlement | Synonyms: adjuster, claim agent, claims adjuster, claims adjustor |
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ahistorical | (adjective) unconcerned with or unrelated to history or to historical development or to tradition | - |
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alpenstock | (noun) a stout staff with a metal point; used by mountain climbers | - |
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ambystomid | (noun) small to moderate-sized terrestrial or semiaquatic New World salamander | Synonyms: ambystomid salamander |
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anastomose | (verb) cause to join or open into each other by anastomosis | Synonyms: inosculate |
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(verb) come together or open into each other | Synonyms: inosculate |
anastomosis | (noun) a natural or surgical joining of parts or branches of tubular structures so as to make or become continuous | Synonyms: inosculation |
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anastomotic | (adjective) of or relating to or exhibiting anastomosis | - |
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ancestor | (noun) someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) | Synonyms: antecedent, ascendant, ascendent, root |
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antipasto | (noun) a course of appetizers in an Italian meal | - |
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apostolic | (adjective) of or relating to or deriving from the Apostles or their teachings | Synonyms: apostolical |
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(adjective) proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles | Synonyms: apostolical, papal, pontifical |
apostolical | (adjective) of or relating to or deriving from the Apostles or their teachings | Synonyms: apostolic |
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(adjective) proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles | Synonyms: apostolic, papal, pontifical |
aristocracy | (noun) a privileged class holding hereditary titles | Synonyms: nobility |
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(noun) the most powerful members of a society | Synonyms: gentry |
aristocrat | (noun) a member of the aristocracy | Synonyms: blue blood, patrician |
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aristocratic | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy | Synonyms: aristocratical, blue-blooded, blue, gentle, patrician |
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aristocratical | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy | Synonyms: aristocratic, blue-blooded, blue, gentle, patrician |
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aristocratically | (adverb) in an aristocratic manner | - |
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aristocratism | (noun) the principles, practices or characteristics of aristocracy. | - |
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asbestos | (noun) a fibrous amphibole; used for making fireproof articles; inhaling fibers can cause asbestosis or lung cancer | - |
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asbestosis | (noun) lung disease caused by inhaling asbestos particles | - |
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astomatal | (adjective) lacking a stoma or stomata | - |
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astomatous | (adjective) having no mouth or mouthlike opening | Synonyms: mouthless |
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astonied | (adjective) filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock | Synonyms: amazed, astonished, astounded, stunned |
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astonish | (verb) affect with wonder | Synonyms: amaze, astound |
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astonished | (adjective) filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock | Synonyms: amazed, astonied, astounded, stunned |
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astonishing | (adjective) so surprisingly impressive as to stun or overwhelm | Synonyms: astounding, staggering, stupefying |
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(adjective) surprising greatly | Synonyms: amazing |
astonishingly | (adverb) in an amazing manner; to everyone's surprise | Synonyms: amazingly, surprisingly |
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astonishment | (noun) the feeling that accompanies something extremely surprising | Synonyms: amazement |
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astound | (verb) affect with wonder | Synonyms: amaze, astonish |
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astounded | (adjective) filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock | Synonyms: amazed, astonied, astonished, stunned |
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astounding | (adjective) so surprisingly impressive as to stun or overwhelm | Synonyms: astonishing, staggering, stupefying |
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(adjective) bewildering or striking dumb with wonder | Synonyms: dumbfounding, dumfounding |
asystole | (noun) absence of systole; failure of the ventricles of the heart to contract (usually caused by ventricular fibrillation) with consequent absence of the heart beat leading to oxygen lack and eventually to death | Synonyms: cardiac arrest, cardiopulmonary arrest |
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attestor | (noun) (law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature | Synonyms: attestant, attestator, witness |
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backstop | (noun) a precaution in case of an emergency | - |
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(noun) (baseball) a fence or screen (as behind home plate) to prevent the ball from traveling out of the playing field | - |
(noun) (baseball) the person who plays the position of catcher | Synonyms: catcher |
(verb) act as a backstop | - |
ballistocardiogram | (noun) a graphical recording made by a ballistocardiograph | - |
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ballistocardiograph | (noun) a medical instrument that measures the mechanical force of cardiac contractions and the amount of blood passing through the heart during a specified period by measuring the recoil of the body as blood is pumped from the ventricles | Synonyms: cardiograph |
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barnstorm | (verb) tour the country making political speeches, giving lectures, or presenting plays | - |
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(verb) appear at county fairs and carnivals as a stunt flier and parachute jumper | - |
barnstormer | (noun) a pilot who travels around the country giving exhibits of stunt flying and parachuting | Synonyms: stunt flier, stunt pilot |
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(noun) an actor who travels around the country presenting plays | Synonyms: play-actor, playactor, trouper |
bestow | (verb) present | Synonyms: confer |
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(verb) bestow a quality on | Synonyms: add, bring, contribute, impart, lend |
(verb) give as a gift | - |
bestowal | (noun) the act of conferring an honor or presenting a gift | Synonyms: bestowment, conferment, conferral |
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(noun) a gift that is bestowed or conferred | Synonyms: bestowment |
bestower | (noun) person who makes a gift of property | Synonyms: conferrer, donor, giver, presenter |
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bestowment | (noun) the act of conferring an honor or presenting a gift | Synonyms: bestowal, conferment, conferral |
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(noun) a gift that is bestowed or conferred | Synonyms: bestowal |
bialystoker | (noun) flat crusty-bottomed onion roll | Synonyms: bialy |
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bilestone | (noun) a calculus formed in the gall bladder or its ducts | Synonyms: gallstone |
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bitstock | (noun) a carpenter's tool having a crank handle for turning and a socket to hold a bit for boring | Synonyms: brace |
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blastocele | (noun) the fluid-filled cavity inside a blastula | Synonyms: blastocoel, blastocoele, cleavage cavity, segmentation cavity |
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blastocoel | (noun) the fluid-filled cavity inside a blastula | Synonyms: blastocele, blastocoele, cleavage cavity, segmentation cavity |
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blastocoele | (noun) the fluid-filled cavity inside a blastula | Synonyms: blastocele, blastocoel, cleavage cavity, segmentation cavity |
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blastocoelic | (adjective) of or relating to a segmentation cavity | - |
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blastocyst | (noun) the blastula of a placental mammal in which some differentiation of cells has occurred | Synonyms: blastodermic vessicle |
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blastocyte | (noun) an undifferentiated embryonic cell | - |
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blastocytoma | (noun) a tumor composed of immature undifferentiated cells | Synonyms: blastoma, embryonal carcinosarcoma |
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blastoderm | (noun) a layer of cells on the inside of the blastula | Synonyms: blastodisc, germinal area, germinal disc |
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blastodermatic | (adjective) of or relating to a blastoderm | Synonyms: blastodermic |
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blastodermic | (adjective) of or relating to a blastoderm | Synonyms: blastodermatic |
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blastodisc | (noun) a layer of cells on the inside of the blastula | Synonyms: blastoderm, germinal area, germinal disc |
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blastoff | (noun) the launching of a missile or spacecraft to a specified destination | Synonyms: shot |
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blastogenesis | (noun) theory that inherited characteristics are transmitted by germ plasm | - |
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(noun) asexual reproduction by budding | - |
blastogenetic | (adjective) of or relating to blastogenesis | - |
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blastoma | (noun) a tumor composed of immature undifferentiated cells | Synonyms: blastocytoma, embryonal carcinosarcoma |
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blastomere | (noun) any cell resulting from cleavage of a fertilized egg | - |
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blastomeric | (adjective) of or relating to a blastomere | - |
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blastomycete | (noun) any of various yeastlike budding fungi of the genus Blastomyces; cause disease in humans and other animals | - |
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blastomycosis | (noun) any of several infections of the skin or mucous membrane caused by Blastomyces | - |
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blastomycotic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of blastomycosis | - |
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blastoporal | (adjective) of or relating to a blastopore | Synonyms: blastoporic |
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blastopore | (noun) the opening into the archenteron | - |
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blastoporic | (adjective) of or relating to a blastopore | Synonyms: blastoporal |
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blastosphere | (noun) early stage of an embryo produced by cleavage of an ovum; a liquid-filled sphere whose wall is composed of a single layer of cells; during this stage (about eight days after fertilization) implantation in the wall of the uterus occurs | Synonyms: blastula |
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blastospheric | (adjective) of or relating to a blastula | Synonyms: blastular |
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bloodstock | (noun) thoroughbred horses (collectively) | - |
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bloodstone | (noun) green chalcedony with red spots that resemble blood | Synonyms: heliotrope |
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bluestocking | (noun) a woman having literary or intellectual interests | Synonyms: bas bleu |
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bluestone | (noun) bluish-grey sandstone used for paving and building | - |
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bookstore | (noun) a shop where books are sold | Synonyms: bookshop, bookstall |
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brachistochrone | (noun) a curve between two points along which a body can move under gravity in a shorter time than for any other curve. | - |
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brainstorm | (noun) the clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation | Synonyms: brainwave, insight |
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(verb) try to solve a problem by thinking intensely about it | - |
brainstorming | (noun) a group problem-solving technique in which members spontaneously share ideas and solutions | - |
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breakstone | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Saxifraga | Synonyms: rockfoil, saxifrage |
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brimstone | (noun) an old name for sulfur | Synonyms: native sulfur, native sulphur |
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brownstone | (noun) a row house built of brownstone; reddish brown in color | - |
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(noun) a reddish brown sandstone; used in buildings | - |
campstool | (noun) a folding stool | - |
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canafistola | (noun) deciduous or semi-evergreen tree having scented sepia to yellow flowers in drooping racemes and pods whose pulp is used medicinally; tropical Asia and Central and South America and Australia | Synonyms: canafistula, Cassia fistula, drumstick tree, golden shower tree, pudding pipe tree, purging cassia |
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capstone | (noun) a stone that forms the top of wall or building | Synonyms: copestone, coping stone, stretcher |
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(noun) a final touch; a crowning achievement; a culmination | Synonyms: copestone, finishing touch |
castor | (noun) a hat made with the fur of a beaver (or similar material) | Synonyms: beaver |
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(noun) a pivoting roller attached to the bottom of furniture or trucks or portable machines to make them movable | Synonyms: caster |
(noun) a shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling powdered sugar | Synonyms: caster |
catostomid | (noun) a cypriniform fish of the family Catostomidae | - |
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cestode | (noun) ribbonlike flatworms that are parasitic in the intestines of humans and other vertebrates | Synonyms: tapeworm |
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chalkstone | (noun) a deposit of urates around a joint or in the external ear; diagnostic of advanced or chronic gout | Synonyms: tophus |
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cherrystone | (noun) a half-grown quahog | Synonyms: cherrystone clam |
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(noun) small quahog larger than a littleneck; eaten raw or cooked as in e.g. clams casino | Synonyms: cherrystone clam |
cholecystokinin | (noun) a gastrointestinal hormone that stimulates the secretion of pancreatic enzymes and the contraction and emptying of the gall bladder; its release is stimulated by the presence of fatty acids and amino acids in the small intestine | - |
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chrestomathy | (noun) a selection of passages from different authors that is compiled as an aid in learning a language | - |
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chromoblastomycosis | (noun) a fungal infection characterized by itchy warty nodules on the skin | - |
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claystone | (noun) fine-grained rock consisting of compacted clay particles | - |
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clearstory | (noun) part of an interior wall rising above the adjacent roof with windows admitting light | Synonyms: clerestory |
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cleistocarp | (noun) closed spore-bearing structure of some fungi (especially Aspergillaceae and Erysiphaceae) from which spores are released only by decay or disintegration | Synonyms: cleistothecium |
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cleistogamic | (adjective) exhibiting or relating to cleistogamy | Synonyms: cleistogamous |
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cleistogamous | (adjective) exhibiting or relating to cleistogamy | Synonyms: cleistogamic |
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cleistogamy | (noun) the production of small nonopening self-pollinating flowers | - |
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cleistothecium | (noun) closed spore-bearing structure of some fungi (especially Aspergillaceae and Erysiphaceae) from which spores are released only by decay or disintegration | Synonyms: cleistocarp |
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